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Strangelets Disaster Contingency Plan

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CSCP - 20 Aug 2005 11:53 GMT
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Highly regarded authorities like Sir Martin Rees, England's
Astronomer Royal, in his latest book "Our Final Hour"
warns of the possibility of catastrophic results of high
enregy physics experiments. Black holes created in
the labs or the formation of an exotic form of matter
called a "strangelet" could destroy the planet. Strangelets
formed as a result of breaking apart quarks and reforming
in an exotic configuration would travel at the speed of
light, in all directions, converting every thing in its
path into a like exotic form.

In the event the super accelerators being finished in a few
years (2007) would produce these strangelets that can eat
matter. Is there a way to stop them at their origin before
they spread. For example. What if particle accelerator labs
would be installed with a thermonuclear contingency device
and the lab would be set to self-destruct in a few minutes
upon realization that there is no way to stop the spread
of the strangelets. Would the million of degrees of
temperature cancel its formation? What would it take to
stop them once it started by accidents? In case nukes
didn't stop them. Can magnetic containment be initiated
in neary state to carry it to a shuttle for quick launch to
deep space where it couldn't do harm here on earth. Could
you think up of any way to confine them and divert them to
other locations. If it reaches the sun. Would it consume it
and make our sun dead prematurely?

CSCP
(Civilian Strangelets Contingency Planners)
"It's better to be safe than worry"
Sam Wormley - 20 Aug 2005 14:33 GMT
> Black holes created in
> the labs or the formation of an exotic form of matter
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> matter. Is there a way to stop them at their origin before
> they spread.

  The "new generation of atom smashers" is at least five orders
  of magnitude less energetic that the atom smashing going on
  right over your head!
CSCP - 20 Aug 2005 15:06 GMT
> > Black holes created in
> > the labs or the formation of an exotic form of matter
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
>    of magnitude less energetic that the atom smashing going on
>    right over your head!

http://chess.captain.at/strangelets-matter.html

"First, let's examine the lunar argument: some cosmic rays have the
mass and equivalent energy of a gold atom flying around in the RHIC.
However, the Moon is a stationary target, so the center-of-mass (COM)
energy is far below that of a collision in the RHIC. Fully
acknowledging that this argument fails, the Review authors turn (in
apparent desperation) to the head-on cosmic ray collision argument.

Deep space cosmic ray head-on collisions could generate small
strangelets. If the strangelets are stable, (long-lived) they could be
swept up in the course of years in new star development. If so, they
would cause supernovas at a much higher rate than observed; hence
stable strangelets are not being created. However, that argument does
not speak to the RHIC disaster scenario, which only requires metastable
strangelets (not stable ones), so it also fails."

In 2007. The Large Hadron Collider being presently built in
Europe will be operational. It is aimed to seek out the
supersymmetric partners and the hidden dimensions of the
strings. It will be the world's most powerful accelerator. It
may be the one that may finally create the ELE (Extinction
Level Event) Strangelets and consequent hadrons fusions.
For this reason. We asked China and other independent
nations with nuclear capabilities to review the case with
urgency. Should there be a clear and present danger. We
have no option but to launch a preempt nuclear strike on
the construction site of the Large Hadron Collider to save
all of humanity. This act would be nothing compared to
the demise of the entire human race.

CSCP
Androcles - 20 Aug 2005 15:23 GMT
| In 2007. The Large Hadron Collider being presently built in
| Europe will be operational. It is aimed to seek out the
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| CSCP

http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/ohmygodpart.html

You are clearly a phuckwit.

Androcles.
Sam Wormley - 20 Aug 2005 15:23 GMT
>>>Black holes created in
>>>the labs or the formation of an exotic form of matter
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>
> CSCP

  What deterines the life of a strangelet? How does this compare
  to the evaporation time of a black hole of similar mass?
Llanzlan Klazmon - 22 Aug 2005 00:19 GMT
>> > Black holes created in
>> > the labs or the formation of an exotic form of matter
[quoted text clipped - 21 lines]
> acknowledging that this argument fails, the Review authors turn (in
> apparent desperation) to the head-on cosmic ray collision argument.

Bwahahaha:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/ohmygodpart.html

Klazmon.
Bob Cain - 21 Aug 2005 20:40 GMT
>   The "new generation of atom smashers" is at least five orders
>   of magnitude less energetic that the atom smashing going on
>   right over your head!

Integrated over an earth sized sphere, do you have any idea
what the flux is compared to that of the upcoming accelerators?

Bob
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Uncle Al - 20 Aug 2005 16:54 GMT
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>
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> light, in all directions, converting every thing in its
> path into a like exotic form.

Didn't happen.  Long Island is regrettably still there.

> "It's better to be safe than worry"

Idiot. You bow down to imaginary gods.  Uncle Al will diddle his
woman.  We'll see who comes out on top.

[snip crap]

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Greysky - 20 Aug 2005 19:39 GMT
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>
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> other locations. If it reaches the sun. Would it consume it
> and make our sun dead prematurely?

There are few effective contingency plans which can be established after the
charged quark mass has been produced. The largest problem is one of locating
the strangelet while it is still within the mass of the accelerator. There
is a small chance of disaster avoidance if this can be done. While massive
and almost as dense as a black hole, the baby strangelet is still very light
in terms of absolute mass. It will float within and mingle amongst the atoms
that make up the substance around it, and may even be temporarily bound with
charged atom groups in chemical bonding. It will eventually settle out of
the mass because of gravity, but it could take many hours, to days for this
to occur. Once the baby strangelet enters the earth itself, it will be lost
to us and all forms at disaster amelioration will be out the window. One
hope is to allow the strangelet to enter a dense sphere of uranium or some
other dense metal, and then allow the sphere to rotate slowly within a
strong magnetic field. We may be able to keep the strangelet captured in
this manner for weeks to months. The only safe procedure at this point would
be to load up the nose cone of a carefully prepared rocket with the
containment sphere and launch it into space.

Then the accelerator should be permanently shut down and the researchers
tried for crimes against humanity and planicide.

Greysky

www.allocations.cc
Learn how to build your own FTL radio.
Double-A - 20 Aug 2005 20:36 GMT
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> >
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> www.allocations.cc
> Learn how to build your own FTL radio.

Or we could just stop bitching and learn to adapt to life on an Earth
one centimeter in diameter!

Double-A
Raving Loonie - 20 Aug 2005 22:02 GMT
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> > >
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>
> Double-A

That is mighty small of you, Double-A !

RL
CSCP - 20 Aug 2005 22:52 GMT
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> >
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> www.allocations.cc
> Learn how to build your own FTL radio.

Million of degrees of temperature can introduce enough kinetic energy
to disengage the strangelet nucleus. The Large Hadron Collider being
built near Geneva has a diameter of 5.4 miles. We can't use a
convensional air assault armed with hellfire missiles to stop the
strangelets. We can't trust the particle physicists themselves to
announce to the world they have strangelet escaping and growing..
therefore a last minute nuclear missle launch from neighboring
Great Britain and France would not stop the strangelet from forming
nonstop. Therefore the best option would be to install fail safe
nuclear
self destruct device watched over by trained minuteman silo personnel
who are trained for such red alert scenerio. The scientists and
military personnel would still have windows of opportionity to escape
via air transport by making a 10 minute detonation sequence. This
is the only one to flatten the 5.4 miles particle accelerator labs
and ensure the strangelets would be disable in the heart of millions
of degrees of thermonuclear exposure.

CSCP
Sam Wormley - 20 Aug 2005 23:55 GMT
>>>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=PYW0H5WCCUVTPQFIQMFCM5WAVC
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>>>
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>
> CSCP

  Perhaps these strangelets will just have to evaporate is a shower
  of particles.
nightbat - 21 Aug 2005 11:41 GMT
nightbat wrote

>    Sam Wormley
>    Perhaps these strangelets will just have to evaporate is a shower
>    of particles.

nightbat

       Is that what the Cern scientists are hoping for that they just
evaporate? I go with Officer Greysky's indications, oh the humanity, and
all strangelet paid for by taxpayer research money as if they haven't
been eaten enough.

       ponder on,
       the nightbat
jmfbahciv@aol.com - 21 Aug 2005 11:14 GMT
>nightbat wrote
>
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
>all strangelet paid for by taxpayer research money as if they haven't
>been eaten enough.

I have not been tracking Art Bell's show for the last year.
However, this has the smell of his thumbs in it.  You might
try to double-check if this is one of his attempts to
incite panic in the general world population.  

I would also check to see how anybody gets the title of
British Astronomer (or whatever the hell the title is)
If the author is legit, check if the guy has survived that
"good grief I'm 40 (or 50) years old".  A lot of men
don't.

/BAH
Pyriform - 21 Aug 2005 16:47 GMT
> I would also check to see how anybody gets the title of
> British Astronomer (or whatever the hell the title is)
> If the author is legit, check if the guy has survived that
> "good grief I'm 40 (or 50) years old".  A lot of men
> don't.

Astronomer Royal. You get it by being a distinguished astronomer, rather
than licking royal arses as a naive observer might imagine. Rees is also
the president-elect of the Royal Society, so his scientific credential
are impeccable. Ah. More royal stuff.... no, I really can't be
bothered... It is a bit pervasive, isn't it?

Not read the book, but I imagine he will have included some kind of risk
assessment for each of the end-of-the-world scenarios (and there are
many)  he discusses.

I think he's 60. Does that exclude him from your "menopausal apocalypse
fantasy" diagnosis or is he just a late bloomer?
nightbat - 21 Aug 2005 19:06 GMT
nightbat wrote

> > I would also check to see how anybody gets the title of
> > British Astronomer (or whatever the hell the title is)
> > If the author is legit, check if the guy has survived that
> > "good grief I'm 40 (or 50) years old".  A lot of men
> > don't.

> Pyriform
> Astronomer Royal. You get it by being a distinguished astronomer, rather
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> I think he's 60. Does that exclude him from your "menopausal apocalypse
> fantasy" diagnosis or is he just a late bloomer?

nightbat

       Scientist or researcher age won't matter or be a factor once
those Officer Greysky reported strangelets start sucking all of us in.
Oh the humanity, not even the clueless kookoloo coffee boys will stand a
chance. What contingency plan, if it strangelet event happens we all get
eaten and the nightbat Red Halo 1st life candidate gets to start the
whole process all over again.

       ponder on,
       the nightbat
jmfbahciv@aol.com - 22 Aug 2005 12:00 GMT
>> I would also check to see how anybody gets the title of
>> British Astronomer (or whatever the hell the title is)
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>
>Astronomer Royal. You get it by being a distinguished astronomer,

How does a distinguished astronomer become a particle physicist?
From what I've seen, it takes the same number of decades to achieve
one or the either.  

> ..rather
>than licking royal arses as a naive observer might imagine. Rees is also
>the president-elect of the Royal Society, so his scientific credential
>are impeccable.

Are his credentials impeccable in the field of particle physics
or astronomy?  These are areas of the very, very large and
the very, very small.  

> .. Ah. More royal stuff.... no, I really can't be
>bothered... It is a bit pervasive, isn't it?
>
>Not read the book, but I imagine he will have included some kind of risk
>assessment for each of the end-of-the-world scenarios (and there are
>many)  he discusses.

From these posts, it sounds like a book of speculation that
is close to scifi...as in fiction.  Again, was this guy
interviewed by Art Bell about this book?  That is my
litmus test about the usefulness.

>I think he's 60. Does that exclude him from your "menopausal apocalypse
>fantasy" diagnosis or is he just a late bloomer?

Some men never grow up.  WE have one in s.p newsgroup who seems
to have had the problem at 30 and has yet to grow out of it.

/BAH
Pyriform - 22 Aug 2005 23:47 GMT
> How does a distinguished astronomer become a particle physicist?
> From what I've seen, it takes the same number of decades to achieve
> one or the either.

Look, you really could do this for yourself:

http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/IoA/staff/mjr/

I suspect (again, not having read the book!) that Rees does not place
much credence on the strangelet apocalyptic scenario, but includes it
for completeness. The book is, after all, a round up of ways in which
the world *might* end, and is aimed at a lay audience.

I think maybe I'll buy it and find out.
Twittering One - 22 Aug 2005 23:58 GMT
I don't buy that.
jmfbahciv@aol.com - 23 Aug 2005 11:06 GMT
>> How does a distinguished astronomer become a particle physicist?
>> From what I've seen, it takes the same number of decades to achieve
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
>for completeness. The book is, after all, a round up of ways in which
>the world *might* end, and is aimed at a lay audience.

That's what it sounded like.  I have problems with people
who abuse their responsibilities in this manner.  In my
view, these foolish actions completely negate all the time
and effort they've spent building up their reputation and
value of their work.

Sagan did this...and there was another one but I can't recall
who.

>I think maybe I'll buy it and find out.

Good.  You might also try to access Art Bell's web site
to see if the book got promoted on one of his shows.
Pyriform - 23 Aug 2005 13:38 GMT
>> I suspect (again, not having read the book!) that Rees does not place
>> much credence on the strangelet apocalyptic scenario, but includes it
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> Sagan did this...and there was another one but I can't recall
> who.

What did Sagan do that "completely negated" all his other work? He wrote
exceptionally well, and used that talent to communicate scientific ideas
to a wide audience. "The Demon-Haunted World" (for example) was a
cogently argued and timely assault on the irrationality and superstition
that threatens to overhelm our society. You have "problems" with that?

Or maybe you were offended by his calls for nuclear disarmament, and his
work on the threat from "nuclear winter"? You think that these matters
were unworthy of his attention?

As for Martin Rees, conducting an argument about the content of a book
that neither of us has read seems to me faintly surreal. I've heard him
speak often enough to be an admirer, and so I think I am on surer ground
in defending him than you are in attacking him! You had never even heard
of him before this thread referred to one of his books!

>> I think maybe I'll buy it and find out.
>
> Good.  You might also try to access Art Bell's web site
> to see if the book got promoted on one of his shows.

I really don't think Martin Rees is an Art Bell type of guy...
Greysky - 23 Aug 2005 14:23 GMT
>>> I suspect (again, not having read the book!) that Rees does not place
>>> much credence on the strangelet apocalyptic scenario, but includes it
[quoted text clipped - 32 lines]
>
> I really don't think Martin Rees is an Art Bell type of guy...

Martin Reese was on Art Bell May 12, 2003 to talk about his book.  He was on
after the dog eared monkey man and before Richard hoagland. I knew of his
work well before this date and don't really think his appearance on that
show negates his career. To attack someone for advertising his product is
just stupid. If anything, it is a testament to Art Bell's smarts that he was
able to snag such a mainline personage as Reese.

Greysky

jmfbahciv@aol.com - 24 Aug 2005 09:57 GMT
>>>> I suspect (again, not having read the book!) that Rees does not place
>>>> much credence on the strangelet apocalyptic scenario, but includes it
[quoted text clipped - 34 lines]
>>
>Martin Reese was on Art Bell May 12, 2003 to talk about his book.

Well, it's nice to know that I've still got It.

> .. He was on
>after the dog eared monkey man and before Richard hoagland.

Now you should really wonder about the presentation of the
book.

> ...I knew of his
>work well before this date and don't really think his appearance on that
>show negates his career.

But it does demonstrate a lack of judgement.  If the book
needs to be promoted on that show, he is trying to present
fiction as fact.  Art Bell does nothing else.

> ..To attack someone for advertising his product is
>just stupid.

To advertise one's product on a show that is known to
present fiction as fact is stupider.

> ..If anything, it is a testament to Art Bell's smarts that he was
>able to snag such a mainline personage as Reese.

It says something about the disintegration of Reese's discernment.

/BAH
jmfbahciv@aol.com - 24 Aug 2005 10:07 GMT
>>> I suspect (again, not having read the book!) that Rees does not place
>>> much credence on the strangelet apocalyptic scenario, but includes it
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
>
>What did Sagan do that "completely negated" all his other work?

I did not say his work was negated.  I said that he went off the
deep end and lost all credibility _at that point in time_.  After
that, whenever he used his reputation to promote anything, I ignored
it.

> .. He wrote
>exceptionally well, and used that talent to communicate scientific ideas
>to a wide audience.

No.  I did have a problem with communicating non-scientific
statements as if they were scientific.  I can no longer remember
the details other than it got JMF completely utterly hopping
mad when the false assertions were made on a NOVA show.  (This
had to be in very late 70s or early 80s.

> .."The Demon-Haunted World" (for example) was a
>cogently argued and timely assault on the irrationality and superstition
>that threatens to overhelm our society. You have "problems" with that?

I haven't read it.  However, to promote a personal irrationality
using the Science vehicle so that the general public will accept
the fiction as fact is a problem.

>Or maybe you were offended by his calls for nuclear disarmament, and his
>work on the threat from "nuclear winter"? You think that these matters
>were unworthy of his attention?

Everybody, including scientists, may have their personal political
opinion.  

>As for Martin Rees, conducting an argument about the content of a book
>that neither of us has read seems to me faintly surreal. I've heard him
>speak often enough to be an admirer, and so I think I am on surer ground
>in defending him than you are in attacking him! You had never even heard
>of him before this thread referred to one of his books!

But why did I guess that this was an Art Bell presentation?

>>> I think maybe I'll buy it and find out.
>>
>> Good.  You might also try to access Art Bell's web site
>> to see if the book got promoted on one of his shows.
>
>I really don't think Martin Rees is an Art Bell type of guy...

According to another post, he is.  

People get strange when they face their mortality and try to
do something to fix that.  This is my hypothesis about why
people who did quality work in the past suddenly to off a
deep end.

/BAH
Pyriform - 24 Aug 2005 12:12 GMT
> I did not say his work was negated.  I said that he went off the
> deep end and lost all credibility _at that point in time_.  After
> that, whenever he used his reputation to promote anything, I ignored
> it.

And yet you are unable to tell me what he said or did that offended you.

> No.  I did have a problem with communicating non-scientific
> statements as if they were scientific.  I can no longer remember
> the details other than it got JMF completely utterly hopping
> mad when the false assertions were made on a NOVA show.  (This
> had to be in very late 70s or early 80s.

You can't remember the details? Can you perhaps recall even the merest
glimmer of a vague approximation to the general subject area? Then
perhaps we could grope our way towards having a discussion about it...

>> .."The Demon-Haunted World" (for example) was a
>> cogently argued and timely assault on the irrationality and
>> superstition that threatens to overwhelm our society. You have
>> "problems" with that?
>
> I haven't read it.

I can't claim to be astonished.

> However, to promote a personal irrationality
> using the Science vehicle so that the general public will accept
> the fiction as fact is a problem.

This would be the "personal irrationality", the vaguest details of which
you are presently unable to recall?

>> Or maybe you were offended by his calls for nuclear disarmament, and
>> his work on the threat from "nuclear winter"? You think that these
>> matters were unworthy of his attention?
>
> Everybody, including scientists, may have their personal political
> opinion.

Not that then.

>> As for Martin Rees, conducting an argument about the content of a
>> book that neither of us has read seems to me faintly surreal. I've
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>
> But why did I guess that this was an Art Bell presentation?

No, it isn't an "Art Bell presentation". It's a book, which stands or
falls on its own merits, not where it happens to be promoted. You
obviously don't understand much about how publishing houses operate. (As
a Brit, I am in any case almost entirely oblivious to the whole Art Bell
phenomenom. I thought it was just a Usenet newsgroup until quite
recently).
jmfbahciv@aol.com - 24 Aug 2005 12:30 GMT
>> I did not say his work was negated.  I said that he went off the
>> deep end and lost all credibility _at that point in time_.  After
>> that, whenever he used his reputation to promote anything, I ignored
>> it.
>
>And yet you are unable to tell me what he said or did that offended you.

It doesn't matter what the detail was.  I'm talking about using
one's reputation to sell nonsense; this is not using good common
sense and, besides that, stupid.

>> No.  I did have a problem with communicating non-scientific
>> statements as if they were scientific.  I can no longer remember
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>glimmer of a vague approximation to the general subject area? Then
>perhaps we could grope our way towards having a discussion about it...

I don't want to talk about the detail.  I am talking about
having the ability to smell bullshit while you see it flowing
out of the rearend of the bull.

>>> .."The Demon-Haunted World" (for example) was a
>>> cogently argued and timely assault on the irrationality and
[quoted text clipped - 11 lines]
>This would be the "personal irrationality", the vaguest details of which
>you are presently unable to recall?

EVerything Sagan did after that deception was subject to extreme
scrutiny.  Before that I would have taken what he said without
much analytical application on my part.  Granted, SOP requires
that I do this with everything said by everybody but I don't have
time.  People who have accomplished certain work in their
past build up a reputation.  That reputation is used to
sort out what has to be studied.  Sagan had a good rep
w.r.t. his science.  Then he stopped using the Scientific
Method as a basis when doing his shows.  This is intellectual
dishonesty.

>>> Or maybe you were offended by his calls for nuclear disarmament, and
>>> his work on the threat from "nuclear winter"? You think that these
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>a Brit, I am in any case almost entirely oblivious to the whole Art Bell
>phenomenom.

You had better find out about it, then.  It doesn't take much
time.

The pattern I've observed over the past 8 years is that Artybaby
will have somebody on his show selling something.  About one
month later the subject shows up here in sci.physics as
a proven fact.  The pattern has not varied in all that time.

Even repeats of old shows create a new post.  There was a
rebroadcast of a show done in 1996 or so; the rebroadcast
happened ~2003.  Somebody posted here as if the idea were
brand new and a scietifically proven fact.  It took the
usual number of posts to decrank it.

> ..I thought it was just a Usenet newsgroup until quite
>recently).

It's that, too.  He also has a newsletter which you buy if
you want to learn more secrets.  His usual topic is impending
doom which sells well.  He had a field day pre-Y2K.

The usual title of his guests is "doctor".  You can guess
how ambiguious that title can be if not quantified.
He has a large loyal following who will believe him
before they believe Pat Robertson.  The same people
who believe everything Robertson says tend to also
believe what Art Bell says.  This is why I think the
guy is quite dangerous.

/BAH
nightbat - 24 Aug 2005 14:09 GMT
nightbat wrote

> >> I did not say his work was negated.  I said that he went off the
> >> deep end and lost all credibility _at that point in time_.  After
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>
> /BAH

nightbat

       No in science it's called not doing your own thinking and
relying on promoters or presenters image rather then actual content
substance. But I know what you mean for instance when I know an actor or
actress I like is in a so called big Hollywood movie and just because of
past performances I go see it or rent the movie and it turns out lousy.
I wonder why did he or she lend their reputation to the fiasco and you
have to remember in business the bottom line is studio profit. So some
movies are story quality true sufficient budget blockbusters, some
contract loaned out make-up productions, and others sinking ship no
quality budget crap. The actor rolls with the punches very much like a
reputable scientist once that original contract is signed. The
protecting organization and fine contract wording is very important and
perhaps Sagan got in over his tv show head when studio demand for more
viewer numbers came in. The clue came in the special way he repetitively
kept saying Cosmos, or how the heck did I get mixed up in this, ha, ha,
ha, ha, ha.

       ponder on,
       the nightbat
jmfbahciv@aol.com - 25 Aug 2005 11:20 GMT
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>        No in science it's called not doing your own thinking and
>relying on promoters or presenters image rather then actual content
>substance.

Nope.  That is not science.  There is a difference between doing
science and marketing an engineered product.

> ..But I know what you mean for instance when I know an actor or
>actress I like is in a so called big Hollywood movie and just because of
>past performances I go see it or rent the movie and it turns out lousy.

Exactly.  But this is fluff compared to attempts to panic a
population or destroy a productive sector of society.  Most
Hollywood products have an implied assumption that it is
fiction.  Art Bell never presents his stuff as fiction.
He presents the material as fact and then shuts up when these
so-called facts are falsified.  I've never heard Hoagland
recant any of his outlandish statements.

>I wonder why did he or she lend their reputation to the fiasco and you
>have to remember in business the bottom line is studio profit. So some
>movies are story quality true sufficient budget blockbusters, some
>contract loaned out make-up productions, and others sinking ship no
>quality budget crap. The actor rolls with the punches very much like a
>reputable scientist once that original contract is signed.

Oh, Sigh!  You equate Hollywood with science endeavours?  That
is exactly why the guy is demonstrating intellectual dishonesty.

> ..The
>protecting organization and fine contract wording is very important and
>perhaps Sagan got in over his tv show head when studio demand for more
>viewer numbers came in.

No, Sagan got a hair across his a.s about his mortality.  I didn't see
any maturing.  His latest stuff was redolent with trying to
find ways of immortality.  I don't understand people who do this.
The way to become immortal is to consistently do your work well
and produce useful stuff.  Take a look at your textbooks.  Do
you honestly think that there were only those handful of people
doing the work?  No.  Their work was what was used for generations
after they died.  This is useful work.  A lot of people's work
will never get any press because they spent their time determining
the things that don't work.  These people will not be remembered
by name, but their work will be used for a long time.

There is this very, very strange obsession with particular names
in science.  Who the f.ck cares if Mr. X or Mrs. Y wrote about
a particular piece of knowledge?  The real emphasis should be
on its usefulness within the context of the era it was written.

> ..The clue came in the special way he repetitively
>kept saying Cosmos, or how the heck did I get mixed up in this, ha, ha,
>ha, ha, ha.

He was looking for the purpose of life.  This is the territory
for religion, not science.

I know a couple of guys who are trying to ensure their personal
immortality by finding a way to download their essence onto
iron oxide.  Such a waste of time and productive opportunities.
Anything useful that might come out of this research will be
tossed aside because it won't achieve the goal.

/BAH
Autymn D. C. - 21 Aug 2005 00:02 GMT
CSCP is ripping off last night's Stargate Atlantis episode.

Anyway, read this:
http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics/browse_frm/thread/3cea765ecf7d109f/a0
7360599650cbc8#a07360599650cbc8
.
Raving Loonie - 21 Aug 2005 01:07 GMT
> CSCP is ripping off last night's Stargate Atlantis episode.
>
> Anyway, read this:
> http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics/browse_frm/thread/3cea765ecf7d109f/a0
7360599650cbc8#a07360599650cbc8
.

  ... Shhhhhh !

    I haven't gotten around to watching it yet.

RL
Ben Rudiak-Gould - 21 Aug 2005 13:14 GMT
> Then the accelerator should be permanently shut down and the researchers
> tried for crimes against humanity and planicide.

(30 more points for fantasizing about show trials in which scientists who
mocked your theories will be forced to recant.)

-- Ben
donstockbauer@hotmail.com - 21 Aug 2005 14:00 GMT
What's a remailer?  I'm a newbie.

Of course, a photon doesn't have internal structure.  It along with
protons, neutrons, and electrons are our 4 fundamental particles,
cybernetic "axioms".  Quantum physics is nothing more that you
physicists cataloging their properties.  You don't look for structure
below an axiom - you ust note its properties.  This cybernetic form
underlies everything.  Cybernetics of course is the Theory of
Everything.  You guys have cute ties.

- Donsky Oatsky, The Nut (Pecan) Farm, LLC.  LLC in ardor to save WAD
(Worthless American Dollars). Have a nice day.  Address your issues.
Oh by the way - Mr. Zick sucks dog penis.
blart - 22 Aug 2005 08:17 GMT
Some time ago I posited that the larger scale structure of space and time,
once mapped out, may be deconvolved into that seminal moment where some
alien lab assistant says "ooops", and thusly finds itself writ large on the
(new) cosmos.

In other words I posited that the big-bang is a remnant of the catalysis of
strange matter in the lab...
Which could possibly happen again,

bring it on says I.

This leads me to my principle of supernatural selection:

"be careful in asking for an afterlife,
because you might just get one,
and considering that the overarching principle of life is natural selection,
you might just get that in the afterlife too...

with NO GUARANTEE of being at the top of the tree"

remember, yus bin warned

blart

> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=PYW0H5WCCUVTPQFIQMFCM5WAVC
BQYJVC?xml=/news/2001/09/07/nba07.xml&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=2632

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> (Civilian Strangelets Contingency Planners)
> "It's better to be safe than worry"
 
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