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Re: In Case Anybody Has Been Wondering…

driver49 — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 16:06:44 -0000

And, as, 'not a physicist' I can only observe that you have not gone below the surface of the Townsend Brown story and, to the contrary, have been taken in by the story that was created to divert attention from his real work. Yeah, "electric wind" can write off the effect in the presence of fluid dielectrics, but Brown's real work involved solid dielectric, and that is the source of all the mysteries.

Having said that, I will acknowledge that it's entirely possible that I am d the one who has been taken in, to which I would only ask "by whom and to what end?"

But if you haven't read the book, then I might also suggest you do so before calling anybody "a crackpot."

But I do appreciate your commenting, not enough people do here.

Thanks,

--PS

Re: How’s This for Dark Thoughts?

driver49 — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 11:36:29 -0000

Wait... what?!?! You mean... I didn't make that up??? Damn! 🤦🏻‍♂️🤪

Re: A Tale of Two Biographies (Part 1)

driver49 — Sat, 08 Jul 2023 15:52:02 -0000

I don't know if I'll ever get to know who 'vacuumbilly' is, but no matter... I just scratched the surface of Dr. Robert Moon and... oh my, he believed all the same things Townsend Brown did. I just started this video https://youtu.be/O9w-ny6Xxn0 and it starts out by saying "space has structure" which sound exactly like TTB writing about the 'Structure of Space.' So thanks for this lead... I will probably use it on the TTBrown.com website for a future post. --PS

Re: In Case Anybody Has Been Wondering…

driver49 — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 09:23:50 -0000

Wow, what a treat to hear from you, Kate. How's things in the Big City?

Re: FAQs for Newbies

driver49 — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 09:00:19 -0000

Fusion can be performed with heavier elements - in theory, at least. One of the most desirable fuel cycles is the "proton+boron" fuel cycle, which would be "aneutronic" – no fast neutrons, and thus safer and cleaner than hydrogen fusion. But that kind of reaction will require much more energy to sustain than simpler hydrogen fusion. First things first.

Re: From “Halt and Catch Fire”
You Are Not Safe

driver49 — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 18:27:44 -0000

Thank you for that very erudite and observant comment. I agree with everything you've said there (and it's a lot to digest). It was a marvelous series, and did the neat trick of running its course and then going out in style.

Re: How to Find Models for Your Photo Shoot

driver49 — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 19:00:01 -0000

I don't seem to be able to find the 'refine search' function. What am I missing?

Re: Martha Hughes Cannon statue resolution finally freed in the Utah House

driver49 — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 16:02:10 -0000

There is absolutely nothing about this measure that says anything other than "because she's a woman." Sad day for Utah, giving in to identity politics (I thought that was a blue-state thing) and 'sexism in reverse.' And a sad day for the nation that a man who truly changed the world is being pushed out of the National legacy.

Re: Powerful Philo Farnsworth fan creates static for Martha Hughes Cannon statue

driver49 — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 08:18:17 -0000

"You think it was easy in those days to get elected as a woman? It isn't the same thing "that countless MEN had also done." Not even close!"

Unfortunately, this statement only reinforces my original contention, that the consideration of Cannon derives only from the fact of her gender. Yes, it was harder for a woman to do the things she did "in those days" as it remains so today. But what she did had been done before.

Inventing television, on the other hand, was an achievement for the ages. In terms of "those days," what Farnsworth had to do was unimaginable - starting with convincing a bunch of wizened financiers to give him the money to do it. Then he had to go out and fabricate everything from scratch.

What is lost in all of this is the magnitude of the achievement: the introduction of all-electronic television (no moving, mechanical parts) was a breakthrough of epic proportions. It represents an epochal leap in what mankind could do with quantum forces, focusing and steering electrons for the purpose of sending moving images trough the air.

The significance of that achievement has been buried for decades thanks to monolithic corporate PR, the myth that television was "too complicated" to be invented my a single individual, and over the past decade by Aaron Sorkin's travesty of an "historical drama" that completely misses the mark in terms of actual "history."

So please, leave Philo T. Farnsworth where he is and find another way to honor Martha Cannon. Once you fully understand the magnitude and significance of what Philo Farnsworth accomplished, Martha Cannon's record pales in comparison.

I've gone into all of this ad-infinitum at farnovision.com

--PS

Re: Powerful Philo Farnsworth fan creates static for Martha Hughes Cannon statue

driver49 — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 21:57:10 -0000

Or you could just send me to Pandora....😜

Re: Powerful Philo Farnsworth fan creates static for Martha Hughes Cannon statue

driver49 — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 20:47:24 -0000

Well Hallelujah, finally somebody in the Utah State Legislature standing up for Truth, Justice, and The American Way. I have written about this elsewhere (Deseret News, I think) so I guess I'll have to repeat it here: the ONLY reason that Martha Cannon warrants as statue is because she was the first WOMAN who did things that countless MEN had also done. In other words, her primary qualification is her lady parts.

Philo T. Farnsworth, on the other hand, did something that NOBODY else did or could do, and he CHANGED THE WORLD with it. EVERY video screen on the planet - including the one you are looking at now - can trace its origins to the sketch that he drew for his high school science teacher in the winter of 1922. To replace his statue in the Nation's Capitol with that of a politician (or physician, or activist, or whatever) of either gender is just a sad travesty. Don't let it happen, Utah.

Re: Books

driver49 — Wed, 04 Oct 2017 07:18:06 -0000

I'm easy enough to find ... best to start w email: driver@49chevy.com

Thx.

Re: Endangered Species
The Station Inn

driver49 — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 16:23:51 -0000

Well, I suppose you could write me in, but I wouldn't want to compromised whatever confident you have in my ability by actually declaring my candidacy. 😜

Re: Can fusion energy be achieved?

driver49 — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 10:44:42 -0000

One of the basic premises of the Time article – and hence your follow up assessment – is wrong:

"Two methods that have been used to create fusion are by means of powerful laser beams fired at hydrogen (producing 500 trillion watts at a time — a thousand times more power than used by the whole of the US at any time), and through the use of electromagnetic fields to confine and compress plasma without actually touching it. This is done in a “tokamak”"

There is another, far more elegant, method, called "Inertial Electrostatic Confinement" or "IEC" which gets short shrift in all of these discussions. Actually, "short shrift" is an overstatement: IEC gets NO shrift. And yet it is arguably more promising than any of the big-budget approaches to fusion that have been sucking all the oxygen - and money - out of the room since the 1940s.

IEC was first introduced in the 1950s and 60s by Philo T. Farnsworth, whose name should be familiar because he invented the basic circuitry that made television possible in the 1920s. His invention is a device called "the fusor" which has been neglected - since Farnsworth's death in 1971.

But experiments with the approach have continued on a small scale, and fusion has been demonstrated in dozens of experimental projects around the world over the last 15 years. Most of the experiments are far from "breakeven" but the technology holds infinitely more promise than the complicated, giant machines that get all the money.

Visit http://fusor.net for more info

"Fusion is not 20 years in the future... it is 50 years in the past and we missed it."

--PS

Re: OK, I Want To Have THIS Discussion NOW

driver49 — Fri, 09 Oct 2015 11:30:17 -0000

Thank you Adrian for the comment. You pose a seemingly simple question for which there is not a simple answer. There are some who are convinced the Farnsworth approach is a dead end. There are others who are closer to the money who want to advance their own ideas. The Big Money goes to the Big Institutional Projects. And then, maybe the people who could foster that line of research just don't know about it. Everybody has their own dog in the hunt, you know, and there is nobody really to champion this dog. With this post I'm trying to change that. As I said to a colleague recently, "Yes, the jury is out. Maybe it is time to bring the jury back in, present some new evidence, and see if there is a new verdict to be discovered.

Re: Photoshop CC 2014 Keyboard Shortcut Cheat Sheet for Mac Users

driver49 — Fri, 29 May 2015 07:31:06 -0000

That's terrific. Is there a graphic like this for Lightroom, too?

Re: Notes to the Weekly Digest – October 29, 2014

driver49 — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 11:25:51 -0000

Thanks, Nancy... it's nice to have a fan... <g>

Re: Guest Blog: How Nashville’s Economic Boom Could Kill Its Creativity

driver49 — Thu, 03 Jul 2014 07:46:28 -0000

Jonathan, we are still only friends in cyberspace, but you just nailed my story. I arrived here one month after the Northridge quake.

BTW, lots of still-affordable real estate out here in Pegram...

Re: About

driver49 — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 14:48:16 -0000

I just followed all your stuff. Bucketlist item: meet Dylan and Miranda in Edinburgh. This year.

Re: About

driver49 — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 14:43:44 -0000

That Krakauer quote is slaying me. I could so easily follow in your footsteps to more of this: http://portalsofstone.com Thx for the Instagram connection.

Re: Contact Us

driver49 — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 11:24:57 -0000

and further more, I tried to send Kelly Boothe a direct heads up about the message I just sent, and couldn't send it without signing up for yet another website with yet another password. It really should be easier to contact you folks.

Re: Trying to tune in to 'The Farnsworth Invention'

driver49 — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 12:49:53 -0000

And for the record, please, there was nothing "naive" about Farnsworth's patents. They were ironclad and held up against years of litigation. THAT's the point the play completely ignores, obviously since this reviewer misses that point altogether.

Re: Trying to tune in to 'The Farnsworth Invention'

driver49 — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 12:46:10 -0000

Should any readers care to compare the facts -v- the fiction, there is this website: http://thefarnsworthinventi...

Re: Chapters - MCR 6.18.14

driver49 — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 08:42:33 -0000

Have ticket.... will travel...

Re: Hell No, We Won’t Bro

driver49 — Fri, 23 May 2014 18:47:24 -0000

Oh dear me, where is my fire hose? This piece is ablaze!

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Re: In Case Anybody Has Been Wondering…

Re: How’s This for Dark Thoughts?

Re: A Tale of Two Biographies (Part 1)

Re: In Case Anybody Has Been Wondering…

Re: FAQs for Newbies

Re: From “Halt and Catch Fire” You Are Not Safe

Re: How to Find Models for Your Photo Shoot

Re: Martha Hughes Cannon statue resolution finally freed in the Utah House

Re: Powerful Philo Farnsworth fan creates static for Martha Hughes Cannon statue

Re: Powerful Philo Farnsworth fan creates static for Martha Hughes Cannon statue

Re: Powerful Philo Farnsworth fan creates static for Martha Hughes Cannon statue

Re: Books

Re: Endangered Species The Station Inn

Re: Can fusion energy be achieved?

Re: OK, I Want To Have THIS Discussion NOW

Re: Photoshop CC 2014 Keyboard Shortcut Cheat Sheet for Mac Users

Re: Notes to the Weekly Digest – October 29, 2014

Re: Guest Blog: How Nashville’s Economic Boom Could Kill Its Creativity

Re: About

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Re: Contact Us

Re: Trying to tune in to 'The Farnsworth Invention'

Re: Trying to tune in to 'The Farnsworth Invention'

Re: Chapters - MCR 6.18.14

Re: Hell No, We Won’t Bro

Re: From “Halt and Catch Fire”
You Are Not Safe

Re: Endangered Species
The Station Inn