Physics

Al Bore has his own 'inconvenient truth' at Copenhagen
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/copenhagen/article6956783.ece Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don't add up There are many kinds of truth. Al Gore was poleaxed by an inconvenient one yesterday. The former US Vice-President, who became an unlikely figurehead for the gr... 15 Dec 2009 22:16

Varney isn't self-righteous ? yeah right.
On Dec 14, 5:30 pm, "Inertial" <relativ...(a)rest.com> wrote: .... ie the comment about varney being self-righteous and then some bio stuff. The cartoon he posted though was great :):) Jeff Relf is a deranged programmer. He will essentially post a reply (of any random sort) whenever you respond to him. ... 15 Dec 2009 00:19

What will Hansen do without his little buddy, Sir Phil from East Anglia?
On Dec 14, 7:46 pm, "kdth...(a)yahoo.com" <kdth...(a)earthlink.net> wrote: On Dec 14, 10:05 am, "Ouroboros Rex" <i...(a)casual.com> wrote: kdth...(a)yahoo.com wrote: The world statistics of GISS come from the same modified files.   Cite, please. For station data more than 50yrs or so, of course ... 17 Dec 2009 07:06

Remember Steorn?
Remember Steorn the people who claimed in a ful page advert in the Economist that they had a "free energy" machine?.. It looks like they are going to have another go at demonstrating it. This time at the Waterways Visitor Centre Dublin... http://www.moletrap.co.uk/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=346&page=1 ... 15 Dec 2009 05:42

What is the correct term for this type of chart?
What's the correct term to for a conversion chart which has a scales on each side of a straight line? For example: http://www.leancrew.com/all-this/images/currency-temp-card.png ... 20 Dec 2009 00:41

...100 MW of Space Solar Power ...per single launch!
Controversy Flares Over Space-Based Solar Power Plans Jeremy Hsu space.com - Wed Dec 2, 10:15 am ET "Solaren would then need to launch a solar panel array capable of generating 400 megawatts. The total launch weight of all the equipment would be the equivalent of about 400 metric tons, or 20 shuttle-sized l... 26 Dec 2009 18:46

Does inductive reasoning lead to knowledge?
What is the justification for either: 1. generalising about the properties of a class of objects based on some number of observations of particular instances of that class (for example, the inference that "all swans we have seen are white, and therefore all swans are white," before the discovery of black swans) ... 26 Jan 2010 14:23

Do waves move faster in a liquid with a higher density?
Suppose you measure the speed of waves at open sea (with a large depth) Then suppose you change the ocean water with a liquid that has twice the mass. Will the waves travel faster? Or slower? I found the next part of information: Wave speed is also dependent on the density of the medium. The denser the me... 15 Dec 2009 17:51

 Scientologists
 Like you ( Bert ), my dreams are wonderful. As you noted, religion is a shared dream. Also, going to church ( or Washington DC ) can make you richer. As it stands now, we're both, “ Too small to succeed. ”; no big-time hookers and drugs for us, baby. I think Darla is part of a group of Scientologists liv... 11 Dec 2009 00:30

Physics War Strategy 7: Kennedy Blows It Again
From Osher Doctorow Richard Overy of Exeter University U.K. (formerly Cambridge University U.K. and Kings College U.K.) and Donald Kagan of Yale University USA are arguably the two greatest Strategists in Military History. Kagan agrees with the analysis of Kennedy's mistakes in the previous Section (Physics Wa... 10 Dec 2009 10:06