RE: [BULK][Spam]Re: Tesla the man

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Original poster: "Lau, Gary" <Gary.Lau@xxxxxx>

Less traffic on this list dealing with The Man, His Infallibility, and
historical speculation would be a good thing, IMHO!

Gary Lau
MA, USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 11:45 PM
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> Subject: RE: [BULK][Spam]Re: Tesla the man
>
> Original poster: "Breneman, Chris" <brenemanc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> If you're serious about having such a forum (and there are people
> interested), I could host it.  I'm a server admin with several
> servers supporting Perl CGI and PHP, and there is plenty of free
> forum software.  My concern would be that it might take some traffic
> away from this list, so if such a forum were set up, it would
> probably be good to firmly establish its purpose as a
> general-Tesla-research forum, not really for help and discussion
> about the specifics of building Tesla coils.
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wed 4/25/2007 8:28 PM
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [BULK][Spam]Re: Tesla the man
>
> Original poster: William Beaty <billb@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Tesla list wrote:
>
>   > Original poster: ashumate3@xxxxxxx
>   > As for his death ray, the present day laser fits his description
of
>   > the ray.
>
> Nope.  The plans were published decades ago, and his "death ray" was a
> sort of water jet cutter but using liquid metal micro-droplets, fired
by a
> multi-megavolt linear accelerator powered by a huge VandeGraaff
generator.
> Yet water jet devices only make an effective weapon over a scale of
> inches!  But the physics of charged particle streams in gas
environment is
> different than that of fluid jets. Perhaps a stream of charged
droplets
> would go farther in air, if the charge density was high enough.
>
>
>   > The goal for the coils that are being built should be trying the
>   > recreate what Tesla was doing in terms of power transmission.
>
> Exactly.  Unfortunately, this topic is semi-banned on pupman.  By
> "semi-banned," I mean that it is tolerated only, and can be shut down
at
> any time.  As a result, no amateur science types would even think of
using
> this forum for a research discussion.  In academia, censorship is a
high
> crime.  Completely unforgivable.  It's also a prime symptom of the
> pseudoscientist.  Pseudoscientists cannot tolerate information which
> points out the flaws in their rigid belief systems.  Professional
> scientists on the other hand welcome "blasphemies," since they *want*
to
> find such flaws, and that's one reason why they find the "suppression
of
> dissenting opinion" to be so abhorrant.
>
> What we really need is a "Tesla science" forum for those interested in
> genuine research.  Perhaps one with zero-tolerance rules against
> flamewars, but with the usual attitude of the professional scientist:
> freedom of expression; no limits on topics whatsoever.
>
>     "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your
>     right to say it"
>
>     "There is a principle which is a bar against all information,
which
>     cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--  that
principle is
>     contempt prior to investigation."  - H. Spencer
>
>     "It is as fatal as it is cowardly to blink facts because they are
not
>     to our taste."   - John Tyndall
>
>      "I can't see any farther.  Giants are standing on my shoulders!"
>                                                          - unknown
>
>
> Also:
>
>    "If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't
been
>     much of a day."   - J. A. Wheeler
>
>
>
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