You know the idea of creating intelligent life always struck me as impossible.
Sure, we can make elaborately coded intelligence-emulating creatures, and future generations will create even more elaborately coded and even more convincing intelligence-emulating creatures (and maybe the creatures will even learn to create /better/ creatures!), but it'll be nothing more than just that- a finite set of nucleobases constructed to mimic /behavior/ that lends itself to being /interpreted/ as having underlying intelligence. Until we develop something that doesn't run on C's, G's, A's and T's, the best creature we come up with will be, at heart, just a very complicated (though still predictable) set of acids.

You don't necessarily need air, you just need some sort of stuff to come out. And even Ions have some mass, you just need a lot more of them, and you might not accelerate that fast...

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Gaspode

ThiI can't really say from the Blurb, but since the picture mentions Plasma, it could also be some other form of these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacecraft_propulsion#Electromagnetic_acceleration_of_reaction_mass

Gaspode

You mean like in Deep Space probes?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_drive#Missions

You know, there is actually a way to increase the information content in a still image if you are upscaling motion pictures.

In theory you can extract finer information by comparing the different frames. There are a couple of applications that try to create high resolution data by using multiple low resolution samples.

Of course there is no upscaling algorithm for video that does this at the moment, but that doesn't mean that it isn't theoretically possible,
Gaspode

Terrestrial means having to do with earth.
Extra Terrestrial means having to do outside of earth.

Sure they used both parts of a composite word, but thats pretty common in people looking for good souding acronyms.

ATHLELE would mean All Terrain Hex Limbed Extra Lunar Explorer so it would actually mean thta it could operate anywhere but the moon and ATHLEEE would be a double negation meaning that it would only work on the earth.

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Gaspode

No, because a true catalyst cannot be consumed in the process. A catalyst can only enable the process at lower energy, but the net result will have a lower energy as well, so you get a zero balance again.

Or in youur words:

2 electricity + 2 cold water = 2 hot water
or
1 electricity + 2 cold water + 1 catalyst = 1 hot water + 1 cold water + 1 catalyst
or
1 electricity + 2 cold water + 1 catalyst = 2 medium warm water + 1 catalyst


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Philip

Most things in science are theories.
The main part of scientific work is to disprove these theories. A theory is only a good theory, if you can think of ways, that it might be disproved.

There are very few things in science that are facts and definite. The laws of thermodynamics are among those. The laws of thermodynamics will by all accounts stand forever, because:

1. If they would not hold and you could produce anything but a zero energy balance, this universe would be in serious trouble. (No matter wether it is an energy gain or an energy loss).

2. They are very broad and at the same time very specific.
It is not free energy, if you use up the energy stored in magnets. It is not free energy if you use up energy stored in chemicals. It is not free energy if you convert matter into energy. There are lots of different forms of energy in this world, and sofar all ideas have used up one form or the other.

My take is that for these kinds of announcements there are only to options:
- Completly ignore these nutters, by saying they produce free energy, they have proven that they can not be taken seriously
Or
- Make absolut and total fun of them, to get at least some entertainment value out of the announcement.

I think the post was absolutly justified, if just a bit on the tame side.

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Gaspode

This was the best giveaway you had sofar!
Now back too you reporting and us critizing you for being pro Apple, pro Microsoft, unjournalistic and so one.
(just kidding)

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Gaspode

That really makes me want to buy a clear keyboard and put multicolour LEDs under each key.