Skeptic Project

Well its definitely a part of their "vision."

Offhand a circular design appears to offer some advantages, though a city doesn't have to be physically circular in design, only based on a central radiating design.

Its something I would like to explore in a MMORPG environment where it is easier and cheaper to try out different designs and also to collect statistical information for comparission of solutions.

EOS does have its blind spots. After all, they're scientists, not city planners. Matt, do you have a link to city planners mocking circular cities? I will bring it up with EOS and see what they have to say about it.

> Nothing near what people in billion dollar corporate labs can.

That is kinda true, but..

> You are not going to uncover the secret to free energy in your garage.

That depends on whether those billion dollar labs are actually investinging the same thing as me, most are not..

I don't expect to discover free energy, I'm only working on a lower resource solution to one aspect of fusion to do with plasma confinement making use of permenant magnets rather than electromagets, even though 99.7% of opinion is based on it being impossible, a few folk, including a few scientists reckon permenant magnets might offer some assistance. As such I think its worth experimenting and seeing if our understanding of the laws of physics is correct or not, or that there is some as of yet undiscovered application that makes use of known pysical laws.

If you look at halbach arrays for example, only discovered recently in what:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halbach_array</p>

> The effect was discovered by Mallinson in 1973

What else might someone discover by pushing the envelope..

Working fusion at best, will only give us an estimated (Not estiamted by me, but by others more skilled and experineced than I.) 75% reduction in current electricity unit costs, so even it won't be free, only cheaper.. :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Bussard</p>

After all, Dr Bussard pushed the envelope and discovered polywell fusion containment methodogly by not listening to others tell him it wouldn't work and not to bother..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywell</p>

(Incidently, thats the kind of reactor design I want to experiment with, after I've done a basic Farnsworth–Hirsch approach and learnt from that how to design, build and operate safely.)

Plus it will look good on my CV :-)

And I can go to the local Neutron Users club at the local National Physics laboratory.

My main reason for starting initally was to provide some physical proof of my technical abilities so when I was debating with top notch scientists they wouldn't think I was some kind of nutjob. (Though I have to say, folk from MIT are on the whole fairly agreeable to debate with.)

Then I discovered interesting looking areas that people told others was a waste of time to research because the laws of physics said it was impossible, so why bother trying!

> ever learned the concept of personal limitations.

I think I'm fairly well aware of my limitations.

But being a genuis, there are lots of options open to me on what I can do!

We can often do much if we make the effort, remember progress is 90% perspiration 10% inspiration.

> Why don't you just like, go to school?

I would if I could afford to!

you should qualify as a mature student and also be eligible for grants and student loans which you dont have to pay off untill you get a job. look into more seriously. My dads in his 60s and hes doing his post grad stuff for free.

> But you didn't know what Marxism was.

Being a genuis isn't about knowing stuff, its the ability to make use of information.

I can't know everything..

But the comment was more, more about, as someone picked up, what is considered Marxism, as without an idea of what it is, how do we know if RBE is like it or not. eg. I was hoping someone would bring up comparission points so we could compare like with like and see if there was a difference. (eg. I'm trying to help develop the debate.)

> It would seem that by skipping school you want to avoid the perspiration.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean there.

I think you mean, I should study what Marxism is.

(Why, when someone else here may know it far better than I, I can just ask them! we don't all have time to study everything, we make use of forums like this to debate and ask questions of those more knowledgable and skilled than ourselves to answer questions for us, its more efficient that way! eg. its what forums come in useful for..)

> is this about you feeling that you're "more special" than the people who have to
> endure things like education? Since you're a genius, you shouldn't have to?

Oh not at all, I'm always learning me, often got my head in a book (I think in my lifetime, I've read over 15,000+ books now to date..)

But yes, I do think I'm more special, mainly because I've been able to prove it countless times to people, so I know I have abilities others do not.

As such, I think I'm well placed to be someone able to help fix things and build a better future. (With the help of others, I cannot do it all myself! not just that I need labour, but I'm not an expert in everything, and neither am I a genuis in all catagories of ability..)

> what I meant is that I don't understand why you feel that you're entitled to skip
> the requirements that everyone else must adhere to.

I don't feel I'm entitled to.

> you should qualify as a mature student and also be eligible for grants and student
> loans which you dont have to pay off untill you get a job. look into more seriously.

I have looked into seriously, and sadly to do a university degree would cost me about £70k, if I had £70k I wouldn't need to get a degree..

I did spend some 5 years trying to get into university, but each year I had to stop studying and run around doing jobs to pay the bills and ran out of time for studying.

In hindsight, I should have not bothered trying to better my education and simply gone for better paying jobs, so I could hire someone to do my thinking for me!

I think you are no more genius than anyone else here in truth Nanos, some use their genius better than others.

THAT'S WHERE THE ROBOTS WITH JETPACKS COME IN!

Then there's the issue of someone getting a gun and unloading on everyone because he's tired of being packed into crowds of people all the time.

> I think you are no more genius than anyone else here in truth Nanos

I agree, we are all a bunch of genuises here!

Which is why so many of us got banned..