Recent content by jim_990

I agree, that's why I was suggesting a simple craft to get us into Earth orbit to meet up with an interplanatery ship(that never lands, just orbits) & dump any left over fuel into the space station that they meet at ready for transfering to the interplanetary ship. An old adapted shuttle might...

If you did get fuel to vibrate at its resonant frequency, I wouldn't want to be standing anywhere near, maybe tape an adapted microwave to your fuel tank. It sounds like all youll get is a couple of magnets for your money, more than likely

haha, resonant frequencies & harmonics of petrol! Youd be better off spending that money on something that will work like a LPG or Vegetable oil conversion or adapting for partial water power.

if space contracts, what's in it contracts too! it may not be noticable! Also bear in mind temporal changes, if they are not uniform, which they are not, as the effect dies with distance, your detector will detect it. Whether gravity waves exist or not is the real question. Your theory is...

Most haunted:- everywhere they go seems to be haunted & they see something everywhere, even catch it on film, it seems amazing because most people, incluyding me that go to these places notice nothing. Are these people ghost magnets? I think not. Mind you my house was supposed to be haunted...

does anyone know what power output the best current betavoltaics can produce per size per volume/type/radioactivity of fuel? Are they capable of size for size equaling a normal battery? and if not what fraction of the way there? or are alphavoltaics more promising? I cannot find much of interest...

forget the fuel harvesting, but my main question still holds. ay down some infrastructure first or all missions will end up being expensive one-offs, rather than something that can be built upon.

the question is, is an amoeba self aware? is an ant? a cat? We can certainly get to a slugs level of Artificial NN. When there's so much going on in making a decision, memories, associations, going off on a tangent associative memory wise, this could be construed as consiousness. The more going...

if you copy the function of a neuron(the outward function) then you have effectively replaced its function in the neural network. It can now judge various factors(inputs) & provide an output based on these inputs & their importancies(weights). It now becomes part of the neural network. It is...

tis okay, problem sorted, thanks though, using voltage multiplier & HV power source, need as much current as possible you see & turning AC to DC at HV is difficult, & friction based systems seem inefficient-not zapping anyone except myself maybe, just for charging capacitors, am intereted in...

surely building a craft to go to Mars without any infrastructure is pretty pointless & will end up being as beneficial as the moon. Wouldnt developing a petrol station in orbit be a better idea, and then a interplanetary ship that doesn't land but stays in space & a way to get up & down to it...

if you made no actions at all, you would still learn by others' actions & your inputs. look at someone disabled from birth, there is more to them & their personality than their actions

if you believe the soul exists & is undefinable within the chemical processes going on in the brain, then the answer is no, but if you believe the brain is the sum of its parts then the answer is yes

that is correct, the speech software does make choices, that have been taught to it,by a teacher! the programmers only job was to write general learning software, not to teach it how to behave. Unless my job has been a fantasy for the last 15 years.

ie during a peak, the wave tries to redshift more than in a trough due to the temporal distortion being higher in the peak