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Re: Plasma, IS IT FLAMMABLE (fwd)
From: richard hull [SMTP:rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 1997 8:45 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Plasma, IS IT FLAMMABLE (fwd)
At 05:06 PM 11/11/97 -0600, you wrote:
>
>From: Chip Atkinson [SMTP:chip-at-XiG-dot-com]
>Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 1997 1:49 PM
>To: esmit-at-ilink.nis.za
>Subject: Re: Plasma, IS IT FLAMMABLE (fwd)
>
>Greetings,
>
>Plasma fires are something only seen on Star Trek. However, more to the
>point -- Topics such as this are best investigated first and discussed
>second. The reason is that, regardless of what you are doing or your
>intentions, these topics attract the wrong kind of discussion from other
>people. In particular, the pseudo scientific mumbo-jumbo that is the
>territory of con-men and snake oil sellers, as well as people who don't
>know the difference between wishes and reality.
>
>The USA-Tesla list has been poisoned by this type of discussion.
>Originally it was an excellent source of information. Last I heard, the
>perpetual motion, zero point energy folks had taken over and the amount of
>noise vastly exceeded the signal level.
>
>That being said, my advice is to go ahead and try your theory, experiment
>and the post the results. Let the rest of the people in the list examine
>these results and see what they say. Tell people about how you set up the
>experiment so that they can reproduce your experiement and verify your
>results. One of the main differences between science and magic/deceit is
>that the former is open with techniques and results, while the latter is
>closed and unwilling to show what's "behind the curtain".
>
>Chip
Here, Here!
Well spoken! It has been my experience that good science is tough and good
experiment even tougher. Bad science, theorizing, (with good or bad science
as a basis) and thought experiments are easy and the realm of the wanna bes
and also rans.
Follow Franklin's call to empericism.........."Let the Experiment be done!"
Richard Hull, TCBOR