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

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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



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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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