Boy, if being grating or annoying to somebody is a reason to ban content, not much of what is posted here should be allowed to remain.
interested observer
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As someone else who was banned without warning or explanation, I do have to wonder what the purpose is. If it is intended as behavior modification, it would be far more effective if the inappropriate behavior was defined. Just sayin’.
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Careful there bang99. Director and Axil have free rein to discuss god-knows-what at great length while others get banned for sarcasm.
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@Director: what do you consider to be “pretty darned good evidence” that any incarnation of e-cat ever produced excess energy?
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Congratulations to Adrian for removing any last vestige of meaning to the term fake news.
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There seems to be some disagreement about what constitutes a "fact". According to some people, apparently anything that Rossi says qualifies. Others have a different opinion.
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Non. People gave Bernie Madoff billions of dollars. Rossi is a small-time operator by any comparison.
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Exciting news! Adrian has joined the ranks of all the folks throughout the years who have secret info (nudge nudge, wink wink) about Rossi. It must be great to be part of the in crowd.
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Rossi is quite inventive alright, but he is not “an inventor”. You do great disservice to that title.
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There is a non-zero probability that I will be hit by a meteor this afternoon. My expectations will be governed by the magnitude of this probability.
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Are there robots designed to wrap electrician’s tape around sprinkler fittings?
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Keep in mind that parroting Rossi’s endless lies is a valuable contribution to the thread while questioning anything eminating from Il Doctore is a waste of space.
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Fair enough, Jed. If we exclude Rossi supporters, then perhaps those who remain have legitimate opinions by your standards. If there are exceptions, it isn’t worth an effort to identify them.
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“The comments by people here who have not read the literature, and who imagine, for example, that the ‘COP’ is somehow meaningful, reveal only that these people have nothing to contribute and they should either learn something or shut up and stop making fools of themselves.”
You do realize that this comment applies quite often (probably more often) to vocal supporters of LENR here and yet they are never the recipient of your dismissive scorn. Just sayin’.
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When you look at the photos of the amazing Stockholm demo system, the first thing that comes to mind is to wonder how soon sophisticated robotic systems could be brought to bear in building the thing. From the looks of it, a high school shop student could require the better part of an hour to do the job. A multi-million-dollar robot is clearly essential.
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Jed, perhaps we are descending into a semantics argument. The notion of being "entitled" to an opinion is dubious at best. Perhaps what you are really discussing is the value of someone's opinion. In the epistemological morass we find ourselves in these days, everybody has an opinion (and generally a strong one) about nearly everything and in very few cases is that opinion based on sound evidence, careful research, or critical thinking. And we're not just talking about cold fusion. I will grant you that there is little value in an opinion about cold fusion if you don't know anything about it, but you are still entitled to have that opinion, worthless or not.
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LINR, your degree and job are irrelevant. As has been explained here many times, if you have not read hundreds of LENR papers or, better yet, performed LENR experiments yourself, then you are not entitled to express negative thoughts about the topic. If you HAVE read hundreds of papers and express negative thoughts, then you are a crackpot. On the other hand, there are no requirements for being positive about the topic, so consider doing that instead.
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Eric, LENR afficionados always proclaim themselves to be the last bastion of open-mindedness. It seems to me that you are the only one who actually fits that description.
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If one reads the comments from LENR supporters across various threads, it becomes pretty difficult to understand what the status of the field is. Depending on what point people are trying to make, either it is a well-established phenomenon for which there is unassailable evidence, or it is in the wilderness crying out for some real research that hasn’t been done and can’t be done because of suppression, superannuation of researchers, or lack of funding, Without wading into that quagmire, what do people anticipate happening in the world of LENR, say, over the next year? Are things likely to be any different from the way they are today? Are they any different today than they were a year ago? 3 years ago? Ten years ago?
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I think the only thing that keeps many of us around is curiosity about whether there is anything Rossi cultists won't believe. Of course, I think we already know the answer to that.