Forum Replies Created
-
AuthorPosts
-
Anil
ParticipantIn the spirit of always looking at improving our understanding of this subject, I feel we have not looked at the whole picture.
To create electric power, we still need to burn fossil fuels at the power plant, and there are the losses associated with transmission to the points of use.
Solar and wind have costs associated with the technology that do not make them economically viable. And nuclear have long term risks that are hard to quantify.
ParticipantJambo, HT. Mimi natoka Nairobi.
Thank you so much for your updates!
ParticipantThis interview that Nima had with Pepe in Hong Kong started out ostensibly as addressing Trump’s latest trade shenanigans. But it turned out to be a master class on Chinese history going back to Deng Xiaoping to the present. Really worth a listen:
ParticipantI can’t get over the parallels with Vietnam. The French leave, the Americans moved in. Now in Burkina Faso, the Yanks are pushing a load of lies, to insert themselves. Thankfully, Russia will back them up. Unlike Syria, Ibrahim is made of sterner stuff.
ParticipantGreat news about the oil in Burkina Faso.
About the origins of oil, I remember years ago a friend of mine gave me a book to read, by a Russian author, about how oil came to our planet from a collision with an oil containing meteor.
I just searched the internet, Google, Amazon, no luck finding the book.ParticipantZeroHedge has a good article on the recently released Covid 19 report:
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/lab-leak-white-house-unveils-massive-report-true-origins-covid-19
Some of the takeaways:
*The Biden Administration’s HHS engaged in a multi-year campaign of delay, confusion, and non-responsiveness in an attempt to obstruct the Select Subcommittee’s investigation and hide evidence that could incriminate or embarrass senior public health officials.
*The virus possesses a biological characteristic that is not found in nature.
*A lab-related incident involving gain-of-function research is the most likely origin of COVID-19. Current government mechanisms for overseeing this dangerous gain-of-function research are incomplete, severely convoluted, and lack global applicability.
*The WHO’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic was an abject failure because it caved to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party and placed China’s political interests ahead of its international duties.
This brings up a concern I have about the CCP, and one-party governments. Because the Biden government was voted out, this report is now available to the democratic world. Democracy is not of course the best form of government. But communism is much worse, in my opinion, because you could have a mass casualty event, and the world would not be any wiser.
ParticipantGood points, I forgot about the sweet nothings that they sang to the Syrians, before the treachery that culminated in al-Assad’s overthrow.
ParticipantThis trip by the Saudi defense minister to Tehran is one for the history books, in my opinion.
In the middle of the Gaza genocide, he meets the top Iranian officials, all the way to the Supreme Leader, is quite stunning. A visitor from the top Sunni country, meeting with the leaders of the top Shi’a country, is dripping with significance:
ParticipantAnother fine interview with Ray, John and Nima. John is a little less tense this time, but lots of interesting information, especially from the Russian side:
ParticipantAs usual, I am sure they stole this technolgy. For sure this is the cloaking device used by the Klingons and Romulans!
ParticipantI don’t see fusion ever working as a source of commercial energy, Mr P.
Almost 60 years ago, I used to have a buddy who was doing research on fusion at a lab, just after he had gotten his PhD at a university here in Canada. He would tell me how they had achieved fusion for about a billionth of a second, reaching the temperature of the sun, where it is continuous of course. And he was sure it would be commercialized in 50 years.
I don’t need to be a nuclear physicist to know that mother nature would never provide free energy on earth. Because the first law of nature is: There is no free lunch!
ParticipantThat was a superb interview with Ray and John. Thanks for posting that link, AHH.
As you noted, it was a must listen. I was familiar with Ray and Larry Johnson, but not John Helmer. His comments deserve a wide audience, whether one agrees with everything he says or not.
Need time to unravel all his points. Some things that come to mind:
Russia sent a trojan donkey.
Trump is in danger, a la JFK.
ParticipantThat was an excellent introduction to AI, Amarynth. Looking forward to your tutorial, when you have time.
I wonder what happens if two AI apps start an argument with each other. I suppose you can set the level of verbal insults that they hurl at each other.ParticipantTouching reminiscences, Mr P.
On the subject of animals, in the early fifties, as a kid in Tanzania (then Tanganyika), my parents were visited by a family friend who loved hunting, close to Serengeti. He was telling a story of how he was crouching through the tall grass, with his local guide behind him, looking for gazelles. Hearing a sudden noise behind him, looking back, his guide had taken off, and was up a nearby tree at lightning speed! He turned his head forward, and within a few inches of his face was the enormous head of a male lion. Both he and the lion were shocked, and he actually saw the lion’s whiskers twitch. I guess it was not dinner time, and both he and the lion jumped back from the shock, and ran in the opposite direction. What struck me was his description of the size of the lion’s head. He spread his hands way out, to show how enormous it was.
Yes, he did piss in his pants. I don’t mean the lion!ParticipantWow, Mr P, sitting next to a wolf, that’s impressive!
I have come across wolves and black bears, in the distance, when I used to hike in Northern Ontario, in my youth. There was always the fear of not getting too close, and the advice from the locals was not to catch them by surprise, especially mothers with cubs. -
AuthorPosts