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I don't believe that came from Barnes, but summarized by the reporter from his profile at Informal Science. Clicking some of the links he has on there does link to verifications of some of his accomplishments. I don't know of many people who go to that kind of trouble.
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Originally Posted by Oliin
So yea ....
1981: Began researching the psychological origins of creativityDoes anyone else find it as entertaining as I do that someone would put, becoming a 'creativity master' on their list of accomplishments? |
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Originally Posted by Starflier
I was certainly disappointed when he left out "Flew fighter jets in the Gulf War under the callsign Iceman" off of his biography
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Much to vague. There are probably droplets of truth (like maybe he is "multi-instumental") and maybe he's done enough acid to convince himself that he is special. Smells like a scammer who is trying to make a buck.
Right now I'm imagining this hilarious scenario where he tests it, it DOES work, and it chucks him forward in time 50 years to when someone else has invented the warp drive independently and taken credit for it.
"Eugene Roddenberry, whose dad created Star Trek, has seen one of our tests though, and it blew his mind. "
Getting credibility from the Star Trek creators son? Priceless.
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"Eugene Roddenberry, whose dad created Star Trek, has seen one of our tests though, and it blew his mind. "
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*whew* We're lucky they have such eminently qualified physicists on hand to verify their results for the rest of us. i mean, seriously? Impressing the son of a science fiction writer is supposed to somehow corroborate their claims? *facepalm*
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Reducing the travel time to Saturn from seven years to "months" hardly qualifies as warp drive.
And I can't believe this guy was actually talking about "acceleration that is invisible to radar" with a straight face. "Yes," he seems to be saying, "we have increased our velocity by 300 times in our own inertial frame. However, the velocity remains constant in external frames, which proves without a doubt that our theory is Euclidean, Newtonian and Einsteinian!"
We already know in principle how to get to Saturn in weeks without any fancy new theories. We just need to work out the nuts and bolts of building a fusion reactor that can sustain a fusion reaction indefinitely. This problem is simpler than generating energy with fusion, because it doesn't even need to break even, as practical fusion power reactors would require. It just needs to produce a lot of thrust relative to its mass.
Heck, the VASIMR drive that NASA has been working for more than 30 years has more promise than Mr. Barnes "prototype," and wouldn't be all that much slower.
My guess is that his method of time dilation involves his research into consciousness and creativity, and the drugs he used to do that "research."
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Well, it appears to have impressed NASA scientist, Alan Gould. As for why he's been keeping this close to his chest, it appears because he plans on trying to make a lot of money off of it.
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Originally Posted by Schismatrix
"L. Ron Hubbard's podiatrist saw one of our tests and it blew his mind."
*whew* We're lucky they have such eminently qualified physicists on hand to verify their results for the rest of us. i mean, seriously? Impressing the son of a science fiction writer is supposed to somehow corroborate their claims? *facepalm* |
Uhm...you do realize it's gonna take one heck of a fancy theory to crank out that magical power source it'll take to run that indefinitely operating fusion reactor if it can't sustain itself, right?
Seriously, you shouldn't ridicule people like this. Sure, he might just be a crackpot looking for attention. On the other hand, you never know where the next great scientific breakthrough's gonna come from. History's plumb full of the coolest things coming out of the most unusual minds.
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Okay, so I Googled this guy and....
Well... the dude seems to be taken seriously by plenty of science blogs and news sites. I'm very curious about what he might have here.
And here's an "interview " in which he claims to have made a wooden sailig shop invisable (and all he has to show for it is a photograph he's displaying as art): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x7Wf-_72zc
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Actually, he demonstrates how he pulled it off in this video.
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Originally Posted by Redbone
And here's an "interview " in which he claims to have made a wooden sailig shop invisable (and all he has to show for it is a photograph he's displaying as art): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8x7Wf-_72zc
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That falls well short of the "Conducted successful visual density reduction research (invisibility)" claim especially since toys that did that were avaliable in a box of Cracker Jacks in the late 1970s. Sounds like a bit of resume pading, really.
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Originally Posted by Innovator
Actually, he demonstrates how he pulled it off in this video.
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the question is this.....if this guy has come up with a prototype warp engine....what will stop him from being tossed out the craft when it stops? Has he come up with enertial dampners too???
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An understanding of what warp does...
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Originally Posted by Sevenpenny
the question is this.....if this guy has come up with a prototype warp engine....what will stop him from being tossed out the craft when it stops? Has he come up with enertial dampners too???
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From a purely Trek point of view, you can go to warp from any Newtonian speed. Warping of space just lets that speed take you farther than you should.
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Originally Posted by Sevenpenny
the question is this.....if this guy has come up with a prototype warp engine....what will stop him from being tossed out the craft when it stops? Has he come up with enertial dampners too???
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Yeah, in the Trek universe I always figured the inertial dampners were used to insulate from sub-light speed. Impulse speeds. Since Warp involves using a 'bubble' to travel in I always assumed it was like the
'Bubble' in The Explorers in which you could come to an instant stop from any speed without inertia...
Still it's a valid point. Though I would imagine inventing the tech shouldn't be put on hold while waiting for it. Nothing say's we have to have manned flights right away.
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Umm... that's proof he's a charlatan.|
Originally Posted by Innovator
Actually, he demonstrates how he pulled it off in this video.
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The image we see of the pencil supposedly be made visible through the black cap is just the image of the pencil we can still see overlapping the black cap because of the refraction strata in the overlay. Slow the video down and notice that the image of the *tip* of the pencil disappears completely. All we're seeing is the bright yellow of the base of the pencil supposedly behind the cap.
If he put a marble behind the cap such that no other part of the marble extended past the cap, then there would be no image of the marble leaking through the cap.
He is either so batpancake insane that he doesn't know what he's talking about, or, he's relying on people he's demonstrating this stuff to be be so batpancake gullible or batpancake ignorant of basic science that they can't recognize he's talking gibberish.
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
He is either so batpancake insane that he doesn't know what he's talking about, or, he's relying on people he's demonstrating this stuff to be be so batpancake gullible or batpancake ignorant of basic science that they can't recognize he's talking gibberish.
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Could that be considered the Kosinski Gambit?
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I prefer to think that he was showing how the concept works with very basic materials that you could get a hold of and play with. Also he mentions the effect works better at different distances and I doubt that anyone is stupid enough to not realize that how however your going to make something invisible it has to be mobile part of the object, and not pre positioned between the object and the camera or on the camera
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
Umm... that's proof he's a charlatan.
The image we see of the pencil supposedly be made visible through the black cap is just the image of the pencil we can still see overlapping the black cap because of the refraction strata in the overlay. Slow the video down and notice that the image of the *tip* of the pencil disappears completely. All we're seeing is the bright yellow of the base of the pencil supposedly behind the cap. If he put a marble behind the cap such that no other part of the marble extended past the cap, then there would be no image of the marble leaking through the cap. He is either so batpancake insane that he doesn't know what he's talking about, or, he's relying on people he's demonstrating this stuff to be be so batpancake gullible or batpancake ignorant of basic science that they can't recognize he's talking gibberish. |
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Doesn't matter. He became a creativity master in 1988. Nothing else matters.
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Originally Posted by Encharger
Is "EDPREPS guitar system" even a real thing? I can't find any info on it beyond "this guy invented it".
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Except that what he's describing in the video is being claimed to be an actual step toward invisibility and it isn't.|
Originally Posted by Durakken
I prefer to think that he was showing how the concept works with very basic materials that you could get a hold of and play with. Also he mentions the effect works better at different distances and I doubt that anyone is stupid enough to not realize that how however your going to make something invisible it has to be mobile part of the object, and not pre positioned between the object and the camera or on the camera
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There have been other avenues of creating invisibility that don't use nonsensical and non-existent science and whose prototypes don't rely on flat out misrepresentation of what's being shown.
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Come back and talk to me when he's taken seriously by a scientist.
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Originally Posted by Scythus
Well... the dude seems to be taken seriously by plenty of science blogs and news sites.
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No, he's just nuts. Or a flat-out fraud. After seeing that video, I'd call into question any "science" blog that gives him credit.
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Originally Posted by Durakken
I prefer to think that he was showing how the concept works with very basic materials that you could get a hold of and play with. Also he mentions the effect works better at different distances and I doubt that anyone is stupid enough to not realize that how however your going to make something invisible it has to be mobile part of the object, and not pre positioned between the object and the camera or on the camera
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So yea ....
Does anyone else find it as entertaining as I do that someone would put, becoming a 'creativity master' on their list of accomplishments?MA Arcs: Yarmouth 1509 and 58812