The wiki page I got this info from was"R-Value (insulation)" which is otherwise called heat resistivity. Not to be confused with U-Value which is otherwise called heat retention.
The best spray foam is Closed cell polyurethane spray foam. And a close 2nd is open cell polyurethane spray foam. These are all better than wood as an insulator
The following R-values are average per inch, based on available results:
Straw Bales: R-1.45
Wood Panels: R-2.5
Open Cell Polyurethane Spray Foam: R-3.6
Closed Cell Polyurethane Spray Foam: R-5.5
Silica Aerogel: R-10 (Best possible insulation for a window material. Hope it's available someday on the mass market.)
So if living in Alaska it would be wise to spend a tiny bit more to use spray foam in your cabin instead of wood. Spray foam is also easier to work with and can be sprayed onto a geodesic dome, with shingled plastic for water proofing utilizing "grip clips". The floor of cabins in Alaska are often dirt floors, but before installing any type of floor, just prevent flooding of a that floor in the geodesic dome, by halfway burying a solid water barrier material sheet around the perimeter of the dome.
You could also add heat retention(A.K.A. U-Value) to the already well insulated structure by putting moss or dirt on top of the geodesic dome. This is free, and only adds to the insulation quality, and also the natural woodsy look. But just spray foam or air foam should be enough insulation. And fire proof it all with a stucco coating.
Most cabins in Alaska are very small also because of the hassle of collecting more wood to heat bigger sized cabins. So a small one room cabin is normal in Alaska which means the cost of spray foam would be minimal, from such a small surface area to be insulated. Just be sure to make a sturdy geodesic dome out of hardwood(bamboo?) or metal bars so that the house can't collapse ever.
But there's nothing stopping you from making the same type of house in Florida with a total construction cost of about 300$. In other words anything that they do in Alaska to live independently can also be done anywhere else in the U.S.. But you would have to consider an outhouse and how to clean clothes. I discuss all of these considerations in my post called "permanent fort or camp". Also other posts are useful in constructing an independent homestead like the artificial aquifer post, and also earlier posts like the utopia now post, for info on an ideal community(Which is not possible). Or my old version of an independent homestead was the utopia list post, for more personal independence ideas, however outdated they are. But for diagrams of devices go to "New house design pics".
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
An Unbreakable Code Or Encription
There are large scale public encryption systems for things like telephones, but then there are small scale encryption forms that are totally unbreakable. Either for top secret need to know basis conditions, or just for fun as a novelty for any kids in the family that want to play spy games.
I will focus on useful small scale encryption because not many people control an entire populations communication technology.
The first types of encryption were simple "substitution, transposition cryptography" Here's a cryptanalysis link that explains these types of encryption in more detail. These types of cryptography use "keys" which are written on a paper to be given to the person who will receive the encoded messages. The paper looks like blocks of letters and numbers written on a piece of paper, they now use up to 64 blocks in all, as the entire key which is harder to solve. But this form of encryption is still beatable by computers.
The kryptos statue at the CIA uses the above system in part of the statue, and all of those messages in the statue have already been decoded. But in the last coded section of the staute there are too little characters to find a proper key to figure out the message. I think that in this last section it uses the following type of key for encryption, which the creator has stored in a secret location, maybe even burried somewhere to never be possible to be deciphered.
The one type of encryption that can never be cracked by a computer though is very simple. Get a book of any kind, there have been hundreds of millions of books written out there, so this shouldn't be hard. Then on each page under the page number you write a message in the margins or you highlight words or a word on that page. That is your key and to decipher it you get the page number or title or topic of the page sent in a message and then turn to that page and decode the entire message repeating that step. And because it is a unique copy of that book which exists nowhere else in the universe, then the only way to decrypt the message is with that unique book alone. This idea came from the show "Prison break" that had the bird book. simple but effective.
Also when making a password for any website I find it easiest to remember and create if I put 2 words together that don't normally go together and then put a number somewhere in the password sequence. Any password no matter what it is can still be cracked by a computer, but unless you are a prime target like a rich person or an elected official then they usually won't come after you. Just never give out any personal info in emails no matter where the email says it's from. Because companies never ask for personal info in emails.
I will focus on useful small scale encryption because not many people control an entire populations communication technology.
The first types of encryption were simple "substitution, transposition cryptography" Here's a cryptanalysis link that explains these types of encryption in more detail. These types of cryptography use "keys" which are written on a paper to be given to the person who will receive the encoded messages. The paper looks like blocks of letters and numbers written on a piece of paper, they now use up to 64 blocks in all, as the entire key which is harder to solve. But this form of encryption is still beatable by computers.
The kryptos statue at the CIA uses the above system in part of the statue, and all of those messages in the statue have already been decoded. But in the last coded section of the staute there are too little characters to find a proper key to figure out the message. I think that in this last section it uses the following type of key for encryption, which the creator has stored in a secret location, maybe even burried somewhere to never be possible to be deciphered.
The one type of encryption that can never be cracked by a computer though is very simple. Get a book of any kind, there have been hundreds of millions of books written out there, so this shouldn't be hard. Then on each page under the page number you write a message in the margins or you highlight words or a word on that page. That is your key and to decipher it you get the page number or title or topic of the page sent in a message and then turn to that page and decode the entire message repeating that step. And because it is a unique copy of that book which exists nowhere else in the universe, then the only way to decrypt the message is with that unique book alone. This idea came from the show "Prison break" that had the bird book. simple but effective.
Also when making a password for any website I find it easiest to remember and create if I put 2 words together that don't normally go together and then put a number somewhere in the password sequence. Any password no matter what it is can still be cracked by a computer, but unless you are a prime target like a rich person or an elected official then they usually won't come after you. Just never give out any personal info in emails no matter where the email says it's from. Because companies never ask for personal info in emails.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
OLED Wall Sized TV And Flat Lighting
published this on icalledit.com
OLED Wall Sized TV And Flat Lighting
I predict that within within 5 years the first prototype, wall sized flexible Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) TV's will be on the market. Not long after that, the price will go down as manufacturing goes up. There are currently 3 companies I know of that are competitors in the OLED market, and which are all making the first types of small OLED TV's now in 2008. Which will make the price fall soon due to competition also. As it becomes cheaper then you will have poster-like TV's that you just pin up to the wall. They are extremely energy efficient and also have the best picture quality ever invented with millions to one contrast ratio.(Search: "OLED" on google news).
Also the potential exists to make flat ceiling lights that have white OLED's or just a mixture of colors that combine into imitation white. These would be mass produced even cheaper than modern LED's because of simpler manufacturing processes. And they will lower in price also due to new manufacturing processes and competition in the market.
This form of lighting a house will be the most efficient form ever, if it happens, because LED's are about 90% efficient at converting electricity into light. This will cut down on energy bills so much that you could power them with a 100$ solar panel and a small 50$ battery pack for overnight usage.
As long as the OLED materials technology advances, which it will because so many companies are throwing money at this research, then we should see this technology more and more in the news for 5 years until the technology is very affordable.
Also the potential exists to make flat ceiling lights that have white OLED's or just a mixture of colors that combine into imitation white. These would be mass produced even cheaper than modern LED's because of simpler manufacturing processes. And they will lower in price also due to new manufacturing processes and competition in the market.
This form of lighting a house will be the most efficient form ever, if it happens, because LED's are about 90% efficient at converting electricity into light. This will cut down on energy bills so much that you could power them with a 100$ solar panel and a small 50$ battery pack for overnight usage.
As long as the OLED materials technology advances, which it will because so many companies are throwing money at this research, then we should see this technology more and more in the news for 5 years until the technology is very affordable.
Proof That Congress Is Incompetent Or Corrupt
If there is only one right decision or course of action for any issue. Then it stands to reason that when congress never gets anything done because they can never agree on any issue, that half of the people in congress are either incompetent or are deliberately making bad decisions for Americans. So much for them being the best and brightest. I tend to think that half of them are corrupt and that explains the bad decision making.
Educate yourself to make decisions on facts alone and not emotions. If we all agreed on everything because we all shared the same fact based opinions then there would never again be war or even arguments. Also some decisions are into uncharted territory, so there is no reference to know for sure that it's the right decision. This is the difference between "theory", and "facts" that are proven experimentally.
Educate yourself to make decisions on facts alone and not emotions. If we all agreed on everything because we all shared the same fact based opinions then there would never again be war or even arguments. Also some decisions are into uncharted territory, so there is no reference to know for sure that it's the right decision. This is the difference between "theory", and "facts" that are proven experimentally.
The Free Store
This is an old idea that was first seen in the hippie movement at the summer of love. But I wonder if it is ever possible to make it work.
Things are cheaper when they are mass produced, but this requires big expensive machinery and infrastructure. Therefore individuals don't ever invest large amounts of money into these complex machines to get something for free later on. Only large businesses do, because they're in it for the profit.
Services would never be free but "goods" can be free indefinitely after the initial up front investment in machinery or equipment that makes them.
So hopefully if nice people would either donate equipment or money for equipment, then someday we may have a "free store" in every neighborhood. Some businesses sometimes donate things like old doughnut machines for free, that they don't want anymore, as long as you take it off of there hands. But then you also have to take on the task of refurbishing it.
Some examples of things that are free after you own the equipment are:
(1)Rain water sanitized by a UV tube and solar panels, or distilled by a heating element and solar panels.
(2)Ice from the store is free if you have an electric ice maker hooked up to solar power.
(3)Wood can be free from fallen trees in a nearby forest that you can get admitted into for collecting free wood. But always be sure that the forest is big enough for the population size, so that you don't deplete national resources.
(4)Solar charging stations for electric cars when the new ultra-capacitor tech comes out in 2009(from zenn cars). Also electric cars have almost zero maintenance and last longer than normal cars from less moving parts. So driving could be essentially free one day. And you wouldn't even need to buy a rental car for trips, from no worries of yours breaking down.
(5)Some foods can be free if they're planted behind the store. Plant foods such as: Black berries, strawberries, blueberries, fruit trees (in there natural climate:apple/banana). veggies: cucumber squash, lettuce herbs, potatoes, onions. All of these foods require almost no maintenance and practically grow themselves, and last for years or forever without needing replanting. Cider can be free if you bring in old apples that are fallen off of a tree and then the machine presses out the juice and pasteurizes it. Same with apple sauce. And dried fruit can also be manufactured for free if you brought in the fruit to be dried. Frozen french fries could also be made free, from a machine out of free potatoes that the customer brought in. You can make many full sized potato plants out of only one potato by just cutting up the potato and its eyes into sections and planting.
(6)Recycling plant to make free paper products and free plastic products, and maybe even free metal products. After people have separated out their garbage into different material piles, then the trash collectors, from the free store, pick it up for free.
(7)Chemicals that are automated to produce are distilled alcohol, and caustic soda/"drano" from electrolysis of salt water. You just need the equipment and the solar panels. Hydrogen and oxygen and chlorine can also be made in this way.
(8)Free wifi internet connection in the store. That's normal for businesses these days though.
(9)You could have free video and game rentals if you bought them at their marked price with real money, and then you can return them at any time as long as you still have the receipt. And these things are donated to the store originally. This is the same thing that modern libraries do really, which is just as good. But the clerks work off of the tips from every bought video.
(10) Yeast can be made into a colony that lasts indefinitely, and as long as you have flour(which is cheap) then you can make infinite bread out of one batch of yeast, with a solar powered bread factory.
We may not have everything done for us for free anytime soon but gradually as new technology is developed then more things will be produced for free, by machines, for us. It's just a matter of putting those machines in public possession instead of corporate possession. What's the good of brand name anymore anyway when HP and Dell printers have their printers engineered with planned obsolescence and are loosing face because of the ink cartridge chip scam that they never told anyone about.
Things are cheaper when they are mass produced, but this requires big expensive machinery and infrastructure. Therefore individuals don't ever invest large amounts of money into these complex machines to get something for free later on. Only large businesses do, because they're in it for the profit.
Services would never be free but "goods" can be free indefinitely after the initial up front investment in machinery or equipment that makes them.
So hopefully if nice people would either donate equipment or money for equipment, then someday we may have a "free store" in every neighborhood. Some businesses sometimes donate things like old doughnut machines for free, that they don't want anymore, as long as you take it off of there hands. But then you also have to take on the task of refurbishing it.
Some examples of things that are free after you own the equipment are:
(1)Rain water sanitized by a UV tube and solar panels, or distilled by a heating element and solar panels.
(2)Ice from the store is free if you have an electric ice maker hooked up to solar power.
(3)Wood can be free from fallen trees in a nearby forest that you can get admitted into for collecting free wood. But always be sure that the forest is big enough for the population size, so that you don't deplete national resources.
(4)Solar charging stations for electric cars when the new ultra-capacitor tech comes out in 2009(from zenn cars). Also electric cars have almost zero maintenance and last longer than normal cars from less moving parts. So driving could be essentially free one day. And you wouldn't even need to buy a rental car for trips, from no worries of yours breaking down.
(5)Some foods can be free if they're planted behind the store. Plant foods such as: Black berries, strawberries, blueberries, fruit trees (in there natural climate:apple/banana). veggies: cucumber squash, lettuce herbs, potatoes, onions. All of these foods require almost no maintenance and practically grow themselves, and last for years or forever without needing replanting. Cider can be free if you bring in old apples that are fallen off of a tree and then the machine presses out the juice and pasteurizes it. Same with apple sauce. And dried fruit can also be manufactured for free if you brought in the fruit to be dried. Frozen french fries could also be made free, from a machine out of free potatoes that the customer brought in. You can make many full sized potato plants out of only one potato by just cutting up the potato and its eyes into sections and planting.
(6)Recycling plant to make free paper products and free plastic products, and maybe even free metal products. After people have separated out their garbage into different material piles, then the trash collectors, from the free store, pick it up for free.
(7)Chemicals that are automated to produce are distilled alcohol, and caustic soda/"drano" from electrolysis of salt water. You just need the equipment and the solar panels. Hydrogen and oxygen and chlorine can also be made in this way.
(8)Free wifi internet connection in the store. That's normal for businesses these days though.
(9)You could have free video and game rentals if you bought them at their marked price with real money, and then you can return them at any time as long as you still have the receipt. And these things are donated to the store originally. This is the same thing that modern libraries do really, which is just as good. But the clerks work off of the tips from every bought video.
(10) Yeast can be made into a colony that lasts indefinitely, and as long as you have flour(which is cheap) then you can make infinite bread out of one batch of yeast, with a solar powered bread factory.
We may not have everything done for us for free anytime soon but gradually as new technology is developed then more things will be produced for free, by machines, for us. It's just a matter of putting those machines in public possession instead of corporate possession. What's the good of brand name anymore anyway when HP and Dell printers have their printers engineered with planned obsolescence and are loosing face because of the ink cartridge chip scam that they never told anyone about.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
How To Collect Video Games
If you choose to collect video games as a hobby to pass the time, either to play them or to just keep the unopened copies nailed to the wall as works of art, then here are some tips to keep in mind, since I've been down that road before.
I now only buy rare games for my brother for Christmas and his B-day, and occasionally buy them to sell later on ebay for a profit. What you want to do is be professional about it, by going to all of the game publisher sites that you know of, and read all of the news, or press releases of that company in order to get hot tips on special editions, or one time special offers, or where you can get a signature from a creator, at an event. Getting game news online is better than getting news from a gaming magazine, because you're not looking for mass market games but instead the diamond in the ruff, that nobody knows about. And also the internet has infinite information to look through, from every lesser known company, to harder to find news articles.
But the bread and butter of the collector would be to search for any limited edition games that any particular publisher has in stock. But don't worry if it isn't in stock because often when an online publisher's store (such as capcom.com) is out of stock of the limited edition, there is usually a lag time before the other "indirect" online retailers of the same limited edition game(i.e. bestbuy.com, walmart.com, target.com)run out of the game. Also they sell it at the same price as the publisher sells it at. The following link is a good site for seeing all of the other online retailers of games, for when the games are either out of stock at the brick and mortar stores, or out of stock on the publishers site. Follow this link to Nintendo's "Where to buy games" page.
It's also always a good idea to estimate how many copies of the game were produced, to check for rarity, before buying, by seeing how long it was in print, and how many retail stores carried the game. For example limited editions usually have a production run of only a few months, while the regular editions of the same game have a production run of potentially years. But the true holy grail video games only have 100 or less copies made of them and are either won in a contest or are one of a kind test cartridges or were never released. Also sometimes games are only available online at various sites, or sometimes as a "gamestop.com" online exclusive, making them instantly rare. "Panesian" was a mail ordered company back in the day, with only a small market that actually bought the games. So it's best to buy new games that are rare and to just hold onto them in a collection, or until the Christmas season after they went out of print, to sell on ebay, when demand is high.
But I'd say that video games are a very safe investment because of the fact that even if they don't go up in value, you can always get out of the game what you originally invested into it, as long as the game is still in unopened condition. But for used video game collecting, I always go to a nearby "gamestop/ebgames" store after looking at game prices on ebay and memorizing them. Because I usually find at least one "used" and rare game at gamestop that is worth more on ebay than they're selling it for at the gamestop/ebgames store. Also the true genius of "gamestop" is shown by how you can buy a used game at their stores and return them within 1 week, essentially offering a free videogame rental. I'm surprised that the actual videogame rental stores haven't gone out of business yet.
When selling on ebay complete sets usually sell for full price, and are more sure of selling on the first auction. There are 2 reasons for this: (1) When you have multiple items in an auction(such as a match set of etrian odyssey I &II both in unopened condition, and their strategy guides also) there is less shipping and handling costs per item since they're all in one auction. This makes the customer happy and more willing to pay full price. And (2) A complete set is always more collectible especially in good condition and 100% complete. There are lots of rich people out there that have their own personal museum at home of their favorite collectible, and only want the best of the best, not to mention actual museums. And because of the demand going up, from the competition between these collectors on your 1 of a kind auction, the price goes up.
Here's an incomplete list of publishers and easy links to all of their sites:
Publishers: This info gotten off of the Nintendo website of "new game releases" for all Nintendo systems, under each games info. This is an "incomplete" list of video game publishers, and there may be more publishers for different systems than Nintendo systems.
www.capcom.com
Mastiff
Lucas arts
Ignition enetertainment
THQ
Electronic arts
Ubisoft
Sega
Nintendo
Atlus
Activision
Activision value
Midway games
The adventure company
Destineer studios
Gamecock
Disney interactive
South peak interactive
2k play
Koei
Eidos interactive
Namco bandai games
Natsume
Nis america
Empire interactive
Konami
Square enix
DTP entertainment ag
Abstraction games
Telltale games
Tomy corp
Ufo interactive
Empty clip studios
atari
Sierra entertainment
Majesco entertainment
Majesco sales
Hudson entertainment inc
Crave entertainment
Xs games
Ghost fire games
Game loft
D3 publisher of america
Code masters
Jv games
Zoo games now green screen games
Snk playmore usa
Oxygen games
MTV games
Brash entertainment
Vir2l studios
D2C games
Destination software now greenscreen games
Red octane
High voltage software inc
Neko entertainment
Hear say companies: Or rare companies that could be the next “Panesian”. Historically the best collectible games have been made by companies that you've never heard of, that are from another country. But of course the game has to be made in English. Rarity is more important than fun, when it comes to an ebay auction. But fun games can also be rare(usually unopened or collector's limited edition):
Platinum games
Summitsoft
Atlus games. Probably not the rarest but a good company to collect.
More rare companies will be added as I find them.
Research, research, research.
Bookmark this post, for easy reference.
Also see: "infinite free videogames", and "free stuff".
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LATER ADDED:
Collecting games is similar to collecting cars, some people want the drivable, updated parts models, some want the show models that are in mint condition, and some want the all original models, as if they just came off of the assembly line, from 50 years ago.
Video game special editions. Here's a "list of video game collector and limited editions" on wiki.
Good search phrases are: “gamestop preorder” , gamestop collectors edition(good),special edition, collectors edition, limited edition, premium edition,
Some collectible games that are about to be, or have just been released are:
Prince of persia limited edition preorder only
Grand theft auto iv special edition. Get at a gamestop brick and mortar store
Metal gear solid 4 limited edition. Get at a gamestop brick and mortar store
Resident evil 5 collectors edition gamestop pre order 3/13/09
Final fantasy 12 collectors edition at google shopping 45$ new
Fallout 3 pre order before 10/28/08
Soul calibur iv premium edition google shopping, 80.00$ already out, not worth it
Street fighter iv collector’s edition gamestop pre order ships 2/3/09, 80.00$
Mass effect collector’s edition (xbox360) at gamestop online only in November 08, 70.00$
Devil may cry IV collector's edition, out of print but still available at bestbuy.com.
I now only buy rare games for my brother for Christmas and his B-day, and occasionally buy them to sell later on ebay for a profit. What you want to do is be professional about it, by going to all of the game publisher sites that you know of, and read all of the news, or press releases of that company in order to get hot tips on special editions, or one time special offers, or where you can get a signature from a creator, at an event. Getting game news online is better than getting news from a gaming magazine, because you're not looking for mass market games but instead the diamond in the ruff, that nobody knows about. And also the internet has infinite information to look through, from every lesser known company, to harder to find news articles.
But the bread and butter of the collector would be to search for any limited edition games that any particular publisher has in stock. But don't worry if it isn't in stock because often when an online publisher's store (such as capcom.com) is out of stock of the limited edition, there is usually a lag time before the other "indirect" online retailers of the same limited edition game(i.e. bestbuy.com, walmart.com, target.com)run out of the game. Also they sell it at the same price as the publisher sells it at. The following link is a good site for seeing all of the other online retailers of games, for when the games are either out of stock at the brick and mortar stores, or out of stock on the publishers site. Follow this link to Nintendo's "Where to buy games" page.
It's also always a good idea to estimate how many copies of the game were produced, to check for rarity, before buying, by seeing how long it was in print, and how many retail stores carried the game. For example limited editions usually have a production run of only a few months, while the regular editions of the same game have a production run of potentially years. But the true holy grail video games only have 100 or less copies made of them and are either won in a contest or are one of a kind test cartridges or were never released. Also sometimes games are only available online at various sites, or sometimes as a "gamestop.com" online exclusive, making them instantly rare. "Panesian" was a mail ordered company back in the day, with only a small market that actually bought the games. So it's best to buy new games that are rare and to just hold onto them in a collection, or until the Christmas season after they went out of print, to sell on ebay, when demand is high.
But I'd say that video games are a very safe investment because of the fact that even if they don't go up in value, you can always get out of the game what you originally invested into it, as long as the game is still in unopened condition. But for used video game collecting, I always go to a nearby "gamestop/ebgames" store after looking at game prices on ebay and memorizing them. Because I usually find at least one "used" and rare game at gamestop that is worth more on ebay than they're selling it for at the gamestop/ebgames store. Also the true genius of "gamestop" is shown by how you can buy a used game at their stores and return them within 1 week, essentially offering a free videogame rental. I'm surprised that the actual videogame rental stores haven't gone out of business yet.
When selling on ebay complete sets usually sell for full price, and are more sure of selling on the first auction. There are 2 reasons for this: (1) When you have multiple items in an auction(such as a match set of etrian odyssey I &II both in unopened condition, and their strategy guides also) there is less shipping and handling costs per item since they're all in one auction. This makes the customer happy and more willing to pay full price. And (2) A complete set is always more collectible especially in good condition and 100% complete. There are lots of rich people out there that have their own personal museum at home of their favorite collectible, and only want the best of the best, not to mention actual museums. And because of the demand going up, from the competition between these collectors on your 1 of a kind auction, the price goes up.
Here's an incomplete list of publishers and easy links to all of their sites:
Publishers: This info gotten off of the Nintendo website of "new game releases" for all Nintendo systems, under each games info. This is an "incomplete" list of video game publishers, and there may be more publishers for different systems than Nintendo systems.
www.capcom.com
Mastiff
Lucas arts
Ignition enetertainment
THQ
Electronic arts
Ubisoft
Sega
Nintendo
Atlus
Activision
Activision value
Midway games
The adventure company
Destineer studios
Gamecock
Disney interactive
South peak interactive
2k play
Koei
Eidos interactive
Namco bandai games
Natsume
Nis america
Empire interactive
Konami
Square enix
DTP entertainment ag
Abstraction games
Telltale games
Tomy corp
Ufo interactive
Empty clip studios
atari
Sierra entertainment
Majesco entertainment
Majesco sales
Hudson entertainment inc
Crave entertainment
Xs games
Ghost fire games
Game loft
D3 publisher of america
Code masters
Jv games
Zoo games now green screen games
Snk playmore usa
Oxygen games
MTV games
Brash entertainment
Vir2l studios
D2C games
Destination software now greenscreen games
Red octane
High voltage software inc
Neko entertainment
Hear say companies: Or rare companies that could be the next “Panesian”. Historically the best collectible games have been made by companies that you've never heard of, that are from another country. But of course the game has to be made in English. Rarity is more important than fun, when it comes to an ebay auction. But fun games can also be rare(usually unopened or collector's limited edition):
Platinum games
Summitsoft
Atlus games. Probably not the rarest but a good company to collect.
More rare companies will be added as I find them.
Research, research, research.
Bookmark this post, for easy reference.
Also see: "infinite free videogames", and "free stuff".
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LATER ADDED:
Collecting games is similar to collecting cars, some people want the drivable, updated parts models, some want the show models that are in mint condition, and some want the all original models, as if they just came off of the assembly line, from 50 years ago.
Video game special editions. Here's a "list of video game collector and limited editions" on wiki.
Good search phrases are: “gamestop preorder” , gamestop collectors edition(good),special edition, collectors edition, limited edition, premium edition,
Some collectible games that are about to be, or have just been released are:
Prince of persia limited edition preorder only
Grand theft auto iv special edition. Get at a gamestop brick and mortar store
Metal gear solid 4 limited edition. Get at a gamestop brick and mortar store
Resident evil 5 collectors edition gamestop pre order 3/13/09
Final fantasy 12 collectors edition at google shopping 45$ new
Fallout 3 pre order before 10/28/08
Soul calibur iv premium edition google shopping, 80.00$ already out, not worth it
Street fighter iv collector’s edition gamestop pre order ships 2/3/09, 80.00$
Mass effect collector’s edition (xbox360) at gamestop online only in November 08, 70.00$
Devil may cry IV collector's edition, out of print but still available at bestbuy.com.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Joke machine
Have a database of jokes that actually have been shown to make some people at least laugh.
Then type in key words into this portable joke database like "cow + ckicken", and it will automatically come up with a joke that has those 2 words in it. The joke comes up on the screen and then you either read it to your friend or press the "next joke" button and it comes up with the second most relevant joke which uses those 1 or 2 or 3 key words.
you may also have a USB cord that can get downloaded jokes from the joke machines website. This could also charge the portable joke box.
Another version of this invention is a robot that spontaneously tells jokes all the time and has a personality of its own. For this it would recognize key search words with speech recognition software.
Then type in key words into this portable joke database like "cow + ckicken", and it will automatically come up with a joke that has those 2 words in it. The joke comes up on the screen and then you either read it to your friend or press the "next joke" button and it comes up with the second most relevant joke which uses those 1 or 2 or 3 key words.
you may also have a USB cord that can get downloaded jokes from the joke machines website. This could also charge the portable joke box.
Another version of this invention is a robot that spontaneously tells jokes all the time and has a personality of its own. For this it would recognize key search words with speech recognition software.
Must See Once In Your Life
Music: Imogen heap, "hide and seek". "Mr. blue sky". Daft punk "Harder, better, faster, stronger". "Dreamer"vision quest. Following by Tiesto - elements of life . Trance sensation. Athena-lethal industry-victorious. Evolution. Steam punk.
"Lotus game music for the Amiga"(the 3rd song on link is intro) composed by Patrick Phelan, top 100 RPG battle theme,"walking in the air", Spark mandrill/Gravity beetle, Blue- Cowboy bebop, Rain- Cowboy bebop, Popcorn, Funky Town, The Hamster Dance, Defloration by Emax, Mortal combat theme, I'm an asshole by Denis Leary, viva la vita, we didn't start the fire, gonna getcha good,
Comedy: Brian reagan, Steve Martin(started it all), George Carlin, Jim Gaffigan,
Images: "morbidly obese giraffe"(image), "big airplane"(image),
Video: No budget productions,"shocking sasquatch video is real","Cowboy bebop", "last feast of the crocodiles"(check you're local discovery/national geo. channel listings).
Book: Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy trilogy, Dune, Piers Anthony(wrote the movie "total recall")
Misc: Jay Leno's garage,
"Lotus game music for the Amiga"(the 3rd song on link is intro) composed by Patrick Phelan, top 100 RPG battle theme,"walking in the air", Spark mandrill/Gravity beetle, Blue- Cowboy bebop, Rain- Cowboy bebop, Popcorn, Funky Town, The Hamster Dance, Defloration by Emax, Mortal combat theme, I'm an asshole by Denis Leary, viva la vita, we didn't start the fire, gonna getcha good,
Comedy: Brian reagan, Steve Martin(started it all), George Carlin, Jim Gaffigan,
Images: "morbidly obese giraffe"(image), "big airplane"(image),
Video: No budget productions,"shocking sasquatch video is real","Cowboy bebop", "last feast of the crocodiles"(check you're local discovery/national geo. channel listings).
Book: Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy trilogy, Dune, Piers Anthony(wrote the movie "total recall")
Misc: Jay Leno's garage,
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Contradictions
- I like how after god destroyed the dinosaurs, he then twiddled his thumbs for 65 million years until he finally decided to create humans.
- Also he was nice enough to save the Jews the first time from the Egyptians but wasn't so keen on saving them the second time from the Germans.
- Is god happy when you die because you are then able to be with him, and if so does that mean that god would be happier if everyone was dead, so that they could be with him.
- A good excuse is always just to say, "Well if god doesn't care then why should I care". This works in almost any arguments that have to do with ethical debates.
- But my personal favorite is when people say "you can't do it that way" I like to say " Well the universe tends to disagree with you". This is good when you're around controlling family members that always want perfection and things to be done there way.
- If you have to change yourself in order to get into heaven then why did god make you the way you were.
- One religion in Taiwan says that you need a face tattoo at some point in your life in order to be accepted into heaven. And others say that in order to get sex in heaven you need to kill lots of other people by blowing yourself up. So which one is the right religion anyway, it's too bad that god won't tell more people about the requirements for heaven than just the one religious profit, who could actually be an evil person in disguise. Why wouldn't he give believers proof that their leader was not an evil person in disguise.
- Fact: The most dangerous criminal is one that is willing to commit suicide, because you can't really punish them if they're already dead. So if there are no consequences to dieing because of a belief in an after life then you're creating perfect criminals or soldiers that don't fear death. What god supports such an evil thing.
- God isn't very smart if he has to keep changing his original plans by meddling in human affairs, and using miracles to fix what he did wrong previously. Basically any miracle is god breaking his own laws of physics, so then why did he even make those annoying laws of physics in the first place. But when was the last real miracle that you've seen, really, that could be proven was not just a magic trick, or a misinterpretation of natural events.
- Using the bible to win any argument, is very easy because the bible contradicts its own words so many times that you can find verses that back up your point of view in any philosophical debate, for basically any point of view that anyone has(Hitler did this and also terrorists). That's the reason why there are so many interpretations of the bible and so many spin off religions of the very same book(catholic, presbyterian, jewish, mormon) all because of all of the different ways of interpreting the same words. The main reason being that the words are interpreted metaphorically and also that the words contradict themselves so much. See: This link of all of the bible contradictions.
- Unsubstantiated theory: Higher education correlates to lower levels of belief.
- The word belief is a contradiction in and of itself. Believing in something, for no reason, is not rational. You could hope the world is that way, but telling yourself that it is that way for certain when there is no possible way to be certain, is just contradicting your own thoughts.
If the bible only had facts and proof then it wouldn't be a religion.
UPDATE: I do still keep an open mind to spirituality and living forever and becoming more than human because maybe when we are able to travel the galaxy an meet new intelligent species and philosophies they will know more than we know about the after life and being happy and all knowing and spiritual.
- Also see a previous post.
- Also see for fun George carlin's religion and bullshit.
- Also see The after life idea, for ghosts and god.
Free Stuff
- Free rentals: Go to Gamestop and buy used games or DVD's and then return them within the 7 day return policy in order to have free DVD and game rental. In fact you can essentially rent portable games like DS, which may not be done at some video stores. This only works on used games though.
- When buying a car, if you pay in cash 600$ but you put on the title that it only cost 200$ then you only have to pay tax on the 200$.
- Having money in money market earns 6% a year of free money. If you have a million dollars then put it into municipal bonds for better and more secure interest, for free money. Also dollar cost averaging earns an extra few percentage points per year when buying shares of mutual funds on a monthly basis.
- Instead of buying a magazine of million dollar homes just to ogle the homes, you can get the same exact thing from free news stand luxury home ad magazines(at 7-11, or a store front), that have almost the same thing, and it comes out weekly.
- Youtube.
- Download an emulator of any video game system that you used to like to play, then download the ROM of any of the games that you used to like to play, all of this for free. See: my post done on this.
- Playing pranks on people.
- Sailing is free transportation, also the newly invented wave powered boat is, and eating fish that have caught is free food.
- Solar power is infinite energy. For free energy after initial investment.
- Camping at state and national parks is free. There are some rules though if they can enforce them.
- CLEP tests and final exams(If you're home taught), are a good way of earning credit for having learned a class without ever having to have taken the class at all, as long as you already know the subject or have at least taken 1 hour to skim through a book on the subject to get a passing grade. This is how Doogie Howser M.D. became a doctor without taking 8 years of college.
- One red paper clip. He used the principle of creating value where no extra value had previously existed. Are they willing to pay you more than what you paid for it. The value is in the mind of the buyer. Just like building devices out of raw materials that people are then willing to pay more than the value of the materials, after the device has already been made. This is just a fancy way of saying buy low, sell high. These are two ways of expressing the same thing, which is, how to get rich. His way was more deal making than buying and selling.(Later Added:) What creates value? Rarity, and work put into creation, unless it's an outdated/old item. So supposedly good items worth trading are 1 of a kind items, that people want because of the exclusivity, and fun factor. They could either be collectibles, or things to have fun with friends or by self with, that are one of a kind, are good to trade. Trading more and more exclusive items becomes easier as you have more valuable items, because rich people will easily make an uneven trade of one exclusive item for another that they really want more. The concept is that, they never price things when they buy them either. But this only works in cross category exclusive items because if you're trading an exclusive video game for another exclusive video game, then they may not want to part with what they already like collecting or make a bad trade and lessen their collection. So they have to be trading an exclusive item that they don't want anymore, to you, for a one of a kind item that they really do want. And if they don't want to trade for this exclusive item then find a more willing collector, or a more "fun factor" oriented person.
- Water is free, and it even falls out of the sky for you. But it just needs purifying. See my artificial aquifer. Or boil it with free wood.
- Free wood from fallen trees, either on your property or an adjacent forest next to your property. On a large scale though this leads to degradation of some species habitat.
- Low speed vehicles do not require very much insurance. And can get you to everywhere except out of town, for only pennies a day if it's an electric vehicle.
Monday, September 15, 2008
Vortex Tube And Pulse Jet
I ran across this article while researching something else on wikipedia. It was about Vortex tubes. Then I thought "How can I get one of these". So I put that into the "search all categories" of Ebay. And there it was. Also I found a link to a cheaper place to buy them at the bottom of that ebay page.
This invention may have room to be improved upon, seeing as how they may not understand 100% of the physics behind it yet. The main questions being, how do you improve efficiency compared with ordinary A/C, and why doesn't it work as well on liquids, as on gasses?
My very first theory on this is that the more energetic less dense and therefor lighter hot air can more easily escape the center of the vortex(heat rises). One way of testing this could be by putting two dissimilar gasses into the vortex and seeing if the heavier gas comes out on the cold side.
Another application of this technology, may be to separate dissimilar gasses without the need to liquefy the gasses to separate them, like they do to manufacture pure nitrogen and oxygen.
Even if you can still create cryogenic temperatures with vortex tubes in series.
But they make noise so just have a muffler type thing on one end to not have noise if wanted to use it in a house. But if you wanted a house cooling system you should use the new" Johnson thermo-electrochemical converter system".
If you put compressed hydrogen into it at the right pressure it would come out as a flame thrower.
Youtube vortex tube
Also see: Pulse jet engine, or Youtube pulse jet, This is so cool that it's funny. See: Mythbusters for finding cool things funny.
Also see: Tesla turbine, or youtube it, if you haven't heard of it yet. This uses the principle of the "coanda effect". Which is also why wind over the top of a chimney will suck air out of the chimney.
Also see: Venturi effect, which is utilized in pulse jets. youtube it for some more visual explanations. This is also called Bernoulli's principle. I think all of these and the theory of flight are more easilly understood by all being seen as variations of the "Coanda effect". Because if a wing was shaped like the cross section of a frisby it wouldn't fly, and Bernoulli's principle says it would fly. See this link for a very good explaination of the theory of flight.
Bernoulli's principle is easilly remembered as: Faster moving air has lower air pressure.
The way a chimney works is also explained better by the coanda effect than bernoulli's principle, because if air in the chimney is attracted to air from a breeze above the chimney then the air in the chimney will be impelled to move in along with the moving air above the chimney from the inherent attractive forces. So the kinetic energy of the moving air is imparted into the chimney's air forcing the chimney air to move in the same direction, from the coanda effects force of attraction. This is the same with all of the ball and wind tests, and the 2 can test. All being explained better by the "Coanda effect".
Prank: Use bernoulli's principle or the coanda effect to TP someones house in seconds with the use of a leaf blower. See video.
Also see: Dredging, or Suction dredge often used in gold mining, which uses a solid state "y shaped" joint and the principle of suction. This is the same as how chimneys work but more specialized Y shape for dredging specific purposes.
The following picture is an improved wind turbine design.
Later added: I now am pretty sure that the coanda effect and van der waals forces are the same effect in different forms. I presume that fluids like air are attracted to solid surfaces(because solid surfaces electromagnetic charge is constantly pointed in one direction to attract free flowing fluids opposing charges) by electromagnetic forces at the atomic level in the same way as gecko skin is attracted to any solid surface. So in theory the "Coanda effect" which better describes the theory of flight than bernouli's principle, is actually an electromagnetic effect at the atomic level that is one and the same as van der waals forces.
Gravity could be an electromagnetic macro scale effect, but there is no solid theory or info supporting a connection yet.
This invention may have room to be improved upon, seeing as how they may not understand 100% of the physics behind it yet. The main questions being, how do you improve efficiency compared with ordinary A/C, and why doesn't it work as well on liquids, as on gasses?
My very first theory on this is that the more energetic less dense and therefor lighter hot air can more easily escape the center of the vortex(heat rises). One way of testing this could be by putting two dissimilar gasses into the vortex and seeing if the heavier gas comes out on the cold side.
Another application of this technology, may be to separate dissimilar gasses without the need to liquefy the gasses to separate them, like they do to manufacture pure nitrogen and oxygen.
Even if you can still create cryogenic temperatures with vortex tubes in series.
But they make noise so just have a muffler type thing on one end to not have noise if wanted to use it in a house. But if you wanted a house cooling system you should use the new" Johnson thermo-electrochemical converter system".
If you put compressed hydrogen into it at the right pressure it would come out as a flame thrower.
Youtube vortex tube
Also see: Pulse jet engine, or Youtube pulse jet, This is so cool that it's funny. See: Mythbusters for finding cool things funny.
Also see: Tesla turbine, or youtube it, if you haven't heard of it yet. This uses the principle of the "coanda effect". Which is also why wind over the top of a chimney will suck air out of the chimney.
Also see: Venturi effect, which is utilized in pulse jets. youtube it for some more visual explanations. This is also called Bernoulli's principle. I think all of these and the theory of flight are more easilly understood by all being seen as variations of the "Coanda effect". Because if a wing was shaped like the cross section of a frisby it wouldn't fly, and Bernoulli's principle says it would fly. See this link for a very good explaination of the theory of flight.
Bernoulli's principle is easilly remembered as: Faster moving air has lower air pressure.
The way a chimney works is also explained better by the coanda effect than bernoulli's principle, because if air in the chimney is attracted to air from a breeze above the chimney then the air in the chimney will be impelled to move in along with the moving air above the chimney from the inherent attractive forces. So the kinetic energy of the moving air is imparted into the chimney's air forcing the chimney air to move in the same direction, from the coanda effects force of attraction. This is the same with all of the ball and wind tests, and the 2 can test. All being explained better by the "Coanda effect".
Prank: Use bernoulli's principle or the coanda effect to TP someones house in seconds with the use of a leaf blower. See video.
Also see: Dredging, or Suction dredge often used in gold mining, which uses a solid state "y shaped" joint and the principle of suction. This is the same as how chimneys work but more specialized Y shape for dredging specific purposes.
The following picture is an improved wind turbine design.
Later added: I now am pretty sure that the coanda effect and van der waals forces are the same effect in different forms. I presume that fluids like air are attracted to solid surfaces(because solid surfaces electromagnetic charge is constantly pointed in one direction to attract free flowing fluids opposing charges) by electromagnetic forces at the atomic level in the same way as gecko skin is attracted to any solid surface. So in theory the "Coanda effect" which better describes the theory of flight than bernouli's principle, is actually an electromagnetic effect at the atomic level that is one and the same as van der waals forces.
Gravity could be an electromagnetic macro scale effect, but there is no solid theory or info supporting a connection yet.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Instant Cold Drink, No Refridgeration Needed
This idea has already been invented so just use this info for fun reading. And for technical reasons it has never been cost effective to produce.
This idea I recently submitted onto "Whynot.net":
This idea would work on non-carbonated beverages.
I think that if you were to pressurize a canned beverage, with air of the same amount of pressure as any other pressurized canned product, and then you released the pressurized air in the can, then it would immediately be a cold drink, and it would never have required refrigeration.
This is easily shown by buying one of those cheap "canned air" cans that are used for cleaning computer keyboards, which get very cold if you release the air all at once. Different initial pressures, equal different end temperatures once pressure is released.
This would be a good gimmick for marketing a product and may even be the way that all non-carbonated beverages are packaged one day.
And they should only be packaged in small sized containers so that you can drink the whole can before it gets warm.
This would also save energy used on vending machines, which currently use lots of energy to cool down water and other sports drinks, at gyms all the time.For maybe a little extra production cost(which people would be willing to pay), and a little more aluminum used per can for sturdiness, you could probably save as much energy in refrigerator operation, as is saved by using compact fluorescent bulbs.
Of course special design considerations are necessary for safety and ease of drinking. Maybe a solution is, a small hole to release the air and then another cap or opening, to open after the pressure is released. But a good engineer could easily figure out how to make it work.
If nothing else this would be a great novelty to see this one day.
This idea I recently submitted onto "Whynot.net":
This idea would work on non-carbonated beverages.
I think that if you were to pressurize a canned beverage, with air of the same amount of pressure as any other pressurized canned product, and then you released the pressurized air in the can, then it would immediately be a cold drink, and it would never have required refrigeration.
This is easily shown by buying one of those cheap "canned air" cans that are used for cleaning computer keyboards, which get very cold if you release the air all at once. Different initial pressures, equal different end temperatures once pressure is released.
This would be a good gimmick for marketing a product and may even be the way that all non-carbonated beverages are packaged one day.
And they should only be packaged in small sized containers so that you can drink the whole can before it gets warm.
This would also save energy used on vending machines, which currently use lots of energy to cool down water and other sports drinks, at gyms all the time.For maybe a little extra production cost(which people would be willing to pay), and a little more aluminum used per can for sturdiness, you could probably save as much energy in refrigerator operation, as is saved by using compact fluorescent bulbs.
Of course special design considerations are necessary for safety and ease of drinking. Maybe a solution is, a small hole to release the air and then another cap or opening, to open after the pressure is released. But a good engineer could easily figure out how to make it work.
If nothing else this would be a great novelty to see this one day.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
The Theory Behind Becoming Rich
The best and simplest unified theory I've found is: Buy low, sell high, and always have spare liquid assets or cash to invest when the market is low.
Other theories are "creating value", And also that "the price is set by the buyer" and "value is in the mind of the buyer". But these aren't very easy to understand or apply in any way, and they don't really explain all aspects of money making in one simple unifying theory. But I haven't heard every economic theory that is around, so if you have a better simple theory then feel free to type it in the "comments section".
The reason why it's always easier to make money once you already have money, is just a matter of scale. When you have a million dollars earning only 10% interest in an investment, that translates into 100,000$ which is more than most poor people ever see in cash equivalents. Sort of like how the scale of an ant compared to an elephant. 20 ft of walking is short for an elephant but seems like a mile for an ant.
having lots of money is like having another person working for you, because the money performs work by itself without any supervision, and then gives all of its proceeds to you.
Factoid: Rich people on average life longer than poor people because they can afford any kind of medical care. Even if it's located across the world.
I'm lucky enough to be ready to buy a house when the market has gone down, so now in Florida there are lots of 2 bedroom 2 bath houses for 50,000$ or less soon.
I'm also lucky to be invested in Zenn stock while it's still a penny stock. And if the smartest people in the world are mistaken about investing in this one, then nobody is smart enough to invest properly. The risk with this company is loosing half of your money if it fails, but the reward of this company is gaining 5 times as much money if it succeeds in it's claims, by the end of the year.
Always have maximum reward and minimum risk in all investments. Or just as a general rule in every aspect of life other than money.
The problem is knowing when the market is at the bottom and when the market is at the top. So don't guess, instead just be in a position to take advantage of profitable opportunities after they become available. In other words you don't need to know when the market is at the bottom if you know for a fact that the market will be up sometime in the future. And alternatively you don't need to know when the market is at the top, because as long as you've made a profit then you can sell at any time. If you don't know what the future is short term, then invest for the long term.
In the end only buy things when they are priced at the lowest price that they should ever be at, when opportunity knocks. That way if they ever go up in price at all, then you can sell them at any time that you want, and it will always be profitable, without the need to predict.
An example of "buying low, selling high", is buying limited edition collector item games, in mint unopened condition when they just went out of print and then waiting for the demand to kick in at the next Christmas season and then sell them on ebay. If nothing else, you'll get back you're original investment, which means minimal risk. See collecting video games post
Other theories are "creating value", And also that "the price is set by the buyer" and "value is in the mind of the buyer". But these aren't very easy to understand or apply in any way, and they don't really explain all aspects of money making in one simple unifying theory. But I haven't heard every economic theory that is around, so if you have a better simple theory then feel free to type it in the "comments section".
The reason why it's always easier to make money once you already have money, is just a matter of scale. When you have a million dollars earning only 10% interest in an investment, that translates into 100,000$ which is more than most poor people ever see in cash equivalents. Sort of like how the scale of an ant compared to an elephant. 20 ft of walking is short for an elephant but seems like a mile for an ant.
having lots of money is like having another person working for you, because the money performs work by itself without any supervision, and then gives all of its proceeds to you.
Factoid: Rich people on average life longer than poor people because they can afford any kind of medical care. Even if it's located across the world.
I'm lucky enough to be ready to buy a house when the market has gone down, so now in Florida there are lots of 2 bedroom 2 bath houses for 50,000$ or less soon.
I'm also lucky to be invested in Zenn stock while it's still a penny stock. And if the smartest people in the world are mistaken about investing in this one, then nobody is smart enough to invest properly. The risk with this company is loosing half of your money if it fails, but the reward of this company is gaining 5 times as much money if it succeeds in it's claims, by the end of the year.
Always have maximum reward and minimum risk in all investments. Or just as a general rule in every aspect of life other than money.
The problem is knowing when the market is at the bottom and when the market is at the top. So don't guess, instead just be in a position to take advantage of profitable opportunities after they become available. In other words you don't need to know when the market is at the bottom if you know for a fact that the market will be up sometime in the future. And alternatively you don't need to know when the market is at the top, because as long as you've made a profit then you can sell at any time. If you don't know what the future is short term, then invest for the long term.
In the end only buy things when they are priced at the lowest price that they should ever be at, when opportunity knocks. That way if they ever go up in price at all, then you can sell them at any time that you want, and it will always be profitable, without the need to predict.
An example of "buying low, selling high", is buying limited edition collector item games, in mint unopened condition when they just went out of print and then waiting for the demand to kick in at the next Christmas season and then sell them on ebay. If nothing else, you'll get back you're original investment, which means minimal risk. See collecting video games post
Actual Hoverboard And Real Flying Car
I recently added a post to an idea submission site called "www.whynot.net", of how a Hover board may be possible using ion wind technology, follow the ion wind link for wikipedia on the subject.
The following is the post that I submitted:
Other useful info is to search solid state fan, and electro-aerodynamic pumping. I also theorize that with high enough energy you could make a full sized vehicle float a few inches above the ground.
But if you wanted the vehicle to fly it would be a different technique. If the top of the vehicle was the sharp emitter electrode and the body of the craft was the blunt collector electrode the ion wind would be forced to travel downward around the craft, or from top to bottom, creating upward lift, using the "coanda effect". Here's a link that explains the coanda effect and the theory of flight better through actual simple experimentation. But in short when air is pulled downward to travel along the surface of the craft, by the flow of ions, the equal and opposite reaction of pulling air down also pulls the body of the craft up. The actual shape of the craft is only important for horizontal aerodymanic flight and has nothing to do with lift force. So the only lift force is from the coanda effect created by the ion wind which was itself created by a very powerful DC electrical generator, inside of the craft.
The following is from wikipedia under corona discharge:
Moving the craft side to side is a different matter though. Which I don't have a solid theory for yet. But it may use the same ion wind technology, with highly charged movable capacitors located inside the craft. Used to offset the charge on one side of the craft making the air flow alter, or reconfigure around that spot, on that side, which would make that side move forward from a change in ion wind flow around it creating a pressure differential. But no solid math that works for that theory yet.
Also the source of power needs to be large which we currently don't have the energy technology for yet other than nuclear. It may be possible to have high voltage Alternating Current also, but because of the alternation it would only have pulses of ion flow. This may be useful if it is true that at high enough frequencies(20,000hertz or above) current then cannot flow through the human body, because of the human body acting as a resistor at that high of a frequency.
But also on the problem of high energies being dangerous to humans, as long as you're suspended in the air and your body doesn't touch the ground then your body won't conduct the energy to the ground and therefor no electric shock. The power line maintenance crews know this trick, and use it all the time(See: "High voltage" under "power lines", on wiki). So always jump onto highly charged objects to not be touching the ground at the same time as you're touching the charged vehicle or object.
Also in making the craft one solid seemless peice of metal for no moving parts or chance of breaking and also for aerodynamics, you would still need some way of entry into the craft. Superfluidity to go straight through the walls of the craft would work, but has never been substantiated as a real technology yet. But suposedly high enough electrical charge mimics the same properties of a plasma(high amount of electrons) and maybe even superfluidity as well. It's just an unsubstantiated hypothesis at this point though.
I do know that at high enough voltages though you get an effect that mimics superconductivity, with very low electrical loss. Because at high voltages the electrons have high potential energy and are static charges and therefore since they are non-moving electrons they have less wire to run into and get resistance from. But then of course it may be releasing that stored energy in the form of photons from the ambient glow that high voltages naturally create. By the way that's how you light the inside of the craft, in order to never have to replace lightbulbs. I call this effect "spontaneous emission".
I used to think that high (+/-)static charges were the same as gravity and anti-gravity, because they both share so many similar characteristics, but now that I have the above verifiable theory, I no longer think that anti-gravity is involved with UFO's, and instead think that it is ion wind. But for space travel they have to use something different, which I no longer have a good theory for. Even though static electricity still shares most of the same physical properties as gravity. There's just no solid evidence or theory for anti-gravity yet. So for now it anti-gravity is still an unsubstantiated hypothesis for space flight.
The only substantiated UFO picture that I've ever heard of is the one that was on the cover of time magazine in the 50's and still cannot be disproved or disputed. It was called the mcminnville photos, so that is the design of craft that I got this theory from. Also on wiki.
The following is the post that I submitted:
I recently saw on the show Mythbusters on their "anti-gravity episode" that they used a technology called a "lifter" which was able to float in the air by means of an ionic wind(NOT Antigravity). Also I recently heard about a solid state fan that uses the same ion wind technology, and which can also outperform regular fans in weight and power. So theoretically if you were able to somehow get enough lifting energy from ion wind then you could make either a toy car that floated around on ion wind, or you could make a full sized hover board. But in fact if enough power was possible someday you may even have a rocket pack version, to get from place to place in the future. The draw backs of this technology are:(1)It may not have enough power to lift a person in a compact device.(2)It uses very high voltages(20,000V's). (3)It has a bi-product of Ozone gas from the corona discharge used to make the ion wind. Also you'd need to have DC to DC step up voltage circuit that some technical people might know, which is also in a portable unit along with the battery. But also stabilizing the platform has to be worked out, in some kind of self stabilizing arrangement of electro-aerodynamic pumping.
artZ, Sep 12 2008
Other useful info is to search solid state fan, and electro-aerodynamic pumping. I also theorize that with high enough energy you could make a full sized vehicle float a few inches above the ground.
But if you wanted the vehicle to fly it would be a different technique. If the top of the vehicle was the sharp emitter electrode and the body of the craft was the blunt collector electrode the ion wind would be forced to travel downward around the craft, or from top to bottom, creating upward lift, using the "coanda effect". Here's a link that explains the coanda effect and the theory of flight better through actual simple experimentation. But in short when air is pulled downward to travel along the surface of the craft, by the flow of ions, the equal and opposite reaction of pulling air down also pulls the body of the craft up. The actual shape of the craft is only important for horizontal aerodymanic flight and has nothing to do with lift force. So the only lift force is from the coanda effect created by the ion wind which was itself created by a very powerful DC electrical generator, inside of the craft.
The following is from wikipedia under corona discharge:
Corona discharge usually involves two asymmetric electrodes; one highly curved (such as the tip of a needle, or a small diameter wire) and one of low curvature (such as a plate, or the ground). The high curvature ensures a high potential gradient around one electrode, for the generation of a plasma.
Moving the craft side to side is a different matter though. Which I don't have a solid theory for yet. But it may use the same ion wind technology, with highly charged movable capacitors located inside the craft. Used to offset the charge on one side of the craft making the air flow alter, or reconfigure around that spot, on that side, which would make that side move forward from a change in ion wind flow around it creating a pressure differential. But no solid math that works for that theory yet.
Also the source of power needs to be large which we currently don't have the energy technology for yet other than nuclear. It may be possible to have high voltage Alternating Current also, but because of the alternation it would only have pulses of ion flow. This may be useful if it is true that at high enough frequencies(20,000hertz or above) current then cannot flow through the human body, because of the human body acting as a resistor at that high of a frequency.
But also on the problem of high energies being dangerous to humans, as long as you're suspended in the air and your body doesn't touch the ground then your body won't conduct the energy to the ground and therefor no electric shock. The power line maintenance crews know this trick, and use it all the time(See: "High voltage" under "power lines", on wiki). So always jump onto highly charged objects to not be touching the ground at the same time as you're touching the charged vehicle or object.
Also in making the craft one solid seemless peice of metal for no moving parts or chance of breaking and also for aerodynamics, you would still need some way of entry into the craft. Superfluidity to go straight through the walls of the craft would work, but has never been substantiated as a real technology yet. But suposedly high enough electrical charge mimics the same properties of a plasma(high amount of electrons) and maybe even superfluidity as well. It's just an unsubstantiated hypothesis at this point though.
I do know that at high enough voltages though you get an effect that mimics superconductivity, with very low electrical loss. Because at high voltages the electrons have high potential energy and are static charges and therefore since they are non-moving electrons they have less wire to run into and get resistance from. But then of course it may be releasing that stored energy in the form of photons from the ambient glow that high voltages naturally create. By the way that's how you light the inside of the craft, in order to never have to replace lightbulbs. I call this effect "spontaneous emission".
I used to think that high (+/-)static charges were the same as gravity and anti-gravity, because they both share so many similar characteristics, but now that I have the above verifiable theory, I no longer think that anti-gravity is involved with UFO's, and instead think that it is ion wind. But for space travel they have to use something different, which I no longer have a good theory for. Even though static electricity still shares most of the same physical properties as gravity. There's just no solid evidence or theory for anti-gravity yet. So for now it anti-gravity is still an unsubstantiated hypothesis for space flight.
The only substantiated UFO picture that I've ever heard of is the one that was on the cover of time magazine in the 50's and still cannot be disproved or disputed. It was called the mcminnville photos, so that is the design of craft that I got this theory from. Also on wiki.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
News To Keep Track Of, For Further Advancements.
Type the following into "google news" search engine, if the links don't work, and read the latest developments. Also if you bookmark this post it's a turn key way to follow the news if these topics interests you.
Optical memory or optical data storage or wiki: Will lead to denser data storage
Optical computers: Faster more powerful less need for cooling computers. Watch light wave logic stock.
"Super laser" or "National ignition facility" or "(NIF)" or "Super Marx generator" : For new infinite energy or space travel or ray guns, etc.
"John Kanzius" : This is for the cancer cure of the Kanzius machine. Which is now getting funding for further testing. Also see: His organizations website.
"EEstor" Or, "Zenn Cars" : For developments in ultracapacitor technology.
"Mimic Resveratrol" : For new anti aging medications and how they work is currently being studied. We may live as long as the Japanese soon.
"Biometrics" : If and when they discover a type that you cannot forge, then identity theft will be a thing of the past, as banks adopt this, as well as grocery stores.
"Nuclear Fusion" : This technology is currently being developed by the top scientists in the world for infinite clean energy. But this is "vapor ware" that they may or may not have a breakthrough in for a while.
"OLED" : This is going to be the next type of TV and also lighting for every room in the house and will be very, very cheap to buy, eventually. Invest in GE or Fraunhofer Institute, for OLED lighting, for dividends not for growth. This market will be massive when the tech is here. Also see a prediction post.
"Solid state fan", or "Electro- aerodynamic pumping" : This is a new technology that may invest in if possible, and which may one day be used for hover boards, or rocket packs, if enough thrust is possible. This is the same technology as "lifter" technology that is shown on youtube, and which the "Mythbusters" proved is NOT anti-gravity(See: Antigravity episode).
"Active Building Envelopes(ABE)": A new theoretical form of passive temperature moderation over any structure except the windows. made out of thin film solar panels combined with thin film peltier effect materials. Being made at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). And the National Science Foundation is supporting them.
"Artificial gecko hairs or skin" or "gecko tape": Huge advances are being made in this field.
"Solid State Drive(SSD)" : Made out of flash memory drives and is solid state and efficient, but for now it is very expensive.
"Johnson Thermo-Electrochemical Converter System", or Google it for more news/info : This I found in Vol.185 ,No.11 issue of popular mechanics. Its a solid state thermoelectric generator, and may be more efficient than a sterling engine. Or the most efficient thermoelectric conversion possible (or "ideal" efficiency)within the second law of thermodynamics. If this is as compact, and light weigt, and compatible as solar panels then it could make a solar heat powered car!!
"Acoustic fridge", or "Thermoacoustic refrigeration" : Currently cost $10,000, but hopefully one day will replace the modern fridge when mass produced because they are solid state with no moving parts, and are quiet, and efficient, and eco-friendly.
On youtube look for:
"Variant edition" Or, "Comicbook reviews" : To save you the trouble of buying and reading bad comics(Sort the videos by date added). Also go on "myspace darkhorse comics"(free comics)
Optical memory or optical data storage or wiki: Will lead to denser data storage
Optical computers: Faster more powerful less need for cooling computers. Watch light wave logic stock.
"Super laser" or "National ignition facility" or "(NIF)" or "Super Marx generator" : For new infinite energy or space travel or ray guns, etc.
"John Kanzius" : This is for the cancer cure of the Kanzius machine. Which is now getting funding for further testing. Also see: His organizations website.
"EEstor" Or, "Zenn Cars" : For developments in ultracapacitor technology.
"Mimic Resveratrol" : For new anti aging medications and how they work is currently being studied. We may live as long as the Japanese soon.
"Biometrics" : If and when they discover a type that you cannot forge, then identity theft will be a thing of the past, as banks adopt this, as well as grocery stores.
"Nuclear Fusion" : This technology is currently being developed by the top scientists in the world for infinite clean energy. But this is "vapor ware" that they may or may not have a breakthrough in for a while.
"OLED" : This is going to be the next type of TV and also lighting for every room in the house and will be very, very cheap to buy, eventually. Invest in GE or Fraunhofer Institute, for OLED lighting, for dividends not for growth. This market will be massive when the tech is here. Also see a prediction post.
"Solid state fan", or "Electro- aerodynamic pumping" : This is a new technology that may invest in if possible, and which may one day be used for hover boards, or rocket packs, if enough thrust is possible. This is the same technology as "lifter" technology that is shown on youtube, and which the "Mythbusters" proved is NOT anti-gravity(See: Antigravity episode).
"Active Building Envelopes(ABE)": A new theoretical form of passive temperature moderation over any structure except the windows. made out of thin film solar panels combined with thin film peltier effect materials. Being made at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). And the National Science Foundation is supporting them.
"Artificial gecko hairs or skin" or "gecko tape": Huge advances are being made in this field.
"Solid State Drive(SSD)" : Made out of flash memory drives and is solid state and efficient, but for now it is very expensive.
"Johnson Thermo-Electrochemical Converter System", or Google it for more news/info : This I found in Vol.185 ,No.11 issue of popular mechanics. Its a solid state thermoelectric generator, and may be more efficient than a sterling engine. Or the most efficient thermoelectric conversion possible (or "ideal" efficiency)within the second law of thermodynamics. If this is as compact, and light weigt, and compatible as solar panels then it could make a solar heat powered car!!
"Acoustic fridge", or "Thermoacoustic refrigeration" : Currently cost $10,000, but hopefully one day will replace the modern fridge when mass produced because they are solid state with no moving parts, and are quiet, and efficient, and eco-friendly.
On youtube look for:
"Variant edition" Or, "Comicbook reviews" : To save you the trouble of buying and reading bad comics(Sort the videos by date added). Also go on "myspace darkhorse comics"(free comics)
New Cancer Screening Technique (Unfinished Idea)
If I do become a doctor which I now want to do I might see if this idea is worth entertaining.
The problem with cancer screening is first that it has to be cost effective and those forms of screening are usually invasive(breast/prostate) and ineffective for some types of cancer(such as medical imaging of lung cancer legions).
The best way to cure cancer at the moment is to catch it early and to use modern chemotherapy and radiation to kill it. So to catch it early will save a lot of lives.
So me as an inventor, I like to find solutions to a problem.
I was thinking if you used:
Take the pill filled with this material the night before and in the morning see the doctor and it will have spread throughout the body attaching to anything cancerous. Then you run through the full body scanning machine where it takes a quick picture and gives absolutely positive or absolutely negative results. Then you're done with your check-up.
This would be done maybe once a year for early diagnosis of all kinds of cancer. But may need different types of antibodies for different types of cancer proteins. Which may be a problem if we never find all of the antibody types for all of the types of cancerous proteins. And another problem is of you can't get the antibody particles to the cancer, from maybe blood flow not carrying the particles to that location.
The detector would actually probably be the most complex part of this idea because it has to detect very small anomalies trough the body tissue. maybe if the substance were metal it could be detected with a modified x-ray machine that ignored most organic tissue such as bones.
But Both the type of detector and the type of material to be detected are still up in the air.
Also research: Jellyfish green fluorescent proteins combined into a mammals DNA to make the animals skin luminescent under ultraviolet light.(It works also)
Also research: The new technique that uses the same metal particles surrounded by antibodies, but instead uses microwaves to then kill the cancer cells. And is now supposedly doing animal trials. Called the "Kanzius machine"
But in the end the ealier you get to the cancer the better no matter what the treatment. Also it's always less invasive for smaller tumors.
The problem with cancer screening is first that it has to be cost effective and those forms of screening are usually invasive(breast/prostate) and ineffective for some types of cancer(such as medical imaging of lung cancer legions).
The best way to cure cancer at the moment is to catch it early and to use modern chemotherapy and radiation to kill it. So to catch it early will save a lot of lives.
So me as an inventor, I like to find solutions to a problem.
I was thinking if you used:
Monoclonal antibody therapy is another strategy in which the therapeutic agent is an antibody which specifically binds to a protein on the surface of the cancer cellsAnd combined it with a easily detectable material, which is also very cheaply produced and detected. Then you would give someone the detectable substance which is attached to the antibodies and introduce them into the blood stream. Most likely being a cheap and detectable solid(nano-sized, and sphere shaped) which is then coated with the antibodies, or peptides(also being cheap).
-This quoted from wiki under "Cancer"
Take the pill filled with this material the night before and in the morning see the doctor and it will have spread throughout the body attaching to anything cancerous. Then you run through the full body scanning machine where it takes a quick picture and gives absolutely positive or absolutely negative results. Then you're done with your check-up.
This would be done maybe once a year for early diagnosis of all kinds of cancer. But may need different types of antibodies for different types of cancer proteins. Which may be a problem if we never find all of the antibody types for all of the types of cancerous proteins. And another problem is of you can't get the antibody particles to the cancer, from maybe blood flow not carrying the particles to that location.
The detector would actually probably be the most complex part of this idea because it has to detect very small anomalies trough the body tissue. maybe if the substance were metal it could be detected with a modified x-ray machine that ignored most organic tissue such as bones.
But Both the type of detector and the type of material to be detected are still up in the air.
Also research: Jellyfish green fluorescent proteins combined into a mammals DNA to make the animals skin luminescent under ultraviolet light.(It works also)
Also research: The new technique that uses the same metal particles surrounded by antibodies, but instead uses microwaves to then kill the cancer cells. And is now supposedly doing animal trials. Called the "Kanzius machine"
But in the end the ealier you get to the cancer the better no matter what the treatment. Also it's always less invasive for smaller tumors.
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