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Blow it all up.

OMG WTF REEEEEACH! ha.

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And while one more Miller trade partner goes away, the demand for Miller probably goes up.

I agree as well, but if this is part of a move to acquire elite talent in the top 3 picks, I may be amenable to that.

That would actually be a very nice gesture and a decent story. Free trip for a veteran arena worker to go watch the Sochi games. I'd read that.

No big deal. Good hockey people doing good things for hockey.

I went to the draft both days when it was out here in LA in 2010. It was fun. The Friday night was a bit of a show and it was neat to watch the first round go by live. Good attendance and atmosphere, even in LA before they won the Cup. It was fun finding other Buffalo fans in the crowd and shooting the ###### with them. Day two was definitely a different, quieter atmosphere; only a couple hundred fans were there-all of the casual fans were gone, but still lots of players, agents, etc. Security on day two was reduced dramatically, to almost nothing, so I sat where players and agents sat, down in the rinkside seats near the draft tables/stage (this was full and restricted on day one). I congratulated and shook hands with a couple of picks as soon as they were announced, including Jerome Gauthier-Leduc, who was sitting right behind me. I cheered for every Buffalo selection with my jersey on, which was pretty funny on day two, mostly because the arena was so quiet and I was surrounded by mostly non-fans (agents/draft eligible) in suits. I remember getting a couple of waves from our draft table. It was pretty cool to be up close to watch kids have their lives changed with their families there to congratulate them.

http://www.nhl.com/ice/blogpost.htm?id=18760&navid=nhl:topheads Full-page ad in Boston Globe: PS, BOOYAH, ######!

Hodgson can do milk commercials. #suckitgillis

MY MOM SAYS THE SAME THING.

And Patrick Roy just might be crazy enough to do it.

Interesting thought. Pondered by Katie Strang, here. Sounds like Messier's opening himself up for future positions elsewhere.

AFAIK, it's for people that wreck their cars every six months and can't get policies with good carriers. This girl I know works for AAA, wrecks all the time, and even her employer won't insure her.

Team Buyout 2014.

inorite?

A) If hydrogen is confined to a small enough area under extreme pressure, it would not do anything, unless: There is another compatible element present and enough energy present for chemical reactions to occur. Example: oxygen is also present, and there is enough energy present (heat) for combustion to occur. The Lawson criterion is met and nuclear fusion occurs. This is extremely difficult criterion to achieve, even when "confined to a small area and under extreme pressure," as is most often the goal of Inertial Confinement Fusion. This is not what is referred to as "cold fusion." B) Yes, if hydrogen were to undergo combustion in the presence of oxygen, water and excess energy would be the products. C) Generally, white phosphorus (P4) is highly flammable and pyrophoric (self-igniting) and will burn with exposure to air. It won't react with water (correction to above), which is why it's common to store it underwater to prevent spontaneous combustion.

What to do get when you take the fourier transform of this? THIS!

Just because I know some of us really enjoy watching Boston lose and their fans suffer, here's the Boston GDT on HF from last night's game Boston's up 2-1 late in the third on this page, B's fans are amped.

Then you too can have a career in fake science.

Thanks for posting, now I can post the rest. Yo mama. Just kidding. Still waiting. Not seeing. According to articles reporting on how "independent tests" were conducted, "To substantiate his discovery, Rossi has held E-Cat demonstrations for potential investors and members of the media. In videos of the demonstrations, the devices appear to be crudely built from plumbing supplies that can be bought in any hardware store. The reactor cores typically are covered up so no one can see the inner workings—the devices are essentially a black box with water going in and steam/hot water coming out. The lack of information about the E-Cat process is one reason many people are having trouble believing Rossi. Another is his checkered past." Not published in a peer-reviewed journal. Thoroughness is highly contestable, especially considering the heat production is characterized as "anomalous." From that report: "indication of heat production from an unknown reaction primed by heat from resistor coils." They don't know what the ###### they're doing and they don't even try to explore/explain/characterize how it functions. They put energy into resistors and it gets hot, hotter than they think it should (and from reading the paper, they're not very good at calculating how hot it should get). That's all the report says. Make any ridiculous claim you like, and you can find an ###### somwhere with three letters after his name who's willing to be paid to say they think it's plausible. You said a lot more than that. And as soon as I see data published in a peer-reviewed journal, I'll examine it. But until that time, the snake oil salesman can pack up his cart and go to the next town.

Fusion Physicist here... Normally I'd just accept this, then politely correct you, admire that you're interested in sciency stuff, and move on. But you're daring to say that I'm closed-minded, when you admit you're swimming in a sea of ignorance. Not the case. For years I've studied physics in the both the laboratory and classroom, particularly the physics of nuclear fusion. Nuclear fusion- that field that was supposed to have worked out back in the 1960s and continues to be 25+ years away. Try telling me that I have a closed mind when I work in that field for years to help make that pan out. So let me take the time to rip your post apart. Edit: there's so much ###### here, I repeatedly ran into the quote blocks limit. I haven't. I'm glad I haven't. I have colleagues that follow his claims, who are also open minded, but they also believe this guy is full of ######. Not because they're cold fusion haters, but because his methods have no scientific rigor, it appears that his results could be fabricated, and it's obvious that he doesn't allow for completely independent peer-review of his work. It's not the science that's ###### necessarily, it's THIS GUY. Belief has nothing to do with it. Examine evidence. Perform experiments. Analyze data. Make hyptoheses, then support them with evidence or prove them wrong. Also, not a real formula. Not even close to a real formula. Not even close to a real concept. This is all gibberish. WP isn't a catalyst in the presence of hydrogen, it burns when in contact with oxygen (gaseous oxygen and oxygen in the presence of water); this combustion does not create high enough energy density to promote nuclear reactions. A "supernova effect" isn't even a thing. Reactions are predictable or can be hypothesized. When they're not, they can be studied, characterized, and explained. Not a "who knows" type of situation. There are unexplained in phenomena in physics. There are discoveries yet to be made and understanding yet to be found. The field isn't dead. That's pretty clear. Good luck with the faith-based advancement of technology. The people you just described were renaissance scientists that believed science and math could explain everything, opposite of your previous statement. They were called heretics by those who believed in faith-related explanations of how things work. They were often arrested, excommunicated, tortured, or hanged. So in our society, scientists and mathematicians constructed the scientific method, a well-founded, logical approach to understanding our world. And it works. To abandon the scientific method is to abandon the logic we use to describe our world.

It would be difficult to see him flipflopping on that one. He does have character and that was a big part of his life.

Case dismissed.

Not yet, no. Not in amounts that produced a net gain of energy. Fusion at "cold" temperatures does actually exist, however, in the form of pyroelectric fusion, but this requires ridiculously more energy than is gained. It can be used to make neutrons (for other physics experiments and maybe one day medical stuff).