[Rockhounds] Rockhounds Digest, Vol 80, Issue 5

[Jeffrey Joy]

There's been a few true scientific breakthroughs since the 1600s Steve so I
wouldn't wax too pessimistic about every announcement being a bust, but
yes, until the results have been fully duplicated and verified we can't pop
the champagne just yet.

On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 3:00 PM <rockhounds-request at rockhounds.drizzle.com>
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>    1. Re: superconductivity (Stephen Shimatzki)
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> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2023 11:43:34 -0400
> From: Stephen Shimatzki <sjs132 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Rockhounds] superconductivity
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> I'm still waiting for my Kitchen Aid Mr. Fusion reactor to be
> installed... Pons-Fleischmann got me all revved up about that in 1989.
> Ever since I take all news of amazing things with a pinch of salt.  Anyone
> ever get their flying car yet?  Lol
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> Steve S
> Ohio
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> On Thu, Aug 3, 2023, 11:21 AM <gbrown at catspaw-minerals.com> wrote:
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> > I talked about this with my son, a chemist by training and a
> supercomputer
> > operating system developer by vocation, about this when it came out.  He
> > called me with a "Dah... you need to look at this..."  He was pretty
> > excited.
> >
> > GcB
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Rockhounds [mailto:rockhounds-bounces at rockhounds.drizzle.com] On
> > Behalf Of Jeffrey Joy
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 2, 2023 10:05 AM
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> > Subject: [Rockhounds] superconductivity
> >
> > I'm sure you've all been following this since the initial report a week
> or
> > so ago.  I was very skeptical since so many similar claims have been made
> > in
> > the past with nothing to show later on.  Moreover the basic chemistry of
> > this was not one of the ones that everyone has been watching so it didn't
> > seem to be a winner from the get-go. That said, 3 labs so far have
> > corroborated the findings and this seems to indicate that the initial
> > reports were valid - there is some sort of superconductivity going on
> here
> > and if it can be manufactured at scale, it could be as revolutionary as
> > semiconductors were to electronics.
> > Let's keep our fingers crossed!
> >
> >
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