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7. Smithsonian covered the water towers...

Thu Sep 4, 2014, 08:56 AM

Sep 2014

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-tower-pulls-drinking-water-out-of-thin-air-180950399/?no-ist

As for the singularity video: Amazing stuff to think about, malaise. Those interested in thinking beyond the basics may be interested in Bob Toben's Space-Time and Beyond, which talked about black holes (and white holes):

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/94093.Space_time_and_beyond_

One thing I find interesting is how many of the new theories introduced to the general public by Toben in his conversations with Fred Alan Wolf and Jack Sarfatti in 1976 are now entering the mainstream of science.

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This Impressive Tower Creates Water from the Air! [View all] malaise Sep 2014 OP

I've seen an article on this before, and it's pretty darn cool Erich Bloodaxe BSN Sep 2014 #1

Extracts, not creates. n2doc Sep 2014 #2

A singularity is a theoretical physics thing. MineralMan Sep 2014 #3

More from spiritscience... SidDithers Sep 2014 #4

'Woo Science' in evidence. MineralMan Sep 2014 #5

You mentioned you went to college with Naomi Klein. Octafish Sep 2014 #6

... SidDithers Sep 2014 #8

... SidDithers Sep 2014 #10

So, your degree is not in science? Octafish Sep 2014 #16

Does RFK Jr. have a science degree?...nt SidDithers Sep 2014 #22

Anyone who took a basic college physics course edhopper Sep 2014 #12

Did you forget to log out? Octafish Sep 2014 #15

I don't understand that edhopper Sep 2014 #17

Smithsonian covered the water towers... Octafish Sep 2014 #7

If it's the same kind of tower I read about, it's impressive TlalocW Sep 2014 #11

You can find a good used one from the Jawas edhopper Sep 2014 #13

Make sure you get the droid you're looking for, though...nt SidDithers Sep 2014 #19

yes edhopper Sep 2014 #20

Wind traps from Arrakis. Downwinder Sep 2014 #14

Nice one Boom Sound 416 Sep 2014 #23

"Venturi" would be a term less loaded with woo. n/t lumberjack_jeff Sep 2014 #24