Re: Australia: There's worse to come for the economy
Arindam Banerjee
"SPierce" <ecr...@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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> "Arindam Banerjee" <adda...@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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>>> AB: This is another downside of the colonial mentality. It makes people
>> small.
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> Bazza, you have misinterpreted the Australian mind. There is no
> colonial mentality here now. It disappeared after world war two. Men
> came home determined to be free of bullshit from the mother country.
> They succeeded.
Maybe I have misinterpreted the Australian mind. I will be very very happy
to be proved wrong. Let any influential Australian non-colonial free-minded
person at least talk to me about the work I have done on the HTN and the
IFE. Let them give me a chance in the national media. Let me be asked to
give a lecture in any well-attended university or research lab. All the
evidence I have is that I am being ignored (deliberately or otherwise) by
all those with money and power. I don't even get replies to my mails. The
only reply letter I got from CSIRO informed me that I needed basic education
in physics, or else I should deem myself a crank. I was not given any
opportunity to meet any of them; the nasty tone of the letter was such that
I did not even want to, for all time! The enslaved colonised minds of those
who are in power in all the present and former colonies are very limited,
that by hallowed foreign influence, which is sovereign to them. They have
not learnt to be independent in any true sense - they do not have the
self-confidence. There is only self-loathing. Now this is the direct
product of colonial upbringing.
As for proof, I went to the Monash Uni library many years ago and read up
some Australian books of sociology. One big issue - maybe the biggest -
that was discussed there was the colonial mentality. Evidently Australian
sociologists think this is a very important matter, for it compromises
identity. Meaning, what the hell are we, so what do we really want, and what
are we to do. There are serious issues, which cannot be avoided, but escape
routes are there. One imagery (described as simple, noble but not entirely
satisfactory given its limiting aspect) I read with interest was this: an
Australian eats an ice-cream happily by the beach, with two kids in tow. Is
it possible to continue like that? Will the world allow it? For how long?
> Indians did the same, remember?
They did what, exactly? Indians are different in many senses, with respect
to Australians. In many ways, they are total opposites. I have often found
this difference quite invigorating.
> Now, you have some ideas that may or may not work. I have a feeling from
> what you write that they may conflict with evidence based physics.
> However, even if they don't, you can take the Isaac Asimov way of
> transforming conventional thinking.
I am not Isaac Asimov, greatly though I admire his style. I am more like
Isaac Newton - in my own mind at any rate. How do you get the feeling that
what I write conflicts with evidence-based physics? Please find any flaw in
my debunking of the ridiculous theories of Einstein, as the result of my
finding the biggest bungle in science and presented in
www.users.bigpond.com/adda1234/MMInt.htm If you cannot follow it, as it
does contain maths, please refer the link to any physicist you please, and
tell him to debunk my debunking in a public forum. Now if you cannot, or
will not, do that, what should I conclude? Basically I have found a new
mathematical formula linking mass with energy, and as that can explain
everything from solar energy to the lighting of a match and every explosion,
I take it that my physics is the correct one. Recently (2007, Schroeder, US
DoD) it has been supported by experimental work on the reaction of rail-guns
(there is none, thus Newton's third law is violated for electromagnetic
forces). Now, you tell me, why does not anyone including the Western media
take any interest? Has science stopped?
> Remember how he wrote that story in 1954 about satellites going round the
> earth and transmitting instant communications. No conventional
> scientist ever thought of it. He had imagination the scientists did not
> have.
Don't know that particular story. Arthur Clarke talked about geo-stationary
satellites. Asimov was into robotics, psycho-history, computation, fantasy,
etc. He had a great range, and wrote a lot on plain science as well.
Terrific imagination. Unfortunately his works solidified in the public mind
the wrong theories of Einstein. I do wish he was still alive. I believe that
he could have taken an interest in my work.
> Someone with initiative saw his book and started thinking. That was how
> it was done. Now we all take it for granted.
> Another way you can get attention for your work is to turn your ideas into
> a film script. You have writing experience, therefore you change the
> writing from the descriptive to the short sharp writing style of ACTION.
> Draw pictures in the mind in short sentences. A hundred pages is all you
> need...but put your ideas down as ACTION in a story. You can buy script
> software like the one I use called Movie Magic Screenwriter which makes it
> all so simple.
I don't write fiction, as a matter of principle. I have just completed my
non-fiction work "Principles of Motion" which integrates the work I have
done in physics for the last ten years. I see it as the sequel to Isaac
Newton's "Principia". I don't know what to do with it, for it is not
fiction, and does have maths in it. Yet it is not a text book for schools
nor a manual for industry either, so prima facie it has no commercial value.
And fiction is the only thing people want, these days. Or at least, want to
pay for. I would be most happy to give it out gratis, but that would mean I
would lose any possible chance for making money out of it. Which I need, to
make prototypes, pilot plants, etc.
> You never know, there might be someone in Bollywood who will make you a
> millionaire with it...and * then* you will be sought out by the people who
> matter. That's the way life is. Nothing to do with the colonial mind
> holding you back. Good luck.
Thanks. I am not interested in Bollywood. Or Hollywood. Nothing there
attracts me any more. I want to make a flying saucer. Break all speed
records. If I can't, well okay, I can always do other things, like take
BertieDoggie out for walkies and drivies. Sing songs. Cook/eat tasty dishes.
Help my father's social work in India. Travel. Write poetry. Translate
stuff. Act in Bengali plays. Annoy jBm and other netpests. Wage-slave away.
These are all worthy enterprises!
Cheers,
Arindam Banerjee.
SPierce
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> "SPierce" <ecr...@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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>> Remember how he wrote that story in 1954 about satellites going round the
>> earth and transmitting instant communications. No conventional
>> scientist ever thought of it. He had imagination the scientists did not
>> have.
>
> Don't know that particular story. Arthur Clarke talked about
> geo-stationary satellites. Asimov was into robotics, psycho-history,
> computation, fantasy, etc.
You are quite correct about Arthur C. Clark writing about the communication
satellites. My memory played tricks.
Arindam Banerjee
But you did not write about geo-stationary communications satellites. You
talked about orbiting satellites. Now those are low-orbit satellites, that
have highly elliptical trajectories. The Soviets used a number of them,
communicating with each other and the ground, successfully. There would be
a relay of them, and so one satellite could pick up messages from the ground
in say Siberia, toss it to another satellite say over Moscow. Their huge
land mass made this feasible. It did not take much rocket power to send one
such up, but these satellites had a short life. Arthur Clark found that the
high altitude geostationary satellite would have a number of advantages,
that indeed is very useful rather ideal for a country like India. So India
invested heavily in geo-stat satellites, with many satisfactory results.
Asimov could well have had anticipated the earlier Soviet system. As to who
actually thought up the Soviet system, I do not know.
Stratum101
> [Career as frustrated Indian genius deleted]
> Indians are different in many senses, with respect
> to Australians. In many ways, they are total opposites. I have often found
> this difference quite invigorating.
Around here, they operate casinos. Jay Silverheels played
ah, amanuensis on television to a fellow with a mask who
looked like a raccoon. But I don't know why he allowed
himself to be called Tonto, which doesn't exactly mean
"genius" in Spanish.
His most famous quote is apocryphal. The raccoon
guy says, "Uh oh, Tonto. It looks like we're
surrounded by Indians." Tonto's reply is,
"What you mean 'we', Kimosabe?"
My next door neighbors who professed to be
Indian (but in truth didn't look a thing like
Silverheels, who I know to have been the
real article) celebrated this thing called
Fesitval of Lights and festooned their
balcony with an array of frankly dangerous
looking gizmos that blinked into the
night and caused something like
cell phone "static" on the
neighbors' audio systems. "Festival
of Lights!" I exclaimed. "Funny,
you don't *look* Jewish."
"Very funny," says the man
of the house dourly, "and good Divali
to you, too, foreign heathen." I yelled
back that *he* was the foreigner. Bad enough
that he comes from halfway around the world
and whacks three nights off Chanukkah
and usurps the Indian role from people
like Silverheels and then calls *me*
a foreigner.
He was a Java programmer. You
can always tell a Java programmer,
but you can't tell him much.
Arindam Banerjee
"Stratum101" <j.co...@cross-comp.com> wrote in message
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On Jun 24, 1:24 am, "Arindam Banerjee" <adda1...@bigpond.com> wrote:
> [Career as frustrated Indian genius deleted]
Ah well, life here offers many compensations. Not least chatting with you.
> Indians are different in many senses, with respect
> to Australians. In many ways, they are total opposites. I have often found
> this difference quite invigorating.
Around here, they operate casinos. Jay Silverheels played
ah, amanuensis on television to a fellow with a mask who
looked like a raccoon. But I don't know why he allowed
himself to be called Tonto, which doesn't exactly mean
"genius" in Spanish.
His most famous quote is apocryphal. The raccoon
guy says, "Uh oh, Tonto. It looks like we're
surrounded by Indians." Tonto's reply is,
"What you mean 'we', Kimosabe?"
AB: Here the kids used to say, pointing to BertieDoggie, "That's not a dog.
That's a wolf." They have all grown up now, and gone their different ways.
Such is life. Indeed the use of the collective pronoun is often dicey, in
multicultural circles. (As you have noted.)
My next door neighbors who professed to be
Indian (but in truth didn't look a thing like
Silverheels, who I know to have been the
real article) celebrated this thing called
Fesitval of Lights and festooned their
balcony with an array of frankly dangerous
looking gizmos that blinked into the
night and caused something like
cell phone "static" on the
neighbors' audio systems. "Festival
of Lights!" I exclaimed. "Funny,
you don't *look* Jewish."
AB: Deepavali is the festival of oil-lamps, or rather, the welcoming through
the festivity of lamps. Deep means oil-wick open earthern lamp in Hindi.
When their king Lord Rama returned to Ayodhya with his wife Sita and brother
Lakshmana, the citizens celebrated by lighting as many such lamps as they
could. Even though this happened in the very distant past, this memory is
kept alive by the festival known as Deepawali. To the extent that lamps
provide light, it can be stretched to mean the festival of lights. This
means that modernity now gets a chance, with the impact you have noted. Be
lucky that they did not explode firecrackers, send off rockets, and other
fireworks. That is the done thing in India.
"Very funny," says the man
of the house dourly, "and good Divali
to you, too, foreign heathen." I yelled
back that *he* was the foreigner. Bad enough
that he comes from halfway around the world
and whacks three nights off Chanukkah
and usurps the Indian role from people
like Silverheels and then calls *me*
a foreigner.
AB: Deepavali is also called Diwali, but the context of Diwali is larger.
There is gambling involved for the moneyed business classes, fireworks of
course, plenty of sweets, entertainment galore; and in Bengal this usually
coincides with the worship of Ma Kali. By the way, as a Jew do you also
feel like a foreign heathen in a land of Christians and atheists?
He was a Java programmer. You
can always tell a Java programmer,
but you can't tell him much.
AB: Hmm.
Don Phillipson
> >> news:3WV%l.70$ze1...@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > communication satellites. My memory played tricks.
"Arindam Banerjee" <adda...@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> But you did not write about geo-stationary communications satellites. You
> talked about orbiting satellites. Now those are low-orbit satellites,
that
> have highly elliptical trajectories. The Soviets used a number of them,
> communicating with each other and the ground, successfully. There would
be
> a relay of them, and so one satellite could pick up messages from the
ground
> in say Siberia, toss it to another satellite say over Moscow. Their huge
> land mass made this feasible. It did not take much rocket power to send
one
> such up, but these satellites had a short life. Arthur Clark found that
the
> high altitude geostationary satellite would have a number of advantages,
> that indeed is very useful rather ideal for a country like India. So
India
> invested heavily in geo-stat satellites, with many satisfactory results.
> Asimov could well have had anticipated the earlier Soviet system. As to
who
> actually thought up the Soviet system, I do not know.
Arthur C. Clarke published as early as 1945 the idea that, if only you could
place a relay satellite far enough from Earth to become geostationary,
as few as three such satellites would cover the whole world.
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)