Recent content by Jesuis Laplume

As one of the team of companies that designed the Canadarm1 on the US Space shuttle, I am happy to see that Canada is still actively involved in space. I was the one who wrote the equations that described the performance of the drives on Canadarm 1 when the engineering test data was not a good...

Science types, and most humans, have not been taught to assume that the information that they have been taught is false, especially limitations on what is possible, even probable. It is helpful, when reading new ideas, to open our minds to hints that new things, that we have not been taught...

Jesuis Laplume (AKA Jim H. White) That statement is inaccurate and misleading. Images are usually taken using several colour filters and then combined to provide a more complete image. I designed the first infrared camera assembly ever flow, a long time ago. We used a rotating filter wheel; but...

Way back when, some of my hardware has been to and from the moon, so it is still my favorite! Since I m long retired I no longer have hardware even on the Space Station, but if I could only get Elon Musk's staff to respond to my comments, i could halp him build better and more efficient rockets...

An unstated assumption still being used by most Science types is that there 'was, IS and will be' no Top-down organizing fields in the universe. Always remember and re-verify unstated assumptions! If there really were such a Top-down field in place, even before the universe came into being...

In several of my work and hobby studies I found that few of us really understand how vorticies really work. I do have a patent on an annealing furnace that introduce vortex flow inside the furnace, but the supposed experts stated things that proved to be entirely incorrect. I wonder if those...