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Iggy Dalrymple:
Please find the answer here:
Iggy Dalrymple
Dear Dr Rossi,
You say that you do not think that the SKL works via Cold Fusion or LENR.
Could give a one or two word title to the process that the SKL's operation is based?
Salvatore Boi
Dear Andrea Rossi, in order to aid for fix the problem explained by Alfonso David Troisi Lopez, what you think about my previous idea about the lens screw for different focus cases, for a broad beam or vice versa for a strict beam. To help your memory, my previous idea was to modify the chromy gear that close the lens, in order to achieve easy this screweing gear for chosing the amplitude of the beam cone.
Alfonso David Troisi Lopez:
On Power Engineering issue of July 6 2021:
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Alfonso David Troisi Lopez
Hello Mr. Rossi and all,
Please let me express my opinion on your decision to start production only when you have reached 1,000,000 pieces. I agree with this but I think that you should also promote the product. At the moment all we have is a picture and a sheet with some technical specs. What about the model for street illumination (5-8 mt), what about a model for low walkways and park illumination (2,5 to 3,5 mt). Etc.
When do you think you will be ready to come out with pictures and specs for other types of illumination?
This would certainly boost the orders
I'm grateful for what you're accomplishing. It will be a big step towards a balanced world. I pray that sooner rather than later, we live by the idea that nobody has to be left back in poverty and ignorance.
Warm, Lightful and AC Regards
Alfonso Troisi
Last week you did some important tests on the SKL.
1. Were you pleased with the results?
2. If so, did it make it more likely that you may show an E-cat SKL on the 25th of November?
Thank you, kind regards, Gerard
If you need a Lamp Factory.
https://youtu.be/Hwu-h2rouGE
One link to
A.Kovacs et Al. "Maxwell-Dirac Theory and Occam's Razor: Unified Field, Elementary Particles, and Nuclear Interactions"
is in the fact, exposed in the reference, that the derivatives of the four potential can be viewed as an operator that rotates in the four dimensions of space-time , the unit vector giving space to a four vector, that has the time component equal to the Vacuum energy density U and the three space components equal to the energy density flux vector P; the other is in the pure electromagnetic, ZBW model for the electrons.
Dr Rossi:
Which is the link between the reference 32 in
and the theoretical system proposed in the same paper ?
Thank you for your response to my previous question. Does this mean that if one million pre-orders are achieved, all of these one million units will be delivered within six months?
Noriyuki Kodama:
I want to add that after all my experiments and work I am convinced that the theoretical ground of the Ecat systems is not based on cold fusion or on LENR.
Sture Andreasson:
As I said we will distribute the products only after receiveng orders for a global amount of at least 1 million unists.
Sture Andreasson
Can your licensees participate in displaying their E-Cat products at your demonstration on November 25th? Do you know if any of them will have a finished product by this date?
To you and your team
Dear Rudy:
As a matter of fact the Vacuum plays a fundamental role in the theoretical system proposed in the paper you cited.
Dear Dr Andrea Rossi,
I think that the paragraph 4 of
is the most interesting of your paper.
Roberta:
Here is a paper by the Istituto Nazionale di Astro-Fisica that could be of interest for you:
https://www.media.inaf.it/2021/07/02/ristretto-divario-litio-mancante/
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Thank you for your opinion,
Thank you for the link to RG,
Noriyuki Kodama
I published my paper on cold fusion mechanism.
the title is Novel Cold Fusion Reactor with Deuterium Supply from Backside and Metal Surface Potential Control
https://ijisrt.com/novel-cold-fusion-reactor-with-deuterium-supply-from-backside-and-metal-surface-potential-control
This mechanism was proved by the experiments.
Review my paper of
Novel Cold Fusion Reactor with Deuterium Supply from Backside and Metal Surface Potential Control
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352106756_Kodama-LENR-20210412
I do not agree with the theory of Nucleon polarizability and long range strong force fromσI=2 meson exchange potential Carl-Oscar Gullström and Andrea Rossi. It is so complicated and no experimental data.
Please review this paper of
The cold fusion can be caused by the small hydrogen theory which is proved by the experiment.
Thank yu for your intelligent comment and suggestions.
I am worried about one thing that will arise after November 25th. This is about purchased ECAT SKLed devices that some persons will try to make reverse engineering.
In your response to Roberto 2021-03-28 09:24 about this issue your answered, "that they will be VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY disappointed" as it is impossible to recombine device with broken parts after opening the device.
Unfortunately, this is not entirely true. Firstly, many people believed in your success and therefore began to work in this scientific direction as well. Secondly, a lot of scientific and technical information can be found on your forum from your answers to the Readers. Although you tried to hide many technical details, but even your answers as «confidential» already provide some information.
In this respect I could advise you to add a lot of unnecessary parts, details and connections to the device that do not carry a useful function, in order to confuse curious specialists.
But on the other hand I remembered a science fiction story I read in my distant childhood.
In an atmosphere of super strict secrecy, the military gathered a group of the most talented and extraordinary scientists and showed them a short two-minute film. In it, a young man puts a backpack over his shoulders, turns the lever and flies off the ground. Then something happens and he falls from a great height and is smashed to death along with the flying device.
The military explained that this brilliant scientist invented an anti-gravity device, turned to them, and an accident occurred during its testing. There is only a bunch of broken parts left in the backpack. They asked them to try to understand the device and restore it.
As a result, six months later, this group of extraordinary scientists made a similar device and successfully tested it in flight. After that, the scientists were explained that all this was a theatrical production and video editing, so that everyone would believe that this was possible. And they simply threw all sorts of various details into the backpack for truthfulness.
I remembered this story in connection with the fact that Andrea Rossi has already done the main thing – removed from us the psychological limitations that a scientific miracle is possible. And it is quite possible that by disassembling the device along with the parts and details unnecessary there, someone will be able to create something different, no less remarkable. But on the other hand, the decline of the existing scientific paradigm and the degradation of physics and traditional scientists are unlikely to allow them to make such a quick reorientation to fundamentally new discoveries and create serious competition to Andrea Rossi and his Team. Especially if the series of ECATs for various purposes will be continuously updated and supplemented with new scientific breakthrough inventions.
Within max 6 months we will deliver.
Let's say by the end of this year you have 1 million pre-orders for the SKLed. How long will it take to manufacture those million units?
Joseph:
For a detailed answer, please go to paragraph 4 of
See also there the references 2, 39, 40, 10, 41 and 23.
Thank you for your idea, after the suggestion of Iggy Dalrymple,
Is there a role of Vacuum in your technology ?
Thanks if you can answer,
Dr Joseph
Dear Andrea Rossi, Iggys idea sound like one of those applications that has a particular need that can be helped slot with your technology.
I suppose weight and available power are not but obvious real constraints with existing technology.
I wonder though given the light weight of the SKLed and the low input power required. could a small blimp or balloon with a small light weight power-pack an an SKLed do the job . I suppose that would be less maneuverable than a helicopter bug it would also be a simpler quieter and safer solution for some needs.
I think that your idea is very good,
Thank you for the suggestion, but this could project the image of a limited and sophysticated field of application, while we want to show a popular product in a normal application.
A number of SKLed lamps mounted on a helicopter (for crime scene investigations or for military reconnaissance) would make a dramatic presentation. Always good to tweak the interest of government.
To be defined,
WaltC:
Thank you for the musical link,
May I ask if the the November 25 presentation will show
a. a practical use of the SKLed in the daily life of humans?
b. an industrial use of the SKLed?
c. a surprise by a new not yet considered application?
d. or is it just an impressive light show?
Obviously the lamps will be distributed in different rooms,
….'About one hundred lamps will be installed'…
Will you ware sunglasses during the introduction and demonstration of the SKLed on November 25? 😉
I hope the work on the SKL is progressing well. Lotts of inspiration and success!
WaltC
Dr. Rossi,
Wow, 100 lamps x 10,000 lumens!
That brings to mind the song, "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades". (You might want to hand some out to your in-person audience!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriKcwvlY
Bedazzled regards,
1- the presentation will be made on November 25th
2- about one hundred lamps will be installed
Do you plan to use more than one SKLed during your October demonstration? If so, how many will be used for the demonstration?
Albert Ellul:
You have no idea about the intensity we are working on it in this period. We are close, but not there, yet.
Brice:
I too think that Dieter Wagner made a good point.
I agree with all you wrote.


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Florida coastline still included in BOEM oil extraction proposal
February 14, 2018 / Offshore Oilfield Consultants Project Managers & Consultants
In January, offshore project managers were given indications that the coast of Florida would not be among the locations open for oil drilling. This, after the White House seemingly acquiesced to the requests of Gov. Rick Scott. But it looks like the Sunshine State's coastline may be available for oil and gas projects after all, new reports suggest.
As reported by The New York Times, just about all of the locations that were once barred from oil extraction are back on the table, reversing the prohibition established under the previous White House administration. This comes only weeks removed from when Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke met with Scott, who reportedly asked that Florida be exempted from the proposed drilling expansion.
For the plan to go forward, the Bureau of Ocean and Energy Management (BOEM) must submit a draft to lawmakers that lays out what the drilling proposal will include and where the activities will take place. The BOEM has already done this, but the coast of Florida was still listed as one of the areas where offshore drilling is slated to happen, according to E&E News.
"The Secretary would like to see this analysis inform decisions on areas to be included or excluded from the National Outer Continental Shelf program," wrote Tracey Blythe Moriarty, BOEM spokesperson, in an email to the publication. "The Secretary is ultimately responsible for what is and isn't in the final program."
Exclusion was never official
A week or so after Zinke and Scott had a closed-door meeting on the matter, BOEM acting director Walter Cruickshank told lawmakers on Capitol Hill there never was an official decision on whether Florida's coast would, in fact, be unincluded.
"It is not a formal action, no," Cruickshank said in testimony to the House Committee on Natural Resources, The New York Times reported.
Opponents to offshore drilling cite the potential environmental hazards that may result, impacting wildlife and vegetation. However, The Florida Petroleum Council (FPC) says the energy industry has gone the extra mile to improve extraction processes, thanks in part to advancements in technology.
"The Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf has not been surveyed in more than 30 years," said David Mica, FPC executive director. "With rapid advancements in safety and assessment technologies in the past decade, we can safely and accurately determine what energy potential exists off our coasts."
"The Florida Petroleum Council says offshore oil exploration will improve the economy."
Mica added the offshore natural gas and oil leasing plan in Florida gets the U.S. closer to energy self-sufficiency and improves the country's economy in the process by enhancing productivity and adding jobs. Florida's unemployment rate currently sits at 3.7 percent, based on the most recent figures available from the Department of Labor. That's below the national jobless rate, which is 4.1 percent.
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Florida isn't the only state where oil and gas projects have run into obstacles. Officials and environmental advocacy groups in the Carolinas, Delaware, Washington and California have expressed their opposition as well, according to Reuters.
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FEMA needs to bridge logistics software gaps: IG
Federal Emergency Management Agency information systems do not communicate well with those of their federal logistics partner agencies, audit concludes
By Alice Lipowicz
The Federal Emergency Management Agency needs to fix some of its logistics software, according to a new report from Homeland Security Department Inspector General Richard Skinner.
FEMA's information systems do not communicate well with those of their federal logistics partner agencies, including the General Services Administration, the Defense Logistics Agency and the Army Corps of Engineers. A plan to reconfigure software to allow for those communications has been drawn up, but will not be fully functional for several years, Skinner wrote.
In addition, although FEMA is developing its $321 million Total Asset Visibility information technology program over seven years, it is not clear whether the program is on track, according to Skinner's report.
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FEMA makes communications a priority
The report recommended that FEMA determine whether the proposed Phase II of that program has the ability to support logistics operations, whether it is progressing on schedule and whether an independent evaluation of the system should be conducted. The evaluation also should look at the system's staffing needs and coordination with partners, it said.
The report noted that although FEMA has improved its logistics, state and local logistics systems have lagged behind and are not likely to improve soon in the current economic environment.
FEMA officials agreed with the recommendations and said they would provide an implementation plan in 90 days.
After the Hurricane Katrina debacle, Congress required FEMA to reorganize and create a logistics management directorate to handle purchasing, managing and distributing disaster aid, including food, water and shelter.
The agency has increased logistics staff member levels, trained personnel, enhanced coordination, developed disaster plans and drills, worked with partners and evaluated performance. For example, since 2007, FEMA has almost tripled the number of permanent full-time logistics staff members from 54 to 150, and it reprogrammed 15 headquarters positions to the field, the report said.
"FEMA has made significant progress in enhancing its logistics capability and, based on recent initiatives, is better prepared now than at any previous time for dealing with a catastrophic disaster," Skinner wrote in the report issued July 27.
Alice Lipowicz is a staff writer covering government 2.0, homeland security and other IT policies for Federal Computer Week.
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How has Tiktok become the new face of Social Media?
by Utsav Jaiswal | November 20, 2021
Social media platforms have been emerging as the "town squares" of virtual communities surrounding the globe over the last decade, and shrewd businesses have done everything that they can to profit from the trends that encircle these networks. App makers are continually releasing new apps in the pursuit of creating the next big social buzz, hoping to get a share of the multi-billion dollar economy that these social media platforms possess. TikTok, an app that has caught the hearts of a generation, is the most current to rule the industry.
In recent history, TikTok has been one of the most rapidly developing apps in terms of audience and recognition. It's one of the very few apps that's become successful both in China and internationally. The app was installed over 663 million times in 2018 solely after its debut in 2017. As a result, it has become the fourth most popular non-game app. This information was what first introduced the app to the knowledge of the general public.
TikTok enables people to generate and upload musical material for their own and others' entertainment via short musical videos. The application is more than just a fun diversion; it also encourages creativity and allows users to express themselves through music. TikTok was first introduced to the Chinese market in 2016 under the name Douyin and now has a monthly active user base of 500 million. When comparing Q1 2018 to Q1 2018, the user base has increased by 70%. These are staggering numbers that indicate worldwide dominance.
What makes Tiktok so special?
Users could only portray themselves via singing, dancing, humour, and lip-syncing at first. TikTok users may now shoot videos whatsoever in 15 seconds or fewer and publish them in front of the global audience, while still enjoying the very same distinctive qualities that make TikTok so appealing. One of the most key considerations in the platform's success has been its closeness in variety and functionality to the most popular social media apps, with the inclusion of musical capabilities. The option to lip-sync to your favourite songs and post the videos with pals is TikTok's unique selling point.
The Challenge feature on Tiktok encourages users to go and make their unique videos. TikTok regularly hosts platform-wide contests in which users can participate. It also aggressively promotes the platform's most prominent personalities to engage in these contests. Hashtags also provide users with something to do. "The Seaweed Dance" was one of the most prominent of these trends, with millions of users around the world contributing content to it.
One of the app's most evident advantages is its accessibility, as it allows users of all ages to produce films with no restrictions on originality. Additionally, thanks to algorithms that foster developing trends, it has aided certain users in gaining a large following on other social media networks. TikTok has helped emerging artists all around the world monetize their skills, particularly when their songs are fan favourites and can be used in fun and captivating videos created by the app's users. With such involvement of worldwide users, it has surely become the face of Social Media platforms and is only expected to grow in the future.


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This was a torrid affair for both players and supporters alike, as the deplorable conditions made it next to impossible for either side to play the football they intended.
If the bitter cold wasn't enough to have to contend with, the relentless rain and stiff breeze created a situation where one could only feel sorry for those lining out and trying their utmost to put in a performance.
Neither side could find their rhythm in an opening half that produced only four scores, and after much of the second-half continued in a similar style, Adamstown suddenly sprang to life in the closing ten minutes.
They kicked five without reply in that spell in quite impressive fashion to settle a night that Craanford will want to forget about.
To give them their dues, Adamstown always looked the stronger side but with the conditions as they were, this wasn't seen until near the end, with inter-county player Michael Furlong in particular stepping up to the mark with a workmanlike performance and some tidy score-taking.
The eventual winners were off the mark with a point from Seán Barden, before Craanford were dealt a cruel blow when Matthew Nolan and William Conroy went for the same ball and a clash of heads saw both players forced to retire after just ten minutes.
Conroy later tried to resume play after receiving attention but, after shipping another heavy challenge, he left the field once more.
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Craanford were really struggling now, as Adamstown were slowly but surely beginning to gain a hold of proceedings, and a pointed free from Patrick Murray midway through the half was the Gorey District side's final say in matters as they were completely outmatched in the final quarter.
Seán Barden kicked his second before Shane O'Gorman and Tony French both struck beauties to give Adamstown what was, at that stage, a massive four-point lead.
Two more from Furlong and one from Peter Finn resulted in their side kicking as many scores in the final ten minutes as they had done in the 50 minutes beforehand, claiming their first win of the campaign to leave them now sitting level with Craanford who also have one win from two.
Adamstown: Jason Whitty; Ciarán Finn, Shane O'Gorman (0-1), Tomás Harrington; Brendan Furlong, Lorcan French, Johnny Connors; Tony French (0-1), Michael Furlong (0-5); Seánie O'Neill, Seán Barden (0-2), Tomás French; Peter Finn (0-1), Colm Boland, Shane Bradley. Sub. - Harry Cosgrave for P. Finn (54).
Craanford: Robert Flynn; Patrick Kenny, William Conroy, Páuric Redmond; Joseph Berney, Michael O'Loughlin, Eoin Doyle; Niall Berney, Matthew Nolan; Oliver Doran, Patrick Murray (0-3 frees), Michael Lyons; Ger Lyons, Martin Doyle, John Lancaster. Subs. - Eamonn Doran for Conroy (9), Michael Sinnott for Nolan (9), Conroy for Kenny (24), Kenny for Conroy (26).
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Health minister condemns killing of Yemeni students
TEHRAN – In separate letters to the WHO director, health ministers of Islamic countries, and the UNICEF executive director, Iran's health minister has warned about the ongoing humanitarian disaster in Yemen and called for a response from the international community against the tragedy. Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi condemned the brutal murder of the defenseless Yemeni people, […]
TEHRAN – In separate letters to the WHO director, health ministers of Islamic countries, and the UNICEF executive director, Iran's health minister has warned about the ongoing humanitarian disaster in Yemen and called for a response from the international community against the tragedy.
Hassan Qazizadeh Hashemi condemned the brutal murder of the defenseless Yemeni people, saying "The attack on students' caravan in Yemen was a rare example of crimes against humanity," according to the Health Ministry's website.
Qazizadeh Hashemi emphasized that "one of the most important responsibilities of international organizations is to prevent the continued killing of innocent children anywhere in the world, and the silence of international bodies against such crimes is unacceptable."
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Bringing bees back to Belfast as part of all-Ireland plan to save species
Albert Clock, Belfast. (Image: Sharon Cuatriz)
Belfast could soon become a haven for endangered bee species.
Councillors from all parties have backed a plan taking steps to protect honey bees, including encouraging the spread of pollinating plants and flowers across the city.
Members of the city council's People and Communities Committee meeting this week (May 10) agreed to sign up to an all-Ireland plan.
The number of bees has plummeted across the decade, with pesticides and loss of habitat blamed.
Belfast City Council will now undertake to carry out one pollinator-friendly action, such as reducing use of harmful chemicals, in the first year of signing up, with at least three more within the following five years.
The plan aims to make public, private and farm land pollinator friendly, to have an All Ireland Honeybee Strategy, and to conserve rare pollinators.
Earlier this year the council agreed to support the Belfast's Buzzing Pollinator Project with BugLife, which aims to promote insect pollinators in parks and open spaces and engage with local communities in the recovery of nature within their local area.
£5,000 designated to the Belfast's Buzzing project will form the focus of the council's commitment to the All Ireland Pollinator Plan over the next two years.
Expressin support for further action, Sinn Fein Councillor Matt Garrett told the committee: "Where do we sign up to this? This is very important."
Green Councillor Anthony Flynn said the council should rethink its way of dealing with weeds on public land, and its use of chemicals. He said: "When we talk about local biodiversity, what we call weeds, bees absolutely love.
"And when we talk about pollinators, that is one incredibly important way we can change land use, particularly in our local parks. Actually rewilding certain areas in parks, and using that as a way to educate people in communities as to how local biodiversity works."
Insect pollination is essential to food production. Wild bees pollinate between 85 and 95 percent of the UK's insect pollinated crops, while honeybees pollinate between 5 and 15 percent. This free service is estimated to be worth £1.8 billion each year.
More than half of our bee species have suffered declines over the past 50 years with over 250 UK pollinators in danger of extinction. Habitat loss is the problem – Northern Ireland has lost 97 percent of its wildflower meadows in the last half century.
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Now most of the cast are in their 30s (I know, we feel practically antique), what happened after they graduated East High and ventured into the big wide world?
A shy and nerdy pianist who was a minor character, but a key part in the film. Pushed around by Sharpay, she just wanted the musical she had written to be performed by Troy and Gabriella. Kelsi was the only alarmed at Ryan and Sharpay singing love songs together… In a world of Sharpay's we need more Kelsi's. So what is she up to today? Olesya went on to co-star alongside Jessica Simpson in the film Major Movie Star. Funnily enough that's what she became… From there, she went on to star next to Billy Ray-Cyrus and Heather Locklear in a drama Flying By and in 2014, her role as Callista Secor was announced for the Playstation Network series Powers.


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Guest Post: Science Fiction Was Around in Medieval Times – Here's What it Looked Like
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Science fiction may seem resolutely modern, but the genre could actually be considered hundreds of years old. There are the alien green "children of Woolpit", who appeared in 12th-century Suffolk and were reported to have spoken a language no one could understand. There's also the story of Eilmer the 11th-century monk, who constructed a pair of wings and flew from the top of Malmesbury Abbey. And there's the Voynich Manuscript, a 15th-century book written in an unknowable script, full of illustrations of otherworldly plants and surreal landscapes.
These are just some of the science fictions to be discovered within the literatures and cultures of the Middle Ages. There are also tales to be found of robots entertaining royal courts, communities speculating about utopian or dystopian futures, and literary maps measuring and exploring the outer reaches of time and space.
The influence of the genre we call "fantasy", which often looks back to the medieval past in order to escape a techno-scientific future, means that the Middle Ages have rarely been associated with science fiction. But, as we have found, peering into the complex history of the genre, while also examining the scientific achievements of the medieval period, reveals that things are not quite what they seem.
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Science fiction is particularly troublesome when it comes to matters of classification and origin. Indeed, there remains no agreed-upon definition of the genre. A variety of commentators have located the beginnings of SF in the early-20th-century explosion of pulp magazines, and in the work of Hugo Gernsback (1884-1967), who proposed the term "scientifiction" when editing and publishing the first issue of Amazing Stories, in 1926.
"By 'scientifiction'," Gernsback wrote, "I mean the Jules Verne, H G Wells and Edgar Allan Poe type of story – a charming romance intermingled with scientific fact and prophetic vision … Not only do these amazing tales make tremendously interesting reading – they are always instructive."
But here Gernsback was already looking backwards in time to earlier writers to define SF. His "definition", too, was one that could also be applied to literary creations from much further into the past.
Another longstanding idea is that the "science" in science fiction is key: SF can only begin, many historians of the genre proclaim, following the birth of modern science.
Alongside histories of SF, histories of science have long avoided the medieval period (over a thousand years in which, presumably, nothing happened). Yet the Middle Ages was no dark, static, ignorant time of magic and superstition, nor was it an aberration in the neat progression from enlightened ancients to our modern age. It was actually a time of enormous advances in science and technology.
The compass and gunpowder were developed and improved upon, and spectacles, the mechanical clock and blast furnace were invented. The period also laid the foundations for modern science through founding universities, advanced the scientific learning of the classical world, and helped focus natural philosophy on the physics of creation. The medieval science of "computus", for instance, was a complex measuring of time and space.
Use of medieval abacus and counting board. Wellcome Collection, CC BY-SA
Scholars have started to reveal the convergence of science, technology and the imagination in medieval literary culture, demonstrating that this era could be characterised by inventiveness and a preoccupation with novelty and discovery. Take the medieval romances that feature Alexander the Great soaring heavenwards in a flying machine and exploring the depths of the ocean in his proto-submarine. Or that of the famous medieval traveller, Sir John Mandeville, who tells of marvellous, automated golden birds that beat their wings at the table of the Great Chan.
Like those of more modern science fictions, medieval writers tempered this sense of wonder with scepticism and rational inquiry. Geoffrey Chaucer describes the procedures and instruments of alchemy (an early form of chemistry) in such precise terms that it is tempting to think that the author must have had some experience of the practice. Yet his Canon's Yeoman's Tale also displays a lively distrust of fraudulent alchemists, sending up their pseudo-science while imagining and dramatising its harmful effects in the world.
Alexander in his 'submarine'. British Library, Royal MS 15 E. vi f. 20v, Author provided
The medieval future
Modern science fiction has dreamt up many worlds based on the Middle Ages, using it as a place to be revisited, as a space beyond earth, or as an alternate or future history. The representation of the medieval past is not always simplistic, nor always confined to "back then".
William M Miller's immensely detailed medieval future in A Canticle of Leibowitz (1959), for instance, dwells on the way the past consistently reemerges in the fragments, materials and conflicts of a distant future. Connie Willis's Doomsday Book (1992), meanwhile, follows a time-travelling researcher of the near-future back to a medieval Oxford in the grip of the Black Death.
Although "medieval science fiction" may sound like an impossible fantasy, it's a concept that can encourage us to ask new questions about an often-overlooked period of literary and scientific history. Who knows? The many wonders, cosmologies and technologies of the Middle Ages may have an important part to play in a future yet to come
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Well written. I´d like to add even older science-fictionesque bits from Plato (Republic, written around 380 B.C. is considered as one of the first utopiae – or, depending on your viewpoint, anti-utopiae) to the Bible (those spaceships with aliens witnessed by Ezekiel).
In the Middle Ages there was of course Thomas Morus with Utopia (1516) and about a century later Francis Bacon with New Atlantis. Several French writers followed (Cyrano de Bergerac, Voltaire, Flammarion) a couple of Hundred years even before Jules Verne…
So, the topic is well worth some deep diving, since many of those classics have interesting thoughts even for today, and if you get over the sometimes archaic writing, they might turn out to be clever and a funny read too 😉


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Q: Destroying login page window and opening a new one I'm trying to close a window while creating a new one. The following function runs once a login has been entered. Do you have any suggestions on how to close this window while the MenuPage(window) is opened?
from tkinter import *

class LoginPage():
 def __init__(self):
  window = Tk()

  #UI to retrieve login details
  #While loop when submit is clicked.

  if UserLogins:

    #Maybe here a close window function is ran

    window = Toplevel()
    start= MenuPage(window)

  else:
    print('Incorrect Login')

class MenuPage(object):

 #Menu UI

if __name__ == '__main__':
    LoginPage()

A: Hello and welcome to StackOverflow.
Your main issue is your class LoginPage.
You do initialize Tk() inside the __init__ of your class. As soon as this object is destroyed, the Tkinter Instance gets destroyed as well.
Consider using the following approach:

*

*Create a Main Widget (e.g. based on Toplevel or Tk)

*Create a LoginPage based on e.g. Frame inside your Main Widget

*After login attempt, either destroy the LoginPage and create another Frame holding new data. (MenuPage)

Using this approach your Tkinter Main Instance Runs all the time, and you delete or add objects / widgets to it.
If you do not use your MainWidget (that should persist) as Tk-Instance, an "unnamed" Instance will be used for that. Alternatively use Tk() as Parent for your LoginPage, but do not embed it inside it.
Pseudo Code Example:
import tkinter as tk

class MainWidget(tk.Tk):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        tk.Tk.__init__()
        self.__load_widgets()
    def __load_widgets(self):
        self.page = LoginPage(self)
        self.page.bind("&ltLoginEvent>", self.show_menu)
        self.page.grid(sticky=tk.NW+tk.SE)
    def show_menu(self, event=None):
        self.page.destroy()
        self.page=MenuPage(self)
        self.page.grid(sticky=tk.NW+tk.SE)

class LoginPage(tk.Frame):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        tk.Frame.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
    def raise_login_result(self):
        """ some event may raise the event you can use from main widget to bind to """
        # ...
        raise("&ltLoginEvent>")

class MenuPage(tk.Frame):
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        tk.Frame.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app = MainWidget()
    app.mainloop()

Edit
As your question expands into geometry managers, I hereby refer to one corresponding documentation on geometry managers(that is e.g. grid/pack/place). This documentation shows the corresponding interfaces.

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