Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2011 23:45:34 -0500 (CDT)
From: jno; Subject: NPA review - part 1 - very short version

See http://conf18.worldnpa.org and navigate to "Schedule" for a list of
presenters, with links to their photos, personal data, and pdf papers.
(mirrored at http://saturniancosmology.org/npa_talks.htm) 

We attended the NPA 2011 conference: Jno, Kees, and Alex K. Impressions
below of the NPA presentations by the Electric Universe group. This is a
short version of a longer text, which is still under edit.

Three areas of concern: (1) no progress, (2) scientificism, and (3) no
direction. Hopefully the Thunderbolts conference promised for later this
year will expand on topics more important than space-plasma.

 (1) nothing new ...

I got the feeling that the whole Thunderbolts group has not advanced one
iota since 2001. The evidence for not advancing is mostly from inuendos
and avoidances. What wasn't said, spoke the most. Of course all mention of
"myth" and "Saturn" were avoided, except as the audience twice introduced
the word "Saturn."

 (2) science ...

There seems to be an effort to establish the group as scientifically based
and to present themselves as scientists. This was demonstrated with the
singular "space plasma" talk topics of Talbott and Thornhill (the Sun,
Mars, the stars), and with the addition of six new people -- all reviewing
known plasma principles.

 (3) direction ...

It is now ten years since I attended the conference of 2001, and I still
do not know what the point is of the website, the forum, the books, the
videos. There simply seems to be no direction. Have they become paralyzed?

I'll get a more extensive report out later. As will Alex.

/jno