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Launch open to public viewing?
Getting Joe Public onto a base isn't as easy as it was before 9-11, but when something the size of a football field goes up, there should be a pretty good view from anywhere within a half-mile radius.
A question back at you: if you had something several stories tall, as big as a football field, and weighing several tons.... And if you had to get it from its assembly point to Edwards AFB, how would you move it from point A to point B?
Hint: "It floats."
If you're thinking like I'm thinking, there's a launch prior to the Edwards launch and one that can be viewed without having to drive several hours out into the desert.
So, is it Vandenburg or Norton??
Caradoc
Bid .15, ask .60? Quite a spread. Will keep watching
Yes on batteries. I'll bet they wish they'd never mentioned that their solar array was so good it even captured energy from starlight. Maybe if array were not quite so good we wouldn't be listening to such minor carping.
Caradoc
Casunboy: I've been having similar thoughts. You want to meet in Riverside so we can use the carpool lane on our way to San Bernardino?
Caradoc
Hasher makes a good point. EOM
Yes on SPRL. And GTEL will be prominent in "Blue Skies for Broadband," Popular Science article dated March 6, complete with picture of their "stratellite." Can't guess whether GTEL or SPRL will be the stronger stock this week. Probably GTEL stronger Mon/Tues because of Popular Science article and SPRL being the stronger Wed/Thurs as CEO becomes available.
Caradoc
GTEL will be in "Blue Skies for Broadband," Popular Science article dated March 6, complete with picture of their "stratellite." Can't guess whether GTEL or SPRL will be stronger this week.
Caradoc
Getting badmouthed by the competition ain't all bad. Matter of fact, it's nice to be the one competitor they choose to badmouth. Fifty cents by next Friday may turn out to be conservative.
Caradoc
As of yesterday, Jason H has updated his silver stock report (basically, "How much silver asset in exchange for current price calculated in silver?") for the first time since last October. Maybe more than you'd care to read, but he doesn't miss many stocks.
http://www.silverstockreport.com/reports/silverstockreport54.htm
He sometimes leaves it up to the reader to translate from Canadian symbol to pinksheet or OTC symbol, which is irritating since one of my favorites is EDRGF. (Other is IMXPF).
Caradoc
Are you doing your estimates based on price at the well? There's a lot more money to be added when youy consider vertical integration of the overall oil business.
Caradoc
Looking into GTEL?
A quick "lesson learned" from reading the half dozen posts before this one is that there's an absolute wealth of information available to you from the links that Rocky has included in the blue-background intro box at the top of your screen. Just dig in and enjoy! Otherwise, you can do what I did: spend a couple hours "finding" something that's already linked above.
A big "thank you" to Rocky for having done all the spade work in pulling together this treasure house of information.
Caradoc
New item for DD?
Found this on another forum:
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NewDD?...
GlobeTel's aggreement
GlobeTel Communications Corp. reports that it has reached an agreement with Grupo Ingedigit C.A. to establish a new business to profit from providing U.S. and worldwide financial transaction processing services. The venture will be managed by GTEL operating from its facilities in Miami, Florida and will mirror GI's successful operations in Venezuela.
According to the company, with this new venture, GTEL is expanding its capabilities to profit from the electronic processing of financial transactions. GTEL will now earn fees from its customers' use of their GTEL stored value Magic Money debit and prepaid credit cards for financial transactions, bundled telecom and overseas money remittance services, and, under this new agreement, GTEL will also profit from the processing of these transactions as well as processing transactions on behalf of third party debit and credit card issuers.
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Is this new?
Caradoc
Watney: check inbox for PM. EOM
OT for Watney/ others:
Note that my middle-of-the night post had it backwards about what the two stocks would do yesterday. Since GTEL had been going uo 20% or so for a few days, I thought it would be the weaker of the two yesterday. Instead, up another 32% yesterday. And since SPRL has mindboggling news ready to come out, I thought it would go like gangbusters yesterday. Instead, it only went up 7.5%.
As one poster here has pointed out a couple of times, I've been wrong before and I was wrong about yesterday. Turns out GTEL is having its weak day today and SPRL keeps drifting between a 15% increase and a 20% increase.
As with PWTC (where I was wrong!), I look for pennies that have a fair probability of making enough money to issue dividends. If that translates into however many dollar per share, so be it.
Of the two, SPRL has the better chance of a surge within a few days (pending PR on recently completed trip to Siberia) and GTEL's surge won't come until its "stratellite" is demonstrated next month.
Here's post on one of GTEL's efforts:
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=5377356
Caradoc
PS: When the surges come, your choice of whether to (1) grab the money and run, (2) sell enough to get back your original investment, or (3) hang on if you have the stomach to ride out the inevitable post surge drop. If either of these companies make it big enough to justify a party, nothing would please me more than having people asking why those guys over in the corner are all wearing kilts.
RE: Joint Chiefs
I don't doubt that the Office of the Joint Chiefs will be represented at the demo. But that doesn't mean all four of those august individuals in person (or even one of them unless he had another reason to be in the area). More likely, a one-star, a couple of 06s to write the trip report and a major to take care of the luggage.
Don't mean to throw water on anybody's expectations. The demo will be a major turning point for Stratellite even if the Chiefs are sipping coffee in the E ring of the Pentagon.
Caradoc
PS: Instead of top brass, I'd like to see some smart mid-rank Special Ops guys from Southern Command at MacDill AFB outside of Tampa. The tactical advantages of planting a Strat overhead while a special team wades ashore would make their mouths water.
Peep: Sarcasm is one thing, but if you're talking reality just try to make some honest money elsewhere. Precious metals have worked for me and for the last week or two GTEL has done real well. Here's one for you today: pinkie SPRL could make you a couple of bucks.
Caradoc
Agree on prospect for slide. Have shorted the Qs at 33 for Feb and Mar. Check Buz S's site for Wednesday's "freebie" chart of the day on 4-year cycle:
http://www.investors-club.com/
Yeah, it's S&P, not QQQQ but it's free.
By the way, pennies are warming up. GTEL and SPRL would be my picks for tomorrow if I knew of an ongoing forum for such things.
Caradoc
Great links in I-box! Getting insight direct from the guy who invented the stratellite is impressive. Like another poster from yesterday, I've been in since 13 cents. Bought because of stratellite while looking at other GTEL efforts as icing on the cake.
Rationale: With traditional launch to Low Earth Orbit (LEO) costing whole tens of millions, with the cheapest demonstrated launch capability (the tiny, aircraft-launched Pegasus from Orbital Sciences Corporation) costing 20 million, and with even the cheapest launch capability (the soon-to-be demonstrated Falcon from Space Exploration Technologies, AKA "SpaceX") at 5 or 6 million, there's an absolute ton of money to be made by going to 65,000 feet. This is true for 4 separate reasons:
1. Most LEO missions (including all of what USAF's General Jumper calls "near space operations" -- i.e., the intel and military communities' ongoing surveillance and realtime observation/direction of ground operations -- as well as ordinary communications and the "last mile"-solving "broadband from above" envisioned in GTEL's PRs) can be done equally well or better from 65,000 feet than from low earth orbit. In short, there's a huge market here.
2. Just on per-launch basis, once you've paid for a stratellite, the cost of floating it to up to 65,000 feet for the first time is measured in mere thousands rather than millions. That's literally millions in cost avoidance to be split between GTEL profit and saving the customer money (which is how you get to be low bidder and win the contract in the first place!!!)
3. More importantly, any particular stratellite is 100% reuseable. After a year or so, you send up the replacement and bring the original back to earth. This is even better/ more efficient than SpaceX's approach of being able to re-use the first stage of its launch vehicle.
4. Most importantly of all, when the stratellite comes back to earth, so does its payload. At this point, customer satisfaction (and potential for GTEL profit!) goes through the roof because no competitor can offer the opportunity for doing maintenance/modification/upgrade of what would otherwise be an on-orbit asset. Examples: (1) rather than paying for exotic satellite batteries that last for 10 or 15 years, any given payload need only pay for batteries that last 18 months before being replaced on the ground; (2) simply being able to fix some broken gizmo without paying for relaunch and for a Shuttle mission to retrieve the ailing satellite in the first place.
Overall, there's no penny stock out there that can hold a candle to this one just in terms of what the stratellite offers as a revenue stream.
Having invested based on the above, I've been looking into GTEL's approach to VOIP and based on what I've found decided as of yesterday to double my position in GTEL.
Good to be aboard!
Caradoc
Thanks to all three for info on Farril. Sounds like nothing but a patsy for LB.
Caradoc
Anybody know who this fellow is?
http://xml.10kwizard.com/filing_raw.php?repo=tenk&ipage=3228514
Thanks in advance!
Caradoc
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Having ignored yesterday's bid of .30 cents for the Jan puts (and this morning's bid of .40), I felt pretty stupid during DOW's midmorning headfake upwards because the bid for my puts dropped to zero. Ugly number, zero, and options seem to have an affinity for it. Even when DOW resumed its plunge, bid only got as high as .50 for a few seconds.
I waited until near close (with bid of .45 and ask of .55) before placing limit order to sell 2/3 of my position at .55. During the last minute or so, ask went to .60 while bid remained at .45. Nonetheless, they took them off my hands at .55 while leaving the official bid price at .45. To me, this demonstrates that the guys running things are as slimey as the MMs of the OTC:BB world.
In any event, I got back original investment plus a couple hundred and now have 1/3 of my position for free, which is about what they'll be worth tomorrow if I'm wrong about the market's direction.
On the other hand, I bought the puts a couple of weeks ago for two reasons: (1) DOW's repeated failure to hold above 10850 and (2) Marty Armstrong's trackrecord for making deadly accurate predictions. Note that guru Buz's free chart for today addresses Marty's call for a 2 January turning point:
http://www.investors-club.com/
For documentation that Marty had already made the call back in 1999, check out this URL:
http://www.armstrongdefensefund.org/martypei/buscycle.htm
Caradoc
Caradoc
You're right! Google can find various versions of the same item (as well as months-old items saying it was coming) but nothing else. I take this as positive for near space/lighter-than-air since relative lack of news so far means we're ahead of the pack. Which in turn says there'll be opportunity to sell some portion when the pack arrives and ride free thereafter.
Caradoc
Inverted yield curve emerging.
Buz S has some interesting thoughts on inflation/deflation fears as basis for inverted curve.
http://www.investors-club.com/
Interesting and bad for the dollar, but I was hoping his freebie chart for the day would address DOW rather than bonds. Oh, well....
Caradoc
Good Morning!
I checked in hoping for hint on what time of day would be best to unload DIA puts (DIAMA Jan 105s). If DOW tanks to near 10400, and spread remains huge, I'll try to sell at midpoint of the spread. Otherwise, I'm tempted to exercise the puts rather than let them go at bid. Drawback, of course, would be the naked short position with only 80 or 90 cents of paper profit going forward and unlimited loss if things headed in the opposite direction.
Meanwhile, since DOW couldn't break north of 10850 and since psychological support is 10000, I suspect the Feb 105s (DIANA) should be real moneymakers. We'll see....
Caradoc
Reg: As it was a couple of years ago, when it comes to batteries your "two cents worth" counts for about five bucks worth of opinion from anybody else around here, including me. (Never could retain the gist of energy density versus power density for longer than about five minutes no matter how well you explained it!!)
Quick thought: whenever nanotech batteries are ready to go, the way they'll be able to expose the maximum surface to the electrolyte will be for those tiny-scaled plate structures to be arranged in a dodecahedronal pattern covered by PWTC's patent.
Caradoc
PS: How the heck are you? Are any of those little Guheerts two feet taller?
Read the patent application:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/neta....
Not sure from preview whether I-Hub's ellipsis dots mean the rest of the link is really there so you may have to go to the search site:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/srchnum.htm
and type in 6,060,198
Even if the whole link is there and clickable, you may want to bookmark the search site for looking up other patents.
Regards to all,
Caradoc
Good reading, good photos: http://malina.ichf.edu.pl/pjch/pj-2004/pj-2004-09/27Rog.pdf
Note the names in the last three footnotes.
Caradoc
Hasher, thank you. Sounds like somebody out there has a viable chemistry. I wish them well, but if they ever want the weight and surface-to-electrolyte advantages of reticulation, they'll need access to PWTC's patent which is a patent on structure, not chemistry. (Patent application specifically claimed applicability to alternate chemistries.)
Whether PWTC's battery is revolutionary or just evolutionary will be a judgment call or just semantics. Having to compete sounds good to me because it would mean having produced a battery to enter into the competition.
The risk I see is not that PWTC's battery would lose a competition but that it will never be able to compete because it never gets built and marketed. And the reason for that would be that new CEO follows LB's practice of making wild claims and announcing partnerships that never really happen.
Caradoc
PS: Quote from "Gems in the Dust": "Hey, this structure is applicable to any battery chemistry."
http://www.manufacturingcenter.com/dfx/archives/0401/0401yr.asp
Okay, Hasher, name one or two "alternate chemistries." Since the chemistry takes place between the plates and the electrolyte, my hunch is that for the first 92 elements on the Periodic Table, there's not a single plate candidate out there that wasn't pretty well explored by 1905 or so, complete with electronegativity value calculated to five decimal places. Which leaves the electrolyte. Somebody's got an acid that's better/cheaper than what's in your car battery right now? And if you're talking alkaline electrolyte, what's better/cheaper than the KOH that Edison put in his original Edison battery?
I'll settle for just one of the "alternate technologies" that outdate the weight-to-surface advantages of reticulated dodecahedronal-structure.
How about it?
Caradoc
Just skimmed 159 messages....
No way I can remember who posted what (except for Hasher), but various thoughts & questions come to mind:
* Yeah, there are a lot of shares out there and if we continue to pay for "consultants" and promo sites it will only make things worse. I can forgive the one promo deal coming this weekend since it arguably serves the purpose of announcing to people who don't read this board that the company is once again alive and kicking and under new (non LB!!) management with patent issues resolved.
* What PWTC needs to do over the next few weeks and months is demonstrate a track record of releasing truthful PRs about progress toward either actually manufacturing the battery or licensing someone else to do so. And then start producing product!!!
* The redtop SLI version of the premium Optima battery someone mentioned goes for $99.99 at Costco (home of uniform 14% markup), with the bluetop deep cycle version at $129 or so. Since Costco sells more typical batteries for ~$37, the math shows wholesale price for premium battery at almost 3 times the wholesale for a typical SLI car battery. And looking at the shelves says they're selling more Optimas than regular batteries. The Optima's spiral wrap is cute since it lets the battery case reveal the cylindrical shape of the cells, but it has no benefit over other batteries with gel electrolyte soaking fiberglas mat.
* In any event, there's money to be made when a premium battery wholesales for $87. And with lead being the most expensive thing in the battery, making an equivalent or better battery with only 10% as much lead reduces material cost, tending to let more of that $87 go to the bottom line (except, of course, for the added cost of creating the foamed lead in the first place and any increased manufacturing cost from working with the foamed metal).
* As for Hasher's repeated fear that PWTC's battery has lost any technological advantage it may have had a year or two ago, just show me the powerful lightweight batteries have hit the market in the last 2 years. For that matter, show me anything that makes electric cars practical without using expensive alloys.
* As for AS having been able to swap his patent rights while still at the "patent pending" stage, there's nothing odd about that at all. If it helps, think in termsof bargaining for pick of the litter before the puppies are born.
* Question: Is Wolf involved with some other battery company?
* Finally, it's good to see HD, mlf and other names from the good old days when I thought I could make some money by investing in a company whose green battery would make the world a better place to live in.
Caradoc
PS: If it doesn't bother you to invest based on the idea that the US dollar will continue to tank over the next year, my favorite silver stocks are IMXPF and EDRGF.
Chuck: a much better fit than Glamis would have been.
Sounds right. Thanks!EOM
Sounds good! EOM
Husker:
You might want to try an "old timey" folk medicine that has worked wonders for me: oil of oregano. Turns out that (if you read the fine print) the "oregano" available in grocery stores is either marjoram or Mexican sage. To get the real thing, go to the vitamin/food supplement section of the nearest Walmart (less than 10 bucks) or health food store. If you swallow the capsules, it only benefits stomach/gut/colon. Instead, prick the capsule and squeeze two or three drops under your tongue twice a day so that it's absorbed directly into your blood stream rather than being digested. Just be prepared for a strong taste of pizza.
There are lab studies showing it kills bacteria, viruses, and parasites. In short, it's literally "good for what ails you," whatever it is. This stuff has been around for thousands of years (it's called "hyssop" in the Bible), so there's no big profit for anybody in trying to push it but it does work.
Get well so you can chop some wood.
Caradoc
I hope you all had as good a day as I did: good food, good conversation and (now that the guests have all gone home) getting to watch gold breaking past $453 per ounce. Sweet....
Caradoc
Hasher: Thanks! So it's not a coincidence that the one guy I've got blocked is just another alias for somebody I came close to blocking a couple of years ago. Hope all is well with you and yours.
Caradoc
Equally OT for Pegasus:
Let's see... You ignore a politely worded PM and choose to respond with a nasty post in public. That alone says quite a lot about you, Pegasus, but your post's content reveals a bit more:
1. Since you know from the PM that Arete is no longer my "baby" your sarcastic congratulations on its price rise shows that you don't mind being dishonest with your readers
2. "Snowfags" = infantile sense of humor.
Nasty, sarcastic, dishonest, and infantile. You've earned the distinction of being the only I-Hub poster I've consigned to the realm of the hidden.
Caradoc
The Baltics would be a better place to get lost than the Balkans. Just watch out for "Eestii joon."
Caradoc
Native silver near the surface was claimed in 2 Nov press release by IMA Exploration (IMXPF OTC:BB). The stock didn't do much. Now the website has photo of drilling sample with silver as pretty as a new dime.
photo: http://www.imaexploration.com/i/photos/2004-09-14_NRphoto.jpg
lifted from http://www.imaexploration.com/s/QwikReport.asp
Pretty, but what's important is that it causes measurements of kilograms per ton rather than the usual gramms per ton. The stock may be moving because of the photos or maybe because a new PR is pending. In any event, volume is up and OBV looks good.
Caradoc