[Jack Simth]

Suicide Junkie said:
Energy is not being produced in the ionosphere. It just happens to be naturally converted into a convenient form up there. Much like Niagara falls is convenient for hydro plants and sunlight is convenient for plants.
Everything around here except nuclear power comes from the sun. Fission power comes from ancient supernovae.
And both those come from the hydrogen the universe had as far back as we can see.


Re: Stretching infinity
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Say you've got a motel with an infinite number of rooms. On Tuesday it happens to be full up with an infinite number of guests, one per room. (This place is quite popular)

Five guys pull up to the front counter, and the owner says "no problem". He simply gets on the intercom and tells everybody to move five doors to the right. The people in room 1 move to room 6, and the people in room one million move to #1000006, and so on.
Now rooms 1 through 5 are empty, and the guys have a place to stay for the night.

Next, a very large frat shows up... they have an infinite number of members, each of which has a unique odd number on their shirt.
"No problem!" says the owner. He gets on the intercom again, and tells everybody to move to the room with double their current room number.
The person in room 1 moves to room 2, the person in room 2 moves to room 4, and the one in room one million moves to room two million. All the odd numbered rooms are now free and everybody still has their own room.
The frat boys then move into all the odd numbered rooms which match their jerseys.

Ever heard of orders of infinity? The set of counting numbers is an infinite set, and the set of real numbers is an infinite set, but while you can have a function that uniquely assigns every member of the counting number set to the real number set, you can't do it the other way around. The hotel clerks orders can't be followed - all rooms are full.