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john f winston
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Subject: Is It Dry Or Wet? June 20, 2007.
It seems that in some areas they are getting a lot of rain and some
floods but in other places they are getting very little rain.
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- TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY DUST BOWL DEPARTMENT -
U.S. Experiencing Drought for the Ages
Drought, a fixture in much of the West for nearly a decade, now
covers more than one-third of the continental USA. And it's spreading.
As summer starts, half the nation is either abnormally dry or in
outright drought from prolonged lack of rain that could lead to water
shortages, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, a weekly index of
conditions. Welcome rainfall last weekend from Tropical Storm Barry
brought short-term relief to parts of the fire-scorched Southeast.
But up to 50 inches of rain is needed to end the drought there, and
this is the driest spring in the Southeast since record-keeping began
in 1895, according to the National Climatic Data Center.
California and Nevada just recorded their driest June-to-May period
since 1924, and a lack of rain in the West could make this an
especially risky summer for wildfires.
Coast to coast, the drought's effects are as varied as the landscapes:
..In central California, ranchers are selling cattle or trucking them
out of state as grazing grass dries up. In Southern California's
Antelope Valley, rainfall at just 15% of normal erased the spring
bloom of California poppies.
..In South Florida, Lake Okeechobee, America's second-largest body of
fresh water, fell last week to a record low - an average 8.89 feet
above sea level. So much lake bed is dry that 12,000 acres of it
caught fire last month. Saltwater intrusion threatens to contaminate
municipal wells for Atlantic coastal towns as fresh groundwater
levels drop.
..In Alabama, shallow ponds on commercial catfish farms are
dwindling, and more than half the corn and wheat crops are in poor
condition.
Dry episodes have become so persistent in the West that some
scientists and water managers say drought is the "new normal" there.
Reinforcing that notion are global-warming projections warning of
more and deeper dry spells in the Southwest, although a report in
last week's Science magazine challenges the climate models and
suggests there will be more rainfall worldwide later this century.
"It seems extremely likely that drought will become more the norm"
for the West, says Kathy Jacobs of the Arizona Water Institute, a
research partnership of the state's three universities. "Droughts
will continue to come and go, but . higher temperatures are going to
produce more water stress." That's because warmer temperatures in the
Southwest boosts demands for water and cause more to evaporate from
lakes and reservoirs.
"The only good news about drought is it forces us to pay attention
to water management," says Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute, a
think tank in Oakland that stresses efficient water use.
This drought has been particularly harsh in three regions: the
Southwest, the Southeast and northern Minnesota.
Severe dryness across California and Arizona has spread into 11
other Western states. On the Colorado River, the water supply for 30
million people in seven states and Mexico, the Lake Powell and Lake
Mead reservoirs are only half full and unlikely to recover for years.
In Los Angeles County, on track for a record dry year with 21% of
normal rain downtown since last summer, fire officials are
threatening to cancel Fourth of July fireworks if conditions worsen.
On Wednesday, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa urged residents
to voluntarily cut water use 10%, the city's first such call since
the 1990s.
In Minnesota, which is in its worst drought since 1976, the
situation is improving slowly, although a wildfire last month burned
dozens of houses and 115 square miles in the northeastern part of the
state.
The Southeast, unaccustomed to prolonged dry spells, may be
suffering the most. In eight states from Mississippi to the Carolinas
and down through Florida, lakes are shrinking, crops are withering,
well levels are falling and there are new limits on water use. "We
need 40-50 inches of rainfall to get out of the drought," says Carol
Ann Wehle of the South Florida Water Management District.
Despite a recent storm, water hasn't flowed in Florida's Kissimmee
River, which feeds Lake Okeechobee, in 212 days. The district has
imposed its strictest water-use limits ever in 13 counties, cutting
home watering to once a week and commercial use by 45%.
The drought also has provided an occasional benefit: Okeechobee's
record low level allowed crews to clean out decades of muck and
debris.
And some stricken areas are recovering. Texas and Oklahoma, charred
by wildfires in the dry winter of 2005-06, are drought-free.
Even in California, where winter snowpack in the Sierra Nevada range
was only 27% of normal this year, plentiful runoff from last year's
snows filled many reservoirs, so shortages are unlikely this year.
But another dry winter would tax supplies.
Gleick says water managers are not reacting forcefully enough to the
drought: "The time to tell people that we're in the middle of a
drought and to institute strong conservation programs is today, not a
year from now." The Metropolitan Water District of Southern
California is doing that. Last month, it began a "Let's Save" radio
campaign.
After nearly a decade of drought in parts of the West, the nation's
fastest-growing region wrestles with rising water demands and
declining supply.
Donald Wilhite of the National Drought Mitigation Center says the
Southwest and Southeast are "becoming gradually more vulnerable to
drought" because the rising population will need more water. "We
think of water as an unlimited resource," he says. "But what happens
when you turn on the tap and it's not there?"
Source: WBIR
http://www.wbir.com/printfullstory.aspx?storyid=46077
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- GONNA GO BACK IN TIME DEPARTMENT -
Public Donates to Fund Backward-in-Time Research
Experiment may be 'weird,' but donors think it's pretty cool.
It can take a village to save science -- a village that so far
includes a Las Vegas music mogul, Kirkland rocket scientist, Port
Townsend artist, Bothell chemist, Louisiana gas-and-o-l man with a
place in Port Angeles and a Savannah, Ga., computer programmer.
The public has stepped forward with cash to boldly go where nobody
in the mainstream scientific establishment wants to go -- or, at
least, to have to pay for the attempt to go.
John Cramer, a physicist at the University of Washington, is
reflected among some of the materials he's using for an experiment
that challenges the traditional concept of time. The public has
donated $--,000 to his research.
Backward. In time, that is.
A University of Washington scientist who could not obtain funding
from traditional research agencies to test his idea that light
particles act in reverse time has received more than $--,000 from
folks nationwide who didn't want to see this admittedly far-fetched
idea go unexplored.
"This country puts a lot more money into things that seem to me much
crazier than this," said Mitch Rudman, a music industry executive in
Las Vegas whose family foundation donated $--,000 to the experiment.
"It's outrageous to me that talented scientists have to go looking
for a few bucks to do anything slightly outside the box."
What John Cramer is proposing to do is certainly outside the box.
It's about quantum retrocausality.
"He's looking into the fundamental qualities of the universe," said
Denny Gmur, a scientist who works for a biotechnology firm in
Bothell. "I had $-,000 set aside to buy myself a really nice guitar,
but I thought, you know, I'd rather support something that's really
mind-boggling and cool."
Almost everything in quantum theory is mind-boggling and outside the
box, sometimes transforming the box into an inverted spherical cube
of infinite volume or forcing an entirely new definition of the
essence of boxness.
Part 1.
John Winston. johnfw@mlode.com
Subjec: Is It Dry Or Wet? Part 2. June 21, 2007.
Here is something about Quarks.
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Cramer, a physicist, for decades has been interested in resolving a
fundamental paradox of quantum mechanics, the theory that accounts
for the behavior of matter and energy at subatomic levels. It's
called the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox.
It was set up by Albert Einstein (and two other guys named Rosen and
Podolsky) in the 1930s to try to prove the absurdity of quantum
theory. Einstein didn't like quantum theory, especially one aspect of
it he ridiculed as "spooky action at a distance" because it seemed to
require subatomic particles interacting faster than the speed of
light.
However, experimental evidence has continued to pile up
demonstrating the spooky action. Two subatomic particles split from a
single particle do somehow instantaneously communicate no matter how
far apart they get in space and time. The phenomenon is described as
"entanglement" and "non-local communication."
For example, one high-energy photon split by a prism into two lower-
energy photons could travel into space and separate by many light
years. If one of the photons is somehow forced up, the other photon --
even if impossibly distant -- will instantly tilt down to compensate
and balance out both trajectories.
As the evidence for this has accumulated, several fairly contorted
and unsatisfying efforts have been aimed at solving the puzzle.
Cramer has proposed an explanation that doesn't violate the speed of
light but does kind of mess with the traditional concept of time.
"It could involve signaling, or communication, in reverse time," he
said. Physicists John Wheeler and Richard Feynman years ago promoted
this idea of "retrocausality" as worth considering. Cramer's version
aimed at using retrocausality to resolve the EPR paradox is dubbed
(by him) the "transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics."
Most physicists, such as the celebrated cosmologist Stephen Hawking,
still believe time can move only in one direction -- forward. Cramer
contends there is no hard and fast reason why.
He has proposed a relatively simple bench-top experiment using
lasers, prisms, splitters, fiber-optic cables and other gizmos to
first see if he can detect "non-local" signaling between entangled
photons. He hopes to get it going in July. If this succeeds, he hopes
to get support from "traditional funding sources" to really scale up
and test for photons communicating in reverse time.
It may be important to note, at this point, that Cramer is not crazy.
On Sunday, he began his annual stint running particle physics
experiments at the Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic
Heavy Ion Collider. He and others at the national lab use the
supercollider to smash together particles, create the hottest matter
ever made by humans and study things such as quarks or other
subatomic particles. (JW That sounds like what we used to do
at SLAC at Stanford University at Stanford, Calif. I operated a
5.0 megawatt power supply that powered and experiment that produced
Z particles.)
Cramer, who also writes science fiction books as a hobby, earlier
worked at CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory, on
the border between France and Switzerland. In the 1980s, he was
director of the UW's nuclear physics laboratory and today remains a
well-respected experimental physicist.
"I'm not crazy," he confirmed. "I don't know if this experiment will
work, but I can't see why it won't. People are skeptical about this,
but I think we can learn something, even if it fails."
Not too long ago, Cramer thought he would not even be allowed to fail.
None of the standard scientific funding agencies wanted any part of
the project. N-SA's Institute for Advanced Concepts sent Cramer a
rejection letter, adding it was getting out of the advanced concepts
business anyway -- now that most of the space agency's money is going
to the federal g-vernment's renewed push into manned spaceflight.
The most creative branch of the m-litary-science-industrial complex
(known as DARPA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) also
rejected Cramer's proposal. Officials at DARPA told the UW physicist
his experiment is "too weird" -- even though they recently gave money
in support of a project aimed at creating Terminatorlike liquid
robots.
"I thought we were going to have to pull the plug," Cramer said. But
when word of his funding plight went out across the Internet a few
months ago after a Seattle P-I article, people like Rudman and Gmur
began contacting the UW to see if they could lend some support.
"Heck, if it works we can go back in time and get our money back,"
laughed John Crow, a businessman who splits his time between his gas-
and-o-l business in Shreveport and a home in Port Angeles.
Crow donated $-,000 because he found Cramer's approach too
fascinating not to try.
"I'm just a crass businessman, but in business we know high risk
offers high reward," he said. "This isn't that much money to find out
if time can go both forward and backward."
Walter Kistler, a retired physicist and rocket scientist who started
Redmond-based Kistler Aerospace, donated $-,000. Kistler's company
struggled for many years unsuccessfully promoting the concept of
reusable rockets, even going bankrupt once, but recently won a NA-A
contract.
"I know how difficult it can be to get people to even consider new
or unusual ideas," he said. "Even Einstein had trouble accepting the
basic ideas of quantum theory. I've talked to professor Cramer, and
what he is trying to do could be very important."
Kistler said he was overjoyed to hear that other people thought this
was worth supporting.
"Artists have experienced non-local space all along, we just can't
prove it," said Richard Miller, an artist and photographer in Port
Townsend. Miller, who prefers not to disclose the amount of his
donation, said he's not worried about the strong possibility of
failure here.
"I would say the predicted failure of this project is probably a
good omen," he said. "Most predictions are wrong."
Cramer said it's possible that the primary goal of his experiment
could fail and yet still produce something of value. Some new
subtlety about the nature of entanglement could be revealed, he said,
even if the photons don't engage in measurable non-local
communication. The "disentanglement" itself, he said, could be quite
revealing.
"It wouldn't be as nice as a positive result, but it would certainly
be interesting and publishable," Cramer said. If there is an
interesting negative result or a half-positive result, he said he
will buy more precise equipment to see if he can tease out what's
happening. Cramer has all the money he needs for this phase, but he
hopes to see a second phase.
In the music business, said Rudman, the Las Vegas music mogul, most
records they produce don't do well. In the vernacular, he said, "They
stiff."
"But the rare hits we get every once in a while pay for all the
stiffs, and then some," Rudman said. "If this stiffs, it stiffs. But,
man, you've got to try, don't you? You've got to be willing to take
the risk of being wrong to find something new."
HOW TO DONATE
The University of Washington has set up a special account to which
individuals or groups can contribute funds for John Cramer's
experiment.
Tax-deductible contributions to the project may be made by
contacting Jennifer Raines, UW Department of Physics, at
jraines@phys.washington.edu, or mailing a check made out to the
University of Washington with a notation on the check directing
deposit to the account for "Non-Local Quantum Communication
Experiment" to:
Jennifer Raines, Administrator
Department of Physics
University of Washington
Box 351560
Seattle, WA 98195-1560
Source: Seattle PI
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/319367_timeguy12.html
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- TINKER-TOY SPECIES DEPARTMENT -
Designer Bug Holds Key to Endless Fuel
The U.S. scientist who cracked the human genome is poised to create
the world's first man-made species, a synthetic microbe that could
lead to an endless supply of biofuel.
Craig Venter has applied for a patent at more than 100 national
offices to make a bacterium from laboratory-made DNA.
It is part of an effort to create designer bugs to manufacture
hydrogen and biofuels, as well as absorb carbon dioxide and other
harmful greenhouse gases.
DNA contains the instructions to make the proteins that build and
run an organism.
The J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland, is applying
for worldwide patents on what it refers to as Mycoplasma laboratorium
based on DNA assembled by scientists. When asked whether the world's
first synthetic bug was thriving in a test tube, Dr Venter said: "We
are getting close."
The Venter Institute's US Patent application claims exclusive
ownership of a set of essential genes and a synthetic "free-living
organism that can grow and replicate" that is made using those genes.
To create the synthetic organism his team is making snippets of DNA,
known as oligonucleotides or "oligos", of up to 100 letters of DNA.
To build a primitive bug, with about 500 genes in half a million
letters of DNA, Dr Venter's team is stitching together blocks of 50
or so letters, then growing them in the gut bug E. coli. Then they
turn these many small pieces into a handful of bigger ones until
eventually two pieces can be assembled into the circular genome of
the new life form.
John Winston. johnfw@mlode.com
Subjec: Is It Dry Or Wet? Part 3. June 21, 2007.
This talks about wireless transmission of electrical power.
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The synthetic DNA will be added to a test tube of bacteria and the
team hopes that one or more microbes starts moving, metabolising and
multiplying.
The Canadian ETC Group, which tracks developments in biotechnology,
believes that this development is more significant than the cloning
of Dolly the sheep a decade ago.
On Wednesday, ETC spokesman Jim Thomas called on the world's patent
offices to reject the applications. He said: "These monopoly claims
signal the start of a high-stakes commercial r-ce to synthesise and
privatise synthetic life forms. Will Venter's company become the
'Microbesoft' of synthetic biology?"
A colleague, Pat Mooney, said: "For the first time, G-d has
competition. Venter and his colleagues have breached a societal
boundary, and the public hasn't even had a chance to debate the far-
reaching social, ethical and environmental implications of synthetic
life."
However, Dr Venter did ask a panel of experts to examine the
implications of creating synthetic life. His institute convened a
bioethics committee to see if its plans were likely to raise
objections.
The committee had no objections but pointed out that scientists must
take responsibility for any impact their new organisms had if they
got out of the lab. The organisms can be designed to d-e as soon as
they leave laboratory conditions.
Dr Venter announced the project to build a synthetic life form in
2002. In theory, by adding functionalised synthetic DNA, the
bacterium could be instructed to produce plastics, d-ugs or fuels.
Dr Venter's institute claims that its stripped-down microbe could be
the key to cheap energy production. The patent application claims an
organism that can make either hydrogen or ethanol for industrial
fuels.
Source: The Age
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/designer-bug-holds-key-to-
endless-fuel/2007/06/09/1181089398547.html
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- TESLA WAS RIGHT DEPARTMENT -
Wireless Energy Promise Powers Up
A clean-cut vision of a future freed from the rat's nest of cables
needed to power today's electronic gadgets has come one step closer
to reality.
US researchers have successfully tested an experimental system to
deliver power to devices without the need for wires.
The setup, reported in the journal Science, made a 60W light bulb
glow from a distance of 2m (7ft).
WiTricity, as it is called, exploits simple physics and could be
adapted to charge other devices such as laptops.
"There is nothing in this that would have prevented them inventing
this 10 or even 20 years ago," commented Professor Sir John Pendry of
Imperial College London who has seen the experiments.
"But I think there is an issue of time. In the last few years we
have seen an exponential growth of mobile devices that need power.
The power cable is the last wire to be cut in a wireless connection."
Professor Moti Segev of the Israel Institute of Technology described
the work as "truly pioneering".
The researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
who carried out the work outlined a similar theoretical setup in
2006, but this is the first time that it has been shown to work.
"We had a strong faith in our theory but experiments are the
ultimate test," said team member Assistant Professor Marin Soljacic.
"So we went ahead and sure enough we were successful, the
experiments behave very much like the theory."
The experimental setup consisted of two 60cm (2ft) diameter copper
coils, a transmitter attached to a power source and a receiver placed
2m (7ft) away and attached to a light bulb.
With the power switched on at the transmitter, the bulb would light
up despite there being no physical connection between the two.
Measurements showed that the setup could transfer energy with 40%
efficiency across the gap.
The bulb was even made to glow when obstructions such as wood, metal
and electronic devices were placed between the two coils.
"These results are encouraging. The numbers are not far from where
you would want for this to be useful," said Professor Soljacic.
The system exploits "resonance", a phenomenon that causes an object
to vibrate when energy of a certain frequency is applied.
When two objects have the same resonance they exchange energy
strongly without having an effect on other surrounding objects. There
are many examples of resonance.
"If you fill a room with hundreds of identical glasses and you fill
each one with a different level of wine each one will have a
different acoustic resonance," explained Professor Soljacic.
Each glass would ring with a different tone if knocked with a spoon,
for example.
"Then if I enter the room and start singing really loudly one of the
glasses may explode if I hit exactly the right tone."
Instead of using acoustic resonance, WiTricity exploits the
resonance of low frequency electromagnetic waves.
In the experiment both coils were made to resonate at 10Mhz,
allowing them to couple and for "tails" of energy to flow between
them.
With each cycle arriving, more pressure, or voltage in electrical
terms, builds up in this coil," explained Professor Pendry.
Over a number of cycles the voltage gathered until there was enough
pressure, or energy, at the surface to flow into the light bulb. This
accumulation of energy explains why a wine glass does not smash
immediately when a singer hits the right tone.
"The wine glass is gathering energy until it has enough power to
break that glass," said Professor Pendry.
Using low frequency electromagnetic waves, which are about 30m
(100ft) long, also has a safety advantage according to Professor
Pendry.
"Ordinarily if you have a transmitter operating like a mobile phone
at 2GHz - a much shorter wavelength - then it radiates a mixture of
magnetic and electric fields," he said.
This is a characteristic of what is known as the "far field", the
field seen more than one wavelength from the device. At a distance of
less than one wavelength the field is almost entirely magnetic.
"The body really responds strongly to electric fields, which is why
you can cook a chicken in a microwave," said Sir John.
"But it doesn't respond to magnetic fields. As far as we know the
body has almost zero response to magnetic fields in terms of the
amount of power it absorbs."
As a result, the system should not present any significant health
risk to humans, said Professor Soljacic.
The team from MIT is not the first group to suggest wireless energy
transfer.
Nineteenth-century physicist and engineer Nikola Tesla experimented
with long-range wireless energy transfer, but his most ambitious
attempt - the 29m high aerial known as Wardenclyffe Tower, in New
York - failed when he ran out of money.
Others have worked on highly directional mechanisms of energy
transfer such as lasers. However, unlike the MIT work, these require
an uninterrupted line of sight, and are therefore not good for
powering objects around the home.
Professor Soljacic and his team are now looking at refining their
setup.
"This was a rudimentary system that proves energy transfer is
possible. You wouldn't use it to power your laptop.
"The goal now is to shrink the size of these things, go over larger
distances and improve the efficiencies," said Professor Soljacic.
The work was done in collaboration with his colleagues Andre Kurs,
Aristeidis Karalis, Robert Moffatt, John Joannopoulos and Peter
Fisher.
Source: BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6725955.stm
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- ARCHEOLOGY OR GEOLOGY DEPARTMENT -
Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun Loses Funding
The hills in Visoko are a natural formation and not pyramids, as
Semir Osmanagic wishes to present them, says Bosnian Culture Minister.
The Ministry of Culture of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
wants to put an end to the funding of the project "Bosnian Pyramid of
the Sun." Opinions on the subject as well as on the pyramid
phenomenon are so divided in Bosnia that some public persons, who
have denied the existence of pyramids, said that they would set
themselves on fire if those were really proven to pyramids.
Numerous p-liticians have given support to the research in Visoko,
formerly a royal town. Experts have protested and the people find all
this interesting.
However, Culture Minister Gavrilo Grahovac decided to shut down the
source of funding, at least this one, because this was not a serious
archaeological research. The credibility of the people who
collaborated on the project was "unreliable" and they have published
their findings that were kept away from the experts.
The scientific research team has proved that the hill Visocica is a
natural geological formation and its relief is the consequence of
natural tectonic movement.
The present appearance of Visocica is the result of structural
factors and climate changes at work. By acting on its own initiative,
the foundation does not act in keeping with the existing regulations
of archaeology, in spite of being registered at the B-H Justice
Ministry, and its registration itself ought to be looked into.
Part 3.
John Winston. johnfw@mlode.com
Subject: Is It Wet Or Dry? Part 4 of 4. June 22, 2007.
This talks about the Gay Bomb.
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Before coming to this conclusion, the Ministry consulted with the B-
H Academy of Arts and Sciences, the committee for the preservation of
national monuments, the Archeological Museum, the Tuzla Faculty of
Mining, Geology and Civil Engineering, and the Federal Geology
Institute.
Of course, the foundation responded.
They think that the Federation g-vernment has reasons to support the
project because it has developed a positive image of B-H in the
world. In fact, they think that it has done more than all the
projects of the Ministry and the five aforementioned institutions put
together have in the last 12 years. They are denying the claims that
their staff is not qualified, they claim that they delivered the
reports, and they are presenting their project in global proportions.
The head of the foundation, Semir Osmanagic, or the Bosnian Indiana
Jones as they call him, has accused his detractors of having spent
the last year amending the law and increasing the protected zones on
the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun 98 times and making excavations on the
pyramid impossible.
"They are continuing to put pressure by threatening federal and
cantonal ministries not to finance or cooperate with the foundation
and its projects related to protection of the cultural legacy of
Bosnia and Herzegovina," the foundation points out.
Source: Javno
http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=52124
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- WE CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP DEPARTMENT -
P - ntagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb'
A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks m-litary spending said
it uncovered a strange U.S. mi-itary proposal to create a hormone
bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homos-xuals and
make them more interested in s-x than fighting.
Pe-tagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that mil-tary
leaders had considered, and then subsequently rejected, building the
so-called "Gay Bomb."
Edward Hammond, of Berkeley's Sunshine Project, had used the Freedom
of Information Act to obtain a copy of the proposal from the Air
Fo-ce's Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio.
As part of a milita-y effort to develop non-lethal weapons, the
proposal suggested, "One distasteful but completely non-lethal
example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also
caused hom-sexual behavior."
The documents show the Air Fo-ce lab asked for $-.- million to
develop such a chemical we-pon.
"The Ohio Air Fo-ce lab proposed that a bomb be developed that
contained a chemical that would cause enemy soldiers to become gay,
and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became
irresistibly attractive to one another," Hammond said after reviewing
the documents.
"The notion was that a chemical that would probably be pleasant in
the human body in low quantities could be identified, and by virtue
of either breathing or having their skin exposed to this chemical,
the notion was that soldiers would become gay," explained Hammond.
The Pentagon told CBS 5 that the proposal was made by the Air For-e
in 1994.
"The Department of De-ense is committed to identifying, researching
and developing non-lethal weap-ns that will support our men and women
in uniform," said a DOD spokesperson, who indicated that the "gay
bomb" idea was quickly dismissed.
However, Hammond said the gover-ment records he obtained suggest the
mil-tary gave the plan much stronger consideration than it has
acknowledged.
"The truth of the matter is it would have never come to my attention
if it was dismissed at the time it was proposed," he said. "In fact,
the Penta-on has used it repeatedly and subsequently in an effort to
promote non-lethal weapons, and in fact they submitted it to the
highest scientific review body in the country for them to consider."
Mil-tary officials insisted Friday to CBS 5 that they are not
currently working on any such idea and that the past plan was
abandoned.
Gay community leaders in California said Friday that they found the
notion of a "gay bomb" both offensive and almost laughable at the
same time.
"Throughout history we have had so many brave men and women who are
gay and lesbian serving the mi-itary with distinction," said Geoff
Kors of Equality California. "So, it's just offensive that they think
by turning people gay that the other mi-itary would be incapable of
doing their job. And its absurd because there's so much medical data
that shows that s-xual orientation is immutable and cannot be
changed."
Source: CBS 5 Berkley
http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_159222541.html
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- TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY DUST BOWL DEPARTMENT -
U.S. Experiencing Drought for the Ages
Drought, a fixture in much of the West for nearly a decade, now
covers more than one-third of the continental USA. And it's spreading.
As summer starts, half the nation is either abnormally dry or in
outright drought from prolonged lack of rain that could lead to water
shortages, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor, a weekly index of
conditions. Welcome rainfall last weekend from Tropical Storm Barry
brought short-term relief to parts of the fire-scorched Southeast.
But up to 50 inches of rain is needed to end the drought there, and
this is the driest spring in the Southeast since record-keeping began
in 1895, according to the National Climatic Data Center.
California and Nevada just recorded their driest June-to-May period
since 1924, and a lack of rain in the West could make this an
especially risky summer for wildfires.
Coast to coast, the drought's effects are as varied as the landscapes:
..In central California, ranchers are selling cattle or trucking them
out of state as grazing grass dries up. In Southern California's
Antelope Valley, rainfall at just 15% of normal erased the spring
bloom of California poppies.
..In South Florida, Lake Okeechobee, America's second-largest body of
fresh water, fell last week to a record low - an average 8.89 feet
above sea level. So much lake bed is dry that 12,000 acres of it
caught fire last month. Saltwater intrusion threatens to contaminate
municipal wells for Atlantic coastal towns as fresh groundwater
levels drop.
..In Alabama, shallow ponds on commercial catfish farms are
dwindling, and more than half the corn and wheat crops are in poor
condition.
Dry episodes have become so persistent in the West that some
scientists and water managers say drought is the "new normal" there.
Reinforcing that notion are global-warming projections warning of
more and deeper dry spells in the Southwest, although a report in
last week's Science magazine challenges the climate models and
suggests there will be more rainfall worldwide later this century.
"It seems extremely likely that drought will become more the norm"
for the West, says Kathy Jacobs of the Arizona Water Institute, a
research partnership of the state's three universities. "Droughts
will continue to come and go, but . higher temperatures are going to
produce more water stress." That's because warmer temperatures in the
Southwest boosts demands for water and cause more to evaporate from
lakes and reservoirs.
"The only good news about drought is it forces us to pay attention
to water management," says Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute, a
think tank in Oakland that stresses efficient water use.
This drought has been particularly harsh in three regions: the
Southwest, the Southeast and northern Minnesota.
Severe dryness across California and Arizona has spread into 11
other Western states. On the Colorado River, the water supply for 30
million people in seven states and Mexico, the Lake Powell and Lake
Mead reservoirs are only half full and unlikely to recover for years.
In Los Angeles County, on track for a record dry year with 21% of
normal rain downtown since last summer, fire officials are
threatening to cancel Fourth of July fireworks if conditions worsen.
On Wednesday, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa urged residents
to voluntarily cut water use 10%, the city's first such call since
the 1990s.
In Minnesota, which is in its worst drought since 1976, the
situation is improving slowly, although a wildfire last month burned
dozens of houses and 115 square miles in the northeastern part of the
state.
The Southeast, unaccustomed to prolonged dry spells, may be
suffering the most. In eight states from Mississippi to the Carolinas
and down through Florida, lakes are shrinking, crops are withering,
well levels are falling and there are new limits on water use. "We
need 40-50 inches of rainfall to get out of the drought," says Carol
Ann Wehle of the South Florida Water Management District.
Despite a recent storm, water hasn't flowed in Florida's Kissimmee
River, which feeds Lake Okeechobee, in 212 days. The district has
imposed its strictest water-use limits ever in 13 counties, cutting
home watering to once a week and commercial use by 45%.
The drought also has provided an occasional benefit: Okeechobee's
record low level allowed crews to clean out decades of muck and
debris.
And some stricken areas are recovering. Texas and Oklahoma, charred
by wildfires in the dry winter of 2005-06, are drought-free.
Even in California, where winter snowpack in the Sierra Nevada range
was only 27% of normal this year, plentiful runoff from last year's
snows filled many reservoirs, so shortages are unlikely this year.
But another dry winter would tax supplies.
Gleick says water managers are not reacting forcefully enough to the
drought: "The time to tell people that we're in the middle of a
drought and to institute strong conservation programs is today, not a
year from now." The Metropolitan Water District of Southern
California is doing that. Last month, it began a "Let's Save" radio
campaign.
After nearly a decade of drought in parts of the West, the nation's
fastest-growing region wrestles with rising water demands and
declining supply.
Donald Wilhite of the National Drought Mitigation Center says the
Southwest and Southeast are "becoming gradually more vulnerable to
drought" because the rising population will need more water. "We
think of water as an unlimited resource," he says. "But what happens
when you turn on the tap and it's not there?"
Source: WBIR
http://www.wbir.com/printfullstory.aspx?storyid=46077
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- GONNA GO BACK IN TIME DEPARTMENT -
Public Donates to Fund Backward-in-Time Research
Experiment may be 'weird,' but donors think it's pretty cool.
It can take a village to save science -- a village that so far
includes a Las Vegas music mogul, Kirkland rocket scientist, Port
Townsend artist, Bothell chemist, Louisiana gas-and-o-l man with a
place in Port Angeles and a Savannah, Ga., computer programmer.
The public has stepped forward with cash to boldly go where nobody
in the mainstream scientific establishment wants to go -- or, at
least, to have to pay for the attempt to go.
John Cramer, a physicist at the University of Washington, is
reflected among some of the materials he's using for an experiment
that challenges the traditional concept of time. The public has
donated $--,000 to his research.
Backward. In time, that is.
A University of Washington scientist who could not obtain funding
from traditional research agencies to test his idea that light
particles act in reverse time has received more than $--,000 from
folks nationwide who didn't want to see this admittedly far-fetched
idea go unexplored.
"This country puts a lot more money into things that seem to me much
crazier than this," said Mitch Rudman, a music industry executive in
Las Vegas whose family foundation donated $--,000 to the experiment.
"It's outrageous to me that talented scientists have to go looking
for a few bucks to do anything slightly outside the box."
What John Cramer is proposing to do is certainly outside the box.
It's about quantum retrocausality.
"He's looking into the fundamental qualities of the universe," said
Denny Gmur, a scientist who works for a biotechnology firm in
Bothell. "I had $-,000 set aside to buy myself a really nice guitar,
but I thought, you know, I'd rather support something that's really
mind-boggling and cool."
Almost everything in quantum theory is mind-boggling and outside the
box, sometimes transforming the box into an inverted spherical cube
of infinite volume or forcing an entirely new definition of the
essence of boxness.
Part 1.
John Winston. johnfw@mlode.com
Subjec: Is It Dry Or Wet? Part 2. June 21, 2007.
Here is something about Quarks.
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Cramer, a physicist, for decades has been interested in resolving a
fundamental paradox of quantum mechanics, the theory that accounts
for the behavior of matter and energy at subatomic levels. It's
called the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox.
It was set up by Albert Einstein (and two other guys named Rosen and
Podolsky) in the 1930s to try to prove the absurdity of quantum
theory. Einstein didn't like quantum theory, especially one aspect of
it he ridiculed as "spooky action at a distance" because it seemed to
require subatomic particles interacting faster than the speed of
light.
However, experimental evidence has continued to pile up
demonstrating the spooky action. Two subatomic particles split from a
single particle do somehow instantaneously communicate no matter how
far apart they get in space and time. The phenomenon is described as
"entanglement" and "non-local communication."
For example, one high-energy photon split by a prism into two lower-
energy photons could travel into space and separate by many light
years. If one of the photons is somehow forced up, the other photon --
even if impossibly distant -- will instantly tilt down to compensate
and balance out both trajectories.
As the evidence for this has accumulated, several fairly contorted
and unsatisfying efforts have been aimed at solving the puzzle.
Cramer has proposed an explanation that doesn't violate the speed of
light but does kind of mess with the traditional concept of time.
"It could involve signaling, or communication, in reverse time," he
said. Physicists John Wheeler and Richard Feynman years ago promoted
this idea of "retrocausality" as worth considering. Cramer's version
aimed at using retrocausality to resolve the EPR paradox is dubbed
(by him) the "transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics."
Most physicists, such as the celebrated cosmologist Stephen Hawking,
still believe time can move only in one direction -- forward. Cramer
contends there is no hard and fast reason why.
He has proposed a relatively simple bench-top experiment using
lasers, prisms, splitters, fiber-optic cables and other gizmos to
first see if he can detect "non-local" signaling between entangled
photons. He hopes to get it going in July. If this succeeds, he hopes
to get support from "traditional funding sources" to really scale up
and test for photons communicating in reverse time.
It may be important to note, at this point, that Cramer is not crazy.
On Sunday, he began his annual stint running particle physics
experiments at the Brookhaven National Laboratory's Relativistic
Heavy Ion Collider. He and others at the national lab use the
supercollider to smash together particles, create the hottest matter
ever made by humans and study things such as quarks or other
subatomic particles. (JW That sounds like what we used to do
at SLAC at Stanford University at Stanford, Calif. I operated a
5.0 megawatt power supply that powered and experiment that produced
Z particles.)
Cramer, who also writes science fiction books as a hobby, earlier
worked at CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory, on
the border between France and Switzerland. In the 1980s, he was
director of the UW's nuclear physics laboratory and today remains a
well-respected experimental physicist.
"I'm not crazy," he confirmed. "I don't know if this experiment will
work, but I can't see why it won't. People are skeptical about this,
but I think we can learn something, even if it fails."
Not too long ago, Cramer thought he would not even be allowed to fail.
None of the standard scientific funding agencies wanted any part of
the project. N-SA's Institute for Advanced Concepts sent Cramer a
rejection letter, adding it was getting out of the advanced concepts
business anyway -- now that most of the space agency's money is going
to the federal g-vernment's renewed push into manned spaceflight.
The most creative branch of the m-litary-science-industrial complex
(known as DARPA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) also
rejected Cramer's proposal. Officials at DARPA told the UW physicist
his experiment is "too weird" -- even though they recently gave money
in support of a project aimed at creating Terminatorlike liquid
robots.
"I thought we were going to have to pull the plug," Cramer said. But
when word of his funding plight went out across the Internet a few
months ago after a Seattle P-I article, people like Rudman and Gmur
began contacting the UW to see if they could lend some support.
"Heck, if it works we can go back in time and get our money back,"
laughed John Crow, a businessman who splits his time between his gas-
and-o-l business in Shreveport and a home in Port Angeles.
Crow donated $-,000 because he found Cramer's approach too
fascinating not to try.
"I'm just a crass businessman, but in business we know high risk
offers high reward," he said. "This isn't that much money to find out
if time can go both forward and backward."
Walter Kistler, a retired physicist and rocket scientist who started
Redmond-based Kistler Aerospace, donated $-,000. Kistler's company
struggled for many years unsuccessfully promoting the concept of
reusable rockets, even going bankrupt once, but recently won a NA-A
contract.
"I know how difficult it can be to get people to even consider new
or unusual ideas," he said. "Even Einstein had trouble accepting the
basic ideas of quantum theory. I've talked to professor Cramer, and
what he is trying to do could be very important."
Kistler said he was overjoyed to hear that other people thought this
was worth supporting.
"Artists have experienced non-local space all along, we just can't
prove it," said Richard Miller, an artist and photographer in Port
Townsend. Miller, who prefers not to disclose the amount of his
donation, said he's not worried about the strong possibility of
failure here.
"I would say the predicted failure of this project is probably a
good omen," he said. "Most predictions are wrong."
Cramer said it's possible that the primary goal of his experiment
could fail and yet still produce something of value. Some new
subtlety about the nature of entanglement could be revealed, he said,
even if the photons don't engage in measurable non-local
communication. The "disentanglement" itself, he said, could be quite
revealing.
"It wouldn't be as nice as a positive result, but it would certainly
be interesting and publishable," Cramer said. If there is an
interesting negative result or a half-positive result, he said he
will buy more precise equipment to see if he can tease out what's
happening. Cramer has all the money he needs for this phase, but he
hopes to see a second phase.
In the music business, said Rudman, the Las Vegas music mogul, most
records they produce don't do well. In the vernacular, he said, "They
stiff."
"But the rare hits we get every once in a while pay for all the
stiffs, and then some," Rudman said. "If this stiffs, it stiffs. But,
man, you've got to try, don't you? You've got to be willing to take
the risk of being wrong to find something new."
HOW TO DONATE
The University of Washington has set up a special account to which
individuals or groups can contribute funds for John Cramer's
experiment.
Tax-deductible contributions to the project may be made by
contacting Jennifer Raines, UW Department of Physics, at
jraines@phys.washington.edu, or mailing a check made out to the
University of Washington with a notation on the check directing
deposit to the account for "Non-Local Quantum Communication
Experiment" to:
Jennifer Raines, Administrator
Department of Physics
University of Washington
Box 351560
Seattle, WA 98195-1560
Source: Seattle PI
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/319367_timeguy12.html
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- TINKER-TOY SPECIES DEPARTMENT -
Designer Bug Holds Key to Endless Fuel
The U.S. scientist who cracked the human genome is poised to create
the world's first man-made species, a synthetic microbe that could
lead to an endless supply of biofuel.
Craig Venter has applied for a patent at more than 100 national
offices to make a bacterium from laboratory-made DNA.
It is part of an effort to create designer bugs to manufacture
hydrogen and biofuels, as well as absorb carbon dioxide and other
harmful greenhouse gases.
DNA contains the instructions to make the proteins that build and
run an organism.
The J. Craig Venter Institute in Rockville, Maryland, is applying
for worldwide patents on what it refers to as Mycoplasma laboratorium
based on DNA assembled by scientists. When asked whether the world's
first synthetic bug was thriving in a test tube, Dr Venter said: "We
are getting close."
The Venter Institute's US Patent application claims exclusive
ownership of a set of essential genes and a synthetic "free-living
organism that can grow and replicate" that is made using those genes.
To create the synthetic organism his team is making snippets of DNA,
known as oligonucleotides or "oligos", of up to 100 letters of DNA.
To build a primitive bug, with about 500 genes in half a million
letters of DNA, Dr Venter's team is stitching together blocks of 50
or so letters, then growing them in the gut bug E. coli. Then they
turn these many small pieces into a handful of bigger ones until
eventually two pieces can be assembled into the circular genome of
the new life form.
John Winston. johnfw@mlode.com
Subjec: Is It Dry Or Wet? Part 3. June 21, 2007.
This talks about wireless transmission of electrical power.
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The synthetic DNA will be added to a test tube of bacteria and the
team hopes that one or more microbes starts moving, metabolising and
multiplying.
The Canadian ETC Group, which tracks developments in biotechnology,
believes that this development is more significant than the cloning
of Dolly the sheep a decade ago.
On Wednesday, ETC spokesman Jim Thomas called on the world's patent
offices to reject the applications. He said: "These monopoly claims
signal the start of a high-stakes commercial r-ce to synthesise and
privatise synthetic life forms. Will Venter's company become the
'Microbesoft' of synthetic biology?"
A colleague, Pat Mooney, said: "For the first time, G-d has
competition. Venter and his colleagues have breached a societal
boundary, and the public hasn't even had a chance to debate the far-
reaching social, ethical and environmental implications of synthetic
life."
However, Dr Venter did ask a panel of experts to examine the
implications of creating synthetic life. His institute convened a
bioethics committee to see if its plans were likely to raise
objections.
The committee had no objections but pointed out that scientists must
take responsibility for any impact their new organisms had if they
got out of the lab. The organisms can be designed to d-e as soon as
they leave laboratory conditions.
Dr Venter announced the project to build a synthetic life form in
2002. In theory, by adding functionalised synthetic DNA, the
bacterium could be instructed to produce plastics, d-ugs or fuels.
Dr Venter's institute claims that its stripped-down microbe could be
the key to cheap energy production. The patent application claims an
organism that can make either hydrogen or ethanol for industrial
fuels.
Source: The Age
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/designer-bug-holds-key-to-
endless-fuel/2007/06/09/1181089398547.html
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- TESLA WAS RIGHT DEPARTMENT -
Wireless Energy Promise Powers Up
A clean-cut vision of a future freed from the rat's nest of cables
needed to power today's electronic gadgets has come one step closer
to reality.
US researchers have successfully tested an experimental system to
deliver power to devices without the need for wires.
The setup, reported in the journal Science, made a 60W light bulb
glow from a distance of 2m (7ft).
WiTricity, as it is called, exploits simple physics and could be
adapted to charge other devices such as laptops.
"There is nothing in this that would have prevented them inventing
this 10 or even 20 years ago," commented Professor Sir John Pendry of
Imperial College London who has seen the experiments.
"But I think there is an issue of time. In the last few years we
have seen an exponential growth of mobile devices that need power.
The power cable is the last wire to be cut in a wireless connection."
Professor Moti Segev of the Israel Institute of Technology described
the work as "truly pioneering".
The researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
who carried out the work outlined a similar theoretical setup in
2006, but this is the first time that it has been shown to work.
"We had a strong faith in our theory but experiments are the
ultimate test," said team member Assistant Professor Marin Soljacic.
"So we went ahead and sure enough we were successful, the
experiments behave very much like the theory."
The experimental setup consisted of two 60cm (2ft) diameter copper
coils, a transmitter attached to a power source and a receiver placed
2m (7ft) away and attached to a light bulb.
With the power switched on at the transmitter, the bulb would light
up despite there being no physical connection between the two.
Measurements showed that the setup could transfer energy with 40%
efficiency across the gap.
The bulb was even made to glow when obstructions such as wood, metal
and electronic devices were placed between the two coils.
"These results are encouraging. The numbers are not far from where
you would want for this to be useful," said Professor Soljacic.
The system exploits "resonance", a phenomenon that causes an object
to vibrate when energy of a certain frequency is applied.
When two objects have the same resonance they exchange energy
strongly without having an effect on other surrounding objects. There
are many examples of resonance.
"If you fill a room with hundreds of identical glasses and you fill
each one with a different level of wine each one will have a
different acoustic resonance," explained Professor Soljacic.
Each glass would ring with a different tone if knocked with a spoon,
for example.
"Then if I enter the room and start singing really loudly one of the
glasses may explode if I hit exactly the right tone."
Instead of using acoustic resonance, WiTricity exploits the
resonance of low frequency electromagnetic waves.
In the experiment both coils were made to resonate at 10Mhz,
allowing them to couple and for "tails" of energy to flow between
them.
With each cycle arriving, more pressure, or voltage in electrical
terms, builds up in this coil," explained Professor Pendry.
Over a number of cycles the voltage gathered until there was enough
pressure, or energy, at the surface to flow into the light bulb. This
accumulation of energy explains why a wine glass does not smash
immediately when a singer hits the right tone.
"The wine glass is gathering energy until it has enough power to
break that glass," said Professor Pendry.
Using low frequency electromagnetic waves, which are about 30m
(100ft) long, also has a safety advantage according to Professor
Pendry.
"Ordinarily if you have a transmitter operating like a mobile phone
at 2GHz - a much shorter wavelength - then it radiates a mixture of
magnetic and electric fields," he said.
This is a characteristic of what is known as the "far field", the
field seen more than one wavelength from the device. At a distance of
less than one wavelength the field is almost entirely magnetic.
"The body really responds strongly to electric fields, which is why
you can cook a chicken in a microwave," said Sir John.
"But it doesn't respond to magnetic fields. As far as we know the
body has almost zero response to magnetic fields in terms of the
amount of power it absorbs."
As a result, the system should not present any significant health
risk to humans, said Professor Soljacic.
The team from MIT is not the first group to suggest wireless energy
transfer.
Nineteenth-century physicist and engineer Nikola Tesla experimented
with long-range wireless energy transfer, but his most ambitious
attempt - the 29m high aerial known as Wardenclyffe Tower, in New
York - failed when he ran out of money.
Others have worked on highly directional mechanisms of energy
transfer such as lasers. However, unlike the MIT work, these require
an uninterrupted line of sight, and are therefore not good for
powering objects around the home.
Professor Soljacic and his team are now looking at refining their
setup.
"This was a rudimentary system that proves energy transfer is
possible. You wouldn't use it to power your laptop.
"The goal now is to shrink the size of these things, go over larger
distances and improve the efficiencies," said Professor Soljacic.
The work was done in collaboration with his colleagues Andre Kurs,
Aristeidis Karalis, Robert Moffatt, John Joannopoulos and Peter
Fisher.
Source: BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6725955.stm
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- ARCHEOLOGY OR GEOLOGY DEPARTMENT -
Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun Loses Funding
The hills in Visoko are a natural formation and not pyramids, as
Semir Osmanagic wishes to present them, says Bosnian Culture Minister.
The Ministry of Culture of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina
wants to put an end to the funding of the project "Bosnian Pyramid of
the Sun." Opinions on the subject as well as on the pyramid
phenomenon are so divided in Bosnia that some public persons, who
have denied the existence of pyramids, said that they would set
themselves on fire if those were really proven to pyramids.
Numerous p-liticians have given support to the research in Visoko,
formerly a royal town. Experts have protested and the people find all
this interesting.
However, Culture Minister Gavrilo Grahovac decided to shut down the
source of funding, at least this one, because this was not a serious
archaeological research. The credibility of the people who
collaborated on the project was "unreliable" and they have published
their findings that were kept away from the experts.
The scientific research team has proved that the hill Visocica is a
natural geological formation and its relief is the consequence of
natural tectonic movement.
The present appearance of Visocica is the result of structural
factors and climate changes at work. By acting on its own initiative,
the foundation does not act in keeping with the existing regulations
of archaeology, in spite of being registered at the B-H Justice
Ministry, and its registration itself ought to be looked into.
Part 3.
John Winston. johnfw@mlode.com
Subject: Is It Wet Or Dry? Part 4 of 4. June 22, 2007.
This talks about the Gay Bomb.
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Before coming to this conclusion, the Ministry consulted with the B-
H Academy of Arts and Sciences, the committee for the preservation of
national monuments, the Archeological Museum, the Tuzla Faculty of
Mining, Geology and Civil Engineering, and the Federal Geology
Institute.
Of course, the foundation responded.
They think that the Federation g-vernment has reasons to support the
project because it has developed a positive image of B-H in the
world. In fact, they think that it has done more than all the
projects of the Ministry and the five aforementioned institutions put
together have in the last 12 years. They are denying the claims that
their staff is not qualified, they claim that they delivered the
reports, and they are presenting their project in global proportions.
The head of the foundation, Semir Osmanagic, or the Bosnian Indiana
Jones as they call him, has accused his detractors of having spent
the last year amending the law and increasing the protected zones on
the Bosnian Pyramid of the Sun 98 times and making excavations on the
pyramid impossible.
"They are continuing to put pressure by threatening federal and
cantonal ministries not to finance or cooperate with the foundation
and its projects related to protection of the cultural legacy of
Bosnia and Herzegovina," the foundation points out.
Source: Javno
http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=52124
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- WE CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP DEPARTMENT -
P - ntagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb'
A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks m-litary spending said
it uncovered a strange U.S. mi-itary proposal to create a hormone
bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homos-xuals and
make them more interested in s-x than fighting.
Pe-tagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that mil-tary
leaders had considered, and then subsequently rejected, building the
so-called "Gay Bomb."
Edward Hammond, of Berkeley's Sunshine Project, had used the Freedom
of Information Act to obtain a copy of the proposal from the Air
Fo-ce's Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio.
As part of a milita-y effort to develop non-lethal weapons, the
proposal suggested, "One distasteful but completely non-lethal
example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also
caused hom-sexual behavior."
The documents show the Air Fo-ce lab asked for $-.- million to
develop such a chemical we-pon.
"The Ohio Air Fo-ce lab proposed that a bomb be developed that
contained a chemical that would cause enemy soldiers to become gay,
and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became
irresistibly attractive to one another," Hammond said after reviewing
the documents.
"The notion was that a chemical that would probably be pleasant in
the human body in low quantities could be identified, and by virtue
of either breathing or having their skin exposed to this chemical,
the notion was that soldiers would become gay," explained Hammond.
The Pentagon told CBS 5 that the proposal was made by the Air For-e
in 1994.
"The Department of De-ense is committed to identifying, researching
and developing non-lethal weap-ns that will support our men and women
in uniform," said a DOD spokesperson, who indicated that the "gay
bomb" idea was quickly dismissed.
However, Hammond said the gover-ment records he obtained suggest the
mil-tary gave the plan much stronger consideration than it has
acknowledged.
"The truth of the matter is it would have never come to my attention
if it was dismissed at the time it was proposed," he said. "In fact,
the Penta-on has used it repeatedly and subsequently in an effort to
promote non-lethal weapons, and in fact they submitted it to the
highest scientific review body in the country for them to consider."
Mil-tary officials insisted Friday to CBS 5 that they are not
currently working on any such idea and that the past plan was
abandoned.
Gay community leaders in California said Friday that they found the
notion of a "gay bomb" both offensive and almost laughable at the
same time.
"Throughout history we have had so many brave men and women who are
gay and lesbian serving the mi-itary with distinction," said Geoff
Kors of Equality California. "So, it's just offensive that they think
by turning people gay that the other mi-itary would be incapable of
doing their job. And its absurd because there's so much medical data
that shows that s-xual orientation is immutable and cannot be
changed."
Source: CBS 5 Berkley
http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_159222541.html
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