Guest john f winston Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 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. ......................................................................... ......................................................................... ========================== C-nspiracy Journal ========================== In Association With Mysteries Magazine! http://www.conspiracyjournal.com Subscribe for free at our subscription page: http://www.members.tripod.com/uforeview/subscribe.html You can view this newsletter online at: http://uforeview.tripod.com/conspiracyjournal421.html Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain - he may be trying to control your mind with microwave beams. Or he could be hiding the truth about aliens and UFOs. Or he could be selling d-ugs to finance some g-vernment priority that the public need not know about. 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Get your issue TODAY at your favorite bookstore or magazine stand. http://www.mysteriesmagazine.com ===================================================================== - 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 ===================================================================== - 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. ......................................................................... ......................................................................... 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 ===================================================================== - 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. ........................................................................ ........................................................................ 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 end of consp ===================================================================== - 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 ===================================================================== - 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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