Lynne Mctaggart
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 Nevertheless, two years later, an Air Force report was leaked to Aviation Week magazine about the CIA's use of high-resolution photographic reconnaissance satellites, which finally confirmed Pat's vision. The satellites were being used to observe the Soviets digging though solid granite formations. They'd been able to observe enormous steel gores being manufactured in a nearby building.
'These steel segments were parts of a large sphere estimated to be about 18 meters (57.8 feet) in diameter', said the Aviation Week article. |
| Graham Ennis, the conference organizer, had lured representatives from most of the major British newspapers and science magazines by dangling before them the prediction that in five years' time we'd be building our own small rockets with WARP drives to keep satellites in their correct positions.
However distinguished the audience, the greatest deference was reserved for Dr Hal Puthoff, by now in his early sixties, a bit thinner but still with his thatch of greying hair, who'd spent nearly thirty years trying to determine whether you could harness the space between the stars. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 The autopilot doesn't "see" where the plane is going, doesn't "feel" how fast it is flying, but based on information sent from sensors in the plane or bouncing off satellites, it pretty much "knows" where it is in space and time, allowing it to "fly" the plane and land safely. But input the wrong information and the autopilot will dutifully fly you directly into a mountain, because that's where you told it to go. |
Devra Davis
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 The dark, smoky haze that covers the region can even prevent satellites from imaging the ground. Conditions are so dire that in 2000 the United Nations and Asian Development Bank got together to do something about it. A massive economic experiment is under way to change local industry. Millions of dollars are being spent in a major effort to clean up the skies and get industry fully engaged in the process.
The entire world has a stake in the effort to turn this prosperous, dirty town into a productive, green city where people will not be afraid to send their children out to play. |
Mark Lynas
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 From space, satellites might witness gigantic walls of flame marching through the last areas of untouched forest. Thousands of indigenous people - the Yanomami, the Ashaninka, and other tribes who have known this forest as their only home since prehistory - are driven out. Deprived of their livelihoods and culture, unable to make sense of the sudden disappearance of all they have ever known, they will pine for their lost world. For these people, the Earth itself will have vanished. |
| Analysing much of the same storm data -collected by aircraft, satellites and ships over the past three decades - this scientific team identified a large increase in the number and proportion of those hurricanes reaching the strongest categories 4 and 5, despite an overall decrease in the number of cyclones.
Like Emanuel, the team were looking at data from the Pacific as well as the Atlantic Ocean in order to build up a global picture. And like him (though using a different statistical measure), they found a near-doubling in the number of the strongest storms between 1970 and 2004. |
Alex Vilenkin
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 Apart from the giant galaxy resulting from our union with Andromeda and its dwarf satellites, the sky will be completely empty.2 We should enjoy the show while it lasts!
THE FINAL VERDICT
Our forecast for the universe would now be complete if the cosmological constant were truly a constant. But as we know, there are good reasons to believe that the vacuum energy density varies in a very wide range, taking different values in different parts of the universe. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 The sun spewed out so much energy that satellites were knocked out of orbit, garage doors began to open and close in California, and millions of people were treated to a version of the northern lights in places as far south as Cuba.
That may not be all the havoc these sunspot peaks cause. There's a curious correlation between these sunspot peaks and flu epidemics. In the twentieth century, six of the nine sunspot peaks occurred in tandem with massive flu outbreaks. In fact, the worst outbreaks of the century, killing millions in 1918 and 1919, followed a sun-spot peak in 1917. |
Lynne Mctaggart
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| What Swann and Price had correctly described was a vast secret Pentagon underground facility in the Blue Ridge Mountains of West Virginia, manned by National Security Agency code breakers, whose main job was to intercept international telephone communications and control US spy satellites. It was as though their psychic antennae had picked up nothing of note with the original coordinates and so scanned the area until they got on the wavelength of something more relevant to the military. |
Gregg Braden
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 It has served us so well that we are able to calculate the orbits for our satellites and even to put humans on the moon.
During the early 1900s, however, scientific advances showed us two places in nature where Newton's laws just don't seem to work: the very large world of galaxies and the very small one of quantum particles. Before that time, we simply didn't have the technology to watch the way atoms behave during the birth of a distant star or to peer into the subatomic universe. |
| From global power grids and satellites to cell phones and the early-warning defense systems that protect North America, all were dependent upon date codes that were set to "expire" at midnight on the last day of the year 1999. For each system that would be affected, a small program was made available to users that would allow for a smooth transition from dates that began with the "19" of the 1900s to those that began with the "20" of the 2000s—the Y2K patch. As they say, the rest is history. |
Charles Barber
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 And the neurotics are significantly less work, too—it's a lot easier to talk in a relaxed fashion with someone about their marital problems, their self-esteem issues, their financial woes than it is to attempt to manage people who think that satellites are shocking them from outer space; who hallucinate about having sex with Jesus Christ; who imagine they are the love child of Sammy Davis Jr. |
Joseph E. Mario
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 Microwavesare used inradio, television, military aiming/guidance systems, and police radar; lowmicrowavefrequenciesofweather satellites, some radar, diathermy machines, 10 million microwave ovens, police and cab radios, garage-door openers, emergency highway callboxes,andUHFtelevisions; and Higher microwave bands of military (radar), navigation, communications satellites, walkie-talkies, 250.000 mobile cellulartelephones and relay towers.
These hard electromagnetic radiations force molecules hit by them to reverse polarity 1 to billions of times per second, and is unsafe even in milliwatts. |
Henry Hobhouse
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 France and het Napoleonic satellites, who outnumbered the population of Britain by four to one. (See Arthut Young's Travels in France, 1787-89.)
11. "Graveclothes" were not only worn by the mourners, but were also specially designed and made for the cotpse.
12. To rove means to draw out, lengthen, and slightly twist the yarn. To card means to comb out the thread, raise the nap, and make it naturally parallel.
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Alex Steffen
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 Despite advances in high-tech satellites, weather agencies, too, rely more than ever on reports from widely scattered volunteer stations, both ashore and at sea. Citizen reporters help refine our models of climate change and our strategies for preserving biodiversity.
In medicine, citizen networks now offer more than just emotional support. They supply up-to-the-minute information for people who share symptoms, illnesses, or side effects. Networked patients even occasionally come up with sharp insights about their particular disease. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's more money than NASA wastes smashing satellites into Mars and exploding space shuttles in Earth's upper atmosphere. It's more money than the entire junk food industry spends hypnotizing obese children into nagging their parents for another box of sugar-bomb breakfast cereal at the quickie mart. Heck, it's more money than the entire United States spends on genuine disease prevention and health education.
In other words, it's a lotta dough. But bribing doctors requires a lot of cash. Doctors have big-dollar appetites. They drive Mercedes Benz, Hummers and Audis. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Americans will soon be selected by a national lottery system and sent to live on Mars, Neptune, and satellites of Saturn, where gravitational effects are apparently very weak and satellite television only has three channels, one of which is the video feed from the Mars rovers.
In preparation for this resettlement plan, NASA is reportedly working hard on figuring out how to launch people into outer space without exploding them. |
Alex Steffen
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| Forgetting for a moment the danger posed to astronauts in the International Space Station (experts say there's a one-in-ten chance of a debris accident in the next ten years [David 1996]), these junk particles endanger the low-orbiting satellites most useful for studying Earth. A fast-moving debris ring around the planet presents some serious challenges to the kind of space science that can tackle environmental and social challenges.
But what can be done? We can't hand out trash bags to astronauts and have a litter-patrol day. Still, there are several mutually compatible options. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 This is not surprising since we all know that radio waves exist; they are beamed down by satellites, radio towers, and microwave devices all around the world. We see the effects of radio waves and we use them. But what most people do not know is that scientists cannot see radio waves; they do not understand how radio waves pass through solid steel, glass, and concrete. Scientists do not know how radio waves work, yet we use them. |
James Howard Kunstler
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 Measurements by aircraft using global positioning satellites and laser altimeters show that the 5,000-square-kilometer Malaspina glacier in Alaska is losing nearly a meter of thickness per year—the equivalent of three cubic kilometers of water. Antarctic ice sheets are breaking up at an unprecedented rate. Between January and March 2002, two-thirds of the giant Larson B ice shelf collapsed, greatly altering the salinity of the surrounding seas and killing off plankton and krill that were the basis of the region's wild food chain. |
Joseph E. Mario
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| A.M. radio limited to 50,000 watts in America; high and very high frequency from 35 million CB radios, shortwave ham radios, air, sea, pol ice, military, and taxi radios; and spy satellites; VHF television and FM radio; store and library antitheft devices and airport metal detectors em it A.C. magnetic fields of 100-10,000 hertz; malfunctioning computers can emit 15.000 mw., Video Display Terminal (VDT) screens emit 9.74 hz. |
Kevin Trudeau
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 Here are a few examples of the sources of unnatural electromagnetic energy that is bombarding our bodies every day:
• satellites. There are dozens of satellites beaming down unnatural electromagnetic energy twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
• Radar. Radar stations for national defense and weather emit harmful electromagnetic energy twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. It's interesting to note that many people believe that when these radar stations are put on maximum power during times of heightened security, a higher percentage of people feel ill, fatigued, and depressed. |
Alex Steffen
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| Doing so would require adding telescopes and satellites to the effort. That takes money, but it would be cheap compared with the cost of being hit by even a minor asteroid. With funding for more observation projects, and with improved telescope technology, a smart mob of passionate amateurs could join the hunt, via distributed online efforts to snoop J out likely suspects. |
Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek
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 Remote-sensing satellites continuously record our visible and invisible energies, including infrared and ultraviolet energies, from near space. And once in space, our personal information and energy keep traveling . . .
Do you know how many photons it takes for a retinal cell to register light by creating a neural impulse? Millions? Thousands? Hundreds? Science tells us—just one.
Do you know how many photons were reflected off my nude body every second and went back into space? Millions, and millions, and millions . . . |
Joseph E. Mario
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| America; high and very high frequency from 35 million CB radios, shortwave ham radios, air, sea, pol ice, military, and taxi radios; and spy satellites; VHF television and FM radio; store and library antitheft devices and airport metal detectors em it A.C. magnetic fields of 100-10,000 hertz; malfunctioning computers can emit 15.000 mw., Video Display Terminal (VDT) screens emit 9.74 hz. |
Alex Steffen
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| In fact, the biggest barrier
Left: Searching for asteroids using telescopes and satellites now will help prevent the enormous economic and human costs of being hit by an asteroid in the future. Page 537: Nature has a way of reemerging, even in soil that has been catastrophically altered either by man or nature itself. Here a sapling grows in the ash surrounding Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, Washington. to a bright green future may be entirely in our heads—we simply can't imagine it. |
| Within Earth's orbit, more satellites mean more chances for accidents; so-called space junk is already a concern. A proliferation of private satellite launches will only add to those headaches. Of greater long-term concern is the possibility of contaminating other planets with earthly microbes riding along on poorly handled space probes. Most earthborne bacteria would die quickly on Mars: no ozone layer means abundant ultraviolet radiation, on top of the sub-Antarctic temperatures and atmospheric density far lower than Earth's. We know all too well, however, that evolution is a hardy process. |
Joseph E. Mario
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| Semi-Conduction, carry small currentsoverlongdistancesincrystals'orderly molecular structure; used in computers, satellites, solid state electronics; having impurity atoms with an extra electron forNorth-Semiconduction, or positive Semiconduction through displaced moving "holes'* of positive charge. The interacting of semiconducting current with external magnetic fields is thousands of times greater than that of currents in a wire. Semiconductors absorb ultraviolet light, and emit-fluoresce part of it at lower visible light frequency. |
Gary E. Schwartz and Linda G. S. Russek
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| Phone calls from hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people, are streaming down from satellites, going here and there and everywhere, including to my desk. But I do not hear any of them. However, my phone is tuned so that it can register a certain pattern, start ringing, and initiate communication. It serves as an antenna, tuner, and amplifier. |
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