Re: NASA TRIES, FAILS TO WITHHOLD PLANETARY DEFENSE REPORT

On 16 May, 20:06, simberg.interglo...@xxxxxxxxx (Rand Simberg) wrote:
On 16 May 2007 10:43:17 -0700, in a place far, far away, Ian Parker
<ianpark...@xxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a
way as to indicate that:

On 16 May, 13:45, Mike <yard22...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
fromwww.fas.org

NASA TRIES, FAILS TO WITHHOLD PLANETARY DEFENSE REPORT
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration earlier this year
attempted to block public access to a comprehensive report on
planetary
defense against asteroids, but the document found its way into the
public domain anyway.

Why the secrecy? This only serves to confirm my view that NASA is a
giant bureaucracy where people are intent on saving their arses.

We see you slunk away and hoped we'd forget, but we're still waiting
to see scans of Leahy and Daschle's death certificates, Ian.


Right here are the references. I have to make a confession here. As
you can probably judge I gave the account on recollections. The
reports in fact say that they contracted Anthrax but recovered.
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/cbw/anthrax.pdf
This reference is rather glutinous. It consists of an almost diary
account about what happened. Its main shortcoming is that it does not
cover the most recent events. Original investigations, which I
recollected said that the Anthrax had come from a US military program.
The latest reports say that the Anthrax was pure but did not have any
penetration aids, such as silica, in it. BTW there is a biological
weapons program. Also looking through you can see that the
investigation was carried out in a very amateurish way. The report
towards the end mentions tensions between the FBI, CIA and the
military.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/24/AR2006092401014.html
This makes it clear that no additives (silica) were present. Why this
was thought to be the
Dr. Hatfill BTW is taking legal action against the authorities. I am
anti bureaucratic, I am not anti American. American, unlike Zimbabwean
or Turkish, justice is capable of putting things right and challenging
bureaucratic power. America as you rightly say has achieved great
things in the PRIVATE field. American universities are acknowledged to
be the best in the world, the Internet was created in America.
Basically liberal capitalism is the best system. In the PUBLIC sphere
America seems to be peopled by a load of liars and incompetents. Why?
Is it that Americans want a commercial, or possibly academic career
and that government/military is very much a second choice? American
academics get quite a good basic salary as well as opportunities for
commercial augmentation. Is it that large organizations (like NASA)
simply have a momentum of their own. As I said one would think that
LGM were directing asteroids.
http://www.anthraxinvestigation.com/
This is a more or less encyclopaedic compendium with loads and loads
of other references. It seems to believe.
1) That Al Qaeda had nothing to do with it.
2) That it was brewed up in a commercial or academic lab in the New
Jersey area.
If this was right someone must know who did it. People in a modern lab
simply don't work unsupervised on their own to that extent. It could
have been a foreign power like the Russians. Why they should want to I
really don't know.

What gives rise to suspicion is fundamentally the amateur nature of
the investigation.

The main point is the reduction of existential risk for everyone. I
think Stephen Hawking has done us all a great disservice by wittering
on about a Martian colony - complete pipedream until we have quantum
leaps in technology. Most we could ever do without some soft of VN
capability would be to provide some sort of habitat on Mars which
would eventually wear out and fail completely to be self sustaining.
It would be an expensive and pointless exercise. Reduce the
existential risks for everyone. I should have done the research I have
now done before posting. I will admit that. I just felt hot under the
collar.

On warp drive. Have I read too much science fiction?
http://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/research/warp/warp.html
http://www.americanantigravity.com/categories/Research/Lifter-Experiments/
There are documents. A REAL warp drive as I have said would be
extremely dangerous. Some of the antigravity experiments are subject
to an alternative explanation, such as the air pressure in the middle
of a vortex being reduced. We say that the Wright brothers flew, they
threw down a mass of air at 9.81M m/sec every second. Why do we insist
that VTOL by means of rotating air is antigravity. It isn't! It is
9.81M m/sec, same as the Wrights, same as any common or garden
airplane or helicopter. We come to another point - deliberate
disinformation. Won't propel you into space - might be useful though
on blended wing aircraft. Either people are bare faced liars or they
are taking grave risks. Of course a virtual helicopter is, in fact,
only dangerous to its crew. Why do people claim anything else?

- Ian Parker

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