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Re: Company floats giant balloon concept as solution to space mess (Aug. 4): I would say that this idea is the best so far to get rid of space junk. It has never crossed my mind that just a balloon would be needed to do this. Hopefully they will start to use this idea soon and will use it forever until a better idea comes along.
Re: Scientists: artificial steps against global warming may be dangerous, necessary (Sept. 2, 2009): Global warming can be reversed, if action is taken in time. If its not reversed in time the sun's heat will dominate this planet's weather, and generate unusual weather patterns to the point where the only thing left to eat will be other people (cannibalism). Criminal activity will promote, disorder will rule (robbery, rape, murder, etc. ) The real reason for global warming is the earth's orbit around the sun is decaying, in other words the earth is moving closer to the sun. The earth is a planet that functions like a machine. Like cars, trucks, aircrafts, or rockets. The earth has a fuel system (crude oil
People take the earth's magnetic field for granted, because its invisible, and silent, but the earth's magnetic field protects all life on the surface of this planet, and beneath the oceans from the sun. The magnetic field performs several other functions. The magnetic field holds this planet together, and holds life, objects, and the ocean to the surface of this planet, it retains the air we breathe, and keep it from escaping into space, it protects life on this planet from sun flares, deadly radiation, and from poisonous gases, it acts as a force shield, and its responsible for thunder storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, and blizzards
The earth acts as a generator's armature, it rotates at one thousand miles per hour, its magnetic field brushes against the magnetic field of the surrounding universe, and electricity is generated, just like in a common generator. This energy is trapped in earth's atmosphere, where it gathers moisture from the atmosphere, and forms thunder storms, tornadoes, hurricanes, snow storms, etc. These are all electromagnetic phenomena.
The earth's magnetic field also, keeps the earth at a safe distance from the sun, and the molten core of the earth is the engine, that generates the magnetic field. The earth's fuel system is referred to as oil wells
These oil wells are located all around the planet for even heating of the core, uneven heating of the core will result in a shift in the earth's axle.
Under normal circumstance the core (the engine) stays at a constant 5000 to 7000 degrees celsius, and that's hot enough to melt steel, and the pressure in the core is tens of thousands to hundreds of pounds per square inch. The oil is ignited long before it reaches the core, and enters the core as flames, and
Global warming has nothing to do with green house gases (Co2), holes in the ozone, CFC, R-12 refrigerant, the sun going nova, aerosol propellant, methane gases, or the earth going through a cycle, etc. Hydrocarbons such as coal are safe to use, its crude oil
The only way to reverse global warming is for the oil companies to re-pressurize the earth's fuel systems (crude oil
Volcanoes are the earth's exhaust system, and was designed to rid the core (the earth's engine) of spent fuel, debris, and they regulate the pressure in the core, which is generated by the combustion of crude oil
These gases, and the pressure proves beyond a shadow of doubt, hydrocarbons are being burned in the core of this planet, and lots of it. The materials ejected from volcanoes originate from the earth's core. Volcanic eruptions in the pass were stronger, than present day eruptions. This is due to the core of this planet cooling. The more hydrocarbons that are burned in the core, the higher the core's temperature, and the stronger, and more frequent volcanic eruptions will occur. Green house gases are not responsible for global warming, it goes beyond green house gases. Something is going wrong with the earth itself, and its obit around the sun is changing, and not for the better.
1. The earth is moving away from the moon at 4 centimeters each year.
2. A total of 24 leap seconds have been added to the atomic clock over the decades, because the earth's rotation is slowing down. Many scientists believe the hours of the day will increase from 24 to 25 hours in a day.
3. 12 noon use to be the hottest part of the day, now it 3 o'clock in the after noon, due to the earth shifting on it's axis by 26 degrees, and the earth is wobbling on it axis. Many astrophysicists believe the earth will eventually flip upside down.
4. NASA scientists have discovered that the earth has developed a breach in its magnetic field.
5. The winters are getting sunnier, and warmer from the equator (latitude- zero) to (latitude 29 degrees N, and S) in winter.
6. The polar ice caps are being melted, one at a time, during each polar ice cap's summer season, and the oceans are rising, due to the melting ice.
7. Floods, and tornadoes are developing in winter, from (latitude 25. 0 degrees-North, and South) to (latitude 37. 0 degrees North, and South), and there shouldn't be enough sun rays, and heat for the green house gas theory to be applicable.
8. The same weather is occurring in the southern hemisphere from (latitude- zero to 42-S) in winter.
9. It's getting noticeably hotter every 15 to 20 years.
10. Hundreds of scientists believe the green house gas theory is wrong.
Most of what I've written in the last two paragraphs was written by scientist, geophysicists, geologists, astrophysicists, and can be found on the internet. The decay, and global warming are in the beginning stages, the worse has yet to come. Don't be confused by the fluctuation in weather (temperature) from year to year. Instead, focus on on this planet is rising, and so are the oceans. Global warming has to be measured by the decades. Earth's orbit around the sun will decay very slowly. Hundreds of scientist disagree with the green house gas theory, because it makes no sense.
- Willie McDonald
Re: Mysterious ball lightning may be brain illusion (May 19): This is basically an invitation to engage in a debate on ball lightning if you are in any way curious as to what it is. It is pure science and it is a paradox that has survived at least 150 years or more of scrutiny by many scientists and is linked to unexplained aerial objects. So. . .
Would you be interested in the debate on ball lightning's existence
This paper was published with little or no understanding of past work on ball lightning. I tried to engage in this debate with the editor of the Journal with a written submission but I was ignored with a dismissive reply after 4 weeks.
I have instead argued that not only is ball lightning real but there is a suitable theory to describe the types of observations. I congratulate the editors of this journal, Journal of Scientific Exploration but also Weather, and the Journal of Atmospheric and Solar Terrestrial Physics in publishing my work and keeping alive this most interesting debate.
Re: Unusual electrons go with the flow (July 15): Electrons, like other subatomic particles, have both particle-like and wavelike properties, in a duality that has never been satisfactorily explained, yet shows itself persistently in experiments." Anyway, I don't think that's correct. Standard quantum mechanics has explained that pretty well, hasn't it?
Re: Drug may thwart mental decline, grow brain cells (July 8): Hmmm
So what exactly is this compound? A compound that was discovered using my tax dollars. I want to know every detail. I don't give a rats ass about 2 patented drugs that are "similar" but don't work. Clearly a cure for dementia has been found. And just as clearly we the people are not going to be allowed to benefit from it. How many hundreds of break thru drugs etc. have been discovered only to be hidden because it is more profitable for some corporation? And like the government we are always told it is for our own good.
Pretty soon Joe six pack is going to find out just how long and how hard he has been screwed. At that point I think the basic fabric of our society will rapidly break down. The first casualties will be government officials (the people who let it happen and profited by it) And of course the officers of major corporations. But it won't take long for the scientific community to bear the full brunt of the people's wrath. Because they are just as guilty and evil as the people in charge.
Daniel Dearborn
Re: "Standard model" safe as physicists can't find misb (June 29): J. W. Dunne - The Serial Universe - suggests the result of any test is inherent in the nature of the trap constructed to test an hypothesis. Thus all tests are flawed, regardless of intent, or lack thereof. I refer to tests designed to demonstrate that light is not a maxim. Wherein, when a particle is split by a barrier, the two resulting parts travel divergent paths. Yet, if one is blocked and diverted yet again, its other part varies course to the same degree... demonstrating instantaneous communication. Suggesting a state exists devoid of limiting factors. I'm led to Dr. Julien Barbour's "The End of Time", in which there is no real difference between anything. In a sense, all things occupy the same space, ad infinitum.
- Gordon Tibbles
Sudbury, Ontario Canada
Re: What is consciousness? Study aims to settle debate (May 20, 2007): I have had some deep thought about your article "what is consciousness?" study aims to settle debate. I would like to make a comment on the paragraph about out of body experiences, that it would not be able to be experience though human senses such as seeing your body lying on a hospital bed or hearing a conversation. These are senses of the body that one would not have if they were a "spirit" or consciousness without a body. If a person was to experience an out of body experince they would not have the body senses such as sight to tell the brain coulor or shape nor would they have ear drums to hear or distinguish tone.
