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National Archives To CSI-ify Haldeman’s Paper Notes In Search Of Watergate’s Lost 18 Minutes

2009-11-20T09:10:57-08:00

Stymied in its digital effort to fill in the mysterious 18 ½-minute gap in the Watergate tapes, the government will apply high technology to the paper trail to try to answer the scandal’s most intriguing question: What did President Richard M. Nixon know, and when did he know it?

The National Archives and Records Administration said Wednesday that it was convening a team of forensic document examiners to study two pages of handwritten notes taken by H. R. Haldeman, Nixon’s chief of staff, during a meeting between them on June 20, 1972, at the Old Executive Office Building, next to the White House. Eighteen and a half minutes of conversation were erased from the tape of that meeting before it and other Watergate tapes were surrendered by Nixon to a special prosecutor.

Haldeman’s notes, preserved at the National Archives, are believed to be the only existing record of the meeting, which occurred three days after Nixon campaign operatives were arrested for breaking into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, at the Watergate office complex in Washington.

The forensic team will try to determine, among other things, whether any additional notes were taken by Haldeman or anyone else at the meeting, and whether the two pages were doctored to remove or add notes afterward, presumably in an effort to protect the president. The ink and paper will be subjected to tests to detect variations in light invisible to the naked eye and to find any indentations from writing on other pages. The tests can also determine whether carbon copies were made.

The tests will be conducted by the preservation research and testing division of the Library of Congress and by forensic investigators from the Treasury inspector general for tax administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The results are expected to be available early next year.

In 2003, the National Archives said it had given up trying to retrieve the missing conversation from the tape itself, which, like Haldeman’s notes, is preserved in a climate-controlled vault. Experts appointed in 1973 by a federal judge, John J. Sirica, concluded that the conversation had been deliberately erased.

On the audible portion of the tape, Nixon says of the Democratic headquarters, “My God, the committee isn’t worth bugging, in my opinion. That’s my public line” — suggesting, perhaps, that his private line differed.

In his 1978 memoir, Haldeman wrote that he could not remember details of the conversation. But his diaries, published soon after his death in 1993, suggest that he and Nixon may have plotted to impede the F.B.I.’s inquiry into the break-in.

New York Times

Future colliders: Beyond the LHC

2009-11-20T08:56:42-08:00

The Large Hadron Collider is by no means the last of the particle smashers. A group at CERN recently explored the various scenarios that might emerge from the atomic debris in Geneva – and how they would shape what colliders we build next. We draw out the key points about each of the scenarios.

What will detecting a Higgs boson mean?

If the characteristics of the Higgs fit with the predictions of the standard model of particle physics, it should be found within three years. The discovery would confirm that a Higgs “field” permeates the universe, lending all other particles their mass. If it is a Higgs that does not conform to the standard model, it may turn up even earlier, because it would likely be lighter and so more commonly produced in collisions than heavier particles.

What next?

The Super LHC will have more collisions per second and be more accurate than the LHC, and would be able to start to explore the properties of a Higgs. Its high energy would be especially useful if the Higgs turns out to be heavy, though a linear collider would be more precise. The Compact Linear Collider would have an advantage over the International Linear Collider with its higher collision energy.
No Higgs

What will failing to detect a Higgs mean?

If no Higgs is detected after three years of the LHC running at full energy, then this points to a more complicated Higgs field. It could be because the Higgs decays to known particles that are difficult to detect at the LHC or it decays to invisible particles - ones that don’t interact with the detector.

Failure could also be a sign of a non-standard model Higgs - which would mean it could be lighter or heavier than expected and thus harder to find. Or it could indicate a more exotic Higgs field - perhaps with several different Higgs bosons interacting in a way not yet fully understood.

What next?

Other mechanisms for endowing particles with mass will be seriously considered. For example, when two W bosons collide, they are thought to produce a Higgs. If no Higgs exists, however, whatever else is produced by W boson scattering would be the obvious next place to look for what endows matter with mass. The process could be examined extensively with the Super LHC.

No detection at the LHC could be bad news for the International Linear Collider, because it has a lower energy than the LHC and so couldn’t look for a potentially heavy Higgs. The Compact Linear Collider would be the better option.
Supersymmetry

What will evidence of supersymmetry mean?

Supersymmetry (SUSY) is a theory positing that all the known particles in the standard model have partners. Unlike a Higgs, the particles would not show themselves directly. In some models, the particles pass through the detector without interacting with it. Their presence in a collision can be inferred from the imbalance of the total momentum - or in other words, the energy missing from the collision. In the most likely version of SUSY, the lightest particles should show up via this approach within the first year at the LHC. The lightest SUSY particle is a possible candidate for dark matter.

What next?

The Super LHC could start measuring the mass and spin of most SUSY particles and could detect unexpectedly heavy particles out of reach of the LHC. However, to study SUSY in detail, a linear collider would be far superior, because the initial energy of the colliding electrons and positrons is exactly known. At the LHC and the sLHC, the energy of the quarks and gluons inside the colliding protons is not known so it is harder to keep track of the overall energy and momentum. What’s more, most models predict that the SUSY particles are below 0.5 teraelectronvolts, which makes the ILC the ideal machine to explore these particles.
New physics

What are the implications of new physics?

New physics refers to anything that lies beyond the standard model. Aside from supersymmetry (see above), this includes gravitons or particles associated with extra dimensions. If light enough, these could be seen fairly early on at the LHC. Likewise a next generation of the standard model could be discovered or excluded. More exotic suggestions include “unparticles”, an entirely unrecognisable type of matter that could be detected by missing collision energy.

What next?

Once a new phenomenon is found, it will be necessary to flesh out the underlying theory. For example, supersymmetry or models with extra dimensions are the first steps towards confirming string theory. The Super LHC would collect vastly more data on any new physics than the LHC, and could discover processes too rare to be detected by its predecessor. Eventually, a linear collider will be necessary to complete the job - the best of the two proposed linear colliders would depend on the energy of the new phenomenon discovered.
The next generation

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Space Pioneer Laika Remembered | Universe Today

2009-11-16T15:01:17-08:00

(forget Darwin) Them and Us: how Neanderthal predation created modern humans begins

2009-09-16T05:52:43-08:00

http://www.themandus.org/

Kardoorair Press is proud to present Them and Us by Danny Vendramini, the most revolutionary idea in human evolution since The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin.

Put aside everything you thought you knew about being human - about how we got here and what it all means. Australian theoretical biologist Danny Vendramini has developed a theory of human origins that is stunning in its simplicity, yet breathtaking in its scope and importance.

Them and Us: how Neanderthal predation created modern humans begins with a radical reassessment of Neanderthals. He shows they weren’t docile omnivores, but savage, cannibalistic carnivores - top flight predators of the stone age.

Neanderthal Predation (NP) theory reveals that Neanderthals were ‘apex’ predators - who resided at the top of the food chain, and everything else - including humans - was their prey.

NP theory is one of those groundbreaking ideas that revolutionizes scientific thinking. It represents a quantum leap in our understanding of human origins.

neanderthal predation theory
According to NP theory, Eurasian Neanderthals hunted, killed and cannibalised early humans for 50,000 years in an area of the Middle East known as the Mediterranean Levant (see map, right).

Because the two species were sexually compatible, Eurasian Neanderthals also abducted and raped human females.

Them and Us cites archaeological and genetic evidence to show that this prolonged period of cannibalistic and sexual predation began about 100,000 years ago and that by 50,000 years ago, the human population in the Levant was reduced to as few as 50 individuals. Neanderthal predation generated the selection pressure that transformed the tiny survivor population of early humans into modern humans. This Levantine group became the founding population of all humans living today.

NP theory argues that modern human physiology, sexuality, aggression, propensity for inter-group violence and human nature all emerged as a direct consequence of systematic long-term dietary and sexual predation by Eurasian Neanderthals.

NP theory resolves the last great mysteries of humanity - how, why, when and where we became human beings. As such it is a candidate for the biggest shake-up in evolutionary theory since Darwin.

“Danny Vendramini presents a truly unique and innovative picture of the role of Neandertal predation in human evolution… Vendramini pulls together countless different threads of scientific evidence to re-cast Neanderthals as “apex predators”, proverbial “wolves with knives” who were effective rivals with our ancestors…. It has been a long time since I read a book about human evolution that I enjoyed so much.”

Associate Professor John J. Shea
Anthropology Department & Turkana Basin Institute
Stony Brook University, New York

National Security Agency’s Surveillance Data Could Fill Two States by 2015

2009-11-15T08:42:07-08:00

We always knew that the National Security Agency collects a lot of surveillance data from satellites and by other means, but we never quite imagined it was this much: the NSA estimates it will have enough data by 2015 to fill a million datacenters spread across the equivalent combined area of Delaware and Rhode Island. The NSA wants to store yottabytes of data, and one yottabyte comes to 1,000,000,000,000,000 GB.

Online storage startup Backblaze breaks down the mind-boggling numbers. Assuming that hard drives continue to expand their storage space until 2015, the agency would require either 100 billion hard drives or 2 billion Backblaze storage pods—all for an estimated cost of $88 trillion, or just slightly less than today’s global GDP.

This assumes that we won’t have better storage methods and options by 2015, but even a requirement of just hundreds of petabytes calls for bigger data centers.

CrunchGear reports that the NSA has already begun building a new data center in suburban Salt Lake City, complete with huge earth berms to hide classified military hardware and continuous flights of black, unmarked helicopters. We kid you not.

In case you’re wondering just how the NSA plans to come by all its future surveillance data, check out the UK government’s request for ISPs to keep records of all online communication. And then there’s the CIA’s investment in monitoring social networks.

Source: Popular Sciense

Entrance to NAZI lair on the moon discovered?

2009-10-29T10:05:46-08:00

A deep hole on the moon that could open into a vast underground tunnel has been found for the first time. The discovery strengthens evidence for subsurface, lava-carved channels that could shield future human colonists from space radiation and other hazards.

The moon seems to possess long, winding tunnels called lava tubes that are similar to structures seen on Earth. They are created when the top of a stream of molten rock solidifies and the lava inside drains away, leaving a hollow tube of rock.

Their existence on the moon is hinted at based on observations of sinuous rilles – long, winding depressions carved into the lunar surface by the flow of lava. Some sections of the rilles have collapsed, suggesting that hollow lava tubes hide beneath at least some of the rilles.

But until now, no one has found an opening into what appears to be an intact tube. “There’s sort of a chicken-and-egg problem,” says Carolyn van der Bogert of the University of Münster in Germany. “If it’s intact, you can’t see it.”

Finding a hole in a rille could suggest that an intact tube lies beneath. So a group led by Junichi Haruyama of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency searched for these “skylights” in images taken by Japan’s Kaguya spacecraft, which orbited the moon for almost two years before ending its mission in June.
Deep cave

The team found the first candidate skylight in a volcanic area on the moon’s near side called Marius Hills. “This is the first time that anybody’s actually identified a skylight in a possible lava tube” on the moon, van der Bogert, who helped analyse the feature, told New Scientist.

The hole measures 65 metres across, and based on images taken at a variety of sun angles, the the hole is thought to extend down at least 80 metres. It sits in the middle of a rille, suggesting the hole leads into a lava tube as wide as 370 metres across.

It is not clear exactly how the hole formed. A meteorite impact, moonquakes, or pressure created by gravitational tugs from the Earth could be to blame. Alternatively, part of the lava tube’s ceiling could have been pulled off as lava in the tube drained away billions of years ago.
Radiation shield

Finding such an opening could be a boon for possible human exploration of the moon (see What NASA’s return to the moon may look like).

Since the tubes may be hundreds of metres wide, they could provide plenty of space for an underground lunar outpost. The tubes’ ceilings could protect astronauts from space radiation, meteoroid impacts and wild temperature fluctuations (see Can high-tech cavemen live on the moon?).

“I think it’s really exciting,” says Penny Boston of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro. “Basalt is an extremely good material for radiation protection. It’s free real estate ready to be exploited and modified for human use.”
Blocked passage?

But even if astronauts were to rappel into the hole, they might not be able to travel far into the tube it appears to lead into. “I would bet a lot of money that there’s a tube there, but I would not bet nearly so much that we could gain access to the tube,” says Ray Hawke of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, who has also hunted for lunar lava tubes.

Rubble or solidified lava might block up the tube. “It could be closed up and inaccessible,” Hawke told New Scientist.

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), which should be able to snap images of the area that are at least 10 times as sharp, could help reveal more about the hole. And more lava tube openings may be found.

The Kaguya team is still combing over images of other areas in search of additional skylights. And Hawke says a proposal is in the works to use LRO’s main camera to snap oblique shots of the lunar surface. This could help reveal cave entrances that are not visible in a bird’s-eye view.

Source: New Scientist

Demonic Candy And Time-Release Curses…

2009-10-30T17:43:27-08:00

Blog Link

Wow. And to think I have been eating this stuff for years!!!!

I just realized…..It’s not the calories that make you gain weight…. ....it’s all of the demons you’ve swallowed!!

That article made my day!

Campaign to eliminate World’s fastest man ever officially launched

2008-07-29T16:20:15-08:00

Campaign to eliminate World’s fastest man ever (1), officially launched (2).

Association and suggestion techniques (3) used to launch it, before it will come very soon to an end. (4)

Notes

(1) Usain Bolt from Jamaica, is the world’s fastest man ever.
After pushing the 100 m record to the human limits a few weeks ago, he demonstrated in London a few days ago that he can also beat the 200 m record from Michael Johnson, as he slowed down his pace 30 meters from the finish.

(2) Launched with the “news” that “second rank jamaican athlete doped” ... headlines everywhere.

(3) The acceptance by association and suggestion techniques are constantly used by the illuminati, to sell their hoaxes to the sheep. Google:
MattMarriott BIG LIE technique

(4) This association is what the TV “commentators” in the Olympics will be non-stop mentioning while Bolt will be setting his historical performances, before being executed short after.

Doping conspiracy - multi-purpose weapon for several agendas
1. sell evolution theory and “take pills is better” hoaxes
2. sell “drugs improve performance of natural sports” hoax
3. eliminate the “wrong” champions
4. destroy natural sport
5. destroy justice
6. terrorize the sheep

Who, How and Why explained long ago -
http://doping-conspiracy.blogspot.com/
Google as usual knows it best:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q;="Doping+conspiracy"

Jordan Maxwell

2009-10-20T04:19:13-08:00

I’ve not really heard anything about him, just was alerted to him today. Any thoughts on his theories? Seems like a crackpot to me.

http://www.jordanmaxwell.com

The Illuminati are EVERYWHERE!!

2009-10-30T08:17:47-08:00

Why does Heinz ketchup say “57 varieties”?

Because Heinz products finance the Illuminati. Duh.