IN THE NEXT WORLD YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN!

Hi gang!

Been away for at least six weeks. Got back friday, spend most of these six weeks cleaning and packing and throwing out a lot of stuff in my apt. in Morrisville PA. You would have thought that I could get it done by now but I am just about 2/3 done. Had to get back to MA for doctor appointments. I have no physical endurance and have to rest 10 minutes every time I climb stairs, move Rubbermaid 18 gallon containers, etc., etc. My 55 birthday was yesterday it was nice and quiet the only thing i did for myself was buy 10 scifi paperback at a used book store in Danvers. Couldn't walk away from it they were in the bargain bin a buck a piece and 1 free for every 2 you buy WOO-WHOO!

Well that's about all that has been happening to me.
Later
Pete

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/science/space/23secret.html

( Surveillance Is Suspected as Spacecraft’s Main Role )

Ahh...DUH!

BestRegards,
Pete

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/world/europe/23europe.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
( Payback Time Crisis Imperils Liberal Benefits Long Expected by Europeans )

so here some questions I need to ask, if the cold war is over what is America doing with a nuclear umbrella over Europe? Here we are with our Social Security insolvent and we are still maintaining this enormous defense budget to keep Europe and the rest of the world safe? So Europe goes out and creates these wonderful welfare states which they decide not to pay for?

Yesterday had the stitches taken out of my left eye. The doctor was thrilled with my eye tests, I'm now 20-20. She said that the other eye doesn't need surgery in the near future. And since I'm monitoring my sugar levels now that could be years.

Yesterday night while watching V they had the first commercial I've seen on the 2011 Ford Fiesta.

http://www.fordvehicles.com/cars/fiesta/?searchid=426441|32522973|210910854

I was disappointed because I recalled a news item that the Ford Fiesta that was being built for the European market was going to be a clean burning diesel. Also that it was not going to be imported to America because it would not make a profit here. There is no mention of clean burning diesel for it's American counterpart. RATS! But I really like the looks of the hatchback and 40 mpg is nothing to sneeze at either.

My 8 year old Toshiba laptop finally gave up the ghost when I was trying to backup all my file a few nights ago. I bought this excellent HP USB port external 1 Terabyte backup hard drive. It got 43 percent complete when the laptop shit the bed and would not come back no matter what I did. That was an emotional roller-coaster ride I put off the backup for over a month. I was so happy when the system came up immediately and the hard drive automatically started backing up. Then after an hour or so it started having problems with files. I thought this may be a heat dependent problem maybe one of the memory chip would error when it heated up. So I put a fan on next to it and it stopped with the errors. Then after about a half an hour the system just froze gave me a memory dump and would never restart after that. Rats! I have some important programs on that machine, CAD software that I wanted to keep in practice with. Oh well.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/15/business/global/15kitty.html?pagewanted=1&th&emc=th
( In Search of Adorable, as Hello Kitty Gets Closer to Goodbye )

I remember seeing 2 Hello Kitty statues in the office of the Tyco fiber-optics division BOSS I had worked for. I figured they were a gift from Japanese customers they were so out of place in his office. He was this very serious Englishman with a PHD optics. I really think he kept them in his office because he had nowhere else to "hide" them. ;')
Hey I could have been wrong maybe there was a streak of Monty Python in his straight laced British seriousness.
BestRegards,
Pete

Yesterday I went food shopping with my sister. On the way to the bank I stopped at this fine used book store. The first book which caught my eye was "Radio Engineering Handbook" 3rd edition 1941. I had to buy it, it was so cool. It had chapters on cutting edge technology like analog television! No reference to radar (in 1941 it was top secret) and of course nothing on the transistors (7 year before Bell labs created the first one) or digital electronics. It was made of good paper so no pages had yellowed over 69 years. It is just an amazing wealth of information and really still useful, you just need to substitute the right transistors for the vacuum tubes in the schematics. There was a name on the book's back and I realized the book must have found it's way to the store as an estate sale. I wondered who this radio engineer was and what feats he accomplished in the 20th century. And I realized with everything being stored on digital format more than likely no one will ever see my engineering books at estate sales or in used book stores and wonder who I was.
BestRegards,
Pete

Okay first of all this is a long article so pass it up unless you are interested. I had heard about this scientist for a few years and even have seen the physic paper that he has published by himself and with the Italian Physicist he has partnered up with.

Eugene Podkletnov has a PhD in Material Science and stumbled on this anomaly when he was manufacturing and testing high temperature (liquid nitrogen temperatures) ceramic superconductors. He is not a loony, and according to the the wired article he really triple checked this gravity anomaly. On top of that he understood from the beginning that a scientist publishing outside of his field would be eaten alive. It has been done before.
Alfred Wegener who put forward Continental Drift had a degree in astronomy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Wegener

Plus Eugene Podkletnov was wise enough to collaborate with a Physicist.
Italian physicist Giovanni Modanese.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Modanese

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Podkletnov

Okay here is the article from Wired. The link and behind the cut.

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/6.03/antigravity_pr.html


( Breaking the Law of Gravity )

One of the concerns I have with this experiment is that if you can cause an area over the superconductor to reduce the weight of anything over it by X percentage then you can extract power from nowhere.
Here is a thought experiment one of many would be similar. A large disc on an axis perpendicular to the ground or a loop of pipe filled with fluid with it's center axis perpendicular with the ground.
This example is probably the best that you can visualize. Say you took a bicycle chain loop with 2 gears one directly above the other. You place half the loop over the reduced gravity area. Wouldn't that cause the whole loop to start moving because the part of the chain not over the gravity reduced area would be heavier? Okay so unless this equaled the same amount of energy put into the superconductor or the electromagnetic field you would either be pulling energy for free, a perpetual motion machine or pulling energy out of the space-time column which you reduced the gravity in. So even more important than "anti-gravity" or "gravity shielding" we are talking about an unlimited free source of clean energy.
BestRegards,
Pete

Last night I had an interesting anxiety dream. Most of it was dealing with moving but one really strange part of it I was staring at a monitor screen and I was running Pro/Engineer. There was some source code that was manipulating the software package. I remember seeing a DO LOOP. When I woke up and remembered the dream I realized how scary this anxiety dream actually was, I believe the source code was FORTRAN!
BestRegards,
Pete

Well been an interesting week been reviewing mechanical engineering books and reading articles off of the machine design website. While doing a web search I found an interesting pdf file about a continuous variable transmission that a company in the UK had designed. It was interesting because they claimed that could scale up the design for uses from a lawn mower to a large Bus. A big selling point they had was using it for regenerative brakes in large vehicles. Plus a cool thing about this design was that the energy stored from the brakes will be mechanical in a spinning flywheel not converted to electricity and then chemical back into the battery. The good thing about this is that there are losses with each conversion.
Oh well off to do some weight lifting at the gym.
BestRegards,
Pete

( Stephen Hawking: 'E.T.' Is Dangerous )

I am so happy that Stephen Hawking came out with this statement. It is just that so many people have been sucked into this peace, love, granola concept about ET. My favorite line was the pastor in the first War of the Worlds movie.

"If they are more intelligent than we are, they must be closer to God."

Yepper, the problem is either ET is just this cute race which are here to give us paradise or they want to open up a bistro on earth and make us the main entree. I kind of hope for a third view.

"Oh yeah we have been watching your TV and listening to your radio for years.
We just decided that we were going to ignore you."

BestRegards,
Pete