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"Amateur Fusion" makes the Wall Street Journal

After months in the making, this morning's Wall Street Journal offers a front page story featuring the "amateur fusion" community hosted here at our companion website, fusor.net:

Many of these hobbyists call themselves "fusioneers," and have formed a loosely knit community that numbers more than 100 world-wide. Getting into their elite "Neutron Club" requires building a tabletop reactor that successfully fuses hydrogen isotopes and glows like a miniature star. Only 42 have qualified; some have T-shirts that read "Fusion -- been there...done that."

Link: Nuclear Ambitions: Amateur Scientists Get a Reaction From Fusion - WSJ.com.

Hang 10 in Space

This has a certain familiar ring to it, i.e. "surfing a wave" of spacetime:

"Think of it like a surfer riding a wave," said Gerald Cleaver, a physicist at Baylor University. "The ship would be pushed by the spatial bubble and the bubble would be traveling faster than the speed of light."

Strange as it sounds, current evidence supports the notion that the fabric of space-time can expand faster than the speed of light, because the reality in which light travels is itself expanding.

Cleaver and Richard Obousy, a Baylor graduate student, tapped the latest idea in string theory to devise how to manipulate dark energy and accelerate a spaceship. Their notion is based on the Alcubierre drive, which proposes expanding space-time behind the spaceship while also shrinking space-time in front.

Now, somebody help me out here, where did we talk about the Alcubierre drive before.  And, hasn't the B2 been described as "surfing an electrogravitic wave" of positively charged space behind it an negatively charged space in front of it?  Is there a trend here?

Jacques Cornillon: 1910 - 2008

(Jacques Cornillon was instrumental in arranging the experiments that Townsend Brown conducted in France in 1956.)

Jacques M. Cornillon, of Point Pleasant, passed away Saturday, May 24 at the age of 98 at his home with his family by his side.

Born in France in 1910, he graduated first in his class from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l’Aéronautique in 1933. As a young French Air Force officer, he met and fell in love and in 1935 married Elizabeth, a quiet young American woman studying in France on a Fullbright Scholarship. Too soon, the young couple was swept up in World War II driving them to the south of France, where their first child, John, was born.  Jacques fell victim to tuberculosis and was sent to a sanatorium in the French Jura mountains where eventually he was one of the very few lucky ones to survive this dreaded disease.  As soon as the War released its grip on France the young family made their way to America.

First settling in New England, where two more children, Peter and Margaret, were born, the couple visited relatives in New Hope, fell in love with Bucks County and moved to Point Pleasant in 1948.  The family finally settled in their current home which Jacques bought at auction for $14,000 on a rainy Saturday afternoon, helping friend Frank Kolbe bid up the price, ending up as the high bidder.

For the next quarter century Jacques, with Elizabeth as his secretary and assistant, worked out of this country home serving as the U.S Technical Representative for France’s largest aircraft company. During that time he traveled throughout the two countries studying the latest developments in aeronautical and aerospace engineering for his company. In the 1960’s, in recognition of his contributions to the post war development of France’s aerospace industry, he was awarded France’s highest civilian honor, the Légion d’Honneur.

A Day In The Life ?

Why, some of you no doubt wonder, is this taking so long?  This little YouTube video gives you some idea: it's about managing all the information.

All that shuffling about, sorting, copying/pasting, backspacing/deleting retyping?  That's pretty much a typical day here in the garret...

More "Black Triangles"

There has been considerable discussion over the past week in the forums on the subject of "Black Triangles," a relatively new addition to "UFO" debate that challenges the familiar "flying disc" paradigm.  One  contributor recently posted a link to this article, which goes a long way toward re-thinking the whole  "anti-gravity" concept  vis-a-vis  levitation and propulsion.

For example, "Anti-gravity devices would be dandy for tooling around over Earth, but outward travel would be limited because the planetary gravity gradually weakens as the surface is left behind. At the edges of Earth’s field of gravity, the situation would be like trying to sail a boat without a wind blowing."   

It's nice to see somebody thinking clearly "outside the box" -- or, in this case, outside the saucer.

If This Kid Can Do It...

My new political platform:  two cars in every garage, a chicken in every pot, and a nuclear fusion reactor in every basement.

Teen creates nuclear fusion in his Michigan basement

The Remains of Wardenclyffe

Wardenclyffe, as hopefully some readers will recall, was the name of the installtion Nikola Tesla built early in the 20th century to experiment with the wireless transmission of electricity.  The site featured a fabulous 180 foot tower with a huge half-dome at the top.  There's not much left to see now, but this video of a recent visit to the site is worth the minute or so it takes to view it.  In Quicktime format.

R.I.P. Raymond Triboulet

We note the passing of Raymond Triboulet, French Resistance Fighter and Politican who died last week in Paris at the age of 99.

It is not immediately apparent that there is a direct connection between Mr. Triboulet and Townsend Brown; However, one of our regular correspondents, "Mr. Twigsnapper," mentioned Triboulet in a recent post to the forums, so the possibility of a more direct connection cannot be ruled out.

At the very least, it appears that Mr. Triboulet was an acquaintance of Mr. Twigsnapper if not an actual colleague, so it seems appropriate to take a moment to make note of the man's contributions and to offer condolences to all his friends and family around the world.

Classified Antigravity Aerospace Craft

Here's an article well worth reading:

Classified Antigravity Aerospace Craft

The opening abstract reads:

The American military industrial complex has developed in secrecy an array of futuristic aircraft and space vehicles, operated according to new energy technologies such a electro and magneto-gravitation with the aim of achieving the control of space. Though by definition impossible to confirm from official sources, his revelations have received indirect validation from hundreds of visual observations reported by expert witnesses and are broadly supported by certain government-related informants.

In addition to whatever "expert witnesses" the article relies on, one  my own "confidential sources" tell me that as much as 80% of the content of this article is credible.  If that's the case, then it will be important to look over this litany of nearly a dozen highly classified military projects and see where we can recognize the seminal contributions of Townsend Brown.

Can You Name This Place?

Recently we have been discussing in the forums Dr. Browns various travels through England and France in the mid 1950s.   I have in my archives one photo that appears to be from that period, but I have been unable to identify the exact location.  I have shown it to one expert on the time/subject, and he has identified it only as "1950's, definitely England" and "definitely MI5.  That's how I know it is in England." 

I'm not sure why it is important now, but it seems it would be very useful to get a positive ID on this location.  I have posted a larger version of the photo here in the forums.  If you think you can correctly identify this location, please post your answers there.