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your question about the carriers usefulness against terrorists shows two things:
1-your lack of understanding of what hte carreirs DID do
2-you also are simply preparing for the last war.

There is a an essay called the 4 warriors. It describes the 4 types of combatant. It's basically a 2x2 grid. High/low tech, and Brute/Seer. ( http://www.anomalies.net/archive/Government-Invlovement/NEWCORPS.TXT ) Written in 1992, it predicted and expounded on complications arising from this asymmetrical warfare between different categories of combatant. Of interest is that essay was written at the USMC war college by Robert David Steele, which some of the people around will recognize the name. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_David_Steele )

Our military has traditionally been in between a Hightech/seer and high tech/brute, and our enemies similar. Just because our most recent conflict has been against an enemy that is lowtech/seer does not mean we should give up our militarys capabilities just to engage that type of enemy. Doing so would once again leave us unprepared to fight a battle at parity.

We've already seen bent lasers since 2000 ;)

It's evil for the company to make a profit?

Check this out, if you have time: Black Power (bonus: it's about aluminium and electricity)
"A look at how former Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah set Africa ablaze with his vision of a new industrial and scientific age. At the heart of his dream was to be the huge Volta dam, generating enough power to transform West Africa into an advanced utopia. But as his grand experiment took shape, it brought with it dangerous forces Nkrumah couldn't control, and he slowly watched his metropolis of science sink into corruption and debt

It's evil for them to earn money and make a profit that helps the people with retirement plans invested in their industry?

Is it evil to hope to make enough money to educate your children and give them a chance in life?

<sarcasm_right_back_atcha>f*cking Ghanaian hippies</sarcasm_right_back_atcha>

Okay...

This is not my area of expertise and not my parent post... but since you put serious time into reading.

I'll do a bit more digging.

How about:
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDet ail/assetid/39261;_f5BEi_EFM ... Their main result is expressed in the title of their paper: "Unusual activity of the Sun during recent decades compared to the previous 11,000 years." ...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/08/04080 3093903.htm
As the scientists have reported in the renowned scientific journal, Physical Review Letters, since 1940 the mean sunspot number is higher than...

http://www.globalwarming.org/article.php?uid=870
This is a critique of a peer reviewed article that turned out to play fast and loose with the facts to support the global warming argument.
Nature lays (another) egg ...the researchers failed to use the complete temperature record -- a record that actually spanned 1957 through 1995. ...

http://communities.anomalies.net/forum/ubbthreads. php/ubb/showflat/Number/159231/page/1/fpart/23
This is an article *about* an unlinked but peer reviewed article suggesting ice age correlation with stellar clouds. ...new research suggests the coming and going of major ice ages might result partly from our solar system's passage through immense, snakelike clouds of exploding stars in the Milky Way galaxy. ... ...The latest evidence appears in the June 20 issue of Astrophysical Journal...

The "Evicting Einstein" title of the article is misleading. IMHO, the Theory of Relativity cannot be proven incorrect...it can only be proven *incomplete*. Far too much evidence/data exists to prove the interaction of light and gravity and space-time as predicted by the GTR.

Even if the Quantum theory is proven correct, the Theory of Relativity will live on as an effect of the quantum theory - since it explains the effects of Quantum behavior on the macro-level...something that Quantum physics is not very good at. Just like the General Theory of Relativity proved that Newtonian physics was not incorrect, just incomplete, the Quantum theory will prove to be a superset of the GTR.

You forgot about The Anomalies Network - the people who used to frequent Hoagland's board went to that site's anomalies board...

The dirt sticking to the wheels of Sojourner (Pathfinder) was discussed at great lengths on a board I read (bit of a crazy board full of the insane for the most part, but there are decent threads from time to time), a bunch of people yelling "it's mud, Mars is wet!" when in reality Soujourner had spun it's wheels in the dirt and essentially "dug" in the dirt... Well, that and the "dirt" is largely magnetite which is inherently magnetic.

Flash forward to today and we've got the "magic carpet", and dirt sticking to Spirit's wheels, sans digging - very interesting, and by the sounds of it also very unexpected. It will be great to find out what's making it stick, and just "how Mars works" in general.

Did I ever mention how glad I am humanity has another rover on an alien world? :)

Holger's site is down just now, he originally posted it here though (same image is linked in that thread, which you still won't see - slashdotted).

Actually, a few of us chat on the SlashNet IRC server Holger included (he's in the chat just now actually - he's the guy who's webserver is now on fire thx to that link :)

Come talk to us, it'll be fun! irc.slashnet.org - #anomalies

Search for "Ginger" (development name of the Segway), then "Scooter"

This guy oughta edit his page and remove those comments since they look pretty silly nowdays.

Yeah, hindsight is always 20/20. these comments here also look rather silly nowadays... (scroll down to section 5 for the juicy bits...). Read carefully, or you'll miss one of the double negations, and you'll find the text absolutely trivial. The irony of the text is that the author didn't foresee (at the time he wrote it) the full irony of the very phrase containing the word irony... (And yes, IIRC, that page stayed up until October... more than one full month after the event, and after featuring on cruel.com)

About the Segway:

Craig Cuthbert
What it IT (Ginger)? The buzz is that it revolutionizes transportation. What change happened in the early '00s that relates to this?

John Titor
(2). It looks like some sort of motorized scooter. What do you think ?IT? is?

About Iraq's WMD's and the war:

Are you really surprised to find out that Iraq has nukes now or is that just BS to whip everyone up into accepting the next war?

Or by 2005 when the civil war starts right after the 2004 elections, when the Diebold machines are used to decide a president.

So, was John Titor truly a time traveler, or just a Dean Kamen employee?