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The Heretofore Unpublished Letters of Ernest Glitch
Roger Curry writes "Letters to Michael Faraday in 1856 from previously unknown victorian experimentalist Ernest Glitch have recently been discovered. The history of science may need to be revised. His letters, and accounts of his work, would appear to indicate the observation of laser action in air, a Victorian Nitrogen Laser, more than a century before Maiman first demonstrated his ruby laser. Also, in a letter dated 8th July 1856 he notes the crystallisation of the fullerene C60 some 150 years before Kroto. Amazingly, there are also accounts of a Liquid-Fuel Rocket Engine detailing the use of hypergolic propellants and deLaval nozzles, a Victorian Tesla Coil, with reference to a possible medieval Coil, and Manned Flight achieved long before the Wright Bros., using Multiple Valve-less Pulse Jets."
These letters mean nothing. Jules Verne "wrote" about the submarine and a time machine too, doesn't mean he invented them. For all we know these could be test manuscripts for Sci-Fi never realized. Science requires incontrovertable physical evidence, or at least a complete mathematical description if the hypothesis is currently untestable due to physical limitations. These letters provide neither, and very well may be a hoax. Have they tested the ink and paper to _prove_ it was even written that long ago?
-J0ey4
the secret journals of Phineas J. Magnetron
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I received these unusual documents from my uncle who -- perhaps inadvertently -- willed them to me along with an attic full of junk and dusty memorabilia. There were twenty-four books in all, every one of them labeled with a year on the spine and front cover. What captured my attention -- besides the mysterious code -- was that the years began with 1877.
nicely done.Magnetron's books appeared to be a journal of some kind, as each entry was preceded by a date written in a bold block lettering. Below each date were as many as 4,408 small numbers and letters, packed 64 characters per square inch with no spaces or identifiable punctuation. The only characters used were the numerals 0 through 9 and the letters A through F, leading the cryptographers to deduce that the code utilized a hexadecimal, or base 16 numbering system.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
The apparent owner of the site posted links to this stuff over on scienceforums.net, and it was quickly refuted with some simple facts:w thread.php?s= &postid=4477#post4477
"A C60 fullerene has 20 hexagons; but also 12 pentagons, and the observation doesn't mention these; but the biggest problem I see is it's diameter; we simply couldn't see things 7 angstroms in diameter 1856. If we could, and above 260 kelvin, the spin would make it appear spherical."
-http://scienceforums.net/forums/sho
You black helicopter freaks make me sick.
Had the above mentiond public servants recused themselves from their elected duties and Gore had won (which was not assured by any means) we would now be hearing two things: "Gore stole the election in Florida since all of the recounts show that Bush was the winner." and "Gore's election is a sham beacue the election results were never certified by the Florida's Secretary of State (as required by Florida law), since she recused herself."