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Optical Fiber With a Silicon Core
Roland Piquepaille writes "According to the Optical Society of America, U.S. researchers have been able to create a practical optical fiber with a silicon core. As they were able to use the same commercial methods that are used to develop all-glass fibers, this might pave the way for future silicon fibers as viable alternatives to glass fibers. The scientists note that this should help increase efficiency and decrease power consumption in computers and other systems that integrate photonic and electronic devices. Here is a good summary by the lead researcher: 'In the past, we've needed one structure to process light and another to carry it. With a silicon fiber, for the first time, we have the ability to greatly enhance the functionality in one fiber.'"
Don't forget that Eisenhower called Castro the Abraham Lincoln of the Caribbean.
Don't forget that we also backed Mao, Saddam Hussein, Tim Osman (Osama Bin Laden), many of the 9/11 hijackers were trained at U.S military bases, we gave nuclear secrets and materials to the USSR in the 1940's, Israel in the 60's and lots of countries in the 1990's, Leon Trotsky was given a visa by Woodrow Wilson to travel to Russia during WWI, Prescott Bush laundered $10's of millions for the Nazi's in the 1930's and 40's, multiple companies gave Nazi Germany technical expertise and materials that were essential to the war (synthetic gas, rubber, etc..), the same goes for the Soviet Union even through Vietnam (trucks down the Ho Chi Minh trail were Ford) and it goes on forever.
So who gives a damn about the PLO? We give money to every damn country and organization. Then they become an enemy whenever we need them to be.