About 20 years ago in the Florida Keys I was lucky enough to witness the entry of a 'bolide' into the atmosphere. At one point brilliant enough to light up the whole landscape, it partially fragmented, dulled to cherry-red and disappeared off towards Cuba. The night was very quiet and I stood there- waiting to hear an anticipated double bang from supersonic flight. Nothing, no sound at all.

There are also Ken Shoulders papers on Rex Research.

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Edo , the issue for discouraging discussion of this topic here is not censorship, but keeping the focus of the forum.

Quite right. There are other places for climate talks- funnily enough they are not big on LENR or UFO's - along with politics those are our 3 least preferred topics.

I know Henry Lee. But I wouldn't invite him for dinner.

Please try to keep on topic.

The 'exposed' DVD is have received was pre-marked with exposure locations. It has not been etched - an interesting observation is that if you breath on it the condensation lingers around the damage zones...a surface charge effect that lingers, perhaps.

Thank you Pete.!

One of my friends has repeated this experiment, and today the DVD arrived for me to do the microphotography. Which hopefully will be this week.

We also had an all-time record breaking hot day this month. 35C. For England in September, that's hot.

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Antimatter has another curious but very useful property... It attracts funding.

The current price of Pd/D makes this expensive I suspect. Heavy water is around £800 kilo and Pd currently around £35/gram- more than gold.

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I am impress!

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There was a wide use of arsenic compounds, at one time, in wood preservatives, paints, wallpapers, and wall/plaster fungicidal washes. They helped to make damp buildings habitable - by preventing the growth of toxic molds and reducing insect infestation. We didn't all die of arsenic poisoning (although some historians seem obsessed by the idea that Napoleon Bonaparte died of arsenic poisoning from the furniture paint and wallwaper in his room, when in exile).

In the late 1950's a factory in East London making 'Lin-Crusta' arsenic-impregnated wall coverings and as a sideline arsenic fly-papers closed down, and post-closure some of the workers started to fall sick. The cure for their ills was found to be micro-dosing with more arsenic.

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Dear Alan Smith ,
Would it be possible to have a Forum dedicated to discussing each video topic from the conference in Poland? Or would that be too complicated?
Again, deeply grateful for all of your hard work.

Not too daunting if by 'forum' you mean 'thread'. If you care to pick a video - preferably an experimental science one. since theory discussions often generate more heat than light, we could try.

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What happened to that surefire cold fusion play you were helping out with? Because clearly this new source of clean free energy is a hell of a lot more important than OIF.

It is what you might call research. Hard work at times, not really a play. But it's all important.

An estimated 23 million people worldwide live on ground contaminated with potentially dangerous concentrations of toxic metal-mining waste, such as lead, zinc, copper and arsenic. Researchers analysed how waste from 22,609 active metal mines — and seven times as many abandoned ones — is distributed by rivers and deposited in floodplains. "Whether those people will be affected by that contamination, we simply can't tell with this research," says ecologist and study co-author Chris Thomas. "But there is agriculture and irrigation in many of those areas." Crops and livestock can accumulate high levels of harmful metals.

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What was once Scotland’s most radioactive beach has been re-opened to the public, after a multi-million-pound clean-up operation.

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Two year clean-up of Scottish beach clears radioactive material from second world war planes

Multi-million pound operation removed over 6000 particles of highly radioactive radium-226 and associated radionuclides

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We have arranged for synchronised world time. Otherwise we could try split sessions, an early morning and an evening one in the UK (for example) would catch almost everybody in the world at a fairly convenient time. We could have the usual 20-30 minute presentations allowing time for questions. Some theory, and some experimental in content. , so 'webinar like'. Breakout rooms demand a fair few participants and I suspect would need a lot of bandwith. That might evolve, but not from the start.