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From: Mark Cashman <mcashman@ix.netcom.com> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 1997 11:19:36 -0700 Fwd Date: Fri, 06 Jun 1997 20:00:41 -0400 Subject: Re: CSETI 'Witness' - David Adair > From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>, on 6/5/97 6:38 PM: > From: bhamilto@pcshs.com > Date: Thu, 05 Jun 97 08:39:43 -0700 > Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: CSETI 'Witness' - David Adair > To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>, updates@globalserve.net > Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 21:24:15 -0700 > To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net> > From: Geoff Price <Geoff@CalibanMW.com> > Subject: David Adair (CSETI witness) > 2) He actually obtained the money and built a "fusion containment" engine > in 1971 at the age of 17!(Born in 1954 and is now 43) That he did work out > equations on a board that were similar to those of Steven Hawking and met > with > Steven who told him that some of this math came to him (SH) in dreams as > well. There are no fusion engines now, and there were none in 1971. So far, fusion reactions on the order of seconds get scientists excited, and there's a lot more engineering than "math" involved. Multi-million dollar projects are the norm in that field, so it seems pretty improbable that a 17 year old would obtain such money as a grant. At what university does he claim this device was built? Who worked on it as project engineer? What firm did the construction? What journal published his research paper on this? Whose prior work was the basis for this "engine"? What work has he done since and where was it published? > 3) That, at the age of 17, he was allowed to ignite and fly this fusion > rocket > from White Sands Missile Range in NM aimed at Area 51 in Nevada. That it > worked > the first time without prior testing. See above. There are no fusion engines, therefore there are no fusion rockets. Fusion reactions even of the order currently generated require enormous machines with enormous electrical energy to generate the containment, and massive particle accelerators or laser systems to cause the fusion reaction to occur. Such systems are far to heavy to fly. One should smell a rat with the "it worked the first time without prior testing". That's highly unlikely with a piece of software, and even more unlikely with a piece of emergent engineering. > That a famous rocket scientist > (...Rudolph) attended this momentous rocket test. That 9 Men-In-Black > disembarked from a Black Airplane and flew him to Area 51 and that, once > there, > he entered the secure underground facility through a hangar where they took > him to a special room to see an advanced Ferrari model of his fusion engine > evidently manufactured by an alien culture! How can one determine that an artifact is created by an alien culture? First it would need to use principles incomprehensible to us, not be "an advanced Ferrari model of his fusion engine", and it would need to be made of unknown materials or materials with an unusual isotopic balance (which would require something like mass spectroscopy to determine - it doesn't sound like he used any methods to determine "alien" origin). > David is an intelligent, entertaining speaker, but these, like other claims > that > have come before, are extraordinary claims and either David's credibility > needs > immediate support or we have just another anecdotal story. His story doesn't sound very credible. Unfortunately, it sounds about as credible as the material at the CSETI website, and puts another nail in the coffin ofgetting Congress interested in UFOlogy as a serious discipline. In fact, the story sounds like the usual crank material: The "witness" claims to have invented a revolutionary machine using math from a dream. He met and spoke intimately with famous people who agreed that what he had done was revolutionary. His work was so important that it came to the attention of high government officials, who needed his help to figure out an alien power plant based on (surprise) the same revolutionary principles that came to him in his dream. But, somehow, no one else (except Stephen Greer) ever heard of him. His machine has vanished from the face of the earth in the intervening 26 years. I suspect it will be found he has done no work in the field leading up to 1971 and none since. ------- Mark Cashman, creator of the Temporal Doorway at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/5623/ Original digital art, writing and UFO research mcashman@ix.netcom.com
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