Evan Burton

Hi Ken,

What ships did you serve in?

The report by Bellingcat includes photos taken by a Russian soldier and driver that detail the journey of a large Russian military convoy that travelled to eastern Ukraine in June 2014. The Malaysia Airlines flight crashed on July 17.

Published overnight, the report presents detailed evidence of the involvement of the 2nd and 147th Automobile Battalions in the transport of military equipment through Russia.

http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/mh17-case-mounts-against-russia/story-fnizu68q-1227355693036

Hi Vikrant - welcome to the Forum. Do you have any areas where you have a special interest?

That's pretty incredible, Joe. What is the most curious thing you have discovered with your simulations? Not a great medical discovery, of course, but did something really fascinate you?

Bee topic merged with existing threads of bees.

Come on, Steven. You quoted a piece and claim it vindicates Wakefield and thus proves a link between vaccines and autism. The facts are that one of the authors was exonerated whilst still showing that the intent was that all evidence still showed that there was NO link between MMR and autism. Your credibility suffers badly when you try to say otherwise.

And quoting your bible does not change the fact some of your posts could do with a review:

http://www.tailfeathersnetwork.com/netiquette.php

That's the way to go, Steven: use big font size and colours. It shows you are more credible; after all, who needs facts when you can shout... right?

Yep - let just ignore inconvenient facts, shall we?

You have been misled, Steven. Let's see what the judge actually said:

At a press conference, which Professor Walker-Smith did not attend, convened to accompany publication, Dr. Wakefield stated publicly the view which he had previously expressed privately to Professor Walker-Smith that he could no longer support the giving of MMR vaccine. The joint view of Professor Walker-Smith and Dr. Murch, stated in a letter to Dr. Wakefield on 21st January 1998, was that it was inappropriate to emphasize the role of MMR vaccine in publicity about the paper and that they supported government policy concerning MMR until more firm evidence was available for them to see for themselves. They published a press release to coincide with publication stating their support for “present public health policy concerning MMR”. Dr. Wakefield’s statement and subsequent publicity had a predictable adverse effect upon the take up of MMR vaccine of great concern to those responsible for public health. There is now no respectable body of opinion which supports his hypothesis, that MMR vaccine and autism/enterocolitis are causally linked.

http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Admin/2012/503.html

http://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2012/03/08/andy-wakefield-exonerated-because-john-w/

I think what people are finding is that it can be very difficult to set black & white rules that cover all circumstances; that is why Moderators are used. They use their best judgement as to what is acceptable and what is not. They are the referees of the Forum.

I'm a little concerned that only 5 of 91 posts in this thread were made by people other than the OP. By all means a poster should update people on the current state of the topic but at what stage does it change from a forum thread to a personal blog?

Coming to the 45th anniversary of Apollo 13, it is worth bringing this one up:

http://www.universetoday.com/62339/13-things-that-saved-apollo-13/

And now there is an updated addition:

http://www.universetoday.com/119747/13-more-things-that-saved-apollo-13/

Steven,

You could always just go over to AiG; they're your kind of people. Why do you try to proselytize here?

Oooops oooooops, I meant MR. Spock, eeer Leonard Nimoy.

Did Leonard Nimoy Fake His Own Death So He Could Seize Control of the Illuminati?

Posted on Mar 31, 2015 - 3:33pm by Henricus Institor

Nimoy used predictive programming to seed the media with Illuminati messages of false utopia.

In the heady days immediately following the Gulf of Tonkin incident, Leonard Nimoy made a profound decision. It was 1964 and America was being torn apart. Ethnic minorities were rioting, the hippie movement had grown into a domestic terrorism threat and a newly-installed President Johnson was on the verge of committing troops to an all-out war in Southeast Asia. In the midst of all that turmoil, Nimoy made the crucial decision to enlist.

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http://harddawn.com/leonard-nimoy-seize-control-of-illuminati/

OMFG! Talk about your A Grade Loonies!

Like always, a non-mainstream, non-credible news source.

Yes, but that is the same press release we have seen issued in early 2014. There has been nothing that I can find since then (that doesn't still just refer to the original announcement).

I'm not saying this is a con but at best we have seen a technology demonstrator that still needs a lot of work before becoming commercially viable.

When a months-old company called NanoFlowcell AG showed up at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2014, debuting its prototype for a “supercar” powered by saltwater-filled flow battery, onlookers appearedintrigued but skeptical.

Yes, the Quant e-Sportlimousine was snazzy, and enough research was being done to suggest that liquid-flow batteries (which combine the technologies in regular batteries and fuel cells) could be the future of electric cars, but there was good reason to question the car’s prospects. NanoFlowcell’s founder, Nunzio La Vecchia, had brought another “Quant” car to Geneva before, in 2009, which never made it past the auto show circuit. And though La Vecchia insisted that NanoFlowcell’s 2014 prototype was completely different, few were convinced that it would ever be seen on actual roads. “It’s possible we can see this type of system utilized in the next few decades,” wrote Topspeed.com. “So check back with TopSpeed in 20 years or so for any updates.”

But now that the Quant e-Sportlimousine has been approved for use on European roads, there’s more enthusiasm, and some in the tech media are making the inevitable comparison with the high-profile luxury electric carmaker Tesla Motors and its Model S. The concept of the car, after all, is stupendously attractive. It has four motors—one for each wheel—powered by electricity generated from a process of filtering ionic liquid, or saltwater. The car carries the electrolyte fluids in two adjacent 200-liter tanks separated by a membrane. The fluids in each tank are slightly different, and it’s the reaction between them when they cross the membrane that creates electricity.

NanoFlowcell says its car can go for 370 miles on a single charge. Among the other (somewhat outlandish, and as yet unverified) claims: It takes 2.8 seconds to go from 0 to 62 miles per hour (the Tesla Model S takes 4.2 seconds to do the same); has a top speed of 218 mph (almost 100 mph faster than the Tesla S); and peaks at 920 horsepower (compared to 416 for the Tesla S). Until road tests get underway, though, this might as well be fantasy. At least it’s a beautiful one.

General Electric has been working on flow battery technology for years and announced in August 2013 that it aimed to power a car with a water-based battery for 240 miles, though there is no word on whether much progress has been made there. Flow cell batteries have the potential to power cars three times as far and for one-fourth the cost of lithium-ion batteries (the sort that industry darling Tesla Motors is betting big on), according to GE. Flow cell batteries are said to be safer, lighter, and easier to recharge than lithium-ion ones, as well.

It’s a shame, then, that the makers of the Quant e-Sportlimousine had to put their amazing saltwater battery in a car that, should it ever hit the market, may cost about $1.7 million, making Tesla’s Model S luxury electric car look like a bargain at $70,000 to $95,000.

And that’s why Tesla probably has nothing to worry about here: If the only way to get a saltwater-powered battery into a car is to price it like a moderately sized mansion, then lithium-ion batteries just look even better.

And predictably they now come out making all sorts of uninformed and inaccurate claims regarding the Germanwings crash.

I even saw a comment that because the co-pilot had spent some time in the US that it was "...enough time for some MK-ULTRA conditioning...".

Do these nutters realise just how idiotic they look when they try to talk like an aviation expert but are in fact not even able to operate the exit row hatch?

What this tragedy has shown is that the measures taken to prevent another 9-11 type cockpit invasion has led to a not unforeseen but unlikely event.

Let me explain. On an A320 there is an armoured door with escape hatch for the crew that has 3 points of electrical locking mechanisms. You're not getting in unless the person in the cockpit lets you in, which is exactly what the door is designed to do.

The door switch in the cockpit has three positions and a light. The three positions are UNLOCK, LOCK and NORMAL; the lights are OPEN and FAULT.

http://news.navy.gov.au/en/Jul2013/Community/123/HMAS-Stirling-home-to-Perth-Wave-Energy-Project.htm