Ramon F. Herrera

Hi Jon: I find very hard to believe that professor Farid's research is not legitimate: ( a ) I am sure he has students. There were assignments, homework. This was teamwork. The reputation of Dartmouth is at stake here. Other professors (even outside the Computer Science Department) are implicitly certifying, not that Dr. Farid is infallible, mind you, but that he has academic honesty and integrity. Note: I always say this: "When it comes to the truth, the only reference is our universities" ( b ) His study can easily be replicated. It is a heck of a lot easier and cheaper than the one for which I am lobbying, related to the Physics of the Fatal Shot. Just to give you an idea. All these people have PhDs, Master's, etc. (from Cornell and other universities more prestigious than Dartmouth): https://github.com/gahansen/Albany https://github.com/gahansen/Albany/network/members (Members) and have not achieved the bullet penetrating software functions yet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2OUrnQ3mRU If you read the Comments Section under the YouTube video, you will learn that the author of the original software, Alejandro Mota, had to relinquish it to its owner, CalTech. -Ramon

Here's another article about the Dartmouth study. It is dated October 15, 2015. http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-10/19/lee-harvey-oswald-photo-real Dartmouth Professor Finds That Iconic Oswald Photo Was Not Faked I have no problem accepting the authenticity of that photo. Didn't Marina herself say that she took it? Didn't Lee himself dedicate it to the Baron? ("Hunter of fascists")? In fact, that could have been the role of De Mohrenschildt: babysit Lee, wine him and dine him, make him feel important, the center of attention among blue blood types, "persuade" him to order a rifle, and the disappear to Haiti. Then again, I saw another study from England where the 2 faces were identical, pixel by pixel, from 2 different photos. Maybe one photo was legitimate and the other fake? Frankly, I rather concentrate in solvable problems, such as determining with mathematical precision the origin of the fatal shot. This has become possible in recent years. Why don't those universities dedicate some of their attention to the Physics of the Fatal Shot?

HEAD SHOT: THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE JFK ASSASSINATION by G. Paul Chambers Chapter 9: The Second Rifle in Dealey Plaza "Science is the ultimate test of truth. Lies and hypocrisy don't live long in the arena of modern scientific inquiry. It is fitting that the space program that Kennedy championed should ultimately provide the methodology for resolving the riddle of his death: the physics of rocket science (*). With the identity of the murder weapon and the origin of the fatal shot established, the chances of unraveling the tangled threads of the Kennedy assassination, the Gordian knot of murder mysteries, increase exponentially. The law of nature is Alexander's sword." http://patriot.net/~ramon/jfk/Head-Shot-Ch-9.pdf (*) More specifically, the Finite Element Method and Computational Fluid Dynamics. Together, they form part of Multiphysics. -Ramon

who said anything about any such requirement? i'm not aware of any theory in existence that posits this degree of planning. The plotters were The Best, most qualified people in the world. Their skills were only matched by their Soviet counterparts. The mentioned theory has been around for years, known as the Herrera Tangential Shot Hypothesis. -Ramon This is from the new movie (only shown once in the Texas Theater, Dallas, plus in Europe) http://acoupincamelot.com/trailer.html A fundamental requirement was that the shot had to be like those reversible pants:

Calculations done with sliding rule ... With lots of wrong assumptions. LMAO. I posted 5 YouTube videos at the top of the thread. In all of them the target is pushed/knocked over in the direction of the bullet. Unfortunately, only the first one was a direct hit in the sweet spot and the bad guy was blasted away. Went airborne. Had it been JFK, the corpse would have ended outside the limo, on the pavement. See that video below. 3 other bullets barely touched the top of head. The Colombian criminal has hit in the jaw. Not the best specimen. I have shown in the "Parkland Effect" that you need a Perfect Storm alignment in order to achieve lift-off at Cape Canaveral. Will repost it. I have a book with calculations that say that a 6.5mm M/C could not make JFK's head move that fast BUT a Winchester could. -Ramon ======================================== Sniper Shot Barret M107 Fast forward to minute 4:15"

There you go, Pat: Direction of the Fatal Shot and the Jet Effect by Stewart Galanor http://www.jfklancer.com/galanor/jet_effect_text.html

Pat: That makes a heck of a lot of sense. I am not talking about the 2 directions being the same which is simply a FACT under any scenario (*). I am referring to ... • The blatant lies by Lattimer et al. • The sincerity by Sturdivan Simply put, in 1964 we believed in Santa Claus, not quite in the late 1970s. -Ramon (*) Custom rigged cantaloupes and fancy billiard shots excluded. Last time I checked the head of our president qualified for neither category.

If your requirement is to make a frontal shot indistinguishable from a rear one, you do not pick bullets with extra punch. -RFH

Sorry. Can't buy that. An "exploding bullet" (in any of its multiple instantiations), from the front, would have been an overkill. Literally. Such missile would have left our admired president headless, with the ejecta as far back as Houston Street, something extremely hard to patch up in Bethesda. I have no explanation for the throat injury. At this point, I rather leave it in the "things to be determined" category. One thing should be abundantly obvious, though. The frontal shooter's order was to make a tangential shot AND the bullet would have to be as similar as possible as those of a M/C. -Ramon

Bob: First, allow me to confess that I did not understand your explanation. Have you read this? http://patriot.net/~ramon/jfk/Jet-Effect-Rebuttal-by-Szamboti.pdf Due respect, but I am more persuaded by that kind of material than by your dear deer. :-) -Ramon

Glenn: I am afraid you may be conflating the terms "jet" and "self-propelled". In none of the scenarios considered: • Experiments by Dr. Alvarez and others • Billiard • Water balloons delivered from automobile • Baseball player diving in one direction, throwing the ball in the opposite direction. was self-propulsion involved. Then again, there was an example of salmon swimming upstream. -RFH

Bob: I have come up with yet another example to help readers understand, from the point of view of elementary Physics. See this image: The golden bullet denotes the actual direction of the projectile and the red vector denotes the task that we are given: it is the net movement of the subject, after all forces have been accounted for (i.e. the vacuum described by Pat, gravity, air resistance, etc.). Vectors have a direction (angle) and a magnitude. Those who want to achieve Case No. 3 have two challenging sub-tasks: (1) Reverse the angle by 180 degrees. That is the easy part. (2) Have a strong momentum (long red arrow): no way on earth this is achievable. When I was a kid, we had a school break, national holidays, called "Carnivals": there were beauty queens being elected, people wore costumes, dances, etc. In the US it is known as Mardi Grass. The practice that degenerated along the years was throwing water balloons. Let me put it this way: it started with confetti, then liquid water, next frozen water and people ended up shooting each other. The last time I did this, we were still learning how to drive, went around neighborhoods and every time we spotted a target -preferably a girl- we unloaded our arsenal. Note: This time, the car is the bullet. In one of those sorties, we spotted a group of older students chatting across the local university. My older brother was driving, I was in the passenger seat. I am right-handed. The car must have been going about 30-40 mph and I made a perfect pitch, hitting one of the students in his rear bottom. I was surprised at the impact (it is a good thing he had an ample derriere to absorb the hit). Obviously, the speed of the car was ADDED to that provided by my arm. That was a clear Case 1. If we want to achieve Case 3, we must do the throw AFTER the student is passed. The car is moving north, while the balloon goes south. The speed of the car is SUBTRACTED from that of the swinging arm. Again: No way this is possible. Not to the extent required. ps: Jet Effect for Dummies http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=22353

See this nice guy: https://www.mendeley.com/profiles/alejandro-mota/ Check out the cool things that he and his team are working on: Finite element simulation of bullet impacting skull (1/2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fIar8Vdx7s (if you blink, you'll miss it) Finite element simulation of bullet impacting skull (2/2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2OUrnQ3mRU Notice the 2nd. YouTube video, Comments Section. You can see how I posted a note (in Spanish) inviting Alejandro to participate in the JFK case. He politely declined. :-( -Ramon

================================== Abstract For the structure mechanics of human body, it is almost impossible to conduct mechanical experiments. Then the finite element model to simulate mechanical experiments has become an effective tool. By introducing several common methods for constructing a 3D model of cranial cavity, this paper carries out systematically the research on the influence law of cranial cavity deformation. By introducing the new concepts and theory to develop the 3D cranial cavity model with the finite-element method, the cranial cavity deformation process with the changing ICP can be made the proper description and reasonable explanation. It can provide reference for getting cranium biomechanical model quickly and efficiently and lay the foundation for further biomechanical experiments and clinical applications. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3576802/ (Cool images! Hover the mouse over Figure 1, etc ) ==================================

Chris, I was amazed when you mentioned a Bell modem. I thought I was old-timer! My first one (bought with the computer, the very first IBM PC sold in the state of Iowa and likely one of the first ones in Venezuela) was a Hayes Smartmodem, invented by Dennis Hayes. It ran at the glorious speed of 300 baud. In the Christmas break, I took the computer back home. The customs person in the Caracas airport asked me to open the container (a box of wood with a handle, covered by make believe "leather", advertised in the new, very thin, stapled magazine "PC World"): Customs agent: "What is that?" Ramon: "A personal computer" Customs agent: (scratches his head, puzzled, impatient) .... "Just move on..." Since I had no other modem to connect to (international phone calls were extremely expensive at the time - Later while at MIT I dialed extensively, long calls from Barquisimeto to Cambridge) my younger brothers had fun taking the other telephone extension, chirping and making all kinds of unnatural noises while I had a communications software running (*). The modem placed random characters on the screen. That is impossible today, with the modern modulation (quadrature, trellis) schemes. I had a queue of neighbors, relatives, visitors, wanting to see the novelty. I sold it to one of them. (*) A terminal emulator which IBM included for free, with source code, written in BASIC.

After high school, I worked several years for a baseball team in Venezuela ("Cardenales de Lara"). They had just purchased an electronic scoreboard (made in Venezuela, believe it or not, part of a Master's Thesis) and being the geeky type, I was appointed the operator. I was in charge not of the scores, but of the part that had rotating text: "Do as Fred Manrique! Deposit your savings in Banco de Lara" or otherwise made fun of the opposite team. At the heart of the system there was an Intel 8080. There was no floppy or anything (way too expensive) so I had to keep on retyping everything in the inter-innings. During run-scoring rallies, using the industrial grade (to put it mildly) loudspeakers, we played a song that drove the visiting team nuts. A few years later, a friend of mine, member of the team's board was at the Toronto Blue Jays stadium, when one of the American players (Lloyd Moseby) recognized his face but could not remember my friend's name, pointed at him and started dancing and singing the catchy melody. Roy told me: "Ramon, you are not going to believe this! People are singing your song in Canada!" Of course, the William Tell Overture (aka, the Lone Ranger theme) was also played often. Well, as often as we were winning... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EMMH0NBcLU Long story short: I got hooked on computers, could not decide whether I preferred the hardware or the software better -as a major- ended up in the US. http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/manrifr01.shtml http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/mosebll01.shtml =================================== Anecdote: It was quite coincidental. I met Fred at a time when sometimes he did not have enough money for cab fare, and my brother (motorcycle courier for the baseball team) drove him to a humble apartment, shared with a couple of teenage-ish baseball prospects. Little did we know that several years later, Manrique would be in the Big Leagues and I would be in the same city as him. First, he played for the St. Louis Cardinals: I was studying there and then he played for the Boston Red Sox while I lived in Cambridge. I kept on bumping into him at the Miami Airport AND he happened to buy an apartment back home, in the tower next to the one where my mom lives. Everybody recognized him because his was the only red (as in cardinal), convertible Mercedes in the city. =================================== In college I took a class titled "Computer Aided Analysis and Design of Electronic Circuits". Much to my amazement and delight, here in the US, if there is a topic that you particularly like, and there is no course that quite covers it, you may create your own course! That is a far cry from the dictatorial Latin American universities. The novelty of the software that I wrote was that instead of typing the components of the circuit ("R1", "Cshunt", "L35"), the user picked and dropped them. That is the natural way for electrical engineers to study circuits: drawing them. The Mac had just been invented (1985). I knocked off the Macintosh (Mac Paint) interface, with a palette that provided wires, capacitors, inductors, resistors, etc. To my discharge and before I am accused of plagiarism, my offense was seldom unique: Adobe stole the same idea for Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. At this point you are probably wondering: "What does all this have to do with the price of tea in China!!??" Well taken. Recall the dice simulation? How reality can be simulated at many levels? A professor used to tell us: "We are using values that facilitate the computations. Instead of a capacitance of 50 microFarads, we use 50 farads because the circuit only exists on a black board and your notebooks. If you young people can actually find a 50 Farad capacitor, it can probably lift a ship from the sea water". Well, after a couple decades, I decided to take a close look at the state of the art in simulation. My jaw dropped when I saw advances such as the ones below:

A lot of events and phenomena can be simulated. With every passing year, not only does the universe of things that can be successfully subjected to simulation grow, but the degree of the endeavor and thus the accuracy of the results improves. Let's use a dice as an example. The simplest simulation would be a one-liner program: Result = rnd(6); This assumes a perfect dice, which is not always the case. Read on... ============================================= Anecdote: When I was a child in a carnival back home, there was a "magician" with a table and some dice. After reading the rules posted behind him, I was sure that there was a way I could easily win. Soon, the fool in me was separated from his money. So, I decided to stick around and observe the M.O. of the enterprising guy closely. Sometimes, he would insert his hand inside his pocket and retrieve another pair of dice. These ones were a tiny bit flattened. You could see that the black dots that formed the numbers 3 and 4 were smaller (you probably know that the opposite sides of a dice always add up to 7, correct?) ============================================= Just to make the problem a thousand times harder, consider: - the difference in weight of the 6 faces. and a million times even harder - the effect of aerodynamics in those carved tiny holes as the dice spins around in mid-air and bounces off the table. For the impatient: With the advancements in science and technology, it turns out that simulating the fatal shot that hit president Kennedy -and thus discovering the precise trajectory of the projectile- is indeed a lot harder than my one-liner computer program above, but A LOT easier than the last dice simulation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality

No aggression, Glenn. Not at all. Shalom, -Ramon

And what reason would that be? You seem to be claiming that since [whatever] has not been solved yet, it necessarily implies that it is not solvable? Aren't you aware of the advances in science and technology that occur -literally- on a daily basis? -Ramon

"Who would have imagined in high school that I would be the one getting all the diplomas" - One of Carla Tortelli's classmates, bragging about her "education" in electrolysis, hair removal and bleaching, nail painting, etc. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0539881/ http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=cheers&episode=s03e24 Rumor has it that Mr. Von Pein was in awe.

Hi David: As I have told you in the past, I have a hard time figuring you out. You have made it clear that you are not a political person. You don't bother to vote, or seldom do. That leaves one possibility: you are a deeply religious person. Correct? You have stated in the past: "I just open it in any random page and find peace and solace in it" My reaction was: "What the heck? Is he talking about the Bible in a public forum?" Little did I know: You were referring to the Old Testament (Posner) or the New Testament (Bugliosi). Please, please, please ... dispel this doubt: You are a Bible Belt sort of fellow, aren't you? One of the reason I ask is because you have shown absolutely no respect for science, academia, university knowledge, etc. TIA -Ramon

Precisely. Where is the data? The specific methodology? Can other researchers download it from a web site? Can I? One thing I swear and guarantee about my humble investigation: Every single file that I use does not belong to me. They all belong to The People. Soon I will be posting them in a public web site. Dale Myers (and you, the reader) will have full access to my files. OTOH, the only ones who know the contents of Dale Myers' hard disk are himself and God. -Ramon

Pat: We can envision Luis Alvarez. After sweating bullets (intended) he was finally able to make some melons recoil. Some HSCA staff (behind Robert Blakey's back, obviously) comes dragging a large package. Luis Alvarez: "What is that?" HSCA: "Oh, a cadaver. Now you must drag it with your melon (or the cadaver's own head). Don't worry! Any minor movement will give you credit - Shall we say 3-5 inches? But it has to be real fast!": Luis Alvarez: "Let me guess: You want the cadaver sitting upright?" HSCA: "We are not that cruel. Laying horizontally is fine." Luis Alvarez (exasperated, between his teeth): "Anything else?" HSCA: "Yes. We saved the best for last. Instead of shooting at the center, your bullet trajectory must be tangential and leave a large gaping wound".: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKC_zBA50HA&feature=youtu.be Alvarez: "But that will destroy my jet effect!! The Jet Effect is my case!!!" Judge to Garrison: "If that was your case, you do not have a case". Alvarez kept on sweating profusely, mumbling "If I can pull this off, it is worth 3 Nobels!!!"

Enclosing chamber: Something like the pressure cookers used in the Boston Marathon tragedy. An enclosing chamber accepts 2 tiny holes, at the most. Do you folks know one case in which there was NO ENCLOSING CHAMBER? This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKC_zBA50HA&feature=youtu.be That explains the head moving nary 1 centimeter: The very first order of business for the bullet was to obliterate the roof of its otherwise cozy home. -Ramon

What happens when an irresistible force meets an unmovable object? Well, it depends. The red arrow is the resultant vector. Accountants will recognize it as the bottom line. It is the final result after all the affecting forces are added. The simplest case is Case 2. A person is shot in the abdomen. The absence of vector denotes that the subject did not move. Imagine a red arrow of length 0 and therefore the angle is undefined. Due to the presence of a hard cranium, most shots in the head belong to Case No. 1. See five examples here in all their gory glory: http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.php?showtopic=22351&p=316489 This case is equivalent to a person being hit by a bus. The poor sap flies away in the same direction as the bus. Notice how the bullet and the vector combine their strengths. Case 3 is a toughie. For starters: (•) Is is extremely rare. (•) It is extremely weak (notice the tiny red vector). Think salmons swimming upstream. (•) It depends on an enclosed chamber in order to prosper.