The Infamous Comet Airliner Was Destroyed By Vibrational Energy - Foreshadowing - Maybe?

Around the dawn of the jet age, an airliner was produced that ran on jet engines, it was the first of its kind, and its performance completely blew out of the water propeller driven aircraft in Airliners. Its name was the Comet. Unfortunately, aerospace engineers and scientists did not fully understand the issues with harmonic resonance and vibrational energy at the time.

The jet engines of the Comet caused the airliner to break apart in midair, and there were several accidents until scientists figured out what was going on. Harmonic resonance and vibrational energy is real, and it can be a good friend, or it can be a common enemy in engineering.

Speaking of man's best friend; some folks at GA Tech calculated the number of oscillations needed for a wet dog to shake in order to dry its fire after it's been wet. Their calculations came out to be; "For a Labrador retriever, this turns out to be 4.3 Hz." Unfortunately, as size increased so too did the frequency needed to perform the infamous "drying shake" by dogs, infamous because if you are ever around one while conducting this activity, technique, and operation, much of that water goes everywhere, including on you too! (as you already know). [1].

Now then, I'd like to switch directions in this intellectual dialogue to include a potential enemy of mankind, actually all the species living on the surface of the planet, and that would be a large asteroid or comet hitting the Earth. Many have reasoned that we need a planetary defense system, and I completely agree; a plan to shoot down, destroy, divert, or deflect a killer asteroid or comet headed for Earth. Some have suggested a kinetic kill shot missile, and others have suggested using nuclear weapons strapped to an asteroid to blow it out of the sky.

However, a real deadly asteroid which was several kilometers wide would take a huge amount of nuclear weapons to blow apart. However, if we used vibrational energy or harmonic resonance to break the ionic bonds, then we could hit with a very small weapons to break it apart and send the pieces in all different directions, so that it could not reform again due to the large gravitational mass. Perhaps we should all consider this.

References Cited:

1.-The arXIv Blog at MIT - Blog Post (October 20, 2010) entitled; "Physicists Discover Universal "Wet-Dog Shake" Rule - How fast should a dog rotate its body to dry its fur?"

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Lagrange Points - Best Place to Refuel Space Ships and Transportation Vehicles

Perhaps, you have heard about Lagrange points. These are the points at which gravity equilibrium occurs between two bodies - for instance, between the sun and the earth there is a point where the gravity is equal to zero or between the moon and the earth. There are also several other points which turn out to have equilibriums. Many of these points are quite stable, but they are not all stable. Depending on the size of the planets, or the amount of gravity they exert, the points may be more stable or less stable.

Now then, did you also know that in these Lagrange equilibrium areas is cosmic dust which has ended up there and it floats around without being pulled in any one direction - and did you know that we can tell from our space telescopes, spectrometers, and radio telescopes the type of materials, elements and gases which are parked at these Lagrange points, trapped there within the equilibrium area, what they are made of? Well, we almost have the capacity to know that and once we do, this might indeed help us very much.

Consider if you will that there may be hydrogen gas clouds, or various radioactive materials in these locations. Maybe these materials and elements can be used for fuel for space flight. It's like a free gas station. Glide in, collect the gas you need for fuel, find a way to jettison yourself out without igniting whatever else is there, and then fire up your rockets again and be off.

Since each planet in our solar system has these Lagrange points and there will be various types of gases at each one, all we have to do is separate the gases out which we need, and they can become our fuel. Recently, our think tank posed to this question to an astronomer, and a lover of science fiction, and he said that concept sounds intriguing. So, maybe we need to do some research on this and figure it out. Indeed I hope you please consider this.

What's Working in Education? Aprendiz in San Paulo, Brazil

By E. Alana James E. Alana James
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As can be seen all over the world, many neighborhoods in inner cities in Brazil face decay, and loss of belief in their schools. This is not the case in San Paulo, Brazil however where citizens are finding their educational system is now integrated with family life. This is the work of The Associacao Cidade Escola Aprendiz (City School Apprentice Association). Unifying over 30 partners, who at various times come in to the community and gather with school children and their families, the organization works to revitalize neighborhoods by bringing cultural events to families near their homes, often in school buildings. Known as the neighborhood school project, in development since 2007 they have to their credit: the prevention of closing of neighborhood schools, doubling enrollment in schools that were slated to close, and recuperating old building structures to make auditoriums for neighborhood theater (Teatro da Villa). The theater alone has given more than 150 performances and served almost 4,000 students.

Neighborhood schools, or full-service community schools as they are known in the United States, are especially useful in neighborhoods challenged by difficulties due to poor economic conditions, older buildings in need of reworking, and often loss of community connectedness. Often built through a partnership between public schools and a local nonprofit, full-service community schools offer programs including the arts, sports, language classes, and health clinics. The model has many positive economic attributes including: sustained use of capital resources, enhanced programming, bringing extra funds into the school district through the nonprofit, as it encourages community involvement and volunteerism. Professor Kantor from the Harvard business school considers the neighborhood school a model for local development and community building, and pursued the subject in a recent meeting with President Barack Obama in the United States.

The example set by Aprendiz is a good one. Since 1977 they have published 16 books, produced three films and one CD, using methodologies developed by the organization that supports community educational experiences throughout Brazil. Their model has been so well received by the Brazilian government that they were recently credited by the Ministry of Education with being a foundational source in a countrywide program to replicate a neighborhood school model in 5,000 schools. 2010 was slated for an additional expansion to another 5,000 schools, bringing the number of neighborhoods impacted by community building-school enhancing events to 10,000. Recognized by UNESCO and UNICEF in 2004 as an educational model to be replicated worldwide, Aprendiz brings hope, artistic creativity, and revitalization to neighborhoods through education.

Would you like to learn more about how your voice can make a difference to the future of education? If you are a student, a parent, an educator or any other type of concerned party who may want to pursue the conversation or host strategy meetings with others, join the network by registering with http://www.futureofeducationproject.net/ and we will keep you in touch with the group as it grows. Dr. E. Alana James, writes on and facilitates participatory action research studies where people research their own particular dilemma is an effective way to address complex issues that otherwise can cause despair. Through PAR, local adaptations can be implemented and evaluated simultaneously. This strategy allows for a world of individuals to work together through the net to re-design education.

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New Unmanned Underwater Vessel Needed For the US Navy - I'll Explain

The number of new Naval Submarines in the world is drastically increasing, so much so that it's becoming a real problem. There is more to keep track of and more nations testing our naval bases and infringing upon our waters, seeing just how close they can get without detection. Okay so, we know something needs to be done, but it does not really make sense to chase each one of them around with a submarine crew of high-tech Navy sailors, we have enough to do keeping peace in the world, maintaining readiness, and chasing pirates.

So, let's make a bunch of UUVs or Underwater Unmanned Vehicles which can match the speed of any of the submarines of any of the other Navies in the world. Let's make them so the units can attach themselves quietly to the enemy submarine using high powered magnets which stay powered up by using the relative water flow. The UUVs will have a giant rudder on them for their size which will make the submarines steering extremely difficult, and cause it to move through the water very slowly from the extra drag.

If the Submarine surfaces then the little UUV will merely unhook itself and hang back a mile or so, while the submarine crew inspects their sub and finds nothing wrong. Then once it dives again the little pain-in-the-butt UUV will re-attach and do the same thing. And the enemy Navy sub won't know what the heck is wrong. Finally, after the enemy sub heads for home and gets within 50-miles the little UUV will send an electro-magnetic pulse into sub, rendering all its electronic useless. Then it can detach undetected and swim away.

The foreign Navy will have to tow their sub into port crippled, and we can all have a big laugh at the Starbucks down the street from our research center. What do you say boys, I have a couple of designs in mind. Ah, ha ha, ha ha! Two can play the game of cat and mouse, and we intend to win! Next time an enemy sub breaks down, guess who?

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