All: I did get a chance to go with spouse to the lake -- and our little boat. A little cool for boating so we just admired the view.

Don't forget the value of R & R.

By the way -- emergency at work again!

But the R & R and searching the Richard Hoagland's Enterprise site for papers makes today worth it, even if I won't get any sleep tonight.

If you didn't know Richard Hoagland's enterprise began somewhere near 1986. He was able to make a convincing argument for a message from a possible extraterrestrial source on Mars -- the relationship between possible artifacts in Cydonia. To understand this, you must think like an individual who wishes to communicate with another without knowing the language, or being able to see or interact with the individual in common space or time -- the essence of the CETI project.

For the first time, I was able to read what he said years ago, and I am beginning to understand why he is now the way he is. You should all go to his site, if you are interested in some interesting comments about the mysterious world around us. Getting more mysterious everyday.

http://www.enterprisemission.com

I cannot vouch for the validy of R Hoagland's comments, but I am reading with great interest the articles he has posted -- many of which come from hihgly legitimate sources.

Currently I am investigating whether Whittaker really did describe Maxwell's original quaternion equations of electromagnetics in his 1909 ( approx ) articles, or the more conventional Maxwell's equations we know that Heaviside created -- because he thought Maxwell's quaternion formulation was to unweildy ( sp? ) . The claim by Tom Beardon is that Maxwell's quaternion formulation created the foundation of what TB/RH call 'Hyperdimensional Physics' -- now quite popular in current physics circles. If so, this would have been more than 100 years ago, and Whittaker's articles 80 years ago. It seems that Whittaker's 1909 papers could be very important even now in undersanding the 'Zero point' energy. I will let you know if I can convince myself that T Beardon is correct. His work is frustratingly hard to understand because there are big holes in his logic from start to conclusion. I think he knows some of the conclusion, and is trying hard to 'reverse engineer' the logic that created it. But -- E. T. Whittaker was a world-class theoretical physicist -- almost at a par with Einstein. He I can follow.

G'Nite all!

1 ) WJC defused the Iraq crisis - yet again.

2 ) The US dollar is rising.

WJC stopped the air raid within an hour of reaching Iraq, and now says he will not attack -- as long as Saddam allows inspections without conditions. They act like they are following a script that is in a time loop. At least until there is an accident/incident of some kind related to this or future military alerts. All Saddam need to do is keep pulling our strings and wait for us to screw up.

All: Any idea on how Saddam knew we were within 1 hour of attacking Iraq? Sounds like there is a security leak somewhere.

http://expage.com/page/howlingonee

in the Know. So why is Von Finck the only European honcho that is

( as far as we know ) buying gold stocks hand over fist? Surely, if all those

in the loop would be buying mining shares, the share prices would not

continue to be at their decimated levels. Yes, we've had SOME improvement,

but not enough to make me think that they & their cousins are all buying.

Humans are greedy. Those in the loop could simply not have this much

cohesiveness to ( all ) forego buying for the good of the plan. Could they?

Anyone?......

Either this situation is real or it is a fraud. Either way, to use it for political play is disgusting. Then again, what else is new....

As an unrelated aside... I happen to be by a Schwab office the other day and noticed that someone had been looking up a lot of different gold stocks on the real time terminal in the office. I guess people don't realize that there is a 'history' button on them there machines......:- ) )

It's always fun to see someone elses poker hand...

All: R. Dornbush is an insider-type academic economist who should know. Anyone know when Carnival time is? Could be a real blow-out this year.

http://www.yahoo.com.sg/headlines/151198/technology/911100600-1115043020.technology.html

Did you all know that a $600 million satellite bit the dust during the recent Perseid shower? I think that was much less impressive than this one, which is due to the earth crossing the path of a comet trail. I don't like this much at all -- because comets often have rather large pieces in them. Hope we will not have a close encounter of the ? kind with a large piece of XX- Tuttle, or whatever degenerated into the Leonid shower. Apparently some asteroids are easy to miss until they are very close. No -- I don't think you have to 'duck and cover' this time -- I'm talking about 33, 66 etc years from now -- on the next orbital cycle.

LGB -- still think the Leonid shower is harmless?

For ROR, James and others:

As to the parasite comparison, let us not forget symbiotic relationships. A parasite consumes and gives nothing in return to its host. As a side note, most parasites add insult to injury by disposing of their toxins in to their host. A symbiotic relationship is one where both benefit, such as a bird that eats the ticks and fleas off of a larger animal. The larger 'host' benefits by the removal of the lice and the bird gets to eat. Now, you can all extrapolate to the larger economy.

I haven't tried it, other than getting the address.

http://www.northernlight.com/index.html

Fuzzy logic or image comparing computers to more closely mimick human though processes -- possibly even self-aware computers.

There will always be individuals who benefit the most, and those that do not -- but as you say, more will benefit than we can realize now, just as no one thought the industrial revolution would make life better for as many as it did -- given that its beginnings appeared to cause the virtual enslavement of a 'working class'. But -- that didn't last. The information will affect far more individuals than we realize.