Comments on: Wednesday Night #1378

By: Diana Thébaud Nicholson

Diana Thébaud Nicholson — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:41:59 +0000

Oil drops on US demand fears
(FT) Oil fell in volatile trade on Thursday, shedding half of Wednesday’s $5 rally as worse-than-expected economic data from the US stoked fears of slowing demand.
But the reaction was not decisive. Prices clung on to some of Wednesday’s gains, when a sharp drop in gasoline stocks sparked a surprise rally. Many dismissed that rally as unsustainable, arguing that it was exacerbated by short covering. However, Deutsche Bank’s strategists were more confident, asserting that the recent fall in commodity prices was set to continue. Weaker oil demand in the US and Europe combined with an increase in oil production from Saudi Arabia would bring crude prices back towards $100 a barrel by next year, they said.

By: Walt

Walt — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:41:15 +0000

Popular Mechanics - “World’s Biggest Science Project Aims to Unlock ‘God Particle’
Man’s technology has exceeded his grasp. - ‘The World is not Enough’
Zealous Nobel Prize hungry Physicists are racing each other and stopping at nothing to try to find the supposed ‘Higgs Boson’(aka God) Particle, among others, and are risking nothing less than the annihilation of the Earth and all Life in endless experiments hoping to prove a theory when urgent tangible problems face the planet. The … CERN new Large Hadron Collider(LHC) is the world’s most powerful atom smasher that will soon be firing subatomic particles at each other at nearly the speed of light to create Miniature Big Bangs producing Micro Black Holes, Strangelets and other potentially cataclysmic phenomena.
CERN physicist Alvaro De Rújula in the BBC LHC documentary, ‘The Six Billion Dollar Experiment’, incredibly admits quote, “Will we find the Higgs particle at the LHC? That, of course, is the question. And the answer is, science is what we do when we don’t know what we’re doing.” And CERN spokesmodel Brian Cox follows with this stunning quote, “the LHC is certainly, by far, the biggest jump into the unknown.”
The CERN-LHC website Mainpage itself states quote: “There are many theories as to what will result from these collisions,…” Again, this is because they truly don’t know what’s going to happen. They are experimenting with forces they don’t understand to obtain results they can’t comprehend. If you think like most people do that ‘They must know what they’re doing’ you could not be more wrong. Some people think the same thing about medical Dr.s but consider this by way of comparison and example from JAMA: “A recent Institute of Medicine report quoted rates estimating that medical errors kill between 44,000 and 98,000 people a year in US hospitals.” The second part of the quote reads “…but what’s for sure is that a brave new world of physics will emerge from the new accelerator,…” A molecularly changed or Black Hole consumed Lifeless World? The end of the quote reads “…as knowledge in particle physics goes on to describe the workings of the Universe.” These experiments to date have so far produced infinitely more questions than answers but there isn’t a particle physicist alive who wouldn’t gladly trade his life to glimpse the “God particle”, and sacrifice the rest of us with him.
This quote from National Geographic exactly sums this “science” up: “That’s the essence of experimental particle physics: You smash stuff together and see what other stuff comes out.”
Find out more about that “stuff” below;
http://www.risk-evaluation-forum.org/anon1.htm
http://www.lhcdefense.org/
http://www.lhcconcerns.com
http://www.SaneScience.org/
http://www.LHCFacts.org

By: Robert J. Galbraith

Robert J. Galbraith — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:30:21 +0000

I am doing an article on saving a giant. [see photos] That is the American Elm in Philipsburg that has stood for 280 years. For the past week I have been trying to contact tree experts with a knowledge of Dutch Elm Disease as the tree has those symptoms. About a third of the canopy has withered. I have an expert arriving in Philipsburg tomorrow to inspect the tree. So by tomorrow we may know if it can survive or if the ax falls. The inspector is showing up in town in respect for the tree and its history. I have met two great people who love their jobs as arboralists, including Jesse the inspector and Bruno Paquet, of the City of Montreal. They ... are very inspiring. I have spent a few sleep-deprived nights knowing that this tree may fall. A sort of guilt thing about not noticing it earlier and acting on it. But the disease struck so fast. As long as I try to get the word out and let people know the situation and hopefully act on saving it, then I can sleep better. After all the topics I have covered in my lifetime, I never thought I would fall victim to Stockholm Syndrome - especially over a tree! But it's one hell of a tree!!! Rob