At 02:28 pm 27-02-05 -0500, Jed wrote: >Frank Grimer writes: > >> I have a suggestion - but you will probably find it far >> too Machiavellian. I believe, and I speak from real life >> experience, that the best way to get people's attention >> is to scare the shit out of them.
> I could frighten them if I could get their attention, You want people's attention? I'll give you people's attention. Repeat the Pons and Fleishmann experiment, only this time, instead of a one centimeter cube, use a 6 inch cube. ====================================================== In EXCESS HEAT, page 36, Beaudette writes, ------------------------------------------------------ Kevin Ashley was a graduate student of Pons in the chemistry department. He witnessed the scene the morning after the meltdown. "This one morning I walk in, the door is open and Pons and Fleischmann are in the room with Joe:.. The lab is a mess and there is particulate dust in the air. On this lab bench are the remnants of an experiment. The bench was one of those black top benches that was made of very, very hard material. There were cabinets under one end of the bench, but the experiment was near the middle where there was nothing underneath. I was astonished that there was a hole through the thing. The hole was about a foot in diameter. Under the hole was a pretty good sized pit in the concrete floor. It may have been as much as four inches deep. "What really surprised me," Ashley continued, "was that Stan and Martin Fleischmann had these looks on their faces as though they were the car that had just swallowed the canary. The:' were clearly not displeased with this mess, They were happy about what had happened. I was rather surprised by this, very surprised by this." ====================================================== I know how they felt. I felt exactly the same when I inspected GRC clad buildings which were falling apart. On one occasion at the high security Midland Bank Computer Building in Sheffield my glee was so manifest I had to explain to my minders that though they were attending a funeral I was celebrating a wedding. And if buildings crumble and grad students die - tough! When will Americans learn that success in things that really matter cannot be bought with dollars - it has to be bought with blood. If Brits hadn't learned the "blood, sweat toil and tears." lesson well in 1940s the Falklands would now be under the jackboot of an Galtieri dictatorship. You want press attention? I'll give you press attention. Start a research program to develop a CF bomb with the avowed intention of saving America by getting there before the terrorists do. You will get all the press attention you can handle - and then some. Probably get quite a lot of financial support from crazy gun lobby billionaires too, I shouldn't wonder. As for global warming, only overfed western liberals who've nothing better to worry about give a damn. Who cares whether the world lasts another hundred or another thousand years. We'll all be dead long before that anyway. Cheers ;-) Frank Grimer
