KING@KESTREL (03/08/83)
From: Richard M. King <KING at KESTREL> Implausible happenings include: 1) Ability of magic frequencies to refract light without some mention of the underlying physics in the open press. People enjoy hypothesizing that the military has scientists engaged in work that civilian scientists can't even touch. I have never had too much patience for such theories. Where do such scientists come from. I think I know personally a few people who might have been invited to join such a cabal if it existed. We can hypothesize that the military has figured out a way of isolating these people before middle school, but their recruitment rate would have to be better than 50% for the military to be so far ahead of civilian science. (They would have to have more top scientists than the rest of the countryu put together.) These people would have to train somewhere, and a secret would have to be kept by thousands of people without a single leak. And so on. A scientist looks at implications of a theory. I claim that the implications of a superscientific military cabal theory make it untenable. 2) "Some of the crew died". Even in the 1940's the military would have done animal experiments. Anyway, the system doesn't have to be put on an airplane for testing. 3) there are lots. I could be writing all day. I won't. Bye. Dick -------