From: wolfone@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Patrick Chester)
Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy
Subject: Re: Dr. Beter: Prophet of Doom!!!
Date: 19 Dec 92 01:13:34 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

In article <BzB2K2.11x@news.cso.uiuc.edu> met48546@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Marc E. Talbot) writes:
]lpb@florida.swdc.stratus.com (Len Bucuvalas) writes:
]
]>In article <sf_dKF200iV0I45FJT@andrew.cmu.edu> jg4j+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joshua Galiotto) writes:
]>>
]>>Well okay, I admit the the title's a bit melodramatic- but hey, I AM
]>>talking about Dr. Beter aint I?!
]>>
]>>Here's are questions: is Dr. Beter (of Audio Letter fame, of course)
]>>still alive? And if so, what's the guy got to say for himself now that
]
]>No...he died, I think, in 1984.
]
]>>history has turned out so drastically different than he and his
]>>"oh-so-knowledgable" sources had forecasted? I hope he's still alive.
]>>I'd be interested in hearing his half-assed explanation of things (not
]>>to mention rubbing a bit of history in his face.)
]>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^???
]
]>Pk...so please point out for us all where his history is wrong.
]>Please include references so we can back up your stements
]>ourselves?
]
]You don't seriously belive the guck about particle weapons
]on the moon, do you?  Or the battle which he claims took place there?

Correct me if I'm wrong but would a particle beam cause a huge fireball in
the sky if it hit a satellite? I have doubts because I don't know where the
energy would come from to make such an explosion. 

]Think about the logistics of covering something like that up (aside
]from the fact that technology which he describes is simply
]not possible in a number of cases, and unrealistic in others - coming from
]a physics major!).  You would need to buy the silence of

Yeah, I liked the "electro-gravitic propulsion" part. It's so great to see
an early anime otaku speak. :)

I also wonder how the Russians figured out how to make a beam of such power
and intensity that you could successfully use it to destroy targets over
one light second away. I.e., how do you compensate for loss of beam intensity
and the inevitable diffraction of the beam as it propagated across space.
Even in a perfect vacuum, any beam will lower in intensity by the square
of the distance. I am trying to remember high school physics so please correct
any mistakes I make.

]1.  People who designed described particle weapons.
]2.  People who built particle weapons.
]3.  People who installed particle weapons.
]4.  People who designed new space technology required.
]5.  People who built new space technology.
]6.  People who flew in said craft.
]7.  Families of all of the above.
]I'm assuming here that someone has posted his letter about the "Battle
]of the Harvest Moon," which describes a battle US and Soviet forces
]fought on the moon.  It got posted to sci.physics a while back, and
]was the subject of much amusement.  If it hasn't been posted here, I'll
]try and dig it up.

Yes, I was wondering why the radiation shielding of our "laser beam base" 
didn't stop the heavy neutrons from the Russian particle beams. You know,
the shielding needed to protect people living on the Moon from the ravages
of periodic solar flares? The Moon has no magnetic field to deflect the
particles from flares; nor does it have an atmosphere to protect people
living there. Questions like these popped in my mind as I read the accounts
of the Battle of Harvest Moon. Not seeing any possible explanation made me
doubt the info even more.

]>>
]>>
]>>Until next post, God willing, this is Dr. Galiotto..
]>>
]>>...waitaminnit! I'm not a doctor!...
]>>
]>>
]>>Beware the particle beam cannons of the moon! And swim not in America's
]>>ponds, lest ye klunk your head off a Soviet nuclear warhead! 
]
]>Yo Dude! I already glow in the dark due to nuke contamination of
]>the food chain!
]
]>Dr. Len ;^)
]
]>--
]>*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*@*
]>The accountability of government has gone to the point where the very
]>use of the law is the instrument of illegality.
]>		-- Ralph Nader @ Harvard Law School, 1/15/92


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