very very thanks for the valid and proper response.it is real that it is a boon as well as bane for the science and technology.i got a good response from you once again thanks signal snatcher.
During World War II the Germans invented an anti-shipping mine that exploded when it detected the natural magnetic field of a ship's hull overhead.? This mine could?sit on the sea floor so that it could not be?swept by normal methods?and posed a serious threat to Allied naval and merchant vessels.
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British scientists discovered that if?a ship's hull was demagnetised by passing a large coil with an AC current over the hull, the ship would not explode these "magnetic mines".? This process, called "degaussing" was experimented with on US?and UK warships but soon applied to all Allied ships.? US sailors were told that degaussing made a ship "invisible to magenetic mines", according to my great-uncle Ed who, though an Aussie, served in the US merchant marine and now lives in California.
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I think this is where the story came from.? Remember most people who served in the navies of that time had an education equivalent to primary (elementary) school Year 5 by today's standard.? It was war, there was a great deal of secrecy and, of course, this is when the rumour mill gets to work.
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At that time Einstein was busy at Princeton making contributions to the Manhatten Project (the Atom Bomb), but Tesla, great man though he had been, was in his declining years and had done little scientific work for years.? He had suffered a serious mental collapse some time before and was living on his friends' charity and seems to have had occasional delusional episodes.?
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Telsa still read the scientific literature and gave regular newspaper interviews during which he often?leaked more secrets than he should have.? Since his homeland was under German occupation he was technically an enemy alien.? In the UK he would have been placed, at least, under house arrest.? When he died the FBI seized his papers, not because he had invented some secret weapon, but because he was a nuisance to a nation at war.? His indiscretions seem to have been the source of many rumours, like this one.
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There was a reunion of the salors who had served in the USS Philadelphia in 2002.? A journalist from the Fortean Times asked them about the Philadelphia incident but they all agreed that the story was untrue.? I understand it wasn't much of a party.? They were all older guys and they faded early...
Stefan Trethan wrote:
I would say if there was something done it is gone wrong i expect.
You can't make money with something not working (and possibly being
dangerous).
They wouldn't tell us i reckon.
I really see not much positive use for this technology, we shouldn't need
to hide things, should we?
ST
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> There would be too much money to be made from its use. If it did exist,
> people would likely want to use it. As they found how valuable it was,
> they would
> use it more. It would quickly become "visible".
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> Rick Sparber
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> rgsparber@...
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> My Web Site:
> rgsparber.fifthprime.com
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