Theoretical WPAs from the world of fringe science.
Isomer, Hafnium, and induced gamma emission, all from Wikipedia
Hafnium bomb, from GlobalSecurity
Gamma-ray laser, from hafniumisomer.org
Gamma-ray weapons critique from the Union of Concerned Scientists
What to do with Midtown Manhattan, as reported in the NY Times.
“What if “eating local” in Shanghai or New York meant getting your fresh produce from five blocks away? And what if skyscrapers grew off the grid, as verdant, self-sustaining towers where city slickers cultivated their own food?”
The Montauk Project, assorted links, with thanks to Hugh Gallagher.
Wikipedia:
“The Montauk Project was alleged to be a series of secret United States government projects conducted at Camp Hero or Montauk Air Force Station on Montauk, Long Island for the purpose of developing powerful psychological warfare weaponry.”
Wikipedia:
“Camp Hero(also known as Fort Hero or the Montauk Air Force Station) was a military base at Montauk Point on the eastern tip of Long Island, New York.”
disinformation:
“You’ve got to love a story that is stranger than any fiction but claims to be the God’s honest truth. What could be more fabulously outrageous than the idea that your tax dollars have subsidized the demented experiments of an evil cabal of Navy brass, CIA shrinks, fugitive Nazis and Reptoid ETs?”
The disturbing and painful phenomenon of knowing that you have been targeted for harassment.
And assortment of sites related to Targeted Individuals, Electro Magnetic Attack, Voice to Skull, etc:
“Millions of people across this country and the globe are being targeted for harassment in various forms by a growing number of harassment groups. Citizens are being watched, followed, monitored and tortured; their private lives invaded, ruined, and many kept in virtual isolation from friends and family.”
“I, Thomas Daniel Clark, am writing this statement to request that congress and other agencies in the US and USA government check into and end all public, secret, super secret, shadow governmental programs, and agreements made by outsourcing, to use surveillance, mind control, directed energy weapons, chemical and nuclear technologies, weather control technologies, or any other type of technology and program which violates the constitutional rights and/or harms the health, happiness and privacy rights of any US and USA citizen, which includes myself, family and associates.”
“Tired of isolation? Looking to communicate with other Targeted Individuals?There are Millions of Victims out there. The trick is to find them!”
“Once charged the implants can output low frequencies that will transverse the interior of the body. The implants can also emit higher frequency which will migrate to the body’s surface and cause heating of the skin; this effect is often misunderstood and thought to be from the directed energy itself instead of from an internal source.”
The list of reasons to legalize it grows longer and sadder, as reported by the NY Times.
“ A massacre here two weeks ago has turned this once sleepy town into a ghostly emblem of the drug violence that has swept Mexico over the last year and a half, gutting local police forces, terrifying citizens and making it almost impossible for the authorities to assert themselves.”
Another sign of impending global doom, as reported by the NY Times.
“The bandit pulled his truck to the back of a Burger King in Northern California one afternoon last month armed with a hose and a tank.”
Just plain wondefully strange, as reported by the NY Times.
“The chemicals are kept apart in the plant tissue, but when the tissues are crushed (as when bitten by an insect) they mix and toxic mustard oil is produced.”
How that killer bee thing actually works, as reported by the NY Times.
“David Bradshaw has endured countless stings during his life as a beekeeper, but he got the shock of his career when he opened his boxes last month and found half of his 100 million bees missing.”
Another way to inspire revolution, as reported by the NY Times.
“It’s a short trip from the excesses of Beverly Hills to the despair of skid row. Few architects bother to make it.”
Desktop armageddon, as reported by BBC News.
“It was generated at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in New York, US, which smashes beams of gold nuclei together at near light speeds.”
No, really, fucking STAR QUAKE!!! as reported by BBC News.
“The flash of radiation on 27 December was so powerful that it bounced off the Moon and lit up the Earth’s atmosphere.”
Mirror mirror, as reported by NewScientist.
“Our universe may one day be obliterated or assimilated by a larger universe, according to a controversial new analysis.”
How to put a bomb in space, as reported by NewScientist.
“An enormous ring of superconducting magnets similar to a particle accelerator could fling satellites into space, or perhaps weapons around the world, suggest the findings of a new study funded by the US air force.”
Why you should buy land, as reported by Wired.
“If a small team of Silicon Valley millionaires get their way, in a few years, you could have a new option for global citizenship: A permanent, quasi-sovereign nation floating in international waters.”
Stupid, dangerous people who hang around together, as reported by Foreign Policy
“The gang got its start as a prison-league soccer team, but today the PCC’s word is law in São Paulo prisons, and if an inmate thinks otherwise, he might just lose his head—literally.”
More God RP, as reported by the NY Times.
“There are bacteria that blink on and off like Christmas tree lights and bacteria that form multicolored patterns of concentric circles resembling an archery target. Yet others can reproduce photographic images.”
CNN transcript of a story about Los Angeles’ Skid Row, as found on LA’s Homeless Blog.
“This is Skid Row, a 50 square block human dumping ground in downtown Los Angeles.”
They don’t eat brains, as reported by NewScientist.
“In a landmark court case, a US man has pleaded guilty to hijacking more than 400,000 computers and using them to attack commercial websites and bombard internet users with spam email and pop-up ads.”
