Friday, August 26, 2011
It's a work in progress
It's still in the construction stages, but feel free to drop by The Sword and The Teapot and share a noggin of brew or two. Now open for business at the http://www.cosmic-token.com/forum
Monday, August 22, 2011
Every Ship Needs a Captain
Tom Beale, who would be something like Josephine's great nephew, has been churning out artwork for the new site. This splendid image with Townsend on deck is hot off his metaphorical press:
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Moral Compasses
Linda asks: "Now that Mikado has effectively taken over does that mean that he has the moral responsibility now to keep all of the discussions going.... as was the initial intent?"
Social behaviors such as adherence to a moral code are group driven: everyone in the group operates according to a moral compass that point to the same star. But different groups have different teachings and values, so I have to say that although I have no idea what his initial intent was when he bought the TTownsendBrown domain name and offered it up as as a forum host site. I do know that whatever Mikado does, he will do according to his own moral compass. Of that I have always been certain.
Social behaviors such as adherence to a moral code are group driven: everyone in the group operates according to a moral compass that point to the same star. But different groups have different teachings and values, so I have to say that although I have no idea what his initial intent was when he bought the TTownsendBrown domain name and offered it up as as a forum host site. I do know that whatever Mikado does, he will do according to his own moral compass. Of that I have always been certain.
Friday, August 19, 2011
Watch This Space
Those who wish to continue the recently interrupted forum discussions are invited to join Linda and Rose in the new place. It should be up and running in a few days, and I will be posting the new address here. In the mean time, feel free to use the comment space below for any messages you wish to pass along to the group at large.
Thursday, July 21, 2011
MI-5 and SOE Documents: Taking Down the Norwegian Heavy Water Program
Available as a free download from BACM's Paperless Archives
102 pages of British Intelligence MI5 - Special Operations Executive files on Knut Magne Haugland.
Knut Haugland (September 23, 1917 - December 25, 2009) was also known by the codenames N.7 and Primus. Haugland is best known for his role in Operation Gunnerside, which ended what the allies suspected to be a German nuclear bomb project. The 1943 destruction of the Nordsk Hydro plant in Telemark, Norway ended the manufacturing of heavy water for use in German projects. Heavy water can be used in one type of reactor, in which plutonium can be bred from natural uranium.
Sunday, July 17, 2011
Hold the presses! Scratch Stalin's Nazi Mutant Children
Unlike most of the speculation on the truth of the Roswell story, this one is based on demonstrable science. Assuming all statements are true, the only hole a skeptic might find would be in the chain of evidence. AFIK, Isotope ratios have been considered pretty reliable:
Test confirms Roswell debris is not from this earth
The test was done on tiny particles of aluminum ound at the crash site. Although it proves nothing, I should note that the Washington, D.C. address that Townsend used throughout the 1930s was in the same building as the Aluminum Association of America then at 900 19th St. NW.
Test confirms Roswell debris is not from this earth
The test was done on tiny particles of aluminum ound at the crash site. Although it proves nothing, I should note that the Washington, D.C. address that Townsend used throughout the 1930s was in the same building as the Aluminum Association of America then at 900 19th St. NW.
Friday, July 15, 2011
An Afternoon with George
I had the pleasure of hanging out and swapping stories with George this afternoon. George is one of the last living bridges to Townsend in the flesh. And I am one of the very few people who have been able to read Townsend's early history in the fragile pages of records themselves, so we had much to share with one another.
George spoke of his day spent touring Stanford campus with Townsend. Lunch was attended by several professors who, in his recollection and estimation, though they came from many disciplines, all seemed most differential to his father-in-law*. He also recalls that he had a startling interactive learning experience in the plant intelligence lab. Here he demonstrates a plant cringing in fear when he (mentally) zapped it with destructive intent. He said that Townsend's comment about the work in that particular lab,which he seemed quite cognizant of, was that they were "on the right track" but George felt as though he was saying they were still missing something and it was almost as if Townsend knew what it was.
And, in return, I tell him of having seen and read Townsend's own research action plan for1928 which included demonstrating his work via a model ship. The construction of the model and the demonstration my have been held first for Charles Kettering, the depression intervened and that it was almost four years later before the correspondence in his Naval records indicates that he wowed his NRL bosses with a demonstration of a boat that was somehow propelled without batteries. A couple of months later, Seaman Brown became Lt.jg Brown of the Naval Reserves Engineering Bureau and silent running was never heard from again until fifty years later when Ronald Regan and Tom Clancy made submarines fashionable reading.
Huh.
George never saw Townsend get angry. And he says that though Townsend's mind was always in science, he was also a man who absolutely reveled in the natural world. When I asked about his since of humor, what made him laugh, George tells me that most often it was something he saw in the way nature had constructed herself. I remember a vignette of him that Linda once shared.
Whenever Townsend had a cat or kitten who let him hold her upside down in his lap, he would play with her paws, and flex her toes, causing her to sheathe and unsheathe her claws. "Just look at that!" he would say."Isn't that wonderful?
George also said Townsend was also capable of being very boyish when he was teasing Josephine to get her attention. I like knowing that about him. And I like knowing that in return, Josephine had a favorite shtick with him, which she brought out when they were in a Naval town. "Sailors!" she would exclaim at the first sighting in (what I imagine to be) a tone of lascivious delight.
* And they ALL called him Dr. Brown.
George spoke of his day spent touring Stanford campus with Townsend. Lunch was attended by several professors who, in his recollection and estimation, though they came from many disciplines, all seemed most differential to his father-in-law*. He also recalls that he had a startling interactive learning experience in the plant intelligence lab. Here he demonstrates a plant cringing in fear when he (mentally) zapped it with destructive intent. He said that Townsend's comment about the work in that particular lab,which he seemed quite cognizant of, was that they were "on the right track" but George felt as though he was saying they were still missing something and it was almost as if Townsend knew what it was.
And, in return, I tell him of having seen and read Townsend's own research action plan for1928 which included demonstrating his work via a model ship. The construction of the model and the demonstration my have been held first for Charles Kettering, the depression intervened and that it was almost four years later before the correspondence in his Naval records indicates that he wowed his NRL bosses with a demonstration of a boat that was somehow propelled without batteries. A couple of months later, Seaman Brown became Lt.jg Brown of the Naval Reserves Engineering Bureau and silent running was never heard from again until fifty years later when Ronald Regan and Tom Clancy made submarines fashionable reading.
Huh.
George never saw Townsend get angry. And he says that though Townsend's mind was always in science, he was also a man who absolutely reveled in the natural world. When I asked about his since of humor, what made him laugh, George tells me that most often it was something he saw in the way nature had constructed herself. I remember a vignette of him that Linda once shared.
Whenever Townsend had a cat or kitten who let him hold her upside down in his lap, he would play with her paws, and flex her toes, causing her to sheathe and unsheathe her claws. "Just look at that!" he would say."Isn't that wonderful?
George also said Townsend was also capable of being very boyish when he was teasing Josephine to get her attention. I like knowing that about him. And I like knowing that in return, Josephine had a favorite shtick with him, which she brought out when they were in a Naval town. "Sailors!" she would exclaim at the first sighting in (what I imagine to be) a tone of lascivious delight.
* And they ALL called him Dr. Brown.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Don't let the name scare ya
Al Jazeera posts this thought-provoking opinion piece by Pablo Escobar: Why the US won't leave Afghanistan
Friday, July 8, 2011
Monday, July 4, 2011
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Today's News Roundup
Afghanistan drawdown
Homeland Security beef-up
Today's History Assignment:
Intelligence Support Activity
Homeland Security beef-up
Today's History Assignment:
Intelligence Support Activity
Monday, June 13, 2011
Brownmillerite
My writing partner for my other historical project had a strange dream in which she clearly saw the word "Browmil" written. Thinking that it is a message from the Collective Unconscious, I have been searching for variations on it.
Wicki thinks this "Brownmillerite" is an interesting one, although only a chemist is likely to know why. Anyway, I am posting this in the expectation that it means something to someone in this quantumly entangled world.
Wicki thinks this "Brownmillerite" is an interesting one, although only a chemist is likely to know why. Anyway, I am posting this in the expectation that it means something to someone in this quantumly entangled world.
Brownmillerite is a mineral with an interesting structure. Its chemical formula is Ca2(Al,Fe)2O5. It is named for Lorrin Thomas Brownmiller (1902-1988), chief chemist of the Alpha Portland Cement Company, Easton, Pennsylvania.
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