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Post #80…No Common Sense…Example #68
NASA's Apollo Blues * The original seven pilots were culled from a batch of military test pilots that had the "Right Stuff". * Before the first Apollo manned flight ever cleared the launching pad, eleven astronauts died in accidents. Grissom, Chaffee, and White were...
Post #79…No Common Sense…Example #67
Hand Washing * In 1848, Dr. Semmelweis, a graduate of the prestigious University of Vienna Medical School, introduced a revolutionary idea while assisting in the Vienna Obstetrical Clinic: he required medical students to wash their hands in chlorine water before...
Post #78…No Common Sense…Example #66
Approval Ratings * A recent survey resulted in an 11% Approval Rating for Congress. What's going on? If any of us had an Approval Rating of 11% we would be unemployed! We trusted the members of Congress, that we voted in, with the future of America. What has gone...
Post #77…No Common Sense…Example #65
Antigravity * T. Towsend Brown was jubilant when he returned from France in 1956. The soft-spoken scientist had a solid clue which could lead to fuel-less space travel. His saucer-shaped discs flew at speeds of up to several hundred miles per hour, with no moving...
Post #76…No Common Sense…Example #64
Water-Powered Engine * In 1979 a New Zealand inventor by the name of Archie Blue astounded the world, or at least that part of the world that was paying attention, with an invention that would allow any car with a gasoline engine to be fueled solely by water. He was...
Post #75…No Common Sense…Example #63
The LaForce Engine * Edward LaForce struggled for years in Vermont to get backing to perfect his amazing engine. Ignored for years by the automotive industry, Edward and Robert, his brother, survived on the contributions of several thousand individuals who believed in...
Post #74…No Common Sense…Example #62
America's Achilles' Heel * Achilles' Heel...vulnerable or susceptible spot. * Basic Truths 1. A country's most valuable resource is its people. 2. To compete in a global economy, fueled by super technology, a country needs to have a superbly educated and healthy...
Post #73…No Common Sense…Example #61
DO WE NEED A NEW DEFINITION FOR COMMON SENSE? * By the latter part of the twelfth century (i.e., 1186), greed, corruption, lawlessness. political intrigue, abuse of power, and total immorality had driven the Japanese empire into a state of demoralization. Sound...
Post #72 …No Common Sense…Example #60
SUPPRESSION Profit & Power versus Quality of Life * Nikola Tesla and Henry Moray were inventors who actually designed and built machinery that tapped into the free energy of space and harnessed it to drive electric motors, operate radios, and light electric light...