Like all space shuttle mission, theAtlantis' 1990 flight, dubbed STS-38, had an official patch. It featured two images of a shuttle orbiter, with a white version on top and a dark version below -- acknowledging the fact that a classified payload was on board. "But NASA has never disclosed that there was also a secret patch designed for this mission," the Space Review'sRoger Guillemette and Dwayne A. Day note. On this emblem, "the shuttles were inverted, with the black orbiter — the classified mission — on top, and the white orbiter on the bottom. It was an inside joke by the all-military crew about the true nature of their mission." And it's not the only secret emblem Guillemette and Day have uncovered. DANGER ROOM regulars know that the classified world employs all kinds of exotic symbols, to commemorate their missions. Guillemette and Day tie about a dozen patches to black space launches -- far-out emblems, featuring rocket-borne pigs and snakes encircling the planet. Continue reading "Secret Space Shots' Hidden Emblems" »  If you're a regular Danger Room reader, the front page of today's Science Times is going to look awfully familiar. Over December and January, we all scoured the web -- and our own personal collections -- for the military's most awesomely bad morale patches. Aftertwelve installments, and hundreds of truly ludicrous insignias, we voted on the very best one. The winner: the legendary "Death Wears Bunny Slippers" patch, showing the Grim Reaper in his comfy clothes, triggering nuclear armageddon. The series was inspired by Trevor Paglen's remarkable book, I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon's Black World. (In fact, Trevor himself thew up some of his favorite awesomely bad patches up on the site.) The same book inspired William Broad, in today's Times.
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Aether Research In Greek, 'Aithen' means to burn or shine The word 'aethere' was used by Romans and Greeks to mean the upper air which they regarded as pure and connected to a Sun that was driven through this aethere across the sky during the day, hence the relation to shining and burning (thus luminiferous Aether is nothing more than a distributed physical medium permeating the entire universe, endowing it [space] with measurable physical qualities H. A. Lorentz formulated an aether based version of special relativity, known as Lorentz Ether Theory MATTER IS MADE OF WAVES " The material Universe is solely made out of Aether "  The Greek derived word Aether is defined in the Webster Universal Dictionary as a: "hypothetical medium, supposed to fill space, by means of vibrations in which light and other forms of radiation are transmitted". Up until the latter part of the last century the 'Ether' theory was an established scientific fact. The Fundamental Discovery of How Shape Modifies Undifferentiated Universal Aether Into Electricity, Magnetism, and Nuclear Forces |
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