-- [ From: J. Kent Hastings * EMC.Ver #2.5.02 ] --
On July 19, Gerald Ollman and Robert Wayne, two researchers from the University of Maryland geophysics department were detained in Fort Meade, Maryland, apparently by agents of the National Security Agency, whilst taking measurements of the Earth's gravitational field.
So, the NSA has a microscopic black hole they're modulating with a fine particle stream, so gravity wave detectors can receive messages through the Earth using hyper-amplified optical data cubes. These messages could not be jammed by e-m waves (OK, terawatts at the receiver maybe). According to Communications Quarterly, such black hole events could arguably support a compressed real-time digital voice channel. This sounds like the "heavy hand" devices in the new Free Space science-fiction anthology. What? You haven't read it? Neither has anyone else, but when it finally comes out you'll get to read my story about blue helmeted Earth Union troops battling a neo-Confederate militia 20 years after the War of Annexation. Nanotech weapons, makeshift missiles, home-brew spacecraft. An important part of a balanced breakfast. Kent -- "Put pages for your business on the World Wide Web, just $5 per month!" J. Kent Hastings -- zeus@pinsight.com -- http://www.pinsight.com/~zeus/