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What does Los Alamos have to do with the Manhattan Project?

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What does Los Alamos have to do with the Manhattan Project? What are the importance of Los Alamos?

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that's where it took place

Containment percent of the Los alamos fire?

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Anyone know how contained the fire in Los alamos is?

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I live in Europe, but I've visited Los Alamos and driven through the area. It is beautiful and there are a lot of people living in that area. I pray they will be safe and no harm come to them. They are lovely people!

If a price of a bus pass from Alburquerque to Los Alamos is set at x dollars, a bus company takes in a monthly

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If a price of a bus pass from Alburquerque to Los Alamos is set at x dollars, a bus company takes in a monthly revenue of R(x) = 1.5x - 0.01x^2 (in thousands of dollars). a) Estimate the change in revenue if the price rises from $50 to $53. b) Suppose that x = 80. How will revenue be affected by a small increase in price? Explain using linear approximation

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This looks like a homework problem. You will find that no one here wants to do them for you. Sort of an unwritten policy.

Summary of Los Alamos by Joseph Kanon?

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I need a summary of some details in this book, it isnt on sparknotes and have a paper due tomorrow at 10am =/. I have to describe 1.Relationship between General Groves and Robert Oppenheimer 2.Security procedures at Los Alamos 3.Ways in which people on the site coped with or resisted the project’s secrecy 4.Ethical dilemmas and consequences of dropping the bomb So anything on any of those would really help me out, THANKS!

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Too many questions here is a summary or you can click on this http://www.bookstove.com/Historical-Fiction/Los-Alamos-by-Joseph-Kanon-A-Review.145635 In a dusty, remote community of secretly constructed buildings and awesome possibility, the world's most brilliant minds have come together. Their mission: to split an atom and end a war. But among those who have come to Robert Oppenheimer's "enchanted campus" of foreign-born scientists, baffled guards, and restless wives is a simple man, an unraveler of human secrets -- a man in search of a killer. It is the spring of 1945. And Michael Connolly has been sent to Los Alamos to investigate the murder of a security officer on the Manhattan Project. But amid the glimmering cocktail parties and the staggering genius, Connolly will find more than he bargained for. Sleeping in a dead man's bed and making love to another man's wife, Connolly has entered the moral no-man's-land of Los Alamos. For in this place of discovery and secrecy, hope and horror, Connolly is plunged into a shadowy war with a killer -- as the world is about to be changed forever . . . Praise for Los Alamos “A historical drama of excitement and high moral seriousness . . . The power of Los Alamos builds effectively, and its payoff is the best kind of surprise, one that makes you slap your forehead and exclaim ‘But of course!’” --The New York Times “It’s a love story inside a murder mystery inside perhaps the most significant story of the twentieth century: the making of the atomic bomb . . . A stunning achievement.” --The Boston Globe "A well-plotted novel that effortlessly dissolves real people and events into an elegant and moving thriller."

What are the Los Alamos laboratories famous for?

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I need to find out for a paper. I looked around and I'm still not sure.

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The atomic bomb. Most of their activities now are as classified as the Manhattan project was in the 40's. So you are going to have a deuce of a time getting particulars. Why not see if they have a PR person who can give you some unclassified information about their activities? Understand that men in black suits wearing sunglasses are going to follow you for a while afterward. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Alamos_National_Laboratory

Why is most of the information on the Manhattan Project still topsecret today, like the Los Alamos laboratory?

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After watching a History Channel special on the Manhattan Project and the facilities at Oak Ridge, Tennesee, why are mountains of data on the experiments, testing, people involved, possible accidents, etc, still top secret and classified by the government to this day, over 60 years later when most of the government workers involved and scientists involved are dead?

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three little letters that the government loves. C Y A

What is the best book to read to learn about the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos?

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This is for an adult, not a child.

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"The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Richard Rhodes, and its companion book "Dark Sun" (same author). Both give detailed explanations of the science, politics and everything else of the early atomic age. If you want some of the other information about Los Alomos in particular, read the memoirs of Phillip Morrison, Hans Bethe and the incomparable Richard Feynman.

What did Robert oppenheimer served as what director at Los alamos?

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What he served as what director of what first symphony orchestra in New Mexico what at los what alamos. What?

What's the latest news on the Los Alamos nuclear facility, and the nearby wildfire?

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Is that fire out? Yeah the media reports the "worst case scenario". But when I watched it, there were 12,500 people evacuated from the town, and the national guard was there, along with others, ready to douse the barrels with something to cool them (some type of foam spray for heat), so that seems pretty serious to me. I'm glad there on it.

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Japanese media also said "nothing to worry about" after the tsunami/earthquake that damaged Fukushima it is scary

Los Alamos National Laboratory hasn't been fully accounted for in at least 13 years?

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WASHINGTON — A stockpile of plutonium and other nuclear weapons materials stored at Los Alamos National Laboratory hasn't been fully accounted for in at least 13 years, a government audit has found. The Energy Department's inspector general, Gregory Friedman, said he's concerned because the lack of complete inventories means that workers at the northern New Mexico nuclear weapons lab likely haven't physically accounted for all of the material in more than a decade. "The capability to deter, detect and assist in the prevention of theft or diversion of this material is critical," Friedman wrote in the report made public Wednesday. Yet, he said, "We were unable to find anyone with knowledge or documentation of the last time the vault was completely inventoried." See link - http://www.lcsun-news.com/latest/ci_6881581 Question - What are your thoughts ?

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Fairly typical for any government operation.

Can people visit Los Alamos National Laboratory?

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Is there a visitors' center that people can visit? I'm doing research on it for a school project but I can't find anything on their website (http://www.lanl.gov/) that says whether people can visit it. But, I have found special programs for students and educators that occur inside the laboratory, so security must not be an issue in certain parts of the building. So, if anyone can please help me figure out if there is a visitors' center in the laboratory, that would be great. Thanks.

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Access to lab property by other than security-cleared lab employees is prohibited except for officially designated occasions such as government inspections or cleared employees on outside work contracts. Even retired former employees such as myself can only visit the general areas on special occasions, since our security clearances expired with our active employment. There are indeed visitor's centers for those who want to see public areas, and there is a museum and other historical areas that are very informative. You could start a more specific inquiry there: http://www.google.com/search?q=Los+Alamos+chamber+of+commerce&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8 .-

Was it possible to live 17 miles away from ground zero where they set off the test atomic bomb in Los Alamos?

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My mother knows a man who said he lived 17 miles away from ground zero and I'm trying to figure out if that's even physically possible. I'm skeptical myself, but can't find any info about the actual testing facility and outlying homes. Does anyone else know?

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Of course it's possible. Hell the Nevada test site is only 45 miles from downtown Las Vegas. That being said, the bomb wasn't tested at Los Alamos, it was tested near Alamogordo, WAYYY out in the middle of the La Jornada del Muerto desert (it's near the present day White Sands Missile Test Range. He would have been living in an EXTREMELY small, desert, barren community, but it is possible I suppose. The initial radiation burst at that distance wouldn't have amounted to much. The fallout on the other hand...wow, if he lived northeast of the site, he would have gotten roasted alive. What is a bit suspicious about his claim is that there was an observation bunker with Gen. Casey in it at exactly 17 miles away (and trust me, if had the clearance to be at that bunker, he wouln't be talking about it). Also, if he said Los Alamos instead of of Socorro or one of the other small towns out there...then he's a liar.

Why are Los Alamos, Hiroshima, Nagasaki & Chernobyl important to nuclear history ?

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It's for a science assignment, and the website that it says to go to on the sheet doesn't work .

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Los Alamos was the desert in which the americans tested their nuclear weapons. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are cities in Japan where nuclear weapons were dropped (by the U.S) that ended the second world war. Chernobyl is a city in the Ukraine in which a nuclear reactor malfunctioned and as a result surrounding environment (wildlife, land, and people) became contaminated with radiation. In short, these events chronicle the creation of the atomic bomb, the destruction an atomic bomb can cause, and just how volatile nuclear technology is.

who were some of the key scientists at Los Alamos during the middle of last century?

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Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein

What does Los Alamos mean in Spanish ?

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I tried to get a translation on Alta Vista BabbelFish. But, it just came out the same; Los Alamos. Does Los mean " the " in Spanish ? Good answers from most of you. Muches or Muchas gracias.

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Alamos are cottonwood trees, so Los Alamos means The Cottonwoods. Los Alamos, New Mexico, is located in a high valley where aspen trees are common but cottonwood trees, which live at lower altitudes, are not. However there is a spring in the valley and a grove of cottonwoods are or were growing near it. The area got its name on maps from those trees because they were unusual and identified the area. (I know that alamos means poplar, not cottonwood, in modern Spanish. But the territory including what is now New Mexico was an isolated colony of Spain for several centuries, and an archaic dialect of Spanish was spoken there. There are other archaic words used in New Mexico -- laguna vs lago, prieta vs negro, others I have forgotten.)

how would a 14 year old go about getting an IQ test from a professional in los alamos/santafa area new mexico?

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if it was cheep i think my parents would approve... in los alamos, santa fa or somewhere close... professional who could give accurate IQ tests... i would need to know who and how to contact this person or group... and i have a good reason for getting one done...

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Ask your school or doctor to recommend a psychologist. Expect to pay in the $300 - $500 range.

Why are all of my plastic things get blackish film on them? I am currently living in Los Alamos, New Mexico.?

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This can occur in a few days. It will wipe off.

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LOS ALAMOS HAVE YOU CHECKED TO SEE IF YOU GLOW IN THE DARK ? WHEN YOUR SPOUSE TELLS YOU TO TURN OFF THE LIGHT DO U SY ... I ALREADY DID ?

John Von Neumann served as a consultant to the Los Alamos Scienntific Laboratory for a total of how any years?

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He was officially a consultant from 1943 to 1955, but i don't know the exact dates. I've read his biography. Sometimes persons do consultant work as a favor or as an estimation of future projects which can change or never come to be. If this is for school work, I'd say roughly twelve years, and state those years I've given. You'll find references in his biography at libraries, and I found these bios online: http://www.aip.org/history/acap/biographies/bio.jsp?vonneumannj http://www.answers.com/topic/john-von-neumann In researching, I also found this reference: http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/text/vonneumn.html

Einstein played a part in the Manhattan Project but did he ever actually go to Los Alamos to work on it?

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Einstein was asked to work on the project, but refused on moral grounds. He authored a letter to Roosevelt which initially encouraged the exploration of nuclear weaponry based on the work of Szilard and Fermi. But later, after realizing the force of devastation to follow such a bomb, he changed his stance. Enrico Fermi headed the all-star team of scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project. Einstein worked on his own projects during that time and later regretted having sent the letter encouraging the Manhattan Project to Roosevelt.

Do you think the people at Los Alamos should be tried for war crimes after building the bomb?

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Why would you go after the people who built the bomb rather than the government who dropped it? It sounds like you have a principal-agent problem. The people who built did not drop it, they did not have the power to say what would be done with it. It was not their policy that dropped the bomb. I think that if you want to prosecute for war crimes and human rights violations you have to punish policy-makers that allowed it to become a government policy. President Truman was the one that issued the executive order, no one else. And to the other people who answered, you can't just say "it's in the past" and compare it to other violations. All war crimes are war crimes, you can't just pick and choose. All states and individuals should be aware that they can be prosecuted at anytime because it will serve to deter them. To know that 10 years later or even 60 years later you can be prosecuted really means something because it will always be hanging over their heads, and they will think about the consequences of their actions when they are making policies.

Question about estancia los alamos in Buenos Aires, Argentina?

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i need a 2-3 day schedule of what u would at estancia los alamos....would be rele great thx!!

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Estancia Los Alamos is a great place meant for relaxing. It is located at Mendoza, one of Argentina's most beautiful provinces. How to arrive to Estancia Los Alamos: BY PLANE: Aeorolíneas Argentinas BY BUS: Jetmar - Plusmar - Costera Criolla - La Estrella - El Valle - Ñandu del Sur BY CAR: Ruta Nac. 3 hasta el empalme con la Ruta Nac. 22. Pasando Médanos 5 Km (737 Km y medio), hacia el camino de Chasicó, 20 Km. If you like fishing this is the ideal place for you, Los Alamos has a 12.000hectares lake. The Estancia provides you with everything you need for fishing, boats cost around U$S 20 per day. You can also ride on horseback to different places, take walking tours, and watch all of the different unique animals that it has. The Estancia offers several guest rooms with private bathrooms and different bedding arrangements. Prices are around $ 40 per person per day. That would be U$S 10. But if you like camping there is a special place for donig so. Meals can also be hired four around U$S 5 each. For more info visit its webpage http://www.elosalamos.com.ar/ and good luck!!

where was los alamos ranch school exactly located in 1917?

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Below information from Fuller Lodge web site in Los Alamos, NM - short answer is that it was only a summer camp in Los Alamos in 1917... 1904 Ashley Pond Jr. (d. 1933), from Detroit, moved to NM to recover from typhoid. This plan succeeded. Pond tried to open a Boys School in Watrous, NM. Because of floods, this plan did not succeed. 1914 Pond and four other men (2 of whom were CEO’s of Detroit automobile companies) opened a cattle and guest ranch (The Pajarito Club) located in nearby Pajarito Canyon. Pond managed the ranch until 1916 when he hired H. H. Brook to manage the ranch. 1917 Pond bought the homestead of his manager, Brook, planning once again to establish a Boys School. Before he left to work for the American Red Cross, Pond hired Albert J. Connell (d.1944), a Santa Fe National Forest ranger, as Director of the school; in 1918 Connell hired Fayette Curtis (1896-1926) as the school’s first headmaster. From 1917 to 1932, and again from 1937 to 1942, Summer Camp was offered. The Boarding School was a separate entity and existed until 1943. Enrollment peaked at 47 students. 1917 tto 1943 Pond named his ranch the “Los Alamos School for Boys,” using the Spanish word for poplars, or cottonwoods. Incorporating the Boy Scout structure, Pond and Connell fused their ideal “outdoor life” with the “vigorous life” currently being advocated by Theodore Roosevelt. The students, aged 12 to 18, became members of Boy Scout Troop #22 (the first mounted troop in the USA). Eventually, the oldest boys and a master slept at Spruce Cottage, just north of the current Historical Museum. Younger students slept in the screened-in porches of the Big House which was located just NE of Fuller Lodge. It was built during the winter of 1916-17, and was torn down in 1947. Big House Courtesy of LA Historical Society 1928 Wealthy Michigan lumberman, Philo C. Fuller, paid for the construction of the Lodge and donated it to the Ranch School (in addition to refinancing the Ranch School mortgage for Pond). Philo was the father of Edward P. Fuller (d. 1923), a Ranch School staff member, who died in 1923. The Lodge, built in 1928, was designed by Santa Fe architect, John Gaw Meem (1894-1983), who along with Ranch School Director A. J. Connell, personally selected the 771 massive pine trees used in the making of the Lodge. The Lodge housed the school Fuller Lodge Courtesy of LA Historical Society dining hall, kitchen, and rooms for guests, staff, and the nurse. It was also where the boys entertained girls from Santa Fe's Brownmoor Girls School. Another wealthy parent donated the Arts and Crafts Building, complete with carpentry and woodworking shops, a music room, and a physics and chemistry laboratory. The ice rink was also donated to the Ranch by a parent of a student. 1943 The school closed on January 21, 1943. After the U.S. Army purchased the school for a secret laboratory site; the Lodge served as the dining and meeting hall for the Manhattan Project staff. The north and south additions were built so the building could also serve as a hotel. Both the Lodge and the Big House became social gathering places during the war, and a number of the other buildings were turned into housing for the soldiers and scientists who came to work on the Los Alamos project. 1949 The jurisdiction of Los Alamos (which included portions of Santa Fe and Sandoval counties) was officially returned by the federal government to the State of New Mexico in 1949. It became the thirty-second (and the smallest) county in the state of New Mexico, which itself had only become a state in 1912. 1957 unttiill presentt Los Alamos remained a "closed city" of scientists until 1957 when it was opened to the public. When Los Alamos became an incorporated county, Fuller Lodge once again became the social center of the community, sheltering generations of weddings, funerals, parties, concerts, town meetings, receptions, conferences and other social events. The nearby Memorial Rose Garden was established in the early 1950s by the Los Alamos Garden Club because there was no county cemetery at that time.

is big bob lazar working back at los alamos?

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after everything he did (going public)why hire this moron?

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moron i think not if hes hired by the government to preform experiments

Closest Airport to Los Alamos?

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What is the closest airport to Los Alamos, CA.... I need to get there from Portland, Oregon.... to Los Alamos..... help!!!!! Where is the closest airport to there where I can fly in from Portland International Import?

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Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo are the two closest cities to Los Alamos with commercial airports -- Santa Barbara is about 45 miles away, while San Luis Obispo is about 50 miles away. Note, however, that there won't be any nonstop service between PDX and either of these airports -- you'll likely have to make a one-stop flight through somewhere such as San Francisco, Sacramento, or Los Angeles.

Forest Fire in Los Alamos, New Mexico?

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In the spring of 2000, national park officials authorized a controlled burn of a forested area near Los Alamos, New Mexico, with the intention of clearing away brush and dead wood to reduce the severity of future fires. Unfortunately, a weather warning was ignored and the fire escaped control, claiming over 200 homes and thousands of acres of forest. Assuming that the basic concept of controlled burning is scientifically sound, how would you justify future burns to a public that remembers the Los Alamos fiasco?

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You're in the wrong are. New Mexico is not in Mexico.

Do you think the Los Alamos wildfires are going to blow up the nuclear lab/weapons and destroy America?? BELOW?

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http://beta.news.yahoo.com/wildfire-triggers-evacuations-near-los-alamos-002006674.html This is the link to the article about it, and my son is scared to death that its gonna blow up.....ok I'm actrually freaked out too. Is this going to be like Japans cris, or do they have iot under control HELP!!!!!!!!!!

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there is nothing to worry about. you can throw a nuclear weapon into a bonfire and there is like a 1% change of it going nuclear. nukes arwnt like conventional explosives. theyre pretty safe. plus theyre deep underground in bunkers with tons of eath protecting them. the whole lab can be on fire and all the weapons will be safe. that article takes about radioactive waste. but its 5 miles away with 4 deep canyons between it and the fire. half the lab would have to burn before it gets to those. the media likes spreading panic. there is nothin to worry about

Does anyone know what companys have an explosively pumped flux compression generator other than Los Alamos?

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Explosively pumped flux compression generators are popular as power sources for electronic warfare devices known as transient electromagnetic devices that generate an electromagnetic pulse without the costs and side effects of a nuclear weapon. (Think the pinch in Ocean's 11) Basically I want to know which research laboratories have them, particularly in France.

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E-bombs? howstuffworks says the USSR, and CIS, but gives no more precise location. Later says only US and CIS.

is los alamos new mexico a good place to live?

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It is beautiful there, set in the foothills. It snows in the winter. For a long while it had the highest per capita income of anyplace in the US because of the nuclear research. It is a small town. If you like the outdoors, you will love it. It is close enough to Santa Fe ( 78 Miles) to get into town for the opera and big city stuff.

Weather in los alamos recently?

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im going to be near mount pajarito in a few days and i was wondering what the weather has been lately or what the forecast is?

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All of the following sites will have the weather forecast Have a good trip!!!!! www.weather.com/weather/local/87544 www.losalamos.com www.wunderground.com/US/NM/Los_Alamos.html www.weatherforyou.com/weather/New Mexico/Los Alamos

Did UFOs enter through dimensional rift at Los Alamos caused by?

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detonation of atomic bombs? Yeah , this is a serious question, seriously stupid, that is. http://www.nicap.org/nmexico/newmexicosightings.htm There sure are a lot of UFOs sightings in a very small area. Odd that military witnesses back in the 1940s did not perceive the UFOs as Top Secret Black Ops projects. If They didn't why would you? Not much swamp gas inthe desert is there? Think military bases were on alert cause they did not know the difference between thermal inversions and UFOs? hahaahha! http://ufologie.net/htm/foia05.htm Socialde: A parallel Earth co-existing within the parameters of Hilbert Space? And, people don't live on the surface of the sun, I thought you knew that. hahahaha

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