OH NO IT'S BISMUTH TIME AGAIN It was pretty much overdue. Terry used the two magic phrases together in the same e-mail - "arts parts" and "bismuth" - to summon the genie of my discontent. sigh* OK here goes
Forget about Art Bell's Bismuth Magnesium crashed UFO mystery metal. Its BS. It has turned from debacle into mythos, and now is virtually an irritatingly immortal meme. In 1996 I was one of the people who Linda Howe selected to look at a fragment of the sample of this supposed chunk of the Roswell crash. A couple years back, the whole matter was getting resurrected so often that it forced me to post a little write up of my own on it, which includes my original report to LMH. In truth, my opinion has hardened even further over the past 2 years. A misidentified piece of industrial trivia or a clevver hoax is one thing, but perpetuating it circus style just cheeses my sensibilities. My take on it can be found thus: http://www.theavalonfoundation.org/artsparts.htm Now, setting all of that aside... guess what? Bismuth is still one of the most wondrous elements on the periodic table! If I was going to hoax a UFO fragment, I would use Bi to keep all the alt-sci crowd and saucer conspiracists busy guessing for years... Bismuth is the most diamagnetic of elements, and also appeared prominently in Carroll's patent for filamentary superconductors. It also was or is one of the most promising stars in the odd half integer spin nucleon kinemassic gravity claims of Wallace, along with Cu. It makes a traditional moderate - Z thermoelectric material as a telluride. Nice non-lead replacement for bullets and sinkers, and makes your castings sharp as can be due to its property of expanding upon cooling. Occupies a spot on the periodic table right over where... errrrr...element 115 would be. (I offer that only for the lore collectors and antigravity claim trivia freaks) Good stuff. Right up there with my personal favorite - tellurium. Look at tellurium's atomic number versus its atomic weight, then compare those values with those of its neighbors Iodine and Antimony on the Periodic Table. Best, NR --- Terry Blanton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > RC Macaulay wrote: > > > Once knew a man that spent his days during WW2 on > the Manhattan > > project that remained puzzled by bismuth. Such an > oddity that he > > considered the element unexplainable. Something > about bismuth just > > doesn't fit. For one thing it's not poison... or > is it? > > Caused me to think about masquerades. Could what > we see as bismuth > > actually be a " leftover" or a subtle illusive > illusion of something > > else ? > > > An integral component of Art's Parts: > > http://anw.com/aliens/ArtsParts.htm > > http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/roswell039.html > > relating to antigravity??? > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com
