Jones Beene wrote:
You heard it first on Vo: But first, can you tell us, Jed, if any of
the hits are from overseas, the Mid-East, TCI ?
Reply hazy; Ask again later. (To quote the Magic 8 Ball).
What I mean is, I can tell more easily tomorrow when the program does
a breakdown by country for the entire daily dataset. I checked a
dozen or so of these downloads and they appear to be coming from the
US and Canada.
Generally speaking, Middle Eastern countries are far down the list of visitors.
I have not seen any spike in them lately. They are well below places
such as Mexico and Indonesia. Iran and Israel are the highest middle
eastern countries by a wide margin, with 500 to 800 visits per year,
and ~1,800 MB each. Compare this to South Korea with ~2000 visits
2,700 MB, or Romania ~960 visits 1,800 MB.
You could probably map out the number of active physics researchers
in the world from my database. You will find that Peru contributes
more to science than the United Arab Emirates, and Finland
contributes more than all Middle Eastern countries combined (except
Israel). I read somewhere that excluding the production of oil, the
combined GDP of all Middle Eastern nations (excluding Israel) is
smaller than Finland's. Or was it Sweden? Anyway, the point is that
these places are intellectually asleep. It is tragic.
Israel, as everyone knows, is at the cutting edge of cold fusion
research, with perhaps the best recorded results, at Energetics
Technologies. At the moment, 10 people there are contributing more
than the whole of Japan or the U.S. at the moment. This could result
in Israel having more concentrated wealth and power in 30 years than
England had in 1900. Quiet experiments with test tubes can have
monumental effects in the modern world. They can yield more political
and economic power than a mighty fleet of ships, or an army of a
million soldiers. That is something few people even now appreciate.
- Jed
