Another route McKubre raised was direct political action to get funding earmarked so as to bypass the bureaucratic pecking order.
I tried that with R. T. Jones' oblique all wing design and it backfired. What happened was I visited Jones at his home in the hills above Silicon Valley around the time I was getting the Launch Services Purchase Act of 1990 signed into law, and discovered that his associates at Stanford (such as Ilan Kroo) were struggling with getting access to the supersonic wind tunnel at nearby NASA Ames. The problem, according to Jones, was that Boeing and the other big boys were struggling to get a conventional SST program going and they didn't want any "confusing ideas" being floated around the halls of power. So I called up the supersonic wind tunnel guys at Ames and asked them what it would take to get the guys at Stanford some supersonic wind tunnel time. They gave me a budget figure (only around $50,000 IIRC). At the same time I was running around lobbying in DC to privatize launch services, I let it be known to some of the California Congressional Representatives who were in aerospace districts that there was this innovative SST concept that was being blocked because of bureaucratic intransigence for want of a little funding, and would they please earmark some money so the Stanford guys could get some supersonic wind tunnel time at Ames. It happened. What happened next is really interesting: The next year, when the money was supposed to become available, NASA HQ punished NASA Ames for going over their head (even though it was a grassroots organization chaired by yours truly) by reducing the discretionary budget for NASA Ames by an amount equal to the earmark. NASA Ames management then hunted down the guy I talked to about the funding and punished him. I don't know the details, I just know that the Stanford guys never got their wind tunnel time and the guy who gave me the budget figure begged me to do nothing more like that again because his job was on the line. On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:34 AM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > At about 10 minutes into the interview, the question that is most relevant > crops up, which is how can one overcome the block on scientific > publication. This is most relevant because it gets to the heart science > itself, and the institutional incompetence currently besetting science. > Yes, I think this is more relevant than is the provision of an energy > revolution because although power is of primary physical importance, the > cultural importance of science gets to the central value of being fully and > completely human: A mind free to pursue the truth of being. > > The answers provided by McKubre were an indictment of civilization itself > because they did not address how it is that civilization could concoct such > an incompetent system of scientific publication hence could not address how > to remediate that incompetence. To merely say "Well, all's well that ends > well." or "There are no utopias." is to skirt responsibility for this > artifact we call civilization. There is clearly a very serious disease of > unknown etiology, of which the failure of scientific publication is merely > a symptom. > > > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 11:10 AM, James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This link to the audio works: >> >> http://www.mevio.com/episode/318736/fen.120828 >> >> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> http://m.podshow.com/media/1049/episodes/318736/pesn-318736-08-29-2012.mp3Interview> >>> >>> Listen >>> >>> On August 28, Sterling Allan conducted an interview with Michael McKubre >>> as part of the Free Energy Now series. >>> >>> It was found in this blog >>> >>> >>> http://pesn.com/2012/08/29/9602171_Michael-McKubre_on_Cold-Fusions_Rise_Despite_Political_Academic_Suppression/ >>> >>> >>> >> >> >
