Les, thanks for the headsup. Is any of this stuff still classified? Has any DoD person challenged your claims? Putting together the observations that it was huge, powerful, secretive, and diligently operated despite supposed fraudulence, I have a conjecture: Maybe the radar was so powerful and Russian jamming was so lame that SAGE could simply overwhelm any jamming equipment the Russians could fly across the Pacific? They may have been unable to jam more than a few frequencies at the same time. And their very act of jamming should have lost them the element of surprise. —Bill On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 12:22 PM Lester D Earnest <learnest@stanford.edu> wrote:
Below is a note that I sent at the beginning of this year to POST, the nonprofit that owns Mt. Umunhum.
After our discussion last July, in which you declined to get involved with my effort to reveal the truth about the Mt. Umunhum radar tower, I did an interview with a web news service that was carved into five pieces, then posted online a couple of weeks ago and has drawn national interest, with several journalists around the country planning to interview me.
The first segment specifically addresses the SAGE air defense system, with the Mt. Umunhum radar being a small piece of it. If you are interested in seeing that 21 minute segment, go to *Cold War Radar System a Trillion Dollar Fraud <http://salsa4.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ziQ4WZg%2B%2F9ZbZ7Z%2BBbb8YVH7cu93STb8>*. I still aim to get that fraudulent system exposed, given that I was partly responsible for it, and get your organization to tear down that decrepit radar tower, or at least add a display that tells the truth instead of the lies that have been posted there.
Lester Earnest Call land line 650-941-3984 any day from 9am till 11pm Pacific Time
Senior Research Computer Scientist Emeritus, Stanford University
https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/ ------------------------------ *From:* Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> *Sent:* Sunday, April 28, 2019 11:06 PM *To:* math-fun@mailman.xmission.com *Subject:* Hot tea sucks
I *thought* Tom Knight beat Brent Meeker with the top it up solution, but that mail seems only intermittently visible in my RoundCube.
On 2019-04-26 09:05, Veit Elser wrote:
First hike up Mt. Umunhum (always wanted to use that in a sentence) or someplace higher.
You've touched on an interesting subject which I encourage you to Google further. Les Earnest claims the station up there was part of the SAGE air defense system, which was the biggest taxpayer fraud in history. But he also mentions that, 20 miles away, it was blitzing the Stanford AILab computer at 13 second intervals. I.e., whatever they were doing, the people up there were serious. The actual radar building is improbably large: http://www.redwoodhikes.com/Skyline/MtUmunhum1.jpg There were people actually living there year-round. They even had a bowling alley. (I bet that, summer afternoons, it's *way* too windy for volleyball!) And for years after it closed, the area was very off-limits to hikers and motorists. —rwg
On Apr 26, 2019, at 11:12 AM, Bill Gosper <billgosper@gmail.com> wrote:
I brew it in a 46oz pickle jar that easily tips over, and leaks if the lid isn't snug. But if I forget to momentarily loosen the lid within a few minutes, a powerful vacuum develops that makes it virtually impossible to unscrew. What is the trivial solution? —BillI