Probe by Tom Williamson
Have probes of extraterrestrial origin conducted surveillance missions in Earth's atmosphere? James McDonald, co-founder of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics at the University of Arizona, one of the twentieth century's leading atmospheric physicists, presented strong evidence for this hypothesis at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in December 1969. Yet, remarkably, McDonald's important conjecture has all but disappeared from the purview of scientists today. That's likely to soon change, former Science Museum (London) curator Tom Willamson argues in this book. The reason is simple: a large chunk of science supporting McDonald's idea, much of it carried out in the former Soviet Union and later Russia and Ukraine during the 1980s and 1990s, had gone missing. Now, thanks to the wonders of Google Translate, Williamson has been able to put together in this book a provisional, alien-free (and UFOlogy-free) account of that missing science.
Son of the pioneering ethnobotanist Jessie Williamson, Tom Williamson was born in Malawi and educated at schools in Africa and England. After gaining degrees in geology at Brasenose College, Oxford and geochemistry at the University of Leeds, Williamson worked as an exploration geologist for the gold and copper industries in Africa. Then he worked for a period at the Science Museum, London, producing in 1977 what was probably the world's first popular exhibition on climate change. Later Williamson returned to the metals field. Working for a UN agency, Williamson monitored the global tin industry, writing reports for governments. While making these studies of placer tin mining, in Brazil and elsewhere, Williamson also became interested in the placer mining of another more valuable metal, gold. It is the latter precious metal that, according to the missing science revealed in Probe, ET prospecting and mining bots may have focused on, when exploiting the placer metal resources of Earth and other earthlike planets.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781800421233 |
| ISBN 10 | 1800421230 |
| Titel | Probe |
| Autor | Tom Williamson |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | SilverWood Books Ltd |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2022-09-15 |
| Seitenanzahl | 356 |
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