Around the island….

A thought for the morning….

Let’s see what we have happening around us, good friends…

• The girls’ soccer team has had a good week, beating Orcas 5-0 earlier in the week and Concrete 12-2 last night…meanwhile, FHHS hosts Orcas tonight in football – see you there!

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Emma

• It was fun to see Emma Foster‘s name in the article that Reuters published about the delay in menopause in killer whales earlier this week; there was a similar article spotlighting her observations in Discover magazine (with tons more detail) as well.

Emma’s a familiar face around here, doing research with the good folks at The Center for Whale Research; she’s a PhD candidate at the University of Exeter in the UK, presently.

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• What was it like when the last huge earthquake hit, here in the islands, in 1700? The folks at PNSN (the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network) have assembled Ruth Ludwin’s papers and research about First Nations’ response at the time…click here for more.

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Gary Smith

• It was sad yesterday to hear that Gary Smith passed away after contracting lung cancer…he was a familiar figure around the island & around town…Janet Thomas passed along her thoughts:

To my island friends: We lost our friend, Gary Smith, this afternoon at 4:10, from a long bout with lung cancer.

He kept my cars going for 20 years, fixed my electrical & plumbing mishaps, helped me move too many times, and was an all-round go-to guy.

Once, when I was ridiculously hysterical about my car, he said, “Janet, calm down. I have your back.” And he did. I will miss him.

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Saturday night!

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• Rob Simpson has been pulling together movies & speakers about the subjects that folks (and especially the media) seem to want to dodge…and next Monday’s is pretty important. Here’s the scoop, with an invitation to keep your mind open to find out more:

Another SKYPE interview at Monday’s Conscientious Projector
7:00 PM September 17.  Friday Harbor Library
There is a beautiful stone fireplace at the majestic old Yellowstone Lodge in Wyoming. All winter long they have a lovely large fire where an iron grate is immersed in hot coals from above and below 24/7.  How often does the iron grate turn to molten steel?   Never.  At about 1500-2000F the fire isn’t hot enough.

One fateful day in New York City, a 47-story skyscraper collapses in about 6 seconds, ..flat as a pancake almost as fast as a dropped bowling ball. The official cause we are told were several office fires (paper, rugs, & chairs).  We are told that these fires melted huge steel beams.

An office fire burns at about 1400F.  Yet molten steel was found beneath the building.  Its temperature was over 2700F.   Where’d all that heat come from?

The 47-story sky scraper that fell was World Trade Center #7.  It was the THIRD building to collapse on 9/11.  It was not hit by an airplane. Pictures taken just before the collapse show some earlier fires had mostly gone out.

Like the media, the 9/11 Commission ignored WTC #7….until publicly pressured to conduct a subsequent investigation.  That $20 million investigation released in 2008 was easily discredited by a high school physics teacher who publicly challenged some of their conclusions.  They had to revise and re-issue their report.

But, wait?  There’s more???  Steven Stills once wrote a song that starts:

”There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear….”

On Sept. 17, at our public library THE CONSCIENTIOUS PROJECT presents ten years of scientific research.  It was conducted by the world’s top architects and engineers (including military) into the only day of instantaneous collapse of any skyscraper in history.

After the film, there will be a live Skype interview with one of the investigative engineers to answer any and all questions we can come up with.

No “conspiracy theories” will be discussed.   This will be a night to consider only scientific evidence.   Bring only your curiosity, your doubts, your patriotic thirst for truth…and your questions.

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