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Debunked: Exploration company "Georesonance" believes it may have found MH370

Coulter is correct on all counts. There is a huge difference between detecting the presence of some material and producing an image of an object comprised of it, and there is absolutely no reason to believe that the same means of detection (processing satellite image data) could be used to detect six different types of materials ranging from aluminum to kerosene, much less create an image. And that is after a more fundamental disqualifier that they would have needed to perform three data acquisitions, not two, in order to filter out all the noise (other moving and stationary objects with similar characteristics). It's all junk science intended for the hopeful but less informed. You might as well keep drinking ionized water, putting magnets on your fuel lines and storing your razor blades under a paper pyramid.
 
I am a bit weak when it comes to NMR (I work with protein crystallography, not NMR), but assuming for a moment that they could somehow measure the larmor precession in the plane, how large a signal could they get from several metric tonnes of aluminium?

I guess what we really need to know in order to pass verdict on whether or not they are using NMR is the following:
How large an amount of aluminium, copper, etc do they have to measure on?
How large a signal should they be able to produce? With EFNMR and with and artificial magnet field?
Related to the above, How sensitive equipment would they need and could they in any feasible way pickup a signal from under 700 meters of seawater?

Good questions, but more of a request-for-proposal than a casual estimate.
 
It can not identify anything deeper than one micron on land and has very limited penetration on water (wavelength dependent but ~30m is pretty much the max).
My understanding is that the sat is likely a former spy sat and they (Sevastopol) might even have full control of it. The orbit height was specified as 280km, so can't be Landsat, and sounds like spy sat territory to me instead of commercial imaging sat. If that is the case, the question is what could be possible for such a spy sat (designed for sub hunting for example), assuming full control and that it's likely some decades old if it is given to such use already.

See my earlier posting quoted above which is based on the complex index of refraction of water. Doesn't matter if it is a spy satellite, limitations on EM in the optical range are the same as Landsat. I suggest Landsat because of the large search area - Landsat has the largest footprint of all the moderate resolution satellites. But, since the company is lying about the technology, they might have fabricated the data as well. The intel community only uses satellite imagery to look for subs on the surface or near surface movement phenomena (bio-fluorescence, wake, etc.).
 
That was probably just a temporary changing of the guard as a different mob muscled in... that's how they do it in Putin's Russia.

True that Berezovsky was a mathematician. Bright Russians caught on quite quickly to how neoliberal finances work. Our news calls them oligarchs, if they're in Russia, job-creators if they're in the West. Catch the story about Steve Jobs in the NY Times today?
 
I was referring to the methodology of trumping up charges and throwing people in jail to effect a boardroom coup, which is common over there and in China.
 
The latest from CNN... "Two Bangladeshi navy ships have begun searching the Bay of Bengal for traces of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, but have yet to find anything, a commander said Friday."

Wow, I thought Georesonace had the size, shape, and location perfectly defined ;)

I also thought that they know very very EXACT coordinates so that there's nothing else to check than is there something at that exact spot or not. Instead it seems there are now several ships scanning some wider area. Surely if they can show the exact shape of a plane they have detected they also know exactly where they imaged it.
 
The point is that Georesonance is making claims that are patently false. The light detected by multispectral imagery does not significantly penetrate water (~30m in the UV-blue and only nanometers in the IR). If the object in question can not physically be illuminated then there is no possibility of the "resonance effect" happening. And, in fact, there is no such thing as this "resonance effect". If you could detect elements using optical light (UV through IR) there would be instruments on the market to do that. In order to directly detect and measure elemental compositions you need x-rays or laser ablation, and even then the phenomenon measured is not resonance. The common instruments to do this are X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) or Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS). Both of these require direct contact with the material being analyzed.

a) GeoResonance claims are by no means "patently false" else the discussion would be settled. You assert opinion, not proof.
b) Might you have references giving absorption data for LWIR or VLWIR?
c) Do you mean to say there's no such thing as nuclear magnetic resonance, or only that you haven't heard of it?
d) Re the "instruments on the market", should we conclude then that everything has been invented and no new patents will be granted? Of course the techniques we're discussing are not likely to be among those"commonly used", else there'd be no controvrsy.
 
I find incredibly amusing that even after all what was already posted here, that there are still people who go on questioning whether this or that technology mentioned by GeoResonance is possible or not. As if it was not sufficient knowing that the mastermind behind the company is a known hoaxer. Just to remind you of some of the theories and ideas spread by Vitaly Gokh (Виталий Гох), the man who is signed under most of the documents and diagrams related to this company:
  1. Mr. Gokh promotes a theory that the Earth is hollow, filled with hydrogen, deuterium, tritium, helium and other gases (http://gokh.net)
  2. Mr. Gokh claims the lunar core is composed of platinum and gold (http://gokh.net/model.html)
  3. Mr. Gokh also concludes that Mars is within 70% made of diamonds, kimberlites, platinum and gold (http://gokh.net/model.html)
  4. Mr. Gokh discovered 37 pyramids in Crimea. According to him, they were built 65 millions of years ago (far before the first humanoids), radiate some magic energy preventing fruits from rotting, contain mumified dinosaur eggs, together with human bodies, etc. etc. (http://www.archaeology.ru/ONLINE/Kovalenko/kovalenko.html, http://blog.a-theism.com/2011/12/blog-post_03.html, ...)
  5. Mr. Gokh knows about advanced underwater civilizations sending signals to us, and once helped Sumerians to rule the world. Besides others he reports light shows of this civilization also in the Bay of Bengal, so I suppose he may soon tell, it was this civilization that kidnapped the MH370 plane (http://gokh.net/stati/146-podvodnaya-civilizaciya-soobschaet-o-sebe.html)
  6. He has also some revealing theories about crop circles (http://gokh.net/stati/126-krugi-na-polyah-i-vse-chto-o-nih-izvestno.html)
  7. There are plenty of other amazing theories on his website (static electricity used in ancien Egypt, information technology used by Pharaons, ...). Just read through the articles on his website - it is better than Däniken.
  8. After his pyramid theory was debunked by serious scientist, he came with a new idea: he suggested that "the bottom of the Black Sea is the repository of the astral souls of the dead. Allegedly, hydrogen sulfide layer that begins after the 200-meter water column (that's true for the Black Sea, I believe), they are cleaned. Cleansing process is long and depends on how much negative energy the soul accumulated for the period of earthly life. (http://www.archaeology.ru/ONLINE/Kovalenko/kovalenko.html - last paragraph)
Now tell me one single reason why we should bother whether some of the 20 technologies they allegedly used to get their miraculous photos of MH370 in the Bay of Bengal really work or not?
 
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They will come up with nothing in the BoB. The only thing we can hope is that they don't find some other wreck or anomaly nearby that GeoScammers can claim was distorted by a local ectoplasmic energy field which affected the operation of their Turbo-Encabulator, one of their nineteen other secret technologies they leverage.

A description of the Turbo Encabulator can be heard here:
 
@Andy,
I don't recall you validating all the people in the search team before believing them. Not that they are not competent. What we have here is no search for truth but set minds that GeoResonance MUST be wrong, SHOULD be wrong and then funny arguments backing that up. I thought logic don't start with a conclusion

My sympathy and compliments. It appears that the messenger must be killed.
 
Now tell me one single reason why we should bother whether some of the 20 technologies they allegedly used to get their miraculous photos of MH370 in the Bay of Bengal really work or not?

Easy: because it can be no worse a failure than the prior search efforts, nor any worse a boondoggle.
 
My sympathy and compliments. It appears that the messenger must be killed.
I do not understand what you mean. GeoResonance, Mr. Kursa, Mr. Gokh got exactly what they asked - the location they indicated has been searched. They got even more than they asked - they got so much publicity that they will turn rich regardless how ridicule they are. But it looks like it is not enough to you, vooke, and others alike. Well, if you think they deserve to be paid for their effort better, send them some money, or suggest them for the next Nobel Prize!
 
I do not understand what you mean. GeoResonance, Mr. Kursa, Mr. Gokh got exactly what they asked - the location they indicated has been searched. They got even more than they asked - they got so much publicity that they will turn rich regardless how ridicule they are. But it looks like it is not enough to you, vooke, and others alike. Well, if you think they deserve to be paid for their effort better, send them some money, or suggest them for the next Nobel Prize!

Is this then the "new normal"? Scam artists using the Internet to bilk credulous people (and, BTW, trample on their emotions and hopes)?

Count me out.
 
Easy: because it can be no worse a failure than the prior search efforts, nor any worse a boondoggle.
So, if I said that my Australian Shepherd
--whose credibility is much, much better than Vitaly Gokh's--
barked to me that he knew 370 went down just south of Tasmania,
you're saying that search resources should be diverted there, as well,
since…well…a theory was vocalized…?

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a) GeoResonance claims are by no means "patently false" else the discussion would be settled. You assert opinion, not proof.
b) Might you have references giving absorption data for LWIR or VLWIR?
c) Do you mean to say there's no such thing as nuclear magnetic resonance, or only that you haven't heard of it?
d) Re the "instruments on the market", should we conclude then that everything has been invented and no new patents will be granted? Of course the techniques we're discussing are not likely to be among those"commonly used", else there'd be no controvrsy.

As a prelude to my response, look at my disclosed LinkedIn profile and get a clue that I am an internationally recognized and peer reviewed published expert in the field of satellite and airborne remote sensing.

Point a: You are arguing for a logical impossibility. All I can point out is that the physics of the Georesonance science does not hold water. You are demanding that I PROVE it is false. This is the argument that all the scammers put forth. It is not logically possible to prove a negative as the response always is: "it might be possible but we don't know about it yet". It might be possible that witches fly on broomsticks, just because we know the physics of flying broomsticks doesn't work doesn't mean that there isn't some "way" that broomsticks "could" fly.

Point b: There are tables see: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a312143.pdf.

Point c: this argument is irrelevant as the scam company is using satellite imagery not NMR

Point d: the "techniques" we are discussing are disclosed in Ukrainian patents in all their preposterous glory. Look back in the thread to see the nasty details. If the method made sense there would be instruments to exploit it, as there are for XRF and LIBS.
 
So, if I said that my Australian Shepherd
--whose credibility is much, much better than Vitaly Gokh's--
barked to me that he knew 370 went down just south of Tasmania,
you're saying that search resources should be diverted there, as well,
since…well…a theory was vocalized…?

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LOL, my Husky-Australian Shepard mix said, "Dad, stop worrying about those stupid rip-off companies and take me to the park!"
 
Is this then the "new normal"? Scam artists using the Internet to bilk credulous people (and, BTW, trample on their emotions and hopes)?
And apparently have people who will defend them beyond the point of no -return, saying 'give them a chance, maybe they've invented a science that overturns known science!'
At what point is it fair to decide they have no credibility?

What we have here is no search for truth but set minds that GeoResonance MUST be wrong, SHOULD be wrong and then funny arguments backing that up. I thought logic don't start with a conclusion


And this quote is totally misrepresenting the process - they were given the benefit of the doubt, the claims were followed to a logical conclusion using what people know of the limits of physics, and found to be wanting. It wasn't 'funny arguments' it was actual analysis.
 
See my earlier posting quoted above which is based on the complex index of refraction of water. Doesn't matter if it is a spy satellite, limitations on EM in the optical range are the same as Landsat. I suggest Landsat because of the large search area - Landsat has the largest footprint of all the moderate resolution satellites. But, since the company is lying about the technology, they might have fabricated the data as well. The intel community only uses satellite imagery to look for subs on the surface or near surface movement phenomena (bio-fluorescence, wake, etc.).

I fully agree with you that the depth of the water is clearly a huge problem, no matter what kind of satellite they are using. If I remember it correctly they said the plane was supposed to be around 1km below the surface and whereas I lack the expertise on the subject, which you clearly have, for all that I know it certainly sounds pretty much impossible.

I'm just one of those who do not like to call something totally impossible if there's the possibility that I just might not know something that enables it anyway. And don't get me wrong, throw me with, say, some religious crap or homeopathy, and I will quickly call it bs. But then you also know that I'm pretty damn sure of my opinion and have good reasons for calling that. In this case my gut feeling has been to call their tech bs, but I prefer to sort of leave the door open as long as I don't feel I understand it enough or can trust the opinion of experts who, for instance, can point out some clear error or physical impossibility in it. In this case there have been some published expert dismissals, but it has been evident that they haven't really known what exactly has been claimed or even who really is claiming that.

That is why I have been trying to find out and make it known what those claims and technologies actually are, so that I can also know that the expert opinion isn't based on incorrect assumptions. This clearly isn't all about some small Australian company as the mainstream media still seems to think. There's good reasons to assume we are dealing with military grade capabilities, actual nuclear reactor, spy sat etc. If an expert (like you) states that assuming all of that, it's still impossible, then I have a good reason to trust it. And that seems to be the case now. And I truly value the possibility of getting an actual expert opinion here, and that is good enough reason for me for trying to do the kind of background work I can do to sort of make sure that the expert opinion is in the right context and the possibilities of misunderstandings are minimized. And I truly hope to see that kind of expert opinion being published by the media as well.
 
I find incredibly amusing that even after all what was already posted here, that there are still people who go on questioning whether this or that technology mentioned by GeoResonance is possible or not. As if it was not sufficient knowing that the mastermind behind the company is a known hoaxer. Just to remind you of some of the theories and ideas spread by Vitaly Gokh (Виталий Гох), the man who is signed under most of the documents and diagrams related to this company

I'm certainly not trying to defend anyone doing the sort of claims you listed but have you checked it's definitely the same guy, e.g. same signature or other clear links? Also do you have any knowledge of that other fellow credited as the co-inventor?

Edit: just checked some what this Gokh has been saying and seems to be that same seeing deep under the surface stuff... To even more unbelievable levels. So yes, this whole thing is starting to look quite clear already.
 
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A summary of Georesonace based on the Bangladesh navy investigations:

Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn’t there
He wasn’t there again today
I wish, I wish he’d go away
 
So in the interest of actually doing some good with the info we have, how about formulating a brief summary of the findings and pushing that to the media?

Something like forget it's just about GeoResonance, this tracks back to Sevastopol and to this Gokh fellow who has had these ideas, this is the list of companies involved, here's a presentation of what they claim etc.

Wouldn't hurt if that would be presented by an actual subject area expert stating this tech is not possible...
 
I'm certainly not trying to defend anyone doing the sort of claims you listed but have you checked it's definitely the same guy, e.g. same signature or other clear links? Also do you have any knowledge of that other fellow credited as the co-inventor?
Yes, I am sure it is the same guy. Look for example at the patent document scan on the website of their Slovenian branch Vitava (http://www.vitava.si/home/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&Itemid=57&lang=en). It is Patent 13408A in the name of Vitaly Anatolovich Gokh. Vitava, on their slides describes the same process as a number of their other clones worldwide, including GeoResonance. And now have a look at one of the foolish websites of Dr. V.A. Gokh: http://www.vitaly-gokh.narod.ru/gokhr3.htm - it lists the exactly same patent 13408A as being his.
 
So in the interest of actually doing some good with the info we have, how about formulating a brief summary of the findings and pushing that to the media?

Something like forget it's just about GeoResonance, this tracks back to Sevastopol and to this Gokh fellow who has had these ideas, this is the list of companies involved, here's a presentation of what they claim etc.

Wouldn't hurt if that would be presented by an actual subject area expert stating this tech is not possible...

OMG Bume, you don't live in the real world. Think about staged reality TV. A logical argument from a real scientist is just TOO boring for the media. It is frustrating but Georesonance's claims will crash and burn, and it will not be reported on CNN. The continuing headline will be: "The ongoing search for 370 continues in the Bay of Bengal", Australian company is dedicating 47 scientists to refine the target... We live in Colbert Nation, everything is truthy.
 
how about formulating a brief summary of the findings and pushing that to the media?
Yes, that should be definitely done. On page 4, there was member Bazzabazz, who told he was from ABC Media Watch and wanted to talk to me or to Mick West (I think David Coulter was not signed yet at that moment). I've sent him a PM, bud he did not answer. Otherwise, unless someone has a direct contact to the right person at some important mass media, we have little chance to get the report published.
 
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OMG Bume, you don't live in the real world. Think about staged reality TV. A logical argument from a real scientist is just TOO boring for the media. It is frustrating but Georesonance's claims will crash and burn, and it will not be reported on CNN. The continuing headline will be: "The ongoing search for 370 continues in the Bay of Bengal", Australian company is dedicating 47 scientists to refine the target... We live in Colbert Nation, everything is truthy.

Would you care trying to verify that theory?

We basically have very clear evidence scattered within this thread that exposes this whole thing and is easy for even mainstream journalists to verify. And I don't think it would be that boring a story that this whole thing traces back to someone who has stated pretty odd things...

I believe there could be a pretty could chance of you seeing your own face in the TV if this was given to the media with your credentials.
 
A logical argument from a real scientist is just TOO boring for the media.
Normally you'd be right, of course, but in this case, if properly served, it may be very attractive for them, because it will generate another scandalous story. The media could be happy to write about hidden pyramids, UFO's, crop circles, zombies in the Black Sea, etc - that's something the masses are always happy to read.
 
Normally you'd be right, of course, but in this case, if properly served, it may be very attractive for them, because it will generate another scandalous story. The media could be happy to write about hidden pyramids, UFO's, crop circles, zombies in the Black Sea, etc - that's something the masses are always happy to read.

Also there's that sort of "hero aspect" for the media who would publish this by having the opportunity to save some resources that at least Malaysia might still send to that spot.
 
I'm hoping David is already trying to choose what to wear on CNN, but if not, let me remind you that if you dislike these sorts of companies within your field, here's your chance to do at least something about that too.
 
As a prelude to my response, look at my disclosed LinkedIn profile and get a clue that I am an internationally recognized and peer reviewed published expert in the field of satellite and airborne remote sensing.

I congratulate you on your professional success. I'm sure you wouldn't attempt to argue from authority, but rather let the cogency of your arguments demonstrate your expertise. To your other points:

Point a: You are arguing for a logical impossibility. All I can point out is that the physics of the Georesonance science does not hold water. You are demanding that I PROVE it is false. This is the argument that all the scammers put forth. It is not logically possible to prove a negative as the response always is: "it might be possible but we don't know about it yet". It might be possible that witches fly on broomsticks, just because we know the physics of flying broomsticks doesn't work doesn't mean that there isn't some "way" that broomsticks "could" fly.

I can see why you would assert that Georesonance science does not hold water, but on the other hand, simple assertion doesn't constitute proof against someone who disagrees with you. You're correct: to be completely persuasive, you'd have to prove a negative. This ambiguity is the very reason I'm maintaining an open mind on this issue. It would help if GeoResonance openly discussed their data and it's frustrating that they don't. But whether the physics of GeoResonance does or doesn't hold water is precisely the point under discussion, which can't be settled by statement. (As for witches on broomsticks, not having encountered any, I really don't think about them too much one way or the other.;) )


Thanks for this. The reason I asked for that is that slide 5 of http://vitava.si/home/images/documents/eng/know-how/poisk_public_eng.pps gave a frequency range of 10-60 THz (5-30 um) for "tight-beam" radiation. Wikipedia indicated that this was in an unattenuated atmospheric transmission band, which you might expect to be used for something like a military laser. Figure 3.6 of your paper likewise indicates a drop in the complex index of refraction in water in this range as well, so deep water penetration at these frequencies isn't totally out of the question. But its frustrating that there's little indication of even roughly how this "beam" is used.

Point c: this argument is irrelevant as the scam company is using satellite imagery not NMR.

Actually GeoResonance mentions "resonance that is unique to nuclei" on their website; sounds an awful lot like NMR. In what capacity is the question.

Point d: the "techniques" we are discussing are disclosed in Ukrainian patents in all their preposterous glory. Look back in the thread to see the nasty details. If the method made sense there would be instruments to exploit it, as there are for XRF and LIBS.

We'll have to agree to disagree here. IF Georesonance and brethren are onto something, it doesn't sound like it's been so widespread that commercialization would be expected.

I can approach your position only so far as to say that it's very unclear what GeoResonance claims to be doing, but in my case, frustration doesn't translate to negation, just suspended judgment.
 
Anti-Spin:
  1. No plane was found by Bangladeshi Navy at the coordinates given by GeoResonance
  2. The brain of the group, Dr. Gokh is a well known serial hoaxer
  3. The methods they allegedly used, cannot work, at least not in the way they describe
What more evidence do you need? When a magician cuts a woman into halves, then sticks her together, you will claim it was for real and ask us to prove the opposite too?
 
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I'm sure member's here would love to hear more about this, would you create a new thread for it? Go to the Science and psuedoscience forum and create a new thread there.

Do you have any relevent information on the techniques alleged to have been used in this case to add to this thread though?

I will start a new thread as you suggest. When I was in the mining business I was more familiar with remote sensing techniques and they were pretty incredible back then. That was years ago. I would imagine what is cutting edge today would be impressive. I've had a lot of experience in dealing with incomprehensible data and after a while you get a sense for what is signal vs noise. The GeoResonance guy's voice, you might say, had a truthful resonance and the data looked fine.
 
The GeoResonance guy's voice, you might say, had a truthful resonance and the data looked fine.
That will certainly be disputed here based on what has been investigated so far, so can you give any further details, or is it just a general opinion without looking closely at the claim?
 
Bill Rich was not a man prone to playing silly games. He said they had built craft that were 50 years ahead of state of the art. Also I have a technology advisor from LM with a Q security clearance, have know him for 20 years and he agrees with Rich and claims NASA is just a front shop. Garry McKinnon named some of the ships and crew.

You tell me.
You are going to have to provide evidence for your claims in accordance with the posting guidelines.
 
As Malaysia, China and Australia prepare for the Canberra talks on the next phase of the MH370 search the GeoResonance tip off that it may have found it in the Bay of Bengal has lead to nothing.

http://blogs.crikey.com.au/planetalking/2014/05/04/mh370/

Another argument why tip from GeoResonance is a fake w/o going into details of any science:
It needs to be said at the outset that the GeoResonance press campaign, which also promoted its capabilities to find missing sunken H-bombs in unquestioning media outlets, raised some interesting implications. One would be that the Inmarsat satellite traces of the Malaysia Airlines 777 were variously fictitious or hopelessly misinterpreted, since they showed that MH370 was airborne for seven hours 38 minutes and eventually flew south into the vastness of the Indian Ocean. To have come down where GeoResonance claimed to have found mineral traces that might have come from MH370, it either crashed much sooner than that interval, or circled around for hours in what is a fairly busy area for air traffic. Which in turn might have meant that the unique identifiers for each engine which were transmitting standby signals from the jet to the Inmarsat satellite parked over the east Indian Ocean, in case data from them was to be sent to the maker Rolls-Royce, all had to be faked, or spoofed, or whatever.
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Yeah do it:
An invoice from the Bangladesh Navy to GeoResonance for the costs of deploying three ships for at least three days each might be appropriate. It could be charged to its PR account.
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Why debate some article on some theoretical technique that has a couple buzzwords that sound sorta related to what GeoResonance claims when we can take a shortcut and look at whether it's even possible for them to get their hands on that much imagery to begin with.

fubaya, you've touched on an area that I've been thinking about, so time for me to post my thoughts. My current position (as a non-expert) on the (broad, underlying) science/technology behind the claim is that it MAY have some validity, although (like most) I'm still VERY, VERY sceptical. My position is, however, based on GeoResonance apparently having access (direct or via Sevastapol University?) to an ex-military satellite 280km above the earth that has the capability to take "special" ("multi-spectral"?) images, that can then be processed in a special way, including irradiation at the research nuclear reactor IR-100 at Sevastapol University! Indeed, as others have mentioned, Sevastapol Univ. does seem to be at the heart of the technology GeoResonance is claiming they used.
Furthermore, there are several other companies (e.g. GeoNMR) that claim to use the same/similar technology; and the presentation detailed on pages 30-33 (numbered) of this documennt, a 2008 Newsletter from the Black Sea Universities Network (originally provided by bume):

http://www.bsun.org/userfiles/file/newsletter/683fd2.pdf
does indeed seems to suggest that Sevastapol Univ. are most likely the ones doing all the work, in terms of image collection (?), preparation, processing and analysis. If this is the case, then either it's a (state-sponsored) scam by the University (if the technology is false); or the technology is real (although, perhaps, over-hyped) but GeoResonance's claims are false and they are just trying to boost their business profile.
If it's a scam by the University, would it be cheekily conspiratorial of me to go one step further and suggest Russian involvement to try and embarrass The West? ;)

For now, though, I'm going to assume that it is GeoResonance who is at fault here, and what I want to do is stimulate discussion a bit more around the other claims by GeoResonance, i.e. mainly the image gathering and processing work load, in order to "slam-dunk" debunk that area of GeoResonance's claim.
Let's start with what GeoResonance stated in their press release of May 1st:
http://georesonance.com/20140501 Press Release.pdf

"The area totalled 2,327,000 km2. The survey commenced on March 12, 2014, prior to the search moving to the Southern Indian Ocean. The study concluded on April 7, 2014."
"The initial report was passed onto search authorities on March 31st."
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and the press release from April 29th:
http://georesonance.com/20140429 Press Release.pdf

"GeoResonance completed analysis of multispectral imagery of the location taken on March 5, 2014. It established that the anomaly had appeared between the 5th and 10th of March 2014."
"The search used the imagery taken on March 10, 2014, and was conducted consecutively in 4 zones north and northwest of Malaysia, until all targeted elements produced an anomaly in one place in the Bay of Bengal."
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So, I have some questions/comments for members to get their teeth into:
1) if the technology is using an ex-military satellite at 280km above the earth (as, e.g., the diagrams describing the technology by Victor Gokh shows) that was tasked to search the area and the survey commenced on March 12th, how could they task the satellite to take images of the area on March 10th and then on March 5th? Can we safely assume that it is highly unlikely that GeoResonance just happenened to be tasking the satellite on March 10th and 5th to take images of the area where they say the plane is located. Hence, I'm concluding that they weren't using the ex-military satellite at 280km, but accessing commercial satellite images. Is that a fair assumption?
2) if GeoResonance was using commercial satellite images, does anyone have an idea of how long it would take to image an area of 2,327,000 km2? Can it be done in one day (i.e. March 10th)? Can it even be done in 19 days? Could they gather images from numerous satellites covering different areas? Why would any commercial satellites be taking images of the oceans in the area on March 5th? Obviously, DigitalGlobe would have been on March 10th, but not of an area of 2,327,000 km2? I understand that there are satellites that are used to measure ocean tidal movements, etc., but I believe they have quite a long orbit time, plus don't know if they also take images.
3) if the images were available (even if taken on different days over a period of many weeks), how many separate images would we be talking about to cover an area of 2,327,000 km2? Fubaya mentions 60x60km (for lower orbit satellite - the ex-military one?). This would give 646 images. But, how many would it give for a higher-orbit satellite?
4) how long does it take to process an individual images (i.e. prepare, irradiate, process, analyse, etc.)? That's a question I can't answer, but I would imagine that it would be several hours, although it could possibly be done in batches of images. If I recall, I think in the links various members have given, mention is made that it takes in the order of weeks to survey even a relatively small area. So, surely, there's no way the process could be sped up in order to process images for an area in excess of 2million km2. Ignoring this for the moment, just as an academic exercise, in order to work out an estimate (as a starting point) I did the following:

a) assume batch process of 10 images (guesstimate, no science behind it) with sequential processing (i.e. if have a 3-step process, then whilst batch 1 is undergoing step 2 processing, batch 2 is undergoing step 1 processing, etc.), since it reduces the processing time considerably
646 images = 65 batches
b) assume 3 step process - sample preparation, irradiate, sample processing (Kirlian photography, etc.), with each step taking an hour (since it makes it easier for me to work out how long it will take to process the 65 batches!) if my calcs are correct, that would require 67hrs processing time
c) If I recall correctly, the supposed technology requires processing an image for a particular element, and repeating the process for each element to be looked for - is that correct? Therefore, the process would have to be repeated for 7 "elements" - the images here:
http://dmnewsi.com/tag/georesonance/
mentions Al, Ti, Cu, Ni, Fe, Cr, and Hydrocarbons. [what is interesting about the images in the above link is that there are separate images for "Engine alloys (Ni, Fe, Cr)" and "Steel alloys (Fe, Ni, Cr)". But, if they are detecting elements, how can they produce two different images, when both images are for the same elements? Are they also able to detect (and distinguish between) metals with different elemental compositions?]
Hence processing hours = 67x7 = 469
d) Let's be even more generous and say it only takes an hour to analyse all the data (they've got super-computers, right?)
This gives 470hrs total time taken to do the work (NB: I haven't included any time to collect together all the images in the first place)
e) Being generous again, let's assume it's a 24hr operation
Therefore, 19days = 456hrs​
So, putting aside the technology, I'm concluding that it would have been physically impossible to carry out the work GeoResonance claims to have done, in the time-period they claim to have done it in - AND, that's for 60x60km size images, AND only for the images from one of the surveys. Therefore, just based on the logistics of doing the work, I would say that GeoResonance are lying, pointing to a company trying to raise its business profile (for a technology that MIGHT work??) by making an outrageous (and shameful) claim!

Finally, as an aside, how likely would it be that a company based in Australia could have cooperation with, and access to the technology of, Sevastapol University during the Crimean crisis? And, I wonder what would be the estimate of the cost of the whole operation that they claim to have self-funded! Incidentally, Anti-Spin mentioned that GeoNMR is based in Kiev. If that's the case (and they're still in business), then if they were relying on use of the research reactor in Sevastapol, I think they might be a bit screwed now!
[Wow, InterpreDemon, that PDOS website is cool! :cool:]
P.S Sorry for the long first post - I do tend to waffle a bit! :) ...and apologies if the posting format is wrong in any way (still getting used to it :confused:)
 
Strangelove (AKA Sellers), I posted several pages ago the mathematics behind the impossibility of their claims, first in the number of film sheets they would need to process with their reactor, then the fact that they would need to take data from THREE different date samples instead of the two they claimed (you need one before the ditching and two afterward in order to filter out the noise... ships and aircraft in motion), followed by the fact that typical satellites have a return time of 16-18 days, meaning it would be 45 days before they could begin to work on the last data set.
 
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