From today's New York Times: The Toll of a 'Missing Scientists' Conspiracy Theory on the Families Left Behind (gift link):
The miasma of lies surrounding his son's suicide has felt, to Donald Wilcock, like indignity layered on tragedy. "Nothing...
I completely debunk this Wilbert Smith debris story in my lecture on YT. I spent a lot of time on this case a while back. All my sources (some of which people have already included in this thread can be found in my X/Bluesky/FB threads on the...
Re-reading the OP, a minor ahistorical detail from Brophy; in the text labelled "Reproduced from Filer's Files #25 - June 16, 2010", George Filer states that William Brophy wrote that his father, Lt. Col. William J. Brophy
"...told me the...
Well damn! Had I been a Twitter guy and seen all your posts, I'd have just used your post for the OP. Would have saved me a lot of time ;)
I've harped on this case repeatedly for good reason. As you point out, it was a minor thing from likely...
NorCal Dave did a good summary of this case. I was the one who provided Brian Dunning with the general timeline and Brophy connection and all that. Quick recap: Pinotti got those documents, it was a relatively mild story, nothing in the telegrams...
EDIT: Cross posted with @John J. above, not trying to gang up on the same quote.
TTSA was never going to do anything with "internal mass reduction", they were just throwing the term around. DeLonge was making claims about hitting their sample...
The patent was submitted at least a year before DeLonge announced his plans for forming TTSA. I'd guess work on the patent went on for some time before the submission.
The patent could not have been a pre-emptive move to scupper TTSA.
Equally...
EDIT: Cross posted with @John J. above, not trying to gang up on the same quote.
TTSA was never going to do anything with "internal mass reduction", they were just throwing the term around. DeLonge was making claims about hitting their sample...
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/jun/16/alternative-3-mockumentary-missing-scientists-conspiracy-50-years-later
When UK mockumentary Alternative 3 tried to spook viewers that scientists were vanishing as part of a sinister space...
Re-reading the OP, a minor ahistorical detail from Brophy; in the text labelled "Reproduced from Filer's Files #25 - June 16, 2010", George Filer states that William Brophy wrote that his father, Lt. Col. William J. Brophy
"...told me the...
Well damn! Had I been a Twitter guy and seen all your posts, I'd have just used your post for the OP. Would have saved me a lot of time ;)
I've harped on this case repeatedly for good reason. As you point out, it was a minor thing from likely...