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NEWSCIENCENEWSCIENCENEWSCIENCE OXYGEN STARVATION CAUSED DINOSAURS' DEMISE? went into the session as a hardened sceptic. OXYGEN STARVATION CAUSED Another highlight was an original Keely DINOSAURS' DEMISE? motor, owned by Victor Hansen of lowa A dramatic drop in the atmospheric oxy- and explained by Dale Pond of Tulsa, gen level over time caused the dinosaurs to Oklahoma. John Emst Worrell Keely went be slowly wiped out by respiratory stress: down in history labelled as a fraud, but his _ this is the suggestion put forward by four findings are being vindicated in advanced researchers at the annual meeting of the science today. Geological Society of Amercia in Boston. The politics of energy were covered b Gary Landis, of the US Geological Andrew Michrowski of the Ottawa-based Survey, measured oxygen in microscopic ANTARCTIC DINOSAUR FOUND Planetary Association for Clean Energy air bubbles trapped in amber, a fossilised _The fossilised remains of anew genus of (PACE), and Brian O'Leary of Oregon, ‘ee resin. He found that the amount of dinosaur were recently discovered only who was an energy critic and adviser to O*ygen dropped from 35 per cent from two 650 kilometres away from the South Pole. American presidential candidates. million years before the end of the The dinosaur, officially, named O'Leary, co-founder of IANS, proposes an Cretaceous period, to 28 per cent just after Cryolophosaurus ellioti (frozen-crested international consortium which could rise the end of the Cretaceous, the time when ~reptile), most closely resembles the above the forces of greed to make “appro- the dinosaurs all but disappeared. Today, allosaurus, a two-legged dinosaur similar priately-scaled free-energy devices" avail- the oxygen level is at 21 per cent—and to the tyrannosaurus and common to North = an ensinite “ten bout ni 1 ; . . @ researchers propose that changes in dinosaur, about nine metres long, ey pe so Patan her — the volcanic activity on Earth determine _ has a distinctive bony crest rising above its ivice ts Keepeein! Gime renee the various proportions of atmospheric car- _ brow, according to Dr William Hammer, a P d fil = D dc 7 = rari ed bon dioxide and oxygen levels, which in palaeontologist at Augustana College in io ic Ppa Pe nl a see e iq Wm influence life on the planet. Rock Island, Illinois. (Source: New Scientist, 6 November 1993) (Source: Sydney Morning Herald, 7 May 1994) ° ecologically. Wolfram Bahmann, European contact for [BLEANTS GROW WITH SOUND assembled from its constituent amino PACE, read a tribute to Rolf Schaffranke, OF MOLECULAR MUSIC acidg: former NASA space program consultant, a Jo#i.Sternheimer,‘a French physicist and Stemnheimer claims that in experiments, pioneer of new energy research and author | yusician, writes melodies that allegedly tomatoes exposed to his’ tunes grew two- of the classic book, Ether Technology. lhety plants grow, and has récently applied _and-a-half times larger than controls. Schaffranke passed on in April 1994 in |for an international patent covering his He also claims to have stopped an infec- Georgia. . method of music-making. tion of the tomatoes with a mosaic virus Meanwhile back at the podium, there The tunes are not random melodies: he by playing tunes that inhibited enzymes were so many fine speakers that we can't |chooses each note to correspond to an _ vital to the virus. ‘The tunes are very short, mention all the names and topics. For alist | amino acid in:a protein, and the full tune he says, and need only: be played once. of videos and audiotapes, contact corresponds to an entire-protein. Sternheimer wams scoffers to be careful, Backcountry Productions, 831 Alpine Sternheimer claims that when plants tinkering with the tunes because they can Street, Longmont, CO 80501, USA; phone |"hear' the appropriate tune, they produce affect people as well: "Don't ask a musi- (303) 772 8358. more of that protein. He also writes tunes cian to play them,” he says. "You must be Proceedings of the New Energy confer- | that inhibit the synthesis of proteins. very careful." Stemheimer says that one ence are in a 650-page book, soon to be Using simple physics, he claims'to'be of his:musicians had difficulty breathing available from The Institute for New able to translate into audible vibrations of after playing the tune for cytochrome C Energy, PO Box 58639, Salt Lake City, UT | music the quantum ‘vibrations that occur at too often: the molecular level as a protein is being (Source: New Scientist,28 May 1994) 84158-8639, USA. eo A dramatic drop in the atmospheric oxy- gen level over time caused the dinosaurs to be slowly wiped out by respiratory stress: this is the suggestion put forward by four researchers at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of Amercia in Boston. Gary Landis, of the US Geological Survey, measured oxygen in microscopic ANTARCTIC DINOSAUR FOUND air bubbles trapped in amber, a fossilised The fossilised remains of a new genus of tree resin. He found that the amount of dinosaur were recently discovered only oxygen dropped from 35 per cent fromtwo 650 kilometres away from the South Pole. million years before the end of the The dinosaur, officially, named Cretaceous period, to 28 per cent just after Cryolophosaurus ellioti (frozen-crested the end of the Cretaceous, the time when ~ reptile), most closely resembles the the dinosaurs all but disappeared. Today, allosaurus, a two-legged dinosaur similar the oxygen level is at 21 per cent—and _to the tyrannosaurus and common to North falling. America. The researchers propose that changes in The dinosaur, about nine metres long, the volcanic activity on Earth determine has a distinctive bony crest rising above its the various proportions of atmospheric car- _ brow, according to Dr William Hammer, a bon dioxide and oxygen levels, which in palaeontologist at Augustana College in tum influence life on the planet. Rock Island, Illinois. (Source: New Scientist, 6 November 1993) (Source: Sydney Morning Herald, 7 May 1994) ° En | =e NEXUS ¢57 AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1994