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NEWSCIENCENEWSCIENCENEWSCIENCE man which had slowly evolved from primi- standing there since 413 AD at the latest, SLOTTED SONIC NOZZLE tive ape-man to our sophisticated scientific yet it shows little trace of rusting. Modern Chemical Liquid Scrubbing of society. The Parthian batteries were before technology has taken a long time to come Car and Truck Exhaust their time and were best forgotten. up with stainless steel, but King Dear Sir: I read Catherine Simons’ "The Actually, this unwelcome discovery had Chandragupta's men seemed to have known _Lies of Unleaded Petrol" in NEXUS Aug- been publicised by Rene Noorbergen _ the secret back then. Sept '95 issue with considerable interest, before Keyser's article appeared in the Noorbergen draws attention to the well- but now wonder if the trials and tribula- April 1993 edition of the Journal of Near known problems associated with building _ tions I had with chemical liquid scrubbing Eastern Studies. the pyramids. He concludes that "the trials on car exhaust in Detroit in 1971 Rene Noorbergen, an American journal- builders used construction and engineering would be of any interest to your readers. ist-turned-college lecturer, wrote a book _ skills and techniques known only to them". It may just be possible that chemical liq- called Secrets of the Lost Races. He not We would have to acknowledge that mod- uid scrubbing can finally completely clean only wrote a whole chapter about the for- ern man, with all his brilliant achieve- up all types of chemicals and particulates gotten batteries but drew attention to a ments, would not be able to erect such stu- still left in the exhaust system, without try- good many other artefacts that did not fit pendous monuments with the primitive ing to move over to electric cars or the the established view. He called them equipment we think was available then. major change to using hydrogen gas. "ooparts"—out of place artefacts. As for the cave-man concept, In that very early 1971 period, the In 1967, papers across America reported Noorbergen points out that there is no evi- American EPA had not as yet selected the the discovery of human remains, and a_ dence that people who lived in caves had catalytic converter and they had a strong well-tempered copper arrowhead in a silver shaggy hair and receding brows. This is all interest then in chemical liquid scrubbing mine in Colorado at a depth of 400 feet. just part of the supposed scene, the way the of car and truck exhaust—which is so com- By standard chronology it would have to be _ artists think it should have been. mon in cleaning up factory flue gas pipes dated as several millions of years old. In reality, there is plenty of evidence to in industry—but how to make the system The June 1851 edition of Scientific show that people in the Stone Age were small enough for a car was the problem. American reported that a beautiful metallic highly intelligent and had an advanced cul- Unfortunately, the American vase had been blasted out of solid rock in ture. Their stone plates, bowls and vases Government had an incredibly absurd man- Dorchester, Massachusetts. The vase was were skilfully made and the artistic designs date that their EPA Auto Emission Control adorned with six flowers and was inlaid on them reveal a sophisticated art form. Test Laboratory in Ypsilanti (just near with silver, but the rock was considered to Robert Silverberg wrote: "The cave Detroit in Michigan) was forbidden to do be millions of years old. paintings are upsetting to those who prefer any test of new and unknown technology: On 22nd June 1844, workmen were to think of Quaternary man as little more _ it had to be tried first by an outside private blasting granite rock near Rutherford Mills, than an ape.” (Man Before Adam, p. 191) corporation research body, designated by England. Embedded in the rock was a_ And the great archaeologist W. F. Albright the EPA. But this could lead to very obvi- man-made gold thread. Geologists who wrote: "It is very doubtful whether man's ous acts of fraud in supply of testing results examined the rock estimated it to be 60 artistic capabilities are actually any higher to the EPA—which happened in my case. million years old. today than they were in late prehistoric (The EPA still has this very strange ruling, At the Kutb Minar in Dethi, India, is the times." (From the Stone Age to and now the test costs before they review Ashoka Pillar which is a 10-metre-high Christianity) anything are USD$50,000 and more.) iron pillar weighing six tonnes. It has been Of course, some people did live in caves, The initial work for this development —— ee * SS but, as Noorbergen _ started in Australia, but was mainly done TARZAN GOES TO THE CITY points out, there are overseas, and this is how it happened. people today living in Around the 1965 period, my (now late) caves alongside mod- elder brother, David Bodycomb, was a ern cultures. research technician with APPM's paper- So, let's bring the coating mill at Ballarat in Victoria, and he batteries out into the hand-soldered together a very crude device open and recognise of open slots to try experimental high- that it is only because speed runs of spray-coating paper and of the accumulation board with coloured starch and clay with- of knowledge through out streaking, and the device made a sonic the centuries that we whistle. have computers, rock- But APPM people in those days had no ets and atom bombs _ interest at all in trying to stop overruns of today. coloured pulp stock from polluting lakes, (Source: rivers, streams and the sea. So he gained a Archaeological written release for me to proceed where I Diggings, Oct/Nov was in Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry 1994; PO Box 34], Research in Montreal, Canada. Hornsby NSW 2077, I had a much larger 34-inch-wide Australia) machined version made where the high- AA @ NIDVIIC We ar anne ---s- (Source: Archaeological Diggings, Oct/Nov 1994; PO Box 341, Hornsby NSW 2077, Australia) 44 « NEXUS JUNE-JULY 1996