Susan Meckley
Biography:
Adventurer Susan Meckley, a 72-year-old grandmother, is currently sailing solo around the world on her vessel USSV Dharma.
Past Shows:
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| Saturday June 11, 2005 |
Former Air Force pilot turned best-selling author, Dale Brown, detailed his service as a navigator-bombardier aboard a B-52 Stratofortress loaded with nuclear weapons, as well as discussed the procedures and psychological stresses of preparing to drop the bomb. "When the horn went off you never knew if that was the real thing or that was just an exercise," Brown remarked, recalling the time he had to copy a combat message while on alert in the B-52. When the klaxon sounded, Brown explained, your orders were to start the engines, copy the coded message, and prepare for take-off. The first few letters of the coded message would indicate if the mission was an exercise or an order to go to war, he said.Brown also talked about 'Dreamland' air base, the secret Aurora program, hypothetical nuclear war scenarios, and the dangers posed by radical Islam, China and North Korea. He said North Korea has "an extremely large and very sophisticated military society," but believes their
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Host: Art Bell
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| Saturday May 28, 2005 |
One of the world's leading physicists, Brian Greene discussed Einstein's legacy, the nature of time and space, quantum physics, and the theory of everything."We still do not know how the universe began," Greene stated, describing the realm from which our universe emerged as "spaceless and timeless" -- a place where our current understanding of physics breaks down. Greene believes discovering a unified theory of the universe, something he said Einstein worked to find even on his deathbed, could help us understand how it all began.Greene suggested quantum computers, which would be exponentially faster than conventional computers, may one day help us find the elusive unified theory. Such knowledge, he thought, could eventually allow mankind to manipulate space and time, and possibly even "bend space" to instantaneously travel from one point in the universe to another.Greene also talked about the existence of life in the universe, UFOs, and time travel. According to
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Host: Art Bell
