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- Issue #40 August-something, 1989
- Special I-got-the-blues Issue!
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- Write to us: Activist Times, Inc.
- P.O. Box 2501
- Bloomfield, NJ 07003
-
- Ok, ok.... So it took more than 2 days since ATI39. Sorry! I got caught up in
- final papers and exams for summer courses, and other projects..
-
- But anyway, on with ATI40. First up is Prime Anarchist, with his new feature
- called P.A.W.N., Prime Anarchist World News. Here we go!
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- P*A*W*N*P*A*W*N*P*A*W*N*P*A*W*N*P*A*W*N*P*A*W*N*P*A*W*N*P*A*W*N*P*A*W*N*
- Prime Anarchist World News
-
- Greetings Fellow Humanoids:
-
- Did you know that one of the newest Cyberpunks was one of the oldest Pop
- artists? Yeah, Willian Burroughs longtime friend of peoploids like Andy
- Warhol, Jack Kerouak and Allen Ginsberg is featured all the time in RE:SEARCH
- magazine.
- So look out Tim Leary -- you're not the oldest hipster anymore.
- If you use a cellular phone where I'm at *98 and *97 are toll phree
- numbahs. Is this a global, national or regional phenomenon? If anyone's done
- any work with this numerical number assignment pattern, I'd appreciate hearing
- about it through either ATI or some other open meduim. What I'd like to know
- most is what stops payfones and home fones from responding to these star
- codes. A tone? A code? A cable pair?
- Everyone is by now aware of my feelings up to today about the People
- magaze article about Abbie Hoffman's death. Heck, I published that opinion
- EVERYWHERE. I thougt it was by far, the BEST handled Abbie article this side
- of the century, this side of the world.
- That's until I picked up the July issue of High Times magazine. Steven
- Bloom made an awesome compilation of discussions with a bunch of people who
- knew Abbie, and it was filled with good schtuff. David Peel, Paul Katner,
- Aaron Kay and Willian Kunstler made for the most interesting of the speels.
- Also reprinted was an interview John Holstrom did with Abbie around February
- last year.
-
- I'll bring forth some of the parts that really tugged at my heart.
- "Born on the Fourth of July" will star Tom Cruise as a Vietman vet who
- comes back to America and becomes a peacenik. John Tower is a lip service fag
- of the Ayatollah's "Satan America".
- The current 60's revival will only last 2 years. Now, because of
- Woodstock, next year because of Kent State, and NOT the following years
- because, "No one wants to remember 1971, I guarantee you. It was a mess".
- The Rutgers attempt (at a national student left conference last year) was
- too broad. Too wide open. Every faction of the world was at each others'
- throat. A great opportunity was lost. Better comprehension of electronic
- bulltin boards and computerizing is needed.
- Abbie Hoffman was a great mind. Many of us often picked for thoughts when
- we knew something was up but just couldn't prove it. Abbie could always get
- you proof.
- Abbie was a manic depressive -- for that we can be thankful. For it was
- from his mood upswings that we got entire novels or painfully truthful poems,
- lectures, movie roles, comedy acts or great events.
- Abbie was the only man alive in the early 80's capable of exposing the
- CIA's efforts in Iran, Nicaragua, Angola, and Guatemala. I'm not suggesting
- that Abbie's death was a fascist plot.
- I'm insisting it.
- I also noticed in this issue of High Times that marijuana is going for
- $120 an ounce these days. I can't believe my eyes! That's an outrage. I know
- we'll never go back to the days of 30-40 bucks for a 4-ounce, but c'mon. Stop
- paying the big piper. Grow your own.
- Well, that's all for this afternoon. More later promise. P.A.W.N.
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- Now, we have an article from The Unbeliever (201) (formerly The Mad Pirate):
-
- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- ******Light Speed... And why it's not possible.********
- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- Ok. I know what you're thinking. You have this big question. "Why isn't
- faster than light travel (For the sake of space, I'll call FTL, which stands
- for [F]aster [T]han [L]ight.) possible? What is so magic about the speed of
- light? If you keep accelerating an object, won't you eventually reach the
- 'speed of light'? Un huh. No way. That's what I'm going to explain right here.
-
- Most people believe that if force is applied to an object, it accelerates in
- the direction opposite of which the force is applied. As long as the force is
- applied, the object will continue to move faster and faster. Under ordinary
- conditions, there is no sign that this will change; no mysterious speed limit
- at which this object will stop accelerating, no matter what the force.
-
- Physicists are quite sure that as a force is applied to an object, the
- momentum of the object will increase indefinitely, and come ever closer to
- infinite. The same can be said of an object's kinetic energy.
-
- Since the common sense notion is that the mass of a body (easily defined as
- "the quantity of matter it contains") does not change with motion, it follows
- that momentum and kinetic energy must increase only because velocity increases.
- And if momentum and kinetic energy increase indefinitely as a force continues
- to be applied, that can only mean that velocity must increse indefinitely.
- There seems no way out of that syllogism, so what is all this junk about the
- speed-of-light limit.
-
- This "junk" started with Albert Einstein in 1905. It seemed to Einstein that
- the speed of light in a vacuum must always be measured at the same speed (just
- under 300,000 kilometers per second) no matter what the motion of the light
- source might be relative to the observer who was making the measurement.
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- This consistancy of the speed of light did not seem to make sense. Ordinary
- objects, like a thrown rock, had speed that depended in part on the motion of
- the person or object throwing the ball, and it definitely seemed this rule
- should apply to everything, including light. Why should light have a special
- status?
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- Einstein developed his 'Special theory of Relativity' to describe a universe
- in which light behaved in this unusual fasion. For light o behave as it does,
- Einstein showed that mass ought to increase in quantity for a moving object. It
- should increase, as a matter of fact, according to a set relationship:
-
- M = m/(sqr(1-v^2/c^2))
- (The above is written in commodore style formulas, because the C64
- doesn't support exponents and square root formulas.)
-
- Where v is the speed of the object, c is the speed of light in a vacuum, m is
- the mass of the object when it's not moving and M is the mass of the boject
- when it IS moving at velocity v.
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- Until the begining of the 20th century, nothing had ever attained the speed
- of even 0.1 kilometers per second, or 1/3,000,000 the speed of light. Even if
- you add interplanetary rockets to the list, 15 kilometers pre second, or
- 1/20,000 the speed of light is all we have obtained.
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- If we use Einstein's formula and imagine a 1 kilogram object moving at 15
- kilometers per second, it's mass at that speed would be 1.0000000013 kilograms.
- It would have gained 1 1/3 micrograms, or a little over a billionth of it's
- rest mass.
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- Imagine an object moving at the enormous speed of 30,000 kilometers per
- second. Such a speed is 1/10 that of light and by Einsteins equation, I 1
- kilogram object moving at that speed would have a mass of 1.005 kilograms. It
- would have increased in mass by only approximately 0.5 percent.
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- A 1 kilogram object with the velocity of 60,000 kilometers per second would
- have a mass of 1.021 kilograms. At 90,000 kilometers per second, it's mass
- would be 1.048 kilograms; at 120,000 kps it would be 1.091 kilograms; at
- 150,000 kps it would be 1.155 kilograms.
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- 150,000 kilometers per second is half the speed of light. Even then, the gain
- in mass is only 15.5 persent. This doesn't seem very serious, but please note
- that the mass has been increasing at a faster and faster rate as the speed
- increases.
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- By the time we reach a speed of 290,000 kps (97 percent the speed of light),
- the mass of the moving body is 3.892, almost four times the original mass. At
- 295,000 kps (98.3% speed of light) the mass equals 5.52 kilograms; at 299,000
- kps (99.7% speed of light), 12.22 kilograms, at 299,999 kps (99.9997% speed of
- light) 383.5 kilograms.
- At the speed of light itself, if that could be reached, the mass would be
- infinite- as would be momentum and kinetic energy.
-
- A faster spped is impossible because neither mass, momentum or kinetic energy
- can be more than infinite. Besides, at infinite mass, no force, however great,
- can produce any acceleration, however small, so the speed cannot increase. So
- the speed of light is the limit which cannot be passed.
-
- And yet all this depends upon the validity of Einsteins equation, which in turn
- depends upon a correct deduction from Einstein's basic assumption. What if the
- equation is wrong, has been incorrectly deduced, or is based on faulty
- reasoning?
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- Perhaps we would still be wondering about that, were it not that a decade
- before Einstein advanced his theory, subatomic particles had been discovered.
- These tiny objects move at large fractions of the speed of light. Their mass
- could be measures with considerable precision, and it was found not only does
- their mass increase with speed,but PRECISELY to the amount predicted by
- Einstein's equation.
-
- Whew! That was a long file! Well, that's all for now... Until next issue!
-
- (Most of the information for this I obtained from an essay about the
- speed of light written by Issac Asimov.)
- !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- And now, a few words on the flag and democracy by MAC??? (213)
-
- The USA member of The NATO Association
- gives his thoughts on burning the flag.
-
- by MAC???
-
- The American flag, it can show you at a glance whether you are
- standing in a part of the world where saying you don't agree with
- something won't get you taken away in the middle of the night.
- A configuration of symbols that represent the freedom to say you
- don't agree with the government or the church.
- I am very glad I am an American and even though I would never
- burn our flag I realize that making a law that states that you can't
- burn it takes us a little closer to that middle of the night.
- It is true that much blood has been shed to make sure it can
- be safely put outside your house to wave in the breeze, but it does
- not just represent this, it represents your right to do with it as
- you wish.
- So when you see the flag know that you have a responsbility
- as well a a great burden upon you. The responsbility, making sure
- the flag is where it should be (whereever you think that place is).
- The burden, showing the world that the blood we shed to keep chaos
- back was worth it!
-
-
- NOTE: If you have any comments to the
- above I can be reached on The
- Red Phone.
-
- u!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-
- Notes from Ground Zero.....
-
- Crack/AIDS connection: New York city public health officials have spoken about
- the new link between crack use and transmission of AIDS. It happens because
- crack users often resort to prostitution to get money for the drug. This has
- led to huge upswing in venereal disease cases. When intercourse takes place
- with open sores cause by venereal diseases, this allows for the blood-to-blood
- or semen-to-blood contact necessary for transmission of the AIDS virus.
-
- Huey Newton, co-founder of the Black Panthers with Bobby Seale back in the
- 60's was shot to death in Oakland, Ca. this week. He was 47. Uncertain as to
- who killed him and why.
-
- Racism in the Garden State: The NJ Turnpike is seen as a key link in the
- transportation of drugs to New York and other points north. So NJ State
- troopers have taken to searching cars for drugs after stopping them for
- traffic violations. The problem is that the majority of those stopped are
- Blacks and Hispanics, stopped for very minor traffic infringments, (like an
- improper lane change) and treated in an extremely rude and abusive manner in
- many cases. This statistic speaks for itself: Blacks/minotities make up for
- only 30% of drug arrests nationwide, but the percentage of Black/minority drug
- arrests from car searches in the NJ Turnpike in the southernmost section near
- Philadelphia is 86%. In the section of the tunpike near New York, 89% of drug
- arrests from car searches are Black/minority. A clear case of race selection.
- (Source: WOR-TV News, Secaucus, NJ)
-
- Movie: "Rude Awakening" was an interesting movie, full of very funny moments.
- It's about 2 hippies who go to live in exile in the Central American jungle in
- 1969. But today, in 1989 they come across a killed CIA agent with papers that
- detail US plans to invade Central America. They decide to go back to New York
- to expose the papers to the media. They look up their old friends, who
- abandoned their radical 60's ways and became successful. I thought the movie
- was great, but the get-active-and-save-the-planet message in the end of the
- movie should have been more spread out. The movie should have integrated the
- hippies' awareness of the extreme new problems of the late 80's throughout the
- movie. I think the extreme swing to the right in the Reagan-Bush era should
- have been addressed also. But the movie did admirably demonstrate the apathy
- of today's college students.
-
- All in all, I recommend the movie. It's very entertaining!
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- That's all for ATI40. Look for ATI41 in about a week. Barring accidents! :)
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