I have read of the story many times before and one other similar one.
One wonders how many if any are true. If only but one story of such invention were true, I can not help but wonder what became of the discovery and inventor.

http://paranormal.about.com/library/weekly/aa012901a.htm

Your thoughts?

I personally do not believe in the word "impossible". I don't think anything is impossible, it just hasn't been discovered yet. Many people think humans know a good percentage of everything and anything when in reality, we as a species haven't even scratched the surface of the possible.

Did those stories occur? Perhaps, it isn't impossible in my eyes. Though I cannot say they did or didn't as I wasn't personally there nor was anyone else alive today (except for the second story of translucency).

That was an interesting article.

What do I think? I think... look at those achievements, if not actually bonafide events, at least the experimentation. And this was decades and even a centuray ago? It's pretty obvious that if those things were only beginning way back when, imagine the progress that has been made with it. Come on, does anyone really believe that Tesla's work was just "abandoned" 60 plus years ago when he died? I can only imagine what the military has that we won't find out about for at least 100 years. I think some of it is release to the public, to the corporate sector to evaluate the progress.

An example that comes to mind is CD technology. I believe that technology, of optical lasers reading the encoded info in the pits of the tracks, existed for some time, pehaps as early as the 50's. It is a well known fact that early experiments with lasers go back as far as the 20's. So this tech was released to the media recording companies to see how far they could progress it and how fast. In just a few short years, CDs made tapes and most other forms of music media obsolete. And now, barely 25 years after they went on the market, there is Blue Ray, and the emerging triple-laser holographic disc that is rumored to hold 3 terabytes of info on a single dic. That's insane, that's 3,750,000,000 standard CDs on ONE holo-disc! And who funded the research and development of these? Consumers. Not with taxes (as in the government R&D) but with consumer dollars making the Toshibas and Sonys of the world billions of dollars in sales with which to carry on this progress.

I think there is tuff out there (but behind closed doors) that would make your jaw drop. More than likey, some of that stuff is already in use on the battlefiled and in domestic surveillance.

The Admiral

I think that is a bit off. A regular Compact Disc has a capacity of about 700 MB of data, about 0.68 gigabytes. A so-called Holographic Versatile Disc is reputed to hold 3.9 terabytes or 3,994 gigabytes. 3072/0.68 = ~5,900 compact discs.

Of course data storage manufacturers have tried to redefine the terms kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte and terabyte so that they can exaggerate the storage capacities of their products by 7.4% for devices measured in gigabytes and 10% for devices measured in terabytes. I am using the real definitions, and I don't know if the claim for the HVD uses the real definitions or the new definitions, so the real figure could differ a small proportion from what I have given.

You are correct, I mistyped my info in my usual hurried manner, the article I read claimed 3,750 Cds on one one HVD. Still astounding, because if this is out in a Popular Science article, imagine the things we don't know about yett!