VIDEO — Canadian engineering duo claim $250,000 prize for first human-powered helicopter
RT News
July 14, 2013
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The world’s first human-powered helicopter by a Canadian engineer has won the Sikorsky Prize after performing a minute-long flight at an altitude of 3.3 meters – fueled only by the pilot’s pedaling of a modified bicycle.
The AHS Igor I. Sikorsky Human Powered Helicopter Competition was established in 1980, in search for the first successful controlled flight of a human powered helicopter. The helicopter had to reach a height of three meters while hovering for at least one minute in a ten-square-meter area. The competition’s $250,000 prize had never previously been awarded, with numerous creative engineers trying and failing to meet the criteria.
“The AHS Sikorsky Prize challenged the technical community to harness teamwork, technical skills, and cutting edge technologies to meet requirements that were on the ragged edge of feasibility,” Mike Hirschberg, AHS International Executive Director, said in a statement.
The University of Toronto’s AeroVelo team pitched their Atlas helicopter against a team from Maryland University, winning the coveted prize. Dozens of students from Toronto’s team were involved in the project.
The Atlas measured 47 meters across and weighed only 54 kilograms, due to its super-lightweight carbon fiber tubes, which connected the vehicle’s four rotors to the bike.
The helicopter draws its power from the pilot’s physical strength to keep it in the air. Todd Reichert, who flew and engineered the aerial vehicle, explained to The Ottawa Citizen that “As you spin your legs, you spin the rotors…It’s very much an exercise in mental and physical control, at the same time as an all-out physical effort.” He said that flying the Atlas was an “incredible feeling.”
He added that “this isn’t something that you’re going to commute to work in any time soon, but it’s an exercise in really pushing the limits on what’s physically possible, and what you can do with lightweight materials and really creative design.”
Winning the prize has inspired the Canadian team to continue doing what they love while inspiring others to pursue big ideas, Reichert said.
More than a year was spent developing the Atlas helicopter, which faced many obstacles and underwent many changes along the way. The team’s structural engineer, Cameron Robertson, said he hopes “that this inspires not only our fellow Canadians, but also global citizens to do more with less.”
David Zingg, a professor at the University of Toronto’s engineering department, said the victory was “a great technological achievement, requiring ingenuity, knowledge, and experience in a number of challenging technical areas.” He added that “Todd and Cameron have provided tremendous inspiration for young engineers both in Canada and around the world.”
Todd Reichert and Cameron Robertson started AeroVelo as a team geared toward developing the award-winning helicopter and other human-powered vehicles. It is their hope that such projects will soon become an alternative or an accompaniment to vehicles which rely exclusively on burning fossil fuels.
The team has already had other wins, namely the 2010 human-powered ornithopter which they dubbed “Snowbird.”The invention flapped its wings to stay airborne, becoming the first bird-like vehicle to be flown by man.
VIDEO — Chemtrails Cartoon – “ANOTHER Full Day of Chemtrails”
YouTube — Citygypsy
April 23, 2009
[Potent News editor’s note: I don’t recommend drinking bleach and I don’t know why the main character was drinking bleach around 8min19sec into this video, but I think the cartoon is still valuable.]
Chemtrails are persistent lines of chemical-infused aerosol spray dispersals from typically unmarked planes which are now seen in the sky all over the world. Unlike normal jet contrails that are formed from water vapor and disappear quickly, chemtrails spread to form a thick blanket of cloud cover, held together by polymer fibers until they reach the ground, contaminating crops, water supplies and humans with RADIOACTIVE SOFT METALS and DESSICATED RED BLOOD CELLS which contain active HUMAN PATHOGENS!
We have all seen contrails in the sky, pretty much all our lives, which is why this is so tricky and the reason why billions of people are being “fooled” into either not noticing chemtrails when they are present, or ignoring them altogether, believing that they are not harmful. Most people are so busy these days, they hardly take notice of what is going on in the sky.
If you see planes leaving white lines in the sky and they do not disappear, and instead linger, grow thicker and thicker until it finally forms a cloud mass much like a CIRRUS cloud, then you and everyone around you are being poisoned. This is serious business folks. This is the freaking air that we breathe and the water that we drink! It is also the food that we eat. This WILL negatively affect the health of your family and friends, you, your neighbors, EVERYONE.
If we do not speak out against this dastardly program, whatever it is and whoever is causing it, then we will just have to live with, or die by the consequences. Please contact every single agency you can think of and demand ANSWERS. Contact your local and state representatives and ask them what they are doing about this situation. Film the activity as it is being conducted as proof. Take soil and water samples and have them tested. When you deal with agencies and the authorities, never ever use the term “Chemtrail” and only use the term “Persistent Contrail”, otherwise, they will not take you seriously.
For more information, please visit http://www.californiaskywatch.com and see what founder Rosalind Peterson has to say about “Persistent Contrails”. Also, use http://www.google.com and type in key words such as Chemtrails, HAARP, Clifford Carnicom, Project Blue Beam, Morgellons Disease, Global Depopulation, Georgia Guidestones, Eugenics Program.
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Blaylock: Impacts of Chemtrails on Human Health. Nanoaluminum: Neurodegenerative and Neurodevelopmental Effects
Global Research
June 13, 2013
The Internet is littered with stories of “chemtrails” and geoengineering to combat “global warming” and until recently I took these stories with a grain of salt. One of the main reasons for my skepticism was that I rarely saw what they were describing in the skies. But over the past several years I have notice a great number of these trails and I have to admit they are not like the contrails I grew up seeing in the skies. They are extensive, quite broad, are laid in a definite pattern and slowly evolve into artificial clouds. Of particular concern is that there are now so many dozens every day are littering the skies.
My major concern is that there is evidence that they are spraying tons of nanosized aluminum compounds. It has been demonstrated in the scientific and medical literature that nanosized particles are infinitely more reactive and induce intense inflammation in a number of tissues. Of special concern is the effect of these nanoparticles on the brain and spinal cord, as a growing list of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s dementia, Parkinson’s disease and Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS) are strongly related to exposure to environmental aluminum.
Nanoparticles of aluminum are not only infinitely more inflammatory, they also easily penetrate the brain by a number of routes, including the blood and olfactory nerves (the smell nerves in the nose). Studies have shown that these particles pass along the olfactory neural tracts, which connect directly to the area of the brain that is not only most effected by Alzheimer’s disease, but also the earliest affected in the course of the disease. It also has the highest level of brain aluminum in Alzheimer’s cases.
The intranasal route of exposure makes spraying of massive amounts of nanoaluminum into the skies especially hazardous, as it will be inhaled by people of all ages, including babies and small children for many hours. We know that older people have the greatest reaction to this airborne aluminum. Because of the nanosizing of the aluminum particles being used, home filtering system will not remove the aluminum, thus prolonging exposure, even indoors.
In addition to inhaling nanoaluminum, such spraying will saturate the ground, water and vegetation with high levels of aluminum. Normally, aluminum is poorly absorbed from the GI tract, but nanoaluminum is absorbed in much higher amounts. This absorbed aluminum has been shown to be distributed to a number of organs and tissues including the brain and spinal cord. Inhaling this environmentally suspended nanoaluminum will also produce tremendous inflammatory reaction within the lungs, which will pose a significant hazard to children and adults with asthma and pulmonary diseases.
I pray that the pilots who are spraying this dangerous substance fully understand that they are destroying the life and health of their families as well. This is also true of our political officials. Once the soil, plants and water sources are heavily contaminated there will be no way to reverse the damage that has been done.
Steps need to be taken now to prevent an impending health disaster of enormous proportions if this project is not stopped immediately. Otherwise we will see an explosive increase in neurodegenerative diseases occurring in adults and the elderly in unprecedented rates as well as neurodevelopmental disorders in our children. We are already seeing a dramatic increase in these neurological disorders and it is occurring in younger people than ever before.
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Natural solutions for varicose veins
by Dr. David Jockers
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(NaturalNews) Varicose veins are blood vessels that have become enlarged and tortuous. This most commonly develops in the legs and is associated with chronic inflammation and poor circulation. There are natural solutions to improve circulation and prevent and reverse the effects of varicose veins.
Blood is constantly pumping through our blood vessels and the most challenged regions are those areas that pump against gravity. In particular, this would be the leg regions which depend upon a complex set of venous leaflets and muscular pump to return blood back to the heart. When the veins become inflamed it damages the leaflet valves and they no longer close properly which allows blood to flow backwards. This creates a swelling or varicosity in the legs.
Circulatory problems are typically indicative of chronic inflammation and can also be found with arteriosclerosis, hypertension and kidney dysfunction. Long-standing varicose veins not only are unsightly but they lead to swelling and edema in the legs and ankles, skin thickening and ulceration. Similar conditions include reticular veins (blue veins) and telangiectasias (spider veins) which are associated with chronic inflammation and vascular insufficiency.
De-inflame the body
One of the common findings with individuals with circulatory problems is elevated insulin levels. This is due to poor blood sugar metabolism and leads to chronic inflammatory states. It is important to keep grains, sugars and starches out of the diet as they increase blood sugar and elevate insulin. It is also important to keep high omega-6 vegetable oils and processed meats completely out of the diet as they promote the inflammatory mediators that damage the blood vessel walls.
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Regular exercise is another critical component to an anti-inflammatory lifestyle. This includes bouts of both high-intensity and low-intensity exercise. Individuals with varicose veins or those at risk should look to avoid high impact activities such as jumping and running on concrete or treadmills. These individuals would do much better running and walking on a softer surface like grass, dirt or sand.
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Lower c reactive protein (CRP) and homocysteine levels
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