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Chronicle: October 15, 2009
I'm leaving tomorrow for Paris by TGV with my wife. Friends will watch the house. My young assistants found me a folding wheelchair, which we can take in the plane to Bremen as checked baggage. A medical certificate will allow me to cut in line at airports. Julien and I are finalizing the PowerPoint presentation that I will give there, at the AIAA (American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics) conference, dedicated to hypersonic flight, which will result in the publication in the minutes of this congress of a 25-page paper, following the three communications of the Vilnius MHD conference, September 2008 and the three publications in the refereed journal Acta Physica Polonica. A large part of this paper will be devoted to MHD disc-shaped aerodynamics and hypersonic flight without shock waves or turbulence.
I hope I won't "break" during this trip, which I would have liked to skip. But without my physical presence at the conference, the paper wouldn't have been accepted. Since we found out late, we had to register just as late, Geffray and me. One thousand euros per person for the registration alone, plus accommodation and travel. UFO-science will cover all of this. The conference is held in a hotel, but we could only find rooms for Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Sunday and Monday nights we will have to set up our tents in a distant hotel, which means I will spend the days of Monday and Tuesday lying in the room we found in that hotel. I can't guarantee prolonged sitting. Therefore, I will only be present at the conference on Wednesday, when my presentation will take place, which I will give from my wheelchair. After that, we will return.
Julien will film it, and then we will put it on dailymotion. My friend Denis Roussel should have finished editing the lecture I gave at the X in March 2009, on the Z-machine. A one-man show of fifty minutes which the two local specialists, professors at the X, Rax and Chuvatin, preferred not to attend. I think you'll like it. I asked Denis to add some illustrations and photos in the first six minutes. What's nice is that when I was composing the PowerPoint, I had created animations by simply linking a few successive images. In video, it works very well. For example, I show how the plasma corolla evolves in 3D in a Focus machine.
Now that we have reinstalled ourselves in Pertuis, I will be able to produce lectures in video format with our camcorder. Denis, who is a editor, gave us a tip: film with a large piece of black velvet as a background. With a small halogen light that gives a little light on the side, this is what we get:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5eye6_ufoscience_tech
**A video already viewed by 60,000 internet users. Link **
Before going to the Vilnius conference, I had presented a communication, this time in cosmology, at a conference held at Imperial College, London:
I followed it with the International MHD Conference in Vilnius, moving with two canes, where in fact I spent most of the time lying in the room, limiting my presence in the large conference hall to short visits.
**Presentation in Vilnius, September 2008 **
Back in Pertuis, I will continue with two hours of aquagym daily. The pool works very well. Two polyurethane plates, placed on the water, prevent any evaporation of this water kept at 34°C twenty-four hours a day. My friend Jacques Juan installed a regulated heating system, with a small 4 kW water heater with a thermostat. For filtration, I used a small pump recovered from a supermarket pool kit. We wondered how to get into the "small bath" of this pool, which resembles a giant tub. It was my wife who solved the problem (the Chinese are always very resourceful) by simply immersing a white plastic garden chair. When I sit on it, only my head is above water, and in a state of "weightlessness" I can watch movies on a DVD player. Since the polyurethane covers prevent evaporation, the equipment, the DVDs, or even books do not absorb humidity. When I remain still, the pool becomes a Relaxotron.
For movement, I currently use a wooden curtain rod placed across. This allows me to do pull-ups in a vertical position in the "Big Bath" (depth: two meters). I need to get some pool slippers with wooden soles, under which I will attach lead weights (diving belt) to prevent my legs from rising. &&& If someone can help me with this: I wear a size 43.
Sometimes I have visits from hedgehogs, curious, when I use the pool at night. We empty it with a "cellar pump," which we lower with a rope. A garden hose allows us to send the water into the kitchen sink. In two hours, the pool is empty. To periodically clean the bottom of the pool, I use the first remote-controlled robot, that is, a 30 mm diameter plastic hose, guided by a broom handle, whose one end I connect to the PVC suction hose connected to the filtration pump. Regular victims: the small black Mediterranean scorpions, five centimeters long, attracted by the humidity, which fall into the pool and drown.
Counting everything, I must be at seven thousand euros. Fortunately, the sales of my last book allowed me to cover this expense. Another one will have to be planned (with additional income). For now, I drive an old Ford Escort, whose non-assisted steering is as hard as that of a truck. Anyway, currently, if I take it, it's for a quick trip in Pertuis, which I haven't left since June.
**JPP: **
*- Maximum weight capacity: one kilo.
- All efforts are prohibited.
- Distance that can be covered on foot: 100 meters - By car: 2000 meters - Limited sitting time: two hours - Standing: excluded. *
The next essential investment will therefore be the vehicle change. I had a Nissan Vanette for ten years, where I had installed a two-person foam mattress and pillows. With that, I will be more mobile, since "I will take my bed with me." This system will prevent me from sitting for too long. Therefore, I will have to change my automatic Ford for a minivan, the Nissan Vanette being the ideal formula. Then I will be able to go to the southwest and fly in a Fandango helicopter with my friend Daniel Michau (the bald guy seen in the Direct8 program on UFOs, who saw a huge cigar-shaped object flying). I will also be able to resume flying the glider, 20 minutes from my home (Vinous), being able to, during the tem...