About Max Dolan

Max Dolan is an Emmanuel College student and Blast correspondent

Finally, Tractor Beams!

Well not quite yet, but in Jack Ng’s email he claims that along with Jun Chen, and other super-nerds, they have discovered a

backward scattering force which pulls a particle all the way towards the source without an equilibrium point.

A few years ago we figured out that photons’ momentum can be used in order to manipulate other objects to move in a certain direction, i.e. a solar sail. Yet this new theory explains how one could create

“an additional degree of freedom to optical micromanipulation.”

Chen and friends now need to prove this theory with a demonstration and then we’ll be plucking Millenium Falcons out of space in no time.

Ng’s Email

Aliens Want Us To Go Green

Photo: Gabriele/Flickr CC

How many more Al Gore documentaries and hollow political promises must we endure before we actually establish a viable energy source? When aliens from another universe tell you to change your oil or your engine will blow up, its  time to act.

As far as suits being vocal and passionate about extra-terrestrial life and interaction, Paul Hellyer, might as well have had a megaphone late this February, 2011.

Hellyer (Former Canadian Defensive Minister) claims that aliens have warned us of our energy sources’ gradual waning:

Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat.

Hellyer continued to assert that a secret branch of the United States’ government is already harnessing energy through ways taught to them by the aliens.

They [A secret branch of government] have developed energy sources, and publicly I’m saying that if they do not exist in commercial form, that extraterrestrials would certainly give us that information if we would ask them for it

If extra-terrestrial warnings are not enough to convert us to a reliable energy source, then hopefully man’s natural desire to drive a hovercraft and make it with a space chick will be enough.

Hellyer Stresses An Honest Government, at least with Obama