How was (this info) "available to everybody in America at the time of Norjack." - through tv? There was no internet. You cant prove your contention because I doubt you can show any poll in 1971 showing that result you claim in a fact. Moreover the very example you site defines a very special population - police. Its just an idle statement on your part, nothing more, that this info 'was available to everybody in America at the time of Norjack'.
There are two passages of testimony at stake: (1) the subject stated that the bomb he had was electrically fused and he certainly hoped the crew would not generate any electrical currents which would trigger it! (2) . He told (me) it was an electronic device and suggested the aircraft radio be used as little as possible. He then said ‘he didn’t think radio transmissions would bother it, but he wanted the crew warned’ .
The second passage uses the word "electronic".
Several possibilities suggest themselves. If he said "electronic" then he just might have been familiar with electronic circuitry and electronic components, CMOS transistors in particular.
This whole thing, imho, is a wild card.... but it just might connect to rare earth particles found on his tie. On the one hand we have someone using what to my mind is rather sophisticated technical language, then by another act of fate the tie left on the plane winds up carrying rather rare particles not found in your average home. On the one hand we have a person using technical language expressing technical ideas not common in the general population, then by some further act of fate the tie HE may have left winds up having rather uncommon elemental particles on it!
So I am connecting the rather uncommon technical ideas Cooper voiced to Tina, with a tie which also turns out to have a very uncommon set of rare earth particles on it. People have questioned if the tie belonged to Cooper. Tom believes that it did. What Cooper chose to say may link Cooper to the tie, as related artifacts coming from a common source - Cooper himself.
That is why I believe what Cooper said about his bomb may be important; it defines a person who might also have some artifacts on his tie, not normally found in the general population ... even the population who grew up watching cartoons. But, rare particles on a tie and a person warning about electronic (electromagnet induction) might very well have a common source in one specific person - and for Cooper the two may go together quite easily given that p[erson's life. The proof that the tie belonged to Cooper may hinge on what Cooper said about his bomb. That's why this could be important.
The Dan Cooper Comic is an example of something that was not available to everybody in America.
Dragnet was.
Say, Fred, did you see Dragnet last night?
No, Lester, but I'm very familiar with it because we only have a handful of channels at this point in American history.
Oh, well it was a real gasser. Lemme tell ya all about it while we eat out of our lunch pails.
Sure, then I can tell it to my chums over Lowenbraus in a smokey bar later.By the way, this was the second episode back after a 9-year hiatus.
As far as the particles on the tie - so you and Tom think they were deposited there by Cooper's work? I'm pretty sure he "worked" on the bomb. Soldering, taping, gluing, clipping wires, priming (fake?) charges, cleaning connections, etc. How is it he managed to not get any particles from the recently constructed bomb/gadget/art project on his tie? Why is it that neither you nor Tom seem to be exploring that? When I asked Tom his one-line response was, "We didn't see any nitrogen based particles on the tie." That's it. That's the sum total of his response about bomb parts. And he didn't think a lack of explosive was important enough to mention to anybody. Like Airborne Bob's lawyer, for instance.
TK had no thoughts on Lead Phosphate at all. He stated so on his website. I looked into it. You can get Lead Phosphate off of a sparkplug in 1971. How is this an "interesting particle" if someone can casually pick it up while tuning up their car in their driveway? How are all of these phosphors interesting when everyone at home is watching Dragnet and Hee Haw on them? How is a spiral of aluminum exotic when you are standing inside of an aircraft mostly made of aluminum with little holes drilled into it, creating little aluminum spirals? How is it noteworthy that he was carring rare earth elements on his tie when you could find them all 18 rows away?
If Cooper had mustard on his tie, he didn't work in a mustard factory. He ate a hot dog.
When you tell people that the world's most notorious and elusive criminal of the past 100 years worked in a CRT factory, probably Tektronix, they spend exorbitant amounts of time looking for evidence of him in that company, followed by more companies like it. If you have knowledge about these particles, it is your responsibility to these people to either share ALL of what you know or to keep your mouth shut so they don't go bashing their head into the wall chasing a ghost.
I asked Tom nearly a year ago about the possibility of those rare earth elements coming from nuclear waste, not knowing the sizes or amounts of the particles found. Guess what? He didn't either! He replied,
"Interesting idea about nuclear waste. When I get the stubs back I will check for a radiation signal above background." The expert on the particles wasn't familiar enough with the particles to know that what I was suggesting was impossible - in 2018. That was my biggest revelation about this case this year - that the lead scientist on the case is nearly as in the dark as everybody else.
Here's a quiz for you, Georger: What elements would you fashion a drill bit out of if you were going to drill through titanium on a Boeing passenger jet? Extra credit question: Can those elements be found in a prominent spot on Tom's website?
I'd put the answers upside-down at the bottom of the page, but since I can't:
"The standard twist drill bits used for drilling aluminum are made from HSS and have a 135° split point. Drill bits for titanium are made from cobalt vanadium for increased wear resistance."You are not allowed to view links.
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Login Cobalt. Vanadium. Two other elements Tom posted on his website in the "interesting particles found" section, neither featuring any guesses as to where they came from.
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Login Finally, what other samples have you or anyone else analysed of any passengers from any aircraft to test against this tie? Don't bother responding about cost. If the testing is incomplete, it's incomplete. No control test, no usable results.
The logic of using the tie to tell things about Cooper is still a good start, but needs to be refined. You can't add all of the particles together and say "Cooper came from a place with all of these particles." There is no timestamp on any of them. A chef's kitchen rag will have tomato sauce, bacon grease, salad dressing, Chablis, chicken fat, human hair, trace pig feces, chocolate mousse, guacamole, tuna salad and dirt on it. This doesn't mean the chef made a dish with all of those ingredients. Try to figure out the most likely donors for each particle before lumping them together into the most convenient package.
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