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Subject Popular Science Archives Hacked: May 2012 Issue Hints At Huge Internal Cover-up** Update We Got Into their archives GLP**

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At last a decent mystery on GLP!

I'll follow this as it develops but here are a few quick thoughts on Edward Youmans and Herbert Spencer.

Youmans was the founder of Popular Science and died in 1887 in New York. He was closely connected with the famous Victorian scientist Herbert Spencer, who lived until 1903.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_L._Youmans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Spencer

The encrypted section sounds like a late 19th c letter to the astronomer Percival Lowell, who built the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff AZ in 1896. The same Lowell who discovered the "canals on Mars"! This is due to the reference to Flagstaff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowell_Observatory

I don't know whether Spencer had a particular interest in "manned flight", which sounds a bit anachronistic from 1896 (surely they would talk about "powered flight" instead?) But the history seems to line up right.

Now for some speculation: the 1890s was the time when the "phantom airships" were buzzing the Midwest and other parts of the US, and the world. If - a big "if" - Youmans, Spencer and Lowell were involved in flight in some secret way, where better to test their airships than the big open spaces of the West? A number of researchers think these early airships were the result of a secret project.

If this is projected forwards through the 20th century, it may mean there's been an ongoing secret flight project running behind the scenes of the public development of aviation. What role have the "Daedalians" played in all this?

Daedalus might be a very old project, and one that the founders of Popular Science were closely involved with.
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Did Herbert Spenser meet Edward Youmans in 1873, or did they collaborate on a specific project during this time?

A "mystery 140 years in the making" would place the date at 1873.  I believe that it is this friendship that is being referred to here.
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Original Message ***Update, since the thread started, an AC got into their archives: Try the Password Angel ***

[link to www.popsci.com]

If you have the May 2012 Popular Science magazine, turn to the last page and there is a letter addressed to the public from the editors titled, "A Mystery 140 Years In The Making, Something Odd In Our Archives."

Apparently when the guys at Popular Science were going through their archives they found a note inside the December 1928 issue, and it had Web Address On It.

The web address linked to a encrypted page within their own system. The say that they can't get in but they know somebody has been coming and going.

They link a photo of the clues written and tell you the answers are hidden on specific pages of the issue and on those pages there are small photos of the covers of those issues.

NOW AT THIS POINT I WOULD NORMALLY SAY ITS A STUPID LITTLE JOKE UNTIL I FOUND THIS WRITTEN BY ONE OF THE EDITORS IN 2004.

Here is a quote.

"What's upsetting in these examples is not so much the positions taken by reasonable people on ethical and scientific issues as the fact that debates seem shaped by political operatives who bypass reason and instead leverage ignorance the way dot-com-era Wall Street leveraged phantom assets."

"Here I might trot out the lemmings-headed-for-a-cliff comparison -- what we don't know will hurt us, ignorance is not bliss, etc. But the lemmings story is a myth. Pudgy Arctic rodents don't run headlong off cliffs. People, metaphorically, do."

[link to www.popsci.com]

***Update here is the archive page for the file in question***

[link to www.popsci.com]

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