Epstein Secrets

would come within range. In the 1960s astronomer Carl Sagan calculated that, if you could attain a modest rat

ose air do you share? (It’s OK To Be Smart, PBS) 3 MIN 30 SEC A video that explains how we breathe recycled ait—including molecules of air exhaled by Ein- stein himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BybkIysAKe 2. We Are Star Stuff segment (Carl Sagan’s Cosmos) 8 MIN Carl Sagan explains how the elements of

athe recycled ait—including molecules of air exhaled by Ein- stein himself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BybkIysAKe 2. We Are Star Stuff segment (Carl Sagan’s Cosmos) 8 MIN Carl Sagan explains how the elements of life were born in stars, evolved into simple organ- isms, then into us: imtelligent creatures,

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mander-of-the -us-cyber-command-general-keith-alexander-20140507-itzhw#ixzz3m6TkuRal. 127 “I don’t look at this”: Jeremy Herb and Justin Sink, “Sen. Feinstein Calls Snow- den’s NSA Leaks an ‘Act of Treason,’” Hill, June 6, 2013. 128 duck-rabbit cartoon: Jastrow, Fact and Fable in Psychology, 202-4. 128 “I

ot anybody”: Mark McClish, “The Last Words of Lee Harvey Oswald,” Statement Analysis, Jan. 3, 2013, http:/

nowden may have carried out”: Drumheller, interview with author. 153 As Snowden acknowledges: Bamford, “Edward Snowden.” 154 “absence of evidence”: Carl Sagan, Cosmos (New York: Random House, 1980), 49. 154 “The greatest trick”: Cherkashin, interview with author. The quotation from The Usual Suspects was

t of Interview with General Keith Alexander, Australian Financial Review, May 8, 2014. 28. “Act of treason...” ---Jeremy Herb and Justin Silk. “Sen. Feinstein Calls Snowden’s NSA Leaks “Act of Treason,” The Hi//, June 6, 2013 29.” Rep. Mike Rogers....” Tim Curry, “House Intelligence Chair Hints at Russian

dy...” Statement Analysis: “The Last Words of Lee Harvey Oswald.” http://www.statementanalysis.com/lee-har

rried...”—Author’s interview with Tyler Drumheller. 13. “As Snowden acknowledged, he...”-- Bamford, Wired, op.cit. 14. “Absence of evidence is...” —Carl Sagan, Cosmos (Random House, New York) 1980. P. 49 15. “We have many notable cases...” For the cases of Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames, see Appendix A 1

on to win Nobel Prizes for Physics in 1956 and 1968, respectively. There are many similar anecdotes: Apparently stupid people go on to great things. Einstein’s teacher famously stated he would never amount to anything and Sir John Gurdon’s school report said he was ‘too stupid’ for science. He went on to d

roof of the existence of God. Surely God is a complication unnecessary to the explanation of our Universe. The argument is illustrated beautifully in Carl Sagan’s book Contact and the film of the same name. God gets the last laugh in Sagan’s book when the difficulty with Occam’s Razor is brought into sharp fo

their pre-existing beliefs. For example, when Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in the Texas Theater on Novem

t suspicion from anyone else. This move could also give any collaborator he might have had in Hawaii time to cover his or her tracks. The astronomer Carl Sagan famously said in regard to searching the universe for signals from other civilizations that the “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.” Tha