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The Lost Archives 2 Episodes On One Tape |
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Heavy Watergate: The War Against Cold Fusion
On October 4, 1957, the Soviets launch the legendary orbiter Sputnik, ushering in the Space Age. In 1998, the Russian Federation launches the first stage of the space station Freedom. While at first glance it seems little has changed, closer scrutiny reveals that billions of American dollars are being funnelled to Russian to secure its participation in the station partnership. Described by the elite of NASA as a foreign aid project for the Russians, the principle purpose of the programme may be to abate the mass exodus of Russian rocket scientists to unfriendly nations interested in developing weapons of mass destruction.
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On March 23, 1989, respected chemists Dr. Stanley Pons and Dr. Martin Fleischmann make an announcement that rocks the world of science. Heavy water, readily available in the ocean, is used in tabletop experiments that yield enormous amounts of heat energy. Appropriately named "Cold Fusion", this purported breakthrough challenges many basic scientific concepts. In response, a group of powerful physicists heavily reliant upon government funding for their hot fusion research level an unprecedented smear campaign against Pons, Fleischmann and the entire field of cold fusion science. Was their discovery of "fire from water" too good to be true? Or was it the discovery of the millennium?
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