Hedy Lamarr wasn't just a beautiful movie star. According to a new play, Frequency Hopping, she was also a shrewd inventor who devised a signal technology that millions of people use every day.
Lamarr—born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Austria in 1914—developed a passion for helping the U.S. military after walking away from an unhappy marriage to an Austrian Fascist weapons manufacturer in 1937. In an attempt to stall her acting career, he had brought her to his business meetings, where she found herself continuously listening to "fat bastards argue antiaircraft this, vacuum tube that," explains Lamarr's character—played by Erica Newhouse—in the play, Frequency Hopping. In the meetings, they had talked about developing detection devices to listen to, and jam, the radio signals that American aircraft and weapons used to communicate with one another; and Lamarr wanted to foil their plans. "Can you guide your torpedo towards an enemy target—or just use radio control period—without being detected? Or jammed?" Lamarr's character asks.
Lamarr realized that by transmitting radio signals along rapidly changing, or "hopping," frequencies, American radio-guided weapons would be far more resilient to detection and jamming. The sequence of frequencies would be known by both the transmitter and receiver ahead of time, but to the German detectors their message would seem like gibberish. "No jammer could detect it, no German code-breaker could decipher a completely random code," she says in the play. (continue at Scientific American)
Then there's this:
Punish and Enslave!
As you know the House passed the Waxman-Malarkey cap-n-tax global warming bill thanks in part to 8 sellout Republicans that took money from environmental whackos in return for a vote that will cost American’s millions of jobs, further erode our nation’s competitive standing and suck more of the hard earned money you make from your family so it can be siphoned to friends of those in Congress.
But don’t believe me. The Heritage foundation took a look at the figures from both the EPA and the CBO and found that they vastly under estimated their numbers. These are the numbers being peddled as fact for your reference. (continue at the Watcher of Weasels)
The following list is their submissions of articles that seek to expose the week’s biggest weasels. Join us on Friday for the winning entries.
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- The Razor - Settlement
- Rhymes With Right - How A Real President Responds
- Joshuapundit - Masquerade In iran
- The Glittering Eye - Affording Everything
- Mere Rhetoric - Shh… Massachusetts Proves Mandate-Based Health Reform Will Be A Disaster
- Wolf Howling - Politicized Science
- Soccer Dad - Diehl me out
- Bookworm Room - All violence is equal, but some violence is more equal than others
- Right Truth - LIFE
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- Submitted By: The Watcher – Forbes.com – Karl Gaard - Waxman-Markey Flunks Math
- Submitted By: The Razor – Financial Times - Obama is Choosing to be Weak
- Submitted By: Rhymes With Right – Delaware Liberal - Should Sanford Resign?
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PRESIDENT OBAMA’S RIGGED CENSUS – PART TWO, The Last Crusade, Dr. Paul Williams
'Obama' Think-Tank: Israel Should Cede Jerusalem Sovereignty, by Hillel Fendel
Seven Reasons for Leftist Anti-Semitism
By: Don Feder
Message to Israel – from the Christians in America, Heaven Waits
Iranian ambassador hopeful about Silva Harotonian appeal, by
Armenian Reporter staff
Iran Regime Hangs Protesters; Oppo Newspaper Shut Down, Mousavi Defiant!, by Donald Douglas
debbie - fyi - waxman is in the hospital:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D995U3RO0&show_article=1
Posted by: nancz | July 01, 2009 at 11:38 PM
Hopefully the people who vote will wake up to all this at the next election Debbie, either that or we're all screwed.
Posted by: MK | July 01, 2009 at 07:30 PM
Waxman-Markey will prove more devastating to the US economy than any collection of Leftist charges against Bush will ever have credibility for. Voters who put these socialist lunatics in charge will so be sorry, and before 2012.
Posted by: Skunkfeathers | July 01, 2009 at 06:28 PM