Analog Detection Of Concealed Weapons of Mass Destruction

But there is a way to determine where these weapons are, even if they're concealed and even if Iraq does not cooperate, according to Richard R. Sills, a computer scientist from New York and Palm Beach who has patented an "Analog Processing System" (APS) which re-analyzes the visual data coming from observation satellites through the process of "spectrometry."

In late summer of 2002, Mr. Sills made a presentation to Dr. Leslie J. Deutsch, the Chief Engineer of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology.

The terms of the meeting were that Mr. Sills would not receive any compensation, nor would he be exposed to any "sensitive" information. The proposed technology was considered for a few months and then on November 6, 2002, in a letter to Mr. Sills, the "Analog Processing System" was ostensibly turned down by the JPL.

This letter poses serious concerns as to why the U.S. is not providing specific evidence to verify Iraq's possession of these weapons, even if hidden by any means, if we have "other techniques" to do so, as Dr. Deutsch clearly states in his letter.

This APS would seem to be the exact method the President and the UN need to locate nuclear bombs and biological warfare agents, hence, it is now being offered to the world scientific community.

From: "RM"
To: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 13:45:39 -0600
Subject: Feedback

Greetings -

I enjoy your SpaceDaily website, along with all of its siblings, but I am afraid that I find the reliability of some of your reporting to be exceptionally troubling. As an example, your article entitled "Analog Detection Of Concealed Weapons of Mass Destruction contains the paragraph:

This APS would seem to be the exact method the President and the UN need to locate nuclear bombs and biological warfare agents, hence, it is now being offered to the world scientific community.

Considering that "APS" is presented without any description or references, there is no way of telling what potential value that it has. A little background research would have turned up the fact that Mr. Sills, the man who claims to have invented this novel technique, is rowing with one oar out of the water.

To quote from an article entitled "A SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF THE EXISTENCE OF GOD BY EDUCATOR-SCIENTIST RICHARD R. SILLS" on his own website:

THE LAW OF OPPOSITES It is observable that everything we know of has an opposite. Where there is black, there is white. Where there is dry. there is wet.

Where there is up, there is down. Where there is land, there is sea.

Where there is night, there is day. Where there is atmosphere, there is no atmosphere (outer space.) Where there is wrong, there is right, etc. Therefore, when we can see no evidence of God, in the "Law of Opposities," there must be a God! A fish in the ocean doesn't see the sky, but there is one (sic)

By this rather pathetic bit of reasoning, Mr. Sills claims that the proof of God is the fact that there is no evidence for him. While it might be interesting to enquire of him whether even the slightest evidence for God would therefore mean that he doesn't exist, it would seem best to leave him alone.

I would suspect that his Analog Processing System is based on a similar foundation and that after having a good laugh, the folks at JPL politely told Mr. Sills to go away. Most science departments at major universities have a file drawer containing a collection of equally misguided gibberish.

Please take the time in the future to do a little background checking of the facts before you publish an article.

Thank you,
RM