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To: Kachina who wrote (255)	3/2/1999 4:43:00 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 626

If SR works as advertised, they literally introduce a revolutionary major change to not only the WDM industry, but to the entire society. This kind if potential is similar to the landing of the aliens on the White House lawn. It is mind boggling. The aliens don't have anything we can use because they are hopelessly too far ahead for our stone knives and bear skins level of technology, but what SR seems to have is exactly what the world needs in communications. In light of this potential can't you see that such a company must proceed as though it were a government black project? The company has to proceed in a slow and anomalous way without trying to seek venture capital overtly, without divulging much about the technology, without getting in the way of powerful and quashing corporations. They have to look bad. They have to quietly build what they have into sufficient mass, and they have to avoid the disaster of inviting involvement of a greedy, litigious public. You're reaction which is just a louder and more hysterical rehash of all the previous doubts expressed on this thread, is motivated by anger towards the mechanism of entrepreneurial capitalism. If the nuclear batteries thing had worked I doubt you would be saying a word. As I stated in my previous post you don't know how to take a loss and that means you have no business in investment. Investing requires a certain maturity and I have seen none of what is required from you. You remind me of the swindling public. They whine for government protection when they wildly speculate and lose. I have found that when someone builds an argument without any substance, they have ulterior motives. I suspect your ongoing tirade has nothing to do with SR, it is just an available whipping boy. However, you have brought out a good point and that is that when the public unjustifiably crucifies something, that something has incredible value. One then applies the theory of contrary opinion. That is often the signpost that points the way to significant investment success. There isn't a poster on this thread who has anything but doubt including me, because I freely admit I have yet to fully figure out the details of the technology. I don't believe that a precise physical explanation currently exists. I do believe that Palmer has tinkered together a very clever way to "compress" data onto light beams. I agree with George that the patent as currently written does not protect that tinkering. There are other anomalies in the company's presentation too, but there are also greater inconsistencies in the attempts to refute unintended circumstantial evidence. We have no smoking gun. I believe items like the patent are more for disinformational purposes rather than misinformational. The company will resubmit a more protective and revealing patent when they feel they have effectively partnered. The company may be involved in a blockbuster development with a consortium of major companies who have all agreed to keep the tightest lid on disclosures. Another possibility is that the technology is intractable, that is, can't be easily fit into the matrix of existing technology and so must wait until WDM is overloaded. At the current bandwidth demand growth rate that should be about two years. This latter possibility is the popular view on this thread and it is consistent with the preferability of technological evolution over revolution. With the advent of optical chips and optical everything bandwidth may grow substantially faster than our wildest expectations. In that case we better hope SR is for real.