Linda Moulton Howe
earthfiles.com
At 20:48 UT on October 29, 2003, the fifth intense solar X-Flare (near sun's center)
in a week erupted on the sun, emitting light, x-rays, ultraviolet rays and
plasma energies which will impact Earth yet again on October 30.
Image courtesy Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).
October 29, 2003 Grenbelt, Maryland - Today at 20:48 UT (4:58 p.m. ET), the fifth intense solar X-Flare (10) in a week erupted on the sun. The massive Jupiter-sized sunspot known as 486 has been the source of two of the most powerful solar flares ever recorded in the X category that indicates most intense sunspot eruptions. The unprecedented series of five X-flares within a week began last Thursday, October 23, 2003, when there was a powerful X-sized solar flare, followed by two weaker X-flares. Then on Tuesday, October 28th, came the third largest solar flare ever recorded - an X 17.2. The strongest known is an X 20. That was followed on Wednesday, October 29th, with an X 10.
The five X-class solar flares have caused x-rays, ultraviolet rays and plasma energies to impact the Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere causing interference with radio and satellite transmissions, the re-routing of some airline flights and provoking beautiful Northern Lights as far south as Florida.
Sunspot 486 and another large one, 488, still pose a threat of more strong X-class solar flares which could continue to interfere with Earth cell phones, pagers, electric grids, and satellites.
Paul Brekke, Ph.D., Solar Physicist with the European Space Agency in the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland told me today, "This is very unusual. The sun is very active right now and the fact that the same region of the sun explodes with X-sized flares two days in a row is not very common. What happened? We don't really know. The sun is very unpredictable and just two weeks ago, we thought the sun was unusually quiet. There were no sunspots on the surface and we thought this would be a very long and kind of dull decay down from solar maximum. But suddenly, the sun changed its mind and this is the result."
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Interview:
Paal Brekke, Ph.D., Solar Physicist, European Space Agency, Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland: "Just about two hours ago (at 4:58 p.m. ET), another very powerful flare erupted from the sun. And this is also a very strong flare compared to normal flares. It's classified as X-9.8, which is still among some of the twenty strongest flares ever recorded in the last 25 years.
YESTERDAY'S WAS A 17.2?
Yes, the one yesterday was much more powerful, but the one today is also very powerful compared to normal flares. When a flare goes up like this, it is a very intense flash of x-rays and UV light. That light will move at the speed of light and reach the Earth in eight minutes and slam into the atmosphere. It doesn't reach the ground because these energies are absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere, but it will heat up the atmosphere and make it turbulent so that many radio communication systems will not be able to reflect from the ionosphere or go through it. So, they usually call this a 'radio black out' when radio communications are falling out due to this intense flare that happened.
HAS THERE EVER BEEN A TIME PREVIOUSLY RECORDED IN WHICH THERE HAVE BEEN FIVE SUCH LARGE SOLAR FLARES IN JUST A MATTER OF A FEW DAYS?
I don't think so big, no. The first one was not that extraordinary. It was an X-5 and X-1. But then you have X-10 and X-17.2 and the next one X-9.8 that's very unusual, I think.
We don't know really why the sun acts like this. Sometimes it has a very quiet period and then suddenly activity runs up again. If you're looking at the top of the solar cycle and sunspots, you will see it's not a very smooth curve. It's jumping up and down and very active for a few weeks. Then it can drop down and be very inactive for another couple of weeks. It goes up and down, but still this period must be regarded as quite special these big flares. Also, by luck, they were centered on the central portion of the sun, so the storms are headed toward us. That is not always the case. We can still see big flares, but if they are on the limb (edge) of the sun, we can see the flash, but we don't receive the storm because the CME cloud will go off on the side.
DO YOU KNOW SINCE YESTERDAY AFTER THE 17.2 X FLARE, DO YOU KNOW WHAT CONSEQUENCES THERE HAVE BEEN ON EARTH TODAY?
From the flare today, I don't know. The flare yesterday had an immediate effect lasting for a few hours. It's the cloud of gas that is coming off the flare that has affect for several days. Right now, the flare is ongoing as we are talking, there is severe radio blackouts on the sunlit side of the Earth, the one facing the sun. That's where the rays are hitting right now. So, that's the immediate effect: on radio communications, some satellite telephone will have problems working because they have to go through this region (ionosphere) and also Global Positioning Systems (GPS) can be interfered with during these solar flare storms.
One group that is using those radio frequencies are the commercial airlines and those blackouts are usually more severe closer to the poles, the North and South poles. They try to avoid those regions when there is a blackout because they don't want to lose contact with aircraft from the tower. They usually reroute their airplanes to go further south, which mean a longer flight and more delays. That's one thing I know happened the last couple of days - air traffic control rerouting planes.
I also heard today that aircraft flying to the South pole for the station down there also had problems with their radio communications.
WHAT EXACTLY IS THE MATERIAL THAT MOVES FROM THE SUN TO EARTH IN EIGHT MINUTES FROM A SOLAR FLARE?
The flare is just light, like any other light, but moves very fast. It takes only eight minutes from the sun to Earth.
Then there is also a second wave of particles which is called 'high energy protons.' That takes about an hour or less from the sun to the Earth. The high energy protons move almost at the speed of light and they can kill satellites and be harmful to astronauts in space.
The third wave that usually comes is called a 'Coronal Mass Ejection' (CME). It's a big blob of gas that is pushed out from the sun at high speed and takes about one to three days to reach Earth, depending upon the speed. That is the big cloud that contains protons, electrons, particles and negatively or positively charged ion plasma, plus the magnetic field. The CME is the one that slams into our magnetosphere a couple of days later after the flare on the sun.
SINCE THIS IS UNUSUAL AND PERHAPS UNPRECEDENTED TO DATE, COULD IT MEAN THERE IS SOMETHING ON THE SUN THAT IS CHANGING?
The sun has always been changing. That's a very interesting topic. We know the sun is more active today than it was like 150 years ago. In fact, there was a period further back in time around 1650 when the sun did not have sunspots for 70 years. People looking into this since the sun is the ultimate driver for our heat and climate, people think the sun might drive the climate's variations. So, this period back about 400 years ago, corresponded to a very cold time period on the Earth called the Little Ice Age. So people have tried to understand how much of the recent global warming, for instance, is due to the sun which is more active now, sends out more energy and particles. This is a very interesting topic to understand: how much of the warming is caused by the sun and how much by atmospheric gases?
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
I personally think that the sun is more important than the general climate society will admit it is. Right now, I think it is a consensus within the climate research society that the sun can explain quite a lot of the warming up in 1940 when the temperature had decreased for 30 years and then is increasing for 30 years. The sun can only explain about 20% of the warming the last few years, but I think the sun can be more important that currently used in climate models.
IF WE WERE GOING TO SEE A PATTERN OF AN INCREASING NUMBER OF THESE LARGE X-FLARES, WOULD WE SEE ANY INCREMENTAL INCREASE IN THE TEMPERATURE ON OUR PLANET?
No, these flares only send out UV and X-rays and they will be absorbed in the atmosphere. It also lasts for only a few hours. If you want to change the temperature on the Earth, you have to have a change in the sun's activity over many years. So, even an 11 year cycle, we can see there is a signal in the surface temperature in the solar 11-year-cycle, so the sun has some effect. But it has to be shining bright for many years, maybe 20 or 30 years before the Earth responds with temperature increase.
SO, THE BIGGEST IMPACT OF HAVING THIS UNUSUAL SERIES OF LARGE X-FLARES IS THE INTERRUPTION WITH OUR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS?
Yes, that is a serious one because a lot of people depend on this. We mentioned aircraft and control towers. You can imagine you want to go out and rescue people in a snowstorm up in the mountains. You have to send out the rescue team and they will depend on their walkie talkies. Those systems can fail, it can be dangerous to send out people into the mountains to rescue that person sitting there. Many types of things that we have to be aware of and society needs to be aware that if you depend on a system very much, you need to know about these solar flare storms and maybe pay attention to the forecasts and maybe have a backup system for storms.
No, it has happened before in some of the active regions. Very often we see that the sunspots lump themselves on the same side of the sun. Then they rotate around to the backside. And then we see no sunspots until some come back the next month. It takes 27 days for the sun to rotate around its own axis one time. So sometimes sunspots can live for several orbits around the sun. It's not often you have two such powerful flares so close together (October 28 and 29).
DO YOU AND OTHER SOLAR PHYSICISTS HAVE HYPOTHESES ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE SUN TO CREATE THESE GIGANTIC FLARES?
We think we know a little bit about that, especially after SOHO was launched and we can see inside the sun and we can now see beneath the surface of the sunspots. What we think it is: the inner portion of the sun rotates a bit different from the outer layer and this boundary layer where this difference happens, there will be very strong 'friction,' you might say. That is what we think is causing the sun's magnetic field to form. Sometimes these magnetic fields can raise up to the surface and that's what is creating sunspots when some of these strong magnetic fields or areas come up to the surface. They will block some of the energies trying to escape from beneath, but have to come out other places on the sun. That's why sunspots look darker. There is less energy coming out of them and they are a little bit colder.
That's why we think the internal magnetic fields are popping out and after awhile the surface field will become unstable and snap. And we think again you can look at this as rubber bands, two pieces of a rubber band that connect on two places on the sun. You wind them up and if you wind a rubberband up enough, it will snap. And when a rubberband snaps, it goes in one direction and usually with a sound snap, too. So, the snap can be the flare that the energy is released very suddenly and the rest of the energy is going to throw this rubberband away.
IN LOOKING BACK OVER OUR SOLAR RECORDS HAVING TO DO WITH THE 11-YEAR SUNSPOT CYCLE, IS THERE ANY PRECEDENT FOR THERE BEING THIS KIND OF INTENSE SOLAR FLARE ACTIVITY IN BETWEEN SUNSPOT CYCLES?
A sunspot cycle on the 11 year cycle has been measured only with the number of sunspots. You can have fairly good solar storms even if there are a few sunspots on the sun. If you go back in the literature and look at the previous solar cycles, very often some of the biggest flares have happened actually on the decay phase of the solar cycle. We are now in a decaying phase. We reached maximum solar cycle in 2000. But increases can happen any time. We can never be for sure. But most of the flares happen during solar max or just after.
IF THESE WERE COMING DAY BY DAY FOR A PERIOD OF TIME, WOULD THEIR IMPACT INCREASE ON THE EARTH BECAUSE SO MANY WERE COMING? OR DOES IT DISSIPATE QUICKLY?
I think it dissipates very quickly, but if the storm that came yesterday and hit us today if the storm continues for two days like they sometimes do, the next storm from today will maybe arrive early tomorrow and then they might add up. If you had three or four of these flares in four days, then it will increase impact on the Earth. But the sun has existed for many thousands of years and there have been many flares back in history. I don't think that is a worry.
YOU ARE NOT PERSONALLY CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT THIS INTENSE X-FLARE ACTIVITY MIGHT MEAN?
No, the Earth system will accommodate this easily. It's done it before. It will just be a lot of activity in the system right now and in a few days, we will be back to normal. Unless there is another flare. But in four or five days, all this activity will be out of sight from us and it will probably be at least 14 days with a quiet and peaceful time."
Coincidence Or Conspiracy?
By Ian Gurney
7-20-3
http://www.rense.com/general39/death.htm
It is a story worthy of a major conspiracy theory, the script for a James Bond movie, or a blueprint for a contrived episode of "The X Files". Except the facts surrounding this story are just that. Facts. The Truth. At least twelve, and perhaps as many as twenty eminent scientists, leaders in their particular field of scientific research, dead in the last few months, and a bizarre connection between one of the scientists and the mystery surrounding the death by Anthrax inhalation of a sixty one year old female hospital worker in New York. Sounds far fetched? Read on.
Since November last year several world-acclaimed scientific researchers, specialising in infectious diseases and biological agents such as Smallpox and Anthrax, as well as DNA sequencing, environmental research and microbiology have died, many in unusual circ*mstances.
First, on November 12th, was Dr. Benito Que, a cell biologist working on infectious diseases like HIV, who was found comatose outside his laboratory at the Miami Medical School. He later died. Police say the attack was possibly the result of a mugging. The Miami Herald reported that:
"The incident, whatever it may have been, occurred on Monday afternoon as the scientist left his job at University of Miami's School of Medicine. He headed for his car, a white Ford Explorer parked on Northwest 10th Avenue. The word among his friends is that four men armed with a baseball bat attacked him at his car."
On November 16th, within of week of Dr. Que's assault, Dr. Don C Wiley, one of the United States foremost infectious disease researchers was declared missing. Associated Press wrote:
"His rental car was found with a full tank of petrol and the keys in the ignition. His disappearance looked like a suicide, but according to colleagues and Dr. Wiley's family, the Harvard Scientist associated with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute would never commit suicide. Associates who attended the St. Jude's Children Research Advisory Dinner with Dr. Wiley, just hours before he disappeared, said that he was in good spirits and not depressed. He was last seen at the banquet at the Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis the night he vanished. Those who saw him last say he showed no signs of a man contemplating his own death."
Wiley left the hotel around midnight. The bridge where his car was found is only a five-minute drive away and in the wrong direction from where he was staying, leaving authorities with a four-hour, unexplained gap until his vehicle was found. Memphis police were exploring several theories involving suicide, robbery and murder.
On December 21st Reuters issued the following report:
"The body of a Harvard scientist missing for more than a month since his rental car was left parked on a bridge over the Mississippi River has been found downstream. Workers at a hydro-electric plant in Louisiana found the body of Dr. Don Wiley on Thursday, about 300 miles south of Memphis where the molecular biologist was last seen on Nov. 16. Authorities have yet to determine the cause of death, Memphis police said."
Dr. Wiley was an expert on how the human immune system fights off infections and had recently investigated such dangerous viruses as AIDS, Ebola, herpes and influenza.
From the United States, the story moves to England. On November 23rd, Dr. Vladimir Pasechnik, a former microbiologist for Biopreparat, the Soviet biological-weapons production facility was found dead. The Times provided an obituary for Dr. Pasechnik, and said:
"The defection to Britain in 1989 of Vladimir Pasechnik revealed to the West for the first time the colossal scale of the Soviet Union's clandestine biological warfare programme. His revelations about the scale of the Soviet Union's production of such biological agents as anthrax, plague, tularaemia and smallpox provided an inside account of one of the best kept secrets of the Cold War. After his defection he worked for ten years at the UK Department of Health's Centre for Applied Microbiology Research before forming his own company, Regma Biotechnics, to work on therapies for cancer, neurological diseases, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases. In the last few weeks of his life he had put his research on anthrax at the disposal of the Government, in the light of the threat from bioterrorism." Colleagues of Dr. Pasechnik say he died of a stroke.
Back to the United States, and on December 10th, Dr. Robert M. Schwartz was found murdered in Leesberg, Virginia. Dr. Schwartz was a well-known DNA sequencing researcher. He founded the Virginia Biotechnology Association where he worked on DNA sequencing for 15 years. On Wednesday, December 12th the Washington Post reported:
"A well-known biophysicist, who was one of the leading researchers on DNA sequencing analysis, was found slain in his rural Loudoun County home after co-workers became concerned when he didn't arrive at work as expected. Robert M. Schwartz, 57, a founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology Association, was found dead in the secluded fieldstone farmhouse southwest of Leesburg where he lived alone. Loudoun sheriff's officials said it appeared that Schwartz had been stabbed." An adult and two teen-agers have been arrested in the case. The three are said to have a fascination with both swords and Satanism.
And so to Victoria State, Australia, where, on December 14th. 2001 a skilled microbiologist was killed at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation's animal diseases facility in Geelong, Australia. This is the same organisation that, as the journal Nature announced in January 2000:
"Australian scientists, Dr Ron Jackson and Dr Ian Ramshaw, accidentally created an astonishingly virulent strain of mousepox, a cousin of smallpox, among laboratory mice. They realised that if similar genetic manipulation was carried out on smallpox, an unstoppable killer could be unleashed."
The microbiologist who died was Set Van Nguyen, a Vietnamese immigrant who had worked at the facility for 15 years. Victoria Police said:
"Set Van Nguyen, 44, appeared to have died after entering an airlock into a storage laboratory filled with nitrogen. His body was found when his wife became worried after he failed to return from work. He was killed after entering a low temperature storage area where biological samples were kept. He did not know the room was full of deadly gas which had leaked from a liquid nitrogen cooling system. Unable to breathe, Mr. Nguyen collapsed and died."
Now for the intriguing part of this story. On Friday, November 2nd, the Washington Post reported:
"Officials are now scrambling to determine how a quiet, 61-year-old Vietnamese immigrant, riding the subway each day to and from her job in a hospital stockroom, was exposed to the deadly anthrax spores that killed her this week. They worry because there is no obvious connection to the factors common to earlier anthrax exposures and deaths: no clear link to the mail or to the media."
The name of this quiet 61 year old Vietnamese hospital worker was Kathy Nguyen.
And so to the New Year, and still the scientists keep dying. On February 9th. the Russian daily Pravda reported that:
"The head of the microbiology sub-faculty of the Russian State Medical University, Victor Korshunov has been killed. The body of the dead professor, who had head injuries, was found on Friday 8th. February, in the entrance of the house in Academician Bakulev Street, Moscow, where the 56-year-old scientist lived." Pravda went on to reveal that: "It was the third death of a scientist within a few weeks. In January, the Russian Academy of Science lost two scientists, both well known around the world. Academician Ivan Glebov died as a result of a bandit attack in St Petersburg and corresponding Member of the Academy of Science Alexi Brushlinski was killed in Moscow."
Exactly a week later, on February 16th. The Times ran the following article:
"Detectives were last night trying to unravel the circ*mstances in which a leading university research scientist was found dead at his blood-spattered and apparently ransacked home. The body of Ian Langford, 40, a senior Fellow at the University of East Anglia's Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, was discovered on Monday night by police and ambulancemen. The body was naked from the waist down and partly wedged under a chair. It is understood that doors to the terraced house were locked. A post-mortem examination failed to establish how Dr Langford, who lived alone in the house in Norwich, died."
Back to the west coast of the United States, where, on February 28th. San Francisco's Mercury News reported that:
"Dr. Tanya Holzmayer, a pioneering scientist, was surprised Wednesday night to find a Domino's Pizza deliveryman at the front door of her Mountain View home. Moments later, a former colleague appeared out of the dark, shot her dead and ran off."
Dr. Holzmayer was a Russian born genomic scientist who had co-invented a tool that has helped find hundreds of molecular targets to combat cancer and HIV. Holzmayer and her family came to the United States in 1989. Until December, Holzmayer had served a four year tenure as senior vice president of genomics for PPD Discovery, a division of PPD Inc. of Wilmington, North Carolina. Her killer, said Mercury News, was Chinese immigrant Guyang Huang, a former colleague who began working as the director of molecular biology and bioinformatics with PPD Discovery in early 2000. Mercury News continued:
"Huang appeared from behind the deliveryman. He shot Holzmayer several times at close range in the chest and head. As Holzmayer fell in her doorway, Huang ran to a Ford Explorer and drove away. Less than an hour after the shooting, Huang called his wife, according to Foster City Police Capt. Craig Courtin. He told her about the shooting and that he was going to kill himself, then he hung up. Huang's wife called the emergency services and Foster City police used search dogs to comb the area.. They ran into a jogger who had seen Huang's body lying off the walkway that locals call "The Levee." He had fired a single bullet into his head, according to Robert Foucrault, San Mateo County's acting coroner. Police said that at this stage in their investigations there appeared to be no motive for the murder."
Still the deaths continue. On March 25th. 2002 9News.com - part of K*USA TV in Denver, reported that:
"Denver car dealer Kent Rickenbaugh, his wife, Caroline, and their son Bart were killed Sunday in a plane crash near Centennial Airport. Pilot Dr. Steven Mostow also died. Dr. Mostow, 63, was one of the country's leading infectious disease experts and was Associate Dean at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. Mostow was a crusader for better health, an early advocate for widespread flu vaccinations and more recently an expert on the threat of bioterrorism. The plane was headed for Centennial Airport from Gunnison Airport when Dr. Mostow reported engine trouble around 4:30 p.m., Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Jerry Snyder said. National Transportation Safety Board investigators said "Weather did not appear to be a factor in the crash",
Back to England, and on March 27th. The Times carried an obituary for yet another leading microbiologist, stating that:
"David Wynn-Williams, an award-winning microbiologist died when he was struck by a vehicle while out jogging. In 2000 he was appointed leader of the Antarctic Astrobiology Project, which explores the effects of environmental stress at the limits of life on Earth. Wynn-Williams had assessed the capability of microbes to adapt to environmental extremes, including the bombardment of ultraviolet rays and global warming. This drew Wynn-Williams into collaboration with the Nasa Ames Research Centre, the Johnson Space Centre and Lunar & Planetary Institute, Houston, and Montana State University. A man of boundless physical as well as intellectual energy, Wynn-Williams generated a constant flow of ideas, which entranced both his contemporaries and the young. He was killed in a road accident while out jogging near his Cambridge home."
So far then, twelve dead scientists, at least eight or nine of whom appear to have died in "unusual" circ*mstances. Prior to these deaths, on October 4th, a commercial jetliner travelling from Israel to Novosibirsk, Siberia was shot down over the Black Sea by an "errant" Ukrainian surface-to-air missile, killing all on board. The missile was over 100 miles off-course. According to several press reports, the plane is believed by many in Israel to have had as many as five passengers on board who were microbiologists. Both Israel and Novosibirsk are homes for cutting-edge microbiological research. Novosibirsk is known as the scientific capital of Siberia, and home to over 50 research facilities and 13 full universities for a population of only 2.5 million people.
At the time of the Black Sea crash, Israeli journalists reported that three Israeli microbiologists had, on November 24th, been on board a Swissair flight from Berlin to Zurich that crashed on its landing approach. Of the 33 persons on board, 24 were killed, including the head of the haematology department at Israel's Ichilov Hospital, and the directors of the Tel Aviv Public Health Department and the Hebrew University School of Medicine. They were the only Israelis on the flight. The names of those killed, as reported in a subsequent Israeli news story, were Avishai Berkman, Amiramp Eldor and Yaacov Matzner.
In light of the deaths of these microbiologists, it is interesting to take a look at a similar set of circ*mstances that occurred fourteen years ago in the United Kingdom. Once again it involves the deaths of a number of scientists, some in "unusual" circ*mstances. The report below was taken from The Independent newspaper of August 26, 1988.
"The police said it was suicide, and no doubt they were right. Ex-Brigadier Peter Ferry, a marketing manager at Marconi's Command and Control Systems centre at Frimley, Surrey, had apparently killed himself by inserting power main electric wires into his mouth and then turning on the power.
The method chosen was perhaps marginally more grisly than in the case of several other Marconi employees. In 1986, for example, Ashad Sharif, a computer analyst who worked for Marconi Defence Systems in Stanmore, Middlesex, tied one end of a rope around his neck, another to a tree, and put his car into gear. Two months earlier, the body of Vimal Dajibhai, a software engineer responsible for checking the guidance systems of Tigerfish torpedos for Marconi Underwater Systems, was found under Clifton suspension bridge at Bristol.
In March 1987, David Sands, a project manager working on secret satellite radar at Marconi's sister company Easams, in Camberley, drove up a slip road on his way to work and into a cafe at an estimated 80mph. A year later, Trevor Knight, a computer engineer at Marconi's space and defence base in Stanmore, died in his fume-filled car at his home in Hertfordshire. Earlier, two other Marconi employees, Victor Moore, a design engineer, and Roger Hill, a draughtsman, had killed themselves, both seemingly as a result of work pressures.
There have been at least half a dozen more untoward deaths among defence scientists and others working in the defence field. Marconi is not alone, but it is well in the lead. The best efforts of investigative journalists have failed to establish a link either between the various deaths or between the deaths of the Marconi staff and the Ministry of Defence inquiry, now two years old, into some £3billion worth of defence contracts awarded to GEC-Marconi. "
--The Independent August 26, 1988.
Interestingly, Marconi was recently declared virtually bankrupt after it's shares fell below "junk" status on the UK stock exchange. Both the chairman and C.E.O. resigned and a great many employees have lost their jobs and pensions as the share price fell from a twelve month high of £4:45 to only 5 pence. Marconi, once a major player in the defence industry had, over the last few years, moved into the Telecoms sector and suffered when the downturn in technology and telecom stocks came along last year. A company once worth billions is now worthless, a situation that is somewhat similar to Enron.
Whether these recent deaths are purely coincidence or part of some sinister plot, the reasons for which can only be guessed at, remains unclear. What is clear though, is that being a scientist these days can be a dangerous occupation.
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