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    Discovery Ranch
    Discovery Ranch
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    Discovery Ranch

    By Dr. Ray Turner

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    Set in rural Oklahoma a retired black operations scientist couple mentors three Native American adolescents in cosmology, advanced science and a different world perspective. The sudden and mysterious death of the couple at the ranch leaves them three inheritors of the property. From mentored youth to successful and independent careers the three men sell the property to Turner with the couple’s long standing proviso to “make no changes on the Discovery Ranch.” All four men are changed when a stranger who proves to be the Christ arrives for 24 hours to answer any questions from the men at their Discovery Ranch fireside. Profound discoveries result in their Teacher’s short period with them.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDr. Ray Turner
    Release dateFeb 2, 2015
    ISBN9781311346919
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    Dr. Ray Turner

    Dr. Ray Turner is a nationally recognized expert in transporting students and adults with disabilities whose hobby is to write science fiction with as much fact as possible within the story. His year as Director of Special Education at Ganado, AZ in 1989-1990 familiarized him intimately with Nazlini, AZ, the Chinle Valley, Canyon de Chelley, Navajo traditions and their belief system when writing Nazlini Dancers. His website www.schoolbusaccidentreconstruction.com represents his professional work as an expert witness for school bus and transit attorneys and as a collision investigator. His website www.whitebuffalopress.com represents his professional career as an expert in the safe and appropriate transportation of people with disabilities.

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      Discovery Ranch - Dr. Ray Turner

      Discovery Ranch

      By Dr. Ray Turner

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      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite eBook retailer and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Copyright, 2015 Dr. Ray Turner

      Prologue

      The Weismann’s were an elderly and childless couple who had worked in one high technology nuclear facility after another extending over forty years. They were the children whose fathers were scientists in the Top Secret WWII Project Paperclip. Each of their fathers had been moved from pre-WWII Germany to Los Alamos, New Mexico. There they were given immediate United States citizenship. It was there that they had met and married two exceptional women who were cryptographers in the U.S. intelligence community. These women had been assigned to the Manhattan Project. The Weismanns and the Geislers each had one child.

      Jason Weismann and Barbara Geisler had families that nurtured their scientific inquiry to pursue a deeper understanding of the planet on which they lived. Both Jason and Barbara demonstrated their exceptional abilities in math and physics sometimes in strange and unpredictable ways. As Wunderkinds they were provided continuous enrichment for their insatiable curiosity. However, that enrichment came at a cost. When they first had met in the Los Alamos grade school they had a fist fight during recess. Each was subsequently seated across the waiting room in their school principal’s office. They were together lectured not to fight between girls and boys. Both conceded that fighting was not proper between the sexes. They continued arguing over the subject of Nikola Tesla’s patents in front of the principal. The Principal had never heard of Tesla or his theories. Both children had discussed at length with their parents who Tesla was and what patents he had generated. The Principal determined that it was better to dismiss the two and have then return to their classroom than to try to understand the basis of their escalating disagreement. Barbara brought her father to the Weismann household and explained to Jason and his father what Tesla had invented. This was the first time that Jason conceded an intellectual defeat. It would not be the last with this Barbara.

      In middle school Jason had read every available book in the city library about nuclear science, rocketry and space. He had his father and his friends who would gather in their home to ask them insightful and valid questions. He found the answers provided suggested even more questions until he was dismissed from the men and sent out to socialize with the women who had gathered in another room. Barbara had come with her parents to the Weismann home and promptly initiated a discussion of rocketry with Jason while the women in their separate group listened to the exchange between the children. Their conversation began in a positive way for both youngsters. Jason took Barbara into the kitchen and there showed her the cooking pan that had been heated up that afternoon to make rocket fuel. He explained the ingredients and their proper proportions to Barbara who was fascinated by this rocket fuel mixture. Jason took the pan now cooled and went to a separate single-car garage where he poured the fuel into a 1½ aluminum pipe that was 30 long. The stabilizing fins were glued onto the base because Jason did not have the right equipment, or the knowledge, of how to weld aluminum. He had already mounted a mouse into the nosecone which he opened up and let Barbara hold. She promptly named the mouse Sputnik for the recent Soviet satellite that was still sending its signal from low earth orbit. The nose cone had a recovery system with a parachute designed by Jason. They both went out to the alley behind Jason’s home and further into an open park area. There Jason connected lead wire to the battery that was to fire the rocket. The rocket had been placed on a wire guide that has secured into the ground. A gust of wind was most untimely when Barbara touched the battery and ignited the rocket. The missile’s rocket fuel was equivalent to two sticks of dynamite that when fired shot up at an angle from a cloud of dust raised on the ground. The trajectory was not the anticipated one which put the nose cone, the deceased mouse Sputnik and the tiny parachute that had successfully deployed drifted down from an altitude in excess of 2,000 feet above the park and landed inside the security fence at the Los Alamos Laboratory. The body of the rocket when fired overheated the glue that attached the stabilizing fins which then caused the fins to fall away and induce the cylinder to spiral upward before burning out. This was the first (and last) rocket experiment Jason had conducted with Barbara at his side. Unfortunately, the rocket cylinder fell back to earth and penetrated a neighbor’s garage roof and was found blackened and bent on the hood of a 1957 Chevrolet. There was much explaining and apologies to be provided to the Laboratory security guards who returned to Jason’s father the deceased mouse, the nose cone and the tiny parachute. The neighbor whose garage had been struck by the rocket was Barbara’s home. Her parents made her promise never to associate with Jason again and to always stay away from any zany experiments he might devise. She did not listen to her parents. She actively pursued all of Jason’s experiments— and Jason--but secretly and without her parents knowing of her fascination with him.

      Their high school years together left them as suspects for every prank and untoward event that might have happened on the high school campus and in the Los Alamos community. It was pure coincidence that Jason utilized an IBM punch card to determine the programming installed for their grade record keeping system used throughout the school district. Jason did not accept payment for any favors of changing final grades of others less capable than he-except for Barbara whose absences were excessive during her final semester before graduation. Her absences were removed from the official record. Her grades were exemplary even if her days absent had not been erased.

      Jason graduated and went on a full scholarship to MIT. Barbara went to Cal Tech also with a full scholarship. Each completed their undergraduate studies in three years. Barbara then joined Jason at MIT to work on their PhDs in nuclear physics. Each of their Master’s Theses was the framework for their PhD dissertation topics. Both completed their PhDs in three years. Unlike their parents who contributed to the making of the first atomic bomb, these Wunderkinds had been vetted by Dr. Edward Teller during the equally top secret development of the hydrogen bomb. It was with this vetting that they both determined to marry and jointly pursue their careers in science together.

      Chapter One

      Working the Black Projects

      Jason and Barbara were a scientists and a married couple. Their being acknowledged as outliers, and therefore innovators, was among the multiple factors that caused them to be noticed and then vetted into the Black Projects. It was there they worked for forty years in Black Project laboratories that were always several stories underground. Both Jason and Barbara had an intense aversion to being underground for any reason. They also did not like the extreme security measures required to work in their Q33 security level. The standard operating procedure was to have each scientist stripped naked, weighed and dressed in disposable undergarments with their outerwear in a designated color. The same color was their walk line from the security entrance to the lab where they worked. Armed guards would kill anyone who varied from their same color walk line. The walk line color had to match the color of their outerwear. Barbara would follow her yellow line to a lab where she would work alone. She would never know the next person in either adjacent lab. Jason wore a green jumpsuit and had the same rigorous security imposed on him as well to reach his workspace and his classified project.

      Rigorous compartmentalization of those scientists who worked on specific project components stopped them from ever knowing how their overall research related to any specific project. They could only speculate how the results of their research would be applied in the Black Projects. The Black Projects were the result of the private mega-corporate structure that evolved after WWII and what President Eisenhower warned in 1954 to be the dangerous military-industrial complex. This security approach permitted the Controllers of the now fully evolved military-industrial complex to literally stop entire Black Project personnel cadres to recognize what their overall purpose was and the implications of such research across the entire planet. These scientists did not know that the Controllers were off-planet beings who farmed the earth’s minerals, and humanity’s intellectual resources, toward their own secret ends.

      As part of the compartmentalization policy Jason and Barbara had been repeatedly, and

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