Invented in the 1980s by amateur chemist Maurice
Ward, Starlite was a material that could supposedly
withstand a nuclear blast The complex plastic reportedly contained “up to 21 organic polymers and copolymers, and small quantities of ceramics In demonstrations, eggs protected with a Starlite coating remained raw in the 2,200 F (1.200 C) flame of a blowtorch and in the other tests, the material defined 18,000 F (10,000 C) laser blast, 3 times the sublimation point of diamond It was remarkable lightweight, released no toxic fumes, and could be formulated as a liquid, paste, or molded solid Although Starlite drew the interest of governments and multi-national corporations ward failed to commercialize the invention Refusing to reliquish a controlling interest in the mystery formula until it vanished with his death in 2011 In the late 1970s, auto mechanic Tom Ogle unveiled a device that allegedly increased auto fuel efficiency over 100 mpg (42 km/L) The black box did away with a traditional fuel pump and carburattor in favor of a high pressure vaporized fuel injection His upgrade required a reinforced gas tank and heating coils, as pulling vapor from the liquid fuel rendered it ice cold Ogle demonstrated his prototype to reporters by driving 200 miles (322 km) from Deming to El Paso, Texas on 2 gallons (7.5 L) of gas Oil companies reportedly approached Ogle with million-dollar offers to never build another machine, but Ogle refused to sell Ogle had dreams to design and sell his own car, but he was shot by an unidentified assailant in 1981 before suspiciously dying of an accidental overdose later that same year Pellegrino Erentti was a Roman Catholic Bendictine priest known as the most famous exorcist on Venice, Italy In the 1950s, Erentti claimed to have invented a time viewer called “Chronovisor” that allowed viewing events from the past Erentti held a degree in quantum physics and waws allegedly assisted by scientists such as Enrico Fermi and Warnher von Braun The chronovisor was described as a cabinet with a series of mysterious controls that could decode past electromagnetic radiation Using the machine, Erentti said he had observed and photographed Christ’s crucifixion an assertion he recanted in confession Yet, just prior to Erentti’s death, a fellow priest claimed he learned the Vatican had ordered a functional chronovisor destroyed and that Erentti’s confession was falsely concerned forever hide the technology away from “ungodly” hands The Teleforce was a “charged particle beam” weapon developed by Nikola Tesla in the 1930s based on the Van de Graaf generator. Tesla claimed that his “death ray” could bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes at a distance of 200 miles (322 km) He reportedly carried out successful scaled tests of a weapon, but its true mode of action remains unknown some speculate it may have been a laser or a photo- railgun Negotiations for technology were conducted several world powers, but Tesla refused to provide blueprints Wary of his superweapon’s “power to end all war” landing in the wrong hands, Tesla kept the schematic “all in his mind” The soviet Union was rumored to have tested a stage of the device, but the full design disappeared with Tesla’s death in 1943 In the late 1990s, Dutch inventor Romke Jan Bernhard Sloot claimed to have developed a revolutionary form of data “compression The Sloot Digital Coding System was said have been able to compress an entire multi GB movie to the size of 8 kb. Sloot’s invention allegedly allowed him to play 16 movies simultaneously from a 64 kb chip without reading from a hard drive Upon demonstrating the idea to philips executives in 1999, Sloot was told he was about to be “the richest man on Earth” However, two days before the source code was going to be handed over, Sloot was found dead in his garden of a heart attack His decoding algorithm was never recovered and it was revealed that someone had also tampered with the demonstration chip
HIV Sero-Status and Risk Factors of Sero-Positivity of HIV Exposed Children Below Two Years of Age at Mityana General Hospital in Mityana District, Uganda