To the Stars Academy Pays Premium Price for Metamaterial -- to Tom DeLonge

10/3/2019

While I am still occupied indexing my new book, I have time for just a brief update on the latest goofball antics from To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science, which come to us courtesy of Keith Basterfield, who has read through TTSA’s latest SEC filing, which was posted to the SEC website this week. In the filing, TTSA announced that the so-called alien “metamaterials” that it claimed to have acquired over the summer were in fact purchased from none other than the company’s own founder, Tom DeLonge himself, for $35,000. The chunk of metal appears to be similar to (if not the same as) the collection known as “Art’s Parts,” which were sent to the late Art Bell decades ago. Metal from that collection was tested in the 2000s and determined to most likely be industrial waste from here on Earth. But now trash like that is worth $35,000!

The alleged metamaterial, as featured in a To the Stars press release.

Here is what the company says it got for the money:

The Purchased Assets are in good condition. The Metal Pieces included in the Purchased Assets are (i) one 1.75" x 1.25" x 0.25" piece of micron-layered Bismuth/Magnesium-Zinc metal; (ii) six small pieces of Bismuth/Magnesium-Zinc metal; (iii) one piece of Aluminum that TTSA physicist Hal Puthoff already has in his possession and currently on loan from Seller; and (iv) one round black and silver metal flake that physicist Puthoff already has in his possession and currently on loan from seller,; and (iv) one round black and silver metal flake. The Binder Archive and Documentation includes all records, documents, correspondence, analyses, tests and test results relating to or regarding the Metal Pieces.

42 Comments

Kent

10/3/2019 10:11:46 am

Puhleeze. You come up with a list of terms and let the software do the work. Indexed!

No surprise here. The ONLY thing TitsA is REQUIRED to do is funnel money to Tom DeLonge. $35,000 is "a good start". Go back and read the articles of incorporation.

Gal

10/3/2019 10:55:20 am

Have you ever even looked at an index? It’s more than just “terms.” Try spending less time pretending to be an intellectual on a blog comment section and more time actually trying to learn something.

Brian

10/3/2019 05:39:58 pm

As someone who used to do it professionally, for real publishers, with real editors, copyeditors, indexers, and proofreaders, no, you don't just "let the software do the work" - a sloppy index is indicative of the content of the book.

Kent

10/3/2019 08:06:40 pm

I have actually indexed two books, and that's how I did it. And yes, you go back and check your work. Duh.

Jim

10/3/2019 08:24:18 pm

What two books ?

Here’s your answer

10/3/2019 08:56:43 pm

“Curious George Goes to the Circus” and “Dr. Seuss and the ABC’s”

Kent

10/3/2019 08:59:24 pm

"Pounding Jim's Mom As A College Tuition Strategy" and "Touched by a Fact-Checker: The Jim Story".

Thanks for checking in!

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10/3/2019 09:09:02 pm

Living With Tourettes

What I Don't Know, Volumes 1-8.

Jim

10/3/2019 09:19:21 pm

Huh, I thought they may have been:

"The Story Of How The United States Invaded Greenland."
and:
"West Is Really East"

Can't back up your claim huh ?

Kent

10/3/2019 09:34:15 pm

Too busy building my latest completely legal no serial number gun. This one's a Glock.

Jimmy

10/4/2019 12:30:38 am

The only thing you’re “building” is a make-believe online persona to compensate for your sad, lonely existence and total failure to achieve anything real in life.

Kent

10/4/2019 01:13:05 am

Not sure whom you are addressing here. If it's me, let me check... Yep, don't care.

TONY S.

10/3/2019 11:00:16 am

It's not the hunk of industrial waste that's worth the $35,000 to TTSA, it's the ability to keep selling the fraud to the public as legit to keep the rubes believing that is.

Cole Younger

10/3/2019 11:03:38 am

How do I get in touch with this company. I also have hunks of metal I would be willing to part with for thirty-five thousand dollars each. They are, of course, my knives, forks and spoons. I would verify that they were brought to the house my aliens who used them while traveling through inter-stellar space to planet Earth. I would also sell them a rusty can that I have in the garage that I keep screws and nails in. The can, of course, is worth at least fifty thousand dollars and I would throw in the nails and screws for free. Hurry, hurry this sale only lasts for the next twenty years.

Machala

10/3/2019 11:47:31 am

" But now trash like that is worth $35,000! "

One man's trash is another man's treasure ... now Tom The Trashman DeLong is $35K richer. Perhaps, now he can start paying some of his long over-due bills?

Kal

10/3/2019 12:38:01 pm

Well, if anyone is foolish enough and rich enough to fork over 35K for a hunk of rock they could have found lying on the road near Mojave, CA, then it takes a fool to get taken.

meta-materials possibly equals radioactive junk left over from nuke tests.

Maybe it's to pay his medical bills for having an illness from touching said radioactive terrestrial junk?

PROF. CRAWFORD TILLINGHAST

10/3/2019 02:42:29 pm

As a scientist who has delved into the weird with my experiments, perhaps it is more accurate to speculate that he touched his junk AFTER handling the meta-materials and now THAT it is what is radioactive?

Perhaps a dose of ultra-violet will rectify the situation for him.

George

10/3/2019 10:23:25 pm

That is ridiculous. Nukes do not arrange materials, they disrupt; explode, general mayhem … less ordered, not more!

Kent

10/3/2019 11:31:14 pm

Hat tip, Mr. Scales:

In fact nuclear weapons do produce glass, you imbecile.

The more cogent argument would have been:

Name two elements that are not fission products of nuclear weapons.

Bismuth and magnesium.

Doc Rock

10/3/2019 05:51:32 pm

A while back TTSA was credited for a video clip of a UFO that was used in a Fox News (and perhaps other stations?) story on UFOs. Now 35K for scrap metal. Free publicity and easy money. I'm in the wrong field.

Kent

10/3/2019 08:10:15 pm

I hope while you're in that field you'll take the time to clear out the poison ivy and lay down a carpet of carcinogens. I've seen it take out a whole crew!

George

10/3/2019 06:16:15 pm

Please inform us of any current, or past, manufacture of this layered Bismuth material here on Earth. No, you cannot!

Kent

10/3/2019 08:46:50 pm

Similarly, no one manufactures feces. It's a byproduct, a waste product!

No, you cannot!

Let's turn the question around. WHY would you manufacture it, here or on another planet? WHAT would you do with it?

No, you cannot!

George

10/3/2019 09:59:57 pm

Mining, Smelting and Manufacturing are used on Earth - sometimes with Bismuth! You have no knowledge of layered anythings. Why was it made? Just for no reason, it is just "slag". Why would I know how it was made? We both don't know. You probably think Steel is just Iron, folding INTO LAYERS … with Carbon … but I digress

World's Oldest Pvt

10/3/2019 10:08:14 pm

During the Great War I dipped my wick in the wrong fille de joie during leave from the front in Paris. A little Bismuth cleared it right up.

Kent

10/3/2019 10:25:07 pm

You really are a stupid fuck, aren't you? Read this:

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/a-potential-solution-to-the-mystery-of-the-alien-metal-promoted-by-to-the-stars

Not Kent

10/3/2019 11:11:22 pm

"Similarly, no one manufactures feces. It's a byproduct, a waste product!

No, you cannot!

Let's turn the question around. WHY would you manufacture it, here or on another planet? WHAT would you do with it?"

Goddamnit. That's such an awesome post. So #ing Paracelsus.

@GEORGE:

George? Provided that you are NOT KENT? KENT has just consumed your milkshake.

NOT PARACELSUS

10/4/2019 07:31:08 pm

Ah ,so you are familiar with the man? One amongst many great men who dabbled in the subject!

On a side note: "So #ing Paracelsus" LOL!

George

10/3/2019 10:07:46 pm

micron-layered Bismuth/Magnesium-Zinc metal

always shows up at the Bismuth Mine slag heap (no)

George

10/3/2019 10:16:55 pm

You must believe this is a Natural by-product of an unheard-of Manufacturing process. You must believe this as an Article of Faith.
If you can obtain the tiniest amount of this, I lose you win. Yet you will never do this!

Kent

10/3/2019 10:27:59 pm

NO, stupid fuck, it's a byproduct of a known refining process. Please stop posting the same stupid fuck shit over and over.

http://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/a-potential-solution-to-the-mystery-of-the-alien-metal-promoted-by-to-the-stars

You lose I win.

George

10/4/2019 02:19:37 pm

If this is true, direct me to the Slag heap. I am a good Capitalist and I know a good ruse when I see it. Sorry for double-posting.

George

10/4/2019 09:18:55 pm

You have none of this material, I got it. I won't go looking for it, even though it obviously has value.

Jr. Time Lord

10/3/2019 11:00:13 pm

I wonder if they would be interested in 2 meteorite fragments I collected? Nothing special or metallic just a light black pumice. Heavy enough to leave two small craters. The small fragment left a crater 1 inch deep, and the larger one a crater 4 inches deep. Collected with latex gloves and still sealed in the ziplock I put them into 14-15 years ago. I would gladly let both of them go for less than $35,000. At least I know my samples are actually extraterrestrial.

Kent

10/3/2019 11:24:42 pm

Let's see....

"At least I know my samples are actually extraterrestrial."
You actually don't.

Two rocks in one Ziploc bag;
No willingness to reveal the site;
No contemporaneous documentation, indeed no documentation at all.

Hard to put a value on that. We'd have to bring in an expert on the used Ziploc bag market.

You truly are a mental patient.

AMMI PIERCE

10/4/2019 07:27:59 pm

Beware meteorites falling from the great yawning void above! One of them turned old Nahum Gardner and his family into madmen, and destroyed the healthy farmland they lived on!

orang

10/4/2019 12:33:43 am

In April, 1996, an anonymous person mailed to Art Bell’s “Coast to Coast” talk show some samples allegedly collected by his grandfather from the bottom of a wedge shaped UFO gathered at White Sands NM in 1947. He sent the samples in and Linda Moulton Howe, an investigative reporter of peculiar phenomena, subsequently had them tested. The test results were not remarkable. What was thought to be remarkable was the composition of the sample: it was 97-98% magnesium mixed with 2-3% zinc against a thin film of pure bismuth. There were 25 such layered pairs against one another, 100-200 microns Mg-Zn thick and 1-4 microns bismuth thick respectively. Although it was known that we can deposit such thin layers of these two materials, no one knew of what use such a combination would be or of any product or process that would “want to” produce such a combination. Therefore, given the UFO story that attended the sample’s origin, the peculiarity of the combination, and the reputation that bismuth has of being a very strange element that some scientists thought exhibited antigravity properties, the sample created quite a buzz. Dr. Paul LaViolette in his book, Secrets of Antigravity Propulsion, discusses one of bismuth’s peculiar properties that this sample could have been tested for but wasn’t. Bismuth exhibits a negative index of refraction, usually denoted by the Greek letter epsilon. He theorized that these layers could have been a waveguide for a 5,000 GHz microwave beam, with the magnesium being the waveguide walls. He wishes that the sample would have been tested by aiming the microwave beam at it to see if it exhibited any lift properties brought about by the bismuth, a test which was not done by the test lab. However, the whole story becomes less exciting when the test lab that did the tests for LMH revealed that their conclusion regarding their test results was that the material had nothing alien or unearthly about it, a conclusion that they claim that LMH refused to accept. Later the test lab found an earthly process for refining lead that would have resulted in scrap material of the composition of the samples; the process is known as the Betterton-Kroll process. The Betterton–Kroll process is an industrial process for removing bismuth from lead. The process was developed by William Justin Kroll and patented in 1922. Further improvements were developed by Jesse Oatman Betterton in the 1930s. Calcium and magnesium are added to a molten lead-bismuth bath. Take your pick of these results, and I might add, what a mess. My pick is industrial waste.

Kent

10/4/2019 01:56:34 am

Good post but JESUS FUCKING CHRIST DO YOU NOT HAVE PARAGRAPHS ON YOUR PLANET?

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10/4/2019 07:17:38 pm

Yes, quite verbose and strung together. The style is very reminiscent of my books. Quite the Victorian touch.

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10/4/2019 08:49:44 am

When I read this, it sounds like the Shroud of Turin for alienists. The science is an attempt at legitimacy but only if it returns an unclear or confusing result. Otherwise, it will be ignored and the story will remain powerful and incite worship of the object. The paranormal is easily co-opted into a religion.

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