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    Stomach Tuber Astronauts
    Stomach Tuber Astronauts
    Stomach Tuber Astronauts
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    Stomach Tuber Astronauts

    By Daniel Rosenthal

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    Small and tiny astronauts speak about themselves,
    and in the second chapter a Foo fighter appears

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDaniel Rosenthal
    Release dateDec 7, 2013
    ISBN9781310173271
    Stomach Tuber Astronauts
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    Daniel Rosenthal

    Daniel Rosenthal is a writer and lecturer. He has written on theatre and film for The Times, Independent and Observer, and his previous books include the award-winning The National Theatre Story (2013), 100 Shakespeare Films (2007) and Student Editions of David Mamet's Oleanna and Patrick Marber's Closer. He has chaired 30 National Theatre Platforms and is Associate Producer of the BBC 4 Arena documentaries on the NT. He lectures on drama, film and journalism for the International Programmes department at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

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      Stomach Tuber Astronauts - Daniel Rosenthal

      Stomach Tuber Astronauts

      Daniel H. Rosenthal

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      Copyright © 2013 by Daniel H. Rosenthal

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      Stomach Tuber Astronauts

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      Stomach Tuber Astronauts

      Someone has called them Stomach Tuber’s. They so-called themselves stomach tubers, but simply to us. We looked up and we have seen an oval aircraft with a fish tail almost, and with a wide window curved around the front. Two tiny jet engines are working flat out full power and we are informed they can keep that up permanently. And that he wanted them light in weight. Because this aircraft has to go up into space.

      Tiny little people live in the royal oval shaped aircraft, and with them is their grand air Ayatollah or religious leader who believes in burning spirits. He goes on about eternal burning, and he actually does it!! As an excuse for that he claims there were lapses in his security. And he lives like that, burning airline spirits as he lives what is for him a usual life on a different asteroid belt.

      The stomach tubers are out. All of them have living pink tubes that are rolled up in their laps now at the moment. They are all unusual in their biology because, instead of having a mouth in their faces or anywhere else in their heads, they have a mouth that is in their laps just in front of their stomach.

      No mouth in their head? Actually there is a kind of small mouth in the head, but it's not ever used for eating or for breathing. The real mouth was in their lap, and our tiny astronauts demonstrated this so that we could see it clearly, something all absolutely normal for them.

      As the tiny airlines astronauts sat in their pilot’s seat we could see that a pinky tube which was a mouth with petals was on their lap just in front of their bellies. Why was someone calling them Hairliners? That someone said, 'When they come over here, in this primitive reserve, they live in under hair, in under skulls, under hair, in the head, in usual brains and doing that all but invisibly. They can make a move or give a faint thought, they don't do nothing else'. This is still not clear, but we will explain it somewhere else.

      Their pink pinky tubes are living flesh extensions of their stomachs. Part of their stomach coming forward.

      Their pinky tube is their mouth, its pink flower petals are lips, and the petals are naturally used as lips, and in this particular aircraft they feed it with a milky liquid which drips through small tubing which was installed on the roof of their aircraft’s pilot cabin. It was installed as a modern way to feed while piloting. We could see that one of the usual living stomach extensions tubing was flattened while it was rolled up on the lap of the astronauts. When it was rolled up one could have thought when not seeing it clearly from a distance, that it was a short flattened roll of plastic tubing, but it wasn’t, it was flesh.

      Obviously while we looked its pink leaf shaped flower petals moved slightly. We see in a close up that there is a roughening in the edge of each flower petal. Those were very tiny teeth and taste buds. The narrow plastic tubing was pulled down from above, and its end went to feed the small mouth in the lap in front of the belly.

      On Earth, we know one tiny animal that has its mouth in front of its stomach, the famous planarian.

      We have it from them that on their world forty percent of animals have their mouth in front of the stomach like that, whatever their shape. And themselves, back on their home world look different from their appearance over here. Here they look like little royal air force pilots, little English pilots, in that kind of uniform but remarkably similar. But six inches high, they are small. On their home world they were so different. There they stood four foot in height and looked like little Vietnamese men, with a small pointy beard on the chin. Which showed respect over there.

      Their small oval aircraft is full of microwaves because of their radars. The supreme leader joked about that a lot with us. Behind the oval room and pilot cabin, there was a small corridor stuffed with electronic equipment, and a small man was seen running quickly down it. He said it was him, their leader, and he had to run really fast. He said.

      And sometimes a piece of wave-guide leaks! And when that happens we have to run through that small corridor quickly to avoid getting burnt! To amuse us he showed us himself covering his head and shoulders in a tent of aluminium baco foil. And said, we sometimes cover ourselves in foil to run through the microwaves leaking without getting burnt. And that’s because the microwave radar equipment is very powerful as it needs to be. We now know their small aircraft flies through our own airspace, and is careful not to be revealed by using a different frequency, that of a third of a millimetre.

      At the underside of their aircraft there is a something. Their leader showed it to us. And it is obviously a large biconvex lens, with a normal lens shape, but which seems to be of opaque plastic. Actually it is a radar lens, and it focuses a color image with millimeter and sub millimeter wavelengths.

      You notice when you look at it, that it is only gently curved and rather flat, and you wonder how it can focus an image near to it when it is so flattened out. It was a biconvex lens but nearly flat.

      The explanation is all in physics, and our in air Ayatollah is the one who explained it all to us, as he is with our friend.

      He said. Imagine potato shapes so tiny that you could not see them with your microscope. There is a small gap between each little potato shape, and this gap is filled solid with a sort of ceramic. It's an insulator, but its surface is doped so as to form superconducting membrane. Now the very thin surface of every tiny rounded potato shape is a superior superconducting substance formed as a membrane when two ceramics were baked together. The potato shape and a fine powder around it perhaps.

      As the millimetre waves go by, they see the gaps between the potato shapes as an insulator which is simply dielectric. And a normal textbook explains that dielectric is like a spring, springy in effect to electromagnetics almost. As the waves go past, they see the thin superconducting membranes all around each potato shape as a perfect conductor and this means that the much shorter distance in between rounded ends of potato shapes is what the electric field goes over, a shorter distance,.. And as the small field as each wave passes gets thus intensified, a little more power is stored in dielectric effects that are to you quite common and documented in each textbook.

      Anyhow as with any glass a minute amount of the energy of each wave is stored and then released and the wave slows down. And slowing down it bends more, simple, slow it more it bends more. And there you get your increased refraction. And the lens can be flatter, lighter as we want on aircraft.

      As the millimetre waves go by the electric field across the insulating dielectric between the rounded ends of the potato shapes is strengthened because the distance is shortened. And what this means is that as the waves go by, the dielectric constant seems to be higher than it is, and this makes the waves refract at the surface of the lens more, or as they would do with a normal lens if the lens had a much more visible curvature. So in fact so obviously the thin lens does the same work as a usual thick lens but better. Do notice that the average spacing is too large, as it should be, to have these effects. It's the unusual random chain of potato shapes, all lined up somewhere a little, that really increases refraction by the dielectric effect.

      Our in air Ayatollah explains how this general kind of effect was first discovered five hundred million years ago. A furnace was being used to melt copper ore, and by accident tiny

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