We have had a few requests for hard-to-find items on the Internet lately and I thought it might be fun to have a Treasure Hunt. I am not sure how it would work, but here are the items so far:outrun - a picture of Harriet Wheeler (taken after 2000) She was in the English alt rock group The Sundays.rmax - the words to the Russian Christmas Carol "Post Troika"trackstar - a Grand Unified Theory of Everything

Thank you! I am still working on Harriet Wheeler pics...

Maybe she will show up at Lilith Fair this summer...

QuoteOriginally posted by: trackstartrackstar - a Grand Unified Theory of EverythingI would be interested in this item too But not sure you can google or ebay it frenchX: a book like modern string theories for dummies

A thing that I'm seriously searching at the moment.A device to detect lightning (cloud to ground stroke) in a thunderstorm before their occurrence. I'm searching to a device to scan the electric field of a cloud with the best resolution possible in position (10m would be heaven, i expect more 1km).If you have any idea, you are welcome.

Cloud busting perhaps... "A cloudbuster (or cloud buster) is a device invented by Austrian psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich with the ostensible purpose of draining clouds of "orgone energy". Reich believed that such energy surrounded the earth, and that a cloudbuster would act as a rain-maker. In Reich's view, clouds and rainfall were natural accumulations of orgone energy, and cloudbusters used "orgone accumulators" attached to pipes. These were intended to focus and direct the collected energy into the atmosphere, thus stimulating cloud growth and rainfall. Reich claimed evidence of their operation in experiments he undertook."

QuoteOriginally posted by: frenchXA thing that I'm seriously searching at the moment.A device to detect lightning (cloud to ground stroke) in a thunderstorm before their occurrence. I'm searching to a device to scan the electric field of a cloud with the best resolution possible in position (10m would be heaven, i expect more 1km).If you have any idea, you are welcome.Cool! Two off-the-top-of-my-head ideas:1. Leyden jar + balloon or aircraft: Start with a capacitor at ground state, insulate one side of the capacitor and attach the other side to a nice acceptor of atmospheric charges (aluminized skin or sharp little needles). Fly through the cloud and measure the voltage across the capacitor (corrected for any leakage).2. UUUULF radio: Detect the movement of charges from ultra-ultra-ultra-low frequency radio waves. Integrate the signal to estimate accumulated charge or charge location. EDIT: Design #1 would provide very high-resolution data on the 1-D flight transect. Design #2 could collect 2-D, possible 3-D scans but might require lots of very large antennas.

QuoteOriginally posted by: outrunInteresting! What are you going to do with it?If I say "secret defense" will you kick me ?

I have a device called field mills, seems to be great but with a poor spatial resolution electric field milI have an idea to detect the field by using the RF enhancement of a femtosecond laser induced plasma filament. I will keep you informed with the results

QuoteOriginally posted by: outrunQuoteOriginally posted by: frenchXQuoteOriginally posted by: outrunInteresting! What are you going to do with it?If I say "secret defense" will you kick me ? I will have to strike you with my lightning gun! I have a MultiTerawatt laser and I'm not afraid to use it !!!!