 | Plate Tectonics - Lesson 4 - Part 2 of 8 Planet of Man Series -- Jigsaw Fit (30minutes) Host; Tuzo Wilson Plate Tectonics - Lesson 4 - Part 2 of 8 •Early 70's plate tectonics -- enigma of mountains discovered with the theory of plate tectonics •Animation illustrating the slabs of individual plates from around the world. •Crust 60 miles thick •Isostatic rebound from the last ice age. • Hudson Bay is distingusished from this process by a indisntct shoreline and raised beach's •Plate name -- Euarasian Indo-Australian, African, American , Antarctic, Nazca, Pacific Plates. • Rock Types - Basalt at the tops of the spreading boundaries, upper layer of the plate, Perioditite (magnesium rich) lower layer of the plate. •Underwater eruption -- lava come into contact with the cold water forms pillow like shapes "Pillow lava" •Footage showing underwater eruptions. •Iceland -- entirely created from the spreading ridge of an active zone. •Iceland Geothermal uses • Mid-Atlantic oceanic ridge follows the shorelines of both Africa and South America. 200 million years to open to its current width. •Red Sea clearly shows also how Africa and Arabia fitted together/. •East Africa -- Great Rift Valley, early separation of this process like the Red Sea separation. The entire Rift Valley has volcanism. •Transform fault -- no mountains and no volcanoes but earthquakes are produced. It's the result of plates sliding past one another. These intense earthquakes occur mostly in the deep ocean basins. But sometimes they come on the continent -- San Andres Fault one example 700 miles long. •Animation showing the transform fault movement. •San Francisco earthquake lies along the San Andreas fault. •Footage of the 1906 earthquake •Entire city was destroyed |
 | Bleeps I realized, not long ago, that we've got it all wrong. This is how it is: Universe was initially kind of a battlefield for some kind of mass, and this eventually lead to human evolution... which DIDN'T occur in the Rift valley, but in northern Sweden. And atoms aren't build up of protons and neutrons and such things... it's much more cool. My theory is called Bleeps. You agree with me? |
 | Plate Tectonics Rap Justin performs his rap about plate tectonics. Rap: The earth's plates, they're not the same. Circle 'round, big man, you get the game. They move all around, form mountains and lakes, The crust of the earth is what they make. They form faults goin' deep to the core, The San Andreas is one; there are many, many more. The boundaries are named by the way the movements run: Divergent, Convergent, and Transform, son! Divergent moves apart, Convergent comes together, Transform slides across As slow as forever. The Earth is like an egg, Cracked in many different parts. The plates fit like a puzzle, Do you get it, smarts? The plates are always movin', That's what plate tectonics' provin'. Formin' ridges in the ocean, Trenches in slow motion. They've got the rift valley stirrin' While subduction is occurring. The continental drift, That's what made Pangaea shift. The theory of plate tectonics, That's what I call atomic. |
 | MBOAF 4 - Lodge Scene beginning "Man: Biology of a Fall" Music by Evan Hause, Libretto by Gary Heidt Act I, Scene 3 Beginning Performed 10/7/07 at Kumble Theater in Brooklyn, NY Directed by Jyana S. Gregory Conducted by Evan Hause Sets: Rumiko Ishii Costumes: Jessica Ford Lights: Matthew Richards ACT ONE, SCENE 3 (1 of 4) Deep Creek Lodge. A fine lake house in rural Western Maryland. A secret meeting is underway between members of the CIA and TSS. At a point, Gottlieb has drinks served. Several of those present are dosed with LSD. Olson challenges the methods of precepts of MK-ULTRA and is rebuked. Eventually, the LSD takes hold and all are devoured by a worm. Present (in the opera): Five from S.O.D. 1. Lt. Col. Vincent Ruwet (David Gordon) 2. Dr. John Schwab (C. David Morrow) 3. Dr. J. Stubbs (Mark Peters) 4. Dr. Frank Olson (Steven Ebel) 5. Benjamin Wilson (Raemond Martin) Four from TSS 1. Dr. Sidney Gottlieb (San-ky Kim) 2. Dr. Robert Lashbrook (Darren Lougee) 3. A. Hughes (John Schenkel) 4. H. Bortner (Jeffrey Mandelbaum) Scene opens at the end of a day's meeting. They are seated at a large table. WILSON Tularemia is highly infectious but seldom fatal; Brucellosis lasts a long time, but mortality is low Psittacosis, Rift Valley fever, encephalomyelitis Q-fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever can kill you or at least put you out for a week or so Melioidosis is very deadly, but hard to control. We have the plague, pneumonic and bubonic and we're working to improve it. We get a 90-100% kill rate with pneumonic plague. But like Melioidosis, it spreads uncontrollably. In answer to your question, Mr. Hughes, The only thing I'd use to target a whole population in a given area Would be airborne anthrax bombs 90% kill rate. In theory we could cover a third of New York State With 250 liters of concentrated germ agent, A cloud so thick, that everywhere is a thousand times the lethal dose. We have had successful battlefield trials in Korea. HUGHES Thank you, Mr. Wilson. Sidney? GOTTLIEB Well, we're now at the bottom of the agenda. There's one more issue to deal with, But first I move we drink a toast. ALL Seconded... Aye. OLSON (aside, as LASHBROOK serves the drinks.) We meet semi-annually in secrecy at Deep Creek Lake With Technical Services CIA men to deliberate. Some might think my colleagues perverse. We do disease prevention in reverse. It's called MK-NAOMI. GOTTLIEB (Takes off his watch and sets it on the table; he stalls for time at the beginning of the toast and then ends suddenly when he sees the second hand hit zero) I'd like to thank you all for making MK-NAOMI a success. It's been a huge hit in the White House, I assure you. From the ability to assassinate without a trace To the germs that can discriminate by race It's widened the stage on which we operate, The theater of war has moved to the microscopic level. The flexibility and lethality of these weapons mark a new level in Man's development as a species in America's historic role in shaping-- uh, yeah, bottoms up. (They drink) OLSON That warms the cockles. GOTTLIEB Anyhow, the good news is, that we're going to Broadway. We've been given a higher priority level and better funding. We'll have a new name-- MK ULTRA. OLSON Is that settled? GOTTLIEB Um, it would be rather difficult to change it now. OLSON I liked MK NAOMI. So homey. LASHBROOK MK ULTRA's more manly. More hi-tech. GOTTLIEB Any other thoughts on that? HUGHES A deadly rose, no doubt, could be called AMBROSIA; Then true ambrosia might soon cause nausea. Ugly names for ugly things; MK ULTRA it remains. RUWET (Holding up the Washington Post of Thursday, November 19, 1953) Did you see this in the Post? They're complaining about the use of dogs in chemical experiments! LASHBROOK If they only knew what we use! GOTTLIEB Coloreds, whores, queers and artists! LASHBROOK They'd applaud us! SCHWAB Vin's point is this: It's a high discretion operation. Sidney, you said, I think I quote, We're going to Broadway. This should be no cause for celebration. It puts us in a more delicate position. Nothing can be said of this. (Cont'd) Cameras: Orin Buck & Michael Sandoval Sound: Dan Gaydos Video editing: Evan Hause www.manbiologyofafall.com This opera is a work of fiction based upon true events and people. |
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