Examination of NIAC Final Report 6 22 05
Examination of some Awarded NIAC Final Reports
by Space Specialists
аThe international press a lot
times wrote about machinations of director the NASA Institute of Advance
Concepts (NIAC) Mr. Cassanova, who creates sinecure
from NIAC and gives the government (taxpayers) money (millions dollars!) for
his friends, protégé, and useful people as awards for their
Уscientific researchesФ, which make the revolution in the aerospace. (see, for example, http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/98/396/14417_NASA.html
).
аа In NIAC site Mr. Cassanova are writing that every proposal is reviewed by
three internal and three external reviewers. The applicants many times asked
Mr. Cassanova to present the reviews with data of
review and reviewer decision (give grant or no and why awarded proposal is
better). What sum is awards?
а Mr. Cassanova did not reply to any of these simple requests.
Why??
аа The explanations
are very simple: NO reviewer, NO review panels, No peer reviewers, NO
scientists who took part in the review process, No voting, No scientists who
see the proposals, NO anything! Everything is just fabricated fiction. There is
only just Mr. Cassanova in NIAC who changes all
reviewers, all scientists (in any scientific fields!), all panels, and all
debates. Who distributes tens (hundreds?) of millions government (taxpayers)
money to friends and insiders (to grease their palms?).
а May be Mr. Cassanova
genius, who knows all sciences and promotes the space sciences? Applicants
asked him to send list of his articles. No reply. The American Institute of
Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) collected all scientific works published in
the
а You will see that Mr. Cassanova wrote for his life only ONE (!!) unimportant
scientific work about 30 (1976) years ago having four co-authors where Mr. Cassanova is not the first author.а
а Main problem and main break of
space development now is very high cost of space delivery about $20,000 -
$50,000 per pound (453 grams). We must decrease this cost in hundreds and
thousands times up to $2-5 per pound. Only in this case we can widely to
explore the space, widely to develop the space tourism, Moon base, and Mars
trip. The main (more 80%) money resource must be funded in new space launch
systems, in new power systems, in cheap launch of space loads.
а Mr. Cassanova
does not understand it. In his Annual Report 2003 (p.12) he named 30 critical
technologies, but here no cheap launch and power system!? It not surprise,
because Mr. Cassanova wrote only one work in 30 years
in team of four co-authors. If Mr. Cassanova is top
specialist in NASA, what is level of others?
а ааа Overview:а The NIAC spent more 30 millions dollars in 6
years, but they did not suggest new concepts or ideas?! Most (90%) NIAC final
УresearchФ reports are idle talk (no scientific results, no preproduction
models, no right scientific reports, the final reports content a lot of
scientific mistakes, and so on). For example, the final reports donТt have any
scientific results: Space Elevator (award about 1 millions dollars), Bio Suite
(awards about 1 millions dollars), Chameleon Suit (award about 1 millions
dollars), Control weather (awards about 1 millions dollars), Cocoon vehicle
(work contains only scientific mistakes), antimatter sail (empty useless work),
and so on (see Final reports in NIAC WEB).
ааа Now the NIAC is just a private manger for
УfriendsФ and has spent 90% of government (taxpayers) money not very
effectively, and specifically in fraudulent and criminal ways.аа
а For example, Mr. Cassanova awarded 4 (four !!) times
by one (and more) millions dollars persons: Howe S., Colozza
a., Nock K., Cash w., Hoffman R., Winglee R. He
awarded three times of one (and more) million dollarsа persons: Dubowsky
S., Kammash N., LaPointe M.,
Rice E., Slough J., Newman D.
ааа Below you find some of these
Уscientific researchesФ. See the Final Reports and estimate: do they cost the
huge money, which Mr. Cassanova monocracy gives for
his friends?
ааа It is difficult to consider
them as УscientificФ works, because the most of them are written as idle talk
without significantly scientific base, detail data, equations, computations,
references and other obligatory scientific attributes.
а Below are some comments of space
scientists. The estimation made by the following criteria:
1)
Is this author idea or invention? If applicant is not
author, how is this idea old? How much are scientific works related to this
idea? What inventions the applicant includes in this idea?
2)
Is there the scientific research of this idea (new
mathematical model of phenomena, new equation, computation, estimations)? Has
this idea a perspective? If grant is more $100,000, did researcher make the
model or development type?
3)
Is it published the main results and a cost (grant) of
this research in scientific journals?
1.
Bradley Edwards, Space Elevator.
Award
is about one millions dollars ($645,000 for Edwards plus 30% for Mr. Cassanova, total cost is 0ne million of dollars)
http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/521Edwards.pdf
In this Уscientific reportФ it is no equation,
no computations, no scientific results, no ideas, no
anything for sciences.а You find 42 pages
an idle talk, explanation what is space elevator for first step schoolboys, and
pictures for children. Every page of the idle talk is paid by more $20,000 !!!
аа But may
be space elevator is Cassanova-Edwars idea?
аHistoric note: The idea of Space
Elevator offered by Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky more the 100 years ago in his famous book УDreams about Earth and SpaceФ in 1894 !! The detail ideas and research was made by Russian
scientists Arstytanov. That was published in
supplement to well-known newspaper УKomsomolskaia
PravdaФ on
Summary:
a)
No new idea in this work.
b)
No any scientific results in this work.
CassanovaТs
decision: Excellent work!! Mr. Cassanova awarded this
УresearchФ two times by total one millions dollars!!
Reaction of World
press see in Internet.
2.
Dave Newman, Bio-Suite.
Award
is about one millions dollars.
http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/library/meetings/annual/nov03/833Newman.pdfа (66 pages)
а There
are excellent space suites for cosmonauts and astronauts now. They are using
them when they flew to the Earth orbits and to the Moon. They use it when they
went to the open space.
а Ms. Dava Newman wants to throw away the current excellent environmental
suite and to spray a plastic to the astronaut. She does not know that astronaut
has internal pressure some tons. He must defecate, perspire, respire, and move.
He can not do it in Newman suite.
а Ms.
Newman received from Mr. Cassanova about one millions
dollars, but she can not present even a swimming
trunks made his method. His reports are only idle talk about useless,
impossible, exotic suite.
аа Mr. Cassanova awarded Ms. Newman two times.а Why Mr. Cassanova
awarded Ms. Newman? It is easy understood: Ms. Newman was in the NIAC Advisory
Council and many years she covers the illegal activity of Mr. Cassanova. That way Mr. Casanova violates Ethic Rules and
presents the million of dollars of taxpayers to useful person.
Summary:
a)
No any scientific results in this work.
b)
No production model.
c)
No testing and comparison bio suite with current EVA
suite by independent Commission.
d)
No one million dollars in taxpayer purse.
CassanovaТs
decision: Excellent work!! Mr.Cassanova awarded this
УresearchФ two times by total one millions dollars!!
3.
E. Hodgson, A Chameleon Suite.
Award
is about one millions dollars.
а http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/714Hodgson.pdf
Mr. Cassanova has
troubled how the cosmonauts will be at Pluto and the sun will illuminate them.
He has not known there are EVA suites which proved as excellent space clothes.
Their color gives an optimal temperature for cosmonauts and astronauts. If the
astronaut will arrives at Pluto (in 3000 year!) and he will fill a hot weather,
he can slip on other color overall.
Mr. Cassanova very
want to ash Mr. Hodgson and Cassanova lavishes him as
one million dollars (taxpayer money) for absolutely useless УresearchФ. Mr.
Hodgson did not present even the production model of his chameleon suite.аа
Summary: see case above.
CassanovaТs
decision: Excellent work!! Mr. Cassanova awarded this
УresearchФ two times by total one millions dollars!!
4. R. Hoffman, Controlling the Global Weather.
ааа Award is about one million dollar
http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/abstracts/589Hoffman.pdf
There is gigantic weather Institute and National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) which research and develop this
problem in hundred years. Why Mr. Cassanova did not
send this proposal in NOVA? Because the NOAA will burst out laughing and will
not give one cent for this УresearchФ.а
But Mr. Cassanova very wants to award his
protégé.
If you think after getting one million dollars
Mr. Cassanova-Hoffman will control weather, we make a
big mistake. This УresearchФ does not contain any practical results. It has
only empty speculations.
Summary: see case above.
CassanovaТs
decision: Excellent work!! Mr. Cassanova awarded this
УresearchФ two times by total one millions dollars!!
аTaxpayers
can only cry how Mr. Cassanova spends their money.
5. Omidi. Cocoon Vehicle
аа Award is more 75,000.00 dollars + about
$30.000 for Mr.Cassanova
http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/636Omidi.pdf
This work has pretensions of УscientificФ work.
However, it well shows as Cassanova selects the
researcher. This work is written out of all scientific rules and that has ONLY
principal mistakes. We note only some of them:
a)
The electric charge locates in space plasma (solar
wind) and unlike charges are immediately neutralized the gigantic (4000 C !!) ship charge (electric intensity decreases from billion
volt to 5-10 thousands volts and less). It means ALL OmidiТs
computation is incorrect.
b)
Mr.Cassanova-Omidi do not know that
charged ball will has tensile stress from electric charge and ball thickness
will be not 10 microns, but it will be in thousand times more. It means the
ship flight data will be in thousands times worse then they computed.
c)
Computations of discharging are all wrong.
аThe Mr. Omidi requested 5 times, if Mr. Cassanova
will give him one million (study two), he will make gross errors a lot times
more.
Hurry Mr. Cassanova.
Summary:
a)
No any scientific results in this work.
b)
There are ONLY gross scientific errors.
e)
No this money in taxpayer purse.
CassanovaТs
decision: Excellent work!! Mr.Cassanova awarded this
УresearchФ!!
а6.а
S. Howe, Antimatter
Sail and Storage (He awarded 4 times!).
ааа Award is more 150,000.00 dollars + about
$60,000 for Mr. Cassanova.
http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/740Howe.pdf
а The world science can get only
separated atoms antimatter which exists some nanoseconds. Their cost is
billions dollars. The World science donТt n know how to safe antimatter.
аа However Mr. Cassanova
hurries up to award his protégé by taxpayer money for 10 pages
absolutely empty speculations about this problem. It is 10 thousands dollars
for every page! It has no conscience at all.
аааа Summary:
a)
No new idea in this work.
b)
That is not scientific works. No equations for
computation.
c)
No any scientific results in this work.
аCassanovaТs decision: Excellent work!! Mr.Cassanova awarded this УresearchФ!!
7. G. Maise,
Exploration
of Jovian Atmosphere Using Nuclear Flyer.
ааааа Award (total expenses) аis 1 millions dollars
http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/studies/final_report/425Maise.pdf
а The NASA a lot of years can not
produce industrial hypersonic engine for Earth atmosphere which contains
oxygen. NASA not produce nuclear engine for Earth, for Space ship. But Mr. Cassanova easily produced (fiction) engine for atmosphere,
which is unknown.
а DonТt think that
protégé Mr. Cassanova presented the
produced model. He presented only some pages of whitefish with common
speculations.а
а Summary:
a)
No new idea in this work.
b)
No any scientific results in this work.
c)
That is not scientific work.
CassanovaТs
decision: Excellent work!! Mr. Cassanova awarded this
УresearchФ two times by total one millions dollars!!
Discussing
а We
considered only 7 from about two hundreds CassanovaТs
awards. But 90% final reports are the idle talks. It not means that no talent
scientists in the
The USA National Research Council (NRC) found
the best solution of this problem Ц one send scientists to government research
centers or laboratories and they works full time 1-2 years into them.
аConclusion
The best way is to withdraw this function and
this money from NASA-NIAC-USRA, pass them to Special Government (or the
The Nobel Committee is not awarding the man who
only promised to make the notable research. Why paltry Cassanova
gives out the millions of taxpayer dollars to his friends without any control
and government auditing? Any non-scientists can see that their Уfinal reportsФ
are idle talk, non-scientific works and do not cost the gigantic money which
Mr. Cassanova gives his protégé.
аSame situation is in universities
researches ordered by Army, NAVY, Air Force. The
universities request advance payment. When they produce the final report, the
Government customer finds himself in the complex situation: to admit himself
guilt (incapacity to select researcher) or accepts final report and told Ц all
are OK.