Ancient Abilities Part 2Chapter 7: The Second Prototype free porn video

"Was Cathy able to convince you that she is real?"

Frank looked at Jim who nodded his head, and Frank said, "Yes. I think we're having a bit of difficulty accepting it, at least I am, but we do believe what Cathy told us. I suspect we will have a lot of questions in the future, but we do believe she is real and alive in the Fourth Dimension."

"Good. Did she mention the Guidance Council and my mission to you?"

Jim said, "Yes and she said that you would explain it to us."

"Alright, I will and do either of you want something stronger than beer?"

"That was a bit of a shock, but no I think this beer will be more than adequate for me. I have a hunch Jim and I will need to have clear heads for the remainder of this conversation."

"Did Cathy explain what the Guidance Council's job was in the Fourth Dimension?"

Frank and Jim were both shaking their heads no.

"Did she explain that our spirits are supposed to learn a series of lessons while living in each Dimension?"

This time they were nodding yes.

"Okay, that makes it a bit easier. The Guidance Council's job is to monitor the beings that live in the Third Dimension to ensure they are making good progress on learning the lessons that they are supposed to learn while living in the Third Dimension.

"A while back, they came to the realization that during the past hundred years, Earth's societies have undergone a major change. This change has adversely affected at least four of the lessons we are supposed to learn. They recruited me to be their 'Agent of Change' and tasked me with the mission of correcting the situations that are adversely affecting the four lessons. Do you understand me up to this point; do you have any questions? Frank."

"I think I'm with you so far Jim. I had the idea that you were only going to address a few unbelievable items. This is almost overwhelming. I'm accepting what you and Cathy have told us, but it's hard to take it all in and comprehend everything we are being told. I want to say 'That can't be true.', but I know it is."

Jim S was nodding his head in agreement, so I said, "That's okay Frank. I will only address the basics tonight. You will need a good bit of time to fully accept everything I am telling you. What about you Jim, do you understand; do you have questions?"

"I am about the same as Frank. Somewhat overwhelmed, but I believe you are telling us the truth."

"Okay, I'll keep tonight fairly short. As I said, my mission is to change the factors relating to four of the lessons we Earthlings need to learn, and I have identified these lessons as four tasks:

"Task 1 - to serve your fellow beings.

"Task 2 - to be respectful of others' privacy.

"Task 3 - to be a role model for your fellow beings.

"Task 4 - to work together as a group to define and attain a common goal.

"At this time, I am ignoring Task 4 other than doing some basic planning; it will not be started in my lifetime. Cathy and I have discussed the first three tasks to gain an understanding of how to go about fixing the problems. They feel that politicians, reporters, and celebrities are the groups most responsible for these three problem areas. According to the council's beliefs:

1. Politicians should serve their fellow beings. Instead, they serve themselves by supporting special interest groups and political groups that are focused on personal gain and keeping power.

2. Reporters who serve the news media should respect an individual's right to personal privacy when gathering information for dissemination to their fellow beings. Instead, they invade peoples' personal privacy, so they can publicize what they learn for monetary gain and fame.

3. People involved in the entertainment industry should be positive role models for their fellow beings. Instead, they are into drugs, crime, and other negative activities that their fans emulate.

"The activities of these three groups of people are destroying our society's moral code and preventing us from learning the proper lessons. The reason I am talking with you is that I need help with completing the tasks that will correct these problems, and from what I have learned about the two of you and your wives, I think you might be interested in working on one or more of these tasks.

"For each of these three tasks, I will need a large amount of funding and support. The business we are starting will provide my mission with most of the necessary financing. I hope the two of you and your wives will assist me with completing Task 2.

"My wives and I have been working on the planning of these four tasks for several years. We believe that it is time to begin earning the money necessary for financing our organization and to start creating a core group of volunteers who will assist us in completing Task 2. I know that there is a lot more that you and your wives need to know about the mission, its tasks, and the financing of the tasks, but do you have any interest in working with me on Task 2?"

Frank and Jim held a brief whispered conversation. Cathy kept me informed on what they were thinking, as she had during our entire conversation.

Jim said, "Frank and I are interested Jim. However, as you said, we will need to know a lot more about your mission and its tasks before we will feel comfortable committing to something like this. At the moment, we have two questions. In completing this mission, are you planning any illegal actions and is our helping you with your mission and our partnership a package deal?"

"The second question is easy to answer. No, they are not a package deal. If you are not interested in working on my mission, I will proceed with the partnership if you do not have a problem with doing business with someone engaged in the activities that I will be doing.

"I am going to give you a qualified No, as far as illegal activities go.

"As far as Task 2 goes, I have no plans for illegal activities and do not foresee a need to do anything of that nature. However, I may find it necessary, or should I say expedient, to engage in activities that some may say or think of as immoral or unethical. I will not force either of you to do something that you feel is wrong or immoral, and if I do something that you feel is inappropriate, you can terminate our relationship at any time.

"Task 1 is slightly different for I believe that the people of a country have the right to choose the manner in which they wish to be governed. The task will require me to oust the current governments, which governments deem to be an illegal act. In completing Task 1, I will engage in legal activities that the current governments and politicians will not like. Namely, I will lead an internal takeover, and it is very likely that the governments will declare my actions illegal as a means of stopping me. At this time and other than removing the current governments, I do not plan to do anything that I consider illegal, however, many of my legal tactics will be sneaky and underhanded.

"Task 3's planning is still in-progress, and as far as legality goes it will most likely fall somewhere between Tasks 1 and 2. This task shouldn't be a concern for I do not see starting it for many years; my wives and I will be busy with Tasks 1 & 2 so it is possible that it won't be started in our lifetimes.

"Does that answer your concerns?"

Glancing at Frank who gave a small nod, Jim said, "Yes, I think it does. Since you mentioned our wives working with us, I assume it is okay to discuss this with them."

"I would actually prefer that we keep this between the three of us and my wives for now. Let's get our business deal worked out and since the two of you are my focal point at the moment, I will provide you with more information about the tasks. Excuse me for a moment, I'll be right back."

I left Frank and Jim in the office so I could go find my wives. Cathy was keeping me apprised of their thoughts and discussion. When I returned with my wives, I said, "Gentlemen, let me introduce my wives. This is Sam, Mary, and Karen. I'd introduce you to our kids also, but they are already in bed. Ladies, this is Frank Toliver and Jim Schneider. They are thinking about working with us on Task 2 of my mission and their wives may be interested in helping us also."

My wives said hello and expressed their hopes that Frank and Jim would be joining our group.

The following 8 months were chaotic for me. Between investments, my research, and finishing the second prototype, I had very little time left to devote to the mission. I discussed it with Frank and Jim so they would be aware of what I was doing. I made sure to let them know that we would be doing very little mission wise over the next 6 to 10 months. Our time and efforts would be focused on the financial aspects of funding the mission.

The Guidance Council continued to monitor my investments, and I would periodically have to discuss buying and selling different investments with Henry Masen, the President of my Investment firm. After that first round of investment changes proving to be the correct moves in the market, Henry accepted that my source of information knew what they were doing. Most of the time I spent on the changes I made to my investment strategy was spent documenting a rationale for why I made the changes that I did make. The SEC representative, Andrew Wilson, would stop by every so often to discuss the sale and purchase of certain stocks. I don't blame him for being suspicious for I seemed to make those purchases and sales shortly before there was a major change in the stock's price.

I think Andrew convinced himself that I wasn't doing anything illegal. Still he had a job to do, so he had to investigate my impossible run of timely stock purchases and sales. On almost every visit, he would say, "I don't understand how anyone can accurately predict the stock market in the way that you do Jim. The analysts say it is impossible, but you continue to buy and sell stock just before a major price change and there is no apparent link to suggest insider trading. My only hope is that someday, you will tell me how you do it."

My research was focused in two areas. A power supply powered by the Earth's magnetic field and a super computer.

My working model of the power supply was a very low power device. I connected a string of lights to it and turned on the switch. The lights came on and burned with a steady, stable output of light. I built the second prototype as a full-sized residential unit. I positioned it near my house's circuit breaker box. With the help of the power company's technician, I disconnected my home from commercial power and connected the circuit breaker box to the power supply. I could have done that without his assistance, but the power company becomes very upset when a customer breaks the seal and removes the meter without their assistance.

When I turned the breakers back on, I heard a slight hum from the power supply, but that was all. I went inside and turned on all of our electrical devices. When I checked the power supply's meters, they indicated a stable 120 Vac output at 160 Amperes. My design data indicated that this version of the power supply should be able to produce a continuous 250 Amperes of ac current.

Karen came out to check on how I was doing, "Is it working right Jim?"

"Yes, everything looks good. I am going to leave everything turned on for a while and take periodic measurements of voltage and current. I expect it will remain stable and keep producing power for as long as I have the power supply turned on."

"Oh goody. Now we have a source of free power and can do without the Electric Company."

"Well, not yet Karen. This power is only free in the sense that we don't have to pay an electric bill. The power we are consuming is coming from Earth's magnetic field. I will have to conduct a number of measurements to determine if the magnetic field is a renewable resource. If it isn't, then we can't use the power supply in a commercial sense. If it is, then we need to determine how fast the field recovers when we tap into its power. My concern is this device might weaken the Earth's magnetic field. If the drain on the field becomes too much, it can create a problem. If the problem is severe enough, then this device would be too dangerous to market commercially.

"To me this power supply is like a perpetual motion machine. It makes me think of the acronym TANSTAAFL, which stands for 'There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch'. It's like the 'FREE' toys they hand out at the fast food places. The cost of those 'FREE' toys is part of the store's advertising budget, and the cost of advertising is factored into the price of the food you buy. You pay for the toys whether you want one or not. If they didn't pay to advertise, they could charge us far less for their food and still make a profit."

I installed some instrumentation to monitor voltage, current, and magnetic field strength and left the power supply connected to the house for the next 3 months. I expected the voltage to remain steady, while the current would vary according to usage. My main concern was monitoring the local magnetic field strength; I was hoping it would remain constant with no irregularities. That is what I measured during the first part of the first month. By the end of the last month, I was seeing unexplainable dips in current with no change in load and an occasional voltage spike. The magnetic field strength showed a slight instability in the magnetic field that had not been there when I first started using the power supply. The technician came by again, so I could turn off the power supply and reconnect my house to the electric company's line. I stored the power supply in the basement and contacted Cathy.

"Cathy, I am ending the trial test of the power supply. During the past weeks, there have been several irregularities that I cannot account for and it concerns me."

"What types of irregularities Jim?"

"I recorded a couple of voltage spikes, unexplainable dips in current, and irregularities in the local magnetic field. I think you should pass this on to the Guidance Council and have them look into it."

"I will do that Jim. I don't recall them mentioning anything like what you are describing."

Two weeks later, Cathy contacted me about the power supply.

"Jim, the Council looked into the matter of the problems you had with the power supply. What they found is the world that developed the supply has a magnetic field that is much stronger than Earth's magnetic field. They said to tell you that the average flux density was close to 7 times greater than that of Earth's magnetic field. They believe that the problems you observed did not show up on that world due to its high flux density. They believe that there is a critical level in flux density for safe operation of the device, and that Earth's magnetic field is not strong enough for the device to be used safely.

"The council is recommending that you do not use the device on Earth for there is a possibility of it damaging Earth's magnetic field. They said you would understand the severity of what might occur if that were to happen."

"Thanks Cathy and thank the council for me. I understand what they are saying. Would you ask them if a design change might limit the power drain to a level that would allow the magnetic field to recover?"

"Okay Jim, I'll pass that on and get back to you."

The answer to my last question turned out to be they didn't know. They did say that a single power supply should not have a critical affect on the magnetic field, so further design and development effort could be conducted safely. They also indicated that if one supply could affect the field locally, then it would probably be unsafe to operate numerous modified supplies.

I had started the design of the super computer at the same time as I started testing the power supply. What I was actually working on initially was a central processing chip that was capable of running at a clock speed of 50 gigahertz. Unfortunately, our current technology was too primitive to fabricate a chip of the sophistication and complexity that I needed. I went back to the drawing board, and returned with a chip that we could manufacture and it would run at 9 gigahertz.

I was sort of bragging about my accomplishment over dinner one evening when Karen said, "I don't see what all the hoopla is about."

Her comment stunned me. Then it dawned on me that I knew a great deal about computers and my three wives probably knew very little about how they functioned internally and the limits of current technology. They had no idea that a CPU chip with a 50-gigahertz clock speed was a major technological breakthrough. Sam might understand it, but Mary and Karen were not what I considered computer savvy people. I decided that I needed to enlighten them.

"Do any of you understand how a computer functions internally?"

They looked at each other, and Sam said, "No, not really. Why?"

"Over the next several years, I am going to design a super computer. I will need your assistance occasionally, so you may find it helpful if you have at least a general idea of what that means.

"Let's finish dinner and then I will give you a crash course in Super Computer 101."

Once dinner was done and the kitchen cleaned up, we settled down in the living room with our coffee.

"Alright, in very simple terms, a computer is nothing more than a machine that processes data. A Programmer writes a software program that tells the computer exactly what it is to do in processing the data, and the computer does exactly what the Programmer tells it to do. Unfortunately, Programmers make mistakes and they are not always aware that the program code they write causes the computer to do something other than what they intended it to do. That is what they call a software bug.

"From a hardware point of view, a computer consists of many circuits. The most important part of the computer is the Central Processing Unit, which is referred to as a CPU. This is the computer chip that controls the computer and does the actual data processing. The CPU talks with a variety of input and output devices over what are called buses. These devices, sometimes referred to as I/O devices, are used to store data, transfer data and commands between the I/O device and the CPU, and output data to the user via other devices. Some of the devices can input and output data, while the others are limited to either inputting or outputting data. Your monitor, keyboard, hard disk, memory, and printer are a few examples of the I/O devices that communicate with the CPU via the internal buses.

"Let's see if I can explain a typical computer operation in very simple terms. To start with, all computer operations are defined by the program instructions, which are normally stored on the hard disk. The CPU reads the instructions from the hard disk under the control of the CPU. The instructions are transferred to the portion of the hardware that decodes the instructions. The CPU receives the decoded information from the instructions and configures the circuitry to perform the operation that was encoded in the instructions. The decoded information is used by the CPU to configure an input device for transfer of data to the CPU over the internal buses, and the CPU then processes the data it receives according to the decoded instructions. When the processing is finished, the instructions cause the CPU to configure an output device to receive the processed data. It then transfers the data to the output device over the internal buses, and the output device generally prints, displays, or stores the data it receives.

"Do you understand this simple description of what the computer does internally?"

All three of my wives were nodding their heads yes, so I continued.

"Good. Now in the computer industry, the goal is to build a computer that runs its software programs faster than the competitors' computers. When you succeed, people will buy your computer instead of your competitors' computers. The problem the buyers have is that all of the computer manufacturers are in a race to build the fastest computer and their marketing groups put out some very confusing and misleading data.

"When you think back, you will remember hearing a great deal of marketing information about CPU speed and which manufacturer has the fastest CPU chip. I think of it as the CPU wars, and it is somewhat silly. Yes, a faster CPU chip will increase the speed of data processing, but the computer architecture places a major limitation on overall computer speed. Fixing this limitation would be a very expensive and time-consuming venture, so the manufacturers limit themselves to just improving the CPU chip. However, I should say that there has been some effort made on fixing the limiting factors that limit overall computer speed. Most of the effort seems to still be put into developing faster CPUs.

"The current manufacturers have a huge capital investment in their architecture; I don't. Since I will have to pay for creating my architecture and manufacturing facilities, what I plan to do is build a super computer. I will give it the fastest CPU that I can create and to the maximum extent possible, I will fix the factors that currently place a limit on computer speed."

Karen had that look on her face again that usually meant she was having a problem understanding something I said. "Is there something wrong Karen?"

"Yeah, I was okay with everything you said until you said making the CPU chip a lot faster didn't make the computer faster, or I think that is what you were saying."

"Yes, that is basically what I was saying. Let me create a metaphor that will demonstrate what I mean.

"Let's say you are going to eat a meal. It takes your hands, which is your input device, 9 seconds to move a bite of food from your plate to your mouth. It takes your mouth, which is the CPU, 5 seconds to chew the food well enough that it is ready to be swallowed. It takes 7 seconds for the food to reach your stomach, which is your output device, and prepare your mouth to receive the next bite of food. Now what that means is that it takes 21 seconds to eat each bite of food.

"Now if you increase the speed that your mouth chews the food, you will reduce the time it takes to eat each bite of food. If it were possible to reduce the time to chew your food to zero seconds, it would still take 16 seconds to get the food from your plate to your stomach. If you only change one of the three factors that determine how fast you eat each bite, then the other two factors set a limit on how fast you eat your food. Now does that help you understand what I mean by limiting factors on how fast you can make a computer run?"

After a few moments of thought, Karen said, "Yeah, I think what you are saying is that in building your super computer, you are going to make the input of data faster, the processing of the data faster, and the output of data faster."

"Yes that is exactly what I am going to do Karen."

Karen still had that look on her face. I waited for a moment, and then she said, "Well, if you can fix the limiting factor, why can't the other manufacturers do the same thing?"

"They can Karen, but they don't want to invest the time and money necessary to create a totally new type of computer architecture. It would be a very risky and expensive venture for them. What they have done is to make a few incremental changes in the circuitry that inputs and outputs data, but what I will do is create a completely different type of circuitry that operates at speeds higher that the current technology.

"I can do that for I will be using a proven computer design that has been given to me by the Guidance Council. What I am currently doing is taking that design information and tweaking it so our current technology can build the necessary hardware. That is why I had to redesign my first CPU."

Mary had been listening closely to what I had been telling Karen. She said, "Jim, it sounds as if this redesign and new production facilities will be a very expensive effort. Will our customers be able to afford such an expensive computer?"

"Initially, I plan to take a loss on every computer we sell; the important thing is to get our computer into the marketplace. The cost of production should decline quickly. Once that happens, we will begin to make a profit, but I plan to keep the price as low as I can. I believe getting these computers into the hands of users is important to completing the mission. The sooner we corner the market in home computers, the better off we will be financially and mission wise."

Sam was the one who noticed what I had said for she asked, "What do these computers have to do with our mission Jim? I thought they were just going to be a means of making money to support the mission."

"It started out that way Sam. Then I had an idea. You know we are going to create a completely new operating system for the computer. Well, I am thinking of building in a backdoor in the operating system that will allow us to hijack someone's computer and download its data.

"That would be an unbelievable intelligence gathering tool for us. Of course, we would have to keep that a very closely guarded secret for it would be a disaster if word were leaked to the public. We will have to be very careful how we download the data, and how we use the data.

"I haven't run this idea past the Guidance Council yet, but I think they will say it is too risky. It is a wonderful idea, but is the risk worth the gain? Of course, putting the backdoor in is no risk if we never use it. Using it in selective circumstances would result in a minimal risk that may be worth taking in certain circumstances. I have to think the idea out before I present it to the council."

Sam had an upset look on her face I didn't recognize, she said, "I think a backdoor is a very bad idea Jim and we need to discuss it further before you suggest it to the council. Secrets like that have a way of becoming public knowledge. If the public learns we did something like that, it would set our efforts and the mission back drastically.

"Setting that issue aside for now, it occurred to me that we will have another problem with a super computer. That problem is the rest of the world's electronic devices will be extremely slow by comparison. Your super computer will be so fast that the other devices won't be able to keep up. Your computer will have to go very slow, and the user will not be happy with that."

"That has already occurred to me Sam. My plan is to put out the computer first, and then address the external I/O device issues. We will have to put out some type of marketing that gives the world the image that everyone else needs to improve their products to meet our speed. We may need to design and manufacture those I/O devices to support our increased speed.

"It may help to build in a large amount of I/O memory, especially for output operations. We can dump the processed data to the I/O memory and the output device can feed it to the external device at that device's maximum input data rate."

Karen interrupted Sam and me, which was a very odd thing for her to do. "You know, I think that we need to go back to what Cathy told us when we first started working on this mission. She said that we shouldn't rush, we should do it right the first time, and that we didn't have to complete the mission in our life times.

"It seems to me that this backdoor idea is trying to rush and that is specifically what Cathy said we shouldn't do. I think we need to stay focused on completing our plans the right way, and doing something that will turn the public against us, is the wrong way to do things."

Karen wasn't stupid, but that degree of foresight from her was rare, so I was in a slight state of shock when I said, "Yeah, I guess I got carried away. We will go with the no backdoor approach for now. We can always add one in a future build of the operating system if we decide it is necessary."

My shop crew had finished the second prototype and we were waiting for a good opportunity to test it. It was racing season and the racetracks in our area were very busy. We were going to do a longer endurance run than we had for the first prototype. Our drivers weren't looking forward to it for we were going to run the prototype at full speed for two weeks. Our automotive engineer, Jack Timmins, believed that should give us a very good database for making predictions.

Jack had finished documenting the prototype car, and he was working on defining the first production model of our solar powered car and the production line requirements for manufacturing the vehicle. The long-term political ramifications of locating the production facility in the US resulted in me deciding to setup the new production line overseas. I hadn't decided where to establish the plant, and had decided to have Frank and Jim take the lead in the research necessary for making that decision. It would get them and their wives involved in the mission, and if I didn't like their choice, I could always step in and suggest an alternative location. Of course, if I specified the proper selection criteria, they should come up with an acceptable location.