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;;;Read how this 5 year scientific study of 63375 males and 1375 females proves that the ratio of head height to full height is 1:8 thus proving that Carl Webb cannot be the Somerton Man... (.14:1)
The Vitruvian Man shown above was drawn by Leonardo da Vinci and it was based on the work of Vitruvius 20 BCE, who was the author of De Architectura a 10-volume work with the third volume focusing on body proportions or, as in the case of our recent posts, on ratios.
da Vinci created the Golden Ratio, 1.618 or 'PHI'. Each part of the body in this scheme, the height of the head, for example, is related to the full height of a body in a ratio of 1.618.
A SCIENTIFIC STUDY
A study occurred between 2011 and 2016 at a US Air Force base in San Antonio, Texas and using a 3D body scanner, it measured 63,623 men and 1385 women between the ages of 18 and 21, it was named:
Revisiting Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man Using Contemporary Measurements
The study was created by leading academics and, using a 3D body scanner it compared ideal body proportions represented by Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man with contemporary body proportions of young adult men and women, USAF recruits.
The full results are available by the link below, for this post, we will look at one important find. The study found that the ratio between a man's head height and his full height was 1:8. This is the ratio used on this blog to establish that Carl Webb was 5 feet 8 inches tall. Furthermore, the height of the Somerton Man was similarly calculated and he was found to be 1803.2 mm tall or 5 feet 11 inches. Carl Webb was a full 3 inches shorter than the Somerton Man.
This find substantiates the claim made by this blog yet another reason why Carl Webb could not be the Somerton Man.
Here's the link to the NCBI website containing more details:
Here's the link to the NCBI website containing more details:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7284298/
What happens from here now rests with the SA Coroner, SAPOL, and their Forensics team. There are still numerous questions yet to be answered in the Somerton Man case but this find represents compelling evidence to support the claims made here.
* NOTE. Men's growth period normally ends around 18 years of age but some continue into the 21-year age group.
Whoa! What happens now I wonder? Is that the final proof positive or is there more to come?
ReplyDeleteJust caught me! Heading out. More to come I think, still questions to answer regarding Roy's photo which could be a key but I feel confident that we have it nailed this time.
ReplyDeleteJust in case anyone is interested in the Fedosimov story, here's a link to the ATOM SPIES book where he first cropped up, he wasn't named at this time but he was found in FBI files mentioning that he met with Harry Gold in the first floor foyer of the Earl Theatre on December 26th 1946. There is a good description of him in the online book, page 43, here's the link:
ReplyDeletehttps://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015046847938&seq=53&q1=Bronx
You never know :)
You're no closer to knowing who Somerton man is than when you started
ReplyDeleteHow many thousands of hours have you wasted
Is this the reason why the Somerton Man was chosen to die?
ReplyDeleteI've been spending more than the usual amount of time recently reviewing and analysing certain aspects of the case and have found myself increasingly drawn to the possibility that the Somerton Man died from exposure to some very sensitive information, you could say an overdose of information of the classified variety.
Did he died because he knew too much? Not only did he know of certain facts and events, he knew names of those involved and the extent of their involvement.
Was his meticulously timed and executed demise a message to others who may have been similarly exposed?
If we look to the evidence we find at least two significant clues. The first is the dental chart showing 18 missing teeth and the second was found by Paul Lawson when he looked inside the clinically clean interior of a dead man’s skull.What could possibly have caused that many teeth to simply fall out? Remember there was no mention of any kind of gum disease. Why would someone have gone to the trouble to clean out that skull and to close it off with such fine suture work, the work of a professional, or was that indicative of a replacement?
The answers I find could point to radiation, ionising radiation to be more precise. The kind that emanates from explosions, certain machinery and radium amongst other things. Polonium 210 and Cobalt 60 ? Radium mining? Perhaps developments at Fishermans Bend?
Odd isn’t it that the dental chart and cleaned out skull aspects have been studiously ignored by those seemingly best qualified and with expressed keen interest in resolving the case? In fact everything that they have done over the past ten years or more, look now in hindsight to have been exercises in distraction.
Investigative efforts might be more profitably spent if we focused on the nature of experiments taking place in those times and possibly their unwitting human subjects. Perhaps certain scientists who held grave concerns regarding the ethical ramifications of human experimentation in the pursuit of scientific advancement. A few names come to mind and have been mentioned by researcher Peter Davidson.
Where in Australia would we start looking?
My apologies for not posting as regularly of late, I will post again as soon as circumstances permit.
Interesting, Polonium 210 is a good possibility.
ReplyDeleteOn 3 November 2006, Litvinenko (under the pseudonym of Edwin Carter) was admitted to Barnet Hospital in north London, where he was initially treated for gastroenteritis. As his condition worsened, he told doctors his true identity and claimed to have been poisoned, before being transferred on 17 November to University College Hospital in central London for intensive care. Subsequently, his blood and urine samples were sent to the UK's Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), where they were tested for radioactive poison using gamma spectroscopy. No discernible gamma rays were initially detected, but a small gamma ray spike was noticed at an energy of 803 kilo-electronvolts (keV), barely visible above the background.
The BBC reported that by coincidence another scientist, who had worked on Britain's early atomic bomb programme decades before, happened to overhear a discussion about the small spike and recognised it as the gamma ray signal from the radioactive decay of polonium-210, which was a critical component of early nuclear bombs. On the evening of 22 November, shortly before his death, his doctors were informed the poison was likely to be polonium-210. Further tests on a larger urine sample using spectroscopy designed to detect alpha particles confirmed the result the following day.
Unlike some other sources of radiation, polonium-210 emits very little gamma radiation, but large amounts of alpha particles which are relatively difficult to detect with common radiation detectors such as Geiger counters. This explained why tests conducted by doctors and Scotland Yard at the hospital with Geiger counters were negative. Both gamma rays and alpha particles are classified as ionizing radiation, which can cause radiation damage. An alpha-emitting substance can cause significant damage only if ingested or inhaled, acting on living cells like a short-range weapon. Hours before his death, Litvinenko was tested for alpha-emitters using special equipment.
Polonium 210 was used as part of the trigger mechanism for the first atomic bomb and the Americans used in weapons for some time through the 1940s and 50s. It was discovered by Marie Curie in 1898 and in 1956 her daughter, Irene Joliot-Curie died from Polonium poisoning to which she had been exposed in 1946. The Americans carried out formal human experimentation with Polonium 210 between 1944 and 1947.
ReplyDeleteIt is known to affect major organs of the body including liver, kidneys, spleen, and known to affect the central nervous system, It decays back to lead.
Compare this information to what is known of the Somerton Man's autopsy and later hair analysis.
It all seems to be interesting but what is needed is evidence. That may be difficult or impossible given the short half life of Polonium 210. Polonium 209 has an extended half-life of 128 years.
The question regarding human experimentation in Australia becomes more significant.
Read more about Polonium here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polonium
He had higher than normal traces of lead in his hair samples but they didn’t mention Polonium.
ReplyDeleteIt gets into your system by ingesting it or through broken skin so the scratches between his knuckles is a possibility aren’t they?
ReplyDeletePolonium-210 is a rare radioactive metal discovered by Marie Curie in the late 19th century.
ReplyDeleteWhile radioactive, it emits a high-energy form of radiation, but the particles do not travel far and it decays relatively quickly.
If polonium-210 enters the body, through inhalation, swallowing, broken skin, the results can be fatal.
By mass, polonium-210 is one of the deadliest toxins, around 250 billion times more toxic than hydrogen cyanide.
It’s me again So,Purified polonium is very volatile, and polonium isotopes are radioactive. The most common and best-known polonium isotope is polonium-210.
ReplyDeleteThis material is highly dangerous, but it has a relatively short half-life. As a result, it ceases to be dangerous relatively quickly. It decays into a new, stable metal: lead.
Its physical half life is 140 days. This means that half its radioactivity dies away in this time.
Its biological half life is 40 daysTrusted Source, so it takes 40 days for biological processes to eliminate half of the Polonium-210 in the body.
Thanks for the input, good information. The challenge at the time was that they had no real means of detecting the presence, mostly because it was under a veil of secrecy as far as weapons development was concerned. Consider the difficulty experienced by Doctors in the Litvinenko case and that was in the year 2000.
ReplyDeleteI would totally agree that the half life of Polonium 210 means that it won't be detectable after all this time but just maybe the damage that it does or did, would be detectable. It is possible that the condition of the skull described by Paul Lawson, may relate to this matter.
Thanks again and a good discussion to be had on this and related topics.
A presentation in Salisbury? Why there I wonder, an admission that atomic espionage was part of the story?
ReplyDeleteThe forthcoming presentation in Salisbury is interesting. Apparently Professor Abbot will explain how ‘Science solved the Overton Man case’.
ReplyDeleteI have an old fashioned view on this, for a case to be ‘solved’ it means that all aspects of the case must be solved. That includes, how when and where the man died, when was his body placed on the beach and by whom? Who knew of the circumstances? What poison was definitely used? Was it self administered or did someone administer it? If so, who did that? How was it administered? Were Olive Neill and Gordon Strapps members of the Eureka Youth League? Regarding the body, how tall was the Somerton Man? Who measured him and when? Given that the man had a partially smoked cigarette behind his ear, why were there no dead matches found at the scene? And that just the half of it. What of the ‘code’ page? Who wrote that and when? Why was the micro code not spotted at the time? (Professor Abbot mentioned and asked his Facebook group members to look into the ‘tiny’ writing’ found near the bottom right corner of the page?) what about the code found in the Tamam Shud torn slip? Has that been reviewed if so when and by whom? And the Boxall Rubaiyat, why did online tools show that it had been modified extensively? What of the code found concealed in the verse 70 inscription? Why did Professor Abbot or one of his associates alter and smudge over many of the handwritten letters in the inscription?
I am looking forward to these and other issues being addressed.
I’d like to know whether he’s altered his view on the DNA thing.
ReplyDeleteIt’s best to bear in mind that the identity of the man is just one part of the puzzle. There’s a lot more to it than that. The big questions are Who? Why? When? Where? How? DNA may or may not be the clincher and that question should be left to those best qualified to give their professional views.
ReplyDeleteAs for me, whatever the substantiated evidence states will be all I need to know. Whether it’s Carl Webb who is identified or someone else there are still questions to be answered if we are to reach the truth. Some want to be first across the line I hear, that is simply not the point. It’s about getting to the truth.