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Off Topic » in reply to re: Laurie, if you're around, can you take a look at this?

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Lindy — (archived)

Just changed their website.
It was up there a couple of months ago.
I'm not a microbiologist, and I don't know what I'm seeing in Video # 2, but I watched the whole thing for 15 minutes and saw those fibers again.

>"The fiber experts on the Tulsa police department's forensics team examined them. First they employed a type of spectroscopy that identifies the chemical structures of fibers and compared them to their database of 800 fibers. No match.

Next they subjected fibers to gas chromatography. Compounds put through this process are encased in a vacuum chamber and exposed to high heat; the temperature at which they reach boiling point is a clue to what compound they are made of. The forensic experts had a database that included the boiling point of 90,000 organic compounds with which to compare the fibers. But the machine ran to its highest temperature, 1,400 degrees, and apart from some slight blackening, nothing happened. The fiber experts were mystified. "The conclusion we were left with is that they are UNKNOWN fibers, not simply contaminants from clothing sticking to scabs,"

Close up photos <here.>

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