Post by DR. QUIST on Jul 26, 2010 6:18:10 GMT -5
WHEN RATS WON'T DIE
The Ministry has now summoned pest controllers in and around the area to meet it's 'doomwatch' experts next month to discuss what to do next.
It is going to tell them that they must now train farmers in the use of the old, highly toxic, dangerous and painful rat poisons that were abandoned 20 years ago in favour of the more humane and safer anti-coagulant rat poison, Warfarin
Doomwatch 'Tomorrow, the Rat', 2 March 1970
– Daily Mail, 16 September 1970
GAS DUMPED IN SEA BY BRITAIN
By Dr. ANTHONY MICHAELIS, Science Correspondent
Britain dumped 200,000 tons of poison gas, including 6,000 tons of the nerve gas Tabun, in the Atlantic up to 1957, the Ministry of Defence said yesterday.
It is possible that some leaked and was carried towards the shore by ocean currents, causing the mysterious deaths of thousands of sea birds, fish and seals in the Irish Sea in December last year.
Doomwatch 'Burial at Sea', 23 February
–Daily Telegraph, 12 August 1970
CONCORDE SHOCK WAVES A DANGER TO HEALTH, SAYS DOCTOR
By JOHN CHRISTOPHER
A SURGEON claimed last night that low frequency shock waves produced by Concorde's supersonic boom could be a serious health hazard.
Doomwatch 'The Red Sky', 6 April 1970
–Daily Express, 3 September 1970
DOOMWATCH WARNING
SCIENTISTS may have solved the problem of disposing of plastic litter, with an additive that makes plastic extra sensitive to sunlight–to the extent that it can be reduced to powder if left in the open. The team at Aston University, Birmingham, say the process is harmless, and could be ready for commercial application in about three years.
In April, after a BBC TV Doomwatch thriller programme on the subject, plastics consultant Dr Peter Staudingen warned against developing self-destructive plastics. Such "bugs," he said, would be impossible to control.
Doomwatch 'The Plastic Eaters', 9 February 1970
–News of the World, 5 July 1970
TEST TUBE BABIES
What are our scientists really doing?
The idea of growing human embryos in the laboratory, and perhaps regulating their development so that they end up as babies possessing particular and chosen characteristics (big muscles, perhaps–or a genius for mathematics) is one that has fascinated science fiction writers for many years.
Doomwatch 'Friday's Child', 16 February 1970
–Evening News, 14 February 1969
COMPUTER SNOOPER
The greatest intrusion into private life since the Inquisition is well under way. This time it is electronics.
Our secret lives are being recorded on computer tape and added to day by day.
All our details, achievements and errors are being gulped into data banks.
So what's wrong with this? The answer is we are being turned into see-through people. Who wants the idly curious person–or the criminally motivated–to be able to
Doomwatch 'Project Sahara', 9 March 1970
–News of the World, 8 February 1970
'SEX CHANGE' MEN FORCED TO SWITCH THEIR JOBS
Men working at a factory making birth pills have been forced to switch jobs because they developed feminine curves. Now, middle-aged women have been moved in to take over from them.
The Ministry has now summoned pest controllers in and around the area to meet it's 'doomwatch' experts next month to discuss what to do next.
It is going to tell them that they must now train farmers in the use of the old, highly toxic, dangerous and painful rat poisons that were abandoned 20 years ago in favour of the more humane and safer anti-coagulant rat poison, Warfarin
Doomwatch 'Tomorrow, the Rat', 2 March 1970
– Daily Mail, 16 September 1970
GAS DUMPED IN SEA BY BRITAIN
By Dr. ANTHONY MICHAELIS, Science Correspondent
Britain dumped 200,000 tons of poison gas, including 6,000 tons of the nerve gas Tabun, in the Atlantic up to 1957, the Ministry of Defence said yesterday.
It is possible that some leaked and was carried towards the shore by ocean currents, causing the mysterious deaths of thousands of sea birds, fish and seals in the Irish Sea in December last year.
Doomwatch 'Burial at Sea', 23 February
–Daily Telegraph, 12 August 1970
CONCORDE SHOCK WAVES A DANGER TO HEALTH, SAYS DOCTOR
By JOHN CHRISTOPHER
A SURGEON claimed last night that low frequency shock waves produced by Concorde's supersonic boom could be a serious health hazard.
Doomwatch 'The Red Sky', 6 April 1970
–Daily Express, 3 September 1970
DOOMWATCH WARNING
SCIENTISTS may have solved the problem of disposing of plastic litter, with an additive that makes plastic extra sensitive to sunlight–to the extent that it can be reduced to powder if left in the open. The team at Aston University, Birmingham, say the process is harmless, and could be ready for commercial application in about three years.
In April, after a BBC TV Doomwatch thriller programme on the subject, plastics consultant Dr Peter Staudingen warned against developing self-destructive plastics. Such "bugs," he said, would be impossible to control.
Doomwatch 'The Plastic Eaters', 9 February 1970
–News of the World, 5 July 1970
TEST TUBE BABIES
What are our scientists really doing?
The idea of growing human embryos in the laboratory, and perhaps regulating their development so that they end up as babies possessing particular and chosen characteristics (big muscles, perhaps–or a genius for mathematics) is one that has fascinated science fiction writers for many years.
Doomwatch 'Friday's Child', 16 February 1970
–Evening News, 14 February 1969
COMPUTER SNOOPER
The greatest intrusion into private life since the Inquisition is well under way. This time it is electronics.
Our secret lives are being recorded on computer tape and added to day by day.
All our details, achievements and errors are being gulped into data banks.
So what's wrong with this? The answer is we are being turned into see-through people. Who wants the idly curious person–or the criminally motivated–to be able to
Doomwatch 'Project Sahara', 9 March 1970
–News of the World, 8 February 1970
'SEX CHANGE' MEN FORCED TO SWITCH THEIR JOBS
Men working at a factory making birth pills have been forced to switch jobs because they developed feminine curves. Now, middle-aged women have been moved in to take over from them.