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Originally Posted by trinitree88
Hi. While it is true that amniocentesis has been around since ~1882...it was not the routine pregnancy test used in Betty Hill's era...that was the rabbit test...it died. My recollection is that the very first MRI image popularly seen was a poor resolution mouse...in Discover magazine. I remember holding it up to my chemistry classes at Hanover High School, and telling them...learn this technology, imaging without ionizing radiation...I had worked in X-ray solution service technology..and could see what was coming.That could only be the years 1978-81, long after Barney & Betty's experience.
The Astronomy magazine article specifically spent a long time on the anomalous ability of Betty to draw in a star...unknown to the astronomers of the day in that position. Not my invention. Ciao. Pete
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No, sorry, but I must disagree with you. From
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"Nadler and Gerbie published the important article "Role of amniocentesis in the intra-uterine diagnosis of genetic defects" in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1970. This was the real impetus in genetic amniocentesis and diagnosis, and from then on, genetic laboratories for analysis of amniotic fluid had become prevalent."
Secondly, in your original post you stated:
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"...clearly describing three independently confirmed future advanced technologies years before they appeared in the annals of science and technology."
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Looking
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During the 50's and 60's NMR spectroscopy became a widely used technique for the non-destructive analysis of small samples. Many of its applications were at the microscopic level using small (a few centimetres) bore high field magnets. In the late 60's and early 70's Raymond Damadian, an American medical doctor at the State University of New York in Brooklyn, demonstrated that a NMR tissue parameter (termed T1 relaxation time) of tumour samples, measured in vitro, was significantly higher than normal tissue....his description of relaxation time changes in cancer tissue was one of the main impetuses for the introduction of NMR into medicine.
So, even ignoring the facts that: (1) When
you first recall seeing an MRI is hardly relevant; (2) you are speculating that what was described was actually an MRI; and (3) it is remarkable that a species capable of interstellar flight might use coeval technology to ours: then your statement is evidently incorrect.
With respect to the Red Dwarf star apparently identified, I have not read the Astronomy article to which you refer and so cannot comment on it. However, I must note that Red Dwarf stars are easily the most common form of Main Sequence star (comprising well over 50% of all the stars in our galaxy) and as you yourself describe the Hill prediction as 'approximate', I am loath at this point to put a lot of weight on it.
(EDITED TO NOTE: I just looked up the Betty & Barney Hill 'episode' and note that it was supposed to have occurred in 1961. It is my error that I had assumed that it took place circa 1974 as this is when the 'Astronomy' article was written according to trinitree88's post. As such, many of the objections that I raise above regarding dates become inappropriate and I withdraw them.)