I hope you don't believe that science has RECENTLY become a scam, it's been based upon money and corrupt influence for many decades, hasn't it?
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>>>> "The site I linked to has been active right up through December when he showed pictures of his Christmas lights, You do not decorate for Christmas if depressed. The emails in the link are ongoing and the only anger I can see is toward the corruption of Nanotechnology and science/politics/Big Money like climate-gate. His picture back in 1996 had him lanky. He is 40 now and men lose their hair at any age. He works inside, so pale. The caps only caught my eye as only two wore them. Always nice to wear a cap if you do not want to be recognized in group photographs in the future. Not that means anything in this case "under the cap".I just find people of like mode of dress may have been hanging together prior to the photograph. The other subject is looking his way, but that is a stretch!! He is fair. The other is of middle eastern.
He has been to different parts of the world as seen via his website & photographs. His works carries him to these places so he has importance. He vacationed in Cuba (1996) He has been "hacked", as well. A person he conversed with over email suggested he release the weapons of mass destruction to the perpetrators. He talked of hacking also taking place in the Far East. The WMD analogy seemed to be more Internet game related. They are geeks in correspondence. Fantasy.
His biggest worry was the evils in the future of nanotechnology. The money involved. The Nanotechnology scam. One friend wrote he had patented a nano-car.
I showed you the street the close proximity of homes, where neighbors know their neighbors or at least see them come and go. You can go up and down his street via the "pictures" part of his address. Even the neighbor had clothes hanging on the line. He did not seem to live in seclusion. No interviews with neighbors, just a basic press release, a Police posting with picture.
His site didn't branch off into any medical research which if ill would be of interest.
He just seemed to think science had become a scam! He saw research which proved nothing; but active, in the race for more money. Nanotechnology that could become sinister. Reflects into his favorite movie chooses as well. But then he did like Josie and the PussyCats!! ;)
The story of a missing scientist has really had no play here. I mentioned this to a resident of a town just over the border US and they knew nothing about it.
I just find it odd. I read months and years of his postings on his own active site under his name. It is quite a "highway" and/or personal Encyclopedia of knowledge.
Thanks for posting ..Could have gone under activism, news, current events; extended, crime not just chat." <<<<<
I now believe that Dr. Lachlan M.D. Cranswick walked away from his life.
I believe that his career had become utterly irrevokably repugnant to him; NOT science, itself, but the career and how it entails rigid adherance to the rules & protocols of the Famous.Renown.Well.Published.Child.Prodigy.Genius.Brilliant.Scientist Monopoly Board Game -- the one with the rule, "Publish or Die," the vile idiotic game with the insipid clockwork CHANCE cards, "You skipped the 19356th meeting - GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL, do *not* pass go, do not collect 2 million $$$$$$$, Loser."
Dr. Cranswick is certainly brilliant enough to manufacture a new identitiy and to do science on his own, and to have meticulously planned each & every single detail of his Great Escape. Perfect timing, to split when the reactor was down for repairs, so coworkers had no idea he was GONE-GONE, not merely using up acrued vacation time.
I do not believe that Dr. Cranswick will be located, unless he so chooses to be found. I wish him well, and hope he finds some fulfilling work, not just being a bartender/dishwasher, but perhaps tutoring children or working in the lawfirms of those attorneys who will prosecute the Global Warming Hoaxers & Liars who have cast such a deep black cloud of fraudulent corruption over the entire enterprise of science as a whole.
Hopefully, some time in the future he will ring up the George Noory Coast to Coast AM overnight talk show, and identify himself, speak briefly, and let all the people whom he left far behind him know that he is alive, well, safe, etc.
Hmmmm.... I wonder where he parked the vehicle he left in, and I wonder where he purchased it, and if he used ca$h????