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8. Water/ice crystals in atmosphere: Confirmed 1975. 9- Crystal bands reflect radio probes: Confirmed 1975. 10. Magnetic and electromagnetic auroras ("rainbows"): Confirmed 1975. 11. A planetary RING inside the atmosphere: Confirmed 1979, not only as to its existence, but as being inside the crystallized atmospheric layers. 12. Liquid composition: Confirmed 1973, 1976, as hydrogen in liquid form, 13. Mountains and solid core: Still questionable, but suspected as of 1991. Six of these thirteen factors were given scientific substantiation by 1975/ which is the year that the events narrated in this book begin, It needs to be pointed up that before it was actually discovered in 1979, most scientists flatly denounced the possibility of the RING, but which had been sketched in the raw data acquired in 1973. And just recently the existence of more refined rings has been confirmed. For me, the Jupiter experiment effected a cure of my experimental doldrums for a number of reasons. For one thing, the trip and the sightseeing there were awesome experiences. This was a kind of profound aesthetic impact that can inspire one for many of years. For another thing, as confirmation feedback began coming in during September, 1973, in the form of scientific announcements, the gossip lines shifted from cold ridicule and began heating up. Lots of notables began coming to lunch at SRI in order to get grounded with the possibilities. For yet another thing, the CIA, of course, was interested in the possibilities of psychic spying. Although the planetary experiment had not been done on the Company's funded time, it now seemed that the project at SRI was excitedly on the right track. The Jupiter Probe also received wide media coverage, although not in scientific journals, of course. But then there are all types of people who view science much in the same way that science has traditionally viewed parapsychology. I now wish to mention an aspect that might go missing otherwise, and does go missing, rather conveniently, as regards a lot of psychic claims and posturing. This has to do with the matter of what are referred to as positive feedback loops. It is not hard to comprehend what these consist of. One word will do: Confirmation - in some or any form. A "psychic" says thus and so, after which one needs to look around for some kind of hard evidence that supports the real-time facts of what has been said, As far out as the Jupiter experiment was, it was based and designed AGAINST expected feedback loops. The feedback was in the form of the information telemetered back to Earth by the NASA vehicles flying by the planet.