@gap3516
Active 4 years, 7 months ago-
Sydney posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago
The Division of Planetary Sciences is meeting in my city this week. I attended and spoke with Schelte “Bobby” Bus, the Deputy Director of NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility in Hawaii for a little over 30 minutes today. Nearing the end of our conversation, he started talking about planetary defense. I kid you not this man looked me dead in the eyes…[Read more]
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Joseph P. Farrell posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago
Don’t forget we have a vidchat tomorrow at 2 PM US Central. I’ll be early as usual for pre-chat…
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Joseph P. Farrell posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago
Don’t forget we have a vidchat tomorrow at 2 PM US Central. I’ll be early as usual for pre-chat…
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I just sent a whopper dozy of a question
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Scarmoge posted an update 7 years, 6 months ago
A talk by Chris Hedges … Corporate Totalitarianism: The End Game (approx. 1 hour and 30 minutes)
… a consideration of our current situation.
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It helps if you believe that “Global Warming” means the end of humanity and you also believe that socialism works. His arrogance is almost as intolerable as his ignorance but he is absolutely dead on when it comes to corporatism and what it has done to destroy the financial system and the social fabric of our country. I lived through the era of…[Read more]
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He also is right about the 26 trillion stolen by corporate manipulation so with the 21 trillion of undocumented adjustments, you can see how CAF is correct in saying there are $50trillion dollars stolen from us. Hedges presents many correct facts but his conclusion to resist is frustrating at the least.
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I must admit that I have mixed feelings, not only about Hedges, but about most of what I read and hear. To hold practical fallibilism is as it should be. Dr. Farrell often talks about owning the culture. What actions can we actually take toward doing so? In a discussion between CAF and JPF they suggested that we might take it upon ourselves…[Read more]
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I have mixed feelings on this too. He certainly makes a good point about Durkheim and anomie – we can see the lack of any morality derived from the Transcendent everywhere in the West these days , but I think there’s a deep-seated contradiction in his thinking too. On the one hand he espouses the need – and potency – of mass political action in…[Read more]
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I must admit that I have mixed feelings, not only about Hedges, but about most of what I read and hear. To hold practical fallibilism is as it should be. Dr. Farrell often talks about owning the culture. What actions can we actually take toward doing so? In a discussion between CAF and JPF they suggested that we might take it upon ourselves…[Read more]
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I agree with you. A practical template for what you suggest might be to apply grammar, logic and rhetoric to many of the statements that are used with abandon these days in the mainstream media.
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To Justawhoaman – I am certainly in agreement with you, if I am understanding your comments correctly, in that Hedges comes across as somewhat self-righteous. That aside, I am curious as to the source of the frustration that you mention. (I find it difficult to communicate in forums such as these without the ability to see body language, hear…[Read more]
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Sydney posted an update 7 years, 9 months ago
This is “end of the twig” speculation.
I was thinking to myself today about the “recent” discovery of 12 new moons around Jupiter ( been a lot of “twelves” in the USA lame stream media as of late… ). I was fantasizing that the new planets were created to screw with whatever weapons we might be trying to develop on this planet. GizaDeathSt…[Read more]
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Sydney .. good point .. We have seen the “ring makers of Saturn” .. now we could be witnessing the “moon makers of planets” .. Big stuff indeed .. thanks for sharing ..
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That was Phobos and Deimos, the moons of Mars…very interesting insight, sounds like a good vidchat question to me.
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Its been said.. that they werent seen, because they (at least phobos) are the darkest satelittes in the solar system.. Must have sucked up all the burnt stuff from Mars…
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Wow! Musical moons! Great insight. I think definately a good vidchat question.
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It is a STRANGE thing… why make the announcement now? As far as I understand it, the satellites that have been flying by Jupiter should have been able to detect these things…
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And why is one of them flying in an opposite direction? One thing I will keep repeating.. Intersteller flight will require hollowed out asteroids or… moons.. Otherwise we will have to freeze everyone in in vitro mode to be grown automatically on arrival (the tech exists already today.. I was scared when I heard about babies being grown in…[Read more]
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The reference of the two moons was to 18th cent. writer Swift who in Gulliver’s Travels mentioned that Mars had two moons, although there were not officially sighted until later. This could mean that there was a hidden (or private?) use of telescopy in or around Swift’s time, that there was an ancient tradition of two Martian moons, or both of these.
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Thanks for this!
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Using lens and mirrors since 212BC at least my friend.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_glass… 135AD — Approximate date Ptolemy records 1,022 stars in »Almagest«; also recorded astrological ideas from Enuma Anu Enlil in his »Apotelesmatika.« I think Roger Bacon might have had something to do with eyeglasses in the 13th Century. And Im…[Read more]
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However.. I’m looking at Swift.. And.. look at some of these parallels.. Giants. (especially on the western coast of north america.. he’s very specific about where the giants live.. (Gulliver was the giant for the Lilliputians.. but the giants were in Amercia…) Flying Saucers in India….(Laputa.. the flying island..)…[Read more]
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Kristan posted an update 8 years, 7 months ago
My youngest is taking Current Events in high school this semester. Every week the students bring articles to discuss. His first article came from Dr Farrell’s 4 part blog last week. We discussed the collisions at length even before the blog posts were published. I have a feeling most of his articles will be drawn from Dr Farrell’s blogs, News…[Read more]
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The best thing you can learn from this community is how to read between the lines.
Be careful with taking GDS material into the classroom.. The teachers have no place for it. (it interfers with the indoctrination process) Be careful that your youngest doesnt get flagged for ridicule and peer pressure. A lot of people dont like hearing painful truths.-
I tried responding but I got flagged for using an inappropriate word. I’m not sure what it was because none were even slightly off. I will try again. I know the teacher quite well and what he will consider acceptable. Thanks for the warning though.
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Its usually words with t1t in them.. like t1tle.. inst1tute…const1itutional right to write t1t without being blocked by an algorithym! Bravo for engaging your kids.
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This weekend, my son was telling me how evil politicians are because they want to kill children…(no.. i havent talked to him about that yet..) killing children by enforcing 11 obligatory vaccines on them.. (thanks Macron you MK puppet…). I tried to help him understand that they didnt want to kill children, just that they love money from…[Read more]
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Don’t know whether to laugh or shake my head in disgust…
I know it’s possible he truly believes what he said. Maybe he has devoted his energies to stopping the threat of pseudo science. Maybe he’s just a “good liberal” with the ugly habit of value signaling. (This is no virtue.)
Just because he’s a NASA employee, doesn’t mean he’s got his wits about him necessarily…
Too true 🙂
Hmmmmm. It seems he has at least two different types of causality in mind here. I also wonder whether he would hold that there is an irradicable incalculability (see Max Weber’s discussion of the falling, splintering boulder in, I believe somewhere in the back half of Roscher and Kneis: the logical problems of historical economics) involved in…[Read more]
I only stuck around for an hour or so. I looked at some posters and listened to a couple short lectures about oumuamua. I didn’t ask anyone about Sunspot and no one brought it up.
Well, I did ask Dr. Bus if his telescope rotated on mercury. That was the closest I got to mentioning Sunspot. He said no, but mercury is used for the mirror.
If they’re upto Planteray Defense for Asteroids, then they’ll soon be pumping out space weapons to protect us from the Space Aliens…
This guy has spent a lot of time looking at the asteroid belt. You should have told him that we can control hurricanes and earthquakes.
Do you know what the latest ‘defense’ is? Putting a satellite into drag orbit…[Read more]
XD Ha!
Part of me wishes I had challenged his claim just to watch his body language. When I walked by his booth later on, he didn’t attempt to make eye contact. I figured he knew I knew, or at least sensed my distrust. As if manipulating earthquakes and hurricanes wouldn’t also involve physics. As if the methods for protecting the earth against…[Read more]
check this out…https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnVOdPCNyPM