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Post by plutronus on Dec 25, 2018 22:44:05 GMT -6
I recently finished an excellent book regarding abuse of 'moderated' power through 'official' thinking, often under the auspice of religious authority.
Thomas Bilson wrote, in 1593, ‘where no man doeth moderate, what peace can be had?’ (p. 12).
For Bilson, a leading Elizabethan bishop, moderation was about control and restraint in the name of peace and good governance; as this quotation implies, moderation could mean coercion and even punishment where deemed necessary.
In his new and fascinating study, Ethan Shagan explores the concept of moderation, showing its coercive, even at times brutal, dimension and examining its significance in early modern England. He argues that historians (and among them he counts his former self) have been wrong to assume that moderation can be equated with reasonableness and they have often given a positive moral content to the term without proper reflection. Moreover, moderators have accepted uncritically their subjects’ claims to moderation, unconsciously reproducing the values of those they study without proper scholarly analysis....
The moderators here could learn a thing or two in this book, but does necessitate deeper comprehension.
Amazon Itm Nr: 0521135567 (<== stick this number into Amazon search field)
The Rule of Moderation: Violence, Religion and the Politics of Restraint in Early Modern England, by Ethan H. Shagan (Cambridge : Cambridge U.P. , 2011; pp. 381. hb $88; pb. $24.99).
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Subj: Reasonablness & Positive Moral Content w/o Proper Reflection
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Post by plutronus on Dec 7, 2018 18:10:20 GMT -6
Egyptian mythology is the collection of myths from ancient Egypt, which describe the actions of the Egyptian gods as a means of understanding the world. The beliefs that these myths express are an important part of ancient Egyptian religion. Myths appear frequently in Egyptian writings and art, particularly in short stories and in religious material such as hymns, ritual texts, funerary texts, and temple decoration. These sources rarely contain a complete account of a myth and often describe only brief fragments. Inspired by the cycles of nature, the Egyptians saw time in the present as a series of recurring patterns, whereas the earliest periods of time were linear. Myths are set in these earliest times, and myth sets the pattern for the cycles of the present. Present events repeat the events of myth, and in doing so renew maat, the fundamental order of the universe. _____________________ As far as I know, there are “publicly” no “church buildings” that have a place of worship for Egyptian religion. However, along roads in the local 20 miles, are those small road signs of “who” sponsors litter pick/up on certain parts of the road. I see things like “ daughters of Set”, and another one that mentions “maAt”. The idea being that there ARE worshippers of Egyptian religion in my area. (I’ll have to come back to this... gotta go....).
>>Egyptian mythology is the collection of myths from ancient Egypt,
>>which describe the actions of the Egyptian gods as a means of
>>understanding the world.
Enki, a dragon...a reptillian, the very one that created the Humanubis (documented on the Tarot, Key 10, as the red Hermanubis with the jackal like ears), created the Human prototype, eg., was the Father of Humanity, told me a different story. Yep, still alive. Reptilians have solved the aging problem, they live very long life-times...40 ~ 50 thousand years type life-terms, just as is indicated in the Kings' list of the Embla Library, the sister library to the Alexandrian Library of the same period. The myths of ancient Egypt had basis in reality.. The Eye of Horus that I saw, was 'real', which in my mind, suggests that there is something happening in this area re; ET presence and one that many modern day Humans and academics alike are essentially clueless about. Don't believe everything the experts tell ya or promote as being the absolute truth or from me either. I'm just following the trail and apparently a few crumbs are dropped here and there for me to find. It is tantalizing while frustrating. The 'experts' are mostly guessing, fitting broken, missing peices of an ancient puzzle, trying to make sense of a long lost world of thinking using modern day thought and trying to encapsulate it all in a modern framework of understanding, and lots of dummies believe it. Its likely mostly BS.
A good book, although it misses the obvious psionic aspect, which I recommend for the curious, is R.A. Boulay's (multiple Ph.D.), wrote,"Flying Serpents and Dragons - The Story of Mankind's Reptillian Past".
"Rene Andrew Boulay graduated from George Washington University in 1950 where he did his graduate work in history. He joined the National Security Agency as a cryptologist and intelligence reporter where he worked in various analytical activities. Mr. Boulay also taught at the National Cryptologic School. The study of ancient history has always been his avocation and upon retiring from government service in 1979 has devoted his energies to solving the puzzles and mysteries of history. The culmination of over ten years of research was the publication of (1st edition) "Flying Serpents and Dragons" in 1990. Dr. Boulay passed away in 2005." Book's author auto-biography.
So here we have an academic historian, a Human anthropologist and a trained cryptographer, an expert with that special gift of being able to recognize patterns that are intended to conceal information, who went out in search of ancient Human history and then following many years of study, concluded that Humans were created by Reptilians in the area of ancient Egypt.
You wanna know something about ancient Egypt? Read Dr. Boulay's book. I've read numerous ancient Egyptian history books, and Boulay's book is the best informed I've seen so far. Plus...Enki told me the same story..
>>that have a place of worship for Egyptian religion.
Nesotarians, were the pre-Christians of today, they still practice although have changed their name.
Another form of ancient Egyptian doctrine that is still practiced, is that of AMORC. I was reared in this doctrine from 4yro, by (5 generations) Mason and Rosicrucian family members. AMORC teaches ascension. Rosicrucians don't recognize the doctrine as being a faith-based 'religion' as faith isn't practiced, but rather psychic procedures are taught, then it is up to the student to learn how to access the 12 gates. I am no longer associated with AMORC, however, I am a member of another, more secretive Rosicrucian group.
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Post by plutronus on Dec 7, 2018 4:54:31 GMT -6
<<< - JCurio said
I think some people have already made a case for this.... such as George-Hunt Williamson.... in his book “other tongues, other flesh”. 😊. Written many years ago. >>>
Back in 1998, I was undergoing some form of 'mind-control' so-to-speak and for lack of a better description. I was also in a very heightened psychic state during that period. Anything I desired to know, would..? majically become known to me through various channels of apparently random activity. At that time, I was ardently following the alien 'psychic trail' to where ever it deemed to guide me. I say that I was under some form of 'mind-control' as something had happened one evening where I was modifying a two axis digital camera experiment that I had cobbled together. The experimental linux controlled computerized digital camera experiment, was an attempt to further explain, pseudo-scientifically, that photo-orbs, were in fact tiny objects located close the camera lens that was imaging the objects and that appeared in post acquistion images as being 'orbs'. I desired to prove myself that the objects were not **ALL** actually dust motes or other random natural occurance airborne particles in the atmosphere surrounding camera lens.
After the event, which is outside the scope here, I became obsessed with a woman, whom I barely knew, and frankly would not have under normal circumstance have any interest for, and couple that with the fact that I was living happily with my wife of 35 years, making the obsession very strange. I later came to find a website, by the moniker of "Alien Love Bite" hosted by psychic Eve Lorgren. I was drawn to her website psychically. I initiated discussion with her. At that time I was very actively promoting the SETV search model and my concepts for implementing and deploying autonomous instrumentation platforms for detecting, sensing and data-logging alien craft behaviors. I know they are fiddling with us.
I started a chat with Lorgren regarding my multiple instrumentation platform experiments for studying all the forms of orbs that I suspect exist. I described one time my ETp luminous-orb experiment instrument platform, after which Eve Lorgren, asked 'why do something like that? Its already been done!!' I replied, 'by who?' and she told me by an engineer named George-Hunt Williamson, and his experiment was done sometime around 1972.
I did not know who the fellow was, but purportedly being an engineer, such as myself, I was interested to know more as there are so few technically oriented people conducting technical Near Earth ET Studies?!! I popped the name "George-Hunt Williamson" into the search-key field of the old InkoTomi search engine (back when the InterNet was still **free** and search engines actually indexed the World's InterNet unlike the US only corporatized yellow-pages(tm)(reg)(c) of the 4% of the 'Net that remains visible today). Numerous URL website hits returned, many of which I had over the years avoided, as I was only interested in technical aspects of alien presence, not those apparently seamy, nebulous, squirally, 'I was screwed by a hot alien babe wearing a red dress' type info revealations. GHW had written a number of books, in that category one or which being, "other tongues, other flesh". I previously avoided anything to do with those type information. In my, then, opinion, all of that type info I considered to be BS.
One of the URLs stood out to me. It was around 2:00am, I was sitting at my desk in my electronics laboratory, in the dark, viewing the web on a 17 inch ViewSonic CRT monitor (1998). I clicked on one of the returned search-engine URLs, and simultaneously, as the page loaded, I both heard and felt a powerfull 'clap' sound which seemed to happen somewhere just over my right shoulder, up about 2 feet over my head. Along with the clap sound, my body experienced a powerfull feeling vibration, not unlike being electrocuted (I've done that accidentally a few times) by alternating-current (AC...wall plug current), but the vibration wasn't isolated, I felt it throughout my entire body...my nose, lips, ears, fingers, in my 'main-vein' and his two buddies, toes, chest, head...everywhere. It was powerful!! Between my face and the moniter screen, about two feet, half way, a foot long, effervescentally green glowing, Right-Eye-Of-Horus symbol appeared. It looked like it was green glowing ionized gas.
I was amazed by this exhibition. I had never seen anything like it before, and have not since. It had the appearance of a glass tube encased neon-sign one may see inside bars, only there was no glass housing the glowing seemingly 'ionized gas'. It was bright, but not blindingly. I could see through the 'eye', and it exhibited perspective.
As the page continued to load, the Right-Eye-Of-Horus symbol began to fade and as it faded so did my body's sensation of tingling subside, until both the 'Eye' and the tingling had ceased altogether. The webpage that loaded, was about three normal size 8 and a half pages long, three screens worth. On each page along the bottom edge, there was located a little green Right-Eye-Of-Horus symbol. On the first page was a description of Michael K. Bender, of the Men-In-Black fame, the second page described alien police/enforcers which are supposedly the MIB and who appear when an eye-witness sees something that ET don't want to be revealed. And then third page described George-Hunt Williamson, a Lockheed engineer, who designed and fabricated a gadget very similar to several of my gadgets. Williamson, ran his experiments a few times and then out of the blue was accused of sexual child abuse. He lost his job, was harrassed by the police for several years, and then all the charges were anonymously dropped, it all vanished like a fart-in-the-wind. One day, very depressed, Williamson, in his automobile, starting in Burbank California, drove aimlessly for weeks, crossing the US, until, he drove up, randomly selecting a driveway, in Kentucky. The house and the outside fence he had 'seen' in numerous dreams. Knocking on the door, he was met by Don Elkins (Ph.D. physics), of Elkin's "RA Material" channel team!!
I don't know how to interpret any of this. But the entire experience is that of high-strangeness and is archetypal of authentic alien contact.
Horus, was noted as the most important ancient Egyptian GOD, cca 20,000 ya. Horus was the son of the Gods Isis and Osiris. At the moment my Mother passed away, she came to me in a vision, as Isis.
Right-Eye-Of-Horus symbol:
A fair description of the ancient Egyptian Eye-Of-Horus mythology:
A psychological theory as to the meaning of the Right-Eye-Of-Horus is:
The Right-Eye-of-Horus represents concrete factual information controlled by the left brain. It deals with words, letters, and numbers and those things which are describable in terms of sentences or complete thoughts. It approaches the universe in terms of male oriented ideation.
The "Law of One" books were channeled by L/L Research (Carla Rueckert, Don Elkins, and Jim McCarty) between 1981 and 1984.
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Post by plutronus on Dec 5, 2018 19:55:13 GMT -6
Paulette,
Good to see y'ar back.
<<< I don't know how to implant the following article. Editors, please fix this if you can. >>>
I wouldn't worry too much about that, this board's 'moderator' is uninformed re; authentic moderation rules.
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Post by plutronus on Dec 5, 2018 19:30:31 GMT -6
From: www.tangreat.com/en/news-detail-77.htmlArmy, Air Force take bomb disposal to new level using high power LASERsBefore, when the military wanted to disarm a bomb, highly-trained bomb disposal specialists wore body armor, protective suits or used robots to render an area safe. Now with LASERs, operators can negate the threat of improvised explosive devices (IED), makeshift bombs, mines, and other unexploded explosive ordnance from a safe distance. The U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research Development and Engineering Center, (AMRDEC), Prototype Integration Facility (PIF), U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command (USAFACC) and the Redstone Test Center (RTC) developed the technology. “Building the Recovery of Airbase Denied by Ordinance (RADBO) prototype was right in the wheelhouse of what the PIF is set up to do,” said Steven Colvin, PIF project manager. “We were able to assemble a strong team of mechanical, electrical and design engineers to solve the problems, fabricators and integrators to build the prototype as well as employing technical writers to document the installation, operation and maintenance of the system.” “We may see hundreds to thousands of small unexploded ordnance items on a runaway or airfield but the RADBO will allow us to reduce the time it takes to get an airfield operational,” said Marshall “Doc” Dutton, Air Force explosive ordnance disposal modernization program manager of the Air Force Civil Engineer Center on Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. “Currently, if a runway gets hit it can take days to weeks to get cleared. With the RADBO, runways can be cleared and operational at a much quicker pace.” RADBO’s LASER can detonate unexploded ordinance, or bombs up to 300 meters distance and using the Army’s integrated interrogator arm and manipulator claw, which can pull 50 pounds of debris up from cracks and underneath rubble. Infrared cameras, driver vehicle enhanced capabilities and two alternators were installed to provide more than 1,100 amps of power.
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Post by plutronus on Dec 4, 2018 8:55:32 GMT -6
A young Japanese research engineer/tech-artist...
Wanna see some really cool things he has done?
See:
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Post by plutronus on Nov 30, 2018 3:22:35 GMT -6
By: Elizabeth Montalbano November 28, 2018 Design News Magazine -Materials & Assembly, Sensors, Materials, Medical
Novel Implantable Wireless Device Treats Damaged Nerves, then Dissolves Researchers at Northwestern University and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have invented a bioresorbable medical device to treat nerve damage.
One of the Holy Grail inventions of medical devices is one that is bio-compatible, serves a therapeutic function, and can be reabsorbed into the human system when its work is finished. Researchers at Northwestern University and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed what they said is the first example of this future for medicine with an implantable, biodegradable wireless device. This device speeds nerve regeneration to improve the healing of a damaged nerve.
Regrowth of Nerves With Electrical Stimulation
Materials scientists and engineers at Northwestern and neurosurgeons at Washington University put their heads together to develop the device, which can deliver regular pulses of electricity to damaged peripheral nerves in rats after a surgical repair process. The team showed in tests that this accelerates the regrowth of nerves in the rats' legs, enhancing the ultimate recovery of muscle strength and control, according to a Northwestern University news release.
“These engineered systems provide active, therapeutic function in a programmable, dosed format and then naturally disappear into the body, without a trace,” said John A. Rogers, professor of materials science and engineering, biomedical engineering, and neurological surgery at Northwestern, and a pioneer in bio-integrated technologies. “This approach to therapy allows one to think about options that go beyond drugs and chemistry.”
The bioresorbable electronic medical device developed by the team is tiny—just the size of a dime and the thickness of a sheet of paper—and can operate wirelessly for about two weeks before naturally absorbing into the body, researchers said.
Replacing Pharmaceuticals
Scientists envision that such devices can not just complement, but even replace pharmaceutical treatments or implants for various medical conditions. The key is that they provide treatment for an allotted period of time directly at a site where such treatment is needed. This type of treatment can reduce side effects or risks associated with medications or other types of medical implants, including surgeries to implant and replace devices, researchers said.
Specifically, the device wraps around an injured nerve and delivers electrical pulses at selected time points for days before dissolving. A transmitter outside the body powers and controls the device remotely.
The team so far has tested the device only in.... To read the remainder of this article see:
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Post by plutronus on Nov 30, 2018 3:08:59 GMT -6
For those of you who either have access to, or possibly might own a 3D printer, I found a really neato 3D printable food bag 'clip' which was designed (and given away gratis..via the European OpenHardware movement) by MasterFX. See ThingiVerse 3D Object model library: www.thingiverse.com/thing:330151The blue pictures are of the 3D CAD rendered design image which only exists as a 'picture', while the black pictures are the resultant actual 3D printed bag clips. The clickable "DOWNLOAD ALL FILES" button will download all the printer files, generally consists of a README.TXT file, a group of object 'picture' files...jpegs and then a 'files' directory which in this model, contains three different size bag-clip print files. They are modeled in mm: 65mm = ~2.5" wide, 85mm = ~3.5" wide and 125mm = ~4.5" wide. One selects the size one desires to 'make' by printing, upload that .stl 'stool' to the printer memory, and then print it!! The 3D 'ink' or 'filament' used, physically is a bit like really thick fishing line. The filament is usually rolled up onto a plastic spool, which unrolls on a spindle while the filament is being pulled into the 3D printer. The filament material that is used for the bag-clip is PLA, although a few people are also printing the clips in PETG/PET filament. Here's a few vendors (there are many) for quality PLA: colorfabb.com/materials/plawww.printedsolid.com/collections/new/products/printed-solid-daily-pla-1-75mm-x-1kgand for quality PETG/PET: colorfabb.com/materials/co-polyesters/petg-economywww.printedsolid.com/collections/filamentThe bag-clip object has been copied and printed, eg, 'made' by literally thousands of people the world over and everyone says the same thing, and that is that these bag-clips designed by MasterFX, work, that they last longer than molded-plastic commercial food bag clips and often close the bags better than commercial products. The filament spools need be supported on a stand of some type. One may purchase these or print one, I made one using an empty cardboard box. My filament spool-stand is mounted on a kluged together stand. The spool-stand is comprised of a FreshStep cat litter box (empty). I have a 9 inch long section of a 1 inch dia PVC pipe which I pushed through both sides of the box through the two holes I cut into the sides of the box for the pipe. The filament spool is supported on the PVC pipe 'spindle' inside between the box sides! Like toilet paper on its roller. Eventually I'll print a spool stand to replace the FreshStep box, but the kluge works just fine!! plutronus
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Post by plutronus on Nov 29, 2018 22:07:31 GMT -6
The evidence I've seen through my 25 years of studying the alien presence problem, is that they are eating us in some manner that is outside of Human cognition space.
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Post by plutronus on Nov 29, 2018 21:57:50 GMT -6
Cliff...not certain what Swampy intended, however your citation: "NIST atomic clocks now keep time well enough to improve models of Earth"
It is an interesting read. But Ludlow has his hands right in the middle of the beam area, so that 'clock' isn't likely operating.
Cool article although...
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Post by plutronus on Nov 26, 2018 1:31:22 GMT -6
President Reagan, Republican, said that the greatest threat to American freedom is the "corporatization of the Congress".
Seems Reagon's idea might be the reason for banning this Icelandic (via their gov) TV advertisement.
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Post by plutronus on Nov 25, 2018 15:26:52 GMT -6
..He was a great and wonderful entertainer and singer. I too loved his music as well.
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Post by plutronus on Nov 25, 2018 15:23:08 GMT -6
You two are in my prayers Plutronus. They gave my Mom blood thinners and didn't take her off them before heart surgery.
She passed away that Christmas 4 years ago. Lawsuits pending but it wont bring her back.....Clif, Swamp, and All My Friends here, thanks for your kind words and prayers. It is very much appreciated. I love all you also.
Cliff, I am very sorry to hear of your Mother's passing. <sigh>
God Bless you.
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Post by plutronus on Nov 25, 2018 15:19:52 GMT -6
SwampRat, but we took it away from them fair and square!
But it is interesting to realize that in ALL of what is now recognized as being the area of the Continental US (3.8 million sqr miles..wikipedia "United States"), that there were ~10 million Native American Indians radomly distributed around the continent when Spanairds began colonizing the American continent. In Los Angeles area alone, there are 13 million Hispanics, of which it is believed (estimated via census) that over 75% are illegally resident. When beseeched about this, the common Hispanic retort, "who'll pick the tomatos?", only one problem with that, where are the farms in LA? Oxnard has around 3 million illegal foreign Hispanic Nationals, but the area does have a few farms, which employs 3,000 Hispanics yearly; Sacremento, has another 9 million illegal foreign Hispanic Nationals, and has few farms, employing around 7,000. The vast majority are DonkyRats living on US Social Services...tax payer provided welfare checks. Anaheim is crawling with illegal Hispanic foreign nationals but has no remainging farms. Is it no wonder that California is a so-called "sanctuary state?"
Autoshops, service stations, gardeners, convenience stores, shopping mall sales associates, plumbers, nurses, restruants, construction sites, government offices...everywhere one sees only Hispanic employees. The only fields one does not regularly see Hispanic employees are in the engineering businesses, but that is beginning to change as well. Between robotics and Hispanics, there'll are/will-be significantly fewer jobs for European Americans.
I am moving from California to get away from them, I am documenting via photos, newspaper articles, videos of the problems affiliated with 'them', so that where I move, I can accurately edify the out-of-state clueless folks as to the authentic nature of the problems of the uncontrolled Hispanic hordes invasion that's been happening since Donky Rat President Johnson created the 'birther-law' via Executive Order. They are dirty people also. One can easily recognize a popular Hispanic area, by looking at the sidewalks...if marked with thousands of chewing-gum splats, its a popular Mexican hang!
However, and this can be a good thing, generally speaking, its been my experience that 2nd or 3rd generation Hispanic Americans are more 'normal'. Although many of those can also exhibit poor and-or unpleasant social behaviors.
As for the military on the, its about phukn time!! I say man the border with machine guns. Any of you happen to see that news report with the video of Mexican min-gun mounted Humvee patrol caravan snaking its way through American border towns without permision being here? Why our border patrol agents didn't fire upon them is a mystery. Canadian border agents would have, or German or Russian or Chinese, why not us?
If the foreign Hispanic Nationals behaved socially normal, who'd care if they were here?
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Post by plutronus on Nov 24, 2018 5:42:00 GMT -6
For SkyWalker & Cliff...
Researchers have taken a common button mushroom and turned it into a way to generate electricity using graphene, bacteria, and 3D printing.
Design News - Serving the 21st Century Design Engineer
By: Elizabeth Montalbano Electronics & Test Battery/Energy Storage, 3D Printing, Alternative Energy, Materials November 21, 2018
Most people think of mushrooms as something to eat—or steer clear of, depending on the variety. Now, researchers have turned a common edible mushroom into something quite different indeed—a way to generate electricity.
A team at Stevens Institute of Technology has taken a white-button mushroom that was bought at a grocery store and super-charged it using 3D-printed clusters of cyanobacteria swirls of graphene nanoribbons. The former generates electricity and the latter collects the current, said Manu Mannoor, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Stevens.
The Bionic Mushroom
“In this case, our system—this bionic mushroom—produces electricity,” he said in a Stevens Institute news release. “By integrating cyanobacteria that can produce electricity, with nanoscale materials capable of collecting the current, we were able to better access the unique properties of both, augment them, and create an entirely new functional bionic system.”
Bioengineers have known for some time of cyanobacteria’s ability to produce electricity. However, these microbes don’t survive long on artificial, bio-compatible surfaces, which has limited their use in bio-engineering applications.
To solve this problem, Mannoor and Sudeep Joshi, a postdoctoral fellow in his lab, turned their attention to white-button mushrooms, they said. Because these mushrooms host a rich microbiota but not cyanobacteria specifically, the researchers wondered if they could provide the right environment—i.e., nutrients, moisture, pH, and temperature—required for cyanobacteria to produce electricity for a longer period.
Mushroom Magic
In experiments, the team showed that cyanobacterial cells lasted several days longer when placed on the cap of a white button mushroom versus a silicone material and a dead mushroom used as controls.
“The mushrooms essentially serve as a suitable environmental substrate with advanced functionality of nourishing the energy producing cyanobacteria,” Joshi said. “We showed for the first time that a hybrid system can incorporate an artificial collaboration, or engineered symbiosis, between two different microbiological kingdoms.”
Researchers then used a robotic arm-based 3D printe.... To read the remainder of article see:
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Post by plutronus on Nov 24, 2018 5:08:15 GMT -6
A Hardware Chip Aids Tensor Machine Learning Software Applications Google’s tensor processing unit has the potential to do more in n-multidimensional mathematics. Design News - Serving the 21st Century Design Engineer
By: Don Wilcher Electronics & Test Artificial Intelligence November 20, 2018
As machine learning applications continue to grow, computing processing requirements are increasing in tandem. The neural network is at the core of machine learning. That network is based on an artificial neuron, which mathematically is a nonlinear function consisting of the inputs of the weighted sums. The collection of these artificial neurons, formed into layers, creates a data storage of computational networks. As machine learning is being applied to data-intensive applications, such as Internet search, natural language processing (NLP), and image recognition, Moore’s Law is expediently plateauing. The central processing unit (CPU) that provided the computational process for today’s computing machines is unable to meet the demands of “n-multidimensional” datasets.
The CPU/Microprocessor The central processing unit (CPU) or microprocessor is a complex electronic circuit consisting of millions of transistors. The electronic circuitry is the computational brain of a computer capable of executing instructions of a program performing basic computing tasks. These computing tasks consist of arithmetic logical, control, and input/output (I/O) operations. Machine learning applications, such as linear regression and convolutional neural networks (CNN), can be performed on a CPU. The serial and linear processing operations are limited by the CPU’s handling of n-multidimensional datasets.
The GPU
The graphical processing unit (GPU) is the next computational evolutionary step in processing capability. Unlike the CPU or microprocessor, the GPU is designed to rapidly alter and manipulate memory for the acceleration of images. Video gaming systems, such as Sony’s Playstation and Nintendo, use GPUs to manage images displayed on a high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) monitor. To create 3D images, a GPU uses texture mapping, which requires high computer density and deep pipelines or hundreds of multicore stage resources of graphics-based units. GPUs can perform matrix operations simultaneously as compared to a CPU. Therefore, a GPU is a parallel processing device. Although the GPU’s computational capabilities are faster than those of a CPU because of the parallel processing feature, the GPU is unable to perform n-multidimensional computations.
The TPU
The introduction of a tensor processing unit (TPU) occurred at Google’s Mountain View, California I/O conference in 2016. Google started development of the TPU in 2013. The TPU is a custom-based hardware solution for assisting in new machine learning research. It is an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) that has the potential to do more in n-multidimensional mathematics.
A n-multidimensional array, known as a Tensor, is at the core of machine learning algorithms. A tensor can be a single input (a scalar), a vector (multiple inputs), or a matrix of inputs. Google’s TensorFlow is a workflow that allows training, testing, and production deployment of machine learning applications. With the use of TensorFlow, TPUs can be managed to provide an order of magnitude of performance per watt for machine learning through better optimization techniques. These optimization techniques are based in calculus mathematics.
TPUs have been deployed in Google’s datacenters since 2015. The TPU based datacenters accelerate the linear algebra provision supported by the TPU, having a 65,536 8-bit multiply-accumulate (MAC) matrix multiply unit that offers high computational throughput. Unlike the GPU and CPU, the power consumption is lower in a TPU because the machine learning application only connects to the device’s software algorithm when performing tensor operations.
Artificial intelligence/machine learning instructor Siraj Raval's Tenso-Processing-Unit (TPU) video:
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Post by plutronus on Nov 23, 2018 18:42:38 GMT -6
SwampRat,
Interesting article.
I suspect that I understand why the US is edgy about China. Ever see any photos of what the Chinese population densities look like? Around the beach on weekends?
Its mind boggling to see how many people are in China.
The dragon has been awakened, they have tons of money, they have a REALLY BIG SPACE SHUTTLE which transports 20 Chinese astronauts per launch up to their REALLY BIG SPACE-STATION in orbit (where's the American news on all of this?) Its fake for a variety of reasons, aside from spewing outright bull-sh.it and-or political propaganda. Everything the Chinese do is big, because they have SOoooo many people.
>>We want to know where cosmic rays come from, and how they get such high energy.
I bet they do. Just as the HAARP guys are studying the high energy proton flux emitted from our Sun or the Ruskies on the other pole with their version of HAARP are doing. The Chinese don't have access to the poles.
China is on the move...militarily. We best be careful to avoid pi.ssing off that Dragon. China needs lots of room and America has lots of it.
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Post by plutronus on Nov 23, 2018 18:03:29 GMT -6
I totally know that Mary had a supernatural conception for her Wonderful First Born Child. And Joseph? What a guy! He stood with her through it all and fathered more children with her 😊. And he must have loved Jesus very much, despite it all. He (Joseph) gets a lot of credit too; because we talk these days about “Jesus being the son of a carpenter”. Just as most likely He (Jesus) was spoken about back then. 😲🤗 Get into Jesus, folks. It really is the greatest thing ever!! What about the other Messiachs? Gautama Budha or Isis? Although some scholars believe that Isis was in fact Master YehShuVah making the rounds during the period he disappeared. (YehShuVah = "Jesus" in his language, Hebrew) Or Mother Amma (she's incarnate..here now)? Ever had Her hug you? Get Master Jesus to do that for you sometime. Remarkable experience that's why literally tens of thousands of people the world over have her do so. Should hear what happened during the 2004 Sumatra–Andaman 9.1 earthquake and resultant tsunami that devasted the East Indian coastline, killing 227,898 people and it destroyed everything 12 miles inland, except for HER ashram, She didn't even have the gate closed. It was as if there were an invisible 'wall' around it that parted the waves. She insisted on having all the local villagers to come inside her ashram, several hours before the earthquake, telling them that they would "safe" there if they would stay for the day.
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Post by plutronus on Nov 23, 2018 17:15:34 GMT -6
🤔 😃 ...... and, he made it through the 90’s without turning into an alien or a robot! Yep, but he has peeved the other power-mongers and they've hyped up some BS. The are coming after him employing the 'weaponized FBI' to do so...to force him into their control box.
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Post by plutronus on Nov 23, 2018 17:01:20 GMT -6
My faith life began in 1994 from an interest in Astronomy & whilst surveying the night skies over a period of months the niggling thought of a creative hand behind all this would not leave me until 1 night I recited a Hail Mary & thought no more about it. But the following days/weeks brought a series of coincidences which I could not ignore & I was reminded of Bishop Temples remark "every time I pray coincidences happen". The first job I took after my conversion I was attacked by a spirit, I was working on my own putting large cardboard boxes of tea through a tape machine, when I looked around 2 of the boxes had been rammed into the end posts of the production line & tea was spilling onto the floor. The supervisor told me that there was a resident spirit active in the old part of the factory. When the UFO & Consciousness show came to Manchester in 2017 it took place right across the road from where I had witnessed the UFO years earlier. I have no doubt that from other things that have come back that the apparitions of Jesus & Mary at Bayside & today Mary at Medjugorje are true and since they said at Bayside that UFO's are used by Satan & his cohorts to trick mankind into believing aliens exist, then this is also true. Satan is a very intelligent being, far more than any mere human & has supernatural abilities, he uses his intellect to create falsehoods to keep us away from our maker, the God of the bible and this is where prayer is key as he has no power against it, and it can change outcomes, that is why it is critical that all Christians get into the habit of daily prayer & fast when possible too. I did this when writing a letter to the secular press in reply to another letter about UFO's in my area. Two years previously when I wrote the same letter to the same newspaper it was'ent published, so this time I prayed & fasted for 2 days and the letter was published on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This is a prime example of the power of prayer/fasting & why the demons fear it because it can effect outcomes. JohnD,
If you are not interacting with us, then you are preaching. And frankly, your writing demonstrates that you are a bit uninformed. Lots of babblers out there preaching, they cook up fairytale BS, start believing their own BS and then preach it. That is what you seem to be doing, in my opinion.
If you have anything informative to share, then do so, otherwise spare us, we are all ET experiencers here, and most of us are also psychic. We 'see'. I am an authentic prophet. So don't preach to me about prophecy. Unlike the visions by those other 'prophets' you cite, I know how it works, including the 10 major time-lines which are keyed or 'syncd' to the 10 Sephira of our reflection of the Tree. The Samskara (Skt) regulates via the Mazal (Hbr) the states of consciousness experience, eg, the "time-lines". You have no idea what that means because you are uniformed but you as most Christians are experts in the Bible, which has been systematically sanitized of all of the important significant operational God information. That's how the devil controls you all, by keeping you uninformed. Because you are uninformed as well as those other 'prophets', they too are unaware re; the time-lines or the states of consciousness of the Tree.
Wake up, open your consciousness, see the truth.
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Post by plutronus on Nov 23, 2018 2:18:26 GMT -6
Bob Lazar: Area 51 And Flying Saucers (2018) | Official Trailer HDPublished on Nov 19, 2018 In 1989, physicist Bob Lazar broke the story of Area 51 and the US government’s work on alien spacecraft ("craft" is also plural). He blew the whistle, shocked the world, then went silent - until now.
Directed By: Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell Featuring: Bob Lazar, George Knapp, Jeremy Kenyon Lockyer Corbell, Mickey Rourke, Joy White, Phyllis Tucker, Layne Keck, Mario Santa Cruz, Zack Slizewski
I've been invited to attend the pre-release Hollyweed screening of the Lazar movie next week, (11-26-2018).
I'll let y'all know what I think of it.
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Post by plutronus on Nov 22, 2018 23:10:27 GMT -6
Oh, why would I “argue” with You on such a grand holiday? 🤗 I DO CARE, if it is done to a “large extent”. 😉 After all, my teenage years were not spent laughing at Lucy or Bob Hope, but CeechnChon ! (Which, BTW, it was known back then, that “all the good stuff” was to be had, directly from, say, South of Texas?!) MY brain is fried. No doubt about that. As for the resident genius spoken about here, he is obviously into publicity stunts. (And we all know that I often recommend “playing stupid” to ferret out, well, the ferrets. 🤣). The guy is funny. (I just wish that he WOULD JUST DO some of his “altruistic endeavors”; instead of just talking about them... or “broadcasting”..... but I WONT be surprised, when I find out later that he DOES....) My brain is fried. (Oh, I already said that) 😅😇 JCurio, its ok to argue with me. :0
His SpaceX company docked a private space vehicle with the ISS, it was the first commercial spacecraft, to do so and one that he 'designed'. His company is developing a Mars vehicle for colonizing Mars. His scientists are developing terra-forming processes to recreate a breathable atmosphere on Mars.
He is the first to demonstrate (another of his long range visions...dreams) a mass transit system that doesn't rely on petro-chemical fuels.
His company Tesla Motors, released (at Elon's insistence) 145,000 manhours of Tesla developed fast electric car charging technology into the public domain to promote electric cars.
His Tesla autonomous self-driving automobiles were the first in the world to be mass produced. Other companies such as Google, developed prototypes, but none of them offered a production AI car.
He **INVENTED** PayPal.
He is much more than just a yakker!! There's no question he loves being in the spot-light. He stutters too much which drives me crazy (I was a stutterer up until my early teens. I learned how to speak on my own.) Musk's accomplishments are amazing. Everything that he has yakked about over the past 20 or so years he is either implementing or has actually accomplished the 'dream' through putting his money, efforts into doing so.
Elon Musk was born in Africa, he desired to come here for the American Dream!! :))
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Post by plutronus on Nov 22, 2018 9:05:06 GMT -6
Why were you in the horsepital for 3 months? You ain't killing over from old age are you? :-/
SkyWalker,
I've been out of the hospital about a month and 22 days.
I was diagnosed having gall-bladder stones. Supervising surgeon (did not actually do any surgery) misdiagnosed the extent of the complete surgery. It was supposed to be a one day laporascopic (drill a quarter size coin hole, stick in a Mr. Go-Go Gadget rod hand with all sorts of utensils on the end + camera, snip, clamp, pull it out) surgery, released to return home the next. Only, somebody screwed up, and gave me a blood thinner five days early, which caused me to uncontrollably bleed out, internally. I ended up in ICU for a month, coding 'blue' four times. ICU Nurse told me later that in her 7 years ICU experience that I was diceyiest patient she had cared for...meaning I nearly died a bunch of times. To get things under control they implanted a pacemaker because they couldn't give me my normal heart meds (I had two open heart valve repair surgeries 1991 & 1992. The first was unsucessful.) After a month the Drs moved me into a lesser care ward, but was still very good care. Then the infections began, another month of constant anti-biotics, and then another surgery to fix the infection problem. That one was really nasty. They cut my stomach open, slitting me down the middle.
Being in bed for 6 days shy of 3 months, I lost the ability to sit up and walk. For nearly three months I was fed chicken broth when I wasn't being fed intraveneously...via drip. I lost 90 lbs.
I then expended almost four weeks in physical rehab. Those folks were excellent, I made lasting friends with several of them. They got me walking with a cane, it was really difficult and they worked my as.s off!!! It was so worth it. I am now walking well without the cane and driving my car (when it works) and going shopping... Its great to be on the mend and to be free!!!
<sigh>
Its been a helluva year so far. My gal has MS and has lost usage of her legs in the three months that I was absent. The family, swooped in, using my resources, hired home-care 'givers', three guys, that are costing me $9500 a month to basically feed 3x, and wipe my gals butt, five times a day. I plan to lay them all off just as soon as my stomach surgery site heals sufficiently so that I can lift her. We are not wealthy, and its draining our retirement funds, because no insurance company in California would insure a person having MS to provide long term in-home health care. When I met her way back when, she was working for a NASA contractor, in Space-Shuttle Main Engine QA and she was a member of a professional dance group. MS is terrible nasty.
I bought a three function bidet' toilet for my gal. It washes, dries, and auto-flushes...no TP needed or required. It is sitting in the living room waiting for the plumber that I contracted to install it. Only one little hitch, his home/office is in Topanga Canyon, which is still under mandatory evacuation caused by the Woosley fires that are still raging in California. The plumber is holed up in a hotel without any tools!!! There's been talk that the authorities (what ever that means?) may allow folks to return home in Topanga Cyn this weekend.
Well...probably more information than you cared to know. However, being in the horse-pistol for three months, and having nurses wiping my butt has altered my thinking somewhat!! I've toyed with the notion of uploading the photos of my balls (which became the size of mangos, as I swelled up via water retention to 300Lbs. My normal weight is around 190Lb) and a photo of my stomach a few days after the fourth surgery. But it might make some folks puke!! My stomach was appalling. They didn't stitch it up, no. The slit began just below the sternum, going straight down, snugged around the belly-button, and stopped just above the 'panty' line!! They closed that foot and 1/2 long slit by putting in six staples, everything else was open to the air. One could see guts...the intestines through the openings. That healing procedure is known as 'open-to-air', and it has actually closed by itself and is healing quite well. But it marks the end of my bathing suit modeling career!!! Hee hee hee.
I was keeping weight trim using the Atkins Diet, which I suspect was the cause of the gall-stones. My matabolism changed when I was around 30yro, before I was able to eat anything and gain little weight, now, I look at a pizza, I grow a bit!!! So now having no gall bladder I must eat rabbit food **AND** exercise. Weight is just a function of the quantity of food we shove into our face and how much we shake our as.s.
Well that's the long and short of it.
plutronus ps. I'll be the guest on KCOR Internet Radio next monday should anyone care to listen to more of my babbling.
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Post by plutronus on Nov 21, 2018 2:59:27 GMT -6
The Irish Aviation Authority is investigating a new mysterious aviation incident that recently occurred over the country. The details are similar in some respects to reported sightings of unidentified flying objects over Oregon, Arizona, and New York, incidents that The War Zone was the first to report on.
In the pre-dawn hours on Nov. 9, 2018, about 45 minutes before sunrise, at least three different airliners flying over or off the coast of southwestern Ireland reported seeing multiple unidentified objects flying near them at incredible speed. Authorities in Ireland confirmed they were looking into the situation on Nov. 12, 2018, but offered no additional information.
"Following reports from a small number of aircraft on Friday, November 9, of unusual air activity, the IAA has filed a report," the country's aviation authorities explained. "This report will be investigated under the normal confidential occurrence investigation process."
Publicly available audio of conversations between the passenger planes and Shannon Flight Information Region air traffic controllers offer more detail about what happened. At 6:47 AM local time, a British Airways 787, using the callsign Speedbird 94, radioed in to ask if there were any military exercises going on in the area, which there were not.
"There is nothing showing on either primary or secondary [radar]," Shannon controllers told Speedbird 94. “O.K. It was moving so fast,” the British Airways pilot responded.
She further explained that the object had appeared as a "very bright light" and had flown along the left side of their 787 before it "rapidly veered to the north" and then "disappeared at very high speed." There is no indication of concerns about a possible collision.
A second pilot, flying a Virgin Atlantic Boeing 747 and using the callsign Virgin 76, then joined the radio conversation to say that they too had seen more than one bright light or even "multiple objects following the same sort of trajectory." He repeated the details about the objects being very bright and moving at extremely high speeds, likening their appearance to an object re-entering the earth's atmosphere from space.
"Glad it wasn't just me," someone chimed in at one point. "No, ah, yeah, very interesting that one," the pilot of Virgin 76 replied and noted that the two very bright objects went from 11 o'clock off their nose before climbing away at high speed.
The pilot of another aircraft, a Norwegian Air 737, was also party to the overall conversation. Eventually, air traffic controllers said that they had received multiple reports about the objects and would pass the information on to authorities.
A third individual – it's unclear whether they were onboard Speedbird 94, Virgin 76, or a third plane – said they were going so fast it was "astronomical, it was like Mach 2.”
To read the remainder of the report, see:
The entire audio is available below:
It begins 17:50 and ends right after the 20:00 minute mark.
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Post by plutronus on Nov 21, 2018 1:45:50 GMT -6
Dubai Police Receive First Delivery of Innovative Hoversurf Drone, Begin Training
Hoversurf showed its rideable drone off in Dubai last October, and now, police are actively training to operate them for routine use.
By Marco Margaritoff November 10, 2018
Last year, California-based startup Hoversurf showed off its Hoverbike drone at the GITEX expo in Dubai. Many remained rationally skeptical at the time when the Dubai Police expressed an interest in adding a fleet of these vehicles to its workforce. According to CNN, however, the department just received its first serial production unit of the S3 2019 Hoverbike and has even begun training its officers to fly it.
Hoverbike’s Chief Operating Officer, Joseph Segura-Conn, explained that being able to both pilot a drone and successfully ride a motorcycle were two valuable skills the Dubai Police should keep in mind when selecting its candidates to operate Hoverbikes.
“Currently we have two crews already training (to pilot the hoverbike) and we’re increasing the numbers,” said the general director of Dubai Police’s artificial intelligence department, Brigadier Khalid Nasser Alrazooqi.
Alrazooqi explained that the electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicle is primarily
intended to serve as a....
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Post by plutronus on Nov 21, 2018 0:52:07 GMT -6
Don’t quite know what to think..... Elon Musk has talked about doing more tunneling, for a railway underground, and we don’t know how much of that has already been done. All of San Fransiscos shoreline is covered with oil diggers.... California has EVERY kind of weather because of its terrain.... Pieces of the PcH have been falling into the ocean.... What makes California more “suspect” than, say, the East Coast? Especially during hurricane season? (well, California does cover a whole lot of the West Coast). People have been moving out of California, but I still think it’s a beautiful place to visit. I hope I can visit it again in the future. 😊 I love the California weather and the beaches....
I'm preparing my home for sale as I write this, to move from California. I've had it with all the taxes, the laws and the uncontrolled illegally present Hispanic foreign national problems we face here. Outsiders residing in still mainly European American communities have no clue. It seems those people they that think we are all racists. Living with the foreign national Hispanics converts one quickly to the 'racist' side of thinking. Every neighborhood is falling into barrior like living conditions...once quiet, peaceful, safe to walk one's dogs at night, leaving lawn chairs and cyclic lawn sprinklers in the front yard, etc, is becoming drive-by shootings, robberies, daylight rapes, kitties disappearing (they eat'm), car thefts, defecating in your bushes, while spraying gang-operation territory grafitti on the walls, sides of vans and sidewalks, and throwing their Taco Bell garbage and glass beer bottles onto the streets. And then there is the Mexican music, which goes ALL NIGHT LONG, brass horns and drumming, irregardless of how many times the police are called past midnight, night after night. They don't have to work, they are all living on the American Free-Meal system, food stamps and welfare. The riots of '94, all the buildings in East LA were ransacked and burned, everythings except the U.S. Post Offices...that's where welfare checks are sent.
I'm thinking about making a new American Flag, by imprinting the Mexican Flag into the States/Stars field, and rename the "United States" to "United States of Mexico".
I'm moving. Not because of the three massive earthquakes I've personally experienced here, but rather, I want to reside the remainder of my life amongst European Americans...normal Humans, people who don't steal and eat other folks pets during weird paganistic style rituals to the dead.
Sadly...plutronus
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Post by plutronus on Nov 21, 2018 0:02:40 GMT -6
The Sanya programme was officially launched in 2015 with a kick-starting fund of nearly 100 million yuan (US$15.7 million) from the central government. The goal was to develop and build the “world’s most advanced incoherent scatter radar”, according to information on the academy’s website. Read more: theedgeofreality.proboards.com/thread/7858/china?page=1#ixzz5HUXykzDa********* Admitting 2015. You can be sure it was a LOT sooner. The positive aspect of this, is we know about ?ahaarp/z, and we have been in “cahoots” with China for many years now. Technologically speaking. I guarantee you that a slew of our cell phone parts are made there; cheaper labor. 🙄 If Americans weren't so greedy, we could afford to manufacture items here. It wouldn't hurt to have a few European-Americans having a few jobs here that the illegally present foreign national Hispanics are doing either.
Most of the electronic components are robotically manufactured in Malaysia, while the cell-phones are integrated in China. However most of the integration process is also done robotically employing pick-and-place robots. The only manual labor involved are the assembly of the cases.
But to illustrate the greediness of Americans, I at one time engineered an electronic hula-hoop, which employed an inexpensive $0.57 8 bit microprocessor and six LED string power driver MOSFET transistors. Inside the hoop I used 10 mated pair connectors to easily facilitate hoop construction. The entire product manufacturing budget was $12 Dollars. In the U.S., product manufacturing, to be financially viable, the product wholesale product price must be five times the manufacturing cost, meaning that the hoola-hoop need be sold wholesale not less than $60 Dollars = 5 x 12. Then the retailers, such as Sports Challete, Sportsman, etc, can retail it for around $129 to $249 etc.
When I went to buy the connectors I had a problem. I found five companies that produced the product in the size that I required, only the price for 1/2 of each connector pair, male and female, was $4.59 ea, when purchased in 10,000 peice quantities, requiring 30% down, with a 36 month wait for the parts to be produced and then the remainder of the payment upon delivery. All five American companies had similar pricing policies. I found, using AliBaba, two Chinese companies that produced EXACTLY the same connector product. I considered not purchasing those connectors as I don't embrace buying cloned American products, but it was revealed that the American companies were cloning the Chinese developed connectors. Seems everyone is cloning these days. The Chinese factory deal that I bought into....each 1/2 pair, plus shipping came to about $0.07 each, in 1,000 peice quantities, and I had them in my hands in two weeks.
That is why ALL the American companies buy product from China, while phuking us.
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Post by plutronus on Nov 20, 2018 23:42:17 GMT -6
There's something screwy about the whole paper. In one breath its claimed that the Chinese are using phased array RADAR which is by its physical nature short wavelength or high frequency MASER energy which is "pointable"...steerable, which is the entire purpose of it being a phased array, steerable and coherent. Yet in another breath the author is stating that the energy is extremely low frequency...proportedly for talking to submarines. Only there's nothing new in that. That is how submarines have communicated in shallow waters since the 1960s. In fact there was a hobbyiest article in Popular Electronics sometime around 1963, named, "TerraQua Phone". A low frequency communications gadget, that used soil and water to transport the communication waves. High power LASERs aboard space vehicles are used to send data coded on optical beams. But that's very high frequency, but it passes through dense water. HAARP on the other hand, is a high frequency (VHF and UHF) steerable (uses a 16 x 16 element Yagi antenna array) microwave beam that only affects the upper lattitudes of the globe. Not too useful for around the globe long range submarine comm and its high frequencies do not penetrate very deeply into ocean water either. That's why low frequency energy is used.
The title of that paper should be something like, "What is the author really reporting?" Or, "Lets talk about a bunch of different things as though its all the same thing!"
There's more oddities but y'all get the main thrust.
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Post by plutronus on Nov 20, 2018 23:12:01 GMT -6
What a CEO does isn't the same as what the engineers are doing. And frankly the "Now boys and girls, the moon really isn't made of green cheese" NASA managers who have actually killed 17 astronauts with their bad management strategy decisions have no room for picking on a guy who hasn't killed anyone AND he hasn't wasted billions of tax payer Dollars doing it. Yep, sounds a bit like those other stinky politicians out there that are plaguing the U.S. Who cares what he does in his off hours or anyone else for that matter?
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Post by plutronus on Nov 20, 2018 22:25:08 GMT -6
I am, as some of you know, a person holding dual citizenship - USA and Canada. What is happening in The USA is breaking my heart. I won't get into the politics AT ALL but suffice to say, I don't want to be there, visit there...I have friends and my son who live there but I'm not happy providing myself as an inadvertant target to unpleasantness at the border or even putting my hard earned Canadian money into the situation down there. I always considered it my home but I don't anymore. I am horrified at things that I see reported in the news. I hope the elections today change things but I have my doubts. (I'm more than willing to be wrong). Thinking of Texas, and my remaining friends there, and the island where I grew up, just gives me a heartache. Since a lot of people here seem to hold the red line - approving of actions that the President is taking (and not taking)- I need to distance myself from you, my EOR companions.I think that my story has been told (UFO wise) and I don't read about new ones. I'll ghost back ocassionally but I think (especially if Trump carries on and on) that you won't be hearing from me. I hope I can stay in touch with a few on FB. Dear Paulette,
This is a verbatim copy of an article published in the Los Angeles Times' San Fernando Valley edition of the "Daily News". I don't know the precise date as my gal cut it out for me and tossed the remainder of the newspaper page having the date printed on it! I suspect that it was printed around Nov 15th, 2018 or thera abouts?
Mexico Tijuana protesters chant 'Out' at migrants by Yesica Fisch and Amy Guthrie The Associated Press
Tijuana, Mexico >> Hundreds of Tijuana residents congregated around a monument in an affluent section of the city sourth of California on Sunday to protest the thousands of Central American migrants who have arrived via caravan in hopes of a new life in the U.S.
Tensions have built as nearly 3,000 migrants from the caravan poured into Tijuana in recent days after more than a month on the road, and with many more months ahead of the them while they seek asylum. The federal government estimates the number of micrants could soon swell to 10,000.
U.S. border inspectors are processing only about 100 asylum claims a day at Tijuanan's main crossing to San Diego. Asylum seekers register their names in a tattered notebook managed by migrants themselves that had more than 3,000 names even before the caravan arrived.
On Sunday, displeased Tijuana residents waved Mexican flags, sang the nationonal anthem and chanted "Out! Out!" in front of a statue of the Aztec ruler Cuauhtemoc, 1 mile from the U.S. border. They accused the migrants of being messy, ungrateful and a danger to Tijuana. They also complained about how the carvan forced its way into Mexico, calling it an "invasion." And they voiced worries that their taxes might be spent to care for the group. "We don't want them in Tijuana," protesters shouted.
Juana Rodriguez, a housewife, said the government needs to conduct background checks on the migrants to make sure they don't have criminal records.
A woman who gave her name as Paloma lambasted the migrants, who she said they came to Mexico in search of handouts. "Let their government take care of them," she told video reporters covering the protest.
A block away, fewer than a dozen Tijuana residents stood with signs of support for the migrants. Keyla Zamarron, a 38-year-old teacher, said the protesters don't represent her way of thinking as she held a sign saying: Chidhood has no borders.
Most of the migrants who have reached Tijuana via caravan in recent days set out more than a month ago from Honduras, a country of 9 million people. Dozens of migrants in the caravan who have been interviewed by Associated Press reporters have said they left country after death threats.
But the journey has been hard and many have turned around.
Alden Rivera, the Honduran ambassador in Mexico, told the AP on Saturday that 1,800 Hondurans have returend to their country since the caravan first set out on Oct. 13, and that he hopes more will make that decision. "We want them to return to Honduras," said Rivera.
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