If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all.
Wednesday, August 30, 2017
Biological warfare experiment
In late 1968 the Deseret Test Center conducted a biological warfare experiment at Yeehaw Junction, Florida. The experiment was part of Project 112 and was labelled DTC Test 69-75. Stem rust of wheat or Puccinia graminis tritici,
was known as "Agent TX" and was being tested to determine its
effectiveness against a wheat crop in time of war. The tests were
conducted over a period of one month from October 31 to December 1,
1968. Live agent was sprayed by a U.S. Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom fighter jet on seven different occasions and dead agent, consisting of spores that were killed by a gaseous mixture of ethylene oxide was sprayed four occasions.[8] The stated objective of Deseret Test Center (DTC) Test 69-75 was to investigate the effectiveness of the F-4/A/B and 45Y-2/TX weapon systems to reduce soviet
wheat crop yields in selected geographic areas. The objective was
subdivided into other tasks: determine the downwind travel of agent TX
released from the A/B 45Y-2 spray tank; estimate the yield reduction and
loss of wheat crops attacked by the weapon system; study the
effectiveness of killed TX as a simulant for agent TX; and, evaluate the adequacy to predict downwind dosages of TX.[8] The tests were unknown to local residents and officials until October 2002 when Senator Bill Nelson demanded details of the tests from the U.S. Department of Defense
after knowledge of the test was eventually revealed during a larger
congressional inquiry of potential effects on participating veterans of
chemical and biological testing. Eglin Air Force Base, Avon Park Air Force Range Panama City, Belle Glade, and Fort Pierce, were additional sites in Florida of biological agent production and testing
Monday, August 28, 2017
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Dreams of Star Trek
Will technology ever catch Voyager I?
Dreams of Star Trek.
Launched in September 1977 the Voyager program was a Grand Tour to study the outer planets. The Grand Tour would take advantage of an alignment of the outer planets discovered by Gary Flandro, an aerospace engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the 1960s. This alignment, which occurs once every 175 years, would occur in the late 1970s and make it possible to use gravitational assists to explore Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto with very little fuel. It took a year and a half to get to Jupiter, another year and a half to get to Saturn. The big planets were used to speed up the spacecraft and after Voyager passed Saturn it was moving over 39,000 mph.
It still is.
August 25, 2012 Voyager I entered interstellar space. It took 45 years just leave the influence of the solar wind. It is now 13 billion miles from Earth but still in the gravitational range of the solar system. Sedna, a dwarf planet discovered in 2003, orbits 90 billion miles from the sun taking 11,400 years to complete. Beyond that is the Oort Cloud, a theoretical cloud of predominantly icy planetesimals believed to surround the Sun to as far as somewhere between 50,000 and 200,000 AU (3 light years, 19 trillion miles).
So insteller travel is still way beyond our technology. Way beyond. Even "locally" we've discovered Jupiter has deadly radiation belts extending out 7 million kilometers from the planet making sight seeing possible only from a distance. It took Voyager II twelve years to get to Neptune. Interplanetary travel is also way beyond or technology.
Star Trek the dream is only that. Nothing more.
https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Unite the Right rally
Unite the Right
August 12,2017
From Wikipedia:
Kessler, the organizer of the "Unite the Right" rally, applied for a permit from the City of Charlottesville to hold the event at Emancipation Park.
The city's leaders cited safety concerns and logistical issues associated with holding the event at Emancipation Park, adjacent to the densely populated Downtown Mall. Kessler refused to agree to relocate the rally, but the City relocated the rally anyway, a decision praised by the Downtown Business Association of Charlottesville. Kessler, supported by the Rutherford Institute and the ACLU, sued the City of Charlottesville and Jones on First Amendment grounds in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. The night before the rally, Judge Glen E. Conrad granted an emergency injunction declaring that the Unite the Right rally could go forward.
Prior to the rally, counter protesters obtained permit(s) to gather at McGuffey Park and Justice Park, both less than a quarter-mile distant from the Emancipation Park rally. Charlottesville City Council spokeswoman Miriam I. Dickler later remarked that counter-protesters did not need permits to protest the rally at Emancipation Park.
Among the far-right groups engaged in organizing the march were the clubs of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, The Right Stuff, the National Policy Institute, and four groups that form the Nationalist Front: the neo-Confederate League of the South, the Traditionalist Workers Party, Vanguard America, and the National Socialist Movement. Other groups involved in the rally were the Ku Klux Klan, the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights, the 3 Percenters, Identity Evropa, the Oath Keepers, the American Guard, the Pennsylvania Light Foot Militia, the New York Light Foot Militia, the Virginia Minutemen Militia, the Detroit Right Wings, the Rise Above Movement, True Cascadia, and Anti-Communist Action.
Groups counterprotesting included representatives from the National Council of Churches, Black Lives Matter, Anti-Racist Action, Antifa, the Democratic Socialists of America, the Workers World Party, the Revolutionary Communist Party, Redneck Revolt, the Industrial Workers of the World, the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council, and Showing Up for Racial Justice.
August 12,2017
From Wikipedia:
Kessler, the organizer of the "Unite the Right" rally, applied for a permit from the City of Charlottesville to hold the event at Emancipation Park.
The city's leaders cited safety concerns and logistical issues associated with holding the event at Emancipation Park, adjacent to the densely populated Downtown Mall. Kessler refused to agree to relocate the rally, but the City relocated the rally anyway, a decision praised by the Downtown Business Association of Charlottesville. Kessler, supported by the Rutherford Institute and the ACLU, sued the City of Charlottesville and Jones on First Amendment grounds in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia. The night before the rally, Judge Glen E. Conrad granted an emergency injunction declaring that the Unite the Right rally could go forward.
Prior to the rally, counter protesters obtained permit(s) to gather at McGuffey Park and Justice Park, both less than a quarter-mile distant from the Emancipation Park rally. Charlottesville City Council spokeswoman Miriam I. Dickler later remarked that counter-protesters did not need permits to protest the rally at Emancipation Park.
Among the far-right groups engaged in organizing the march were the clubs of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, The Right Stuff, the National Policy Institute, and four groups that form the Nationalist Front: the neo-Confederate League of the South, the Traditionalist Workers Party, Vanguard America, and the National Socialist Movement. Other groups involved in the rally were the Ku Klux Klan, the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights, the 3 Percenters, Identity Evropa, the Oath Keepers, the American Guard, the Pennsylvania Light Foot Militia, the New York Light Foot Militia, the Virginia Minutemen Militia, the Detroit Right Wings, the Rise Above Movement, True Cascadia, and Anti-Communist Action.
Groups counterprotesting included representatives from the National Council of Churches, Black Lives Matter, Anti-Racist Action, Antifa, the Democratic Socialists of America, the Workers World Party, the Revolutionary Communist Party, Redneck Revolt, the Industrial Workers of the World, the Metropolitan Anarchist Coordinating Council, and Showing Up for Racial Justice.
Sunday, August 13, 2017
Slavery
From the 15th through the 19th centuries the South Atlantic and Caribbean economic system centered on producing commodity crops, making goods and clothing to sell in Europe, and increasing the numbers of African slaves brought to the New World. The Bible mentions slavery as an established institution. Slavery was also widespread in Africa, with both internal and external slave trade.
In 1526, the Portuguese completed the first transatlantic slave voyage from Africa to the Americas, and other countries soon followed. As property, the people were considered merchandise or units of labour, and were sold at markets with other goods and services. The major Atlantic slave trading nations, ordered by trade volume, were: the Portuguese, the British, the French, the Spanish, and the Dutch Empire.
Slavery was an economic tactical tool to gain profits in the new world market. By the 1860s slavery in the states accounted for 33% of the population in the south. Abolition represented a major financial burden to the captains of industry. Money is what slavery is about.
For a hundred years the rich in the south justified slavery using the bible and pseudo science. In his Cornerstone Speech, Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens said (regarding slavery):
"Our new government is founded upon exactly [this] idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."
The monuments erected in honor to Civil War heroes (and they were heroes) should now be considered to location in regard to the honor they are given. Many should remain but it must be a community decision. Personally I believe they should be moved when possible to a more honorable place where the respect they deserve for their duty to their homeland can be high.
The idea for which they served their homeland was a bad idea but the men deserve recognition for bravery. Confederate and Union soldiers are considered equal under federal law, President William McKinley cited reconciliation between the North and South in a speech that followed the conclusion of the Spanish American War on December 14, 1898. A number of former Confederate officers had volunteered for service during the war, which had helped secure U.S. victory, McKinley said:
… Every soldier’s grave made during our unfortunate Civil War is a tribute to American valor. And while, when those graves were made, we differed widely about the future of this government, those differences were long ago settled by the arbitrament of arms; and the time has now come, in the evolution of sentiment and feeling under the providence of God, when in the spirit of fraternity we should share with you in the care of the graves of the Confederate soldiers.
The Cordial feeling now happily existing between the North and South prompts this gracious act, and if it needed further justification, it is found in the gallant loyalty to the Union and the flag so conspicuously shown in the year just past by the sons and grandsons of these (Spanish American War veterans).
What a glorious future awaits us if united, wisely, and bravely we face the new problems now pressing upon us, determined to solve them for right and humanity.
That flag has been planted in two hemispheres, and there it remains the symbol of liberty and law, of peace and progress. Who will withdraw from the people over whom it floats its protecting folds? Who will haul it down? Answer me, ye men of the South, who is there in Dixie who will haul it down?
In 1526, the Portuguese completed the first transatlantic slave voyage from Africa to the Americas, and other countries soon followed. As property, the people were considered merchandise or units of labour, and were sold at markets with other goods and services. The major Atlantic slave trading nations, ordered by trade volume, were: the Portuguese, the British, the French, the Spanish, and the Dutch Empire.
Slavery was an economic tactical tool to gain profits in the new world market. By the 1860s slavery in the states accounted for 33% of the population in the south. Abolition represented a major financial burden to the captains of industry. Money is what slavery is about.
For a hundred years the rich in the south justified slavery using the bible and pseudo science. In his Cornerstone Speech, Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens said (regarding slavery):
"Our new government is founded upon exactly [this] idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."
The monuments erected in honor to Civil War heroes (and they were heroes) should now be considered to location in regard to the honor they are given. Many should remain but it must be a community decision. Personally I believe they should be moved when possible to a more honorable place where the respect they deserve for their duty to their homeland can be high.
The idea for which they served their homeland was a bad idea but the men deserve recognition for bravery. Confederate and Union soldiers are considered equal under federal law, President William McKinley cited reconciliation between the North and South in a speech that followed the conclusion of the Spanish American War on December 14, 1898. A number of former Confederate officers had volunteered for service during the war, which had helped secure U.S. victory, McKinley said:
… Every soldier’s grave made during our unfortunate Civil War is a tribute to American valor. And while, when those graves were made, we differed widely about the future of this government, those differences were long ago settled by the arbitrament of arms; and the time has now come, in the evolution of sentiment and feeling under the providence of God, when in the spirit of fraternity we should share with you in the care of the graves of the Confederate soldiers.
The Cordial feeling now happily existing between the North and South prompts this gracious act, and if it needed further justification, it is found in the gallant loyalty to the Union and the flag so conspicuously shown in the year just past by the sons and grandsons of these (Spanish American War veterans).
What a glorious future awaits us if united, wisely, and bravely we face the new problems now pressing upon us, determined to solve them for right and humanity.
That flag has been planted in two hemispheres, and there it remains the symbol of liberty and law, of peace and progress. Who will withdraw from the people over whom it floats its protecting folds? Who will haul it down? Answer me, ye men of the South, who is there in Dixie who will haul it down?
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