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...Got a Covid -19 PCR nasal swab test just now. Free on the government's dime, which after all, is really on all us tax payers' coins. Digressing as so often.
Almost as valid for exposure, and thereby possibly immune protection, than classical serological tests. Far better than the so called rapid tests, although I'll hear tomorrow. Sailed through the Nursie's eligibility questions, easily to be rapidly approved. I know the drill, in my sociopathy.
Then, I decide whether subjecting this Adonis of a body, and Mensa of a mind, to such rapidly developed vaccines. two of which were based on human fetal stem cell culture lines.
OK, well, four points. For the price of two.
Herr Doktor Fauci will be talking at Tuft's University. He's never had a PITA like me in the audience, asking him gotcha Epididymis like questions.
It's a five hour drive to Bean Town. Thinking it over. Decisions, decisions.

The last week or so here, we have been having a 2nd summer. Night temp staying in the 20s where normally we would be seeing frost. In eastern North America, Newfoundland is the 2nd warmest place atm, only Florida is warmer.

Maybe there is something to global warming.

Tag. ..trick n Treat | perm. Halloween

Like a cross word puzzle, this will give you sum chill & cheer ..in between the knocking on your chamber door...
1234. .open .} .the Strong Dictionary.
.......} .3087.
4321...) .who is like Yah. ? .
.... General style is that of charting all relevant data
..into a sing U lar byte. The discovery 1$ that the Language of Music is sub Ordinate - in many ways- to the Scribe- pictures as itemized in Strong's Concordance...aka the Exhaustive Concordance. Date stamp 1890. The driving force is raw Logic...
7476. .. thought .} .pre Ambler of Action.
4385. Document
3091...[ 2...3068 & 3467..( . deduction.
..the song ] .of the prophets is written on the subway walls.. --Simon
.part 2. .it's only rock n roll..
..stone Wall s. | .3 tall pines.
..thick as brick. } Jethro Tull
.start me up.} . rolling Stones.
..part 3.. .. yellow journalist meets
..great red China wall...( .
.part 4. ) Mene meme tekel..) .the meme is weighed & divided.
1408. .a ] . Fortune
1408..b..troops..c.Invade.
2816... darkness......| ....148. Astrologic. [ .er.
.................................. . .5227...the ] .Front.
5376 . .nsa. [ .from nasa, 5375.
- 3968. 100 } %
1408.....) ..show me the $ .
..........5147. occult ./ . hidden...5107 flurry of words
............228. heat........................268. W. ) .from the.
637. Furthermore.......| 2810. War machine
4738.divination. ... .- .. 2565. .heap of trouble.
...after Math..[ .majek has blowback.
3897. .$uck.
1478. D I E .) .give up the ghost.
5375..nasa. )lift up to the sky.
* .* ...*..@..-.*. 3598.. constellation ) 0 R | 0 N .*..
........* ... * ... 1 7 7 7 .* .R U L E ./ Judge.
..eYe had a dream last night ..stars of the sky appeared & sum kind of meteorite of Anu fell next to me. I tried to LIFT it ..[ .nasa.
But it was too Mighty for me. The whole land had assembled , the populace thronged around it...- Epic of Gilgamesh.
...to be continued..* UN fortunately..

The earth's core produces constant heat. If you drill down you can extract this heat and have a constant source of hot water to create energy. The used water can be returned and reheated, so you have a constant loop of cool water going down and hot water coming up. To enable the extraction on an industrial scale, the oil and gas companies have the expertise to do the drilling. The product is green. The only risks are earthquakes. But these can be avoided and reduced to small quakes which are controlled if they occur.

If this reaction could be achieved and sustained, it could save humanity from climate change. It would produce limitless energy and no greenhouse gases or long life radio active waste.
Two light atomic nuclei combine to form a single heavier one while releasing a massive amount of energy. The fuels needed are deuterium and tritium ( hydrogen gases), heated to 100 million degrees. The gas becomes a plasma and the nuclei combine to form a helium nucleus and a neutron. A tiny fraction of the mass is converted to fusion energy.
This energy is the same as produced by stars and the sun.

I'm up really early this morning and checking to see when sunrise starts. Google (on my phone) is around 7:05. I saw a link that described the 'twilight' time between dark and actual sunrise as described to be the blue hour.
Direct sun rays are below the horizon and the blue illumination is the light passing through the atmosphere.
There is a 70% chance of rain today and storm clouds are offshore, so the chance of a beautiful may not work this morning.

An asteroid flew past us the other day.
It was the size of a pick-up truck and missed the earth by only 240 miles.
In solar system terms, that real close.
I've driven more than that (on Earth) in only 6 hours or so
and I guarantee, the asteroid was traveling a lot faster than 60 miles per hour.
I wonder how long before that one orbits back around.

Today From The Miami Herald;



From Wikipedia;



Here's an interesting video from NASA on close asteroids.
At the time of this video, one was on it's way to be near Earth, but not anywhere as close,
as the one that most recently passed.

Tag.} the Sciences / s l e e p.
..distance over Time./ dream theater
Jet Lag..../ simple plan.

01. Meta Cognition.
6..our [ constructed ] reality
007. Structure & purpose of Argument.
.....o8. LOGIC. [ &error....
.....o7. s O p.....} the Great Courses. ©.
.....15. Q o E. ) quality of Evidence.
....Your Deceptive Mind: A scientific guide to Metacognition../ 24 lectures. Dr. Novella / yale.
7..s O p. .) standard Op. procedure.
x 2..neuro-Science of belief.
14. Science & Super Natural.....) "Be immersed in the
science of Cognitive Bias and [ the mysterious
thought process of thinking about Thinking.} Metacognition..." - Dr. Novella.
12.. Culture & Mass delusion
x 2. N.S.B.
24. Critical thinking.) critical mass.
...{ and now, the missal of the Massive..}
.... metal 4 the masses....d3.} digital dream door.
48..dance of Eternity / dream theater.
...- 20. Iconoclast / symphony X.
28..critical mass 1./ Threshold.
........56...godless endeavor / nevermore.
......- 28.. c mass 1./ threshold
......28. critical mass 2./ Ibid.
75. Suite sister Mary / Queensryche.
..- 47. Tapestry of the starless abstract / ne Oblivis..
28. Critical mass 3 / threshold.
....Edt.} that THING at 6 o clock { blind spot.
is the [ enduring ] strength of the Roman Calendar.
Ergo...E = m C..) the [energy ] of the Empire remains Constantine, despite the change or tempo of the Mass..- 1st law of hot; Roma edition.
X..epicus doomicus metallicus / candlemass.
...Y....the Legacy / testament.
Z...We are the Romans / botch.
....you've also under Estimated their propaganda....
Staring at the sun / TV on the radio
...Psalm 2 / blur
Easter Everywhere / 13th floor elevators.
....cognito Sum Petra.} eYe totally rock.
.....Yale Law [ & Dr. Novella ] did not have the Universal Mass in view when building the Syllabus for "Deceptive mind"...yet eYe have demon-straighted
it's not just 'there', it's EVERYWHERE.

The smallest quantum particle that carries information are the qubit and the qutrit. In the past few years on multiple occasions qutrits have successfully been teleported. Yes, the Beam me up Scotty kind of teleportation.

Qubits are analogous to the Bit of the computer world. When you have 8 computer Bits you have a you have a computer Byte. Qutrits are the Bytes of the quantum world. Add enough of them and you have atoms, molecules, heat, light, etc.

Short sighted scientists only see the successful teleportations as the first steps to a quantum computer. They forget when you have enough Bytes you have a word, or a pixel, etc.

They forget, every atom, every spark, even every photon contains trillions of Qutrits. If you can instantaneously move one Qutrit, eventually you can move an unlimited number of them arranged however you want.

There are two different things to play with. Do we want to move an original? Yes it would be nice to spend your lunch break at the best brothel in Paris, then beam back at the end of the lunch hour to your boring factory job in San Francisco or Tokyo. I confess I am not sure how Customs or Passport control will work when that technology reaches the masses. One could of course suddenly beam a whole army to take over someone else's capital. Or beam a bomb into an aircraft. Such things fiction today may not be in the future.

But wait there is a better way. Once we learn which Qubits are the yes bit and which ones are the no or the maybe, then why move anything. Collect the Qubits you want, assemble them in the Qutint configuration you desire and beam your new creation into being wherever you wish. Some kinky folk may like sending quantum clones of themselves to the Paris brothel, so they can talk about it when or if their duplicate returns. Others may wish to create a probe on a far away planet without any need for a spaceship. The evil ones will calculate the energy release of an H bomb in Qutrits, then beam that energy into creation in an opposing capital. Of course that is overkill. Just teleport small pieces of junk into a political opponents heart, brain or liver. No need to shoot them if you can just teleport the bullet into them.

The future comes

Does that mean the late bird catches coronavirus?