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One of the most interesting stories of the Bible is the story of the Tabernacle. We begin seeing it in the book of Exodus and it keeps popping up in the Old Testament almost to the end. We know it was powered by an energy source which made the face of Moses shine at night. We know that later when accidents happened and people were exposed to the energies contained in the Tabernacle, they burned and died. On one such occasion when the Tabernacle was accidentally cracked and people nearby burned and died a lead candelabra was hammered into the crack and the device became safe again. It can, be presumed the core power source of the Tabernacle device was radioactive.

Back in the 1920s the US Mason brotherhood realized the description of the Tabernacle's construction and it's use were those of a two way voice radio. Adjustment or tuning of the frequency was done by adjustment of the golden curtain threads. Whatever, today we will talk about the garments used by the Levite priests charged with maintaining the device for Moses.

Their garment is called an Ephod. The book of Exodus provides specifics as to the manufacture of the Ephod. Gold is used extensively in the manufacture of an Ephod. Gold is a very efficient shielding against radioactive materials. Today we use lead, but if you have it, Gold is just as good.

You will see below a picture of what we think an Ephod looked like and also a picture of a modern lead apron as used by technicians who work around radio-actives.

Modern technicians working around radioactivity wear devices called dosimeters to measure the amount of radiation they are exposed to. Exodus 28 describes a breast plate of gem stones used by the early Levite priests. Specific gemstones and minerals are described and to be placed in a specific order upon the breast piece.

For the first two thousand years of Christianity an unusual feature of these gem stones was not known.
Specifically, each of the stones reacts in a visually noticeable fashion to the presence of radioactivity. Further the amount of reaction varies as the intensity of the radiation exposure changes.

Exodus 28:17 - 20
And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row. And the second row shall be an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond. And the third row a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst. And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.

Here is some of what we know about some of those stones today and how they behave in the presence of increasing amounts of radioactivity.

Topaz - Turns blue, then brown as the radiation exposure intensifies
Emerald - Turns deep green, but under fast neutron bombardment it turns clear.
Sapphire - Turns gold colored with a significant decrease in electrical resistance.
Diamond - Becomes yellow then green in color.
Agate - Turns magnetic and glows blue in the dark
Beryl - Turns golden yellow.
Onyx - Glows brightly after exposure to strong radiation sources.

There are 12 different gemstones used in a Levite priest's breastplate. I have not googled the effects of radiation on all of them, but from the 7 I name above it is obvious the priest's breastplate made a very simple, yet amazingly accurate and sophisticated multi colored dosimeter capable of revealing with just a quick glance how 'hot' an environment the wearer had been exposed to.. <It is worth noting that Turkish and Brazilian Onyx stones are used today in fashioning some forms of modern high exposure dosimeter devices.>

Knowledge of how the Tabernacle worked, and why the Levite priests dressed as they did and what they did was shared only by a few.
Ephod


Modern Radiation worker's uniform

Stumbled across a book titled

"Suppressed inventions and other discoveries"

By Jonathan Eisen

Makes interesting reading
Covers everything from

Waterpowered cars and supressed medical therapies to UFO technology and alien contact...

Here is a copy of the preface

Tagged: Scientiferous..... date stamp: 8 July 2019

scarlet.... 8144
orange..... 544
yellow h20.. 4313
green .........03
blue ........ 8504
purple....... 713 ..... } 22,221
....................................2750. white hot
..... total ....................24,971.... ( 7 ) ... 3567.28 ..} owner of the furnace. Father knows
s t r o n g ) r a d I O ) a s t r o n o m y...
.. 7 4 5 4. Association } of Ideas
.. - 147. ample ) amplify
.. 7 3 0 7. W I N D Y .. ) who's bending down to give me a rainbow...[ ?

.. I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving
after wind. - Eccl. 1:14
... Paradox * Alert: Abbrv. oft gives more PM tru // trump.
20. Welcome to Mach./ p Floyd
-5. W line..... / Webb, Campbell } Kyah 22 ram hot sheet [ soon to be 25
15. Windy / assoc.... ) ) short geometry for shot brains.

You should see the philosophers and neuroscientists fret over trying to understand how it could possibly have come about. I think it's a no brainer, no pun intended. Given so many trillions of adaptable neuronal connections in us (and squid/octopi, just while we are on the subject,), so much evolutionary time, strong natural selection for adaptive survival by environments---It's likely that MANY consciousnesses evolved---not just for humans. Next easy task?

Tagged: Scientiferous x moody blue

... One tiny byte of Mystery can be removed if we come to see that the System itself is rolling UP & winding down. We are, of course, referring to the System of the World, the arrow of Time & hot law 2; Entropy.
Consideration of Earth, Air, Water, Fire ..along with grammar, rhetoric, syntax and Number ) )
gives us a fat window of looky into pagan Astronomy / astro-Logic..) ) which runs parallel to increasing
human presumption & error .. ) ) ) isn't that right, Team Houston ?
... The $implified version of Street Level Astronomy deals in terms the simple-minded can Grip.
Surface traction of Friday night, Satur-day Tailgate, Sun-day Rituals, Monday blues.
Said system is wearing out..) ) but until then, enjoy the show......
* * * part 2. Always leave the record player on..- Uncle Joe, 2019

Doing so will accelerate entropy, invoke Parkinson, and create many jobs in the manufacturing $ector.
do you know what eYe mean ? I trust my drift will generally exceed your get....ball point radio trumps standard FM jargon-monoxide and offers a truufy Rx for mind and spirit... let us count the Ways....
70 } Turn back the hands of Time / T Davis ........ 72 } Time in a bottle / Croce
....... For the good times / Ray Price ............................ Ventura Highway / America
..... child in Time / deep purple ................................. Reelin in the Years / Steely Dan
***** 73 } kodachrome / simon
.................................. T I M E / p Floyd
................................ photograph / Starr
74 } Don't let the sun go down on me / Elton John
..... .... down down / status Quo
........ Sundown / Lightfoot..... ) ) ) and then along came METAL ....
* * * * * * Mental Funeral / autopsy.................. Seven Churches / possessed
............. Cause of Death / Obituary ................. Ram it Down / Judas Priest
............. Left Hand Path / Entombed .............. the End Complete / Obit.

.....which along with so much else for MAGA, our B and D POTUS is pushing for hard. As usual, he has a strong wind on his nose, but oddly, in this case, it's not by the alt leftie biased media wonks and editors, but by the US Air Farce's backward thinking old men. Lots of backward thinking old men in the blogs these days, my friends. Islam, the RCC. Of course, once the media get wind of how it's another example of great leadership, we expect TD-HDS to fully kick in, and they'll reflexively all be bellyaching as usual. So, why this? Seems like the one party state Red Chinese are already modifying the age old linear approach to a space military, relying on upgrades in the same old stuff, such as ICBM's and nuclear weapons. The PRC, the same folks who allow whistleblower physician to die in relative youth, and punish such for spreading early warnings on Wuhan Corona Virus.As with such conservative Army thinking prior to WWII, where more effective tanks, and aircraft were poopooed by backward thinking generals, such lack of foresight took many lives. Sherman tanks were ineffective for frontal assaults on much larger NAZI Tigers, requiring costly infantry movements to allow the Shermans BEHIND the Tigers, where the latter were vulnerable. Army generals were used to infantry, not mechanized maneuverable heavy armour, let alone tank buster Stutkas, as were the Krauts. Repeat of murderous trenches, a generation earlier via linear tactical thinking. A real sixth branch of the US military, wholly independent of the Air Farce, is what's called for. Not stupidly merely an extension of existing air power. Systems will then abandon linear wasteful venues, for fully integrated ones. Cyber will be linked to beam weapons will be linked to high altitude surveillance, and so forth. Side benefits, always part of new military tech, will include asteroid protection, beamed down clean microwave based electric power, Cis-moon path protection, same for folks residing in space, and possibly even clean solutions to our soon to cause real conflicts water shortages. Radical, foresightful thought. The Donald and minions. Lets hear the spin against it from the ueber alt lefties.

I have tried to make silver nanoparticles with silver nitrate, silver, and PVP but it failed. If I add Rit dyes (Wine, etc) to PVP with hot solution 80 degrees C with Potassium Hydroxide a polymer quickly forms. It is not over yet I plan to do more PVP type polymers with cookie cutters in a few months to make 2D-3D shapes.

When White urethane paint is added the Methylene blue that turned Purple goes bright yellow was NOT expecting that but it is cool.

Mind some of the mess yes I need to clean some it up. My own youtube channel.

No. This blog is not about supernodels.

I just wanted to let you know about an upcoming celestial event.

Tomorrow 3 planets, Jupiter, Mars and Saturn will rise near the horizon
in very close proximity in the southeast sky around 1:15 am 3/18/2020
and no bright stars will appear near, so they should be quite visible.

If you have one, get your telescope, or binoculars out.

You may also enjoy some close-ups;

.....as opposed to otherwise.... Recently went to one of those new coffee shops that form an alternative to the usually ueber liberal caffeine haunts. A growth industry. This one is named Covfefe, after an apparent blotched tweet by our supreme POTUS dear leader. Trump mugs, coffee bags, bumper stickers, pens/pins, flags, etc. , and the types of characters one might expect to meet there. The crowd were talking excitedly about President Trump's responses to Covid19. There was the usual dissing of the dissing of Trump. But no shortage of conspiracy talk. To anyone with a modicum of biological or medical knowledge, the theories were ridiculous. But I just listened, in line with my personal evolution in this present life. But I digress. These folks were absolutely convinced that the virus was created in, pick your foe, a weapons lab in NK, PRC, Russia, Israel, Ukraine, or by CIA types. Got me thinking about how and why folks assume their knowledge. Believe whatever we may, but if several personal factors around this are lacking, we might be in support of great errors, or worse. These would include: attention to the value of experience, verses novel info;- realization that science only can provide information, which must be subjected to scrutiny;-that when such "knowledge" gets turned into policy, the policy makers are far from their own political biases;-any policy must be evaluated for efficacy in an ongoing fashion;- and much more. And two other items. Where is our humility in any of this? And perhaps most importantly, what does grandmother have to say about the issue?

...Sure, we see it often, in attempts to feel better about themselves, and just a bit better than the great unwashed deplorables. Often sourced in deep insecurities about their own intelligence or morality, as in over- and inappropriate use of words and phrases---Fascist, Nazi, racist, words ending in -phobic, antisemitic, and others. The Mona Lisa knowing smiles, the shunning of others who may have rightist, or even centrist, political views. Statements here in profiles displaying these often fear based shuns. Youthful counterphobic acts, such as the repeated Black face of the alt liberal Canadian reelected PM. But I digress. As I've written, there is likely to be racism, deep seated or otherwise, at varying levels, in all of us. From an evolutionary standpoint, it's likely hardwired into the primate genome, from countless generations of the successful immediately recognizing, and quickly dispatching, 'The Other". But historically, for understandable reasons, some groups of humans have outmatched others in perfecting all this, and putting it into practice.The Third Reich, Imperial Japan, White supremacists, Black power separatists, and others. Then there are the groups, national and otherwise, who are demonstrably less so. And how about religion, while we are on the topic. We Yanks had our Japanese war camps, and with Canadians, are still being less than fair to our First Nations folks. But on the news, much is being said about the Han Chinese and their Uiger "retraining " camps, for their own Muslim citizens. But now we hear that the PRC Government is doing the same to citizen of neighboring lands, sometimes even before wandering haplessly into China. All sorts of justifications, some perhaps with marginal validity, are used here. But methinks it's that age old curse of us higher primates, in our over concern about "The Other". Actually a topic in modern ethical philosophy as well. Can't make this stuff up, my fellow CS lemmings.