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This corresponds uncannily to transformative events in U.S history.
Each event involved a prominent person - the Indispensable Man, one might say.

Each of the men was born in/near the sign of Aquarius and each birth date was progressively earlier by 10 days or so.

1776 ... Revolutionary War ... Washington ... born Feb. 22
1860 ... Civil War ... Lincoln... Feb. 12
1944 ... WWII ... FDR ...Jan. 30

2028 ... ???? ... ???? ... ????

Possible Candidates for Indispensable Person -
Nikki Haley - Jan. 20
Michelle Obama - Jan. 17

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've used that phrase often and tonight hpylady_ suggested it on Jim's blog about virus being carried on tiny particles found in air pollution.

The concept of a canary in a coal mine is because miners had died as the levels of colorless odorless carbon monoxide, methane or other gases that proved to be fatal to the miners. They had no means of detecting these hazardous/toxic gasses and found that canaries would quickly sicken when subjected to that kind of environment allowing the miners to escape unharmed.

Using canaries became an 'early-warning' system for the workers deep inside the mines.
It wasn't until years later they carried compressed air breathing systems and carbon monoxide detectors to protect miners.

The birds were no longer needed but the saying is still around...

The idiom/metaphor 'Canary in a coal mine' also relates to other things, such as financial indicators. For example: Mortgage borrowers in this coronavirus pandemic could be the canary in the mine to a foreclosure crisis.

Tag. | .time Out.
...a. Non Fiction ). The blasters
b. 2nd law. .) . muse.
.....C.... achtung ! .yhwh ) U 3. .) FM physics@ speed.
2. . .psalm 2 .) . blur.
1. Superposition / young the Giant.
.. operative vs. | .I S A 13:3 .+ .psalm 2 ....
...what happens when bono Certified math
Bumps into the bored Account ant ? ? ) .time is burnt.
A collapsing wave..) .a col lap sing wave . ) ..
Having simultaneous ) .past. ) present. & Future
Implications...) . ramifications..) imagination..&
Blowback..blow back..( ie, time wasted, NY times.
The thing does not stop...it hunts & hertz ..with
Addenda.) .all the time...
...hence the Superposition above is the bad dream of the ancient people. For when ever 2 or more elders
Are meeting & there is no mention of Torah or yah,
It constitutes a session of witchcraft.
Towards Eternity .) . Ward
..did you hear me ? ) .red light district.
I've found what I'm...., yhwh / U 3
..also ran. ) ..to be continued .) I. Hayes.

God can help,pray with all heart and God will help.
God is Good,those that believe and obey Truth will be saved.
Those that do good and do no bad,will be loved.
if you did any bad, Repent and improve and do no more bad,and you will be forgiven.
seek truth and learn.

.....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.

Earth Spun Slower Before Noah's Flood - A 360 Day Year Divided By 12 Lunar Months Of 30 days counted off Exactly One Solar AND Lunar Year.
Sun & Moon were in Sync - Solar & Lunar years BOTH totaled 360 days ... No Problem

When Earth's rotation sped up & a Solar Year became 365 1/4 days, the Solar & Lunar years no longer coincided.
There's now a 5 1/4 day discrepancy between Solar & Lunar years & attempting to measure years by Lunar months is thus Complicated & Imprecise.

See beginning @ 2:28:00 -

Which - According To The Theory - explains Why the Chinese (and virtually All ancient cultures/civilizations) relied on a Lunar Calendar in the Post-Flood World. Short Answer to the question posed in the OP - The Flood Did It! ...

.... When we see such a distribution of percentages, many find such to be intriguing. Does it represent striking new information, prompting the search for valid scientific ways to explore a new hypothesis, on some possible connection in life? Or is it merely the result of tree top confounding and other bias in gathering of data? Well---
This is the exit poll breakdown of US voters. the lower value is for Republicans voting for Mr. Trump, the higher, for dem Dems. In no other USA sociopolitical defined area is the difference anywhere near these extremes. VERY extreme.
For example, alt leftie Californicate, and Vermental -vermont, each hover around 30 to 60 %, respectively.

Who would be surprised that this finding is for Washington, DC?

The use of the descriptive term "SWAMP", indeed fits. The seat of over-administered, bureaucratic government corruption, height of inefficiencies, benefits in employment long gone for real workers in the dreaded private sector (pay, pensions, benefits), and rank nepotism, ---well, don't these folks have much to loose? From an rank upstart outsider, no less.

Mr. Trump is an existential threat to people of their ilk, and to their MSN pundits and wanker wonks. So the expressions of hate really are more signs of fear, than anything else.

Don't just take my words for it. See it everywhere.

Having once more deftly managed my usual pathetic detractors, and gently further bonded with the man crush fellows, it's back again to shameless showing off, under the pretext of unsolicited public education. We've covered, in only a few Blogs, most of the ideas underlying basic, and even more advanced, Epid. It's origins, purposes, development, ground level technical features, and much more, were covered, admittedly only in a cursory fashion. But careful readers will have gotten the main points.
Of course, in these days of the Chinese Wuhan wet markets virus, many will want to know what Epid reveals about this latest gift to the world from the one party Han state. In doing so, many of the basic concepts which were covered earlier in the lecture series enter in.
Now we cover various features of statistical analysis, showing how closely related are medicine, Epid, public health and biostatistics.This actually is an extension of calculating the results of laboratory experimentation. It's rare to compare just two mice, or viral tissue culture Petri plates, for the differences after different exposures to experimental variables. And ideally, many attempts are made to have these, before the experiment, to be identical. Strains of laboratory animals are bred, at great expense, to be as nearly identical as possible. Of course, except in the rare natural occuring experimental situation, this is not possible for researchers on humans, unless the scientists worked in NAZI times, But I digress.
All sorts of factors in free living human populations come up, many of which relate to the outcomes of experiments. So called intermediate variables (confounders, effect modifiers, etc.), while we can try to "match" study subjects and controls in various study designs, this is far from perfect. So techniques were developed to gather such data, say smoking, or weight, and to try to adjust for their differential effects in generating results. With few such factors, simple tabular statistics, such as 2X2 table Chi square or T tests work, and with so called AVOVA techniques, (analysis of variance), even more statistical adjusting can be done.
But for many extraneous factors, and many thousands of study subjects, nore refined statistical techniques are needed. And these can also help to estimate the sizes and relevance of differences in study populations.so called "effect measures", and to guage statistical significance. As a group, these all are forms of what is called multiple regression techniques, and have direct impact on making predictions ("Models"), as in COVID -19.

Later, alligators. And I await careful reading and notification of my gramatical and other erors from my wanker detractors. Here, boys, come and get your treat. .

...Half way through my second go around on Prof. Sean Carroll's DVD from the Great Courses on the topic. Pretty mind blowing. Only getting a dilettante's level of understanding, but well worth it. Plus lots on cosmology, relativity and particle physics along the way. Check it out.