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a little closer.

I have heard bits and pieces on the news lately, but nothing really in great detail that I can recall. A buddy of mine came over last night and he mentioned about an attack on the U.S. embassy in Cuba. Actually, the way it sounds, it is an ongoing attack.

After doing a Google search to find out more details regarding it, we discovered the level of the attack. They say it is a strange and mysterious sound that some of the people involved in the attack are hearing. Now, that seems rather harmless...but it is far from it. First of all, this sound is totally unidentifiable as to where it is coming from. It is suspected that it is coming from some distant location. It is also unknown who is behind it. What is even more concerning is what these sound waves are. According to what we read, they are microwaves and they have the capacity to fry...create heat...like your microwave in your home, I suspect. I did hear on the news were those who have been attacked, actually had (I believe) physical changes done to their brains.

We were unable to discover what, if any, long term effects a person suffers from such an attack. If these microwaves are as they report, I can imagine, it cannot be good.

One can ask so many questions:

How is this even possible?
What or who is causing it and for what reason?
Where is it coming from?

In addition, what about the question:

If everyone on this planet were unified, would this have happened in the first place?

Just like with a society, you divide them, they are able to be conquered. Can that same philosophy be used with a planet of people?

Our Largest Ocean is presenting symptoms of terminal radiation poisoning....

... experiences you have throughout your live, leave chemical markers on your DNA, essentially ingraining superficial experiences into your DNA.

I wonder if this explains "past life" memories that some people have?

First off, I have to thank Jim for bringing this to my attention. In fact, other than from Jim, I have not heard a single thing about this comet. It was discovered in late December....for whatever that means.

I have been kinda watching things on a daily basis as more and more information becomes available about it. What they say about it, as it become closer and closer to our sun, it is melting more and more. This is a comet, it is ice. So, as it heats up, it melts. Scientists say that the more it melts, the more light it will reflect, being easier to see in space.

The ancients feared comets...claiming they bring disease and destruction.

Now, this is where I start wondering a bit...because, I am no scientist and I am no astrologer.

But, the way I read about this comet, it will becoming near Earth.

Even if there is no physical collision from the hard physical form of the comet, is it possible the Earth could pass through the plume that is being melted off it? If so, is the Earth going to just pass through water vapors (because comets are reported to be frozen ice)...or....is there a possibility that some microbes may exist in this plume?

From what I understand, asteroids are somewhat able to be detected where it comes from...because we have a asteroid belt around us. But comets on the other hand come from deep space...and from what I understand, scientists don't know where they come from. Like I mentioned earlier, this comet was reported to be just discovered in December.

Anyway....just some thoughts here.

Thanks Jim.

Happy Saturday all.

1 hour 48 minutes to lift off

U-Haul® Runs Outta Trucks As Folks Flee - Moving Folks Out Is Booming Business.

California Dreamin' feels long, Long ago ... And Very Far Away ...

I find it odd that during the campaigns , Trump was so bombastic voice wise, now he whines , he mumbles, and he sounds like "wont you pity me because the news and Democrats are taking advantage of poor little me".
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If something can be measured, whether directly or indirectly, is it real? According to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, if energy has to be added to or taken from a system to implement the measuring process, as is generally the case, then this energy causes a change in the variable that is to be measured so that the value of the variable is no longer what it was before the attempt was made to measure it. In other words, the measuring process itself generally introduces an error into the measurement. For the measurement of macroscopic values, the energy change due to the measuring process is negligible and the error may be ignored. However, for the measurement of microscopic values, the Uncertainty Principle becomes critical and a substantial error may be introduced into the measurement.

For example, suppose we wish to measure the position of an electron. Consider a microscope powerful enough to make an electron detectable to the human eye. To perform the measurement, it is necessary to illuminate the electron with an intense source of light. Because of the extremely minute mass of the electron, the energy imparted by the source of light is of sufficient magnitude to cause a noticeable displacement in the electron's position, so that it would no longer be in the position in which it was prior to the illumination; nevertheless, such illumination is necessary for the measuring process. This same effect occurs in all measuring processes in which energy is added to or taken from a system as is generally the case.

Thus, it seems that even the ability of measurement to define reality is questionable since the very act of measurement itself generally introduces an error, human or otherwise, into the measurement to be made.

Understanding Anti-matter