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No signs of rejection...
22 year old Joe DiMeo survived a car accident but his face and hands were severely burned. Doctors at NYU Langone Health in New York successfully performed a face and double hand transplant in August 2020 and so far there are no signs of rejection.
The surgery lasted more than 20 hours and he must remain on medicine for life for his body to avoid rejecting the transplants.
Note, the video is graphic so you may want to avoid watching if you get queasy with things like this.
Yahoo! picked up the story this morning:
The surgery lasted more than 20 hours and he must remain on medicine for life for his body to avoid rejecting the transplants.
Note, the video is graphic so you may want to avoid watching if you get queasy with things like this.
Yahoo! picked up the story this morning:
So I want to write about
Handel's quantum 1/f noise and quantum blinking.
You know the theory, how the reason everything inn the Universe flickers and creates wave function instability and electronic noise is because nothing is real anyway, so the illusion of reality is held together mostly by inertia. Well I wrote a math equation which seems to show that (yes, I may submit it for a peer review) and was gonna talk about it here too, but then I realized most here would have zero idea what I am writing about. So instead of doing that, I will resume watching a grade C horror flick on Torrent. "Ouija Craft" It is a great movie if you are having trouble sleeping or just like horrible movies. LoL It is about these high school witches who use a magical ouija board to bring back one of them after she mixes and drinks 2 magical potions that should never be mixed and just explodes. They use the board in a cemetery to resurrect her, but of course the spirit inhabiting the recreated corpse isn't as friendly as the person they used to know. Should we blame their inexperience, the Board, the cemetery or the script writer? I dunno. It was making me sleepy so I came here, but this place is as dead as that movie tonight.
You know the theory, how the reason everything inn the Universe flickers and creates wave function instability and electronic noise is because nothing is real anyway, so the illusion of reality is held together mostly by inertia. Well I wrote a math equation which seems to show that (yes, I may submit it for a peer review) and was gonna talk about it here too, but then I realized most here would have zero idea what I am writing about. So instead of doing that, I will resume watching a grade C horror flick on Torrent. "Ouija Craft" It is a great movie if you are having trouble sleeping or just like horrible movies. LoL It is about these high school witches who use a magical ouija board to bring back one of them after she mixes and drinks 2 magical potions that should never be mixed and just explodes. They use the board in a cemetery to resurrect her, but of course the spirit inhabiting the recreated corpse isn't as friendly as the person they used to know. Should we blame their inexperience, the Board, the cemetery or the script writer? I dunno. It was making me sleepy so I came here, but this place is as dead as that movie tonight.
The Rare Exceptional Great Conjunction
No, this blog is not about the last time you got any. 
The bodies , that are the subject of this blog, are celestial.
To be exact, Jupiter and Saturn, the great gas bodies in our solar system.
And you think the great gas body was your ex.
Anyway, something is about to happen, that hasn't happened this much in 800 years and you can witness it this month.
Every 2 decades or so, Jupiter and Saturn appear to get quite close in the sky. They actually aren't close. They are 8 times less close to each other as we are to the sun. However, their orbits around our sun align them from our perspective to make them appear close,
as we see them in our night sky. This year they will seem so close, that they will overlap each other. The last time that happened was back in the year of 1226. Perhaps some of you remember it ?
When it happens, it will appear brighter than any star in the sky.
The night you can see it is on December 21st. Better mark it on your calendar. You forgot the last one.
The bodies , that are the subject of this blog, are celestial.
To be exact, Jupiter and Saturn, the great gas bodies in our solar system.
And you think the great gas body was your ex.
Anyway, something is about to happen, that hasn't happened this much in 800 years and you can witness it this month.
Every 2 decades or so, Jupiter and Saturn appear to get quite close in the sky. They actually aren't close. They are 8 times less close to each other as we are to the sun. However, their orbits around our sun align them from our perspective to make them appear close,
as we see them in our night sky. This year they will seem so close, that they will overlap each other. The last time that happened was back in the year of 1226. Perhaps some of you remember it ?
When it happens, it will appear brighter than any star in the sky.
The night you can see it is on December 21st. Better mark it on your calendar. You forgot the last one.
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Christmas Star 2020...
There was a lot of chatter about the solstice and the 'Great Conjunction' of the near alignment of Jupiter and Saturn happened this evening.
Oh, you missed it? I read it will happen again in 800 years!
While it's considered a phenomenon, I'm a bit disappointed and I was expecting it to have more brilliance.
South Florida had 63F degrees and not a cloud in the sky.
My best view was standing in the open section of a golf course, where it was visible in the southwest less than 20 degrees above the horizon.
"That's it!"
"No, it can't be."
"It's gotta be it... nothing else in sky."
She said "Enough, let's go home!"
"Yeah... Okay."
A few news stories called it the Christmas Star and compared it to the biblical Three Wise Men guided by a star.
Let's talk facts:
It's 2 planets (not a star) and lasts less than an hour. Those guys had traveled a while.
Oh, you missed it? I read it will happen again in 800 years!
While it's considered a phenomenon, I'm a bit disappointed and I was expecting it to have more brilliance.
South Florida had 63F degrees and not a cloud in the sky.
My best view was standing in the open section of a golf course, where it was visible in the southwest less than 20 degrees above the horizon.
"That's it!"
"No, it can't be."
"It's gotta be it... nothing else in sky."
She said "Enough, let's go home!"
"Yeah... Okay."
A few news stories called it the Christmas Star and compared it to the biblical Three Wise Men guided by a star.
Let's talk facts:
It's 2 planets (not a star) and lasts less than an hour. Those guys had traveled a while.
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Case definition...and science...
......Real science...VERY real. I know, I know, just how tedious I can be when I put on my real Teacher/Scientist fat Runt hat, VERY real, so I'll try to be brief.
Let's say you are doing biology with animals, plants or microbes. When you try to get funding, or to publish findings, the first levels of scrutiny involve spot on valid identification of your study/experimental, VERY MENTAL, models.
Recently, some of our family reflected on this with Dad, describing how much effort is put into exact characterization of mouse stem cell lines, by these hard working Interns at an international standards genetics research outfit. Selective breeding, DNA\RNA verification of cell cultures, yep---the whole nine yards.
So it is in studying various aspects of human health and illness. Enter the topic of valid case identification. Of course, for myriad reasons in free living human populations, the exact laboratory measures mentioned above can only be approximated, which of course dilutes things when it comes to sadistical analyses. It ain't a perfect world, peebles
So we hear about about how politics, once again, can slither into science. Worse, when big bucks are involved.
Apparently, on the data charts when patients are admitted to Horsepital, there's usually a little field for checking off, labelled as "Covid-19 Case?". If someone is admitted for any cause, and proper care involves being placed on a respirator, along with other information, checking off this field on a clinical hunch, involves more reimbursement for the Hospital from government, and even private insurance. Increase in billing can range from $11,000 to $39,000. Many people WITHOUT C-19 are placed on respirators.
Remember this every time that we hear of reported numbers of Cases/Death of C-19.
Let's say you are doing biology with animals, plants or microbes. When you try to get funding, or to publish findings, the first levels of scrutiny involve spot on valid identification of your study/experimental, VERY MENTAL, models.
Recently, some of our family reflected on this with Dad, describing how much effort is put into exact characterization of mouse stem cell lines, by these hard working Interns at an international standards genetics research outfit. Selective breeding, DNA\RNA verification of cell cultures, yep---the whole nine yards.
So it is in studying various aspects of human health and illness. Enter the topic of valid case identification. Of course, for myriad reasons in free living human populations, the exact laboratory measures mentioned above can only be approximated, which of course dilutes things when it comes to sadistical analyses. It ain't a perfect world, peebles
So we hear about about how politics, once again, can slither into science. Worse, when big bucks are involved.
Apparently, on the data charts when patients are admitted to Horsepital, there's usually a little field for checking off, labelled as "Covid-19 Case?". If someone is admitted for any cause, and proper care involves being placed on a respirator, along with other information, checking off this field on a clinical hunch, involves more reimbursement for the Hospital from government, and even private insurance. Increase in billing can range from $11,000 to $39,000. Many people WITHOUT C-19 are placed on respirators.
Remember this every time that we hear of reported numbers of Cases/Death of C-19.
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Utah Monolith...
The Utah Department of Public Safety department helicopter was helping Utah Division of Wildlife Resource and spotted a tall metallic monolith in a remote area of the Utah desert.
Photos and videos of the object went viral and it was described to be something like the monolith from the science fiction movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, less the monkeys.
It's not known how it got there, who did it, how deep in the earth it's erected. It appears to have been man-made from stainless steel sheets that were riveted in the corners.
Today, in the news, it's reported the monolith is gone and only a flat plate that marked the location remains.
The Utah Monolith
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Photos and videos of the object went viral and it was described to be something like the monolith from the science fiction movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, less the monkeys.
It's not known how it got there, who did it, how deep in the earth it's erected. It appears to have been man-made from stainless steel sheets that were riveted in the corners.
Today, in the news, it's reported the monolith is gone and only a flat plate that marked the location remains.
The Utah Monolith
"If it is good enough for them, it is good enough for everyone."
...key word there "everyone."
The exact phrase I was thinking we would most likely hear when it comes to the vaccine being administered to front line workers. However, as far as I understand, front line workers will be required to take the vaccine. I have friends that are working in hospitals and such...and they tell me that they must take vaccines in order to be allowed to work.
So that phrase is misleading...making it sound like front line workers are lining up volunteering for it. It is more like, if you want to keep your job, you are going to take this vaccine.
I just heard those exact words from a guy being interviewed on Fox news.
The exact phrase I was thinking we would most likely hear when it comes to the vaccine being administered to front line workers. However, as far as I understand, front line workers will be required to take the vaccine. I have friends that are working in hospitals and such...and they tell me that they must take vaccines in order to be allowed to work.
So that phrase is misleading...making it sound like front line workers are lining up volunteering for it. It is more like, if you want to keep your job, you are going to take this vaccine.
I just heard those exact words from a guy being interviewed on Fox news.
Too close for comfort
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.
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;
In response to:
Record-setting asteroid zoomed past Earth — missing by just 240 miles, NASA announces
Summer Lin
Tue, November 17, 2020, 5:21 PM EST
An asteroid the size of a pickup truck flew by Earth last week, setting the record for the closest asteroid to zoom by the planet without hitting it, NASA said.
An asteroid known as 2020 VT4 passed by Earth on Nov. 13, according to the Center for Near-Earth Studies, NASA’s center for monitoring asteroid and comet orbits.
NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System tweeted Monday that the asteroid measured 5-10 meters and was within 240 miles of Earth’s surface.
2020 VT4 is a Near-Earth Object, but isn’t “potentially hazardous” given its size. NASA defines “potentially hazardous” NEOs as those that measure more than 460 feet in diameter and come within 0.05 astronomical units, or about 4.65 million miles.
In August, an SUV-sized asteroid flew 1,830 miles from Earth and was the then-closest asteroid to pass by Earth, McClatchy News reported.
Record-setting asteroid zoomed past Earth — missing by just 240 miles, NASA announces
Summer Lin
Tue, November 17, 2020, 5:21 PM EST
An asteroid the size of a pickup truck flew by Earth last week, setting the record for the closest asteroid to zoom by the planet without hitting it, NASA said.
An asteroid known as 2020 VT4 passed by Earth on Nov. 13, according to the Center for Near-Earth Studies, NASA’s center for monitoring asteroid and comet orbits.
NASA’s Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System tweeted Monday that the asteroid measured 5-10 meters and was within 240 miles of Earth’s surface.
2020 VT4 is a Near-Earth Object, but isn’t “potentially hazardous” given its size. NASA defines “potentially hazardous” NEOs as those that measure more than 460 feet in diameter and come within 0.05 astronomical units, or about 4.65 million miles.
In August, an SUV-sized asteroid flew 1,830 miles from Earth and was the then-closest asteroid to pass by Earth, McClatchy News reported.
From Wikipedia;
In response to:
2020 VT4 is a tiny near-Earth asteroid that passed 370 km (230 mi) above Earth's surface on 13 November 2020 at 17:20 UTC. Initially known by its internal designation A10sHcN,?the asteroid was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey at the Mauna Loa Observatory fifteen hours after its closest approach to Earth. The Earth encounter perturbed the asteroid's trajectory from an Earth-crossing Apollo-type orbit to an Aten-type orbit, subsequently reducing the asteroid's heliocentric orbital period from 1.5 years to 0.86 years.
2020 VT4 passed closer to Earth than any known asteroid, except for those that became meteors. It passed closer than 2020 QG and 2011 CQ1, which passed about 3,000 km and 5,500 km from Earth's surface, respectively. Given an estimated absolute magnitude of 28.7, 2020 VT4 is estimated to be around 5 to 10 metres in diameter. Had it impacted Earth, it would mostly disintegrate during atmospheric entry and might leave a common strewn field.
2020 VT4 is a tiny near-Earth asteroid that passed 370 km (230 mi) above Earth's surface on 13 November 2020 at 17:20 UTC. Initially known by its internal designation A10sHcN,?the asteroid was discovered by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) survey at the Mauna Loa Observatory fifteen hours after its closest approach to Earth. The Earth encounter perturbed the asteroid's trajectory from an Earth-crossing Apollo-type orbit to an Aten-type orbit, subsequently reducing the asteroid's heliocentric orbital period from 1.5 years to 0.86 years.
2020 VT4 passed closer to Earth than any known asteroid, except for those that became meteors. It passed closer than 2020 QG and 2011 CQ1, which passed about 3,000 km and 5,500 km from Earth's surface, respectively. Given an estimated absolute magnitude of 28.7, 2020 VT4 is estimated to be around 5 to 10 metres in diameter. Had it impacted Earth, it would mostly disintegrate during atmospheric entry and might leave a common strewn field.
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.
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Totally Under Control...
This is the full movie of the play-by-play sequence to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Totally Under Control
Totally Under Control
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