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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

On October 4th, 1957 Russia launched a satellite into Earth's orbit. Named Sputnik, this satellite transmitted beeping radio signals that could be detected on 2 bands of amateur radio equipment 20.005 and 40.002 megahertz frequencies as it traveled around the planet approximately 18,000 miles per hour. Sputnik was a metal ball 23 inches in diameter with antennas sticking out that completed 1440 orbits around the earth. Each orbit was just over 96 minutes.

The batteries lasted for 21 days and Sputnik continued it's decaying orbit around earth until it reentered the atmosphere and burned up on January 4th 1958.

The photo below is a replica of Sputnik that is on display at the National Museum of the United States Air Force, Missile & Space Gallery in Dayton, Ohio.

Sputnik kicked off space exploration that started a rivalry between Russia (the former Soviet Union) and the United States.



Sputnik is the Russian word for satellite.

Apparently it's showing up on many sides of the issue. Now reports by a BF of this whack job female Ford, that lots of the important stuff she's been telling the senate and rest of the world, in her harmless, affected, poor me, little girl voice, doesn't go along with how she spoke and acted, when they were an item, some six years ago.

So, today we come to 21st June,2016 again.....the longest day of the year!!!? Well, I remember the times, one would relish and be out the whole day with friends or family...Sadly, today, here in India, the monsoon has set in and it' s foggy and drizzly slightly....not likely to be sunny with no chance for us to watch the twilight that never seemed to end like the old days....

I want to know what it will be like in other parts of India/countries where you live? any comments will be welcomed !!!

I came to this seminar in good time to get a place on the first row, center.

…I always prefer to sit on the best seat be it opera, ballet, Yeti watching or just a domestic dispute…

I made myself comfortable for the next 60 minutes and immediately let deep and sound sleep consume my whole person.

… I never snore – checked against different sources…

So far so good. And my life was indeed heavenly sweet for the first half.

…Säg den lycka som varar…

Then, as usual, some forgetful bum’s phone went all excited somewhere in the bum’s bag’s intestines, which made the lecturer halt his stream of monotonic mumble, which consequently woke me up. My hardened nervous system wouldn’t have any difficulties to swing me back to sleep, but another bum – a very observant one – suddenly asked: “What’s that grey area under the curve?”. And that question put me on the perch straight and alert.

While the lecturer was staring at his graph as if he saw it for the very first time and the merry audience was suggesting solutions borrowed in the number of difference sciences – from landscaping to astrophysics, those oblique rotations in 3D – I recollected

…as a few years ago we used that very screen as a table cloth at a minor celebration when someone in our group published their first article and some clumsy bum spilled a bowl with dressing or the like…

and understood that the mystical “area under the curve” was just an oily spot, that looked grey contraluz.

Ages have passed, but I still consider my greatest contribution to the science that I kept composure until the end of the seminar. Then I went out, hugged a tree and laughed my heart out.

Been and paddled kayak yesterday. Saw a female elk with 2 calves. Totally under impression.

But where is the logic?

It is 5 videos here. The concepts..

These are video excerpts of the recent Breakthrough symposium in connection with Project SETI (Search for Extra Terrestial Intelligence). As human technology has advanced since the 1960s, so too has the way the SETI program works.


Lineage of a bio-sphere. Looking in directions SETI hasn't done yet. Atmospheric traces of molecules produced by the manufacture of plastics for instance. Organic life vs inorganic life. Would we recognize life? How long does a civilization last? What is life? Do we truly want to create a self aware AI and droids to do our exploring for us? Do true AIs go through the Darwinian process and evolve away from the original design? Is the Darwinian process unique to Earth? How unique is Earth's bio-sphere? Are there other similar bio-spheres on other Earth like worlds or are their chemical processes unique to that world? The more extensive and expansion our search for other life in the Universe becomes, the more noticeable we become to other life searching. Is that a good thing? Etc.

1 Stephen Hawking in a presentation made for this summit, shortly before he passed on.


2 Martin Reese discusses the odds of SETI detecting organic or electronis intelligence?


3 What is life?


4 Inorganic life. Complex molecules are techno signatures..


5 Evolutionary traces in nonorganic computer programs (i.e., Artificial Intelligence programs) in response to changes in environment.


Question to ponder.. If we design self aware AI robot droids to do space exploration for us and build structures for us, then send them off into deep space, for how long will a self aware robot droid happily work for us, versus seek an independence from us and come up with a way of accomplishing that new goal?

Branch of genetic engineering will give better help for human . Which type of child you want sport person , good in academic speicaly in Math and science , artist , creative . All can happen with the help of genetic engineering.
Genetic engineering also help full to treat any syndrome related to chromosome and any unwanted gentac mutation . It can treat in womb .
Every parents must meet the genetic counsellors before and during pregnancy it help you give better child .

But, if you want to see shooting stars (i.e. to wish upon),
you may want to look to the north eastern sky tonight.
It is the peak night for the Perseid Meteor Shower viewing, as long as it is not cloudy where you are.
The best viewing time is 2 am until dawn, when you may see up to
100 shooting 'stars' or more per hour.
Even if you can't be awake that early in the morning, you can probably see a few
after midnight, or even a couple after 10 pm.

The Perseid Meteor Shower is the remnants of the Comet Swift-Tuttle.
This comet is the biggest thing that the earth comes close to.
But, it orbits the sun only once every 134 years. The next time will be the year 2126.
However, earth passes through the debris trail every year.
This year should be extra good viewing, because the moon will mostly be dark
(mostly in it's 'new' moon phase) as we pass through the debris trail.

If you don't want to stay up late to see it live and in person, you can see a time lapse filming of 2016's show below;

Get your many wishes ready;

Twice this week I've seen stories that scientists think they've figured it out what causes planes and boats to disappear in the region known as the Bermuda Triangle:
Monster Waves

Those guys need to stop smoking that funny tobacco.

Mentioned in one article, tsunami-like rogue waves reaching 100 feet tall. Storms from the North and South of the Atlantic Ocean converging on each could cause this. They created a model and in simulation believed this was the reason the ship USS Cyclops disappeared in 1918.
Okay, I'm with you on that.

Explain to me how aircraft flying at several thousand feet could get hit by a 100 tidal wave?
How could dozens of planes disappear?
Many lost radio contact with the tower including a squadron.

Somebody needs to rethink the wave theory.


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