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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 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

...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.

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.

.... 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.

This is the full movie of the play-by-play sequence to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Totally Under Control

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.

Kids didn't read the Bible in the 1960's, they read Popular Mechanics magazine. That was the place to find the latest military secrets and gadgets not available to the common man!
One of my first jobs had an engineering department where guys with pocket protectors and horned rimmed glasses were the norm.
One guy was a self-proclaimed inventor. He was itching to patent a Perpetual Motion generator. Lucky me, I got to see a prototype that he brought to the office to show off.

Basically, he connected a generator to a motor with a flywheel and expected to spin start this device and that the generator would develop enough power to keep the motor running... running as in perpetually with no slow down.
Not on this planet!

Nearly 50 years later with all the technological advancements in motors and generators "We ain't there yet!"

Go ahead, Google it up... you'll find mechanical devices outweigh the electro-mechanical devices but... "We ain't there yet!"

Does that mean the late bird catches coronavirus?

The smallest quantum particle that carries information are the qubit and the qutrit. In the past few years on multiple occasions qutrits have successfully been teleported. Yes, the Beam me up Scotty kind of teleportation.

Qubits are analogous to the Bit of the computer world. When you have 8 computer Bits you have a you have a computer Byte. Qutrits are the Bytes of the quantum world. Add enough of them and you have atoms, molecules, heat, light, etc.

Short sighted scientists only see the successful teleportations as the first steps to a quantum computer. They forget when you have enough Bytes you have a word, or a pixel, etc.

They forget, every atom, every spark, even every photon contains trillions of Qutrits. If you can instantaneously move one Qutrit, eventually you can move an unlimited number of them arranged however you want.

There are two different things to play with. Do we want to move an original? Yes it would be nice to spend your lunch break at the best brothel in Paris, then beam back at the end of the lunch hour to your boring factory job in San Francisco or Tokyo. I confess I am not sure how Customs or Passport control will work when that technology reaches the masses. One could of course suddenly beam a whole army to take over someone else's capital. Or beam a bomb into an aircraft. Such things fiction today may not be in the future.

But wait there is a better way. Once we learn which Qubits are the yes bit and which ones are the no or the maybe, then why move anything. Collect the Qubits you want, assemble them in the Qutint configuration you desire and beam your new creation into being wherever you wish. Some kinky folk may like sending quantum clones of themselves to the Paris brothel, so they can talk about it when or if their duplicate returns. Others may wish to create a probe on a far away planet without any need for a spaceship. The evil ones will calculate the energy release of an H bomb in Qutrits, then beam that energy into creation in an opposing capital. Of course that is overkill. Just teleport small pieces of junk into a political opponents heart, brain or liver. No need to shoot them if you can just teleport the bullet into them.

The future comes