Showing posts with label Caltech. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caltech. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 10, 2024

Caltech solar eclipse: What happened?

NASA never takes this photo because it's untrue.
It is a horrible truism that while it is easy to convince people of a lie, it is nearly impossible to convince people that they have been lied to. Hitler knew that.*
In 2019 cowboy Silva was photographed
The facts don't add up, but who cares about facts? It's not as if scientists are real scientists who are all about the observable, replicable, objective data. Don't believe your lying eyes, and don't you dare question authorities. You would never question the existence of God back when God mattered (y'know, before he was dead). You wouldn't even dream of it unless you wanted to be tarred, feathered, or completely ignored as "bonkers" and a "crank." Just so, now when Scientism is in the ascendancy and wielding all power and influencer, one had better not question Science or its white (lab coat) clad priesthood. But we did. We could only wish that science would be honest and respond to tough questions with facts, references, reason, and logic, which is a lot more than one could ask of religion.

Evidence: This map shows many paths of totality, each indicating the size of the object casting the shadow, none anywhere near the size reported for the moon. This is Rahu's shadow. And look at the massive size of Antarctica, not a pole but a mass encircling our world's oceans, just as we are told in Buddhist cosmology.



What happened?
We arrived at Caltech about 10:00 am to a long line to get into an astroturf field behind Cahill. Glasses were nearly gone and the only officials were mostly volunteer buffs and students, not old professors who could speak with authority. We put the questions to them and they were hopelessly stumped. They saw the point but imagined that there was some way in which the three heavenly bodies were all moving and tilting and spinning so that somehow it all made sense.

There was no moon (the new moon phase, presumably below the horizon at night) visible the night before. The internet could not seem to place where it was. It was certainly not visible in the sky before 10:00 am. We searched for it. Then, suddenly, there it was in the southeastern sky, moving backwards, coming in under the sun, eating it from the lower right, moving slowly across to the left -- like it never does in real life. That wasn't our moon, Luna/Chandra. That was Rahu.

Equal time for the official narrative:

What about the fact that there was no moon visible in the days leading up to today? No one working at Caltech for this event had any knowledge of that. How about the fact that any shadow (eclipse on a path of totality) racing across the face of the USA could only be moving from east to west because the earth, we are told, is spinning from west to east.

Proof beyond doubt that solar eclipse was not caused by our moon: the shadow is far too small
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(Los Angeles hurls toward New York, giving the illusion that the sun is rising in the east, we have all been taught. So anything that got in front of it to cast a big shadow would show up first in the eastern part of the country and then the western. But in both total solar eclipses, 2017 and 2024, the shadow started in the west and moved east. Look up the 2017 event and see it arising in Oregon and "crissing" down to Florida, and now this one was starting in Texas and crossing up to Maine, crisscrossing to make a misshapen X. When Mexico becomes part of Amero, the combining of Canada, the US, and Mexico under a common currency called the Amero, corresponding to the EU's Euro, the X will be a little better). 

Everyone asked about these anomalies was stumped, so certain about what they were looking at, while all admitting that the moon always goes from east to west, always taking a southerly path that tightens and expands but never reverses. When no one could explain that or the fact that a celestial object blocking the sun could only cast a shadow AS WIDE AS ITSELF OR BIGGER. It cannot cast a shadow that is narrower. This is just a fact of light. Take an object, put a flashlight behind it, and pull the light away. No matter how far back the light source is pulled, the shadow will never, can never get narrower than the object itself.


2024 total solar eclipse through the eyes of NASA
(Fox News) Streamed live April 8, 2024. Live views of the total solar eclipse moving across North America, beginning in Mexico (which is in the part of North America that used to be called Mesoamerica) and Texas. #foxnews

CONCLUSION?
We should've brought a rishi on Bufo to see.
So whatever was eclipsing the sun was NOT the moon, could not have been the moon, and was clearly not the moon when looked at through filtered glasses. After the satellite (thing flying in front of the sun) passed, where did it go? A moon is quite visible by day. It is not invisible or transparent. There was no moon in the visible sky before the solar eclipse nor after. So one is left to conclude there was no moon during the solar eclipse. But no one talks about Rahu. No one dares mention it. We haven't been told. That's not part of our lore. It is a part of Buddhist cosmology and ancient Vedic and Hindu lore. Jainism knows about it. Therefore, the East must know. But the West? Rahu who?

After we got tired of asking everyone on the job, sent higher and higher up the chain until brains failed them and no one had any answer, we just enjoyed the show around a well positioned camera with a telescopic lens and filter, letting everyone have a look at the moon spots.

The field was packed with so many Asian students and adults that one might well think that group is the only one really interested in STEM fields and lunisolar phenomena. Do Japan, China, and Korea know about Rahu? They must. They would have heard of it through the holy land of India and the tradition that became the "Light of Asia."

We got a big laugh, much as happened seven years ago on a different part of the Caltech campus, when at maximum, we called hundreds to attention to put on their protective eyewear and look up. "We're at total partiality!" Alas, California would not be getting totality today, with Los Angeles only getting to 51% partiality.
Astrology?

What anyone says about astrology people buy.
The new moon (when it is completely dark) is a good time, astrologically speaking, to begin something new, a change, a manifestation: As the moon waxes (increases in size and brightness), the thing manifested comes into being and grows. The waning phase is the half of the time the celestial body is decreasing. According to "yastrologer" Yasmin Boland, who studies "moonology," this solar eclipse portends many good things for those who are ready.
It may be a time of ascension, going from a 3D to 5D reality. Rejoice. We create our own world (our own reality) with our minds.

If you're part of a church (religious community) that tells you otherwise, hold your breath. We are about to be smote by God and punished for our iniquities. Of course, one would think that this is always happening. But, no, the Lord waits to slaughter us en masse like the great animal sacrifices He commanded in the Bible. And when you exhale, know that it isn't happening. So what does that say about the God, the Bible, and the church saying these things? It is a fact that all doomsday cults grow stronger when their predictions of doom do NOT come true. Why?

For one thing, the leader can say, "We saved the world from doom." And people will believe. Or they can say, "God spared us in His infinite mercy." And people will believe. Or they can say, "Oh, we had it wrong because the real year is such and such. And people will believe. Whatever happens, for good or ill, human minds can spin it to confirm our biases, People tend to be sheeple and believe.

Around here, we believe in peace and the punk slogan, "Fight war, not wars."


Millions experience a total solar eclipse
(CBC News: The National) CBC/Radio-Canada is a Canadian public broadcast service. Started streaming April 8, 2024: Millions of Canadians from Ontario to Newfoundland were awed by the total solar eclipse. Canada commits billions to upgrade its military but still falls short of a key commitment. Plus, a 14-year-old hockey phenomenon gets bumped up to junior hockey. #News #LatestNews #CBCNews

Hitler was right: The bigger the lie, the more people believe it

Trump learned from fellow German.
Ask narcissist Trump and his promises of endless "winning." We are going to win so much if we elect him, which we did as people voted down the monster that is The Hillary, and are you tired of winning? We're not. We wish we could have won more. Where's all that winning we were going to get tired of benefitting from, Trump?

He's a liar. She's a liar. Biden's just as bad (but less annoying about it). And anyone who calls anyone else a liar must be a liar, too, for the one who points the finger has three fingers pointing back.

I'm a super patriot because I wear the flag
So, oops, we better shut up, keep quiet, and not dare say that any king at anytime is naked.

No, no one's lying. Even Hitler wasn't lying. Look at all he did for Germany. And, of course, our mainstream media doesn't lie. They're a bunch of truthtellers and whistleblowers, spreading righteousness and reason throughout the land with no thought of profit or benefit for themselves.

The government should change the name of MSNBC-FOXNEWS to Pravda in one big conglomerate of corporate media. And we for our part can obey whatever they say we should do.

Vaccinate? Check. Big Pharma poisons? Check. War on Iran, Russia, Gaza, China, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan? Check, check, check... Let's all go along to get along.

Sunday, April 7, 2024

2024 Solar Eclipse Viewing Party (Caltech)

Hmm, that's kind of a let down, only 50% obscuration, barely dimming our view.


Solar Eclipse Viewing Party
On Monday, April 8, 2024, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm, Caltech (California Institute of Technology) is holding a public viewing event at the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics.
This secret event is easy to miss outside the zone
A total solar eclipse will pass over North America, starting in Mexico (which is part of N. America) and entering Texas, which soon will revolt and not be part of the USA, on the morning of Monday, April 8, 2024.
  • ALERT: Griffith Observatory will not have an official event as all of its staff that normally revels in such events did the smart thing and traveled to Texas to see and film the event live. They will be broadcasting it live on YouTube. And the event planned for Mt. Wilson, the highest point over the City of Los Angeles, cancelled its viewing party. Although most Caltech astronomers also left town, they left behind a young crew to hold an official event of mostly know-nothings.
To ruin cellphones, be sure to try to photograph the solar eclipse and burn it even with glasses

However, the richest-poorest town of Pasadena, California, which has the greatest wealth discrepancy between the Haves and the Have-Nots, has a private science institute called Caltech.edu. It is set up to view the partial solar eclipse that will be visible in most places outside the "path of totality."
  • The Science Center near USC and Cal State University, Los Angeles are also holding viewing parties with scientists on hand to assist in interpreting and sidestepping questions about why the shadow of the eclipse is moving in the wrong direction if Earth is spinning from west to east.
The shadow of [what cannot be] the moon will cover part of the Sun over the course of two hours. At its peak at 11:13 am, the Moon (whose name is Luna and Chandra and sometimes Soma) will cover almost 50% of the disk of the Sun. [It's actually Rahu doing it, but why quibble? If science says it's the Moon, no one is allowed to argue.]


Caltech will host a solar eclipse viewing party at the Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics and the adjacent space.

There will be solar telescopes, free eclipse glasses (as supplies last), and astrophysicists on hand to help everyone get the most out of this rare experience.

Astronomers and volunteers will be present to guide the public through the eclipse and answer questions about the Sun, eclipse, and astronomy.

This is a free event open to everyone. No reservations are needed. Stay as long or as short a time as desired. For directions, parking, and more information, please visit: outreach.astro.caltech.edu. For even more information, please contact Cameron Hummels by email at chummels@caltech.edu.

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Mars and mindboggling Solar System anomalies (video)

UAMN TV, March 2, 2019; Pfc. Sandoval, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly

 
Richard Hoagland explains mindboggling Solar System anomalies: Mars, Moon, and more
Advanced civilizations exist and have existed on the Moon, Mars, and on some of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn. These facts have been kept secret. Richard C. Hoagland (enterprisemission.com) attempts to figure out how much of what NASA has found in the solar system over the past 50 years has actually been silently filed out of sight as classified material.

Richard C. Hoagland
He shows us his team’s discoveries of artifacts on the Moon, Mars, and beyond. Richard Hoagland (richardchoagland.com) believes that what was built on the Moon was a series of vast archeological sites. They are thousands even millions of years old and are now battered into ruins. Who built them and why remains a profound mystery, one we can only begin to answer if we return to the Moon. After all, it is only a few days away in terms of space travel. Subscribe to UAMN TV for more new releases in 2019.

Hoagland, founder of The Enterprise Mission, recipient of the Angstrom Medal, former science advisor to CBS News and Walter Cronkite, author of The Monuments of Mars, co-creator of the Pioneer Plaque, originator of the Europa Proposal, principal Enterprise Mission investigator.

Friday, September 15, 2017

Cassini crashes: see it at Caltech (live)

KPCC In Person (SCPR.org); Seth Auberon, Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Wonderfully fake CGI depiction of what Saturn and Cassini are said to look like (KPCC)
These are official photos from the official NASA website showing different planets of different landmasses, proportions, and ocean colors -- ALL said to be actual photos of our Earth. Where are the stars and the atmosphere? Hey, NASA, which CGI Earth do we actually live on?
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Join us here for the live video stream on Monday, September 18 (or go to Caltech to try to get in although this event has, technically-speaking, reached capacity.
  • [WARNING: All of this may be NASA CGI and a cover story about our public space program, part of the consensus-reality story we are all raised on, which may not be actually true. But let's play along like NASA never covers anything or sets up elaborate cover stories in the place of truth. Ask John Lear for what's really going on.]
This is part of the disclosure process.
The Cassini spacecraft has had quite a life over the past two decades.

It has sailed past the dusty rings of Saturn, skimmed the massive hexagonal storm at the planet's North Pole, checked out the icy dunes of Titan, and tasted the potentially life-filled geysers of Enceladus.

Now, after exploring the Saturn system for more than a decade, Cassini's mission came to an end this morning, September 15th, when it descended into and burned up in Saturn’s atmosphere.
  • Destined to crash: Cassini's grand finale
  • Monday, September 18, 7:30-9:00 PM
  • Caltech's Beckman Auditorium
  • 332 S. Michigan Ave., Pasadena 91125
  • Map and Directions
Join KPCC’s science reporter Jacob Margolis and The Planetary Society’s Mat Kaplan for an event that celebrates the life of Cassini and the people who made the mission possible.

In public, NASA laughs at Planet Nirbiru
On Monday, Sept. 18th, Margolis will take guests on a storytelling adventure through Cassini’s [alleged] mission -- its perilous swings past gas giants, icy rings, and moons that carry the precursors for life.

Kaplan will lead an onstage discussion with the JPL scientists and engineers who have been working on the project since the 1980s and made it all possible. More

Guests
  • Emily Lakdawalla, Planetary Society senior editor
  • Earl Maize, Cassini Mission project manager
  • Linda Spilker, Cassini Mission project scientist
  • Julie Webster, Cassini Mission Spacecraft operations manager

Friday, September 23, 2016

Meet 5 SoCal "genius" grant recipients

KPCC Staff (scpr.org, Sept. 22, 2016); Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly
Don't think about sex. How are you going to be a genius? More education=less sex.

What is "genius," and how do I do/get/be it? (Grant Snider/redlemonclub.com)


The staff at Wisdom Quarterly was overlooked again this year. MacArthur people, are you paying attention? But the 2016 list of winners includes five locals, writers, a poet, obscure researchers, everything we love and strive for. Pasadena's Caltech gets accolades, as does nearby USC, the ACLU, and Claudia Rankine. Karma is sweet (when it comes to fruition).

AUDIO: Poet Claudia Rankine named a MacArthur genius
Poet, author Claudia Rankine
The 2016 class of MacArthur Foundation Fellowship honorees has been announced. Among them was [black] poet Claudia Rankine. Her book, Citizen: An American Lyric, is a provocative meditation on race in America. Through a series of vignettes, she tells the stories of everyday racism that people of color face on a daily basis. The poems are largely based on actual incidents of passive bigotry and prejudice that Rankine and her friends have personally experienced (The Frame/scpr.org).

ACLU attorney American-born Sri Lankan Tamil "genius grant" recipient says the principles he fights for are clear and uncomplicated (PRI's The World).
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Meet 5 SoCal recipients of 2016 MacArthur "genius" grants
Genius at work, Caltech: Dianne Newman
A composite image shows the five Southern California recipients of this year's MacArthur "genius" grants.

Five Southern Californians are among this year’s MacArthur fellows, recipients of its “genius” grants.
 
Do geniuses have skeletons in the closet?
The fellows, announced Thursday [9/21/16] by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, include USC professor and cultural historian Josh Kun, ACLU human rights lawyer Ahilan Arulanantham, nonfiction writer Maggie Nelson, and two scientists with Caltech (the California Institute of Technology) in Pasadena -- microbiologist Dianne Newman and geomicrobiologist Victoria Orphan.
 
The grants are meant to recognize individuals “who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction,” according to the MacArthur foundation.

Each fellow receives a no-strings stipend of $625,000 paid out over five years. More + VIDEO

Meet all 23 extraordinarily creative people who inspire us all (macfound.org)

 
Meditation is monotasking to realize the mind's potential (Grant Snider)

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Was Einstein right about gravitational waves?

Larry Mantle (AirTalk, scpr.org); CC Liu, Sheldon S., Crystal Quintero, Wisdom Quarterly

Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors have discovered gravitational waves

Meanwhile, sex has taken over the American college "hook up" culture, but how about just casual (sexless) dating instead? (Let's ask Jennifer Jason Leigh about her sex scenes). California has no solution for its teacher shortage, and with leader Charles Lester ousted, the search is on for a new director of the California Coastal Commission.

Physicists on why discovery of gravitational waves is earth-shattering for scientific community
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David Reitze, executive director of LIGO Laboratory at Caltech, announces scientists have observed ripples in fabric of spacetime called gravitational waves (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty).
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(AirTalk) PASADENA - For the first time ever, scientists can actually hear the universe. [What does it sound like? "Om," ping, white background noise, like the beach?] A team of physicists announced today that they were able to detect and record the sound of two black holes [clapping] a billion light-years away colliding with one another.

A hundred years ago, Albert Einstein posited that gravitational waves existed, but until now these ripples in the fabric of space-time were undetectable. Now, thanks to the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors and the team that worked on them, the final piece of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
 
I wasn't always crazy (E.O.H.)
What does the universe sound like? The LIGO team says it was a faint tone that was the result of a collision about 1.2 billion years ago that rose to the note of middle C before stopping. It [allegedly] signifies the warping of space-time itself.

Until now, scientists haven’t been able to measure that sound over the other noises of our planet, but in September 2015, the LIGO antenna were able to measure vibrations from a gravitational wave in The discovery is being likened by some to the night Galileo first pointed a telescope toward the sky and observed the planets.

Just how important is this discovery to the scientific community? Let's ask Caltech Professor of Physics Alan Weinstein and Prof. Lawrence Krauss, theoretical physicist and Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Department at Arizona State University. More + AUDIO
  • VIDEO: Science finally detects Einstein's gravitational waves ...LIGO detected gravitational waves, or ripples in space and time generated as the black holes spiraled in toward each other, collided, and...
  • The Loh Down On Science Physicists put some muscle into the...Because physicists have found evidence of gravity waves...Physicists think the waves were created by the rapid expansion of the universe in...
  • Scientists announce a Big-Bang breakthrough ...This image released Monday by Harvard-led researchers represents the gravitational waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background...

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Lawsuit over Native land, water, JPL, L.A.

Kevin Uhrich (PasadenaWeekly.com, July 23, 2015); Xochitl (tongvatribe.net), Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Arroyo Seco Foundation (arroyoseco.org)
Arroyo Seco ("Dry Gulch") Stream to the LA River during rains (pasadenaweekly.com)
"Devil's Gate" Dam reservoir contaminated by JPL, Hahamongna Park (Wisdom Quarterly)

Hahamongna is above the world famous Rose Bowl/Brookside Park, just below JPL (wiki)
 
Flowing Waters, Many Questions
Lawsuit asks court to stop Arroyo Seco Canyon project over water contamination concerns
Tim Martinez (center top) of the Arroyo Seco Foundation leads a nature walk.


Tongva and fairy nymph (Ed S. Curtis/WQ)
On the first day of June, the Pasadena City Council gave the green light to a two-year, $4.5 million project that is expected to capture and store more fresh water than ever, restore aquatic and riparian habitats, increase trail access and create passive recreational opportunities along the Arroyo Seco Stream that flows through Hahamongna Watershed Park. In the language of the region’s Tongva-Gabrieleño Native American settlers, Hahamongna means “Flowing Waters, Fruitful Valley.”

The Arroyo Seco Canyon Project is the result of a partnership between the Pasadena Water and Power Department (PWP) and the Arroyo Seco Foundation (ASF). It is being bankrolled in large part with grant money provided by the California Integrated Regional Water Management Program, with the remainder of the funds provided by PWP.

Arroyo Seco Foundation leads demonstration atop dam below JPL: NO to "Big Dig"!
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Joplin cover (pasadenaweekly.com)
Initial conceptual design, which includes plans for constructing a lavatory on the site, removing the stream’s headworks facility, restoring water intake outlets, increasing the size of the water spreading grounds at the top of Hahamongna, and reducing the nearby Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) parking lot from 1,100 to 100 spaces, was performed by the Arroyo Seco Foundation, which secured a $3.3 million in Proposition 84 grant funds to help pay for the changes.

Los Angeles trout (ArroyoSeco.org)
One month and a day after the council gave its approval the project came under fire with the filing of a lawsuit alleging it will not make the area’s water supplies any safer or more drinkable. Indeed, rain and stream water seeping into underground water basins near Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) will mix with water that has been contaminated for many years, with neighboring JPL designated as an EPA Superfund toxic waste site, a fact sparsely mentioned in any of the environmental documents submitted to the council regarding the project.

LA River runs from foothills to Santa Monica
According to the lawsuit filed July 2 in Los Angeles County Superior Court by the Spirit of the Sage Council, a Pasadena nonprofit grassroots coalition of environmental organizations working to protect native plants and animals and sacred lands, and Project Soliton, a nonprofit public benefit organization that seeks to empower citizens on environmental and human and civil rights issues, the project was approved by the council based on a mitigated negative declaration (MND) stating impacts posed by the concoction of poisons dumped into the site over the past several decades are being addressed and can be overcome.

“The area adjacent to JPL and south is a Superfund site,” said Leeona Klippstein of the Spirt of the Sage Council. “The EPA designated it in 1992 and they did so because the city had actually contacted them about contaminated water. It took many years before JPL actually started cleaning up the water. It’s been known for a long time that the water is contaminated, as well as that whole area.”

Stop Everything
Arroyo Seco Foundation leads demonstration atop dam below JPL: NO to "Big Dig"!
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JPL on Tongva territory (savehahamongna.org)
Council approval came in its decision to formally strike down an appeal filed by Klippstein’s group and activist Hugh Bowles to a Board of Zoning Appeals decision to grant the Water and Power Department a conditional use permit (CUP), allowing repair or replacement of facilities within the Arroyo Seco Canyon area, including those damaged or destroyed by the Station Fire in 2009.

Although the council was made aware that problems with hazardous materials and other issues --noise, transportation, biological resources and recreation -- were cited in an earlier environmental study of the area, it approved the MND for the project. That declaration determined that “with the incorporation of mitigation measures, these impacts would be reduced to less than significant levels,” states the council agenda for its June 1 meeting. “Impacts to all other study areas were found to be less than significant” at the project locations at 3420, 3500, 4401, and 4500 Arroyo Seco Road.

Native Foods and practices survive (ASF)
However, the Spirit of the Sage Council lawsuit states, “Among other notable omissions in the description of the environmental setting in the initial study/MND was the fact that a portion of the project is located on and adjacent to an EPA listed toxic Superfund site, and a California listed ‘Cortese’ site that is subject to an EPA cleanup and remediation order pursuant to CERCLA (the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act).”

JPL is included on the 575-entry Cortese List of contaminated sites around California, or the Hazardous Waste and Substances Sites List, also known as a California Superfund site. As of this week, JPL was still listed as an “active” Superfund site. More