High Desert Update Via Spygal

Got an email from Paypal yesterday, saying ‘New Automatic Payment Profile’ in the subject box, and from a female reader called ‘Ansi Spygal’; one of those pithy, subtext-rich monikers that makes me grin. You can thank (or blame) Ms. Spygal for this post. I hadn’t seen a New Profile in my Inbox in a couple months and it goosed me to do a post, although I don’t have anything nagging at me to write. We’ll see how winging it goes.

Gus and I will winter in the low desert this year, maybe near here.

Gus and I will winter in the low desert this year, maybe near here.

Addendum: One of the aspects of life-when-I-was-younger that I miss is that urge to write as soon as I wake up in the morning. In Costa Rica when writing CYGAWA I’d be up and writing at first light, curious to see what I’d come up with and confident that it would be worth reading. This is spite of — or possibly because of — the horrific aspects of my real life at that time. 

Addendum to the addendum: Looking back, what was so ‘horrific’ was that when I’d get up to write I’d be leaving a full-blown sociopath in my bed behind me, a person whose main goal in day to day life was to deceive me, and who was the main subject of my writing at the time. And as some of you know, for me deception is the… the reason that the world is so fucked up. It was not a fun time for my sorry ass.

The issue of my boat is a distraction, although my days are mostly spent in researching the various big deceptions we are constantly subjected to. The boat thing is of course another example of deception, this on a personal level, so I haven’t been much moved to write about it here. I mean, who cares? This is just a thief (the yard owner) I’ve never met, so ‘drama’ is lacking, i.e., I don’t wake up with the bastard in bed next to me.

Another possibility is this remote spot near the Arizona-Cal border.

Another possibility is this remote spot near the Arizona-Cal border.

Since we’re on the boat-subject — and given some of you have voiced an interest in it — I’ll fill you in on the latest. A week or so ago I contacted the Fire Marshall’s Office of Virginia Beach, since ‘Jack’, the manager (and I think owner) of Chesapeake Yachts claimed that the condition of the bilge of my boat was a ‘fire hazard’ — his absurd notion that there is ’60 gallons of toxic waste’ in the engine area, and so forth. I wound up talking to an ‘Inspector Williams.’ My first question was did she know the people at Chesapeake Yachts? I asked this because I know how it works in small towns, especially with maritime businesses and officialdom. Officer Williams told me she knew them well. This was very bad news for me, as you will see.

I explained my situation and Officer Williams apparently went to Chesapeake Yachts and spoke to Jack. I asked if she looked at my boat, examined the bilge, etc, and she said she had not. This of course was the whole point in calling her; getting her to see that there is no more than 2 – 3 gallons in the bilge. Jack didn’t want her to look at the bilge so she didn’t. Doncha love small town life?

Here is the email I wrote this official, to further explain my situation (if you’re not interested in the boat issue, just skip down to END OF EMAIL):

Officer Williams,

Below is the email I sent to Chesapeake Yachts yesterday. In it I quote emails they have sent me, and I can send you the emails in full if necessary. As you will see, there is an attempted fraud here, plus whatever they said to you was either misdirection or deceit. Two crimes. Here is one of their threatening, deceitful emails:

Just some reminders of what's at stake here.

Just some reminders of what’s at stake here.

ALLAN,

We DO NOT ALLOW ANYONE BUT A LICENSED COMPANY TO PUMP OUT HAZADOUS WASTE!

THE OWNER DOES  NOT ALLOW IT!!!

THE AMOUNT WILL BE ESTIMATED & IT WAS AROUND 30 GALLONS OF MIXED WATER & FUEL!

-WHAT IS IT THAT YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND!!???
CONTACT THE OFFICE DIRECTLY AT (757)724-1717.

REGARDS,

KYM

I have another email that claims ’60’ gallons, plus a demand for $1,200 to pump it out. (I’m far away; they knew I couldn’t come to deal with it.)  Okay, please take a good look  at the photo and at how it went (below) and see what you think. At the very least, I would think the above email would instigate an examination of my boat to inspect it for ‘hazardous waste’. And if the bilge is different from the photo, they have added liquid to it. [As mentioned, she went but did not look at the boat.]

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—– Forwarded Message —–
From: Allan Weisbecker <acwdownsouth@yahoo.com>
To: Kymberly Taylor <yachts757@outlook.com>
Cc: Logan McCulloch <unitic2013@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2019, 03:37:32 PM MDT
Subject: sum up
I’m waiting to talk to Officer Williams but it will be tomorrow. Meanwhile, I’ll sum this up. Attached is a photo shot on October 10 which you sent me showing the state of my bilge. A flat bilge, a couple inches down there. As your email from Oct 9 states, there’s 2 – 3 gallons. Here’s the quote:
The boat has 2-3 gallons of water & fuel in the bilge & we can have our guy pump it out on confirmation.
On Oct 1st you wrote:
‘Labor rate was included also checked & fuel smell is gone.’
Also on Oct 1st:

He will be here tomorrow to check all the requests in your email. The fuel smell has subsided & he will double check

My bilge, 2 - 3 gallons down there...

My bilge, 2 – 3 gallons down there…

everthing.

Oct 9th you wrote:
Labor rate was included also checked & fuel smell is gone.
I have another one wherein you mention Bruce checking and all is well. But this is my favorite:
The boat has 2-3 gallons of water & fuel in the bilge & we can have our guy pump it out on confirmation.
Here is the law (I looked it up):

Therefore, the Coast Guard recommends that vessel owners, operators, and crew take reasonable measures to appropriately manage and dispose of all oily mixtures. Examples of such measures may include:

• Identifying and reducing sources of liquid entering machinery space bilges;
• Ensuring material conditions do not result in water entering machinery spaces from non-machinery spaces (e.g., fish holds) resulting from leaks or free communication; and

• Voyage planning for the safe and lawful maintenance and disposal of oily mixtures.
[I called the Coast Guard and they said the same thing, only to be ‘reasonable’ and ‘careful’ is disposing of the 2 – 3 gallons]
__IMG_3007 copy‘Reasonable’ would be this: Given I paid you over $1700 dollars in good faith, including 4 months in advance (my boat being 32ft), you would have ‘Bruce’ go on board with a bucket and hand pump and in 5 minutes pump it into the bucket. Put the 2 – 3 gallons into your waste barrel and/or charge me. $1 a gallon is reasonable. See below:
My Marina in Smith Mt lake sent me this:
Parkway Marina <marina@parkwaymarina.com>
To:Allan Weisbecker
Oct 22 at 2:48 PM
I know the people that deliver our gas to the marina will pump out gas for a dollar a gallon.  Why can’t they use a portable bilge pump to pull out the 3 to 4 gallons in the bilge or are they implying they need to remove all the gas in the boat?  Doesn’t make sense to me.  Again, good luck. [end email]
Same people wrote:
Parkway Marina <marina@parkwaymarina.com>
To:Allan Weisbecker
Oct 22 at 6:57 AM
Allan, when James moved the boat to the ramp there was only a little water in the bilge.  It looks like if you didn’t have “Bad Luck” you wouldn’t have any luck at all. Too sad. : (  Hope you can get this resolved.   Ronnee [end email]
[Note; The folks at Parkway Marina are the only bright spot in this fiasco. After a rough start, they turned out to be good people. A surprise and an indication that not everyone is a scumfuck.]

You’ve quoted me up to $1200 to do this. Is that in the ball park of ‘reasonable’?

My rubber tramp buddy Logan's rig, I forget where.

My rubber tramp buddy Logan’s rig, I forget where.

Your various claims that there is ’60’ or ’30’ gallons of ‘toxic waste’ in my little boat’s bilge is…. a mistake of some sort. How about checking now and maybe take a photo of the bilge NOW. It would be a ‘miracle’ if somehow, between Oct 10 and now, 30 or 60 gallons ‘leaked’ into the boat, given it’s out of the water.
Keep in mind that the photo you took (attached) was Oct 10, so the boat had been in your yard for over two weeks — with no 30 or 60 gallons in it. How would it suddenly appear?

How about you just suck it up and do the right thing? If I have to drive 1500 miles to settle this matter, there will be a law suit and all kinds of publicity. I would prefer to just show up in May and be done with our ‘relationship.’ As of now I don’t owe anything until January 2020.

 Allan Weisbecker
Officer Williams: I hope and pray you can clearly see what’s going on here. I paid 4 months advance rent ($1,700, with hauling), but that’s not enough, hence the fraud. They also demand I vacate my boat, knowing I’m far away (New Mexico).  I will leave it to you as a law enforcement officer to do the right thing.
A couple nights ago...

A couple nights ago…

By the way, they have claimed my boat is in horrible condition. That is a lie. In fact, I have a text message from their trucker saying the boat is disheveled BY HIM, using pillows etc. and turning chairs, etc. over to avoid stuff flying around on the road. I in fact have over $22,000 in the boat. It’s old but a beauty.

[END OF EMAIL]

I never heard back from Officer Williams, from my experience because she is friendly with the crooks at Chesapeake Yachts. Simple as that. The only positive note here is that Chesapeake Yachts can no longer claim that my boat is a ‘hazard’, since a fire marshall officer has been to the yard and decided it was not necessary to inspect it (‘Jack’ made sure she did not board my boat, since his fraud would have been exposed has she done so.)

Given that I’m now living month to month (I have a monthly income from my writing) and have my winter planned so I don’t spend much money nor risk a rig breakdown, which would be expensive. In May I should have enough saved to go to Virginia Beach and properly settle this matter. By ‘properly’ I mean… I am really pissed off.

Until then, Gus and I will be boondocking (not paying for campsites), with me trying to stay distracted through research (mostly regarding deceptions larger than the boat issue) and alerting you all to what I come across that may affect you personally. So this blog is important to me. (The $3.25 monthly donations from folks like ‘Ansi Spygal’ and others is actually a real factor now that I’m likely to lose a lot of money in the boat fiasco.)

Yesterday, listening to a Harari book.

Yesterday, listening to a Harari book.

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So enough regarding ‘the fucking boat’ (a reference to In Search of Captain Zero). What’s up lately? I’ve read or listened to several books by the Israeli ‘historian’ Yuval Harari since my last post, plus viewed a few of his lectures on Youtube. This guy is worth a discussion here, I think, given his educational smarts, current notoriety, and his interest in human origins,  plus related issues that we cover, like A.I… (He’s all over Youtube.)

Harrari is a good writer and lecturer but being an Israeli professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is an obvious gatekeeper and almost certainly a full-blown PTB mole in academia. Still, as I’ve always said, limited hangout moles are valuable sources, for the subtext in what they say, and don’t say.

Addendum: As I’ve mentioned before, all of ‘academia’ — and I don’t believe there are any real exceptions here — are either outright moles or useful idiots, when it comes to perpetrating the various big lies that comprise the zeitgeist. The most stunning example of this is the sciences, given that here we have the most clear cut (empirical) division between truths and untruths. 

Two days ago, my neighbor, 'Lone.' I'll probably see him again soon in Arizona.

Two days ago, my neighbor, ‘Lone.’ I’ll probably see him again soon in Arizona.

And it makes sense, no? Don’t let anyone get past the college level in life without a good dose of pure doublethink.  The University system is a true intellectual/psychological ‘bottleneck.’

But what’s the giveaway, the tell, with Harari? So many, but the first one I noticed is the usual with his type of PTB ‘public mouth’ asset: his climate change harangue. I’ll not try your patience with my own harangue on this subject (see my last post) but there simply is no excuse for an ‘historian’ to be unaware of the truth, or simply the data on sea level rise, which amounts to the same thing.

Whatever a gatekeeper/mole harps upon, assume the opposite is the truth. Truly, this is one of the main reasons we should pay attention to the fuckers.

Harari likes to talk about how we Sapiens are different from the other animals of planet earth, and he makes some good points, one being how we work so well together because we all believe in certain ‘fictions’, i.e., ‘stories’ we tell ourselves; the lies that bind us. This is all well and good, absolutely true, of course, but (yes, there had to be a ‘but’) Harari leaves out the Big Lies (climate change being a good example), many of which we’ve covered here. (The really big fiction, which of course Harari forgets to mention, is the religion called Statism, i.e., worship of the State, along with complete acceptance of whatever it spouts, no matter how ridiculous.)

My favorite of Harari’s ‘big fictions,’ plus his on-the-money (oops, so to speak) description of it, is… ‘money as the

A reminder of what we're all breathing...

A reminder of what we’re all breathing…

ultimate story we tell ourselves.’ So true. And old news to most of us here, but Harari tells the story of the story of money with extra panache. Worth your time. (Plus a read of The Creature from Jekyll Island, of course.) Just don’t let him hypnotize you.

A less important giveaway, one that shows his allegiance to Academia itself (his cohorts in deception), is his sticking to the absurd notion that we, homo sapiens, were responsible — via over-hunting (!) — for the extinction of the North American mega-fauna some 12,000 years ago. Listen: As a former bow hunter, aside from my common sense, I assure you that a few bands of stone agers with wooden spears did not wipe out creatures like the dire wolf, the short faced bear (half again as big as the grizzly), and the saber tooth lion, let alone the various elephantine brutes which roamed the continent.

Although we don’t know for sure the specific cause, a comet or asteroid hit or, more likely, a solar mini-nova event, was almost certainly the cause of this last extinction. It’s not reasonable to think Harari doesn’t know about the science behind this theory, since some loud-mouths have been touting it for a couple years (specifically, Graham Hancock, Robert Schoch, Randall Carlson). I tend to go with Schoch, who posits a solar event.

IMG_1165 copyAside from the physical evidence, the established fact that the ‘Clovis’ people — who supposedly wiped out the mega-fauna — themselves disappeared at the same time the animals went poof! would also seem to verify this ‘bad news from space’ model.

Where has this guy Harari been on the subject? we might ask. It’s not that. Thing is, that sapiens killed all these furry creatures is supposed to be still another reason why we are a blight on the planet. Harari’s main job is to pound this into our primate craniums.

Harari also likes to bring up our history as primates and reminds us that we also wiped out our various hominoid cousins; still another example of why we should hate ourselves. Which reminds me: As with the rest of the gatekeeper moles, Harari, for all his evolution-blab, also forgets to mention the implied conundrum beneath the fact that sapiens has 23 pairs of chromosomes while the rest of the great ape primates have 24.

I know: I’ve been threatening to do a blog on this matter and will try to make it the next one (but don’t count on it). A very short version of the conundrum being this: the sapiens change from 24 to 23 pairs had to have been a one-off mutation (it had to start somewhere). The specifics of how this came about and how the mutation was imprinted in our genome is never dealt with by the mainstream, notwithstanding its spectacular implications.

Anyway, I’d sure love to be in the audience for one of his presentations, when Q & A comes around.

Addendum: Come to think of it, there is not one Harari-subject that includes the whole truth of the matter, still another example being his pontifications on Big Data and A.I. (if nothing else, the guy is eclectic in his thinking). As with Nick Bostrom, Max Tegmark, Sam Harris, and all the rest, Harari somehow finds a way to avoid the real and immediate danger of A.I. — its mind control abuse by the PTB. (See my Open Letter to Nick Bostrom). jarrah

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I had another run in with Jarrah White, the self-proclaimed ‘grandson of the Apollo hoax’, via a new video of his, where I left a comment. You can see our back and forth here.  My comment and several responses should still be up top.

I could of course be wrong about Jarrah being an outright PTB mole. If I am wrong, then he’s unable to think critically. It’s one or the other, and anyone who has followed his work is likely aware that he’s very smart and educated, especially in the arena of space and space travel. (How could he be so aware of the Apollo fakery yet unaware of the current frauds? This is the real question, and it applies to virtually all the Apollo Exposers. So take your pick. An idiot or a mole. Either way, he cannot be trusted, not in the long run.)

It’s fun, fencing with Jarrah White, as it often is with hypocrites of his ilk — meaning those who claim to be real ‘truthers’ in the face of utterly obvious evidence to the contrary, but who think so much of themselves intellectually that they wind up digging themselves deep and impossible holes. Most of them know better than to mix it up with me, Jarrah being one of the exceptions.

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martianI recently viewed a couple YT videos that analyzed the movie The Martian  from the point of view of ‘real science,’ i.e., how accurate the physics of the movie was, what they got right and wrong; in this one the narrator is a professor of astrophysics, another example of academia’s real job of keeping us ignorant of HTWRW, while pretending to do the opposite. See, the main thing The Martian — plus virtually all  ‘space travel’  movies — got wrong was that nothing in the movie could actually have happened, since cosmic and solar radiation would have killed everyone on the space missions depicted.  The narrator in the video somehow failed to point this out. (This is not even counting the Van Allen radiation belts, which themselves are quite lethal.)

This one lie is quite a doozy, if you think about the implications.

Okay, this hasn’t been much of a post, I admit, so maybe it’s best we stop here. (Remember, it’s Ansi Spygal’s fault!) Mainly I wanted to be in touch, and let you know I’m still thinking about things, and hope you get something out of my ramblings.

Allan

  58 comments for “High Desert Update Via Spygal

  1. November 11, 2019 at 12:10 am

    ” feel responsible for any actions you might take. ”

    – What do you mean by that Chris?, you are making me LOL! & spill tea on my keyboard 😀

    Eccentric means NOT running with the mob in the same direction. AND thinking outside the square, AND paying attention to detail.

    Not only do their vids look fake, but there is also some WEIRD goings on with those cattle on the ground, around where their ‘test flights’ take place….all wrong, and out of kilter with what cattle do when they are spooked by loud noise etc. in the real world.
    Yep, broomstick balancing trick is pretty much impossible isn’t it.

  2. James
    November 9, 2019 at 1:28 pm

    Yikes! The boat story is very bad I’m happy to say that boating here is a lot less draconian although its getting worse as for many years the boat authority which was supposedly a government agency has been taken over by an organisation called The Canal and River Trust , which is a Charity a Trust and a limited company .
    The old authority was called the British Waterways Board and their logo was a swan with a strip of a chequerboard design beneath the swan, the chequerboard is symbolic of the black and white tiles on the floor of the Freemasons temple .
    All organisations which have that signage are controlled by the Freemasons ie a criminal Illuminati gang that creams off the profits, for example the Police etc .
    When the BWB was the authority they had approximately 5% of boats were unlicenced however they turned a blind eye because it was too expensive too enforce .
    However now they are cracking down and are seizing peoples boats
    Previously the Police would not get involved as it was classed as a civil matter but now they are turning up as the enforcers. However under the European Union Laws they have to be careful as the European Court can intervene.
    And love it or loathe it it certainly gives people like me protection.
    Let’s face the grim reality the elections in the so called democracies are rigged .
    My theory is that here at any rate the Intelligence Agencies run the political show and practice Good Cop Bad Cop tactics which they learned from MK Ultra from the Nazis.
    In your country I believe it is similar for example I read some time ago that Trump quashed a new law that tried to get boat people to pay extortortionate fees to moor boats on rivers, which shows that there are possibly places in the US where you can moor for free.
    As for the satellite debate its a strange one for sure. I did have a friend who was into the Flat Earth stuff but we fell out in the end as I posited the question ” how do meteorites crash into the earth?
    Do they make a hole in the dome ?
    His reply was that they come up from the earth ha ha ha needless to say we fell out big time
    Good luck with the boat I don’t suppose your truck could tow it
    Or how about getting a biker gang to come with you ho ho regards James

    • November 9, 2019 at 7:30 pm

      I’ve got a rough plan but it will be a while. I’m still looking for someone who lives in the area to go and check how The Lady is…

      • James
        November 10, 2019 at 9:08 pm

        Hope it goes well, I’ve been reading the Post’s regarding satellites and I checked out some of the bullshit information most of them written up by a division of the CIA called NASA
        The complexity of the names of the types of substance’s making up the fuel of these machines is mind boggling . I had to abandon that and decided to check out a project by the ESA European Space Agency called Beagle 2, the Beagle was Charles Darwin’s ship and therefore Beagle 2 was named after it .
        The mission was a probe supposedly sent to Mars the red planet also known as the god of war and the chosen color of the Red Revolution ie Communism.
        Now the planet Mars is supposedly 33.9 million miles (33 degree Freemason ) , the probe was launched on June 2nd 2003 =13 ie 6+2+2+3 =13 unlucky for some, it was supposed to land on December 25th 2003 =42 4+2 =6
        That means that it only took 6 months to go 33.9 million miles, it is supposed to have landed on Christmas day only wonder of wonders 2 of the 4 =6 that number again of the solar panels failed to deploy thus causing the antenna to fail to deploy as well ha ha ha
        The really stupid part of this ridiculous story is that later NASA sent a probe past Mars and it took a photo of it on the surface of Mars ha ha ha Also I am 100 % convinced and not just me that Darwin Was a Satanist and not just me I have researched this thoroughly.
        As far as I am concerned the statement by the poster that nuclear weapons and power stations are not real is as ridulous as the FE as Goebbels said ” tell a lie make it a big one and keep telling it over and over and people will believe it ,” better still put it on YouTube ha ha L8ers James

  3. Marion Plissken
    November 9, 2019 at 1:57 am

    Dear friends,

    regarding space technology, have you noticed the July Galileo (European navigation system) week-long outage? See https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/galileo-accident/ and follow the links.

    I my opinion they gave us a significant clue to indirectly prove there are no navigation satellites but ground stations only (accurate time and position radio transmitters).

    European GNSS Agency provides Galileo system specs:
    . in-orbit satellites with orbital altitude 23,200 km / 14400 miles (space segment)
    . telemetry, tracking & control stations + mission data uplink stations (ground segment)
    . ground segment has been tracking satellites, calculates their orbital trajectories (ephemeris) and upload a new ephemeris into satellites a few times per hour.
    . specified accuracy up to 1 centimetre (High Accuracy Service)

    Obviously the precision on earth will never be better than how precisely we know where the satellites in space are. So they claim that the ground stations can track and predict satellites trajectory with precision up to ±1 cm!

    My fundamental question is as follows:
    Why satellites do not count their position on orbit practically in real time _themselves_ using trilateration of signals transmitted from ground radio stations? It would be less complicated, more accurate and last but not least more reliable!

    Think also about these questions and facts:
    1/ Atomic clock resonator is “very sensitive to external environment – such as heat, magnetism and radiation”. see https://www.esa.int/Applications/Navigation/Galileo/Galileo_s_clocks
    a) Resonator has to work in steady temperature ±0.1 deg. of Celsius according to specification. Satellite is either on direct burning Sun radiation (most of the time) or in freezing Earth shadow. How is such steady temperature achieved?
    b) How is atomic clock inside satellite shielded against electromagnetic disturbances from Sun?
    c) How it is shielded from strong radiation in space? Galileo satellites are located inside outer Van Allen radiation belt. Both american and soviet scientists talked about need of 6 feet of solid lead shield to protect people from deadly radiation in space after Van Allen belts discovery.
    2/ What type of material are solar panels made of? They have to survive high temperatures, extreme temperature changes, and strong gamma radiation for years.
    3/ How about micro meteorites in space? How long it takes till any small piece of matter hit and destroy the satellite?
    4/ Compare one small size antena on Galileo satellite with several huge 15 m (49 ft 3 in) telescope style antennas on ground stations. See ground telescope antennas inclination.
    5/ Can somebody show me _any photo_ of Earth (a video or time lapse would be better) from distance at least 20,000 km / 12400 miles?

    • Chuck
      November 9, 2019 at 8:22 am

      And how does a little SatNav device maintain track of umpteen satellites in order to keep its antennae aligned with the weak, highly directional signals – while it’s moving all over the place and in really bad weather?

      Given nuclear power stations and atom bombs are fake, it’s not much of a step to conclude that putting satellites into space (at great expense) is another scam – given a terrestrial system could be a fraction of the price.

      As for photos of Earth from space, nope, never seen one. Even weather satellites (if they exist) only capture a fraction of the disk – and none of them are released in true colour (for dubious reasons). There’s no (published) evidence that anything has ever gone above LEO. And this is vaguely related to the ‘no stars in space photos’ phenomenon.

      • Jerry
        November 13, 2019 at 8:48 am

        I wonder if Allan can analyse the following video to determine if it’s real or a simulation (fake)?

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f-1-5BTNjQ

        1:- Complete visual cloud coverage despite only half the Earth being in sunlight.
        2:- Land coloring is somewhat static (and suspiciously familiar)
        3:- Sea coloring is overly constant

        • Marion Plissken
          November 13, 2019 at 3:24 pm

          Jerry, the video is computer generated animation/simulation as mentioned in description. There is nothing wrong about it. But very probably based on ground meteorological stations, radars etc. only. I highly doubt any weather satellites exists (that is probably fake).

      • Marion Plissken
        November 13, 2019 at 3:13 pm

        Chuck, nuclear power stations (moderated fission) are real. Try this one for more details http://heiwaco.tripod.com/bomb.htm

        • Chuck
          November 13, 2019 at 5:59 pm

          Marion, that linked article is 99.9% “Atom bombs are fake” and 0.1% “But nuclear power stations are real”.

          Fission was invented by H G Wells (pals with top level freemasons), and implemented (as an amazing discovery) a few years later. Fake bombs AND fake power stations (dump loads) along with fake accidents, fake waste disposal/containment, etc., have provided excellent means to divert public funds.

          Now they have to have power cuts in storms, i.e. when there’s a lot of cloud cover (no solar) and high winds (no wind power). Not having any nuclear power either doesn’t help.

          • Marion Plissken
            November 13, 2019 at 11:52 pm

            Yes, you are right. Atomic power plants are excelent way to steal money from people (extremely expensive to build, no one has yet counted the overall cost of storing highly radiactive spent fuel etc.). In Czech Republic it is even on next level. Two atomic plants produce high excess of electricity and sell it to Germany and Austria. Electricity in Czech Republic is more expensive than in Germany and Austria! Great.

          • Marion Plissken
            November 14, 2019 at 3:18 pm

            So what is really going on in “fake power stations” in your opinion? I did not get it, sorry.

          • Chuck
            November 14, 2019 at 9:10 pm

            Research ‘dump loads’ in the context of nuclear power.
            It’s easier to keep conventional power stations operating at full capacity and dump excess power in large electric kettles (with steam coming out of cooling towers), than to wind down the former.

    • November 9, 2019 at 7:46 pm

      I know what you’re getting at here and I can’t really argue (assuming you are not going to claim FE). I’ve thought about the possibility that sats are not doing what they say they are doing, and given the fakery we know about, it is not unreasonable to question the whole matter of the nature of space and what happens when/if we go up above, say, 100,000 feet.

      The star visibility issue could also lead one to question… everything they tell us about space. In theory, as you rise (on the daylight side), as the atmosphere thins you should see stars and the blackness between them. My old buddy Bob Chartoff (RIP) made a movie with a segment that shows what I mean (The Right Stuff). It’s in this link (you can skip to about a minute in, and anyway it’s an exciting scene):

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tAAsyBYczs&feature=youtu.be

      See if you agree that ‘Yeager’ should have seen it like this. Yeah, this subject is of great interest to me, its implications and so forth. Shall I return to this for a post? (Btw, Chartoff produced my screenplay called ‘Beer,’ and ruined it, but he was a great guy.)

      • X
        November 10, 2019 at 9:30 am

        I’m glad to see at the end of your video you ask the good question “Why are they lying?”.

        Have you got anywhere close to an answer for that yet?

        • November 10, 2019 at 4:14 pm

          I’ve been waiting for you to enlighten me.

          • November 10, 2019 at 7:02 pm

            Hello Allan, they heard & think you are a multi-millionaire (the net says! :-D), and they want a piece of that $pie!….nothing else.
            Is that wee bit of fuel in the bilge diesel?.

      • Marion Plissken
        November 13, 2019 at 11:16 pm

        Allan, I know Earth has a ball shape, don’t worry 🙂 For me personally, it is very reasonable to fundamentally question everything about Universe.

        Regarding star visibility. As I wrote you before, I tend to think that stars are not visible above Earth atmosphere. I have the same great curiosity in this subject as you, and I am glad I am not alone 🙂 I spend huge time to understand the problem. In my opinion visible light (which is tiny, tiny fraction of electromagnetic spectrum, and has low energy) appears as product of interaction between high(er) energy/frequency radiation (mostly gamma rays) emited by stars and Earth atmosphere. Last but not least it can be similar efect as neon light in electric gas-discharge lamp. So most of visible (star) light is maybe created in high layers of atmosphere (20-100km or higher?). At these high layers an observer would see maximum amount of stars with best sharpness and color saturation. The lower you go the more is visible light diffused, blured and maybe also absorbed because of going through denser air and humidity. Barely visible stars disappear, than originally better visible stars disappear, saturation slowly vanish.

        I just did an simple experiment looking out of window in a city with lots of lights in the night. I wear glasses, I am short-sighted. I see more lights with glasses on. With glasses off dim lights completely disappear.

        Do we know what what kind of radiation stars emit? What if they emit mostly high frequences (gamma) and virtually no visible light? What if visible light (low energy radiation in comparison to gamma one) is not able to “travel” for enormous distances?

        I understand light as oscilations in electromagnetic field (whatever an electromagnetic field is, another fundamental mystery). For me light is not a quantum of something that travels from Sun towards Earth. Like if you throw a stone to a pond. You can see waves of water, but water (the matter which oscilates) does not travel anywhere. You can see waves because they are in a range you can recognize (analogy to visible spectrum). Wave with extremely low frequency (tsunami) is nearly invisible in the open sea. But you can see it when it reaches and interact with a shore. You can hear sound of motor boat but you do not see the waves at all (ear is sensible to different frequency than eye). Analogically we cannot see Sun light in space (when looking into space in the night). But we can see light cone of lamp because the light interact with dust in the air. We can see moon because its surface interact with Sun radiation (probably it only reflect nonvisible light to Earth atmosphere and there it become visible). If I were in space (above Earth atmosphere) I will see light on helmet visor. Without helmet visor I will theoretically see light on cornea or retina.

        “Shall I return to this for a post?” — definitelly!

    • November 12, 2019 at 8:38 pm

      [Quote] “My fundamental question is as follows:
      Why satellites do not count their position on orbit practically in real time _themselves_ using trilateration of signals transmitted from ground radio stations? It would be less complicated, more accurate and last but not least more reliable!”
      [Answer] IMHO Because it would make it much too easy to shoot them out of the skies or mess with them with lasers etc etc if one wanted to do so if they were shown in realtime positioning… that is my guess.
      and…
      Hey Allan Blessings and Aloha! we wish you all the best with your situations, dont give up keep shining the light on the darkness.

      • Marion Plissken
        November 14, 2019 at 12:16 am

        No, it would be much easier to destroy only two control centres in Germany and Italy or part of ground stations.

        It is far from easy to shot down a satellite in 23,200 km / 14400 miles distance from Earth with orbital speed about 3,3 km/s if I count it correctly. Russian were never able to shoot down SR-71 Blackbird with similar speed but much much closer altitude.

        Such laser you are talking about should be above atmosphere and have power input about megawatt, also aiming will be slightly difficult IMO – it is another science fiction fairy tale. Do not believe anything an army and space agencies talk about without applying basic physics, common sence and thinking about it twice first.

    • Marion Plissken
      November 14, 2019 at 12:17 am

      Regarding Galileo Navigation Satellite System I found out new informations. The Galileo navigation system officially (allegedly) consists of space segment (satellites) and ground segment (two control centres and global network of transmitting/receiving stations with huge parabolic antennas). Your end device (car navigation, mobil phone) allegedly has to receive signal from at least 4 satellites and compute its own position using trilateration “the receiver computes its own position by calculating difference in received signals from the satellites”. See it in this video 0:38–1:02, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvniQs40lY4 . So it looks they (ESA) make you believe that each satellite has been sending its position and time of sending. But no, ESA in their materials say that the ground segment allegedly trace each satellite, calculate its orbital trajectory and creates so called ephemeris for every satellite. Ephemeris contains informations regarding satellite exact positions in exact times, but for certain positions only (positions in between have to be computed). Ground segment allegedly upload new updated ephemeris into satellites “as often as a few times per hour” + plus they upload also parameters of signal delay in ionosphere, data for computing system time delay etc. ALL(!) computations have been processed on Earth. Each and every one satellite allegedly works like a repeater/distributor of data received from Earth back to Earth only. Another very interesting fact is that receiver (your mobile phone) compute positions of satellites and clock differences from received signals! It sounds like virtual reality. A satellite does not transmit its own position and time!! In calculating the exact positions of alleged satellites, the correction of the signal delay when passing through the troposphere and ionosphere is also applied (signal is transmitted on two different frequencies, different frequency has different delay). The ground segment also transmits so called almanac (allegedly) to all satellites (maybe data for ground segment stations synchronizsation?). Technically, these are the same parameters as mentioned above, but with lower accuracy.

  4. Andrew
    November 8, 2019 at 8:56 pm

    I read your post while waiting in ambush 20 feet up an old beech tree and man, I nearly laughed out loud at the notion of man with primitive weapon wiping out their prey.

    • Chris
      November 9, 2019 at 10:13 am

      What happened to all the Neanderthals and other Homo sapiens related apes? Wooly mammoths? Passenger pigeons? Dodo birds? Black rhinos? Sheesh.

      • Andrew
        November 9, 2019 at 12:39 pm

        Well Chris I cant say for certain but I’d wager that whatever did it packed more of a punch than stick or stone.

    • November 9, 2019 at 7:49 pm

      No kidding. That all these Ph.ds believe the mega-fauna were wiped out by spear chuckers is a perfect example of what we’re up against.

      • Chris
        November 10, 2019 at 7:08 am

        Asteroid killed the megafauna. You know, the big thing that killed all of the dinosaurs, caused unimaginably large waves all over the earth, worldwide fires, threw so much sulfur into the air it literally rained acid, and an ice age from the smoke shrouding the sun. Humans killed the wooly mammoth and those others. The reason phds believe all that is the sheer volume of evidence. All that pesky stuff people like to ignore so they can believe their own cockamamie (sp?) ideas that are not compatible with the facts.

        What makes you think a team of humans with spears and dogs can’t take down huge animals? They were extremely intelligent.

        • November 10, 2019 at 4:20 pm

          First you say an asteroid did it, then say it didn’t, plus you seem to be unable to sense the difference between killing one animal and wiping out a whole class of megafauna. How about putting more thought into your comments, and, by the way, and as I ‘ve asked several times, quit with the multiple comments, esp the irrelevant ones (I deleted one for this reason). What does ‘sheeesh’ mean in your first comment? No, don’t tell me.

  5. drud
    November 8, 2019 at 7:18 pm

    “Nobody makes Pres. Trump look bad but Trump.”

    Apparently you are unaware of: CNN, ABC, CBS, Clapper,Mueller, Brennan, Page, Hillary and Fox tactics ?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vp6WrJHlPI

    Perhaps you mean his backcoming ?

    Who was a good president anyway? There are many! But you need to be in the 1 percent club to have eyes to see.

    • November 9, 2019 at 7:50 pm

      Ahhh, not sure what this has to do with anything, fellas…

    • November 10, 2019 at 4:21 pm

      Drud, how is the broom-balancing video coming? I’ve give you a few days then poof, you are gone, unless you fess up to lying.

      • Chris
        November 10, 2019 at 5:48 pm

        You can’t balance a broom on your hand, and lower it to the ground, the equivalent of thrust vectoring? If I made a video of it, you would say, no, no, you need to hold it at the top, even though that is not where most of the thrust vectoring is occurring? If you don’t understand how it works, it doesn’t make it fake, it means you are ignorant.

  6. Chris
    November 8, 2019 at 5:45 pm

    Too bad it’s not painted red 😉 with a name change.

  7. Dennis ONeill
    November 8, 2019 at 5:16 pm

    So, just to make you feel better, your interaction with a Virginia Beach POS boat yard loser who’s trying to rip you off to supplement his minimum wage job that pays for the filthy, decrepit mobile home he rents in a white trash Virginia trailer park, and a hay seed, female Barney Fife, who probably dated the boat yard troll in high school, is nothing compared to what one of my brothers endured in the early 1990’s with the criminal Chicago Police Department, which, until several years ago, was just the largest criminal street gang in Chicago. It’s actually now showing signs of being somewhat of a real law enforcement agency.

    The Chicago Police District in which we lived was infiltrated by the Chicago Outfit, which are gballs who are in reality controlled by the real gangsters, like the crew that financed the closeted homosexual Indonesian Muslim, non-natural born U.S. citizen, pathological lying narcissist, Barry Sotero, in his run from being a nobody, do-nothing seat warmer in the Illinois General Assembly to then being the same seat warmer in the U.S. Senate, on his way to the presidency and a Nobel Peace Prize for nothing more than pretending to be half black, despite his being Indonesian, and a CIA asset.

    The crew that early on financed Barry’s little excellent adventure is part of the Kosher Nostra that goes all the way back to at least Myer Lansky, the Chicago Near North Side and West Side crews of which at one time included Jack Rubenstein, aka Jack Ruby, and a few others who played their roles in wacking JFK and then covering it up as part of the Warren Commission, but I digress.

    The community in which we lived had housing projects that after Reagan defunded HUD became hell hole drug dealer infested housing with the Chicago Police and the Outfit being cut in on the drug dealing proceeds. The CIA, as has been confirmed by multiple sources, has long been a huge international narcotics and child trafficking crime family, and that’s just their soft side, so it was also probably part of the supply chain in this fiasco.

    My brother began routinely calling the thugs of the Chicago Police Department to report noise disturbances caused by the hood rat dope dealers. So, one day a POS five foot five inch punk of a Sergeant, with Napoleon Complex, shows up and arrests my brother, who was in law school at the time, for a bs misdemeanor of filing a false police report. My brother got a top attorney through his contacts to represent him who after working on the bs case for a couple of days told my brother he needed to hire a way better attorney because it was clear to him that he was being railroaded by the criminals who at that time ran the Chicago Police Dept and the Crook ( ie, Cook) County court system. This is the county where the moron, corrupt Cook County States Attorney several months ago lied down on the closet case homosexual Indonesian Muslim, Barry Sotero’s, good friend Jusse Smolett’s case because one of Barry’s beard Michelle’s good friends and former staffer told her, Kim Foxx, the Crook Co. States Attorney, to lie down on it.

    The Smollet case was a scam cooked up by Barry, and his friend, Kamala Harris, designed to make Pres. Trump look bad. Chicago is a cesspool of corruption that only Washington, District of Criminals can make look benign by comparison. Trump routinely castigates Chicago for very strategic reasons as his DOJ is digging up around the world all the dirt on the dirt bag Obama crimes. Trump is a master strategist and his long game is sheer brilliance. He’s truly a virtuouso. So, it’s very appropriate that bathhouse Barry stunk up Chicago where he learned how to get his stink on before he took his shit show to our nation’s capital and shores beyond.

    In any event, a corrupt judge with an Irish surname convicted my brother but had to back down a bit when a great Chicago Tribune columnist featured the case in his Sunday column and the POS judge was years later convicted of taking bribes. The Near North Side Kosher Nostra that financed Barry’s excellent adventure had a long association with corrupt Irish politicians who run Chicago as their piggy bank.

    The Anglo American Zionist terrorist empire is in rapid decline and the rot is everywhere apparent as we live empire collapse. The stale bilge water in your boat smells like roses compared to the stench of moral decay in America. So, to paraphrase Bill Murray in Cady Shack, “at least you got that goin’ for you.”

    • November 8, 2019 at 5:45 pm

      Great post, Dennis. I took the liberty of paragraphing some of it to make it easier to read, which it definitely is anyway (easy to read), not only for the information therein but for its stylistic panache. Thank you!

      • Dennis ONeill
        November 9, 2019 at 4:15 pm

        Thanks, I used paragraphs when I posted it but sometimes text renders differently from as it appears before it’s posted. Your boat saga, while not as interesting as many of your other posts, has caught my curiosity the way bad soap operas can. Your documentation is good enough that you could probably file a law suit against the boat yard and do it pro se once you get to Virginia Beach. Many judges are quite lenient with pro se plaintiffs and it would be a small claims case for which the idiot boat yard owner would probably be forced to hire a lawyer to defend. You could make a case for damages due to mental anguish of being extorted while your property is held hostage due to not only the substantial payment in advance that you made but also the long distance you are from it and thus this anguish interferes with your ability to concentrate on your livelihood.

        • November 9, 2019 at 7:51 pm

          I have an aversion to the legal system but I might do as you suggest. it will depend on how things go when i confront the thief, and examine my boat.

          • Dennis ONeill
            November 10, 2019 at 10:04 pm

            THANKS FOR ADVICE! I’VE ARCHIVED YOUR COMMENT FOR FUTURE PERUSING!

            I understand your aversion to our legal system. It’s a snake pit, no disrespect to snakes. However, filing a small civil matter and handling it pro se could be rather fun, and educational. If I did it, I would buy a legal text on the rules of civil procedure just to get a few things worked out in advance.

            There is a civil rights case filed Aug., 1964 in the federal court in Chicago called Dorothy Gautreaux, et. al. versus the Chicago Housing Authority. It’s the Brown v. Board of housing law. I am not a lawyer, but I needed to positively impact a public housing redevelopment in my Chicago community when Emanuel was mayor. The redevelopment is subjected to the Gautreaux Court. I signed a one year Westlaw contract to get access to the case law and worked up my own case to outline to my good friend who is an amazing litigator. He said he could walk it into federal court. That’s all I needed to push the Emanuel administration into what I knew was right to replan the redevelopment. Often the credible threat of legal action is more effective and way more expedient than the action itself.

            Read up, on the internet, about cases similar to your case as I am certain it is rather common and then either by email, preferably, let the boat yard owner(s) know you’ll drag them into court if they don’t do the right thing, and that when you file your case you’ll notify the small town Virginia Beach press about it. Unless the boat owner is a moron, who has what sounds like a moron employee freelancing as a thief, he’ll fire the idiot and make you whole. Keep to the facts in the email and keep it all above board as far as how you present possible future action you may be forced to take in response to their actions.

    • Chris
      November 8, 2019 at 5:55 pm

      Not an Obama fan I guess? Just don’t tell me you like Trump and/or trust him. And more points off for not knowing how to spell “Caddyshack,” and getting the quote wrong; “… So I got that goin’ for me.” Also, are you serious?: “ The Smollet case was a scam cooked up by Barry, and his friend, Kamala Harris, designed to make Pres. Trump look bad.” Nobody makes Pres Trump look bad but Trump. And he’s looking pretty damn bad. Move to Russia.

      • Dennis ONeill
        November 9, 2019 at 5:31 pm

        Okay, school marm, and you get a gold star for your amazing close reading skills, a silver star for pettiness and a failing grade for treating politics as your religion.

        If Trump’s DOJ indicts, convicts and thus imprisons the Obama, Clinton, and Bush Crime Families, I’ll be so glad I voted for him. As it is, I gladly voted for him simply because nearly the entire Dismal Dollar Dimwitocratic and Republiconartistic establishment, you know the Permanent Unwinnable War Party that rules our land and makes nit wits like you believe there’s actually a difference between the two show parties in the U.S., and its presstitute bordello that has morons like you still believing the Red Menace is lurking under your bed, opposed his election.

        “Orange man bad, phony progressive, phony black man, phony straight man, and phony Christian man good” is the first article of faith in your catechism, followed by “always use the Red Menace to frighten frivolous fanatical morons when all else fails” which is the second article of faith.

        You bore me with your political dogma. I know two people who know 3 of Trump’s children. Both say the 3 children are super nice, humble people. My brother who was hassled by the thugs in the Chicago Police Dept. and the Crook Co. States Attorney met with Barry Sotero when he was still stinking up the corrupt Illinois General Assembly while to legislating while pretending to be black. It was a meeting set up by two groups of actual black folks who had a conflict I on an issue of concern to many black folks in Chicago. The 2 groups asked my brother to mediate the conflict and set up a meeting with Bath House Barry. My brother said Bath House is a phony, arrogant, POS. He could not have cared less about the black folks or their issue and did not one thing to help resolve it. He never did one positive thing as a community organizer because he was never organizing any one in Chicago bit was rather being organized as a figure head by wealth Kosher Nostra and the CIA to fool morons like you into believing he was a progressive black man. He’s neither progressive, nor black. He’s Indonesian, a closeted homosexual and a Muslim. He’s also a hard core criminal, as are the Clintons and the Bushes. And, yet, you’re so damn ignorant of history and politics you’re afraid of Russians. You’re a perfect tool to be used and manipulated by people like Ed Bernays and people who admire Bernays like David Axelrod.

        • Chris
          November 10, 2019 at 7:14 am

          Allan’s boat seems very easy on the eyes. His writing is, too. Too bad some people’s boats are so ugly, they hurt your eyes. …

          • November 10, 2019 at 4:23 pm

            What is the point of this comment? The video gets posted or you are out.

    • Pearl
      November 9, 2019 at 4:13 am

      Whoa!

      • November 9, 2019 at 7:53 pm

        Hey Pearl. How you guys doing? Is that you calling me on my cell? (From Utah but I don’t answer phone calls. Use email to say Hi.)

        • Pearl
          November 9, 2019 at 10:21 pm

          Hey my friend!
          No, We are back in Cali!
          Ok email it is!!! Miss you!
          Pray all is well for you n Gus!

  8. frank
    November 8, 2019 at 5:03 pm

    > And it makes sense, no? Don’t let anyone get past the college level in life without a good dose of pure doublethink. The University system is a true intellectual/psychological ‘bottleneck.’

    Amen to that. I passed through the university system (electrical engineering), and met the most close-minded, arrogant and pompous people there. Not in touch with reality at all, totally free floating intellectually.

    • November 8, 2019 at 5:47 pm

      Yep. I’m almost tempted to go back to college just so I could raise my hand and have a question or two for the asshole at the podium, especially in the science courses. I may have to do a post on ‘questions I would ask if I were back in college.’

  9. Denis Oven
    November 8, 2019 at 12:55 am

    Allan,

    No post from you for more than a couple of weeks, and commenting on your existing work closed off, had been making me worry they’d closed you and your on-line community down.

    The update about the boat might uncharitably be counted a stop-gap post, but you also delivered the second part, which, including its references, should be enough brain food to keep most of us going for a while.

    I think there’s a line somewhere about judging a man as much by what he doesn’t say as by what he does, and you’re not trying to maintain a Twitter audience (perish the thought).

  10. ea
    November 8, 2019 at 12:42 am

    That movie was on the menu on a recent Air Canada flight. Such crap. i ll leave the science-complaints to you fellows who express ’em better. What struck me on this viewing was the use (i.e. royalty-paying use) of Bowie’s ‘Starman’: unusually for Hollywood, the entire f*cking song was played out, even the instrumental break and the verse and chorus after that. Ho bloody hum. This comes at the ’emotional uplift’ section where the mission crew (female captain!) pull a yooey above Earth, picking up the Chinese (!) re-supplies, and head BACK to Mars, to fetch Matt, who, having survived the hundred or so days they’ve spent already, just may well survive the hundred or so days they’ll spend getting back, right? Yes, we can! Yes we f*cking floating in a tin CAN!
    The connection to Musk, more fraud, is easy as hypertext.

    • November 8, 2019 at 5:52 pm

      As I’ve said, somewhere around 95% of the ‘science videos’ on YT are pure boulderdash. Anyone wanting a real education on astronomy/cosmology could get it by simply viewing all the ‘Space News’ vids from Thunderbolts.info. There are several hundred archived and amount to a Phd in real science. Then move on to ‘Sky Scholar’ for your post doc work.

      • X
        November 8, 2019 at 9:02 pm

        The simplest route to enlightenment concerning astrology is to understand the greatest trick the devil, Satan, ever pulled – convincing the world he didn’t exist – the critical deception.

        • Chris
          November 10, 2019 at 7:23 am

          So you’re a Virgo? No, no, a Taurus, like, for sure. And is the Easter Bunny real? Because I was convinced it wasn’t, but now I’m not so sure… Wascally wabbit must have deceived me.

          • X
            November 10, 2019 at 10:24 am

            Well done Chris for observing that astrology concerns the apparent rotation of the twelve constellations (including Virgo and Taurus), the Zodiac, about the solar system.

            Similarly, well done for observing that the spring/vernal equinox (the origin of Easter) is the key point at which this rotation or precession is observed.

            But as it seems you’re not quite there wrt understanding the ‘trick’, I’ll give you a clue. The origin of the saying “greatest trick the devil…” occurs at about the same time as the trick was performed (the 19th century), and undoubtedly, the saying arose as a consequence. This was a deception of greater significance than the staged Apollo landings.

          • November 10, 2019 at 4:24 pm

            Okay, that’s it. The NEXT comment contains the video or you are out.

          • X
            November 11, 2019 at 12:22 am

            Chris, is a bicycle male or female? The French refer to it as ‘le velo’ as well as ‘la bicyclette’, but there is no point quibbling over its gender because it has neither reproductive organs, nor anything resembling them.

            As for astrology, yes, there is the mainstream view that poo-poos it as superstitious divination practiced by charlatans, that it’s about predicting personality or prospects from a person’s date of birth, which is patently impossible. Therefore astrology is bunk.

            The mainstream view about astrology is that there’s nothing to see here, please move along.

            As you should be learning from NASA, it is actually astronomy and space exploration that is bunk, that is the deception.

      • ea
        November 10, 2019 at 10:40 pm

        Someone watching a ‘science video’ might have a right to expect some science. Someone watching a Hollywood movie in the SF genre (generally future-set) has no such right — but does expect some all the same.
        There is another important link in the Martian. (This one may not be as important, since it goes from overt fiction to overt fiction rather than from overt fiction to Musk. Still ..:) The crew climb aboard their vertically upright chemical rocket up a ladder which runs inside through the lower stages. Or it may not be a staged rocket; we arent shown any stage-dropping — but the olde Saturn V is certainly the visual model. So even if female captain et al. arent squeezing through married bulkheads, they’re still climbing up past fuel tanks. Sure hope they dont bump any O-rings!
        What overtly fictional internal ladder does this link to? Ad Astra, Brad Pitt’s new movie. And again the scene is Mars (the destination of the upright chemical tank contraption is not Earth but Neptune (!)) And –get this– Brad climbs to the crew cabin DURING LAUNCH — WHILE THE ENGINES ARE RUNNING. The audience accepts this (if they do) because it is exciting: what if he loses his grip and falls out the bottom? Long way down! And narratively, he can’t have come aboard before launch because being a truth-teller or inconvenient question-putter his character is persona non grata. So we root for him rung by rung, see, ‘cos he struggles against higher-up liars and secret-keepers. Make it Brad, make it! Yr ex-wife’s an ex-man.

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