Politics and science, humor and hypocrisy. METANOODLE
This is quoted from Reason.com"The growth of government that attends national emergencies is not surrendered fully when the crisis ends. Instead, a ratchet effect operates whereby much of the crisis-borne growth of government becomes institutionalized in agencies and practices and, more important, in the dominant ideology of political elites and the general public."
"Danger derives ....from the ability of the expert to marshal the top-down legal authority and resources of government in the practice of their specialty."
We are living through such a hell with CORVID19. The virus is invisible and there's nothing you or I can hear, smell, taste or measure to prove it's there or not and if we're avoiding it or not. This is the perfect setup for global governance types to advance their top-down agendas to give voice to superior types of people like themselves. "Trust me" is the mantra (and I respect people who have studied and learned well their field). "Trust me" is also the doorway that government loves best. It didn't quite work for climate change but it is going like a house on fire for bat virus shutdown fear. You heard of the camel's nose under the tent. With "Trust me", the camel gets to walk right in the front flap behind the experts who got you to open up. "The plague that has laid this country low, destroyed our economy and brought us to a place that no external enemy could have brought: this plague of experts. Or perhaps I should say “experts” since most of them have behind them only a long string of failed prognostications, followed by promotion within the “civil servant” echelons. Yes, I am talking about Doctors Birx and Fauci. I’m already seeing people pointing fingers at the president and complaining that he’s relied too much on these “experts.”
Picture: Rippled ocean rings detected from space. (Reproduced from spacewather.com).
2019 as California was apparently being burned to the ground, 4.3 million acres burned across the US, rather less than usual and far below historic averages See the chart for 1926 to 2017.Further back as mentioned in a California study:
“It was apparent from the fire record that there were two dramatic changes in the fire pattern. First, fires became less frequent and more widespread in the study area following the substantial Euro-American settlement of the 1850s. Secondly, fires were generally eliminated from the study area after 1924 when fire suppression efforts were becoming more effective in accessible areas.” Many of these studies mention American Indian burning for enhancement of food, materials, basketry, and other resources: “People have affected fire regimes and forests in the study area during different times in known and unknown ways. Before European settlement, native Americans set fires that may have burned through the study area. Local Klamath [mountain] tribes used fire extensively to promote acorns, berry, root and fiber production and to hunt game.”
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The models assume that each stop will account for all the birds within a 400‑meter radius. Because a crow is readily detected over that distance, no adjustments are made to the number of observed crows. But hummingbirds are not so easily detected. The earlier surveys assumed a hummingbird could only be detected if it was within an 80‑meter radius. So, to standardize the observations to an area with a 400‑meter radius, observations were multiplied by 25. Recent survey models now assume hummingbirds can only be detected within 50 meters, so their observations are now adjusted by multiplying by 64. Thus, depending on their detection adjustments, one real observation could generate 50 or 128 virtual hummingbirds. That number is further scaled up to account for the time‑of‑day effects and the likely number of birds in the region’s un-surveyed landscapes.
Setting aside assumptions about the regional homogeneity of birds’ habitat, one very real problem with these adjustments that has yet to be addressed. If one bird is no longer observed at a roadside stop, the model assumes that the other 127 virtual birds also died.
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2. Comet ATLAS made the news and then fell apart and those pieces too, just as it was getting bright enough to see with the naked eye. Great picture from the Hubble
3. Comet SWAN is incoming. Just discovered two weeks ago when it burped some hydrogen, it has rapidly reached magnitude +5.5 and is just barely visible to the eye April 29th. It appears to have been bumped towards the inner solar system for the first time ever. Maybe we will all getOr is gravity particular at the smallest scale? A clever measurement has moved the decimal point over. The answer is still "apparently not". Light from a wobbly pulsar beam some ten billion light years distant was measured for energy spread. The tool they used is called ESPRESSO. The rationale:
"If space-time really is frothy and bubbling, then this should affect anything passing through space-time. For example, a beam of light going along its merry way will encounter all sorts of microscopic bumps and jostles — a Planckian gravel path rather than a smooth highway. Sometimes those little jostles will give the light a boost, nudging up its energy level, and sometimes the light will encounter a little speed bump, slowing it down. The net effect is that light traveling through a frothy space-time will slowly spread out in energy. This effect is incredibly, incredibly minute, so tiny we couldn't possibly hope to measure it in a laboratory. But thankfully, nature can provide a laboratory for us. If we can find a nice, coherent beam of light in space (in other words, a natural space laser), and that beam of light travels over billions of years to our telescopes, we can measure the spread in energy and use that to measure the frothiness of space-time." (They found it and found a cloud in front of it with iron atoms that absorbed light in a precise way.)
I never expected Priestap's words to be so plainly evil. Only a journalist or Democratic politician can fail to see what's going on here.
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I drew seven circles in a clump,using the pill bottle base
Ground-breaking stories on the US food chain in a time of Coronaviryus have been posted on Conservative Tree House. Google makes sure you and I don't hear from them. They don't fake the story, they hide conservative sourced information. Have a look for yourself:
"To report that 15,000-30,000 people have died, when the actual number is 56, represents a big error. (snip) The greatest damage to the people of Chernobyl was caused by bad information. These people weren’t blighted by radiation so much as by terrifying but false information." [Michael Crichton Fear, Complexity, & Environmental Management]US Coronavirus deaths were modelled at 1.7 million, then at 270,000 or so, then at 100,000 and now less again. The original high number has sort of faded from the news. The plan to flatten the curve has sort of faded too, now that emergency rooms are underutilized, but the lockdowns and 'alarums' persist. The story editing has all happened in the last ten weeks.
Is this really the end of the world? Earthquakes, hurricanes, floods? (and pandemics [ed]) No, we simply live on an active planet. Earthquakes are continuous, a million and a half of them every year, or three every minute. A Richter 5 quake every six hours, a major quake every 3 weeks. A quake as destructive as the one in Pakistan every 8 months. It’s nothing new, it’s right on schedule. At any moment there are 1,500 electrical storms on the planet. A tornado touches down every six hours. We have ninety hurricanes a year, or one every four days.That reference to Chernobyl? I also read the book Midnight in Chernobyl, not relying on the Chrichton quote.
“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”The last little bit I don't have an opinion on: "Without any purpose, which is the way it really is ...."
Courtesy gets bad press today. Holding a door open to let the lady enter first can trigger rebukes. But I recommend it. The ladies who don't like that can say so but it doesn't make our world a kinder place.
