Robert said
Ex nihilo nihil fit
Now as an adult it is sometimes strange to reconsider those actresses I remember from my childhood. Which is just to say that in those days Julie Andrews was quite a handsome woman.
BJH1960 said
I’m always curious to investigate the person behind the YouTube channel.
Especially when they turn out to be folks with no appreciable expertise other than in self-marketing. (Which they often do quite well. We do demand a certain level of media savvy from our influencers and gurus.)
The view of UFOs as extraterrestrial spacecraft does seem more and more untenable. Some of the alternate explanations are interesting. UFOs as life forms themselves is the one I prefer when I’m in a whimsical mood. See ** you do not have permission to see this link **.
I opine that UFOs are stratospheric fauna that are occasionally forced downward by atmospheric disturbances. Why, you might ask, are they not observed from orbit by satellites or the folks on the ISS? Well the Illuminati use their NASA puppets to cover it up! (I can’t tell you why they do this because I am bound by certain fearsome oaths and dreadful pledges. Folks, nobody composes an NDA like the Illuminati. Lawyers, hell! Think demons.)
Did anyone but me see Jordan Peele’s 2022 movie ** you do not have permission to see this link ** ? It did pretty well at the box office but I continuously find folks who’ve never heard of it, even sci-fi fans. Check it out. It takes a different approach. (As a film critic I thought it needed a little trimming. It was about 20 minutes too long and I can tell you exactly where to cut. This is what I call Stephen Kingitis. King has written some good books in later years but they invariably need editing. But I imagine it’s been decades since King could be successfully edited.)
As schmaltzy as it is, I just love it. I’d forgotten all about it until my son discovered it in high school and we ordered the DVD. At that point, having left the Franciscans and gotten married, and having spent quite a bit of time in the Swiss and Austrian Alps on vacations and on my honeymoon, the movie had new meaning for me, but for whatever reason, I just ** you do not have permission to see this link ** love it!
I love it as well. I saw it with my older sister when it came out. She went to see it 5 times!
I’ve never been a big fan of musicals, and in fact, the only other one I remember enjoying was Mary Poppins, which also coincidentally (?) starred Julie Andrews. My dad was a big fan of them, but it never rubbed off.
Concerning the first video:
Disclaimer: This is an independent fan-made channel, and its content is not affiliated with Avi Loeb, Harvard University, or any scientific institution. The videos are inspired by Dr. Loeb’s public research, scientific papers, and perspectives on interstellar objects, presented for educational and informational purposes only, using a synthesized voice that does not belong to Avi Loeb. We use visual lip-syncing and dubbed narration to match the spoken words with on-screen footage, purely to enhance clarity, create a cinematic experience, and make the content more engaging for viewers. Our aim is to amplify scientific curiosity by making complex astrophysical concepts easier to understand for the general audience, helping us reach and educate more people about the mysteries of interstellar phenomena. We also make this content more accessible to people who are deaf or hard of hearing by applying professional transcription.
I haven’t had time to view the second, which I suppose is irresponsible on my part since “NASA IN PANIC” is screaming to be paid attention to and ought to be a priority for any right-minded individual. There are ** you do not have permission to see this link ** videos on the same channel that warn us in no uncertain terms that “THEY ARE COMING” and “WE ARE F*CKED.”
See the description of the second (emphasis is mine):
“There are moments in astronomy when everything you thought you understood about the universe is quietly rewritten — not by a dramatic announcement, not by NASA’s polished livestreams, not by a sudden global alert — but by a handful of images released without warning, without ceremony, from a spacecraft orbiting a lonely red planet. That is exactly what just happened. While the world waited anxiously for the delayed NASA HiRISE images trapped behind a 43-day government shutdown, China did something no one expected. The Tianwen-1 orbiter, a mission never designed for deep-space observation, turned its medium-resolution camera toward a faint green speck drifting far beyond the orbit of Mars. And when the images returned, they didn’t just match what NASA, ESA, and independent astronomers had been whispering for months — they confirmed it. They confirmed the behavior. They confirmed the anomalies. They confirmed the one fear scientists were reluctant to say out loud: the strangeness of 3I/ATLAS is not an artifact — it is real, universal, and now independently verified from another planet. The object’s green glow, its unnatural jets, its impossible stability, its sunward plume, its rhythmic pulses — everything Western astronomers struggled to explain — captured cleanly from 30 million kilometers away by a spacecraft orbiting Mars. Whatever 3I/ATLAS is, whatever force drives it, whatever story it carries from another star, China has now placed the evidence in humanity’s hands. And tonight, we’re going to break it down, piece by piece, image by image, until the mystery becomes impossible to ignore.”
Why would anyone take any of this seriously?
Stephen said:
Especially when they turn out to be folks with no appreciable expertise other than in self-marketing. (Which they often do quite well. We do demand a certain level of media savvy from our influencers and gurus.
No, he doesn’t have any expertise but like Carlos Castaneda he has been initiated. My impression is that his About Page runs like a Who’s Who of those in-the-know.
Although I don’t understand their appeal, it appears they do well for themselves financially. I can’t help but think of Mark 8:36.
If one visits Jordan’s ** you do not have permission to see this link ** instead.
Jason Wright, who teaches at Penn State…
Oh, well, Wright’s expertise clearly marks him either as a conspirator or a hopeless dupe of the NASA/Industrial complex. If I want the truth I watch YouTube videos made by people who got their training by watching Star Trek reruns!
Were people always this stupid? And we’re just finding out now because of social media? Cognition is a heavy burden. There do seem to be times when people en masse give themselves permission to get stupid. Alas, we seem to have entered such a time.
Avi Loeb is what used to be called a “media whore”. Now, of course, selling your point of view to the highest bidder has become the whole point.
Robert said
Steefen said
One takeaway: You have to explain anomalies! You cannot make authoritative statements without explanations.That’s the mission of science, to explain our observations. But we’re dealing with observations of one of the very first objects of this kind. So it may take some time and additional objects of this sort before we can come up with the best explanations. In the meantime, while we still don’t have enough experience with these phenomena, there’s no reason to jump to unsubstantiated conclusions. Surely, you understand and agree with this, right, Steefen?
Avi is jumping to unsubstantiated conclusions? So, now you’re smarter than Avi in his own field? Avi has carefully used a method that is quite logical and sober.
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