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What must the god-like extraterrestrials flying around on vmanas think of our dirty Earth?
Fake CGI of "Earth" with faker "Moon" (NASA)
‘Super Earth’ (Kepler-442b) could be more habitable than our own planet, Junky Earth, scientists discover. White men in white lab coats say there is a better planet over there in that part of the galaxy, way better than this smoking dumpster fire of a polluted plane. (Yes, it's more likely a plane than a planet evidence-wise; never mind the rhetoric).
I'll move us or kill us all trying: spaceX
Elon Musk must be right. (The government that backs him can't let him be wrong. SpaceX must succeed and Neuralink, too. They didn't let him take the title "richest man in the world" for nothing).
Musk said he'd build rockets and eventually get us off this trash heap and onto a New Earth. (Maybe this is what Oprah-boosted Eckhart Tolle actually meant?)
It's time we could spread our wings and got on with the colonizing of this solar system, galaxy, and universe (as if that hasn't already happened. It has. That's why we're here. We are not from this Earth, just more sort of naturalized arrivals).
Brian Eno, "Burning Airlines Give You So Much More" (2004 digital remaster); Seth Auberon, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly; The Jimmy Dore Show; NBC News; KGW 8; CNN
LYRICS: When I got back home/ I found a message on the door/ Sweet Regina's gone to China cross-legged on the floor/ Of a burning [Boeing] jet that's smoothly flying/ Burning airlines give you so much more// How does she intend to live when she's in far Cathay?/ I somehow can't imagine her just planting rice all day/ Maybe she will do a bit of spying/ With micro-cameras hidden in her hair// I guess Regina's on the plane, a Newsweek on her knees/ While miles below her the curlews call from strangely stunted trees/ The painted sage sits just as though he's flying/ Regina's jet disturbs his wispy beard// When you reach Kyoto send a postcard if you can/ And please convey my fond regards to Chih-Hao's girl Yu-Lan/ I heard a rumour they were getting married/ But someone left the papers in Japan// Left them in Japan, left them in Japan/ Left them in Japan, left them in Japan/ Left them in Japan, left them in Japan/ Left them in Japan
Boeing cargo plane forced to make emergency landing after fire and "engine malfunction"
(NBC News) Jan. 19, 2024: An Atlas Air cargo flight caught on fire mid-air not long after takeoff and was forced to return to the Miami airport. All five people on board were uninjured. NBC News' Stephanie Gosk reports the FAA and NTSB are investigating. #EmergencyLanding#Boeing#Fire
Boeing's quality management failure explained 737-Max-9 door Jan. 24, 2024
First the U.S. military drops atomic bombs on innocent civilians...then earthquakes, tsunami scares, massive Fukushima Nuclear Reactor radiation contamination, and now a Coast Guard plane headed to help 7.6 Richter Scale quake victims gets in the way of a jumbo jet cleared to land -- and catastrophe happens.
California now: Massive waves and flooding hit California coast [after morning temblor and massive quake hits Japan, still suffering from the aftereffects of Fukushima, which we don't hear about as the government is planning many new nuclear reactors to deal with all the electric vehicles it's mandating and the heating that makes air conditioning a necessity more than a luxury in many places].
(USA.EARTH - EV) Dec. 31, 2023: Massive waves and flooding hit the Southern California coast, USA. Update: Massive waves and coastal flooding are wreaking havoc for a third day in many of California’s coastal communities.
where extreme conditions have forced water rescues, washed away cars, and apparently explain the appearance of a random "rogue wave" which was really a monster wave with a cause: seismic activity in the very active Pacific Ocean. Japan is our neighbor across the way, separated by thousands of miles, but waves can travel. And some slippage or tectonic plate movement seems to have displaced an awful lot of water molecules that are now displacing others that are washing up on our shores and creating small tsunamis in coastal Japan.
The unusually large California surf, often towering over 20 feet, has prompted beach closures along the California coast.
In hard-hit Ventura County, next to Los Angeles, waves have surged over seawalls and carried parked cars down the street and into significant intersections, blocking first responders’ paths.
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LIVE: Ex US Pres. Trump expected to arrive in NY court for arraignment
(Reuters) Streaming began at ~5:00 am PST. Mr. Don John Trump, the ex-president and Republican frontrunner-to-be as nominee in 2024 (though he hasn't officially stated he's running), will appear in court and is set to be formally charged with felony crimes, fingerprinted, and have a [s]mug shot taken in a watershed moment ahead of next year's [rigged] presidential election. Mr. Trump was indicted by a grand jury following a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, but this only the first such indictment, as at least three other much more serious criminal investigations proceed at a glacial pace.
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Live: Trump arraignment today in New York
(LiveNOW from FOX) Started streaming 4:00 am PST.
Former Pres. Trump is scheduled to be arraigned in Manhattan at 2:15 pm ET this afternoon. He spent Monday night at Trump Tower after traveling to New York from Mar-a-Lago, Florida, on Monday. Watch live coverage from LiveNOW from FOX. Where to watch LiveNOW from FOX: livenowfox.com, twitter.com/livenowfox.
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Indicted Trump arrives in New York to face arrest, FOX News and GOP in hysterics: A Closer Look
(Late Night with Seth Meyers) April 3, 2023. Seth Meyers takes a closer look at Trump arriving in New York to be arraigned at the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse after a grand jury indicted him of more than 30 crimes, including felonies, making him the first U.S. president in history to face criminal charges.
Late Night with Seth Meyers streams on Peacock: bit.ly/3erP2gX
Brian Eno; Desi Lydic, Roy Wood Jr. (Daily Show); Seth Auberon, Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Musical genius and innovator Brian Eno on the airline industry. He would've been the greatest but settled on ruining music by helping a little Irish band called U2 sell millions of albums.
Roy Wood & Desi Lydic talk US air travel failures in a new double take
NASA Astro[not] Christina Koch captured a [photoshopped] photo of the Quadrantid meteor shower in early January 2020 from her vantage point aboard the extreme low-earth International "Space" Station (ISS) up just 50 miles or so well within the spheres above the atmosphere.
The image, by Koch's own admission, is not a "photo"; it is a touched up composite fabricated and adjusted to show what NASA wants shown and conceal what it does not want shown.
It's also strange that stars are suddenly visible in this image when most images from this height leave them out, claiming they can't be seen from here.
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Like photos photoshopped, fabricated, composed, collaged, composited? Then love this.
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Russia's space program officially announced that our moon is within the atmosphere, suggesting that it is either much smaller and closer than NASA is willing to tell us or that the atmosphere goes much, much farther out. Russians have never explained, nor have they ever retracted their official announcement.
Hey, but the "curve" is clearly visible! Yeah, it's a NASA ("never a straight answer") photo, but what about this curve? Most of the time it's the fish-eye lens effect, and others photos are touched up, and yet others are completely flat without explanation.
Koch's stunning image is thought to show streaks of several "shooting stars" between the green glow of the aurora borealis or northern lights and the lights of a unknown city below. "Can you see shooting starts [sic] from space? Turns out, yes!" Koch tweeted from ISS. More
Eric Dubay via Planet Plane) 200 Proofs Earth is Round but Not a Spinning Ball. This is SCIENCE that dares to question, not the denial of testable facts. Test them. Report honestly. Dubay may not have all the answers, but NASA is definitely lying and concealing many things while calling it "reality" and "open science." At least have the courage he has to question the deceptive fantasy NASA puts forward.
Awaken: NASA images are "fixed" and fake
First you say, "These photos are not fake! My country would not lie." Then seeing the evidence, including NASA's admissions that these are doctored images, you say, "Of course these images are photoshopped! They have to be to show stuff. Nobody ever siad they were 'photos.' My country would lie to others but not me. Blame NASA not my government."
If examined closely, the illusion fades and one sees that this "photo" (actually a heavily photoshopped image) is completely fake and ridiculous. The eye says that this is what is seen from a window or hatch with the ball earth right there.
But the ISS is very close to earth, very close, and in no way could ever get this image even with a fish eye lens. One can see sand on the coast of a massive continent that spans from one end of the earth nearly to the other. Note that the shape of the earth is not a globe but an exaggerated oblate spheroid.
The clouds are so close that the point of view is not from space but from the thermosphere (where it is too hot and ISS's stated components would all melt), ionosphere, or most likely just the stratosphere.
This is all earth's "atmosphere"? Behold, no stars! Note the fake colorization and color saturation, which differ from official NASA "photos" of the planet NASA annually posts on its official website.
NASA's flat earth at the "top of the atmosphere." Claimed altitude 208 miles or 335 kms (eol.jsc.nasa.gov). Crescent moon through top of atmosphere. Photographed above 21.5°N, 113.3°E by Int'l Space Station crew Expedition 13 over the South China Sea, south of Macau (NASA image ID: ISS013-E-54329).
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Note absence of glowing atmospheric layers of gases. Note photoshopped shadows of missing clouds. Note glare of "hot spot" of nearby sun close to the center of photo, which would be utterly impossible if sun were 93 million miles away sending in light at a near straight angle.
The amazing this is not that we are fooled. We are little better than Soviets reading Pravda. For as Americans we know little of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). What is amazing is that "experts" are fooled into unquestioning obedience about these things.
Hollywood, look at us standing in front of a photoshopped Earth as "ball flying in space"!
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And then once they realize this is clearly a deception at odds even with published facts, they keep quiet. They drink heavily. They keep their heads down to hold on to their jobs and reputations, implicitly participating in the cover up. Think. Question. Research. Or be a coward, a good German citizen during WW II, yes, a "Little Eichmann."
MarkkSargent's YouTube channel states: Either the moon is 70 miles across (or less), or something else is causing the solar eclipse on August 21 over North America. The science doesn't lie, does NASA? This is the first video where I will look at the "Great American Solar Eclipse of 2017" and show that NASA is either lying about the eclipse's cause, the moon's size, or both. (Both, I think is likely [the real answer]).
The track of the shadow across the United States is ~70 miles wide, rather than the alleged width of our moon (2,000+ miles), called Luna or Chandra, and curves as it goes in a circle over the single face of the plane we live on.
We live in a Matrix, deceived and controlled by illusions, so here's some matrixbusting.com
This video -- with a clip from Admiral Byrd's discovery of an enormous landmass beyond the South Pole -- is inspired by F. Amadeo Gianinni's book Worlds Beyond The Poles.
It provides shocking revelations of the earth beyond the Antarctica. It explains where "the edge" of our flat earth is and leaves no doubt whatsoever.
(Amazon) Enclosed within the pages of Worlds Beyond the Poles: Physical Continuity of the Universe is the first and only real description of our universe composed of land, water, air, and vegetation, where human, animal, and other forms of life abound.
This is a work of nonfiction rather than a technical analysis. It is an easy-to-understand recital of fact that transcends the most elaborate fictions ever conceived.
The human plane is a plane -- a continuous series of worlds beyond the "poles."
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It presents the first understanding of the demonstrable, factual, and endless universe, which contains human life throughout its vast length and width, regardless of all abstract "theory" to the contrary.
It is the view of the author that our earth is "flat" (a plane) [as described in Buddhist cosmology where our world or the manussa loka is the "human plane" with many worlds rather than a single planet] and stationary as the Bible also depicts it to be. It includes original illustrations. More
Birth in this plane results from the karma (action) of giving and moral discipline of
middling quality, having maintained for some time the Five Precepts at a minimum.
This is the realm of moral choice where destiny can be
guided. The Khana Sutra mentions that this plane (loka) is a unique balance
of pleasure and pain. It facilitates the development of ethics and virtue (sila) and
wisdom to liberate oneself from the endless cycle or rebirths.
For this
reason rebirth as a human being is considered rare and precious, as explained in the
Chiggala Sutra. In the Cula Kamma Vibhanga Sutra ("The Shorter Analysis of
Karma"), the Buddha taught that:
Killing others leads to shortened life if one is reborn in the human
plane rather than the four lower Planes of Deprivation. By abandoning the
acts of harming and killing, one may be reborn in a better world, the human or in one of many celestial planes. If, however, one is reborn again in the human plane, one will be
endowed with longevity.
Injuring living beings can lead to rebirth in the Planes of
Deprivation. Alternatively, if one comes back to the human plane, one will be very sickly. Harmlessness or non-injury leads to rebirth in fortunate
destinations. Alternatively, if one comes back to the human plane, one will enjoy good health. The same goes for the following:
Beautiful or ugly human rebirth depends on whether one has an irritable character in this and/or previous human lives.
Influential or ordinary human rebirth depends on whether one is envious of the gain and honor received by others in this and/or previous human lives.
Rich or poor human rebirth depends on whether one is generous to
others (able to let go), such as providing the requisites of people exerting themselves spiritually, in this present
and/or previous human lives.
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