Every astronaut since 1969 landings has seen strange “flashing lights” while approaching the Moon :
More worryingly, the astronauts continued to see the flashes when they returned home from space under various light conditions.
So what is it?
Scientists believed that the strange flashes were being caused by cosmic rays hitting the astronauts.
Cosmic rays are defined as “a highly energetic atomic nucleus or other particle travelling through space at a speed approaching that of light.”
Fukushima reactor cooling system stops following quake & tsunami :
The cooling system of the third reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant has stopped circulating water following a powerful 7.3 offshore earthquake.
TEPCO said it managed to restart the system some 90 minutes after the failure.
Tsunami waves have been visible along the coast..
Teenager films ‘meteorite’ burning across sky following Japanese earthquake :
The teen, known as Asuka, 16, from Japan, filmed the extraordinary sight trailing across the evening sky this evening.
A rough translation of her Tweet accompanying the video says: “A movie I took while preparing to die.
The quake took place near Fukushima .. no word at this point on whether the word needs to get salt with iodine or not..
THE ANTI SOCIAL MEDIA. AND ALL THE BAD FRIENDSHIPS.
You are being a bad friend!!
And I believe it.
We are getting winded by the steady stream of 24/7 junk. This election had consequences, too.. we just delved deeper into a pile of excrement on a daily basis of politics..
Real friendships aren’t online. Real friendships can be aided by social media.. but just quicky skimming through a feed and casually liking things and forgetting ten seconds later what you saw is the most repugnant form of friendship one can find.. and it’s very ‘BLACK MIRROR’ish to be perfectly honest..
I went back to my 2015 year in review and 2016 predictions. I actually am going to toot a horn. One prediction was that social media would wane, and that we would all find real ways to connect to people again. I sense that is happening.
I think the quicker it happens, the better it will be..
New documentary film asks: Was Malachi Martin an exorcist or an exhibitionist? :
Martin was a showman.. any Art Bell fan with a memory will recall those sleepless nights in the late 1990s, listening to Father Martin deliver his damnation of the world… about the ‘perfectly possessed.’…
This new documentary explores:
Hostage to the Devil (http://ift.tt/2gsxxDQ) is a 90-minute documentary film by Marty Stalker. It has been produced with the co-operation of the Irish Film Board. This is fitting given that the story it tells starts in the far south of that country. Malachi Martin was born in County Kerry in 1921. Having graduated in philosophy from the University of Dublin, he joined the Society of Jesus and was ordained a priest in 1954. His further studies took him to Louvain in Belgium, to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and to Oxford University.
Thereafter, he was sent to Rome as Professor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute where he taught Aramaic, Hebrew and Sacred Scripture. His future career looked bright, especially when he was made Private Secretary to Cardinal Bea. It proved not to be so. The Second Vatican Council was called in 1962. Some would maintain that alongside the good intentions of those who convened it, other forces gathered too, intent on distorting the reception of the outcome of the Council.
I will look forward to seeing this film..
I have my personal thoughts about Fr. Martin and whether he really was believable..
The scary thing for me, though, always was this: It is safer to believe everything he said than doubt even one fraction of it.
Just in case.
It was just a normal day for Melissa Kurtz, 48, who was driving on a highway in the Maitland area of Florida, near Orlando, to take her 13-year-old daughter, Harper, to a beauty pageant. Harper wasn’t wearing a seat belt, which was normal for her, and taking selfies to pass the time.
Kurtz decided to do some research on the road they were driving on that day and discovered that there had been an accident on that same road and the day her and Harper were driving on it happened to be the anniversary of the death that occurred because of it
The UK DAILY MAIL interviewed her.. Kurtz said that she thinks the (potential) ghost in the photo was a warning to wear seat belts..
For your consumption.. and decision.
Trump demands apology from ‘Hamilton’ after cast’s message to Pence:
The next four years are going to continue like this. So as long as Donald Trump has a Twitter account, he is going to use it like the millions of others who do: Nonstop barrages of commentary on mundane events.
The President-Elect is normally busy building a team of rivals, or friends, or whatever type of cabinet he wants to.. this year, Donald Trump is using his time to frequently go to Twitter to attack the cast of Hamilton–a broadway show that most likely most of Americans don’t care one bit about. This is not inside the beltway, but instead inside the big apple.. high above the lofty lofts of NYC are penthouses filled with people chattering about this. But the rest of the American people are scratching their heads at ..why..
Donald Trump is going to make just about everything about him over the next four years. No doubt people will bite every time. Why change now.
He will utilize Twitter to keep the masses who voted for him faithful to the cause, while silently changing policy opinions on world events and Obama care.. yes, the Hamilton attack only gives more red meat to those who have not had any since the last Trump rally.
By Saturday morning, both #NameAPenceMusical and #BoycottHamilton were trending on Twitter. There was a pro-Trump flash mob on Saturday night on Broadway. By Sunday, morning AM Trump again went to Twitter to slam Hamilton.
This is unprecedented.
Is it unpreseidential-elect?
Speaking of the Conjuring, sort of a bad segway, with how quickly the year actually went I never had the chance to see CONJURING 2 at the movie theater when it was released. I fixed that the other night with a REDBOX rental .. I loved it. One of the truly scariest movies I have seen in some time. James Wan, yet again, did not disappoint. I would say we have another contender for the potential 2016 movie of the year on this website..
Meanwhile, I wanted to give a friendly November thank you to everyone. As we enter the holiday season, I start to get filled with love and nostalgia. More than even the rest of the year … I try to dissuade nostalgia from entering my mind; But I keep the love as long as I can. In that spirit, thank you all for reading, thank you all for spending the seconds a day, minutes a day, or however long a day you do spend on this website. At times I feel I am doing a lackluster job, because between basketball and soccer practice for my son and work for myself, even more time than usual escapes me. Then I see the numbers of people who read this site weekly, and it gives me the spirit to keep going..
Bryan
11/13/16
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I love this show.. I have avidly watched it since the program’s inception onto NETFLIX.. The pigs.. The tech… The lessons of morality and the consequences of people’s dirty deeds online. The future is now. Evident in this program: The cautionary tales of horror that can happen when tech goes wrong and the virtue of an honest life..
The newest season of Black Mirror was loaded onto Netflix around Halloween. Due to a lack of time, I have yet to watch about 1 and a half more episodes. But the pure joy I have in doing so makes me actually want to take it slow.
I recall quickly moving through the entire series of STRANGER THINGS. By the time it was done, I wanted to go back and start from the beginning.
Black Mirror is a bit different. Each program makes you ponder more than the next.. Each show has twists and turns that throw your mind into a loop of madness. Each program makes you feel like it’s real and, equally so, feel a sense of dread for our collective Internet-driven future.
The far best episode in the entire series thus far (my opinion of course) is ‘Hated in the Nation.’ Some others only call this episode solid but ‘unremarkable’ but I think it is brilliant.
It takes into account a dwindling bee population and how our society may delve into tech to save the planet, and terrorism, hacking , assassination, murder, and espionage. Along with a lot of fun grammatical uses of the F and C word for emphasis. The show was pure joy.. It was over an hour long and could have easily been a successful box office hit. But thankfully because of Black Mirror and Netflix, we can have the show beamed right to our electronic devices.
In Hated in the Nation, a technology company invents a high tech drone bee to pollinate the planet. During a hack attack, someone gets the chance to control the bee population to use it for murder. A ‘hash tag’ battle begins on social media. And the person most hated in the nation becomes a victim. That is just the beginning. It weaves itself into a moral play and a final act of redemption during the post-modem and Mortem.
You just have to watch it to understand what I am talking about.. It has quickly become of the best shows/movies/things I have ever watched.
I have grown to despise so many vast portions of social media while… Of course… Using it as well. Hashtags and red flags abound … I just can’t stomach seeing the ‘trending’ words of the day. I hate myself for often looking.. But it’s how we get news. Opinions. Statements. Hell, it’s how we picked a president in 2016!
Social media.
And antisocial disorder. They go together so well.
Black Mirror’s HATED IN THE NATION is a must watch for those nervous about social media’s power, or for those who think they can act on devices without consequence.
There are consequences.
Perhaps in the future, the consequences will be fatal and final.
Mystery flight circles over Denver; Officials have few answers :
7news in Denver was among the stations covering the weird event.. The flight path was an oval over Denver .. The plane then apparently left the city limits and flew to Oklahoma City..
From the report:
When contacting the military, including both U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) and United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM), neither organization could confirm the identity of the plane, or even locate it.
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) also investigated the flight, however they couldn’t locate the flight or confirm its existence. When asked if the flight might have been a high-profile person, officials said the only high-profile flights in the air were in New York and Indiana.