We all love NASA. And why not, they have promoted a healthy interest in the space program. For years and years, as far as I can remember, NASA has been sending things into space to further our understanding of that harsh environment, and even this one.

Today, as we ponder the amount of satellites and other junk out there, a sense of pride tries to shout from somewhere in the past. Somewhere in time when NASA was not responsible for providing science on par with the instrumentation at their disposal.

But I am disappointed. Today we get the same shit over and over again, while here and there scientists not in on the deception, fuck up. It is sad, thinking to some hard-working student at the University of Arizona, eager to show off something they think is new and profound to all life on this planet. This information is then covered up and the student reprimanded.

What sort of thing is NASA into. What should we be expecting them to be into. I think NASA has a responsibility they are not fulfilling. I think the field of science has a model of honesty and integrity to flesh out. We can most of the time expect the opposite.

There is a film out there called In the Shadow of the Moon which documents the culture surrounding our shooting to the moon. It may not be in this film but in some of the other media regarding this topic there are camera engineers interviewed. Why the mystery surrounding the loss of quality? Ive got a Wired article where the guy in charge of the monitors in Houston was told he was out of a job if he corrected the live footage.

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the devil is in the details

yesterday

edit: whats the difference between a kook and a clock keeper?

following pages can be found at 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.

what is up?

as the frustration nears a breaking point dissolve into the cool winds of autumn. ahhh. AHHHH! kill it.

well how have we been. My body and mind feel unalterably changed after recently visiting the cape town of nj. on this trip i was able to read some of a book titled "intoxication" along with another book titled "gods of eden." Both of these books have been very, very, very entertaining.

Intoxication is about the urge in living things to get fucked up. It is really that simple. We have mountain goats in yemen to thank for coffee, in case you did not know. I have read two chapters and the author does the kind of research I can get behind. Experience. He is talking about getting crickets and snails fucked up on Datura. That is some impressive shit right there. He talks about cows getting fucked up on some toxic plants and becoming dependent on them then passing the dependency to their children. He says when they get hooked on the plant they tend to remove themselves from the pack, ignore crys of hunger from their children and neglect any responsibilities they might have had for the day. Weeeeooo

Gods of Eden. I do not recommend this book for anyone who is comfortable. There are certain truths in this book, one that I hacked up and spit on here about comets, that will rape your soul. Do you want that? Lets just smash you with the basic idea. Since the beginning of organized time there are forces involved in our universe undermining the fundamental purpose of life. These forces are manifest in every aspect of being and manipulate good forces and entities to accomplish bad things. Do you understand that? Do you understand that we have or have had good and humanity loving forces at work only for them to be hijacked for nefarity while still appearing benevolent. Let that sink down. This force is precise and has no name but is very much a sum of our beings.

ANNNNNYWAYS. I also had the opportunity to watch Memoirs of a Geisha. Something about being in cape may softened my defenses to this film. I watched it twice in two days. I do not consider that normal behavior. There is just something captured in that movie and something in the main actress and her satellites that burned my insides.

Fuckem.

here is the rest of that cow article if your into it.

Best song I've heard in at least two years:

Incinerate - Sonic Youth

I'm thinking of posting here 1-2 times per week in an MP3 blog fashion. Good / bad idea?

Yesterday was the anniversary of the London fire of 1666. A century or two earlier were the plagues where there exist more than one account of people saying "lights appeared in the sky" or "great comets with trails of mist" occurred before outbreaks. Johannes Nohl wrote a book chronicles of the plague where he goes into these comets. Nohl makes it a point to draw a connection between comets and the appearance of plagues.

When in sun and moonlight a beautiful rainbow and a fiery beam were seen hovering above the church of St. Stephanie, which was followed by a violent epidemic in Austria, Swabia, Augsberg, Wuetemberg, Nuremburg, and other places, carrying off human beings and cattle.

Then you have Walter George Bell, an English Historian, reporting from 1664.

Late into dark December nights of the year 1664 London citizens sat up to watch a new blazing star, with "mighty talk" thereupon. King Charles II and his Queen gazed out of the windows at Whitehall...In March there came into the heavens a yet brighter comet visible two hours after midnight, and so continuing till daylight. With such ominous portents the Great Plague in London was ushered in.

After looking at some of this information about the plagues I am scratching my head. Bubonic plague needs a carrier like fleas or rats to spread and is not contagious. However reports from the time show that there was no real rat problem. But what do I know I am not alive then nor am I the one manipulating history.

this is in.circles post #501, congrats

ps, this is an old ass article, do not go looking for perseids tonight