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Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time | Lex Fridman Podcast #315
The Big Bang didn’t happen: What do the James Webb images really show?
To everyone who sees them, the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images of the cosmos are beautifully awe-inspiring. But to most professional astronomers and cosmologists, they are also extremely surprising—not at all what was predicted by theory. In the flood of technical astronomical papers published online since July 12, the authors report again and again that the images show surprisingly many galaxies, galaxies that are surprisingly smooth, surprisingly small and surprisingly old. Lots of surprises, and not necessarily pleasant ones. One paper’s title begins with the candid exclamation: “Panic!”
Why do the JWST’s images inspire panic among cosmologists? And what theory’s predictions are they contradicting? The papers don’t actually say. The truth that these papers don’t report is that the hypothesis that the JWST’s images are blatantly and repeatedly contradicting is the Big Bang Hypothesis that the universe began 14 billion years ago in an incredibly hot, dense state and has been expanding ever since. Since that hypothesis has been defended for decades as unquestionable truth by the vast majority of cosmological theorists, the new data is causing these theorists to panic. “Right now I find myself lying awake at three in the morning,” says Alison Kirkpatrick, an astronomer at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, “and wondering if everything I’ve done is wrong.”
It is not too complicated to explain why these too small, too smooth, too old and too numerous galaxies are completely incompatible with the Big Bang hypothesis. Let’s begin with “too small”. If the universe is expanding, a strange optical illusion must exist. Galaxies (or any other objects) in expanding space do not continue to look smaller and smaller with increasing distance. Beyond a certain point, they start looking larger and larger. (This is because their light is supposed to have left them when they were closer to us.) This is in sharp contrast to ordinary, non-expanding space, where objects look smaller in proportion to their distance.
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RNA for Moderna’s Omicron Booster Manufactured by CIA-Linked Company
Since late last year, messenger RNA for Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines, including its recently reformulated Omicron booster, has been exclusively manufactured by a little known company with significant ties to US intelligence.
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“This combustible mix of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces” ~ Carl Sagan
Digital ID ominous foot-in-the-door: “Known Traveller Digital Identity”
This is how they are selling Digital IDs. First, they will pose as a voluntary “convenience” for travel. Then they will morph into much more than that, eventually becoming a digital prison. The excerpt below comes straight from the World Economic Forum KTDI website. ABN
The Known Traveller Digital Identity, or KTDI, is a World Economic Forum initiative that brings together a global consortium of individuals, governments, authorities and the travel industry to enhance security in world travel.
The first global collaboration of its kind, KTDI enables more secure and more seamless travel that benefits both travellers and the travel industry.
KTDI enables consortium partners to access verifiable claims of a traveller’s identity data so they can assess their credibility, optimise passenger processing and reduce risk.
KTDI allows individuals to manage their own profile and collect digital ‘attestations’ of their personal data, deciding what data to share and when.
The more attestations a traveller accumulates and shares, the better consortium partners, governments and other parties can provide a smooth and safe travel experience.
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This constitutes hybrid warfare against first Western civilization, then the world. Control like this from unelected groups like WEF will quickly become an inescapable technological trap that once sprung leaves no possibility for escape, ever. ABN
This constitutes an act of hybrid war against the Canadian people and a genuine conspiracy. ABN
What Really Happened During the Yellowstone Park Flood?
I found the narrator’s delivery quite interesting. For the length of the video he maintains a public face with a few conspicuous emotional expressions, also stock public semiotics. He comes across as an intelligent, kindly, nice-guy type. This may well be his persona in real life. What I want to point out is the burden of carrying a persona like this wherever you are, especially into your own home, your own world. In your private spaces, you can greatly improve your communication by doing FIML practice. Clearly, there is a more complex person behind the persona we see in the video. This is the part of us—our authentic being—that FIML works with. There are two difficulties in doing FIML: 1) you must have the ability to be trustworthy and you need to have a trustworthy partner that you care about and that cares about you; 2) you both have to learn how to overcome the universal taboo of stopping real-time speech to query the speaker directly about what they just said; you have to be able to do this and accept this when your partner does it to you. Point #1, sadly, can be the more difficult. Point #2 is difficult because it goes against what seems to be an instinct. It can be overcome fairly easily if we know there is a reason to do that. It is like overcoming a tendency to flinch where it is not needed. ABN
Cinematically and intellectually this is about as far out as it gets, but we live in a time when we also must wonder if this is true
Is stretching our imaginations a tactic of mass mind-control or is it a necessary defense against mass mind-control? It could be both. Not enough information can be dangerous but so can too much of the wrong kind of information be dangerous. This clip describes a not impossible way of controlling us as information systems through a larger information system. Language, society, and human psychology can be understood as fundamentally information systems that are also fundamentally chaotic or too complex to fully control; hence our love and fear of freedom. Money and food systems control a good deal of what we do but not enough. An “intra-body nano network” would create an overarching information system that is simpler, objective, and controllable. ABN
Secret Service Deleted Texts: “There’s no way these texts aren’t recoverable”
Garry Nolan: UFOs and Aliens | Lex Fridman
Lake Mead: Why govt is letting it fail
Real-life policing in China, a demonstration
We can only imagine the purging of China’s deplorables happening during China’s vast lockdowns. Many will disappear. Digital IDs will serve this purpose in the West if we allow them. ABN
Interesting mix of economic, green, and futuristic ideas
FBI investigation determined Chinese-made Huawei equipment could disrupt US nuclear arsenal communications
Washington (CNN)On paper, it looked like a fantastic deal. In 2017, the Chinese government was offering to spend $100 million to build an ornate Chinese garden at the National Arboretum in Washington DC. Complete with temples, pavilions and a 70-foot white pagoda, the project thrilled local officials, who hoped it would attract thousands of tourists every year.
But when US counterintelligence officials began digging into the details, they found numerous red flags. The pagoda, they noted, would have been strategically placed on one of the highest points in Washington DC, just two miles from the US Capitol, a perfect spot for signals intelligence collection, multiple sources familiar with the episode told CNN.
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