What If (Part 2)

 

March 6, 2021

The Canadian Indian Act is something so horrid, so incredibly unjust, that it has amounted to genocide—plain and simple. The Ministry of Northern Affairs is the federal department tasked with supporting Indigenous peoples (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) and Northerners in their efforts to improve social well-being, foster economic prosperity, and build healthier, more sustainable communities. But what we have—both in this office and in this document—cannot be the way forward.

W12 The Indian Act

This document fills me with such anger that I struggle to find words to describe how I truly feel. The current Liberal government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised reconciliation with the Indigenous peoples of this country. But this “promise” is nothing more than a farce as long as this legislation remains in force. This nightmare needs to be repealed immediately, and a public apology must be issued.

Moreover, every employee of the Ministry—along with their families—since its inception should be forced to live under the same conditions imposed by the Indian Act, for the same length of time into the future as the Act stretches back into history. Only then could even a fraction of true justice be served. I firmly believe that genocide demands some good old Old Testament “eye for an eye” justice. We see this concept reflected in Freemasonry with the story of Hiram Abif and King Solomon, who allowed Hiram’s three murderers to choose their own manner of death.

Outrage aside, as a ten-year-old boy, I often read to escape the loneliness and isolation I felt at school. I read many of Farley Mowat’s books about the North, the Arctic, and the Inuit. In them, Mowat described how the Canadian government forcibly relocated these isolated, close-knit communities away from their traditional hunting and fishing grounds to arbitrary locations chosen by the government. Too often, these moves led to starvation because of the lack of game. Entire communities were wiped out.

W12 People of the Deer

In many cases, these “new” settlements were placed on small lakes with no inflowing or outflowing rivers or streams—meaning that if the lakes had fish, there was no natural way for the stock to replenish. That’s right—our Canadian government literally starved its own citizens to death.

And it didn’t stop there. On top of this, Indigenous people also endured what became known as “the scoops”—more accurately described as state-sponsored kidnappings. Children were taken from their homes and placed in residential schools, where they suffered every imaginable form of abuse. It’s impossible to rank one type of abuse as worse than another; what matters is this: we now have several generations of Indigenous parents emotionally crippled by their experiences in these institutions.

Their communities remain haunted by the legacy of residential schools—most notably through high rates of drug and alcohol abuse—which, tragically, has led to further “scoops” in places like Labrador and Newfoundland even in recent years.

In some ways, this is where our two societies converge. Since the time of Noah and the Great Flood—when kingship was said to have descended from heaven—the white man has assumed a sense of superiority. Sometimes it was deserved, but in most cases, it was not. From the Annunaki myths, we learned how to bulldoze our way through everything—especially nature—using technology. As a result, we have created a world of staggering wealth… and staggering disparity.

We live in a world where families must live and work together; parents juggle two or three part-time jobs just to pay the rent—maybe not even the utilities. Our Indigenous populations live in morbid poverty. Both populations—especially our youth—struggle with hope for tomorrow. Among Indigenous youth, hopelessness has reached epidemic levels, often culminating in suicide.

So, is there hope? Can we fix any of this?

I believe there is—if we take a two-pronged approach. What if Indigenous populations around the world led the way? What if we—the white man with our unbelievably stupid, undeserved arrogance—actually shut the hell up and truly asked Indigenous peoples for help?

WI2 Stewards of the Land

What if Indigenous communities united for a common cause and taught us—taught all of us—how to become stewards of the land?

What if?

What If Part 1

 

March 5, 2021

On this day in 1982, the Venera 13 arrived on the planet Venus, having launched in 1981. It spent four months travelling through space before reaching its destination. The Venera 13 spacecraft, launched by Russia, survived for 127 minutes on Venus’s surface—far exceeding its planned design life of 32 minutes in such a hostile environment. The lander recorded a temperature of 457°C (855°F) and an atmospheric pressure of 9.0 MPa—89 times the atmospheric pressure here on Earth.

The Surface of Venus

The atmosphere of Venus is composed primarily of carbon dioxide and is much denser and hotter than Earth’s. It supports opaque clouds of Sulphuric acid, making optical Earth-based or orbital observation of the surface impossible. Almost all information about Venus’s topography comes from radar imaging. Aside from carbon dioxide, nitrogen is the other main component of the atmosphere, though many other chemical compounds are present only in trace amounts.

Venus’s atmosphere is in a state of vigorous circulation. The upper layer of the troposphere exhibits a phenomenon known as super-rotation, where the atmosphere circles the planet in just four Earth days—much faster than Venus’s sidereal day of 243 Earth days. The winds driving this super-rotation blow at speeds exceeding 100 m/s (≈360 km/h or 220 mph), moving up to 60 times faster than the planet's rotation. By contrast, the fastest winds on Earth reach only about 10% to 20% of our planet's rotation speed. Closer to the surface, wind speeds slow significantly, with breezes barely reaching 10 km/h (2.8 m/s). Near the poles, anticyclonic structures called polar vortices feature double-eyed patterns with distinctive S-shaped cloud formations.

Above the troposphere lies the mesosphere, separating it from the thermosphere. Thethermosphere also exhibits strong circulation, but of a different nature: gases heated and partially ionized by sunlight migrate from the sunlit side to the dark hemisphere, where they recombine and descend.

Unlike Earth, Venus lacks a magnetic field. Instead, its ionosphere shields the atmosphere from outer space and the solar wind, creating what is known as an induced magnetosphere. Lighter gases, including water vapour, are constantly stripped away by the solar wind through the induced magneto-tail.

It is theorized that Venus's atmosphere, up to around four billion years ago, may have been more like Earth's—possibly with surface water. A runaway greenhouse effect likely resulted after surface water evaporated, triggering an increase in greenhouse gases.

Despite its hostile surface, the atmospheric pressure and temperature between 50 km and 65 km above Venus’s surface are similar to those on Earth. This makes the upper atmosphere of Venus the most Earth-like region in the solar system—more so than the surface of Mars. Because breathable air (a mix of 21% oxygen and 78% nitrogen) acts as a lifting gas on Venus, much like helium on Earth, the upper atmosphere has been proposed as a possible site for future exploration or even colonization.

Venus's atmosphere consists of approximately 96.5% carbon dioxide and 3.5% nitrogen, with trace amounts of other gases, most notably sulphur dioxide. Although nitrogen’s relative percentage is small, the total nitrogen content in Venus’s massive atmosphere is about four times that of Earth’s.

Various compounds are present in minor quantities, including hydrogen chloride (H Cl), hydrogen fluoride (HF), carbon monoxide, water vapour, and atomic oxygen. Hydrogen is scarce in the Venusian atmosphere—most of it likely lost to space—though some remains bound in sulphuric acid (H₂SO₄). The high deuterium-to-hydrogen (D/H) ratio measured in Venus’s atmosphere (0.015–0.025, roughly 100–150 times Earth's ratio) confirms this loss of hydrogen.

In September 2020, scientists announced the detection of phosphine—a potential biomarker for life—in Venus’s atmosphere. No known abiotic processes on Venus could explain the quantities detected. However, further analysis of Pioneer Venus data in 2020 suggested that some of the spectral features originally attributed to chlorine or hydrogen sulphide were actually related to phosphine, meaning earlier estimates of chlorine concentrations were too high, and hydrogen sulphide wasn’t detected at all.

In October 2020, a re-analysis of archived infrared data from 2015 found no trace of phosphine, setting a maximum concentration of 5 parts per billion—one-quarter of the amount first reported. Later that month, a review of the September 2020 study's data processing revealed interpolation errors that produced spurious spectral lines, including the supposed phosphine signature. Corrected data analysis failed to confirm the phosphine detection or found it only at a much lower concentration of 1 part per billion.

So, What Does It All Mean?

It means Venus is a brutal, life-hostile world. And many young people today worry—rightly—that Earth could suffer a similar fate.

But… what if there’s another way forward?
Something so radical, so provocative, it borders on offensive?

In our article, "Someone Is Going To Be Offended, we explored eugenics and Canada’s Indian Act This needs to be tore up and burned a document so unjust and oppressive that it facilitated cultural genocide, plain and simple. The Ministry of Northern Affairs, the federal body responsible for supporting Indigenous peoples (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) and northern communities, is charged with improving social well-being, fostering economic prosperity, and helping build healthier, sustainable communities.

But is what we see in this ministry—and the legacy of the Indian Act—really the way forward?

Gaia Overwhelmed and on Her Knees

 

January 16, 2021

Some mass extinctions unfold like a sloppy murder, leaving clear fingerprints for the keen investigator to uncover. (Asteroids are no masters of subtlety.) The Late Ordovician mass extinction, the oldest of all and the second most lethal, is not one of them. Though there is a standard explanation for this granddaddy of death involving an ancient ice age the evidence is cryptic enough that experts are still submitting new theories for how 85 percent of all marine species suddenly sank into oblivion.

The planet’s first death knell sounded 444 million years ago, near the end of the Ordovician period Simple forms of life — mainly bacteria and archaea — had already flourished for 3 billion years. Complex life, on the other hand, had only just hit its stride. 

In the sequence of geologic time, the Ordovician follows the Cambrian period, well-known for the evolutionary "explosion" of the same name that populated the world with nearly all the modern animal phyla — the major branches we now see in the tree of life. The ranks of vertebrates, mollusks, arthropods and other broad taxonomic groups still familiar to us today were growing and diversifying at an extraordinary rate — until their abrupt downfall, that is.

“The Ordovician is a very interesting time period,” says Seth Finnegan, a paleo biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, “because you have one of the largest and most rapid bio diversification events … and also one of the largest mass extinction events. Both of them are clearly tied up in physical changes to the environment.”

Ice, Fire and Deformities

At the time, most of Earth’s dry land was merged together in the supercontinent of Gondwana, which had drifted so far south that it hovered over the pole like present-day Antarctica. To the north, there were a few minor continents — notably Laurentia, which includes most of North America, and Baltica, which includes the Baltic region and part of Russia — that dotted the tropical and temperate regions around the equator. 

Plants and animals were perhaps beginning to venture above water, though nothing near the extent that they would in the coming eras. Largely, most of the action was still happening under the sea, where trilobites, corals and other primordial ocean-dwellers prospered like never before.

Orthoconic (straight-shelled) cephalopod

Cameroceras (name meaning "chambered horn") is an extinct orthoconic (straight-shelled) cephalopod that lived during the Ordovician period. They were likely a top predator of their time. (Credit: Esteban De Armas/Shutterstock)

Then came their demise. In conventional wisdom, it consisted of two distinct pulses separated by roughly a million years. First, glaciers engulfed Gondwana and the planet cooled dramatically, chilling the tropics and mid-latitudes. Sea levels plummeted hundreds of feet. This destroyed vast stretches of the warm, shallow-water habitat that sustained marine life. Then, in the second pulse, the glaciers melted, the planet warmed, and the ocean rose. The species that had just adapted to the cold struggled once again to evolve fast enough.

It is unclear what triggered that icy advance. Some studies suggest weathering of silicate rocks — especially in the rising Appalachian Mountains — could have drawn down atmospheric carbon dioxide, lowering global temperatures. Others implicate the expansion of plants, which could have absorbed greenhouse gases while also speeding up silicate weathering. One theory posits that a gamma-ray burst, by converting nitrogen and oxygen into sun-blocking smog, may have brought on the glaciers.

Many researchers are beginning to think that “cooling itself may not be solely responsible for these extinctions,” as Thijs Vandenbroucke and colleagues wrote in a 2015 paper that links some deaths to changing ocean chemistry. They found fossilized plankton with fatal deformities dating to the event, suggesting the release of toxic metals like iron and lead from the ocean depths may have been an important kill mechanism.

Some evidence in recent years even points the finger at glaciation’s elemental opposite: volcanism. The Ordovician extinction, if caused by the cooling climate, would be an outlier. Extreme volcanic activity is widely accepted as a main catalyst in most other mass die-offs, since it leads to inhospitable global warming. Now, with the discovery of mercury deposits from the era, the telltale signature of eruptions has surfaced in this extinction too. Rewriting the story with a fiery culprit would “make the late Ordovician stand out less,” Finnegan says, though he is not convinced yet.

The Equitable Extinction

While scientists are unsure why the majority of species died at this moment, they do understand how those deaths influenced the progression of life. Many extinctions jolt evolution off its course, allowing a host of new organisms to rise from the ashes and fill new niches in a new environment. But not so with the Ordovician extinction.

“The resulting fauna had ecologic patterns similar to the fauna that had become extinct,” writes Peter Sheehan, a paleontologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. “Other extinction events that eliminated similar or even smaller percentages of species had greater long-term ecologic effects.” That is because those long-term effects depend on which level of the taxonomic ladder an extinction acts upon. 

The Ordovician, for example, eliminated 85 percent of all species, but only 60 percent of genera and 25 percent of families, the next two levels of classification. Since somemembers survived in most families, life went on more or less, as it would have anyway. The Cretaetious Paleocene, in contrast, dethroned both orders (an even higher tier of taxonomy) of the dominant dinosaurs. The natural hierarchy inverted, and mammals rose to power.

So, even though it was deadlier than all mass extinctions but the Permian (also known, grimly, as the “Great Dying”), the Ordovician didn’t leave much of an impression. It killed many individual organisms, but decimated no so-called mascot groups — nothing of dinosaur, or even ammonite, stature. 

There were casualties, of course. The asaphida family of trilobites — which, with their snail-like eyestalks, are “about as charismatic as late Ordovician fossils get,” says Finnegan — disappeared almost completely. Graptolites, tiny colonial animals that lived together in a single skeleton, also flirted with annihilation. Corals, bryozoans  (another colonial creature), clam-like brachiopods, and eel-esque conodonts  suffered too.

Fossilized asaphida at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo. (Credit: Sarunyu

 Overall, this extinction just was not as selective as most — it did not target specific groups over others. In some extinctions, “it matters who you are and how you make your living,” as Finnegan puts it. For example, in the Permian extinction, acidic oceans eroded the calcified shells of many animals, while sparing the uncalcified. “In the late Ordovician event,” he went on, “my sense is that it matters more where you are.”

Most high-level taxonomic groups, happily for them, were widely dispersed. So even as ecological catastrophe struck certain regions, the cousins of the less fortunate persisted elsewhere and upheld the evolutionary status quo. In fact, the fossil record is so similar before and after the event that a rookie paleontologist staring right at the layers might miss the cutoff. “You need to be a specialist,” Finnegan says, “to tell what side of the Ordovician-Silurian boundary you’re on.” 

*Author note: It is likely that the Ordovician event was not actually the first mass extinction ever to sweep Earth, at least in terms of the proportion of organisms killed. In the billions of years before complex life emerged, the planet’s single-celled denizens endured harsh ecological change many times, including so-called snowball Earth episodes that likely locked every living thing beneath a sheet of ice. These and other events surely led to widespread extinction for microbial life.

Time

 

December 29, 2020

What is time? Does it have a beginning? Does it have meaning or context considering our immortality? When we look at the Universe today, we know with an extraordinary amount of scientific certainty that it was not simply created as-is, but evolved to its present configuration over billions of years of cosmic history. We can use what we see today, both nearby and at great distances, to extrapolate what the Universe was like a long time ago, and to understand how it came to be the way it is now.

When we think about our cosmic origins, then, it is only human to ask the most fundamental of all possible questions: where did this all come from? It has been more than half a century since the first robust and unique predictions of the Big Bang was confirmed, leading to our modern picture of a Universe that began from a hot, dense state some 13.8 billion years ago. However, in our quest for the beginning, we know already that time could not have started with the Big Bang. In fact, it might not have had a beginning at all.

For a time, there were multiple competing ideas, which were all consistent with the observations we had.

1. An expanding Universe could have originated from a singular point — an event in space-time — where all of space and time emerged from a singularity.

2. The Universe could be expanding today because it was contracting in the past, and will contract again in the future, presenting an oscillating solution.

3. Finally, the expanding Universe could have been an eternal state, where space is expanding now and always had been and always would be where new matter is continuously created to keep the density constant.

SFF Cosmic Eternity 

These three examples represent the three major options: the Universe had a singular beginning, the Universe is cyclical in nature, or the Universe has always existed. In the 1960s, however, a low-level of microwave radiation was found everywhere across the sky, changing the story forever.

This radiation was not just the same magnitude everywhere, but also the same in all directions. At just a few degrees above absolute zero, it was consistent with the Universe emerging from an earlier, hot dense state, and cooling as it expanded. As improved technology and novel techniques led to better data, we learned that the spectrum of this radiation had a particular shape: that of a near-perfect blackbody. A blackbody is what you get if you have a perfect absorber of radiation heated up to a certain specific temperature. If the Universe expands and cools without changing its entropy (i.e., adiabatically), something that starts with a blackbody spectrum will remain a blackbody, even as it cools. This radiation was not only consistent with being the leftover glow from the Big Bang, but was inconsistent with alternatives like tired light or reflected starlight. According to the Big Bang, the Universe was hotter, denser, uniform and smaller in the past. It only has the properties we see today because it has been expanding, cooling, and experiencing the influence of gravitation for so long. Because the wavelength of radiation stretches as the Universe expands, a smaller Universe should have had radiation with shorter wavelengths, meaning it had higher energies and greater temperatures.

Billions of years ago, it was once so hot that even neutral atoms could not form without being blasted apart. Even earlier than that, today's microwave radiations were so energetic that they dominated over matter as far as the Universe's energy content was concerned. At even earlier times, atomic nuclei were instantly blasted apart, and at still earlier ones, we could not even create stable protons and neutrons.

If we extrapolate all the way back, to arbitrarily hot temperatures, small distances, and high densities, you would intuit that this would truly equate to the beginning. If you were willing to run the clock backwards as far as you could, all of the space that makes up our visible Universe today would be compressed down to a single point.

Now, it is true that if you went to these extreme conditions, compressing all the matter and energy present in today's Universe into a tiny enough volume of space, the laws of physics would break down. You could try to calculate various properties, but you would only get nonsense for answers. This is what we describe as a singularity: a set of conditions where time and space have no meaning. At first glance, if you do the math, it appears that a singularity is inevitable, regardless of what dominates the Universe's energy content.

Singularities are where the law of gravitation governing the Universe — Einstein’s General Relativity — yields nonsense for predictions. Relativity, remember, is the theory that describes space and time. But at singularities, both spatial and temporal dimensions cease to exist. Asking questions like “what came before this event where time began” is as nonsensical as asking “where am I” if space no longer exists.

Indeed, this is the argument that many make, including Paul Davies, when they claim that there can be no discussion of what occurred before the Big Bang. This is a tautology, of course, if you assert that the Big Bang is where time began. But as interesting as this argument is, we know that the Big Bang is not where time began anymore. Ever since we have made modern, detailed measurements of the cosmos, we have learned that this extrapolation to a singularity must be wrong.

In particular, the patterns and magnitudes of the fluctuations that we have discovered in the modern radiation left over from that early, hot, dense state teach us a number of important properties about our Universe. They teach us how much matter was present in dark matter as well as normal matter: protons, neutrons and electrons. They give us a measurement of the

Universe's spatial curvature, as well as the presence of dark energy and the effects of neutrinos.

But they also tell us something vitally important that is often overlooked: they tell us whether there was a maximum temperature for the Universe back in its earliest stages. According to the data from WMAP and Planck, the Universe never achieved a temperature greater than about 10²⁹ K. This number is enormous, but it is over 1,000 times smaller than the temperatures we would need to equate to a singularity.

The particular properties of the Universe that are imprinted upon it from the earliest stages provide a window into the physical processes that took place at those times. Not only do they tell us that we cannot extrapolate the Big Bang all the way back to a singularity, but they tell us about the state that existed prior to (and set up) the hot Big Bang: a period of cosmic inflation.

During inflation, there was a tremendous amount of energy inherent to space itself, causing the Universe to expand both rapidly and relentlessly: at an exponential rate. This period of inflation occurred prior to the hot Big Bang, set up the initial conditions that our Universe began with, and left a series of unique imprints that we searched for and discovered after the theory had already predicted them. By any metric, inflation is a tremendous success.

Even though we can trace our cosmic history all the way back to the earliest stages of the hot Big Bang, that isn't enough to answer the question of how (or if) time began. Going even earlier, to the end-stages of cosmic inflation, we can learn how the Big Bang was set up and began, but we have no observable information about what occurred prior to that. The final fraction-of-a-second of inflation is where our knowledge ends.

Thousands of years after we laid out the three major possibilities for how time began — as having always existed, as having begun a finite duration ago in the past, or as being a cyclical entity — we are no closer to a definitive answer. Whether time is finite, infinite, or cyclical is not a question that we have enough information within our observable Universe to answer. Unless we figure out a new way to gain information about this deep, existential question, the answer may forever be beyond the limits of what is knowable.

That is what science says, but does it really help with our day-to-day reality? The Hindu yugas tell us that time is cyclical.

Super Ordinate Goals

 

November 28, 2020

Back in 2016, while struggling with a period of personal upheaval, I attempted to write an article that explained the startling connection between J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings” and the Holy Grail. The article fell flat, and I could not finish it nor could I delete it. It was not that I did not understand the connection, though I did have to read the trilogy a number of times to cement the multiple meanings in to my head. Not only is LOTR an incredible story, it is also an incredibly accurate allegory of everything that the Grail represents. If we include Tolkien’s “The Silmarillion” in to the LOTR story, we are given a far more complete idea of the story’s antagonist Sauron. In understanding Sauron’s role, and the equal role that the ring plays, we can understand how it is that the story’s fellowship of the ring develops and why it had to.

While at Rivendale, select citizens of Middle-earth discuss Sauron’s growing power and influence, and Frodo the Hobbit’s possession of the ring. The discussion talks about how the ring must be taken to Mordor and destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom. It is during this discussion that we learn something about Mordor, the character of its geography, climate, and citizenship. In essence, we learn that Mordor is hell on earth. The air is poisonous; the ground is barren and unable to support life, and the citizenry war-like and mutated.

From “The Silmarillion” through to the conclusion of ”The Return of the King”, we are made to realize that the climate of Mordor and really, all of middle earth is being forcibly changed by the noxious emissions of Mount Doom. This is accomplished by the growing population of Mordor, and the growing strength and influence of Sauron. The Hobbits, humans, elves, dwarves, and a wizard, whom I choose to call a savant, form the fellowship of the ring, and set themselves a super ordinate goal. Here we have a disparate group of races, form a united front to defeat Sauron.

Now, in too many ways we as inhabitants of Gaia are facing many of the same issues as the dwellers of Middle-earth. Sauron may well be a super natural imaginary figure, and Mount Doom an imaginary place, but they both symbolize real things in our real world. The causes of climate change are many and varied; some are even natural as is demonstrated by Mount Doom. As of September 17, 2020 there are 43 volcanoes erupting on earth. Science estimates that worldwide volcanoes emit 1.5 million tons of CO² in to the atmosphere daily, frighteningly; this is only a fraction (2%) of what human activity does.

Methane too is a huge contributor to green- house emissions; it is the main component of what natural gas is made of. Over a 20-year period, it is capable of trapping 70 times more heat than CO². In Canada, the oil and gas sector is the biggest methane polluter. Although the scale of industrial polluting is serious, I tend to believe that what we cannot properly track is scarier; that would be the entire arctic tundra where biomass locked up in the permafrost is now melting and decaying. I would imagine that at some point we will put a satellite up to monitor said emissions, but that in itself presents another problem, space junk. As of October 2020, there are 6,000 satellites in orbit, but only 40% of them are operational.  

SpaceX plans to launch up to 42,000 Starlink satellites in to low earth orbit, satellites already in orbit are interfering with astronomers efforts to get clear images from earthbound telescopes. This is not the only problem though, with more than 500,000 pieces of space debris in orbit, it is becoming more and more difficult for NASA, the Russians and SpaceX to find clear launch paths. The first piece of space junk was Sputnik 1; it escaped earth’s gravity on October 4, 1957, it remained in a distant orbit until January 4, 1958 when it reentered earth’s atmosphere and burned up. Its only occupant Laika was a dog and it died during reentry. I do not like to fear monger, but with 42,000 pieces of stuff in orbit, it at least statistically makes it likely that a scenario such as that presented in the Hollywood film “Gravity” a possibility. If such a thing was to take place involving 42,000 satellites, the resulting mess would make earth’s orbit a no-go zone unless, we were able to develop shield technology such as displayed by the Star Trek universe. This is not as far- fetched as it may seem, the unique properties of MFKZT may allow for the development of shielding technologies, as it has anti-gravity properties. The real problem is of course, speed. If you watch a video from the ISS docking, everything seems to happen in slow motion; however, the ISS is travelling at 7.66 km/s or 15,500 mph, which is terrifically fast. The thing of it is, all that stuff up there is travelling just as fast. So if we were to try to clean up, we would need something able to better that speed, stop relative to the object’s speed, collect the object, then accelerate to locate the next object, then repeat; then how do we dispose of these fragments? SpaceX boosters are reusable, which is incredible but is doubtlessly phenomenally expensive ($57 million or $2,500 per pound to orbit), again, MFKZT may provide an answer because of its anti-gravity properties. MFKZT may actually allow us to reach faster than light travel, which will enable us to reach the stars.

Certainly as it stands today, the environmental situation on earth or above seems bleak, the idea of runaway global warming turning our earth into another Venus is terrifying. The youth of today are scared, and they should be. Young Greta Thunberg, the Swedish activist is to be praised for her efforts to be both angry at the generations before her and, to try to enable the young of her generation to awareness and action on climate change. Donald Trump is an idiot, so is Vladimir Putin, Justin Trudeau is not far behind on the scale of idiocy, as are most world leaders.

If one good thing has happened during the Covid 19 pandemic it has been this, the world of medical science came together for a SUPER ORDINATE GOAL, we need to equally come together for a far more important SUPER ORDINATE GOAL, the saving of our planet. If the Annunaki could mount mission earth to save Nibiru, it should be easy for us to save earth.

The Cracked Egg

 

August 29, 2020

The thing that I call the Holy Grail, it is not just about a cup, or religion. For me it encompasses many different subjects. Earth and its geologic processes is a main area of interest. Our former overlords, the Annunaki, the bible’s god, gave us the Ennuma Elish. This document gives us a detailed explanation to our solar system’s creation, organization, and tells of the incredible events that led to our creation.

As we have learned, the grail is really a women’s reproductive system. But what about Gaia herself, should she not also be considered a womb? A wondrous chalice that has nurtured us, and allowed us to thrive, should we not try to understand her role in our creation? This beautiful blue marble that gave us life, may not be Zonoma Sekot, (a living, breathing, thinking world from the Star Wars universe), but through her incredibly intricate inter-connected systems, Gaia has allowed us to become the dominant life force on her surface. That alone, in my mind, is enough to make me want to study her respect her, love her.

The Ennuma Elish presents the Annunaki home world, called Nibiru, as being an unattached planet, wandering through the solar system. Both Uranus then Jupiter’s gravity swung Nibiru’s path on to a collision path with Gaia’s orbital position which was between Mars and Jupiter at that time.

The resulting collision was cataclysmic, you may think that such an incident would end any chance of life on earth, the impact actually seeded earth with life in a process known as panspermia. 

Panspermia is the hypothesis that that life exists throughout the Universe and is distributed by natural means like, meteoroides, asteroids, and comets, or directly seeded by, spacecraft. It means that, seeds and/or spores an travel through space, and "seed" planets with life. The discovery of organic molecules in space dust, comet tails, supports the idea of, Panspermia. Some forms of life are capable of surviving extreme environments, both Tardigrades, and Cockroaches can survive doses of radiation that would kill humans. 

Gaia formed by normal planetary accreditation, that is where bits of swirling gas and dust gather together by gravity’s force, to eventually attract stones, pebbles, rocks and so on, to form planetary masses. Her water came from hydrogen locked inside the rock, which was released by volcanic activity.

As is evidenced by all the so far discovered either in our solar system, or exoplanets, planetary bodies are solid rocks. There is obvious evidence of volcanic activity in the way of water, Enceladus, Pluto, and other icy water worlds. That said, there seems to be no evidence elsewhere of tectonic plate activity. It is theorized that Tiamat-Gaia, had little or no above water dry land mass, and the depth of the planetary ocean was likely several miles deep over the hardened crust. When Nibiru’s moon crashed in to Tiamat, it gouged out enormous continent sized chunks from

the planet’s crust, which became the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Earth because of the unimaginable violence of two planets colliding, was thrown from its orbit there, to its new home, that being where we are, the 3rd rock from the sun. Many mistakenly say that the moon was formed at the time of this collision. This we can confidently say bullshit to. The Annunaki record that the moon, Nanna, or Sin, was already formed, and in orbit around Tiamat. Its cratered, and stained surface, clearly tell a tale of tremendous violence in the past. Understanding that it was already formed, makes the idea of it being pelted by debris from the Nibiru/Tiamat collision, much easier to see. It also explains why its not a misshapen lump, from it being "broken off" from Tiamat's mass, then being peppered with debris. Sometimes smart people miss the big picture.  

We know that Tiamat’s injury took place in the Pacific Ocean’s basin, to a depth of 10, 911.4 meters (35,798.556 feet), in the Challenger Deep

in the Mariana Trench, the deepest point of any ocean on earth. Where the water pressure is a bone crushing 15,000 pounds per square inch, making conditions so inhospitable, that more people have been on the moon than in the Challenger Deep. There, the earth’s crust is thinnest as well.

Gaia took a god all mighty hit from Nibiru’s moon, it gouged out an enormous chunk of the earth, and, contributing to the stress on our world was, the fact that Nibiru came at us from the opposite orbital direction. The collision slowed our orbital speed, as well as slowing our axial rotation, thereby intensifying the splintering effects of the original collision.

There exists in the Atlantic ocean, the mid-Atlantic ridge, commonly referred to as a string of under- water volcanoes. This phenomenon is causing the spread of the Atlantic ocean by a couple of centimeters per year. The country of Iceland is the only part of the ridge that is above sea level. Fascinatingly, Thingvellier Park, is the only place on earth where it is possible for a diver to touch two tectonic plates at the same time.

The mechanically rigid outer layer of Earth, the lithosphere, is broken into pieces called tectonic plates. These plates are rigid segments that move in relation to one another at one of three types of plate boundaries: convergent boundaries, at which two plates come together divergent boundaries, at which two plates are pulled apart, and transform boundaries, in which two plates slide past one another laterally. Earthquakes, volcanic activity, mountain building, and oceanic trench formation can occur along these plate boundaries. The tectonic plates ride on top of the asthenosphere, the solid but less-viscous part of the upper mantle that can flow and move along with the plates, and their motion is strongly coupled with convection patterns inside the mantle.

As the tectonic plates migrate across the planet, the ocean floor is sub-ducted under the leading edges of the plates at convergent boundaries. At the same time, the upwelling of mantle material at divergent boundaries creates mid ocean ridges. The combination of these processes continually recycles the oceanic crust back into the mantle. Due to this recycling, most of the ocean floor is less than 100 million years old in age. The oldest oceanic crust is located in the Western Pacific, and has an estimated age of about 200 million years old. By comparison, the oldest dated continental crust is 4.4 billion years old.

The seven major plates are the Pacific, North American, Eurasian, African, Antarctic, Indo- Australian, and South American. Other notable plates include the Arabian Plate, the Caribbean Plate, the Nazca Plate off the west coast of South America and the Scotia Plate in the southern Atlantic Ocean. The Australian Plate fused with the Indian Plate between 50 and 55 million years ago. The fastest-moving plates are the oceanic plates, with the Cocos Plate advancing at a rate of 75 mm/year and the Pacific Plate moving 52–69 mm/year. At the other extreme, the slowest-moving plate is the Eurasian Plate, progressing at a typical rate of about 21 mm/year.

Thoughts on Gaia

March 12, 2016

 

There are rocks in northern Canada that are 4 billion years old and there are places on earth where the continental crust is better than twelve miles thick and extend to forty-five miles, and the average altitude of all the continents is about 2000 feet.

It’s been shown that the oceanic basins’ crust is much thinner, most notably in the Pacific, it’s also been noted that the oceanic crust is only about 200 million years old. So why is there such discrepancy in age? It can’t be put down to continental drift and subduction aided by silting.

Yes earth renews itself through continental drift but when we consider the pacific ring of fire I think we must consider it in a new light. Clearly the earth’s crust was damaged hugely by an impact, one that shattered it and gouged out an enormous chunk of it. Yes we’ve talked about Nibiru’s moon crashing into Tiamat and thereby leaving the asteroid belt as undeniable evidence of the collision.

It really troubles me that the scientific community won’t realize that even though they claim not to believe in god, their short-sighted narrow-mindedness precludes them from the wisdom that was left us through the Sumerian record. I truly believe that all our scientific leaders should be schooled in the Sumerian creation epic The Enuma Elish that this document should be made as much required reading as Newton’s Law. They teach us that π = 2.14, that it’s important to know, so why don’t they teach us what’s vital to know?

A scientist/historian quickly comes to believe that there is no such thing as god, and their right about that, some even find out about the Sumerians but most relegate the Sumerians to myth and legend why? Because our programming as children kicks in and that programming starts us off as believing that there is no such thing as aliens. Whether we believe in god or not our education system is based on Judean/

Christian influence, which says that god created us and that we’re alone in the universe.

Some want empirical data, saying that pyramids and clay tablets are too circumstantial, well perhaps on the surface they are but, as we dig further into history’s secrets the evidence of alien contact becomes overwhelming. I suppose that these artifacts that are 2000 years old don’t prove that our ancestors knew of flight and strongly indicate alien contact.

Many scholars have said that it’s impossible that African or Mediterranean cultures ever got to the Americas, I beg to differ, when the Spanish looked up from land grabbing and plundering, they couldn’t help but notice that many of the customs and belief systems were incredibly close to those of the bible. Some said that this was because the American natives were one of the lost ten tribes of Israel.

They were close but again we have the church to thank for getting it wrong again. As we know the church was brutal as it forcefully converted the native population to Christianity, as we’ve seen the church continues to propagate a huge irony, let’s worship the dragon that we’ve de-dragonized.

Here’s the thing though, we know that Thoth was Quetzalcoatl

the son of ENKI brought Sumerian/Egyptian cultural systems with him to Mesoamerica. We know that when the ANNUNAKI left Mesoamerica they did it by water craft, which is why the Spanish were, welcomed so warmly when they first arrived on south American shores, the native Americans thought that their gods had returned. It’s possible that the  ANNUNAKI used a device very similar to this

The Antikythera mechanism is a bronze orrery, the oldest known analog computer, used by ancient Greeks to predict astronomical positions and eclipses. Discovered in a Roman shipwreck off the island of Antikythera, it's considered a remarkable feat of engineering and technology, demonstrating the Greeks' sophisticated understanding of astronomy and mechanics.  The mechanism was composed of over 30 interlocking bronze gears, some with teeth as small as a millimeter, allowing it to accurately track the movement of the sun, moon, and planets.  It could predict the position of celestial bodies, including the phases of the moon, eclipses, The mechanism could also display the date according to the Egyptian and Greek calendars.  It has been called the world's oldest computer due to its complex gear system and ability to perform calculations.  Some believe it might have been used for navigation, allowing the ancient Greeks to travel more safely and efficiently.  The mechanism's display included "little spheres" representing planets and a "little golden sphere" representing the Sun, reflecting a geocentric view of the solar system. 

Four Billion Year Old Continent In Canada's NWT

 

November 16, 2015

A fiery ball of molten lava – the beginning of our planet, four and a half billion years ago. There was no atmosphere, no oceans, and no rock as we know it; the conditions were too hot for the molten material to form solids. But, slowly, things cooled, and five hundred million years later, areas of the earth’s crust had solidified. Amazingly, remnants of these first rocks have remained intact through the ages, and are now being studied by geologists looking for hints of that nascent world. The oldest rocks have been found in Australia, scattered crystals that date back 4.28 billion years. But located in the Canadian Arctic are rocks over 4 billion years old that form a solid mass, the heart of one of the first continents on Earth, perhaps the first.

Figure 1: The heart of the archaic continent is located just north of Yellowknife, NWT.

Just north of Yellowknife, in the Northwest Territories, Canadian geology sleuths Wouter Bleeker and Richard Stern have been examining the composition of these primeval rocks to piece together the first 1.5 billion years of the ancient continent’s history. The rocks stretch continuously for hundreds of kilometers – they are not scattered remnants, but a solid chunk of a continent (Fig. 1)!

The piece of ancient crust is made of gneiss, a metamorphic rock that forms under high temperatures and pressure (Fig. 2, 3). The top of this layer is uneven, an indication that it has been exposed to the elements for some time; it has been weathered.

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igure 2: Canadian arctic gneiss. Gneiss is a grainy metamorphic rock with a banded appearance that is due to the separation of the different minerals into layers.

Some of the layers on top of the gneiss are much younger–about 2.8 billion years old. This gap in time likely represents a period of uplift, when forces from the mantle below forced the continent upwards, exposing its surface to the elements. After millennia of erosion, the continent then sank below an ocean and sedimentary layers – sandstone, and other, iron-rich rocks – began to accumulate. The 2.8 billion year old layers are volcanic, indicating that the wafer of rock was ripped apart, and lava from below flowed over the crust’s surface (Fig. 4).

Figure 3: Very old gneiss intruded by younger, probably 3.6 billion year old granitic veins or “dykes”.

Along the eastern flank of this archaic landmass, the layers of gneiss, sandstone, and volcanic material are all missing. This is a sure indication that the 4 billion year old continent was once bigger–that the Canadian chunk is only a portion of a larger continent, perhaps even a super-continent. Other pieces of this continent may still exist! In places as far afield as Wyoming and

Zimbabwe, rocks dating to the same age and with the same layering pattern have been found. The history of this archaic landmass is obviously a convoluted one, but it just might be the information gleaned from the relic located in Canada’s arctic that illuminates it.

Figure 4: A cross section of rock, showing the layers that reveal an ancient continent’s history.