Ib & Ob: IOP Paradox Part 9

Ob: Well the Bio Emitters turned out to be some what expensive and then I got distracted with the Trilons.

Ib: I thought the hull do not look as shiny as it should, basically you are telling me the ship is unprotected.

Ob: We have defenses I just thought out here in the middle of no space I did not think we would meet an hostile force.

Ib: And you said and I quote "Chance happens in the strangest of places..."

Ob: Nothing strange about this place.

Ib: Haxians, artifacts and a seeder ship not strange! Mmm.

Ob: Maybe the best thing to do would be to hide somewhere. Err and quickly there is a ship on the scanner.

Ib: Well Haxians are very two dimensional in their thinking I really do not how they made it into space.  Have you seen the inside of their ships it is all flat surfaces and no place to sit.

Ob: How does it help us?

Ib:  Easy drop into a lower orbit, it will take them at least a couple of rotations before they figure out where we have gone.  And by then we will have come up with a better plan.

Ob: Do you really think they will fall for that?

Ib: Only one way to find out.

Ob: One interval.

Ob: Errr there appears to be a lot of radiation here in the southern hemisphere at this altitude.  Was not this the place you dumped your beta nano swarm last time we were here?

Ib: Yes well they taking up space in the cargo bay plus they never did anything useful.

Ob: That is why they call it beta.  According to the scanner there is a central mass in the center of the radiation.  It is ten times our mass.

Ib: How close are we to it?

Ob: Hold a panug! Purple Monopods! It is coming closer at velocity.

Ib: Well if the swarm survived technically they are Grey Tech and it attracts other Grey Tech, hence Grey World.

Ob: We are getting a signal on the encrypted channel.

Ib: And?

Ob: They are requesting a power transfer and have given us landing signals.

Ib: I am not sure about this, Nano-swarms can be very needy.

Ob: It is better than hanging about waiting for the Haxians to turn up.

Ib: Fine.

Human Interlude #4

J: Mr President, NASA have reported an unknown object at the center of the South Atlantic Anomaly.

Mr President: What do they want me to do about it.  Did that space station see it?

J: NASA had to turn off the live feed again, you know it makes all the Alien Conspiracy theorists jumpy when they do that.

Mr President's Hair: yes they love feeding the trolls.

Mr President: I don't see what they expect me to do, all they ever do is ask me for money and avoid all my questions.

Mr Berg: That is simply not true Mr President, your just not suited to the answers they give.

Mr President: What does the object look like?

Mr Berg: Excellent question Mr President, shows the true scientist in you.

Mr President: What's the answer?

Mr Berg: Well apparently it was very big and black.

Mr President: Was? How do you see something black on the blackness of space exactly?

Mr Berg: It only appeared for a few moments some Youtuber caught it on the live feed.

Mr President: What you are telling me is that NASA watches YouTube?

Mr Berg: Not all the time.

J: Mr President I think perhaps now would be a good time for one of your tweets.

The Planets

NASA tells us that it has found Firefly's universe, a solar system with seven planets three of which are in a habitable zone and may have oceans.  Just one small problem, it is forty light years from us, at maximum velocity using our current technologies we can perhaps achieve 29,000 mile per hour.  Eight hundred thousand years later we can arrive at the new earths, of course the possibility that humanity had gone extinct during that period is a minor concern.  The other possibility is that a faster drive system is invented whilst the explorers are in flight and arrive just when the all planets in the solar system are bursting with human populations.  In fact the possibilities are endless, just read any 1950's pulp Scifi books.

Apparently it is a BIG discovery because basically they will be looking at the atmospheres and possibly finally say whether there is life out there.  Conspiracy theorists will say that NASA has had this information for years and only now they are just giving us a few breadcrumbs to work with, they will also probably point out that this is classical misdirection tactics to get the public's attention away from the orange terrorist that sits upon the throne of America.  I have to say the timing does seem a little bit coincidental but that's history for you, its full of such events.  Although we are working with a very small sample just ten thousand years of recorded history.

Also in the news is the possibility that Pluto will regain its planet status and the real question is do we really care?  The answer is quite simple until we are using a SatNav in our future spaceships to tell us which gravity well is a planet or not and whether we can do a handbrake turn in orbit without crashing like all those UFOs in conspiracy theories the answer is no.  Okay I admit not that simple.

Had a recent Twitter exchange with a Flat Earther telling me that all of NASA's photos are fakes:

@FlatEarthCity  Feb 21 @seadevil4 yeah maybe eventually they'll get one that looks real (but why dont they all match each other)...

Hey wait a minute none of my photos that I have taking since I had a camera match either does that mean they are all fakes.

@FlatEarthCity Feb 21 @seadevil4 yeap all fakes

It would appear so which means I do not exist, bummer!

Traffic Deduction

My previous post about the Luddite Dictator is getting a lot of traffic which is interesting because I have spoken and hash tagged him before so it must be one of the other tags causing this influx of traffic.

The tags used in the last post are:

• Dictator
• Finasteride
• Hair
• Immigration
• Loss
• Luddite
• Nasa
• Profit
• SubPrime
• Trump - used before

All the traffic is coming from Europe although most is coming from the UK.  If I reuse these tags will this post get the same amount of traffic.  Although I would be guilty of what YouTubers do, see below!

What really annoys me on YouTube posts, is the name of the video normally a BIG headline that turns out to be nothing to do with the video in question.  Yes I know they are designed to entice viewers still really annoying.  They love using adjectives in the extremist form possible.

A recent one I watched on Sunday was an interview with Edward Snowden, it said: "Everthing About Donald Trump"   Whilst Trump was mentioned a couple of times it most definitely not all about Trump.

This is how you drive traffic to your sites and it is also why Fake News sites worked so well, fiction is always more interesting than fact.  Please forgive me then for using the same tags again purely for testing purposes I will however add some extras for completeness sake.

Am I perhaps getting traffic from customers of Finasteride, sorry no help here.  Drinking hot water in the morning and evening is probably better for you, just my opinion I'm no Doctor.

I suppose it could have been down to the content of the post, I can only hope on that front.  It would be ironic though.

The Luddite Dictator

It would appear Trump is unmaking America one executive order at a time most of the international community have condemned his immigration policy a truly ironic act considering he wants to make America great again, America was born out of immigration plus considering his own roots somewhat hypocritical:

"Trump is of paternal German ancestry and maternal Scottish ancestry. His mother and all his grandparents were born in Europe. His paternal grandparents were immigrants from Kallstadt, Germany, and his father..."

His recent order to begin scaling back banking regulations will probably be not spotted by most people because it is the sort of dry stuff that makes you fall asleep.  These regs were put in place after the Sub-Prime Mortgage crisis 2007-08 which wiped approximately twelve trillion dollars off the world's economy so while it is dry reading it is VERY important.

"A second order the president signed will delay an Obama-era rule that requires financial professionals who charge commissions to put their clients’ interests first when giving retirement advice."

You cannot trust anyone now!

The original deregulation occurred back in the early 80's,  America were not the only ones letting the banks do what they wanted.  Maggie Thatcher in Britain did it as well so when Sub-Prime happened we got hit as well.

Trump's administration so far is all about making the rich richer that's all it is!  Anything that costs money like science, climate change and NASA are having their budgets cut or have been put in the bin.

Basically all the things that may save our world in the future from natural and man-made disasters have been put on the scrapheap in the name of profit.  America is returning to the dark ages and the chances are they will take the rest of world along with it.

the Luddite Dictator is on drugs for his hair loss, wow how vain are you?

"...that the president takes finasteride, side effects include sexual, physical and psychological changes..."

Reminds me of another dictator that used to dye his hair, they found him hiding under a road apparently.

Big Brother

1984 has been here awhile now however the quality of the pictures are not as sharp as you have been led to believe.  Have you ever looked at CCTV camera footage?  I have once when I was in my teens doing jury service which was played on DAT tapes and quite recently.  The level of quality has not perceptively improved by much which makes no sense whatsoever considering the mega-pixels I get on my phone and yet CCTV footage is still truly abysmal.

I have watched lots of CSI/Crime shows where the forensic bods take CCTV footage of a car and immediately resolve its number plate by applying a special filter, that's pure fiction no facts whatsoever.  If you start off with big pixels and poor resolution no amount of fancy imaging techniques is going to help you just end up with bigger pixels.

Recently in the news there was a report about a NASA astronaut covering up an potential UFO on the ISS Webcam feed, where the quality close-up is pretty good indeed.  That being said the so called evidence the SecureTeam10 shows is somewhat lacking not to mention the pure coincidence of the Astronaut's hand being suddenly in the way.  The evidence lasts 4 seconds on the camera and they have to slow it considerably just to spot it which means the astronaut would have been unlikely to see anything in that short space of time especially since I am sure he was too busy doing his work.

I will be the first to admit I am not a astrophysicist however looking at the evidence I would say either it was a meteoroid which hit the atmosphere and bounced off or it was most likely an artifact within the camera itself remember no gravity even a little bit of dust inside the camera's innards can cause all sorts weird effects.  Although I admit the way it fell looked more like space junk to me.

On thing Conspiracy theorists love to do is look at old photos of the Moon landings either to say they are faked or to point at some vastly distance object and say its not naturally occurring because it is curved or looks too straight. Curves occur all the time in nature just look at spiral galaxies.

Wikipedia has an excellent page about Apollo photos, which is well worth a read.  The cameras back them used film and over the course of the Apollo missions they took thousands of photos a lot of which ended up on the cutting room floor because of poor quality, incorrect exposures etc.  The astronauts had been trained to use the electric Hasselblad cameras  however even with this training it takes time to get perfect shots or take an awful lot and get lucky.  To which I can testify, in the summer of 1993 I spent five weeks camping on Canada traveled roughly five thousand miles in a beat up Ford Explorer (1969) with two friends who were both competent photographers.  Myself however not so much, I took over six hundred photographs of which I whittled down to one hundred fifty of reasonable quality and this is with a point and click camera.  The picture below was taken quickly and I did not notice that the 'P' sign sat nicely on top of the 'arking' sign.  One of my friends returned a year later to take the same picture on purpose.

Which goes to show the more the pictures you take increases the likely hood of some quality shots.

Whilst camera quality has improved over the last fifty years it is still far from perfect, distance shots require big lens otherwise you end up with big pixels.  You cannot hold Apollo photos to same standard of photographs today that is just basically idiotic.

Jetsam #2

Blue is the new fashion for Thieves.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/10/how_do_you_foil_apple_wear_blue/

Restarts and Updates Required.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2016/jun/13/pound-and-shares-hit-by-brexit-and-growth-fears-business-live

The return to hard copy or a mass exodus to Instagram

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/13/facebook-delete-photos-moments-app

It’s Curry but not as we know it.

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/seagull-tikka-masala-curry-orange_uk_5759854ee4b0069193654160?edition=uk&utm_hp_ref=uk-weird-news

Dogging Ghosts

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/hull-ghost-hunters-porn-shoot-graveyard_uk_5751808ae4b040e3e8197d26?edition=uk&utm_hp_ref=uk-weird-news

Time of the Vampyr

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03/16/blood-moon-in-pictures-total-supermoon-lunar-eclipse-seen-around/

Sounds like a Self Fulfilling Prophecy…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/31/scientists-and-insurers-develop-death-clock-to-predict-when-cust/

There Be Dragons.

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/23313/20160603/rare-baby-dragons-hatch-ancient-slovenian-cave.htm

Elvis is not dead he is on the Ascension B Ark.

http://www.express.co.uk/news/weird/679338/Bizarre-conspiracists-condemned-for-claiming-Nasa-scientist-killed-by-aliens