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Einstein predicted that time slows down the faster you travel and the time-dilation hypothesis has since been proven by flying atomic clocks on aircraft.
The three fastest human beings at the moment are NASA astronaut Anne McClain, Canadian Space Agency astronaut David Saint-Jacques (pictured) and Roscosmos astronaut Oleg Kononenko who are orbiting Earth on the International Space Station at a speed of around 28 800 km/h.
They are travelling so fast that they will return home to Earth after their six-month spaceflight 0.007 seconds younger than if they had stayed with their feet on the ground.
But how do astronauts perceive time in space? Space Station crew report that time seems to speed up in microgravity so European researchers are trying to find out more by immersing astronauts in virtual reality and testing their reaction times.
A virtual reality headset is used to block external visual cues that could influence the results. The experiment focuses on how astronauts estimate time duration as well as their reaction times. They are asked gauge how long a visual target appears on screen. Their reaction times to these prompts are recorded to process speed and attention.
The astronauts run the experiment before flight, on the International Space Station and again when they land to compare results. ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst was the first test subject to take part in this experiment in 2018. Anne and David did a session in February in ESA’s Columbus laboratory.
Understanding how time is perceived in space is important as astronauts are often required to conduct precision work where timing is everything. This research in microgravity will help reveal clues as to what helps keep our brains ticking the seconds accurately.
Credits: NASA
One of the objectives of our roadtrip was to visit the migrant schools in the town of Mae Sot on the border with Myanmar. My daughter had gathered together a heap of donated clothes, toys and bric a brac as well as raising money from within our own school community to help the Burmese teachers who work at the schools teaching migrant workers' children. The teachers and families live in often desperate conditions and their lives are incredibly difficult.
In the lottery of life it is very difficult to predict the life chances and prospects for this wee boy.
In all the pictures from Maesot I have deliberately withheld names and locations to protect those depicted.
Today we are experiencing a heat wave! ( 37C or 98.6F) we normally average 25C (77F) in November.
The temperature was predicted to reach 42C but was downgraded to 37C last night.
The sign that summer isn't too far away.
Predicted rain came close but did not arrive at White Sands National Monument near Alamogordo, NM on the evening of the full moon.
Noted predictor of the future, Merlin the Wibbly-Wobbly, fears foreboding omens for the Spring... along with a pile of rain.
We're Here says Spring Has Sprung today.
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when I get back to PA this week. They'll be about $4, free shipping. e-mail me at predicttable@yahoo.com or message me on here if you're interested.
Numbers, letters, lets look at the blueprints. Puzzles, messages, lets look at the plan. Encrypted, decrypted, encoded information, the cipher of the decipher of the text. Predicted, restricted, classified information, the data of the metadata of the context. What are the algorithms, the sequences, the calculations of the code of the Beast Mode? What is the linguistics of the morphology of the syntax of the semantics of the schematics?
The coming apocalypse, the four horsemen of the apocalypse. The prince of darkness, the Mark of the Beast. Mystery Babylon, Babylon the Great. The battle of Armageddon, the second coming of Christ.
Psalm 75:8 “In the hand of the LORD is a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices; he pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to its very dregs.”
They control the information. They control the information flow. They collect the information. They run the data through computer models and simulations. Data is the future. Those who control the data will control the future. In fact, you could say: Those who control the data will know the future. The more AI advances, the more it can predict the future. That’s why those at the top think: if we can predict the future, we can control the future. Well, that’s what they think. In reality, they can’t see their own future demise. They can’t beat God. They can fight against Him, but in the end they will lose.
Technology speeds up time. Not that time itself speeds up, but that more can be accomplished in the same amount of time. “But you, Daniel, keep this prophecy a secret; seal up the book until the time of the end, when many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase.” Technology has allowed us to “rush” here and there. Technology has caused knowledge to increase. The coming technology will change the current landscape forever. “The end will come like a flood.” As time speeds up more and more, these crazy technological ideas/goals will come in quickly and take many by surprise. The globalists have this goal in mind: to usher us into the Fourth Industrial Revolution. What does this mean for humanity? It means transhumanism: 666 the Mark of the Beast.
Isaiah 26:20-21 “Come, my people (bride), enter your chambers (wedding chamber), and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves (in the Lord) for a little while (7 years) until (God’s wrath/Tribulation) the fury has passed by. For behold, the LORD is coming (second coming of Christ)out from his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity, and the earth will disclose the blood shed on it, and will no more cover its slain.”
is a Japanese yokai who predicted that disease would spread but that those who shared her likeness with others would be protected. She is described as having long hair, a beak, glowing scales and 3 fin-like legs...draw your own Amabie and share!
With cloud cover predicted for most of Washington on that fateful night, I was not particularly hopeful in capturing the aurora. Despite the low probability, I drove through a treacherous winter storm hitting Snoqualmie pass and hunted around the central Washington for a dark place with clear opening to the north. I finally found a dark canal bank with a possible opening. And within moments of spreading out the tripod, the aurora showed its true colors, with pillars rising so high above me that even the vertical composition couldn't capture its full height. If it were any clearer, the camera would have been saturated with the auroral glow.
After that high, I was dreading the drive back. The winter storm over Snoqualmie pass had become even more intense, with a layer of sleet and ice covering miles of the highway. Lack of any traffic meant that there was no help around if I had a spinout. If not for that heightened alert level after the aurora, I would not have made it home safely. Hopefully this occurs again before the PNW settles into its summer.
Quincy
WA
These gears pass some the energy provided by the operator turning a crank to the rear section of Tide Predicting Machine No. 2, a special purpose mechanical analog computer for predicting the height and time of high and low tides.
The U.S. government used Tide Predicting Machine No. 2 from 1910 to 1965 to predict tides for ports around the world. The machine, also known as “Old Brass Brains,” uses an intricate arrangement of gears, pulleys, chains, slides, and other mechanical components to perform the computations.
A person using the machine would require 2-3 days to compute a year’s tides at one location. A person performing the same calculations by hand would require hundreds of days to perform the work. The machine is 10.8 feet (3.3 m) long, 6.2 feet (1.9 m) high, and 2.0 feet (0.61 m) wide and weighs approximately 2,500 pounds (1134 kg). The operator powers the machine with a hand crank.
According to folklore, if the wooly bear caterpillar has a wider band of rust color, the winter will be mild; wider black bands, more cold and snow. According to this wooly bear at the nature reserve in Wells, Maine, it looks like we can expect a pleasant winter ahead!
I had predicted that the sun would just lick the front of 50008 as it passed this location at its expected time. I didn't know of any location better for sun angles. There had been a build-up of squiff from the west that wouldn't put me off having a go at this.
I was surprised to see few people here but was pleased to be in the company of P.T. amongst others.
One of the highest tides of the year.
Looking toward Morro Bay State Park Campground and the Morro Bay Sand Spit, Morro Bay, CA
Tides have been higher than "predicted tides" recently and my understanding is that this is due to warmer seawater temperature.
The rare Tau Herculids meteor shower predicted for May 30/31, 2022 as a possible meteor storm, but instead produced a modest "normal" meteor shower. The meteors appeared yellowish (as in the bright meteor) and were slow-moving, and often had a sparkling effect as they moved, again as per the irregular brightness of the bright meteor streak. The meteors were from remnants of the Comet 73P/Schawassmann-Wachmann 3 which broke apart in 1995.
This is a blend of exposures taken over nearly 90 minutes from 11:23 pm MDT to 12:47 am MDT, capturing 15 meteors, including a very bright one, the best of the night, which left an orange ionization "smoke" trail expanding away from the meteor over the next few minutes. The blend includess at least three non-shower "sporadic" meteors, including one very bright one shooting toward the horizon at left in Scorpius.
This shows the radiant point of the Tau Herculids, actually located in Boötes above the bright star Arcturus above centre. The field of view spans the sky from Leo, setting at far right, to Lyra and the summer Milky Way rising at far left. The Coma Berenices star cluster is below the bright meteor. Corona Borealis and Hercules are left of Arcturus, while bright Vega in Lyra is at upper left. Spica in Virgo is low in the southwest at bottom right. Scorpius and Antares are low in the southeast rising on the horizon.
This is a blend of 18 exposures for the meteors and smoke trails, stacked onto the sky background taken just before the very bright meteor occured earlier in the night when the sky was still blue from lingering twilight.
All were with the Canon Ra for 15 seconds each but at ISOs from 1600 to 6400, increased through the night as the sky darkened, and with the 11mm TTArtisan full-frame fish-eye lens wide open at f/2.8. The camera was on a Star Adventurer tracking mount to keep the stars stationary over the sequence to aid in aligning and stacking the images, so the meteors appear in their correct positions relative to the background stars. Shot from home in Alberta on a very clear and fine night, a pleasant change for a celestial event!
On Saturday 25 February 2023, several thousand Peace Now demonstrators gathered in London to demand negotiations to bring about a peaceful resolution to the Ukraine war.
PEACE TALKS NOW.
Almost all the protesters agreed that their main demand was for a greater effort to end the horrific conflict in Ukraine, in which possibly as many as 200,000 may have already died and with the risk of escalation threatening the end of all human life on earth.
WASHINGTON AND LONDON BLOCKED TALKS IN 2022
The evidence suggests that the United States and United Kingdom blocked Ukraine from carrying through with its proposed basis for a peace deal with Russia during negotiations in March-April 2022, with the Ukrainian newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda, citing sources close to Zelensky, claiming that Boris Johnson, on his visit to Kiev on 9 April, personally lobbied the Ukrainian president to abandon peace talks and continue the conflict.
peacenews.info/node/10287/liz-truss-helped-derail-chances...
The former Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett, also claimed that Washington blocked his attempts to negotiate a peace deal between Kiev and Moscow.
thegrayzone.com/2023/02/06/israeli-bennett-us-russia-ukra...
A VARIETY OF VIEWS ON SENDING ARMS
Protesters had a greater variety of views on whether the West should send any arms to Ukraine at all, with many opposing any supply of arms that they believe will only prolong the conflict and suffering and risk further escalation, while others argued that sending some arms was morally justifiable to help Ukraine, but that the supply should be carefully calibrated so as not to make a wider and even more catastrophic world war more likely.
JEREMY CORBYN'S SPEECH
Jeremy Corbyn, as he concluded his brief speech, declared that 'if all the protagonists in this conflict can come together to discuss the supply of grain to the world, and come to an agreement by which ships carrying the grain from Ukraine and Russia can go to feed other people in other parts of the world; if the US is capable of contacting Russia to say that president Biden is visiting Kiev, then it is obviously possible they could come together for serious talks and serious negotiations to stop the fighting, stop the killing, stop the conflict, and bring about peace and justice."
WHY THE WEST NEEDS TO SUPPORT AND NOT BLOCK PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
1. Regardless of one's opinions on the rights and wrongs of this conflict, it has already claimed at least 100,000 lives, possibly over 200,000, including more than 8,000 civilians
abcnews.go.com/International/russia-ukraine-war-tens-thou...
Its continuation also threatens global food supplies and energy prices, plunging thousands into food and fuel poverty across Europe and leading to widespread food shortages and hunger across Africa and parts of Asia.
2. Every day the war continues, and as NATO supplies of ever more powerful weaponry continue to increase, the risk of the war escalating into a terminal nuclear conflict continues to grow. Putin and much of the Russian military establishment will do almost anything to prevent a Ukrainian victory, especially one that might see Crimea, of huge strategic importance and with a clear majority Russian population, be returned to Ukraine. Many strategic analysts and Russia specialists believe that Moscow would be willing to consider using at least tactical nuclear weapons, and that this could quickly escalate into global conflict. The ongoing conflict is also jeopardising all the remaining arms control agreements which prevent another nuclear arms race, so that even if Ukraine is victorious, we risk entering a new cold war which is likely to end, soon rather than later, in a nuclear conflict that will terminate all organised human life on earth.
3. The Ukraine War has led to a huge increase in the consumption of fossil fuels, and the reversal of key policies in the fight against climate change. It also hinders crucial cooperation between Russia and the West on this urgent issue with regards measures to curb emissions, as well as cooperation between Russian and Western scientists, particularly as Russia occupies a large part of the arctic, where research findings are vital for our understanding of how rapidly climate change is occuring.
4. We have to acknowledge that some of the West's recently declared war aims are highly questionable such as returning Crimea to Ukraine. Not only are the Russians unlikely to ever consider entering peace negotiations over its return, but over 60% of the population is Russian according to the last 2001 Ukrainian census and only 24% ( about 1 in 4) are Ukrainian. So it will be difficult to incorporate the territory back into Ukraine without at least some sort of referendum on Crimea's status. It also has to be acknowledged that the millions of Russians who live within Ukraine have for years faced harsh discrimination with severe restrictions on the importation of books in the Russian language since 2017 (Russian books had previously accounted for 60% of all titles), restrictions on the use of Russian language in schools and Russophobic attacks in the streets.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Ukraine
The Russians in the Donbass area have also suffered from years of shelling during a prolonged war Ukrainian forces waged against them, with a total death toll up to December 2021 (including both Ukrainian and insurgent forces) of over 14,000, including over 3,000 civilians killed. Yes, there was an inflow of Russian arms which also stoked the conflict, but many Russians viewed this as legitimate support for a population which was under attack from the Ukrainian army.
ukraine.un.org/sites/default/files/2022-02/Conflict-relat...
5. Finally, whatever one's views on the Ukrainian conflict, the evidence suggests that Western strategy is failing. Russian forces continue to gain ground in Ukraine on a daily basis, despite an enormous inflow of NATO arms. Russian industry is able to be fully mobilised on a war footing in a way that the West, with its just in time corporate controlled arms industry, can't compete with. NATO has already acknowledged that by the summer of this year, Ukraine is likely to run out of artillery shells. What is brutally termed the "burn rate" of NATO supplied military equipment (and indeed of Ukrainian young men) is far higher than its replenishment rate. At the same time, despite all the sanctions the Russian economy is predicted to grow faster this year than either Germany or the United Kingdom.
www.grid.news/story/global/2023/02/01/russias-economy-is-...
The ruble has actually gained slightly in strength against the US dollar, relative to its value a year ago in February 2022,
www.xe.com/currencycharts/?from=RUB&to=USD
and Russian reserves remain impressively high. Much of the world, including China, India, South Africa and Brazil, remain more than willing to retain good relations with Russia and import its oil and other key commodities. Western strategy is failing to weaken Russia but the war strengthens the position of the nationalists within Russia, and gives the Russian government a pretext to clampdown on dissent. It also pushes Russia ever closer to China, while accelerating Europe's relative economic decline. So whatever one's moral view on the conflict, the lack of any coherent strategy to end this conflict and the West's refusal even to consider peace negotiations appears to be a catastrophic mistake.
This computer animation illustrates how Pluto's moon Nix changes its spin unpredictably as it orbits the "double planet" Pluto-Charon. The view is from the surface of Pluto as the moon circles the Pluto-Charon system. This is a time-lapse view of the moon, compressing four years of motion into two minutes, with one complete orbit of Pluto-Charon every two seconds. (The apparent star movement rate is greatly slowed down for illustration purposes.) The animation is based on dynamical models of spinning bodies in complex gravitational fields — like the field produced by Pluto and Charon's motion about each other. Astronomers used this simulation to try to understand the unpredictable changes in reflected light from Nix as it orbits Pluto-Charon. They also found that Pluto's moon Hydra also undergoes chaotic spin. The football shape of both moons contributes to their wild motion. The consequences are that if you lived on either moon, you could not predict the time or direction the sun would rise the next morning.
(The moon is too small for Hubble to resolve surface features, and so the surface textures used here are purely for illustration purposes.)
Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Showalter (SETI Institute), and G. Bacon (STScI)
Read more: www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-hubble-finds-pluto-s-mo...
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Predicted snow arrived on schedule. The ground was still soft and wet, who knows how much we would have recieved if it was 5º colder when the snow started.
Some like to predict and forecast the end of the world and envision a doomsday scenario. Others are are more optimistic and think the Ice Cream Man is just around the corner.
I know I've posted about 4 or 5 versions of this same place, but let me tell ya, it's just euphoric walking through this forest of stumps at sunset with a camera and tripod. About every 10ft I would stop to compose a new shot. This went on for about a half hour as the sun went down. It was really hard not to shoot there for hours. I only had so much sun to play with.
Here is the Large version for your background . Give it a try and wait for someone to walk by and look at it. You'll probably get a good reaction.
Oh and I don't want to start putting a disclaimer that if you steal my photos and use them or print them out and sell them on a street corner in Edinburgh that I'm going to go midevil on you. So, just be kind and use it for your background, but nothing else. I'm a certified karate master*, and don't want to unleash my never-tested skills on you.
* karate master certificate was awarded at one of the many mini mall karate studios around the LA area when I was 14. I'm so inflexible right now I can barely tie my own shoes
I predicted back (in the early 80s) that this "Madonna" person was just a blip on the radar screen, that the "Material Girl" was just a Cyndi Lauper Wanna-Be, and that we'd be humming Cyndi songs long after Madonna was forgotten.
That memory came back to me, watching the recent Grammy awards. Maybe I can't pick 'em. My affection for Taylor Swift has drawn big laughs from my buddies (and her duet with Stevie Nicks seems to confirm their disdain for the 19-year-old country cutie), but I like her song-writing, There's an honesty, and authenticity, to her music, just like Lauper's.
Madonna is the best-selling female rock star of the 20th century, and Cyndi is working the casino circuit. She'll be in Oregon in April, at the Spirit Mountain Casino, near the Oregon coast. Even if I was inclined, I can't afford what Madonna charges for a performance, but a casino show is in my price range. That as I'd want it because while Madonna has done some good work, I'd rather see Cyndi--her True Colors will always rank as a personality favorite.
It was predicted to be a lovely sunset, amplified by all the airborn particles of sea spray catching the last of the light.
4 shot Pano taken form right to left and stitch manually together as 'not enough data' for lightroom.... apparently.
Sometimes all the drama happens in the opposite direction for the setting sun! = )This will be a part of an upcoming youtube VLOG on taking this (and other) shot (s). = )
I always try to think of the best possible location to be for a spectacularly predicted meteor shower weeks in advance, and last night set out to reach that chosen place. Sadly, it would appear that just about every road I tried to drive on of the 60 miles or so one way trip to the site was under a paralyzing construction zone, starting on the beloved I-81. I finally reached the point of inaccessibility in Buena Vista, VA when the road up into the mountains was blocked for construction. The detour would have been utterly ridiculous, so after an incredible waste of gas headed back to a location closer to home. Ran into my final mountain road construction delay en route, making me contemplate strange conspiracy theories.
The crowds on the parkway were insane, cars and people everywhere. It has been my experience that people, including other photographers, can be utter doom for night long exposures since they can't keep a light of some sort off for more than a minute or 2. Throw a bunch together and there will be lights going off like a disco for hours. So my friend Steve and I were fortunate to land a good spot at Abbott Lake at the Peaks of Otter without anyone near us. This location was early in the night and the meteors were sparse, and then finally the spot completely ruined by heavy cloud cover.
I headed for home due to a low gas tank thanks to so much wasted driving earlier, and nowhere to get any more up in the mountains. So I was forced into the location where I got this shot, The View Purgatory Mountain overlook on the parkway. The sky had become much more clear in this area, though there were a few people about, including a photographer I had met years ago in a storm. This is one of the last places I would have opted to shoot the meteor shower. I plopped the camera down, and the first shot was the composition that never changed over several hours...aimed straight at the shower radiant. People everywhere, cars driving past constantly, and so the philosophy became "use their chaos for advantage". If you sit in one place and run the camera for hours something interesting and unexpected is bound to plop into the scene. This came in the form of an oncoming car and I powered off the camera in the middle of a 25 second exposure to catch the car's lights at the perfect time before they blew out the scene. The meteors got better all the way up to 5 AM when I left due to the sun's influence beginning. This collection has 23 meteor captures, the moral is just set up the camera and go socialize and do other things and leave it running, punctuated by a moment of luck and attentiveness.
I've been searching for something to say at the conclusion of my new magic-and-mentalism act that sums it all up. :)
For "The Soul of a Photograph" pool, I think the soul is the American Flag.
"My thin white border is not so much a frame as a defense against Flickr's all dark background"
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The rare Tau Herculids meteor shower predicted for May 30/31, 2022 as a possible meteor storm, but instead produced a modest "normal" meteor shower. The meteors appeared yellowish (as in the bright meteor) and were slow-moving, and often had a sparkling effect as they moved, again as per the irregular brightness of the bright meteor streak. The meteors were from remnants of the Comet 73P/Schawassmann-Wachmann 3 which broke apart in 1995.
This is a blend of exposures taken over nearly 90 minutes from 11:23 pm MDT to 12:47 am MDT, capturing 15 meteors, including a very bright one, the best of the night, which left an orange ionization "smoke" trail expanding away from the meteor over the next few minutes. The blend includess at least three non-shower "sporadic" meteors, including one very bright one shooting toward the horizon at left in Scorpius.
This shows the radiant point of the Tau Herculids, actually located in Boötes above the bright star Arcturus above centre. The field of view spans the sky from Leo, setting at far right, to Lyra and the summer Milky Way rising at far left. The Coma Berenices star cluster is below the bright meteor. Corona Borealis and Hercules are left of Arcturus, while bright Vega in Lyra is at upper left. Spica in Virgo is low in the southwest at bottom right. Scorpius and Antares are low in the southeast rising on the horizon.
This is a blend of 18 exposures for the meteors and smoke trails, stacked onto the sky background taken just before the very bright meteor occured earlier in the night when the sky was still blue from lingering twilight.
All were with the Canon Ra for 15 seconds each but at ISOs from 1600 to 6400, increased through the night as the sky darkened, and with the 11mm TTArtisan full-frame fish-eye lens wide open at f/2.8. The camera was on a Star Adventurer tracking mount to keep the stars stationary over the sequence to aid in aligning and stacking the images, so the meteors appear in their correct positions relative to the background stars. Shot from home in Alberta on a very clear and fine night, a pleasant change for a celestial event!
if it wasn't for the snow that's left on the ground, I would think I was down Louisiana way.
The Assiniboine River is just beyond those trees and it's predicted to flood again this year. This whole area where I am standing, last year was under 2-3 feet of water.
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the predicted kp level of the auroras was only an unimpressive 3 (out of 9 possible). But the long exposure exagerates the auroras quite a bit but also increases the "comma" effect on the stars. - 9°C tonight but no wind ;)
my SIL dearest sent me some easter type prezzies. this is most intriguing. according to the state of crystals inside, you can tell the weather. of course i shook it up before i got the instructions, so i have no clue if it all works. i'll see if i can get a better picture thru the glass of the crystals, later
Trying to think "outside the box". Not sure if this is the one I'll keep or not. Windy, rainy weather predicted for the rest of the week, this was my last chance to get the shot. Doesn't help that my dd is terrified of the balloons.
Here's a link to the large size farm1.static.flickr.com/220/453468864_bed51ad118_o.jpg
