Esoteric Meandering Shouting Into the Void

Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

The ugly truth of our country is that far too many people live with prejudge and hate as a main stay of their daily world.
At present we have a legal battle going on in Georgia and the chief prosecutor has been accused of having an affair with one of the other attorneys on the case. This somehow is supposed to make the prosecutor ineligible to manage the case and cause the entire case to be thrown out on the grounds that some sort of impropriety has taken place. Yet another attempt by the Trump organization to throw shit in the fan to cover his tracks. Why this even got off the ground is a question that cannot be answered with logic only with bullshit excuses as to some nonsense reasoning of sick minds. What needs to happen is that someone needs to put the clock on all these cases and prosecute one right after another until you have all of them resolved before the summer is over. Each time a delay is asked for it should be denied as this mess has had the nation tied up for years and that is long enough to resolve all superfluous issues.
The ugliness of the constant issue of difference whether that be in religion, who we love, who we think we are, race or importance needs to end. This world will some day end and if we are to survive as a species we need to move from here to some other galaxy and that is not going to happen until we learn to trust and work together. It would be nearly impossible to conduct hostile actions on Earth and send teams into space to find another home.
We know not what genetically may be there to meet us. We know that on earth we are 1% brighter than our next closest relative on the evolutionary ladder, the chimpanzee and if the beings we encounter on our travels are advanced that much or more beyond us the effort may be doomed before it can get started. At the present time we are only able to judge ourselves against ourselves and while many base superiority on arbitrary things the true difference has nothing to do with where you are from, what church you attend, or the color of your skin. The true differences are going to be up for grabs and we best be ready.

Pangea Is Only the Latest of Many Past Supercontinents

Look at a world map today, and the continents appear like pieces belonging to an ancient puzzle long disassembled — and that’s basically true. Starting some 200 million years ago, the supercontinent known as Pangea (surrounded by a global ocean called Panthalassa) began to break apart until this slow but steady dance concluded with the seven distinct continents we know today. However, Pangea is really only the latest supercontinent in Earth’s history. In fact, the Earth’s landmasses have been crashing into one another, separating, and crashing into one another again basically since the Earth’s formation. Previous supercontinents includeGondwana and Laurasia, which actually collided to form Pangea in the first place, as well as Pannotia, Rodinia, and Nuna, to name only a few. Just as Pangea isn’t the only supercontinent in Earth’s history, it also won’t be the last. In 200 million years, the Earth will form a new supercontinent, which scientists call Amasia (a portmanteau of America and Asia) as the Pacific Ocean continues to shrink about an inch every year, making the slow continental collision inevitable.

SCIENCE & INDUSTRY 

Thousands of years before mechanical timepieces existed, as far back as the 16th century BCE, water clocks were among the most accurate ways to tell time. These early clocks controlled the flow of water from one container to another in order to measure the passage of time with remarkable precision — and unlike sundials, they could be used at night. Civilizations all over the world used water clocks, but the ancient Greeks in particular were known for improving the mechanism with a timepiece they called “klepsydra,” or “water thief.”

The philosopher Plato is credited with one particularly ahead-of-its-time innovation: In the fourth century BCE, he built a set of klepsydra alarm clocks meant to rouse the students at his academy. The clocks had two basins, one emptying into the other, and would run throughout the night. When the second basin filled with water in the morning, it would trigger a sound. One of the clocks had a container that made a whistling sound when air was forced out of it. Another had pebbles rigged over the second tank that would fall and rattle when it was full. Aristotle was a student at Plato’s academy, so it’s possible he was roused by these very clocks. In the third century BCE, Greek inventor Ctesibius of Alexandria took the design a step further. He added a top tank with an overflow valve that allowed a lower tank to rise to keep time, making little noises on the way up like a cuckoo clock.