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What color was it before it was green? Possibly NASA or some astronomically inclined organization. I presume any aliens would not be telling us. The benighted hoomans must be kept in the dark. .

Hasn't it's path, until it leaves the solar system, already been computed?

Probably both!

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No!

qi /CHē/ noun noun: ki the circulating life force whose existence and properties are the basis of much Chinese philosophy and medicine. "acupuncture is thought to work by balancing the body's flow of qi" Who is there to be objective about it?

A search did not turn up the word 'paradigm' in this thread. As far as I am concerned there is Only One reality. But every individual has a paradigm of reality in their heads. They are all WRONG! At least in that they are incomplete because no one knows all there is of reality and most likely some of what they think they know is wrong. I ran across General Semantics in high school because of Robert Heinlein. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_semantics https://www.interzoneeditions.net/IntrosgENG.pdf https://www.afirstlook.com/docs/gensem.pdf .

I confess that I have not finished watching this but I have watched LOTS of his videos. He usually does interesting stuff with some degree of intellectual depth. I kind of liked the title. .

I just now got a link to the song. I had not scrolled to the bottom. .

He's Chinese, he must know what he is talking about. No comment on Depreciation due to Planned Obsolescence though. Analysis incomplete!

Why does "intellectual" segregation require land? .

I do not have a problem with all White towns. I think Black Americans should have concentrated on intellectual segregation from Haoles long ago. I trained myself to not think the N-word before I graduated from grammar school. Part of why I left college was not wanting to pay and waste time on a "well rounded" education. Science and Technology matter, Shakespeare can stuff it. We have Black people in North and South America and and continent to work with but BS is more important. Then the Haoles take out Gaddafi. When Africa Awakes (1920) by Hubert Harrison https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/69712 Black Man's Burden (1961) by Mack Reynolds https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/32390 Border, Breed Nor Birth by Mack Reynolds https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/30639 .

For an Entire CITY!!! Examples: New York City: 7,660 (of a total of 12,460) signalized intersections are controlled by a central computer network and monitored by traffic management centers. Toronto: 83% of its signals are controlled by the Main Traffic Signal System (MTSS). 15% also use the SCOOT (Split Cycle and Offset Optimization Technique), an adaptive signal control system. Sydney: 3,400 traffic signals co-ordinated by the Sydney Co-ordinated Adaptive Traffic System (SCATS). Designed and developed by RTA, the system was first introduced in 1963 and progressively developed since then. By October 2010, SCATS was licensed to 33,200 intersections in 144 cities across 24 countries worldwide, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Dublin, Tehran and Minneapolis and Detroit. Melbourne: 3,200 traffic lights across Victoria, including regional areas such as Geelong and Ballarat, using SCATS. Some 500 intersections also have tram and bus priority. Adelaide: 580 sets of coordinated traffic lights throughout the metropolitan region managed by the Adelaide Coordinated Traffic Signal (ACTS) System. I presume these systems are hardened with backups but my point was that we have created dependencies on complex tech. .

Take out computers controlling the traffic lights if a major city, what will happen? There are videos of Russia's Aeroflot having problems right now. But how crappy is the technology really? I had to write my own benchmarks at IBM to find that the new computer was slower than the one it was replacing. .

Personal survival or collective social survival? How much technology do you use every day that you do not understand? How smart were the individuals who invented it? Would there be 8 billion people on the planet today without those kinds individuals? Now we have economists who will not talk about the depreciation of technology that they do not understand. I asked a PhD economist to explain how a gas engine worked. He said nothing. He drove a white SUV. Is this vast "Not Knowing" part of the problem NOW? .

9/11 isn't obvious? Amazingly Dumb!? https://elleyotter.home.blog/2018/02/27/book-review-under-a-graveyard-sky-black-tide-rising-1-by-john-ringo/ Great Fun if you can handle Ringo Jingoism. Pseudo-Zombies galore, smarter than Trump. Under a Graveyard Sky by John Ringo 5 free chapters https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781451639193/9781451639193.htm But you need to be able to dance and shoot in time to rock & roll.

I am not going to dispute with you about YOUR REALITIES. To me, people who can Believe that a 200 ton airliner including the 34 tons of jet fuel (mostly kerosene) can totally destroy a 500,000 ton building without even thinking about the distribution of steel do not comprehend enough about Physical Reality to go into details about much stuff with. .

What about the simulations in my mind where an airliner cannot destroy the North Tower? How real is that? But I don't have accurate data on the distribution of steel down the Tower. Physical modeling is interesting though. WTC Modeling Instruction & Testing .

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I would use the word PHYSICS but that covers a lot by itself.

Yep, can't trust those Black guys, they might get uppity!

If they were caught. Suppose 5 Generals with 100 underlings decided to do it. Could they arrange it without being caught. And then how many would like to do it but don't have the guts? Would they help or obstruct an investigation? Then there is that unpredictable Patriotism factor. It is not difficult to see that the Preztard has already screwed up the country that would take more than a decade to fix if it can be done at all. Some people might not care if they get caught. I have gotten lots of likes on the subject on BlueSky. 75% of the population scores below 111 on the Idiot Quotient tests.

And I NeVeR said anything about a coup! I find it amusing and confusing that so many people jump to that conclusion. The last few months I have just been thinking about a A-10 Warthog flying over a golf course. Do it in such a way that no one doubted that it was a US military action. Every political idiot that follows should get the message. Do NOT Fuck with the Constitution. The Oath ain't No Joke! We will take Your Ass Out! .

They voted him in and how many are pissed off at him now. There have been posts coming up on BlueSky about his administration lying about economic data since this morning. Saying US economic data as unreliable as China. I was talking about the military doing something about Trump in November: .