I do not know how many of you are fed up with the idea of another totally hostile government becoming a nuclear threat to your life.

 

I just finished watching the Jerico series on Netflix and it was well worth my time watching it.  I didn’t see it when it was on TV.

I actually think it’s much better to see it on either Flix or DVD.

 You get the whole show without commercial breakups and the plot is so complex… 

I would have had a hard time remembering what happened  week to week.

 If you missed the series ….

I won’t ruin the plot by telling you much,

but the theme is about a small town in Kansas that finds itself cut off from the rest of the world after

 a mushroom cloud appears on the horizon. Its all too real and I suggest that if you have not seen it ….DO! 

I kinda envy the people who live in those remote small towns.

The type that grow their own food and where neighbors all know each other to the point they don’t even lock their doors

or install car alarms.

Call me paranoid,  but I live in the dead center of the DFW metroplex

 and I can almost feel the weight hundreds of nukes that are targeted at my house.

  

I believe this world is already infected with enough weapons of mass destruction,

 and adding Iran to the mix is not going to make me sleep easier.

To be to fair, let’s not forget North Korea, Even years of therapy

 would not change the mindset of the dictators running that place. They are dangerous! 

What are we to do about it? So far talking has proven worthless.

 Our military threats are empty, as every one knows.  We are over extended fighting in two countries already…

and not being exactly successful in either.

Now a friend of mind made a suggestion, kinda joking, 

that at first I thought was totally insane, but after some reflection it is not without some merit.

 

The Plan

The employment of the Dubie Bomb

Resulting in a regional  “Woodstock Effect.”

That’s right marijuana, made into millions of massive smoke bombs, 

taken from the huge stockpiles we already have confiscated from drug dealers over the years.

Using stealth bombers we would safely release millions of small and large cluster bombs 

up wind of every major population center in both Iran and North Korea.

Follow this up by air drops of massive quantizes of munchies, and pizza,

and large sound broadcasting units belching out tunes from Pink Floyd and John Lennon.

 

 

And keep doing it until it takes effect ……I would estimate 3 months should about do it.

As the huge clouds of the mind altering drug wash into the minds of the oppressed population,

 making them totally mello, they could immediately feast on the best chips and junk food we have in endless supply.

The message of world peace,  broadcast though the music would finally get through.

All control of the oppressed people would vanish.

Even the troops with guns would forget why they were fighting and sit down and join in the party!

Now I grant you the leaders would shelter themselves in air proof bunkers, for certain,

but when they issued orders out of the bunkers ….who would listen to them?

 

Consider for a moment what happened at Woodstock….hundreds of thousands of people

all feeling the love and peace that are inherently within each of us.

Woodstock changed the lives of almost everyone who attended it.

   

Biochemically reefer interferes with the thinking function of the human mind, it temporally erases the historical programmed thoughts

 we were taught to believe and brings one’s attention into the felt moment of immediate experience.

Would this harm the populations effected?

Today,  even though they are illegal, the psychoactive and physiologically active chemical compounds known as cannabinoids

that are consumed for recreational, medicinal, and spiritual purposes

have not been proven to cause any adverse health effects.

I know not everyone accepts this as fact;  however, when you view pot as a weapon

used against an aggressive nation it is far less harmful than a bullet.

Am I seriously suggesting this a viable course of action…..

nahhh but I wonder is it any less insane or effective than our present course of action? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Are Scientists actually doing their jobs today?

The World is facing so many problems today,  the scientific community is just not up to the task.

Add to that the fact that people are still saying ignorant things like, “Evolution is just a theory”, and “Global warming is just alarmist hype”.      

 

As a science teacher I wonder that dictionary definitions of science are so lacking in depth. Here are a few examples:

1.	a branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws: the mathematical sciences.

2.	systematic knowledge of the physical or material world gained through observation and experimentation.

3.	any of the branches of natural or physical science.

4.	systematized knowledge in general.

5.	knowledge, as of facts or principles; knowledge gained by systematic study.

6.	a particular branch of knowledge.

7.	skill, esp. reflecting a precise application of facts or principles; proficiency.

 

When students first arrive in my eleventh grade chemistry class they ususally define science as:

 The study of the universe.

What I attempt to teach my students in class, with varying degrees of success, is this definition of science:

Science is an iterative process of human consciousness that seeks to unite the truth found in the felt moment of immediate experience with the inherent power of human imagination to conceive a workable and accurate model of the nature of reality. 

(I am not suggesting that this is the best definition possible, and if you can improve it in any way Please help me out.)  

    

“Reality” in its most basic definition,  is everything, everywhere that exists in the present moment.

The ”truth” is all that is happening now in this present moment. 

Now, that begs the question,  is reality the truth, or is the truth reality, when,  in fact, both are subject to the perspective of the observer.

The fly in the ointment is the power of human intention …the placebo effect, as it is known, is the kink in the method that invalidates the entire process.

When a hypothesis is made it is subjected to testing …..

Unfortunately every test made is affected by the desire of the scientist to validate their pet hypothesis.

Despite the taint of this inherent problem, science is the best method we have, to date, to investigate this crazy mess of synchronicity that bombards our senses.

 

              Science does not tell us what is true and what is false, but it does give us a way to begin to communicate that everything we think we believe in, is no more than a model in our mind’s eye.  For that model to be accurate it must keep up with the fundamental understanding that change is the only universal constant.

So what change is happening Now that Science should be looking into……

BATS

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Bat-killing disease remains a mystery   By Anne Paine, The (Nashville) Tennessean NASHVILLE — Cory Holliday tugged a white paper suit over his boots and clothes, zipping the front high onto his neck. Amid poison ivy and wild grape vines, he aimed a video camera toward a dark, steel-gated opening in a limestone precipice, reached by canoe on Old Hickory Lake in Wilson County. As the sunset advanced, he awaited his quarry: thousands of endangered gray bats. The Nature Conservancy cave expert is taking part in a multiagency effort to monitor and protect bats from a scourge known as “white-nose syndrome.” The mystery illness has been responsible for widespread deaths in hibernating bat colonies in the Northeast and has now moved south. “This winter if we get it, bats will be coming out and dying in large numbers,” Holliday said. This month, Tennessee closed nearly every cave, sinkhole, tunnel and abandoned mine on state park and wildlife management lands to the public and earlier this year the federal government prohibited entry to such bat habitats in national forests and parks in 33 states, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The agency says humans are not considered susceptible to the illness, but people might unwittingly carry the contamination from cave to cave on shoes, clothes or gear. It’s one of several moves being made by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Army Corps of Engineers and other agencies to prevent the spread of the disease and figure out the cause. With a few exceptions, Tennessee has agreed to close caves for one year, according to the Nature Conservancy. The state is considered a prime caving destination with at least 9,600 caves. Cavers who travel long distances to spend weekends exploring the sunless frontier of mazes and caverns here have mixed feelings about the bans. “I’m afraid that closing all the caves is a knee-jerk reaction,” said Bill Overton, a director of the Southeastern Cave Conservancy. “I also think we have one chance to get this right, and you have to take extreme action.” Nature’s bug control   White-nose syndrome is named for the white dusting of a fungus often seen on the faces and wings of dead and dying bats. The illness was first reported in New York state in 2006, according to the U.S. Geological Survey’s Wildlife Health Center. Since then, West Virginia, Virginia, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut and Vermont have reported cases. Bats feed on insects from April to October, consuming their body weight each night, according to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. In addition to losing some endangered species of bat, more bat deaths could mean more mosquitoes and other pests that can eventually harm crops. “Their benefit to us is unseen, but it’s so real. We think mosquito populations are bad now. We ain’t seen nothing until we lose all these bats,” said Gina Hancock, of the Nature Conservancy in Nashville. In Tennessee, a single cave can hold 100,000 bats, according to Holliday. “The loss of 500,000 bats means 2.4 million pounds of bugs aren’t eaten in a year,” said Richard Kirk of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency. Looking for answers As bats began to stir, chirping could be heard coming from the cave on Old Hickory Lake. Through the course of an hour, Holliday’s thermal, infrared camera captured the presence of about 17,000 bats as they emerged from the cave. Researchers are using the equipment to count the bat population. The data will be compared with next year’s count in an effort to determine whether the disease is present. Summer roosts in caves, like where the counts are taking place in Tennessee, aren’t seen in the Northeast, Holliday said. He adds, that winter hibernation is critical. Bats that grow ill with the fungus, which tends to thrive in cool temperatures, can wake up frequently, burning up their fat supplies, he said. They’ll fly out to seek insects, which won’t be there because it’s winter. They can weaken and die. “Everything is pointing to the fungus being the primary cause, but we haven’t been able to prove it,” Holliday said. “It could be a secondary infection and there’s something else knocking down their immune system.” After turning off his camera, Holliday scrubbed his boots and equipment with water mixed with bleach and wadded his paper coveralls into a sealed plastic bag for disposal. To avoid the possibility of spreading any contamination, he has repeated the process nightly since May as he goes to caves around the state. Overton said caving groups are telling its members to decontaminate after every trip underground in hopes of preventing the spread of the illness. “I’m confident there is no perfect answer,” he said.