If you’ve been following what has been happening in Hawaii lately on the big island, Kilauea has been sending lava through underground channels and then fissures are opening up 25 miles away from the volcano and spewing forth lava.

     I can’t help but wonder if there are any connections between the different hot spots on Earth.  If the Hawaii hot spot is becoming more active, does that indicate any changes to come for Yellowstone, Indonesia, Africa and all the other hot spots around the world?

     On the subject of the planned missions to Mars by SpaceX and NASA respectively, I’m personally going to predict that SpaceX has a better chance of getting people there and back alive, but not on schedule.

     Only half of NASAs non-manned missions to Mars have succeeded and 50-50 odds are a bit short of what I would be comfortable with as an astronaut.

     The North American continent is the only continent in the world without electrified rail.  Rail is the most energy efficient means of transporting goods yet we use trucks to do the bulk of our transport in this country.

     Tesla is about to turn this into not a bad thing with their new electric truck (semi tractor trailer).  Capable of doing 65 up a 5% grade with an 80,000 lb load and a 500 mile range with the same load, and a half-hour charge time so your truck can charge while you take a meal break.

     This appears to me to be the real deal. I don’t think Tokamak is the ideal configuration but it doesn’t matter with these new superconductive magnets. They are able to achieve twice the magnetic strength as existing superconductors and at a higher temperature. The materials are such that it is possible to build a modular design.

     The thing that pains me most about 9/11 is not the loss of lives.  As tragic as that was, 3000 people die from cigarette smoking every three days.

     The tragedy is that the terrorists, who were not middle eastern, they may have flown the planes but they weren’t the real terrorists, the real terrorists were George Bush Jr, Dick Cheney, and a whole secret cabal behind the scenes, got away with pulling this off so that the Homeland Security Act and Patriot Act could totally gut our constitution and effectively make GW the dictator that he wanted to be.

     The only thing that kept him from being a dictator was that he was mostly clueless with respect to what was going on.  Dick Cheney pulled all the strings for at least the first seven years of Bush Jr’s presidency.

     Before the 9/11 I could freely drive across the Canadian border with nothing more than a drivers license for identification.  Now I can’t go without a passport.  Now we got this racist bigot running for president that wants to build a giant wall along the Mexican border.  Yea, good plan that.  It may be hard to believe but tunnels go under walls fine, and believe it or not, Mexicans have ladders, helicopters, boats that can go up the coastline, airplanes that can fly under the radar.  In short, a wall will only help keep us in.  It will do little to keep Mexicans out, and personally I have no desire to keep them out.

     I was shown a VHS tape in 1985 that was from an army whistle blower that laid out this agenda for controlling the population back then that predicted that the cold war would cease to be an effective means of controlling us, and certainly when the Soviet Union fell apart, and after Nixon normalized relations with China, this was true.

     This tape predicted that “terrorism” would become the new excuse to control us, and that came about in 2001, so 16 years later that prediction came true.

     It went on to say that eventually terrorism would cease to be effective and a faked extraterrestrial invasion would be the new thing to unite us under fascism.  That part fortunately has yet to come about, I’m still waiting.

     It seems to me lately that things have been going kind of crazy.  Have you ever heard of the “Mandella Effect”?  This refers to the fact that many people thought Nelson Mandella had died in prison, many were sure they had seen a news story to this effect.  I was one of those people.  I was shocked to later learn he was still alive.

     I had a similar experience with Gene Wilder, prior to Gilda Radner dying from cancer, I had believed that Gene Wilder had died, then a new movie came out.  I have run into other people who have experienced this as well.

     Time is not the simple linear process most of us think that it is.  That is our common experience of it but in reality it’s much more complex.  It is possible to actually change the past and that is what we are experiencing when we experience the Mandella effect.  You can explain a single individual having these experiences as bad memories, but when there is a huge collective experience, something else is going on.

     It seems to me weirdness in general is on the rise.  More on that to come.

     I have not been posting frequently as I’ve been physically not so well, nerve pain caused by diabetic peripheral neuropathy.  In the last month or so I’ve improved considerably.  I am not pain free but it is much less severe than it was and I no longer have any numb areas except when I put lidocaine on to kill the pain.

     So I should be posting here a bit more frequently.  There has been a lot happening that I want to comment on.  Our whole concept of time would appear to be flawed but I’m not sure I’m real excited about mainstream science’s interpretation either.

     Right now I am trying to imagine a future in which I’ve lost 40 lbs, put on a good deal of muscle, reversed my diabetes, healed my neuropathy, and I’m on to whatever God has for me next.

     I’m trying to imagine the path, workouts of gradually increasing intensity, lots of icky vegetables…

     Those of you in the know realize that farts are primarily methane but methane itself is odorless.  It is sulfur compounds, and chiefly in farts, hydrogen-sulfide, which give farts their aroma.

     Humans can detect concentrations of hydrogen sulfide at approximately 5 parts per billion.  A typical fart will have between 1 part per billion (undetectable) and 300 parts per billion (maximum rank).

     Something goes amiss when concentrations run above 300 parts per billion, our noses lose their ability to detect the smell.  Concentrations above 1 part per million over an hour are hazardous to our health.

     Here is an often unrecognized hazard of global warming that many are unaware of.  As temperatures rise, the ability of our oceans to retain dissolved oxygen decreases.  And as we add various nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorous and iron to our oceans, surface algae bloom and their corpses, as they fall, consume all the remaining oxygen below.

     In the absence of oxygen, anaerobic bacteria, that primarily derive their energy from reacting hydrogen with sulfur, bloom.  These bacteria produce, as their waste product, hydrogen sulfide.  If the oxygen depletion is severe enough these bacteria will multiply to the point where they first make our atmosphere smell really bad, and then make our atmosphere kill us, and most other forms of life on land.

     So just another reason you might want to give up that hummer and buy a Prius.

     I’m just saying..   To me death by giant fart just seems an unpleasant way to go.  It is predicted that ocean oxygen levels will change significantly in the next 15-25 years.  When you start smelling fart everywhere you go, it is the beginning of the end.

     Quantum computers have been successfully used to factor numbers.  Many are of the opinion that quantum computers won’t be scaled up enough to represent a threat to cryptography for some years to come.  I disagree.

     Here are a couple of reasons why:

Qubits made from standard silicon transistors

Quantum state endures for 39 minutes at room temperature

    Between these two things, I think quantum computers will be scaled up to where they will be a threat to present day encryption very fast.

     While there are presently encryption methods that are post quantum safe, most of them are not highly practical.  OpenSSL presently has no post quantum safe method of key exchange, and if you can’t exchange keys securely, you can’t encrypt securely.

     I would be surprised if the NSA doesn’t already have a computer capable of factoring primes of large sizes and the ability to break existing cryptography.  I am more or less convinced that this whole stand-off with Apple is just show.