Carpe Astra

Husband, Father, and full spectrum nerd!

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

this is also why boys are reading so much less now that children’s publishing has become female dominated

men write archetypes. women write about themselves.

men write about heroes, villains, gods, monsters, extraordinary characters who embody something greater than themselves, heroes that boys can admire and aspire to become

women write characters who look like them, think like them, have their problems and insecurities, characters they can identify with and project themselves onto

men use writing as a vehicle for self-transcendence while women use it as a vehicle for self-recognition

it’s the difference between wanting to become Batman and wanting Batman to become you

it’s then obvious why boys craving the hero’s journey would rather retreat into video games than read yet another piece of autobiographical, gossip-filled, moralizing turboslop

if you want boys to start reading again you need to let men write again

[Carpe Astra @MThompson372]

@ProfJoannaHowe I want to go back to the 1970’s when a household’s expenses could be paid by a minimum wage with a quarter left over.

It take at least two now.

[Carpe Astra @MThompson372]

@SpaceborneMedic 951… almost there!

[Carpe Astra @MThompson372]

@hagridshut742 @EthicalSkeptic @Winston_104 What is this “well rested” that you speak of? 🤨

[Carpe Astra @MThompson372]

@EthicalSkeptic I think that I may have found an error in your proposed timeline.

If the star sighting alignment stone for the Khufu pyramid is currently pointing south, then logically it must have been constructed during State 2.

@HashZappa has shown that the return to State 1 would inundate the pyramid as described by the Nubian egg artefact.

And you have found ancient structures that are aligned to Np’ dated throughout “The Golden Age”

To me that suggests that State 2 lasted for the entire period from the Younger Dryas until the inundation shown on the Nubian Egg.

Is there a particular reason why State 2 would only last 50-300 years?

Or might the original sculptor of Pillar 43 have been describing the return from State 2 to State 1, with the reoccupation at the start of MWP 1B being due to the flip back to State 2?

[Hashing Zap ✝️ @polewanderer]

My favorite simulation to date is the transition from State 2 to State 1 in ECDO theory. The crust would slowly relax over time, but the sea level after over Khafre pyramid after the initial event would be exactly where it should be. 👀

[Carpe Astra @MThompson372]

@hagridshut742 @EthicalSkeptic @Winston_104 Don’t feel too bad. I managed to get Khufu and Khafre mixed up!

[Carpe Astra @MThompson372]

Completely agree, and that’s why I favour a carnivore diet myself.

But I read a study recently about free hydrogen in the human body regenerating telomeres, along with other benefits;

https://t.co/qKmrIpVo0W

My first thought was “That’s got to be the least efficient delivery method possible.”

The second was whether some foodstuff or gut bacteria could supply hydrogen rather than methane and provide a constant source.

[Carpe Astra @MThompson372]

@Winston_104 @EthicalSkeptic Fair enough, but I wonder how elevated the land mass would be due to the bulge, and whether a net rise in altitude might preserve or even increase the ice cap.

[Carpe Astra @MThompson372]

@Winston_104 @EthicalSkeptic And it seems like @EthicalSkeptic has addressed this point.

Very much looking forward to hearing more about his trip to Anatolia!

https://t.co/ggS9xJHpym

[Ethical Skeptic ☀ @EthicalSkeptic]

And... voilà

Elegantly resolves the Khafre Erosion, Penultimate Stone South Orientation, Prescient Construction of the Pyramids vs Sea Level stasis, Progressive Waterlines on Khufu and Khafre, and finally Nubian Egg Faiyum Valley apparent conflicts.

[Carpe Astra @MThompson372]

But that leaves the problem of how they were sighting north celestial alignments while underwater.

I think that we need to start taking into account the amount of water locked up in the last ice age. Mainstream consensus is that the sea levels have risen ~50-60 meters since Meltwater Pulse 1B, but how much of our information regarding the historical sea level can be trusted when the equatorial bulge has shifted?

[Anastasia @demystifysci]

Hydrogen Is Secretly a Tiny Antenna - Dr. Hans Schantz (DemystifySci +463)

Today's guest, Hans Schantz, is back for a second time to discuss his work on how shockingly similar the hydrogen atom is electrically to a small antenna. We discuss Q factor, linewidth, and Einstein coefficients. We also get to pick Hans' brain about important paradoxes in conduction line physics a la Oliver Heaviside. This takes us through Poynting vectors, energy flow vs. fields, Hertz, interference, electric/magnetic energy balances, and the concept of photon in the radio spectrum of EMR. Hans is also hosting a conference this January, where DemystifySci will give a talk and present a manuscript that extends our work from Paradox Lost into these electrical engineering concepts. Come on out to Alabama!

The Heaviside Conference: https://t.co/vGjFuQrGrY

00:00 Go! Antenna Laws in Atoms
00:04:44 Bubble Around the Dipole
00:12:39 Missing Middle of Electromagnetism
00:20:03 Hertz’s Energy Balance
00:29:00 Slotted Lines and Standing Waves
00:37:02 Ninety Degrees Out of Phase
00:45:10 Electrically Small Antennas
00:53:15 Ringing and Quality Factor
01:01:48 Quantum Jumps That Take Time
01:13:48 Substance of Empty Space
01:22:30 Power at the Feed Point
01:32:04 Sound of One Hand Clapping
01:39:12 Hydrogen’s 21 Centimeter Line
01:48:42 Talking to Voyager
01:56:28 Heaviside Comes to Huntsville

[Carpe Astra @MThompson372]

Here’s one to stretch your brain. Equatorial bulge is currently ~21 kilometers in radius.

How much altitude would that add to polar and near polar land masses that shift to the equator? Yes the oceans would shift as well, but if Antarctica, Canada and Argentina are experiencing equatorial bulging, would they experience a net increase in altitude? Along with the colder climate that altitude would bring, possibly countering the tropical heat?

Could State 2 have ice sheets at the equator?

[Carpe Astra @MThompson372]

@Winston_104 @EthicalSkeptic https://t.co/DoKDboZEPV

[Carpe Astra @MThompson372]

@Winston_104 @EthicalSkeptic The end of the Queen's chamber shaft has a star map stone that show's the northern sky. Problem is, that shaft faces south now.

[Carpe Astra @MThompson372]

I just realised that I had been conflating the Khufu and Khafre Pyramids 🤦🏻‍♂️.

Well they definitely weren’t making northern star sightings while underwater, but they likewise can’t have been taking them while pointed 180 degrees south. Which means either the stone was moved, or there was a window between the state change and the N Africa depression.

[Carpe Astra @MThompson372]

@Winston_104 @EthicalSkeptic Begun during state 1, completed during state 2?

How high up the pyramid was that sighting stone? Was it above the Karst line?

[Carpe Astra @MThompson372]

@BackwoodsEnginr @nmlinguaphile “The Fountainhead” is the better book anyway 🤷‍♂️

[Carpe Astra @MThompson372]

@bboyle6681 @BlackDumpling ISWYDT

[Carpe Astra @MThompson372]

@boriquagato This might be your finest meme yet!

So here’s one in trade.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

This is actually such a perfect description of the left/right dynamic, but I'm not sure the OP actually understands why.

What do they tell you in the emergency instructions on a flight? Put on your mask FIRST, then help your kids. You must be "selfish" in order to be of service to others. While leftist worldview may appear noble, it's actually very impractical and counterproductive in the real world. The right wing worldview is what builds, maintains, and rescues societies, though on a superficial level it appears to be selfish and icky.

This is how you see very good-natured, well-intentioned people fall into highly destructive socialist dogma; its veneer of virtue and selflessness is irresistible. They're not bad people (though the commie street animals are), they just have never built anything, nor rescued anything, nor dealt with an emergency, etc...so they don't understand how things actually work.

In BLS/First Responder training they'll test you with a hypothetical question: Let's say you're a firefighter. You're out mowing the lawn in front of the station, and you witness a massive car wreck. What's the first thing you do?

Most people reasonably say "run over and extract the driver" or "call for the ambulance and grab a fire extinguisher", and they fail. The correct answer is: turn off the lawnmower. If you don't slow down and do that first, it'll roll off into the street and cause even more destruction.

The first principle of emergency response is: ensure the scene is safe. There's no point in initiating a "rescue" if it's not safe, and you, yourself, need to be rescued. While the average person might be outraged because a first responder is not darting over to the patient with enough haste, it's because they do not understand how things can break bad. There's a checklist of procedures that has been developed over centuries, written in blood, that informs how they do things, and in what sequence. And what may appear "selfish" is actually just...responsible and pragmatic.