Kinaya

Novus Ordo Seclorum.

Aerospace. Physics. PolyScience.
Techie.

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@CivilEngDis 63.83

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The beacons (when they were working) much like aviation VOR/NDB for spacecraft flying space-time (where time is a state) to this part of space.
Used to guide the arrival and also align the approach to Mt. Hermon ( or whatever it was called in much more ancient times) or Mt Ararat - one of the two or both.

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@MigunaMiguna https://t.co/X1tgyJHdsa

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Earthquakes perfectly embody the clash between human survival and planetary evolution, making the pursuit of forecasting methods highly valuable yet politically volatile.

From an engineering and humanitarian standpoint, there is absolutely nothing wrong with developing predictive tools; accurate forecasts could save countless lives and protect rigid human infrastructure from inevitable tectonic releases.
Because these natural disasters threaten societal stability, mastering their predictability is a logical step toward managing human risk on a dynamic, living planet that requires these very same seismic shifts to sustain life.

However, the core issue arises when these predictive methods inadvertently detect or signal anomalies unrelated to natural geology, directly impacting global geopolitics.

Advanced seismic monitoring tools cannot always easily differentiate between a natural tectonic buildup and clandestine human activities, such as underground nuclear testing or deep-earth resource manipulation.

When a forecasting model flags an impending "event," it risks triggering false military alarms, violating international surveillance trust, or exposing covert strategic operations, transforming a pure scientific endeavor into a highly sensitive geopolitical weapon.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

I needed to move a sofa.

I mentioned this to an American. He said, "You know anybody with a truck?"

I did not know anybody with a truck.

He looked at me with real concern. Not pity. Concern. The way you look at a man who has told you he does not have a name.

"You gotta know somebody with a truck."

I asked how one acquires such a person.

He said, "You just do."

This is the third time I have received that answer in this country. It is the answer to everything here. You just do. There is no process. There is only the eventual fact of having.

He said, "Ask Kevin."

I do not know a Kevin. He said Kevin like I should. He said it the way you say a shared uncle.

I met Kevin four days later. Kevin owns a truck. Kevin does not own a truck for himself. Nobody owns a truck for themselves. Kevin owns a truck for a fifteen mile radius.

Inside I said: THIS MAN HAS TAKEN A VOW. HE DID NOT ANNOUNCE IT. HE SIMPLY PURCHASED A BED AND ACCEPTED THE CONSEQUENCES.

Kevin arrived on Saturday. He brought the truck. He also brought a second man.

I had not asked for a second man.

The second man's name is Tony. Tony came because Kevin came. Tony did not know me. Tony did not ask what we were moving. Tony brought gloves.

They moved the sofa in eleven minutes.

I offered them money. Both of them laughed at the same time, which felt rehearsed and was not.

I asked what I owed them.

Kevin said, "Buy the pizza."

That is the price. That is the entire economy. The truck costs one pizza and the pizza is not negotiable and the pizza is also not expensive and everyone knows what size.

Inside I said: THE FEE IS FIXED ACROSS THE ENTIRE NATION AND WAS SET BY NO ONE.

We ate on the floor because the sofa was against the wall and none of us wanted to be the first to sit on it.

Tony told me his daughter plays soccer. I asked if she is good. He said, "She's aggressive."

I still think about that.

Three weeks later, Kevin texted me.

"You free Sunday? Helping Tony move a fridge."

He did not ask if I wanted to. He informed me of a fridge.

Inside I said: I HAVE BEEN CALLED UP. I DID NOT ENLIST. THE PAPERS WERE FILED ON MY BEHALF.

I went. I moved the fridge. I have no truck. I contributed only arms.

Afterward, a man I had never met asked me if I knew anybody with a truck.

I said, "Yeah, I got a guy."

I have a guy.

I am somebody's guy now, too. Tony has told two people about me.

He describes me as "the guy who's strong for his size."

I have never been prouder of a sentence in my life.

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@AnujThakrar @KenyaAirways The ice and glaciers will be back.

A planetary cycle that has more to do with massive planetary dynamics than the footnote and scribbles of mankind’s effects on Terra.

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Understood.

I have been working on simple topographical “inundation resistance” models for Africa with the help of AI and Digital Terrain & Elevation models/data.

Basically “If the ocean were at elevation H, what does the continent look like?”

Having to use an NVIDIA GPU CAD workstation and it’s taking forever.

Results out in a few days I hope.

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@EthicalSkeptic Any chance of a climate simulation of State 2?
Africa covered in snow/permafrost; Antarctica tropical and all that?

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@bilimatlas Where can we get the global map?

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@Combat_learjet 😂😂

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The good thing with immigration is no matter what passport you hold, there is underlying data that links you to the citizenship of a country.

And that link goes deep into what are your roots in the country of which you hold a passport.

In this age of 10print biometrics, a passport for which you hold no ancestry, naturalization, links to ID (Birth cert), tax records, school records, family (yes- the reference number in our passports that link you to citizen family), residential addresses, mobile phones and its records, schools etc etc, will get you pulled aside at any International Airport on Earth.

You stand no chance at the immigration window of a connected world in a connected country if you have obtained citizenship by fraud.

So for those getting issued Kenyan passports.

If you have no defining data of being Kenyan legally- every metric that defines a Kenyan will flag you if you are not of this country.

The passport book means nothing of citizenship if your existence, biometrics, ancestry and proof of it does not conform to what is in a global databset of citizenship.

Yes. There is a global database of citizenship.

[Rashid Abdi @RAbdiAnalyst]

#BREAKING

Somalia has ordered all ministers and bureaucrats holding Kenyan passports and IDs to give them up immediately.

The directive from President Hassan Sheikh comes amidst tensions with Kenya over incidents at JKIA that saw two high-profile Somali officials refused entry to Kenya for possessing fraudulently acquired Kenyan documents.

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@RealDutchsinse What is the “X”?
I have seen it in ECDO write ups related to the poles.

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Strategically.

Blackouts, or the denial of energy to communities that make our villages, town centres, urbans and cities is a double- edged sword.

To those with advantage knowing the where, when and how of the blackouts before hand.

And those in the dark- pun intended- who are surprised but make the most of it.

What am I saying?

There is no tactical or strategic move between clashing parties for which either will not take advantage of a situation such as a blackout.

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The democratic model in the past century put Africans in a difficult place.

It is a wonderful thing that we are learning to build democracies that generations after us would be accountable to.

Yet, before us by millennia was the imperfect perfections of civilizations for which Africa and the ancient Levant were central.

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@Wamatangi_ And in the blackout you have inadvertently revealed independence from centrally controlled energy.

Energy and lighting is power play Sir.

You know this.

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@anderi02 @moneyacademyKE That is how elections work in geopolitically important countries. You vote to legitimize an agenda that is not of our making. Unless you come out in visible numbers that history cannot ignore.

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@TheDeadDistrict Ballistics to detach or degrade canopy rigidity during ejection?

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@TheProjectUnity Same goes for Mars.
The future probes should be for airborne geophysical exploration- not easy, but very doable if the will is there.

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@TheProjectUnity We can.
The same tech used for Airborne Geophysics.
But they won’t let anyone fly there, let alone with an aircraft equipped with such instruments.