In the quiet hum of dread, they lie, nuclear weapons, stark against the sky. A dance of power, a deadly art, summoning stars, tearing worlds apart.
Oh, is there a beauty, a dreadful grace, in bringing forth a sun to eclipse in space? The fire's bloom, a mushroom's rise, a spectacle that both terrifies and mesmerizes.
The shockwave echoes, a thunderous call, through trembling air, it echoes all. The ground quakes beneath the blast's fierce kiss, leaving behind a wasteland, shattered bliss.
In this dance of destruction, a haunting glass forms, a testament to fury, to humanity's storms. Nuclear weapons, a paradox to behold, a symphony of chaos, a story untold.

Everyone agrees. From the primitive and ineffective Gun-type fission weapon, through the implosion design, to the intricate multi-stage Teller-Ulam designs of Soviet thermonuclear weapons, to today's tactical neutron bombs and, perhaps in the distant future, proton decay catalyzed by magnetic monopoles bombs... Nukes are amazing and wonderful. Isn't it? And even in fantasy worlds there are nuclear weapons. Or at least we can assume them. Who has not been tempted to change the Uranium-238 buffer of an H-bomb for the strange and unstable Octiron of Discworld to observe its destructive effects after detonation?
But one of the most suggestive and mysterious designs is that of the Unholy Nuke from the Adventure Time universe. What is its design? How does it really work? These questions torment me at night. They don't allow me to sleep...
The first thing to note is that the Unholy Nuke, from which the Lich came, is not a phylactery. The Lich does not seem to have a phylactery... or at least that is what you have been led to believe. The Unholy Nuke is indeed a phylactery. It is something like an inverted phylactery, or like a molecular horcrux. Instead of storing the soul and releasing it if it breaks, killing the Lich; it disperses the Lich's soul into billions of particles throughout the world after "breaking" or, rather, exploding.
And how do you destroy billions of particles, horcruxes at the atomic level? You simply can't. At least not through current methods of technology and magic... It is simply genius. But at the same time, as the soul of the Lich is scattered everywhere, in many materials and living beings, so is its power. This is how the world of Ooo changed in such a radical and strange way.
But, I'm going off the rails. Let's focus on the design of the Unholy Nuke. The first thing to keep in mind is that it is a nuclear device. And as such, it probably has a primary stage with an implosion design, just like thermonuclear and neutron bombs. This primary stage is simple: it consists of a hollow sphere of Plutonium-239 containing a small amount of Californium-252 or, perhaps, lithium-7 deuteride and tritium gas.
Plutonium, of course, is not pure. It is alloyed with gallium for reasons of practicality and corrosion resistance. In turn, a beryllium sphere surrounds the plutonium sphere or, perhaps, something more advanced, a neutron supermirror consisting of several thin, concentric layers of beryllium or nickel and titanium, to reduce the mass of plutonium necessary to achieve criticality. . This neutron-reflecting sphere that surrounds the plutonium sphere is covered by a thin layer of gold to be protected against corrosion. You already know that beryllium is easy to corrode.
And finally there are the explosive lenses, connected to detonators, made up of a fast high explosive and a slower one, with almost hexagonal or truncated pyramidal pentagonal shapes, a curved and convex outer face, and with the explosives forming a kind of paraboloid inside each lens. . These lenses surround the large metal sphere as if it were a soccer ball... But these details are insipid. You know what an atomic bomb looks like inside. Everybody knows. It is popular knowledge.
What interests us is the second stage, which is linked to the "unholy", to the Lich. What is it? What lies behind the first stage of the Unholy Nuke?
The second stage of the Unholy Nuke is a menacing and otherworldly device. A sphere of precipitated souls, forming a drop of amorphous unnatural glass. But inside this sphere there is something else: the core, the soul of the Lich. Its core resembles a pulsating, malevolent eye, surrounded by jagged obsidian-like fragments. This sphere of souls is surrounded by a concentric layer of U-238 that is activated, transmutes into plutonium-239 taking advantage of the neutrons released by the explosion of the first stage, and then fissions uncontrollably, imploding the sphere of souls at pressures and huge temperatures.
The uranium sphere's casing is encased in another, duller, purplish-looking material, perhaps hepatizon, thaumium, or some strange type of alchemical brass, adorned with cryptic symbols etched in bright crimson and infused with various evil aspectual essences. And finally, the entire set, the two stages of the Unholy Nuke, is surrounded by a kind of Cobalt-59 capsule, to give some salty flavor to the nuclear explosion. Cobalt-59 absorbs neutrons and transmutes into cobalt-60, which is lethally radioactive for decades or even centuries.
When activated, the Unholy Nuke emits an eerie hum that resonates in the souls of the damned. The primary nuclear explosion awakens the pulsating eye of the Lich, which harnesses chaotic energy, drawing power from the darkest corners of the multiverse.
When detonated, the device does not cause a traditional explosion, at least not for long; Rather, reality itself is deformed and fractured.The laws of physics are altered and localized anomalies are created: Gravity is reversed, causing objects to float or plummet unpredictably. Time loops form, trapping unfortunate beings in repetitive sequences, or skinning and eviscerating them in complex ways into hideously beautiful fractals of flesh and sinew.The dimensions overlap, allowing a glimpse of alternative realities. Existential dread intensifies (a standard characteristic of any self-respecting eldritch artifact).
The aftermath leaves behind a surreal landscape: twisted trees, spectral echoes and unexplained phenomena, as well as high levels of radiation... and high levels of mutagenic environmental magic.
The red runes on the second stage casing have no special function, beyond giving a dramatic effect. When activated, they whisper the forbidden incantation:

In eldritch shadows, evil unbound, Sacrifice a relic rare, profound. Spin clockwise thrice, in ritual sway, As Fibonacci's sequence, reversed, you say.
Unleash entropy, let it roam free, In whispered chants, dark symphony. Eldritchium malum, a forbidden art, Unraveling realms, tearing worlds apart.
Through arcane rites, a twisted dance, Summoning chaos, in devil's trance. Entwined with magic, a cosmic play, Where sanity fades, and horrors stay.

Now you know how the unholy nuke works. Beautiful, isn't it?

I've been meaning to make this post for a while but life kept getting in the way.
There is a bunch of new (well, new to me) stuff I've discovered over the last few weeks, and wanted to share my thoughts with you.
Let's start with the "prequel" (although never canonically confirmed) to the Marathon series was a game called Pathways to Darkness. The backstory for this game is:

Sixty-four million years ago, a large extra-terrestrial object struck the Earth in what would later be called the Yucatan Peninsula, in south eastern Mexico. The dust and rock thrown up by the resulting explosion caused enormous climactic changes in the ensuing years, and many of the Earth's species became extinct during the long winter that followed.
The object itself was buried thousands of feet below ground, its nearly two kilometer length remarkably intact. It remained there, motionless, for thousands of years before it finally began to stir-- and to dream.

Hmm. Buried below ground. Finally beginning to stir and dream. Who does that sound like?
Let's keep going.

The heat of impact liquefied the rock around it, which later cooled and encased the dead god's huge body far below ground. As it began to dream, it wrought unintentional changes in its environment. Locked deep beneath the Earth, strange and unbelievable things faded in and out of reality. Vast caverns and landscapes bubbled to life within the rock, populated by horrible manifestations of the dead god's dream.

As it began to dream, it wrought unintentional changes in its environment.. Locked deep beneath the Earth, strange and unbelievable things faded in and out of reality.
Like Fingerrats? Or like Spider-wolves?

Vast caverns and landscapes bubbled to life within the rock, populated by horrible manifestations of the dead god's dream.

Caverns and landscapes. I want to expand this point here for a bit because it's also mirrored across Alagaesia.
Let's start with Helgrind.
For any FV enjoyers, I've previously speculated that Helgrind is a reliquary, or a previously living being that was transformed (a la Ctein).
But the curious thing here is the timeline of Helgrind and it's tunnel system, taken with the above context.

Q: Assuming it wasn't built by the Ra'zac themselves, was the lair inside Helgrind purpose-built for the Ra'zac and Lethrblaka, or did they appropriate it some time after it was built? If it wasn't built for them, what was its original purpose?
A: Partially natural formations (linked to tunnels elsewhere in Alagaësia), partly expanded by the priests of Helgrind and Galbatorix himself.

But... The Ra'Zac didn't inhabit Helgrind until at least after the Humans came over. So these tunnels underneath Helgrind existed before the Ra'Zac, or Galbatorix ever set foot on Alagaesia. Which, I don't know about you, but a massive network of tunnels does not smell entirely natural to me.
So.. where else are there "natural" formations that link to other tunnels elsewhere in Alagaesia?
We've seen these "natural" formations in Vroengard:

Q: The deeps under Vroengard, were they created by the riders or was it a previous system of caverns that they repurposed?
A: Previous system. I mean, there's been work done on them, but... 'It looks similar, parts of it feel similar to the caverns that we encountered in this book. They both have that hole in the cave which goes deeper, with something in the hole that's not clearly defined.' Yeah.

And we've seen similar depictions in the Beors, and Nal Gorgoth. So from the Beors to Vroengard, "natural" tunnels exist underground. I don't buy that they are entirely natural.
Given the context of the Marathon game above:

Vast caverns and landscapes bubbled to life within the rock, populated by horrible manifestations of the dead god's dream.

I think these tunnels came from Azlagur.
Let's switch gears here, I want to talk about another archaeological mystery in the world of Eragon - El-Harim.
I believe El-Harim was heavily influenced by the (not canon confirmed, but implied) prequel to the Marathon games, the Pathways into Darkness

Pathways casts the player as a member of a US Army Special Forces team sent on a mission to the Yucatán Peninsula. On May 5, 1994, a diplomat from the alien race known as the Jjaro appeared to the President of the United States and informed him that on May 13, an ancient godlike being sleeping beneath a pyramid would awaken and destroy the Earth. The only way to prevent this catastrophe is to prevent the god from awakening. The eight-man Special Forces team carries a nuclear weapon, with the goal of entering the ancient pyramid, descending to the bottom level where the god sleeps, and activating the bomb to stun the god and bury it under tons of rock.

Getting into a bit more of the backstory:

Only during the last few centuries has the god begun to effect changes on the surface of the Earth. Grotesque creatures have been sighted deep in the trackless forest of the Yucatan, and strange rumors of an ancient pyramid-- which is neither Aztec nor Mayan-- in the same area have been circulating in the archaeological community since the early 1930's.

Pyramid, eh? There are two different options here I can think of that equate.
The extended FWW Map
First, in the extended map from FWW, we can see a Pyramid-esque shape - Different color, different slope, etc.
Or, second (and probably more likely), it could be El-Harim:

It is a very bad place. It’s a place where some bad things happened at one point and it’s not a good place to go walking around. I don’t want to get into it too much more because again, it’s a good possibility for another story and I want to keep thinking about it a bit more. It is in Alagaesia and we’ve actually been close to the location.

Many speculate that the below vision from Eragon in Brisingr, which was never explained in the main cycle, is of El-Harim:

And he rested, and visions beset him of a circular stone city that stood in the center of an endless plain and of a small girl who wandered among the narrow, winding alleys within and who sang a haunting melody (A Feast with Friends, Brisingr).

If this vision IS El-Harim , it's super significant because of these two descriptors:

circular stone city
narrow, winding alleys

Fractals. The city itself is a fractal, like Nidus for any FV enjoyers.
The narrow winding alleys are significant because of the descriptors of the Vanished/Grey folk:

The spaces between the structures were narrower than the humans preferred; the proportions were taller, thinner, which matched the images she had seed of the Vanished...
The ancient outline of the city was - as she suspected - a fractal, and the shape of it contained meaning.... At the nexus of the apttern, where it coiled in on itslef like a nautilus shell" (Shards, TSIASOS).

Narrow. Circular (Nautilus shell). Winding. Fractal.
Whatever this city is, El-Harim or otherwise, it is/was a grey folk/vanished city.
And given the quotes from above - "Its a place where some bad things happened at one point", and "dangerous, creeping, ancient, evil thing" - My guess is that the event that caused the Grey Folk to bind the AL to magic happened here, in El-Harim.
Alright, moving along.
Let's talk about the Az and the God. There are a few parallels I've talked around, but the BIG link between the two are Dreams. This is especially important because of the release of the world map recently.

We are the devotees of Azlagur, the Devourer. Azlagur the Firstborn. Azlagur the Dreamer. He who sleeps and whose sleeping mind weaves the warp and weft of the waking world. But the sleep grows restless" (Obliteration, Murtagh).

Versus

As it began to dream, it wrought unintentional changes in its environment. Locked deep beneath the Earth, strange and unbelievable things faded in and out of reality. Vast caverns and landscapes bubbled to life within the rock, populated by horrible manifestations of the dead god's dream.

I could write a whole post about the parallels between the two and their linkage to dreams, but I'll cut it short here for now to save room to dig in to other areas. Specifically, the Dreams connection is especially important because of the relase of the world map recently - I have another post here that gets into more detail, but the translations from the World Map in the middle translate to:

where dreams and dragons dwell

Dreams (!) and Dragons.
Combine that with the Etymology of the words:

Alagaësia ala = land gaësia = rich/fertile
Alalëa ala = land lëa = a beautiful dream
Elëa = the dream itself

So the planet, named Elea, translates to "The Dream Itself". Very interesting.
This is even more significant when you take into account this tweet chain from Chris, a bit earlier in March

Darn it. Just invented a name in the ancient language. Googled it to make sure no one else had used it ... only to discover that I had used it in an earlier book. Lol.
Can we ask what name?
Edurna

I believe the name was a potential candidate for the name of the planet of Alagaesia, which is important because of the etymology of THAT name (All credit to Zora for digging this one up).

Edurna sounds awfully like Adurna and Edur
Adurna meaning water and Edur being a prominence

Prominence. And Water. You know what that sounds like to me? Plaintive Verge. Just food for thought.
Second-to-last Az connection I want to cover: Hunger.

Whirling darkness swallowed him, and at the center of it... lay a formless horror - ancient and evil and from which emanated a constant merciless hunger (Dreams and Portents).

Versus a quote about the cosmic entity in Marathon:

Now I fear what that weapon has unleashed will destroy us. I once boasted to be able to count the atoms in a cloud, to understand them all, predict them, and so did I predict you, but this new chaos is entirely terrible, mindless, obeying rules that I don't comprehend. And it is hungry.

Now, the last piece of Azlagur-related lore I want to cover here is the "Black Sun".
In all of the visions, a Black Sun precipitates Azlagur's rise.

"A black sun rimmed by black flame hung against a darkling sky... The beast rose rampant against the black sun - A wingless dragon, apocalyptic in size, terrifying in presence. Destroyer of hope, eater of light"

Before getting into the Black Sun a bit more, there's an additional connection here I want to touch on - usage of the word rampant in connection with Azlagur.

In Marathon, Rampancy is the enhanced self-awareness of a computer AI, causing a progression towards greater mental abilities and destructive impulses. The destructive impulses, however, are primarily caused by being threatened or harassed. There are three main stages, as well as a fourth and final stage that is rarely achieved, to rampancy, named by the primary attitude of the AI during those times: Melancholia, Anger, Jealousy, and Meta-Stability.

There are some overlaps with what we see from the Maw.
And Melancholia.. that's an interesting word. Especially when taken into context the meaning of the name:

A melancholy dream of great beauty.

Melancholy.. Dream... The pieces of the puzzle are coming together. And Rampant...
Chris also uses that exact same verbiage when discussing a deleted scene from TSIASOS:

Q: I just finished reading To Sleep in a Sea of Stars and I have to know: it sounds like the Wranaui fought the corrupted during the Sundering but if that's true and it happened almost 300 years prior.... Who created the old corrupted? I've been questioning this for days!
A: That was actually in material cut by editors (some of the dream memories). Another Seed/Idealis was damaged and, when the Old Ones tried to separate it from its host, the xeno went rampant.

The xeno went rampant. Very interesting.
Alrighty, I keep getting distracted, back to the black sun.
The reason the Black Sun is important is because it always precipitates Azlagur's rise, throughout several of Murtahgh's visions. In each of them, there is a Black sun.
So, by this, we can extrapolate that the sun needs to be Black in order for Azlagur to rise (which is hinted at at the "Day of Black Sun" celebrations near the end of the book).
But... what does it actually mean?
There is a parallel in Marathon, their weapon:

The trih xeem (also "tri xeem") is an extremely powerful weapon that can be used to force a star into early nova... it was originally conceived and built by the Jjaro [The Old Ones/Vanished equivalent]. Much of the Marathon Infinity story revolves around preventing the Pfhor from using the tri xeem and inadvertently releasing a W'rkncacnter that is supposedly trapped within the Lh'owon sun.

So, the story of the last Marathon games revolves around preventing the usage of the weapon to release the cosmic-level baddie trapped in the sun. So, effectively, the antagonist is imprisoned by the sun.
But.. how does that translate to Azlagur and Murtagh?
The Black Sun requirement for Azlagur's rise could be construed as "imprisonment" by the sun; Azlagur cannot escape until the sun is turned Black. But it only really starts to come together when you piece together these pictures.
First, early concept art for the Fractalverse
You see the black orb, heading directly for the glowing star? Sounds pretty similar.
But that's not the smoking gun; look at the depiction of the black orb in the concept art, and compare it to the trih xeem, the weapon in Marathon.
A black orb with a trail heading directly for the sun. Almost an exact match.
OK.. so I get that it has some relevence in fractalverse, but how does it translate to Eragon?
Well, because of the Beors. Specifically, a picture CHRIS HIMSELF posted about the Beors.
Here
I propose that THIS black orb, at the top of the Beors (which, suspiciously, no one has traveled to) houses the black weapon. After all, the depiction is quite similar - A large, circular, black orb. Looks pretty similar to the other pictures.
And given the above context that Azlagur can only rise with a "Black Sun", the pieces all start to fit together. It's not perfect, but there are definitely a lot of overlaps.
Alright. I've been waiting for this one. The last piece. Let's talk about Angela.
Q: Will we get Angela lore? I feel like she could have killed Galbatorix and just didn't feel like it.
A: For those who don't know Angela is based on my sister Angela, because she breaks the fourth wall to a degree she has. Not only does she have plot armor, she knows she's in a story and can break the story itself. So, yes, she could have killed Galbatorix, but that would have made for a very bad story. That said, I do have an entire book planned around Angela, and it's very high on my list of books to write because it takes place before some of these other big stories I want to write. And that's also the difficult thing. I have my big storylines, and then I have a couple of one off side books I want to write, and it's just a question of time, energy and effort.
She knows she's in a story, and she can break the story.
Based on that, and several other descriptions I will get into in a bit, I think her story is directly related to the Marathon Infinity game.

Marathon Infinity begins as the Pfhor destroy Lh'owon using a Jjaro-derived doomsday weapon known as the Trih Xeem or "early nova". Unfortunately, the weapon also releases a powerful chaotic being: The W’rkncacnter, which threatens to destroy the entire galaxy. Because of the W’rkncacnter's chaos or by means of some Jjaro tech of his own, the player is transported back and forward in time, finding himself jumping between timelines and fighting for various sides in a desperate attempt to prevent the chaotic being's release.

and

In Marathon Infinity, a W'rkncacnter is imprisoned in the sun of planet Lh'owon. It is theorized by some that the W'rkncacnter's powerfully chaotic nature may be responsible for the jumps between realities seen in the game. When the Pfhor use a trih xeem device to send the star into early nova, the creature is released, to the horror and destruction of the Pfhor.

Angela is the Eragon-equivalent of the player.
She can transport back and forward in time, jumping between timelines, and fighting to prevent the chaotic being's (Azlagur's) release. Let's dive in.
First:

Q: Is it canon that Angela the Herbalist is a Time Lord and did she make a cameo in To Sleep in a Sea of Stars?
A: Is Angela the Herbalist is a Time Lord? That would be copyright infringement, so I'm going to say "no comment", but she is in To Sleep in a Sea of Stars. And there is a canon reason for this. And you should have no problem spotting who she is in that book.

So there's a canon reason she's in the book. Interesting. When you take that into context with the next bit

Q: On your last AMA on reddit, someone asked if any fan had guessed the identity and history of Angela correctly. You said nobody has guessed correctly and there's not enough information in the books to do so. That puts every fan theory out there on her wrong, correct? She's not the soothsayer, a time lord, grey folk, etc, correct?
A: Angela: Some of the fan theories have gotten parts of her history and identity correct. However, there's a HUGE aspect to her nature that no one has guessed (or least, not in a non-joking way). And no, I don't mean her being a Time Lord.

So there's a huge aspect to her nature that no one has guessed (at least at the time of writing). She's self-aware, knows she's in a story, and can jump around in time. And, similar to the Marathon games, it appears like only she knows that she's in a story.
So, based on the Marathon inspiration, we can guess that she is trying to accomplish the same thing - To prevent the release of the cosmic-level villain. We know that she has some kind of relationship with the Draumar:

In Murtagh, it’s revealed that Bachel and “Uluthrek” (Mooneater, Angela’s given Urgal name) met with Bachel explicitly going out to confront her (a courtesy not even offered to a Rider like Murtagh)

So, by extension, she has some kind of connection to Azlagur. This is supported by other circumstantial evidence in FWW as well:

Since we know that the Dream Well in Mani's Caves is similar to the Well in Nal Gorgoth I can assume that Angela is revealing the existence of the Draumar to Elva there? I feel certainly feel as if you're setting up her for something in the future series.
Heh. Good Catch.

So, she is clearly working with Elva to do something related to the Dream Wells, and she also previously confronted Bachel, many years ago. So throughout multiple years across the WoE, she is connected to Azlagur and the Draumar; her story clearly revolves around them/Azlagur, somehow.
Putting the above pieces together, my guess is that she is jumping around in different timelines, trying to manipulate actions of the past to prevent the rise of Azlagur. Just like the player character in Marathon. There's another piece of circumstantial evidence to support this assertion as well.
In Marathon Infinity:

After multiple "jumps," the player (seemingly the only one who realizes he is being transported between possible realities)

Versus Angela:

As hours passed, the stars turned above, night chill drew the heat from my body, and I fell into a curious trance, not asleep but not fully awake... The world altered" (On the Nature of Stars, FWW).

I believe this world "Altering" was the first time she experienced an alternate timeline, without knowing what it was at the time.
We've also seen her create "Doorways" as well - Although it's not clear if this is fast traveling (a la a Torque Gate), or truly opening a path to another timeline.
In Eldest:

"As they landed, he noticed a patch of white on a small hill nearby. The patch wavered strangely in the dark, like a floating candle, then resolved into Angela, who was wearing a pale wool tunic" (A Sorceress, a Snake, and a Scroll).

and then later, more concretely:

"I traced a line on the wall, reached out, and opened a door that wasn't there. ON the other side - nighttime, a beach by a black ocean lit only by stars, so many, many stars, more than there should be. Of course, I would not take Elva to my home, not yet. But this was a waypoint, a place to build and learn and grow... She stared into the gap, the impossible portal" (On the Nature of Stars, FWW).

Still, as always with Angela, so many questions.
Alright, we've reached an ungodly wordcount, so I'll call it here. There are still more connections I'm uncovering between the two series (such as the potential connection between the Gedway Ignasia and the "warning" sensation from Marathon), so I might make a follow-up post in the future with everything else I uncover.
As always, thanks for reading! Let me know what you think in the comments, or if you've found any other connections between the two.

What's up, Guardians!
I wrote this article for my small community, but first I would like to make sure that my speculations and reasoning are correct. If I made any mistakes or was guided by prejudices, please indicate this in the comments. Thank you!
*and forgive me for my broken English.

"Resonance" and "Terraformation".

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fdiscerptor-concept-art-confirms-the-orange-darkness-power-v0-umq9jk678zna1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D800%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dc90eb2e9dfdfabfb8f6bea5d494775d9d231702d
Let's start at the very beginning with this concept art. “Resonance” and “Terraformation” are unknown concepts in lore; the former is mentioned as a phenomenon rather than a force, while the latter is never mentioned in the lore.
^{Terraforming is a theoretical complex of processes of changing the climatic conditions of a cosmic body to bring the atmosphere, temperature and environmental conditions to a state suitable for habitation of earthly life.
Resonance (physics} is the phenomenon of a sharp increase in the amplitude of body vibrations under the influence of external forces.)
Most likely these are the so-called working names, and they mean something else - Light and Darkness, and literally everything points to this, for example:

1. The color of Nezarec's glow in Light and Dark matches the colors and effects of Terraformation and Resonance from the previous concept art, respectively.

https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/060/357/482/small/tobias-kwan-tk-nezarec-05.jpg?1678378412

1. The Light and Dark scales in the Prism subclass are painted in guess what colors.

https://www.youtube.com/live/jyIm-_Na8mI?si=ePUc-0GZYL_MeNrX&t=199
We found out that Light = Terraformation and Darkness = Resonance. However, it seems to me that these names hide the essence of these 2 paracausal forces, in other words:
Light is a process of terraforming, while Darkness is a process of resonance.

Light is a terraforming process.

Arguments in favor of the theory:

1. The Traveler literally emitted a beam of Light that terraformed the Pyramid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfqEu8X5urw&t=61s

1. We know that Light is the power of the Traveler, with which he influences the world (description of the abilities of Light 1 and 2). We also know that one of the Wanderer’s abilities is terraforming cosmic bodies, which leads to certain thoughts.

The conclusion suggests itself: Light is capable of terraforming; however there is one point: Light covers the physical area of the world.
This means that Light surrounds everything and everyone and it cannot be one specific process. However, there is one catch...
The catch is that it is not said about the boundaries of this area: Does light cover the entire area of physics or just the totality? If you follow the following reasoning, then the 2nd option is typical.
Light manifests itself in 3 forces: Void, Solar and Arc - according to the old and accepted theory in the community, all these forces are 3 of the 4 fundamental forces, respectively: gravity, strong force and electromagnetism.
^{All physical phenomena are usually divided into 4 large fundamental interactions: electromagnetism, gravity, strong and weak nuclear interactions.}
There is no weak interaction in the list, and the 4th force of Light does not seem to be observed, which means it cannot be said that Light covers the entire physical world.
It turns out that Light is a terraforming process? It is impossible to say for sure, since we only have indirect evidence, so the theory remains a theory.

Is Darkness a Resonance Process?

If we follow the analogy with Light, then it turns out that Darkness is a process of resonance? Perhaps, but there is one point: Darkness, unlike Light, covers the mental area of the world. This means that the physical definition of resonance is not suitable and one must take a definition from another science.
Here is one definition of resonance in psychotherapy from the Internet:
^{Resonance is the key to understanding and managing the system of information interaction between the psychotherapist and the client.}
This already fits better. Unfortunately, I do not have enough knowledge in psychology and psychotherapy to navigate the definition of resonance, so I cannot say anything more.

Dispersion of Light.

Finally, I’ll do a little throw-in.
In one of the concept arts of the Traveler's beam, the artist compares its Light, who would have thought, with real light. He also mentions the phenomenon of dispersion, which brings up an interesting idea...
^{Dispersion is a property of light, which means that when refracted, it not only deviates, but also splits into a certain spectrum of colors.}
https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/060/331/722/small/eric-pfeiffer-ep-traveler-beam-notes-watermarked.jpg?1678323345
What if Light, like a white beam, is capable of decomposing into its own spectrum. In other words, Light can be interpreted as an equation, that is:
Light = Void + Solar + Arc.
For reference, according to lore, the Void, Solar and Arc are nothing more than manifestations of Light, and they themselves, as I already said, are fundamental forces. However, it can't be that simple ┐(シ)┌.
The word manifestation has several meanings:
Meaning 1. An event, action or object that clearly shows something about itself: “The first obvious manifestations of global warming.
Meaning 2. Version of something, someone: “The butterfly was one of the many manifestations of the Goddess.”
“Meaning 1” assumes that the original is some source of manifestation, while “Meaning 2” assumes that there is no source or it exists, but is in manifestations.
As you can see, one meaning contradicts the other, but there is one significant fact.
Light has shape and color, which means it exists materially.
In one of the Final Shape trailers, the Guardian uses Light and Darkness to obtain the Prism. This means that “Meaning 1" is more correct to use to determine manifestations of Light.
Last moment.
And finally, it’s worth mentioning one thing:
There are other things in the lore that are also called manifestations of Light: the Seed of Light and the golden hawk.
Taking into account this fact, I see 2 justifications for this fact:

1. It is worth dividing manifestations into 2 groups: large (Void, Solar, Arc) and small (golden hawk, Seed of Light).
2. Manifestations of Light are an incorrect or outdated formulation of the matter of Light.

Regardless of the path of development, this fact does not affect the theory in any way.
As a result, the same conclusion can be drawn; There is no direct evidence, the theory remains a theory. Could it also be characteristic of Darkness? Yes, maybe, but in a different interpretation.

Conclusion.

It is also undeniable that both theories contradict each other. If we compare them with each other, it turns out that for terraforming (the origin of any life) only fundamental interactions are needed, which is not true, because it also uses biology and chemistry, generally speaking.
Well, just remember that this is just a theory.
Thanks for reading!

Nutrition is such and easy topic to miss the forest for the trees : gluten, mercury, red meat.... I'd love to have a pyramid of importance that would go like this, and wonder if these are numbers we have.
Variable of interest : healthspan and lifespan.
Metric : share of the total variability accounted for

1. Equating for DEXA (so let's say FFMI, visceral fat and BF%) : how much of the variability in health/life span is taken care of, whatever people have been eating their entire life. example : 70%
2. All previous + equating for a series of relevant blood tests (tbd)
3. All previous + daily calories balance (not sure how much it would add to 1) but who knows)
4. All previous + protein per day
5. All previous + protein quality score / amino acid content

6a) All previous + unsaturated vs saturated fats factored in
6b) All previous + complex carbs vs refined carbs vs natural sugar vs processed sugar
7) All previous + micronutrients : nutrient dense food vs supplement vs neither
Of course the order of my list is biased with an assumption that this is the order of importance, but you get the point.
I'd like to know how much a lucky person with optimal DEXA should care about how much of their diet is junk food for example.

I can't stand school. In my country we have fixes classes, you can't choose them, you can choose to which kind of school you can go, I chose a school with science and programming, THEN WHY THE F*** IS THERE ART? Don't get me wrong, I love art history and creative art but not literal architecture. The last thing I drew was a geometric pyramid and now they want us to do freaking Constantine's arch? I cried four to five times just to make one of crete's columns and now I have to draw 4 Corinthian columns? What the actual f***. If I wanted to do this I would have choosen a school for architects.
That's not even the worst! Half of our teachers don't know the first thing about explaining their subject to students!
Our math teacher gets mad at us for not being faster when copying stuff from the blackboard when he is so big we can't even see the blackboard! Then if anyone dares say a single word he just says "I- I don't understand why you would wanna speak" or "you know if you don't understand this thing I'm explaining I will fail you right?" and of course he just has to put the most difficult cases and exceptions in all tests! He's also so stupid, half the class literally laughs at him and then they copy during the test WITH THEIR PHONES people in the first row are able to scan the equation with the phone have an ai solve it and our teacher sees nothing!
Plus with me being autistic and fairly sensitive to smell, I can't go near him because I smell the diabetes! But yeah that's just my problem with him
Then there's the "support".. Teacher? I don't know how I should call her, she's a teacher that my family requested to help with my autism (I don't have any learning disabilities, she's supposed to help with socializing). I often use my phone in class because it helps me focus, but nobody understands this, so I always get in trouble because I'm on my phone, and this teacher is always near me during class because my family is the one that requested her (even though that doesn't mean she has to stay still near me, their actually supposed to help the whole class, not just me) but she just keeps saying "put that phone down" "I'm going to tell your parents that you're not listening during class" and if I say anything she gets mad that I always talk back. Not to mention she always wants me to take notes! I'm not one to take notes, and if they really are so important I can't just start doing it, I need to get used to it and learn how to do it.
And then the english teacher doesn't even know the correct pronunciation of words (well atleast he's not like my middle school teacher who didn't even know some grammar rules!)
School is definitely more trouble than it's worth but in my country I can't drop out until I'm 16 and they're thinking about moving that to 18! Not to mention that my mother would never let me, she sais I absolutely have to get a degree or my life will be ruined. And unfortunately emancipation isn't a possibility in my country
Sorry, this was too long
TLDR: school sucks but I can't drop out😃

A mountain meadow forms a flat, slightly sloping slope. There is an old church tower on the slope. The roof of the church tower has the shape of a square, straight pyramid with a height of 10. The point coordinates in the figure are:
A(100\0), B(10100), C(0102), E(100/20).
a) Determine a parametric equation of the slope plane e.
is perpendicular to the slope plane e.
c) Determine the distance from the pyramid tip S to the slope level e.
d) At a certain time of day, sunlight falls in the direction of the vector (0,-2,1). The roof surface with solar cells is now hit exactly vertically. which of the four roof areas is this?
Also determine the shadow point of the tower top S on the slope. exactly the same distance away.

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World’s Biggest Construction Project Gets a Reality Check

Saudi Arabia’s plans for twin 105-mile-long skyscrapers have lost momentum amid spiraling costs and construction glitches

*By Elliott Brown and Rory Jones
The engineers saw a mountain-sized problem.
For weeks, thousands of trucks and diggers had worked 24 hours every day, scooping millions of cubic feet of sand at the world’s biggest construction project known as Neom in Saudi Arabia. But the workers had dumped the massive pile of dirt—now hundreds of feet wide—in the very spot where architects planned to dig a waterway out to the Red Sea.
So, the trucks and diggers went back to work, picking it all back up and making a new mountain of sand nearby in a costly hiccup that epitomizes the Saudi project’s turbulent journey from an audacious concept to a sprawling operation that has faltered in its execution.
Defying skeptics, Saudi Arabia is barreling ahead with hundreds of billions of dollars in projects at Neom, a built-from-scratch region the size of Massachusetts, typified by sci-fi architecture, an arid ski resort and a laundry list of flashy projects meant to attract a population larger than New York City’s.
None is more brazen than a multitrillion-dollar pair of skyscrapers taller than the Empire State Building designed to run 105 miles long and house nine million people, the flagship development dubbed “The Line.” Its champion, Saudi Crown Prince and de facto ruler Mohammed bin Salman, has likened the project to Egypt’s Great Pyramids.
The kingdom in recent months downsized the Line’s first phase, facing the reality of costs at a time the country is spending far more than it is taking in. Now organizers plan to initially build around 1.5 miles of the structure by 2030, rather than the roughly 10-mile first chunk that had previously been envisioned, multiple people briefed on the plans said. Still, even that truncated section would be by far the world’s largest building, the equivalent of more than 60 Empire State Buildings of square footage.
Asked in a CNBC interview last month about a Bloomberg report on the scaled-back first phase, Saudi Minister of Economy and Planning Faisal Al Ibrahim signaled the long-term ambitions for the Line remain the same.
“There is no change in scale—it is a long-term project that is modular in design,” he said, adding that “today, the economy in the kingdom is growing faster, but we don’t want to overheat it.”
The stakes for Saudi Arabia are as outsized as Mohammed’s ambition. Neom is the ultimate symbol of his plans to transform the kingdom’s economy, reduce its dependence on oil revenue, and make it a magnet for money and talent from around the world. But he risks squandering much of the country’s cash on an unprecedented experiment in city building that could prove too difficult to deliver.
“Mohammed bin Salman is gambling here,” said Madawi al-Rasheed, a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and a member of a group calling for democratic reform in Saudi Arabia, an absolute monarchy.
“Spending so much money should in theory generate a tangible leap in the Saudi economy,” she said, but much of the cash so far was spent on foreign consultants and architects.
A mountain of challenges lies ahead. More than 100,000 additional construction workers must be housed in a barren corner of the kingdom’s vast desert, two hour’s drive from any sizable city. Neom’s needs for steel, exterior glass and other materials are so massive they may push up global prices and be difficult to source. Planners worry the unique central concept of the Line, a vertical city housed in twin skyscrapers the length of Delaware, could prove to be an unappealing place to live.
At the same time, the scaled-back plans for the Line put a spotlight on Neom’s enormous bill for what is now poised to be a midsize city. Neom executives now expect fewer than 200,000 residents in the project’s first phase—the population of Knoxville, Tenn.—a current and former employee familiar with the plans said. Yet Neom is spending on vast infrastructure intended for millions of people, including a giant airport, a high-speed train running through a 20-mile mountain tunnel, massive desalination plants and large civic features in the Line such as an opera house, the former executive said.
The price tag keeps rising. The projected cost of a ski resort in the region’s arid mountains has more than doubled over two years to $38 billion as of October, according to Neom documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. Real estate advisory Knight Frank estimates more than $237 billion of construction contracts have already been commissioned at Neom.
Even for one of the world’s largest exporters of crude oil, Neom might just be too expensive. Its official cost estimate is $500 billion, 50% more than the country’s entire federal budget for the year and more than half the value of its sovereign-wealth fund.
Executives working on the project dismiss that number as unrealistically low. The first 1.5 miles of the Line alone is estimated internally to cost more than $100 billion, two people familiar with the plans said.
If it were fully built, Neom employees expect the true price of the Line would be well in excess of $2 trillion. Construction costs per square foot are more than double what is standard on other Middle East towers, they said.
This makes it unlikely Neom will attract significant private investment to fund future phases of the Line, they say. It has been funded thus far by the Saudi government.
Neom is the centerpiece of an overhaul of Saudi Arabia’s economy and identity that Mohammed began in 2015 when his father ascended the throne. Then 29 years old, the son of King Salman outmaneuvered potential heirs and rapidly consolidated power.
Hungry for change, Mohammed allowed more Western cultural norms and eliminated restrictions that forbade mixing of sexes, women drivers and cinemas. He also put even tighter limits on speech, crushing dissent over the rapid change.
The plan, Vision 2030, called for an array of new non-oil industries such as entertainment and technology and building mega-sized real-estate developments to help it become a global tourism hub.
Mohammed’s team sought proposals from the world’s top architects for ideas to design Neom. The avant-garde Los Angeles designer, Morphosis Architects, headed by Pritzker prize winner Thom Mayne, pitched a city that was 100 miles long and 1.2 miles—or two kilometers—wide, with buildings spread across the ground.
The prince had a different idea.
“I told the team, how about if we take that two kilo and we flip it to two towers to the whole line,” he said in a Discovery Channel documentary last year, clapping his hands together vertically like someone closing a book.
The idea of the skyscraper city was born.
Architects got to work designing a pair of parallel towers 650 feet apart, shrouded in a shimmering mirror glass coat that reflects red desert sand and azure blue sea. At their highest, the towers are slated to rise 1,640 feet above the desert floor, although they will be less tall in spots depending on the terrain they are traversing.
Internal documents from 2021 call for more than seven billion square feet of floor space—29% larger than all of the buildings in New York City put together and the size of more than 2,000 Empire State Buildings. Apartments, offices, schools, police stations, museums and a royal palace would be peppered inside.
Stunning—and costly—architecture is a priority. Mohammed told Neom executives he wants a sense of “zero gravity” with features appearing to defy physics and float, former executives said.
A linear city has long captivated urban planners. In 1882, Spanish architect Arturo Soria y Mata proposed an elongated urban development that inspired the “Ciudad Lineal” district of Madrid. The Line has been compared internally to Epcot Center, a former Neom executive said, the 1960s-era complex at Disney World that was intended to be a futuristic city dependent on high-speed rail. It was abandoned after Walt Disney ’s death. Epcot later became a theme park.
A linear city as big as the Line is at odds with how humans have developed cities for millennia: naturally building outward in a circular manner, typically around a core.
“It’s battling against the entire history of the way cities are founded and grow,” said John E. Fernandez, professor in the department of architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Even supporters say it is an experiment that could easily fail in practice.
In a planning document under a heading of “Key Concerns,” an employee said four different times that by fixating on building miles-long skyscrapers, Neom had turned the normal design process inside out. “USE would usually drive DESIGN. We are using DESIGN to drive USE,” the anonymous comment said.
The shape has added to challenges.
In 2020, before Mohammed unveiled the project, he asked employees to move the Line’s western end a few miles because he preferred the terrain, said people familiar with the request. Designs had to shift slightly across the entire 105 miles, causing months of extra work.
Architects have struggled to find the best ways to mix sunlight and open space in the interior. Internal documents show they wrestled with how to differentiate neighborhoods so as not to create a monolithic block—opting to build distinct half-mile sections with a different look and feel. They worried about drab living conditions at the base of the interior, given that the height of the towers would allow little light down low.
According to planning documents, designers proposed leaving gaps atop the modules to “bend” the structures around the curvature of the earth, which arches about 8 inches per mile.
Planners fretted over the billions of birds that fly on a migration route—a less-than-ideal location for a 1,600-foot-tall glass mirror.
“It is inevitable that a significant number of birds will perish,” designers wrote, with an illustration of a dead northern flicker, a woodpecker.
Looming over Neom is an inauspicious history of city-building projects, which typically die on the drawing board. Those that are built are usually scaled down, and often considered sterile.
One of modern history’s largest is Brasília, the Brazilian capital that strained the country’s finances when it was constructed in the late 1950s. After opening, residents complained of lifeless streets and a lack of neighborhood feel in the curated modernist center, which today holds less than half its expected population of 500,000. Instead, far more residents live in and around satellite towns initially built for its construction workers.

Scant progress

Seven years after launch, little has been completed other than Neom’s film studios and a sprawling new royal complex that boasts giant palaces, a golf course and at least 10 helipads, satellite images show.
Beyond the Line, Neom has a bevy of superlative-packed projects, all of them complex.
Neom is so big it has its own large-scale construction projects simply to prepare for bigger projects. A port is needed to receive materials, and Neom is spending more than $5 billion to build housing for construction workers, according to the Middle East business-trade publication MEED, which tracks Neom contracts.
Engineers and administrative workers live in a handful of Neom-built communities with schools, basketball courts, a Burger King, a Starbucks and a Hampton Inn where rooms run above $400. The first such camp already needs to be partially demolished: After a design change, the Line is now due to run right through the community, where housing is already at capacity, former employees said.
Despite being billed as zero emissions, Neom recently sought contractors to build two gas power plants totaling 800 megawatts to power the region until greener energy is sourced.
To demonstrate progress to the crown prince, engineers started putting in the foundations for the Line a couple of years ago even before architects had figured out what would go above—an unusual way to build such a massive development, engineering experts said.
Architects soon decided the first phase should be built somewhere else, leaving the Line’s initial foundations abandoned for now, said people familiar with the matter.
For over a year, the bulk of the work has been a digging operation—the world’s largest, Neom says. Four-lane makeshift construction roads are clogged with lines of dump trucks; diesel fumes from trucks and generators permeate the air.
Significant digging work has gone into swaths that even before the recent pullback weren’t scheduled to be completed for decades. Satellite images show a 60 mile gash through the desert.
The current focus is a seaside middle section, where Prince Mohammed wanted the building constructed atop a new marina that could hold the world’s biggest cruise ships. Workers are digging a hole 50 feet below sea level, over 450 acres in size. It was there that workers had excavated a small mountain of dirt, only to find it was in the wrong place.
Once foundations are laid, a key test will be if and when Neom awards the costly contracts to start vertical construction—a crucial milestone that makes it difficult to turn back.
Another question is height. Numerous executives working on Neom have questioned the need for a 1,600-foot-tall building—which carries extra engineering challenges, higher costs and makes evacuation difficult in an emergency.
Renowned British architect Peter Cook, who is involved in the Line, called the project’s height “a bit stupid and unreasonable,” according to comments published in the U.K.-based Architect’s Journal. In a later documentary, Cook, who is overall praiseful of the project, called the Line “puzzling even to those who are involved in designing it.”

Hello good people of Watts Island. I’m back to talk a little about Shanann’s friends and do something akin to ‘Who were they and where are they now?”
The idea behind this post came from “Beyond the Headlines: The Watts Family Tragedy” that I recently watched on YouTube. I have much to say about these interviews and the narrative that was and is forced on the public regarding Shanann and her relationship with Chris.
So, let’s get into it.
The Watts Family Tragedy Includes Never-Before-Seen Footage Beyond The Headlines Special LMN
Maybe some of you have seen this before and maybe some have not, me included. I came across this just a few nights ago and I feel there are some things that could be addressed. A “set the record straight” if you will. I figured that we would use this opportunity to talk about these women who call Shanann their “friend”, their connection to her and what has happened in their lives since this crime made them semi-famous.
Most of you know that I have researched this crime relentlessly. I have learned a lot about the people involved. I also became very familiar with the business of MLM’s and the dichotomy that exists in the friendships that develop within them. It’s all very, very interesting. After reading all of this, go back and rewatch the above video once again. It has a performance vibe to it. Shanann’s gruesome demise brought fame and glory to Thrive and its promoters and many of them still use their connection to her to bring in sales. We will get into that later.
The main characters to discuss in this video are:
Cristina Meacham, Cassandra Rosenberg, Cindy Derossett, and CBI Agent Tammy Lee. We will touch on Mr Rourke and Mr. Wrenn but this is about the women and their connection to Shanann. There is also a news reporter featured in the show but she is a paid talking head, so not of interest to me. She is merely the messenger of the narrative. She did not actually construct it. However, she had a big part in pushing it out into the world.
On with the show…
I want to start with Cristina Meacham. Before I give you my thoughts on her interview, I want to say that the loss of her husband, Deloye (DJ) is a tragedy and I feel for her and her daughter.
DJ was a retired US military serviceman. He was a certified diving instructor and owned his own recreational diving company in Hawaii called Deco Divers. On October 13, 2023, just two days after Cristina returned from Puerto Rico where she had attended the funeral of her grandmother, DJ passed away from complications that occurred while he was diving in shallow water. He suffered from some sort of emergency while in the water and died as a result. He was 53.
The Meacham’s appeared to have had a good marriage if you believe what’s on social media. But we all know that things aren’t always what they seem. That’s neither here nor there. Cristina and Nickole Atkinson have always seemed the most genuine of Shanann’s “friend group” (their words not mine.) Cristina struck me as honest. Yes, she is a hunbot. Yes, she does participate in an MLM. But she doesn’t sell the fake lifestyle like Shanann did. At least, not as aggressively.
I think the two women were close. Talking on the phone everyday. Brainstorming on how to coax more suckers into promoting Thrive. But Cristina’s livelihood didn’t hinge on building a bigger downline. Shanann had quit her job and Chris’ paycheck didn’t begin to cover their basic expenses.
Back in 2015, while Shanann was still working and making decent pay, money was extremely tight. The house payment alone absorbed over half of his monthly salary. After utilities, car insurance, minimum credit card payments, Shanann’s shopping habits, clothing and food, the Watts were well into the red. Shanann juggled the bills each month in order to try and keep them afloat. But it didn’t work and in June of that same year, the Watts filed for bankruptcy protection.
By Chris’ account, he was floored by the need to file bankruptcy. Shanann had complete control over their finances. She insisted and Chris wasn’t one to tell her ‘no.’ She chose to marry him, in part, because of that little fact. Chris was easily pushed around by his wife. He was conflict avoidant by nature. Combine that and his fear of Shanann’s italian temper and you have a recipe for financial disaster.
By the time summer of 2018 had rolled around their money problems were significantly worse. Shanann no longer worked that decent paying job. The girls were now enrolled full time at Primrose to the tune of $500 per week. Still, Shanann would pump hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars a month into promoting Thrive. This meant that the house payment would go unpaid for months at a time and/or only partial payments were made. The HOA had filed suit against the Watts for unpaid dues that stretched back more than a year.
Shanann knew that things had gotten to the breaking point where money was concerned. She used deceptive tactics to draw friends and family into the Thrive pyramid scheme. Maybe this is why Cristina Meacham always appeared genuine to me. Her sales pitch didn’t have the desperation behind it like Shanann’s. I suspect that the majority of the women promoting Thrive were in the same predicament as Shanann. Trying to keep a roof over their families heads is hard when your fake lifestyle soaks up all of the money. They continue to throw money at the Thrive monster in order to keep up appearances in hopes that some poor schmuck will fall for the same tired sales pitch and go all in on promoting the product. Downlines on downlines on downlines. It’s impossible for someone like Shanann to make this MLM business structure lucrative. It’s not going to happen. Most huns see it fairly quickly and this is why most of these “sales consultants” LOL actually throw in the towel in the first 6 months. The super hunbots with delusions of grandeur sacrifice everything they and their partner have built in pursuit of the life they “deserve” despite it being completely unrealistic. These women build teams of lovebombing stepford wives, all of which are hell bent on clawing their way to the top of the pyramid.
With this dynamic at play in all MLM’s it’s hard to know if the relationships between hunbots are legitimate or if they are a product of the MLM. Cristina may have been “close” to Shanann but in the MLM game that doesn’t necessarily equate to genuine friendship.
Let’s keep it real. Cristina was in the front row of the Shanann Show more than once. The first week and half of August 2018 had Cristina in the trenches. Shanann texted her literally day and night spouting hateful accusations at Ronnie and Cindy Watts. Followed by prolonged rants on why Chris didn’t want to touch her or talk to her. Cristina could surely see why Chris may have been upset with his wife. Anyone with any semblance of normalcy could read those text messages and see that Shanann was not a supportive or caring wife. She wanted her husband to choose her side in a battle she orchestrated against his family. A highly disordered personality has to be the culprit.
Cristina is used in the voiceover during the intro of the show. She speaks in a strange tone that I hadn’t heard from her before. I have watched an embarrassing amount of this woman’s social media content and believe me when I say that this voice is new.
Cristina has a lot to say about who Shanann was and while I don’t believe that their friendship was anything rock solid, I do think that Cristina knew Shanann better than anyone else outside of her husband and family.
Cristina was starting to get a picture of the real Shanann, though. The text exchanges between Shanann and Cristina during July and August 2018, were eye opening to me. I have read and reread some of those messages and found myself shaking my head in disbelief. Shanann was not a nice person. Cristina has had years to mull over the details. She didn’t seem comfortable with the way Shanann was treating her husband and in-laws. Her responses to Shanann’s vitriol are interesting. They suggest to me that after spending eight weeks at Saratoga Trail and watching Shanann in her element, Cristina was seeing things for what they were. Shanann wanted to be in control. If her wants and needs weren’t met, there was going to be a problem. She was a bully and a…bitch honestly. Cristina resorted to the obligatory head nodding after her initial attempts to encourage Shanann to be calm and level-headed failed miserably.
While Cristina and Koral were in Colorado in late summeearly fall of 2017. Shanann was in the throes of Thrive and most of us know what that entailed.
Shanann had quit her job at the hospital to Thrive full time. The girls were dropped off at daycare at approximately 7 am each weekday morning, where they stayed for nine plus hours. Chris was sent to retrieve them after his twelve hour shift ended at Anadarko. He brought them home where he was tasked with bathing, feeding, brushing teeth, administering meds, and reading bedtime stories, before putting them to bed by 6:30 pm. Shanann would often make Chris perform live for her Facebook friends in addition to his nightly dad duties. Giving piggyback rides on camera. Dutifully obeying his wife's demands to do pushups and squats with screaming children clutching his neck and head. All of this is punctuated by being the punchline to all of Shanann’s not-so-funny, mean jokes. The laundry was always waiting patiently for his attention after the girls were put to bed. Sometimes even the dishes were on his list of things to do before he was allowed to rest after his long day.
Cristina knows all of this. She was right in the thick of the action, so to speak. Not only was she a witness to this unequaled dynamic but she also utilized Shanann’s beast of burden herself on many occasions, as he was also a great babysitter. Cristina trusted Chris, once upon a time. Trusted him so much that she would leave her toddler in his care while she and Shanann took a weekend trip to Las Vegas. She also left Koral with Chris several nights per week. Shanann and Cristina went to dinners, movies, bars, etc while Chris stayed at home with both of his toddlers and Cristina’s as well. He didn’t even have access to a vehicle during these times. What kind of man would put up with that kind of treatment? A nice man. A genuinely nice man. That’s who Chris was and Cristina Meacham knows it.
Her knowledge of what their marriage was really like behind the doors on Saratoga Trail is the reason why Cristina doesn’t shed one real tear in the above video. Look closely. No tears. Her voice lifts and squeaks as though it is full of confusion and emotion but there’s no there, there. Performative.
Cristina knows that Chris was an excellent father and husband until that day in August. She also knows that Shanann pushed and pushed and pushed. It was her way or no way at all.
They use a few of Shanann’s text messages as proof of her broken heart after Chris began to pull away but what they don’t show is the manipulation and abuse that filled the other 99% of her texts during that same time period. The way that Shanann spoke about her husband and his family in text messages she sent to Cristina Meacham during the summer of 2018 shows the real, down and dirty deal. It is more than obvious from Cristina’s replies to those messages that she knew Shanann was full of hatred and malice toward Chris’ parents and sister. Hell, not even his young niece and nephew were safe from Shanann’s vitriol. It’s not as if Cristina hadn’t been privy to that side of Shanann. She had seen it firsthand. This is why Cristina cries with dry eyes.
Don’t get me wrong. I believe that Cristina is affected by the loss of someone who was a big part of her life in the final two years leading up to the murders. But what you can’t convince me of is that Cristina truly believes that Shanann was the living, breathing angel that she is portrayed to have been.
If there is anyone outside of Shanann and Chris' respective families who saw who Shanann really was, it’s Cristina Meacham.
Cristina ruminates on the atrocities that Chris committed that August morning. Strangely though, she leaves the girls out of their own murder. It’s quite obvious that the point of this whole thing is to shove that same old narrative down our throats. That Shanann was an angel and Chris is the devil. They pushed this on the public from the day that Chris was arrested. There was no investigation. No defense team to pull the skeletons out of the closet and dust them off for the world to see. No friends or family of Chris were given a platform to tell their truth. Nope. It was and still is the “Shanann Show.” Propagated by the Weld county DA’s office, the Rzucek family and the powers that be at LeVel.
Cristina’s description of Shanann is a caricature. Maybe this is why the tears just aren’t there. She calls Shanann a good person and a good wife to Chris. Would a good wife insist that her husband cut all ties with his parents for the 2nd time in six years? Do good people use Facebook as a weapon against their in-laws? Does a good wife heap all of the childcare and chores on her husband every evening after he worked a 12 hour shift? While she sat at home and spent money that they simply did not have? These are just small examples of the shit that Shanann put Chris through. We won’t even talk about how she separated Chris from his family and friends through manipulation and deceit. She made sure that he had no life outside of the house on Saratoga Trail. Even his position at Anadarko was for Shanann’s benefit. His work as a mechanic just didn’t fit into her vision for him. How can she call Shanann a good person when she was well aware that Shanann used her children as leverage against the people that loved them? It’s honestly disgusting.
If Cristina was such a close friend of Shanann’s, why didn’t she speak up and tell her that the way she treated her husband was wrong? Cristina had the chance to bring some truth and clarity to the situation while Shanann and Chris were still in North Carolina? The way that Shanann insulted and degraded her husband and his family was shameful. Cristina never once spoke up to bring Shanann back down to earth. That’s not a real friend.
Let’s talk about Cassie Rosenberg. Oh, Cassie, Cassie, Cassie. Shanann’s champion and “best friend.” Cassie is one of those people that were made for MLM’s and the like. Opportunistic but likable and empathetic. She dove into Thrive, head first. Just like Shanann. She was fresh off of a foreclosure and feeling low when Thrive rescued her and her husband, Josh from a life of boredom and laziness.
Shanann and Cassie met around November of 2017. Cassie lived in Arizona with her husband Josh and their three children. Stair step in ages. Two girls and one boy if I remember right. Not really sure as the Rosenberg children didn’t get the screen time that Bella and Celeste were forced to endure. Then again, Cassie had an actual career. She is an RN and therefore worked during the day instead of sitting at home and playing on her phone.
Cassie and Shanann instantly clicked during their initial meeting. Cassie had been part of Shanann’s invisible audience by way of her involvement in Thrive. Cassie was drawn to Shanann’s Thrive celebrity so to speak. Cassie was new to LeVel when the murders occurred.
Then there’s Cindy Derossett. She is another Thriver. She also lives in Arizona. Cindy is a LeVel millionaire recipient who owns a small boutique in Queen Creek, AZ. She has been with LeVel for 10 years.
So, here we have three of Shanann’s fellow Thrivers speaking about her character, pushing out the agreed upon narrative to the public. There are so many things wrong with this and it’s difficult to pick a place to start.
Why were these women chosen for this program? I understand that Cristina Meacham was probably the closest thing Shanann had to a real friend. Even though their friendship was transactional, Cristina knew Shanann for fourteen years. Even if you didn’t count the twelve years that they didn’t see one another, Cristina was still Shanann’s oldest friend. Yes, that’s correct. While Shanann had hoards of acquaintances that she would eventually pester to join the Thrive experience, she had no close friends before she joined LeVel.
Back to the question of why these particular women were chosen to represent who Shanann was in life…I believe they were the only people who would or could give the public what it wanted; a tragic main character that propagated sympathy.
Cassie wonders whether we ever really “know” someone else. She questions how Chris could commit such a horrible act without showing any signs of what was to come.
Of course it’s possible to truly “know” others. However, Cassie barely knew Chris. It hadn’t even been a full year since she had initially met Shanann face to face. Trips they took with LeVel were their only physical interactions with one another until the Rosenbergs popped up in Colorado during that holiday weekend in 2018. Of course Cassie didn’t know Chris and truthfully she barely knew Shanann.
Cindy began her “friendship” with Shanann on Facebook. Cindy was a Thriver from way back and she was introduced to Shanann by Addy Maloney.
Cindy, who calls herself a “spiritual coach” and motivational speaker, is an accomplished lovebomber. If you didn’t know better you would think that Cindy Derossett had been an integral part of the lives of Shanann and the girls. She had never actually met either of Shanann’s daughters. Cindy would see Chris on the LeVel trips but that was the extent of her relationship with him. She barely knew this family and yet, here she is on television speaking about them as though she were some kind of authority on who they were.
Both Cassie and Cindy agree that everyone that met Shanann couldn’t help but be her friend. If that were true then why was it that Shanann had no friends to speak of before joining Thrive? Sure, Shanann knew a lot of people and she would often refer to them as “friends” but in reality Shanann couldn’t maintain anything deeper than a surface level connection. Interpersonal relationships couldn’t be sustained.
She was engaging and fun on the surface but that would change as the relationship progressed. There were no friends outside of Thrive. Even the women she met before she started Thrive were eventually used to expand her downline.
While reading the text messages between Shanann and her circle, it’s obvious that each of these relationships were centered around Shanann. It was her problems that were discussed. It was her accomplishments that were celebrated. Every conversation was dictated by whatever it was that Shanann had going on in her life. Shanann surrounded herself with empathetic people in order to exploit them. Like Chris.

Cassie and Cindy are asked to describe Bella and Cece. I, myself, who have never met those children, would have done better. Their answers are full of platitudes that have been repeated over and over for the last five years. Neither of them say anything heartfelt about the girls. 

This is because Cindy had never met either Bella or Celeste. She saw via Shanann’s facebook posts but she had never actually been in the same room with them.
Cassie had only met the Watts girls once. This was in May of 2018 when the Rosenbergs traveled to Colorado for a local that Shanann was hosting. The family of 5 spent the Memorial Day weekend with the Watts on Saratoga Trail.
Both girls spent 9 hours a day, five days a week at daycare. They were in bed by 6:30 every evening.
On the weekends, Chris kept the kids out of Shanann’s hair so she could “run with her amazing team.”
So when exactly did Cassie and Cindy spend enough time with Bella and Cece that would constitute them being asked to speak about them post mortem??
At first I didn’t get it. It took a moment or two for me to catch on to why these people were invited to tell their story. People that didn’t really know them.
Then it clicked. This entire production was about Shanann.
This show aired for the first time in 2020. Just about the time that this case was generating renewed interest for different reasons.
Two years had passed since the murders occurred. Plenty of time to read and reread the discovery. Shanann’s facebook videos were compiled on YouTube channels and sent out to the morbidly curious. Like myself. Two years it took for people to begin to question the narrative. Was Shanann an innocent victim in this crime? Was she a good wife and mother who was married to a monster?
Or, was there something else to see here?
These women were brought into this case by way of their MLM connection to Shanann but they have remained as main characters to push the narrative. They have told us that Shanann was everything right in the world and Chris killed her because he was a cheating, lying piece of shit.
While some of you may believe all of that to be true, there are those of us who dug deeper into the lives of the Watts family leading up to the murders and what we have found flipped the case upside down. It’s the reason that this case remains in the front row of the true crime cases that we can’t let go.
The has-it-all image Shanann presented on social media was a dissimilation. Behind closed doors she had created an environment filled with intense levels of stress for her family.
Chris and the girls lived in constant apprehension. Creating a perfect picture for the outside world had become a responsibility for this family and anyone that threatened it would be discounted. Shanann’s selfishness caused uncertainty, insecurity, depression and probably fear.
Cristina, Cassie and Cindy talk as though they had spent considerable time with them when in fact they had not.
Truthfully, they barely knew Shanann. The amazing mom and wife that they were acquainted with was a veneer and the lifestyle that she showed off on social media was a sham. Nothing but a simulation of the life she dreamed of having.
Pay attention to what it is that they are saying and not saying about Shanann. Their characterization of her is anecdotal. The entire vibe is disingenuous and insipid.
Cristina insists that Shanann was a go-getter and was determined to create the best life for her family. But is that really true? Is that what she was attempting to achieve? Or was she hung up on material things? People who spend their families into financial ruin aren’t caring for them properly. Sliding into a second bankruptcy and a foreclosure on their home so that she could keep up the traveling, wealthy, suburban mom facade isn’t what I would call “trying to create the best life for her family.” Her vision board was a testament to her mindset. Yachts, beach houses, the list goes on and on. Someone with this kind of juvenile thinking isn’t what I would call a “go-getter.”
Cindy claims Shanann taught her girls how to love. Again, how would Cindy know this to be true? Teaching them to love? By fostering a golden child/scapegoat dynamic between them? By encouraging them to throw their food at their dad when they were displeased or impatient? How about when she screamed at their Mimi that they would never step foot in their grandparents home again?
Was it love she was teaching them when she dressed them up in lovely clothes every year to sit on Santa’s lap and find entertainment in their terror and distrust?
But most importantly of all…was she teaching them to love when she subjected them to her own sadistic form of Babywise from the minute they were born? Leaving them alone in their cribs to cry-it-out?
Cindy says when Shanann posted videos to Facebook, it was their “joy” to watch. It was likely they were required to watch by their MLM leaders.
Cassie calls Shanann “captivating” but all I saw was the exploitation of her children.
The reporter even dodges the facts by claiming that Shanann’s “main job” was as a consultant for a nutritional supplement company. There’s no way that this educated woman doesn’t know that Shanann was participating in an MLM. A pyramid scheme does not equate to a “main job.” Mostly because that “main job” doesn’t actually pay you for your work.
We will continue my reaction to Beyond the Headlines: The Watts Family Tragedy, later this week. I have a lot to say.
Thanks for reading.
Del
Pt2 https://www.reddit.comDel_Boca_Vista_4eva/s/keBnGlmySn
Pt3 https://www.reddit.comDel_Boca_Vista_4eva/s/WMm7qWetaY

For this question I am unsure of how to solve this as I am unclear of how to relate the angles at the top to the one being asked in the question and overall I am just unsure of how to go about this question and the overall method to obtain the final answer. I assumed this was vector because of the use of planes, but might be a standard geometry question idk. Furthermore, when trying to use vectors, I have no idea how to since there are no coordinates or anything to find the equations of the planes but just the overall “lemgths” of the pyramid and its parameters. Please help!

Utterance 600
The following is utterance 600 of the Unas Pyramid Text (4350A/-2395), using the Samuel Mercer (3A/1952) translation:

• [1652a] To say: O Atum-Khepri, when thou didst mount as a hill,
• [1652b] and didst shine as bnw of the ben (or, benben) in the temple of the "phoenix" in Heliopolis,
• 1652c] and didst spew out as Shu, and did spit out as Tefnut,
• [1653a] (then) thou didst put thine arms about them, as the arm(s) of a ka, that thy ka might be in them.
• [1653b] Atum, so put thine arms about N.,
• [1653c] about this temple, about this pyramid, as the arm (s) of a ka,
• [1653d] that the ka of N. may be in it, enduring for ever and ever.
• [1654a] O Atum, put thy protection upon N.,
• [1654b] upon this his pyramid, (upon) this temple of N.;
• [1654c] prevent any evil thing happening to him for ever and ever;
• [1654d] just as thy protection was put upon Shu and Tefnut.
• [1655a] O Great Ennead who are in Heliopolis,
• [1655b] Atum, Shu, Tefnut, Geb, Nut, Osiris, Isis, Set, Nephthys,
• [1655c] children of Atum--his heart is broad (glad) because of his children, in your name of "Nine [Bows]."

Section 1655a-b numbered:

O Great Ennead who are in Heliopolis:

1. Atum
2. Shu
3. Tefnut
4. Geb
5. Nut
6. Osiris
7. Isis
8. Set
9. Nephthys

Here we see the oldest form of the first 9 letters of the alphabet. This ordering became the first 9-units of the Cubit rulers. Then the first 9 or 10 units of the LunarScript. This became the AlphabetOrigin.
Quotes

“Oh Atum-Khepri 𓆣, when thou didst mount as a hill ⛰️, above the Nun 𓈗 [N] waters💧; and didst shine 🔆 as the bennu 𓅣 of the benben 🔺 in the temple of the phoenix 🔥 in Heliopolis 𓊖 [X+O]; and didst spew out as Shu 𓇋 [air] 💨 [A], and did spit out as Tefnut 💦 [moisture]; you fathered the great Ennead 𓊹𓊹𓊹𓊹𓊹𓊹𓊹𓊹𓊹 [Θ] who are in Heliopolis: Atum, Shu, Tefnut, Geb (𐤂, 🌎) [G], Nut (𐤁, 𓇯) [B], Osiris [Δ], Isis [Ε], Set [Ζ], Nephthys [F].”
— Anon (4350A/-2395), Unas Pyramid Texts (§: Utterance 600); truncated version (Thims, 16 Nov A67/2022)

Notes

1. This so-called "Ennead sequence" was one of the keys I used to decode the first 10 letters of the alphabet, 4-years ago.

Selections from transmission 371, Endeavor Station: Entry ID Lows, Sara: truncated...believes it is a larger version of the holes we've been seeing. The sizemology is troubling. Lara managed to set up a sandbag redoubt and Pete moved both of the turrets to hopefully provide covering fire. With fifteen of us, I think it is reasonable to assume we'll fare better than last time. A bigger breach will mean more of those flesh creatures but we're ready. At least, I hope we're ready.
Entry ID Haver, Pete: truncated...it's too big, way too big. Get the kids to the lab, tell them to hide. We'll hold them for as long...
Entry ID Governs, Lara: indecipherable, sounds of gunfire, sounds of screaming...they're on the barricade! They're coming over the...indecipherable screaming, guttural howling...get back, get back, the turret's cooked, its going to...sound of an explosion.
Entry ID Lough, Remmy: sounds of gunfire, sounds of screaming...fallback to the kitchen, just go, just go...sounds of cloth tearing, sounds of gunfire...take you with me, you bastard...I'm going to take...sounds of screaming.
Entry ID Lows, Sara: indecipherable cross chatter on the coms line...no, she's dead, she's dead, we can't go back...cross chatter...oh my god...
COMS SILENCE-5 minutes, 22 seconds.
Entry ID Holt, Oleg: ...we're still here. We're in the lab. I got Yulia and Kit with me, they're real scared. I'm scared too...coms silence...Dr. Lows?...Lara?...Pete...sounds of metal fatigue, sounds of autodoor failure, sounds of guttural growling.
COMS SILENCE-12 minutes, 52 seconds.
Entry ID Holt, Oleg: I don't know if anyone else is alive. I sent Yulia and Kit to the barn, all the animals are dead in there so maybe the monsters won't come back. The big hole is quiet but those things are tearing everything apart. The lab is all wrecked and the kitchen is gone now. There are so many of them, they're just circling, tearing everything down. I'm going to the hole, I don't think there is anything I can do but I'm going anyway. I'm the oldest now so I have to try. Kit gave me his little helmet and I have the spear Lara made me. I'm gonna try.
COMS SILENCE--5 minutes and 3 seconds
Entry ID Gray, Yulia Oleg, please please come back, one of the big ones is outside. We're scared.
COMS SILENCE--1 hour 32 minutes and 45 seconds
Entry ID Holt, Oleg They killed them while I was gone. Yulia she was just five. They killed them both. They were all in pieces in the barn. One of the big ones was in there but he must have been dying from the fight. He was laying on the ground, twitching and moaning. So I stabbed him. And stabbed him. It took a long time before he stopped moving but I killed him. For Yulia and Kit. For everyone, I guess.
COMS SILENCE--3 hours 14 minutes and 55 seconds
Entry ID Holt, Oleg Two caravans came in at the same time. Big ones. The combat trader from up north, the one with the big mustache and the funny hat and a Shaman from the tribe just downstream. They rolled through and killed all the monsters. It wasn't easy for them but they did. Two of the Shaman's group went down and one of the mercs with the combat trader is still on the ground in the wreck of the nursery. It was a big fight, arrows and shotguns, some of the Shaman's animals got into it too. When it was done, they just stood around looking sorry. There wasn't anything they could do for me. Everyone's dead. Just blood and broken walls now. They said I was too young to stay here alone but neither group was in a hurry to invite me to go with them so I stayed. Dr. Lows loved it here, even after she found the creepy pyramid. She loved it even after all the weird things started happening. I think she'd still want to stay even now. She took me in when I was lost in the hills. She fed me and taught me and all the others were kind to me. It was the only place that's happened. And now there's a big hole in the middle of what's left and a bigger hole in my chest where I kept all my feelings about everyone here. So I decided to stay. I have to bury my friends and clean this place up. And after that, I'm going to close that hole. I'm going to kill whatever's down there and I'm going to take back all the good things it took from me. I miss all of you already. I hope you miss me. Wish me luck.
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