Anatomy chapter 10 the muscular system packet

Off and On Again; A Tech's Tale

2016.07.03 00:45 brygphilomena Off and On Again; A Tech's Tale

Keep track and encourage rstrt0 to post his wonderful tale of tech sabotage again. After any legal proceedings, of course.
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2011.02.08 12:36 kyonko BL is love, BL is life

Boys' Love (BL) is by origin a genre of Japanese manga produced mainly by women for women that features romantic and sexual relationships between men. Nowadays, all manner of art, comics, anime, novels, games, and dramas from many different countries operate under the BL genre heading. All of the above can be discussed here.
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2018.02.11 09:13 TheTapewormKing Black Skies Community Sub

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2024.05.03 03:52 throwawayhgddhjgd Can I autodump exclusively?

Hi so I’m disabled and I have a very hard time with my period and I bleed everywhere and can’t clean it up and I have problems with virtually every kind of menstrual product
Please be gentle I bleed everywhere every month and I feel disgusting. I’m bloody the bed is bloody my wheelchair is bloody the floor is bloody.
Do not suggest medical intervention, the only viable kind with my complex situation is a hysterectomy and due to my anatomy my doctor is not comfortable with the risk and I’m waiting to see another surgeon for a second opinion
I have allergies that make most disposables non viable. There are some expensive super plain organic tampons I do okay with but I’m very low income and I have trouble getting up often enough to change a tampon, and sometimes I can do it in bed but it’s kind of terrible? I often sleep a long time and can’t get up first thing in the morning and sometimes I play chicken with tampons for 10-12 hours but I don’t feel okay doing this
I have trouble keeping pads under me
I bleed too heavily for period underwear. I find it’s only useful with a disc. I can’t buy enough to change super frequently nor do I think that would solve the problem I have where I just gush blood, but I also would have a hard time changing it super frequently. I bleed faster than it can absorb and it goes off the side. These do help with the I’ve been asleep for too long or I moved funny disc leaks
Inserting and removing cups and discs is challenging
Can I autodump my entire period and then boil the disc every cycle or will I get infections? I’m also currently using a disposable disc and I might be reacting to it but I am keeping it in because it is reducing the amount of blood I am covered in but I might try one again later and see if that’s good to keep in rotation as an option . If I carefully remove my disc after auto dumping it’s pretty empty
I probably wouldn’t entirely do this exclusively because I have a variable condition and like, I prefer cups because they’re less messy and I want to to see if I can get cloth pads to work better than disposables but I also don’t have a good support system and I’m worried about washing them
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2024.05.03 02:44 Obvious_Ad4159 Sand & Steel (Part 5)

Chapter 1/Part 1
A blood curdling scream pierced the night. Solon jumped to his sleep, reaching for his hatched, looking around the wagon as another howl echoed out across the sands. Sheela too, was now awake, moving over to Solon while crouching. "What the hell is that?"
The mercenary poked his head through the curtain of the wagon, tracing the sounds back to the other cart in the caravan, one hauling the merchandise. The four guards were poking their spears through the bars of the cage, angrily using the blunt ends to push and jab at a small creature. Solon and Sheela exited the main wagon to better see what was going on.
"You two! Go back inside, there's nothing to see here." Kopak turned to them, barding out the order.
"Easy now son, don't be rude to our guests." Vur'z said, walking past the pair while talking to his son. "They must have been quite startled by the noise."
With a snap of his fingers, the old man lit a small lantern that hung by the cage wagon, illuminating what is inside. Solon leaned forward, squinting his eyes to see better what was moving under the flickering light. A pair of piercing green eyes stared back at him. He could make our a tail and some ears, nothing out of the ordinary, until what he thought to be a large cat stood up on its hind legs.
"So that's a beast person?" The mercenary concluded, looking at the creature with slight aversion. "Every basement dwellers fantasy."
"They exist on your world too?" The former genie asked.
"No, just as folk tales, legends. Fiction." The man replied, as the creature went from howling frantically to speaking.
It stuck its head through the wooden bars, waving its hands and tail around, yelling something at the man. Solon looked at it, confused, as he did not understand a word that was being said. By the sound of the voice tho, he could deduce that the creature was a young boy, and not a fully grown beast person.
"Alright little one, that's enough out of you for tonight." Vur'z said, waving his hand in front of the boys face. "Sleep now."
The beast child backed away, but the spell had already been cast, causing it to slowly stumble until it collapsed on the floor of the wagon.
"Well, now I know why an old man and four would-be guards can make a living as slavers." Solon chuckled.
"Adult beast folk are impossible to train. They follow only who they believe is stronger than them, and they are freakishly strong, so not many people outside their own tribes can command them. That's why there is very little beast folk as royal help, soldiers or guards." The old slaver explained.
"They are only good for gladiatorial combat. But if you train one before they start adolescence, they can be molded into serving just about any purpose." Sedef added, as his father proudly nodded.
"I see. So what will become of this one?" Sheela asked, folding her arms.
"No clue. We acquire them and sell them further. The thought never crosses my mind as to where they end up, I don't think my conscience could handle it." Vur'z grinned at his own, before patting Solon and Sheela on their backs.
"The sun will soon rise, and we are all already awake, so what do you two say we get this caravan back on the move?" He asked, and the pair agreed, making their way back to the main wagon.
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"Shit. They have barricaded themselves too well in there." One of the dungeon clearing squad members cussed.
"What's the situation?" Clyde, who was sitting on the floor, back against the wall, looked up at the woman as she returned from the hallway that lead to the next dungeon floor.
Clyde's squad had reached the fifth floor of the dungeon with expert proficiency. Somewhere after the third floor, they stopped taking prisoners regardless of race, which resulted in a one sided bloodbath of various monsters and adventurers alike. On the fifth floor they decided to make a small makeshift camp, to rest after driving the goblins that reemerged back to their burrows. Their progress had been halted by a party of platinum adventurers that were tasked with guarding the next floor below.
Within the ranking system of many guilds across the continent, platinum adventurers were considered the highest tier of freelancers in the adventuring business. Though there were a few higher ranks than platinum, adventurers of that tier were most often employed as guards to many various royal families or were made into private militia, again under employment by royalty or extremely wealthy businessmen. Despite being considered adventurers still, they rarely abided by regulations and code of conduct of their respected guilds and gravitated more towards following the orders of their employers. Platinum rank adventurers were the highest tier of adventurer that still functioned as freelance parties or individuals.
Clyde didn't feel like they were any issue to his unit, however they did possess magic that had proven a nuisance. A mage in the party guarding the sixth floor had the ability to manifest various defenses, and has used that power to create multiple gates at the very entrance to the chamber. Realizing that they will run out of explosives to tear down walls way before the mage runs out of mana to spam the same spell over and over, Clyde has decided to call in for backup, sending one of his men to the surface, as long range communication did not in the dungeon at the depth that they were in.
He now sat on the floor of the fifth floor, helmet resting by his side, as he smoked.
"We can't get in there." Said one of the soldiers, approaching him. "I mean, we could, but they are pretty well prepared and since that's the only entrance, we would end up in a bottle neck and that'll lead to unnecessary casualties."
"I know, relax. Have a doobie." Clyde grinned, offering the man his smoke.
"Oh shit, don't mind if I DO." The other man grinned and sat down, taking a long inhale from the joint. "How'd you even smuggle this past the outpost control?"
"Man, those bastards don't check for shit once I'm inside this armor. I have so much weed on this inside of this thing, If I get blown up, the whole dungeon will be hallucinating for weeks." The huge man tapped on his chest plate and laughed.
The two rowdy men attracted the attention of another comrade of their. The man put down his handheld monitor and walked over to them. "What the fuck are you two doing?"
"Smoking, why?" Answered Clyde.
"What are we going to do about the sixth floor?" The guy standing over them asked.
"Jeremy, baby relax. I got it all covered." His armored comrade blew him a kiss and laughed. "I called in for backup, that'll take care of everything. Now come hit this while we wait."
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"Uh... Gods." Quinn huffed, leaning on her staff while chugging a mana potion, face frowning at the bitter taste. "I think they finally stopped trying to breach"
"You alright?" Filtz patted her on the back. The paladin looked up, checking on the rest of his party. "Everybody else alright?"
The remaining members of the party all raised their hands, signaling that everyone was alive and standing.
"Damn elves, they did not tell us we would be going up against such a force. While they hide on the last floor no less!" The parties fighter, a stocky dwarf said, spitting on the ground. "Typical of those long eared wimps."
"Shut up." Quinn angrily said, not taking kindly to the dwarves insulting of her people. "We were paid well for this job. Are you not an adventurer? If you dislike this, maybe you should retire instead and get paid to sit around and mold."
"Quinn relax. I'm sure he meant nothing bad by it." Said the party's tank. The large ogre woman walked over to the exhausted elf, casting a recuperation buff on her.
"Did they really back off?" Belam'Bal asked Filtz, while still casting her spell on Quinn, who had already started to feel less shaky and exhausted.
"I don't know. Rin! Anything outside the gate?" The paladin asked.
Outside of the dark behind the party, one of the three assassins replied. "Yeah, they seem to have backed off. I sense no one near the entrance."
"Perhaps they have went to lick their wounds. Or maybe they have ran out of supplies. Their weapons aside, they did not seem too equipped to stay down here a long time. We can probably wait them out like this." The dwarf cackled.
"And have me do all the heavy lifting to keep the entrance sealed." Quinn rolled her eyes.
The party settled down, deciding to rest as much as they could before the next breach attempt by the invaders. Tension seemed to die down as a few hours passed without a single movement on the other side of the sealed off entrance.
"Told you, they must have realized we're not letting them in without a fight and gave up." Laughed the warrior.
"They are no match for Quinn's magic!" Belam'Bal patted the elf on the back.
"Wait. I sense movement." Yu, the second of the three assassins said, grabbing everyone's attention.
"The goblins in the area decreasing in number rapidly." Rin added to her brothers statement.
"Hah! They must be so angry at their loss, they are taking it out on the goblins." The dwarf said, slapping his knee.
"There is someone on the other side of the gate. A single person by the feel of it." Said Jan, the third of the party's assassins. Each of the three siblings was blessed with powerful detection magic, capable of sensing things even through objects and behind walls.
"Just one guy? Maybe they want to surrender? Think it's a trap?" Belam looked at the paladin, who shook his head and shrugged in response.
"Yes. There is other present anywhere near, it seems he is alone." Rin's answer was interrupted by a faint knock on the stone gate, coming from the other side.
Cautiously, weapons drawn, Flitz told the elf mage to lower the gate, but be ready to cast it again immediately. The elf nodded and did as she was told. To the party's surprise, a black man stood on the other side. He wore the uniform of the invaders, with slight modifications such as decorative furs and feathers that matches the green of the uniform. Filtz noticed something hanging off the mans hip and quickly identified the object to be a Kobold skull, clearly taken as some sort of trophy.
The man took a single step into the chamber, flashing the party an honest smile. His stature in no way matches his overwhelming confidence and lack of any fear or worry, considering he was no taller than the party's dwarf warrior.
"What do you want?" Filtz asked.
The man seemed to be glad that someone present spoke a language he could understand and locked eyes with Flitz. "I have come here to tell you that you are surrounded."
Everyone stood in silence, baffled at what the man had just said. "Surrounded?" Quinn whispered, looking over at the assassins.
Before she could get an answer, the man continued. "Since we just had appetizer, I want to offer you one chance to surrender. Give up and I will let you leave here alive and in one piece. No harm. No foul."
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"Sir, sir, wake up. The reinforcements are here." A soldier nudged Clyde with her foot as he laid passed out on the floor. The short black man pushed past her, stomping on Clyde's ribs, as he was laying on his side. "Wake up, ya bastard!" He shouted with a heavy Cameroonian accent.
"Auuuugghhh... yeah, yeah, I'm up." Groaned the head of the unit as he got up to his feet, rubbing his bloodshot eyes. He took a deep inhale, hoping the stale dungeon air would clear away the fog in his head. Groggily looking down, a huge smile appeared on the man's face.
"Shaka Zulu! Glad you could join us, all the way down here." Clyde laughed, patting the small man on the shoulder.
"Clyde, I see your humor is still as shit as the rest of you." The single person reinforcement replied with an equally big smile.
The other two men who were passed out on the floor woke up from the noise and slowly started getting up to their feet.
"So, this is our reinforcement? A pygmy?" Jeremy chuckled, looking down at Clyde's friend.
The black man looked at him, his confidence unimpacted by the comment. "You will find me more than enough."
The armored behemoth shot a quick glare at Jeremy, causing the latter to look down and quickly head somewhere else in the cap to help the rest of the unit with preparations. They hauled in large, heavy, metal boxes as per the short man's orders, leaving them very close to where the exit to the fifth floor met the hallway that lead to the sixth floor. Soft huffing and noise could be heard from inside the containers, as Marcel walked over in front of the containers, signaling to the rest of the unit to move a healthy distance away.
"So, what's in the cages?" Jeremy asked Clyde, observing as the other man tampered with what looked like a remote to the containers.
"Gungams." Replied Clyde, his comrade looking up at him with confusion.
"Marcel is to beasts what Cesar Millan is to dogs." The behemoth in combat armor continued his explanation as the remove beeped and all ten containers simultaneously opened.
Jeremy shone a flashlight in Marcel's direction to better see what was going on, as the darkness in the hallway made it nearly impossible to see. The soldier stood frozen in his tracks, watching massive lizard like beasts emerge from the containers, sniffing the air and crawling around Marcel. The short, dark skinned soldier did not seem worried in the slightest, actually seeming glad and happy to be around those creatures.
Each of the ten lizards seemed equal in size, 5 feet from the head to the tail at least. Their arms and backs were covered in thick scales, the ones on their backs being the size of diner plates and overlapping. Arm scales seemed equally thick but smaller to keep mobility. Their tails ended with two dorsal plates, but horizontal, giving the tails an appearance of a double sided axe swinging side to side. They moved slowly, having only one pair of limbs, that being their arms.
As the soldier stood in shock, one of the creatures turned towards the source of the light that was shone. Clyde quickly grabbed his comrade by the wrist, snatching the flashlight away from him.
"They dislike artificial light. So, don't do that." He said, letting go of Jeremy's wrist.
The soldier still stood stunned, as the creature's attention turned back to Marcel, the image of the lizards face forever etched into his memory.
It's head was torpedo shaped, bone plating covering it like a helmet, connecting to the neck and back plates. 2 pairs of eyes, one eye on each side like the snakes and lizards of Earth, the other pair sitting atop the head, facing directly forward. It was unlike anything he had ever seen.
Marcel whistled once, snapping Jeremy out of his trance and getting the attention of his pets. He pulled something out of his pouch and let the creatures get a good sniff. With the second whistle, the lizards moved uncharacteristically fast, lunging at the walls and ceiling of the hallway and boring into them. Silence ensued, soon followed by muffled and distant screeching of the goblins in their nearby burrows.
"Huh, I guess some goblins did survive." One of the other soldiers commented nonchalantly.
"What the fuck are those?" Jeremy muttered under his breath.
"Told you, Gungams. Cave dwelling predators from this world. Everything from their webbed claws to the shape of their head and scales is designed to have them glide through the ground like they're swimming. They use their arms to clear the way and move forward, while their long bodies use motion similar to snakes to move fast. Pretty tough to kill too, those plates are thick as shit, damn near bulletproof to standard caliber. Even lower caliber ammo piercing rounds struggle against them. Their underbellies are soft, but good luck flipping one of those nimble bastards on their backs." Clyde explained.
"I have no clue where Marcel found them, let alone how he got them doing tricks." He added.
"If they're underground, why do they need 2 sets of eyes?" Clyde's comrade asked.
"I don't really know. According to Marcel, they use the eyes on the side to see, like our reptiles. The eyes up front at to mesmerize and entrance a larger opponent or bigger prey, while the rest of the pack moved in from the side to kill. So yeah, do not look them dead in the eyes. Don't look at them directly at all, those things are always itching to beef." With his explanation finished, Clyde raised his right hand, making a circling motion with his index finger, giving the unit the order to start packing up as they're about to head out soon.
Jeremy took one more glance at the now silent hallways, but Marcel was already gone, walking on his way to the sixth floor, to deal with the party that was barricaded there.
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Everybody stared confused at the dark skinned soldier standing at the entrance to the sixth floor. He did not seem very armed nor armored. Even if he was carrying a hidden weapon, the party knew there was little to no chance he would be able to take them all out before Quinn's magic or the assassins took him out. But for some reason, his words carried the weight only irrefutable truths do, when he told them they are surrounded.
"Rin, Yu, Jan! Observe the area again, this time as far as you can, include the walls and ceiling too." Ordered Filtz, never taking his eyes off the enemy soldier.
"Surrounded? You must be mad. There is no way they would be able to dig through this much earth in such a short time. Plus, we'd hear them." Said Belam'Bal, looking from one party member to another, seeking someone to agree with her.
The paladin opened his mouth to speak when the clamor, the tale tale sound of steel hitting stone, echoed from the side. He turned to the source, only to be met with Rin, kneeling on the ground, staring up at a spot in the ceiling. She had dropped her dagger, her arms hanging limply at her side in utter surrender.
"Right there... There is a lizard, right above me." She whispered, never taking her eyes off the spot above, tears welling in her eyes.
"There are lizards, all around us. Burrowing through the soil." Jan answered, as Quinn rushed over to Rin, trying to snap her out of her daze.
"Gungams." The dwarf said, exhaling in defeat and taking a step towards the enemy soldier, axe in hand.
"What are y-?" The party's tank reached out to stop him, but the dwarf already had his mind set.
"There is no chance we can survive this, let alone fight the beasts off." The warrior continued, looking Marcel dead in the eyes.
Although the invader did not understand a single word of dwarven, he got the message loud and clear. The dwarf dropped his axe to the ground and raised his hands high, palms pointing outwards. "I surrender."
"You coward!" Quinn hissed, snapping her head to face the dwarf, glaring at him furiously. "It is so like you, to abandon something as soon as the going gets tough."
"I have been paid to defend the dungeon, not leave my bones in it." The dwarf replied, walking over to the enemy and turning around to face his comrades. He looked at the paladin, begging him without a word to listen to reason and surrender. Even though dwarves never had a habit of expressing their feelings, he did not wish to see them die.
"I agree." The ogre woman sighed, dropping her spiked club next to the dwarfs axe. "We have been paid in advance, and quite a hefty sum at that. But to defend the sixth floor of this dungeon. We failed at that. Even if we fight and die here, that outcome will not change. Please Filtz, I know you have plenty of reasons not to die here."
"Anyone else?" The paladin asked, though his mind was set on an answer the second the dwarf put his axe down.
The threes siblings threw their assassins daggers onto the pile, and went to stand next to their comrades. Filtz sighed, somewhat glad at the decision they had made. He turned and looked at the elf mage, the only one still hesitant to lay down her staff.
"What, what if he still kills us after we surrender? We can't guarantee that." She shouted, pointing her finger at Marcel, who had leaned against the edge of the hallway, already bored with the display.
"He might. But if there is even a small chance that we can walk out of here alive, I will take that gamble." The party leader answered, sheathing his blade back into its scabbard and extending his hand to Quinn. The mage looked down at her feet, before taking his hand and joining the group.
The black man looked up at them. "So? I take it you surrender?"
"Y-yeah. We surrender." Flitz answered, avoiding the man's gaze despite being significantly taller than him.
The party's hearts collectively sank as Marcel frowned at their answer bit, before shrugging. "A disappointing answer, but a very expected one. I am a man of my word. Leave."
Without another word, he turned around and walked back up the hallway, letting out another short whistle as he went. Gungams burst through the walls and ceiling of the hallway and followed their master obediently, never once glancing back at the stunned party, that up until a few minutes ago could have been their meal.
Not stopping to think or reflect on the situation, the adventurers quickly grabbed their discarded weapons and bolted up the hallway, running past Clyde and his unit who began to descent from floor five to floor six, running all the way to the exit of the dungeon.
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Solon was overjoyed when small village peeked from the behind the dunes. It was far from what he would consider a developed settlement, but at this point, he did not care at all. Soon, the caravan slowed to a halt, just in front of, what seemed like a market of sorts, and everybody stepped out.
"Thank you again Vur'z, for sharing your wagon and supplies with us." Solon said to the caravan leader, bowing his head slightly.
"Thank the two of you, for sharing stories and a good time with us." Vur'z replied, bowing back.
The caravan moved once more, leaving the pair behind and disappearing around the corner.
"Well Sheela. It has been an... experience." Solon said, extending his good hand to the former genie.
"Oh don't get ahead of yourself mortal. We are not on equal ground just because YOU believe you outsmarted me. I am the Goddess of the Sands!" She scoffed, looking down on him, partially due to her superior height, partially due to her over superior ego. Arms crossed and resting on her chest, it was evident she would not reciprocate his show of good faith. A few passerby's turned their heads at her loud statement, before moving on with their business.
Solon closed and retracted his hand, making a clicking sound with his mouth. "Oooo-kay then."
Before he could turn away, he stopped for a second, one last question on his mind. "You speak a lot of languages. Do you know what that beast thing was yelling at me before Vur'z knocked it cold?"
She raised an eyebrow, rubbing her chin. Solon wasn't use if she was trying to remember or if she was trying to decide whether to tell him or not.
"It thought you were an adventurer and mentioned something about having a big reward for its safe return or something like that. Saying its parents are adventurers too, I believe. Too late now though."
"Yeah." Solon nodded. "Well, so long Sheela, best wishes with your new life."
"Hah! I don't need wishes. I will amass a following and usher new rule of power and prosperity." She proclaimed boldly, garnering some more attention from the vendors and onlookers.
"Great. Looking forward to it. I'm sure your reign will bring even more sand to this desert." Replied Solon, before nodding and walking away, quickly blending into the crowd. He moved at a brisk pace, making sure to get out of ear shot before she could retort, relishing in the having the final word.
Sheela grinded her teeth, before swiftly turning on her bare heels and walking away in the opposite direction. Both quickly got swallowed up by the marketplace crowd, never once turning back as they parted ways.
(Notes: Let me start this off by saying: Screw new Reddit. A turd of a website, had to repost this more times than I would like, because the text would magically vanish every time I hit post.
Initially my thoughts were to have the adventurers on floor six absolutely dismantled by the lizards, but have decided against it. An enemy, in this case invading humans, are much more cool when they show thought and restraint, rather than just being a mindless meat grinding machine that kills everything. Plus if I was up against 10 bullet proof lizards that can bore through a brick wall, I would surrender too.
That aside, I hope you guys like this one. I have put in the link for the first chapter, in case any new readers find themselves here, so they don't have to start from the middle. I hope the link doesn't screw over Reddit again.)
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2024.05.03 02:42 36_39_42 Research and newspaper articles associated with the 1933 magenta crash posted on the internet archive by Alfredo Lissoni

Hello all; I see alot of argument and misinformation being traded back and forth in the comments lately, and I've been doing my best to get ahold of an expert so I'm not so lost with these documents but that has stalled.
I elected to instead Google translate a few of the associated research and news articles posted on the internet archive by Alfredo Lissoni to demonstrate some basic facts that are claimed to be associated with the case.
The whole case DOES NOT rely solely on the documents sent in the 90s. Ive seen this so many times its gonna make my head explode. If you parrot this falsehood; you are not being intellectually rigerous and reading everything you need to read.
Find Roberto Pinnoti and friends full claims about the 1933 case here.
https://forum-termometropolitico-it.translate.goog/259673-x-files-fascisti.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
No where else that I can find ties everything together like this link. If your serious about connecting claims to documents you must read the whole thing.
I'm rather certain that every newspaper I'm looking for in relation to the link above is on the archive but I'm having alot of trouble connecting a claim with a document in most cases because well, I don't speak/read Italian yet( am learning slowly)
Here's a few documents from the archive that were plainly important. I very carefully went over the Italian and English text as many times as my brain will allow so you'll have to forgive a few spelling discrepancies. In most cases I was typing the words from the newspaper word for word because of the image quality. This is not an easy task. It's no wonder that no one has done all this for free yet; because it's alot. I only did .01 percent of the work here and It's full of leads to study the actual historical side of this case.
This is not my final conclusions on the case; in fact I've gone to the beginning like this because I've already moved on a long way and connected alot of puzzle pieces in the timeframe after RS33.
This element of the case is trivial compared to the intreague and power dynamics between the germans, italian fascists, the vatican and the Americans.
A name you should look out for in the link above is Galeazzo Ciano.
My work is more focused broadly on this person because his diaries would later be coveted by Allen Dulles.
Allen Dulles personally visited Italy multiple times for these diaries and I am going to prove this action was not only because of their political importance but also because of their connection to the activities of the RS33 research. This work here ultimately has nothing to do with that element of my research; this should simply posit that the case from a historical standpoint has a real event associated with it.
Now I will say that the rest of the work must be done to independently verify the claims in the link above; but what I've seen is enough for me personally to go forward on.
I'm not claiming to have proven anything here on this post. Let's get that extremely clear because im not going to argue about it.
It's simply information.
Translated document 1
https://archive.org/details/cabinet-rs-33_20230330/page/n17/mode/1up?q=rs33
1.)A capo del Gabinetto RS/33, fin dalla sua istituzione, fu designato Guglielmo Marconi, sebbene il noto scienziato avesse più volte espresso l'opinione che al suo posto venisse designato l’astronomo Gino Cecchini. Mussolini -su parere di Giovanni Gentile- incaricò Marconi, senatore e di provata fede fascista, che ne faceva un elemento prestigioso ed anche politicamente affidabile.
Marconi però non partecipò mai a nessuna delle sedute del Gabinetto RS/33 che si tennero lui in vita, ma delegò costantemente un suo collaboratore che era indicato come dottor Ruggero Costanti Cavazzani, e che evidentemente era un nome di copertura di un personaggio mai identificato.
Altri componenti del Gabinetto RS/33 (RS stava per Ricerche Speciali) furono, nel corso del tempo e per periodi diversi, i professori : Dallauri, Pirotta, Crocco, Debbasi, Severi, Bottazzi e Giordani; nonché il conte Cozza quale referente organizzativo ed elemento di collegamento logistico con le massime gerarchie del regime: Mussolini, Italo Balbo, Galeazzo Ciano.
Il Gabinetto si riunì alcune volte per discutere di fenomeni oggi denominati ufologici e che all’epoca erano collegati ad attività di aeronautica militare. Il parere più diffuso tra gli esperti era che gli aereomobili sconosciuti fossero prototipi di velivoli inglesi e/o francesi. Solo in un paio di occasioni fu dichiaratamente posta la questione se tali oggetti fossero strumenti di volo interspaziale, e la questione rimase essenzialmente aperta. Il prodotto più consistente del Gabinetto RS/33 fu un dossier di una trentina di pagine che esaminava dettagliatamente tutta la casistica italiana, dal 1933 al 1940. Con lo scoppio della guerra (10 giugno 1940) il Gabinetto RS/33 fu ancor più militarizzato, e -cosa assai significativa- il governo nazista chiese più volte notizie, dati e dossier all’ente italiano.
Il Gabinetto RS/33 raccolse anche alcune fotografie di oggetti volanti non identificati ed anche un breve filmato realizzato sulle Alpi in occasione di un avvistamento notevole. Tali notizie sono ricavate indirettamente da altre fonti, poiché l'archivio del Gabinetto fu trasferito in Germania ed attualmente risulta irreperibile.
1.)Since its inception, Guglielmo Marconi was designated head of the RS/33 Cabinet, although the well-known scientist had repeatedly expressed the opinion that the astronomer Gino Cecchini should be designated in his place. Mussolini - on the advice of Giovanni Gentile - appointed Marconi, a senator with proven fascist faith, who made him a prestigious and also politically reliable element.
Marconi, however, never participated in any of the sessions of the RS/33 Cabinet which were held during his lifetime, but constantly delegated one of his collaborators who was indicated as Doctor Ruggero Costanti Cavazzani, and who was evidently a cover name for a person who was never identified.
Other members of the RS/33 Cabinet (RS stood for Special Research) were, over time and for different periods, the professors: Dallauri, Pirotta, Crocco, Debbasi, Severi, Bottazzi and Giordani; as well as Count Cozza as organizational contact and logistical link with the highest hierarchies of the regime: Mussolini, Italo Balbo, Galeazzo Ciano.
The Cabinet met a few times to discuss phenomena now called ufological and which at the time were connected to military aeronautics activities. The most widespread opinion among experts was that the unknown aircraft were prototypes of English and/or French aircraft. Only on a couple of occasions was the question openly raised whether such objects were interspace flight instruments, and the question remained essentially open. The most substantial product of the Cabinet RS/33 was a dossier of about thirty pages which examined in detail all the Italian cases from 1933 to 1940. With the outbreak of the war (10 June 1940) the Cabinet RS/33 was even more militarised, and - what is very significant - the Nazi government asked the Italian body for news, data and dossiers several times.
Cabinet RS/33 also collected some photographs of unidentified flying objects and also a short film made in the Alps on the occasion of a notable sighting. This information is obtained indirectly from other sources, since the Cabinet archive was transferred to Germany and is currently untraceable.
2.)Pirotta, Pietro Romualdo. Botanico (Pavia 1853-Roma (1936). Professore di botanica all'università di Roma (18831924) e di fisiologia vegetale pure presso l’ateneo romano (1924-28), fu l’ideatore e uno dei fautori più attivi della creazione del Parco nazionale degli Abruzzi. Copiosa è stata la sua produzione scientifica. Fra l’altro si occupò della peronospora e degli altri parassiti della vite, di istologia, anatomia ed embriologia vegetale. Scrisse anche un trattato di fisiologia vegetale; si occupò pure della flora romana ed eritrea, e del massimo interesse sono le sue pubblicazioni sulla storia della botanica. Senatore del regno, accademico d’Italia, dei Lincei, dei Quaranta e di varie Società di cultura italiane e straniere. Si ricordano le sue pubblicazioni sulla storia della botanica, in specie la Flora rorzana (1900-01), e il suo trattato di Fisiologia vegetale (1929). Fondò (1885) la rivista «Annuario del Regio istituto botanico di Roma», cui seguirono, dal 1903, gli «Annali di botanica». Alla scuola di P. si formò il nucleo iniziale degli studiosi italiani dei cicli biologici delle piante e dell’embriologia vegetale.
2.)Pirotta, Pietro Romualdo. Botanist (Pavia 1853-Rome (1936). Professor of botany at the University of Rome (1883-1924) and of plant physiology also at the Roman University (1924-28), he was the creator and one of the most active supporters of the creation of Abruzzi National Park. His scientific production was copious. Among other things he dealt with downy mildew and other vine parasites, histology, anatomy and plant embryology. He also wrote a treatise on plant physiology; and Eritrea, and of the greatest interest are his publications on the history of botany. Senator of the kingdom, academic of Italy, of the Lincei, of the Quaranta and of various Italian and foreign cultural societies. We remember his publications on the history of botany. in particular the Flora rorzana (1900-01), and his treatise on Plant Physiology (1929) the magazine «Annuario del Regio botanico di Roma», which was followed, from 1903, by the «Annali di botany» The initial nucleus of Italian scholars of plant biological cycles and plant embryology was formed at P.'s school.
3.) PIROTTA, Pietro Romualdo. — Botanico, nato a Pavia il 7 febbraio 1853. Ivi laureatosi in scienze naturali nel 1875, frequentò per qualche anno quel laboratorio crittogamico; nel 1879-1880 fu a Strasburgo per perfezionarsi presso il De Bary; nel 1880, in seguito a concorso, occupò la cattedra di botanica dell'università di Modena e nel 1883 fu chiamato a Roma, dove insegnò per 4i anni botanica e dove, nel 1924, passò alla cattedra di fisiologia vegetale che venne fino al 1928, epoca in cui fu collocato a riposo. Spetta a lui il merito di aver fondato a Roma, tra il 1884 e il 1889, l’Istituto e l'Orto Botanico attuali. Egli ha anche fondato e diretto per molti anni l'Annuario del R. Istituto Botanico di Roma e gli Annali di Botanica. È stato l'ideatore e il fautore più attivo della creazione del Parco nazionale d'Abruzzo, Nella sua copiosa produzione scientifica sono da rilevare principalmente i lavori sulla peronospora e gli altri parassiti della vite, i numerosi contributi all’istologia, all'anatomia e all'embriologia vegetale, le pubblicazioni sulla storia della botanica, in particolare quelle sulle Tabulae Phytosophicae del Cesi, la Flora Romana, la Flora Eritrea, il trattato di Fisiologia vegetale. È socio nazionale della R. Accademia dei Lincei, membro dei XL, e dal 1929 accademico d’Italia.
3.) PIROTTA, Pietro Romualdo. — Botanist, born in Pavia on 7 February 1853. Having graduated there in natural sciences in 1875, he attended that cryptogam laboratory for a few years; in 1879-1880 he was in Strasbourg to perfect his studies at De Bary; in 1880, following a competition, he occupied the chair of botany at the University of Modena and in 1883 he was called to Rome, where he taught botany for 4 years and where, in 1924, he moved to the chair of plant physiology which remained until 1928, period in which he was laid to rest. He deserves the credit of having founded the current Institute and Botanical Garden in Rome between 1884 and 1889. He also founded and directed for many years the Yearbook of the R. Botanical Institute of Rome and the Annals of Botany. He was the creator and most active supporter of the creation of the Abruzzo National Park. In his copious scientific production, the works on downy mildew and other vine parasites, the numerous contributions to histology, anatomy and to plant embryology, publications on the history of botany, in particular those on Cesi's Tabulae Phytosophicae, the Roman Flora, the Eritrean Flora, the treatise on Plant Physiology. He is a national member of the R. Accademia dei Lincei, a member of the XL, and an academic of Italy since 1929.
4.) Il Governo italiano promuove, il 3 aprile 1933, una legge speciale che fissa il finanziamento per la costruzione della Sede del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Subito dopo il Direttorio del Consiglio dei Ministri affida lo studio del progetto al Comitato Nazionale per l'Ingegneria, costituendo allo stesso tempo un'apposita Commissione di studio presieduto dal Senatore Luigi Cozza
Il progetto definitivo viene redatto da Dagoberto Ortensi, che si occupa dell'impostazione architettonica e della decorazione e dell' arredo degli ambienti
L'edificio si estente su una superfice di 2.105 mq, a cui si aggiungeranno altri 1.720 mq di ampliamento previsti, Ha un volume di 54.445 me articolato su sei piani, per una altezza complessiva di circa 25 mt°
l'edificio viene realizzato dall'impresa di costruzione Tommaso e Alberto Mora, sotto la direzione di Antonio Carlini e inagurato il 21 Novembre 1937
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On 3 April 1933, the Italian Government promoted a special law establishing the financing for the construction of the headquarters of the National Research Council
Immediately afterwards the Directory of the Council of Ministers entrusted the study of the project to the National Engineering Committee, at the same time establishing a specific study commission chaired by Senator Luigi Cozza
The final project is drawn up by Dagoberto Ortensi, who takes care of the architectural layout and the decoration and furnishing of the rooms
The building covers a surface area of 2,105 m2, to which another 1,720 m2 of planned expansion will be added. It has a volume of 54,445 m and is divided into six floors, for a total height of approximately 25 m.
the building was built by the construction company Tommaso and Alberto Mora, under the direction of Antonio Carlini and inaugurated on 21 November 1937
5.) Còzza, Luici, conte, — Ingegnere (Acquapendente 1867 - Roma 1955). Laureato a Roma nel e nel corpo del genio civile; dal 1925 al 1930 fu presidente del Consiglio superiore dei Lavori pubblici. È stato l’istitutore e l'organizzatore del Servizio idrografico italiano ed è autore di varie pubblicazioni sulle opere idrauliche. Senatore del Regno (1934)
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Còzza, Luici, count, — Engineer (Acquapendente 1867 - Rome 1955). Graduated in Rome in and in the civil engineering corps; from 1925 to 1930 he was president of the Superior Council of Public Works. He was the founder and organizer of the Italian Hydrographic Service and is the author of various publications on hydraulic works. Senator of the Kingdom (1934)
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Giordani, Francesco. Chimico (Napoli 1896-ivi 1961). Già accademico d’Italia dal 1930 al 1943, socio nazionale dell’Accademia dei Lincei dal 1935, ne divenne presidente nel 1958. Dal 1936 al 1943 fu presidente dell’IRI e dal 1956 al 1960 del CNR. Fu professore di elettrochimica e di impianti chimici presso la Scuola di ingegneria di Napoli e direttore dell'Istituto chimico di quella università. I suoi numerosi lavori (che gli valsero nel 1929 il premio reale per la chimica) riguardano specialmente l’elettrolisi, la catalisi e la cinetica chimica.
Si occupò anche di problemi economici, particolarmente rispetto alle zone sottosviluppate del Mezzogiorno (fu presidente dell’Associazione per lo sviluppo dell’industria nel Mezzogiorno).
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Giordani, Francesco. Chemist (Naples 1896-ibid. 1961). Already an academic of Italy from 1930 to 1943, a national member of the Accademia dei Lincei from 1935, he became president in 1958. From 1936 to 1943 he was president of the IRI and from 1956 to 1960 of the CNR. He was professor of electrochemistry and chemical plants at the School of Engineering of Naples and director of the Chemical Institute of that university. His numerous works (which earned him the Royal Prize for Chemistry in 1929) concern especially electrolysis, catalysis and chemical kinetics.
He also dealt with economic problems, particularly with respect to the underdeveloped areas of the South (he was president of the Association for the development of industry in the South).
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Vallauri, Giancarlo. Scienziato (Roma 1882-Torino 1957). Dopo aver frequentato l'Accademia navale di Livorno, si laureò in ingegneria presso la Scuola superiore politecnica di Napoli. Nel 1916, quando a Livorno si costituì presso l’Accademia navale l’Istituto elettrotecnico e radiotelegrafico della marina, V. ne divenne il capo e l'animatore di iniziative e di ricerche, di cui uno dei più mirabili frutti è l’eguazione di V., che rappresenta la prima teoria analitica del funzionamento dei tubi elettronici. Nel medesimo tempo si dedicò alla costruzione del Centro radiotelegrafico di Coltano, uno dei più grandiosi e moderni dell’epoca. Importanti sono gli studi da lui condotti nel campo del ferromagnetismo, che portarono alla conferma indiscussa dell’esistenza dell’isteresi magnetica rotante, allora assai controversa in campo internazionale. Intra-
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Vallauri, Giancarlo. Scientist (Rome 1882-Turin 1957). After attending the Naval Academy of Livorno, he graduated in engineering from the Polytechnic High School of Naples. In 1916, when the electrotechnical and radiotelegraphic institute of the navy was established at the Naval Academy in Livorno, V. became its head and animator of initiatives and research, of which one of the most wonderful fruits is the equalization of V., which represents the first analytical theory of the functioning of electron tubes. At the same time he dedicated himself to the construction of the Coltano radiotelegraph centre, one of the grandest and most modern of the time. The studies he conducted in the field of ferromagnetism are important, which led to the undisputed confirmation of the existence of rotating magnetic hysteresis, which was then very controversial in the international field.
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E' morto ieri a Torino il prof. Giancarlo Vallauri
Torino, 7 maggio
E' deceduto stamane all’ospedale delle Molinetto. dov'eth ricoverato fin dai primi di gennaio, il prof. Giancarlo Vallauri, eminente figura di scienziato. Nato a Roma nel 1882 da (umiriza Gi . origine piemontese, dopo ver partecipato Alla prima guerra mondiale come ufficiale di marina, diresse l'Istituto elettrotecnico della Marina fino al 1025, quando venne a Torino quale insegnante al Politecnico. di cu fu poi direttore dal 1933 al 1934,
Nominato membro dell'Accademia d'Italia, ne divenne vicepresidente per le scienze fisiche, matematiche e naturali. Fu membro del Consiglio superiore dei Lavori Pubblici. e del Comitato superiore Tecnico per i servizi elettrotecnici e delle comunicazioni; presidente di sezione del Consiglio nazionale delle ricerche: esperto della Societa deile Nazionj per ll servizio deile comunicazioni; presidente generale dell'Associazione elettrotecnica Italiana: presidente dell'Istituto nazionale « Galileo Ferraris» di elettrotecnica, componente del Comitato tecnico Interalleato delle Radiocomunicazioni.
Numerosi suol studi e pubblicazioni sia nel campo dell'elettrotecnica che della radiotecnica. Tra l'altro fu il primo a lurinulare la teoria matematica della valvola termoionica che si riassume nella e equazione di Vallauri ». Fu anche il precursore della misurazione a distanza del campo elettromagnetico irradiato da una stazione trasmittente
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Prof. died yesterday in Turin. Giancarlo Vallauri
Turin, 7 May
He died this morning at Molinetto hospital. where he has been hospitalized since early January, Prof. Giancarlo Vallauri, eminent scientist. Born in Rome in 1882 of Piedmontese origin, after having participated in the First World War as a naval officer, he directed the electrotechnical institute of the Navy until 1925, when he came to Turin as a teacher at the Polytechnic. director from 1933 to 1934,
Appointed member of the Italian Academy, he became vice-president for the physical, mathematical and natural sciences. He was a member of the Superior Council of Public Works. and of the Higher Technical Committee for electrotechnical and communications services; section president of the National Research Council: expert of the Society of Nations for the communications service; general president of the Italian Electrotechnical Association: president of the "Galileo Ferraris" National Institute of Electrotechnics, member of the Inter-Allied Technical Committee of Radiocommunications. He studies and publishes both in the fields of electrical engineering and radio engineering. Among other things, he was the first to formulate the mathematical theory of the thermionic valve which is summarized in the Vallauri equation." He was also the forerunner of remote measurement of the electromagnetic field radiated by a transmitting station
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XIV GAETANO ArtURO Crocco - Commemorazione di B. Finzi. Il discorso inaugurale del secondo corso ebbe per titolo: « Dall’antiaereo alla base orbitale ». In essa affacciò l’idea del polistadio per accrescere la gittata, adombrò il problema del rientro per satelliti con equipaggio e quello del rifornimento nello spazio.
Fra le altre pubblicazioni ricordo quella su « La sopportazione fisiologica nei missili a reazione », la Nota lincea intitolata « La barriera della temperatura nei missili geodetici », quella su « Quesiti sui missili geodetici » del Seminario matematico e fisico di Milano. Ricordo altresì le belle sintesi «I fondamenti dell’astronautica », « Dal dirigibile al missile », « Anticipazioni di nautica interplanetaria », « Il primo passo verso l'astronautica » e molte altre, fra le quali sono degne di particolare rilievo le Note lincee « Formulazioni di Meccanica astronautica » del 1955, quella dell’Accademia pontificia « Possibilità e limiti della cosmonautica » del 1957. E’ stato memorabile il suo discorso inaugurale al VII Congresso astronautico internazionale di Roma nel 1956, nel quale, partendo dal satellite artificiale, si avventura nell'esplorazione siderale, valendosi della teoria della relatività. E' pure memorabile la sua proposta « Giro esplorativo di un anno Terra-Marte-Venere-Terra », ancor oggi detta « missione Crocco ». L'epoca più favorevole per la missione sarà il giugno 1971,
Nella Nota dell’Accademia pontificia del 1957 Crocco così profetizza: « L'alimentazione endogena del getto propulsore viene riserbata allo stadio finale di marcia, e si usufriusce dell’alimentazione esogena per partire dalla terra, frenare e ritornarvi. Gli stadi intermedi saranno percorsi a velocità uniforme senza consumo e le totali distanze valicabili consentiranno di scegliere le ricognizioni entro una sfera contenente 20.000 stelle. La più lontana richiederà 28 anni di vita dell'equipaggio per andare e tornare. Utopia! »... Ma, continua Crocco, «è stato detto che tutta la nostra civiltà è sbocciata dall’utopia ».
Dopo il volo del primo Sputnik, che realizzava quanto egli aveva vaticinato, concluse, al di là degli ottant'anni, la sua miracolosa attività di scienziato e di profeta col magistrale discorso al VII Convegno internazionale delle comunicazioni, tenutosi a Genova nel 1959, « Le determinanti dell'era astronautica », con quello tenuto nell'adunanza solenne del 1960 ai Lincei « Anticipazioni extra-terrestri » e con il suo contributo all'opera «Il mondo della tecnica » del 1962 « Il momento astro-cosmonautico ». E’ questo un piccolo trattato sull'attività spaziale dalle origini al volo di Gagarin, nel quale si spinge anche nell’ambito della teoria della relatività e della propulsione fotonica.
Ricordo infine i titoli di alcuni studi e meditazioni su problemi che esulano dall’aeronautica: « La proprietà scientifica », « La degradazione della ricchezza », « Il diavolo e la ricerca atomica » (storia della bomba atomica), « Discorso del gradiente » (riguardante l’accelerarsi esasperato del progresso scientifico), « Premesse scientifiche al diritto spaziale
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XIV GAETANO ArtURO Crocco - Commemoration of B. Finzi. The inaugural speech of the second course was entitled: "From anti-aircraft to the orbital base". In it he presented the idea of the multi-stage to increase the range, he outlined the problem of re-entry for manned satellites and that of refueling in space.
Among the other publications I remember the one on «Physiological tolerance in jet missiles», the Nota lincea entitled «The temperature barrier in geodetic missiles», the one on «Questions on geodetic missiles» of the Mathematical and Physical Seminar of Milan. I also remember the beautiful summaries «The foundations of astronautics», «From the airship to the missile», «Previews of interplanetary nautical», «The first step towards astronautics» and many others, among which the Notes are worthy of particular note lincee « Formulations of Astronautical Mechanics » of 1955, that of the Pontifical Academy « Possibilities and limits of cosmonautics » of 1957. His inaugural speech at the VII International Astronautical Congress in Rome in 1956 was memorable, in which, starting from the artificial satellite , ventures into sidereal exploration, making use of the theory of relativity. His proposal for a "one-year exploratory tour of Earth-Mars-Venus-Earth" is also memorable, still known today as the "Crocco mission". The most favorable time for the mission will be June 1971,
In the Note of the Papal Academy of 1957 Crocco prophesies as follows: «The endogenous power supply of the propulsive jet is reserved for the final stage of travel, and the exogenous power supply is used to start from the earth, brake and return there. The intermediate stages will be traveled at uniform speed without consumption and the total distances that can be crossed will allow the choice of reconnaissance within a sphere containing 20,000 stars. The furthest will require 28 years of crew life to get there and back. Utopia! »... But, Crocco continues, «it has been said that our entire civilization blossomed from utopia».
After the flight of the first Sputnik, which realized what he had prophesied, he concluded, beyond the age of eighty, his miraculous activity as a scientist and prophet with a masterly speech at the VII International Communications Conference, held in Genoa in 1959, « The determinants of the astronautical era", with the one held in the solemn meeting of 1960 at the Lincei "Anticipations extra-terrestrials" and with his contribution to the work "The world of technology" of 1962 "The astro-cosmonautic moment". This is a small treatise on space activity from its origins to Gagarin's flight, in which he also delves into the theory of relativity and photonic propulsion.
Finally, I recall the titles of some studies and meditations on problems that go beyond aeronautics: "Scientific property", "The degradation of wealth", "The devil and atomic research" (history of the atomic bomb), "Discourse on the gradient" (concerning the exasperated acceleration of scientific progress), « Scientific premises for space law
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Supponiamola di cinque, cioè “cinque volte quella che si risente in volo rettilineo o sulla superficie della terra, presa come unità. Trattasi di un elevato. ‘valore; di acrobazia pesante. In tale sopportazione. il peso del corpo del pilota diverrà mediamente di 360 chili, di cui 300 graveranno sul seggiolino e gli altri sui ‘comandi.’ Le sue braccia, distese sul volante o sulla leva di guida aggraveranno di una ventina di chili ciascuna e le gambe allungate verso la pedaliera dovranno complessivamente sostenere il sovraccarico di un centinaio di chili. Il cervello premerà per quasi sette chili sulla base del cranio; gli occhi affonderanno nell'orbita, generando il fenomeno del veder nero e le palpebre si appesantiranno come per sonno improvviso; i visceri s'insaccheranno nell'addome; la respirazione si farà difficile;
il cuore dovrà sospingere nelle arterie un liquido che per effetto della centrifugazione verso il basso assumerà una densità quintupla della normale.
tutto avverà come se il corpo del pilota venisse d’un tratto a trovarsi alla superficie di un pianeta, che diremo il pianeta X, ove la gravità fosse ‘cinque volte quella terrestre. Un tal pianeta non esiste nel sistema solare; perché su Giove, il più grosso, essa è appena due volte e mezza; ma la immagine è suggestiva ai fini della nostra esposizione.
Quali conseguenze anatomiche e funzionali l’organismo umano questo temporaneo gravame? Evidentemente’ non ne avrà se gli organi del volatore, appena cessata la manovra, saranno in grado di riprendere in piena immunità le loro funzioni; ed il tal caso quel pilota
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Suppose it is five, that is, "five times what is felt in straight flight or on the surface of the earth, taken as a unit. This is a high one. 'value; of heavy aerobatics. In such endurance. the weight of the driver's body will become on average 360 kilos, of which 300 will weigh on the seat and the others on the 'controls.' His arms, stretched out on the steering wheel or on the driving lever, will weigh on the the pedal set will have to support an overload of around one hundred kilos in total. The brain will press almost seven kilos on the base of the skull; the eyes will sink into the socket, generating the phenomenon of seeing black and the eyelids will become heavy as if due to sudden sleep; the viscera will become encased in the abdomen; breathing will become difficult;
the heart will have to push a liquid into the arteries which, due to the downward centrifugation, will take on five times the normal density.
everything will happen as if the pilot's body suddenly found itself on the surface of a planet, which we will call planet X, where the gravity was five times that of Earth. Such a planet does not exist in the solar system; because on Jupiter, the largest, it is just two and a half times; but the image is suggestive for the purposes of our exposition.
What anatomical and functional consequences does this temporary burden have on the human organism? Evidently there will be none if the flier's organs, as soon as the maneuver has ceased, are able to resume their functions with full immunity
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Dal 1951 in poi l’attività scientifica di Crocco, ormai vecchio, fu rivolta al volo nello spazio extra-atmosferico e all’astronautica. Già nel 1923, a dire il vero, aveva precorso i tempi con la Nota lincea « Sulla possibilità della navigazione extra-atmosferica », in cui proponeva di valersi della reazione provocata dall’efflusso dei prodotti della disintegrazione di materiale radioattivo. Si trattava, in sostanza, della propulsione ionica, ancor oggi non ancora realizzata praticamente. Nel 1927 aveva iniziato ricerche anche sperimentali sui propellenti solidi per i razzi, in collaborazione col figlio Luigi, e aveva poi ripreso tali ricerche fra il 1932 e il 1935. Segnalo altresì la Nota lincea del 1946 « Sulla applicazione dell'energia atomica alla navigazione interplanetaria ». Nel discorso inaugurale del primo corso di missilistica e astronautica, tenuto a Roma nel 1951, parlò dei missili geodetici, trattando dei propellenti e del calcolo delle traiettorie nell'ipotesi di terra piatta e in quella di terra
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From 1951 onwards, Crocco's scientific activity, now old, was aimed at outer space flight and astronautics. Already in 1923, to tell the truth, he had been ahead of his time with the Nota lincea «On the possibility of extra-atmospheric navigation», in which he proposed making use of the reaction caused by the outflow of the products of the disintegration of radioactive material. It was, essentially, ion propulsion, which has not yet been practically achieved today. In 1927 he had begun experimental research on solid propellants for rockets, in collaboration with his son Luigi, and had then resumed such research between 1932 and 1935. I would also like to point out the Note line of 1946 « On the application of atomic energy to interplanetary navigation ». In the inaugural speech of the first rocketry and astronautics course, held in Rome in 1951, he spoke about geodetic missiles, dealing with propellants and the calculation of trajectories
12.) Pretty sure that's all the relevant pages for this one; the rest are either superfluous or establishing identity of those above, the Numbers are just To keep organized, not Page numbers.
Translated document 2
https://archive.org/details/ufo-crash-at-vergiate
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Sullo stradale ira Novara e Magenta cinque operai che rincasavano in bicicletta durante un temporale sono stativi investiti dal fulmine e gettati violentemente a terra. Uno di casi è rimasto gravemente ferito.
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On the road between Novara and Magenta five workers were returning home by bicycle during during a storm they were struck by lightning and violently thrown to the ground. One of the cases was seriously injured.
Soon to be translated document 3
https://archive.org/details/marconis-death-ray/mode/1up
This is going to require alot of help. My will To do this with a language I don't know is at an end for this moment.
The archives of the Newspapers reflected by Pinnoti may be fully available on the archive but without more expert translation Services I'm not totally sure. Let this be a baseline That the documents most likely exist. There are more things available to those to speak Italian I simply need someone to read it all; figure out which pictures are which and translate appropriately.
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2024.05.02 22:44 Jdlongmire Temporal Asymmetry: Synthesizing Old and Young Creationism

This essay introduces a framework called "temporal asymmetry" to reconcile the apparent discrepancy between the biblical account of a young creation and the scientific evidence for an ancient universe. This framework proposes that from an Earth-based observer's perspective and using Earth standard time, the universe appears to have a genuinely old history spanning billions of years. However, this does not conflict with the idea that from the Creator's eternal, transcendent point of view, the entire cosmos was brought into existence in a literal six-day period.
Key points:
  1. Biblical texts suggest that God experiences time differently than humans, transcending our Earth-based perception of time (e.g., Psalm 90:4, 2 Peter 3:8).
  2. Scientific theories like relativity show that time is relative to the observer's frame of reference, which in our case, is an Earth-based perspective using Earth standard time.
  3. The temporal asymmetry model suggests that while we, as Earth-bound observers, perceive a universe with a truly ancient history, this is fully compatible with the idea of a recent creation from God's eternal vantage point.
  4. This framework takes scientific evidence for an old universe seriously while maintaining the truthfulness of the biblical creation and Flood accounts.
  5. Objections to this model, such as the appearance of age or ad hoc reasoning, are considered and found to be unpersuasive.
The essay concludes by emphasizing the importance of humility, reverence, and openness to mystery when exploring the complex relationship between science and faith. It acknowledges God's transcendence and sovereignty over time and creation, highlighting that from our Earth-based perspective using Earth standard time, we can affirm the genuine antiquity of the cosmos while simultaneously recognizing the validity of the biblical account of a recent creation from God's eternal point of view.
Introduction
The age of the earth and universe has long been a point of tension between biblical literalists who affirm a young creation based on the Genesis account and mainstream scientists who see compelling evidence for an ancient cosmos spanning billions of years. This treatise proposes a conceptual framework for reconciling these divergent perspectives by appealing to the concept of temporal asymmetry—the idea that time can be experienced differently from different frames of reference. By exploring how a transcendent Creator might experience time in a radically different way than creatures embedded within space-time, and by examining scientific evidence and biblical accounts that lend support to this idea, we can begin to see how both a young and old creation might be simultaneously true from different vantage points.
Biblical Foundations: Creation, Flood, and Divine Temporality
The starting point for this reconciliation is the biblical testimony itself. Genesis 1-2 describes God creating the heavens and earth, along with all their inhabitants, in six literal days, culminating in the Sabbath rest on the seventh day. This orderly, structured creation week strongly implies that these were normal solar days as experienced by earthly observers. The genealogies and chronologies found throughout the Old Testament further reinforce the impression of a relatively recent creation, spanning only a few thousand years.
The Bible presents God as the sovereign Creator, bringing the universe into existence by His word and wisdom. In our modern age, it's fitting to think of Him as the Master Programmer or Cosmic Engineer, designing the laws, constants, and structures that govern the cosmos with perfect precision.
According to Genesis 1, God's "deployment" of the Creation program took place over six literal days. On Day 1, He brought forth the foundational components - space, matter, light, and time. Day 2 saw the formation of Earth's atmosphere, while Day 3 involved the emergence of dry land and vegetation.
The fourth day marked a pivotal stage in Creation. God spoke the Sun, Moon, and stars into existence ex nihilo, just as He did in days 1-3 - a direct manifestation of His omnipotence. However, rather than simply having them "wink" into being instantaneously, God appears to have utilized an accelerated process to "construct" these celestial bodies and "fast-forward" their development.
In a sense, God ran a "rapid simulation" of cosmic evolution, compressing billions of years' worth of stellar formation, nuclear fusion, and planetary accretion into a single 24-hour period. This dramatically sped-up process would have produced a universe with a coherent "virtual history" - including light trails suggesting vast distances, radioactive isotope ratios implying ancient ages, and cosmic background radiation pointing to a primordial "Big Bang.
Importantly, this "appearance of age" would not be a deceptive trick, but a purposeful design feature. It would grant the universe a realistic "backstory," providing a credible cosmic context for Earth's existence. It would also showcase God's ability to craft a cosmos of immense size and precision, with countless stars and galaxies fine-tuned to support life.
Moreover, by front-loading the universe with a "virtual history," God would be endowing it with vast potential for future development, setting the stage for billions of years' worth of stellar and biological evolution to unfold within stable, pre-designed parameters.
On Days 5 and 6, God filled the Earth with living creatures, each programmed to reproduce after its kind, with rich genetic potential for adaptive variation. The creation of mankind in God's image marked the climax of His creative work, which He declared "very good" - an elegant, error-free system, perfectly aligned with His intentions.
Viewing Day 4 as involving a "rapid formation process" offers a robust integration of the biblical Creation account with scientific evidence for an ancient universe. It affirms that God created the heavens and the Earth supernaturally and recently, while still accounting for the apparent age of the cosmos from our finite perspective.
Through this lens, scientific research becomes a means of "reverse engineering" the universe, uncovering the sophisticated algorithms and subroutines God employed in constructing the heavens and the Earth. Each discovery of a finely tuned constant or elegantly balanced force points to the ingenuity of the Creator, the Master Developer behind the cosmic code.
Ultimately, the concept of God utilizing an accelerated formation process on Day 4, while still creating ex nihilo, provides a compelling synthesis of the biblical doctrine of Creation with the scientific evidence for a universe spanning billions of years. It magnifies God's wisdom, power, and artistry, inviting us to marvel at the work of His hands. As we probe the depths of the cosmos, we are not merely analyzing inanimate matter and energy, but encountering the handiwork of the living God, in whom all things hold together.
Additionally, the account of the global Flood in Genesis 6-9 describes a cataclysmic event that reshaped the earth's surface and destroyed all terrestrial life outside the ark. The Flood is presented as a real historical event that left observable traces in the geological record, such as the deposition of vast sedimentary layers and the burial of innumerable organisms as fossils.
Modern scientific observations of the geological record provide compelling evidence for an earth that is approximately 4.5 billion years old. Radiometric dating techniques, the analysis of sedimentary layers, and the study of fossil succession all point to a planet with a vast and ancient history. At the same time, some scientific discoveries, such as the presence of DNA in fossilized dinosaur bones and the existence of polystrate fossils, seem to challenge the conventional old-earth paradigm and lend support to a young-earth perspective. This apparent discrepancy can be reconciled by appealing to the concept of temporal asymmetry, which suggests that time can flow at different rates from different frames of reference. By proposing that the historical observers of Earth's past, particularly during the biblical Flood event, experienced time at a different pace than the geological processes shaping the planet, we can begin to understand how the earth can be both "young" from a biblical perspective and "old" from a scientific perspective.
To illustrate this concept, let us engage in a thought experiment. Imagine that during the cataclysmic events of the global Flood described in Genesis, the inorganic components of the earth underwent a period of vastly accelerated change. From the perspective of an indestructible, immortal observer standing on the ocean floor, time would appear to move at its normal pace, and all the standard measurement systems used by modern science would still apply. However, from the vantage point of someone on the water's surface, the geological processes below would be unfolding at a breathtaking speed, like watching a time-lapse video in fast forward.
In this scenario, the geological aging of the earth would proceed according to the predictions of naturalistic models, but it would be compressed into a much shorter timeframe as experienced by the surface-dwelling observers. Millions of years' worth of sedimentary deposition, tectonic activity, and erosion could have occurred within the confines of the Flood year, as the inorganic earth was supernaturally accelerated to accomplish God's judgments.
One key aspect of this model is that organic material, such as living creatures and their remains, would not have been subjected to the same accelerated time flow as the inorganic components of the earth. This explains why we might find relatively intact biomolecules, such as DNA fragments, in fossils that are purportedly millions of years old based on the geological strata in which they are found. If the fossils were formed during the Flood event, when the organic remains were buried rapidly and the surrounding inorganic material was aged at an accelerated rate, it is conceivable that traces of original biological material could have survived to the present day.
Similarly, the existence of polystrate fossils, which extend through multiple sedimentary layers that are conventionally interpreted as having been deposited over long ages, becomes more explicable if those layers were laid down in rapid succession during the Flood. The organic remains would have been preserved in their original orientation as the inorganic sediments were compressed and aged around them.
Acknowledging the Supernatural
Naturalistic scientists will undoubtedly reject this scenario out of hand, as it invokes supernatural intervention in the natural world. From their perspective, any appeal to divine action is inherently unscientific and untestable. They will seek to explain away anomalies like dinosaur DNA or polystrate fossils through purely naturalistic means, even if those explanations strain credulity or require ad hoc assumptions.
However, for those who are open to the possibility of a Creator God who can act in ways that transcend the ordinary laws of nature, the idea of supernaturally accelerated geological processes becomes a viable option. If God is the author of time itself, then He is not bound by the uniform flow of time that we experience as creatures within the universe. He could easily manipulate the relative rates of temporal progression for organic and inorganic matter to accomplish His purposes, such as executing judgment on a sinful world through the Flood while preserving the remnant of life on the ark.
Interestingly, the concept of accelerated geological processes is not entirely foreign to naturalistic scientific models. Many simulations of Earth's history, such as those used to study plate tectonics or climate change, rely on compressed timescales to make the computations more manageable. These models do not attempt to replicate the full 4.5 billion years of Earth's history in real-time, but instead, artificially accelerate the relevant processes to simulate long ages within a shorter span of model time.
From a certain perspective, these simulations can be seen as analogous to the biblical view of Earth's history, where the vast ages inferred from the geological record are compressed into a much shorter timeframe as experienced by human observers. The key difference is that naturalistic models attribute the acceleration to the limitations of human computing power, while the biblical view attributes it to the sovereign power of the Creator.
The framework of temporal asymmetry provides a conceptual tool for reconciling the apparent discrepancy between the vast age of the earth inferred from the geological record and the much younger age suggested by a literal reading of biblical chronology. By proposing that the inorganic components of the earth underwent a period of supernaturally accelerated aging during the events of the global Flood, we can begin to understand how millions of years' worth of geological processes could have unfolded within the confines of a single year as experienced by the earth's inhabitants.
Ultimately, the temporal asymmetry view requires an openness to supernatural intervention in the natural world and a willingness to subordinate human reason to divine revelation. It challenges us to recognize the limitations of our creaturely perspective and to embrace the mystery and majesty of a God who transcends the very fabric of space and time. As we seek to unravel the complex history of our planet and the universe beyond, may we do so with humility, reverence, and a deep sense of awe at the eternal power and wisdom of the One who spoke all things into existence.
Biblical Evidence for Temporal Asymmetry
Intriguingly, the Bible also contains passages that suggest a more complex relationship between God and time. In Psalm 90:4, Moses declares, "For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it passes by, or as a watch in the night." This verse implies that God's perception of time is radically different from our own, with a thousand years passing like a mere day from His eternal perspective. Similarly, the Apostle Peter writes, "With the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day" (2 Peter 3:8). These passages hint at a profound temporal asymmetry between the Creator and His creation.
Another compelling biblical example of God's ability to manipulate time is found in the account of Joshua's long day (Joshua 10:12-14). During a battle against the Amorites, Joshua prayed for the sun and moon to stand still, and God miraculously prolonged the day to allow the Israelites to achieve victory. This event suggests that God can supernaturally alter the flow of time in a localized way, causing the sun to remain in the sky from an earthly perspective while time continues to pass normally on a cosmic scale.
Scientific Evidence for Temporal Asymmetry
The concept of temporal asymmetry finds support not only in biblical passages but also in certain scientific theories and observations. Einstein's theories of special and general relativity demonstrate that time is not an absolute constant but can dilate or contract depending on relative velocity and the presence of mass-energy. Clocks tick at different rates for observers in different reference frames, a phenomenon that has been confirmed through precise experiments with atomic clocks.
In the extreme environment near a black hole, gravitational time dilation becomes so severe that an outside observer would see time coming to a virtual standstill for someone falling into the event horizon. This extreme example illustrates the principle that time can flow at vastly different rates depending on the gravitational context.
Recent discoveries in quantum physics have further challenged our intuitive notions of time as a linear, unidirectional flow. Experiments with entangled particles have demonstrated apparent violations of temporal causality, with measurements on one particle instantaneously influencing the state of its entangled partner, regardless of the distance between them. Some interpretations of quantum mechanics, such as the retrocausal and transactional models, suggest that influences can propagate backward in time, blurring the distinction between past, present, and future.
While these scientific theories and observations do not directly prove the kind of radical temporal asymmetry proposed in the biblical creation account, they do challenge our conventional assumptions about the nature of time and open up conceptual space for considering more expansive possibilities. If time can be relative, variable, and even bi-directional within the constraints of known physical laws, then it seems plausible that a transcendent Creator, unconstrained by the limitations of space-time, could experience and manipulate time in ways that far surpass our current scientific understanding.
Theological Implications and Potential Objections
This proposed reconciliation of a young and old creation through temporal asymmetry has several important theological implications. First and foremost, it preserves the truthfulness and authority of the biblical creation, Flood, and long day accounts, taking seriously their historical and theological claims without reducing them to mere mythology or symbolism. It affirms that the universe is the purposeful handiwork of a personal, transcendent Creator who can supernaturally intervene in the fabric of space-time.
At the same time, this model challenges us to expand our understanding of God's relationship to time and to embrace a greater sense of epistemic humility. It reminds us that our creaturely experience of time is not absolute but relative to our finite, embedded perspective within the cosmos. It calls us to worship a God whose ways are higher than our ways and whose thoughts are higher than our thoughts (Isaiah 55:9), even as we seek to understand His self-revelation in nature and Scripture.
Of course, this model is not without its limitations and potential objections. Some may argue that it involves a measure of phenomenological language or apparent age in the creation, which could be seen as incompatible with God's perfect truthfulness. Others may object that it is too speculative or ad hoc, going beyond the plain meaning of the biblical text in an attempt to accommodate modern scientific paradigms. Still others may feel that it grants too much validity to conventional old-earth dating methods and does not sufficiently critique their underlying assumptions.
However, the objections raised against the proposed model of reconciling a young and old creation through temporal asymmetry are ultimately unfounded and fail to appreciate the explanatory power and theological coherence of this framework.
Firstly, the claim that this model involves phenomenological language or apparent age in creation, which could be seen as incompatible with God's perfect truthfulness, is misguided. The framework of temporal asymmetry does not suggest that God created the universe with a mere appearance of age, but rather that He created a genuinely ancient cosmos in a condensed timeframe from His eternal perspective. The antiquity of the universe is real, not illusory, and is a testament to God's omnipotence and transcendence over time itself. God is not deceiving us by creating a universe that bears the marks of a lengthy history; He is showcasing His ability to craft a cosmos of immense complexity and depth in a manner that defies our temporal limitations.
Moreover, Scripture itself affirms that God's relationship to time is radically different from our own. Passages like Psalm 90:4 and 2 Peter 3:8 reveal that God's experience of time is not constrained by the linear, unidirectional flow that we perceive. The Bible presents a God who is eternal, unchanging, and sovereign over the very fabric of space-time. It is entirely consistent with the biblical portrayal of God's nature to suggest that He could create a universe with a genuine history spanning billions of years from our perspective, while simultaneously accomplishing this work in a literal six-day period from His own perspective.
Secondly, the objection that this model is too speculative or ad hoc, going beyond the plain meaning of the biblical text to accommodate modern scientific paradigms, is unfair. The framework of temporal asymmetry is not a desperate attempt to force the Bible to conform to contemporary scientific theories, but rather a principled effort to take both biblical revelation and empirical evidence seriously. The model is rooted in a careful exegesis of relevant biblical passages, such as the creation account in Genesis, the Flood narrative, and texts that speak to God's eternal nature and His sovereignty over time. It also draws upon well-established scientific observations, such as the relativistic nature of time and the evidence for an ancient universe, to formulate a coherent and compelling synthesis.
Furthermore, the charge of being ad hoc or speculative could be leveled against any attempt to reconcile biblical and scientific perspectives on origins. The very endeavor of harmonizing ancient religious texts with modern scientific discoveries necessarily involves a degree of extrapolation and interpretation. The framework of temporal asymmetry is no more speculative than other proposed solutions, such as the day-age theory or the framework hypothesis, and in fact has the advantage of preserving a more straightforward reading of the biblical text while still engaging meaningfully with scientific evidence.
Finally, the criticism that this model grants too much validity to conventional old-earth dating methods and fails to sufficiently critique their underlying assumptions is misplaced. The temporal asymmetry framework does not uncritically accept all the claims of modern scientific dating techniques, but rather acknowledges the substantial empirical evidence for an ancient universe while offering a fresh perspective on how this antiquity can be reconciled with the biblical account of a recent creation. The model encourages a critical evaluation of the assumptions underlying radiometric dating methods and other techniques, recognizing that they are based on extrapolations of present-day processes into the distant past and may not account for the possibility of supernatural intervention or alternative interpretations of the data.
At the same time, the temporal asymmetry framework provides a robust explanation for why scientific dating methods consistently point to an ancient universe. If God did indeed create a cosmos with a genuine antiquity from our temporal perspective, then it is entirely expected that empirical investigations would uncover evidence of this ancient history. The model thus engages constructively with the findings of mainstream science while still maintaining a commitment to the truthfulness and authority of Scripture.
Conclusion
In conclusion, the framework of temporal asymmetry, supported by both biblical passages and scientific observations, provides a thought-provoking way to conceptually reconcile the affirmations of a recent, six-day creation and global Flood with the evidence for an ancient earth and universe. By recognizing the radical difference between the Creator's experience of time and our own creaturely perspective, we can begin to see how both a young and old creation might be simultaneously true from different vantage points.
This model challenges us to engage seriously with the anomalies and evidential tensions within conventional dating paradigms, even as it expands our understanding of God's transcendence and mystery. It seeks to be faithful to the truth of God's self-revelation in both Scripture and nature while acknowledging the inherent limitations and challenges of harmonizing these distinct modes of divine discourse.
The objections raised against the framework of temporal asymmetry are ultimately unpersuasive. This model offers a compelling and biblically faithful way to reconcile the apparent discrepancies between the scriptural account of creation and the scientific evidence for an ancient universe. By recognizing the radical asymmetry between God's eternal perspective and our own limited, temporal vantage point, we can affirm the genuine antiquity of the cosmos while still upholding the literal truth of the Genesis creation account. The framework of temporal asymmetry thus represents a promising approach to resolving one of the most persistent and contentious debates in the relationship between science and faith.
Ultimately, the goal of this reconciliation is to stimulate further reflection, dialogue, and reverent wonder in our exploration of the manifold mysteries of creation. As we pursue truth in both science and theology, may we do so with humility, recognizing the incomparable wisdom and power of the eternal, transcendent Creator who has graciously granted us the ability to study His handiwork. Let us approach these profound questions with a spirit of worship, marveling at the God who transcends time and space, and yet who is intimately present in every moment of our lives.
Addendum: A Framework of Progressive Revelation for Reconciling a Young and Old Creation
The concept of progressive revelation, which holds that God has gradually unveiled His truth and purposes to humanity over time, provides a helpful framework for understanding the apparent discrepancies between the biblical account of creation and the scientific evidence for an ancient universe. By recognizing that divine revelation is an ongoing process, with later revelations building upon and clarifying earlier ones, we can begin to see how the temporal asymmetry model for reconciling a young and old creation fits within the larger context of God's unfolding self-disclosure.
  1. The Accommodation of Ancient Cosmology
The early chapters of Genesis were written in a cultural context where the prevailing understanding of the cosmos was vastly different from our modern scientific perspective. The biblical authors, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, communicated divine truth in a way that was accessible and meaningful to their original audience, using the language and concepts of their time. This accommodation to ancient Near Eastern cosmology does not undermine the theological and spiritual truths conveyed by the creation account, but it does suggest that we should be cautious about interpreting it as a scientifically precise description of the universe's origins.
  1. The Focus on Theological Truths
The primary purpose of the Genesis creation narrative is to reveal fundamental theological truths about God's nature, character, and relationship to His creation. It affirms that the universe is the purposeful handiwork of a sovereign, all-powerful Creator, who brought order and beauty out of chaos and who created human beings in His own image to serve as stewards of the earth. These truths are not dependent on a particular scientific understanding of the universe's age or the specific mechanisms of creation. They transcend the limitations of human knowledge and remain valid regardless of our evolving scientific insights.
  1. The Principle of Accommodation
Throughout Scripture, we see examples of God accommodating His revelation to the limitations of human understanding and cultural contexts. Jesus Himself acknowledged this principle when He told His disciples, "I still have many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now" (John 16:12). The apostle Paul also recognized that our present knowledge is partial and incomplete, and that we see only dimly as in a mirror (1 Corinthians 13:9-12). This suggests that God's revelation to us is not exhaustive or absolute, but is tailored to our capacity to understand and respond to it at different stages of redemptive history.
  1. The Analogy of Galileo and Heliocentrism
The tension between the biblical account of creation and modern scientific discoveries is not unprecedented in church history. In the 17th century, Galileo Galilei faced opposition from the Catholic Church for his support of the heliocentric model of the solar system, which seemed to contradict biblical passages that speak of the sun rising and setting or the earth being fixed and immovable (e.g., Psalm 93:1; Ecclesiastes 1:5). However, as scientific evidence for heliocentrism accumulated, the church gradually came to recognize that these biblical texts were not intended to teach scientific cosmology, but rather to affirm God's sovereignty and faithfulness using the language and concepts of their time. Similarly, as we grapple with the evidence for an ancient universe, we may need to reevaluate our interpretation of the creation account in light of later scientific revelations, while still upholding the essential theological truths it communicates.
  1. The Harmony of God's Two Books
The principle of progressive revelation suggests that God has disclosed Himself and His truth not only through the written words of Scripture but also through the natural world, which the psalmist declares to be "telling of the glory of God" (Psalm 19:1). As scientific discoveries shed new light on the structure and history of the universe, they can deepen our understanding and appreciation of the Creator's wisdom, power, and grandeur. The apparent discrepancies between scientific findings and traditional interpretations of Scripture may actually be an invitation to seek a higher synthesis that does justice to both divine revelation and human reason.
  1. The Temporal Asymmetry Model as a Faithful Synthesis
The model of temporal asymmetry, which proposes that God could have created a genuinely ancient universe from our perspective while completing His work in six literal days from His own eternal vantage point, represents a faithful attempt to synthesize the biblical testimony with the scientific evidence for an old cosmos. By recognizing that God's experience of time is not limited to our creaturely perspective, this model affirms the truthfulness of Scripture while also taking seriously the empirical findings of modern science. It challenges us to expand our understanding of divine temporality and to embrace the mystery and majesty of a God who transcends the very fabric of space and time.
  1. The Call to Humility and Wonder
Ultimately, the framework of progressive revelation reminds us to approach the question of the universe's origins with a spirit of humility, reverence, and openness to further divine illumination. As we seek to harmonize biblical truth with scientific discovery, we must acknowledge the limitations of our own understanding and the possibility that future revelations may shed new light on this complex issue. Rather than clinging dogmatically to a particular interpretation or model, we are called to stand in awe of the eternal, transcendent Creator who has revealed Himself in the pages of Scripture and in the marvels of His creation. As we continue to explore the mysteries of the universe, may we do so with a posture of worship, trust, and anticipation, knowing that the God who has spoken in ages past is still speaking to us today, inviting us to behold His glory and to join in His cosmic purposes.
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2024.05.02 21:07 lifesmainantagonist The Good Galaxy

The humans had always had various ideas throughout their history of what alien contact would be like. The optimistic expected intellectual and friendly interactions in which they shared art and history and the secrets of the universe, science, math, and engineering. The pessimistic of course was that of hostile aliens bent on conquest. The fiction of the humans usually had it be something in between but leaning on the side of violence, on account of the fact that it needed to be an actual interesting story, but also to play into their own narcissism, so that the humans could always prevail in the end against any foe no matter what.
Unfortunately reality proved to favor the pessimistic outlook.
It was in the human year 2780 that the long awaited first contact happened. By then, the humans had explored their own system, not with themselves but with many of their robotic probes. By then, they had resigned themselves to the impossibility of faster than light travel and the infeasibility of colonies on other planets and eventually even being in space. Living things just weren’t meant for space, especially not when radiation hardened electronics equipped with AI was the competition. What was even the point.
So the aliens’ point of contact was through those devices, when all of a sudden they arrived in the Sol system apparently out of nowhere, having outrun any electromagnetic radiation that would have announced their approach. Because they had in fact done what the humans thought was not possible.
The humans on Earth, on monitoring the activity in their electrical children in space, were very excited about it at first. Until the aliens told them that the galactic council had decided they were going to be exterminated. It was very detached and harsh. They had detected the humans, they had taken a vote, and they had decided that Earth had to die. Or more precisely, its life did. Not just the humans. All Earth life. This galaxy wasn’t big enough for them and us. They had at first considered enslaving the humans but that too on taking a vote, had lost out. The problem was that the Oon had coerced the rest. They had their eye on the planet Earth and had plans of terraforming it to suit life of their kind already. They were the first ones to know about the humans. And they didn’t give a damn. And what’s worse, they were the galaxy’s manufacturers of the hyperdrive, as well as the secret of making them. If they didn’t get their way, the rest of the species of the galaxy would be cut off. And so they got support, even from many of the supposedly enlightened races that supposedly abhored violence and especially genocide. Their morals took second string to economics apparently.
But as was the galactic custom, the humans would be given one chance to justify their existence. They would be given the chance to send one representative to the council station to make their case, and hypothetically negotiate, but realistically they knew it would fall on deaf ears.
On Earth, a council of their own was convening about the matter. “We should send, him,” the leader of the black swans said.
Everyone knew who he was talking about.
“We can’t. We almost lost everything, the first time. I don’t know how, we got through it. There has to be a better way. Besides, can you even bring him back?” the most important man in the world said.
“Elie, would you come in?” the leader of the black swans said. In walked a woman. Tap, tap, tap, her dress shoes echoed on the marble floor. “Elie, has the gift,” he said when she came to a halt.
“Well why can’t we send her then?” the most important man in the world asked.
“I can only do it, with hours of concentration. And only one person,” Elie said in a tiny voice in the huge room.
“But can you get, him?” The most important man in the world asked.
“I think I found him,” she said.
A collective shiver propagated through the hall.
“Do we really want to do this?” the most important man in the world asked.
“Do you have any better ideas?” the leader of the black swans said.
So it was decided. And after much concentration, and a few failed attempts, he was there.
“Hello,” the man said, looking around.
“We need your help,” the most important man in the world said.
“Yes, I guess you do,” he said. He needed no further explanation.
The alien ship arrived a few weeks later to pick up the human representative.
An alien left the ship and looked at the humans in disgust. “You certainly are ugly,” it said.
“You are much more ugly,” he said.
“This is your representative?” the alien scoffed. “I guess it doesn’t matter, you’re all dead already.”
“You are a BAD alien,” he said.
“No, not here, not now!” the most important man in the world begged him.
“I guess not,” he said, in agreement.
He got on the ship and embarked for the galactic council ship.
Soon enough, he stood before the leader of the council. Who was also the leader of the Oon, the most powerful race in the galaxy, possibly the universe.
“Well, human representative. Justify your existence.”
“You want to destroy Earth,” he said.
“We will take Earth for ourselves. We will destroy your disgusting life that infests its surface.”
“You are a very bad alien,” he said. “And you are very disgusting. As disgusting as a slimy worm.”
The automatic translator struggled with that, because a specific animal that was found on Earth didn’t have a perfect translation, but creatures filling the same niche as worms were ubiquitous on inhabited planets, so it didn’t struggle that hard.
The Oon leader lowered his head and looked him close up. “I will enjoy seeing everything you love crushed into nothing.”
“How many planets do you have?” he asked.
The Oon scoffed. Over a, what would it be in base 10, over a hundred thousand.”
“This will take a while,” he said.
“No, it will be over very fast,” the Oon said before looking out the window with shock. For there was his home planet. “What, what is Oonoo doing here?” What was going on. (pronounced ooo nuu, not oh no)
“I have brought us there,” he said.
“That’s impossible!” the Oon said. “The council ship’s hyperdrive isn’t even active!”
“I read your minds to learn how it works. I can do it myself now.”
“…What?”
He looked out the window at the planet. And then it was gone.
“Where are we now?” the Oon leader asked.
“The same place as before. I made your planet go away.”
Sure enough, Oonoo’s star was still in the same place. Only the planet was gone.
“That’s, impossible!”
“Onto the next planet,” he said.
Over the next 12 days, the galactic council watched in horror as the human representative teleported them around the galaxy, and erased the entire Oon civilization, one planet at a time. Over that time, the Oon leader first was in denial. Then begged him to stop. Then prayed to its gods. The other species’ representatives also watched in horror, some of those who didn’t need sleep sat through the whole thing. And when it was done, he didn’t stop there. For he did the same for every planet of every race that had voted to erase life on Earth.
At the end, the only inhabited planets left in the galaxy among members of the galactic council, were the ones that hadn’t made themselves enemies of Earth, that had voted to spare Earth. After the horrifying ordeal was over, the Oon leader, perhaps the last Oon in existence, asked, “What are you?”
“I’m the human representative,” he answered.
“…Do you have a name?” the Oon asked. “I want to know, the name of the god, that erased, everything…”
“My name is Anthony. Anthony Freemont,” he answered.
Thus a new chapter has unexpectedly been written of a book once thought completed, of one of the galaxy's most special citizens. One Anthony Freemont, age 826, who comes from a planet called Earth. If you threaten this planet in any way, you do so at your own risk. But I also leave you with one additional warning. Should you visit this planet, or meet Mr. Freemont somewhere else, you might also want to try to only think happy thoughts. The other residents of Earth will certainly be doing so from now on.
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  • GameGuru
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  • Neverwinter Nights: Darkness Over Daggerford
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  • Neverwinter Nights: Infinite Dungeons
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  • PDF-Suite 1 Year License
  • Pathfinder Second Edition Core Rulebook and Starfinder Core Rulebook
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  • Blood Rage: Digital Edition - Gods of Asgard
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  • Small World - Be Not Afraid... DLC
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  • Small World - Cursed!
  • Sands of Salzaar - The Ember Saga
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2024.05.02 19:43 newmusicrls Beatport Best New Hype Indie Dance April 2024

https://minimalfreaks.co/2024/05/beatport-best-new-hype-indie-dance-april-2024/
  1. Liza Meier – Lied Tonight (Original Mix) 07:07 122bpm 11B
  2. Local Suicide, Velax – Unorthodox Orthodox (Arnaud Rebotini Remix) 06:24 112bpm 5A
  3. KovaX – Endorphin (Original Mix) 05:29 120bpm 9A
  4. BEMET, Omrizy, Elsie Doll – Something (Original Mix) 05:21 126bpm 9A
  5. Kounterpart – Tease (Original Mix) 06:25 122bpm 5A
  6. BadWolf, ADRIAN BLUPER – COCAINA (Original Mix) 06:09 124bpm 7A
  7. Joel Sudelnitzky – No Date (Original Mix) 06:30 129bpm 8B
  8. Vito Raisi – Digital Disco Drive (Original Mix) 07:05 122bpm 8A
  9. XANDL – Flashback (Original Mix) 05:06 123bpm 10B
  10. TH3OS – ONLY GOD (Original Mix) 03:13 127bpm 5A
  11. KARPOVICH – Kit Kat (Original Mix) 06:08 123bpm 3B
  12. Haze-M, Malek Mhedhbi – Reviver (Original Mix) 07:41 125bpm 8B
  13. Gassan – Keep It (Original Mix) 05:48 122bpm 2B
  14. Jon.K – Parker (Original Mix) 06:02 124bpm 9B
  15. Darren Shelton, Handgrenades – Trouble (Darren Shelton Extended Rework) 05:46 122bpm 8A
  16. Rem’s Martinez, Alemao – Just a Dash of Acid (Javier Busto Remix) 07:26 118bpm 9B
  17. Petros Odin – Solcandens (Original Mix) 07:22 126bpm 4B
  18. Vizel – Let’s Dance (Original Mix) 06:25 125bpm 6B
  19. Ira Ange, Natasha Wax, Sony Vibe – Lute (Y.Y Remix) 06:40 122bpm 2B
  20. Anturage, CATMOONK – Loosing Сontrol (Extended Mix) 06:19 123bpm 6B
  21. Arba Han, Dj Faye – No Limit (Original Mix) 05:23 122bpm 2B
  22. Alex Kaspersky, Vladimir Bellow – Inner Voice (Dub Mix) 06:14 120bpm 7B
  23. Addie Manson – Bad Girls (Original Mix) 06:55 122bpm 7B
  24. Jacob (IL) – Storm (Original Mix) 05:46 122bpm 11B
  25. Technicism – PARÍS (Original Mix) 05:51 123bpm 12B
  26. Thomass Jackson – The Trance Of Bird Watching (Original Mix) 05:58 123bpm 1B
  27. Paul Leone – Magic Guitar (Extended Mix) 05:35 122bpm 11B
  28. DJ Mysterioo Arif, DJ Katrin Love – Grey (Original Mix) 07:02 123bpm 9B
  29. Surmillo – Dark Sun (Original Mix) 05:10 122bpm 11B
  30. AMFM (MX) – Fiesta Clandestina (Original Mix) 06:51 126bpm 10B
  31. Modular Project – Sex! (Original Mix) 04:29 124bpm 11A
  32. Doctr – First Contact (Original Mix) 06:35 122bpm 8B
  33. Boys’ Shorts – Something To Forget (Original Mix) 05:09 125bpm 6B
  34. Dan Traxmander, Class of ’88 – Cobra Mission (Extended Mix) 03:53 126bpm 5A
  35. TOMA (BR) – Suspect Down (Original Mix) 05:56 124bpm 6A
  36. TOMA (BR) – Suspect Down (Original Mix) 03:38 124bpm 6A
  37. Ali X – Una Entre Un Millón (Original Mix) 06:18 113bpm 8B
  38. Squeeze DJ, Vito Raisi – Arcana (Original Mix) 06:12 125bpm 5B
  39. Atmoss (SP) – All Access (Original Mix) 07:23 124bpm 7A
  40. KROCODEAL – Star Commander (Original Mix) 06:30 120bpm 10B
  41. Yocon – Illusion (Original Mix) 06:59 122bpm 7B
  42. Alemao – Akyre (Rigopolar Remix) 06:03 122bpm 12B
  43. Max Ches – Hold On (Original Mix) 06:06 123bpm 7B
  44. ANMA (MD) – Drone (Original Mix) 07:28 120bpm 8B
  45. Alexander Montano – Flashes (Original Mix) 06:57 122bpm 7B
  46. Taga, Victoria RAY – Dog in Space (Original Mix) 05:43 66bpm 10B
  47. Jason Rivas, Piso Con Vistas – No Te Lo Pierdas (Radio Edit) 02:22 125bpm 6A
  48. Dionigi – Crazy Behaviors (Original Mix) 05:41 125bpm 4A
  49. TH3OS, BabyPeach – MALILLA (Original Mix) 04:52 122bpm 10B
  50. Kikkx – System (Original Mix) 04:19 122bpm 7B
  51. Roei Dolev – Acid Time (Original Mix) 05:38 125bpm 9B
  52. Faya – Baum (Original Mix) 06:23 123bpm 7B
  53. Ver-dikt, Andy Dav – Leave This Place (Original Mix) 05:34 122bpm 9B
  54. Bonnie Spacey, VOLUPTAS – Nuit Obscure (Malandra Jr. Remix) 05:27 124bpm 6B
  55. Marc DePulse – Enter Stuntman (Original Mix) 05:50 124bpm 12B
  56. Pumuki – Blackstrobe (Original Mix) 07:37 126bpm 2A
  57. Andrew Meller – Rejoice (Original Mix) 06:42 125bpm 8B
  58. Enjanzea2, La Mexicana – BLUNT (TH3OS Remix) 06:50 125bpm 11B
  59. Gueva – Juicy (Original Mix) 07:35 125bpm 7B
  60. Plastic Robots, Vakabular – Self Control (Extended Mix) 05:30 125bpm 5A
  61. Povar, Alexey Union – Stranger (Original Mix) 07:56 120bpm 12B
  62. Rem’s Martinez – Stoned Rider (Original Mix) 06:25 122bpm 1B
  63. Audiofunktion, Policy and Procedure – Octane (Original Mix) 03:54 124bpm 11B
  64. Lovilla, Chapa X – Anestesia Natural (Original Mix) 05:59 123bpm 6B
  65. pizzaaftersex – Flow (Original Mix) 06:10 125bpm 9B
  66. Ximena, TH3OS – NASTY GIRL (Original Mix) 03:33 127bpm 5A
  67. Plastic Robots – Making Some Chaos (Eivo Remix Extended) 06:30 126bpm 11B
  68. Enis Coban – Shape (Original Mix) 04:13 123bpm 10B
  69. Dasha IvLife – Dark Anatomy (Original Mix) 05:40 120bpm 11B
  70. OSMACK – Loyal (Original Mix) 05:42 120bpm 6A
  71. Cuprite, Delara Ja – Dance (Original Mix) 05:08 126bpm 10B
  72. Aman Dava – Against The Disco (Original Mix) 03:21 127bpm 7A
  73. Para Noir – Flashbacks (Extended Mix) 05:32 120bpm 4B
  74. Rafael Cerato, Stoked – Everest (DAARI Remix) 07:06 125bpm 11B
  75. Waltervelt – Special Is My Mind (Original Mix) 06:58 124bpm 6B
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2024.05.02 18:20 ConsciousRun6137 The Sajaha Prophecies

The Sajaha Prophecies
Sumerian tablets with fragments of prophecies were discovered early last century. It is said that these prophecies came from Sajaha, who was a priestess and seer at King Nebukanezar II’s court.
I came across a description of these prophecies many years ago. Even though it was in the days before chemtrails, before I had anything other than an uneasy gut feeling that not all was well with the world, they fascinated me and remained on the edge of my consciousness. With the arrival of the internet, research became easier, and when I found them online, they had lost nothing of their fascination for me.
Some insist they are not real whereas others point to the many accuracies with regard to the current situation on Earth contained in the prophecies. Given their relevance to the Unseen in general and to what is happening on Earth in this day and age, they could certainly be genuine. But in any case, they are worth a ponder at least, because much describes the Earth we live on with incredible astuteness, and as with many truthful documentations, it is no wonder that some would prefer to see them disappeared entirely.
Some of the writings reflect the opposite of what not only the New Age teaches but a view that is prevalent in the alternative media as well. For example:
(Sajaha 3) “The people are the shadows of the gods. They act on their own will on earth. Theirs is the merit on the light, theirs the blame for the darkness.
“The deity hands out the shoes for walking. People choose their paths themselves.”
Many people today continue to refuse to accept co-responsibility for the situation we have in this world, and yet the above is another confirmation that it is us as the human collective that create what we call reality. We do create with free will, and just because we long ago lost the ability to do so in any sensible manner does not mean we stopped creating.
“S/He did this, so therefore I can do that,” is a motto prevalent in our world. If we stop for a moment and see it for what it is – pettiness – then switch perspective to, “I want to live in a world without revenge thinking, so I commit a random act of kindness,” every time we witness a wrong, we will collectively change the current mentality. Such a simple adjustment in the act would ripple out and in no time change the entire world simply by being an example of how we want our world to be. Sajaha did not expect such a change, so she was quite spot on with her vision of the world today…
(Sajaha 7) “A gray cloud drifts closer. But it does not carry rain, it does not bring smooth shadows – it obscures the light. “And the gray cloud drifts closer. It accumulates to black and darkens the sky above the world.”
Chemtrails, anyone?
(Sajaha 7) “And the earth dwellers, in their majority, do not distinguish anymore between black and white, they exchange evil and good; unaware tumbling, furiously lunatic. Nothing has continuance. Everything falls.”
Many, many people blindly follow orders and do not care if they are doing right or wrong nor about any consequences. Which cop cares when he enforces the statutes of the corporation and issues a speeding ticket that will wreck a family’s life because they won’t have enough food to put on the table? It is not about right or wrong but all about imposing the few stronger ones’ will over the many weaker ones’.
(Sajaha 8) “But the darkness chokes the light again – and chokes itself, too.
“Though almost all the heroes fall. No flowers bloom anymore – only choking twines. And the desert remains empty. “Many evil spirits have been there. But at the end, a light. The evil spirits dissolve –but the light remains.”
Does darkness, or evil, not always destroy itself?
As to the choking twines, Japanese Knotweed, and other invasive weeds, too, is becoming a serious problem in various countries and acts exactly as in the Sajaha description. Even ivy is known to take over entire forests to allow not even mushrooms to grow. Chemtrails add their bit from above, covering everything with a layer of metals and chemicals that have detrimental effects on plant life. What the Monsanto zealots may have missed, chemtrails will cover it, and the Pharmaceuticals will do the rest.
(Sajaha 9) “… The third picture that I give you today shows how once a new king rises in the distance. And he is of our blood. His name is Hope. Because he closes the sources of evil. And each heavenly sign gifts him a year; the first half in peace and in the second at war. But the sources of evil break open again, and they overwhelm the young king with blood and fire from above and below and from all sides. So he perishes. And the name Hope falls with him.
“Then the darkness totally captures the power in the world. The deluded people sacrifice in dull temples of impure kind. Shaddein (the prince of the shadows/evil, Satan) determines the paths, his mocking priests of lies ruling the earth. Alone the heirs of Babylon, Assyria and Persia move to the defence. But they have long been weakened. The victory is far. There is no new king.”
This could have been written by someone observant about the current situation on Earth. Lies and deception rule, and truth and honesty are not only scoffed at but punished at every opportunity the deceivers see.
Some believe the “Hope” mentioned in this part refers to Hitler because he ruled for a total of 12 years, the first half in peace and second at war. The heavenly signs referred to may be the zodiac, and he was one who took on the central banking system, indubitably one of the greatest evils.
And are priests not mocking ones? They preach abstinence to the masses while already looking forward to abusing children in their next rituals.
(Sajaha 9, cont.) “But a strong one will shake the remains of the heirs and wake up the one or other. Like a comet that suddenly gives signs. Yet victory is far, and no new king exists there.”
(Sajaha 9, cont.) “I also see something curious: It is like a red-hot wheel – gigantic in size. And its spokes are humans with no gender, dug into each other. They look sick, selfishness is in their breath. They are slaves to themselves and the wheel. Those who hold the red-hot ring, scream as they burn. But the next replace them for the same, although they resist. Because the wheel center hub is also made of fire, and there burn the humans. And so more and more new bands drifting towards to the disaster that is emitted from the center hub.
“This glowing wheel – a giant to watch – rolls over the earth. It brings fire, ignites land and sea. An evil noise sounds from all over – horrible and meaningless. The wheel speeds further. The noise generated by the madness of people drives it, makes it fast and furious. The raging ones jump in madness on the red-hot wheel – and go up in smoke.
“Nowhere is silence anymore, everywhere screaming and raging and raving. People no longer recognise each other. And nobody brakes the hideous rolling of the red-hot wheel. Far is a new king.”
Isn’t this an apt description of the hamster wheel so many people are caught in? Round and round they go, ignorant that with each turn, a little bit of life force is lost, and yet to realise, let alone get out, requires tremendous amounts of courage and is for most a task of Herculean proportions, impossible to do.
And indeed, silence is found nowhere today.
(Sajaha 10) “Then a light, like a young star, will light up at the end of the heaven. That is the opening lid of the ewer (beginning of Age of Aquarius).
“And horror will sweep over all servants of the dark and all their helpers. All their gold will melt into screaming tears – under the shining beam of the new Babylon. And all their oaths of vengeance will hit themselves from the mirror of their malice.
“The just, however, will judge the unjust – and will shame them with their clemency.”
Much has been written about the Age of Aquarius, and we have noticed that we seem to have entered an era where everything (and everyone) is being revealed now. The darker-inspired puppets can no longer hide their intentions, and we hear from the US – if that is not fake news as most everything – that bombing North Korea is a distinct possibility despite the fact that mostly, if not only, innocents will fall victim. Then we hear in other news from the UK Prime Minister that pedophilia is to be legalised and become just another letter added to the LGBT movement. No, they cannot hide their intentions, nor their leanings towards Satan, anymore.
(Sajaha 12) “… The Third Sargon will come in later times. He will destroy the servants of darkness with all their seed, he will uproot the evil by the roots.
“He will show no mercy, will not spare a single one of the enemies of light; he will have no mercy with those who remained passive. He will not tolerate the ones who do not recognize the whole. He will push down the lower species, kill all the sick souls. No trace of the worshippers of the evil spirit will be left on Earth.
“The Third Sargon will be terrible against everything hindering the unfolding of the pure light.
“He will purify the world, will slay seven out of ten people, and obliterate everything that is false/wrong and everything that wears the sign of the false/wrong.
“He will be cruel against the dark.”
This may or may not be talking about an actual man. It could also be an event, a kind of cosmic self-cleanse or something along those lines, who knows. Nevertheless, life on Earth is described with incredible accuracy, if partly in metaphors, and maybe we can look forward to the day evil is evicted from our world.
Another apt description:
(Sajaha 12, Chapter 2) “… All power will be in the claws of the unworthy. Those will turn the world.
“Moral will no longer be, but vice will be considered posh. Men will have intercourse with boys, with impunity; women will not wish to be women but act like men, with impunity.
“And the lowest will rise to the highest through the powers of the evil spirit. And he observes all this gleefully from his darkness.
“… Everything that is good will be considered bad. Everything that is bad will count as good.
“People will no longer recognise a god. Gluttony and fornification, treachery and deceit will be their gods. They will drink blood and wallow in slime.
“Impudent lies they will call truth, and truth will not be in them. Except within the lonely just ones, who longingly wait for the third Sargon, to whom they secretly dedicated their heart.”
According to Sajaha, all evil will be eliminated with the arrival of the Third Sargon, and it will all happen within four months:
“But in the span of one third of a year, the envoy will have completed his work.”
The Sajaha Prophecies are not the only ones that foresaw evil gaining the upper hand, complete moral corruption, or general discontent, even wars, and in the end the start of a peaceful and prosperous era for all.
Alois Irlmaier, a Bavarian well builder who lived in the first half of last century, predicted war-like situations in Northern Europe, due to inflation and vast increase of taxes. Besides “Atrocious murdering” in the East, he also foresaw Russia marching into the western countries, which, however, would be stopped by unmanned weapons from Arabia. Furthermore, financial crises, leading to civil wars, receive several mentions in his visions.
Nicolaas van Rensburg, a Boer who lived around the turn of the 20th century, also foresaw a short-lived war in Europe, as did several other seers. Further common threads include the corruption of morals as well as a war cut short by some intervening power being followed by a peaceful and prosperous era.
So, whether the Sajaha Prophecies are genuine or not, they certainly contain enough truth to give one pause. And perhaps reminding ourselves every now and then that we are the ones who create our reality will make us realise that we are the ones who can change this world to a better one.
May 2018 be the year in which we lay our egos at rest for long enough to stop reacting, and make doing what is right the highest priority.
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2024.05.02 18:10 John-ZhaoSugarlandTX Anybody obsessed with attending the Ivy League when they were in elementary or middle school?

I am curious if any of you guys were obsessed with attending the Ivy Plus (Ivy League + MIT, Stanford, Duke, Caltech, or Chicago) because for my (43M) son (currently 13M) who was diagnosed with autism at age 3 and could not speak until 3 and a half years old, during his time at elementary school until we moved to a bigger house in late 2022 in 6th grade, he got straight A's except in English/PE. Even though his English grades hovered between A-/B+ since 5th grade, it has significantly improved from a C+/B- when he was in 1st grade. During elementary school, he was even in advanced math (one grade level ahead), got straight A in that class, and he also won some school/district wide awards in STEM. He has won a district wide math award, a regional engineering award, as well as win the school's Geography Bee. Once we and the school helped pull him out of a special ed homeroom during the middle of kindergarten (around January 2017) to a mainstream homeroom (he is still on an IEP however), he nonetheless caught out and his behavior has massively improved. Starting 1st grade in 2017, we started buying him supplementary workbooks so he could learn English, Math, and Science during his free time and he was quite good at it. Even though he is a bit weaker in ELA, he nonetheless shown massive interest in STEM fields, such as math, chemistry (he took a glance at the periodic table when he was 6), physics (he loved reading Physics and Space/Astronomy books), engineering, and of course, technology, where his favorite thing to do is to use the computer. He started becoming obsessed with technology/computers at around 5 years old, and due to the fact we have multiple computers, he started knowing the basics about macOS, Windows 10, Windows 8.1, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP at the time. In fact, he also learned about the basics of iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod), and Android, and his passions on computers deepened when he watched a video on "Every Windows Startup Sound". When we were 5, we also bought him a globe where he basically explores various countries and their capitals during his free time, and we bought him large sheets of paper at Walmart showing all 45 presidents, the times and division table (up to 12), the Solar System, the periodic table, and the human anatomy. We also bought him a visual dictionary and he really loved reading it. Despite the fact he only took one advanced course, he was 2-4 grade levels ahead, often using the supplementary books we bought for him to learn and he finished these books in a matter of weeks.
Even though we are totally fine with him attending community college, ever since he was 7, he has been dreaming of attending HYPSM universities, knowing that many of the people he aspire to such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Larry Ellison attended some of those top schools. During my son's free time, he loves to watch tech videos, science/history documentaries, learn computer programming (Java, C++, C, Python, Swift, Kotlin, Go, Ruby, R, etc), and explore around with technology and computers. He has been infatuated with computers since he was 5 and would spend hours tinkering around with technology. We even hired a piano tutor for him and even though the piano tutor mostly helps with his fingers/notation, he has self taught and memorized some pieces such as Claire De Lune, Arabesque, Waltz No 7, Grande valse brillante, Moonlight Sonata 1st/2nd movement, Mozart Fantasy No 4, and Schubert Impromptu Op 90 no 2 in a matter of months or even weeks. In Summer of 2022, he even won a piano competition in Boston. Even though we don't pressure him, he is very self motivated and wanted to be at the pinnacle.
By the time he reached 2nd grade, we started taking him to piano lessons, and that was where he developed an interest for classical music, making classical music his favorite genre. He even studied various composers, including some medieval (Hildegard von Bingen) and renaissance (Josquin Des Prez) as well as baroque (Bach), classical (Mozart), romantic (Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin), and modern (Debussy, Ravel) ones as well. Also by this point, we started buying him 4/5th grade math books and science books and his 1st grade teacher even gave him a high school US history and World history textbook and he enjoyed reading several pages of it per day to explore various historical events, such as Louis XIV, Napoleon, the Dutch East India company, the European Scramble of Africa, the Weimar Republic, and US reconstruction after the Civil War. By this time, he was also obsessed with figures such as Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, Leonardo Da Vinci, Rene Descartes, Jean Jacques Rousseau, and current tech entrepreneurs Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison, and Elon Musk. Basically, after a year of playing piano at 8, he started playing pieces such as Mozart Facile Sonata No 16, Mozart Turkish March, Beethoven Fur Elise, Bach Prelude No 1, and Beethoven Ecossaise. Also, the most important thing happened in his life by the time and that is, he started learning how to install various VMs on Virtualbox/VMware, and the year after at 8 years old, he was introduced to programming by his older cousin (something that will change his life), where he started learning HTML and CSS first, then moved on to JavaScript and Python, and afterwards, to Java and now, he is learning C, C++, Swift, Kotlin, and and R on his own on Udemy and edX and is currently working on a mobile game.
In 3rd grade, the school principal realized my son was very smart in math and after my son asked the principal to be put to advanced math, he was put in a 4th grade classroom for math. He essentially excelled in that class, and in one instance during 4th grade in a 5th grade math homeroom in early 2021, he was the only student out of 25 to receive over an 80 on one test (he received a 95) and therefore, he was the only student who didn't have to retake the exam. Even though the 4th grade teacher back in 2019 really wanted him to be in her science and social studies and he excelled on those, showing my wife and I extremely high grades, the principal and 3rd grade homeroom teacher didn't authorize the move, instead insisting on making him stay in the 3rd grade for these two subjects which made him kinda unhappy. By the time he reached 4th grade when the grading system got changed from numbers to letters, whenever you get an A in conduct and effort in every class, you get to eat ice cream every quarter in the cafeteria and eat pizza at a local Pizza store every June. Turns out, my son got an A in conduct and effort in every class in every quarter, even in English and PE, where he would usually get a B to A- grade but an A in conduct and effort. Also, despite the fact my son is weak in English, he nonetheless got his grade up from a C/C+ (equivalent to a 2) during 1st grade to a B/B+ during 6th grade (2022). The school started enrolling students in FirstInMath during 4th grade and during 4th grade, my son would play some math games and learn math along the way, and he essentially scored higher than any student at his school and amongst the top in his school district, and by the end of 4th grade, my son had some knowledge in Algebra/Pre-Algebra already. During 5th grade in early 2022, my son won the school's science fair where he developed an LED glove and he was inducted to the local science museum to compete with 5-8 graders in his county. He was ready to do the next big project in Robotics and computer science during 6th grade but because we moved to another district next door by buying a bigger house, he wasn't able to continue. In the early half of 6th grade when he was still at the old district, everybody at his school (4-6th grade only, no K3) was made to take the Geography Bee for the first time, and he came out as a winner and was inducted to a county-wide tournament (again, for another subject). Even though he couldn't map every single country (some obscure island nations in the Pacific), he could nonetheless map every European/Asian/North/South American country and list the capitals of every European country and most Asian/North/South American countries. He even won a county-wide math award as well early in his 6th grade. He has gotten perfect math MCAS scores during 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade, but his ELA hovered around Partially Meeting Expectations and Meeting Expectations and has not taken the MCAS since. During summer 2022, before 6th grade and right after his 11th birthday, he also registered to a music competition at the NE Conservatory in Boston where he actually won against 11 year olds playing Mozart Fantasy No 4 and Chopin Grande Valse Brilliante. Even though we have a piano tutor for my son who mostly helps with his fingers/notation, he has self taught and memorized some pieces such as Claire De Lune, Arabesque, Waltz No 7, Grande valse brillante, Moonlight Sonata 1st/2nd movement, Mozart Fantasy No 4, and Schubert Impromptu Op 90 no 2 in a matter of months or even weeks. Even though we don't pressure him, he is very self motivated and wanted to be at the pinnacle.
After starting online school and moving to my uncle and aunt's house in Quincy in February 2023 because he wanted to push himself further, he started with the 2nd half of 6th grade and 7th grade math at an online self paced school he wanted to attend to try to accelerate his education and by mid-April, he started the 7th grade and Algebra. By mid-August, he finished that and took a month break, travelling to Europe (Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Ljubljana, Salzburg, and Munich) with my uncle (78M) and aunt (76F). In October, he started 8th grade and took Geometry/Algebra II and even though he got straight A, his English grades actually did improve to an A- at the online school, and by mid-January, he started the 9th grade as well as Pre-Calculus while waiting for his 65k private school to answer to him.
My uncle and aunt is also talking to the online school about allowing his 9th grade credits to transfer (he does take some courses at a local community college in the meantime to make himself more competitive and to help those transfer as 9th grade credits). I have heard that my son is looking at SAT content and doing some practice problems for the SAT, looking up AP courses he will take during 10th grade like AP World History, AP Calculus BC, AP Computer Science A, AP Chemistry, AP Physics C, AP French, etc, and he is also looking at the possibility of taking Multivariable Calculus and LineaAbstract Algebra in alter years. He has also thought about joining several STEM related clubs at the new school and joining the student government at his future school, and is considering hard on AMC 12, currently working on some AMC 12 problems as well as looking up IMO, USACO, USAPhO, USNCO, as well as Intel's ISEF.
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2024.05.02 17:35 Ace201613 Review: Wizardborn (Runelords), by David Farland/Dave Wolverton

Our goal is not to conquer, merely to survive
Wizardborn is Book 3 in David Farland's amazing Runelords series (No association with Pathfinder). If you don't know who David Farland is (Because I didn't before 2022) I just want to begin by saying is was a phenomonal writer who actively taught many of the big names we know today, such as Brandon Sanderson, Eric Flint, Stephanie Mayer, and James Dashner. He wrote over 60 novels during his lifetime and, in multiple articles written to honor him after his passing, has been cited as the "Wizard of Storytelling". Again, my first time even hearing his name was in 2022, when I came across a book called "The Sum of All Men" on Audible Plus. I immediately fell in love with the novel due to the philosophical musings of the protagonist, a young Prince named Gaborn Val Orden.
*Note: The Sum of All Men had its title changed to "Runelords" at some point, which is also the name for the series as a whole. So, if you're interested in checking that book out you might just see a novel called Runelords and that will be it. If you see a man holding a sword and kneeling while facing a ghostly group of warriors, that's the one!
The story takes place in a typical medieval european setting for the most part. I say for the most part because this only holds true for one-third of the continent, Rofehavan, which happens to be where the protagonist is from and where most of the action takes place. The other two areas of the continent, Indhopal and Inkarra, are more like the Middle East and Africa respectively. Though we mostly stay in Rofehaven I appreciate having this variety and the ability of the story to jump between different areas. Another thing that makes this series shine is the magic system.
Anyone familiar with RPG video games? Or really any kind of video game where you can alter the stats of characters? You can put points into things like stamina so your character can run longer, strength so he can hit harder, wisdom so he can make better arguments when debating with other characters, etc. That is the easiest way I can describe the primary form of magic in the Runelords. Using "blood metal" people craft items which are used to take "Endowments" from one person and transfer them to another. So, if you happen to be someone who is known for his strength, i'm a Lord with a vast amount of money and land, you might come to me and offer to give me an Endowment of Strength. In return I will ensure that you, and possibly your family, are taken care of. You'll lose your great strength of course, perhaps being left with no more strength than that of a small child, but you'll be able to live in comfort as a trade off. Your strength will be added to mine. This same process can take place for any human characteristic. Strength, Sight, Smell, Taste, Beauty, Voice, etc. And there is no limit to how many Endowments a person can take. It is possible, and actually very likely, that a person can reach the point where he could punch through walls, crush skulls, run like the wind, and perform any number of superhuman feats. It is even rumored that a person who takes enough Endowments will become a perfect, immortal being. This being will be known as the Sum of All Men, which kicks off the events of the first book. The people who take Endowments are known as "Runelords". The people who give them are known as "Dedicates".
I've never seen a magic system like this in any other story i've read and it's combined with Gaborn's musings on philosophy, causing you to question the morality of taking another person's Sight to enhance your own when that person will be left blind. And this moral questioning really becomes part of Gaborn's arc across the series, as he eventually takes over for his father and becomes King and as he battles the villanous Raj Ahten, who seeks to conquer the world as the Sum of All Men. Other magic exists as well, of the Elemental variety. There are Fire Wizards, Earth Mages, etc. Gaborn himself is the reincarnation of the mythical Earth King, tasked by the Earth itself (A side character in its own right) to save a "seed of man" from a coming darkness, which is not related to Raj Ahten. The Elements themselves also mix or relate to one another in different ways. Fire is seen as the enemy of man for its ability/desire to consume and destroy. This makes it the enemy of the Earth as well. Meanwhile, Water is the ally of the Earth, and many castles unite with Water Wizards to offer protection in their moats or lakes. And all of this is just a taste for what the series offers you, because apart from this the characters have the monstrous Reavers to deal with. Standing at 16 feet tall at the shortest, Revears are denizens from the Underworld who pour forth like a horde of giant locusts, seeking to kill and consume everything in their path. And after them there are still greater threats to deal with.
All of this is just the most basic groundwork for the series. If I were reviewing The Sum of All Men i'd go deeper into it. But I wanted to cover this much so no one would be confused going forward.

Summary

One of the powers Gaborn was granted as Earth King was the ability to "Choose" people who would be under his protection. This allows him to sense any danger to them (and really sense where they are at all times) and to warn them of said danger. So minor telepathic abilities, but nothing major imo. The downside of this is that he his Choosing these people for the Earth. Once Chosen he has to do whatever he can to protect that person, which might just be telling them not to travel down a certain road. At the end of the second book, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Gaborn made the mistake of Choosing Raj Ahten. He then made the greater mistake of attempting to use his powers to have Raj Ahten killed. As punishment the Earth dampened his powers to the point that he is Earth King mostly in name alone now. Each book picks up exactly where the previous one left off, with maybe a day or two in-between. So, an army of Reavers was turned aside, Raj Ahten was nearly killed, Gaborn's powers have been weakened (But he still needs to stop the Reavers because the Earth is literally ordering him to do so), and Borenson (Gaborn's former bodyguard) has been maimed by Raj Ahten,

Gaborn

Gaborn saw that he valued most those who loved and lived well. He valued men of sound conscience and unwavering resolve. Mne who dared stand against the darkness when all hope was slim.
The best way to describe things is that Brotherhood of the Wolf saw our heroes rise and then fall, with the final outcome not going the way they expected. Wizardborn sees them recovering. Gaborn struggles with the loss of his powers across the book. He questions what it means to be Earth King and the fact that the Earth doesn't care about him saving EVERYONE. The Earth seems to think that's impossible. The Earth wants him to save a SEED of humanity, basically meaning part of humanity. The Earth doesn't want humans to die out, but isn't interested in all of them surviving. This adds further pressure to Gaborn because, as King of his people (Separate from the title of Earth King; though the Earth King mantle is treated as something mythical that SHOULD supersede all other titles across not just Rofehaven, but the entire continent) during a time of war he already has to send men into battle knowing that some of them will die. He has to take Endowments from his people knowing it will leave them weakened. He generally has to accept that he cannot save everyone and that his actions will probably harm someone regardless of his intent. But the trait of caring for people, all people, is something he never really loses. Gaborn mentions toward the book's end that if it were up to him he wouldn't be fighting Raj Ahten at all. He only sees the other man as an enemy because he knows Raj Ahten will not stop trying to kill him, which has the effect of getting in Gaborn's way when he tries to stop the Reavers.
As Gaborn's counciler, the Earth Warden named Binnesman, often reminds him, Gaborn's task from the Earth isn't to be a warrior. It's to be a protector. And the difficulty in determining the difference, especially in a society where the King is expected to lead his armies from the front, can be called Gaborn's most difficult task in this story.

Raj Ahten

If we must die at least let us die in splendor
Raj Ahten died at the end of the second book. That's the big reveal that comes out at the start of Wizardborn. But because he has so many physical Endowments boosting his stamina, metabolism, dexterity, etc. his death hasn't caught up to him yet. It's really just such a neat concept. So, he spends this book basically growing colder, feeling his death gradually take hold of his body. It's an interesting thing, being able to know that you're dead while still moving around and thinking. And on his other side his fire wizards (Flame Weavers) are tempting him to become one of them, to give himself to the fire and saying that it will rejuvenate him (While also burning away the human parts of him). Across the previous books Raj Ahten went from a man who claimed he was amassing power in order to stop the Reavers to a man who clearly just wants power for the sake of having it. Does he want to fight the Reavers? Yes. Does he want to defend his nation of Indhopal? Yes. But is he willing to accept Gaborn as Earth King and serve him, or even ally with him? Absolutely not. That's where he draws the line and he doesn't care how much strife doing so causes.
As I said previously, the title of Earth King is treated as something magical, which all people on the continent bow to. This causes other power hungry Lords to scheme and lie, claiming that Gaborn is not the Earth King, in order to trick their people into supporting them while they work against Gaborn. Because anytime anyone sees that Gaborn truly is the Earth King they pretty much give their allegiance to him. The belief in the Earth King and His Right to rule is that strong. And because he refuses to do so, and due to other actions taken in previous books, Raj Ahten's forces have now split in two. Some still follow him, but many others see him as blasphemous for fighting and attempting to kill Gaborn (Doubly so because Gaborn is his cousin by marriage, and fighting relatives is another crime added to the list). These forces working against him push his story forward in this novel. He is the most physically powerful man in the world, close to being the Sum of All Men. But he is slowly dying. He is being tempted by the flames. He has to battle the Reveaers who have sprouted from the earth and begun attacking his nation. And he has to worry about his Dedicates being killed, for if a Dedicate is slain the Endowment he gave you will vanish as well.

Borenson and Myrrima

Love well and die well. Compared to those two things everything else you do in life amounts to insignificance
By Wizardborn we are actively jumping back and forth between more than 5 points of view per book. The series grows or branches out from the first one, covering more and more over time. So, while I could stop at just Gaborn and Raj Ahten, who are basic polar opposites, I would be remiss if I didn't cover Borenson and Myrrima as well. And it really is just due to simple favoritism. These two are great, but they are also the two who were introduced in the first chapter of book 1, alongside Gaborn. Borenson is Gaborn's trusted bodyguard, having known him almost his entire life. Myrrima, through Gaborn's actions, is Borenson's wife. And let me tell you these two are put through it! i mentioned earlier that Borenson was maimed at the end of Book 2. Yeah...He had his testicles crushed by Raj Ahten, who literally grabbed them and crushed them with his bare hands. And you know what? This is only a minor part of Borenson's wounds. In the first book he is tasked by Gaborn's father to kill some of Raj Ahten's Dedicates. Remember, Dedicates are people who have given their Endowments to a Runelord. While most of them do this by choice many of them are forced to do this as casualties of war. Raj Ahten has so many Endowments of Voice that he can compel people to do things they wouldn't normally do, like opening their gates to an enemy. But either way killing a Runelord's Dedicates is a tried and true tactic in battle. It will cause him, and many of his best soldiers, to lose power at a crucial moment. But...Can you live with taking innocent lives in such a way? Well, Borenson has to try. Because the first book saw him kill 2,000 Dedicates linked to Raj Ahten.
So, Borenson is physically maimed, mentally drained, and has basically lost any sense of loving life or ability to see value in himself. It's a very good thing that Gaborn paired him with Myrrima, who admits to loving Borenson with her whole heart and who wants to help heal him. But apart from all that emotional stuff, Myrrima is a badass. Across 3 books she goes from a beautiful commonor in the marketplace to a trained bowman who slays a demonic creature targetting Gaborn's wife. She takes on Endowments of her own that make her the physical equal of many men. She has the ability to kill Raj Ahten at one point, but spares him only at Gaborn's order. And in this book its revealed (Only at the end) that she is connected to Water Wizards, being a fabled Wizardborn. Calling her a badass almost doesn't do her justice to be honest. She fights demons Reavers, Wights (Ghostly spirits), possessed warriors, etc. It is insane to me that she is not more popular. I see those comments of "What makes a good female character" at least once a month. And I always think "David Farland, Runelords, Myrrima". That's the answer right there. And there are other characters too. Iome, Averan, and Erin Connall. But Myrrima truly stands out as just the best kind of character. She comes from the most humble of beginnings, entering the series in such a way that you don't really expect her to do much. "Oh, the great warrior Borenson has a wife. They'll have kids eventually and maybe she'll stop his womanizing ways". But she becomes a fully realized character in her own right, who then helps Borenson with far greater issues than just womanizing.
Borenson and Myrrima are almost inversions of what you expect them to be. One is introduced as a great warrior, who women love. The other is introduced as a beautiful woman who is bonded to that great warrior. By Wizardborn it's Myrrima who is known as a great warrior and Borenson has been unmanned. And this story is them spending more time together than ever, trying to figure out the workings of their relationship and simply fall in love properly. Borenson is a man who, even before the events of the first novel, was scarred by his upbringing. In comparison Myrrima's upbringing was somewhat traditional. The two of them complement one another so well and go on separate character journies during the first two novels, which finally bring them into emotional conflict in this one. Borenson can't love Myrrima because he doesn't truly know waht love is. Myrrima wants to love Borenson, but has to deal with not only Borenson's coldness but the fact that, due to Raj Ahten, they might never have children. This pairing is actually way more intersting than Gaborn's marriage and could easily be the focus of a novel by itself.

Final Thoughts

True friends must be cherished beyond all worldly measure. For in our memory they shine brighter than gold and last longer than diamonds
Look. If nothing I have said has convinced you to read this series....Just read the series! It's one of the best i've ever read. While the author passed away before he could release Book 9 (The final book in the series) the first 4 books alone make up a complete tale for Gaborn and his friends. So, don't look at it as a Game of Thrones situation. Look at it as a series with 2 cycles,. While the second of was unfortunately never finished you can still enjoy the first, which is perfect in almost every way. This is a top 10 series for me. I could go on talking about it all day. I could write pages breaking down each of the 4 books, but part of reading, I think, is exploring these books for yourself and finding your own enjoyment in them. If you decide to do that i'm certain you won't be disappointed. Similar to Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn (Tad Williams), Runelords is classic fantasy, but it's the best kind of classic fantasy. It gives you that feeling of entering a world both different, yet familiar, filled with intriguing characters, magic, and a great evil you want to see cast down.
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2024.05.02 17:25 boopboopadoopity The Ultimate Reference/Context Guide to Bye Bye Birdie (Part 1)

So I'm in Bye Bye Birdie for the first time. There are SO many references that I feel like I had to do research to figure out. I can't believe how much I miss of the references and context. The only place I found these compiled was this text-based personal website last dated 16 years ago, and even then it's only a few (though really key ones!) and some of them don't show up in my 2024 copy - I wonder if they were pared down. Regardless, figured I'd make a context and reference list based on the copy I have!
I can't fit it all in one post, I exceed the text limit, so we'll start with Act 1 with general context stuff and the second post will be Act 2 only :)

Context

How Dated Was the Musical When Released?
Bye Bye Birdie is famously a direct reference to Elvis Presley getting drafted in 1957 and the stir it caused. But note the musical was written and published in 1958, and went on Broadway in 1960. It's like if a musical went on Broadway this year (2024) about a blonde-haired pop star named Tay-lee Quick (instead of Taylor Swift) who performed a world tour, but didn't initially book any dates in Canada, causing a massive outcry, leading to several Canadian officials and the president "Justice Troodoo" to beg her to stop there and... something else silly happens involving her, then she gets punched by a jealous girlfriend, and silliness ensues.
That is how on-the-nose this musical really is. There are many references to what would have been VERY modern events in this musical. For that reason, I'll try to give some equivalences of how the references in the musical would sound if it was written today.
Elvis' Perception in America
This extensive Wikipedia article does a great job of saying in many words that Elvis was insanely influential and deeply controversial. 1956 was a major year of stardom for Elvis -
Phone Calls
Phones are obviously a huge part of this musical! Wanted to combine all the phone references here.
Kim's Phone Number: Kim's number is, according to Rosie in Act 1, Scene 1, "Capitol 7 - 8820". In the 50s, the previous system which used 6-digit phone numbers started to be replaced by one that used an "exchange prefix" and 5 digits after. (Source) (Source) At the time, phone numbers that didn't connect to anyone were given out for shows like I Love Lucy, so that may be what happened here as well, though I don't know.
One Phone Line to Share: Kim's mother asks her to get off the phone early in the play so she can take a phone call. For a long time before cell phones, each home had a "home number" and you couldn't use it at the same time. This is why Kim's mother is asking her to finish up her call so she can call someone and eventually get a phone call as well.
Picking Kim's Number: Rosie uses a rolodex she randomly flips through to pick Kim - which would have been very standard in the 1950s.
The Operator Trying to Get Through: Calls were pushed through using real people, usually women, plugging lines into a "switchboard" to connect them manually. So when Kim's mom says the operator has been trying to get through for nearly three quarters of an hour, she's been trying to not get a busy signal when manually connecting the lines for 45 minutes! That's dedication!
Mr. MacAfee Frustrated with Long Distance Calls: Cost of international calls at this time was per-minute - so calls to New York, Chicago, Fairbanks, Alaska, and Hong Kong would have cost a pretty penny - over $100 for the first 3 minutes in a similar estimation! It sounds like Conrad and Albert didn't really offer to cover this cost, so you can see why Mr. MacAfee is so cross.
Getting Pinned/Going Steady
"Going steady" referred to, in short, being exclusive with someone. "As Time reported in 1957, "Boys and girls who go steady dance together exclusively (cutting in is frowned upon), sip their sodas, absorb their double features and spin their platters in each other's company or not at all. Steady-going girls indicate their unavailability in various ways, [like] the old-fashioned fraternity pins." (Source) It's mentioned in other sources that this could also be school pins, or rings. Something to show your commitment. One of the heads of my production described it like a "promise ring". It's definitely a firmer promise and commitment then just going out with someone, but not quite an engagement.
However, why, if this is such a sweet gesture of romantic love and commitment, would everyone be freaking out about it, and Kim's parents potentially not reacting well to "getting pinned" or "going steady"? (Kim has a line where she exclaims to her mother that she thinks her dad took the announcement "awfully well"). Truth be told, going steady in high school was actually highly discouraged by adults and especially church at the time. This article/Reddit thread sheds some light. I'll copy the first comment here by u/Gfrisse1. "It was felt that going steady would encourage the relationship to develop into one of physical intimacy, something parents wished to avoid. On the other hand, dating a wider, more diverse number of individuals would give them the experience of being exposed to a greater number of character and personality types, thereby helping to hone their mate-selection skills for later on. In the meantime, the short-term relationships were not expected to get much beyond the first- or second-date stage of intimacy. (One-night-stands, or casual hook-ups were not as common-place as they are today.)"
Cigarettes/Age
There are many references to smoking, cigarettes, and how old you should be in this play. It's complicated, but just know that in the 1950s, EVERYONE smoked. Everywhere. In the early 1950s, though, the first studies were coming out with the link to lung cancer, and tobacco companies used every trick in the book to try to squash that. It's genuinely fascinating (and terrifying) how much money and strategy was poured into this misinformation campaign. Read about it here. Anyway, what this means is in the late 1950s, it's not like most were giving up smoking, but because tobacco companies had started more explicitly advertising to minors, several states were in debate about the smoking age. It varied from 21 to 16, but just know that Kim was not considered old enough to be doing it. (Source.)) However, MANY minors did. Think of it like underaged drinking today as the best analogy. There's some specific cigarette references that will pop up in specific scenes, but just know that's the standard.
Patriotism
Fresh(ish) off of the victory of World War II, which was filled with MASSIVE pushes for increased American patriotism (to the degree that Disney even got in on it!), love for the USA was very culturally acceptable and a way to show you were a good person! It was easy to rally around (especially if you ignored the growing civil rights movement of Black people trying to achieve equality, which many white people at the time were very happy to do until they could no longer ignore it - obviously, not touched on in this musical, but significant. Several racist references have been either removed or are requested to be removed by current versions.) But that's why we hear so many classic American anthems in this play!

References by Order of Appearance (Act 1)

Almaelou Music Corporation
This is the end of Almaelou Music Corporation!
Almaelou may very well be a parody of Aldon Music, which would fit due to its major success being in the late 50s, and it's influence in music written for teen girls at the time.
Arpege
Rosie: A five-dollar raise in 1954 and a bottle of Arpege last Christmas.
Arpege is a perfume that was released in 1927 and remained the best-selling perfume of well-loved fashion line Levine for decades. (Source) Albert is quoting a commercial tagline tied to the perfume that was very well-known at the time. It continued to be used in commercials for many years. (Commercial example). It was possible to see 1/2 oz bottles at the time (Source), but Albert gave her a laughably small amount at 1/16 of an ounce. You can still buy this perfume today!
A five-dollar raise in 1954. Secretaries in metropolitan areas could earn around $75 a week. (Source) A five-dollar raise bringing that to $80 a week would, ironically, be about a 1/16 increase in earnings. Also, Rosie is pointing out in an earlier line she has put in 90 hour weeks and hasn't gotten a raise in four years.
Modern example:
Rosie: My last raise was four years ago and you got me that jewelry from Kay Jewelers once
Albert: "Every Kiss Begins with Kay", Rosie. Rosie: Not when that "Kay" is a .25 karat discontinued friendship ring!
Music Business Bum Vs. English Teacher
This is related to the prestige of being an English teacher who is helping people learn a scholarly subject vs. the "seedy" music industry.
Ugga Bugga Boo
"When you wrote Conrad's last hit 'Ugga Bugga Boo' then I knew this was it/You were thru with English forever."
Ugga Bugga Boo is a real song released 1947. It's a comedy song, written by voice acting legend and radio host Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, and many others) for his comedy radio show. I do wonder if Elvis had a song in this vein, as the Jetsons did a similar parody with an Elvis expy a few years later, but I couldn't find one.
Geoffrey ChauceWilliam Morris
"It was goodbye, Geoffrey ChauceHello, William Morris"
Geoffrey Chaucer is considered one of the greatest English writers, specifically poets, of all time. Born in the 1400s.
As for William Morris, this could be two references, possibly combining.
William Morris Agency was an incredibly famous music talent agency that would have likely been known by some audience members in the 1950s. They've represented tons of major talent. This is what I believe is the most likely reference given the song context.
However William Morris was a man also considered a legendary poet during his life, born in the 1830s. However, he also made wallpapers and textiles. After his passing, he became infinitely more famous in the public eye for his wallpaper designs than he did for his poetry. This is could be a dig at that Alfred could be great in the English world, but like Morris, his legacy will be for something "silly" instead. (Important to note that his works, both art and poetry, had great impact - and this may just be a coincidence reference, I don't know)
Bliss! Kiss! That rhymes! I wonder if anyone's ever used it before?
Many people had and have, this is a joke of him being unaware of current trends. Dean Martin had a #1 song in 1955 with this very rhyme for instance that audiences may have remembered at the time.
Dentifrice
Albert: Oh one last kiss; it gives so much bliss... what is your dentifrice! No, that's too clinical...
Basically, toothpaste. Which is, kind of, related to kissing? It could actually be a paste or powder for cleaning the teeth, though in the 50s it wouldn't have been the default way to refer to what you used it seems from my research, like in this commercial. May be a way to show off that Albert really does have an excellent English teacher level vocabulary!
A modern example may be "do you use fluoride? No, that's too clinical..."
"What's the story? Morning glory?"
This is most likely a reference to the song "What's Your Story, Morning Glory?" by jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald released in 1958, another topical reference. It's very possible Helen, the teen who says this line, would be aware of the song because Ella Fitzgerald in 1956 had released her "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book" album, her attempt to pull in a non-jazz audience. (Source on Ella's Discography)
"What's the tale, nightingale" is most likely an original line to match the "Morning glory" one, same with the hummingbird line.
"Go to a fancy night club and stay out after ten!"
A nightclub was different from what we think of today. Think tables and chairs, late night musical performances (not the NSFW kind), and in some of the most famous like the Copacabana night club, rubbing elbows with the rich and famous. And drinking, of course! Source on Nightclub Definition
18 in World War II
Mr. MacAfee: I am not an old man! I was 18 in World War II.
This is one that may get a bit better with time. WWII ended in 1945, but the play is in 1958 at the earliest. It's better to demonstrate with a modern example written for 2024. "I am not an old man! I was 18 when Facebook first launched." Not quite the same impact as WWII, but the timeline is similar. Essentially this is not a flex and just shows he definitely is old to a teenager.
No Smoking 'Till You're 14
Albert: Remember the Conrad Birdie Creed dear. No smoking till you're fourteen.
As mentioned in my blurb above, 14 was too young to smoke. A modern version may say "No drinking 'till you're 16" or something. Similar to the line "and stay out of the bar!" later on.
"Go down to Track 12"
Albert: Why don't you girls go down to Track 12 and I'll talk to her.
This is one of the many train tracks that must have run through this station. This station is located in New York, so it would make sense for there to be at least 12.
Wear your rubbers
"Keep your money in your inside pocket. Wear your rubbers. And eat a hot lunch..."
While "rubber" as slang for a condom definitely did exist in the 1950s, I believe it's far more likely Mae is referring to overshoes due to the context, though to be fair, I can't find a source to this being "official slang" besides casual mention in posts like these. Something tells me Mae is not randomly mentioning condoms lol.
A Plain G.I.
Albert: Proud to be a plain G.I.!
Mentioning this because it's faded away from current use and surged in usage most recently at WWII, this is just referring to being a soldier. (Source) Hence, G.I. Joe, if you're old enough to remember that.
Appealing for the Draft
Albert: And that's why he volunteered for...
Men were drafted to join the US armed forces until 1973. (Source)
Jerries
Albert: "Say Mr. Peterson," he cried eagerly, "Do you suppose I can get assigned to the front-line trenches? That way I'll be sure to get one of those dirty jerries..."
"Jerries" is slang for German soldiers and was most popular during WWII. The joke here is that WWII is over at this point - the enemies Conrad would be facing at this time would be the Vietnamese, not the Germans. When Rosie tries to correct him, he just says "whoever's dirty this time!".
2024 equivalent: "Conrad said 'Is there any way I could be placed on Seal Team 6? That way I'll be sure to get that Osama Bin Laden for sure!'" "Albert!" "...Or whoever the terrorist is this time!"
Rosie + Albert's "Origin Stories" for Conrad
Just a few references from Rosie's and Albert's stories in "Healthy Normal American Boy" that may be interesting.
Old Virginie - This may be known as a historical fact for people in Virginia, but Carry Me Back to Old Virginny was popular enough in the state of Virginia that it was the state song starting in 1940. In 1940, the version that became the state song had "Virginia" instead of "Virginny", but people watching the musical would definitely be familiar with the original version as this play was only 20 years later.
Indo-China - An eastern territory that got independence from France claim in 1954, and comprised Cambodia, Laos, and parts of Vietnam. Audiences would have been very aware of what Indochina was - according to Wikipedia, "The events of [Indochina getting independence in 1954 through the Geneva Convention and the political tensions of that between S/N Vietnam and other countries] marked the beginnings of serious United States involvement in Vietnam and the ensuing Vietnam War." (Source) Remember, that's the current war during the events of the play!
Dirty Hong Kong moon - We had a complicated relationship with Hong Kong in the 1950s-60s. Read more here. Though I'm not sure if this is meant to be a mis-insult like when Albert said "dirty Jerries".
A wire to New York
Another Reporter: I'll make sure we've got a wire to New York.
This is almost certainly setting up a telegraph communication to New York, which was still happening (though declining in popularity) by 1960. (Source)
I mean I really feel that girl
Conrad: When I sing about a tree/I really feel that tree!/When I sing about a girl,/I really feel that girl,/I mean I really feel sincere!
This isn't necessarily specific to the 50s or 60s but I think this joke gets missed because it seems so tame today. A huge part of Elvis' appeal was his explicit sex appeal at the time (in the form of - gasp! - hip thrusts!) so he's slipping in accidentally a reference to "feeling up" a girl%20for%20sexual%20pleasure) here. Yeah, that slang started in the 1930s!
Mr. MacAfee's Speech
Just know that this is a lot of great historical references, nothing specific to 1950 - 60.
Ed Sullivan
Ed Sullivan was the nationwide sensation that lead The Ed Sullivan Show, a TV program considered one of the most iconic of all time in US television history. You have to understand just how influential and huge the Ed Sullivan Show was at this time. It's genuinely difficult to think of an equivalent in 2024 - today, people get entertainment from tons of sources on the internet, TV, etc. but in 1960 there were THREE television channels. That was it. THREE. To be fair, there were many, many more radio stations that could deliver information and entertainment, but by 1960 it was a TV nation - as the Library of Congress says, "In 1950 only 9 percent of American households had a television set, but by 1960 the figure had reached 90 percent." The Ed Sullivan Show was well watched and well loved by all of the United States. (And Albert saying that they would appear on Sunday at 8:05 was right, as that's when it aired in real life!)
One reason Ed Sullivan is specifically picked is the absolute bombshell of a privilege to be a normal family on this show beamed in practically every household in the United States. But another is Elvis' relationship with the show. When Elvis finally appeared on the show in 1956, it set a record of the most-viewed TV program ever in the US. In fact, it still holds the record TODAY of having the highest share of TV viewers in all of television history in the US. No other TV program has ever had a higher percentage of people tune in vs. other stations. (I mean, that's helped by the fact that there were only 3 choices, but still!) So yeah - this was a cultural phenomenon that was easy to reference in this show!
Margo out of Shangri-La
Mrs. Peterson: She looks like Margo when they took her out of Shangri-La.
Going to take this one right from that personal website I referenced above!
In the 1937 [movie] "Lost Horizon)" [...] a group of travelers are stuck in a utopia called Shangri-La, somewhere in the Himalayas. One of the residents of Shangri-La is Maria, played by Margo), a Mexican dancer and actress. When the travelers finally escape, Maria insists on going with them. But outside the realm of Shangri-La, her youthful beauty can no longer be maintained and she reverts to her true age, causing her to die and her appearance to transform to the hideously withered, wrinkled features of someone who has lived way beyond a normal life span.
You can watch the movie free with ads here, if you're curious! Also, according to the synopsis, Maria never actually escapes Shangri-La. She just dies and "reverts to her true age". AKA looks very very very decrepit. I'm guessing this is more of an easy thing to misremember and better shorthand, though. See the face at 2 hr 3 minutes in abouts!
Suwannee River
Gloria: Mae, can you hum Suwannee River?
While this is a nice convenient copyright-free tune, it would definitely have been publicly known at the time. It had been sung at least partially by Bing Crosby, on the Honeymooners, etc. in recent years before the musical premiered. Unsure if this is what they were going for, but the original lyrics are racist - no wonder it was Mae's "favorite selection".
Ruby Keeler
(Stage direction) Gloria tap dances as Mrs. Peterson hums gaily. Sort of Ruby Keeler-ish steps with a lot of feet-slapping.
Ruby was a well known actress and dancer in the 1920s-30s (and then later after a break). Here's some footage of her dancing! Interestingly, in her early career she was cast in a musical called Bye, Bye, Bonnie. In a newspaper article review, it seems the plot wasn't very similar to Bye Bye Birdie, though it did involve someone going to jail. (Source)
The Touch System
Mrs. Peterson: I'll find you a typewriter (Exits) Albert: [TO GLORIA] Do you use the touch system? Gloria: Whenever possible.
Albert is just referring to the touch system of typing - basically, not looking at the keyboard while you type. Still relevant today, though not with typewriters, which were standard until the 1980s, so that fits here. Of course, Gloria is of course referring to, uh, something a bit more sensual. (Read: She wants to touch him and not like a friend.)
Kodak Ad
Sullivan: So remember: your surest way to the best in color slides is to insist on the new Kodak! And now, the young man you've all been waiting to see.
Just like media today, the Ed Sullivan Show certainly included ads. This included ad deals where Ed himself would promote a product, kind of like YouTubers do with "This video is sponsored by...". And, as you can guess, one of those products was Kodak cameras and camera related products. Kodak was still a huge brand at the time (there were not cell phone cameras as competition, so it was way more likely your home owned a camera or two), Kodak absolutely was sponsoring the Ed Sullivan show and had been for a few years (Source). Here's an example from the time period. What you may miss about this ad in the musical is that it's not actually advertising a camera! Cameras at the time required physical film be loaded into them, and wouldn't you know it, Kodak released a new high-speed color film in 1959! (I think this may be a coincidence, as Kodak had been selling color film for quite a bit before this) Yet another reference that's right on the nose of the current times (of the time)!
Wear it in good health
Albert: Who let that kid in here? Rosie: I did Albert. Albert: Rosie! Rosie: It's a sort of farewell present to you and Miss Rasputin. Wear it in good health.
Not invented in the 50s by any means, but this phrase really isn't used as much today I think. There's not really a deeper meaning here besides sarcasm that I can find - it's just wishing someone well. Obviously, the sarcasm is dripping here lol.
Dinah Shore
STAGE DIRECTION: ...as Mr. MacAfee throws a tremendous Dinah Shore kiss to the audience.
Dinah Shore was an actress and entertainer that had been popular for years at that point. Super interesting career if you want to give it a read. This is referencing her famous "Dinah Shore kiss" that she would give at the end of her show broadcasts and was a huge part of her brand. Here's an example!
Stay tuned for Part 2! :)
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2024.05.02 17:04 Dat_Guy_V Mythras for a Fallout setting

TL;DR I'm in the process of working on a Fallout game/setting using the Mythras ruleset. In this post I will present my ideas so far and include a bit of my design thoughts and processes. This will be presented through headings, ranging from Skills, Careers and Perks. Feel free to critique and discuss ideas!
About me: My Mythras experience is not vast, but still adequate - I've also played BRP-engine games like CoC, Delta Green and Runequest for +5 years.
I do have access and have read Mythras Firearms as well as the Mythras Imperative. Me and my group(s) will also be playing using Foundry VTT, so some extra bookkeeping will be automated, mostly meaning that I am not super afraid of extra "bookkeeping mechanics".
My experience of the actual Fallout the Roleplaying Game by Modiphius has been of general disappointment, though it got some bits that I like. I'll use some wording and ideas from Modiphius' game when designing my own Fallout setting using the Mythras ruleset.
What am I looking for?
Help, tips and suggestions on the various mechanics of Mythras within the Fallout universe. In general, I would like to stay true to both Mythras and Fallout, though one would probably need to dismiss one in certain design situations.
Looking at the chapters/headings of this post, feel free to only comment on aspects you find interesting. There is no need to force yourself to read the whole post.
Why Mythras and Fallout?

Character Creation

Characteristics
It'd be great to have S.P.E.C.I.A.L.S but for simplicity we will stay with the Mythras or BRP base characteristics: Strength (STR), Constitution (CON), Size (SIZ), Dexterity (DEX), Intelligence (INT), Power (POW), Charisma (CHA).
Fallout otherwise have Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Agility and Luck. Five out of these seven have more or less a direct counterpart. Fallout's Luck and Perception will be partly covered by POW. Perception moves to become a skill.
Species/Origin
One needs not to be confined to just humans; I figure Ghoul and Super Mutant would be the go-to alternatives here aside from human. Additional alternatives would be Synths (3rd generation) or other robots like Mister Handy.
Pulp
How much of the Pulp Heroic character rules would you use? As of now, I only have double the Healing Rate, but might have to include other aspects also to make the game a bit less deadly.
The addition of perks will make characters more powerful. However, there is no magic that characters could benefit from. I would imagine characters will also benefit greatly from consumables and equipment in general.

Skills

While Fallout uses a smaller set of skills than Mythras and most percentile-based games, I think a mix would suit well. We don't want skill bloat, with too many skills overlapping or too many skills ending up being either useless or extremely situational. At the same time, having enough skills to let players feel like they can specialize and be the only one that covers certain skills is also a relevant approach.
I also would like to incentive the allocation of skill points into more niche skills such as Culture, Lore, Art, and Craft. This could be done by separating the pools of Professional and Standard skill points more during character creation.
In Fallout 4 skills were entirely replaced by perks. The Fallout 3 skill list includes: Barter, Big Guns, Energy Weapons, Explosives, Lockpicking, Medicine, Melee Weapons, Repair, Science, Small Guns, Sneak, Speech, Unarmed. New Vegas added a Survival skill. New Vegas also merged Big Guns and Small Guns into a Guns skill, with the design intention that there weren't any early game Big Guns to use. Big Guns would include Flamers, Miniguns, Missile Launchers.
Combat Styles are therefore something I would like your suggestions on. Should I handle Combat Styles more like traditional weapon types like in Call of Cthulhu, i.e., have Combat Style (Shotgun), Combat Style (Guns), Combat Style (Rifles), Combat Style (Swords), Combat Style (Blunt Weapons), etc.?
Right now I am working with the idea of having 5 Combat Styles + Unarmed. Them being Big Guns, Energy Weapons, Explosives, Melee Weapons, and Small Guns. Is Small Guns to broad (making use of all sorts of pistols, shotguns and rifles)? Is Explosives a redundant skill? Especially so that you would need Athletics to throw an explosive. Perhaps have Explosives as just a professional skill, used to disarm mines, craft and handle explosives, and general knowledge about explosives.
As of now, this is the skill-list, with standard skills listed as (S) and professional skills listed as (P), somewhat arbitrarily:

Culture

There are a number of cultures, but five basic types: Urban, Wasteland, Militant, Criminal, Nomadic. Any other name suggestions for these?
It could be relevant to try and differentiate Cultures with Cults/Brotherhood. Would "Vault Dweller" or "Brother of Steel" be more of a Culture or Cult/Brotherhood?
Urban
Urban would be the 'Civilized' one.
Culture/Lore: NCR, the Enclave, New Reno, Vault City, Shady Sands, etc.
Standard Skills: Insight, Persuade, Willpower; and four of the following: Brawn, Deceive, Endurance, Evade, Investigate, Perception.
Combat Style: Any.
Professional Skills: Art (any), Barter, Craft (any), Lore (any), Science, Streetwise.
Cultural Passions
Wasteland
Wasteland would be the more rural or tribal survivor.
Culture/Lore: Boomers, Children of Atom, Children of the Cathedral, Megaton, etc.
Standard Skills: Evade, Nature, Persuade, and four of the following: Athletics, Brawn, Deceive, Endurance, Insight, Investigate, Perception, Stealth, Survival.
Combat Style: Any.
Professional Skills: Animal Handling, Administer, Art (any), Barter, Craft (any), Culture (any), Lore (any), Repair, Streetwise.
Cultural Passions
Militant
Militant could include Caesar's Legion as well as the Brotherhood of Steel.
Culture/Lore: Brotherhood of Steel, Caesar's Legion, etc.
Standard Skills: Athletics, Brawn, Endurance, Evade, and three of the following: Deceive, Insight, Intimidate, Perception, Persuade, Survival, Willpower.
Combat Style: Any.
Professional Skills: Art (any), Craft (any), Culture (any), Lore (any), Pilot (any), Repair, Streetwise.
Cultural Passions
Criminal
I'm thinking raiders here mostly. This kind of overlaps a bit with most other cultures.
Culture/Lore: Fiends, Jackals, Khans, etc.
Standard Skills: Athletics, Evade, Nature, and four of the following: Barter, Brawn, Deceive, Endurance, Insight, Intimidate, Perception, Stealth, Survival.
Combat Style: Any.
Professional Skills: Art (any), Craft (any), Culture (any), Lore (any), Lockpicking, Repair, Streetwise.
Cultural Passions
Nomadic
This would be the more 'lone survivor' culture, or nomads traveling in small bands.
Culture/Lore: Commonwealth, Mojave, etc.
Standard Skills: Athletics, Endurance, Evade, Survival, and four of the following: Brawn, Deceive, Insight, Nature, Perception, Willpower.
Combat Style: Any.
Professional Skills: Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Art (any), Barter, Craft (any), Culture (any), Lore (any), Medicine.
Cultural Passions

Fame & Infamy (Reputation)

One major and great aspect of the Fallout games is the reputation you can gain from various factions.
"Fame is positive and Infamy is negative. Both types of reputation are tracked separately, the combination of which determines one's reputation with any given faction. The benefits and drawbacks of any given reputation depend on the group itself. The characters may receive discounts with merchants, provoke attacks from hired thugs, or simply be treated differently.
Points are accumulated by various means. Completing quests, helping people, and generally making oneself useful will result in accumulating positive reputation points. Negative reputation can be earned by things such as killing members of a group, being caught stealing, lying, being rude or treating people poorly, betraying the faction or completing quests for the opposite side."

Careers

With this list of careers I would like to cover most (if not all) professions in the wastelands. Is there a career you think is missing or should be renamed? Is there a career who should have their skills switched around?
Agent (Assassin, Detective, Informer, Spy)
Standard Skills: Combat Style (Small Guns or Melee Weapons), Deceive, Evade, Insight, Investigate, Perception, Stealth.
Professional Skills: Acrobatics, Culture (any), Lore (any), Disguise, Sleight of Hand, Streetwise.
Bounty Hunter (Assassin, Mercenary, Soldier of Fortune)
Standard Skills: Brawn, Combat Style (any two), Evade, Perception, Survival, Willpower.
Professional Skills: Barter, Culture (any), Lore (any), Medicine, Streetwise.
Cook (Apothecary, Bartender, Barkeep)
Standard Skills: Combat Style (Unarmed), Endurance, Evade, Insight, Investigate, Perception, Survival.
Professional Skills: Survival; and any of the following: Art (any), Craft (any), Medicine, Sleight of Hand.
Courier (Messenger)
Couriers sometimes travel very long distances to reach their targets. You can be sure that travels are always dangerous.
Standard Skills: Combat Style (any), Endurance, Evade, Investigate, Perception, Survival, Willpower.
Professional Skills: Barter, Culture (any), Lore (any), Medicine, Repair, Science, Sleight of Hand.
Crafter (Builder, Artificer, Artisan, Handy-man)
Standard Skills: Brawn, Endurance, Insight, Perception, Persuade, Survival, Willpower.
Professional Skills: Craft (any); and up to two of the following: Barter, Science, Sleight of Hand, Repair.
Cultist (Guru, Hermit, Priest)
Standard Skills: Combat Style (any), Endurance, Insight, Perception, Persuade, Survival, Willpower.
Professional Skills: Lore (any); and up to two of the following: Art (any), Craft (any), Science, Repair.
Doctor (Physician)
Standard Skills: Endurance, Insight, Investigate, Perception, Persuade, Survival, Willpower.
Professional Skills: Medicine; and up to two of the following: Craft (any), Science, .
Entertainer (Acrobat, Dancer, Musician, Poet, Singer)
Standard Skills: Athletics, Brawn, Deceive, Evade, Insight, Persuade, Willpower.
Professional Skills: Art (any); and up to two of the following: Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Barter, Culture (any), Lore (any), Sleight of Hand.
Farmer (Gardener, Herder, Hillbilly)
Standard Skills: Athletics, Brawn, Combat Style (any), Endurance, Perception, Survival.
Professional Skills: Art (any), Animal Handling, Craft (any), Culture (any).
Hermit (Nomad, Radio Host, Wanderer)
Standard Skills: Athletics, Combat Style (any), Endurance, Evade, Perception, Stealth, Survival.
Professional Skills: Survival; and up to two of the following: Barter, Craft (any), Culture (any), Lore (any), Medicine, Repair.
Hunter (Forester, Poacher, Ranger, Scout, Trapper)
Standard Skills: Athletics, Brawn, Combat Style (any two), Investigate, Perception, Willpower.
Professional Skills: Survival; and up to two of the following: Craft (any), Culture (any), Lore (any), Medicine, Repair.
Merchant (Broker, Caravan Merchant, Money Lender, Smuggler, Storekeeper, Trader, Vendor)
Merchants are the primary source of items and equipment in the wastelands, aside from scavenging or looting from dead enemies. Merchants usually specialize in a certain area such as weapons and ammunition, food, armor, and clothing. Some merchants, such as scavengers or traveling merchants, carry a wide variety of items. Merchants operate out of either fixed stores or are part of traveling caravans.
Standard Skills: Combat Style (any), Deceive, Insight, Investigate, Perception, Persuade, Survival.
Professional Skills: Barter; and up to two of the following: Art (any), Craft (any), Culture (any), Lore (any), Medicine, Repair, Streetwise.
Official (Dean, Minister, Overseer, Steward, Tax Collector)
Officials are appointed or elected to an office, charged with some administrative duty.
Standard Skills: Combat Style (ranged weapon alternative), Deceive, Insight, Investigate, Perception, Persuade, Willpower.
Professional Skills: Administer, Craft (any), Culture (any), Lore (any).
Officer (Deputy, Sergeant, Sheriff)
Officers have a leading role in military or pseudo-military outfits. They can be police, military, criminal – self-proclaimed or appointed.
Standard Skills: Athletics, Combat Style (any two), Intimidate, Perception, Persuade, Survival.
Professional Skills: Culture (any), Lore (any), Medicine, Streetwise.
Politician (Advisor, Conspirator, Courtier, Delegate, Diplomat, Sycophant)
Politicians serve as rulers, advisors and policy makers for settlements, factions and governments.
Standard Skills: Deceive, Evade, Insight, Intimidate, Perception, Persuade, Willpower.
Professional Skills: Administer, Barter, Culture (any), Lore (any), Streetwise.
Scavenger (Rover, Survivor, Trader)
Scavengers scour the ruins of the Great War looking for valuables to use or sell.
Standard Skills: Combat Style (any), Endurance, Evade, Investigate, Perception, Survival, Willpower.
Professional Skills: Barter; and up to two of the following: Culture (any), Lore (any), Repair, Streetwise.
Scientist (Engineer, Programmer, Scribe, Technician)
Standard Skills: Insight, Investigate, Perception, Persuade, Survival, Willpower.
Professional Skills: Science; and up to two of the following: Lore (any), Medicine, Repair.
Servant (Captive, Slave)
Standard Skills: Endurance, Evade, Insight, Perception, Persuade, Survival, Willpower.
Professional Skills: Animal Handling, Art (any), Craft (any), Culture (any), Lore (any), Repair.
Soldier (Knight, Mercenary, Ranger, Trooper)
Standard Skills: Brawn, Combat Style (any two), Evade, Endurance, Perception, Survival.
Professional Skills: Culture (any), Lore (any), Medicine, Pilot (any), Repair.
Thug (Bodyguard, Boxer, Henchman, Mobster, Raider)
Thugs often work for a criminal operation. Sometimes they work independently as thieves, pickpockets and muggers, always looking for a victim.
Standard Skills: Brawn, Combat Style (any two), Endurance, Intimidate, Perception, Survival.
Professional Skills: Animal Handling, Craft (any), Culture (any), Lore (any), Repair, Streetwise.
Thief (Bandit, Burglar, Pickpocket, Swindler)
Standard Skills: Brawn, Combat Style (any), Deceive, Evade, Investigate, Perception, Survival.
Professional Skills: Lockpicking, Lore (any), Sleight of Hand, Streetwise.
Vault Dweller (Barber, Clinical Test Subject, Crematorium Operator, Fry Cook, Hairdresser, Jukebox Technician, Laundry Cannon Operator, Little League Coach, Marriage Counselor, Masseuse, Pip-Boy Programmer, Pedicurist, Shift Supervisor, Tattoo Artist, Vault Chaplain, Vault Loyalty Inspector)
Standard Skills: Combat Style (any); one of Deceive, Intimidate and Persuade; one of Evade or Endurance;one of Investigate or Perception; one of Stealth, Survival
Professional Skills: Art (any), Craft (any), Culture (any), Lockpicking, Lore (any), Medicine, Repair, Science, Sleight of Hand.

Perks

I've added a number of Perks trying to mostly be faithful to the original perks of the games. Characters can choose a single perk during character creation, than perhaps every other progression process.
Below is a selection of perks. Consider aspects such as balance and wording.
Perk Rank Requirement Description
Action Boy/Girl 1 None You gain one additional Action Point during the first round of combat.
↘️ 2 DEX or INT 14 Instead of above, you gain one additional Action Point permanently.
Adamantium Skeleton 1 CON 13, non-robot Your skeleton has been infused with indestructible metal. All your limbs Hit Locations receive +2 natural armor.
↘️ 2 CON 15 When taking a Serious Wound to a limb, you roll Endurance twice versus the attack, taking the better result.
↘️ 3 CON 17 All your limbs Hit Locations receive +4 natural armor (instead of +2).
Center Mass 1 DEX 14 Fire straight! When you make a ranged attack, you may choose to strike the target’s abdomen or chest location. Decide before you shoot. You do not need the ‘Choose Location’ Special Effect, but you may only do this once per Combat Round.
Educated 1 INT 12 As you learn, you grow. You gain one additional Experience roll during progression.
Gun Fu 1 DEX 13 You've learned to apply ancient martial arts to gunplay! When you succeed at a ranged attack with a gun, you may use that same level of success on a second target during the following turn but the same round. You cannot use any Special Effects on the second attack.
↘️ 2 DEX 14 As above and increase the damage to the second target by +2.
↘️ 3 DEX 15 When you succeed at a ranged attack with a gun, you may use that same level of success on a second and third target during the following turns but the same round. You cannot use any Special Effects on these attacks. Increase the damage to the second and third targets by +4 (instead of 2).
Inspirational 1 CHA 12 Because you lead by example, you and all your allies may reroll one Experience roll each during progression.
↘️ 2 CHA 13 Your allies cannot harm you with attacks and can’t be harmed by your attacks.
↘️ 3 CHA 14 You may spend 1 Luck Point to have an ally reroll an Endurance or Willpower roll.
Intense Training 1 80 % in at least one skill Increase one of your characteristics by 1 point.
Light Footed 1 DEX 12 While sneaking, you never trigger mines or floor-based traps.
↘️ 2 DEX 14, POW 12 You roll Stealth at decreased difficulty.
Mister Sandman 1 DEX 14 You are an agent of death. Your silenced weapons do an additional +1D4 in damage against surprised foes.
↘️ 2 DEX 15 Your silenced weapons do an additional +1D6 (instead of +1D4) in damage against surprised foes.
Night Person 1 None You are a creature of the night! Reduce any difficulty increase due to nightly darkness by one.
↘️ 2 None You gain +2 INT and POW during the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
↘️ 3 None You gain +3 INT and POW (instead of +2) during the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m.
Pain Train 1 STR 15, CON 12 Choo Choo! All aboard! While wearing Power Armor and taking the Charge action, all enemies in your path have to roll an Endurance or Evade roll. On a failure, they take 1D4 damage + damage modifier and are staggered for one round. Robots and enemies with a combined SIZ+STR above 35 are immune to the stagger.
↘️ 2 STR 16 The Endurance or Evade roll is made at one degree higher difficulty. The damage is increased to 1D6 (instead of 1D4).
↘️ 3 STR 17 The damage is increased to 1D10 (instead of 1D6). On a failure, they are also knocked prone. Only enemies with a combined SIZ+STR above 45 are immune to the stagger.
Paralyzing Palm 1 Unarmed 70 % Your unarmed attacks gain the ‘Paralysing’ weapon trait.
Quick Hands 1 DEX 15 In combat, there's no time to hesitate. The Load time for guns is 1 lower.
Shotgun Surgeon 1 Small Guns 50 % And I started blasting. As a critical Special Effect, your shotgun shot can gain the ‘Armor Piercing’ trait.
↘️ 2 Small Guns 75 % When you take the ‘Maximize Damage’ Special Effect, the opponent also has to roll Endurance or become staggered for a round.
↘️ 3 Small Guns 90 % On a critical success, your shotgun shot automatically gains the ‘Bonus Limb Damage’ weapon trait.
Steady Aim 1 STR 12, DEX 11 Stay on target! Hip fire accuracy is improved when firing any ranged weapon. Whenever you spend a Luck point to alter your ranged attacks, you automatically gain the ‘Maximize Damage’ Special Effect.
Terrifying Presence 1 SIZ 12, STR 10, CHA 12 You may take two actions to make an opposed Intimidation roll against an opponent’s Willpower. On a success, the opponent flees in fear. They must move away from you during this round of combat.
↘️ 2 One of SIZ, STR or CHA at least 15 When you roll Intimidation, you may reroll once.

Weaponry

I've always seen weapon descriptions from Mythras to be a bit lacking (or rather confusing for newcomers) when it comes to weapon traits and Special Effects. For instance, most bladed melee weapons in Mythras are listed to have either the Bleed or Impale Special Effects (or both), making one assume that they are restricted from other Special Effects.
I don't have a solution to this, though, and I wouldn't want to list every single Special Effect for every single weapon. Either way, below are some selected Weapon tables without any Special Effects listed.
All costs is in bottle caps and straight from New Vegas. At a glance, some weapons seem very overpriced or under-priced, but there are factors such as ammo scarcity and other properties that come into effect.
One Handed Weapons
Weapon Damage Size Reach ENC AP/HP Traits Cost
Bowie Knife 1D8+1 M S 1 6/10 1000
Cattle Prod 1D4 S S 1 10/10 Fatigue Damage 450
Cleaver 1D3 S S 1 5/4 20
Chopper 1D4+1 S S 1 5/6 800
Combat Knife 1D6 S S 1 5/8 500
Hatchet 1D6 S S 1 4/6 75
Knife 1D3 S S - 5/4 20
Lead Pipe 1D8 S S 2 6/8 75
Machete 1D6+1 M M 1 6/10 50
Police Baton 1D6+1 M M 1 6/12 70
Ripper 1D10 M M 1 6/12 1200
Rolling Pin 1D3 S S 1 3/3 10
Shishkebab 1D10 M M 5 6/12 Immolate (1D3) 2500
Tire Iron 1D4+1 S S 1 4/6 40
War Club 1D8 S S 1 4/8 75

Small Guns (Pistols)

Weapon Damage Range Firing Rate ENC Ammo Load Cost
.357 Magnum Revolver 1D6 50/100/200 1 1 6 3 110
.44 Magnum Revolver 1D10 50/100/200 1 1 6 3 2500
.35 Auto Pistol 1D8 50/100/200 1 1 7 3 1750
5.56mm Pistol 1D6+1 50/100/200 1 1 5 3 1200
12.7mm pistol 1D12 50/100/200 1 1 7 3 400
Hunting Revolver 1D8+1 50/100/200 1 1 5 3 3500
M&A 9mm Pistol 1D8 50/100/200 1 1 13 3 1750
N99 10mm pistol 1D8 50/100/200 1 1 12 3 750
Ranger Sequoia 1D8+2 50/100/200 1 1 5 3 1200
Police Pistol 1D6+1 50/100/200 1 1 6 3 1000
Silenced .22 Pistol 1D6+1 50/100/200 1 1 16 3 80

Other Stuff

Creating Cults/Brotherhoods from scratch is something I haven't had time to do thus far.
I've created a radiation mechanic that works like this: Eating and drinking most food items or entering an irradiated zone gives the player radiation poisoning, or ‘RADs’. Characteristics drop at certain thresholds, and radiation poisoning kills the character at 100 rads.
There are five thresholds (20, 40, 60, 80, and 100 rads).
Rads Level Effect
0-19 No Effect -
20-39 Minor Radiation Poisoning -1 CON
40-59 Advanced Radiation Poisoning -2 CON, -1 DEX
60-79 Critical Radiation Poisoning -3 CON, -2 DEX, -1 STR
80-99 Deadly Radiation Poisoning -3 CON, -2 DEX, -2 STR
100+ Fatal Radiation Poisoning Death
Rad exposure is usually limited; only very rarely will zones be so irradiated that venturing into them results in a quick death. One needs to stand in +1 rad water for a significant time and more generally it is possible to move through radioactive water dozens of times before reaching the 20 rad threshold.
When exposed to radiation, per the GM:s decree a roll of Endurance should be made. The difficulty grade depends on the level of radiation. How often these rolls are made are up to the GM but in the table below there is an estimated period of which a new roll should be made.
Level of Radiation Period Difficulty Effect (Critical, Success, Failure, Fumble)
Minor Radiation Every hour of exposure Easy 0, 0, 1, 3
Major Radiation Every hour of exposure Standard 0, 1, 1D10, 10
Critical Radiation Every 20 minutes of exposure Standard 0, 2, 1D10+1, 11
Deadly Radiation Every 10 minutes of exposure Hard 0, 3, 1D10+2, 12
Fatal Radiation Every minute of exposure Formidable 0, 6, 1D10+5, 15
Adding to this are ways to lower your radiation poisoning (paying a doctor, using RadAway, etc.), and having your Radiation Resistance improved through clothing, armor or chems.
I have more tables on this and that but reddit formatting is killing me.
TL;DR I'm in the process of working on a Fallout game/setting using the Mythras ruleset. In this post I will present my ideas so far and include a bit of my design thoughts and processes. This will be presented through headings, ranging from Skills, Careers and Perks. Feel free to critique and discuss ideas!
Edits: Formatting, added Characteristics summary.
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2024.05.02 16:56 PitifulCall9574 3. Bitcoin dollar standard is the largest application of Bitcoin and the the world

3. Bitcoin dollar standard is the largest application of Bitcoin and the the world

Leave a Comment / By WeishaZhu / February 4, 2023
——Answers to the concepts in the article “Invite Satoshi Nakamoto to Welcome the New World”
Chapter 8 of the article “Invite Satoshi Nakamoto to Welcome the New World” says that Bitcoin stored value is the most suitable application of the Bitcoin system. Best-fit application refers to the most appropriate application of the technology. Auburn Satoshi and others believed that it was Satoshi Nakamoto’s original intention for the Bitcoin system to take the same platform route as Ethereum. In fact, as a platform, the technical solution designed by Satoshi Nakamoto is not suitable. Therefore, the Bitcoin system will not become the most critical payment system in the world.
It should be pointed out that Bitcoin is the application result of the Bitcoin system, and the Bitcoin dollar standard is the largest application of Bitcoin. Note: Bitcoin and the Bitcoin system are related but not identical concepts.
Bitcoin is very fortunate as a commodity to have stored value. Few items have stored value. Stored value means that goods can be stored to preserve their value. We know that antiques can maintain their value, and cypherpunk only took nearly 30 years of hard work for a string of numbers to store their value. Does it take so long to make a payment system? Obviously not. Some people have tried and failed before Satoshi Nakamoto, such as Douglas’s E-gold and so on. Satoshi Nakamoto spent nearly 10 years thinking about making a payment system that ordinary people could think of? That’s what Nakamoto Fool did. Payment cannot be used to store value, nor can Satoshi Nakamoto’s ideal of replacing fiat currency be realized.
It is a ground-breaking creation to make a string of numbers have stored value, and this creation itself is of great value. However, stored value doesn’t feel like an application. Is this point of view correct? Putting paintings in the warehouse is not an application but only the value of the picture itself, that is, the stored value. Paintings displayed in museums not only have their value but also have watch value. That is to say, gold stored in the warehouse has only stored value, just like the value of the paintings in the warehouse. How to make good use of the stored value and make full use of the stored value? The Bitcoin dollar standard is like putting a painting in a museum to play the role of the stored value of Bitcoin. The value of this application is too great. According to the financial value of Fisher’s formula, it is equal to the total wealth of humanity! In our definition, Bitcoin is equivalent to the M1 of the current financial system, which has a corresponding relationship with the society’s total wealth but not the society’s total wealth. The value of all applications in the entire blockchain is less than a fraction of the bitcoin dollar standard value. So I said in the previous article that Ethereum has picked sesame seeds and lost watermelon because the current Ethereum only represents the value of the payment platform, which may have an advantage in the short term. Still, it loses the opportunity to challenge Bitcoin in the long run.
Which commodity has the largest market in the world? Currency!
Which application system is the largest in the world? Currency system!
Which project is the largest in the world? Establish an asset currency financial system that replaces the fiat currency system.
It is what blockchain people dream of. The goal seems so close, yet so far away. It has been 14 years since the birth of Bitcoin. The proposal of the Bitcoin dollar standard plan is equivalent to Wei Dai’s proposal of B money. There are no technical obstacles to the plan’s realization, and the large-scale adoption depends on the time of market consensus.
A group of young people who started in the early 1980s are the same as today. Their coinage goals seemed so close but so far away. All ideas were developed in the late 1990s, and hardware technology matured later. The catalyst for the market was the financial turmoil that began in 2007, which finally made society widely realize that the fiat currency system is unreliable. Today’s diehard fans of Bitcoin are people who don’t trust the existing fiat currency system.
https://chainless.hk/2023/02/04/3-bitcoin-dollar-standard-is-the-largest-application-of-bitcoin-and-the-the-world/
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2024.05.02 15:58 Contactunderground An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage at the Department of Energy Laboratory in the Santa Susana Pass

An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage at the Department of Energy Laboratory in the Santa Susana Pass
An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage at the Department of Energy Laboratory in the Santa Susana Pass
Contact Network History Project.
Joseph Burkes MD 2019

The Department of Energy Lab was just a few miles from our high desert CE5 research site.
SPRING 2006 PANORAMA CITY MEDICAL CENTER
It was a slow day in ambulance area. The patient and I were alone in an examining room. I was serving as “admitting officer.” I had been asked by the ER crew to evaluate a possible admission to the hospital.
The patient was an elderly African American man. The chart indicated that he was suffering from a kidney aliment. We were crammed into a tiny private exam room. There was barely enough space to squeeze a hospital stretcher on which the patient sat. Standard patient monitoring equipment covered two walls. A tall hospital swivel tray served as my desk for the evaluation. Decades before I had been an industrial toxicology medical consultant. As part of my special interest in occupational diseases I had acquired the habit of taking a detailed work history. I asked him what was his occupational status.
HE HAD WORKED FOR THE “GOVERNMENT.”
He told me that he was retired.
From what kind of occupation?” I asked.
“I worked for the government, “was his answer.
That somewhat vague reply got me interested. From countless evaluations. I had learned that people who worked for the postal office, the FAA or US Forrest Service almost never used the cryptic expression, “government work.” However, this is a designation sometimes used by those that worked in classified projects or for defense/intelligence agencies.
I asked him what specifically his job was. He replied that he had been a physical plant engineer at the Department of Energy (DOE) laboratory in Chatsworth, a high desert suburban town in the Northwest corner of LA County’s San Fernando Valley. The DOE has a wide range of responsibilities including developing nuclear weapons. The Chatsworth DOE facility understandably was kept under high security. It was originally constructed after World War Two and had carried out top secret research in space propulsion systems. It just so happened to be located a few miles away from the desolate high desert fieldwork site that my CE-5/HICE contact team had used when we started staging Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE) in 1992. Our field laboratory was just a few hundred yards south of the Santa Susana Pass which connects Los Angeles to Ventura County.
The DOE lab was rumored to be the place where an anti-ballistic missile defense system known back in the 1980s as “Star Wars” had been developed. The installation was built south of the Santa Susana Pass which separates the suburb of Chatsworth from another “bedroom” community called Simi Valley. Most of the people who live in the area commute to the San Fernando Valley and other parts of Los Angeles to find employment. Many of our Kaiser medical group’s patients came from these towns.
Back in the 1990s, one of the investigators on my UFO contact team was also a colleague from our med group’s Family Medicine Department. His name is Dr. David Gordon. He is a contact experiencer. Without knowing of one another’s interest in flying saucers, he and I joined both MUFON and CSETI within a month of one another in the spring of 1992. He was so well respected by his patients and colleagues alike that he had received permission from his Family Medicine Chief to do an informal survey of UFO sightings. His patients and the Woodland Hills Kaiser Medical Center staff served as the study population.
Having a much respected family practice physician on my team turned out to be a bonanza when it came to acquiring intelligence concerning ongoing UFO sightings in the area. Whenever patients of Dr. Gordon heard about local sightings, they checked out the information and then passed it on to their personal physician. He then dutifully gave the sighting reports to me, his contact team coordinator.
One of Dr. Gordon’s patients was a retired carpenter who reportedly had been employed building the DOE base in the early 1950s. His patient said that they had literally “emptied out the mountain” to construct the lab. Apparently, this was done to make it secure from aerial attack. So much dirt had to be moved, that for 3 months according to the retired carpenter, a line of dump trucks several miles long were filled with earth removed from inside the hillside. To convey how strategically important this base was during the Cold War, I share the following additional information.
BASE HAD BEEN TARGETED FOR SOVIET NUCLEAR ATTACK IN CASE OF ALL OUT WAR
During the 1980s, I was an activist in the Physicians anti-nuclear weapons group called “Physicians for Responsibility (PSR). Our mission was to raise public awareness about the medical consequences of nuclear war and the nuclear arms race. We were part of an umbrella organization called “International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War” that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for bringing Soviet and Western physicians together in our educational peace campaign. When the Soviet Union fell apart in the 1990s, thus ending the Cold War, our Los Angeles PSR office held a photographic exhibition called “Nuclear Los Angeles.” We showed pictures of the nuclear artifacts in Southern California, such as missile bases and fallout shelters from the 1950s and 60s. One of the photos was an image a Soviet strategic map used to designate targets in Southern California for nuclear attack if war broke out. There was a target located in the northwest corner of Los Angeles County. In clear Cyrillic letters it phonetically spelled out the name “Santa Susana.” It was the DOE lab in Chatsworth.
Another story told to Dr. Gordon by the retired carpenter that helped build the base reflects the strategic nature of the laboratory. His patient told my colleague that he required a security clearance to work underground at the base. He reportedly was only allowed to build labs and offices down to the eight floor underground. Below that level, a higher clearance was required. He wasn’t sure how far down the base went. That information was secret, but he guessed that it was at least another ten levels down inside the mountain.
I WAS FAMILIAR WITH THIS BASE AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD
The Department of Energy research facility was a dirty and dangerous place to work. Press reports in the 1980s identified this site as one where several serious environmental accidents had occurred. Back in the 1950s a nuclear reactor at the base had a partial meltdown and plutonium was leaked into the surrounding environment. One isotope of plutonium (Pu-239) has a half-life of over 24,000 years, thus making it one of the most feared environmental contaminants. Over the years, the DOE lab was cited for many safety violations with the release of other toxins. Our LA chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility was very aware of these problems with DOE installation and worked in a coalition of environmental and anti-nuclear groups attempting to force the government to clean up the site.
Given this background information, when I evaluated the retired plant engineer from the base in 2006, I was eager to learn more about what went on there. He explained to me that his team of engineers kept the facility running properly by carrying out routine maintenance on the infrastructure at the facility. This included plumbing, electrical, and outdoor repairs.
AN AMAZING ENCOUNTER NEAR WHERE OUR TEAM OPERATED
Things were really slow in the ER that day so I thought there would be no harm if after my medical evaluation I told him about my special interest in UFOs. I asked him whether he had ever seen a UFO. His reaction was telling. With a concerned expression on his face, he turned his head from side to side to look around. I imagined that he was checking to see if anyone else besides me might be able might to hear what he was about to say.
“Yes I saw a UFO once,” was his answer. I asked him where the sighting had occurred. He replied, “It was at the base.”
We were totally alone in the tiny room, the glass sliding door was closed and a curtain allowed us privacy. Despite this, the patient had turned his head and looked around before he dared to the answer my question. I was eager to find out more about his sighting.
I mentioned to retired plant engineer that back in the 1990s I had been part of an investigative team that had a number of UFO sightings in the Santa Susana Pass. Our fieldwork site was about a few thousand yards from the DOE base perimeter. This information seemed to set him more at ease. He paused for a few moments and then I guess he decided it was safe to tell me his story.
ALARMS WENT OFF IN THE CONTROL ROOM
He wasn’t sure of the exact year that it happened. He knew that it was about fifteen years before our interview in 2006. It might have been in 1989 or 1990. He was on duty at the research lab when the alarms went off. It was late afternoon and the monitors indicated that there was a sudden loss of water pressure in the lines that supplied a several of the labs.
The facility had been built deep underground into the side of a mountain, but there were many structures on the surface as well. The retired engineer explained that on the top of the base enormous water towers supplied the entire complex. Pipes several feet across ran down from the storage towers along steep hillsides to the various labs. The mountain was composed of loose sedimentary rock, sandstone. Occasionally rockslides damaged one of these pipes. Given the distant history of a partial meltdown in a reactor with the release of plutonium, I surmised that keeping the labs supplied with coolant might be of great importance.
The plant engineer told me that a sudden loss of water pressure could only be addressed one way and he knew the drill. He and a co-worker grabbed machetes and a weed-whacker and went outside to check on the status of the water lines. Starting at the water towers, they followed the lines down the steep mountainside looking for a busted pipe. This was not an easy task. It was late afternoon, but it was still very hot outside. The water mains were partially covered with rocks and dirt. Desert plants with sharp nettles were everywhere and to top if off this was rattlesnake country.
SABOTAGE!
The maintenance engineers moved slowly because the loose sedimentary rock didn’t provide secure footing. Finally as the sun was setting, they found the busted pipe. Water was shooting upwards like a geyser. To their amazement the large conduit had been cleanly cut as if by a power tool! They had expected to see a jagged break in the water line, the kind that might come from simple corrosion or from falling rocks. The engineer stated that there was no doubt in his mind that damage had been done deliberately. It was sabotage!
As the engineers inspected the water main, they noted a strange soft humming sound. They looked up and not more than two hundred feet away was a rotating disc hovering close to the ground. It was metallic and about twenty-five feet across. My patient told me that he and his buddy were shocked. They stared at it in amazement.
They called security on the radio and explained the situation. They were told, “not to approach the UFO.” The retired engineer stated that getting any closer to the spinning saucer was the last thing he wanted to do. Armed security officers reportedly informed the men that they were coming down to check out the situation. However before they arrived, the saucer departed. I was told that from a hovering mode it pointed one side upwards and then started to climb slowly. After just a few seconds with a roar, the UFO accelerated at a tremendous speed and disappeared into the twilight.
The next day government security officials arrived and interviewed him at length. He could not recall what federal agency they said that they were from. Both men were required to make drawings of what they had seen. My patient and his co-worker were sworn to secrecy and were advised not to discuss the event.
When my interview with DOE engineer took place, he had been retired from the DOE for over a decade. He told me that his fellow witness had also retired and was living in Las Vegas. My patient said he was certain that his buddy would corroborate his sighting report. I thanked him and made final preparations for him to be admitted to the hospital.
DOE WAS LIKELY INVOLVED IN STAR WARS PROJECTS
Given the conflict-laden history of our planet’s military with UFOs, one can speculate why a flying saucer might penetrate a high security facility to carry out an act of sabotage. It should be remembered that in 1967, according to USAF missile personnel, over ten nuclear tipped rockets went “off line” (i.e. the missile could not be fired) while a red glowing UFO hovered over the front gate of the launch facility. In 2008 investigator Robert Hastings published the book “UFOs and Nukes.” In this detailed study he documents dozens of similar events from the testimony of service men that witnessed them. The event described to me in 2006 was not an isolated occurrence. It was one of many similar incidents in which UFOs penetrated secure US defense facilities.
The DOE lab in the Santa Susana Pass is known to have developed key technology in the US space program. Over four decades ago the space shuttle engines were reportedly tested at the Chatsworth DOE site. One of my patients told me that the rockets’ red glare could be seen across the entire San Fernando Valley when the tests were conducted at the crest of the Santa Susan Pass. The anti-ballistic missile program, rumored to have been developed at the DOE lab, theoretically could have been used to target and destroy flying saucers operating outside of the Earth’s atmosphere. A video taken by a US Space Shuttle mission suggests that this capability was more than just theoretical.
In his 1998 book “Confirmation”, author Whitley Strieber analyses the controversial NASA videotape made on space shuttle Discovery during mission STS-48. This video has been featured several times on national television. It displays what appears to be an unidentified flying object maneuvering outside of the Earth’s atmospheric envelope. Suddenly the UFO changes direction and few seconds later something dramatic occurs. What appears to be some sort of particle beam shoots up from below streaking by the exact location where the craft had been before it carried out its evasive maneuver. The incident transpired on September 15, 1991. The Space Shuttle Discovery was flying above Australia, approximately 1500 miles northwest from a secret US military base located at Pine Gap near Alice Springs. Strieber has provided a thorough analysis of the videotape by physicist Dr. Jack Kasher and imaging specialist Dr. Mark Carlotto. Their conclusion was that the prosaic explanation provided by NASA, that the UFO seen in the video was an ice chip, is simply not credible.
THE DISCLOSURE PROJECT WAS NOT TAKING NEW WITNESSES AT THAT TIME.
In 2006, I thought that the maintenance engineer’s account was of considerable value. I asked him if he would be willing to give public testimony about what he had observed. He told me that since he was retired and no longer worked for DOE, he thought that there should be no problem. I contacted Dan Willis of the Disclosure Project. I offered my help to bring forward what I believed was important new information from a witness that had encountered a UFO in the course of his work for the federal government. Dan informed me however that no new witnesses were being interviewed at that time.
I debated whether I could on my own videotape this retired engineer. In 2006, every two weeks I commuted between my ER job in LA and Northern California where my wife resided. Although I knew my patient’s narrative provided dramatic information concerning an act of sabotage allegedly done by a flying saucer, my personal situation didn’t allow me to produce a video of his testimony. I regret not being able to better document what I consider to be an important piece of UFO history. The incident had special significance for me. The flying saucer’s alleged act of sabotage occurred in the Santa Susana Pass approximately two years before our Los Angeles CE-5 team initiated contact work during the summer of 1992.
At that time, I was convinced that our fieldwork sightings in the Santa Susana Pass of red orbs, a golden globe, and other anomalous aerial phenomena, were all the results of using the CSETI protocols. The term Dr. Greer used was “primary vectoring.” However, I am now convinced that my assessment was mistaken. We didn’t attract flying saucers to Santa Susana Pass. This is because they had already been there in force for some time. The surveillance that our team experienced from men in civilian clothing with an obvious military bearing were likely triggered by a very reasonable security concern for the safety of the base. In addition, our team was buzzed by two powerful Blackhawk helicopters during a nighttime hike towards Rocky Peak that overlooked the DOE lab.
During the five years (1992-1997) of intensive field investigations involving staging HICE/CE5s, we repeatedly found ourselves in UFO hotspots adjacent to military instillations. Why did this happen? Were these merely coincidences, or was the intelligence behind flying saucers using us as part of some kind of larger plan? These are some of the questions I hope to address in further installments of “The Contact Network History Project.”
For additional Reports from the Contact Underground, the following links are provided:
Staging Human Initiated Contact Events adjacent to a high security research lab involved challenges of surveillance for my team. https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/did-a-fateful-phone-call-trigger-the-appearance-of-blackhawk-helicopters-during-contact-work/
What if flying saucer intelligences had access to every witness’ full treasure chest of memories?
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/04/18/do-uap-intelligences-have-full-telepathic-access-to-every-witness-storehouse-of-memories/
My human initiated contact team had immediate results when we started fieldwork, but they were not what I expected.
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/mystery-lights-in-the-santa-susana-pass/
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2024.05.02 15:54 Contactunderground An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage at the Department of Energy Laboratory in the Santa Susana Pass Contact Network History Project.

An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage at the Department of Energy Laboratory in the Santa Susana Pass Contact Network History Project.
An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage at the Department of Energy Laboratory in the Santa Susana Pass
Contact Network History Project.
Joseph Burkes MD 2019

The Department of Energy Research Lab was just a few miles from our high desert CE5 research site.
SPRING 2006 PANORAMA CITY MEDICAL CENTER
It was a slow day in ambulance area. The patient and I were alone in an examining room. I was serving as “admitting officer.” I had been asked by the ER crew to evaluate a possible admission to the hospital.
The patient was an elderly African American man. The chart indicated that he was suffering from a kidney aliment. We were crammed into a tiny private exam room. There was barely enough space to squeeze a hospital stretcher on which the patient sat. Standard patient monitoring equipment covered two walls. A tall hospital swivel tray served as my desk for the evaluation. Decades before I had been an industrial toxicology medical consultant. As part of my special interest in occupational diseases I had acquired the habit of taking a detailed work history. I asked him what was his occupational status.
HE HAD WORKED FOR THE “GOVERNMENT.”
He told me that he was retired.
From what kind of occupation?” I asked.
“I worked for the government, “was his answer.
That somewhat vague reply got me interested. From countless evaluations. I had learned that people who worked for the postal office, the FAA or US Forrest Service almost never used the cryptic expression, “government work.” However, this is a designation sometimes used by those that worked in classified projects or for defense/intelligence agencies.
I asked him what specifically his job was. He replied that he had been a physical plant engineer at the Department of Energy (DOE) laboratory in Chatsworth, a high desert suburban town in the Northwest corner of LA County’s San Fernando Valley. The DOE has a wide range of responsibilities including developing nuclear weapons. The Chatsworth DOE facility understandably was kept under high security. It was originally constructed after World War Two and had carried out top secret research in space propulsion systems. It just so happened to be located a few miles away from the desolate high desert fieldwork site that my CE-5/HICE contact team had used when we started staging Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE) in 1992. Our field laboratory was just a few hundred yards south of the Santa Susana Pass which connects Los Angeles to Ventura County.
The DOE lab was rumored to be the place where an anti-ballistic missile defense system known back in the 1980s as “Star Wars” had been developed. The installation was built south of the Santa Susana Pass which separates the suburb of Chatsworth from another “bedroom” community called Simi Valley. Most of the people who live in the area commute to the San Fernando Valley and other parts of Los Angeles to find employment. Many of our Kaiser medical group’s patients came from these towns.
Back in the 1990s, one of the investigators on my UFO contact team was also a colleague from our med group’s Family Medicine Department. His name is Dr. David Gordon. He is a contact experiencer. Without knowing of one another’s interest in flying saucers, he and I joined both MUFON and CSETI within a month of one another in the spring of 1992. He was so well respected by his patients and colleagues alike that he had received permission from his Family Medicine Chief to do an informal survey of UFO sightings. His patients and the Woodland Hills Kaiser Medical Center staff served as the study population.
Having a much respected family practice physician on my team turned out to be a bonanza when it came to acquiring intelligence concerning ongoing UFO sightings in the area. Whenever patients of Dr. Gordon heard about local sightings, they checked out the information and then passed it on to their personal physician. He then dutifully gave the sighting reports to me, his contact team coordinator.
One of Dr. Gordon’s patients was a retired carpenter who reportedly had been employed building the DOE base in the early 1950s. His patient said that they had literally “emptied out the mountain” to construct the lab. Apparently, this was done to make it secure from aerial attack. So much dirt had to be moved, that for 3 months according to the retired carpenter, a line of dump trucks several miles long were filled with earth removed from inside the hillside. To convey how strategically important this base was during the Cold War, I share the following additional information.
BASE HAD BEEN TARGETED FOR SOVIET NUCLEAR ATTACK IN CASE OF ALL OUT WAR
During the 1980s, I was an activist in the Physicians anti-nuclear weapons group called “Physicians for Responsibility (PSR). Our mission was to raise public awareness about the medical consequences of nuclear war and the nuclear arms race. We were part of an umbrella organization called “International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War” that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for bringing Soviet and Western physicians together in our educational peace campaign. When the Soviet Union fell apart in the 1990s, thus ending the Cold War, our Los Angeles PSR office held a photographic exhibition called “Nuclear Los Angeles.” We showed pictures of the nuclear artifacts in Southern California, such as missile bases and fallout shelters from the 1950s and 60s. One of the photos was an image a Soviet strategic map used to designate targets in Southern California for nuclear attack if war broke out. There was a target located in the northwest corner of Los Angeles County. In clear Cyrillic letters it phonetically spelled out the name “Santa Susana.” It was the DOE lab in Chatsworth.
Another story told to Dr. Gordon by the retired carpenter that helped build the base reflects the strategic nature of the laboratory. His patient told my colleague that he required a security clearance to work underground at the base. He reportedly was only allowed to build labs and offices down to the eight floor underground. Below that level, a higher clearance was required. He wasn’t sure how far down the base went. That information was secret, but he guessed that it was at least another ten levels down inside the mountain.
I WAS FAMILIAR WITH THIS BASE AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD
The Department of Energy research facility was a dirty and dangerous place to work. Press reports in the 1980s identified this site as one where several serious environmental accidents had occurred. Back in the 1950s a nuclear reactor at the base had a partial meltdown and plutonium was leaked into the surrounding environment. One isotope of plutonium (Pu-239) has a half-life of over 24,000 years, thus making it one of the most feared environmental contaminants. Over the years, the DOE lab was cited for many safety violations with the release of other toxins. Our LA chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility was very aware of these problems with DOE installation and worked in a coalition of environmental and anti-nuclear groups attempting to force the government to clean up the site.
Given this background information, when I evaluated the retired plant engineer from the base in 2006, I was eager to learn more about what went on there. He explained to me that his team of engineers kept the facility running properly by carrying out routine maintenance on the infrastructure at the facility. This included plumbing, electrical, and outdoor repairs.
AN AMAZING ENCOUNTER NEAR WHERE OUR TEAM OPERATED
Things were really slow in the ER that day so I thought there would be no harm if after my medical evaluation I told him about my special interest in UFOs. I asked him whether he had ever seen a UFO. His reaction was telling. With a concerned expression on his face, he turned his head from side to side to look around. I imagined that he was checking to see if anyone else besides me might be able might to hear what he was about to say.
“Yes I saw a UFO once,” was his answer. I asked him where the sighting had occurred. He replied, “It was at the base.”
We were totally alone in the tiny room, the glass sliding door was closed and a curtain allowed us privacy. Despite this, the patient had turned his head and looked around before he dared to the answer my question. I was eager to find out more about his sighting.
I mentioned to retired plant engineer that back in the 1990s I had been part of an investigative team that had a number of UFO sightings in the Santa Susana Pass. Our fieldwork site was about a few thousand yards from the DOE base perimeter. This information seemed to set him more at ease. He paused for a few moments and then I guess he decided it was safe to tell me his story.
ALARMS WENT OFF IN THE CONTROL ROOM
He wasn’t sure of the exact year that it happened. He knew that it was about fifteen years before our interview in 2006. It might have been in 1989 or 1990. He was on duty at the research lab when the alarms went off. It was late afternoon and the monitors indicated that there was a sudden loss of water pressure in the lines that supplied a several of the labs.
The facility had been built deep underground into the side of a mountain, but there were many structures on the surface as well. The retired engineer explained that on the top of the base enormous water towers supplied the entire complex. Pipes several feet across ran down from the storage towers along steep hillsides to the various labs. The mountain was composed of loose sedimentary rock, sandstone. Occasionally rockslides damaged one of these pipes. Given the distant history of a partial meltdown in a reactor with the release of plutonium, I surmised that keeping the labs supplied with coolant might be of great importance.
The plant engineer told me that a sudden loss of water pressure could only be addressed one way and he knew the drill. He and a co-worker grabbed machetes and a weed-whacker and went outside to check on the status of the water lines. Starting at the water towers, they followed the lines down the steep mountainside looking for a busted pipe. This was not an easy task. It was late afternoon, but it was still very hot outside. The water mains were partially covered with rocks and dirt. Desert plants with sharp nettles were everywhere and to top if off this was rattlesnake country.
SABOTAGE!
The maintenance engineers moved slowly because the loose sedimentary rock didn’t provide secure footing. Finally as the sun was setting, they found the busted pipe. Water was shooting upwards like a geyser. To their amazement the large conduit had been cleanly cut as if by a power tool! They had expected to see a jagged break in the water line, the kind that might come from simple corrosion or from falling rocks. The engineer stated that there was no doubt in his mind that damage had been done deliberately. It was sabotage!
As the engineers inspected the water main, they noted a strange soft humming sound. They looked up and not more than two hundred feet away was a rotating disc hovering close to the ground. It was metallic and about twenty-five feet across. My patient told me that he and his buddy were shocked. They stared at it in amazement.
They called security on the radio and explained the situation. They were told, “not to approach the UFO.” The retired engineer stated that getting any closer to the spinning saucer was the last thing he wanted to do. Armed security officers reportedly informed the men that they were coming down to check out the situation. However before they arrived, the saucer departed. I was told that from a hovering mode it pointed one side upwards and then started to climb slowly. After just a few seconds with a roar, the UFO accelerated at a tremendous speed and disappeared into the twilight.
The next day government security officials arrived and interviewed him at length. He could not recall what federal agency they said that they were from. Both men were required to make drawings of what they had seen. My patient and his co-worker were sworn to secrecy and were advised not to discuss the event.
When my interview with DOE engineer took place, he had been retired from the DOE for over a decade. He told me that his fellow witness had also retired and was living in Las Vegas. My patient said he was certain that his buddy would corroborate his sighting report. I thanked him and made final preparations for him to be admitted to the hospital.
DOE WAS LIKELY INVOLVED IN STAR WARS PROJECTS
Given the conflict-laden history of our planet’s military with UFOs, one can speculate why a flying saucer might penetrate a high security facility to carry out an act of sabotage. It should be remembered that in 1967, according to USAF missile personnel, over ten nuclear tipped rockets went “off line” (i.e. the missile could not be fired) while a red glowing UFO hovered over the front gate of the launch facility. In 2008 investigator Robert Hastings published the book “UFOs and Nukes.” In this detailed study he documents dozens of similar events from the testimony of service men that witnessed them. The event described to me in 2006 was not an isolated occurrence. It was one of many similar incidents in which UFOs penetrated secure US defense facilities.
The DOE lab in the Santa Susana Pass is known to have developed key technology in the US space program. Over four decades ago the space shuttle engines were reportedly tested at the Chatsworth DOE site. One of my patients told me that the rockets’ red glare could be seen across the entire San Fernando Valley when the tests were conducted at the crest of the Santa Susan Pass. The anti-ballistic missile program, rumored to have been developed at the DOE lab, theoretically could have been used to target and destroy flying saucers operating outside of the Earth’s atmosphere. A video taken by a US Space Shuttle mission suggests that this capability was more than just theoretical.
In his 1998 book “Confirmation”, author Whitley Strieber analyses the controversial NASA videotape made on space shuttle Discovery during mission STS-48. This video has been featured several times on national television. It displays what appears to be an unidentified flying object maneuvering outside of the Earth’s atmospheric envelope. Suddenly the UFO changes direction and few seconds later something dramatic occurs. What appears to be some sort of particle beam shoots up from below streaking by the exact location where the craft had been before it carried out its evasive maneuver. The incident transpired on September 15, 1991. The Space Shuttle Discovery was flying above Australia, approximately 1500 miles northwest from a secret US military base located at Pine Gap near Alice Springs. Strieber has provided a thorough analysis of the videotape by physicist Dr. Jack Kasher and imaging specialist Dr. Mark Carlotto. Their conclusion was that the prosaic explanation provided by NASA, that the UFO seen in the video was an ice chip, is simply not credible.
THE DISCLOSURE PROJECT WAS NOT TAKING NEW WITNESSES AT THAT TIME.
In 2006, I thought that the maintenance engineer’s account was of considerable value. I asked him if he would be willing to give public testimony about what he had observed. He told me that since he was retired and no longer worked for DOE, he thought that there should be no problem. I contacted Dan Willis of the Disclosure Project. I offered my help to bring forward what I believed was important new information from a witness that had encountered a UFO in the course of his work for the federal government. Dan informed me however that no new witnesses were being interviewed at that time.
I debated whether I could on my own videotape this retired engineer. In 2006, every two weeks I commuted between my ER job in LA and Northern California where my wife resided. Although I knew my patient’s narrative provided dramatic information concerning an act of sabotage allegedly done by a flying saucer, my personal situation didn’t allow me to produce a video of his testimony. I regret not being able to better document what I consider to be an important piece of UFO history. The incident had special significance for me. The flying saucer’s alleged act of sabotage occurred in the Santa Susana Pass approximately two years before our Los Angeles CE-5 team initiated contact work during the summer of 1992.
At that time, I was convinced that our fieldwork sightings in the Santa Susana Pass of red orbs, a golden globe, and other anomalous aerial phenomena, were all the results of using the CSETI protocols. The term Dr. Greer used was “primary vectoring.” However, I am now convinced that my assessment was mistaken. We didn’t attract flying saucers to Santa Susana Pass. This is because they had already been there in force for some time. The surveillance that our team experienced from men in civilian clothing with an obvious military bearing were likely triggered by a very reasonable security concern for the safety of the base. In addition, our team was buzzed by two powerful Blackhawk helicopters during a nighttime hike towards Rocky Peak that overlooked the DOE lab.
During the five years (1992-1997) of intensive field investigations involving staging HICE/CE5s, we repeatedly found ourselves in UFO hotspots adjacent to military instillations. Why did this happen? Were these merely coincidences, or was the intelligence behind flying saucers using us as part of some kind of larger plan? These are some of the questions I hope to address in further installments of “The Contact Network History Project.”
For additional Reports from the Contact Underground, the following links are provided:
Staging Human Initiated Contact Events adjacent to a high security research lab involved challenges of surveillance for my team. https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/did-a-fateful-phone-call-trigger-the-appearance-of-blackhawk-helicopters-during-contact-work/
What if flying saucer intelligences had access to every witness’ full treasure chest of memories?
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/04/18/do-uap-intelligences-have-full-telepathic-access-to-every-witness-storehouse-of-memories/
My human initiated contact team had immediate results when we started fieldwork, but they were not what I expected.
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/mystery-lights-in-the-santa-susana-pass/
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2024.05.02 15:49 Contactunderground An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage in the Santa Susana Pass Contact Network History Project.

An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage in the Santa Susana Pass Contact Network History Project.
An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage in the Santa Susana Pass
Contact Network History Project.
Joseph Burkes MD 2019

The Department of Energy Laboratory was just a few miles from our high desert CE5 research site/
SPRING 2006 PANORAMA CITY MEDICAL CENTER
It was a slow day in ambulance area. The patient and I were alone in an examining room. I was serving as “admitting officer.” I had been asked by the ER crew to evaluate a possible admission to the hospital.
The patient was an elderly African American man. The chart indicated that he was suffering from a kidney aliment. We were crammed into a tiny private exam room. There was barely enough space to squeeze a hospital stretcher on which the patient sat. Standard patient monitoring equipment covered two walls. A tall hospital swivel tray served as my desk for the evaluation. Decades before I had been an industrial toxicology medical consultant. As part of my special interest in occupational diseases I had acquired the habit of taking a detailed work history. I asked him what was his occupational status.
HE HAD WORKED FOR THE “GOVERNMENT.”
He told me that he was retired.
From what kind of occupation?” I asked.
“I worked for the government, “was his answer.
That somewhat vague reply got me interested. From countless evaluations. I had learned that people who worked for the postal office, the FAA or US Forrest Service almost never used the cryptic expression, “government work.” However, this is a designation sometimes used by those that worked in classified projects or for defense/intelligence agencies.
I asked him what specifically his job was. He replied that he had been a physical plant engineer at the Department of Energy (DOE) laboratory in Chatsworth, a high desert suburban town in the Northwest corner of LA County’s San Fernando Valley. The DOE has a wide range of responsibilities including developing nuclear weapons. The Chatsworth DOE facility understandably was kept under high security. It was originally constructed after World War Two and had carried out top secret research in space propulsion systems. It just so happened to be located a few miles away from the desolate high desert fieldwork site that my CE-5/HICE contact team had used when we started staging Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE) in 1992. Our field laboratory was just a few hundred yards south of the Santa Susana Pass which connects Los Angeles to Ventura County.
The DOE lab was rumored to be the place where an anti-ballistic missile defense system known back in the 1980s as “Star Wars” had been developed. The installation was built south of the Santa Susana Pass which separates the suburb of Chatsworth from another “bedroom” community called Simi Valley. Most of the people who live in the area commute to the San Fernando Valley and other parts of Los Angeles to find employment. Many of our Kaiser medical group’s patients came from these towns.
Back in the 1990s, one of the investigators on my UFO contact team was also a colleague from our med group’s Family Medicine Department. His name is Dr. David Gordon. He is a contact experiencer. Without knowing of one another’s interest in flying saucers, he and I joined both MUFON and CSETI within a month of one another in the spring of 1992. He was so well respected by his patients and colleagues alike that he had received permission from his Family Medicine Chief to do an informal survey of UFO sightings. His patients and the Woodland Hills Kaiser Medical Center staff served as the study population.
Having a much respected family practice physician on my team turned out to be a bonanza when it came to acquiring intelligence concerning ongoing UFO sightings in the area. Whenever patients of Dr. Gordon heard about local sightings, they checked out the information and then passed it on to their personal physician. He then dutifully gave the sighting reports to me, his contact team coordinator.
One of Dr. Gordon’s patients was a retired carpenter who reportedly had been employed building the DOE base in the early 1950s. His patient said that they had literally “emptied out the mountain” to construct the lab. Apparently, this was done to make it secure from aerial attack. So much dirt had to be moved, that for 3 months according to the retired carpenter, a line of dump trucks several miles long were filled with earth removed from inside the hillside. To convey how strategically important this base was during the Cold War, I share the following additional information.
BASE HAD BEEN TARGETED FOR SOVIET NUCLEAR ATTACK IN CASE OF ALL OUT WAR
During the 1980s, I was an activist in the Physicians anti-nuclear weapons group called “Physicians for Responsibility (PSR). Our mission was to raise public awareness about the medical consequences of nuclear war and the nuclear arms race. We were part of an umbrella organization called “International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War” that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for bringing Soviet and Western physicians together in our educational peace campaign. When the Soviet Union fell apart in the 1990s, thus ending the Cold War, our Los Angeles PSR office held a photographic exhibition called “Nuclear Los Angeles.” We showed pictures of the nuclear artifacts in Southern California, such as missile bases and fallout shelters from the 1950s and 60s. One of the photos was an image a Soviet strategic map used to designate targets in Southern California for nuclear attack if war broke out. There was a target located in the northwest corner of Los Angeles County. In clear Cyrillic letters it phonetically spelled out the name “Santa Susana.” It was the DOE lab in Chatsworth.
Another story told to Dr. Gordon by the retired carpenter that helped build the base reflects the strategic nature of the laboratory. His patient told my colleague that he required a security clearance to work underground at the base. He reportedly was only allowed to build labs and offices down to the eight floor underground. Below that level, a higher clearance was required. He wasn’t sure how far down the base went. That information was secret, but he guessed that it was at least another ten levels down inside the mountain.
I WAS FAMILIAR WITH THIS BASE AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD
The Department of Energy research facility was a dirty and dangerous place to work. Press reports in the 1980s identified this site as one where several serious environmental accidents had occurred. Back in the 1950s a nuclear reactor at the base had a partial meltdown and plutonium was leaked into the surrounding environment. One isotope of plutonium (Pu-239) has a half-life of over 24,000 years, thus making it one of the most feared environmental contaminants. Over the years, the DOE lab was cited for many safety violations with the release of other toxins. Our LA chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility was very aware of these problems with DOE installation and worked in a coalition of environmental and anti-nuclear groups attempting to force the government to clean up the site.
Given this background information, when I evaluated the retired plant engineer from the base in 2006, I was eager to learn more about what went on there. He explained to me that his team of engineers kept the facility running properly by carrying out routine maintenance on the infrastructure at the facility. This included plumbing, electrical, and outdoor repairs.
AN AMAZING ENCOUNTER NEAR WHERE OUR TEAM OPERATED
Things were really slow in the ER that day so I thought there would be no harm if after my medical evaluation I told him about my special interest in UFOs. I asked him whether he had ever seen a UFO. His reaction was telling. With a concerned expression on his face, he turned his head from side to side to look around. I imagined that he was checking to see if anyone else besides me might be able might to hear what he was about to say.
“Yes I saw a UFO once,” was his answer. I asked him where the sighting had occurred. He replied, “It was at the base.”
We were totally alone in the tiny room, the glass sliding door was closed and a curtain allowed us privacy. Despite this, the patient had turned his head and looked around before he dared to the answer my question. I was eager to find out more about his sighting.
I mentioned to retired plant engineer that back in the 1990s I had been part of an investigative team that had a number of UFO sightings in the Santa Susana Pass. Our fieldwork site was about a few thousand yards from the DOE base perimeter. This information seemed to set him more at ease. He paused for a few moments and then I guess he decided it was safe to tell me his story.
ALARMS WENT OFF IN THE CONTROL ROOM
He wasn’t sure of the exact year that it happened. He knew that it was about fifteen years before our interview in 2006. It might have been in 1989 or 1990. He was on duty at the research lab when the alarms went off. It was late afternoon and the monitors indicated that there was a sudden loss of water pressure in the lines that supplied a several of the labs.
The facility had been built deep underground into the side of a mountain, but there were many structures on the surface as well. The retired engineer explained that on the top of the base enormous water towers supplied the entire complex. Pipes several feet across ran down from the storage towers along steep hillsides to the various labs. The mountain was composed of loose sedimentary rock, sandstone. Occasionally rockslides damaged one of these pipes. Given the distant history of a partial meltdown in a reactor with the release of plutonium, I surmised that keeping the labs supplied with coolant might be of great importance.
The plant engineer told me that a sudden loss of water pressure could only be addressed one way and he knew the drill. He and a co-worker grabbed machetes and a weed-whacker and went outside to check on the status of the water lines. Starting at the water towers, they followed the lines down the steep mountainside looking for a busted pipe. This was not an easy task. It was late afternoon, but it was still very hot outside. The water mains were partially covered with rocks and dirt. Desert plants with sharp nettles were everywhere and to top if off this was rattlesnake country.
SABOTAGE!
The maintenance engineers moved slowly because the loose sedimentary rock didn’t provide secure footing. Finally as the sun was setting, they found the busted pipe. Water was shooting upwards like a geyser. To their amazement the large conduit had been cleanly cut as if by a power tool! They had expected to see a jagged break in the water line, the kind that might come from simple corrosion or from falling rocks. The engineer stated that there was no doubt in his mind that damage had been done deliberately. It was sabotage!
As the engineers inspected the water main, they noted a strange soft humming sound. They looked up and not more than two hundred feet away was a rotating disc hovering close to the ground. It was metallic and about twenty-five feet across. My patient told me that he and his buddy were shocked. They stared at it in amazement.
They called security on the radio and explained the situation. They were told, “not to approach the UFO.” The retired engineer stated that getting any closer to the spinning saucer was the last thing he wanted to do. Armed security officers reportedly informed the men that they were coming down to check out the situation. However before they arrived, the saucer departed. I was told that from a hovering mode it pointed one side upwards and then started to climb slowly. After just a few seconds with a roar, the UFO accelerated at a tremendous speed and disappeared into the twilight.
The next day government security officials arrived and interviewed him at length. He could not recall what federal agency they said that they were from. Both men were required to make drawings of what they had seen. My patient and his co-worker were sworn to secrecy and were advised not to discuss the event.
When my interview with DOE engineer took place, he had been retired from the DOE for over a decade. He told me that his fellow witness had also retired and was living in Las Vegas. My patient said he was certain that his buddy would corroborate his sighting report. I thanked him and made final preparations for him to be admitted to the hospital.
DOE WAS LIKELY INVOLVED IN STAR WARS PROJECTS
Given the conflict-laden history of our planet’s military with UFOs, one can speculate why a flying saucer might penetrate a high security facility to carry out an act of sabotage. It should be remembered that in 1967, according to USAF missile personnel, over ten nuclear tipped rockets went “off line” (i.e. the missile could not be fired) while a red glowing UFO hovered over the front gate of the launch facility. In 2008 investigator Robert Hastings published the book “UFOs and Nukes.” In this detailed study he documents dozens of similar events from the testimony of service men that witnessed them. The event described to me in 2006 was not an isolated occurrence. It was one of many similar incidents in which UFOs penetrated secure US defense facilities.
The DOE lab in the Santa Susana Pass is known to have developed key technology in the US space program. Over four decades ago the space shuttle engines were reportedly tested at the Chatsworth DOE site. One of my patients told me that the rockets’ red glare could be seen across the entire San Fernando Valley when the tests were conducted at the crest of the Santa Susan Pass. The anti-ballistic missile program, rumored to have been developed at the DOE lab, theoretically could have been used to target and destroy flying saucers operating outside of the Earth’s atmosphere. A video taken by a US Space Shuttle mission suggests that this capability was more than just theoretical.
In his 1998 book “Confirmation”, author Whitley Strieber analyses the controversial NASA videotape made on space shuttle Discovery during mission STS-48. This video has been featured several times on national television. It displays what appears to be an unidentified flying object maneuvering outside of the Earth’s atmospheric envelope. Suddenly the UFO changes direction and few seconds later something dramatic occurs. What appears to be some sort of particle beam shoots up from below streaking by the exact location where the craft had been before it carried out its evasive maneuver. The incident transpired on September 15, 1991. The Space Shuttle Discovery was flying above Australia, approximately 1500 miles northwest from a secret US military base located at Pine Gap near Alice Springs. Strieber has provided a thorough analysis of the videotape by physicist Dr. Jack Kasher and imaging specialist Dr. Mark Carlotto. Their conclusion was that the prosaic explanation provided by NASA, that the UFO seen in the video was an ice chip, is simply not credible.
THE DISCLOSURE PROJECT WAS NOT TAKING NEW WITNESSES AT THAT TIME.
In 2006, I thought that the maintenance engineer’s account was of considerable value. I asked him if he would be willing to give public testimony about what he had observed. He told me that since he was retired and no longer worked for DOE, he thought that there should be no problem. I contacted Dan Willis of the Disclosure Project. I offered my help to bring forward what I believed was important new information from a witness that had encountered a UFO in the course of his work for the federal government. Dan informed me however that no new witnesses were being interviewed at that time.
I debated whether I could on my own videotape this retired engineer. In 2006, every two weeks I commuted between my ER job in LA and Northern California where my wife resided. Although I knew my patient’s narrative provided dramatic information concerning an act of sabotage allegedly done by a flying saucer, my personal situation didn’t allow me to produce a video of his testimony. I regret not being able to better document what I consider to be an important piece of UFO history. The incident had special significance for me. The flying saucer’s alleged act of sabotage occurred in the Santa Susana Pass approximately two years before our Los Angeles CE-5 team initiated contact work during the summer of 1992.
At that time, I was convinced that our fieldwork sightings in the Santa Susana Pass of red orbs, a golden globe, and other anomalous aerial phenomena, were all the results of using the CSETI protocols. The term Dr. Greer used was “primary vectoring.” However, I am now convinced that my assessment was mistaken. We didn’t attract flying saucers to Santa Susana Pass. This is because they had already been there in force for some time. The surveillance that our team experienced from men in civilian clothing with an obvious military bearing were likely triggered by a very reasonable security concern for the safety of the base. In addition, our team was buzzed by two powerful Blackhawk helicopters during a nighttime hike towards Rocky Peak that overlooked the DOE lab.
During the five years (1992-1997) of intensive field investigations involving staging HICE/CE5s, we repeatedly found ourselves in UFO hotspots adjacent to military instillations. Why did this happen? Were these merely coincidences, or was the intelligence behind flying saucers using us as part of some kind of larger plan? These are some of the questions I hope to address in further installments of “The Contact Network History Project.”
For additional Reports from the Contact Underground, the following links are provided:
Staging Human Initiated Contact Events adjacent to a high security research lab involved challenges of surveillance for my team. https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/did-a-fateful-phone-call-trigger-the-appearance-of-blackhawk-helicopters-during-contact-work/
What if flying saucer intelligences had access to every witness’ full treasure chest of memories?
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/04/18/do-uap-intelligences-have-full-telepathic-access-to-every-witness-storehouse-of-memories/
My human initiated contact team had immediate results when we started fieldwork, but they were not what I expected.
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/mystery-lights-in-the-santa-susana-pass/
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2024.05.02 15:45 Contactunderground An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage in the Santa Susana Pass Contact Network History Project.

An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage in the Santa Susana Pass Contact Network History Project.
An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage in the Santa Susana Pass
Contact Network History Project.
Joseph Burkes MD 2019

The Department of Energy Laboratory was just a few miles from our high desert CE5 research site.
SPRING 2006 PANORAMA CITY MEDICAL CENTER
It was a slow day in ambulance area. The patient and I were alone in an examining room. I was serving as “admitting officer.” I had been asked by the ER crew to evaluate a possible admission to the hospital.
The patient was an elderly African American man. The chart indicated that he was suffering from a kidney aliment. We were crammed into a tiny private exam room. There was barely enough space to squeeze a hospital stretcher on which the patient sat. Standard patient monitoring equipment covered two walls. A tall hospital swivel tray served as my desk for the evaluation. Decades before I had been an industrial toxicology medical consultant. As part of my special interest in occupational diseases I had acquired the habit of taking a detailed work history. I asked him what was his occupational status.
HE HAD WORKED FOR THE “GOVERNMENT.”
He told me that he was retired.
From what kind of occupation?” I asked.
“I worked for the government, “was his answer.
That somewhat vague reply got me interested. From countless evaluations. I had learned that people who worked for the postal office, the FAA or US Forrest Service almost never used the cryptic expression, “government work.” However, this is a designation sometimes used by those that worked in classified projects or for defense/intelligence agencies.
I asked him what specifically his job was. He replied that he had been a physical plant engineer at the Department of Energy (DOE) laboratory in Chatsworth, a high desert suburban town in the Northwest corner of LA County’s San Fernando Valley. The DOE has a wide range of responsibilities including developing nuclear weapons. The Chatsworth DOE facility understandably was kept under high security. It was originally constructed after World War Two and had carried out top secret research in space propulsion systems. It just so happened to be located a few miles away from the desolate high desert fieldwork site that my CE-5/HICE contact team had used when we started staging Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE) in 1992. Our field laboratory was just a few hundred yards south of the Santa Susana Pass which connects Los Angeles to Ventura County.
The DOE lab was rumored to be the place where an anti-ballistic missile defense system known back in the 1980s as “Star Wars” had been developed. The installation was built south of the Santa Susana Pass which separates the suburb of Chatsworth from another “bedroom” community called Simi Valley. Most of the people who live in the area commute to the San Fernando Valley and other parts of Los Angeles to find employment. Many of our Kaiser medical group’s patients came from these towns.
Back in the 1990s, one of the investigators on my UFO contact team was also a colleague from our med group’s Family Medicine Department. His name is Dr. David Gordon. He is a contact experiencer. Without knowing of one another’s interest in flying saucers, he and I joined both MUFON and CSETI within a month of one another in the spring of 1992. He was so well respected by his patients and colleagues alike that he had received permission from his Family Medicine Chief to do an informal survey of UFO sightings. His patients and the Woodland Hills Kaiser Medical Center staff served as the study population.
Having a much respected family practice physician on my team turned out to be a bonanza when it came to acquiring intelligence concerning ongoing UFO sightings in the area. Whenever patients of Dr. Gordon heard about local sightings, they checked out the information and then passed it on to their personal physician. He then dutifully gave the sighting reports to me, his contact team coordinator.
One of Dr. Gordon’s patients was a retired carpenter who reportedly had been employed building the DOE base in the early 1950s. His patient said that they had literally “emptied out the mountain” to construct the lab. Apparently, this was done to make it secure from aerial attack. So much dirt had to be moved, that for 3 months according to the retired carpenter, a line of dump trucks several miles long were filled with earth removed from inside the hillside. To convey how strategically important this base was during the Cold War, I share the following additional information.
BASE HAD BEEN TARGETED FOR SOVIET NUCLEAR ATTACK IN CASE OF ALL OUT WAR
During the 1980s, I was an activist in the Physicians anti-nuclear weapons group called “Physicians for Responsibility (PSR). Our mission was to raise public awareness about the medical consequences of nuclear war and the nuclear arms race. We were part of an umbrella organization called “International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War” that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for bringing Soviet and Western physicians together in our educational peace campaign. When the Soviet Union fell apart in the 1990s, thus ending the Cold War, our Los Angeles PSR office held a photographic exhibition called “Nuclear Los Angeles.” We showed pictures of the nuclear artifacts in Southern California, such as missile bases and fallout shelters from the 1950s and 60s. One of the photos was an image a Soviet strategic map used to designate targets in Southern California for nuclear attack if war broke out. There was a target located in the northwest corner of Los Angeles County. In clear Cyrillic letters it phonetically spelled out the name “Santa Susana.” It was the DOE lab in Chatsworth.
Another story told to Dr. Gordon by the retired carpenter that helped build the base reflects the strategic nature of the laboratory. His patient told my colleague that he required a security clearance to work underground at the base. He reportedly was only allowed to build labs and offices down to the eight floor underground. Below that level, a higher clearance was required. He wasn’t sure how far down the base went. That information was secret, but he guessed that it was at least another ten levels down inside the mountain.
I WAS FAMILIAR WITH THIS BASE AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD
The Department of Energy research facility was a dirty and dangerous place to work. Press reports in the 1980s identified this site as one where several serious environmental accidents had occurred. Back in the 1950s a nuclear reactor at the base had a partial meltdown and plutonium was leaked into the surrounding environment. One isotope of plutonium (Pu-239) has a half-life of over 24,000 years, thus making it one of the most feared environmental contaminants. Over the years, the DOE lab was cited for many safety violations with the release of other toxins. Our LA chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility was very aware of these problems with DOE installation and worked in a coalition of environmental and anti-nuclear groups attempting to force the government to clean up the site.
Given this background information, when I evaluated the retired plant engineer from the base in 2006, I was eager to learn more about what went on there. He explained to me that his team of engineers kept the facility running properly by carrying out routine maintenance on the infrastructure at the facility. This included plumbing, electrical, and outdoor repairs.
AN AMAZING ENCOUNTER NEAR WHERE OUR TEAM OPERATED
Things were really slow in the ER that day so I thought there would be no harm if after my medical evaluation I told him about my special interest in UFOs. I asked him whether he had ever seen a UFO. His reaction was telling. With a concerned expression on his face, he turned his head from side to side to look around. I imagined that he was checking to see if anyone else besides me might be able might to hear what he was about to say.
“Yes I saw a UFO once,” was his answer. I asked him where the sighting had occurred. He replied, “It was at the base.”
We were totally alone in the tiny room, the glass sliding door was closed and a curtain allowed us privacy. Despite this, the patient had turned his head and looked around before he dared to the answer my question. I was eager to find out more about his sighting.
I mentioned to retired plant engineer that back in the 1990s I had been part of an investigative team that had a number of UFO sightings in the Santa Susana Pass. Our fieldwork site was about a few thousand yards from the DOE base perimeter. This information seemed to set him more at ease. He paused for a few moments and then I guess he decided it was safe to tell me his story.
ALARMS WENT OFF IN THE CONTROL ROOM
He wasn’t sure of the exact year that it happened. He knew that it was about fifteen years before our interview in 2006. It might have been in 1989 or 1990. He was on duty at the research lab when the alarms went off. It was late afternoon and the monitors indicated that there was a sudden loss of water pressure in the lines that supplied a several of the labs.
The facility had been built deep underground into the side of a mountain, but there were many structures on the surface as well. The retired engineer explained that on the top of the base enormous water towers supplied the entire complex. Pipes several feet across ran down from the storage towers along steep hillsides to the various labs. The mountain was composed of loose sedimentary rock, sandstone. Occasionally rockslides damaged one of these pipes. Given the distant history of a partial meltdown in a reactor with the release of plutonium, I surmised that keeping the labs supplied with coolant might be of great importance.
The plant engineer told me that a sudden loss of water pressure could only be addressed one way and he knew the drill. He and a co-worker grabbed machetes and a weed-whacker and went outside to check on the status of the water lines. Starting at the water towers, they followed the lines down the steep mountainside looking for a busted pipe. This was not an easy task. It was late afternoon, but it was still very hot outside. The water mains were partially covered with rocks and dirt. Desert plants with sharp nettles were everywhere and to top if off this was rattlesnake country.
SABOTAGE!
The maintenance engineers moved slowly because the loose sedimentary rock didn’t provide secure footing. Finally as the sun was setting, they found the busted pipe. Water was shooting upwards like a geyser. To their amazement the large conduit had been cleanly cut as if by a power tool! They had expected to see a jagged break in the water line, the kind that might come from simple corrosion or from falling rocks. The engineer stated that there was no doubt in his mind that damage had been done deliberately. It was sabotage!
As the engineers inspected the water main, they noted a strange soft humming sound. They looked up and not more than two hundred feet away was a rotating disc hovering close to the ground. It was metallic and about twenty-five feet across. My patient told me that he and his buddy were shocked. They stared at it in amazement.
They called security on the radio and explained the situation. They were told, “not to approach the UFO.” The retired engineer stated that getting any closer to the spinning saucer was the last thing he wanted to do. Armed security officers reportedly informed the men that they were coming down to check out the situation. However before they arrived, the saucer departed. I was told that from a hovering mode it pointed one side upwards and then started to climb slowly. After just a few seconds with a roar, the UFO accelerated at a tremendous speed and disappeared into the twilight.
The next day government security officials arrived and interviewed him at length. He could not recall what federal agency they said that they were from. Both men were required to make drawings of what they had seen. My patient and his co-worker were sworn to secrecy and were advised not to discuss the event.
When my interview with DOE engineer took place, he had been retired from the DOE for over a decade. He told me that his fellow witness had also retired and was living in Las Vegas. My patient said he was certain that his buddy would corroborate his sighting report. I thanked him and made final preparations for him to be admitted to the hospital.
DOE WAS LIKELY INVOLVED IN STAR WARS PROJECTS
Given the conflict-laden history of our planet’s military with UFOs, one can speculate why a flying saucer might penetrate a high security facility to carry out an act of sabotage. It should be remembered that in 1967, according to USAF missile personnel, over ten nuclear tipped rockets went “off line” (i.e. the missile could not be fired) while a red glowing UFO hovered over the front gate of the launch facility. In 2008 investigator Robert Hastings published the book “UFOs and Nukes.” In this detailed study he documents dozens of similar events from the testimony of service men that witnessed them. The event described to me in 2006 was not an isolated occurrence. It was one of many similar incidents in which UFOs penetrated secure US defense facilities.
The DOE lab in the Santa Susana Pass is known to have developed key technology in the US space program. Over four decades ago the space shuttle engines were reportedly tested at the Chatsworth DOE site. One of my patients told me that the rockets’ red glare could be seen across the entire San Fernando Valley when the tests were conducted at the crest of the Santa Susan Pass. The anti-ballistic missile program, rumored to have been developed at the DOE lab, theoretically could have been used to target and destroy flying saucers operating outside of the Earth’s atmosphere. A video taken by a US Space Shuttle mission suggests that this capability was more than just theoretical.
In his 1998 book “Confirmation”, author Whitley Strieber analyses the controversial NASA videotape made on space shuttle Discovery during mission STS-48. This video has been featured several times on national television. It displays what appears to be an unidentified flying object maneuvering outside of the Earth’s atmospheric envelope. Suddenly the UFO changes direction and few seconds later something dramatic occurs. What appears to be some sort of particle beam shoots up from below streaking by the exact location where the craft had been before it carried out its evasive maneuver. The incident transpired on September 15, 1991. The Space Shuttle Discovery was flying above Australia, approximately 1500 miles northwest from a secret US military base located at Pine Gap near Alice Springs. Strieber has provided a thorough analysis of the videotape by physicist Dr. Jack Kasher and imaging specialist Dr. Mark Carlotto. Their conclusion was that the prosaic explanation provided by NASA, that the UFO seen in the video was an ice chip, is simply not credible.
THE DISCLOSURE PROJECT WAS NOT TAKING NEW WITNESSES AT THAT TIME.
In 2006, I thought that the maintenance engineer’s account was of considerable value. I asked him if he would be willing to give public testimony about what he had observed. He told me that since he was retired and no longer worked for DOE, he thought that there should be no problem. I contacted Dan Willis of the Disclosure Project. I offered my help to bring forward what I believed was important new information from a witness that had encountered a UFO in the course of his work for the federal government. Dan informed me however that no new witnesses were being interviewed at that time.
I debated whether I could on my own videotape this retired engineer. In 2006, every two weeks I commuted between my ER job in LA and Northern California where my wife resided. Although I knew my patient’s narrative provided dramatic information concerning an act of sabotage allegedly done by a flying saucer, my personal situation didn’t allow me to produce a video of his testimony. I regret not being able to better document what I consider to be an important piece of UFO history. The incident had special significance for me. The flying saucer’s alleged act of sabotage occurred in the Santa Susana Pass approximately two years before our Los Angeles CE-5 team initiated contact work during the summer of 1992.
At that time, I was convinced that our fieldwork sightings in the Santa Susana Pass of red orbs, a golden globe, and other anomalous aerial phenomena, were all the results of using the CSETI protocols. The term Dr. Greer used was “primary vectoring.” However, I am now convinced that my assessment was mistaken. We didn’t attract flying saucers to Santa Susana Pass. This is because they had already been there in force for some time. The surveillance that our team experienced from men in civilian clothing with an obvious military bearing were likely triggered by a very reasonable security concern for the safety of the base. In addition, our team was buzzed by two powerful Blackhawk helicopters during a nighttime hike towards Rocky Peak that overlooked the DOE lab.
During the five years (1992-1997) of intensive field investigations involving staging HICE/CE5s, we repeatedly found ourselves in UFO hotspots adjacent to military instillations. Why did this happen? Were these merely coincidences, or was the intelligence behind flying saucers using us as part of some kind of larger plan? These are some of the questions I hope to address in further installments of “The Contact Network History Project.”
For additional Reports from the Contact Underground, the following links are provided:
Staging Human Initiated Contact Events adjacent to a high security research lab involved challenges of surveillance for my team. https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/did-a-fateful-phone-call-trigger-the-appearance-of-blackhawk-helicopters-during-contact-work/
What if flying saucer intelligences had access to every witness’ full treasure chest of memories?
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/04/18/do-uap-intelligences-have-full-telepathic-access-to-every-witness-storehouse-of-memories/
My human initiated contact team had immediate results when we started fieldwork, but they were not what I expected.
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/mystery-lights-in-the-santa-susana-pass/
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2024.05.02 15:43 Contactunderground An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage in the Santa Susana Pass

An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage in the Santa Susana Pass
An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage in the Santa Susana Pass
Contact Network History Project.
Joseph Burkes MD 2019

The Department of Energy Laboratory was just a few miles from our high desert CE5 research site.
SPRING 2006 PANORAMA CITY MEDICAL CENTER
It was a slow day in ambulance area. The patient and I were alone in an examining room. I was serving as “admitting officer.” I had been asked by the ER crew to evaluate a possible admission to the hospital.
The patient was an elderly African American man. The chart indicated that he was suffering from a kidney aliment. We were crammed into a tiny private exam room. There was barely enough space to squeeze a hospital stretcher on which the patient sat. Standard patient monitoring equipment covered two walls. A tall hospital swivel tray served as my desk for the evaluation. Decades before I had been an industrial toxicology medical consultant. As part of my special interest in occupational diseases I had acquired the habit of taking a detailed work history. I asked him what was his occupational status.
HE HAD WORKED FOR THE “GOVERNMENT.”
He told me that he was retired.
From what kind of occupation?” I asked.
“I worked for the government, “was his answer.
That somewhat vague reply got me interested. From countless evaluations. I had learned that people who worked for the postal office, the FAA or US Forrest Service almost never used the cryptic expression, “government work.” However, this is a designation sometimes used by those that worked in classified projects or for defense/intelligence agencies.
I asked him what specifically his job was. He replied that he had been a physical plant engineer at the Department of Energy (DOE) laboratory in Chatsworth, a high desert suburban town in the Northwest corner of LA County’s San Fernando Valley. The DOE has a wide range of responsibilities including developing nuclear weapons. The Chatsworth DOE facility understandably was kept under high security. It was originally constructed after World War Two and had carried out top secret research in space propulsion systems. It just so happened to be located a few miles away from the desolate high desert fieldwork site that my CE-5/HICE contact team had used when we started staging Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE) in 1992. Our field laboratory was just a few hundred yards south of the Santa Susana Pass which connects Los Angeles to Ventura County.
The DOE lab was rumored to be the place where an anti-ballistic missile defense system known back in the 1980s as “Star Wars” had been developed. The installation was built south of the Santa Susana Pass which separates the suburb of Chatsworth from another “bedroom” community called Simi Valley. Most of the people who live in the area commute to the San Fernando Valley and other parts of Los Angeles to find employment. Many of our Kaiser medical group’s patients came from these towns.
Back in the 1990s, one of the investigators on my UFO contact team was also a colleague from our med group’s Family Medicine Department. His name is Dr. David Gordon. He is a contact experiencer. Without knowing of one another’s interest in flying saucers, he and I joined both MUFON and CSETI within a month of one another in the spring of 1992. He was so well respected by his patients and colleagues alike that he had received permission from his Family Medicine Chief to do an informal survey of UFO sightings. His patients and the Woodland Hills Kaiser Medical Center staff served as the study population.
Having a much respected family practice physician on my team turned out to be a bonanza when it came to acquiring intelligence concerning ongoing UFO sightings in the area. Whenever patients of Dr. Gordon heard about local sightings, they checked out the information and then passed it on to their personal physician. He then dutifully gave the sighting reports to me, his contact team coordinator.
One of Dr. Gordon’s patients was a retired carpenter who reportedly had been employed building the DOE base in the early 1950s. His patient said that they had literally “emptied out the mountain” to construct the lab. Apparently, this was done to make it secure from aerial attack. So much dirt had to be moved, that for 3 months according to the retired carpenter, a line of dump trucks several miles long were filled with earth removed from inside the hillside. To convey how strategically important this base was during the Cold War, I share the following additional information.
BASE HAD BEEN TARGETED FOR SOVIET NUCLEAR ATTACK IN CASE OF ALL OUT WAR
During the 1980s, I was an activist in the Physicians anti-nuclear weapons group called “Physicians for Responsibility (PSR). Our mission was to raise public awareness about the medical consequences of nuclear war and the nuclear arms race. We were part of an umbrella organization called “International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War” that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for bringing Soviet and Western physicians together in our educational peace campaign. When the Soviet Union fell apart in the 1990s, thus ending the Cold War, our Los Angeles PSR office held a photographic exhibition called “Nuclear Los Angeles.” We showed pictures of the nuclear artifacts in Southern California, such as missile bases and fallout shelters from the 1950s and 60s. One of the photos was an image a Soviet strategic map used to designate targets in Southern California for nuclear attack if war broke out. There was a target located in the northwest corner of Los Angeles County. In clear Cyrillic letters it phonetically spelled out the name “Santa Susana.” It was the DOE lab in Chatsworth.
Another story told to Dr. Gordon by the retired carpenter that helped build the base reflects the strategic nature of the laboratory. His patient told my colleague that he required a security clearance to work underground at the base. He reportedly was only allowed to build labs and offices down to the eight floor underground. Below that level, a higher clearance was required. He wasn’t sure how far down the base went. That information was secret, but he guessed that it was at least another ten levels down inside the mountain.
I WAS FAMILIAR WITH THIS BASE AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD
The Department of Energy research facility was a dirty and dangerous place to work. Press reports in the 1980s identified this site as one where several serious environmental accidents had occurred. Back in the 1950s a nuclear reactor at the base had a partial meltdown and plutonium was leaked into the surrounding environment. One isotope of plutonium (Pu-239) has a half-life of over 24,000 years, thus making it one of the most feared environmental contaminants. Over the years, the DOE lab was cited for many safety violations with the release of other toxins. Our LA chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility was very aware of these problems with DOE installation and worked in a coalition of environmental and anti-nuclear groups attempting to force the government to clean up the site.
Given this background information, when I evaluated the retired plant engineer from the base in 2006, I was eager to learn more about what went on there. He explained to me that his team of engineers kept the facility running properly by carrying out routine maintenance on the infrastructure at the facility. This included plumbing, electrical, and outdoor repairs.
AN AMAZING ENCOUNTER NEAR WHERE OUR TEAM OPERATED
Things were really slow in the ER that day so I thought there would be no harm if after my medical evaluation I told him about my special interest in UFOs. I asked him whether he had ever seen a UFO. His reaction was telling. With a concerned expression on his face, he turned his head from side to side to look around. I imagined that he was checking to see if anyone else besides me might be able might to hear what he was about to say.
“Yes I saw a UFO once,” was his answer. I asked him where the sighting had occurred. He replied, “It was at the base.”
We were totally alone in the tiny room, the glass sliding door was closed and a curtain allowed us privacy. Despite this, the patient had turned his head and looked around before he dared to the answer my question. I was eager to find out more about his sighting.
I mentioned to retired plant engineer that back in the 1990s I had been part of an investigative team that had a number of UFO sightings in the Santa Susana Pass. Our fieldwork site was about a few thousand yards from the DOE base perimeter. This information seemed to set him more at ease. He paused for a few moments and then I guess he decided it was safe to tell me his story.
ALARMS WENT OFF IN THE CONTROL ROOM
He wasn’t sure of the exact year that it happened. He knew that it was about fifteen years before our interview in 2006. It might have been in 1989 or 1990. He was on duty at the research lab when the alarms went off. It was late afternoon and the monitors indicated that there was a sudden loss of water pressure in the lines that supplied a several of the labs.
The facility had been built deep underground into the side of a mountain, but there were many structures on the surface as well. The retired engineer explained that on the top of the base enormous water towers supplied the entire complex. Pipes several feet across ran down from the storage towers along steep hillsides to the various labs. The mountain was composed of loose sedimentary rock, sandstone. Occasionally rockslides damaged one of these pipes. Given the distant history of a partial meltdown in a reactor with the release of plutonium, I surmised that keeping the labs supplied with coolant might be of great importance.
The plant engineer told me that a sudden loss of water pressure could only be addressed one way and he knew the drill. He and a co-worker grabbed machetes and a weed-whacker and went outside to check on the status of the water lines. Starting at the water towers, they followed the lines down the steep mountainside looking for a busted pipe. This was not an easy task. It was late afternoon, but it was still very hot outside. The water mains were partially covered with rocks and dirt. Desert plants with sharp nettles were everywhere and to top if off this was rattlesnake country.
SABOTAGE!
The maintenance engineers moved slowly because the loose sedimentary rock didn’t provide secure footing. Finally as the sun was setting, they found the busted pipe. Water was shooting upwards like a geyser. To their amazement the large conduit had been cleanly cut as if by a power tool! They had expected to see a jagged break in the water line, the kind that might come from simple corrosion or from falling rocks. The engineer stated that there was no doubt in his mind that damage had been done deliberately. It was sabotage!
As the engineers inspected the water main, they noted a strange soft humming sound. They looked up and not more than two hundred feet away was a rotating disc hovering close to the ground. It was metallic and about twenty-five feet across. My patient told me that he and his buddy were shocked. They stared at it in amazement.
They called security on the radio and explained the situation. They were told, “not to approach the UFO.” The retired engineer stated that getting any closer to the spinning saucer was the last thing he wanted to do. Armed security officers reportedly informed the men that they were coming down to check out the situation. However before they arrived, the saucer departed. I was told that from a hovering mode it pointed one side upwards and then started to climb slowly. After just a few seconds with a roar, the UFO accelerated at a tremendous speed and disappeared into the twilight.
The next day government security officials arrived and interviewed him at length. He could not recall what federal agency they said that they were from. Both men were required to make drawings of what they had seen. My patient and his co-worker were sworn to secrecy and were advised not to discuss the event.
When my interview with DOE engineer took place, he had been retired from the DOE for over a decade. He told me that his fellow witness had also retired and was living in Las Vegas. My patient said he was certain that his buddy would corroborate his sighting report. I thanked him and made final preparations for him to be admitted to the hospital.
DOE WAS LIKELY INVOLVED IN STAR WARS PROJECTS
Given the conflict-laden history of our planet’s military with UFOs, one can speculate why a flying saucer might penetrate a high security facility to carry out an act of sabotage. It should be remembered that in 1967, according to USAF missile personnel, over ten nuclear tipped rockets went “off line” (i.e. the missile could not be fired) while a red glowing UFO hovered over the front gate of the launch facility. In 2008 investigator Robert Hastings published the book “UFOs and Nukes.” In this detailed study he documents dozens of similar events from the testimony of service men that witnessed them. The event described to me in 2006 was not an isolated occurrence. It was one of many similar incidents in which UFOs penetrated secure US defense facilities.
The DOE lab in the Santa Susana Pass is known to have developed key technology in the US space program. Over four decades ago the space shuttle engines were reportedly tested at the Chatsworth DOE site. One of my patients told me that the rockets’ red glare could be seen across the entire San Fernando Valley when the tests were conducted at the crest of the Santa Susan Pass. The anti-ballistic missile program, rumored to have been developed at the DOE lab, theoretically could have been used to target and destroy flying saucers operating outside of the Earth’s atmosphere. A video taken by a US Space Shuttle mission suggests that this capability was more than just theoretical.
In his 1998 book “Confirmation”, author Whitley Strieber analyses the controversial NASA videotape made on space shuttle Discovery during mission STS-48. This video has been featured several times on national television. It displays what appears to be an unidentified flying object maneuvering outside of the Earth’s atmospheric envelope. Suddenly the UFO changes direction and few seconds later something dramatic occurs. What appears to be some sort of particle beam shoots up from below streaking by the exact location where the craft had been before it carried out its evasive maneuver. The incident transpired on September 15, 1991. The Space Shuttle Discovery was flying above Australia, approximately 1500 miles northwest from a secret US military base located at Pine Gap near Alice Springs. Strieber has provided a thorough analysis of the videotape by physicist Dr. Jack Kasher and imaging specialist Dr. Mark Carlotto. Their conclusion was that the prosaic explanation provided by NASA, that the UFO seen in the video was an ice chip, is simply not credible.
THE DISCLOSURE PROJECT WAS NOT TAKING NEW WITNESSES AT THAT TIME.
In 2006, I thought that the maintenance engineer’s account was of considerable value. I asked him if he would be willing to give public testimony about what he had observed. He told me that since he was retired and no longer worked for DOE, he thought that there should be no problem. I contacted Dan Willis of the Disclosure Project. I offered my help to bring forward what I believed was important new information from a witness that had encountered a UFO in the course of his work for the federal government. Dan informed me however that no new witnesses were being interviewed at that time.
I debated whether I could on my own videotape this retired engineer. In 2006, every two weeks I commuted between my ER job in LA and Northern California where my wife resided. Although I knew my patient’s narrative provided dramatic information concerning an act of sabotage allegedly done by a flying saucer, my personal situation didn’t allow me to produce a video of his testimony. I regret not being able to better document what I consider to be an important piece of UFO history. The incident had special significance for me. The flying saucer’s alleged act of sabotage occurred in the Santa Susana Pass approximately two years before our Los Angeles CE-5 team initiated contact work during the summer of 1992.
At that time, I was convinced that our fieldwork sightings in the Santa Susana Pass of red orbs, a golden globe, and other anomalous aerial phenomena, were all the results of using the CSETI protocols. The term Dr. Greer used was “primary vectoring.” However, I am now convinced that my assessment was mistaken. We didn’t attract flying saucers to Santa Susana Pass. This is because they had already been there in force for some time. The surveillance that our team experienced from men in civilian clothing with an obvious military bearing were likely triggered by a very reasonable security concern for the safety of the base. In addition, our team was buzzed by two powerful Blackhawk helicopters during a nighttime hike towards Rocky Peak that overlooked the DOE lab.
During the five years (1992-1997) of intensive field investigations involving staging HICE/CE5s, we repeatedly found ourselves in UFO hotspots adjacent to military instillations. Why did this happen? Were these merely coincidences, or was the intelligence behind flying saucers using us as part of some kind of larger plan? These are some of the questions I hope to address in further installments of “The Contact Network History Project.”
For additional Reports from the Contact Underground, the following links are provided:
Staging Human Initiated Contact Events adjacent to a high security research lab involved challenges of surveillance for my team. https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/did-a-fateful-phone-call-trigger-the-appearance-of-blackhawk-helicopters-during-contact-work/
What if flying saucer intelligences had access to every witness’ full treasure chest of memories?
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/04/18/do-uap-intelligences-have-full-telepathic-access-to-every-witness-storehouse-of-memories/
My human initiated contact team had immediate results when we started fieldwork, but they were not what I expected.
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/mystery-lights-in-the-santa-susana-pass/
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2024.05.02 15:38 Contactunderground An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage in the Santa Susana Pass Contact Network History Project. Joseph Burkes MD 2019

An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage in the Santa Susana Pass Contact Network History Project. Joseph Burkes MD 2019
An Act of Flying Saucer Sabotage in the Santa Susana Pass
Contact Network History Project.
Joseph Burkes MD 2019

The Department of Energy Laboratory was just a few miles from our high desert CE5 research site.
SPRING 2006 PANORAMA CITY MEDICAL CENTER
It was a slow day in ambulance area. The patient and I were alone in an examining room. I was serving as “admitting officer.” I had been asked by the ER crew to evaluate a possible admission to the hospital.
The patient was an elderly African American man. The chart indicated that he was suffering from a kidney aliment. We were crammed into a tiny private exam room. There was barely enough space to squeeze a hospital stretcher on which the patient sat. Standard patient monitoring equipment covered two walls. A tall hospital swivel tray served as my desk for the evaluation. Decades before I had been an industrial toxicology medical consultant. As part of my special interest in occupational diseases I had acquired the habit of taking a detailed work history. I asked him what was his occupational status.
HE HAD WORKED FOR THE “GOVERNMENT.”
He told me that he was retired.
From what kind of occupation?” I asked.
“I worked for the government, “ was his answer.
That somewhat vague reply got me interested. From countless evaluations. I had learned that people who worked for the postal office, the FAA or US Forrest Service almost never used the cryptic expression, “government work.” However, this is a designation sometimes used by those that worked in classified projects or for defense/intelligence agencies.
I asked him what specifically his job was. He replied that he had been a physical plant engineer at the Department of Energy (DOE) laboratory in Chatsworth, a high desert suburban town in the Northwest corner of LA County’s San Fernando Valley. The DOE has a wide range of responsibilities including developing nuclear weapons. The Chatsworth DOE facility understandably was kept under high security. It was originally constructed after World War Two and had carried out top secret research in space propulsion systems. It just so happened to be located a few miles away from the desolate high desert fieldwork site that my CE-5/HICE contact team had used when we started staging Human Initiated Contact Events (HICE) in 1992. Our field laboratory was just a few hundred yards south of the Santa Susana Pass which connects Los Angeles to Ventura County.
The DOE lab was rumored to be the place where an anti-ballistic missile defense system known back in the 1980s as “Star Wars” had been developed. The installation was built south of the Santa Susana Pass which separates the suburb of Chatsworth from another “bedroom” community called Simi Valley. Most of the people who live in the area commute to the San Fernando Valley and other parts of Los Angeles to find employment. Many of our Kaiser medical group’s patients came from these towns.
Back in the 1990s, one of the investigators on my UFO contact team was also a colleague from our med group’s Family Medicine Department. His name is Dr. David Gordon. He is a contact experiencer. Without knowing of one another’s interest in flying saucers, he and I joined both MUFON and CSETI within a month of one another in the spring of 1992. He was so well respected by his patients and colleagues alike that he had received permission from his Family Medicine Chief to do an informal survey of UFO sightings. His patients and the Woodland Hills Kaiser Medical Center staff served as the study population.
Having a much respected family practice physician on my team turned out to be a bonanza when it came to acquiring intelligence concerning ongoing UFO sightings in the area. Whenever patients of Dr. Gordon heard about local sightings, they checked out the information and then passed it on to their personal physician. He then dutifully gave the sighting reports to me, his contact team coordinator.
One of Dr. Gordon’s patients was a retired carpenter who reportedly had been employed building the DOE base in the early 1950s. His patient said that they had literally “emptied out the mountain” to construct the lab. Apparently, this was done to make it secure from aerial attack. So much dirt had to be moved, that for 3 months according to the retired carpenter, a line of dump trucks several miles long were filled with earth removed from inside the hillside. To convey how strategically important this base was during the Cold War, I share the following additional information.
BASE HAD BEEN TARGETED FOR SOVIET NUCLEAR ATTACK IN CASE OF ALL OUT WAR
During the 1980s, I was an activist in the Physicians anti-nuclear weapons group called “Physicians for Responsibility (PSR). Our mission was to raise public awareness about the medical consequences of nuclear war and the nuclear arms race. We were part of an umbrella organization called “International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War” that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985 for bringing Soviet and Western physicians together in our educational peace campaign. When the Soviet Union fell apart in the 1990s, thus ending the Cold War, our Los Angeles PSR office held a photographic exhibition called “Nuclear Los Angeles.” We showed pictures of the nuclear artifacts in Southern California, such as missile bases and fallout shelters from the 1950s and 60s. One of the photos was an image a Soviet strategic map used to designate targets in Southern California for nuclear attack if war broke out. There was a target located in the northwest corner of Los Angeles County. In clear Cyrillic letters it phonetically spelled out the name “Santa Susana.” It was the DOE lab in Chatsworth.
Another story told to Dr. Gordon by the retired carpenter that helped build the base reflects the strategic nature of the laboratory. His patient told my colleague that he required a security clearance to work underground at the base. He reportedly was only allowed to build labs and offices down to the eight floor underground. Below that level, a higher clearance was required. He wasn’t sure how far down the base went. That information was secret, but he guessed that it was at least another ten levels down inside the mountain.
I WAS FAMILIAR WITH THIS BASE AS AN ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD
The Department of Energy research facility was a dirty and dangerous place to work. Press reports in the 1980s identified this site as one where several serious environmental accidents had occurred. Back in the 1950s a nuclear reactor at the base had a partial meltdown and plutonium was leaked into the surrounding environment. One isotope of plutonium (Pu-239) has a half-life of over 24,000 years, thus making it one of the most feared environmental contaminants. Over the years, the DOE lab was cited for many safety violations with the release of other toxins. Our LA chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility was very aware of these problems with DOE installation and worked in a coalition of environmental and anti-nuclear groups attempting to force the government to clean up the site.
Given this background information, when I evaluated the retired plant engineer from the base in 2006, I was eager to learn more about what went on there. He explained to me that his team of engineers kept the facility running properly by carrying out routine maintenance on the infrastructure at the facility. This included plumbing, electrical, and outdoor repairs.
AN AMAZING ENCOUNTER NEAR WHERE OUR TEAM OPERATED
Things were really slow in the ER that day so I thought there would be no harm if after my medical evaluation I told him about my special interest in UFOs. I asked him whether he had ever seen a UFO. His reaction was telling. With a concerned expression on his face, he turned his head from side to side to look around. I imagined that he was checking to see if anyone else besides me might be able might to hear what he was about to say.
“Yes I saw a UFO once,” was his answer. I asked him where the sighting had occurred. He replied, “It was at the base.”
We were totally alone in the tiny room, the glass sliding door was closed and a curtain allowed us privacy. Despite this, the patient had turned his head and looked around before he dared to the answer my question. I was eager to find out more about his sighting.
I mentioned to retired plant engineer that back in the 1990s I had been part of an investigative team that had a number of UFO sightings in the Santa Susana Pass. Our fieldwork site was about a few thousand yards from the DOE base perimeter. This information seemed to set him more at ease. He paused for a few moments and then I guess he decided it was safe to tell me his story.
ALARMS WENT OFF IN THE CONTROL ROOM
He wasn’t sure of the exact year that it happened. He knew that it was about fifteen years before our interview in 2006. It might have been in 1989 or 1990. He was on duty at the research lab when the alarms went off. It was late afternoon and the monitors indicated that there was a sudden loss of water pressure in the lines that supplied a several of the labs.
The facility had been built deep underground into the side of a mountain, but there were many structures on the surface as well. The retired engineer explained that on the top of the base enormous water towers supplied the entire complex. Pipes several feet across ran down from the storage towers along steep hillsides to the various labs. The mountain was composed of loose sedimentary rock, sandstone. Occasionally rockslides damaged one of these pipes. Given the distant history of a partial meltdown in a reactor with the release of plutonium, I surmised that keeping the labs supplied with coolant might be of great importance.
The plant engineer told me that a sudden loss of water pressure could only be addressed one way and he knew the drill. He and a co-worker grabbed machetes and a weed-whacker and went outside to check on the status of the water lines. Starting at the water towers, they followed the lines down the steep mountainside looking for a busted pipe. This was not an easy task. It was late afternoon, but it was still very hot outside. The water mains were partially covered with rocks and dirt. Desert plants with sharp nettles were everywhere and to top if off this was rattlesnake country.
SABOTAGE!
The maintenance engineers moved slowly because the loose sedimentary rock didn’t provide secure footing. Finally as the sun was setting, they found the busted pipe. Water was shooting upwards like a geyser. To their amazement the large conduit had been cleanly cut as if by a power tool! They had expected to see a jagged break in the water line, the kind that might come from simple corrosion or from falling rocks. The engineer stated that there was no doubt in his mind that damage had been done deliberately. It was sabotage!
As the engineers inspected the water main, they noted a strange soft humming sound. They looked up and not more than two hundred feet away was a rotating disc hovering close to the ground. It was metallic and about twenty-five feet across. My patient told me that he and his buddy were shocked. They stared at it in amazement.
They called security on the radio and explained the situation. They were told, “not to approach the UFO.” The retired engineer stated that getting any closer to the spinning saucer was the last thing he wanted to do. Armed security officers reportedly informed the men that they were coming down to check out the situation. However before they arrived, the saucer departed. I was told that from a hovering mode it pointed one side upwards and then started to climb slowly. After just a few seconds with a roar, the UFO accelerated at a tremendous speed and disappeared into the twilight.
The next day government security officials arrived and interviewed him at length. He could not recall what federal agency they said that they were from. Both men were required to make drawings of what they had seen. My patient and his co-worker were sworn to secrecy and were advised not to discuss the event.
When my interview with DOE engineer took place, he had been retired from the DOE for over a decade. He told me that his fellow witness had also retired and was living in Las Vegas. My patient said he was certain that his buddy would corroborate his sighting report. I thanked him and made final preparations for him to be admitted to the hospital.
DOE WAS LIKELY INVOLVED IN STAR WARS PROJECTS
Given the conflict-laden history of our planet’s military with UFOs, one can speculate why a flying saucer might penetrate a high security facility to carry out an act of sabotage. It should be remembered that in 1967, according to USAF missile personnel, over ten nuclear tipped rockets went “off line” (i.e. the missile could not be fired) while a red glowing UFO hovered over the front gate of the launch facility. In 2008 investigator Robert Hastings published the book “UFOs and Nukes.” In this detailed study he documents dozens of similar events from the testimony of service men that witnessed them. The event described to me in 2006 was not an isolated occurrence. It was one of many similar incidents in which UFOs penetrated secure US defense facilities.
The DOE lab in the Santa Susana Pass is known to have developed key technology in the US space program. Over four decades ago the space shuttle engines were reportedly tested at the Chatsworth DOE site. One of my patients told me that the rockets’ red glare could be seen across the entire San Fernando Valley when the tests were conducted at the crest of the Santa Susan Pass. The anti-ballistic missile program, rumored to have been developed at the DOE lab, theoretically could have been used to target and destroy flying saucers operating outside of the Earth’s atmosphere. A video taken by a US Space Shuttle mission suggests that this capability was more than just theoretical.
In his 1998 book “Confirmation”, author Whitley Strieber analyses the controversial NASA videotape made on space shuttle Discovery during mission STS-48. This video has been featured several times on national television. It displays what appears to be an unidentified flying object maneuvering outside of the Earth’s atmospheric envelope. Suddenly the UFO changes direction and few seconds later something dramatic occurs. What appears to be some sort of particle beam shoots up from below streaking by the exact location where the craft had been before it carried out its evasive maneuver. The incident transpired on September 15, 1991. The Space Shuttle Discovery was flying above Australia, approximately 1500 miles northwest from a secret US military base located at Pine Gap near Alice Springs. Strieber has provided a thorough analysis of the videotape by physicist Dr. Jack Kasher and imaging specialist Dr. Mark Carlotto. Their conclusion was that the prosaic explanation provided by NASA, that the UFO seen in the video was an ice chip, is simply not credible.
THE DISCLOSURE PROJECT WAS NOT TAKING NEW WITNESSES AT THAT TIME.
In 2006, I thought that the maintenance engineer’s account was of considerable value. I asked him if he would be willing to give public testimony about what he had observed. He told me that since he was retired and no longer worked for DOE, he thought that there should be no problem. I contacted Dan Willis of the Disclosure Project. I offered my help to bring forward what I believed was important new information from a witness that had encountered a UFO in the course of his work for the federal government. Dan informed me however that no new witnesses were being interviewed at that time.
I debated whether I could on my own videotape this retired engineer. In 2006, every two weeks I commuted between my ER job in LA and Northern California where my wife resided. Although I knew my patient’s narrative provided dramatic information concerning an act of sabotage allegedly done by a flying saucer, my personal situation didn’t allow me to produce a video of his testimony. I regret not being able to better document what I consider to be an important piece of UFO history. The incident had special significance for me. The flying saucer’s alleged act of sabotage occurred in the Santa Susana Pass approximately two years before our Los Angeles CE-5 team initiated contact work during the summer of 1992.
At that time, I was convinced that our fieldwork sightings in the Santa Susana Pass of red orbs, a golden globe, and other anomalous aerial phenomena, were all the results of using the CSETI protocols. The term Dr. Greer used was “primary vectoring.” However, I am now convinced that my assessment was mistaken. We didn’t attract flying saucers to Santa Susana Pass. This is because they had already been there in force for some time. The surveillance that our team experienced from men in civilian clothing with an obvious military bearing were likely triggered by a very reasonable security concern for the safety of the base. In addition, our team was buzzed by two powerful Blackhawk helicopters during a nighttime hike towards Rocky Peak that overlooked the DOE lab.
During the five years (1992-1997) of intensive field investigations involving staging HICE/CE5s, we repeatedly found ourselves in UFO hotspots adjacent to military instillations. Why did this happen? Were these merely coincidences, or was the intelligence behind flying saucers using us as part of some kind of larger plan? These are some of the questions I hope to address in further installments of “The Contact Network History Project.”
For additional Reports from the Contact Underground, the following links are provided:
Staging Human Initiated Contact Events adjacent to a high security research lab involved challenges of surveillance for my team. https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/did-a-fateful-phone-call-trigger-the-appearance-of-blackhawk-helicopters-during-contact-work/
What if flying saucer intelligences had access to every witness’ full treasure chest of memories?
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/04/18/do-uap-intelligences-have-full-telepathic-access-to-every-witness-storehouse-of-memories/
My human initiated contact team had immediate results when we started fieldwork, but they were not what I expected.
https://contactunderground.wordpress.com/2022/10/15/mystery-lights-in-the-santa-susana-pass/
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2024.05.02 15:32 Dot200 [The Last Prince of Rennaya] Chapter 52: Forbidden Arts

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On the Northern Continent...
Norah's team had just regrouped with Tai's after they had thoroughly searched their expedition area. They encountered many types of wildlife, thriving without the disturbance of people and unbothered by the incoming chaos, that was about to unfold.
Plumes of fire and screams of dying men, rang across the valley, like a beacon, forcing Norah and Tai to race towards Helio's direction. They tried to reach him on the way, but they quickly found out, that comms were down. Then, they looked up.
As the sky, as they last remembered it, turned from, blue to gray and orange. While ships and aircrafts engaged in an intense one-sided struggle. Leaving carnage, rubble, and corpses falling out of the sky. Their soldiers and their way out.
"I'll be back." Norah said, as she quickly spun around and raced back, while cladding herself in electricity and leaving Tai, to go on ahead.
As he got to Helio's site, Norah made it a few seconds behind him. She didn't want to regret not informing their teams to retreat and leave the Rennayan Solar System, as soon as possible. She knew something wasn't right. Still, with shock, what they witnessed seemed like something out of a nightmare.
Helio and his team were excavating and exploring a destroyed ancient city surrounded by a lush forest. That forest was now on fire and decorated with the blood, corpses, and parts of the androids and human members of his expedition team.
They could tell the fire had been started intentionally, as the path of the fire, raged from blue to purple. It wasn't possible for anyone to still be alive in within the forest, but as if rotating, within the circle of flames, they noticed flashes of ice, bursting out, then turning into mist.
Norah raised her hand, then dropped it in the direction, of the last ice burst. With incredible speed, a large streak of blue lightning struck down, breaking through the domain of fire and striking its target.
Moments later, Helio was thrown flying into them, but they caught him safely, as a figure, appeared with a blur in front of them. "So glad of you to gather here, all at once. I knew, I sensed, strong iko on this continent."
Norah instinctively raised her guard at the sight of her. Switching into second gear.
Tai braced himself, but he was more concerned about Helio. He checked the Nova's pouch, noticing Helio had already used a booster, and his spare was destroyed. He gritted his teeth and gave him his own. Knowing it wouldn't be good for him. However, the burns, Helio was suffering from, were too severe.
Tai, could not help but sweat at the sight of the monster, looking them over. However, he still found the courage to speak. His country was watching him. His people. He could not fall here. "Who are you?!"
The child of Atlas, raised a finger to her lips, biting it. "Oh my. How feisty you are. I'm sure you could have come up, with a better pickup line."
She threw her hand back and gave him a slight bow. "I am Princess Zelha, the 94th child of Atlas. Pleased to meet you... and you must be his friends, from the Nova Division. Let's get to know each other!"
In a moment, the distance between her and Tai closed up faster than he could blink, as she zipped towards him, trailing fire. The only thing, stopping his imminent death, was Norah, reacting with incredible speed and aided by a lightning strike, she called down ahead of time. She and the princess, crashed down a few hundred meters before Zelha threw her back and regained her footing in the air.
Norah glanced back at Tai. "Get Helio, out of here, you guys can still make it to the shuttles!"
Tai shook his head. "There's no way, we're leaving you!"
Zelha was shocked, by how they were just ignoring her. "What do you mean leaving? This place, used to have an important temple, you know. Let's pay homage to it. With a temple, dedicated to me!"
As she raised her hands, high up into the air, walls of fire, rose, all around the city. Burning red, blue, then purple into an intricately sculpted, ridiculously large temple, spanning, across the entire, abandoned city. "Zelha's Temple!" She yelled out, beaming at the Novas and excited about her work. "What do you think?!"
The Novas, who were not too thrilled, were struggling, to breathe from the sudden build-up of smoke and carbon monoxide. Yet, Helio stood up, with Tai's support.
"I can still fight!" He spoke, while raising one hand, to form a transparent swirling dome, filtering the air around them.
Tai looked earnestly at the Novas. "Do you guys trust me?"
They were a bit put off, by the timing of the question. Sure, he'd been a bit distant from them, in the beginning, but over time, they had been treating him, as part of the family.
"Of course!" The two spoke in unison.
He nodded back, then proceeded to switch into first gear. He had a lot of trouble at first, but with Nate's help and the training he received from the Rahmanaka clan, he was able to better maintain it, without draining him. On his command, a flame barrier, manifested and layered itself over Helio's dome, charged with the limits of his own iko. "Helio! Crash us through the walls."
Helio looked at Norah, then at Tai. "Are you sure, you can do this? I can't withstand that much heat."
Tai shook his head. "If I can drop the heat around us just a bit, we can! Norah, we'll need your energy."
Norah, who had supercharged herself with electricity, prior, nodded. She placed her hands on both of their backs, as Zelha watched them attempting suicide through her flames.
She laughed and concentrated the majority of the heat on the area, they were targeting. "If you're trying to leave, burn! Burn along with your stupidity!
The Novas were well adept at using sani iko. As such, part of Tai's plan, involved sensing, where Zelha had spread out her energy. The moment she concentrated it all to stop them, was the moment they needed to escape.
"Helio! Now!" Tai yelled out.
Their dome, lurched upwards, away from the violet burning spot, then dove diagonally to the right, through another part of the wall, cooler than the rest. They crashed through, with intense turbulence, as Tai and Helio coughed up blood while struggling against the pressure of Zelha's iko. Norah continued sharing as much of her energy, as they could take.
"Ignite: Yándi Zhī Dùn!"
"Frost: Dominio!"
They broke through, while the dome dissipated into mist, leaving them falling out of the sky. Norah gained flight quickly and grabbed hold of both of them before they dipped low, near the fire and got them to safety.
She got up to watch for the princess, after laying them down. They were both unconscious. She couldn't blame them. This was not a monster, they should face.
The flaming temple crumbled down, within itself, birthing a gigantic version of Zelha instead, and towered over several hundreds of meters, into the sky. The princess then appeared above them, furious. "If there are no worshippers, the temple crumbles doesn't it?" The gigantic, flaming clone of her, raised its fist, getting ready to strike down. "Sinners shall be punished!" She yelled, raising her hands to her sides.
On the Eastern continent...
Kayed was worried about the others. He had just figured out that comms were down and his site was a lot further away from the other Novas & their meeting spot. He ordered his expedition team, to return back to their ships, even before he heard drones racing through the sky, feeling something wrong. Then, without wasting a moment, he rushed towards the clashes of energy, he felt, off in the distance.
The Nova stopped, over a field of plains, with Simon, gravely wounded in third gear, with Carina, whose side effects were starting to kick in. She was assisting him by blocking, volleys of magma, thrown by a child of Atlas.
He was around 6 ft tall, with a stocky build, adorning a cape, he had discarded earlier while fighting the Hashin. His skin tone was pale and complimented by grey, serpent-like eyes. He had the same black slits running down from his eyes to his chin, just like the rest of his family.
Further to their left, the remaining disfigured halves of the Hashins sent to guard them, laid smouldering. Slowly being eaten away, by leftover blobs of magma.
Kayed was seething with anger. He began making his way, aiming to join his comrades, when the child of Atlas, threw their hand into the air. Tremors began below them, followed by a violent earthquake, then an eruption of lava, greater, than they had ever seen before, concentrated into a massive serpent-like wave and dipped down towards them.
Kayed didn't hesitate, although shocked and feeling a bit of despair in the situation they were in, he shifted into second gear, placing all of his might in a quick ball of lava, as Simon and Carina launched attacks of their own, in a last futile attempt. He joined in with them. "Erupt: Burkania!"
Their attacks were completely overwhelmed, as the downpour pressed down, heavier than their force. However, not all of their efforts were wasted. Giving Kayed enough time, to create a platform around their footing with rails and yanked them safely out of there.
"Kayed!" Carina called out, relieved to see him.
He regretted getting there so late. He had still not mastered picking up iko, from long distances, but as he focused, for just a second. He felt all of the chaos unfolding on the majority of the planet.
Simon dropped to his knees at the sight of him. Kayed could tell he was at his limit, with burn marks from his own side effects and some from contact with lava. The fact that, that they had not opted for first aid, made him realize, that they had already used it.
Simon uttered a few words, but Kayed could barely hear them. Not only because of the raging hot winds and the splashing flow of lava below them but because of his anger, clouding his vision. Still, he was able to make out a little of what he had said. "...Don't worry about me, take Carina, and run..."
Kayed raised one hand towards them and reinforced the platform into a diamond dome, complete with see-through windows all around it. Then raised the dome into the sky, as Carina tried breaking the walls and called out to him.
He planned on relinquishing control to her, but he first had to keep them safe. Both of them were precious to him. His first few friends at Beyond. He was grateful for all of the memories he had with them.
Kayed was born weak and sick. It took everything his parents had to keep him alive, as well as his siblings. When the war and famine came, he watched, helplessly, as one by one, they died, because of their circumstance and how powerless he felt to stop it.
His mother had died of sickness, soon after his sister's birth. His little sister was next without enough nutrients, she passed quietly in her sleep.
His father, continued overworking himself day and night, in the high heat, for meager wages. Suffering with their farm, barely producing anything, with his former job holding back his pay. Then one day, his family woke up to airstrikes and explosions, with shots being fired all over his village.
He remembered, his older brother grabbing him and rushing him out of the door, while his father piggybacked his sleepy twin sister. As they ran with the other villagers to safety, a building collapsed, from a nearby explosion. Falling on many villagers, including his father and sister. The tears and screams he let out, were devastating, as his brother continued to drag him away, screaming with and at him. 'Don't look back!'
His older brother never blamed him for anything, not even for being a burden, as he raised him. Nor complained or showed any hints of hunger, when they ate. Even though he knew, his brother always gave him the bigger portions. One day, however, he never came back.
With most of his extended family, killed in the war and famine, he was all alone. Starving to death, in an alley corner. With no one giving him a passing thought.
Until Sarah landed out of the sky, aiding those in need in his neighbourhood and coming across him. She later confirmed to him, that his brother was killed, stealing food, from a shop to keep them fed. With little order, being upheld, his body was almost forgotten.
He owed her everything and wanted to pay her back. His new family, he wanted to protect. However, this monster was standing in the way.
The child of Atlas, floated to his eye level, curious about the newcomer. "And who might you be?"
Kayed dropped his palm, facing the ground. "Erupt: Warrior!"
A warrior made out of lava rose out of the ground and jetted towards the child of Atlas, aiming to bring him down, however, it was roundhouse kicked into oblivion, with little effort. "That's rude. Fine, I'll go first. My name is Demil, the 67th child of Atlas. I'm not sure why you got in my way, you're not even as strong as one of the ones you're trying to protect."
Demil glanced down disappointed, at the dead Hashin. "They weren't even much fun either. This planet isn't as fun as it used to be. Why did father, need to drag me here again."
Kayed shook his head, shaking away any fear he had left. 'I have to use it.'
Since he had excelled in the other aspects of iko faster than the others and had often trained alone, he asked Roku, after the general caught him once, training at night. To teach him more about the flow of earth and magma. How to better access power from their abilities, when they were in a pinch.
That's when the General asked him if he was willing to learn about the forbidden arts. Techniques used only in last resort situations passed down only among the royal family and Hashin.
Sealing his resolve, Kayed made two fists and then punched them into each other, while gathering all of the energy he could muster, for the technique. "Sorry about that, I was a little hot-blooded there. There's no need for anger when God will judge you."
Demil started to laugh."You're kidding, right? You think God will save you from this situation?"
The Nova chuckled lightly, thinking about all of his regrets, then laughed. "No, no, I've already done that myself. You though, should prepare yourself. I'll be sending you to see him soon if you even have a soul."
Demil sneered. "Is that so?"
Kayed smirked, then completed his focus, releasing all of the energy he had been gathering, within his body. "Oh God, please forgive me."
His eyes became fierce, as he locked in his resolve. "Forbidden Art, Self-Volcanization!" He yelled out loud, as he set his heart on fire.
Notes:
Yándi Zhī Dùn means shield of the flame emperor in Chinese.
Dominio means Domain in Spanish.
The Forbidden Arts are a series of moves that use or sacrifice something equivalent, to gain something greater. The sacrifices are typically taboo, hence why the series of moves is called the Forbidden Arts. Self Volcanization is a limit-breaking technique, that will further be explained in the next chapter Kayed is fighting :D
Next chapter drops on May 5th. After volume 1, I plan on taking a month break, to extend the backlog for volume 2, but there are still about 9-10 more chapters left so dw.
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