What if Death Is Not the End?

 

First, before we get to that topic, talk about flight 370.   The official word is now that the flight plan computer was tampered with and reprogrammed to send the plane on an altered course.  No random hijacker could have just broken in and ceased control of the levers and started taking the plane every which way.  In fact normally a flight is programmed in for auto pilot for example, even if there is some mechinical system failure, the plane would continue in its pre set flight plan.  So whoever did it had to be well versed in computer programming.  I want to talk about the radar.  I'm going to tell you everything I know about radar tracking planes in flight- - and please no jokes about "Well then, it must be a short lecture".   We know that radar can locate both the radial or "longitudinal" direction of a flight- - but also compute the distance by the delay in the signal send back factor, which would have to be measured in cintillas of a second.  Don't ask me how they have instruments that precise but they do.  If you triangulate a signal, meaning more than one signal source, then the distance and location of the craft be pinpointed with exactitude, because triamgulation at those high frequencies is very accurate.  You astronomers know about "apparent" or relative magnitude.  This is that a bright dot could either be a very large conductive object, or a pretty close one.  You have heard them say a plane's speed can only be gauged if the transponder is working but I read the tea leaves differently.  Now days they have doppler radar to tell you if the target is advancing or retreating.  Now if you get a negatori on the doppler- - you can conclude one of three things.  The plane is hovering perfectly stationery in mid air, which is unlikely.  Or the plane is on a ninety degree course to the right or to the left in a straight line.  Now assuming a zero doppler reading on the first signal- - - if you pick a source to the "right" by X miles- - and THAT signal picks up the plane 45 degrees to the left of the first signal- - you can obviously trangulate- - but if the doppler reading on THAT radar says the craft is approaching at 450 miles per hour, you can do a little fast trig calculation and divide that number by .707  (I know, another plug for Boeing) and come up with something in the six hundred miles per hour range- - and know the craft is flying exactly ninety degrees to the right on a line perpendicular to the first reading.  While altitude cannot be calculated, there are certain altitudes that can be ruled out.  In terms of the size of the craft for one- - a higher frequency bean will give you reduced RF or decibel power- - but increased exactitude as to picking the thing up at all and a higher frequency signal will pick out a much smaller speck of conductivity than a lower hertz signal will.  But you keep in mind the curviture of the earth - - too.  Because in addition to a higher frequency signal "fading out" due to sheer lack of RF power- - the curviture of the Earth comes up into play setting up tangentally generated triangular "wedges" of dead or dark zones where the craft can fly undetected.  Depending on the distance (always the same on this planet anyhow) you can acertain what altitude the plane is NOT flying Lower than or conversely if you Don't pick up a signal but you believe the plane is there- - you know the craft is not flying any Higher than it particular point on the triangular wedge.  You got it now?

I'm not happy to see the President of the United States being trashed daily by people like Sean Hannity.  But on the other place I too am and have been disgusted with President Obama's spineless behavior in so many areas.  He has an inflated oppinion of his own words and his own speeches.  He should know his believability factor is down near zero.  As you know Pete Richards one said to me "One strength the President has is delivering a good speech" to which I objected and said "If he were really that gifted of an oritor, his poll numbers wouldn't be so Low".   The president apparently has never played any game involving strategy be it checkers, poker or bridge.  Maybe he's so dumb he doesn't know a very elementary secret to not getting clobbered as a novice in Space Invaders.  He'd flunk out as a salesman.  He seemingly never learned how to (how can I put this delicately)  - - - Play People - - not necessarily in an evil sense but just prudent social skills where you put your finger in the air and test the winds- - the vibes.  Does the president know for example jury psychology in a court room (which shouldn't be necessary but it is)  Does he know how to time and pace himself and "peak" at the right moment?  Is this president able to listen to diverse input and balance it all and chose the course that not only will afford the must success playing the odds and "going with the tides of events" but also a course that doesn't involve a sheer "Selling out" of all of your most personally held values and precepts?   Maybe this is what Sean Hannity was driving at today.  Even at that, it is our job as American Citizens to uphold and support this President as we support the interests of the United States, which is a concept the Tea Party people seem to have completely forgotten.

To say that "Death is not the end" many people may call "old news".  But I'll tell you why you should take note, perhaps something you never even thought of.  Most people whether they realize it or not believe in a Soul Sleep theory after death.  For all practical purposes- - you'll "never see them again" while you live.  They can't contact you and you can't contact them.  Portions of the Bible say to even Attempt to contact them is Witchcraft or Necromancy or something horribly sinful like that.  The only "sensient beings out there" meaning "capable of interracting and responding" are either Angelic or Demonic beings, and only these to most people consider something other than Mortal, as all flash is considered Mortal and the Bible itself labels as Mortal- - meaning that life comes to an end.  People look for an "End of Days" or what they might call the "Beginning of Eternity" or the "Beginning of the Next World' or perhaps "Next Age" but it could be a hundred or a thousand or millions and millions of years off, and perhaps longer than that.  You needn't interrupt your smoking of a cigarette for fear of missing it- - - is my point.  People assume that Death is "the great reliever" and that without the mortal body- - there is no occasion remaining for imperfection or "Sin" and so many see death as "Salvation" even if they don't believe in the Cross.  I now maintain this is a misguided notion.  In the first place think about.  If your loved ones were alive- - - would they not want to contact you to assure you "Everything is All Right".  Especially if they were "Saved" and you were not, the only Christian thing to do, particularly for a loved one is to Reach Out and try to Save them.  But people like Neil of KFI say this never happens.  Whether the person who passed away was your best friend or your worst dreaded Enemy- - all communacation or direct knowledge about them Now - - directly - - - Ceases.  In the eyes of most people including most Christian.  It's as though their whole being "Ceases to exist".  It would be like vaporizing the Santa Monica mountains by some sort of UFO ray gun, leaving only flat ground, for example.  Can people have "issues with their Soul" not related to circumstance or the physical environment or their physical body?  I would say they can and do.  Hence- - - Corrupt Souls can and do exist "out there' in my oppinion.  There ARE certain realities like "Certain people are just Good - - and certain people are just Evil".   Let me give you an illustration of this.  One evangelist once said "When you get Saved and join the Church- - many people out there just do their same business on the other side of the street".  That is - - if you were passive agressive before- - you've be passive agressive in the church - - if you were manipulative and controling- -before- - you'll be that way now, just finding another way to express it.  People who are sex addicts- - just have to be a little more cleaver about it.  That's all.  People who were bullies before are bullies now, just using different "methodology to express their emotional needs".   People who were indecisive before will continue to be indecisive now.   People who were flakes before will continue to be flakes- - but now they have a whole set of new ways, perhaps even envoking God's name- - to cover their flakiness.  Personally I don't see how either the cross or the blood of Christ has a diddly doo to do with it.

In terms of Cosmic rock group origins - we continue with the "bird people" or Falcolns - which is the Federation name for them, we can expand this roster of groups and pip hits to a much larger figure than before.  For instance- -  Paul Anka is in this group - one of the most longstanding - - -and so is Bobby Rydel - - with the lone exception of "Sway With Me" with a back-story we've gone into before.  (The whole Bajoran thing)   Bobby Derin- - at least four radio hits- - starting with Dream Lover, of course, but also "Mack, the Knife" "Somewhere Accross the Sea" and "Artificial Flowers".  Frankie Avelon has always been aknoledged as in this group.  "Now It Begins" the first song to employ phase shift in the sound reproduction- - is another.  Of course we have the "Flamingos" and Johnny Mathas - - who may in fact be the proto type, being around the longest. However one artist I thought was on this list we can remove- - namely "Johnny Angel" by Shelly Frabes.  It so happens she, along with Paul Peterson of "She Can't Find Her Keys' fame- - are Aldeberan A's.   If you confuse that with "Aldeberan Eights" don't get bothered over it.  Aldeberan A's are located on Aldeberan VIII.  And by the way the Monkees are an Aldeberan "A" group too, for you slightly younger people like me.