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Dogs of Wall Street mold a collapse
Trillions to the haves
More poor, more more.

Watchdogs silent
To speak breaks the flow,
Silence is golden. More, more.

A madman spouts mad talk
Half for, half against
The other half gets more, more.

A bug is loose, what to do?
Keep it going, more, more.
Millions dead, more, more.

Now the dogs are out
Shouting no more, no more
Finally the comfortable thunder.




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A million people just died in the US who didn’t need to die because authorities withheld information about the effectiveness of respirators and mislead everyone into doing risky, dangerous things that killed them.

What happens next?

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It’s simple, it seems, the Golden Rule
Understood by all, even a fool
But not so fast, think this through
You don’t want to be the fool, too
There’s more to the story, even in its simplest
Imagine reciprocation with a devoted masochist.




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Retro SciFi of the Week…

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

Released during the height of MacCarthyism when many in Hollywood and government had lost their jobs and half the country was in a furor trying to find “subversives” under every rock, this film reflected the popular mood during that time. However, the other half of the country was appalled at the witch hunters for trampling on civil rights.

It’s uncertain whether the film was advocating for the witch hunt or mocking it. The filmmakers continued to deny that it was anything more than a thriller science fiction flim.

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Two Democratic bureaucrats remove five Republican candidates (who did nothing wrong) from the primary ballot for governor in Michigan.

The US used to be a democracy.

detroitnews.com/story/news/pol

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A viewing tip for those of you who have not seen it before...

Make sure you are not in a hurry when you watch it. This film progresses very slowly. There are no real action sequences or anything like that. If you're used to seeing modern scifi with lots of space battles and rapid cuts, you'll really need to slow down for this one. It's deliberate and pensive. Just think of it as meditation or something, and take your time.

p.s. - In case you haven't heard, this is the greatest science fiction film ever made.

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Gravity is not a force, it's a warping of spacetime (mostly a warping of time). It's actually a correlation of those (as explained by general relativity), but it's uncertain which causes which, or if there is another variable that causes each of those.

Here are a couple of videos that do a decent job of explaining how the warping of time makes space "flow" into a massive object.

How does gravity warp the flow of time?
youtube.com/watch?v=GKD1vDAPkF

Does time cause gravity?
youtube.com/watch?v=UKxQTvqcpS

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I wrote that quote from memory...

The exact quote was, "Well HAL, I'll be damned if I can find anything wrong with it."

Also, that pic I found was not from that scene when Bowman said that line, it's from the scene when HAL was doing the crew psych evaluations.

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Index for Movies of the Week

Dec 2021

Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)
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Jan 2022

Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)
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Forbidden Planet
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Silent Running (1972)
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Feb 2022

Andromeda Strain (1971)
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Soylent Green (1973)
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A Trip to the Moon (1902)
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A Taste of Armageddon (1967)
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Mar 2022

The Absent Minded Professor (1961)
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The Bicentennial Man (1999)
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War of the Satellites (1958)
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I, Robot (2004)
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Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe: Doom of the Dictator (1940)
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Apr 2022

Tron (1982)
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Starship Troopers (1997)
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Godzilla (1954)
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12 to the Moon (1960)
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May 2022

The Time Machine (1960)
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Contact (1997)
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The Atomic Submarine (1954)
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2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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Retro SciFi of the Week…

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

“I’ll be damned if I can find anything wrong with it, HAL.”

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Please say a prayer for the parents, family and friends of all of the children who have died from COVID-19 in the US and around the world.

(So far, 1,062 children have died from COVID-19 in the US;
data as of May 18, 2022 ; data.cdc.gov/widgets/9bhg-hcku)

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Television science documentaries are five minutes of information crammed into a two-hour presentation.

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This video is a portion of the presser this morning (May 23, 2022) with Japanese PM Fumio Kishida and Biden.

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Biden said US would get involved militarily to defend Taiwan if China attacks.

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Has anyone ever owned a Chinese-made flashlight that lasted for more than a month before breaking?

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Who put a B00B in my hash?

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This one’s way above my pay grade, so I’m really not sure. However, if it comes to choosing between Turkey or Sweden & Finland, that’s a no brainer. Two well developed, long-standing democracies versus a country with a lousy human rights record, teetering on becoming a dictatorship.

Also, going forward for the rest of this century, the Arctic will become much more strategically significant as the polar ice melts away, freeing up resources and navigation. Meanwhile Turkey’s geographic importance will wane as oil and gas goes away and pipeline routes and tanker navigation become less important.

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In case any of you are ignorant about Jean-Pierre’s education and career qualifications:

- New York Institute of Technology (BS)
- Columbia University (MPA)
- Lecturer, Columbia University School of International Public Affairs
- Southeast regional political director for Obama Presidential campaign
- Regional political director for the White House Office of Political Affairs, Obama administration
- National Deputy Battleground States Director for President Obama's 2012 re-election campaign
- Deputy campaign manager for the Martin O'Malley 2016 presidential campaign.
- MoveOn senior advisor and national spokesperson for the 2016 presidential election.
- Political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC.
- Senior advisor to the Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign.
- Chief of Staff for Kamala Harris as vice presidential nominee
- Principal Deputy Press Secretary, Biden Administration
- White House Press Secretary
- Center for Community and Corporate Ethics
- Karine Jean-Pierre is fluent in English, French, and Haitian Creole

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Congratulation to Karine Jean-Pierre on her promotion to White House Press Secretary.

Jean-Pierre is the first black woman and the first openly gay person to serve as White House Press Secretary.

Image: Karine Jean-Pierre at her first press briefing as White House Press Secretary; public domain image

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Retro SciFi of the Week…

The Atomic Submarine (1954)

Released in the same year that the first nuclear submarine was commissioned, this film has many of the classic features of 50’s science fiction – theremin music, corny dialogue, miniature model FX – but it’s also original within the genre with its unique subject matter and plot.

The film predicted underwater ICBM launches and submerged transit of the North Pole years before they would actually be achieved, and lots of other technical tidbits. It also predicted widespread use of merchant nuclear subs for trans-arctic commerce, which never happened.

It took less than two years for the US to construct the first nuclear sub, the USS Nautilus, which occurred just ten years after the first sustained nuclear chain reaction had been achieved. Ten years after the USS Nautilus was commissioned the US had a fleet of 26 nuclear subs. Today, with 70 years of experience building nuclear submarines, it takes the US more than 10 years to build a single nuclear sub.

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