MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Oct 23 - 05:28 PM

While Rapparee is getting ready to loot and plunder,
let's get MOM up to the top of the queue.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 25 Oct 23 - 07:46 PM

They all have a price to look the other way. It might be gold or the skulls of their enemies or simply not having their home looted and burned to the ground.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 09:26 PM

Well Mom, you know that in six day I'm flying away from this hole in the mountains. First I will visit my family in the Midwest, and then I'm flying to Norway for another session of looting and plundering. The reason I'm going to see family is to take orders for the looting, etc. But I'll be able to check in now and then, so be careful, okay?

Subject: RE: MOAB's Daughter (of all BS) part 3
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Nov 23 - 07:27 PM

The new MOAB thread has a new location since an error message occurs if you try to post in this thread.

Subject: RE: BS: Mudcat spammed again
From: Donuel
Date: 06 Nov 23 - 06:12 AM

MOAB is next to fall into the SERVER ERROR abyss.

Wynken, Blynken, and Nod

NOT Eugene Field
1850 – 1895


With a wink, Blinken Nods one night
   Sailed off in a metal ship,—
Sailed on a river of crystal light
   Into a sea of Jews.
"Where are you going, and what do you wish?"
   The old man asked with glee.
"I have come WITH A NUCLEAR SUB
   That swims in this beautiful sea;
   Nets of silver and gold have we,"
            Said
            Blinken
            And Nods.
So shut your eyes while leaders sing
Of horrible fights that be,
And you shall dream of beautiful peace
   As you rock in the misty sea
   Where the old wars rocked the statesman speaks
            said
            Blinken,with a wink
            and a nod.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 25 Oct 23 - 05:32 PM

Looting and plundering is easy, it's the smuggling that's hard.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Oct 23 - 07:35 AM

When galaxies hug

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 24 Oct 23 - 07:16 AM

No more playing slip and slide on the stairs this trip.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 08:44 AM

I wouldn't have known if DARPA was involved but they are having a hard time finding volunteers for their 'ultimate torture' tests so they advertised in-house. This struck so many people as funny or a joke, that it got leaked.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 07:41 AM

Wouldn't you know it, DARPA is already working on battlefield applications for bottled hell.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 23 Oct 23 - 07:23 AM

Deep in the bowels of the CIA at Langly, there is an appendix lab that works on 'humane' torture. They have had a breakthrough in their development of a hybrid of Platypus venom combined with fire ant venom

The unequaled pain can last from 2 days to 2 weeks. It far exceeds pulling out fingernails, breaking thumbs, or burning out eyes yet does not significantly maim or cause death. It is being promoted as a humane political tool that works better than Putin's methods. The fact that not even morphine can relieve the pain is seen as its great advantage.
Technicians have nick-named it 'bottled hell'.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 31 Aug 23 - 09:58 AM

Hush now, you'll wake Mom.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 21 Oct 23 - 06:32 PM

Time to help MOM upstairs to the head of the queue.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 09:36 AM

Top of the queue again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Sep 23 - 06:17 PM

It will soon be Mudcat's birthday!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 23 Sep 23 - 02:49 PM

Today is 23 Sep 23 (see dates on posts).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 17 Sep 23 - 09:36 AM

Up to the top, MOM.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 14 Sep 23 - 03:37 PM

Top of the queue again.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 10 Sep 23 - 11:17 AM

Let's head upstairs, MOM.
Rapparee is at the mercy of the doctors at the moment.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 07 Sep 23 - 06:16 PM

I just saw a dragonfly, MOM.
It didn't come inside through the window, though.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 05 Sep 23 - 03:43 PM

Up you go, MOM.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 04 Sep 23 - 01:05 PM

Happy Labor Day, MOM.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Sep 23 - 10:39 AM

Rapparee, hope your holiday is happy and healthy (or healthier).

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 30 Aug 23 - 06:36 PM

I know a Dominican friar who teaches a course on the various ecumenical councils. But he is stationed in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
A former Novice Master and a lovely gentleman. Good confessor, as well.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Aug 23 - 04:59 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 12:21 PM

Thanks Maggie - I learn something new every day, even at my advanced age!

Subject: RE: MOAB - Changing Thread Title In-post
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 11:18 AM

Woweeee! I never realised it was possible until Don did it at 10:03 AM

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Oct 23 - 09:10 PM

I went along to get along, and my spurs went jingle jangle jingle, and I got them little dogies along.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Oct 23 - 05:21 PM

Galactic Overlords eat their young, kick puppies, and in general behave rather badly.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Oct 23 - 08:25 PM

Think what you like. The Galactic Overlord doesn't care. The GO only cares that you are protein.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 02 Oct 23 - 08:04 PM

Ain’t been doing mucha anything, Mom.. 48F and cloudy. I still have flowers in the porch railing boxes.    The Legion nailed one of the GOL’s larger battle ships last Saturday. NSA, NASA, USN, and all them sorts are freezing in the Arco Desert trying to recover something that ain’t there to find.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 22 Sep 23 - 08:16 PM

Mom, that's over. Now I'm just tired. Pat's off Sunday to the ASQG meeting in Louisville, so I'll be home alone for a week. This in a status that is not unknown to me, so I'll be up at the Legion Hovel whenever I get lonely or want a beer or just want to go see what the Legionaires are up to. Should be quite a bit of action soon, what with the total eclipse providing cover to another invasion attempt by the Galactic Overlord and all that.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Aug 23 - 09:48 PM

My friend Fred (Professor Emeritus in Theology, Santa Clara U.) sent me a 38 page bibliography. I anyone want to debate the necessity for a Council, let's say the Council of Jerusalem, let me know.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Rapparee
Date: 28 Aug 23 - 09:52 PM

Hi Mom!

Burned my left middle finger the other day taking a pan out of the oven. Now I have a nifty blister. Not to mention my visit to the dermatologist and the podiatrist today. Nothing major in either case.

I have two doctor visits and Pat only had one!! Only she had a xray and I didn't.

The Catholic Church here grabbed me and told me to teach a 45 minute class on the various ecumenical councils. This is the result of telling someone over a year ago that I thought Catholics needed to know what Vatican 2 said (lots of them seem not to know, or at least the ones I know seem to lack the knowledge). Rather than be declared anathema and never get to go into the Portneuf Valley Brewery again, I agreed to do it. Fortunately, the thing is held in said Brewery and and I have to spread the stuff for only 45 minutes while the audience swills good beer. If I get questions I can't answer I'll the asker to ask a priest instead of a retired librarian.

Having given life-long-learning classes people seem to like on topics which included the role of the steamboat in opening the American West, past pandemics, two on dueling, the Second Korean War, crime in Idaho 1840-1910, and others I guess they thought I'd be a good pick.

At least I'll do a better job that some of the folks here I could mention. Maybe I'll declare everyone who attends anathema maranantha and make them go to the Vatican to get it lifted. As you can tell, I've started.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 11:41 AM

He does it all of the time. And sometimes it happens when a moderator moves a post from one thread to another when it was accidentally posted in the wrong place. The old title moves along with everything else.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 10:43 AM

The Mordor portion of the galaxy is behind that portal, Don. That's quite a photo (rendered as it is by human-programmed computers, it might have come out differently, but that is very striking!)

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 30 Sep 23 - 01:08 PM

Maybe Gluon can fix this? "Excitement" is her middle name (what's her last name?)

Oops! US Space Force may have accidentally punched a hole in the upper atmosphere

The surprise rocket initially caught people's eye after creating an enormous exhaust plume that could be seen from more than 1,000 miles (1,600 kilometers) away. But after the plume dissipated, a faint red glow remained in the sky, which is a telltale sign that the rocket created a hole in the ionosphere — the part of Earth's atmosphere where gases are ionized, which stretches between 50 and 400 miles (80 and 645 km) above Earth's surface — Spaceweather.com reported. . . .Rockets create ionospheric holes when fuel from their second stages burns in the middle part of the ionosphere, between 125 and 185 miles (200 and 300 km) above Earth's surface, Live Science previously reported. At this height, the carbon dioxide and water vapor from the rocket's exhaust cause ionized oxygen atoms to recombine, or form back into normal oxygen molecules. This process excites the molecules and leads them to emit energy in the form of light. This is similar to how auroras form, except the dancing lights are caused by solar radiation heating up gases rather than their recombination.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Sep 23 - 10:30 AM

I remember sending my first email. It was in 1996 to an English professor about an assignment. We still had gopher and lynx on the campus internet.

Times have changed.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Oct 23 - 01:31 PM

Is a contrary contrarian someone who goes along to get along?

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 17 Oct 23 - 12:54 PM

You see, GO's recognize our species as still intrinsically dependent on wilderness and wilderness rules. They on the other hand, living in artificial and bounded environments developed a different life plan for survival.

Our mistake could be called anthropomorphic, projecting our feelings and understanding on other species.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Oct 23 - 07:10 AM

It is a mistake to judge the GO by human standards. The boys upstairs have very different intentions and uncontrolled impulses. An extra billion years of evolution makes a big difference.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Oct 23 - 02:35 PM

Furthermore, the GO do care and only understand us too well.
Nearly every answer we derive eventually needs changing. The GO have seen this and even recognizes we are most invested in the mystery and not the conclusion. They have maintained the mystery for our benefit, sometimes at great sacrifice or risk.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 09 Oct 23 - 07:05 AM

That is misinformation from the 1960s. GOs don't need protein. While we run on ATP Adenosine Triphosphate, They run on 110 volts. For dessert, they make a delicious iron-based mousse from cattle blood.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Oct 23 - 10:29 AM

Epiphaney's come in all shapes and sizes but a barrier to discovery are those without curiosity who are as good as dead. Other barriers we probably all have are self-assurance based on limited data and/or fear.

Some folks do crosswords and Wordle for mental exercise, but I write therefore I am.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 12:17 PM

Einstein experienced deep time when he felt the merging of past present and future with such awe, he called it just 'being' in the most profound sense of the word. He was so close to the missing element of physics that I suspect he was too embarrassed to admit the obvious. That sense of deep time can also be called the sacred awe.
You may find it at the nexus of science and religion in an authentic consciousness.

Seeing completely is a symptom of this special consciousness.
You could watch a flower and a fly walking about when a hummingbird, with the wind and flutter of its wings buffeting the flower but the fly does not fly away by instinct. Instead, it stays on the flower as if it sees the hummingbird as no threat and reasons that it need not dart away.

One has to look for consciousness in all life to see it. Where you see deeply you may be surprised but you are not crazy. You are just seeing with renewed eyes. What might come along with seeing deeply, no matter how big or small, can be the surprise of how unconscious some people can be.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of New Physics
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Oct 23 - 10:03 AM

Most of us are aware that not even Einstein could unite Quantum Mechanics with General Relativity. Something fundamental was missing.
For a couple hundred years smallism dominated the search to find ever more fundamental qualities of the universe. The rabbit hole of smallism is string theory and is stuck in the complexity of multiple dimensions of an unknown number.

Maxwell found that electromagnetism could not be explained by the fundamentals of mass, energy and space so he sought fundamental laws for just EM. He gave us the fundamental equations that only deal with electrodynamics. In a similar way we need to apply this fundamental search for only the missing/uniting qualities of the universe.

That search brings us to the crazy idea in which we are all immersed, like water is to fish. That fundamental quality is Consciousness. Some scientists cried 'This is impossible since science is objective and consciousness is subjective'. Of course, materialistic science is objective but look at the clues of quantum mechanics with all possible paths.

A theory of consciousness is emerging slowly today with the help of Penrose and others but the idea has been around for a very long time.
The theories so far apply to any place where information is transferred. New organelles of brain tissue are demonstrating the theory of panpsychism when two organelles fuse together on their own.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Oct 23 - 06:39 AM

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2310/Hourglass_HubblePathak_1080.jpg

Subject: BS: What science forgot
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 07:40 PM

consciousness

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 03 Oct 23 - 06:44 PM

As long as we do not know how to SLIGHTLY phase out of current time while still hiding in plain sight, we will never find GOLs.

Subject: RE: MOAB - Mother of All BS [annex]
From: Donuel
Date: 01 Oct 23 - 08:37 AM

Of the 715 atmospheric nuclear 'tests', 20 were high-altitude nuclear explosions as immense as 1,400 megatons.

This resulted in more cancer, atmospheric damage and some issues that have proved too controversial for some people here to believe.
The EMP from one such 'test' resulted in a total blackout in Hawaii.