MooPig Story Teller's Minute :: "This is my Riff on Babushka"

Let’s call this one the Babushka's Paradox.
Re-run Son of a Gun Pat Darnell  |  OCT 20, 2015  |  Bryan TX

If I have many thoughts roaming in my head while I watch the grass grow in Bryan/College Station, and I feel that any action I take will require money, I simply do not take any action. If I feel the action is warranted then maybe I will act, and if it is pending with danger Post-its all over it, then I will have to act regardless.

This is the definition of my tension, and stress. My life as married man is: commiserating with corollary of need and accomplishment. Sustenance of the married man: sex shat shower shave, and after that limerick of self-preserving, the toil is in finding tricks for staying ahead of the children and pets in their constant shape shifting and urges to emerge.

Babushka was in turmoil because her accomplished ability of preparing for the needs of the present bled over into her future on a tragic basis. She would clean house, organize and prepare for the event to be, but to a degree of neglect of self. I know all mature parents know what I am speaking of.

Because Babushka never factored in the need to sleep after toiling over floors, cabinets and recipes, she fell asleep and missed the camel train to Bethlehem. Our wise men were reticent to wake her the next morning, and left at sun up without her. She then arrived too late to see the swaddled newborn son of man, as she just missed them in their flight from genocide.

It turns out, my present and future plan is to continue as a bureaucrat ossifying in my own bona fide capacity. I will regard my toil as the continued management of the project of married male with children, dog and companion. The bones we pick over now will assuredly be of use to others in the future. I very much look forward to fully confusing readers in the near past, with my spectrum of waiting, watching and pretty much being what I have been.

You see all the projects will have been completed in the multiplicity of our time traveling. So I am not stressed as before about finishing all the tasks, rather I ponder the completion of dreams through the children. >>pd

MooPig Art History NanoSecond Department :: "Sigfried Giedion"

If you have ever had a question in your mind of how the environment of cities came to be, you might look into reading this nice book. You will just have to take our word for it. Sigfried Giedion was an Art Historian who lived at the turn of the century, 1900. His contemporaries invented Organic Architecture,  FLW and Alvar Aalto, and le Corbusier, and city scapes. This book on Modernism compares art, sculpture, and architecture as he explains his environment in a good way.

His 900 page book Space, Time, and Architecture -- The Growth of a New Tradition was recently [Sep 2008] investigated in the thesis shown in the attached reference LINK. The book was introduced in its first publication in 1941.

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___________________Reference
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609934/index
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199547.Space_Time_and_Architecture

MooPig Time / Space Department :: "CIA: The mysterious Area 51 exists!"

Area 51 is no longer an Island
Retrieved by Pat Darnell  |  Oct 22, 2013  |  Bryan TX

[Picture LINK]

" ... In 2010, James Noce, who said he did contract security work at the site in the 1960s and 1970s, told The Seattle Times that he used to get paid in cash, signing a phony name to the receipt.

Noce, then 72, told the newspaper that he had attended the first-ever public reunion in 2009 of former Area 51 workers.

"I was doing something for the country," Noce says about those three years in the 1960s. "They told me, 'If anything should ever come up, anyone asks, 'Did you work for the CIA?' Say, 'Never heard of them.' ... "But [my buddies] know." (Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY 2:37 p.m. EDT August 16, 2013. LINK) ..."

So you want closure to the mystery of Area 51? I think you might get better results checking into Area 52 -- that's what MooPig calls the Bush's Texas ranch out here near Crawford, TX. All those Area 51 secrets are dying out as the workers who populated Area 51 are elderly, and many not around anymore.

Most people don't tell stories about the guys who sign their paychecks. Area 51 is shrouded in secrecy and has not been tapped by some of the craftiest journalists over the last 75 years. Even President Clinton tried to get access to Area 51 documents, only to be told his security clearance is not high enough.

That is why MooPig Time / Space Department might try to ask Russians what really went on at Area 51. It seems to work that way: if you want to know the "real story" in America, you have to go to foreign news outfits.

Thus, why now is it disclosed, that:

" ... CIA: The mysterious Area 51 exists!: "George Washington University's National Security Archive obtained a CIA history of the U-2 spy plane program through a public records request and released it Thursday. National Security Archive senior fellow Jeffrey Richelson reviewed the history in 2002, but all mentions of Area 51 had been redacted."

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" ... After nearly five decades, guys like James Noce finally get to tell their stories about Area 51.

Yes, that Area 51.

The one that gets brought up when people talk about secret Air Force projects, crashed UFOs, alien bodies and, of course, conspiracies.

The secrets, some of them, have been declassified. (Erik Lacitis. March 27, 2010. LINK) ... "

SUMMARY
"...[Countries] that give higher priorities to its military ambitions and defense initiatives ... America, Russia, China, India, UK, France, Germany, Japan, Israel, South Africa and Brazil ... have active research efforts ..."

CONCLUSION
I'm sick of hearing about Area 51.


___________________________Reference
http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/military/declassified-documents-lift-shroud-over-u-2-area-51
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/08/16/area-51-cia/2663829/
http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2011461015_area51vets28m.html
http://natgeotv.com/uk/area-51-i-was-there/area-51-the-worst-kept-secret-around
http://www.trutv.com/conspiracy/paranormal/ufo-sites-secret-military-bases-area-51-haarp-russia-nsa/photos.html?curPhoto=beyond-area-51
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2000/apr/18/at-last-a-glimpse-of-area-51/
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/10/us/quiet-town-on-et-road-using-lure-of-ufo-s.html
http://www.8newsnow.com/story/3369879/bob-lazar-the-man-behind-area-51
http://www.disclose.tv/forum/what-do-russia-china-and-india-know-about-area-51-t36424.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51

Space: SETI: The Drake Equation --the Number of Communicating ET's

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Jan 15, 2012 | Bryan TX

Space: SETI: The Drake Equation:
Description:
The Drake Equation was developed by Frank Drake in 1961 as a way to focus on the factors which determine how many intelligent, communicating civilizations there are in our galaxy. The Drake Equation is:

N = N* fp ne fl fi fc fL

N* represents the number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy

• Question: How many stars are in the Milky Way Galaxy?
• Answer: Current estimates are 100 billion.

fp is the fraction of stars that have planets around them

• Question: What percentage of stars have planetary systems?
• Answer: Current estimates range from 20% to 50%.

ne is the number of planets per star that are capable of sustaining life

• Question: For each star that does have a planetary system, how many planets are capable of sustaining life?
• Answer: Current estimates range from 1 to 5.

fl is the fraction of planets in ne where life evolves

• Question: On what percentage of the planets that are capable of sustaining life does life actually evolve?
• Answer: Current estimates range from 100% (where life can evolve it will) down to close to 0%.

fi is the fraction of fl where intelligent life evolves

• Question: On the planets where life does evolve, what percentage evolves intelligent life?
• Answer: Estimates range from 100% (intelligence is such a survival advantage that it will certainly evolve) down to near 0%.

fc is the fraction of fi that communicate

• Question: What percentage of intelligent races have the means and the desire to communicate?
• Answer: 10% to 20%

fL is fraction of the planet's life during which the communicating civilizations live

• Question: For each civilization that does communicate, for what fraction of the planet's life does the civilization survive?
• Answer: This is the toughest of the questions. If we take Earth as an example, the expected lifetime of our Sun and the Earth is roughly 10 billion years. So far we've been communicating with radio waves for less than 100 years. How long will our civilization survive? Will we destroy ourselves in a few years like some predict or will we overcome our problems and survive for millennia? If we were destroyed tomorrow the answer to this question would be 1/100,000,000th. If we survive for 10,000 years the answer will be 1/1,000,000th.

When all of these variables are multiplied together when come up with: N, the number of communicating civilizations in the galaxy.

The real value of the Drake Equation is not in the answer itself, but the questions that are prompted when attempting to come up with an answer. Obviously there is a tremendous amount of guess work involved when filling in the variables. As we learn more from astronomy, biology, and other sciences, we'll be able to better estimate the answers to the above questions. Many of these questions will be addressed in depth in future issues of Enigma.
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Frank Drake :: In 1963 Drake took a short-lived position at the Jet Propulsion Lab and later that year he took a position at Cornell's Center for Radiophysics and Space Research. Two years later he accepted the directorship of the Cornell run Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Drake and his family returned to Cornell in 1968.
__________________Reference
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30609189#.TxPGn28S2Pw
http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/seti/drake_equation.html

MooPig Welcomes you to Syllabic syndicate consort... Or a game of Hang Man, sort of

MooPig's Lesson Plan Department
Subject: Paradox of the Paramecium as a single cell thing

Assumptions: Assume no Socio-political factors, and Cultural differences do not factor. And let’s just conjure up a fantasy that every-thing in the known universe enjoys playing “Hangman” in some capacity.

Also assume there actually is a theory of everything, TOE, posing as a singularity for our universe, and that rules of hangman apply throughout, no deviations.

So you have a hang man game for the hang paramecium. The single cell has no limbs so the word in play can only be a single item. Could it be a single letter as traditional hang man goes, or is it a single syllable, or is it part of a singularity theorem of single cell-ism? Start Playing:


"Let's see... ummm... 'S'?"

"Nope."

"Squeeeeky... gleeeeck.. zzz.. phhht!"


"Thwummmp!"







Oops; the paramecium is already hung. Any next step will be disastrous, because it will alter either the game rules or the critter's carnage. Complications are eminent: as the game and the subject start to lose their purity of form and function in time and space.

Questions:

1. If placed in a noose, the paramecium alone cannot tolerate more than one move in the game?
2. Does a paramecium ever have extra stuff, like limbs or flanges, that can be added to keep it alive on the gallows, while the game is played out?
3. Do parameciums ever get together in a conjugal, creative way to maybe keep the game going by joining forces before dying?
4. Besides leaving us mystified, confused and bewildered, what is the solution, Hoosier?

Discussion -- What is most important:
Yes and no, so the discussion will go. Between just us, can you imagine the conjecture around this ridiculous scheme if this ever leaked out to usgov.com? [do you think.. naw] I believe in the end wrap up when the TOE comes due, there will be many gaps in the body of knowledge left by all us humans, I mean as in "large chunks" missing. Our BOK, body of knowledge, is a body of unfinished business, for sure.

Conclusion: Hanging paramecium is commuted to a sentence of life with parole, not just because it was a hung jury, the judge reputedly is jung as well.

Postscript: Okay, so what? Well, it is this kind of thinking that always gets me into trouble with my friends and family. At this point they are collectively saying: "Why are you wasting our time with this Bull Crappe?" [I can actually hear them in my head right now!]

So instead of continuing with the stale, over-extended, mantra “Everything Matters” I am adopting in my old age a slicker LaSalle Street adage: “Everything that Matters.” It is now an exploration of finding what’s most important today, which is in most cases is the ability to determine "what." I euphemistically think you know what I'm steering toward --

What..

• draws your attention..
• core developments are powering change..
• greases the gears..
• stops the erosion?

That's my report from the middle, where thin is out, fat is in, and none of us are bi-coastal. >pd