Lies of the eyes

The above is a well-formed human skull. For most of us, this is what we have under our skin by age 20 or so, and will not change for the rest of our lives. Imagine this lies under all our faces.

Note a few things about this skull: The nose cavity is flush with the face, so that the human nose itself, made of flexible cartilage and other stuff, can be altered in appearance. It can be shortened or flattened, or a sharp piece of plastic can be inserted to make it pointier. Plastic surgeons often do this sort of thing.

But understand, the nose itself cannot be moved on the face. Bone structure prevents that.

Note the same with the ears – they too are made of cartilage and other stuff, and can be made smaller or be tucked. But their location on the head cannot be changed.

Most importantly for my purpose here, note the eye sockets. They too are in place by age twenty or so, and do not change throughout our lives*. They will always be in the same place on the head, and the distance between them will remain constant until death. They are, after all, bone material.

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Looking the penis in the face

Mark brings up points that he hasn’t researched and which you, Ray, have accepted at face value. The complete lack of curiosity among the disbelievers is simply staggering. Don’t you want to check if and what the response is to this seemingly earth-shattering claim: “Hey, oils and lubricants used on earth wouldn’t work in space. Gotcha!” As I said to Mark there are responses to every seeming anomaly, OK, Ray. Any seeming anomaly you care to think of there will be a response. I defy you to put forward a seeming anomaly that doesn’t have a response to it. Sure, you may not agree with the response but you need to be able to respond to it, not simply put forward what you think are compelling facts.

Look for an explanation first before holding up something in triumph first.

I’ve decided to put this comment up for scrutiny rather than write a long response to it in the overdone comment section of the post in which it appeared.

There’s a word used, one which I seldom use: “Fact.” I made the claim that there existed on Earth no known substance that could withstand the purported conditions on the Moon, wild swings in temperatures of as much as 500°F. NASA tells us that such substances must exist … after all, they transported machinery to the inhospitable environment of the Moon, and it functioned just fine, including cameras with finely engineered moving parts that depended on those parts moving at very high speeds to open and shut shutters and heavily gloved hands to advance the film. Also, we are told, the astronauts who landed on the moon entered this environment in latex suits that kept them warm and fully functioning throughout. They were not affected by cosmic radiation, so it must not be a problem up there.

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The potentially enormous benefits of AI

AI came in really handy for us this past weekend. We were about to travel to Casper, Wyoming, and needed to know what check-in time was for our motel. So I asked “What time is check-in-time for C’mon Inn in Casper, Wyoming?” The answer came back,  immediately: 4:00 PM. We could have called the motel or gone to the website, but AI is making our easy lives even easier than they were already.

And, of course, AI is telling us the truth about unimportant matters, while lying about the big stuff. Just like Wikipedia, Snopes, Google/Bing/Yahoo … that’s the marketing plan, to fill in details on stuff like celebrity birthdays and movies, and lie about important stuff, like Climate Change, wars, 9/11, and even now-insignificant things like Jonestown, Waco, and Tiananmen. I’ve argued with AI about, say Newton’s Third Law, and the impossibility that jet airliners could cause a skyscraper to implode (says AI: The airliner impact set about a vibration that eventually eroded the structure).  I have asked about the impossibility that astronauts could withstand radiation in space, especially the Van Allen belts (says AI, they just went really, really fast, and scooted right on through!). **

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American tourists gripped in State of Fear, forced to stay in complexes while sipping Piña coladas

I don’t have three hours and seven minutes to watch Jake the Awake carry on about the supposed uprising in Mexico these past few days. I knew it was fake. I did not know why it was staged, and still don’t.

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Stu Sutcliffe/Andy Warhol reviewed

[Note: This is a re-viewing of a 2017 piece I wrote … I have changed hardly a thing, and left the comments from then intact.]

IPart 1: The nature of the Beatles (reference The Beatles Never Existed (TBNE))

sutcliffe-2My assertion is that Stu Sutcliffe was an Intelligence asset who faked his death in 1961, and was reassigned the role of artist Andy Warhol. To understand this is useful to understand the context of both the Beatles, with whom Sutcliffe was supposedly the first bass player, and the art scene of that era, which was infiltrated by Intelligence to remove meaningful content from it.

I know now of at least five Beatles, that is, the “McCartney” twins, John, George and Ringo.  TBNE [a website at that time suggesting two groups of Beatles, each comprised of four body doubles or twins] insists on more than one George and Ringo as well. We’ve not done any research here on the matter, but I have spotted two Paul’s and a few body doubles too. Since I have tied this to their photographs as children, we think the evidence strong. (Note: I do not assume with any of these people, the Beatles or Sutcliffe, that we know their real names.)

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Pete Ham/Bill Maher and C versus CO versus CO2

Bill Maher is not the smartest guy around, but I am not criticizing him for that. Neither am I of notable intelligence. At age 75 going on 76, every evening as the sun sets I am visited with memories of dumb things, goofs and arrogance-related mistakes I have made. Those who have experienced NDEs, or near-death experiences speak of a life review that goes on before being sent back here to Plato’s Caveville. In my case, there is no need for that. I’ve already done it.

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OK. This is not about advertising. It’s about the Moon landings.

Moon landings is like a drug, it just hooks people. It so happened that the last post was not supposed to be about that subject, but why try!

OK, so let’s go there. But let’s take it up a level. There’s a whole lot of evidence of a suspicious nature, like the photographs. But they could have easily taken those after-the-fact. In that sense, they don’t validate or invalidate anything. The logistics were beyond my frame of reference. They say there were Van Allen belts, and then not to worry about them, all you have to do is go really fast! They say that there was not enough fuel aboard, but even with a pocket calculator, not available back then, I cannot do that arithmetic. They say that bombardment by cosmic rays could be fatal, but what if they are so intermittent that it was a chance worth taking? All of that, and more, taking a buggy just for a joy ride,  having a camera that was able to shoot the launch of the return voyage, ridiculously fake, and freakishly sullen astronauts on return … proves nothing.

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This is NOT about the moon landings! It’s about advertising.

This interview addressed below (link) is with Massimo Mazzucco, a photographer who, while speaking with an Italian accent, is very good at English too. Consequently, I can understand his words without the annoyance that comes with having to parse and think at the same time. His business is to debunk the debunkers – to claim that the moon landings were a hoax. There’s nothing new to discover, and no new ground broken, so Petra, our friend, please, this is not about that. I wanted to link to Fakeologist and Ab Irato since a while back I took a shot at Lynn Ertell, a regular there whom I find terribly annoying. This is a way of apology for me, to link to some of Ab’s good stuff.

So as not to single out Ertell, I am of a bent that very quickly gets annoyed at supposed experts on any subject who practice the art of obfuscation:

  1. Pose as an expert.
  2. Never answer a direct question directly.
  3. Control the forum. Interrupt as needed, talk over, misdirect, drone on endlessly.
  4. If you don’t like the question asked, answer another.

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The knockout punch

The older one gets, the more it becomes clear that it is a great mistake not to have been brilliant when very young. Difficult to arrange, I realize, but for the splendid saving of time it is to come into one’s intelligence early! Alexis the Tocqueville, who so handsomely did, is a case very much in point. He was not a traditional genius, at least not at the blazingly-high-IQ-learn-six-languages-while-writing-and-oboe-concerto-at-11-years-old sort of genius. The young Tocqueville was indeed a genius of perception, of the type that Henry James would describe as someone “on whom nothing is lost.” He was a man assailed by perceptions, observations, insights. Where others were confused by the jumble of life about them, he was fascinated by it; where they saw chaos, he perceived patterns. No phenomenon – be it a certain kind of personality, a common thread tying together a group, or the character of an institution – could pass before him without his working his way to a determination of its underlying cause, reason for being, ultimate significance. His was an intelligence organized for almost perpetual intellectual penetration. (Introduction to Democracy in America, by Alexis de Tocqueville, Bantam 2002 edition, by Joseph Epstein. Link to Gutenberg Book 1, Book 2)

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