Last month we were on Long Island walking through graveyards searching for my wife’s relatives. There were 19 cemeteries, and that was a pared back list. It took several days. As we finished up with one cemetery [Babylon Rural] I noticed off in the corner a recent addition (most of these cemeteries go back centuries) and so checked it out.

Note: It is all by itself. Most people prefer burial with other family members – in fact, that is most of what we saw in the cemeteries we visited – family plots. The fact that this grave is in a detached corner with boundary fences behind it indicates that Timothy’s family were not too particular about where he was buried. Off in a corner all by himself is a little undignified.

Continue reading “An invented man … or … one given a new identity?” →

This video, which I cannot embed due to lack of expertise, comes from Fakeologist, and Ab Irato, the host. Ab posts a great deal of important stuff, and mostly without comment. He interviews a large number of people, doing four or five shows a week, usually of extended length. He has interviewed me on occasion, and I am always surprised at how much fun it is to talk to him. He knows stuff, but usually reduces that knowledge into a brief phrase or even one word, such as “Covaids”. That speaks volumes.

His blog is multi-faceted, and I usually go to this page, daily now as I have abandoned some of my usual stops. But if you go to the introductory page, you will have access to the full treatment of his wanderings.

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The story on this little R2D2-like device is that it was lifted off Earth in 2016 and then traveled to Asteroid Bennu, orbited there in 2018, landed on the asteroid, gathered samples, and then flew back to Earth, ditching the device in Utah. The journey was 3.86 billion miles and the carrier spacecraft traveled at 27,650 miles per hour. Continue reading “Asteroid tales” →

Note to readers: This post originally appeared in 2019, and has in it evidence that Apollo 11 was severely under-powered, and had no astronauts or space capsule aboard. It was merely ditched in the Atlantic, its sole purpose to fulfill JFK’s 1961 pledge to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. It does not address the Apollo 12-17, which never left lower earth orbit, but were on some other mission, the supposed moon landings part of what Neil Armstrong called “Truth’s Protective Layers.”
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Few of us remember the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs that led to Apollo 11, the one that landed men on the moon. So mention of Apollo 6 is not going to ring any bells. This mission, unmanned, was a test of the Saturn 5 rocket engines, and was fraught with difficulties. The destination was low earth orbit (LEO), and the entire craft suffered from “pogo oscillations,” or a vibration that would eventually cause mission failure if not remedied. Think of driving down the highway with a bad tire.Eventually the vibrations will cause other failures.

Continue reading “Apollo 11: Something went somewhere” →