On this record 43rd day of the government shutdown, the House, after a 54-day recess, will finally vote to restart. President Donald Trump will sign this legislation.
- Sure Trump knew about Epstein and underage girls, but did The Donald also participate?
- It was in Trump's first term that this brouhaha gained notice, and you would think that any documents of his involvement were deleted then.
- So any demands for more details from the White House now, as is being demanded by Democrats, will not provide any condemning information. But why, then, is this being withheld?
- Then again, maybe Elon Musk found something, or the Biden administration somehow snuck away incriminating evidence.
- I asked Google AI to count the number of Epstein "survivors," and the feedback was more than 1000. However, the Miami Herald only identified around 80 underage victims between 2001 and 2006. These survivors are now represented by lawyers, and are the ones capable of causing the most damage.
- More than ever, Trump cannot afford allowing the mid-term elections to proceed, for losing the House will only worsen his position on this scandal.
- History mentions that Galileo Galilei in 1610 with his telescope saw a Moon covered with craters and mountains, other planets and that the Milky Way was made of countless stars. But his conclusion was that what he was seeing was due to refraction of the Earth's atmosphere.
- In 1785, William Herschel showed our Solar System close to the center of the Milky Way, which is not so.
- It took until 1920 when Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis debated at the U.S. National Museum in Washington, D.C.:
It concerned the nature of so-called spiral nebulae and the size of the universe. Shapley believed that these nebulae were relatively small and lay within the outskirts of the Milky Way Galaxy (then thought to be the center or entirety of the universe), while Curtis held that they were in fact independent galaxies, implying that they were exceedingly large and distant. A year later the two sides of the debate were presented and expanded on in independent technical papers under the title "The Scale of the Universe".
- In 1923, Edwin Hubble, using the Mount Wilson observatory Hooker telescope, said that the Andromeda Nebula was too distant to be part of the Milky Way.
- The Galactic Center lies in the direction of Sagittarius, where the Milky Way is brightest.
- The hazy band appears to pass around to the galactic anticenter in Auriga, then continues the rest of the way back to Sagittarius, dividing the sky into two roughly equal hemispheres.
- The galactic plane is inclined by about 60 degrees to the ecllptic (the path of the Sun), and is tilted at an angle of 63 degrees to the celestial equator.
- For example, they are still guessing whether there are 200 billion or 400 billion stars in this galaxy. Too much dust to be certain.
- Until very recently, scientists thought there were between 100-200 billion galaxies. Today, 2 trillion galaxies in our observable universe. Oh, at this time, it is believed that only 5% of our universe is observable.
- While at one time there was speculation that the diameter of our galaxy was as large as 200 thousand light years. However, in recent years, this number seems to be settling at "only" 100 thousand light years.
- How physically large is that?
- If you have a way of flashing a light at one end of our galaxy, it would take 100,000 years to travel to the other end.
- A grand distance of 588,000,000,000,000,000 miles. A trillion has 12 zeros, while a quadrillion has 15. So the diameter of our galaxy is 588 quadrillion miles. This is a meaningless number, too large to be appreciated.
- So let me try to make sense using this time period of 100,000 years. 100,000 years ago, Planet Earth consisted of multiple species: Homo sapiens in Africa, Neanderthals in Eurasia, Homo floresiensis in Southeast Asia, Homo habilis and Homo erectus.
- It was 6,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia when the first civilization formed.
- The current belief is that there is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, nearly 4 million times more mass than our Sun.
- Are we insignificant?
- Let's start with the current fact that our Milky Way Galaxy is one of 40 trillion galaxies in the universe. Did the math, dividing 2 trillion by 5%.
- Our Sun is one of at least 200 billion stars in our galaxy.
- Say life can most likely exist in an earth-like environment.
- There are estimates of hundreds of billions earth-type planets in our galaxy and a sextillion or more in the observable universe.
- Of course, no reason why life couldn't flourish in the subsurface oceans of Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus.
- But we are the only life we know of in our universe.
- Our accident could possibly be the only one that occurred.
- But it is more and more appearing that it's only a matter of time when Artificial Intelligence will make biological life unnecessary.
- So while Homo sapiens might well seem insignificant with logic, we might well be the only intelligent life ever to evolve, and if AI is to flourish, this could be the only hope for expanding intelligence throughout the universe. We did our part and were indispensable.
- Created by Frank Mars in 1923 for Mars, with chocolate supplied by Hershey.
- Not named after after the astronomical galaxy, but the then popular milk drink in Minneapolis, a milkshake.
- Made of nougat and caramel covered with chocolate. By the way, the global Milky Way bar has no caramel. They look different, with the global version at the bottom.
- Mars failed twice before creating this creamy nougat of whipped egg whites, sugar syrup and malted flavoring. This one succeeded because it was cheaper than solid chocolate.
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