?and funny things happening on the sun – Lots of new stuff is being discovered in space?right here in our own galaxy! One newly-discovered asteroid may have a somewhat mysterious origin. And a flurry of “fireballs” (the tiny meteors called Perseids that usually light up the sky in August) were seen in September?something that has only happened 3 times before in the last 100 years. And our SUN is making history!
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Note: This journal entry was posted on September 15 and accidentally deleted. It is now being re-posted.
Yes, indeed, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have just been bailed out to the tune of hundreds of billion dollars of debt that has been transferred right onto the backs of us, the American people. And now Lehman Brothers, after making–and pocketing–billions of dollars in profits by securitizing mortgages and other consumer loans, is about to be rescued to the tune of at least another thirty billion dollars of your debt.
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The Large Hadron Collider, also known asCERN, cost $10billion an is located on the border between France andSwitzerland. It wasactivated today. And don’t worry: A new report provides the mostcomprehensive evidence available to confirm that the LargeHadron Collider?s switch-on poses no threat to mankind:Nature’s own cosmic rays regularly produce more powerfulparticle collisions than those planned within the LHC, whichwill enable nature?s laws to be studied in controlledexperiments.
If particle collisions at the LHC had the power to destroythe earth, we would never have been given the chance toexist, because regular interactions with more energeticcosmic rays would already have destroyed the earth or otherastronomical bodies.
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(Tessa Dick was the late science fiction writer Philip K. Dick’s 4th wife. Dick’s most famous book is probably “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” published in 1968, which was made into the film “Blade Runner.” Note that he also had “visitors.”)
One of the last substantial conversations that I had with my husband Philip K. Dick entailed a synopsis of all the speculation in which Phil had engaged since his visionary experience of 1974, when he saw the world of ancient Rome superimposed on the landscape of southern California.
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