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I'm Nebular S, currently a music producer studying music production and film composition at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music (SHCM) in China🇨🇳. I have produced ambient music, techno, deep house, drum & bass, UK Garage and other experimental genres, as well as some bigger collaboration projects, including original scores for a puppet show, and an experimental short film that premiered at Southbank Centre in London. I'm currently in the process of another visual art project which will be premiered in August :) I share an equal passion for men's and women's football/soccer. Manchester United 1st, Bayern Munich 2nd, and occasionally watch Napoli, Celtic and Inter Milan. Local team: Shanghai Port. A huge enthusiast for Ona Batlle and Sydney Lohmann :)

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Nebula - Twin Jet

PN M2-9, or the Twin Jet Nebula is a bipolar planetary nebular. These nebula form around binary star systems, studies have demonstrated that the nebula is still growing. Using the rate of expansion it was calculated that the two jets occurred just 1200 years ago.

The image taken by NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, demonstrates an amazing complexity to the objects formation. The bright interaction in the middle, suggests a violent reaction taking place in the middle. Gas is streaming out of the binary star system at speeds of over 621,400 miles an hour.

The shape of the nebula is most likely caused by the way the two stars orbit around each other. It is believed that the dying star and white dwarf orbit a common central mass. The two orbiting companions pull the matter from the dying source and their gravity wells pull the fleeing matter into space.

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A "Tornado" in Space; part 1.

The energetic stellar jet of HH (Herbig Haro) 49/50, as seen through the Spitzer Space Telescope:

With the discovery of Herbig Haro objects, or “jetted stars”, astronomers have scrambled for explanations. But these stars, now observed by the hundreds, only accent a common and fundamental misunderstanding of space.

The image above appeared as the “Astronomy Picture of the Day” (APOD) on Feb 3, 2006.  The caption identifies this stellar jet as a “cosmic tornado” light-years in length, with gases moving at 100-kilometers per second. “Though such energetic outflows are well known to be associated with the formation of young stars, the exact cause of the spiralling structures apparent in this case is still mysterious”.

In fact, astronomers express great astonishment at such formations. Gravitational models featured in twentieth century astronomy never envisioned narrow jets of anything streaming away from stellar bodies. Neither gravity nor standard gas laws would allow it.

So the problem grows worse the more we discover. To see the problem clearly, just consider the language used to describe the stellar jets of “Herbig Haro objects” such as that imaged above. The words typically employed are taken from the behavior of wind and water on a rocky planet we call “Earth”—a body that stands out as an exception in a universe that is 99.99 percent plasma and dominated by electric currents and their induced magnetic fields. A bizarre example of the outmoded language is the description of stellar jets on NASA’s Hubble Telescope website—the very page to which the APOD caption links for an explanation of “such energetic outflows”.

The explanation begins with these words: “Stellar jets are analogous to giant lawn sprinklers. Whether a sprinkler whirls, pulses or oscillates, it offers insights into how its tiny mechanism works. Likewise stellar jets, billions or trillions of miles long offer some clues to what's happening close into the star at scales of only millions of miles, which are below even Hubble's ability to resolve detail”.

Those who know what a plasma discharge is might say, “if you think a lawn sprinkler offers a good analogy for the picture above, put a sprinkler in space and try it”.  Any attempt to understand stellar jets across light years of space in terms of a nozzle on one end should be a career-ending embarrassment.

To explain the narrow tornado-like jet, the Hubble page says: “Material either at or near the star is heated and blasted into space, where it travels for billions of miles before colliding with interstellar material." Does a star have the ability to create collimated jets across (not billions, but) trillions of miles by merely 'heating' material in its vicinity? The matter in the jet is hot and it is moving through a vacuum. If one is to use an analogy with water, the better example would be a super-heated steam hose. It will not form a jet of steam for more than a few feet before the steam disperses explosively.

The authors’ explanation not only contradicts simple observation and experiment, it contradicts the century-old gravitational theory on which the entire page is based. Under the popular theory of star formation, it is matter "falling" inward under the influence of gravity that creates stars. No one proposing this “nebular hypothesis” ever imagined, in advance of recent discoveries, that after gravity accomplished its mass-gathering feat, it would give way to a more powerful force evident in the jet. (As for the reference to collisions with interstellar material, that is based entirely on the bizarre explanation itself, not on anything actually observed.)

“Why are jets so narrow?” the NASA writers ask. “The Hubble pictures increase the mystery as to how jets are confined into a thin beam”. Then, after noting that the Hubble pictures tends to rule out the idea (popular just a few years ago) that a disk around the star could provide the needed “nozzle”, the authors note: “One theoretical possibility is that magnetic fields in the disk might focus the gas into narrow beams, but there is as yet no direct observational evidence that magnetic fields are important”.

Following this virtual dismissal of magnetic fields, the authors pose two questions which bear directly on the role of magnetic fields, though they are clearly unaware of the connection.  “What causes a jet’s beaded structure”, they ask.  And “why are jets ‘kinky’”? They do not realize that they have just cited two of the most easily recognized features of plasma discharge—“beading” and “kink instabilities”. But rather than enter the world of electrified plasma, so unfamiliar to astronomers, the web page takes us into “waterworld”. “…The beads are real clumps of gas plowing through space like a string of motor boats”. And the “kinks along their path of motion” can be seen as evidence for a stellar companion, one that “pulls on the central star, causing it to wobble, which in turn causes the jet to change directions, like shaking a garden hose”.

It is statements such as this that cause plasma experts—those who have spent a lifetime observing the unique behavior of electric currents and electric discharge in plasma—to wonder about the future of theoretical science.  For the cosmic electricians there is nothing out of the ordinary in stellar jets. Their counterparts appear regularly in the plasma laboratory. They can be modeled in computer simulations. Their analogies can be seen in Earth’s upper atmosphere, in Martian dust devils, in the volcanoes of Jupiter’s moon Io, on Saturn’s moon Enceladus, in the jets and tails of comets, in the penumbra of sunspots—and even in the vast polar jets now seen exploding from distant galaxies.

If the electrical theorists are correct, those offering conventional answers to newly discovered objects in space need a crash course on plasma and electricity.

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Monthly Klance prompt: Distance

A small drabble for today’s prompt. Hope you all enjoy! Thanks everyone for reading these and all my longer works :) 

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Lance counts the stars whenever it gets too much. Just picks a point and begins, usually in Spanish, listing the lights of whatever solar system they’re in. Much like counting sheep he continues, up and down, left and right, reel upon reel of numbers. Until they blur, just an endless stream of brightness in his vision, forcing a loop, and then, only then can his mind submit to numbness.

Monotony. A light is a light, could be a world of new mysteries or long dead once it’s number is counted. Twinkle twinkle twinkle little bat, the wink and blink in and out of his sight, 1,2,5,37,99. Sparkle bracketed by darkness, on and on.

He hasn’t asked how far away they are from home since that first time. That’s not the point of the exercise. Lance doesn’t actually want to see anything, it’s the absence of knowledge that this aids with. They all have their habits, their ways of making this abnormality easier. This is just his.

It’s not the distance. You cannot have dreams of space flight, plans of piloting missions without knowing the consequence. But there is a schedule of being away, with time to prepare and pack, and there is jumping headfirst into the unknown and becoming stranded on the way. No, it’s not the distance. It’s the absence of a return date, of the knowledge that those he loves are left in the limbo of his departure: probably not knowing the truth and definitely fearing the worst.

So he counts the stars of unfamiliar nebulars and tries not to wonder or to miss too much. The smell of rain on the sea, his favourite foods that he could barely find in the Garrison let alone here. His native language spoken freely, his favourite pillow and mundane things you would never think you’d miss. But without a time-frame that would otherwise exist in a job the longing is tenfold.

Lance’s count reaches 54 and the starscape blurs. But there is a faint stirring behind him and he smiles. Keith, barely awake, but still keeping him close, his back against the wall, Lance’s back against him. Keith, who is not a night owl but still stays with him everytime he counts. Keith who grapples with the claustrophobia of this place; wanting to flee for miles when to him the walls close in and it’s all too much, the world a bottle neck. Keith who therefore knows, intimately, the need for habit and ways to maintain the self.

They are paladins of Voltron. Lance would not trade this for the world. This role, this destiny, the lives in their hands. It’s terrifying but it’s everything and he will never stand down without being forced to his knees.

But the nights are long and feel without an ending, without an answer to when he can have a taste of the tiny piece of his small planet he was born in. His home, his heritage, his own. All the fates in all the galaxies in all realities cannot remove that kernel of longing, just like they cannot take Keith’s feeling of being stifled.

So he counts the stars, does not think of the distance and leans into the warm arms of his boyfriend. There is no distance there, and nothing to run from. A tiny, new piece of fresh home. A star, just waiting to be counted.

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This celestial object looks like a delicate butterfly. But it is far from serene. What resemble dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to nearly 20000 degrees Celsius. The gas is tearing across space at more than 950000 kilometres per hour — fast enough to travel from Earth to the Moon in 24 minutes!

A dying star that was once about five times the mass of the Sun is at the centre of this fury. It has ejected its envelope of gases and is now unleashing a stream of ultraviolet radiation that is making the cast-off material glow. This object is an example of a planetary nebula, so-named because many of them have a round appearance resembling that of a planet when viewed through a small telescope.

NGC 6302 lies within our Milky Way galaxy, roughly 3800 light-years away in the constellation of Scorpius. The glowing gas is the star's outer layers, expelled over about 2200 years. The "butterfly" stretches for more than two light-years, which is about half the distance from the Sun to the nearest star, Proxima Centauri.

The central star itself cannot be seen, because it is hidden within a doughnut-shaped ring of dust, which appears as a dark band pinching the nebula in the centre. The thick dust belt constricts the star's outflow, creating the classic "bipolar" or hourglass shape displayed by some planetary nebulae.

The star's surface temperature is estimated to be over 220000 degrees Celsius, making it one of the hottest known stars in our galaxy. Spectroscopic observations made with ground-based telescopes show that the gas is roughly 20000 degrees Celsius, which is unusually hot compared to a typical planetary nebula.

The WFC3 image reveals a complex history of ejections from the star. The star first evolved into a huge red giant, with a diameter of about 1000 times that of our Sun. It then lost its extended outer layers. Some of this gas was cast off from its equator at a relatively slow speed, perhaps as low as 32000 kilometres per hour, creating the doughnut-shaped ring. Other gas was ejected perpendicular to the ring at higher speeds, producing the elongated "wings" of the butterfly-shaped structure. Later, as the central star heated up, a much faster stellar wind, a stream of charged particles travelling at more than 3.2 million kilometres per hour, ploughed through the existing wing-shaped structure, further modifying its shape.

The image also shows numerous finger-like projections pointing back to the star, which may mark denser blobs in the outflow that have resisted the pressure from the stellar wind.

The nebula's reddish outer edges are largely due to light emitted by nitrogen, which marks the coolest gas visible in the picture. WFC3 is equipped with a wide variety of filters that isolate light emitted by various chemical elements, allowing astronomers to infer properties of the nebular gas, such as its temperature, density and composition.

The white-coloured regions are areas where light is emitted by sulphur. These are regions where fast-moving gas overtakes and collides with slow-moving gas that left the star at an earlier time, producing shock waves in the gas (the bright white edges on the sides facing the central star). The white blob with the crisp edge at upper right is an example of one of those shock waves.

Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team

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NASA’s Webb Reveals Cosmic Cliffs, Glittering Landscape of Star Birth

This landscape of 'mountains' and 'valleys' speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope, this image reveals for the first time previously invisible areas of star birth.

Called the Cosmic Cliffs, Webb’s seemingly three-dimensional picture looks like craggy mountains on a moonlit evening. In reality, it is the edge of the giant, gaseous cavity within NGC 3324, and the tallest 'peaks' in this image are about 7 light-years high. The cavernous area has been carved from the nebula by the intense ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds from extremely massive, hot, young stars located in the center of the bubble, above the area shown in this image.

The blistering, ultraviolet radiation from the young stars is sculpting the nebula’s wall by slowly eroding it away. Dramatic pillars tower above the glowing wall of gas, resisting this radiation. The 'steam' that appears to rise from the celestial 'mountains' is actually hot, ionized gas and hot dust streaming away from the nebula due to the relentless radiation.

Webb reveals emerging stellar nurseries and individual stars that are completely hidden in visible-light pictures. Because of Webb’s sensitivity to infrared light, it can peer through cosmic dust to see these objects. Protostellar jets, which emerge clearly in this image, shoot out from some of these young stars. The youngest sources appear as red dots in the dark, dusty region of the cloud. Objects in the earliest, rapid phases of star formation are difficult to capture, but Webb’s extreme sensitivity, spatial resolution, and imaging capability can chronicle these elusive events.

These observations of NGC 3324 will shed light on the process of star formation. Star birth propagates over time, triggered by the expansion of the eroding cavity. As the bright, ionized rim moves into the nebula, it slowly pushes into the gas and dust. If the rim encounters any unstable material, the increased pressure will trigger the material to collapse and form new stars.

Conversely, this type of disturbance may also prevent star formation as the star-making material is eroded away. This is a very delicate balance between sparking star formation and stopping it. Webb will address some of the great, open questions of modern astrophysics: What determines the number of stars that form in a certain region? Why do stars form with a certain mass?

Webb will also reveal the impact of star formation on the evolution of gigantic clouds of gas and dust. While the effect of massive stars – with their violent winds and high energy – is often apparent, less is known about the influence of the more numerous low-mass stars. As they form, these smaller stars create narrow, opposing jets seen here, which can inject a lot of momentum and energy into the clouds. This reduces the fraction of nebular material that seeds new stars.

Up to this point, scientists have had very little data about the influence of the multitude of young and more energetic low-mass stars. With Webb, they will be able to obtain a full census of their number and impact throughout the nebula.

Located roughly 7,600 light-years away, NGC 3324 was imaged by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI).

NIRCam – with its crisp resolution and unparalleled sensitivity – unveils hundreds of previously hidden stars, and even numerous background galaxies.

In MIRI’s view, young stars and their dusty, planet-forming disks shine brightly in the mid-infrared, appearing pink and red. MIRI reveals structures that are embedded in the dust and uncovers the stellar sources of massive jets and outflows. With MIRI, the hot dust, hydrocarbons, and other chemical compounds on the surface of the ridges glow, giving the appearance of jagged rocks.

NGC 3324 was first catalogued by James Dunlop in 1826. Visible from the Southern Hemisphere, it is located at the northwest corner of the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), which resides in the constellation Carina. The Carina Nebula is home to the Keyhole Nebula and the active, unstable supergiant star called Eta Carinae.

Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

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Huawei nova 2

Packed with some impressive specs the Huawei nova 8 and Huawei nova Y60 are here and ready to be discovered. Will one of them be your next phone, Gen-Zer?

Charging power

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The Huawei nova Y60, on the other hand, is equipped with a 5000mAh large battery and Huawei’s power-saving AI Algorithms, which lets users explore as much as they like with their phone without worrying about the battery dying. Coupled with the Ultra Power Saving mode, the smartphone can last longer even when the battery level is low, which is a great if you’re out and about for a longer time than you planned. 

Incredible picture quality

If you’re looking to jumpstart your influencer career or just love a good picture, then the Huawei nova 8 is a good start because it gives you the best camera features, and the price tag is just right for a Gen-Zer’s pocket. The Huawei nova 8 is fitted with a 64MP high resolution rear camera that lets you take vividly sharp photos. When taking photos at night, Huawei nova 8 Super Night Mode makes sure that you still capture your best angles. The Main Camera and Ultra-Wide Angle Camera on the back of the Huawei nova 8 work together to enable Dual-View Video, which is perfect for taking group selfies and fun videos.

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It’s all in the appearance

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Hello Kemetatun,

This is your fourth FGS Episode of the nine episode online course to learn the story of Sophia, the Fallen Goddess. You will receive a new episode every five days.



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The Fallen Goddess Scenario in Nine Episodes

Episode Four:

"Unilateral Dreaming"

In the galactic arms, planets, comets, and stars arise and dissolve over incalculable periods of time.

The granular material of the spiral arms is the dema: dense elementary matter arrays. It consists mainly of microscopic dust, the debris of former worlds, continually recycling into new worlds, including planetary systems. Such systems are cosmic habitats that provide the conditions for manifold life-forms to arise. They are planetary laboratories for experiments with the diverse novel species projected by the Aeons from the galactic core. The laws of physics in the Kenoma, the galactic arms, are different from those in the Pleroma, the core.

In wonderment at her "designer species," the Anthropos, the Aeon Sophia beholds the genomic template nestled in M 42, the Orion Nebula, like an infant gestating in the womb. With intense concern she anticipates how it will develop. Once a species is projected, the Aeons do not interfere in its development. Their interest in each experiment of their inception remains detached, uninvolved -- with some rare exceptions. They allow the experiment to develop on its own terms, in freedom. They let it unfold without foreseeing or influencing its outcome. Such are the Aeonic protocols.

Time for the Generators runs to countless billions of years, far beyond the range of human measurement. Nevertheless, it scales in proportion with human time: one day for the galactic powers transpires in 26,000 years. Over many Aeonic days, running into millions of years, the community of the Pleroma observe the seeding of the Anthropic genome in different planetary laboratories. They observe how propagules of the germinal plasm separate, one by one and in clusters, to be carried by plasmic currents through interstellar space until they drift down into a favorable habitat, an earth-like planet. The experiment really begins when a species emerges, assumes animal form, and creates a domain for itself, responding to the specific conditions of the home planet. Its behavior reveals how it fulfills its endowment -- or not.

Together with her counterpart, Thelete, and the other Aeons, Sophia studies this long-term process of emergence. The galactic powers attend closely to how the experimental species achieves its pre-designed form and then behaves according to the exact calibration that defines it in evolutionary terms. Over millions of years, which to them are merely months, they see the Anthropos come to expression in nine distinct world-systems, nine planetary laboratories located here and there in the galactic arms. Doing so, they notice something unusual: each time the genome achieves animal form in a planetary laboratory, eventually the experiment goes awry. Something causes the behavior of the Anthropos to become unstable and erratic so that it works against itself or turns against its environment. In nine instances, the experiments crash.

Sophia is the youngest of the Aeons in the Pleroma. Never having designed a species before, she is perplexed by these outcomes. Each time an experiment goes off course, she feels growing concern. Why, she wonders, does it not proceed to its optimal expression? How come her designer species does not succeed in expressing the endowment of its skill set? This turn of events, repeated nine times, begins to trouble the Wisdom Goddess. She feels responsible for the inferior results, but powerless to do anything about what's happening. Mounting perplexity compels her to picture how each experiment might have gone differently, had she been able to intervene -- acting against Aeonic protocols.

But there is an exception to the protocols. Sophia knew of it by observing genomic experiments initiated by other, more advanced Aeons. In some cases, they opted for an advanced technique of intervention: avataric descent. It allows the Aeon to descend from the Pleroma and enter the setting of the experiment. Doing so, the Aeon assume an animate form, some kind of creature able to perform in that specific habitat. That creature, the avatar, then proceeds to act upon the problem or fault in the experiment and correct it.

The Aeon Sophia is not practiced in avataric descent. Yet she feels passionately compelled to intervene out of love for what she has designed. So she does the next best thing within her powers: she applies pronoia, the Aeonic power of intention, to a kind of rehearsal exercise. Reviewing the crashed experiments one by one, she pictures how she would have intended to intervene and keep the species on course to its utmost success, the optimal expression of its endowed skills. All nine times, Sophia imagines a specific act of avataric descent as she would have performed it, had she known how to do so.

The intensity of concentration on this exercise of rescue turns the Wisdom Goddess away from the other Aeons, including Thelete. The absorption required to work out these nine scenarios, all by herself, begins to isolate her. With each incident she draws more deeply upon her dreaming power, the primary creative tool of an Aeon. She involves herself in the fate of the Anthropos, her designer species. She does not share her mother-like concern with her counterpart, Thelete. Instead, she dwells upon it independently. Normally, Aeons act dyadically, as she and Thelete had done when designing the Anthropic genome. Sophia now begins to dream unilaterally, totally on on her own.

Her continuing review of the faulty development of the Anthropos prompts Sophia to seek the cause of the breakdowns. She recalls vividly how she and Thelete had "super-dosed" the Anthropos so that it would possess genius potential. Their calibration for the genome was set to a high standard of performance. Now Sophia wonders if the genome was not geared too high, investing the species with capacities it could not adequately control or even restrain. Her desire to manifest a genius species may have produced something like a reckless monster. It shocks Sophia to consider that her experiment involves a prodigy so gifted that it cannot manage its own excessive talents.

The dramatic failure of the nine Anthropic strains arouses deep longing in Sophia. She concentrates to the exclusion of all else on the spectacle of the Anthropic template nested in M 42 in the galactic arms. There it glows softy, an amber stain flushed with magenta and pin-pointed with young stars. The attractive pull of that cosmic sight becomes overwhelming. It excites the divine enthusiasm of the Aeon, her enthymesis. And once excited, it mounts to a screaming pitch. The compulsion to assist her troubled species finally breaks all boundaries of restraint. It steers Sophia's body of torrential currents outward beyond the limit of the galactic core. The strength of her desire to intervene in the next experiment so that it does not go off course exceeds all reservation. It plunges her through the boundary of the Pleroma and outward she goes, erupting in an immense luminous plume across the dark matter of the galactic arms.

This event is the fall of the Wisdom Goddess. For committing this reckless act of passion, Sophia is called prunikos, outrageous, audacious, daring to exceed the rules.

§ Expansion

4.1 Planetary systems are laboratories for Aeonic experiments. Although the Aeons are alive -- indeed, super-alive -- and organic in their own way, animated creaturely life does not arise in the Pleroma. Nor do stars, even though the substance of the Aeons is star material. The plasmic torrents of the "sky dragons" consist of stellar matter in a raw primordial state, comparable to cake batter in a mixer. Likewise, nucleic acid, the substrate for calibration of a species, exists in the Pleroma but does not assume discrete life-forms. That only happens with Aeonic projection that leads to the seeding of the species in a habitable world, such as an earth-like planet.

4.2 Aeonic substance is like molten pearl. It is porous like nougat. It has the inexplicable property of infinite density and zero mass. Weight does not exist in the Pleroma, and no gravity, either, only levity. Consequently, the hub of a spiral galaxy floats. By contrast, the massive structure of the spiraling arms is heavy, weighted by the material of physical worlds, including astronomical bodies such as suns, comets, planets. The bodies that continually form and dissolve in the Kenoma ultimately have the same basis in the dema: dense elementary matter arrays. This is granulated material, cosmic dust and ash, able to combine with water and form organic compounds. There is an old saying, "The mills of the gods grind slow, but they grind exceeding fine." This is as good as any scientific proposition that might be proposed to explain the mechanism of perpetual recycling in the pinwheel arms of a galaxy.



4.3 The Pleroma is a like an observation booth for scientists who keep track of experiments they have set up to unfold outside the booth in a controlled environment. Normally (according to protocols), they do not leave the booth and enter the experiment in progress. Were they to do so, they would not have the pleasure of seeing how the experiment unfolds on its own terms. The Aeons conduct experiments according to laws of freedom and spontaneity. But they are also free to make exceptions. In other words, freedom to follow protocols in a voluntary way is balanced by freedom to forgo them.

4.4 The Anthropic plasm settles in the nebular cloud of M 42, but it does not remain there in a static condition. A distinct species plasm (the genome) is naturally interactive with plasmic streams that surge all through the Universe. There is no empty void anywhere. Everything in the Universe belongs to the grand weave of electrical fields rippled throughout by Birkelind currents. Astronomers today describe these currents as filamentary, and confirm that description by photos. They also have detected and photographed the other main formation of plasma, extended fields or veils, such as the Veil Nebula in the constellation of the Swan, Cygnus. M 42 is such a field. The propagules of a species will eventually drift into a Birkelind current and stream away from its nesting locale. Like an acorn that drops into a brook to be carried downstream where it can wash up on fertile soil and sprout.

4.5 Only when a species genome has seeded in a favorable habitat can it sprout into the animal inherent to its design. The Aeons observed this happen nine times in various earth-like settings across the galactic arms in proximity of the Orion Nebula. These "earth-like" planets were not previous versions of the earth inhabited by the human species today. They were other earths, home planets to other variations of the single genome, the Anthropos. Human life derived from that specific genome has already come to expression elsewhere in this galaxy. On these nine occasions, however, something went amiss. Those human animals ended up behaving in a way that caused the experiment in their setting to crash. That is to say, they somehow failed to make the most of their divine endowment and bring it to success -- success defined as the flowering of the full actualization of "human potential," manifested in harmony with its habitat.

4.6 The Wisdom Goddess is a young Aeon by comparison to Thelete, who is rather older, and the "veterans" of the Pleroma, much older. The older Aeons have initiated countless experiments, while Sophia is a relative beginner. And, as it turns out, something of an upstart, inclined to act on her own. Together with Thelete, she had dosed the human genome with a skill-set ideally designed to produce self-actualization at a genius level. Observing the nine experiments that crashed in one way or another, Sophia realized that they had super-dosed the Anthropos. Consequently, it proved incapable of handling its own talents to their full benefit. This situation so concerned her that she retreated into herself to ponder it, and wondered how to remedy it, pulling away from the other Aeons. Doing so, she indulged in unilateral dreaming.

4.7 From observing the older Aeons, Sophia knew about a technique they use, avataric descent. It allows them the exception of intervening in a divine experiment in progress. The mechanism of the avatar is a kind of virtual body projected into the laboratory setting where intervention is to be accomplished. The creaturely or organic form of the avatar may be human-like or theriomorphic, taking the form of an animal. But Sophia had not tried that technique. She lacked practice, so she could not undertake it at will. Nevertheless, she pictured how she would, if she could. With each incident where she imagined herself come to the rescue of her troubled child, the intensity of her desire for involvement deepened.

4.8 Finally, Sophia's desire to intervene overwhelmed her. She could no longer gaze helplessly upon the embryonic form of the Anthropos cradled in M 42, and hold back her passionate concern for its future. Her torrential plasmic body in its totality responded with a surge of enthymesis, divine enthusiasm. The surge pulled her to the bounding limit of the Pleroma and forced her through it. Sophia erupted as an enormous plume of plasmic luminosity and steamed laterally across the galactic arms toward M 42.

§ Terms

dema: dense elementary matters arrays, the granular fields of material residue resulting from the dissolution of astronomical bodies, and providing raw material for them to be recycled, recreated. In plain English, soot and dust.

"designer species": slang for the Anthropos as a special project of Sophia and Thelete. The design is the calibration of the genome in seven units including the eighth, sattva, the balancing integration circuit.

protocols: voluntary rules of experimentation observed by the Aeons so that events in the cosmos can be autopoetic, self-defining and spontaneous. They are not restrictive laws but aspects of the selfless generosity of the cosmic gods and goddesses. Love and freedom are the basis of the Aeonic protocols. Beauty is their highest criterion.

Aeonic time: the fractal scaling of Aeonic time relative to human time is based on a known astronomical phenomenon, the precession of the equinoxes. The period of one full cycle of precession is 25,920 years. This is a provable astronomical quantity, well-known to the ancients, including the Gnostics who were past masters of astronomy.

earth-like planets: not to be considered as previous versions of the home planet. Over the last 20 years, astrophysicists have discovered hundreds of earth-like planets scattered through the galactic arms.

germinal plasm: synonym for the genome. Its specific form in the human body is cytoplasm. In biology and medicine, plasm is the living substance detected in all organic forms from the microbe to the blue whale, the largest living mammal. In physics and astronomy, plasma is electrified vapor that pervades the Universe. It is so named due to the fact that physicists have observed that its activities bring to mind biological plasma. The Sophianic narrative anticipates and prepares for the next great breakthrough in physics: namely, when cosmologists realize that the entire Universe is alive.

endowment: the aggregate of faculties and skills encoded into the genome of a species.

awry: quaint term to describe something that oddly goes amiss, producing an unexpected turn of events. Uh-RYE or awe-RYE. "Our plans went awry."

avataric decent: special technique practiced by advanced Aeons, allowing them to appear outside the Pleroma in a virtual form able to disguise itself and act within the conditions of a laboratory setting. Avatar, the virtual instrument of intervention.

pronoia: the projective power of Aeonic intention. Intent to manifest. Literally, fore-shaping mind.

dreaming power: the Aeonic power to materialize whatever is imagined, immediately and spontaneously without the requirement of intermediary stages.

enthymesis: divine enthusiasm, the heartfelt passion of the gods and goddesses.

unilateral dreaming: activity undertaken by an Aeon independent of other Aeons or without a counterpart.

the next experiment: the present experiment. The nine scenarios Sophia witnessed from the Pleroma did not occur on nine pervious stages of the planet earth. They occurred on other earth-life worlds in the galactic arms. At the time they occurred, the earth we inhabit today did not yet exist. Thus nine strains from the master template of the Anthropos emerged in other favorable world-systems previous to this one. This essential point of Sophianic cosmology provides the basis for the designation Anthropos-10, or A-10. The human species living on earth today is A-10.

prunikos: audacious, outrageous, daring.

§ Summary

The setting of Episodes One through Four of the FGS is the Pleroma, the galactic core. At the conclusion of Episode Four, the narrative shifts to extra-Pleromic events.

Sophia's exception to Aeonic protocols is one of those stunning incidents in the sacred narrative. The Nag Hammadi writings preserve a concise statement for the protocol on unilateral dreaming:

"For it is the will of the Originator not to allow anything

to happen in the Pleroma apart from a syzygy."

A Valentinian Exposition, 36.25

Syzygy (CIZ-uh-gee) is an odd Greek word used by astronomers for the conjunction of celestial bodies. In plain English, a coupling, pairing, match. The preference of the Originator that Generators work in pairs (dyads) is, again, another one of those novel, startling notions that come to attention in learning the narrative. It is a preference, and not a strict law. As the Aeons leave their experiments free to develop on their own terms, so the Originator leaves the Aeons free to follow this protocol, or not. Creative freedom is inherent in the foundation of the Universe.

The nine experiments witnessed from the Pleroma have been depicted in the imagination of Vedic seers, the rishis, as the Nine Incarnations of Vishnu.

The fall of the Wisdom Goddess is an astronomical fact described in mythopoetic language. The Gnostic myth describes events that actually happened in the home galaxy. And it can be proven that this description in its full scope and detail is accurate, supported by evidence. Extensive research by Thunderbolts Project (EU/plasma cosmology) offers high-resolution photographs of plasma jets erupting from galaxies. This phenomenon is by now well-established. The fall of the Wisdom Goddess is a plasma jet eruption.



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PN M2-9, or the Twin Jet Nebula is a bipolar planetary nebular. These nebula form around binary star systems, studies have demonstrated that the nebula is still growing. Using the rate of expansion it was calculated that the two jets occurred just 1200 years ago.

The image taken by NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, demonstrates an amazing complexity to the objects formation. The bright interaction in the middle, suggests a violent reaction taking place in the middle. Gas is streaming out of the binary star system at speeds of over 621,400 miles an hour.

The shape of the nebula is most likely caused by the way the two stars orbit around each other. It is believed that the dying star and white dwarf orbit a common central mass. The two orbiting companions pull the matter from the dying source and their gravity wells pull the fleeing matter into space.

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I think that the best thing about video games, as a medium, is that they can be almost whatever you want them to be. We are in a rather unique time period where there is a video game for just about every kind of person. Do you like high drama and story driven action? It’s there. Do you like simple but rewarding gameplay and don’t care about the story? It’s there. Do you want what amounts to an interactive story with very little danger of failure? It’s there. Do you just like a general tone but aren’t always sure what that means? It’s there, though you may have to do some looking for that last one. Rebel Galaxy, on Steam, PS4 and Xbox One is the kind of game that is easy to miss, I don’t remember very much buzz around it when it came out, I don’t even remember when or why I bought it, but when I finally booted it up a couple of weeks ago, I have been hard pressed to play anything else. While low on actual story, the gameplay, look and tone of the game has won me over in a big way.

What story there is serves simply as a reason to jump to different systems and to make sure that you have been honest about upgrading your ship; After receiving a cryptic message from your Aunt, the black sheep of the family, you take her old and unimpressive ship to an out of the way space station and begin the task of hunting her down. Along the way you pick up some friends who will probably betray you, come to possess an ancient AI that can’t remember who it is or what it’s purpose is and make money to upgrade your ship by completing an ever more difficult list of missions from various factions on both sides of the law. Along the way you will explore more than a few star systems that kind of all look the same and you will die. Remember, the game only saves when you dock with a space station. The ending is incredibly lame and underwhelming, but please, don’t come to Rebel Galaxy for the story. Tonally, this is a seedy side of Star Wars type world, with good old boys and girls mining, shooting and drinking their way across space. If you like Firefly or certain parts of Stargate, the atmosphere and flavor of Rebel Galaxy will feel right at home. The slightly generic blues and hillbilly rock soundtrack only enhances that feeling. 

Combat is the heart of this game; it allows you to progress through all the systems the game has for you and is very enjoyable just on its own and even though you are in space and we have all watched Wrath of Khan, combat in this game is kept manageable by just dealing with a 2D section of space; so you can go forwards, backwards, left and right, but you can’t go up or down, though your enemies can and you are very capable of shooting in any direction. While an obvious limitation on the action of the game, it works because the combat actually revolves around broadsides. Each ship’s main weapon is some number of broadside cannons that you can upgrade but only really shoot at an angle from the side of your ship. You have other turrets that each kind of ship places at different parts of the hull, but the broadsides are always on the side. So, that means that you are not really charging or running from opponents as much as you are circling each other, speeding up, slowing down, flipping exposed flanks to allow shields to regenerate, all while you firing off a steady stream of space cannon fire at the enemy ships. Your turrets aid combat depending on what kind of ordinance you have equipped them with. Some fire flak to shoot missiles down and disrupt small, fighter class ships while other munch through shields and allow your broadsides and other weapons to deal direct damage on the hull. Others just deal additional damage and while you can control the turrets individually, I never found much reason to do so. If you have played Assassins Creed: Black Flag, you will be right at home with the combat in this game. Something the game does really well is capture a great impression of speed. Even though you are often fighting in front of a background of distant starts, your ship and those of your opponent, always feel like they are moving and turning quickly and with purpose, something that even Star Wars movies don’t always nail.

While on paper the combat might seem a bit limited, it’s actually really fun and stayed highly enjoyable right up until the end of the game. The straightforward nature of it allows you to get rather good at it very quickly. While I died a bunch during the first couple of hours, once I got a few upgrades and really understood a few things, I was expertly maneuvering through and around my enemies, cutting them off from each other, blocking whole fleets with asteroids and wreckage while I pounded one or two isolated ships into dust. Even thought the game has a few difficulty spikes that are hard to manage, I never felt outpaced or truly under gunned, rather that I just needed to play that last encounter a little bit smarter. Outside of combat, there is are some guild ranking systems that you will need to progress through in order to get the best ships and upgrades which is undoubtedly worth it. Different ships actually feel fairly different from each other; size, speed and maneuverability are noticeably different for each ship and when you combine that with the robust and diverse upgrades, I found that you can really craft a rather unique ship that fits how you want to play it. I found that I enjoyed pulling in incredibly close and unleashing powerful but short ranged broadsides while another player might want to stay back and snipe with some of the more long-range weapons or employ mines and missiles to trip up and stun enemy ships. Either choice seems to work; you can even buy special shields and ram other ships Roman style if you so want.

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The mission selection is also pretty good. You have pretty standard combat missions where you have to go kill other ships, but there are also escort missions that work really well, missions where you have to defend a set point of space and medium sized engagements where you and allied factions must take down large amounts of enemy ships. While all of those are quite fun, and the game does a good job of giving you a large amount of choice, the best mission are the dead drops and blockade runs. Dropping out of warp into a contested nebular or asteroid field and searching for cargo/dead drop you need while fending off other ships is a lot of fun; it feels different and hectic in a way the more normal missions don’t. Running blockades in order to deliver some cargo is the most difficult and tense part of the game. Trying to balance killing ships with just getting to the dock is fun and annoying all at the same time. It’s also the most difficult part of the game, far as I can tell. I had by far the most trouble with the game whenever I was tying to get Designer Cloths our Space Slaves to some poor beleaguered space station. No, I don’t know why they are called Space Slaves.

Some people need strong story and characters to enjoy a game, with cinematic moments and emotional pay offs. I enjoy those games as much as the next person, but sometimes you just want put on a cowboy hat, jump into a ship and shoot people down and smuggle illegal soda across the cosmos (no, I am not kidding about the illegal soda). Rebel Galaxy is an incredibly fun, rewarding game with gameplay that never seems to get old. 

Read my review of Rebel Galaxy, a game designed to bring out your inner Han Solo. I think that the best thing about video games, as a medium, is that they can be almost whatever you want them to be.

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Comet Crystals

Comets are said to be composed of "dusty ices." Why have crystalline structures that require high temperatures been found in them?

NASA scientists launched the Stardust mission on February 7, 1999. Its primary task was to collect dust particles from the coma of comet Wild 2 and then return to Earth. Fuel savings meant that the capsule required a gravity boost, so it returned to Earth orbit from deep space after almost two years of travel time. As it flew by the home planet, it was accelerated back out to its aphelion, 400 million kilometers from the Sun, reaching a distance greater than any other solar-powered spacecraft. So that mission specialists could test the camera operation and other instrument packages, Stardust briefly encountered the 4-kilometer asteroid Annefrank on November 2, 2002 at a distance of 3000 kilometers while moving at 7 kilometers per second. Although the dust collectors on board were open to space, no material collection was expected in the vicinity and none was achieved. After a five year journey, Stardust finally intersected Wild 2's orbit on January 2, 2004, passing through its coma at the metaphorical hair's breadth distance of 240 kilometers. The aerogeldust-capture system worked perfectly, scooping up fine bits of rock and trapping them inside for their return journey to Earth on January 15, 2006. Although the spacecraft traveled more than a billion kilometers over a 7 year time span, the mothership successfully released its payload and the parachutes deployed, cushioning the precious cargo for a soft landing in the Utah desert. The aerogel was delivered to a thrilled team of researchers for analysis. That's when the surprise and shock began. Minerals such as anorthite and forsterite were found embedded in the aerogel—compounds that form only at extremely high temperatures—along with olivine. Perplexed scientists wondered how an object that was supposed to be a remnant from the early nebular cloud out of which the Solar System condensed, and that should have been kept in frozen hibernation in a theoretical "Oort cloud" billions of kilometers from the Sun, could exhibit crystalline structures that would require a blast furnace to create. Stardust mission team leader Donald Brownlee said at the time, “In the coldest part of the solar system we’ve found samples that formed at extremely high temperatures.” Now, according to a recent paper in the science journal Nature, a mechanism by which such high temperature crystals might form has been announced. A team led by Attila Juhász from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy examined the light emitted by EX Lupi, thought to be a young star in the constellation Lupus. EX Lupi is a variable star, meaning it periodically brightens over a several month period. After one energetic pulse in 2008, the infrared spectral signature of the star seemed to indicate that some of the orbiting dust had been changed from a glasslike substance to one that is similar to what was seen in the spectrum of comet Wild 2: high temperature crystals. The unfortunate part of the observation is the conclusion that was reached. Among astrophysicists, the consensus opinion is that stars like EX Lupi undergo energetic eruptions because they gravitationally drag material from their surroundings and accumulate it on their surfaces. The added mass compresses to the point where it explodes in a thermonuclear reaction and the stars "go nova." Note that this is quite different from a supernova explosion where a star casts off its outer layers due to a disruption in its hypothetical core fusion reactions. The supposed nova on EX Lupi is said to have heated the glasslike matter around the star until it became "thermally annealed" and changed its physical structure into harder crystals like the forsterite discovered in the coma of Wild 2. In other words, it is the old standby of gravity, heat, and shock waves that are responsible for what is observed.

Electric Universe advocates see things differently. Stars and comets share common characteristics because they are both born of similar parentage. Stars are nodes in vast electrical circuits connected by Birkeland current filaments within galaxies. Planets, moons, asteroids, and comets are electrically charged and exist within a radial electric current that surrounds stars like our own Sun. Comets, specifically, have nothing to do with an ancient nebular cloud of cold gas and dust that became gravitationally unstable and collapsed into the Solar System of today. Comets and their asteroid sisters are relative newcomers to the solar family and might have been blasted out of larger bodies by tremendously powerful electric discharges in the recent past. They are not "snowballs" or blobs of muddy slush, they are solid, rocky, cratered, electrically charged objects. When Stardust arrived at Wild 2, it found that the coma contained the "signature" of water vapor, although the distribution was anomalous. The farther from the surface of the comet, the greater the amount of vapor, surely a result that is diametrically opposed to the theoretical model of sublimating ices jetting out from the nucleus. So what was the "water vapor?" Whatever water or hydroxyl compounds that can be found in cometary comas is created there because ionized oxygen from the comet reacts with hydrogen ions streaming out from the Sun. No "jets" of water vapor spew from comets, and no icy plains have ever been observed. It is electric effects that are seen—discharges and arcs form the comet phenomena. Similarly, stars do not oscillate in brightness or energy output because they are accumulating excess mass. They do so because they are experiencing an increased electrical input from the galaxy. The electric current flowing into the star causes it to change its discharge behavior. It might go from a stable and (what is for it) "normal" glow mode to a more intense arc mode state. The greater current flow might cause z-pinch regions around the star where its plasma could then be reformed into different chemical compounds. It is more likely that processes involving plasma are responsible for the changes in stellar spectrograms. So, in conclusion, The Sun and comets are part of one electrically active circuit that is occupied by many different regions of charge distribution. The Sun receives its power from the protean electric generator we call the Milky Way. Accordingly, planets and other bodies exist within a flow of charged particles constantly streaming from the Sun. As any first year electrical engineering student knows, a stream of charged particles is an electric current. Stephen Smith

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THE TWO GREAT RIVERS; THE SCALE OF IMPORTANCE; MAGNIFICATION, DIMINUTION AND INVERSION; ON CYBERNETICS

You may be on a stagnant pool, or on a stream flowing slowly or on a big river flowing with a strong current. Your river of life may just flow into the cracks and crevices of the nebular world, into the descending river of life. ....... Read More

https://www.tanmanho.com/e-journal/volume124.htm

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ABOUT "2017 RECOMMENDED ALBUMS"

Post-rock's “2017 Recommended Albums” series presents albums of 2017 that stand out from the crowd and deserve your time. Listed in no particular order. If you like what you hear, please support the artist in any way [Stream and purchase links are below].

2017 Recommended Albums #8 | Red Forest – Icarus Fall

Released: April 15, 2017 Formats: Digital Home Town: Caen, France Influences: Post-rock, Post-metal Essential Tracks: Extraordinary Nebular Data, Back From Bharatpur

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name: Elizabeth nickname: Captain, Dibbzy, Dib, zodiac sign: Leo height: 5′9″ or 5′10″. Around that. orientation: Ace ethnicity: English favourite fruit: Strawberry's favourite season: Winter favourite book: The Cry of the Icemark favourite flower: Pansy  favourite scent: Freasures or Hyacinths. favourite animal: Cats, Dogs, Tortoises. coffee, tea, or hot cocoa? Tea average hours of sleep: 9. cats or dogs? BOTH favourite fictional character: Hiccup and Toothless, because they can not be seporated. when was your blog created? October 2012. what do you post about? A continus stream of conciousness do you get asks on a regular basis? Nope. aesthetic: Flowers, pastels, nebular’s,  favourite band/artist? Emilie Autumn. fictional characters I’d date: Nope. Hogwarts house: Gryffindor.

T W O 🍏

countries I’ve lived in: England, Wales. favourite fandom: Knitting, baking, languages you speak: Engliash. favourite film of 2016: Moana. last article you read:  Could you last a whole gig without using your Smart Phone? shuffle your music library and put your first three songs here: Theme from Braveheart (which I didn’t know I had???), Non-Stop from Hamilton, Loosing Grip by Avril Lavigne (another one I didn’t know I had???) last thing you bought online: Chocolate. how would your friends describe you? [asks them] “lovely amazing talented kind wonderful person” (Lies and slander I tells you) how would your enemies describe you? Fat, obnoxious, know it all, irritating, depressing, I could go on. who would you take a bullet for? Hopefully I’ll never have to find out.

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The Zwicky Transient Facility Census of the Local Universe I: Systematic search for Calcium rich gap transients reveal three related spectroscopic sub-classes. (arXiv:2004.09029v1 [astro-ph.HE])

(Abridged) Using the Zwicky Transient Facility alert stream, we are conducting a large campaign to spectroscopically classify all transients occurring in galaxies in the Census of the Local Universe (CLU) catalog. The aim of the experiment is to construct a spectroscopically complete, volume-limited sample of transients coincident within 100" of CLU galaxies out to 200 Mpc, and to a depth of 20 mag. We describe the survey design and spectroscopic completeness from the first 16 months of operations. We present results from a systematic search for Calcium rich gap transients in the sample of 22 low luminosity (peak absolute magnitude $M > -17$), hydrogen poor events found in the experiment (out of 754 spectroscopically classified SNe). We report the detection of eight Calcium rich gap transients, and constrain their volumetric rate to be at least $\approx 15\pm5$% of the SN Ia rate. Combining this sample with ten events from the literature, we find a likely continuum of spectroscopic properties ranging from events with SN Ia-like features (Ca-Ia objects) to SN Ib/c-like features (Ca-Ib/c objects) at peak light. Within the Ca-Ib/c events, we find two populations of events distinguished by their red ($g - r \approx 1.5$ mag) or green ($g - r \approx 0.5$ mag) spectral colors at $r$-band peak, wherein redder events show strong line blanketing signatures, slower light curves, weaker He lines and lower [Ca II]/[O I] in the nebular phase. Together, we find that the spectroscopic continuum, volumetric rates and striking old environments are consistent with the explosive burning of He shells on low mass white dwarfs. We posit that Ca-Ia and red Ca-Ib/c objects are consistent with the double detonation of He shells with high He burning efficiency, while green Ca-Ib/c objects could arise from less efficient He burning scenarios such as detonations in low density He shells or He shell deflagrations.

from astro-ph.HE updates on arXiv.org https://ift.tt/2VpoLd2