Remembering The Fallen

Just a few thoughts and observations.

1) We lost a very good young software engineer that developed RSS news feeds that I use on this site, Aaron Swartz.

Aaron Swartz saw a closed world and wanted to crack it open. His suicide by hanging in New York last week has reignited the conflict between the values of property possession and digital openness and intensified debate over the government’s determination to send him to prison.  In Swartz’s world, data constituted knowledge, and knowledge demanded to be shared. In service of that goal, he helped start Reddit, a news and entertainment website, and RSS, the information distribution service.  One thing this will open up is access by the public to some of the research work I have been refering via JSTOR.  Anybody wanting to do do research should take advantage of this JSTOR library.

2) As I have tracked these energetic particles over the past few months, I have seen a few small plane accidents that appear to be in the “jetstream” of what I believe are these energetic particle tracks.  This is known as either clear air turbulence or just severe turbulence.

a) St. Thomas Plane Crash  This  occurred BEFORE Tropical storm Rafael arrived, but my tracking showed the particle in the path of that plane.

b) Mexican Plane Crash This occurred right in my proposed particle path for the energetic particles streaming towards Ohio in Early December, shortly after the 1200′ Ohio Sinkhole opened up and that jet stream appeared heading towards Ohio.

c) Texas Plane Crash This occurred last week right in the path I am showing  for those same particles streaming towards Ohio from Texas.

d) Dover, Deleware Crash.  This occurred yesterday in fog along the path of particles I am tracking.

I realize I joke a lot in my blog postings, but I am deadly serious when I say that treating these jet streams as energetic particle paths with the possibility of severe turbulence, especially when they are heading towards a large sinkhole in the Earth, may save lives.  That is precisely why I am sharing every bit of my research and thoughts with you all so you can make your own decisions.

Godspeed

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