astro video for the day/ ESO - Eyes on the Skies, Hans Lippershey and Galileo

ESO's latest video documentary about Astronomy and Telescopes.

I can't help noting the social science lesson exploring ideas about Hans Lippershey and Galileo.  Hans Lippershey discovered magnification by lenses.  But, he didn't think of applying it to Astronomical research.  Galileo saw it.  

Hans Lippershey is living up in Germany, and Galileo hears about this all the way down in Venice, Italy, sees what Hans Lippershey genius didn't(he at least innovated and saw that he could magnify images by a combination of lenses). 

This historical lesson of science of thinking or not thinking of something is a big clue to Human psychology.  People are always living under un-questioned assumptions and over/under generalisations, and not seeing what's staring them right in their faces.  It's a bit like the 2001 Ape scenes, where the Apes are starving and eating a few nuts and plants, and animals are walking around them with no fear. 

I can't help noting Eric Drexler's "Engines of Creation."  He doesn't need two or three hundred pages to explain his nanotechnology ideas.  So, he fills it with arguing how to not abuse it, which is the correct thing.  He points out evolution in like the second chapter, and then devotes a whole section of chapters at the end, where he points out science courts and hypertext publishing as ways of getting to the facts.  Yes, despite some good chapters on addressing A.I., he doens't think of using A.I. to find the facts, and present people the logical flaws of their arguments. 

And the same thing can be seen with Elon Musk and others arguing over AI. today. There's a lot of facial recognition and emotional A.I., and the only application they can think of is . . . for automobiles.  They don't think of using emotional A.I. say in a court system, and how about finding racist cops.  No, Rana El Kalaby and Rosalind Picsard never think of it, and then up-chuck when pointing these things out to them.

astro picture for the day/ more comparative mythology videos found - Stolen Sun/Moon gods

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and STScI

Stolen moon gods - Proves that Jerusalem was a Moon worshipping center

Shamesh is a sungod daughter of El and Asherah.  I don't get into much about El in my gospel of truth, but I do point out a good deal about Asherah. 

2Kings 23 "And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire."

Just more proof that the Israelites worshipped sungods; but, some Hebrew priests and Kings ordered no worshipping of sungods.  As the ten commandments says, "don't pattern your gods based on the sun, moon, and nature."  This is essentially saying "don't study the stars and nature."

Hosea 12:9 - And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles, as in the days of the solemn feast. - here, the Hebrew god is from the land of Egypt.

And Hosea 13:4 "

Yet I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me." -  more of the Hebrew god comes from Egypt, and he's your savior, and only savior.

A whole bunch of proof that Jesus Christ is a redo of Egyptian sungod Osirus and Horus.  Bethleham is the "house of bread."

astro picture of the day/ Alvin Toffler's Powershift, fear and evasive langague

Image Credit: Chandra and Event Horizon Telescope image of M87's central black hole

This image combines data from the Chandra X-ray telescope and the Event Horizon's image of the event horizon telescope.  The event horizon of M87's central supermassive black hole is like 20 Billion miles in radius I do believe. This is larger than our own solar system. One should't expect to see details the size of a human in these images.



Alvin Toffler, in his "Third Wave" points out the three waves of civilization - Agriculture as first wave, Industrialism as second wave, and the third wave, is the nanotech, and A.I. and information age. The third wave is still coming.

Alvin further associates the three social power levers with each wave of civilization - violence with agriculturalism/ money with Industrialism, and knowledge with the Third wave - whatever you want to call this Third wave civilization.

So, he suggests that the transition from the Industrial era to the "Third Wave" civilization will come with a Powershift from money as the dominant social power lever to knowledge.  I'd say we're still not quite in this "Third Wave" civilization.

Alvin shows how each power lever can substitute for one another.  Force can be used to coerce knowledge out of someone or money.  Money can buy knowledge or a gun, and Knowledge can make a gun or money.  But, knowledge is different because it is comparatively limitless, while force and money are generally finite.

In a true knowledge driven society, people settle their disputes by facts and logic.  When proven wrong, they do so based on facts and logic presented to them. In the past, when someone does something wrong, they either beat the person presenting the facts/logic proving him/her wrong, or pay them off.  They fear being proven wrong, and they use fear and violence, and even money to cover up - might makes right.

We are not in the "Third Wave" civilization yet.  Alvin Toffler points out that one reason violence seems to less used in today's Industrial era, is because it has been packaged as "the law". Behind the law is the threat of violence and weapons. As he points out in his 'Third Wave" book, the worlds nations governments work almost like a business. They tax their people to run their business. What's more, to help drive their economies, all industrial Nations had to resort to imperialism. To sustain their imperialism, they needed a military to ensure the trade lanes.  This is one sign that we are still in the Industrial past.

I would suspect that we won't be in the "Third Wave" civilization till we are in the nano-manufacturing era.  Then, people will make things by their own knowledge, and not have have a job to get the money to get the food.