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Talk about perks, my career had one of the best I can think of! I traveled in the course of business, delivering classes for my employer. I was a Senior Training Specialist for Motorola Solutions, and taught classes on a wide variety of subjects centered around 2-way radio communications. I knew that when the time arrived that I would retire, and I have. I've always said that if you can't stand the heat in the kitchen, get out! I can't handle the heat anymore. I was qualified to deliver approximately 32 different classes, but about half of those were 'Legacy' classes, and were not in demand anymore. My students were technicians, those who maintained, programmed, calibrated, and repaired large 2-way radio systems. Some of these systems are statewide, and use TCP-IP networking to allow sites to communicate with others. Some are small, traditional type radio sites. The size doesn't matter, in each case the systems must be kept operational at all times, since many of them are Public Safety Systems. So I traveled, sometimes frequently, 3-4 weeks in a row.... where have I been? Some of the places I've been (I can't list them all here, the list would be too long) are pretty interesting. 1. Hawaii - Four times, Oahu, Maui (twice), and the Big Island 2. BangkokThailand, twice 3. Frankfurt Germany, twice 4. Algiers, Algeria 5. Melbourne Australia 6. Bismarck North Dakota, Summer & Winter 7. Los Angeles, Too many times to count 8. Washington DC, Too many times to count 9. Seattle three or four times 10. Texas, all over the state 11. Florida, all over the state 12. New Mexico, HOME! Several times  Best Cultural And Regional Honorable Mention |
Comet Atlas 3i This has certainly been in the news lately. I'm someone who wonders about things like this, something strange, out of the ordinary, something to make you think about what our universe really is. Many astrophysicists think that this too may be an interstellar visitor. They're right in that thought, it doesn't seem to be from our Solar System. However, they speculate that it was built using Alien Technology. It's very difficult to determine if you ask me. I have little knowledge of things like this, then again, I'm not entirely stupid either. The following descriptions can be found here: Physicist Avi Loeb lists the nine unusual patterns that may hint at an extra-terrestrial intelligence. To me, the key word there is may. You need that word though because we don't have any proof that it is extra-terrestrial in origin. Those nine anomalies are: 1. The first point that scientist Loeb brought to light is 3I/ATLAS’ retrograde trajectory, which, according to his research, is aligned to within 5 degrees of Earth’s path around the sun or the ecliptic plane of the planets. Loeb argues that there is only a 0.2 percent likelihood of such an occurrence. I'd love to see the mathematics that gave him his answer. 2. The second anomaly is the “sunward jet” or the “anti-tail” of 3I/ATLAS, which scientists observed during July and August 2025. Many other comets in the past have developed an “anti-tail,” an optical illusion caused by the observer’s position as the object travels between the Earth and the sun. However, Loeb argues that so is not the case for 3I/ATLAS. “That is not an optical illusion from geometric perspective, unlike familiar comets,” he wrote. 3. The third anomaly draws attention to the interstellar object’s mass. According to Loeb, 3I/ATLAS is “a million times more massive than 1I/’Oumuamua and a thousand times more massive than 2I/Borisov.” Despite being that big, Loeb noted that 3I/ATLAS moves “faster than both.” Based on the numbers, he argues that for a comet to have such a nature is the likelihood of less than 0.1%. 4. The fourth point of anomaly, according to Loeb, is the object’s “fine-tuned” path, which takes it on a course right past Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and “be unobservable from Earth at perihelion.” Loeb believes the likelihood of such an occurrence is 0.005%. 5. The fifth unusual pattern is 3I/ATLAS’ nickel-to-iron ratio. According to studies, 3I/ATLAS’ gas plume has an “extreme abundance ratio” of nickel and iron, which makes it stand out from other more familiar solar system comets, including 2I/Borisov. 6. With the sixth anomaly, researchers examined the data from the Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer to deduce that the gas plume of the interstellar object contains only 4% water by mass. Instead, it carries a higher proportion of carbon dioxide, which Loeb argues makes 3I/ATLAS an outlier. 7. The seventh anomaly shows that 3I/ATLAS has an “extreme negative polarization, unprecedented for all known comets.” “The combination of low inversion angle and extreme negative polarization is unprecedented among comets and asteroids, marking 3I/ATLAS the first object known with such polarimetric behavior and representing a previously unobserved population,” Loeb wrote in a Medium post. Population? 8. Loeb further suggested that 3I/ATLAS may have emitted the “Wow! Signal,” which was detected in 1977by the Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope. The signal led to speculations about extraterrestrial beings, but it has remained a mystery since. Loeb argues it is the eighth anomaly, claiming 3I/ATLAS arrived from a direction coincident with the radio signal. 9. As the last anomaly, Loeb drew attention to the rapid brightening of the object near perihelion and its turning bluer than the sun, which, to him, was “very surprising,” as comets are expected to redden the scattered sunlight, resulting in having a redder color than the sun. However, whether the nine anomalies listed by Loeb hint at a technological origin of 3I/ATLAS remains debatable. On the contrary, NASA’s lead scientist, Tom Statler, while speaking with The Guardian last month, stated that 3I/ATLAS looked like a comet and behaved like one. Consequently, he dismissed alien theories; however, Loeb urged experts to collect as much data as possible and remain open-minded. I didn't bother with paraphrasing this information mainly because I want to have a record of sorts about Scientists initial thoughts about Comet Atlas 3i. Why? Because I don't think they (Scientists, the Government, whoever you want to think of as they) want the general public to know details like this. Again, why? I for one do not think the General Public could handle knowledge of alien intelligence without going bonkers. Just my opinion, I know what it's worth. |
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