Isaac Newton predicts the End of the World.

Daily Mail: Letter from Sir Isaac Newton in 1704 predicts when the world will end.

Sir Isaac Newton, a renowned scientist known for formulating the laws of motion and gravity, predicted the world as we know it would end in 2060.

Newton scrawled this ominous warning on a letter slip above a series of mathematical calculations more than 300 years ago.

He believed in biblical visions of the Apocalypse — specifically the Battle of Armageddon — and based his prediction on his Protestant interpretation of the Bible and events that followed biblical history.

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Newton even questioned his own prediction that the current era would end in 2060.

'It may end later, but I see no reason for its ending sooner,' he wrote.

In another prediction referencing the date 2060, Newton stated: 'This I mention not to assert when the time of the end shall be, but to put a stop to the rash conjectures of fanciful men who are frequently predicting the time of the end, [and] by doing so bring the sacred prophecies into discredit as often as their predictions fail.[']

Burt Reynolds as God, tonight on The X-Files.

Ever wonder how God operates? We really don't know. Our human mind is incapable of grasping or understanding. We just can't. 

I'm pretty sure He's not the cosmic creation that some people seem to think is in Heaven currently sending down rain, floods, fires and earthquakes because "America is the Great Satan or the Whore of Babylon." To imply this is to say that, if America is the Whore of Babylon then there is a pimp. Continuing with this idea or thinking, one must assume IF America is Babylon then there's a pimp - so...that means the pimp is Israel? Right? Hello...Yes? No? 

Why would God now be sending storms and disasters upon America or any other part of the world? He's God - He knew all things before they happened. At best or worst, He's simply watching play out what He already knows. 

He gave us Free Will, the ability to make choices; good, bad or other. And He already knows, before we do, how we will respond and react.

Yes, God may test us. But He already knows the result. He wrote the test and knows the answers - long before we do. 

Which brings me to a rerun of an episode of "The X-Files" airing tonight titled, "Improbable."

The X-Files - Improbable.
COMET TV - Sun Feb 25 @ 9 pm ET/PT, 8 pm CT, and 10 pm MT.

^ LINK

It's an excellent episode with Reynolds perfectly cast in the role. 

Watching the episode closely, you'll notice a consistent theme using the number "3", or triple items. Is this a representation of The Holy Trinity: The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit? Viewers can decide this on their own.

God allows things to happen because He already knows the outcome. He may choose to intervene, yet may choose not to. Miracles happen; this is where my tiny human mind pauses to think that if God does intervene, it's for good, not bad. Again, though, He already anticipated this because He knew about it well before it happens.

My personal opinion: He may intervene in a crisis to help and assist someone in danger, to rescue or save someone. But I highly doubt He's throwing lightening bolts down on anyone or any country because of the current political state of the world. Why would He do that when He knows the outcome? There's simply no logic in thinking He's actively punishing any one or any place. HE ALREADY KNOWS. It's already written.

COMET TV is a free channel available Over The Air. All you need is an antenna.

It can also be watched online for free at COMET TV. Click on "Watch Live" tab at the top.

Airplane-Size SMOD, CEA: 761,000Mi/Km!

NASA: Asteroid 2023 HT6, due May 7; Closest Earth Approach 761,000 Mi|Km.

That's the nearest approach in a while for an Airplane-Size asteroid. Keep your fingers crossed!

5 SMODS missed us today.

Five SMODS today. FIVE!

All of them disappointing. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯  (Collective sigh and groaning.)

NASA's SMOD page may appear different than the above snap shot depending when you view it and when they update their site. It updates the closest five SMODs as they approach Earf.

And where are the aliens? They'll land moments after a global financial collapse. This, we do know.

Airplane-sized Asteroid to come within 510,000 miles of Earf on February 22.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Asteroid 2023 CM2.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Next Five Asteriods approaching Earf.

Of the next five near-earth asteroids, 2023 CM2 has the nearest approach. I'll take those odds!

2023 CM2, if you can read this, may I humbly ask that you aim for D.C.? Or Ukraine for my second choice.

Thank you!

Three Car-Size Asteroids approaching Earf on Jan. 27.

The asteroids are named: 2023BU, 2023BZ3 and BT3. Via:  The JPL/NASA.

2023BU approach, according to the site, will be within 6,190 of earf's orbit. The other two are a long way off.

Car-Sized. Awwwwwwwwwwwwww... how disappointing. Well, could still be some excitement if one of the three hits, but that's not going to happen.😠

Another Asteroid of Death heading towards Earth by Sunday. Promises...promises.

LiveMint: NASA warns of giant 1,600-feet asteroid heading towards earth by Sunday.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has said that a giant space rock Asteroid 388945 (2008 TZ3) will make close approach to our planet at 2.48am on May 16. Space scientists have warned that a huge asteroid is heading towards the Earth.

Additionally, NASA has said that the asteroid is 1,608 feet wide. Just for reference, the iconic New York Empire State building stands at 1,454 feet. Interestingly, the asteroid is also larger than the Eiffel Tower. 

Dear Asteroid 388945 (2008 TZ3),

Please stop with the teasing. It's no longer funny.

Here are three locations, in no particular order, that I ask for you to aim:

Ukraine
Washington DC
Wilmington, DE

Thank you for your consideration. Godspeed.

Bill Gates Shills for China. "They missed some things."

Breitbart: Gates: Criticism of China Coronavirus Deception a ‘Distraction’.

During an interview that aired on Sunday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,”  Microsoft co-founder and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Bill Gates argued against a focus on China for allegations it mishandled the early stages of the coronavirus breakout and could have act early to have prevented the global pandemic.

Gates said it was not timely and it was also a “distraction.”

“I don’t think that’s a timely thing because it doesn’t affect how we act today,” Gates said. “You know, China did a lot of things right at the beginning, like any country where a virus first shows up. They can look back and say they missed some things.["]

 "[China] missed some things..."? It's like Gates is pulling an Ilhan Omar, "Some people did something."

China lied to the world about the timeline of the Coronavirus and, "they missed some things," is how Gates describes it? I guess it's not like rebooting a country would work. Turn China Off and On again? Will that fix things, Bill?

In other Gates-related news (I know he exited MS long ago), the April 14 Win Patch fixed a bunch of vulnerable stuff. Forbes:

The April 14 Patch Tuesday updates included fixes for a total of 133 vulnerabilities, including seven critical security flaws in Windows 10.
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And bugs there seem to be, with one cumulative security fix[.]

Sweet Asteroid of Death teases us once again.

Express: NASA asteroid Earth approach: MILE-WIDE asteroid with its own MINI MOON set to skim Earth.

NASA has warned an asteroid big enough to boast its own mini moon will this week make a near-Earth approach.
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Asteroid 1999 KW4 is actually two objects, consisting of a larger space rock measuring 0.8 mile across (1.3km) and a mini moon orbiting it.

WSFA: ‘Potentially hazardous asteroid’ with its own moon to pass by Earth this weekend.

It will only travel as close as 3.2 million miles from Earth, which equals about 13 times the distance between the Earth and the moon, CNET reported.
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The flyby will be visible starting May 24 and last until May 27. If you miss it, you’ll have to wait until 2036 to see it again.

The second image...it's a two-day old muffin marked down half-price in the bakery shelf at Starbucks.

Tech News

Technocracy: GMO Food Will Stock Grocery Shelves Within 5 Years.

While ethicists [sic] debate the applications of blockbuster gene-editing tool Crispr in human healthcare, an inventor of the tool believes it has a more immediate application: improving our food.

I have one, essential question for those in the pro-GMO industry. If GMO food is as safe as Big GMO says, why then do they fight so diligently against their food being labeled as such? They'll reply with, "doing so presents a negative perception of our products, thus negatively affecting our sales." And? That's our problem?

Asbestos? Nah. Perfectly fine and safe, we were told for decades. Thalidomide? Perfectly safe, especially for pregnant mothers. Tobacco? Recommended by Doctors and dentists alike.

Now, here comes the GMO Train. We're just human guinea pigs for tech and science, aren't we?
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TechNewsWorld: Samsung suspends launch of Galaxy Fold.

Samsung pumped the brakes on release of the US$1,980 phone after several reviewers reported problems with their units.
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Reviewers for Bloomberg and YouTube reported their units began malfunctioning after they removed an integral part of the display, mistakenly thinking it was a plastic screen protector.

CNBC reviewer Todd Haselton wrote that he left the plastic film intact, but the display still started acting buggy. The left side of the flexible screen began to flicker consistently.

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TechSpot: Screen time not recommended for infants, says World Health Organization.

Infants under the age of one shouldn’t be exposed to electronic screens of any type according to guidelines recently published by the World Health Organization.

The United Nations agency further notes that sedentary screen time (watching TV / videos or playing computer games) is not recommended for infants.

Was anyone aware of this? Who knew?
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TechCrunch: Tesla reports $702 million loss in first quarter.

Tesla reported April 9 that it delivered 63,000 electric vehicles in the first quarter of the year, nearly a one-third drop from the previous quarter.
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“Everyone expected a first quarter loss for Tesla, but nobody expected it to be this big,” Karl Brauer, executive publisher at Kelley Blue Book and Autotrader said in an emailed statement.

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Ars Technia: Windpower-Turbines come to Massachusetts.

Turbines? What turbines? They blend in so well! And appear to be well-protected from vandalism or other acts of sabotage
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Beta News: Samsung Galaxy View2 Android 2 tablet: It's "Colossal."

What we don't know at the moment is just when the Galaxy View2 will be released, or how much it will cost.

But at least we know it's Colossal.
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BGR: Spoiler-free review of "Avengers: Endgame."
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C|Net: Facebook facing fine that could exceed $5 Billion Dollars.

The FTC is looking into Facebook's privacy practices and determining if the company violated a legal agreement to keep user data private.
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Still, Facebook's scandals didn't scare away advertisers or users. The company posted a better-than-expected $15.08 billion in sales in the first quarter and reported the number of users who logged on every month increased by 8%, to 2.38 billion.

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TechTalks: What is ethical AI?

Human oversight means that no AI system should be able to perform its functions without some level of control by humans. This means that humans should either be directly involved in the decision-making process or have the option to review and override decisions made by an AI model.

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Computer World: Where are the April Windows patches?

Answer: Due sometime in June. Maybe July.
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Extreme Tech: Sony's 98-inch, 8K OLED TV.

The cutting edge of television technology will cost you[.]
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This will be the 2019 flagship of the Sony television line and it ships in June. The Z9G measures 86.75 inches wide by 55.0 inches tall by 4.38 inches deep. For a cleaner look, it can be bracket-mounted to any wall that can support 208 pounds.

The price? $69,999.99.

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ZD Net: Is your body hacker-proof?

Increasing numbers of implantable medical devices are now gaining internet connectivity, giving doctors the ability to monitor patients health remotely, and even update the devices to tweak a treatment plan. Unfortunately, that flexibility offers a way for hackers to hijack that hardware, and even potentially make changes to the way the devices work. While so far no attacks have been successful, proof-of-concept attacks have been available for years.

And while it might be tempting to hope that cybercriminals might see corrupting life-sustaining devices as a step too far, they haven't historically shown much of a conscience, cheerfully extorting money away from hospitals, for example, and putting patients at risk.

Joe Biden forces ice cream makers to file bankruptcy, shut-down for good. Jobs lost; dairy industry in free fall.

Ya wanna talk about an image that needs to be scrubbed from the internet...

Actual image; no Pho-shopping.

Asteroid is not supposed to hit earth tomorrow, NASA warns.

Awwwwwwwwwww...where's the good news these days?

The Independent: Massive asteroid to pass closer to Earth than is the moon.

An asteroid purportedly the size of a 10-storey [sic] building will pass by the Earth at half the distance to the Moon, Nasa has warned.

Asteroid 2019 GC6 will pass within roughly 136,000 miles of Earth on Thursday, safely avoiding a devastating collision. (NASA pees on every parade, don't they? - DD)
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Nasa astronomers warn there is a risk Asteroid 2019 GC6 will collide with Earth in the next 100 years.

We should probably start planning for that, huh?

Check out the video at the link.

 Screen cap: video via The Independent

Your odds of...are...

Discover the Odds: Odds of being hit by lightning; 1 in one million.

CBS News: Odds of winning lotteries is roughly 1 in 259 million for Mega Millions and 1 in 292 million for its cousin, Powerball.

Elite Daily: Odds of being in an airplane crash; 1 in 11 million.

Forbes: Odds of surviving an airplane crash. (They vary).

Discover the Odds: Odds of being murdered in any given year; 1 in 18,989.

Yahoo Answers: Odds of a huge cruise ship sinking or crashing. ("Titanic" scenarios very rare).

Best Health Degrees: Odds of dying while attending a dance party; 1 in 100,000.

The Wildlife Museum: Odds of being attacked and killed by a shark; 1 in 3,748,067.

Golf Link: Odds of a hole in one: PGA player 1 in 2,500; average player 1 in 12,500.

Injury Fact/National Safety Council: Odds of dying by falling; 1 in 114.

Straight Dope: Rare, but yes, people have been killed by falling pianos and falling safes. Same link notes the following on death by falling anvils:

It’s difficult to imagine why one would ever need to hoist an anvil high enough for it to drop on someone. However, we can’t rule falling anvils out entirely, due to a little-known pastime called anvil shooting, an exemplar of the hold-my-beer-and-watch-this school of redneck diversions.

The concept, which can be seen in practice in numerous online videos, is lethally simple: You put an anvil on the ground, fill a concave space on its upper surface with black powder, insert a fuse, set a second anvil on top, light the fuse, and run like hell. The detonation sends the top anvil flying in the air — preferably straight up and then straight down, but you can see where things could go tragically awry. We didn’t find any instances of this actually occurring, but thanks to the Road Runner we have an artist’s impression of what might happen when it does.

I don’t want to give the impression that getting killed by falling objects is uncommon. On the contrary, the advent of large-screen and more recently wall-mounted televisions has created an entirely new category of real-world danger: death by falling TV.

And a MUST READ - Philthy-Delphia: Odds good you will NOT be eaten by a bear because you smell like a potato. Odds not as good the bear won't kill you anyway.

How ya feeling about your odds? At the moment, or, in general?

Tech News - Time To Reclaim our Privacy Edition

We will rue the day we voluntarily gave up our privacy to tech devices. And that day already happened. The rue is coming... 

Google Home + Chromecast = hackers discover exact physical location of IOT (Internet of Things). Threat Post:

Google Home and Chromecast devices allow attackers to uncover the precise physical locations of the connected gadgets thanks to two common internet of things issues present in both.
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...an attacker can use DNS rebinding to carry out an attack. This is a technique where JavaScript in a malicious web page is used to communicate with or gain control of a victim router or other target device that uses a default password and web-based administration.

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Geek: MS helping ICE.

...there’s one piece of Microsoft news we’ve been sad to see not get a ton reporting, news that’s not quite new but disturbingly relevant again. In case you didn’t know, Microsoft is supporting ICE[.]

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Beta News: MicroSoft backtracks; distancing itself from ICE collaboration.

...people took to social media to call out Microsoft, making references to the child separation policy; shortly afterwards, the ICE reference was deleted. Now it is back[.]

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Technocracy: DHS is quietly building a database that includes facial recognition, DNA and relationships:

In late May, EFF filed comments criticizing DHS’s plans to collect, store, and share biometric and biographic records it receives from external agencies and to exempt this information from the federal Privacy Act. 

I ask: just how much more personal information do you want DHS to have on you? DHS is out of control.  Biometric Update:

The database will include multiple biometrics, including face images and DNA data, as well as “data from questionable sources, and highly personal data on innocent people." 

Please, please, please - get involved with the EFF.
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MIT Tech Review: It's time to REIGN IN THE DATA BARONS!
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Gizmodo: Alexa in your hotel room.

[You] forget your toothbrush [while on vacation]. [Don't call the front desk, tell Alexa].  Amazon’s new Alexa for Hospitality service, which puts an Echo device in your hotel room, might let you avoid the conversation altogether, and let you bring a bit of your always-on, always-listening, always-spying smart home with you. So don’t do anything stupid.

Yeah - calling the front desk for a toothbrush, or going to the nearest retail store and buying a new tooth brush -- well, it's just such a laborious task for some people. 
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Information Week - Quantum computing needs to be on your radar now:

Quantum computing will bring wonderful advances to our lives, BUT - - - it will also be used for incredibly nefarious purposes.
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Tech News World: Hacking Academia.
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Recall Vault 7 ?  Bleeping Computer:  Ex-CIA Employee Charged with Leak of Classified CIA Vault 7 Hacking Tools 

The Department of Justice has announced new charges against former CIA software engineer Joshua Schulte for allegedly leaking classified CIA documents, software projects, and hacking utilities called Vault 7 to WikiLeaks. Schulte was charged on August 24, 2017 with possession of child pornography, but was also believed to be the source of the embarrassing leak of CIA documents.

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Who OWNS BIG MEDIA?  Recode has a wonderful diagram explaining it all.
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Yep...the  refrain coming is, "Well, everyone else got that 'mark' on their forehead or hand, so why not me?"