Earth Days to come for our
beautiful Spaceship Earth as it continues to spin and circle in frigid
space with its warm and fragile cargo of animate life."
Epcot's Spaceship Earth
Spaceship Earth is the name given to the 165 ft geodesic sphere that
greets visitors at the entrance of Walt Disney World's Epcot theme
park. Housed within the sphere is a dark ride that serves to explore
the history of communications and promote Epcot's founding
principles, "[A] belief and pride in man's ability to shape a world that
offers hope to people everywhere."
A previous incarnation of the ride, narrated by actor Jeremy Irons and
revised in 2008, was explicit in its message:
Like a grand and miraculous spaceship, our planet has sailed through the universe of time, and for a brief moment, we have been among its many passengers….We now have the ability and the responsibility to build new bridges of acceptance and co-operation between us, to create a better world for ourselves and our children as we continue our amazing journey aboard Spaceship Earth.
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Added by Michael Grove at 6:37 on September 20, 2016
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metamorphosis. The target production began in 1945, 58 years
before its completion and was a collaboration between Walt Disney
and the Spanish surrealist painter, Salvador Dalí. Salvador Dali
and Walt Disney Destiny was produced by Dali and John Hench
for 8 months between 1945 and 1946. Hench described Dali at the
time, as a "ghostly figure" who knew better than Dali or the
secrets of the Disney film. For some time, the project remained a
secret. The work of painter Salvador Dali was to prepare a six-minute
sequence combining animation with live dancers and special effects
for a movie in the same format of "Fantasia." Dali in the studio
working on The Disney characters are fighting against time, the
giant sundial that emerges from the great stone face of Jupiter and
that determines the fate of all human novels. Dalí and Hench were
creating a new animation technique, the cinematic equivalent of
"paranoid critique" of Dali. Method inspired by the work of Freud on
the subconscious and the inclusion of hidden and double images.
Dalí said: "Entertainment highlights the art, its possibilities are
endless." The plot of the film was described by Dalí as "A magical
display of the problem of life in the labyrinth of time." Walt Disney
said it was "A simple story about a young girl in search of true
love."My grateful thanks to Jack Austin for bringing this animation to my attention • just imagine 4,733,899 views on YouTube and I didn't even know it existed. I shall make this a YouTube favourite nOw on our new Virgin multi Media high-speed home network .
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with the new Meteor missile launched in defence of UK airspace. RAF Typhoons maintain a constant state of readiness to defend the sovereignty of British skies. Quick Reaction Alert jets based at RAF Lossiemouth in Scotland are regularly scrambled to deter Russian aircraft approaching UK airspace over the North Sea.
The exact nature of last week's incident remained classified.
The introduction of Meteor represents the culmination of many years of research, development and testing to bring the advanced weapon into service on front-line aircraft.
The Defence Secretary, Gavin Williamson, said: “This latest missile system demonstrates the next chapter of the Typhoon which will see the jet evolve its ability to target and destroy any airborne threat at great distances.
“The Meteor missile will provide an unrelenting deterrence to those who wish harm upon the UK and our Armed Forces. The RAF’s prized Typhoon Force is unquestionably now the cornerstone of British and Nato military power. It has proved itself in combat roles over Libya, Iraq and Syria, protecting UK skies and overseas territories, and providing critical support to our NATO Allies in Eastern Europe.”
Meteor can fly in any weather condition at over four times the speed of sound. It has been designed to defeat all current and known future threats, including combat aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles or missiles. The range of the weapon is classified, but it will eventually operate from the F-35 Lightning stealth jet.
The missile - weighing 185kgs and measuring 3.7m long - uses an air-breathing ramjet to boost the weapon away from the launch aircraft. It then remains under power until warhead detonation, giving the missile the energy to pursue and destroy the fastest and most agile aircraft. The warhead carries impact and proximity fuses so targets can be destroyed even if the missile does not score a direct hit.
The pilot flying the first Meteor equipped Typhoon said: “The responsibility of flying such a capable platform, armed with this formidable weapon is immense, but the options this gives us in responding to an emergency situation cannot be understated.”
Meteor has been developed by a six-nation European partnership led by the UK. It is built and manufactured by MBDA in Stevenage and has created 430 jobs across the country. The Meteor programme partners include the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden.
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Added by Michael Grove at 10:06 on December 10, 2018
own the historic 4th WALL that kept us separate from NATURE
and BY embracing the very fact that What IS Possible NOW, was
never possible before" ~ such that THE human[KIND] of Spaceship
Earth in Freespace 4D™ can embark on a new collective relationship
with NATURE, which establishes a [TIME]less zone for communication
and commerce in FS4D by realising the dream of a common language
[in4D] • THE WHOLE IDEA of which [BE]ing to reclaim y[our] species
lost relationship, as a constituent component of NATURE, through a
permanent manifestation of the original concept of ... The ART of the POSSIBLE.
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dot, on behalf
of ALL of the passengers of Planet Earth ~ "BY effectively taking
down the historic 4th WALL that kept us separate from NATURE
and BY embracing the very fact that What IS Possible NOW, was
never possible before" ~ such that THE human[KIND] of Spaceship
Earth in Freespace 4D™ can embark on a new collective relationship
with NATURE, which establishes a [TIME]less zone for communication
and commerce in FS4D by realising the dream of a common language
[in4D] • THE WHOLE IDEA of which [BE]ing to reclaim y[our] species
lost relationship, as a constituent component of NATURE, through a
permanent manifestation the original concept of ... The ART of the POSSIBLE.
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g preoccupation into the realistic prospect of
a spontaneously coordinate planetary society." Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
Buckminster Fuller
Synergetics is a product of Fuller's passionate concern with models. Concerned that society's ignorance of science is seriously destructive, he devoted years of thought to ways of alleviating this ignorance. In the 20th century, we suddenly find ourselves confronted with an "invisible" atomic reality in which the average person understands very little about how things work. Although confronted daily with "incredible technology", which to Fuller includes the natural phenomena of Universe as well as the ever-expanding inventory of human invention, the vast majority assume such phenomena to be out of their reach. Fuller attributes this widespread discomfort to both the "invisibility" of science and the devastatingly complicated mathematics without which, scientists claim, their findings cannot be described. The dangerous chasm between scientists and lay people, with the truth guarded by an elite few and the rest resigned to ignorance, thus seems inevitable.
The origin of this troubled state of affairs? An incorrect mathematical system! Long ago human beings surveyed this environment and, seeing a never-ending flat Earth, decided upon cubes and orthogonal planes as the appropriate measuring system. Today, says Fuller, we're still stuck with that uninformed early guess, and as a result, nature's behavior has seemed irrational, perverse, and difficult to describe because we're using the wrong kind of yardstick. With accurate models, he claims, this gap can be closed. The purpose of synergetics is to make the invisible events and transformations of Universe visible, through tangible models that elucidate the principles behind our energy-event Universe. Human beings will thereby be able to "coordinate their senses" with a new understanding of reality.
Synergetics is full of tantalizing models; the difficulty comes in assigning them to aspects of physical reality. However, a number of notable examples, in which a newly discovered scientific phenomenon is described by one of Fuller's previously developed models, suggest that there may be many more such successes to come. The immediate goal therefore is to unravel and study the geometric system [IT]self.
Edmondson, Amy C.. A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller (Back-in-Action books) (pp. 17-18). EmergentWorld LLC. Kindle Edition.
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I Ching and choosing the right TIME to ACT, utilising the
concept of Trigrams that are made up of three lines and these
can be unbroken (yang) or broken (yin). The lines signify the
two basic forces of the of the physical world, masculine yang
energy and the receptive, yielding , feminine yin energy. The
wisdom of yang and the compassion of yin unite to produce
an infinite number of outcomes. Think of the I Ching as China’s
accumulated wisdom and philosophy encapsulated within a
set of 64 linear symbols known as hexagrams.These lined
symbols describe situations experienced by mankind working
together with the forces of the universe. These forces are
described by the Chinese as the interactions of teen ti ten,
or heaven, earth and mankind.
TODAY, WE SEE WAR CONDONED... IN the name of
the patriarchal gods of Allah, Jesus and Jehova.
The divine is not understood by these people
as part of a circular pattern emulating nature,
but it is now a linear theology of One shot.. either
up to heaven [with optional virgins] or down
to hell - Kelly Bell NATURE is our religion, and the eternal cycle our holy book.
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