Kingdom Come

“He who occupies the high ground…will fight to advantage.” – Sun Tzu, Chinese military strategist and philosopher, 544 BC-496 BC.

From the start, the military rationale for space exploration was to control the high ground. Such an attack, generals and politicians argued, would be impossible to stop.

The military has always played a role in its exploration. Military officers piloted most Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft.

Preparation for war is the context in which every activity in space must be viewed.

Creating a timeline of significant events is helpful for determining where we’re at today.

In 1898 a Russian schoolteacher, Konstantin Tsiolkovsy (1857-1935) proposed…Exploration of the Universe with Rocket Propelled Vehicles. Tsiolkovsy has been called the Father of Modern Astronautics..

In 1926 American Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945) achieved the first successful flight with a rocket that flew for 2,5 seconds, climbed 12.5 meters, and landed 56 meters away. Goddard has been called the Father of Modern Rocketry.

In 1923 Herman Oberth (1894-1989) and other German engineers and scientists assembled the most advanced rocket of its time under the direction of Wernher von Braun. The V-2 rocket was able to lob a one-tone warhead 50 miles high and hundreds of miles down range to devastate entire city blocks. Oberth has been called the Father of Space Flight.

Space Flight? That’s about as ambiguous a plaudit as one can get.

Continue reading “261) The Space Race Is Seizing The High Ground For War”

The development of more and more powerful weapons in WW II resulted in Europe’s devastation in a way that is now difficult to envision. Approximately 36.5 million Europeans had died in the conflict, 19 million of them civilians. In some areas, infant mortality rates were one in four. Millions of orphans wandered the burnt-out shells of former metropolises. In the German city of Hamburg alone, half a million people were homeless. Refugee camps and rationing dominated daily life.

The threat of prolonging this war with complete annihilation of Western civilization was made a stark reality by the Soviet Supreme leader Stalin. Like Hitler, an incredibly ambitious man, he frankly planned to replace the defeated Nazi’s Reich in the West and the Japanese Empire in the East with his United Soviet Socialist Republic.

Even before the guns fell silent in Europe in 1945, it became apparent to American and British planners that Russia, holding a massive advantage in land power along the Central front, could achieve his supremacy.

In 1949 the Allied and Axis Forces reconfigured into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization of Western European nations and the Warsaw Pact of Eastern European nations. A Blueprint for World War III: NATO’s Plan to Crush the Soviet Union in Battle was drawn up.

During the 1950s and 1960s, NATO and the Warsaw Pact agreed on two things regarding combat on the Central front. First, Warsaw Pact conventional forces would quickly overrun NATO forces, achieving rates of advance across Western Europe that exceeded even those of World War II. Second, both NATO and the Warsaw Pact would make plentiful use of tactical nuclear weapons, both to break up enemy formations and also to pave the way for advancing forces.

The newly formed US National Security Council releases NSC-68, a secret policy paper calling for massively increased military spending to counter the Soviet Union’s stated planned takeover of America along with the rest of the world, establishing a state of fear of a nuclear apocalypse and willingness to blindly fund secret spending by the Department of Defense, CIA, and National Security Agency.

In 1958, after the Russian satellite Sputnik shocked and awed the American public, the U.S. government launched the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Continue reading “262) The Dark Side Of NASA”

Would a military-run government agency like NASA cover up what they’re really doing by deliberately leaking false information to the media?

Surely red-blooded patriotic Americans wouldn’t participate in a coverup!

Using our common sense, the exact opposite argument is more credible. Spreading misinformation to gain a military advantage is a common strategy.

On 6 June 1944, 168,000 Allied troops stormed ashore on the beaches of Normandy to begin the liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe, supported by 12,000 aircraft and nearly 7,000 ships. The invasion plan, initially codenamed Overlord and then designated Neptune and a dozen other subordinate components, was the largest amphibious assault ever contemplated, and was an extraordinarily high-risk enterprise.

The key to success would be the element of surprise…the enemy was fully aware that an invasion attempt was probable sometime during the summer of 1944.

Continue reading “263) Codeword Overlord”

The primary objective of Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961: perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth.

After the Saturn rocket leaves earth, everything goes dark.

Isn’t that the definition of Black Ops? “secret military activities, especially illegal ones, that are ordered by a government or organization but that they will not admit to having ordered:”

And we know that the US government engages in covert operations.

• https://www.rd.com/list/secret-u-s-government-operations/
• https://247wallst.com/special-report/2023/05/16/cia-scandals-and-outrageous-operations/
• https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-17-intelligence-agencies-20170112-story.html

Image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Images.

 

The crisp, stunning images from the Hubble Space Telescope are a wonder to behold. As one can see in the image comparison above, Hubble’s views are significantly higher resolution than similar images obtained by ground-based observatories.

Ground-based (left) vs space-based (right) images of star-forming regions in the Whirlpool Galaxy. On the left is the view from the WIYN telescope at Kitt Peak in Arizona. On the right is the view from the Hubble Space Telescope.

Terrestrial telescopes must look through Earth’s atmosphere, which blurs the view and limits their resolution. Orbiting above Earth’s atmosphere, Hubble avoids that problem and can get a clearer view of the universe.

Actually Hubble is located IN the atmosphere, specifically the thermosphere at only 340 miles above Earth.

OK, so maybe I’m being petty. We’ll consider that the astronomers weren’t clear about Hubble being above the bulk of the atmosphere which is in the troposphere. Still, deceptive.

World Atlas

The Hubble telescope, since its launch in 1990, has given us insight into space and the galaxies that surround us. Creating millions of pictures, the Hubble telescope has continued to be a valuable tool for space exploration. It has amazed us with incredible images of different star objects, galaxies far away, supernovas, and nebulas.

 

(Image: © J. P. Harrington (U. Maryland) & K. J. Borkowski (NCSU) HST, NASA)

 

Three thousand light-years away, a dying star throws off shells of glowing gas in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope of the Cat’s Eye Nebula.

But does Hubble show us what the universe really looks like?

No, according to NASA.

Hubble doesn’t use color film (or any film at all) to create its images. Instead…using what’s called a CCD (charge-coupled device) to record incoming photons of light. Photon, also known as light quantum, is a minute energy packet of electromagnetic radiation. 

Whoa!! How on earth do photons make it through the Van Allen Belts intact, when, according to the photon theory of light, photons can be destroyed or created when radiation is absorbed.

The rest of the explanation also assumes the educational level and gullibility of a bored elementary school child.

Continue reading “SECTION XLVI: What Is Hubble Really Used For?”

The title photograph was provided by NASA in answer to the question “What does Earth look like from outer space?”

The view is about 200 miles (300 km) above Earth’s surface...about the height of the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS).

OBVIOUSLY this doesn’t prove anything. Not a globular earth nor the shape of any of the continents. Are you telling us that after spending $100 billion to build the ISS and another $3 billion annually for upkeep since 1998 the thing doesn’t even have a zoom out lens?

Let’s try the Hubble telescope.

IF the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) could observe Earth from its orbit 570 kilometers (350 miles) above Earth’s surface…But it’s not possible to turn the telescope in an Earth-observing direction. Here’s why.

First, the brightness of Earth would damage the instruments aboard the telescope.

Whaaat!! Then what’s this? The Sun, Hubble Telescope, Solar System, Space, Stars 170568.0

Hubble cannot look at the Sun directly and so must use reflected light to make measurements of the Sun’s spectrum.

So this “Hubble picture” is fake?! What does that tell us about NASA’s credibility?

Continue reading “266) Faking The Map Of The Invasion Force”