My salutations and congratulations are owing to the world astronomers. What a bunch of politician/scientists they are. Astronomers. There is no group I know of that works together so well to extract massive funding from their respective governments. It seems that "we" are tremendously interested in events that may occur, have not occurred, and the consequences of which are so remote in time, we should scarcely be in touch or concerned with them. Yet, they achieve funding way out of proportion to their numbers and impact. They are masters of imagery, animations, and purveyors of fear. Cosmological demogogues are they! Do you know what a gamma ray beam from an exploding star means to us? Or a neutron star exploding every 100 million years? Or very own sun going supernova? There are limitless shows on TV of what this means. Most, probably all, of this is absolutely beyond our intervention. Indeed, our own sun will become so hot in the next several hundreds of mi
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