My Personal Thoughts On The Global Pandemic Of Coronavirus: Written From Quarantine

It's been almost a year since I have posted on this website and the reason is because I hadn't had time due to a busy work schedule. Ironically enough, I work from home and now the world is facing a global pandemic where Americans have been asked to, "work from home." Not much has changed for me except that toilet paper and sanitary cleaning products are at an unnerving low supply at the store and even though I didn't go out too much before, now that I have been officially advised by the president to continue living the way I have (cooped up at home, afraid of crowds, traveling and people coughing and sneezing at the drug store), I feel strange. Like my fears have been officially validated and it's not irrational. The only thing I was planning to do before all this was go to the fabric store. When I think about how fun it would be to go to the fabric store and then suddenly remember I can't (most retail stores in America are currently closed), it does bring me down, just a bit. But, not too much, it's just fabric.

What really brings me down is an article I came across in my search to get to the root of this pandemic. This article posted on the National Center for Biotechnology Information and US National Library of Medicine https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1550436/ is from Aug. 19, 2006 and it is a collection of what scientists learned after the three SARS outbreaks in China that occurred in 2002 to 2004. Three outbreaks!? In three years? I remember hearing about SARS and bird flu back then. It sounded gross, but I didn't think it was super contagious. I even worked in an office one time where someone in our office had contracted H1N1 the swine flu. I was worried about that one too, but luckily no one else in the office caught it. Apparently, COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2), or also known as, Coronavirus, the "Chinese" virus and Rona as some people on Twitter decided to nickname it, is three times more contagious than the flu and it is not a flu by the way. Symptoms are "flu-like" but it is not the flu. It's a wonderful brand new virus. I'm being sarcastic when I say wonderful, but it's nice and new so that human bodies don't know how to properly react to it yet. Which is why it can be very deadly. They say that people with preexisting health issues are the most at risk, but lets be real, any living creature is at risk with an unknown virus. We can only hope that seeing as a lot of infected people have clearly survived from it, that once you catch it, you do have a chance. However, everyone should be taking every precaution to completely eliminate all risks of becoming infected. You just never know what an unknown virus will do. And who is to say that this virus won't have long term health risks? I had mononucleosis once and congratulations to me (I'm being sarcastic again) the virus that causes mononucleosis stays in the body forever. I still don't think that sounds right, but I read it clearly in an article about epstein-barr. Who's to say this virus won't stay in the body forever and decide to come out later one day when your immune system is weak? I don't mean to scare anyone, it's just that the more you are aware of, the more you will be protected from such a threat.

Going back to the article from the NCBI, my favorite part is this sentence " If no action is taken to control wildlife markets, the SARS-CoV organism may develop into an epidemic strain." 

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And there you have it ladies and gentleman, IT DID! Remember, this article was written in 2006. How sad to know this recent pandemic surely would have been prevented if a stricter action had been taken. 

I have a closing statement that I really do believe. It ties into pseudoscience so bare with me if you don't like thinking on a curve. I've always felt, just by pure observation, that the Earth itself is a living creature. Lava flows through it like blood, tree's roots grow into it like veins, rocks cover it like a hardened skin, water keeps everything circulating and just as our bodies have good and bad bacteria in them, so does the Earth. Just as humans need to keep up their personal hygiene to stay healthy, so does the Earth. We need our good bacteria and white blood cells to fight off infectious disease. I think that living creatures on Earth can be either a good bacteria or bad. We are living on and off the Earth, the Earth is our host. We can create poisons on the Earth and toxins in which the Earth must purge of and in doing so it is unforgiving. That is why it is so important that humans do their part to tend to the Earth. Help keep it clean and circulating. Stop poising it's air, water and soils. Stay sanitary and don't allow disease to grow upon it. The Earth will thank us for it and lives will be saved.  

Picture of Earth and It's Moon from Mars Rover Curiosity

Curiosity, the Mars rover, took this awesome picture of Earth and it's moon as seen from the planet Mars. It is a settling picture to know that our planet is just like any other in the universe.

mage Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/TAMU

NASA Is Planning A 2014 Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission

NASA is planning a 2014 Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) sending four robotic crafts in search of portals created by the crossing of magnetic fields between Earth and the Sun. These portals are surely not the only portals in space and if these crafts make it through the portals safe and sound, the possibilities of robotic space travel are endless! Through my independent research and eye witness, I do believe UFO’s use some type of portals or magnetic portals to travel through space. If you watch the video re creation of the UFO I saw, it did move with a very robotic-like movement and then whisked away in the blink of an eye with a push/pull  movement which seems to be what happens in portals. This video , around [11:30], explains the possibility of space traveling using dark matter. 

(Source: http://www.youtube.com/)

Beaming Tweets in to Sapce?

I’m not sure how the whole radio transmission and sending signals in to space hoping an extraterrestrial race will receive them and vice versa can work, but at least we’re trying. The Wow! signal was a strange radio transmission detected in 1977 by American astronomer Jerry R. Ehman. He was so amazed at it’s interstellar frequency that he wrote down the word Wow! next to it, thus the signal being named, The Wow! single. Read here for a deeper explanation on why this particular signal was so amazing. Apparently it was a huge frequency close to the megahertz that hydrogen puts out which means it was not coming from some dinky little radio. Although the signal had never been confirmed as extraterrestrial or terrestrial, Ehman didn’t jump to conclusions noting every possibility including the signal could of been redirecting from military Earth sources. Or it could of been coming from strong radio-like frequencies emitting from an alien craft traveling through the constellation Sagittarius. That’s an idea I had :) Whatever it was, nothing has matched it’s frequency since…  

On a side note: The television show Chasing UFOs has teamed up with Twitter to tweet to aliens. Facepalm! Follow the link above. 

Beaming Tweets in to Sapce?

Methane Lakes on Saturn's Moon Titan

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft spied giant lakes of methane in the tropic areas of Saturn’s moon Titan. 

And here is a quote from Caitlin Griffith, a Cassini team associate at the University of Arizona, Tucson -

“Methane is a progenitor of Titan’s organic chemistry, which likely produces interesting molecules like amino acids, the building blocks of life.”

Cassini’s images collected over the years have also helped scientist to discover that there is heat coming from inside of Saturn! This internal heat is powering the jet streams creating the ever going storms on Saturn’s outer surface. Before this discovery, the jet streams were thought to have been powered by the sun like how is works with Earth’s atmosphere. 

We are still not sure what is exactly inside of Saturn. It was thought to be all gas, but who knows!? Until we discover what lies beneath the thick stormy outer layers of Saturn, we can assume there are alien life forms down there living on methane. There are so many ways that a planet or moon can get what it needs to sustain different types of life. 

Keep is up Cassini, you’re doing good! 

On the Origins of Life and Extraterrestrials

Illustration by Philip Hood from the book Man after Man 

Just a reminder:  Darwin’s theory of evolution is an idea based on his research and discoveries, but he never claimed that humans evolving from apes was a fact. His findings were noted in his book The Origin of Species, but it never addressed the question of where human’s came from, saying only that “Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.” 

I’m slowly researching these theories and also thinking about some theories of my own. I want to know how the heck humans got here!

Say we come in to contact with intelligent life forms from another planet. The aliens will be thinking WE are aliens OR even crazier, we might be thinking the aliens are humans!

Single cell prokaryotes were found in the oldest ancient fossil on Earth which dated back to 3.5 billions years ago. The fossil also had biomarkers of photosynthesis which means plants were growing around this time as well.

That makes sense; Earth forms in space with space rocks containing life forming cells. Everything begins to grow with the help of Earth’s Atmosphere and it’s place in the solar system. Rocks with cells to microorganisms to plants all seems like a smooth life evolving transition.

So how did reptiles get here all of a sudden? I can’t picture them forming from rocks, or plants, or bacteria that got really large and happen to look like a crocodile, but you never know…

Then after the reptiles come more species of animals and then out of no where a human? Way weird. We still don’t know how ancient reptiles and humans got here, but it’s pretty common sense that all life is coming from the “Universe”. That’s where the first rocks containing life it’s self came from.

All these thoughts came to me as I was contemplating how anyone would think that Earth is the only planet with life on it. The universe is infinite and of course there is life in it! It made Earth!

The ground we are standing on, Earth itself, is the biggest piece of evidence we have to discovering extraterrestrials!

The Most Humbling Picture

The most humbling picture. The NASA spacecraft Juno, took a snap shot as it was leaving Earth behind on it’s way to study Jupiter. That is Earth on the left and our Moon on the right. Would you ever guess life existed on that little dot? Personally I wouldn’t. It doesn’t look like anything too interesting to me. If I were on another planet looking through my telescope, Earth just looks like another moon orbiting another giant mass (the Sun). Life could be hidden anywhere in the Universe! Read a little more about the Juno space craft here.

Jupiter And It's Moons

Jupiter and it’s moons look eerily similar to a solar system. Ganymede, the largest of Jupiter’s moons, is eerily similar looking to Earth! With my own observation, I think Ganymede has a very high potential for being home to some sort of extraterrestrial life. I think UFOs could be visiting Earth from with in our own solar system…