Thought For The Day by John Jaeger, MBA

[ChemEngrMBA]

There are two kinds of people, those who have lost everything on their hard drive and those who are going to.  I came very close.  I enrolled in One Drive months ago and in 2025, backed up on my external hard drive.  My desktop quit after 14 years and I had no idea it was that old.  New All In One is wonderful and much lighter than standard metal box desktops.  Love it.

[ChemEngrMBA]

"In times of impending calamity and distress; when the liberties of
America are imminently endangered by secret machinations and open
assaults...it becomes the indispensable duty of [Patriots], with
true penitence of heart, and the most reverent devotion, publicly to
acknowledge the over ruling providence of God...that we may...through the
merits and mediation of Jesus Christ, obtain his pardon and forgiveness;humbly
imploring his assistance to frustrate the cruel purposes of our
unnatural enemies...that it may please the Lord of Hosts, the God of
Armies, to animate our officers and soldiers with invincible fortitude,
to guard and protect them in the day of battle...." --Proclamation by the
Continental Congress, 16 March 1776

[ChemEngrMBA]

He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth,
    and its people are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a canopy,... - iSAIAH 40:22

From any distant vantage point, orbiting satellites and astronauts' photographs show
the "circle of the earth," populated today by over seven billion humans, relative in size
to grasshoppers from those photographs.  The heavens continue to stretch out in
cosmic expansion imagery unimaginable when the Holy Bible was written. 

This might well be my opening for volume two of Science of the Bible.

[ChemEngrMBA]

Job 28:25 To make the weight for the winds; and he weigheth the waters by measure.

Most people, when asked how much a cubic mile of air at sea level weighs will answer,
"Nothing, air has no weight."

If that were the case, birds, aircraft, and hot air balloons could not fly. 
Atmospheric pressure is 14.7 pounds per square inch. 
The winds have weight, but only 33 feet of water has the same pressure as 60 kilometers of air.   
So water has by far the greater measure. 

[ChemEngrMBA]

"From the wild Irish slums of the 19th century eastern seaboard,
to the riot-torn suburbs of Los Angeles, there is one unmistakable
lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number
of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women,
never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never
acquiring any rational expectations about the future -- that
community asks for and gets chaos." --Daniel Patrick Moynihan, 1965

[Cyber Liberty]

Pat turned out to be correct about a lot of things.

[ChemEngrMBA]

"If you were to take . . . all the authoritative articles ever written .
. . on the subject of mental hygiene, if you were to combine them and
refine them and cleave out the excess verbiage, if you were to take the whole
of the meat and none of the parsley, and if you were to have these unadulterated
 bits of pure scientific knowledge concisely expressed by the most capable of living
 poets, you would have an awkward and incomplete summation of the Sermon on
the Mount." – A Few Buttons Missing: The Case Book of a Psychiatrist, by James T Fisher, M.D.

[ChemEngrMBA]

[DefiantMassRINO]

R.I.P. D.E.C.

D.E.C. and Wang Computer are prime business case examples of Darwinian economic / technological "adapt or die".

I live in the next town owner from where D.E.C. had its headquarters.  30 years after D.E.C.'s demise, the region is still picking up the pieces.

Sometimes, the smartest guy in the room isn't as smart as he thinks he is.

Going through night school and technical classes, I came across some of D.E.C. veterans. 

Towards the end, D.E.C. was doing everything wrong, including putting its salesmen on salary instead of commission.

[ChemEngrMBA]

I invented a new app to save people's lives and could not get any logical company to copy and market it to make hundreds of millions of dollars.  A fire department paramedic said, "That's a real game changer!"  My friend, the PhD psychologist said, "I want to be your first customer" for a medical alert app, cheaper and far more effective than silly dangling buttons on nylon cords around your neck which must be pushed. 

So I sent my best letter to four of Apple's top executives last week and a follow up letter today, asking only for a 0.1% royalty.  My original letter said 1% but I signed with a blue felt tip pen and placed a blue decimal point in front of the 1.  I am confident that Apple can earn $600 million annually in short order.  It would be useful for law enforcement, construction, and military as well as seniors of which there are over 60,000,000 today in the U.S.

[ChemEngrMBA]

Knowledge is not wisdom nor is a high IQ. The Unabomber was a genius. Countless men and women throughout history have been filled with knowledge, while doing foolish and evil things which destroyed the lives of hundreds of millions of others.

Then the Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind, and said, “Who is this that dark- eneth counsel by words without knowledge?” (Job 38:1–2)

How often one hears words uttered without knowledge by pre- tenders of science and enlightenment.

“I think it is virtually certain that everything we see came from empty space,” Krauss exposited. “And all the physics I know is highly suggestive that our universe popped into existence as a quantum fluctuation.” (Physicist Lawrence Krauss)1

The Lord does not take foolishness lightly, and neither should
we.   Science of the Bible, by John Phillip Jaeger (page 13)

[ChemEngrMBA]

Knowledge is not always based on the facts or reality.
Slavery was accepted knowledge, as normal for thousands of years.
It is still practiced all over the world and National Geographic recently stated that there are more slaves worldwide today than ever before in history. What country has the most slaves?  India, with 8 million.

*The face of human trafficking is changing, with more children and men falling prey, and more victims trapped in forced labour than a decade ago," the United Nations says.
*At least 40 million people are victims of modern slavery worldwide - with nearly 25 million trapped in forced labour and about 15 million in forced marriages.
*Almost three-quarters are female - and one in four a child - with modern-day slavery most prevalent in Africa followed by Asia and Pacific.
*North Korea has the world's highest rate of slavery, with about one in 10 people enslaved, followed by Eritrea (9.3%) Burundi (4%), Central African Republic (2.2%), Afghanistan (2.2%), Mauritania (2.1%), South Sudan (2%), Pakistan (1.7%), Cambodia (1.7%) and Iran (1.6%).
*India is home to the largest number of slaves globally, with 8 million, followed by China (3.86 million), Pakistan (3.19 million), North Korea (2.64 million), Nigeria (1.39 million), Iran (1.29 million), Indonesia (1.22 million), Democratic Republic of the Congo (1 million), Russia (794,000) and the Philippines (784,000).

www.Reliefweb.int

[ChemEngrMBA]

Only God can make a tree

Geocache Description:

 I first saw this magnificent tree in 1966 when my wife to be and I took her grandmother to Sunday mass every week.

This was my original choice for Only God Can Make a Tree because this is the most beautiful tree in Orange County, in my opinion. But there was another geocache nearby which has since been archived. In the meantime, I geocached the first Only  God Can Make a Tree in Irvine.

 
At the British Museum some years ago, I saw artifacts which were crafted 3,000 years ago in North Africa. The beauty and durability of wood that we so conveniently call "bio-degradable" resonated profoundly with me.

 

The numerous wooden Egyptian sarcophagi we saw have remained in almost perfect condition since they were constructed. Then it hit me: they are composed of....air and water. Yes, air and water. With all your Intellect and modern resources, what can you make from air and water that can be used to build bows and arrows, spears, fishing poles, houses, bridges, furniture, pencils, and countless other things that will last perhaps 3,000 years? Or 400,000?

 

With just a smattering of research, I learned of wood tools dating back to 400,000 years ago in Germany.  These are called the Schöningen Spears, eight in number.  They were discovered between 1994 and 1998.



 

Wood is composed primarily of two organic polymers (long term chains of these molecules), cellulose C6H10O5, and lignin C9H10O2, plus C10H12O3, and C11H14O4 . [See diagrams of chemical structure of cellulose and lignin below at left. Carbon atoms are at every unlabeled intersectiopn of lines. The basic molecular building blocks of cellulose are warped, while those of lignin are flat.] Just three elements, carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen are necessary to make wood from carbon dioxide and water . Gas and liquid are broken down and reassembled to make a solid so durable that spruce spears have been discovered near Hanover, Germany which have been carbon dated as 400,000 years old. Synthesis of wood by trees is extremely complex and sophisticated. To the best of my knowledge, it has yet to be duplicated in any laboratory. Wood is crudely imitated by man, but not duplicated.  "Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge." - Thomas Edison

Trees provide us with much more than mere tools. They represent fuel to warm us and cook our food, to lend warmth and comfort to our living space - from food to tools to decorations to living quarters to art. These renewable, sturdy plants are simultaneously biodegradable as well as incredibly durable, depending on how we choose to use them. How inconsistent. How fortuitous.  Our atmosphere consists of 19% oxygen, an extremely reactive element.  It has remained in dynamic equilibrium for hundreds of thousands of years, and will continue to do so.  Rainfall around the world is one part of the water cycle which also contributes to the benefit of mankind  by watering trees for countless millennia.

"I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.

/. . . A tree that looks at God all day,

/. . . .

Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree." – (Trees, by Mr. Joyce Kilmer, 1913)

http://MathProvesGod.blogspot.com

 

[ChemEngrMBA]

 Honor our flag - fly it properly.

Last week, when I mailed letters to Apple's four top executives at my nearest post office, I noticed the American flag was badly faded, in violation of federal law and our patriotic American heritage I was taught to respect.  I contacted local authorities and got nowhere.  I emailed the Postmaster General in Washington, D.C. and look at the new flag today, Mother's Day!  Happy Mother's Day, ladies.

Anywhere you see our flag tattered, torn, or faded, politely ask the company or neighbor to replace it. They almost always will, and promptly. If not, go over their heads and git 'er done.

If you can't get anywhere locally with your postal service, write to Louis DeJoy at Louis.DeJoy@usps.gov and tell him his good friend, John Phillip Jaeger recommended him very highly

[ChemEngrMBA]

I submitted a 700 to word essay to Inside Higher Education magazine for publication.  I pointed out that the "Periodic Table of Elements" is, as IUPAC admitted, "a mistake" that has been repeated for 157 years by scientists worldwide.  I asked science teachers in high school science class across America to select the shyest, quietest student in their classes to tape the correct name, printed boldly in all caps, over the mistake to show its real name:  TABLE OF PERIODIC ELEMENTS.  It has seven periods, or rows.  Let America's students correct this long-standing "mistake" that the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemists claimed to me "will never change."  We'll see.

[ChemEngrMBA]

In the competition for stupidest, "scientists" manufacturing artificial elements are the top of the list.
There are 94 naturally occurring in the Table of Periodic Elements, mistakenly called "The Periodic Table of Elements" (sic) for 157 years.  There are another 24 unnatural elements synthesized at absurd costs of $185,000,000 per gram (1/30th of an ounce) for Berkelium 249, $1,900,000,000 per gram for Technetium 99, and $49,200,000,000 per gram for Polonium 209.

I therefore suggest that crazy scientists caring nothing about cost/benefit analysis cease all efforts to make element 119, which would properly be named WastefulStupidium.

[Cyber Liberty]

In the competition for stupidest, "scientists" manufacturing artificial elements are the top of the list.
There are 94 naturally occurring in the Table of Periodic Elements, mistakenly called "The Periodic Table of Elements" (sic) for 157 years.  There are another 24 unnatural elements synthesized at absurd costs of $185,000,000 per gram (1/30th of an ounce) for Berkelium 249, $1,900,000,000 per gram for Technetium 99, and $49,200,000,000 per gram for Polonium 209.

I therefore suggest that crazy scientists caring nothing about cost/benefit analysis cease all efforts to make element 119, which would properly be named WastefulStupidium.

I hate to think of how expensive it was to synthesize Lawrencium for a few milliseconds....

[ChemEngrMBA]

President Trump stated that America has spent $29 billion on the war against Iran. Compare this with the estimate of Iran's damages at $300 billion on top of lost oil revenues.  Dividing cost by population we have a cost of $90 per American versus $3,333 per Iranian where one dollar US is the equivalent of 1,400,000 Iranian Rials.

[DCPatriot]

Gasoline is $1.36 @ gallon in Iran.

There are lies...damned lies...then there are statistics.   

[ChemEngrMBA]

Gasoline is $1.36 @ gallon in Iran.

1.36 times 1,400,000 Rials.  The average Iranian earns about $260 per month and millions are now out of work.

[DefiantMassRINO]

The real winner of the d!ck measuring contest is not the guy with the biggest schlong; it's the guy who gets and keeps the girl.

Dollar count in Iran War is meaningless like the body count during the Vietnam War.

America is winning tactically.  Iran is winning strategically.  Iran still has the ability to hold the global economy hostage via the gift of geography - the Strait of Hormuz.  Iran can wait out the 2026 Congressional mid-terms.  Can Trump say the same?

[ChemEngrMBA]

The real winner of the d!ck measuring contest is not the guy with the biggest schlong; it's the guy who gets and keeps the girl.

Dollar count in Iran War is meaningless like the body count during the Vietnam War.

America is winning tactically.  Iran is winning strategically.  Iran still has the ability to hold the global economy hostage via the gift of geography - the Strait of Hormuz.  Iran can wait out the 2026 Congressional mid-terms.  Can Trump say the same?

Spoken like a true America-hating, Democrat with Trump Deranged Syndrome.

[DefiantMassRINO]

Spoken like a true America-hating, Democrat with Trump Deranged Syndrome.

... let me know when maritime traffic is freely flowing through the Strait of Hormuz.

[ChemEngrMBA]

Let’s briefly consider the extraordinarily high heat capacity of water. It is not a widely known fact. Well known as the compound H2O, water has a greater heat capacity8 than almost anything else you can name. It is about twice that of alcohol, olive oil, ammonia, or methane. It is nine times that of iron and thirty-three times that of gold. Since you consist primarily of water, this means that your body temperature remains constant longer in hot or cold weather than it would otherwise.2

This large amount (not intensity for that is temperature) of energy necessary to heat or evaporate water permits all animals to pant and sweat away large amounts of heat during heavy exertion or just exposure to hot weather. Water’s very high heat capacity even helps us put fires out, cooling the burning, oxidizing fuel very effectively.

Even so, the heat capacity of liquid water, arbitrarily defined as one calorie per Celsius degree, pales in comparison to its heat of fusion, e.g., the change of ice to water. Cooling things usually causes them to contract. Water is no exception, except from 4 degrees C to 0 degrees.9 In that temperature range, water expands. For that reason, lakes, rivers, and oceans freeze from the top-down, fish survive in water, and we can ice skate and drive cars over some lakes and rivers while fish live and swim below. In changing from ice to water at a constant 0 degrees C, ice absorbs 80 times as much heat as water. That makes ice eighty times as effective as cold water at cooling food and drinks in your cooler. EIGHTY times! That is impressive enough on a hot day but wait a minute.

When perspiration evaporates from your forehead, it carries off 540 times as much heat as it would by merely warming up one degree. Water’s “heat of vaporization” requires 540 calories to convert one gram of water at 212 Fahrenheit into steam at 212 degrees. Conclusion: don’t wipe the sweat off your brow. Let it evaporate instead.

At 38 degrees Celsius, perspiration evaporating cools you by 62 Calories (100 – 38) plus the 540 Calories required for vaporization per gram.
For comparison, placing one gram of a typical metal on your forehead would cool you by a few calories at best, about one-six- hundredth the cooling capacity of perspiration. -Brilliant Creations - The Wonder of Nature and Life, pages 54-55

[ChemEngrMBA]

Truth moves where it is welcomed.

What precedes every experiment, every discovery, every innovation?  And no, it is not "An idea."

It is a question:  "Why?"  "How?"  "What?"

They are universal.
They are scientific.
They are human.
They are unforgettable.

Satayameva jayate.  The national motto of India:  Truth Alone Triumphs.

[ChemEngrMBA]

America-Lite, by David Gelernter, Page 18: When young people learn left-liberal theories at school instead of facts, they can’t see America no matter how hard they try.  They see only the ridiculous, grotesque masks that intellectuals have fashioned:  Western civilization is distinguished mainly by awfulness, likewise the United States;  there is no great literature; there are no  heroes (or none who are white males); Judeo-Christian religion is a curse; patriotism is absurd; there is no high culture; there are no ethical absolutes; no one has the right to be “judgmental”; and so on.

[ChemEngrMBA]

Cosmos, by Carl Sagan (1980)
[This is but a small sample of the nonsense and self-contradictions by Carl Sagan, in each of his books I have read.  I sent these reviews to his publisher and Sagan wrote back to me, ignoring his many errors, asking me to purchase his newest book.  I never bought one.  I got them from the library, but sold his letter on E-Bay for $125 to a fellow in Hong Kong.]

P 207: “When we get home (after 30,000 Earth years), few of our friends would be left to greet us.”  (A little astronomer “humor”, folks.)

P 210: “Perhaps in another century or two . . . we will have the will and the resources and the technical knowledge to go to the stars.”  (But you said “we could build Orion now”.P 206.  Is such inconsistency “scientific”?)

P 212: “From the point of view of a star, a human being is a tiny flash...”  (Do stars really see THAT well?  In PBD, Page 32: “In 1989 only 30% of people surveyed said the sun is not alive.  We can recognize here a shortcoming . . .”  What is the star’s “point of view” on this “shortcoming”?)

P 241: “A star twenty times the mass of the Sun will shrink . . . slip through a self-generated crack in the space-time continuum and vanish from our universe.”  (You can’t fool a scientist.)

P 243: “Our ancestors worshiped the Sun, and they were far from foolish.”  (Except for theologians, militarists, nationalists, and other “chauvinists”.)
Ibid: “If we must worship a power greater than ourselves, does it not make sense to revere the Sun and stars?”  (PBD, Page 32: “We can recognize here a shortcoming [that 70% of people surveyed think the sun is alive]”.)

P 250: “That we live in a universe which permits life is remarkable.”  (P 5: “Every star may be a sun to someone.”  The “remarkable” is profoundly mundane, in Sagan’s inconsistent point of view.)

P 257: “In many cultures it is customary to answer that God created the universe out of nothing.  But this is mere temporizing.  We must, of course ask next where God comes from.  And if we decide this to be unanswerable, why not save a step and decide that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.”  (Because THEN scientists subsidized scientists would be out of a job.  And we couldn’t have that, could we?  More precisely, not all questions are within the realm of science to answer.  Who would be so foolish to suggest otherwise?  Where is it written that all things are scientifically explicable?)

P 270: “There may be a million worlds in the Milky Way Galaxy alone that at this moment are inhabited by beings very different, and far more advanced.”  (Page 301: Sagan develops that number with the Drake Equation to be N~10, and “as small as 1".)

Ibid: “Of those million worlds inhabited by advanced intelligences . . .”  (One, ten, a million.  What are 5 or 6 orders of magnitude among friends and fellow scientists?)

P 273: “The systematic murder of such intelligent creatures (as whales) is monstrous.”  (Not a whisper of the monstrosity of, say, partial birth abortion.)

P 276: “The information in the nucleus of our cells would fill a thousand volumes.”  (“Evidence of much poor planning”, P 57, Pale Blue Dot, also by Sagan)