The Rise of The Closed Scientific Mind.

If anything illustrates the piss-poor state of modern science, it's the attempts to debunk the findings or suppositions of Avi Loeb, who is searching for interstellar objects.

He keeps an open mind, saying that the current mania around UAP (The UFOs of old) needs to be backed up by scientific investigation. He wants to set up a world-wide network surveying the skies to look out for unexplained aerial phenomena with decent, modern and clear sensors, so the sightings can be properly investigated, rather than the always out-of-focus, blurry, overly grainy and unclear optics of the rarely-released videos we get online.

Professor Loeb's last investigation was to look for parts of a meteorite that airbursted over the ocean. It was confirmed by Norad to be faster than any normal meteorite. Faster than the escape velocity of the Sun, which defines it as an object not in orbit around the Sun, but an interstellar object from another solar system. 

Not only was it one of the fastest objects to interact with the Earth, it was also one of the longest lasting, indicating it was made not of the normal rock, or iron, instead it was made of some denser material, able to handle the stresses of entry into our atmosphere at higher than normal meteoritic speeds for longer.

He went to the ocean and dragged a magnetic sled behind a ship. That bore fruit: tiny (in the millimetre range) spherical objects attracted to the magnets of the sled in the area of the meteor's track. Indicating they could be molten parts of the meteorite falling to the Ocean as the object melts in the severe heat.

So far so good. Hopefully the spherules will prove to be extra-solar in origin. Time will tell.

But I'm interested in the number of other scientists that instead of openly supporting this scientific exploration, actively attempt to debunk Professor Loeb's investigations and suppositions.

The spherules recovered from the track of the meteorite have so far proved to have unusual compositions. For a meteorite that is. Instead of the normal Iron and Nickel of the majority of objects that fall to Earth, the spherules recovered contain some unusual metals like Beryllium, Uranium and Lanthanum. 

Just those results would or should pique the interests of any scientist. But instead the science community seems intent on attributing more mundane origins for the spherules.

Professor Loeb is doing further isotopic analysis on the pinhead sized objects he recovered in order to once and for all confirm if they were formed in our solar system or beyond. If it's from another solar system, that opens more opportunity to go back and recover bigger chunks of the object. 

The presence of Uranium opens up the possibility of a nuclear power source. Or it could just be a chunk of rock from a planet outside our solar system. But either way it still pushes science forward with more information than it had before Professor Loeb went trawling.

But it really intrigues me why the scientific community won't stay quiet and let him just get on with confirming his suppositions or coming out and saying the material recovered isn't interstellar. 

Why is there always this clamouring to disprove research that is against the current narrative? That's against the scientific method, surely? Isn't an open mind the best to have, to openly investigate and move science along?

Why instead do we have this closed shop in everything scientific, especially climate and medicine? Is it the financial interests behind the various wings of science vying for funds? Is it professional jealousy? 

Somebody please explain!

Ex-CIA Operative Mike Baker Confirms My Opinions on the Hamas Attack on Israel.

Mike Baker was an Analyst with the CIA. He confirms what I've been saying on replies to suggestions that Israel deliberately allowed the attack by Hamas. 

It's a pretty sick viewpoint. Hamas only needs to learn lessons from tricks procedures we used back in WW2 to be able to fool a Western Intelligence service that have been lulled into expecting intelligence to be spoon fed to thgem through electronic devices and plants within Hamas.

My first reply on OOL:

"It's quite plausible that Hamas has learned not to use the electronic devices that Israel regularly hack into and eavesdrop and also have an affective regime to weed out moles. This is but one attack amongst many that have failed. It just may mean that this time Hamas got it right. But like with any terrorist group, the group only have to get it right once, the intelligence services have the get it right every time."

Was then backed up by my second:

"Security, distraction and old-fashioned non-electronic communications. Welcome to Hamas learning the tricks the UK used back in wold War Two. Whilst it's implausible that Israeli intelligence services missed the build-up, it's certainly possible if they thought they could eavesdrop electronically and get enough intelligence that way. It's very Western to ignore human intelligence and rely mostly on electronic surveillance. Much like the German raid on Coventry led to lots of conspiracy theories despite later revealing there was no unambiguous intelligence, the same may apply here. Hamas may have just gone dark, been able to keep information secure for once or released curated information to overwhelm Israeli intelligence services. Sadly it only takes that one success to lead to an atrocity like this."

Nice to be vindicated by an identifiable intelligence professional..

Scraping the Barrel: David Cameron Returns to Cabinet.

<Sigh> David Cameron is back as Foreign Secretary. 

It just says it all really about the state of politics in the UK and the West as a whole. Just the same names swirling around the cesspit that is Westminster. No new names, no new ideas. Just more of the same and everyone indistinguishable from each other.

Rishi might as well offer Tony Blair a job in government. There's another Turd that refuses to be flushed.

Suella Braverman Sacked for Attacking a Protected Class.

Just like I mentioned last week, Muslims are protected in this country. Not even a politician can call them out. Not even a politician can mention the protection they are afforded by the Police. Not even a politician can call out the preferential treatment the Police afford certain classes of people in this country.

Of course no-one can mention that the indigenous white people of this country are at the bottom of the list of protected classes. God help you if you are male to boot. You are fucked several times over in the Bonus Bingo victim Olympics.

If ever you wanted proof that the Government tread on eggshells when it comes to the Muslim question, then the sacking of Braverman is it. Even cabinet politicians are not safe.

That's how scared the government are of the Gulf states amongst others pulling money out of the UK. That's the power of the Muslim vote as well. 

I've mentioned before the Muslims vote in blocks. If the Muslim population gets anywhere near the minimum required to win an election (which can be as low as 20-30% in low turnout elections) then the Muslim vote wins. 

Hence why in some areas it's all Muslim interests that define political action. Even with a population as low as 20 or 30%. With that sort of population Muslims don't just hold the balance of power, they are the majority vote. 

So Braverman had to go.