For now, here’s a link to my YouTube playlists, if you’re interested.  I just got tired of posting to the Other Letter.  I had a good run with this.  The Other Letter has run its course.  I’m not a reporter, I’m not a writer, even.  Yet from time to time, I may post anything that seems pressing, or worth posting (I get a bit of purpose working on this)...

1. Karen Carpenter, of The Carpenters fame, passed away at the age of 32, or did she?

2. Ever hear of “Katie Johnson”?  Her lawyer filed a complaint with the F.B.I., regarding Trump.

3. Hair is not DNA evidence.  It is a follicle’s secretion, it is not made of cells containing cell-blueprint DNA.  There is no such thing as hair cells, hair cannot reproduce, like blood corpuscles can.

4. More proof that we are not just the product of random DNA mutation (as geneticists and evolutionists would propose): ...And we can talk, gees, can we talk (and enjoy music, among a million other activities).

5. Economic slowdowns (such as that caused by government shutdowns), must effect the weather, and slow climate change.  Less greenhouse gas is emitted when the economy slows, travel is at a premium.  COVID-19 was another example of less use of internal combustion engines, and less emission of carbon-based, fossil fuels, and its by-product, greenhouse gases.

6. There is a book called “Silent Spring,” written by Rachel Carson.  It was about how the proliferation of DDT almost made Spring silent.  We may have another silent Spring around here, I just put a squirrel atop my hill.  The birds are not accustomed to these temps, and may join the squirrel atop the hill.  Feed the birds, become a birder, buy some birdseed, put up a bird feeder.  Just saying.

7. We have had enough, repeal 2A.  The Second Amendment kept slaves in check, a third of our Founding Fathers owned slaves, including Thomas Jefferson, and George Washington, who owned upwards of one-hundred African-Americans apiece.

8. America was founded on freedom, liberty, and justice for all — such an enviable concept!

9. Why do DHS Sect. Kristi Noem (ICE queen), Press Sect. Karoline Leavitt (Trump apologetics), and AG Pam Bondi (Epstein files mess), all look like supermodels?  (Highlight names, and search images, with your browser.)

10. Winter constellation, Orion’s Belt, consists of three stars, averaging one-thousand light years distant.  Thus, the photons leaving those stars, reaching your eyes today, were emitted in c. 1026AD.  If that sounds impossible (and I am in this camp), then Albert Einstein was wrong in calculating the speed of light (186,000 miles a second), and a light year (5,865,696,000,000 miles equals 186,000 miles, times 60 seconds, times 60 minutes, times 24 hours, times 365 days).

    Which can only mean that objects are closer to the earth-bound viewer than thought previously.  In other words, when the Moon loses orbital velocity from the friction of centrifugal force, there will still be a means to visit another solar system, because it won’t be so far away.

    Another thing to consider about space travel: An object in motion effortlessly remains in motion, it should not lose momentum, unless acted upon by another force.  This is per Isaac Newton.  Add booster rockets, reach cruising speed, and spaceships can go incredibly fast, and far, with a minimum of fuel.

11. Light energy is emitted from stars in every direction, and their luminosity lessens with distance.  Consider a light bulb: Its heat and light diminishes as you move away from the light source.  Orion’s Belt has been said to be 1,000 light years away, or 5,865,696,000,000,000 miles distant (see previous item).  This sounds far-fetched to me.  Is the Orion constellation really this far away, and still plainly visible on a clear, Winter night?

12. Developer’s notes: Ctrl + "u", in most browsers (like my favorite, Opera), will show the underlying code that I used to create this web page.  This is coded with Notepad++, and uploaded to my webserver with Mozilla’s Filezilla.  Ionos is my webhost, and domain name registrar (the “Other Letter” name is registered to an Ionos’ web server, Internet Protocol address, which your Internet browser downloads from, resolves to, when you point to it with your browser).

Have a nice day.  Here’s hoping you’re with your all-time favorite, this Valentine’s Day.