This may be THE most important post I have posted so far. In it there is enough information for you to see the full picture and to understand what is happening. The ruling elite have spent thousands of years, yes thousands of years I say because they are part of the minions of the Fallen Angels. The plan that they are working goes way back. The continuity of it flows from the spirits behind it. They have been studying the EARTH and EVERYTHING IN IT for thousands of years. Mapping it all out and keeping record. THEY KNOW and have KNOWN for sometime, everything they need to know in order to bring their plans to fruition. What we are experiencing now is the realization of their plans coming to pass.
From the beginning, God has made it clear that this is just a temporary situation here on Earth. That there is a coming Savior and end to this life as we know it. But your enemy wants you to turn away from trusting GOD and lose all faith and hope. They want you to turn to the ancient teachings of the pagan religions that worship the Fallen Angels.
10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten;and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.
2 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
13 Return, O Lord, how long? and let it repent thee concerning thy servants.
14 O satisfy us early with thy mercy; that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.
15 Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants,and thy glory unto their children.
17 And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it. Psalm 90:12-17
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This is another very long post. It has taken me a great deal of time and energy to put it all together. I hope that you find it easy to follow and that God brings to your understanding EVERYTHING that you are ready to accept.
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Visiting the Clock will take a commitment. The nearest airport is several hours away by car, and the foot trail to the Clock is rugged, rising almost 2,000 feet above the valley floor.
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Introduction – 10,000 Year Clock – The Long Now
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The 10,000 Year Clock
Mt. Washington, Eastern Nevada
In 01999 (Can also be written 0/1 666 as in 0 and 1 computer language and the sign of the AntiChrist) The Long Now Foundation purchased desert mountain land adjoining the Great Basin National Park in eastern Nevada as a potential Clock site. The property includes 180.3 acres on Mount Washington, made up of eleven patented mining claims dating back to 01 916, as well as a 60 acre ranch property in Spring Valley purchased in 02005.
Most of the two-mile-long swath of mountain land is covered by a forest of ancient bristlecone pine trees. Bristlecones are considered the world’s oldest living thing. One tree in the Snake Range was determined to be over 4,900 years old.
The purchase of the mountain property from National Treasure Mines Inc. was made possible by donations from three high-tech pioneers-–the Mitchel Kapor Foundation (Kapor founded Lotus), the Jay Walker family (Walker founded Priceline.com), and Bill Joy (one of the founders of Sun Microsystems).
| Mitch Kapor – Wikipedia Kapor was extensively involved in initiatives that created the modern Internet. He co-founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1990 and served as its chairman until 1994. EFF defends civil liberties in the digital world and works to ensure that rights and freedoms are enhanced and protected as the use of technology grows. [12] [13] [14] [15] |
| Kapor Center/ Kapor Foundation Enhancing racial justice in tech through research, programs, and policy Explore SMASH Providing transformative STEM experiences for students of color. Explore Kapor Capital Investing in early stage startups that close gaps of access for all. Explore Kapor Initiatives Piloting and scaling new solutions, programs, and initiatives. |
| LOTUS Software Lotus Software was an American software company based in Massachusetts; it was “offloaded” to India’s HCL Technologies in 2018. Lotus is most commonly known for the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application, the first feature-heavy, user-friendly, reliable, and WYSIWYG-enabled product to become widely available in the early days of the IBM PC, when there was no graphical user interface.Wikipedia Type:Subsidiary / Industry:Computer software / Founded:1982 (as Lotus Development Corporation)
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The company, named for the Hindu spirit of enlightenment, had a “killer app” in 1982 with Lotus 1-2-3, an application that established the business status of the standalone personal computer. The introduction of Notes began to change that perception; computers and group software now made it easy for people to work faster, and more effectively, together, sharing information. With its acquisition of Data-Beam Corp. and Ubique Ltd in May, Lotus moved toward providing chat, instant messaging, and real-time communications capabilities to its software. These and other developments, including a new web streaming technology, continued to strengthen Lotus’s leading position in the networking and communications industry.
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| Jay S. Walker Jay Scott Walker (born November 5, 1955) is an American entrepreneur and chairman of Walker Digital, a privately held research and development lab focused on using digital networks to create new business systems.Walker is also curator of TEDMED since 2011, and a founder of Priceline.com(now known as Booking Holdings) and Synapse Group, Inc. In 2000, Forbes estimated his net worth at $1.6 billion. |
| Jay Walker Biography – life, family, children, name, school, mother … Jay Walker was one of the leading lights of the dot-com boom, founding what was one of the highest-flying Internet companies of the late 1990s, Priceline.com . One of the Most Influential Business Leaders in the Digital Age Walker has invented hundreds of solutions for a wide variety of business problems, specializing in creating innovative applications that work with large-scale networks such as cell phones and the internet. Walker is the named inventor on more than 750 issued and pending U.S. and international patents, making him one of the most prolific individual living inventors. He also serves on the Presidents’ Circle for the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and is a regular speaker on college campuses and a guest on televised U.S. business show |
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Bill Joy, in full William Nelson Joy, (born November 8, 1954, Farmington Hills, Michigan, U.S.), American software developer, entrepreneur, and cofounder of the computer manufacturer Sun Microsystems. Joy devised a version of the UNIXoperating system, Berkeley UNIX, that used the TCP/IPnetworking language, which placed UNIX servers at the forefront of the Internet revolution and the open-source movement. He also collaborated on both the Java programming language and the Jini networking system, which fostered connectability between the Internet and household appliances.
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| Sun Microsystems – Engineering and Technology History Wiki – ETHW Sun Microsystems. When Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle in 2010, it marked the end of one of the pioneering hardware and software developers of the past thirty years, whose contributions included a powerful desktop workstation and the Java programming language. Sun(Stanford University Network) began as a tiny SiliconValley startup in 1982. |
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“This is a timeless landscape,” said Brand, describing the high desert terrain, “and the remarkable people here reflect that. That’s the attraction. We have to be careful to protect that, just as Great Basin National Park does.”
A number of individuals in White Pine Countyhelped The Long Now Foundation find a promising mountain for the Clock. Realtor Dave Tilford engineered the land purchase. Karen Rajala, chair of the Economic Diversification Council, organized the meeting in Elywhere the land purchase was made public.
Long Now is committed to developing this site as a 10,000 year installation in parallel with The 10,000 Year Clock in Texas.
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Eli (name) – Wikipedia Eli may alternatively be an unrelated abbreviation of Hebrew names[3] such as Elijah, Elias, Elisha, Eliezer, Elimelech, etc., all containing the element אלי, meaning “my God” and spelled with the Hebrew letter aleph in the beginning. El is the name of a Semitic deity and -i is the suffix for the genitive form (“mine“).
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| Etymology of the Greek name Eli The Greek name Eli is a transliteration of the Hebrew word אלי, which comes from the word (or name) אל (El).And El is either a proper divine name or else the abbreviated form of the word (or name) אלהים (Elohim) In names אל(‘el) usually refers to אלהים (‘elohim), that is Elohim |
| Aliens: The Bene Ha Elohim – The Sons of God (The Fallen Angel … Bene Ha Elohim – The Sons of God (Aka, The Watchers – Fallen Angels) “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” ~ Ephesians 6:12 |
| The Benei Elohim, the Watchers, and the Origins of Evil Forbidden Knowledge: Make-up and Weapons In one account, the angel Asael [6] descends to earth and teaches forbidden knowledge to women concerning female adornment, which facilitates lust. He also teaches men how to create weapons, which enables war. [7] 8:1 And Asael taught men to make swords, and daggers, and shields and breastplates. |
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The Clock in the Mountain
A work crane at the Clock site in western Texas.
There is a Clock ringing deep inside a mountain. (so this is a Bell / Bel / BAAL) It is a huge Clock, hundreds of feet tall, designed to tick for 10,000 years. Every once in a while the bells of this buried Clock play a melody. Each time the chimes ring, it’s a melody the Clock has never played before. The Clock’s chimes have been programmed to not repeat themselves for 10,000 years. Most times the Clock rings when a visitor has wound it, but the Clock hoards energy from a different source and occasionally it will ring itself when no one is around to hear it. It’s anyone’s guess how many beautiful songs will never be heard over the Clock’s 10 millennial lifespan.
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Digging out the entrance tunnel for the Clock.
The Clock is real. It is now being built inside a mountain in western Texas. This Clock is the first of many millennial Clocks the designers hope will be built around the world and throughout time. There is a second site for another Clock already purchased at the top of a mountain in eastern Nevada, a site surrounded by a very large grove of 5,000-year-old bristlecone pines. Appropriately, bristlecone pines are among the longest-lived organisms on the planet. The designers of the Clock in Texas expect its chimes will keep ringing twice as long as the oldest 5 millennia-old bristlecone pine. Ten thousand years is about the age of civilization, so a 10K-year Clock would measure out a future of civilization equal to its past. That assumes we are in the middle of whatever journey we are on – an implicit statement of optimism.
Engineer Chris Rand (right) with the first Geneva wheel part.
The Clock is being machined and assembled in California and Seattle. Meantime the mountain in Texas is being readied. Why would anyone build a Clock inside a mountain with the hope that it will ring for 10,000 years? Part of the answer: just so people will ask this question, and having asked it, prompt themselves to conjure with notions of generations and millennia.
| Conjure Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com to call upon or command a devil or spirit by invocation or spell. to practice magic. noun Chiefly Southern U.S. an act or instance of witchcraft, Hoodoo, or Voodoo, especially a spell. OTHER WORDS FOR conjure 3 summon, raise, invoke. See synonyms for conjure on Thesaurus.com |
| conjure verb – Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes … Word Origin Middle English (also in the sense ‘oblige by oath’): from Old French conjurer ‘to plot or exorcize’, from Latin conjurare ‘band together by an oath, conspire’ (in medieval Latin ‘invoke’), from con-‘together’ + jurare ‘swear’. |
| conjure | Etymology, origin and meaning of conjure by etymonline The magical sense is from the notion of “constraining by spell” a demon to do one’s bidding. Related: Conjured; conjuring. Phrase conjure up “cause to appear in the mind” (as if by magic) attested from 1580s. also from late 13c. Entries linking to conjure con- |
If you have a Clock ticking for 10,000 years what kinds of generational-scale questions and projects will it suggest? If a Clock can keep going for ten millennia, shouldn’t we make sure our civilization does as well? If the Clock keeps going after we are personally long dead, why not attempt other projects that require future generations to finish? The larger question is, as virologist Jonas Salk once asked, “Are we being good ancestors?”
The Clock’s inventor introduced the idea of the Clock (in 1995) with this context:
I cannot imagine the future, but I care about it. I know I am a part of a story that starts long before I can remember and continues long beyond when anyone will remember me. I sense that I am alive at a time of important change, and I feel a responsibility to make sure that the change comes out well. I plant my acorns knowing that I will never live to harvest the oaks.
I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every 100 years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. I want the cuckoo to come out every millennium for the next 10,000 years.
That’s Danny Hillis, a polymath inventor, computer engineer, and designer, inventor and prime genius of the Clock. He and Stewart Brand, a cultural pioneer and trained biologist, launched a non-profit foundation to build at least the first Clock. Fellow traveler and rock musician Brian Eno named the organization The Long Now Foundation to indicate the expanded sense of time the Clock provokes – not the short now of next quarter, next week, or the next five minutes, but the “long now” of centuries.
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| What does the Bible say about the idolatrous tribe of Dan? Genesis 49:16-18. Dan shall judge his people, As one of the tribes of Israel. Dan shall be a serpent in the way, A horned snake in the path, That bites the horse’s heels, So that his rider falls backward. |
| Dan Dan is an old Scandinavian given name with several disputed origins. The most likely theory[citation needed] is that it originated from the Old Norse ethnonym danir for Danes. This in turn originated from the Proto-Germanic masculine word *daniz. The name Dan is also a Hebrew given name, after Dan, the fifth son of Jacob with Bilhah and founder of the Israelite Tribe of Dan.[1] It is also (along with the variant Danny) a given name or a nickname for people named Danie |
| hill (n.) Old English hyll “hill,” from Proto-Germanic *hulni– (source also of Middle Dutch hille, Low German hull “hill,” Old Norse hallr “stone,” Gothic hallus “rock,” Old Norse holmr “islet in a bay,” Old English holm “rising land, island”), from PIE root *kel- (2) “to be prominent; hill.” Formerly including mountains. |
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| Name Meaning of Brian
MEANING: The meaning of the name Brian is: Noble, Strong one. Brian (sometimes spelled Bryan in English) is a male given name of Irish and Breton origin, [1] as well as a surname of Occitan origin. [2] It is common in the English-speaking world . It is possible that the name is derived from an Old Celtic word meaning “high” or “noble”. [1]
Jan 21, 2022Meaning & History Meaning uncertain, possibly related to the old Celtic root * brixs “hill, high” (Old Irish brií) or the related * brigā “might, power” (Old Irish briíg ). It was borne by the Irish king Brian Boru, who thwarted Viking attempts to conquer Ireland in the 11th century.
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| enos | Etymology, origin and meaning of the name enos by etymonline ENOS Meaning: “man” (compare nashim “women,” Arabic ins “men, people”). See origin and meaning of enos. Jan 21, 2022Meaning & History Meaning uncertain, possibly related to the old Celtic root * brixs “hill, high” (Old Irish brií) or the related * brigā “might, power” (Old Irish briíg ). It was borne by the Irish king Brian Boru, who thwarted Viking attempts to conquer Ireland in the 11th century.
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From left to right: Doug Carlston, Danny Hillis, Stewart Brand, Brian Eno inspect an early mockup of the clock’s calculating mechanism in 1996.
Eno also composed the never-repeating melody generator that rings the Clock’s chimes inside the mountain. Other people unhappy with our society’s short-attention span are part of this group, including me (KK), one of its charter officers. This Clock in the Mountain is being funded and built on property owned by Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com. Bezos is also very active in designing the full experience of the Clock.
The first step in this multi-decade project was to construct a working 8-foot-tall prototype. This test version was finished (just in time) on New Year’s Eve 1999. At the stroke of midnight, the prototype 10,000-year Clock bonged twiceto usher in the new millennia, the year 2000, in front of a small crowd at its temporary home in the Presidio, San Francisco. The Clock now resides in the London Science Museum. Somewhat worrisome, there have been moments when it was not wound.
Stewart Brand, just back from Morocco, stands before the prototype clock minutes before it rings in the year 2000. (Note the priestly garb)
In contrast to the human-scale of the prototype, the Clock in the mountain will be monumental, almost architectural in scale. It will be roughly 200 feet tall. Located under a remote limestone mountain in the Sierra Diablo Mountain range in Texas, it will require a day’s hike to reach its interior gears. Just reaching the entrance tunnel situated 1500 feet above the high scrub desert will leave some visitors out of breath, nicked by thorns, and wondering what they got themselves into.
The current trail up to the Clock’s entrance.
To see the Clock you need to start at dawn, like any pilgrimage. Once you arrive at its hidden entrance in an opening in the rock face, you will find a jade door rimmed in stainless steel, and then a second steel door beyond it. These act as a kind of crude airlock, keeping out dust and wild animals. You rotate its round handles to let yourself in, and then seal the doors behind you. It is totally black. You head into the darkness of a tunnel a few hundred feet long. At the end there’s the mildest hint of lighton the floor. You look up. There is a tiny dot of light far away, at the top of top of a 500 foot long vertical tunnel about 12 feet in diameter. There is stuff hanging in the shaft.
The dot of light beckons you. You begin the ascent. You start climbing a continuous spiral staircase, winding up the outer rim of the tunnel, rising toward the very faint light overhead. The stairs are carved out of the rock. The material above each step has been removed from the tunnel leaving astoundingly precise rock stairs. To cut the spiral staircase Stuart Kendall of Seattle Solstice invented a special stone slicing robot to continuously grind out the stairs at the rate of a few stairs per day. His robot incrementally creeps downward while the debris falls into the central shaft out of the way.
A demo of the robotic stair cutter using a concrete sample.
Round the tunnel and up the tube toward the light you head. The first part of the Clock you encounter on the ascent up the spiral staircase is the counterweights of the Clock’s drive system. This is a huge stack of stone disks, about the size of a small car, and weighing 10,000pounds. Depending on when the clock was last wound, you may have to climb 75feet before you reach the weights.
After you pass the weights, you arrive at the winding station. It is a horizontal windlass, or a capstan like the turnstile on an old sailing vessel that winds up an anchor. It takes two or three visitors to push around the capstan of the clock and to lift its 10,000-pound stones. You rotate around until you can no further. Now the clock is wound.
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One of the gears milled from stainless steel. Each notch in the gear is inclined in 3 dimensions.
You keep climbing. For the next 70-80 feet of ascent you pass 20 huge horizontal gears (called Geneva wheels), 8 feet in diameter, each weighing 1,000 pounds. This is the mechanical computer that calculates the over 3.5 million different melodies that the chimes will ring inside the mountain over the centuries. The chimes never repeat so that every visitor’s experience is unique, and the calculated variety creates a sense of progressive time, rather than endless recycling. And “calculate” is the correct word, because cut into the gears is an elaborate system of slots and sliding pins, which, much like a Babbage Difference Engine, will perform digital calculations, generating the next sequence of the ten bells. Only the Clock calculates without electricity, using your stored energy to moving its physical logic gates and bits. This is the world’s slowest computer.
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Difference engine
A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculatordesigned to tabulate polynomial functions. It was designed in the 1820s, and was first created by Charles Babbage. The name, the difference engine, is derived from the method of divided differences, a way to interpolate or tabulate functions by using a small set of polynomial co-efficients. Wikipedia
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Outline of the elements that make up the Clock.
On days when visitors are there to wind it, the calculated melody is transmitted to the chimes, and if you are there at noon, the bells start ringing their unique one-time-only tune. The 10chimes are optimized for the acoustics of the shaft space, and they are big.
Finally, way out of breath, you arrive at the primary chamber. Here is the face of the Clock. A disk about 8feet in diameter artfully displays the natural cycles of astronomical time, the pace of the stars and the planets, and the galactic time of the Earth’s procession. If you peer deep into the Clock’s workings you can also see the time of day.
Located in a separate space from the clock’s inner workings, the face of the clock “displays the natural cycles of astronomical time, the pace of the stars and the planets, and the galactic time of the Earth’s procession.”
Perhaps most impressive of all: the clock can keep itself going for the entirety of is planned existence. While it will not display the time unless wound it will continue to keep track, using the sun and stars for guidance and temperature differentials for power. “Thermal power has been used for small mantel clocks before, but it has not been done before at this scale. The differential power is transmitted to the interior of the Clock by long metal rods. As long as the sun shines and night comes, the Clock can keep time itself, without human help. But it can’t ring its chimes for long by itself, or show the time it knows, so it needs human visitors.”
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But in order to get the correct time, you need to “ask” the clock. When you first come upon the dials the time it displays is an older time given to the last person to visit. If no one has visited in a while, say, since 8 months and 3 days ago, it will show the time it was then. To save energy, the Clock will not move its dials unless they are turned, that is, powered, by a visitor.The Clock calculates the correct time, but will only display the correct time if you wind up its display wheel.So yet another hand-turned wheel awaits your effort to update the face of time. This one is much easier to wind because the dial motion consumes less power than ringing bells. You start winding and the calendar wheels whirr until BING, it stops and it shows the current date and time.
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| face (n.) c. 1300, “the human face, a face; facial appearance or expression; likeness, image,” from Old French face “face, countenance, look, appearance” (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *facia (source also of Italian faccia), from Latin facies “appearance, form, figure,” and secondarily “visage, countenance,” which probably is literally “form imposed on something” and related to facere “to make” (from PIE root *dhe- “to set, put”). |
| They are forming a face for Time. To be worshipped. Creating an Idol of Time. They are determined to create their own TIME apart from what God created. To displace us out of God’s Kingdom into theirs. |
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So how does the Clock keep going if no one visits it for months, or years, or perhaps decades? If it is let to run down between visits, who would keep resetting it? The Clock is designed to run for 10,000 years even if no one ever visits (although it would not display the correct time till someone visited). If there is no attention for long periods of time the Clock uses the energy captured by changes in the temperature between day and night on the mountain top above to power its time-keeping apparatus. In a place like a top of a mountain, this diurnal difference of tens of degrees in temperature is significant and thus powerful.
If the sun shines through the clouds more often then expected, and if the nights are colder than usual, the extra power generated by this difference (beyond what is ordinarily needed to nudge the pendulum) will bleed over into the Clock weights. That means that over time, in ideal conditions, the sun will actually wind up the chimes, and wind them up sufficiently for them to ring when no one is there.
The rotating dials, gears, spinning governor, and internal slips of pins and slots within the Clock will be visible only if you bring your own light. The meager dot of light above is not sufficient to see much otherwise. Lights off, the Clock sits in near total darkness, talking to itself in slow clicks, for perhaps years at a time. In the darkness you can hear things moving, crisp non-random pings, like a crude thought trying to form inside a dim unlit brain.
Shining your light around the rest of the chamber you’ll see the pendulum and escapement encased in a shield of quartz glass – to keep out dust, air movements, and critters. The pendulum, which governs the timing of the Clock, is a 6-feet-long titanium assembly terminating with football-sized titanium weights. It swings at a satisfyingly slow 10-second period. The slight clicks of its escapement echo loudly in the silence of the mountain.
Building something to last 10,000 years requires both a large dose of optimism and a lot of knowledge. There’s a huge geek-out factor in the Clock because the engineering challenges are formidable. What do you build with that won’t corrode in 100 centuries? How do you keep it accurate when no one is around? The Clock’s technical solutions are often ingenious.
Almost any kind of artifact can last 10 millennia if stored and cared for properly. We have examples of 5,000-year-old wood staffs, papyrus, or leather sandals. On the other hand, even metal can corrode in a few years of rain. For longevity a 10K year environment is more important than the artifact’s material. The mountain top in Texas (and Nevada) is a high dry desert, and below, in the interior tunnel, the temperature is very even over seasons and by the day (55 degrees F)– another huge plus for longevity since freeze-thaw cycles are as corrosive as water. Dry, dark and stable temperatures are what archivists love. It’s an ideal world for a ceaseless Clock.
Testing the longevity of materials in space on the MISSE (not part of the Clock project).
Still, the Clock is a machine with moving parts, and parts wear down and lubricants evaporate or corrode. Most of the Clock will be made in a marine grade 316 stainless steel. Because the engineering tolerances of the huge Clock are in fractions of an inch, rather than thousandths, the microscopic expansion by a film of rust won’t hurt the time keeping. The main worry of the Clockmakers is that elements of a 10K-year Clock – by definition – will move slowly. The millennial dial creeps so slowly it can be said to not move at all during your lifetime. Metals in contact with each other over those time scales can fuse – defeating the whole purpose of an ongoing timepiece. Dissimilar metals in contact can eat each other in galvanic corrosion. To counteract these tendencies some of the key moving parts of the Clock are non-metal – they are stone and hi-tech ceramics.
Ceramics will outlast most metals. We have found shards of clay pots 17,000 years old. And modern ceramics can be as hard as diamonds. All the bearings in the Clock will be engineered ceramic. Because these bearings are so hard, and rotate at very low speed, they require no lubrication – which normally attracts grit and eventually cause wear.
There is more than just technology in the mountain. The ticks of time are a very human invention. Astronomical calendars are among the first pieces of culture, and often the mark of civilizations. The cave holds culture. The Clock in the mountain not only plays the music of an ever-changing slow melody, but it will collect cultural expressions of time, ticks to mark the passage of decades and centuries. Off to the side of the main cavern of the Clock are a series of small grottos to explore and collect these notices of time. Five chambers will celebrate five powers of time: 1 year, 10 years, 100 years and 1,000 years. After one year, a mechanism will be built in the first chamber. After 10 years another anniversary marked and celebration built. Future generations will have to build the contents of the remaining chambers.
Behind the main chamber’s dials the stairs continue up to the outside summit of the mountain. The shaft above Clock continues to the surface, where its opening to the daylight is capped with a cupola of sapphire glass. This is the only part of the clock visible from outside, on the mountain peak. In this outdoor cupola sits the thermal-difference device to power the timekeeping, and also a solar synchronizer. Every sunny noon, a prism directs sunlight down the shaft and slightly heats up this ingenious mechanical device. That synchronizing signal is transmitted by rods further down to the Clock’s innards, where the imperceptible variations in the length of the day as the earth wobbles on its axis will be compensated so that the Clock can keep its noon on true solar noon. In that way the Clock is self-adjusting, and keeps good time over the centuries.
The journey to the Clock in the mountain ends on the summit in light. It is the sun that powers its ringing below. Like a heart beating while we sleep, the Clock in the mountain keeps time even when we pretend the past did not happen and the future will not come.
The local flora outside the clock at dawn.
The biggest problem for the beating Clock will be the effects of its human visitors. Over the span of centuries, valuable stuff of any type tends to be stolen, kids climb everywhere, and hackers naturally try to see how things work or break. But it is humans that keep the Clock’s bells wound up, and humans who ask it the time. The Clock needs us. It will be an out of the way, long journey to get inside the Clock ringing inside a mountain. But as long as the Clock ticks, it keeps asking us, in whispers of buried bells, “Are we being good ancestors?”
How do you become one of those time-conscious beings who visit and wind the Clock? Jeff Bezos has just launched a public web site, 10000-year-clock, where interested folks can register their desire to visit the Clock in the Mountain when it is finished many years from now. Bezos has said he will give some kind of preference to current members of the Long Now Foundation because the purpose of the Clock is to promote what the Foundation promotes: long-term thinking.
Update: There is now a wonderful profile in Wired of the people involved in making the Clock in the Mountain, here.
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Bezos’ 10,000-year mountain clockA giant $53 million clock, bankrolled by Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man, is being assembled inside a Texas mountain to keep time for 10,000 years without human intervention. The monumental timepiece, which resembles something from a Bond villain’s lair, is the brainchild of Danny Hillis, a computer theorist who was first concerned in the Eighties that people had a “mental barrier” of looking at the year 2000 as the limit of the future. |
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Joe Rogan – Jeff Bezos $600 Million Deal with the CIA
Sierra Diablo
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Sierra Diablo range with eponymous ranch marker in the foreground
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| Elevation | 6,610 ft (2,010 m)[1] |
| Dimensions | |
| Length | 43 mi (69 km)[2]:1 |
| Width | 33 mi (53 km)[2]:1 |
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| Etymology | Spanish for “devil mountain range“ |
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| Country | United States |
| States | Texas |
| Range coordinates | 31°25′00″N 104°54′00″WCoordinates: 31°25′00″N 104°54′00″W |
The Sierra Diablo is a small mountain range in the US state of Texas, extending north and south along the border between Hudspeth and Culberson counties.[3] It is in the Chihuahuan Desert, and is near Van Horn, Texas.
Geology
The oldest rocks of the region, exposed in the southern foothills, date from the Precambrian. The most extensively exposed rocks in the Sierra Diablo date from the Permian era, and are about 3,000 feet thick. They consist mostly of Hueco, Bone Spring and Victorio Peak limestones. The range was given its present form and outlines by Cenozoic era geologic events.[2]:1–2
Copper and silver have been mined from the region. Tungsten and beryllium are present in small amounts. Ground water is scarce.[2]:2
History
Indigenous Lipan Apache people of the region were driven away and killed in the Battle of the Diablo Mountains in 1854 under the command of John George Walker. A last conflict of the Texas–Indian wars took place at Sierra Diablo in 1880, with Apache under the command of Victorio versus Texas Rangers under George W. Baylor. The site of the battle is now named Victorio Peak.[2]:16
Dead bodies of two women were discovered in the mountains in 1938. The unsolved murders have been attributed by a reporter to a ring of Nazi spies operating in America.[5]
A portion of the range is owned by Jeff Bezos, where a project known as Clock of the Long Now is being built inside a mountain.[6]
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Sierra Diablo Map – Texas, United States – Mapcarta
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Immediately, I noticed that the route from Bezos’ Corn Ranch (the Launch Site) to the 10,000 year clock maps out the head of the BULL/BAAL.
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Corn Ranch (Van Horn, Tx) – NASASpaceFlight.com
This ranch also includes the Delaware Mountains, which are directly adjacent to Guadalupe Mountains National Park to the north. The Delaware Mountains have extensive outcrops of the Brushy Canyon Formation, one of the best exposed examples of an ancient submarine fan system. This Permian-aged submarine fan system was sourced from uplands and a marine reef system that are now exposed in Guadalupe Mountains National Park.
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These outcrops had been studied extensively by university and petroleum industry geologists, and were a world-class geological site, visited by many field trips and field schools. After Bezos purchased the ranch, access to these outcrops was abruptly cut off. There have been many attempts to contact Bezos, his lawyers, and the ranch staff to open access back up for continued study and education, but with no success.
I had hoped that the Blue Origin moves in Florida might portend reduced activity at the Van Horn site, and again open up access to the Delaware Mountains, but it’s continued use as a remote, private testing facility seems to make this impossible, at least in the near future.
Any Blue Origin insiders who might be reading this: please let Mr. Bezos know that providing access to the northern part of the ranch for geological studies, far away from the test site out in the basin, would have zero impact on his operations, would be excellent PR, and would provide students and researchers with a world-class learning experience.
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Esoteric Meaning of colors – Blue |
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32000 acres, Van Horn, TX, Property ID: 7395084 | Land and …
The Esoteric Meaning of the Circle
The circle is the oldest symbol known to man. With a single point in the centre of a circle, it is believed the shape was originally used to represent the sun, but could just as easily be the first symbol to reflect consciousness.
Circles have also been found carved into prehistoric caves with a cross in it. The cross inside a circle represents the physical aspects of earth, the four directions, four elements and four winds.
This idea later became the square which in hermetic symbolism represents the connection man has to the physical plane and the astral plane.
We see this most succinctly in Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man.
The circle has been used in all cultures across the world throughout history to represent completeness because it has no beginning, no end and no direction.
In this respect, the esoteric meaning of the circle represents the spiritual world as it encompasses all space and time. The spiritual world is essentially higher consciousness.
It is no mere coincidence that the circumference of a circle is measured by pi (π), an irrational mathematical equation that does not have a defining decimal point. Pi, like consciousness, will always expand outwards.
GEOMETRIC SHAPES FORMED BY CIRCLES
The circle is arguably the most commonly used geometric shape in religion and alchemical traditions because of its association with consciousness.
It is also very easily adapted with other patterns to give it different meanings. The Native American Indians used basic methods to achieve this, but with profound effects.
The wisdom of ancient mystics developed the Seed of Life using seven overlapping circles. The seed then multiplies to become the Fruit of Life using concentric circles. Both result in impressive images that are rich in symbolism and meaning. It describes the origins of life on Earth = consciousness.
We also found the esoteric meaning of the circle reflected in the multi-layered meaning of the Ouroboros, the tail-eating snake or dragon found in Egypt and parts of Asia. Just as we find in the circle, the Ouroboros reflects the never-ending cycle of mankind, but with the added value of the serpent which sheds its skin in order to grow and remove parasites.
And so too, the evolutionary cycle of mankind seeking spiritual growth and understanding must shed old beliefs and character flaws that no longer serve us. And in doing so, we move towards higher states of conscious awareness. (Remember this is comes from esoteric/mystic teachings, it is not the TRUTH. It is what the pagans believe.)
Sun Symbols
The circle is also used nearly universally to represent the sun and/or the moon, or things associated with those bodies. The astrological symbol of the sun is a circle with a dot in the middle. The same symbol is used to represent gold, which is strongly associated with the sun.
Element of Spirit
The element of spirit, seen as an element equal to or superior to the physical elements of fire, air, water, and earth, is commonly represented by a circle. Source
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CORN: Corn was created by man. Corn also known as Maize is a cultigen; human intervention is required for it to propagate. Maize had many advantages over wheat and barley; it yielded two and a half times the food energy per unit cultivated area,[31] could be harvested in successive years from the same plot of land, and grew in wildly varying altitudes and climates, from relatively dry regions with only 250 mm (10 in) of annual rainfall to damp regions with over 5,000 mm (200 in). By the 17th century it was a common peasant food in Southwestern Europe, including Portugal, Spain, southern France, and Italy. By the 18th century, it was the chief food of the southern French and Italian peasantry, especially in the form of polenta in Italy.[32]
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| Just another way and place where the enemy has been working to move humanity away from the Lord and turn us into REBELS. Satan knows full well that the Word of GOD directs us to let the land rest after 7 years. Farmers throughout history followed Gods plan for cultivating their fields by rotating the plots to allow a rest to the land every seven years. |
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Exodus 23:11 but in the seventh year you must let it rest … – Bible Hub |
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corn, or maize, Cereal plant (Zea mays) of the grass family (Poaceae). It originated in southern Mexico and has been introduced globally; it is one of the most widely distributed of the world’s food plants. Though it is a major food in many parts of the world, it is inferior to other cereals in nutritional value. In addition to its use as a fresh and processed food for human consumption, corn is an important livestock feed and is used as raw material in industry. It is also used as Ethanol for fuel. The tall annual grass has a stout, erect, solid stem and large narrow leaves with wavy margins. Inedible parts of the plant are used in industry—stalks for paper and wallboard; husks for filling material; and cobs for fuel, to make charcoal, and in the preparation of industrial solvents. Corn husks also have a long history of use in the folk arts for objects such as woven amulets and corn husk dolls.
Genetic engineering – Main article: Transgenic maize
Genetically engineered (GE) maize was one of the 26 GE crops grown commercially in 2016.[95][96] The vast majority of this is Bt maize. Grown since 1997 in the United States and Canada,[97] 92% of the US maize crop was genetically modified in 2016[95][98] and 33% of the worldwide maize crop was Genetically Modified in 2016.[95][99] As of 2011, Herbicide-tolerant maize varieties were grown in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, El Salvador, the European Union, Honduras, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, the Russian Federation, Singapore, South Africa, Taiwan, Thailand, and the United States. Insect-resistant maize was grown in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Egypt, the European Union, Honduras, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, South Africa, Switzerland, Taiwan, the United States, and Uruguay.[100]
In September 2000, up to $50 million worth of food products were recalled due to the presence of Starlink genetically modified corn, which had been approved only for animal consumption and had not been approved for human consumption, and was subsequently withdrawn from the market source
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Chapter 3 – Genetic Modifications of Corn
Corn, Zea mays L., is one of the humankind’s earliest innovations. The large productivity gains in corn production have come primarily from advanced plant breeding techniques and improved corn management. Plant breeding has gotten technologically savvy in the last century. Realizing that natural mutants often introduce valuable traits, scientists turned to chemicals and irradiation to speed the creation of mutants. Later, plant tissue culture evolved (1970s), then the use of molecular markers to identify interesting hereditary traits; during the 1980s, genetic engineering by means of making transgenic plants and, more recently, genome editing as a new tool to do more precise specific mutations for specific traits. Since 1996, corn products with biotechnological traits and associated agronomic practices have contributed to the steady increase in corn production by reducing pest and environmental stress on highly productive new corn genetics. The generation of transgenic plants is the crucial step in the development of new biotech trait products. In this chapter, we will review the importance of several methods to create mutants in corn; also, the technology of genetic transformation mainly by particle bombardment and Agrobacterium and the next generation of biotech products; genome editing corn.
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CORNUCOPIA /A Pagan Symbol of Abundance
The term cornucopia comes from two Latin words cornu and copiae, meaning horn of plenty. The horn-shaped vessel is traditionally made of woven wicker, wood, metal, and ceramics.
In Greek mythology, the cornucopia is a mythical horn able to provide whatever is desired, making it a traditional staple at feasts. However, the term cornucopia can also be used figuratively to denote an abundance of something, such as cornucopia of pleasures, wealth, health, knowledge, and so on. Source
The Cornucopia is a pagan version of the abundance and provision promised by the True and Living Creator God. He is all that we need and all that we have comes from HIM.
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For More information on the NWO built on Silica/Sand check out my post:
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Their NEW WORLD ORDER is Literally Built on Sand
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Sierra Diablo WMA
Phone: (432) 364-2228
Address: 109 S. Cockrell, Alpine, TX 79830
Contact: Josh Cross
Dates Open: Access is restricted due to sensitive habitat for desert bighorn sheep. Call for details – (432) 364-2228 ext 2
Description
The Sierra Diablo WMA, 11,624 acres, is named for and located in the mountain range extending north and south along the Hudspeth and Culberson county line. The Area was acquired by Texas Parks and Wildlife in 1945 to serve as a sanctuary for the last remaining desert bighorn sheep in Texas. The Area is currently utilized for the restoration, conservation, and management of bighorn sheep and is home to the largest free-ranging population in Texas. As such, caution must be used while hunting for other species. The WMA has a well established and stable desert mule deer population. Rough rugged hills and steep canyons make up the area which is reached from the southwest across gently, sloping foothills. After attaining an average elevation of 6,200 feet, the topography breaks sharply with 1,000 foot drops to the desert floor to the east.
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Phone: (432) 364-2228
Address: 109 S. Cockrell, Alpine, TX 79830
Contact: Josh Cross
Dates Open: Access is restricted due to sensitive habitat for desert bighorn sheep. Call for details – (432) 364-2228 ext 2
Hunting (another huge part of the elite’s magic working. They hunt for ritual ad sacrifice.)
Wildlife Management Areas (WMAs) have rules and regulations for hunting not required on private property. Hunters must possess a valid hunting license, the appropriate tags and stamps, as well as the proper public hunting permit. Permits include: Annual Public Hunting Permit (APH), computer drawn Special Permits, and the Regular Permit, which allows daily small game hunting on some areas. Hunters 16 years of age and younger are not required to have a hunting permit, but must have a hunting license and be supervised by a licensed, permitted adult, 18 years of age or older. Hunters and non-hunters must wear hunter orange during daylight hours at any time when firearm hunting for any species is authorized on the unit (except turkeys, waterfowl, and dove). For more details see the rules page for this WMA, the Summary of Fishing and Hunting Regulations and Public Hunting Lands Information and Maps.
Hunting available through the TPWD online drawing system Drawn Hunts.
Please Note: The area has restricted access; There aren’t any restroom facilities; Bring your own drinking water; High clearance 4X4 vehicle suggested.
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| *ker- (1) Proto-Indo-European root meaning “horn; head,” with derivatives referring to horned animals, horn-shaped objects, and projecting pts.It forms all or part of: alpenhorn; Capricorn; carat; carotid; carrot; carotene; cerato-; cerebellum; cerebral; cerebrum; cervical; cervix; charivari; cheer; chelicerae; corn (n.2) “hardening of the skin; “cornea; corner; cornet; cornucopia; cranium; flugelhorn; hart; hartebeest; horn; hornbeam; hornblende; hornet; keratin; kerato-; migraine; monoceros; reindeer.; rhinoceros; saveloy;serval; triceratops; unicorn.It is the hypothetical source of/evidence for its existence is provided by: Sanskrit srngam “horn;” Persian sar “head,” Avestan sarah- “head;” Greek karnon “horn,” koryne “club, mace,” koryphe “head;” Latin cornu “horn,” cervus “deer;” Old English horn “horn of an animal;” Welsh carw “deer.” |
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texas | Etymology, origin and meaning of the name texas by etymonline |
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$59,200,000 (reduced Jan 15, 2019)
Location
The historic Circle Ranch located high in the Diablo Mountains of far-West Texashas had only three owners since Obadiah Bounds pioneered the ranch in 1879. He ran the O brand, giving rise to the ranch’s name. The ranch is located in Hudspeth and Culberson Counties, just 11 miles northwest of Van Horn, a 30-minute drive from the ranch south gate to its 6,000-foot jet-accessible airport, hospital, and town conveniences. El Paso, just 100 miles to the west, is a thriving major regional city with an international airport offering one-stop convenience virtually anywhere, domestic and worldwide. The fortress rim of the Diablos acts as a natural barrier for protection and creates a wilderness world unto itself.
| Obadiah EtymologyObadiah (Hebrew: עֹבַדְיָה – ʿŌḇaḏyā or עֹבַדְיָהוּ – ʿŌḇaḏyāhū; “servant of Yah”) is a biblical theophorical name, meaning “servant or slave of Yahweh” or “worshiper of Yahweh.“[1] The Greek form of the name used in the Septuagint is Obdios. In Latin it is translated as Abdias while in Arabic it is either ʿAbdullah (عبد الله), Ubaydah (عبيده), or Ubaidullah (عبیدالله) “Slave of God”. The Bishops’ Bible refers to the prophet with this name as Abdi. The name is related to “Abdeel“, “servant of God”,[citation needed] which is also cognate to the Arabic name “Abdullah” or “Obaidullah“. The equivalent Turkish name is Abdil or Abdi. |
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bounds [plural] : the point at which something (such as an idea or someone’s behavior) stops being good or acceptable : the limit of what is correct or proper. The play goes beyond the bounds of decency. = The play exceeds the bounds of decency. within the bounds of reason = within reasonable bounds.
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Acreage
32,000 acres in Hudspeth and Culberson County
Description
Circle Ranch is as unique as it gets, with four distinct geographic regions or habitat providences combined into one ownership. Chihuahuan Desert, Mountain Canyonlands, High Grasslands, and Rolling Pine Highlands are balanced equally in acreage, providing for a diversity of habitats, plants, animals, and natural beauty. Mountain vistas are found throughout the ranch; as scenic as any part of the Big Bend, with clear views of Guadalupe Peak, the highest point in Texas (8,750 feet). Circle Ranch is the ‘heart’ of the Sierra Diablo Mountainsand contains its highest peak – Diablo Peak (6,500 feet). The western escarpments overlook Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin 600,000-acre property. The area views are nothing short of stunning. The Circle’s owners’ management efforts have been dedicated for the past 17 years to improving range condition, habitat, and infrastructure. There is a road network, much of it milled for easy traveling throughout the ranch, and an extensive new water system that supports more than 200 watering stations. Subsoiling efforts on more than 8,000 acres and erosion control measures are designed within a holistic management philosophy, and have created healthier soil, more rainfall retention, better grassland cover, and more forage for wildlife and livestock. Livestock has been an essential tool in achieving the restoration goals and the ranch has an extensive pasture system for rotating cattle in a planned grazing system. The improvements are just as impressive as the landscape, located within a protected, sweeping valley with steep slope monument mountains, scattered all around a central headquarters complex. This is a family working and adventure ranch designed as a hacienda with interconnecting walls and buildings, creating a beautifully landscaped complex of houses, buildings, barns, patios, gardens, and lawns all under a forest of evergreen and deciduous trees on a drip irrigation system. The ranch, with its improvements, is immaculately maintained by an impressive local staff and is ready day-one for entertainment or quiet family enjoyment.
Improvements
Housing Main house:
- 4-BR, 2-B, dining, living, kitchen, office, gun area, features oak floors
- a full porch overlooks the Sierra Diablos.
- Constructed with rock quarried on the ranch.
- Large basement includes laundry, work benches, freezer, gun safe, food and wine storage, mouse-resistant clothes storage
Commander’s quarters (CQ):
- Private walled garden and home.
- CQ is an exact replica of an Historic Fort Davis officer’s house.
- Bedroom and sitting room are connected by 25′ foyer/bar/coat room with gun closets, gun safe.
- 2-baths,
- 14’ ceilings, oak floors
School house:
- 1BR with bunks
- 1 bath
Guest house
- 1-BR, 1-LR, 1-B,
- full porch and enclosed garden front and rear
- All houses are fully air conditioned and heated
- All baths are new or updated
- Automatic propane-powered electric back-up generator system able to run the entire HQ compound with all systems operating – summer or winter
- Automatic sprinkler systems
- Professionally designed gardens
- 300 transplanted trees
- Two mechanically renovated walk-in cool rooms
- Small weather station connecting to cellphones by an app for remote viewing.
Barn
- Vernacular Far West Texas historic structure, built for a working ranch
- Covered stalls
- Tack room
- Feed Room
- Workshop and benches
- Retrofitted with rollup end doors
- Winches for game butchering and/or vehicle servicing
- Horse breaking circle
- Adjacent horse pens
- Multiple water troughs
- Dog runs
- Filled with 90-years of ranching paraphernalia
- Rifle Range 1,500-meter monumented rifle and pistol range with reactive steel targets and static target boards 25-yard pistol with steel targets 500-meter NRA match compliant silhouettes
- 4-skeet traps
- Storage area for targets, spotting scopes, shooting bags
- Covered shooting positions with lounging, cooking, viewing areas
- This is a military-grade range designed by Army and Marine long-distance rifle instructors and snipers
Habitat
The Diablo Mountains are truly a high desert “Sky Island” with cool summers and monsoon rains. It is a range of mountains bridging the Guadalupe Mountains to the north with the Eagles, Van Horn, Sierra Viejas, Chinatis to the south and beyond into Mexico. These Mountain Islands are providing extremely important functions as a habitat island, with intermountain ridge lines and valleys serving as corridors for wildlife migration, especially between Texas and Mexico along the Rio Grande.
Numerous bird species that are normally associated with the Rocky Mountains and/or Mexican Highlands are known to occur within this island of montane habitat. Hummingbirds, neotropical songbirds, eagles, hawks, and many more creates a year-round birding paradise.
The climate and soils support a mix of desert and mountain vegetation from scrublands to grasslands, to pinon/juniper and oaks uplands. Grasses include Sideoats, Blue, Black, Hairy, and Chino grama as well as Cane Bluestem, Green Sprangle-Top, Tobosa, and many others. Along the canyon floors, and especially on the north facing hillside slopes, there are Piñon Pine, Juniper, daggers, and oaks.
A variety of flowering plants and cacti provide habitat for migrating and resident birds, bats, and butterflies. The four distinct habitat providences on the ranch created by elevation, slope, topography, soils, and vegetation provides a diversity rarely found anywhere in Texas. Quail hunting in the Desert, Big Horn Sheep in the Mountain Canyonlands, Elk and Deer in the Rolling Pine Highlands, and Pronghorn in the High Grasslands. Circle Ranch has it all!
Wildlife
The Circle Ranch, with its combination of geographic regional habitats, provides for the perfect location to manage and enjoy a variety for game and non-game species. Blue Quail hunting is second to none, as is the Desert Mule Deer, Elk, Big Horn Sheep, and Pronghorn. The ranch has a Level III Managed Land Deer Permit, providing for an extended season for Mule Deer and the opportunity for better management of the herd. Water distribution and road access, combined with excellent range condition and habitat provides for some of the best hunting in the state. Add the jaw-dropping mountain vistas, Circle stands alone. This area features all large ranch neighbors with low fences, including the Diablo Mountain Wildlife Management Area with a common focus of improving wildlife resources.
Free-ranging game species
Non-game species and rescue animals
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Water
Water on the Circle Ranch comes from a perched aquifer of shallow abundant sweet water. Most wells are only 60 feet deep with one well being 1,200 feet deep. Seven of the wells have electricity from Rio Grande Electric with submersible pumps and two are solar. Widespread electricity over the ranch provides opportunities to pump water to high, elevated storage where it gravity feeds to the more than 200 water troughs.
- 50 storage structures
- 1-40,000-gallon tank doubles as swimming pool: very beautiful site and very cold water
- 200 plus waterers
- 15-miles of quail lines in desert, north and Rock Water Hole pastures 60-miles (estimated) pipeline
- 10-wells in service plus 1-well awaiting recompletion.
Sources of income
- Cattle
- Bighorn Permits
- Deer Hunts
- Pronghorn Hunts
- NRCS Subsoil Contracts
- Future Radio Tower Leases
- Grass Insurance
Minerals
- Minerals Conveyed minerals are significant
- Almost all 50 sections are Mineral Classified, Free Reserve or Fee
Other Significant Features
- Indian Cave “Most important cave dwelling in far-West Texas” according to Dr. Bob Malouf, former Chairman of Anthropology at Sul Ross State University.
- 80 x 80 x head-high cave
- The excavation is entirely under ranch control and currently suspended.
- It will require decades to complete.
- Recipient of National Geographic grants.
- Over 40 years, the excavation has produced extensive Pleistocene artifacts including 5 radio carbon charcoal dates (Arizona State University) that appear to predate earliest presumed human presence in North America by 25,000 years.
Other artifacts
- Several unexplored caves.
- Many Native American campsites with grind holes and fire remains.
- Cornucopia Silver Mine shaft
- US Geological Survey markers
- Burch Carson inscription – Carson was a renowned Bighorn Sheep Inspector who explored Circle’s mountains 70-years ago.
Nearby town of Van Horn
- A small town with pharmacy, schools, hardware, grocery, auto parts, Dollar General, and other amenities
- Circle Ranch owns a nice Foreman’s House and adjacent vacant lot in Van Horn’s best subdivision, across from the Van Horn Hospital.
- Van Horn Hospital, has a good emergency room and helipad; Bezos’s organization has upgraded this facility.
Staff
The ranch has one of the best ranch staff teams in West Texas with a long history of operating and caring for this amazing ranch and its owners. Cooking, cleaning, gardening, equipment driving, guiding, water system management, dirt work, and cowboying, all under the guidance of an excellent foreman. It’s a family of workers dedicated to making any owners use of the ranch seamless and enjoyable.
The Ranch is offered with all the operational equipment, tools, equipment, vehicles, and livestoc
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The Bezos Ranch – Deep in the Heart of Texas Uranium Country
Bill Taylor September 21, 2019 Comments Offon The Bezos Ranch – Deep in the Heart of Texas Uranium Country
Follow up to, Jeff Bezos and Gise Family with King and Hall Family Branches
In the 34 year span between the destruction of Nagasaki in 1945, and the near destruction of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania in 1979, where Three Mile Island is near, atomic energy held out the potential to satisfy the world’s energy needs. As revolutionary as the Internet industry seemed in the mid-1990’s, the Nuclear industry seemed as revolutionary in the late-1940’s. Whereas the Internet industry has made information essentially free, the Nuclear industry was supposed to make energy essentially free.
Like the expectations of a Fiber Optic Cable connected planet in the 1990’s, the expectations of a Nuclear Powered world in the 1950’s prompted huge investments and speculation in any nuclear related asset market.
In our previous post about Jeff Bezos, his grandfather Lawrence Preston Gise, and their King Family connections, we briefly described how the King Family initially acquired their wealth by raising cattle, and then “hit a gusher” in the 1930’s when oil was discovered on their Rhode Island sized, Texas cow pastures.
If the promise of a new post-World War II nuclear age threatened the Gise Family’s Standard Oil royalty checks, no worries, another jackpot was in the making given where the Gise Family Ranch was located.
The Lazy Gise Ranch – Lazy “G” for short
Jeff Bezos owns two large ranches in Texas. There is “Corn Ranch,” that sits on 400,000 acres in Van Horn, Texas, according to Land Report. Purchased in 2004, it serves as the base of operations for Blue Origin, the aerospace company founded by Bezos in 2000.” Houston Chronicle – January 14, 2019.
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The original Bezos ranch (25,000 acres) is near Cotulla, Texas. It is the ranch that Bezo’s biographies mention when describing his simple country-boy bonafides he picked up while helping his grandfather L.P. round up strays, brand steers, or repair miles of barbed wire with only a mule as company. As Bezos explains;
“One of the things that’s so interesting about that lifestyle and about my grandfather is he did everything himself. You know, he didn’t call a vet if one of the animals was sick; he figured out what to do himself,”
Although most sources say this ranch is in Cotulla, and don’t mention that the ranch is called the “Lazy G” (there are several Lazy G ranches in Texas, this is the closest to Cotulla), simple duckduckgo.com searches put the Lazy G ranch in San Diego, Texas, about 75 miles southeast of Texas. In any event, Bezos’ “Lazy G Ranch” (“G” is for Gise) is somewhere between San Diego, Texas and Cotulla, Texas.
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“There’s uranium in them there hills!”
That somewhere between Cotulla and San Diego, Texas, where the Lazy “G” Ranch sits, is also where the Texas Uranium fields are found.
The uranium district of south Texas was discovered by accident in 1954 by an airborne gamma radiation survey looking for petroleum deposits. The coastal plain had previously been regarded as highly unfavorable for uranium deposits. The uranium occurs in roll-front type deposits in sandstones of Eocene, Oligocene and Miocene age. The deposits are distributed along about 200 miles (320 km) of coastal plain, from Panna Maria in the north, south into Mexico. Uranium production began in 1958, from open-pit and in situ leach mines. Wikipedia: Uranium Mining in the United States
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How fortuitous for the Gise Family. The year was 1954, everything will be run on clean nuclear power in only a few years and those oil leases signed in the 1930’s are going to be worthless, then Uranium is discovered, right in the back yard of L.P. Gise himself, who worked for the brand new Atomic Energy Commission since 1949.
Most of the other ranchers and lease holders probably did not comprehend the fortune they were sitting on, but we’re pretty sure Lawrence Preston Gise did. As Gang of Four sang, “I found that essence rare, it’s what I looked for.”
“The worst thing in 1954 was the bikini”
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The “discovery” of uranium on the King/Gise/Bezos ranch near Cotulla in 1954 looks like that actual acres of actual bullshit that covered the land. It is probably more accurate to say that the “announcement” of the discovery of uranium near Cotulla was made in 1954.
We are not geologists or chemists, but it is hard to believe the teams of Petroleum Geologists that had spent the previous 50 years looking under every rock in Texas for black gold, did not know there was uranium in the southern one-fifth of the state.
At least one “Petroleum Geologist” was already looking for Uranium in 1939, if this account is to be believed.
“In 1939, while on a cross continental trek, George Von Mohrenschildt and Rodrick MacArthur were taken into custody by Mexican authorities, suspected of being spies because of their interest in uranium resources and evicted from the country after protests from the American embassy.”- Source: JFK Counter Coup 2 (link censored.)
George Von Mohrenschildt (also de Mohrenshchildt) would later become more well known as Lee Harvey Oswald‘s handler. We argue in this post that George was mostly a Uranium prospector despite his assertions he was a Petroleum Geologist.
The point is that the Gise Family, with L.P. Gise in particular, was positioned to be the primary beneficiaries of one of the greatest asset bubbles (orange arrow – Atomic Energy bubble / yellow arrow – Internet bubble) of the past 200 years.
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See our post Uranium Connections to the JFK Assassination Deserve More Attention. For now, we are just calling attention to the luck of the Jeff Bezos Family.
To review, before the Bezos/King Family made a fortune in the Internet Bubble, they made a fortune in the Uranium Bubble, and before that the Oil Boom, and before that as the largest land owners in Texas.
If it seems a little “too” coincidental, we think so too.
Go here for our initial post about the Jeff Bezos, Gise, King Hall family.
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Cattle, Oil, Uranium, then Amazon.com. Jeff Bezos Came from a Very Wealthy Family and Grandpa L.P. Gise Founded DARPA
We get it. Nerdy guy has this idea to sell books over the “Internet.” Not even his family will invest in his crazy idea.
Finally gets mom and dad to cut a check in the early 90’s and for the next few years Bezos is eating Ramen noodles in his garage.
In between trying to download the Pamela Anderson sex tape over a dial-in modem he is building an empire.
Never mind the Kingdom was built a century earlier, and then the empire in 1933, the following is what makes the whole Jeff Bezos rags-to-riches narrative so funny.
In 1994, Jeff Bezos held 60 meetings with family members, friends and potential investors in an attempt to persuade them to each invest US$50,000 in his revolutionary idea to create an online bookshop.
He failed to convince 38 of them, and 24 years later some of them still cannot bring themselves to talk about what life might have been like if they had taken a punt on Bezos and this “Amazon thing” that the then 30-year-old hedge fund manager wouldn’t shut up about. Source: South China Morning Post, April 26, 2018.
The story of the King Family and its King Ranch is a better rags to riches story. Moving to Texas in the 1800’s and fighting off Indians, and Mexicans, and Cattle Rustlers, and Mexican Indian Cattle Rustlers in the hot Texas heat, 75 years before the air conditioner was invented, now that’s a story.
The King Family acquired thousands of square miles of Texas scrub land in the 19th and early 20th century. Nobody wanted it, and the US government essentially gave it away. It was useful for grazing cattle though. As the nations wealth grew, and the populations of the cities of the northeast swelled, the Texas lands that the King family owned turned out to be worth all those fights they had with the Mexicans. All those newly minted middle class workers in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, etc. wanted, and could even afford to buy, beef, more than just once every few months.
The cattle that grazed on the King Family Ranch were herded to the Corpus Christi and Galveston docks, slaughtered, iced, and then shipped, via new, faster than sail, steamboats, to the Camden canneries, Hoboken hide tanners, and Boston butchers to meet the market demand.
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The Kings were Pigs in Shit
Being a pig in shit is a good thing.
The largest U.S. private oil lease ever negotiated was signed in 1933. The 825,000 acre King Ranch oil deal with Humble Oil and Refining will lead to ExxonMobil. The agreement, which has produced more than $1 billion in royalties, has been extended ever since. Source: American Oil & Gas Historical Society.
No doubt their is quite a lot of embellishment in the original King Family conquers Texas story. That is to be expected. You would need a good story to convince anyone else to move the family down to Texas, before air-conditioning.
“Move to Texas and get rich herding cattle, like the Kings!” is more appealing than “Move to Texas, sweat all day, every day, and get your throat slit by bands of banditos or be bayoneted by the Mexican Army, like Colonel James Fannin and the 445 soldiers under his command.” Wikipedia: The Goliad Massacre.
That Bezos and his benefactors feel the need to expunge references to his grandfather L.P. Gise (more about L.P. Gise here – link censored by Big Tech), who was one of the early founders and administrators of DARPA, and his King Family / Rockefeller Family connections via Standard Oil (Exxon) is underhanded. Those of us that have laughed at the idea of a “rigged” system, or perpetual “Deep State”, or Illuminati inspired overlords, now just feel stupid. Those nutty Larouche followers, Mae Brussell archive listeners, and Behold a Pale Horse readers are all laughing now.
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Bezos and Blue Origin bring space tourism to tiny Texas town
The town, which sprouted up in the late 1800s during the construction of the Texas and Pacific Railway, now is mostly an overnight stop for travelers along Interstate 10, which runs parallel to the town’s main road, dotted with hotels, restaurants, truck stops and convenience stores.
“Our biggest driving force is the tourism dollar,” said Van Horn Mayor Becky Brewster.
The town’s proximity to Big Bend National Park, the Guadalupe Mountains, an ancient barrier reef that includes the four highest peaks in Texas, and New Mexico’s Carlsbad Caverns also makes it an ideal pit stop for tourists.
“We often plug ourselves as the crossroads of the Texas Mountain Trail,” Brewster said. “We’re right here in the center and this can be your hub for all your adventures in far West Texas.”
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| Spiritual Meaning of Blue As the lowest color of the rainbow, blue (dark) represents the color of productive function, of the immediate reality, associated with the earth. Blue has the least amount of substance of all colors, which appears in nature in the translucent and essential form of the sky and waters. For this reason, spiritually, blue rather symbolizes spirit and spiritual power. |
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USGS: Geological Survey Bulletin 845 (Itinerary)
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5 days ago Etymology Inherited from Old Spanish castiello ( ” stronghold, fortress, castle “ ) , from Latin castellum , diminutive of castrum ( ” fort ” ) . Doublet of castell .
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PDF Chapter 17 Hydrogeology of the Salt Basin – Texas
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Fresh to slightly saline water in the Salt Basin aquifer occurs in the basin fills beneath the Salt, Wild Horse, Michigan, Lobo, and Ryan Flats and is part of the West Texas Bolsons aquifer recognized by the TWDB. Basin fills in the Salt Basin consist of Tertiary and Quaternary alluvium, lacustrine sands, silts, muds, evaporate deposits, pyroclastic debris, lava flows, and tuffaceous deposits. Many of the wells in the Salt Basin also penetrate and produce water from underlying formations, including the Capitan Reef and Igneous aquifers. Because of the dry climate, geology, and topography, recharge is low and focused along basin boundaries. Most of the discharge from the aquifer is by pumping, discharge to the Salt Flats, and cross-formational flow. The aquifer generally has good well yields and good water quality in the southern part. Water levels have declined in response to pumping, although the rate of decline has slowed because of decreases in irrigation. There does not appear to be a substantial decline in water quality over time. Studies suggest that there may be a considerable amount of fresh water in the bolson fills of Lobo and Ryan Flats. However, because of low recharge rates, water pumped from these aquifers will cause large water-level declines. Recent studies suggest that producing large amounts of water from these areas may not be economically feasible.
Sierra Diablo Mountains ~ west Texas | West texas …
Note the row of Palm Trees in the foreground. I had not seen any mention of Palm trees in the articles I have read. Who brought them there? If you don’t know about the spiritual significance of Palm Trees you have not been reading my posts.
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Pine Springs, Texas, Culberson County.
PINE SPRINGS, TEXAS“The Windiest Town in Texas” 31° 53′ 37.68″ N, 104° 48′ 59.04″ W (31.8938, -104.8164) |
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The second leg of our journey ended at Guadalupe Mountains National Park in west Texas, and when I say “west Texas” I mean 450 miles west of Austin, all driven in one sitting, with no air conditioner, in the summer. We gleefully hopped off the interstate at Van Horn, TX and skirted the foothills north towards the heart of the Guadalupe Mountains.
Highway 54, headed north (away from Van Horn and towards the park).
The founder and CEO of Amazon.com recently purchased 290,000 acres of land in this area north of Van Horn. This wind pummeled, sun scorched land will be the future home to Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, a company that will sell seats on sub-orbital space flights, a vertibale travel agent to space!
The entrance to the Figure 2 Ranch just off Hwy. 54. The last of the Apaches were run off this land in 1881.After that, the property passed through different hands over the years.
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The lands which now lie within the boundaries of the Figure 2 Ranch were occupied in the 19th century by nomadic Native American tribes. One of the last battles between Texas Rangers and Apaches Indians occurred in the mountains west of this site in 1881.
James Monroe Daugherty (1850-1942), who came to Texas from Missouri as a small child in 1851, served as a Confederate express rider at age 14. Following the Civil War he returned home to Denton County and became interested in the cattle business. He participated in numerous cattle drives and by 1872 purchased his first ranch. He was a charter member of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association.
As his empire grew, Daugherty acquired additional ranches in several states. In 1890 he purchased land here and founded the Figure 2 Ranch. Taking up residence here by 1905, he was active in local politics and served as one of Culberson County’s first commissioners upon its creation in 1911. Due to his failing health, Daugherty sold the Figure 2 Ranch in 1933 to legendary millionaire businessman James Marion West, Sr. (1871-1941) of Houston. Although West did not live at the ranch, he visited often and the property remained in his family until 1992.
Here we finally see the two goliaths of Guadaulpe Mountains National Park. The 8,085-foot El Capitan juts out and forms the most prominent feature in the range, while the slightly taller Guadalupe Peak (the highest point in Texas at 8,749 feet) sits modestly in the background.
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Guadalupe is known for its legendary strong winds that sweep across the open plains, gain strength like a downhill train, and then collide with everything in its path. Spring and winter winds can average 30+ MPH with gusts of 70+ MPH!
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The Prometheus Story – Great Basin National Park (U.S …
 NPS Photo Bristlecone pines are said to be the oldest known living trees. They have many tricks that help them survive, like growing in twisted shapes at high altitude, and an adaptation called “sectored architecture”. Sectored architecture means that the tree has roots that feed only the part of the tree directly above them. If one root dies, only the section of the tree above it dies, and the rest of the tree keeps living. You will often see bristlecone pines at high elevations with only one or two living sections, stripes of bark growing on an otherwise skeletal tree. Bristlecone pines can endure a lot. In the summer of 1964, a geographer by the name of Donald R. Currey was doing research on ice age glaciology in the moraines of Wheeler Peak. He was granted permission from the United States Forest Service to take core samples from numerous bristlecone pines growing in a grove beneath Wheeler Peak, so he could try to find the age of the glacial features those trees were growing on top of. Currey was studying the different widths of the rings inside these bristlecone pines, which were believed to be over 4,000 years old, to determine patterns of good and bad growing seasons in the past. Because of their old age, these trees act as climatic vaults, storing thousands of years of weather data within their rings.This method of research is valuable to the study of climate change. Currey found a tree in this grove he believed to be well over 4,000 years old. This tree was known by local mountaineers as Prometheus. There are several accounts of how Prometheus met its end. Some say Currey’s increment borer, the tool used to take core samples, broke off in the tree. Others say he did not know how to core such a large tree, or that the borer was too short. Yet others say Currey felt he needed a full cross section to better examine the rings of the tree. We may never know the true story of what happened to Prometheus, but we do know one thing for certain: Currey had permission from the Forest Service to have the tree cut down. Counting the rings later revealed that Prometheus contained 4,862 growth rings. Due to the harsh conditions these trees grow in, it is likely that a growth ring did not form every year. Therefore, Prometheus was estimated to be 4,900 years old, the oldest known tree of its time. At the time, Prometheus was the oldest tree ever dated, the runner-up being a bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California. It was only 4,847 years old. It wasn’t until 2012 that an older tree was found – another bristlecone in the same area, proved to be 5,065 years old. There is a good chance there are older bristlecone pines that have not yet been dated. According to ancient Greek myths, Prometheus was an immortal who brought fire (a symbol of knowledge) to humans. Prometheus the bristlecone pine also imparted a lot of knowledge to humans. Information gained by studying this significant tree added to the knowledge of carbon dating (which is valuable to archeologists and paleontologists) and climate data. Bristlecone pines are now protected on federal lands. The stump of Prometheus is all that remains of the ancient tree within the grove. If you would like to travel through history by counting the rings of Prometheus, you can do so at the Great Basin Visitor Center. |
Prometheus (tree) – Wikipedia
Prometheus – EtymologyThe ancients believed that the name Prometheus derived from the Greek pro (before) + manthano (learn) and the agent suffix –eus, thus meaning “Forethinker”. Latin commentator Servius explains that Prometheus was so named because he was a man of great foresight (vir prudentissimus), possessing the abstract quality of providentia, the Latin equivalent of Greek promētheia (ἀπὸ τής πρόμηθείας). Modern scientific linguistics suggests that the name derived from the Proto-Indo-European root that also produces the Vedic pra math, “to steal,” hence pramathyu-s, “thief”, cognate with “Prometheus”, the thief of fire. The Vedic myth of fire’s theft by Mātariśvan is an analog to the Greek account. Pramantha was the tool used to create fire. |
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Prometheus, in Greek religion, one of the Titans (Giants), the supreme trickster, and a god of fire, he famously gave the human race the gift of fire. His intellectual side was emphasized by the apparent meaning of his name, Forethinker. He was one of the ringleaders of the battle between the Titans and the Olympian gods led by Zeus to gain control of the heavens, a struggle which was said to have lasted ten years. In common belief he developed into a master craftsman, and in this connection he was associated with fire and the creation of mortals. The Greek poet Hesiod related two principal legends concerning Prometheus.
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Prometheus was worshipped in Athens, particularly by potters (who, of course, needed fire in their kilns) and there was an annual torch race held in the god‘s honour. Prometheus first appears in Greek art in a 7th century BCE ivory from Sparta and on Greek pottery from c. 600 BCE, usually being punished. The myth of Prometheus and his terrible punishment by Zeus was the theme of tragic poet Aeschylus‘ Prometheus Bound. SOURCE |
Inside and Out: Great Basin National Park
Stella Lake at Great Basin National Park
Welcome to Nevada, folks! Home to casinos, wedding chapels, and- as it turns out- the hidden gem of Great Basin National Park. The history of this area goes back 12,000 years, to the Paleo-Indians, followed by the Fremont and Shoshone tribes, and finally the immigrants on the California trail, on their way to California for mining. It became a place for ranching, mining, and- as we all know, conservation. Many paths have crossed in this desert land and when our dirtied hiking boots finally set foot here, we must be ready to follow their lead and brave the wonders that the Great Basin has in store.
Carved out of the lands by glaciers, this desert landscape encapsulates terrain that begs exploration and appreciation. The forest of bristlecone pine trees contains some trees that are over 3,000 years old! As National Geographic points out, those trees were around when King Tutankhamun ruled Egypt- a long, long time ago. But that’s just the thing about Great Basin National Park- while it might not have been around as long as Yellowstone or Yosemite, it has been in the works for far longer, as you will see when we explore further.
Inside the Lehman Caves
Perhaps the coolest part of Great Basin National Park and what sets it apart from other places we have visited are the incredible caves open for people to explore. The Lehman caves, the most visited of the caves here, were formed thousands of years ago, when the Ice Age created pockets in the formations of limestone in the mountains. What are left are one and a half miles of underground pathways filled with limestone stalagmites. The caves are open to the public, but the main goal of the park is to preserve their delicate environment so they remain for generations to come. Visitors may not be wearing any clothes that have been worn in other caves and are led by a park ranger at all times. The most important priority is to keep both visitors and the cave safe.
To take a look at another ancient relic, though not quite so old, I would suggest taking a look at the Upper Pictograph Cave, just a short drive up the mountain from the Lehman Cave Visitor Center. Here, you’ll found rock walls decorated by Fremont Indians about a thousand years ago. These cave paintings have given researchers a glance into the lives of people from a long, long time ago and for visitors like us, are well worth taking a look.
But after plenty of time underground and in caves, a little bit of time in the outdoors might do us some good. I would suggest starting at the bottom of Wheeler Peak, the tallest mountain in the region, and taking a survey of the land. Maybe go fishing at Stella Lake, take a hike up one of the trails and get a great vantage point to look over the beautiful landscape. Or just explore the park! The best thing about the National Parks, as I’m sure you’ve come to see, is that there is something for everyone. Find a ranger, ask around, and find the perfect adventure for you. A place like Great Basin National Park is a pity to waste.
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Nevada desert bighorn sheep symbol of rugged life
LAS VEGAS (AP) – If there’s a more perfect state animal for Nevada than the desert bighorn, we’d like to see it.
The sheep populate the Silver State’s countryside, making a hardscrabble living in one of the nation’s most inhospitable climates.
“The bighorn is representative of everything about Nevada,” said Doug Nielsen, a spokesman for the Nevada Division of Wildlife. “It’s rugged. It lives in a rugged landscape. It makes its life in a harsh environment. It has had its ups and downs like the human residents of Nevada, but it continues to fight and hang in there.”
The desert bighorn, which became Nevada’s official state animal in 1973, has long traveled alongside Nevada’s people. Prehistoric petroglyphs feature the sheep, which natives in the region revered as a source of food, pelts and tools.
So what makes the desert bighorn a special breed?
Unlike other bighorns, its hooves are cuffed and concave on the bottom to help grip craggy rocks as the animals migrate across mountains. The sheep can gain a foothold on a 2-inch ledge, jump between ledges 20 feet apart and run up gravelly mountainsides at 15 miles per hour.
It has keen senses – it can spot activity almost a mile away – that have helped it survive.
The desert bighorn also has a nine-stage digestive cycle that lets it get the most out of limited desert vegetation.
Even with those advantages, it’s not easy: Just a third of lambs survive their first summer, according to statistics from the National Park Service.
“It’s an animal that is specifically designed to live in one of North America’s harshest environments,” Nielsen said. “Clark County is the driest county in the driest state in the union. The terrain is comprised of jagged, steep mountain ranges. And the plant life sticks you and pokes you. They live and thrive in that environment.”
At a mature weight of about 200 pounds, the desert bighorn is smaller than the Rocky Mountain bighorn, which can weigh in at nearly 300 pounds.
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Nevada State Animal: Desert Bighorn Sheep
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From Canada + -ēnsis – Adjective
canadēnsis (third-declension two-termination adjective)
- (New Latin) Used as a specific epithet; Canadian; from Canada.
Nelson’s elk: Nelson’s elk (English) Noun Nelson’s elk Cervus elaphus nelsoni; a subspecies of red deer (or wapiti). Synonyms Cervus elaphus nelsoni: Rocky Mountain elk, Yellowstone elk; Cervus canadensis nelsoni Coordinate terms Cervus elaphus nelsoni: Roosevelt elk, tule…
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By JENNIFER ROBISON – Associated Press – Thursday, May 29, 2014