Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Today happens to be The International Day of Conscience AND First Contact Day!

April 5, 2063: Humans met Vulcans for the first time, despite the Borg's attempts to prevent that via time travel.







Weird how lightning struck The Statue of Liberty yesterday and an earthquake hit nearby NYC today and the solar eclipse is yet to come. The signs are everywhere!

Notable earthquake: M 4.8 - 7 km N of Whitehouse Station, New Jersey. 4th largest EQ since 1737 in this area. Really fueling the doom conspiracies given the solar eclipse is just a few days away.


USGS Earthquake Map

Earthquakes in the eastern U.S. are felt over a MUCH bigger area than the West Coast due to older rocks. They were subject to extreme pressures and temperatures and they're denser and so shaking travels much farther. 

The DHS EAS is called the National Public Warning System, aka Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS), aka Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA, formerly known as the Commercial Mobile Alert System (CMAS). I see reports saying some folks didn't get an earthquake phone alert. If that is true, then it's not fit for its purpose. Congress spends big $$$ on this and obviously it's supposed to work flawlessly. The Gov just updated FCC EAS rules in 2022 for radio and TV - PDF. It's an engineering headache. The FCC has changed the EAS rules dozens of times since 9/11 and it would be nice if it actually worked to warn the public in congested urban areas and hi-rise buildings as to an earthquake and either evacuate or shelter in place. And this same gov wants to hand over this digital mess to AI. LOL, good luck!


My brother said this morning he thought he was having earthquake Munchausen's or something because he was reading this when his table started shaking...


That's gotta be a signal or omen or something. Probably nothing.


April 5, 2012: the U.S. Coast Guard sank the "ghost ship" Ryou-Un Maru. The Japanese fishing vessel had drifted for over a year after being swept away by the 2011 tsunami that hit Japan. The Ryou-Un Maru had entered a busy shipping area 180 miles from Alaska when the USCG sank it.




USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125) Arleigh Burke-class Flight III guided missile destroyer leaving Pearl Harbor - April 4, 2024. Homeport is San Diego, California. The warship is brand new, Commissioned on Oct 7, 2023.



The ship namesake is after legendary super badass indestructible Jacklyn Harold "Jack" Lucas (1928–2008) was a U.S. Marine, and later U.S. Army airborne officer, who received the Medal of Honor for his actions at the Battle of Iwo Jima, at the age of 17. He is the youngest Marine and youngest serviceman in World War II to be awarded the United States highest military decoration for valor. When the keel of USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7) was laid in 1997, Lucas placed his Medal of Honor citation in the ship's hull, where it remains sealed. I hope the ship lives up to the name.


1950s all over again...FOX News report on luxury bunkers...




Well, it would be a shame if FEMA hasn't contained the mold outbreak at Mount Weather...



Mount Weather Emergency Operations Center (MWEOC) Capital Infrastructure Investment Plan

More FEMA related...


Effectiveness of the Program to Prepare Communities for Complex Coordinated Terrorist Attacks and the Countering Violent Extremism Grant Program






How recessions have predicted presidential elections


Quote of the Day:
I think in 50 or 100 years time we will have discovered the entity that is consciousness. It will be taken for granted that it wasn’t produced by the brain, and it doesn’t die when you die.
Dr Sam Parnia on the new science of death.


More to come.