Some Scientists think it,s impossible for life to exist anywhere else in the Cosmos. I disagree.

 SCIENTISTS SAY THAT IT'S NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR LIFE TO EXIST ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE UNIVERSE.

I disagree. This is why:

There's more than 

1 TRILLION galaxies in the known Universe. That is according to a guesstimate by Scientists.

Only One percent of everything in the Universe is in galaxies. Everything else is just in open space.

The Milky Way Galaxy, in which we live, is only about 100,000 light years wide. It's not very big compared to a lot of others. We have approximately 200 Billion stars in our galaxy alone. Most stars have at least One planet around them. 

Using the "Drake Equation" each Scientist uses their own guess of numbers of how many planets may be in our galaxy, how many may have life, how many of the planets with life have intelligent life, etc.

Most Scientists say there's probably between 2 to 100 planets with life in the Milky Way Galaxy. Most Scientists say between 2-4 planets. My own guess is 2 or 3. Earth is one of them that I include in my guess. So, I guess 1 or 2 other planets have life in our galaxy. 

We will never know, for sure, all we can do is guess.

Now, take your guess of whatever you come up with, in my case, 3 and multiply it by 1 Trillion galaxies. Three Trillion planets with life in galaxies.

Now, remember that 99% of everything is in open space, not in galaxies. Add any number you want to that for planets in open space that may have life.

I will add another 

1 Quintillion planets in open space with life.

1,000,000,000,000,000,000.

Most of those planets won't have intelligent life. They might have microscopic, single cell bacteria that live in an environment of Methane, Ammonia and other gasses that are poisonous to humans and the planet might be -500° below Zero F! But, it is still life.

There's probably only 5 percent or less of those planets with life that have intelligent life and have radio telescopes that can send and receive signals and can communicate with us.

The closest star to Earth, besides the Sun, is: Proxima Centauri. It's about 4.2 light years away. Most other stars are Thousands or Millions of light years away! One light year equals 5.878 Trillion miles.

If the nearest star with a planet that has intelligent life listening to our radio signals is 10,000 light years away, the radio signals sent from Earth will take 10,000 years to get there. Their signals they send in response to us will take another 10,000 years to get to Earth! 

That is only if they can decipher our signals and figure out where they came from. 

That's a long time to wait for a response from aliens. In 20,000 years, when their signals for their response reaches us, human life might not longer exist.

I think that it's highly unlikely that we are the only intelligent life in the Universe.

Even if intelligent life does exist in the Universe, we will never be able to see the aliens through a telescope, not even with the Hubble or James Webb Telescopes. Theoretically, to see aliens 10,000 light years away, we would need a telescope bigger than the Sun. 

With a telescope that size, the aliens would only look like dots about the size of Ants. That's if they were the size of an avg human, 5.5 Feet tall. The image we saw through the scope would be of what the planet and aliens looked like 10,000 years ago.

If we wanted to see a much larger image of the aliens, we'd have to have a telescope about 3-5 times larger than the Sun! Then, maybe we could see a good image of what those aliens looked like 10,000 years ago. We would not get to see what they look like today.

Dinosaurs died off 65 Million years ago. So, if aliens live 65 Million light years away, if they looked at Earth through a powerful telescope, they would not see Humans, they would see Dinosaurs on Earth.

Humans have been reporting UFO and alien sightings for Millions of years. 

(The oldest Human remains that have been found were 7 Million years old.)

People all around the world, who have never met each other have reported alien sightings and abductions for a long time and most of their descriptions of aliens match almost exactly!

There are pictures of aliens and UFOS on the walls of the pyramids. Nobody knows how the Pyramids were built 5,000 years ago. Humans today can't recreate Pyramids exactly like they were made 5,000 years ago. Maybe they had help from aliens.

We have Crop Circles. Humans try to take credit for them. They say they made them for a joke. But, not likely. Because, there's no evidence of humans having been there and they pop up over night. They are also too perfect for humans to of made.

There are no foot prints, no tire tracks, no trash, like cigarette butts, lint from human clothes, human blood, paper, candy wrappers or any other human trash.

The circles are almost perfect 360 degree circles. Humans can't make a perfect crop circle. The corn or where stalks are not broken. The dirt below the circle is magnetized or has some other type of radiation coming off it.

Somebody is abducting Humans and Cows. They return the Cows and they appear to have been cut open with a laser. Humans aren't doing that.

The list goes on and on for why I believe there has to be life elsewhere in the Universe. I believe there's probably more than a Quintillion other planets with life in the Universe. Half of them with intelligent life the rest with unintelligent life.

What are some good things that we've gotten out of the Space Program:

Hubble has shown the world Trillions of things that are too far away to see with a regular, backyard telescope.
NASA invented Velcro and a ton of things we use everyday.
The International Space Station (ISS) brought several countries together to work on a very big, expensive, Scientific project. We have made a lot of Scientific discoveries in Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Geography, Astronomy and other branches of Science and Math on the ISS.
It's very expensive to launch a rocket into space. NASA has to spend over 1 Billion dollars every time they launch a rocket. That is money that goes to companies and people all over the US and the rest of the world. That's "trickle down economics".
NASA and other space agencies have proven from space that the world is not flat. Scientists can watch the weather from space. They can spot hurricanes, tornadoes, Tsunamis and other things long before they can harm anyone. They can see lightning hitting Earth. They have discovered that lightning actually strikes Earth between 50-100 times per second!
They have sent spacecraft's to every single planet. They learned that all the gas giants (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune have rings around them. The only one you can see with a regular telescope at home is Saturn's ring.
They've discovered signs of possible life on Mars and a few moons in the Solar system, but no proof yet.
They've put military satellites in space, as well as others for GPS, Astronomy, Geology, Google Earth, Weather, Earth's atmosphere, and other things.
They've sent signals to other planets, in hopes of aliens intercepting the signals a Million light years away. They are also listening for signals from aliens.
Metiors and other things are headed toward Earth. NASA wants to find a way to stop them from hitting us and preventing a mass extinction of humans. (That's what killed the dinosaurs.)
If we are no longer able to live on Earth, we must find somewhere else to go.
The government has set off nukes in space for Scientific and military purposes. (Maybe nukes can be used to save Earth from being hit with a Metior.)
A lot of new technology had to be invented to build rockets powerful enough to get humans to space and be able to survive up there. New, advanced technology had to be invented to communicate with Astronauts from the ground.
Voyages I and II are in interstellar space, going far away from Earth. They now know how big the Heliosphere is.
The temperature of space is close to Absolute Zero. Scientists have done experiments on the Space Station to get even closer to Absolute Zero than the temperature of space. They can get closer to that temp on the ISS than they can on Earth.
They have talked about sending regular civilians like you and me to space for vacation. I'd love to go up, but, it will be too expensive.
Scientists know the appropriate size and composition of all the planets.
Probes have been sent to Venus. They landed on the surface and they stopped working within a few hours. Probably because it's so hot that they all may have melted or the acid rain may have damaged them as well. Either way, NASA knows that they can never send humans up there.
Spy satellites have been sent up for military purposes over countries like Iraq. They also have some over the US for: Military, law enforcement and Science. (Who knows, the government of the US and other countries might be watching you right now!)
It is really a lot of fun to watch a rocket launch.
There's a lot of things that were built Thousands of years ago which nobody can figure out how to replicate them and build them the same way today, including the Great Pyramids. They probably had help from aliens.
Some of the Pyramids line up perfectly with Orion's belt.
This is only scratching the surface of all the good things that have come from the Space Program.

What if NASA offered you a chance to go to Mars? Would you go?

DO YOU WANT TO GO TO MARS?
A lot of people, including myself, really love outer space. But, do you really want to go there? Probably not!

If NASA called you and gave you the chance to be one of only a dozen people to go on the first trip to Mars, would you go?
It sounds cool. I have always wanted to go to outer space. That would be so awesome to spend one day in space. If, it only took a few hours to get to Mars, that would be cool to.
But, be careful what you wish for, because, you might get your wish!
On the space station, they recycle water. In other words, the water they use to flush the toilet gets filtered and cleaned. Then it goes back into a tank and the Astronauts drink that water! Then, they pee it out into the toilet, it gets filtered again, goes back into the holding tank and repeats the process over and over again! Yuck!
They lose muscle mass, because, in almost 0 gravity, you don't get to work your muscles very much. They have to exercise 2 hours a day to prevent muscle loss.
Food doesn't taste the same in space as it does on Earth.
What would you do if you can out of food or if the food you have with you spoiled or rotted and it was no longer safe to eat? The nearest grocery store is about 35,000 miles away, on Earth.
It is a very small space on a rocket, space shuttle or the ISS. It would get boring up there in those cramped quarters. If there is someone up there with you that you don't get along with, that would suck for you! It will take about 5 or 6 months to get to Mars with today's technology. You'll be on the planet for probably 6 months to a year, then a 6 month long trip back to Earth. All that time, you'd be with someone you hate!
The closest Doctor to you will be on Earth! If you get sick or injured, you are on your own. You will be able to call the Doctor on Earth and talk to him, but, he can't give you any prescription medication, stitch up a wound, put a cast on a broken bone, perform surgery or anything like that!
Mars is much smaller than Earth. That means there will be less gravity. That will have an affect on your weight, the amount of pressure and stress on your Spine, how you walk and other things. Astronauts have no stress on their spine on the International Space Station. In fact, while their in space, their spine stretches out and the Astronauts are about an inch or two taller in space. After 6 months, they come back to Earth and the Earth's gravity pulls their spine down and puts stress on it again. That causes back pain.
There are a lot of dust storms up there. The wind blows the Red, Iron Oxide all around and it will be hard to see. The wind might even blow you around as well. You will be much lighter on Mars than on Earth.
(The surface of the planet is made up of Iron Oxide, which is basically rust from iron, just like on a car. That's what gives Mars it's red color.)
You'll have to wear a space suit everywhere you go. You might get a hole in your suit, which you can't just fix with duct tape. You could also run out of Oxygen or have problems with your O2 tank. Either one of those things: a hole in your suit or problems with your Oxygen, would be life threatening.
It is very cold and dusty up there on Mars. The atmosphere doesn't stop Metiors or harmful UV Ray's, Gamma Ray's, X Ray's, and other harmful things from space as well as the Earth's atmosphere does.
If your space ship breaks down, there's no one there to fix it and no way for it to be fixed. You would never make it back home to Earth.
I am sure you'd have to sign a waiver before you went to Mars, saying you know all the risks you're taking and if anything happens to you your family can't sue!
On the bright side, you would die famous. You would always be known as one of the first people to ever land on Mars. NASA would probably name a satellite after you, your birthday might become a national holiday, people would write books and movies about you and your name would be as famous as Neil Armstrong, Galileo, Stephen Hawking and Edwin Hubble.

Jupiter.

The Earth would fit inside Jupiter 1324 times! It may not appear to be that much bigger than Earth, but, the way someone described it to me was: Because of the mass of Jupiter, it would be like a balloon, the planet would stretch , just like a balloon. Just like a balloon stretching to hold more water or anything else you put in it, Jupiter would, THEORETICALLY, stretch whenever you put something inside of it. It would stretch out enough to where All the other planets, including Pluto, would fit inside of it!
The famous, Great Red Spot is about Three times bigger than Earth.
It is a large storm that's been going on for over 300 years. It is currently, slowly shrinking. It spins counterclockwise at about 225 MPH (360 KPH). It is comparable to a hurricane.
Jupiter would fit inside the Sun 9 times.
It has a faint ring system. Scientists did not know about the rings until the Voyager Spacecraft got there. Voyager showed the rings for the first time. The rings are too faint to be seen with a Telescope. In fact, I have a really powerful Telescope and I can't see the ring with it. University of Central Florida in Cocoa, FL has the second largest Telescope in the state of FL and they can't see it with that scope.
It has, as of now, 69 confirmed Moons. Probably, more to be found.
Looking through my Telescope, I can see the color bands on the planet and Six of it largest Moons.
Since, Galileo invented his own Telescope and looked at Jupiter, and discovered 4 of these same Moons (Io, Europa, Ganymede & Callisto), they are called: Galileo Moons. Those are Jupiter's largest moons. The rest are too small to see from Earth.
(Unfortunately, someone else invented the Telescope, just a short period of time before Galileo invented his telescope. So, he can't claim credit for inventing it.)
There are some very violent storms on Jupiter. Mostly inside the planet. Lightning on this planet is much more powerful than what we experience here on Earth. Scientists believe that it rains Diamonds inside of Jupiter. Because of the heat and pressure inside of the giant ball of Gas. But, they can't prove it.
The composition of the planet is mostly: Hydrogen, Helium and Ammonia. It's believed to have a rocky and metallic core.
Since the planet spins so fast, it completes one rotation in 9.8 Earth hours.
The rapid rotation causes Jupiter to bulge at the Equator. The diameter at the Equator is: 88,846 Miles (142,948 K).
The diameter at the poles is: 83,082 Miles (133,708 K). The Scientific name for this shape is: An Oblate Spheroid.
Jupiter is a Brown Dwarf. A failed star. Since it is made up of the same elements as most stars. However, it would have to be 75 times more massive to cause nuclear fusion of Hydrogen and turn into a star.
The color bands around Jupiter are created by strong 400 MPH (640 K) winds flowing East to West in the planets upper atmosphere.
Jupiter has a huge magnetic field, larger than any other planets. It is also the strongest magnetic field in our Solar System. It's almost 20,000 times strong than the one here on Earth! It is more than 1,000 times the lethal dose of radiation for a human. This magnetic field damages every spacecraft that goes near it, even if it is heavily shielded. The magnetic field extends out between 600,000 - 2 Million Miles (1 Million - 3 Million  K) towards the Sun and forms a tail which extends over 600 Million Miles (1 Billion K) behind the planet.
At it's furthest point from the Sun Jupiter is 507.04 Million Miles away.
When it's closest to the Sun it's 460.24 Million Miles away.
It orbits the Sun at a speed of 29,205 MPH. Completing one rotation around the Sun in 11.86 Earth years.
The distance from Jupiter to Saturn depends on where they are in orbit. When they are on the same side of the Sun and at their closest point, they are approximately 5 Astronomical Units (AU) away from each other.
When they are on opposite sides of the Sun, they are about 15 AU away from each other.
(One AU is the average distance between the Sun and Earth. 93 Million Miles or 149,668,992 K).
Depending on where the Earth and Jupiter are in their orbits, Jupiter is between 4.2 and 6.2 AU away from Earth.
We are lucky to have a planet the size of Jupiter in our Solar System, because, being so big, it has a lot of gravity. It attracts a lot of Metiors and other things to it. So, rather than hitting Earth or the other planets, a lot of them hit Jupiter instead.
Imagine what might have happened if Shoemaker-Levy would of hit Earth.
The SL comet had been captured by Jupiter's gravity about 20 or 30 years before it broke into several large pieces and hit Jupiter in July of 1994. The fragments of the comet got too close to the planet on July 16, 1994. The first impact created a fireball larger than Earth! A total of 21 impacts were observed over the next six days. The largest one created a dark spot more than 7,456 Miles (12,000 K) across. The explosion it created was 6 Million Megatons of TNT. That's 600 times the worlds entire known nuclear arsenal at that time, according to: www.americaspace.com.
A comet or meteor that size hitting Earth would quickly put an end to all life on Earth! In fact, most Scientists believe that it was a large meteor that crashed into Earth 65,000,000 years ago that killed off the Dinosaurs.

LIGHTNING TRIVIA:

Lightning can strike up to 20 Miles away from a thunderstorm.
When you see Lightning in the distance on a hot day, but, you don't hear thunder, that's because, there is a storm a long ways away. Too far for you to see the rain clouds or hear the thunder. This makes it look like the lighting is being caused by the heat. People often think it is the heat that is causing the lighting. It's often referred to as "Heat Lightning". But, Heat Lightning does not exist. It is regular lightning from a storm that's too far away for you to see the rain or hear the thunder.
Lightning strikes the Earth between 50 and 100 times per second! Astronauts have confirmed that as fact, because they can see the clouds light up in several different places around the world, all at the same time. They can see it from the space station.
Lightning can travel in all directions, most Lightning is cloud to cloud lightning and it doesn't hit the ground. On the ground it can travel straight down, up, or sideways. According to the Discovery Channel and some high speed video footage of lightning strikes, which you can see on YouTube, most Lightning travels from the ground up, NOT down from the clouds!
Lightning has between 1 Million and 1 Billion Volts.
In the movie: Back To The Future, they use the the word: "Jigowatt". There is no such thing as a Jigowatt. The actors mispronounced the word: "Gigawatt". Just like the computer term, Gigabyte- 1 Billion bytes, a Gigawatt is 1 Billion Watts.
When people get struck by lightning, they usually don't get hit directly by the bolt, usually, the lighting hits something else, if someone is touching the object that got hit, they get zapped. It can also "splash", or bounce off something it hits and hit someone. Sometimes, it hits the wet ground several feet away and if a person is standing on the ground near the strikes, electricity travels across the wet ground and hits them.
The record for the most times being struck by lightning lightning is 7 times! It was a park ranger. He lived to tell about it! However, he had Psychological and physical health problems after being struck that many times.
The lighting capital of the word as of 2016, according to NASA.gov, is: Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela. They get an avg of 233 lightning strikes per square Km every year.
Before NASA researched this, The Congo Basin in Africa held the record for the most Lightning activity each year.
NASA conducted their research with: "The Lighting Image Sensor" (LIS) on the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission.
The lighting capital of the US is Tampa, FL. They have more Lightning than any US city. The word Tampa comes from the Clausa Tribe in the 16th century. The word Tampa means: "Sticks of Fire".
The Lighting Belt is an area of FL that extends from Tampa to Orlando and from Orlando down to Ft Myers and Lake Okeechobee. That  area of FL gets the most Lightning each year.
Lightning can generate heat up to 60,000 degrees F. That's 6 times hotter than the surface of the Sun!
Lightning kills more people than Hurricanes and Tornadoes combined every year.
NASA is not supposed to launch rockets through clouds, because, that could trigger lightning. However, I have seen them do it and the rockets did not cause lightning. Not the ones I saw.
Most commercial airplanes get struck by lightning at least once or more every year. Because of all the safety features on airplanes  to protect the plane and passengers from lightning, most people don't even know that the airplane was struck by lightning. In fact, planes can even trigger lightning.
Experts say that if lightning hits your car while you're in it, you should be safe. The force of the lighting will be absorbed by the outer frame of the car and you, theoretically, should not be affected by it. Unless you stick your arm out the window and touch something else that is touching the ground, then you'll get fried.
Lightning can be produced by other things besides rain, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, rockets and sometimes even a huge fire, which can also cause a fire tornado. That is a whirlwind caused by a fire. It sucks up the flame. Now the tornado is spinning around and it is actually spinning a flame around with it! Making it even more dangerous.l
Some other planets have storms on them and some of them also produce lightning. Jupiter has some of the most violent storms  in the Solar system. According to NASA, Lightning on Jupiter is much more powerful than what we experience on Earth.
(Most of this information comes from: Discovery Channel, NASA.gov, Orlandosentinel.com and Scientificamerican.com.)

Next-gen vacations scam. Beware!

Do me and everybody else in the world a favor and please call this number: 1-888-321-3840. Next-gen vacations. There in Kissimmee, FL. They called me to schedule an apt for tomorrow  afternoon to go to a seminar and promise me two free airline tickets anywhere in the US! It's obviously a damn scam! To hell with them ass holes! Yes, I did schedule a time to go to their seminar with my GF. But, hell no, I AIN'T GOING! I did that just to waste their time! I also wasted about 10 minutes on the phone with them to!
Now, they want to call me tomorrow before my appointment. But, I am going to block their number!
This is too good to be true! They will not give anybody 2 free plane tickets on any airline they want to any destination in the US to use anytime within the next year and let you stay at any hotel you want in the US at their expense (Including a 5 Star hotel), all at their expense!
But, please, everybody, call them and bomb these jackasses with calls! Also, schedule fake appointments like I did! Then block the number so they can't call you! Then you call them again! Call them often to!
Again, that is:
888-321-3840.

Their address: 5000 Ave of the Stars.
                            Kissimmee, FL. 34746.

Black holes in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Scientists have known for a long time that there's a Supermassive Black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. But, now they've found a lot more small black holes and they guesstimate that there might be as many as 10,000 more small black holes in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
The way most most Supermassive Black holes form is by "eating" other black holes, stars and other things. Everything that the black hole consumes adds more mass to it and the black hole grows. The more it eats,  the bigger the black hole becomes. Most black holes start out as small ones. Then they suck things in it and they become bigger.
The way they form in the first place is:
A giant star runs out of Hydrogen and other forms of fuel. It collapses and what's left over is a black disk that has an immeasurable amount of mass. In fact, according to Einstein, a black hole might have an infinite amount of mass. However,  I find that hard to believe, because it sounds impossible for anything to literally have infinite mass.
The Sun is a Medium star. It doesn’t have enough mass to form a black hole. Scientists measure other stars, black holes and other really large objects in space with.   "Solar. Masses". One solar mass is the mass of the Sun.
In order to form a black hole, a star has to be at least 5 solar masses.
There are a few black holes that Scientists have found which they think are Millions or Billions of solar masses. These are called: Supermassive Black holes. There is one in the center of every spiral galaxy, including the Milky way.
The gravity from these Supermassive black holes helps hold the galaxies together.
Scientists are not sure exactly how Supermassive black holes form. However, one reason might be that it could of consumed Thousands of other black holes and planets and kept getting bigger.
The gravity from a black hole is so strong that almost nothing can escape from it. Even if something traveled at the speed of light, it would not be able to escape from the gravitational pull of a black hole. That is why they are hard for Scientists to find.
However,  Stephen Hawking discovered a type of radiation that does manage to escape from black holes. Since he discovered it, this radiation was named: Hawking radiation. Astronomers need special, X-ray telescopes to see it.
This technology is so new, that until recently, nobody had ever actually seen a black hole. They knew they existed, because they could see stars, planets and other things getting sucked into them. Hopefully, with the newer, X-ray telescopes, Scientists will actually be able to get a picture of a black hole for the first time ever! Astronomers have been talking about trying to do that this year (2018).

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/dozen-black-holes-discovered-at-the-milky-way-centre

Aliens in the Milky way Galaxy.

The Milky Way Galaxy is approximately 100,000 Light Years across. We are are near the far end of one side. If aliens have tried to contact us all the way from the other side and they were 90,000 LY away, their message wouldn't reach us for 90,000 years after the day they sent it. That is only if they used a Radio Telescope like Scientists use here on Earth. That's because radio waves travel at about the speed of light thorough space.
Assuming they are much more intelligent and much more advanced than Humans and they've invented a UFO that can travel ten times the speed of light and they are also able to survive the G Force, it would still take 9,000 years to travel to us.
They could also have a time warp or, better yet, use Einstein's theory of "Bending Time and Space", which is only theoretically possible, where you could bend two points in space and bring them together. Then they would be able to pull our Solar System to wherever they are and just fly across within only a few Seconds! That would be so cool, but highly unlikely.
However, there's also a small chance that they will be less intelligent than us and they can't even figure out how to get off the ground of their own planet. I doubt that though. But, if that were true, or even if they had a big spaceship traveling towards us from 90,000 LY (27,607 Parsec) away, we still wouldn't be able to see them with the world's most powerful Telescope, which is called: "The James Webb Telescope". It will be much more powerful than the Hubble. They haven't even sent it up yet. NASA will launch it up within a few years. I don't know how, unless they get our space program going here again by that time. Otherwise, they will have to contract it out and have either one of the civilian agencies like Space X do it or Russia may have to send it up for the US.
If the aliens are outside of our Galaxy, they will be able to get in the Milky Way to visit us, but it will be extremely difficult for us or them to get out of our Galaxy. Because, the Milky Way is so big, and so strong that, Because of all of its gravity and several other forces of Physics, which I don't understand, you would have to travel about 1.2 Million miles per hour to get out of the Milky Way! That is the Escape Velocity of the Milky Way Galaxy.
If you did get out though, you may have a much easier time getting back in, but, since the spiral arms of the galaxy are rotating pretty fast, the whole galaxy will be flying away from you through space and our entire Solar System is moving through the inside of the galaxy,  if you did get back inside, you would be a long ways away from where you started from and you'd be far away from the Earth. Good luck finding it again!
Personally, I believe aliens have already been here, who do you think built the Pyramids 5,000years ago? As well as Crop Circles and other things.
(BTW, one Parsec is approximately 3.2 Light Years.)

Things you learned in school (and other places) that are wrong.

Ben Franklin:

He never flew a kite in a thunder storm. His kite was not struck by lightning. He did not discover electricity.

Yes, he did fly a kite in clouds that were electrically charged, but they were not storm clouds.

He did not get struck by lightning. If he had been, he would have either died or been seriously injured.

Electricity had been discovered Thousands of years before Franklin was ever born.

He worked a lot with electricity. Someone asked him which direction electrons flowed out of a battery, he told them: “I think it flows from Positive to Negative”. For years everybody believed that. It wasn’t until the mid 1900’s when they invented the electron microscope that they were able to see electrons under the microscope and prove Franklin’s guess wrong. Electrons flow out of the NEGATIVE TERMINAL AND BACK TO THE POSITIVE TERMINAL!

 Einstein:

He did not do very well in school. Although he was a genius with an IQ of 160, he did not show it in school. Some of his teachers in school thought he would never amount to anything.

He had Aspergers, this caused him problems. He couldn’t walk until he was about 4. He had problems communicating. He couldn’t speak full sentences until he was 7.

He actually was good at Math. If he hadn’t been good at Math, he would never been successful as a Physicist.

Bill Clinton:

Yes, Congress did officially impeach him. The reason that he was still able to finish out his term as President is because Congress did not vote to “Remove him from office”.

Washington:

He never really chopped down a Cherry Tree, like you probably learned in school. Over 200 years ago, somebody wrote a fictional novel about Washington. In the book, he chops the bark off his dad’s Cherry Tree and the tree dies. Even in the book, he did not chop down the tree!

Edison:

He did not invent the Light Bulb by himself. He owned a company and some of his employees actually discovered how to make the light bulb work. But, since Edison owned the company, he took full credit for it! This still happens in companies all the time today. If you invent something, your boss will steal all the credit for your invention. He gets on TV and tells the world: “I invented this. I had a hard time making it work, but, I finally figured it out……………” Then he puts the paten in his name, any awards that your invention earns go to the boss. He gets all the money, etc. Your name is never going to be mentioned.

Tesla:

Edison and other people created so many myths about him that I could almost write a book about them all.

He had an idea that would have given the world FREE energy.

He used to work for Edison. But, they didn’t get along very well, so he quit and opened his own company.

He came up with the idea of using Alternating Current (AC) electricity instead of Direct Current (DC). He told everyone that it would be so much better than using batteries. Edison was much more powerful and had a lot more money. Edison went out of his way to prove Tesla wrong and convince the public that Tesla was wrong and he was an idiot. The people believed Edison for a long time. He was able to convince people that his idea of sticking with the old way of using batteries was the best way to go.

Tesla’s idea of AC electricity being better took years before it caught on. But, when people figured out it was better, they put up power lines and that is what comes out of the electric outlets in almost everybody’s homes and other buildings today.

Tesla was found mysteriously dead in a hotel room one day. He was murdered. Most of his research documents were stolen. Nobody knows for sure if Edison was involved in his murder or not. (I think he probably was involved.)

The federal government doesn’t want us to have free energy, because, they’d get less money. So They were very likely involved in his murder to!

 Voting:

When you cast your vote for President, YOU are not voting actually for President, you are voting for Electoral College (EC) votes. Each state has a certain number of Electoral College votes. It depends on the population of the state as to how many Electoral College points they have.

If your state has 30 EC points, If the state votes mostly Republican, most of the people the state sends out to vote for the EC will be expected to Republican supporters. They will be expected to vote Republican. However, when they go cast their own votes, you don’t know who they are going to vote for, they can still vote for whoever they want.

Lightning:

You’ve probably heard the term: “JIGAWATT” in the movie Back To The Future. There is no such thing as a Jiggowatt. It was a mispronunciation of the word: “GIGAWATT”. The word “Giga” means Billion. Just like with a computer, as in Gigabyte (One Billion Bytes). A Gigawatt is One Billion Watts of electricity.

Lightning strikes the Earth between 50 and 100 times every second. NASA can see it from space.

Lightning does not usually come down from the clouds to the Earth, it usually goes from the ground up! Lightning can go in all directions: Up, down, Horizontally, diagonally, etc.

Most lightning never hits the ground, it is cloud to cloud lightning.

The Lightning Belt is an area in FL that gets more lightning strikes than anywhere else in the US. It goes from Tampa, crosses over Orlando and ends in Daytona Beach.

More people get struck by lightning in FL almost every year than any other state.

READ THIS ONE CAREFULLY! Don’t get confused by the facts here! Each year,  there’s not normally a lot of people in the state of Michigan that get struck by lightning. However, (READ THIS PART SLOWLY! TAKE A MINUTE AND LET YOUR BRAIN PROCESS THIS!) However, there have been more people in the state of MI who have been reported as having been struck by lightning ON THE GOLF COURSE, WHILE PLAYING GOLF than in any other state. (OK, go back and read the last part of this again if you have to, before you say it doesn’t make sense or it contradicts or any other stupid comments. It makes perfect sense!)

(I’m sorry, I’ve had problems with that one before. I tried to explain it to some stupid idiots before and all they did was argue with me and say: “That don’t make sense. First you said, “There’s not a lot of people in MI that get hit by lightning, then you said there’s more people who get struck there.”

Then I have to explain: More people have been struck ON THE GOLF COURSE in MI than anywhere else. Other than that, there’s not a lot of people who get struck in MI.)

When people do get hit by lightning, it’s not usually a direct hit. The lightning either hits another object and bounces off, hitting the person, hits the water they’re standing in or hits something they are touching.

Roswell UFO:

I just had to include this one, because I love Outer Space, Astronomy and especially UFO’s more than anything! I guess I’m a geek.

Since UFO stands for: Unidentified Flying Object, anything you see flying through the air can be considered a UFO. If you don't know for sure what it is, in other words,  you can't identify the object that you see in the air, up to the moment that you can tell what it is, technically, it is a UFO. Most of the time, however, when we hear about a UFO, we think of flying saucers from outer space.

Years ago, something crashed in Roswell, NM. Nobody knows for sure what it was, except the US government! According to witnesses, there were three strange beings on the ground near the object that landed. The material the spacecraft was made out of did not look like any material on Earth. It was not the shape of anything that we have on Earth that can fly. There were other strange things about it to.

The US military sure got there pretty fast. They searched the whole area with a magnifying glass and picked up every single tiny piece of the UFO. So if someone else went out there later to find a piece of it, there was literally nothing left of it. Not even a speck of dust!

When the military finished cleaning up the remains of the UFO, they threatened all the witnesses saying, “If you tell anyone what happened here, we’ll kill you and your family! You are going to get on the news now and say it was just a weather balloon.”

People think they probably took the remains of the UFO and aliens to Area 51. I don’t think they took the UFO there. I think there was another top secret location that is even more top secret than Area 51 where they took it and no one knows where this location is. That would be a more likely place to take it.

The US military declassified some documents 15 or 20 years ago that tell about the US military attempting to make a flying saucers. The reason they never used the military version of the flying saucer is, because they couldn't get it to lift up off the ground more than a few feet and it would only fly a short distance before it fell to the ground. They eventually had to give up the project, because it was costing too much time and money. So it's not they didn't want to build a UFO, they just couldn't get it to work.

New to Blogging.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

New to blogging. Hello everyone.
My name is David. I am originally from Michigan. I got tired of the cold weather so I moved to Florida. I now live in Cocoa, FL.I was in the US Army for Seven years. I was stationed in Ft. Hood, TX and Mannheim, Germany. I also served one year in Iraq. I was a Truck Driver in the Army. Some of my biggest interests include: Cats, telling jokes, writing and Astronomy.