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- No, the equator is not by the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal is located roughly 620 miles north of the equator in Panama, which is between 7 and 10 degrees north of the equator.
- Mt. Pinos -great for Start Gazing just outside of Los Angeles
- App I used for the star gazing is “Sky Map” -although there are many other.
Mothra
Godzilla: King of the Monsters
The Dark Crystal – the most magical movie alive
Cabinet of Curiosities – yes Del Toro draws…
- ❥ Valerie Thundercats boyfriend
- Cartoons in the 80s SUCT:
The Transformers movie
- Optimus Prime
Aliens – Space Marines stay frosty
Predator – Sexual Tyrannosaurus Rex
- Great Walls in History
- 1. The Great Wall of China –
Built over centuries to keep out northern invaders, the wall was never truly impenetrable. Mongol forces under Genghis Khan and later Manchu armies got through by bribing guards, finding weak points, or simply going around it. - 2. Hadrian’s Wall (Roman Britain) –
Constructed to keep northern tribes out of Roman territory in Britain. In practice, it slowed but didn’t stop raids, and was eventually abandoned as Roman power faded. - 3. Australia’s Rabbit-Proof Fence –
Completed in the early 1900s to stop invasive rabbits from spreading into Western Australia. It failed almost immediately—rabbits were already west of the fence before it was finished, and they burrowed under or found gaps.
- 1. The Great Wall of China –
- 4. The Maginot Line (France, WWII) –
A huge network of fortifications along France’s border with Germany, built after WWI. In 1940, German forces bypassed it through Belgium, rendering it useless. - 5. The Siegfried Line (Germany, WWII) –
A defensive line opposite the Maginot Line. It was breached by Allied forces in 1944 after sustained attacks and flanking maneuvers - 6. Berlin Wall (East Germany, 1961–1989) –
Built to stop East Germans from fleeing to the West. Despite heavy security, thousands escaped via tunnels, hot air balloons, modified cars, or forged documents until the wall fell in 1989. - 7. The Bar Lev Line (Israel, 1970s) –
A chain of fortifications along the Suez Canal. In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Egyptian forces used high-pressure water hoses to blast through sand embankments and breach it quickly. - 8. Reagan’s “Star Wars” (Strategic Defense Initiative) –
A Cold War plan for a space-based missile defense shield. Technologically ambitious but far beyond what was possible at the time—it never became operational, and critics saw it as impractical and prohibitively expensive. - 9. Trump’s U.S.–Mexico Border Wall –
Proposed as a nearly continuous physical barrier to stop illegal immigration and smuggling. Large sections were never built; where built, tunnels, ladders, and cutting tools were used to bypass or breach it. - 10. Pacific Rim Wall on the Pacific –
A massive coastal barrier built to stop Kaiju from wading ashore. Looked tough on paper, but monsters smashed through like drywall in the movie’s first act, once again showing walls to not be so helpful, particularly when your enemy is the size of a skyscraper.
- Smile frowns. Try this at home!
- Six years. Six years.
Swing Kids
Dead Poets Society – Robert Sean Leonard is important and hot
The History of Philosophy – It all starts with math
- Mathematical realism (sometimes called mathematical Platonism), but with a specific emphasis on mind-independence.
- Philosophers in that camp include:
- Plato – Saw mathematical objects (numbers, shapes) as existing in an abstract, non-physical realm, independent of human minds.
- Kurt Gödel – 20th-century logician who argued that mathematical truths are discovered, not invented, and exist regardless of whether any mind thinks them.
- Roger Penrose – Modern physicist/mathematician who defends a Platonist view of math as a real, external domain.
- Bernard Bolzano – Proposed that propositions, including mathematical ones, exist in themselves without depending on mental activity.
- Willard Van Orman Quine (in certain writings) – Defended a kind of realism about mathematical entities, as indispensable to our best scientific theories.
- Dr. Hermann Gottlieb – A kaiju-calculating mathematician who believes “math is the handwriting of God.” His calculations are correct, two and then three kaiju will be exiting the breach.
- Philosophers in that camp include:
- You must kick ass up to and equal to this guy:
Alice In Wonderland – don’t follow the white rabbit
- 3rd Position
- Alley oop
- ❥ Valerie boyfriend on Pacific Rim: Cherno Alpha
- Kaiju Blue spew
- Raleigh Becket from Pacific Rim is Jax Teller in Sons of Anarchy:
- The Boat club
- She a bat
- Nose cancer – Idris got it
- The plan that came together:
Transformers
- ❥ Susan’s fish-world boyfriend: he got a bun in the oven:
Murderbot – check’em out I HIGHLY recommend.
The Beastmaster