Planetary Alignement

I've always said astrology was/is a waste of time. And maybe it is for the most part. But today after viewing a short video with Gelu Voican Voiculescu presenting some stuff about planetary alignments and talking almost like a scientist, i was curious and opened Stellarium and set it on December 89. After all, 89 was the year of great and peaceful transformations in Eastern Europe. But while playing with the time wheel of the mouse back and forth it was not 89 that caught my eye but early January 1990. Take a look for yourself. I couldn't catch all planets in a single screenshot so i put two successive ones, one with the outer planets and one with the inner ones. They were pretty aligned allright. I'll keep on googling about until i can find some more info. But i don't think it happens very often. For those who asked themselves why i keep adding all kind of things from so many different areas. In college, i actually had to learn pages full of differential equations that i totally forgot describing the motion of planets when we had a whole chapter of Celestial Mechanics within the semester or year of the mandatory Theory of Mechanics course. It was enough to raise my curiosity about stars and planets and stuff. Then the Sci-Fi movies like Star Trek and Star Wars i love to watch. There was also a legend transmitted from generation to generation of students at the Mechanics Faculty within the Technical University in Iaşi about then retired prof.Mangeron saying that when NASA asked scientists from the whole world to help them with recalculating the trajectory of Apollo 13 after the accident actually he sent them the best calculations, and they actually used those to bring the astronauts back to Earth. (You can click on the pictures to enlarge them.)

Robots Bill Needed

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2013/02/oregon_legislators_considering.html

Maybe they should consider a bill for robots too, starting from this model:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

Timona Sache şi 40 comentatori

Poate că într-o zi va veni şi timpul când românii nu vor mai crede în Feţi Frumoşi, Ilene Cosânzene, zmei, balauri şi alte tele-basme fermecate. Până atunci, citiţi blogul Timonei cu postul despre Gigel cu haremul (sau haramul) de 40 femei, blog care pare el însuşi scris de 40 draci, în frunte cu Timona Sache însăşi.

Oregon City Church

03/07/2010, Oregon City, OR. Click on the image for better view.

03/07/2010, Oregon City, OR. Click on the image for better view.

Real Communists

Those mentioned below had a very important role in the history of communism in Romania. However, they have something else in common. Besides everybody getting goosebumps from fear every time their name was mentioned during their whole existence.

First, Lenin. "Lenin's father, Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov (1831–1886), was the fourth child of impoverished tailor Nikolai Vassilievich Ulyanov – born a serf of either Kalmyk or Tatar descent – and a far younger Kalmyk named Anna Alexeevna Smirnova, who lived in Astrakhan." Barely any Russian, if any.



Mother, at least half German.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Alexandrovna_Ulyanova

Petru Groza (sounds a bit like Groschopf, doesn't it?)

 http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petru_Groza

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petru_Groza

Maurer, half Alsatian
http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Gheorghe_Maurer


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_Gheorghe_Maurer

Bodnăraş, half German.


http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Bodn%C4%83ra%C8%99


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Bodn%C4%83ra%C8%99

Maurer and Bodnăraş did a lot of things against Romanians under the cover of communism, but i want to mention here the crucial role they both played in the naming of Ceauşescu as the conducător of Romania, în 1965. Ceauşescu himself, by name is of Turkish descent. Ceauş (çavuş) în Turkish means sergeant.

Dej, raised in Moineşti by his uncle. His uncle or aunt probably from there.


http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gheorghe_Gheorghiu-Dej


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gheorghe_Gheorghiu-Dej