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What's cute and fluffy and full of glycerides? The ester bunny.

Down in Costa del Soul.

There is a tiny industry freezing peoples dead bodies after they die, in the almost cartain vain hope that they can be revived when the technology advances. They call it cryonics, and they use various methods to avoid the damaging ice crystals, including high speed freezing and non-toxic chemicals to infuse into the tissues, that prevent crystal growth. In theory that process could be done in space, or done on Earth and then moved to space for long-term storage at very low temperatures. The water boils in the video because the removal of pressure drops the boiling point past the current temperature. If the temperature is lowered before the pressure is reduced, you can avoid boiling the water at close to zero pressure. There are mountains made of water ice on celestial bodies, at close to zero pressure. The ice at very low temperature behaves like rock here on Earth. I think Pluto might be one that has water ice mountains. (not sure)

She makes two arguments, both based on Special Relativity. The first is that the energy required to accelerate a massive object to the speed of light is arguably not infinite. When v=c in the equation, the expression becomes singular. IOW, no longer valid Physics, just like anywhere else infinities arise. ( alsoexplains how mass is mostly binding energy, and the workings of the Higgs field ) The second, also using SR, using FTL travel, or communication, to send information elsewhere, then back to yourself in the past and violate causality, seems to disappear when GR is considered, as the co-moving frame estabilishes an entropic direction to the future and makes sending information back to your past self from elsewhere, impossible. The direction would be from your past self to elsewhere, not the other way around. I enjoy her humor, but SoL invariance ( and the reason why all observers measure the SoL to be the same, why you can't catch up to light, and why it takes increasing amounts of energy to approach the SoL barrier ) is the footing of the foundation of SR and GR. Without it much of modern Physics crumbles to the ground, nd we know that both SR and GR have been immensly successful. Maybe, as Sabine mentions, Quantum Gravity will redefine the singular points where v=c just as ( we hope ) it will for the singularity of Black Holes, leaving the rest of SR/GR unchanged.

It would be great to return more to the OP topic, to which the 1968 Minot sighting is relevant. Of the cases I've read about, it seems like one of the better documented, with trained observers, and pointing more strongly towards some kind of structured vehicle with flight characteristics inconsistent with 1960s level aerospace technology. There seem to have been other sightings also around Minuteman ICBM complexes, like the one at Malmstrom AFB over in Montana, a year earlier than the Minot sighting. https://www.cufon.org/cufon/malmstrom/malm1.htm In the Malmstrom case, and also in another one in 1966 at Minot, the ICBMs went offline and became unlaunchable for a while. https://www.minotdailynews.com/news/local-news/2021/12/military-veterans-urge-truth-told-about-unidentified-aerial-phenomena-incidents/ Living in this part of the country, I have been aware of these strange events for a long time, and had conversations where there is speculation about them. I have wondered if some sort of EMP device could have been involved, but other details pointing towards that seem lacking. AFAIK, Minuteman missiles and the silo power supplies have always had pretty formidable Faraday shielding. .

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Fair enough. Your posting seems deliberately short and cryptic, so I won't post to it, unless the meaning is clear. Like that for example.

I think my grandfather-- who was a well-educated and thoughtful man, had it worked out.. When my Father graduated from college, my grandfather sent him a handwritten note with the following message: "Wishing you throughout the years, a fullness of happiness, a diligent pursuit of purpose and a life of fruitful accomplishments (June, 1941)

Macro scale acid? What does it mean?