My Own Planet

 I have my own planet! One up on Elon Musk.

Regan's Planet, by Robert Silverberg, found while I was organizing my bookshelves. Published in 1964. Haven't read this one but now I have to of course. Love the cover art. 

Who Said It: Elon Musk or Mr. Burns? | The New Republic

Crazy quote of the day. Bet you can't guess who said it. Wait, bet you can.

"There will be no Mars is we let them take our freedom away." 

Who Said It: Elon Musk or Mr. Burns? | The New Republic

Musk Takes Twitter, FB Down and Covid Zombie

 I can't help it; I find it an odd synchronicity that the same day Elon Musk took over Twitter (firing top execs one of his first edicts) Facebook is down. Another synchronicity, which is an eerie one for sure. A recent Paranormal Declassified episode, hosted by Paul Beban, filmed two years ago, investigated global "zombie" pandemics. Not movie zombies who stumble out of graves and eat the flesh of the living, but a virus of some kind. During this episode, Paranormal Declassified had to shut down. Because of Covid, which had just made its appearance on the world stage.

Also, zombie rabbits are a thing.  As are vampire bunnies. (the first in the series, Bunnicula, is my favorite.)

Those strange lights in the sky over Portland will be back Sunday night | News | kezi.com

Friend of mine posted that she saw this, wondered what it was. Quickly decided it was this:

Those strange lights in the sky over Portland will be back Sunday night | News | kezi.com: Sadly, that was not a true UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena, as they're called now). We can say with relative certainly that this was a bank of Starlink satellites launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX company. There's even a website that tracks where Starlink satellites are going to be visible at any given time. They showed up in the Portland area at 9:44 p.m. Friday night, and they'll return around the same time on Saturday, if you look to the northwest. They will be visible Sunday and Monday as well, albeit coming from slightly different directions and appearing a few minutes earlier each night.

Living in Eugene, and I missed it! But good to know what's what up there. While there are absolutely things up there that are not ours, in my opinion, and defy so-called logical explanations, there are also things that, while also very strange, are ours. 

Not a fan of Elon Musk by the way. Just putting that out there.