A month or two ago, Google suggested I watch an 8 minute BBC video about Svalsbard, the island up north of Norway which used to be Spitzbergen. Its legal status is pretty unusual, as Wikipedia explains:
Svalbard (/ˈsvɑːlbɑːr/ SVAHL-bar,[3] Urban East Norwegian: [ˈsvɑ̂ːɫbɑr] (listen); prior to 1925 known as Spitsbergen, or Spitzbergen, (lit. Sharp Peaks; Russian: Шпицберген) is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Situated north of mainland Europe, it is about midway between continental Norway and the North Pole. The islands of the group range from 74° to 81° north latitude, and from 10° to 35° east longitude. The largest island is Spitsbergen, followed by Nordaustlandet and Edgeøya. While part of the Kingdom of Norway since 1925, Svalbard is not part of geographical Norway; administratively, the archipelago is not part of any Norwegian county, but forms an unincorporated area administered by a governor appointed by the Norwegian government, and a special jurisdiction subject to the Svalbard Treaty that is outside of the Schengen Area, the Nordic Passport Union and the European Economic Area.
Apparently, this means that you do not need a visa to go work there, which, as the video explains, means that some people go there on a whim to see if they can a living, and end up happy enough:
All Knowing Google, thus detecting I was interested in the place, took some weeks to do so, but eventually recommended the Youtube channel of Cecilia, a (I think) Swedish woman who lives there (with a boyfriend and a beautiful dog.)
I haven't watched them all, and maybe she will soon run out of new things to show, but I have to say that the images she puts up of the place are remarkably beautiful and pretty interesting. (Even just watching her shop in the town's one big store was interesting.)
Anyway, here she is, showing exactly what the midnight sun looks like back in April, at the start of 4 months of permanent sun!:
Her videos are not exactly slick - some of the explanatory stuff goes no longer than necessary - but for an amateur just showing the world the really remarkable and unusual part of the world she lives in, I find it very pleasing. Here she is showing us a spectacular example of the Northern Lights:
I recommend watching them on you big smart TV if you have one.
One other thing that's pretty interesting about the place - it has coal mines. I find it quite surprising that Norway found it economically viable at the start of the 20th century to mine coal in such a frigid part of the world. It's also a big reminder about how much the Earth has changed over its geological history.
I'm not sure I personally need to visit such an isolated part of the world (even though I would love to see Norway generally.) But an amateur vlogger can make you feel as if you're experiencing the next best thing anyway.
Great post Steve. Lord knows you are a dumb leftist goose-stepper. But sometimes you seem to show the sensitivity of an artist.
ReplyDeletePart of the psychological operation within science was to take electricity (which is two thirds of everything) ... and put it in a box and put that electricity box in the corner. For example why do the raindrops in black clouds continue to float? They defy gravity for hours on end before it actually rains. This can be explained only when we bring electricity back where it belongs.
The great artist seemed to know that something was amiss when she wrote:
"Rolls and flows of angel hair,
Ice cream castles in the air,
Feather canyons everywhere,
I've looked at clouds that way.
But now they only block the sun.
They rain, they snow on everyone.
So many things I would've done
But clouds got in my way.I've looked at clouds from both sides now,
From up and down and still somehow
It's clouds' illusions I recall.
I really don't know clouds at all."
See how the authentically great artistic mind somehow penetrates more deeply than the full time scientist? No mainstream scientist can explain clouds since as many examples of the flow of electrical energy as could have been made taboo have been made taboo in science. So the poets education made it impossible for her to understand clouds. But her genius was to realise WHAT SHE DID NOT KNOW. The song makes me almost want to cry, not from a girly point of view. But just because of the deep penetration into the nature of reality that the artist has achieved.
And so it goes with the Aurora. The Aurora cannot be explained without electricity. So its beautiful, and no mainstreamer could understand it. Maybe now a few can. But understanding was basically banned outright. Just as it is now with climate science. Climate science is really all about electricity. But the dummies running things don't know that.
So we have big drops of water, in black clouds, and clearly every one of these drops are practicing the dark magical arts. Because they don't fall when they should. Yet a climatologist can be 30 years in the business without losing too much sleep as to what the fuck is going on.
ReplyDeleteI'm saying that the Northern Lights are purely to do with the movement of electricity through gas, in the absence of better conducting water vapour, and where the jet stream is not available to move the energy kinetically. The most important of these gasses, for the purpose of these lights, is going to be Argon. But its not true to think that just because the various wavelengths of colour shown by the northern lights are not exactly that which we see with a purified argon lamps ... this doesn't mean I'm wrong. Because we have to consider that other gasses will also light up and Argon is a minority molecule in this scenario. We would need experimentation with high electricity through gasses in a scenario where sparking (equivalent to lightning) is somehow suppressed.
ReplyDeleteJust to rephrase ... There has to be some reason why alternative energy transmission is being suppressed. It has to be to do with the lack of other forms of energy transmission which include ... lightning ... wind .... water vapour allowing better conduction of electricity ....
I'm not the fellow with the training to do the research. My main skill is simply knowing the tricks of the conmen who try to control all aspects of life. So what I can do is point out to trained science workers what to look for. Why is there fuck all wind going on in that time and place? Is there in fact almost no gaseous water vapour present? Do the jet streams not go that far North at that time of year? Can we measure the capacitance and voltage difference at various altitudes? And one thing I would want to know is how much carbon 14 is being created under these conditions. Since I believe fusion to be easy and natural under conditions of high capacitance.
I take a different view from everyone else. I think fusion is easy and natural. I just think its no energy spinner. I take fusion to be an energy sink. So my favourite energy source for the latter half of the century is thorium nuclear fission. For the first half I think the best "energy source" is investment in energy efficiency. Not excluding overnight luxury rail transport as a substitute for flight.
Well I'll go to Wikipedia now and find out about the Northern Lights. And they may well have caught up. But the reality is that as many instances of electricity as an explanation, that CAN be suppressed in the natural world, have been suppressed. High winds, tornadoes cyclones, hurricanes, jet streams water condensation and all kinds of things are examples of electricity at work. In reality people do kind of know this now. But this knowledge has been suppressed as long as it possibly could have been.