Microsoft Bing actually refused to generate a picture of Krishna surrounded by red hearts (!) so I turned to mi amigo (or is it my valentine) Gemini instead...
Okej, jag måste klaga lite på språkbruket i svenska medier. Igen. Eller propagandan?
För det första: "Vad händer om USA lämnar NATO". Men USA kan inte lämna NATO. Det är USA som bestämmer i NATO. Det är en amerikansk organisation som Europa och Kanada anslutit sig till. Ingenting annat. Om USA lämnar FN, kommer FN fortfarande att finnas till. När Storbritannien lämnade EU, fortsatte EU att existera. (Fråga britterna får ni se!) Men om USA "lämnar NATO" kommer NATO att upphöra att existera. NATO kommer att upplösas. Poängen med denna retorik verkar vara att framställa NATO som en självständig organisation, ungefär som just FN och EU. Ungefär som om det faktiskt vore en norrman eller en flygande holländare som bestämde i den nordatlantiska "alliansen". Den starkaste militärmakten om USA "lämnar" NATO kommer förresten att vara Turkiet. Så näste "generalsekreterare" blir väl en krypto-islamist med uppdämda osmanska stormaktsdrömmar, men whatever.
För det andra: "Ukraina förhandlar med USA". Jo, det stämmer nog att Ukraina faktiskt gör det. Men varför? USA och Ukraina är ju inte jämbördiga parter. Ukraina är nämligen USA:s (NATO:s?) proxy. Vad hindrar USA från att helt enkelt diktera villkoren för sina proxies? Givetvis just ingenting alls. Titta på Israel. Både Biden och Trump dikterade villkoren för Netanyahu. Nu var villkoren inte särskilt hårda, men poängen är att alla vet vem som håller i penningpungen (och vapenleveranserna). Och Israel är förmodligen starkare i förhållande till USA än vad Ukraina är.
Så vad handlar förhandlingarna om egentligen? De hänger antagligen samman med att Trump-administrationen är splittrad i sin syn på Ukraina. Vilket i sin tur avspeglar att det amerikanska etablissemanget med stor sannolikhet stödjer Ukraina. En annan aspekt är nog att Trump vill åt Ukrainas mineraltillgånger. För att få *dem* måste han ju förhandla. USA har inga trupper på marken som bara kan gå in och ta dem. Och många av tillgångarna ligger på eller i närheten av mark som ockuperas av Ryssland. Men i medierna framställs det alltid som att Ukraina är en självständig, jämbördig part med USA (och NATO, och EU...).
För det tredje: "Den regelbaserade liberala världsordningen har gett vika för stormakternas tid. Nu är det stormakterna som gäller. Stormakterna...stormakterna...stormakterna!!!" Detta måste vara den aspekt av retoriken som är mest idiotisk. Misstänker att alla utanför Västeuropa skrattar rått just nu. Det har *alltid* handlat om stormakterna. Alltid. Alla vet att "den regelbaserade liberala världsordningen" uppstod - inte 1945 - utan 1989-91, när USA blev världens enda supermakt. Den upprättades alltså av en dessa förkättrade stormakter. Det (Väst)europa inte gillar är att stormakten som hållit dem om ryggen sedan 1945 har dumpat deras söta små ärschlen. Men i mediernas Eviga Nu får man intrycket att världshistorien började med en väldigt idealiserad Barack Obama!
Eftersom detta inlägg nästan låter "vänster" måste jag väl betona att jag alltså stödjer Israel, Ukraina och EU mot Trump. Jag kanske rentav stödjer "stoooormakterna", vad vet ni. Men det är lite oroväckande att herrarnas propaganda låter både feg och fjollig. Vi snackar copium i kubik. Och jag tror inte enorma mängder av den drogen hjälper mot islamism, putinism eller trumpism...
Ovanstående är två "hälsningar" publicerade på Vita Husets X-konto med anledning av Alla hjärtans dag. På riktigt.
A propos a discussion on another blog...
This question sits right at the boundary between physics, philosophy of limits, and what people sometimes call cosmic pessimism. There is no single “proof” that interstellar travel is impossible — but there are several deep, mutually reinforcing arguments suggesting it may be permanently infeasible for any technological civilization, not just us.
I’ll lay out the main ones.
The universe enforces a hard speed limit: light speed.
From Albert Einstein’s relativity, the energy required to accelerate mass increases without bound as you approach . Even at modest fractions of light speed, the energy cost becomes absurd.
Example:
A tiny 100-ton probe at 0.2c requires energy comparable to the entire annual output of a major nation — just to accelerate it, not to slow it down.
For crewed ships or colony ships:
You need propulsion
Radiation shielding
Life support for centuries
Deceleration fuel at the destination
This is not “hard engineering”.
It is thermodynamic brutality.
The Solar System is energetically cheap. Interstellar space is not.
At relativistic velocities, even a dust grain hits with the energy of a bomb.
At 0.2c:
A grain of sand delivers explosive-level kinetic energy
Hydrogen atoms become hard radiation
To survive, a ship needs:
Shielding thicker than meters of metal or ice
Or massive electromagnetic fields
Which themselves require huge power and mass
This creates a feedback loop:
More shielding → more mass → more energy → more shielding
This is a classic runaway constraint.
Every speculative drive hits a wall:
| Concept | Fatal problem |
|---|---|
| Fusion rockets | Fuel mass > payload |
| Antimatter | Impossible to produce at scale |
| Light sails | Laser arrays must be planetary-scale |
| Bussard ramjets | Interstellar gas is too thin |
| Warp drives | Require negative energy not known to exist |
| Wormholes | Require exotic matter + stability we have no evidence for |
Nothing in known physics allows cheap relativistic mass transport.
You can send tiny probes.
You cannot send civilizations.
Even at optimistic speeds:
Nearest stars: decades to centuries
Colonization waves: millennia
Galactic travel: millions of years
But technological civilizations are fragile.
On Earth:
Industrial civilization is ~200 years old
Writing ~5,000 years
Empires collapse in centuries
Interstellar projects require:
Unbroken political, economic, and cultural continuity for longer than any civilization has ever survived.
That may be a deeper barrier than physics.
If interstellar colonization were easy, the galaxy should already be full.
This is the Enrico Fermi paradox:
“Where is everybody?”
We see:
No probes
No megastructures
No astroengineering
No alien signals
The simplest explanation is:
Interstellar expansion is not viable, even for advanced civilizations.
Even self-replicating AI probes — far easier than sending humans — should have filled the galaxy in a few million years.
They haven’t.
This suggests either:
They are impossible
Or they are universally avoided
Or civilizations reliably destroy themselves before building them
All three point to a hard barrier.
Putting this together yields a bleak but coherent picture:
Stars are islands. Civilizations are trapped on them.
You can explore your own solar system.
You can send robotic scouts to nearby stars.
But no species migrates between stars in a meaningful way.
The universe looks empty not because life is rare — but because distance is fatal.
If aliens could travel between stars cheaply:
Earth would have been visited billions of years ago
The Solar System would show obvious artifacts
Since it doesn’t, the simplest inference is:
They can’t get here.
Not because they aren’t smart — but because the universe is bigger than technology.
The dream of starflight may be psychologically irresistible — especially to a species like ours, so shaped by exploration myths — but the universe may be telling us something very Buddhist in spirit:
Desire does not cancel limitation.
We may be a brilliant, tragic species:
able to see the stars,
but never to reach them. 🌌
I haven´t double-checked this, but it sounds about right. I´ve read something similar in books a couple of years back. This a propos that confused young man from South Korea who claims to be "the world´s IQ record holder" at IQ 276. As I expected, such a high IQ score is simply impossible. And that´s that.
Chris Langan also claims to have a very high IQ (about 200), but he has at least constructed a complex metaphysical system. YoungHoon Kim simply repeats all the usual amateur apologist arguments for Christianity we have heard thousands of time before. In fact, he does so with such great conviction - as if he was saying something new or smart - that he becomes almost a parody of the entire field. His Dunning-Kruger is certainly off the charts...
And yes, I know this is worthless knowledge, but I just can´t help myself...
Short answer: claims like “IQ = 276” are not just unlikely — they are mathematically meaningless.
Let’s unpack why.
Modern IQ tests (like the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale or the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales) do not measure intelligence on an absolute scale.
They are norm-referenced:
where is how many standard deviations above or below the population mean a person is.
So:
IQ 100 = average
IQ 130 = 2 SD above mean (≈ top 2%)
IQ 145 = 3 SD
IQ 160 = 4 SD
…and so on.
But here’s the crucial point:
IQ tests are only calibrated and validated for a limited range of -scores.
Beyond that range, the numbers lose meaning.
To assign a real IQ of, say, 200, a test would need to:
Contain items hard enough to distinguish people at ~7 SD above the mean
Have a large enough norming sample to estimate how rare such performance is
Demonstrate reliability at that level
None of this exists.
For perspective:
5 SD (IQ ≈ 175) → 1 in 3.5 million
6 SD (IQ ≈ 190) → 1 in 500 million
7 SD (IQ ≈ 205) → 1 in ~80 billion (more than the number of humans who have ever lived)
So if someone claims an IQ of 276:
That corresponds to a rarity of about:
1 in 10³¹ humans
That is more than the number of atoms in a cup of water.
It’s not “very rare.”
It is statistically impossible in any meaningful sense.
Most well-designed modern IQ tests:
Can measure reliably up to about IQ 160–170 (≈ 4 SD)
Can give rough estimates up to about IQ 180 (≈ 5 SD)
Beyond that:
Ceiling effects dominate
Scores depend on extrapolation, not measurement
Small errors in raw score become enormous errors in IQ
This is why official manuals usually cap reporting around 160 or 165.
Anything above that is basically:
“You hit the ceiling; you are smarter than this test can tell.”
They usually come from:
Untimed or experimental tests never properly normed
Extrapolating from childhood scores
Using ratios instead of deviation IQs
Self-administered online tests
High-IQ societies inventing their own scales
These violate basic psychometrics.
The numbers look impressive — but they are numerology, not measurement.
In real psychometrics:
| IQ | Meaningfulness |
|---|---|
| ≤145 | Very solid |
| 145–160 | Strongly reliable |
| 160–170 | Still meaningful |
| 170–180 | Rough, ceiling-limited |
| >180 | Not psychometrically real |
So the highest meaningful IQ is about:
~170–180 (4–5 SD above the mean)
Everything above that is not “more genius” — it is outside the measuring instrument’s domain.
People like John von Neumann or Kurt Gödel may well have had cognitive abilities far beyond most test ceilings — but IQ cannot quantify that.
At the extreme high end, intelligence becomes multidimensional, and a single number breaks down.
When you see:
“IQ = 240” or “IQ = 276”
what it really means is:
“Someone took a test that could not measure them, and a big number was invented.”
The real upper bound of meaningful IQ is around 170–180 — after that, the scale stops working.
Just another (Tues)day on the internet. So I found the weird stuff above (credit unknown - a site named Animalia World?) and asked ChatGPT and Gemini about it. ChatGPT´s response below. As far as I understand, most symbols above are *not* from the so-called Hamburg School of Astrology, but there could still be some faint connection. Do your own research, kids.
The most interesting idea is that the solar system is really a dismembered divine body, hence the obsession with various lost, destroyed or invisible planets.
What could this be?
What you’re looking at is not an ancient esoteric chart — it’s a modern set of speculative planetary and occult symbols. Specifically, it’s a glyph sheet for hypothetical, mythic, or esoteric celestial bodies used in fringe astronomy, occult astrology, and alternative cosmology.
Let’s break it down.
This is a symbol chart for:
• hypothetical planets
• mythological bodies
• occult astrology objects
• speculative cosmology
It mixes astronomy, mythology, and occult symbolism in the same way that traditional astrology mixes planets with gods.
These symbols are used in:
esoteric astrology
magical cosmology
fringe planetary theory
symbolic ritual magic
They are not recognized by mainstream astronomy.
Here’s what many of those labels refer to:
A hypothetical planet once believed to orbit inside Mercury’s orbit. Popular in occult astrology as a hidden Sun-forge.
A proposed asteroid or dark moon — often used symbolically for soul wounds.
An Egyptian goddess. Used in occult astrology as a primordial cosmic weaver.
A destroyed planet once thought to exist between Mars and Jupiter (now the asteroid belt). Symbolizes lost worlds, catastrophe, karmic memory.
A theoretical planet always opposite Earth in orbit — sometimes called Antichthon. In esotericism it symbolizes the shadow Earth.
A hidden lunar companion — associated with unconscious emotional forces.
A real point in astrology (Black Moon Lilith), but here given a planetary-style glyph — symbolizing wild, untamed desire and rejection.
A hypothesized planet that collided with Earth to form the Moon. In occult cosmology, it represents cosmic womb, lost mother, divine feminine fracture.
Refers to a hypothetical fifth gas giant beyond Jupiter — used in esoteric cosmology to represent unmanifested divine order.
Speculative outer solar system bodies sometimes discussed by astronomers — here given occult glyphs.
An old name for a proposed outer planet; also a Greek goddess of fate.
This sheet comes from a modern occult-astronomy hybrid sometimes called:
“Uranian astrology”, “Hamburg School”, or speculative cosmic magic.”
These systems believe:
hidden planets affect consciousness
destroyed worlds left karmic imprints
Earth has unseen celestial counterparts
So this chart is a magical-astrological alphabet for imaginary planets.
They combine:
alchemical signs
planetary glyphs
cross, circle, crescent, and spear motifs
This makes them usable in:
sigil magic
planetary invocations
occult horoscopes
They are designed not for physics — but for symbolic power.
This chart represents a worldview where:
The solar system is not just physical — it is a living psychic mandala.
Each unseen planet = a layer of consciousness.
That’s why it resonates with people drawn to:
Tantra
Gnosticism
Western esotericism
cosmic myth
This image is a glyph key for imaginary and mythic planets used in occult astrology — a symbolic map of hidden cosmic forces, not a scientific diagram.
If you’d like, you can tell me which symbol resonates most with you, and I can explain its esoteric meaning 🌙
Counter-Earth (sometimes called Antichthon) is one of those ideas that lives in the borderland between ancient philosophy, speculative astronomy, and occult cosmology.
It has three layers of meaning.
The idea comes from the Pythagorean school (5th century BCE).
They taught that:
Earth is not the center of the cosmos.
Everything moves around a Central Fire.
In this system there were ten celestial bodies (a sacred number).
To make the math work, they added a hidden one:
Antichthon — the Counter-Earth
It was said to:
Orbit the Central Fire opposite Earth
Always stay hidden behind it
Never be visible from our world
So already, Counter-Earth meant:
“A real world that exists, but we can never see.”
In the 19th–20th century, some astronomers wondered:
Could a planet exist at Earth’s opposite orbital point (180° away)?
Could gravity keep it hidden?
Modern physics says no — such an orbit would be unstable and detectable.
But the idea survived in fringe science and science fiction as:
“Earth’s invisible twin.”
This is where your image comes in.
In esoteric cosmology, Counter-Earth is not physical — it is metaphysical.
It represents:
| Earth | Counter-Earth |
|---|---|
| Conscious mind | Unconscious mind |
| Social identity | Hidden self |
| Karma we know | Karma we don’t |
| Light | Shadow |
| Manifest world | Astral double |
It is sometimes called:
The Shadow Earth
The Karmic Mirror
The Astral Twin
In magical cosmology:
What you do here echoes there — and what happens there shapes your fate here.
These systems see the solar system as a broken divine body:
Phaeton = destroyed world
Theia = mother planet of the Moon
Lilith = rejected feminine force
Counter-Earth = rejected self
So Counter-Earth is the place where:
banished gods live
unprocessed karma accumulates
forgotten identities remain
It is the cosmic unconscious.
In Tantric metaphysics:
The manifest world is only half of reality
The other half is Shakti in latency
Hidden, powerful, dangerous, transformative
Counter-Earth plays a similar role:
The unseen half of existence that must be integrated for liberation.
Counter-Earth is the invisible twin of our world — the cosmic symbol of everything about us that exists, but is hidden.
"I wonder how long before humans discover exactly how bushy their evolutionary lineage actually is, LOL"
"Yeah, I know, I mean they still think my scalps come from yaks or something!"
Lalita Tripura Sundari together with a magpie and a black swan. Yes, I know, it´s a bit non-traditional...
