On Sunday, September 6, 2020, the NEW YORK TIMES published a special section on the 75 th  Anniversary of the ending of World War II, V-J DAY. Seemingly it was either edited, or inspired by that expert on combat, the actor Tom Hanks.   One article in the section caught this Blogger’s undivided attention; it was by an uber righteous and moral lecturer at    Cardiff University in Wales, UK, Anne I. Harrington. The article was about wicked America unleashing the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing all those Japanese civilians. Ninety American fly boys flew the mission to vaporize    Hiroshima; only one. Major Claude Eatherly expressed guilt. He expressed supreme guilt until he contracted throat cancer and could no longer express guilt.   The following is excerpted from Professor Harrington’s article. It grievously upset this Blogger, for obvious reasons. It is a liberal revision of History.   “In a 1961 interview with reporter Ronnie Dugger, Eatherly explained  that he was not conv

One of the leitmotifs of this Blog is that the biggest joke in the universe is the joke that one should trust the science of astrophysics over the myth of religion. One of the few joys of living in 2020 is relishing the decline of astrophysics, cosmology, and physics to the level of religion for Yahoos. Every day, new discoveries in astrophysics prove that what scientists thought they knew, had as much credibility as the beliefs of shamans, dwelling on some mountaintop.   “ Black holes are getting stranger — even to astronomers. They've now detected the signal from a long ago violent collision of two black holes that created a new one of a size that had never been seen before .   “It’s the biggest bang since the Big Bang observed by humanity,” said Caltech physicist Alan Weinstein, who was part of the discovery team.   Black holes are compact regions of space so densely packed that not even light can escape. Until now, astronomers only had observed them in two general sizes.