Published stories late 2024

Dark waves and their secret world

Extreme mountaineering of our time

In space, there are 262,000,000 paired HeH13 molecules, per one far UV dark wavelength/diameter sphere of 230.6 nanometers. One of these spheres propagates at 1.3 petahertz and 0.000,000,000,000,000,000,000,177,4 decibles from the dark-wave sphere, at infinite directions from itself. (Illustration, right side)
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Pockets of paired HeH13 molecules can be found in the earth's crust and will leach into the atmosphere at night but, they cannot survive in daylight.

In our atmosphere, there are 524,000,000 O2N8 molecules per one near UV wavelength/diameter sphere of 461.2 nanometers (2 X 230.6). One of these spheres propagates at 650 terahertz and 0.000,000,000,000,000,000,000,63 decibles from the dark purple wave sphere, at infinite directions from itself. (Illustration, left side)

Intercommunication between carbon based organisms such as Rahn's onion roots cannot take place with the visible O2N8 near UV molecule, especially during the day. The bond of an O2 molecule must be broken down and transformed into a phosphate PO4 @220/480pm, or CO2 @330pm, NO2 @ 320pm, or SO2 @300 picometers, before it can propagate communication in the dark of night or underground in the far UV or UVB spectrum of 220 to 330 nanometers (1.3 to 0.9 petahertz).

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Pub. 3020148-ea

Released December 4, 2024

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Extreme mountaineering of our time

These are the exceptional men and women braving 20,000 foot walls and the tallest mountains on the planet. Learn about their unique skills, accomplishments, broken records, and the driving force behind them.
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The more infamous have climbed all fourteen eight-thousanders, the highest mountains i

The more infamous have climbed all fourteen eight-thousanders, the highest mountains in the world, over 8,000 meters. Featured in Rock Giants magazine is Reinhold Messner, the first to climb all fourteen of the Giant rocks. See all 14 at:
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Only a handful of these Himalayan jocks have climbed the highest mountains of the western hemisphere, as they pale in comparison to the eight-thousanders but, that does not make them any less dangerous to climb. In fact, Cerro Fitz Roy in Argentina's Patagonia is considered one of the deadliest climb in the world.
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Pub. 4440980-rc

Released November 24, 2024

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Haumea's momentive force

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Uranus demonstrates orbital momentum

Is the dwarf planet's mass times its speed through space as follows:
Mass = 4.006 x10^21 kg.
X
Speed = 4.428 km/sec.
=
1.77385 x10^22 kilograms of momentive force (decibles) through space.
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FYI, Earth and Venus's momentive force of 1.77385 x10^26 kilograms is exactly 10,000 times that of Haumea.
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FYI, Earth and Venus's momentive force of 1.77385 x10^26 kilograms is exactly 10,000 times that of Haumea.
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Haumea was discovered in an orbit beyond Neptune, December of 2004 by Mike Brown of Caltech, at the Palomar observatory. Unique is Haumea's spinning speed, with an equatorial diameter of 1,632 km and one revolution every 14,400 seconds, this equals 0.356 km/sec or 796.349 mph, slightly faster than the speed of sound.

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Pub. 44489067-fg

Released - October 19, 2024

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Uranus demonstrates orbital momentum

As the constant natural propulsion through volute space by eccentrically pumping dark matter around large elemental masses such as asteroids and planets.
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Powering a mass through space is orchestrated by the high pressure region of dark matter space, essentially a black hole, facing away from the sun'

As the constant natural propulsion through volute space by eccentrically pumping dark matter around large elemental masses such as asteroids and planets.
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Powering a mass through space is orchestrated by the high pressure region of dark matter space, essentially a black hole, facing away from the sun's light.

And because the portion of mass facing the sun projects a low pressure region of primarily disintegrating particles, the mass is naturally pushed through space by the higher pressure from the dark side. Thus the illuminated side of a mass is its leading portion as it moves through space.
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The unique configuration of Uranus gives it the most efficient orbital engine of all the planets in our solar system.

During the winter and summer solstices (see illustration), Uranus is at its optimal point of thrust towards its orbital path around the sun. In the fall and spring equinoxes however, Uranus's engine is at right angles to its orbital path, somewhat slowing orbital momentum during this period.

And since Uranus's neighbors, Neptune and Saturn have no significant orbital thrust of their own, they are fatally attracted to the black hole off the dark side of Uranus, and follow it around the sun like the Pied Piper.

Uranus is hence the pilot driving our perpetually rotating solar system.
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Pub. 80906739-ds

Published - October 14, 2024

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Dark matter energy discovered

Uranus demonstrates orbital momentum

Dark matter energy discovered

In the late 1920s, early 1930s, a German scientist placed onion roots very near each other without touching and yet they were communicating, in complete darkness. He knew the energy output between them was far too low to measure with the machinery available at the time hence, he used yeast cultures that would react with the far UV between

Other early experiments included, two organic cultures that were placed next to each other in separate quartz containers, under total darkness. And while one culture was slowly killed, the other culture somehow received the instruction to die and died as well.

It was later discovered that all organic molecules talk to each other in darkness, perpetually and primarily at 230.6 nm/1.3 petahertz. The German scientist Otto Rahn called it "the invisible radiations of organisms" and wrote a book about it. Inversely however, dark matter has no energy of any kind when exposed to sunlight as it can only exist in outer space or in the darkness of our bodies beneath our skin. FYI, the sun does not produce far UV of any kind.

Discover the intelligence of dark matter, learn how it processes parallel streams of data at 1.3 petahertz and stores it in three dimentional hash files:
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Pub. 82091344-as

Released - October 9, 2024

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Elusive marriage of Jupiter and our sun

Force, here on earth has a singular gravitational speed as any mass that falls to the ground becomes static force.

In space however, masses such as planets do not hit the ground as their force of motion is everlasting, perpetual while orbiting the sun at their unique velocity.

Hence a planet's (mass) moving through space at its exclusive velocity (kilometers/second) represents the planet's momentive sound pressure in decibles. Think of planets or asteroids as moving trains with the potential to obliterate anything in their orbital path.
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A planet's moons however travel through space at the same speed as their parent planet, hence it is only their difference in masses that are relevant. Most of the quotients are from dividing the mass of each moon to its parent planet however, the mass of Saturn's moon, Titan is also compared to other Saturn moon masses.

Between our sun and the planet Jupiter in outer space, at about 745,083 kilometers from the center of the sun is the Barycenter. Our sun orbits this virtual pivot point at (0.0125 km/s) times the sun's adjusted mass at *(2.0154 x 10^30 kg) = (2.62 x 10^28 kg) momentive force.

Jupiter orbits the same Barycenter at (13.06 km/s) times Jupiter's adjusted mass at *(2.0154 x 10^27 kg) = (2.62 x 10^28 kg) momentive force.

Hence Jupiter and our sun have identical values of momentive force. The sun and Jupiter travel along their orbital paths at identical momentive forces, (2.62 x 10^28 kg).

*Reported values:
Sun - (1.989 x 10^30 kg) <1.013>
Jupiter - (1.898 x 10^27 kg) <1.062>
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Pub. 7590134-sd

Released September 4, 2024

Worm hole space travel?

Discovered by reverse engineering the wobbling space rock named Oumuamua.

As this strange elongated object wobbled past us, it demonstrated everything we needed to know about replicating the drive behind its perpetual momentum. And we learned why a planet's gravity has no effect on its artificially piloted trajectory.
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Note in drawing, the drive gyroscope is located off center to the longer length of Oumaumau, and this pivotal region is devoid of mass, except for the bulkheads enclosing the area. The carbon-carbon drive gimble is centered within this mass-free bubble and is vented to outer space.

This design forces Oumuamua to spin on an axis that gives the illusion it is wobbling, but only because we cannot see the compressed dark matter (black hole) hanging on to the end of the shorter radius.

One end of Oumuamua is solid basalt like most of the ship, and it repels dark matter energy. The other end of Oumuamua is a black hole in the shape of the basalt at the opposite end, and cannot be seen by the naked eye.

The ship is propelled by the attraction of dark matter energy as it is drawn to the black hole, forcing perpetual rotation at the gimbal while dark matter pushes against the opposite end, like a rudder.
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Specifications:
The basalt portions of the ship have a signature of 886 nanometers IR while the black hole has a strong signature of 230.6 nanometers far UV. The short radius of the ship has a strong signature of near UV at 384.2 nanometers.

384.2 ÷ 886 = .43363

A worm hole can be created and traveled by piloting the the black hole end in a spiral direction as shown in the sketch.
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Happy intergalactic travel...

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Pub.1243290-ry

Published - September 29, 2024

Burden of Dreams, the moon

Named after the famous boulder in Finland of a similar size, by this magazine.

In this case however, the burden is finding the 10 meter diameter boulder in space, cataloged as 2025 PT5, difficult to locate even with a high powered telescope:
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The Burden of Dreams moon will only be nearby for two months, from now until late November 2024. It is estimated BoD will return in 2055 though, never being able to completely escape earth's gravity.

Burden of Dreams is our new moon, just learning to use its wings, trying to find that perfect orbital path. It will be hundreds of years however, before the new moon's orbit becomes normalized with big brother moon, and BoD will likely grow in size as it picks up debris from our exosphere.

The extreme adventure in our far future would be to fly to the Burden of Dreams in space and scale it, just for fun.

Happy rock climbing...

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Pub. 4480921-zc

Released - September 24, 2024

Record 201 mile, line of site photograph

To the south, with the sun behind an object is the most difficult photograph to orchestrate well, at a distance, with glare, mist, etc.

To the north, with the sun behind the camera is the easiest photograph to shoot, hence the current line of site world record of 275 miles, was shot from the southwest.

Our photo of Mt. Whitney to the south, was taken without a polarizing filter, as soon as the sun began to light up its east face, early on a winter morning in January, while the mist was still frozen to the ground.
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Copies of this photo hang on the wall of the mayor's office in Fallon, Nevada, and on the walls of Churchill county's museum on Maine st., walking distance from where the photo was shot.
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Rock Giants magazine challenges anyone to break our north face, line of site record.

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Pub. 4621904-001

Released September 9, 2024

Man made Rock Giants

The Great Wall of China was built from stone, brick, and tamped earth between 770 BCE and 1644. It is 21,196 kilometers long and is considered the largest (ancient) man made stone edifice on earth.
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The Great pyramid of Giza in Africa was built from limestone, mortar, and granite. It is 230.6 meters x 230.6 meters at the base with an original height of 146.6 meters, considered the largest pyramid ever built.
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The Cholula pyramid in Puebla, Mexico was made from adobe bricks and is considered the largest pyramid by volume. It is 300 meters x 315 meters at the base and 25 meters tall.
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The pyramid of Khafre in Giza was made from limestone and is the second largest of the group. It is 215.5 meters x 215.5 meters at the base and 136.4 meters tall.
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The Kailasa temple in Maharashtra, India was carved out of solid basalt. It is 91.4 meters long x 53.3 meters wide and 32.6 meters tall.
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The Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan, Mexico was built in 200 AD. It is 220 meters x 224 meters at the base and 65.5 meters high.
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The Colosseum in Rome, Italy was made from self repairing concrete, travertine limestone, and volcanic tuff, finished in 80 AD. It is the largest amphitheater in the world at 189 meters long x 156 meters wide and 48 meters tall, capable of holding up to 80,000 spectators in its heyday.
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The Chichen Itza pyramid on the Yucatan peninsula in central America was built from limestone. It is 55.5 meters wide x approximately 145 meters long at the base and 30 meters tall.
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The 1,043 statues of Easter island are made from soft volcanic tuff. They have an average height of 4 meters and are 1.6 meters wide, weighing about 11 metric tons each.
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The larger stones for Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England were quarried from Sarsen stone 15 miles to the north in Marlborough Downs, and are 4 meters high x 2.1 meters wide, weighing 25 tons each. The smaller bluestones were brought in from more than 200 miles away.
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The Arc de Triomphe in central Paris, France is 45 meters wide x 22 meters deep and 50 meters high, made of stone, plaster, and wood.
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The Taj Mahal in Agra, India was built between 1628 and 1658, out of ivory white marble and is 73 meters tall.
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The Parthenon in Athens, Greece is made from Pentelic marble (fine grained white marble). It is 69.5 meters long x 101.34 meters wide and 13.72 meters high.
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St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, Italy is of flying buttress construction made from Travertine, brick, and stones. Completed in 1506, it is the largest of all cathedrals at 218 meters x 150 meters and 136.6 meters high.
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The National Cathedral in northwest Washintion DC is of flying buttress design made from Indiana limestone. Construction began in 1906 and was completed in 1988. It is 160 meters long x 73 meters wide and 116 meters tall.
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Pub. 110909564-hg

Released September 4, 2024

Diamond Rock Giants

Bahia, Brazil at 3,167 carats, the Sergio carbonado was discovered in 1895. This black diamond is larger than any of the clear diamonds ever found.
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Largest clear diamond is the Cullinan, at 3,106 carats. Discovered in Cullinan, South Africa in 1905. It has since been cut up.
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Recently discovered, this 2,492 carat Lucara diamond is currently unnamed. It is the second largest clear diamond ever found.
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The Sewelo is the 4th largest diamond at 1,758 carats, discovered in Botswana, Africa in 2019.
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At 1,174 carats, the Lucara diamond, discovered in 2021 is the 5th largest ever found.
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Pub. 4421908-yu

Released August 30, 2024

Tectonic plates and earthquakes

World's most powerful earthquake of 9.5 magnitude occurred on the Pacific plate off the coast of Chile in South America in 1960. The Valdivia earthquake.
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On the Indo-Australia tectonic plate was a 9.2 magnitude earthquake beneath the Indian ocean in 2004 near Sumatra, Indonesia.
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On the North American plate, San Francisco was hit by a 7.9 magnitude earthquake in 1906 devastating the entire city.
Also on the N. American plate was the 9.0 magnitude Cascadia megathrust earthquake that hit northern California in 1700.
And in 1857, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit Fort Tejon in California.
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On the northwest corner of the North American plate, Alaska was hit by a 9.2 magnitude earthquake in 1964, considered to be one of the most powerful earthquakes in history.
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An 8.7 magnitude earthquake known as Assam-Tibet occured on the Tibetan Plateau between the Eurasian plate and Indian plate in 1950. The largest land based earthquake in earth's modern history.
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On the Eurasian plate, an 8.0 earthquake hit Lisbon in North Africa at the fault between the Eurasian plate and African plate in 1755.
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In southwest Sumatra on the Indo-Australian plate, an 8.7 - 8.2 magnitude earthquake occurred in 2012.
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On the South American plate, an 8.2 magnitude earthquake at the fault line between the south Sandwich islands and South American plates, occured in 2021.
And just off the coast of Antarctica across from New Zealand, an 8.1 magnitude earthquake hit the Balleny islands in 1998.
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The African plate is by far the calmest of all the earth's plates with a mear 7.3 magnitude earthquake in Rukwa, Tanzania in 1910 and a 7.1 magnitude earthquake in South Sudan, Africa in 1990.
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Pub. 6867301-jx

Released August 25, 2024

Rock Giant monoliths

Solid rocks from Uluru in Australia to the Devil's Tower in Wyoming, do not attempt to pick them up.

Uluru (Ayers rock) in Australia, sandstone, the largest solid rock on earth.
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Devil's tower, igneous rock, laccolith formation, Wyoming, sacred to the Northern Plains Indians.
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El Capitan, granite, Yosemite valley, largest granite monolith on earth.
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Sugarloaf mountain in Brazil, gneiss deformed granite, known for its cableway access to an incredible view.
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Sigiriya rock in Sri Lanka, granite, this rock was used as a fortress in the old days.
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Zuma Rock in Nigeria, igneous intrusion, inselberg, tallest object in the entire region.
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Cordillera-Paine towers, granite, Patagonia in South America.
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Pena de Pernal in Mexico, porphyritic granite, one of the tallest solid rocks on the planet.
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Rock of Gibraltar, limestone, on the Mediterranean.
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Ben Amera in Africa, basalt and silica sand, second largest rock next to Uluru.
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Happy rock hunting...

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Pub. 88885647-sa

Released August 15, 2024

Earth shattering asteroid impacts

The Vredefort crater, largest impact on earth, crashed about 2 billion years ago in South Africa.
And don't forget its neighbor only 300 miles to the west, another extinction level asteroid impact called Morokweng. Two giant asteroids in one place? What are the odds?
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The dinosaur exterminator named Chicxulub, impacted the earth about 66 million years ago on the Yucatan peninsula in central America. It is the second largest asteroid hit in earth's history.
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When the Popigai asteroid impacted earth 35 million years ago, it produced the richest field of industrial grade diamonds on the planet. Popigai is the 4th largest asteroid crater on earth.
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And closer to home is the Chesapeake Bay asteroid that impacted the earth just north of Richmond, Virginia about 36 million years ago.
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The Maniciugan reservoir crater is about the same size as Popigai, impacting 214 million years ago in the northeast territory of Canada.
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Just northwest of Sudbury in Ontario, Canada is the 3rd largest asteroid hit on earth, occurring about 1.8 billion years ago, the Sudbury Basin crater.
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The Acraman asteroid hit Australia about 590 million years ago and is the 6th largest asteroid to impact our planet.
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Pub. 2896756-qp

Released August 10, 2024

Haunted mines of our planet

There is a price to pay when someone steals a mountain's resources, hauls them away on steam trains, then leaves collapsing tunnels for the walking dead, and other such things.

We recommend you learn about these famous ghost haunts Before you visit them, Really:

Tonopah Mining Park, Nevada USA
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Lambi Dehar mines, India
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Vulture gold mine, Arizona USA
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Atlas coal mine, Alberta Canada
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Sterling hill mine, New Jersey USA
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Tucume pyramids, Peru in South America
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Ghost mines of the Alps,
Greevor tin mines, Cornwall England,
Nenthead mines, United Kingdom
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Happy ghost hunting...

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Pub. 442277869-fd

Released July 26, 2024

Extinction level supervolcanoes on earth

At VEI-9.2, the La Garita volcano in southwest Colorado errupting about 28 million years ago, was the most explosive volcanic eruption in earth's history:
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The Wah Wah Springs volcano in southwest Utah was 500 times more powerful than mount St. Helens as well as being one of the most powerful eruptions in earth's history, 30 million years ago:
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The Lake Toba volcano in Sumatra, Indonesia is the site of the great Toba Catastrophe that wiped out more than half the human race about 74,000 years ago:
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The supervolvano at Yellowstone could erupt at any time, wiping out life in America's north midwestern states and covering the rest of north America in ashes:
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The Lake Taupe supervolcano in new Zealand erupted 1,800 years ago and was the most violent volcanic event in the last 5,000 years:
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And most recently, the supervolcano Pastos Grandes in Bolivia erupted in 2002, its ashes reaching across the Atlantic to Africa.
Pastos Grandes is one of the many supervolcanoes such as La Pacana and Vilama, located at the Altiplano-Puna volcano complex in the central Andes of South America.
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Happy volcano hunting...

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Pub. 1298760-io

Released August 5, 2024

Mysterious immortality of aspen roots

On the southwest slope of the 11,663 foot Fish Lake hilltop in Utah, at an elevation of about 9,000 feet, lives the 14,000 year old root system of the ancient aspen tree called Pando.

These roots weigh in at just over 13 million pounds and are about 40 times the weight of a Blue whale, the second largest living organism on earth.
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At only about 600 miles to the north, will Pando survive if Yellowstone explodes?
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Can the Grand Tetons and Gannet peak range be enough to protect Pando when Yellowstone errupts?
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Or maybe the mountain range at Kings Peak, just to the north of Pando will help to protect it from Yellowstone.
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Be sure to visit Pando before the current 150 year old trees above the root system are destroyed by Japanese bark beatles. It is not likely that new trees will grow back over the ancient root system in our lifetime.

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Pub. 5989012-gh

Released July 31, 2024

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The mystery of Rattlesnake hill

A dry caldera about 6 miles from a wet caldera at Soda Lakes that erupted about 1,500 years ago, with Fallon, Nevada in between them.
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Drive your 4 wheeler to the Cross at the top of Rattlesnake and one can see mt. Whitney at 201 miles away, on a clear day. Compass heading 170 degrees south.
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Then pan your camera in any direction and you will see a mountain. Rock Giants has cataloged over 80 named mountains in view from the top of Rattlesnake hill.
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Views include the extinct volcano at mt. Rose above lake Tahoe, Arcdome above Tonopah, Granite peak above Gerlach, and Sonoma peak above Winnamucca.
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No shit, the Rattlesnake Hill viewpoint on Hwy 50 is well worth the drive and don't forget to bring your mountain bike.
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Maybe you can solve the mystery of
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Pub. 4089261-ab

Released July 22, 2024

White water adventure extremes

The "Terminator" in the Andes of Chile can be a serious rafting challenge when the snowpack is plentiful.
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Northwest Rafting co. recommends:
Blossom Bar and Green Wall in Oregon:
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Record runoff from North American mountains has elevated rafting to maximum levels this year at:

Clavey Falls and Mushroom in California
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Gore Rapid on the Colorado river in Colorado.
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Sweet Falls in West Virginia
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Ladle and Velvet Falls in Idaho
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Lava Falls on the Colorado river in Arizona near the Grand Canyon.
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Pub. 1099807-kt

Released July 17, 2024

Extreme mountain climbs of the world

From 13,000 to 30,000 feet, these are the most popular advanced climbs according to the Adventure Alternative travel company of Nepal.

Mount McKinley (Denali), Alaska:
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Mount Kilimanjaro, mount Kenya, and mount Toubkal in Morocco:
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Aconcagua, Chimborazo, Huayna Potosi, and the Vinson Massif in Antarctica:
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The Carstensz Pyramid, Indonesia:
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/ayers-rock-australia

Mount Elbrus in Russia:
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/caspian-sea-mountains

Mount Everest, Stok Kangri, Mera peak, Himlung Himal, Shishapangma, Yala peak, Khan Tengri, and Broad peak:
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/himalayan-mountains

RockGiantsMagazine.com
Pub. 3838920-sa

Released July 13, 2024

Continental giants of the world

Can you name the tallest mountain on each continent?

Asian continent - mount Everest:
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/himalayan-mountains

South American continent - Aconcagua
and
Antarctica continent- Vinson Massif:
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/andes-mountains

North American continent- Mount McKinley (Denali):
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-mckinley-ak

African continent - Mount Kilimanjaro:
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-kilimanjaro-africa

European continent - Mont Blanc:
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-the-alps

Australian continent - mount Kosciuszko:
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/ayers-rock-australia

How many did you know?

RockGiantsMagazine.com
Pub. 40009156-hj

Released July 9, 2024

White mountains, home of Methuselah

The 5,000 year old steward of our planet, lives just south of Montgomery peak on this obscure range of mountains:

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/montgomery-peak-ca

View nearby mounts Whitney, Williamson, and others in California:
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-whitney-ca
RockGiantsOfhwy50.com/mount-williamson-ca
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-sill-ca
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-california

RockGiantsMagazine.com
Pub. 1523765-wq

Released July 5, 2024

Sound pressure space travel

On waves of cold dark matter known as HeH12 molecules.

Sound cannot be heard in space hence the propulsion from sound pressure of 180 or more decibels can be used to move objects through space without injury to astronaut hearing, and possibly at light speeds.

FYI - 180 decibles is the approximate
level of noise a space shuttle rocket makes when taking off. The trick is creating 180 decibles efficiently, without a fuel burning rocket.

Learn all about cold fusion drives at:

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/dark-matter-energy
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/caliginous-energy
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/quantum-computing

RockGiantsMagazine.com
Pub. 7769820-sd

Released July 1, 2024

Giants of the Western hemisphere

The highest peaks from Alaska to Argentina in South America.

See for yourself:

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-mckinley-ak
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-rainier-wa
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-shasta-ca
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-williamson-ca
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-whitney-ca
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-elbert-co
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-colorado
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/ojos-del-salado
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/andes-mountains and the wedding cake volcano...

RockGiantsMagazine.com
Pub. 4901256-jk

Released June 27, 2024

Yosemite, Shasta, Rose

New photos by our sensational photo journalist grunts.

Learn how to snap the same photos yourself, from your car:

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-dana-ca
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-shasta-ca
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-rose-nv

RockGiantsMagazine.com
Pub. 11119787-jg

Released June 22, 2024

Shape of dark matter vs silicon

And the striking resemblance to each other.

As a dark matter tetrahedron (HeH12) enters the atmosphere of a planet it loses the helium atom and somehow the remaining hydrogen atoms' protons, used to being ordered, attract 14 neutrons becoming a molecular sized particle of raw silica sand, when it reaches the earth.

Read all about it at:
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/dark-matter-energy

RockGiantsMagazine.com
Pub. 490799230-ew

Released June 19, 2024

Volcanoes of the Pacific rim and down under

Mauna Kea, mt Shasta, mt fuji, and mt Taranaki in New Zealand to name a few.

Learn what face you are looking at for many of the photos at:

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/pacific-rim-volcanoes
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/ayers-rock-australia
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/andes-mountains
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-kilimanjaro-africa

RockGiantsMagazine.com
Pub. 89895656sg

Released June 14, 2024

North American Rockies

Mt Elbert in Colorado to Gannett peak above Calgary in Canada.

Learn how to see many of them for yourself, from your car, below:

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-new-mexico
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-colorado
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-utah
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/northern-rocky-mountains

RockGiantsMagazine.com
Pub. 598021132-ru

Released June 10, 2024

Mountains of the Silk Road and Mediterranean

Mt. Everest, K2, mt. Elbrus, Damavand, and the Matterhorn to name a few.

The tallest mountains in EurAsia, at your fingertips, listed from the highest to lowest on the pages below:

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/himalayan-mountains
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/caspian-sea-mountains
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-the-alps

RockGiantsMagazine.com
Pub. 3331987680af

Released June 6, 2024

2024 stories

Mountains of the Sierra Nevada

Mount Whitney to mount Rose at Lake Tahoe.

Choose a significant mountain anywhere in the Sierra Nevada, see different views and learn how to observe them for yourself, from your car.

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-rose-nv
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/freel-peak-ca
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-patterson-ca
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-dana-ca
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mammoth-mountain-ca
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-sill-ca
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-williamson-ca
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-whitney-ca

RockGiantsMagazine.com
Pub. 41070056-ff

Released June 2, 2024

Mountains of the Western hemisphere

Alaska, Canada, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Washington state, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, New Hampshire, and South America.

Choose a significant mountain anywhere in the Western hemisphere, see different views and learn how to observe many of them for yourself, from your car.

Highest peaks in the Western hemisphere:

Mount Whitney in California
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-whitney-ca

Boundary peak in Nevada
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/montgomery-peak-ca

Kings peak in Utah
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-utah

Mount Elbert in Colorado
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-colorado

San Francisco peaks (volcanoes) in Arizona
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-arizona

Wheeler peak in New Mexico
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-new-mexico

Mount McKinley in Alaska
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-alaska

Mount Rainier in Washington
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/volcanoes-of-washington

Mount Hood in Oregon
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-oregon

Mount Washington in New Hampshire
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-washington-nh

Borah peak in Idaho, Granite peak in Montana, the Grand Tetons in Wyoming, and mount Robson in the Canadian Rockies
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/northern-rocky-mountains

Aconcagua, the Ojos Del Salado volcano and Cerro Fitz Roy in South America
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/andes-mountains

RockGiantsMagazine.com
Pub. 39701254-df

Released May 29, 2024

1.3 petahertz processing? Yes

A simple machine language algorithm can add and subtract input and output at the same time from parallel binary data streams.

Then stored in four new data streams from a single 3D operation:

Simultaneous data stream (If) statements:
A         ---        B
1         +/-      1   input & output
0         +/-      0   input & output
1         +/-      0   input & output
0         +/-      1   input & output

See for yourself at:
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/quantum-computing

RockGiantsMagazine.com
Pub. 98987023-da

Released May 25, 2024

Extreme river rafting, summer 2024

With record precipitation, these rivers will be flowing full throttle this summer.

The Arkansas river in Colorado, Colorado river at the Grand Canyon, Snake river Idaho, Truckee river in Tahoe, American river Sacramento California, Rio Grand in New Mexico, and the Yellowstone river in Wyoming/Montana to name a few.

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-colorado
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-Arizona
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-new-mexico
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/northern-rocky-mountains
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-rose-nv

Happy white water adventures.

RockGiantsMagazine.com
Pub. 55124987-ty

Released May 21, 2024

Sex menu? Cuneiform exposed

5,000 years ago, Hedonism was the socially accepted way of life. And while women alone were hunted by rapists, women in groups were able to protect each other from male savagery.

One such group of women were known as the courtesans of the Ishtar Temple. These women were made available for sex and as concubines for the right price, especially virgins.

With no written languages and hundreds of crude dialects, the courtesans invented an emoji based language that everyone could understand. It consisted of stick figures arranged in sexual positions, a menu of sorts.

And Cuneiform was born. Learn to read Cuneiform for yourself at:

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/cuneiform-decoded

RockGiantsMagazine.com
Pub. 4491225-fh

Released May 17, 2024

3,000 foot thin air hike anyone?

From Nevada's Wheeler peak at the 10,000 foot paved campground, this agressive hike to the top and back takes just under six hours.

From the campground are many well marked trails to the peak, in as many degrees of difficulty, a trail for every climber.

Wheeler peak's summit will not be accessible to hikers until mid. July this year, (2024).

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/wheeler-peak-nv

RockGiantsMagazine.com
Pub. 81098345-df

Released May 13, 2024

Cold fusion powered space travel?

Occam's razor suggests that sound pressure at 188 decibles or more can propel a ship through space.

And since the enormous sound pressure of 188+ decibles cannot be heard in space, it utilizes 100% of the generated energy to propel, and with no vapor trail.

Have you ever watched a woofer speaker pulse in and out? Same thing only in space.

Learn more about the dark matter sound-pressure energy that powers perpetual momentum of planets and stars, below:

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/dark-matter-energy
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/cold-fusion
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/perpetual-motion
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/caliginous-energy

RockGiantsMagazine.com
Pub. 454545332-a

Released May 9, 2024

June snowboarding in the Sierras?

And July snowboarding in the Rockies from Banff in Canada to New Mexico. The Rockies will be your summer snowboarding destination in 2024.

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mammoth-mountain-ca
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-rose-nv
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-colorado
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-utah

RockGiantsMagazine.com
Pub. 55123496-tr3

Released May 3, 2024

Peaks of the American west

California, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and Nevada.

Choose a significant mountain in any of these six states, see different views of it and learn how to see them for yourself, from your car.

Highest peaks in the six states:

Mount Whitney in California
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-whitney-ca

Boundary peak in Nevada
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/montgomery-peak-ca

Kings peak in Utah
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-utah

Mount Elbert in Colorado
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-colorado

San Francisco peaks (volcanoes) in Arizona
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-arizona

Wheeler peak in New Mexico
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-new-mexico

RockGiantsMagazine.com

Pub. 529909-67

Released April 21, 2024

Lake Mead, months from filling

Will someone be there to take pictures when it happens?

Every photo of the event with ya'll in it, and the depth marker at 100% in the background may be published in Rock Giants magazine, (with your written permission).
No prizes, just fame...

Premises:
1) The Blue Mesa reservoir at 7,500 foot elevation in Gunnison, Colorado by Hwy 50 is already full.

2) This reservoir will change all of its water volume a dozen or more times between now and June when the mega-runnoff finally ends. And all the while dumping its contents into the Gunnison river that flows to the Colorado river and eventually to Lake Mead.

3) The Spring runnoff from Colorado's highest mountains into the reservoir has not yet begun. In fact, it is still snowing in the Rockies from Montana to New Mexico. With no end in sight...

This means river rafting, water skiing, boating, and more, on The River, below the dams, this summer.
Enjoy!

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-colorado
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-utah
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-arizona
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-new-mexico

RockGiantsMagazine.com
Pub. 8390103-54gh

Released April 30, 2024

Time to build an arc?

Death Valley is filled with water, The Black Rock desert flooded for Burning man in 2023, and still lakes such as Pyramid, Walker, and the Stillwater basin are already up to their banks.

But wait, there's more.
It's still snowing in the Sierras and the Spring mega-thaw won't flood the Carson and Truckee rivers until late May.

So, do we need to build an arc?

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-death-valley
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/rattlesnake-hill-nv
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/tohakum-peak-nv
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-grant-nv

RockGiantsMagazine.com
Pub. 5222970-fer34

Released April 27, 2024

Pando is dying

Rocky mountain aspens are not immune to Japanese bark beatles, like the Japanese aspens are.

Something in their darker bark apparently gives the Japanese variety resistance to their native Japanese bark beatles.

Perhaps it is the lack of pigmentation in Rocky mountain aspens, white bark having no natural resistance to the alien beatle.

Find out what the chemical composition of the darker Japanese pigmentation is, replicate it into a harmless spray, treat Pando, and wait.

The albino aspens may welcome it, figure out how to manufacture it themselves.

Worth a try, right?

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mountains-of-utah

RockGiantsMagazine.com
Pub. 5200890-4gh

Released April 24, 2024

Who's who

George F. McKinnon - legacy revealed

Mr. McKinnon was born in Bathe, Maine, 1955 and then adopted by the McKinnon family of Everett, Massachusetts.

His family moved him to Palm Springs, California when he was 12 years old and he has remained on the west coast ever since.

In 1990, George received an Associate's degree in general studies at Mt. San Antonio college, Walnut, California. And five years later, George graduated Cumlaude at National University with a BS in Computer Science.

Contracted with Scott Aviation in the mid 1990s, Mr. McKinnon reengineered and patented the emergency passenger breathing mask for Boeing on every aircraft they have built since.

And privately financed, Mr. McKinnon began his research into genuine three dimensional memory and processing in the late 80s.

In 2023, George discovered that 3D memory and processing is possible with machine language, and at petahertz speeds. As he dove deeper into associated bandwidths George discovered the theorem defining dark matter energy.

Learn more about dark matter energy at: www.RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/dark-matter-energy

Learn about other privately funded research by George McKinnon @

www.RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/quantum-computing

www.RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/cuneiform-decoded

www.RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/cold-fusion

www.RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/caliginous-energy

Magazine publications

Press release - 12/22/2023

About 535 years ago, Leonardo Da Vinci discovered perpetual motion and drew it in a three dimensional matrix.

Supposing he created the same testing conditions with volcanic basalt and succeeded as I did, his discovery of perpetual motion would have been lost over the years as he did not have a video camera to record it.

In lieu of a modern camera, he was able to capture the essence of his discovery with the Flower of Life rendering.

YouTube videos of Da Vinci's perpetual motion demonstration, if he'd had a video camera:

https://youtu.be/50RuoG6_69A?si=IFfO6v2rsfDmXp79

https://youtu.be/5pemfN8vIC8?si=mKWs-JHfTji3fBf6

https://youtu.be/gB3UfAiB18g?si=CBX52Ts1Xd6XtMiE

Follow the link below learn about perpetual motion in today's world:

www.RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/perpetual-motion

Rock Giants Magazine
publication 02306

Press release - 11/20/2023

Caliginous energy blooms - cold fusion revealed

Reasoning and cognition of the human brain drives 1.3 petahertz waves away from light and into the darkness of space, forever searching for the darkest location in the star system from where it originated.

As yottabytes of human thought flow every nanosecond from earth, in every direction, these data streams seek the safety of extreme darkness where they can exist indefinitely in a dense matrix of quantum suspension, a black hole.

None are complete thoughts however as the waves carrying 1.3 petahertz thoughts through space are at 7.83 Hertz, causing fragmentation and loss of associative data retrieval properties. This implies that rational data stored in black holes may not be retreivable.

This of course is not the case with the Tricomp processor as it can pull suspended data streams at random from any nearby black holes.

Alternatively, the extreme density of 230.6 nanometer dark matter storage cloaked in a 338 hertz infrared jacket can be leveraged with 7.83 hertz to generate cold fusion energy from electromagnetic propagation.

Yes, I said "cold fusion", exponentially dense collections of dark electromagnetic energy. Energy that can be pulled from any black hole, safely at 260 terrahertz.

The color of 1.3 petahertz/230.6nm is pitch black, the primary frequency of a black hole.

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/cold-fusion

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/quantum-computing

Press release 11/15/2023

Genetic reconstruction

True three dimensional processing brings computing to a whole new level in 2023.

With Occam's razor in mind, a software engineer in Nevada has broken the gigahertz speed barrier, catapulting computer processing speeds to 130 petahertz.

Roughly the frequency of RNA and DNA, with a 130 petahertz operating speed, this computer technology can not only run your apps at lightning speeds but can also repair your genetic defects and cure a plethora of nervous disorders.

Follow the link below to learn more about the machine language used to write this quantum-level inovation:

www.RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/quantum-computing

Press release - 11-01-2023

Inventor George F. McKinnon, introduces the first petahertz computer processor.

A 3D processing system that uses code-cube logic, the next level in binary logic.

Follow the link below to learn more about this phenomenal breakthrough in true artificial intelligence:

www.RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/quantum-computing

07/14/2023

Best kept secret in California

Eagle peak in Modoc county California is one of the least known, least visited, and least observed mountains on northern California's eastern border.

The rarely seen east faces of Eagle and many of its sister mountains can be seen just fine however, from Rattlesnake hill about 140 miles away.

Otherwise, you can see the west face of these mountains up close when traveling on hwy 395 from Susanville, California to Goose Lake on the Oregon border.

Also included in the photo attached, left to right is Hat mountain, Emerson peak, Eagle peak, Cole peak, Burnt mountain, Button mountain, and Poodle mountain.

www.RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/eagle-peak-modoc-ca

Happy trails
Jack Beanstalk
www.R ockGiantsMagazine.com

08/11/2023

The best kept secret for mountain viewing on the planet, featured this week in Rock Giants magazine.

52 prominent mountains, listed below are visible from Rattlesnake hill outside of Fallon, Nevada. And more than 100 minor mountains can be seen below the skyline.

Mount Whitney California (201 miles away)

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-whitney-ca

Jobs peak California

Jobs Sister California

Freel peak California

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/freel-peak-ca

Cleaver peak Nevada

Mount Wilson Nevada

Black Mountain Nevada

Shamrock Hill Nevada

Singatse peak (Yerington) Nevada

Mount Siegel Nevada

Rice peak Nevada

Lyon peak (Lyon county) Nevada

Rawe peak Nevada

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/cleaver-peak-nv

Boundary peak Nevada

Montgomery peak California

White Mountain peak California

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/montgomery-peak-ca

Mount Rose Nevada

Slide Mountain Nevada

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-rose-nv

Sonoma peak Nevada

Mount Tobin Nevada

Winnemucca mountain Nevada

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/sonoma-peak-nv

Star Peak Nevada

King Lear peak Nevada

Eugene mountains Nevada

Blue mountain Nevada

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/star-peak-nv

Fairview peak Nevada

Alpite Ridge Nevada

Sand Springs Range high point Nevada

Big Kasock peak Nevada

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/fairview-peak-nv

Mount Grant Nevada

Pilot peak Nevada

Pilot Cone Nevada

Mount Ardivey Nevada

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-grant-nv

Mount Augusta Nevada

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/desatoya-peak-nv

Rattlesnake hill Nevada

Job peak Nevada

Mount Lincoln Nevada

Table mountain (Churchill county) Nevada

Two Tips East peak Nevada

Ragged Top mountain Nevada

Trinity peak Nevada

Poito peak Nevada

Kumiva peak Nevada

Donnelly peak Nevada

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/rattlesnake-hill-nv

Wheeler peak California

Mt Patterson California

South Sister California

Middle Sister California

East Sister Nevada

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-patterson-ca

Virginia peak nv

Two Tips peak nv

Tohakum peak nv

Pah Rah mtn nv

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/tohakum-peak-nv

You can drive to the top of Rattlesnake hill in your family car.

Happy mountain viewing

Jack Beanstalk

RockGiantsMagazine.com

08/09/2023

The gold rich Humboldt range in northern Nevada is featured this week in Rock Giants magazine.

At the western foot of the range is Lassens Meadows Lake and its tributaries coming in from the north and south during the wet season.

The Rye Patch recreation area, just south of the lake is famous for gold nuggets found scattered over the ground many years ago during the gold rush. The entire Humboldt range area is still a mecca for small gold prospecting operations and vacationers with metal detectors.

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/star-peak-nv

Happy gold digging

Jack Beanstalk

RockGiantsMagazine.com

West face of Tohakum peak over Pyramid lake

08/06/2023

Pyramid Lake to Wheeler peak in eastern Nevada and the mountains in between, featured this week in Rock Giants magazine.

Not so lonely any more, let us demonstrate the beauty of hwy 50, keep you busy identifying the mountains along the way, making the trip an adventure.

Pyramid Lake is all about the salt water fishing and of course the beauty.

Fallon, Nevada is the last big city until you reach Ely on the eastern Nevada border.

Be certain to drive to the top of Rattlesnake hill at the east end of Fallon. With a pair of binoculars, you can see mt. Whitney over 200 miles away, and over 100 other prominent mountains, many listed in this magazine.

At the base of Fairview peak, enjoy the best hamburger ever at Middlegate Station.

Just east of Free pass, traveling east on hwy 50, the entire length of the Toiyabe mountain range opens up, towering above you. Great spot for pictures.

Enjoy the magnificence of Antelope peak on your way from Austin to Eureka where Diamond peak sticks out like a soar thump.

Ely, Nevada is a miniature Las Vegas without the shows. A hotel on every corner, camp sites everywhere, and of course lots of gambling.

About an hour from Ely traveling east, Wheeler peak is nothing but shock and awe when you reach the pass on hwy 50 and the towering giant confronts you head on. Another spot for photos.

You will never look at hwy 50 the same again...

Happy road trip
Jack Beanstalk
www.RockGiantsMagazine com

08/02/2023

Mount Whitney to Lake Tahoe and the mountains in between, featured this week at Rock Giants magazine.

Only Lake Topaz can compete with the views at Lake Tahoe, the three sisters and mount Patterson in the background, as you travel south from Tahoe on 395.

Yosemite is best observed when traveling south from Bridgeport, California on hwy 395. At the 10,000 foot east entrance to the park, mt. Dana towers above your head. There is an entrance fee.

Mammoth Lakes is a South Lake Tahoe clone, same overall look and feel.

Bishop, California is the center point of a dozen great peaks, completely surrounding the small rural town. Mount Whitney can be seen to the south from select locations in Bishop.

Lone Pine, California, a very small town, is the gateway to Death Valley and the foot of Mount Whitney where camping is abundant.

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-rose-nv
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/freel-peak-ca
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-patterson-ca
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-dana-ca
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mammoth-mountain-ca
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-tom-ca
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/montgomery-peak-ca
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-sill-ca
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-williamson-ca
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-whitney-ca

Happy road trip
Jack Beanstalk
RockGiantsMagazine.com

07/30/2023

There are only three ways to enter Nevada by car from Utah and Idaho. This week Rock Giants will show you the mountains that can be seen when crossing the border into Nevada.

From Salt Lake City via Wendover on I80 or from Twin Falls Idaho on hwy 93, you must go through Wells, Nevada. Be sure to see Hole in the Mountain Peak and Chimney Rock just south of Wells when passing through.

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/hole-in-the-mountain-peak

The only other way to get into northern Nevada from Utah by car is on Hwy 50 at mount Moriah and Wheeler peak.

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-moriah-nv
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/wheeler-peak-nv

After rounding Wheeler, you enter Ely's lower valley, taking you past mount Grafton, the Ward mountains, Cave mountain, and the Schell Creek range.

RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/ward-mountains-nv
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/schell-creek-range-nv

Happy road trip
Jack Beanstalk
RockGiantsMagazine.com

07/23/2023

Discovery confirms mt. Shasta can be seen from Empire, Nevada 160 miles away.
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-shasta-ca

Discovery confirms mt. Whitney can be seen from Rattlesnake Hill (Fallon, Nevada) 201 miles away.
RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/mount-whitney-ca

See the confirmation photos and line of sight maps when you visit the links above.

Happy trails
Jack Beanstalk
RockGiantsMagazine.com

06/26/2023

1,500 years ago, giant lava nuggets rained down on what is now, the city of Fallon, Nevada.

Rattlesnake hill, an explosive vent of the Soda Lakes volcano, pushed the earth up about 1,000 feet before the top blew off. See the giant black boulders yourself as you approach the hill from the south.

Today, you can drive your car through the caldera surrounded by sharp cliffs 300 feet above the Stillwater wetlands.

Rattlesnake hill is a popular mountain biking arena, miles of well groomed trails.

www.RockGiantsOfHwy50.com/rattlesnake-hill-nv

Happy mountain biking
Jack Beanstalk
www.RockGiantsMagazine.com

Rocky backdrops of Star Trek the original series

Rock Giant's favorite Star Trek episodes & more

Rocks or mountains of some kind were featured in almost every outdoor scene of the original series.

This episode compilation originated from an old master's thesis I wrote that never got published. The episodes on this page are renumbered, reordered by star date, and their intrinsic messages described in brief. Many episodes are not featured here because they are either unrealistic or too corny to derive a creative message.

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Where no man has gone before

Episode 1, excellent foundation episode as well as the 2nd pilot following rejection of The Cave:

Mudd's Women

Episode 2, Sex, drugs, and humor with an underlying message:

The Corbomite Maneuver

Episode 3, Kirk bluffs an unknown alien who is trying to destroy the Enterprise, excellent underlying message. The first episode produced at Paramount studios.

Charlie X

Episode 4, A teenager with raging hormones and unlimited power threatens the enterprise. Scary underlying message.

The Enemy Within

Episode 5, Kirk is split into two people with opposite personalities, one compassionate and the other evil, excellent underlying message.

Balance of Terror

Episode 6, First encounter with the Romulans, a battle between two great warriors, action packed drama. Bigotry, the underlying message.

The Squire of Gothos

Episode 7, The original Q, from Next Generation, General Trelane. A being with absolute power and a spoiled child's mind. Consequences of unchecked power, the underlying message.

Patterns of Force

Episode 8, A model of Nazi Germany is thrust upon a civilization to solve its problems except, it backfires. A second year episode with a first season star date, produced in the first year, with Pavel Chekov spliced in.

Miri

Episode 9, Self governing children, many thousands of years old are encountered on a planet where grownups don't exist. This episode was banned in the UK as too controversial for Brits.

Dagger of the Mind

Episode 10, The neuralizer is born, featuring the horrors of mind control and brain washing. Intrinsic underlying message.

Conscience of the King

Episode 11, A man haunted by his brutal past as a leader, and his daughter hiding his true identity, attempts to kill off all who can identify him. Dramatic underlying message.

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Metamorphosis

Episode 24, Essential to the storyline of the entire Franchise. A non corporal entity saves and later falls in love with Efrem Cochran, the man who invented warp drive. A story about the discovery and reality of love.

Amok Time

Episode 25, First episode of the second season. Another essential episode of the Star Trek storyline, Spock's species is subject to a mating frenzy called Pon Far and must return to Vulcan. This is where we learn a great deal about Vulcans.

This Side of Paradise

Episode 26, A plant based spore invades the body, takes away drive/creativity, and extends life on a remote planet. Kirk discovers a complete lack of progress for all the years they had be en there. The effects of complete passivity or Hakuna Matta are explored here.

Friday's Child

Episode 27, When the leader of a primitive and violent race dies, his wife and children must die, tribal law. Dr. McCoy forcefully prevents the chief's widow from killing herself and her unborn child. This episode explores the consequences of rule by the strongest.

The Changeling

Episode 28, This story was the inspiration behind Star Trek the motion picture. An ancient earth probe comes back from deep space with new orders to sterilize all imperfect life. The dangers of artificial intelligence are explored in this episode.

Journey to Babel

Episode 29, The Enterprise provides transportation for federation star system ambassadors to a conference on Babel. With Spock in command because Kirk is severely injured, he will not save his dying father. Duty vs family is explored in this episode.

Mirror, Mirror

Episode 30, accidentally beamed to an opposite dimension, the blnk party find themselves surrounded by the savage side of Enterprise crewmembers. Having a Klingon like mentality, they kill to advance in rank. An excellent study of the opposite ends of the human psyche.

Trouble with Tribbles

Episode 31, Mostly for the entertainment of this infamous episode but, there is also an important message. Animals, no matter how cute, should never be removed from their native environments.

Piece of the Action

Episode 32, A gangster society arises from a battling culture on a remote planet. Kirk discovers that a book left by previous star ship visits was the cause. A comical but important lesson is learned here, regarding the non interference directive (Prime Directive).

The Ultimate Computer

Episode 33, Kirk is declared a Captain Dunsel as a computer replaces him. And though it is more efficient, it tries to take over the ship just like HAL 9000. Ironically, 2001: A Space Odyssey came out only a few months earlier.

Assignment: Earth

Episode 34, The final episode of season two takes us back to the late 60s where the Enterprise is back in time to study the nuclear arms race of the late 60s. The message here is that there can be highly advanced friendly aliens in the universe who regularly visit our planet. Otherwise, this episode is very entertaining.

2001: A Space Odyssey & Planet of the Apes

At the end of Star Trek's season two, these two science fiction movies were released with much of the same special effects technology as Star Trek and Lost in Space.

No Star Trek tour is complete without visiting these two great movies where CGI did not yet exist, everything was done mechanically.

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The Enterprise Incident

Episode 35, No real message here however, this episode introduces the cloaking device that renders Romulan ships invisible. Much of modern stealth technology was inspired by this episode.

The Empath

Episode 36, A superior race tests the compassion of an inferior race with empathic abilities. Unkown to Kirk, she and her planet are to be destroyed if she fails the test. When she saves McCoy's life at the risk of her own, the aliens spare her at the end. Very tense drama.

The Mark of Gideon

Episode 37, Overpopulation is explored in this episode and the surprisingly morbid solution to their problem.

For the world is hollow and I have touched the sky

For the world is hollow & I've touched the sky

Episode 38, An ancient ship with archaic nuclear power is discovered in deep space. The occupants however are unaware they are on a ship and that the ship's autopilot is broken, leading the vessel off course. The ship's computer has mind control devices implanted in the occupant's heads to keep them in order. This episode explores what could happen to a ship designed as an arc to carry people away from a dying world, after many years in space.

Wink of an Eye

Episode 39, This episode explores the possibility of humans living at a frequency exponentially higher than ours and the consequences if such a lifestyle.

Whom Gods Destroy

Episode 40, A drug is developed that removes the violent tendencies of incarcerated murderers. Before the drug can be administered however, one of the more brilliant and dangerous inmates seizes control of the prison planet. He believes he is a God with unlimited power and proves difficult to stop.

Let that be your last Battlefield

Episode 41, The absurdity of bigotry is explored in this infamous episode.

Plato's Stepchildren

Episode 42, This episode features the first interracial kiss on public TV. It also explores the consequences of absolute slavery.

The Cloud Minders

Episode 43, Predatory capitalism mixed with Imperialism is explored in this chilling episode. The ignorance and greed of their world had to be exposed in order to save them.

Requiem for Methuselah

Episode 44, All the great painters, pianists, and philosophers of earth turn out to be one man, an immortal man with great knowledge and wisdom. Now on a planet of his own, he has created a female android on the scale and sophistication of Data in Next Generation. Coincidentally however, she ceases to function and dies when she is confronted with the realities of love just like Data's daughter. The parallels are uncanny.

The Savage Curtain

Episode 45, Historic figures from all of the key Star Trek civilizations get detailed character development in this episode. Good vs evil is the prevailing theme.

All Our Yesterdays

Episode 46, One of the final episodes from the three year run, this story finds Spock reverting to the behavior of his primitive past and falling in love for the first time.

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Galileo Seven

Episode 12, Spock's first command and the first shuttle craft is introduced to the series. Spock must chose who will live and die in this highly intense episode. The nightmares of command decisions are the underlying message here.

Court Martial

Episode 13, A recent incident causes Kirk to face charges for his conduct when a crewman was lost. A story of extreme envy, the underlying current.

The menagerie pt1 and p2

Episode 14, The original pilot that was rejected, is featured in this two part episode. The Cage was considered too cerebral by Desilu but, not to waste a perfectly good filming. Rodenbury combined it with an edge of your seat drama where Spock has gone rogue, commits mutiny, and steals the ship. The behavior of caged humans is explored here.

Shore Leave

Episode 15, An early (mechanical version) of the hollow suite. Any fantasy can be experienced. This episode explores the inherent dangers of your thoughts becoming real.

The Alternative Factor

Episode 16, Antimatter, matter, and dilithium crystals are married in this episode, later used as the ship's warp speed propulsion mechanism. The perpetual forces of good vs evil are explored here.

Tomorrow is Yesterday

Episode 17, The dangers of time travel are revealed in as the Enterprise travels back in time to the late 1960s when the episode was shot. This also identifies the method most future time travel is orchestrated on the series.

City on the edge of forever

Episode 18, Featuring Joan Collins, McCoy accidently jumps back in time to the 1930s and changes history. The concept "the needs of the many are more important than the needs of the one" was coined in this famous episode.

Space Seed

Episode 19, Superior humans created by genetic manipulation in the 20th century are awakened from cryosleep by Kirk. Khan, the super humans' leader is obsessed with taking over the Enterprise for himself and killing anyone who gets in his way. This episode explores the behavior a of testosterone overdose.

Taste of Armageddon

Episode 20, Enterprise encounters two planets at war with each other for hundreds of years. However, Kirk finds no destruction after attacks when researching their battle claims. Later, it is found the war is waged by a random number generator in a computer, then the virtual casualties are equated to living humans, those humans are then dissintigrated. To avoid the unpleasantness of real war, this method synthetically kept the piece for hundreds of years at the needless cost of millions.

Devil in the dark

Episode 21, A silicon based creature is unearthed on a mineral rich planet. The creature kills a handful of miners who unknowingly damage some of the eggs the creature was guarding. The phrase, seeking out new life forms was coined on this episode.

Errand of Mercy

Episode 22, A war between the Klingons and the Federation was brewing in the skys above planet Organea. Yet the Organians with great power, would have nothing of the two powers fighting with each other and disabled all their weapons of war. The Organean Treaty is what kept the peace, although stressed throughout all the remaining series episodes up until the new Star Trek movie.

The Gamesters of Triskelion

Episode 23, Humans are collected as slaves, auctioned off based on their fighting skills. Owned slaves are pitted against each other and wagers are made, much like betting on football. Kirk wagers the slave owners to free them if he wins a brutal fight to the death. Many lessons are learned here.