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Comets and the Plague
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
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News that there's a new inbound comet that's brightening a lot faster than expected: https://phys.org/news/2020-03-comet-atlas.html
On a completely unrelated note, a few articles linking comets to outbreaks of plague and as harbingers of doom:
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326160954_Comets_and_Contagion_Evolution_Plague_and_Diseases_From_Space
- https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=Comets+as+predictors+of+plague&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart
- A selection from Cultures of Plague
- https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4x3yeg/a-comet-tried-to-kill-earth-with-the-black-death
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An old friend
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- Written by: Rod Boyle
- Category: Dreams
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I'm somewhere and I hear from Lance - an old friend I haven't seen since University. He looks different, older, unrecognizable. We're going to go out, only at the moment I'm between 2 apartments, both half unpacked and filled with treasures, so I tell him I just want to go home, pick up my shoes, I'll meet him after...
Rooting through my belongings, half-packed or unpacked boxes...
Going to leave when a snake, small, venomous, bites me on the heel - I check; it hasn't punctured the skin, I should be fine, but my chance to meet Lance, it's gone...
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A nap, later in the day, picks up on the same dream, Lance with a friend of his, tall, good looking African/American musician, we're in my other apartment, my Calgary one, and I'm looking for something to prepare for them...
12 Monkeys
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In full Apocalypse mode, watching the trailer and select scene from the old Dustin Hoffman film "Outbreak". Which was overall a pretty bad movie, but what's curious is how every character has their own agenda, plan, scheme...
As the reality unfolds we discover how optomistic - literally - those predictions were - even for the Villains.
And, after that "12 Monkeys" - which is grotesquely brilliant, Brad Pitt - Bruce Willis - both well outside their typecast roles, and both turning in amazingly relevant performances. Still a 5 star movie, and it hasn't aged badly, not a bit...
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