Windows to Russia
I’m so damn old that I remember when being “normal” wasn’t a bad thing, when some women didn’t have and or even want “wives”, when the police aren’t the “bad guys”, and on and on. Oh well. That was then and this, sadly, is now…
Except I found Russia and strangely get to watch the process of social degradation happen all over gain…
Ineludible my friend, ineludible…
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The new plant, built by German automaker Daimler AG on an 85-hectare plot of land, is located at the Esipovo Industrial Park, about 40 kilometers north of Moscow. The production line is equipped with full flexible assembly technology that enables manufacturing of a large number of vehicles on a single assembly line. The plant covers all production stages, from the paint shop to the final assembly.
Source: Putin opens new Mercedes-Benz assembly plant near Moscow — RT Business News
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As you walk you will find vegetable stands, fruit stands and or veggy/fruit stands…
How about fresh milk?
Maybe fresh cut meat?
Maybe candy?
Maybe fresh baked pies?
Maybe whatever you desire?
You don’t get “SWAT RAIDED” every time you break a law and or not break the law in Moscow and or even if you sell raw food products to the peasants….peasants like raw food products and they take their own responsibility for eating them….Oh My!
This is a big city, not the countryside where the hillbillies live, but a city of millions and millions and millions. This is Moscow and we can buy fresh fruit everywhere, not just in a big chain type store, but everywhere. This is the same as in the tiny Russian Villages. Better yet, as we travel to the villages, babushka sits on the road edge and sells us what she grows…
I just snapped an image as I walked past this morning. Not open yet and thus, I will not get that evil look as I take a picture…
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Several people wrote and asked if everything was okay….I am fine…
I am writing a book and when I exceed 10,000 words I know I have to let it flow. It no longer, as I originally planned, a short story, a 5000 or less word story and I feel the novel coming into focus….we will see…
I have many short stories and they are good, but when a novel rear its head. I must obey or lose the moment….I have found myself wanting to see what happens!
Yes you never know the ending, for if you do, you do not need and you may not be able to even write the book. For the book has already been written in your mind. A book is like a living being and it has many ways to go before it is finished. Some books reach 500,000 words and go nowhere. Some reach 100,000 words and reach the stars…
I feel 100,000 words happening and I want to see what my character gets into and can he get out of what he got into?
Therefore, I will post much less on WtR for a few weeks, but post I will…
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Getting kinda lazy and we are so glad that winter is almost gone. Almost Tiny Russian Village time and bicycling time. This year Svetochka and I are going to take a 50 to 100 kilometer (one way) trip and back. I desire to see the Golden Ring Road and find a monastery to look at…
Golden Ring Road Moscow…
Picturesque churches, golden domes, ancient history, nature, and tasty Russian food – we’ve brought together all you need about the famous tourist route not far from Moscow. Russia’s Golden Ring is a tourist route that was drawn up during the Soviet era, with the idea of boosting the numbers of foreign tourists traveling to the country. Today, it remains one of the most popular routes for both tourists and domestic Russian tourists.
Source: Everything you wanted to know about Russia’s Golden Ring – Russia Beyond
Time to get in shape again…
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This image by the Hubble Space Telescope is the most comprehensive view yet of the universe’s evolution as seen by a space telescope. The colorful image, released June 3, 2014, contains 10,000 galaxies, with the different colors denoting different wavelengths.
(Image: © NASA, ESA, H. Teplitz and M. Rafelski (IPAC/Caltech), A. Koekemoer (STScI), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), and Z. Levay (STScI))
Sometimes Sveta is not sure what to think about me….I study such a vast array of information, that I am sure she wonders if I am sane at times. I think constantly and it never stops, even in my dreams I will find that what I worked on during the day extends all night also….I have been looking at how important we are in the schemes of the universe…
Our tiny Sun is one of about 200 billion stars (actually perhaps more) just in our Milky Way Galaxy, that we live in. In the image above is 10,000 galaxies….give or take billions = 2,000,000,000,000,000 (Two quadrillion stars)….try that on for size…
But that image above is only a small portions of what we are able to see and look at with Hubble and like type instruments…
Our universe has about 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (that’s 1 sextillion) stars (I personally thing it is much bigger). They don’t know yet because the guy counting them is not done. But he is working hard at counting… 😉
Still think we are special and alone?
Think again, shear mathematics says we are not alone…
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PS: I must say, numbers this big do not compute with most calculators, even Google was getting messed up at times….along with super intelligent people seem to not understand that us laymen just want to see huge numbers and to hell with to the power times something something something….huge long numbers look cool…
Tidbit Time: MACS J1149+2223 Lensed Star 1, is the farthest individual star ever seen. It is only visible because it is being magnified by the gravity of a massive galaxy cluster, located about 5 billion light-years from Earth…
1 lightyear is 9,460,730,472,580.8 kilometers. and that my friend means 5 billion light years equals = 4.7303652362904e+22 kilometers??? and or so far that we still do not know where the universe really ends…
Better yet: 5 billion light years is 1533006969.018 parsecs and parsecs to light years is 1 p to 3.26156 ly…
That makes it all better, huh?
Better get our warp drive going Mable!
There is also the number “googol”. It has 100 zeros after it, and it looks like this:
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 , Oops the web/html/css/whateva is confused and it went off into the universe and your lower scrollbar just became necessary and or it just runs off the screen and disappears. I will put it in smaller sections…
10,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000
Now that is a number and is close to the amount of particles in the universe and thus after that point anything else is basically stupid and worthless in our eyes….but we have those numbers and I decided to ignore them. called the “googolplex”
That cup of coffee and my thinking’s today include Russia and undertow intentions…
We in the West love Mikhail Gorbachev. He was called later, Gorby by much of America and by us that discussed him. It was a term that we picked up from the West German participants. I was involved in many discussions about Gorby in the Soviet Union and many cups of coffee was consumed while discussing the Soviet Union and Mikhail Gorbachev… (Gorby)
I was a member of a think tank that was responsible for information gathering and discussion on how to derail the Soviet Union…
By 1984 we had already had our hopes pinned on one individual. Unbeknown to this individual he was supported in full by special interests groups in America. Even before 1984 we had supported press articles to promote this individual. Why even the Nobel Peace Prize idea was born during these think tanks. The groundwork was being laid to have a non suspecting representational figure in the Soviet Union…
The star of these talks was Gorby…
Then President Regan was instrumental to the whole plan and was also a guided presentation to the end goal. Luckily Regan and Gorby seemed to acclimate well enough together to make it feasible…
Now that is really all that I am going to say, except for how the Western press presented Gorby. We had a goal to portray Gorby as a christian, a moral person and the next best thing to Apple Pie, Coke and Chevrolet…
It worked…
Now the reason that I have brought up very old memories is that I now see a new situation in Russia that resembles the past. This situation has been planned. I see the same pattern and I see the bought off person in Russia right now…
So all I am going to say is, Russia needs to look around and watch who receives the praises of the West. For with those praises comes undertow intentions to her society…
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But, the US can hand rockets to Ukraine and support shelling of innocent women and children in Donbass, Ukraine….that’s perfectly hunky-dory…
The Administration condemns Nicolas Maduro’s continued use of foreign military personnel in his attempt to remain in power, including the introduction of Russian military personnel and equipment into Venezuela. Maduro will only use this military support to further repress the people of Venezuela; perpetuate the economic crisis that has destroyed Venezuela’s economy; and endanger regional stability. We call on the Venezuelan military to uphold its constitutional duty to protect the citizens of Venezuela.
Source: Statement by National Security Advisor Ambassador John Bolton on Venezuela | The White House
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Russia Says Full Pages Of Robert Mueller Report Should Be Public – Bloomberg
Russia called on the U.S. to publish in full Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, saying this is the best way to clear up allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections.“I’d like to read the entire report,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an interview with Ekho Moskvy radio on Thursday. “Let them publish it in full and at least we’ll find out what it’s based on.”
Source: Russia Says Full Pages Of Robert Mueller Report Should Be Public – Bloomberg
Exactly: We have used their name in vain for years, enacted sanctions over the alleged facts, now show the results…
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Well okay, it was -4 last night, but it will be +2 today and the snow is melting and and and….I wanna go to the Tiny Russian Village…
In Moscow it is a sprung spring…
Yandex Drive: Has grown faster than I and or you can keep up with. This winter Yandex Drive has exploded and everywhere you look are these white and yellow cars as above. Nice cars and it is looking to be the new way of life in the big city of Moscow…
Yandex.Drive is a Russian carsharing service owned by Yandex (Search engine). The service in Moscow and Moscow Oblast launched in February 2018. Soon to be interconnected between St. Petersburg and Moscow…
This morning as I walked, fifteen of then just along the main highway and there is an app for android and Apple. The app is how they get the car. Pay through the app and get the code to drive the car. Yes, you have to be set up in their account first though…
I watched a young man trying to get a car. He stood there and his girlfriend or wife was tapping her foot in a miffed way. The guy was under the gun and he knew it. He failed, someone walked out the flats nearby and unlocked the car with his phone and said, “Excuse me and goodbye!”
The gun went off (bang bang) and that pretty Renault, would have to become a Chevy….as a foot was tapping…
Interesting, reminds me of loaner cars so so many years ago and that turned out to be a sad affair actually, but lets keep trying…
With my cellphone I rule the world?
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I just had to open my mouth and say, “Springtime!”
Russia called on the U.S. to publish in full Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report, saying this is the best way to clear up allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections.“I’d like to read the entire report,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in an interview with Ekho Moskvy radio on Thursday. “Let them publish it in full and at least we’ll find out what it’s based on.”