Aug 7, 2020

RhoDeo 2031 Grooves

Hello, so the world saw the biggest blast ever besides nukes and things could have been worse if that massive concrete block hadn't been there, i noticed too for being Lebanon's main port only victim a tourist boat, there were no other ships, testament to dire state Lebanon was in before the megablast. Well another chance to work together in this strongly divided country, sadly  expectations are low.



Today's Artist is a musician and composer has never settled for the traditional role of a pop artist. He is known as a productive musician whose work lies beyond current trends, and also as a performer who combines the finest elements of afro-american music, spontaneous silliness and shameless glamour in an original way.........N Joy

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Jimi Tenor is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader, and producer. Since 1994, the Finnish native's work had ranged across the modern music genre spectrum. Though he began recording with Jimi Tenor & His Shamans in the '80s, his solo career in electronic dance music with Sähkömies -- techno to be precise -- in 1994, put him on the international map. His sound has continued to evolve, embracing numerous strains of jazz (he's a world-class baritone and tenor saxophonist and flutist) and African music traditions. He has recorded and produced funk and neo soul with Nicole Willis, global jazz with Abdissa Assefa and Tony Allen, 21st century Afrobeat with Berlin's Kabu Kabu, and a dub/metal/funk fusion outing with Hjálmar, Iceland's premier reggae outfit. He credits influences such as Barry White, Isaac Hayes, and '70s B-movie and blaxploitation soundtracks for his musical career. With 1997's Intervision, he was already experimenting with jazz-funk. 2004's Beyond the Stars, recorded in collaboration with members of the Five Corners Quintet (including Timo Lassy and Jukka Escola) and pioneers the boundary-dissolving sound of post-bop jazz melded to soul and house music. He commenced a long collaborative relationship with Kabu Kabu on the jazz-funk outing Joystone in 2007. They have continued to collaborate on occasion. Two years later, he and Allen cut Inspiration Information for Strut, wedding Afrobeat and modern jazz. In 2013, Tenor collaborated with the avant-jazz big band UMO on Mysterium Magnum, issued a progressive rock offering with Tenors of Kalma for 2015's Electric Willow, and in 2020 made a full return to electronic music with Metamorpha.

Jimi Tenor was born in 1965 as Lassi O. T. Lehto in Lahti, Finland. The resemblance to the youngest member of The Osmonds, Little Jimmy Osmond, earned him his nickname of Jimi in the early '70s.Just like his older brother Marko, Jimi had a passion for music. He studied for many years at a music institute and can play flute, piano and saxophone; his skills were further implemented by his work experience as the saxophone player for various bands. At 16 he was the youngest member of Pallosalama (Thunderball), an orchestra which used to tour Finland with a sort of Saturday night dance shows for older people. This act was very popular then and also appeared on the Syksyn Sävel (Melody of Autumn), a song contest on Finnish Television. Later on he was part of the Pop-Rock group Himo (Lust) as a saxophone and keyboards player. In 1986 the band gained some success in the Finnish Rock Championships and released a self-titled album along with a few singles on the Amulet and Cityboy labels. Tenor was also responsible for the music and lyrics of a couple of the band's songs.

Other groups in which Jimi was involved in the mid-80s include The Cherry Pickers, Iloinen Poika Milloin (Happy Boy When) - a band founded by his brother - and... Shaman!
Jimi Tenor and His Shamans were founded during 1986; this new project was an experimental evolution of the more ordinary Rock band Shaman. At the time, Tenor had recently discovered the Industrial sound of Einstürzende Neubauten and Test Dept. The group consisted of Ilkka Mattila (guitar), Toni Kuusisto (bass) Niklas Häggblom (trumpet), and Enver Hoxha (real name Hannu Mäkelä, atonal alt bass), with Tero Kling playing drums as an added member. Jimi was the lead singer, played tenor saxophone and - just like all the other members of the band - banged on empty oil barrels, a trademark of their sound both in studio and live.

Matti Knaapi, a graphic designer and inventor, allowed the band to embrace a more experimental sound helping Jimi to create special equipment in the form of self-built musical instruments bearing names like Vera (an automatic trombone), Sirkka (a man-sized mechanical drum machine), Melukone (a noise machine) and The Liberace (a peculiar-looking stainless steel object which is hard to describe).

In the late '80s, Tenor moved to New York, where he worked as a tourist photographer at the Empire State Building. He finally hooked up with Sähkö after receiving a copy of a solo recording by Mika Vainio (of Pan Sonic and Ø). Impressed with the label's openness to experimentalism (Sähkö had previously been known as something of the muso's minimalist techno label), Tenor sent along some tapes and landed a recording contract, releasing his debut, Sahkomies, in 1994. While in New York he also recorded with Khan/4E's Can Oral (under the name Bizz O.D.), releasing the "Traffic" single on Ozon in 1995. Tenor returned to Finland in 1995 to film a documentary of Sähkö (funded, oddly enough, by a government grant) and has remained there since, Tenor gained the attention of influential Sheffield label Warp after releasing the full-length Europa in 1996, leading to a recording deal and reissue plans for some of Tenor's Sähkö releases. Warp featured the previously unavailable Tenor cut "Downtown" on their Blechsdottir label comp and released the 7"/CD single "Can't Stay with You Baby" a few months later, with two additional singles appearing in early 1997.releasing Europa in 1996 and securing licensing and recording arrangements with Warp. The full-length Intervision was released in 1997, followed two years later by Organism.

After the release of Out of Nowhere in 2000, Tenor and Sähkö parted ways with Warp. The saxophonist collaborated with his musical instrument-designing partner Matti Knaapi, drummer Edward Vesala, DJ/producer Jimi Sumen, and harpist Iro Haarla, on the experimental album City Of Women, cut at Vesala's home studio. Unfortunately, Vesala died before it was released. Tenor's sixth full-length, Utopian Dream, an overtly solo electronics record, still received import distribution. Tenor was performing with a large band for 2004's Beyond the Stars, distributed widely through Kitty-Yo, and 2007's Joystone with his backing unit Kabu Kabu. The combination also paired for 2009's 4th Dimension. In 2010, Tenor and Afro-beat drum legend Tony Allen collaborated on a volume in Strut's excellent Inspiration Information series. Ifetune, a collaboration with Ethiopian percussionist Abdissa "Mamba" Assefa, appeared in 2011. In February of 2012, the first exhibition of Tenor's photographs was shown at the Kingi Kongi Gallery in Helsinki, followed by his first feature film, Sähkö, which debuted in Berlin. He capped the eventful year by releasing The Mystery of Aether with Kabu Kabu for Kindred Spirits.

Tenor recorded the experimental Dub of Doom with Icelandic reggae band Hjálmar in 2013, as well as the experimental Exocosmos with Lassi Lehto's global Imposter Orchestra. He and Nicole Willis co-produced Finnish band Haunted by Hallucinations' self-titled debut album, and he played on Masterstone by Lehto's Flat Earth Society.


His long association with vanguard saxophonist Kalle Kalima and drummer Joonas Rippa in the Tenors of Kalma resulted in the album Electric Willow, which was issued by Enja's Yellowbird imprint in 2015, the same year as his collaboration with UMO Jazz Orchestra on the 12-track Mysterium Magnum from Herakles. The following year, the label released his full-length spiritual jazz- cum-Afrobeat set Saxentric. Two collaborative EPs were issued in 2017, first, Big Fantasy (For Me) with Nicole Willis and Jonathan Maron in March, followed by Sleepover with Freestyle Man in November. In 2018, Tenor issued Order of Nothingness an exercise in global soul-jazz and funk and played a classifiable gig with Tony Allen's band at the OTO Live Series, issued as an album by Moog Recordings. In 2019, City of Women, Vol. 2 with Vesala, Haarla, Sumen, and Knaapi was issued, consisting of material cut in 2000. In early 2020, Tenor issued Metamorpha on BubbleTease Communications. Written and recorded with bassist/ house music producer Maurice Fulton, the album marked a solid return to dance music with jazzy overtones; all instruments were performed by the duo. In March, Bureau B issued the double-length compilation Ny, Hel, Barca, that collected 20 tracks from Tenor's first six albums, between 1994 and 2001.

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With "Utopian Dream", Jimi Tenor had made our dream come true, a trippy, inspired album, without constraint type conquest of the electronic music market imposed by the signing at Warp Records (where he nevertheless released a few kills that age very very well) . The next one, "Higher Planes" still on the German label Kitty-Yo, was even more funk and jazz barred a la Sun Ra than the previous one, with soul-rock-psychedelic hybrid tendencies, so much so that we did not know which one. let it run on the plate.
Well Jimi Tenor this time went even further into space, "Beyond the Stars", as the title suggests. And he lets himself drift with his full orchestra and a few stars of German Afrobeat, beyond the stars for our infinite well-being ... If this new album may seem calm at first glance, it is actually tasted like a voluptuous fruit paste while waiting for the announced fury of the next. After the calm, the storm, and after the beyond of the stars, the big bang ?? Will Jimi Tenor ever explode?
On this album it feels like nothing has been lost yet. "Barcelona Sunrise", "Beyond the Stars", "Strawberry Place" and especially "Going for the Gold" are amongst Jimi's best songwriting. The jazzy "Moon Goddess" and the somehow Stevie Wonder-esque "Mr. French" are very stylish instrumental tracks. "Tsunami" feels confusing, as the famous Asian tsunami followed soon after this song. For me, the spring of 2004 feels like the last period of the original 00s or what was left of it, and though Beyond the Stars was released at its top end, it is still reminiscent of Utopian Dream or even Organism.



 Jimi Tenor - Beyond The Stars  (flac   371mb)

01 Barcelona Sunrise 4:50
02 Moon Goddess 4:03
03 Beyond the Stars 3:59
04 Asteroid Belt 2:32
05 Miracles 4:55
06 Take Off 3:30
07 Sirens of Salo 4:19
08 Gamelavad 4:18
09 Going for the Gold 3:36
10 Gimme Little Bit 5:23
11 Tsunami 3:21
12 Mr. French 3:06
13 Strawberry Place 3:54

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Jiimi Tenor's greatest gifts are curiosity, fearlessness, and his sense of humor. Now, he holds forth about contemporary classical music, remixing, re-focusing: 1. Steve Reich; 2. Esa-Pekka Salonen; 3. Pierre Boulez; 4. Erik Satie; 5. Edgard Varèse; 6. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov; Erik Satie; 8. Steve Reich; 9. Pierre Boulez; 10. Edgard Varèse; 11. Erik Satie; and 12. Georgi Sviridov.
Jimi tends to do things like put out electronic remakes, this works to his advantage here, though, because he's working with composers who are largely extremist and abrasive in their approach.  The work of Salonen, Boulez, and Varese, in his hands, becomes music that is often actively pleasant to listen to.  This is probably the most radical thing you can do with this music.  He doesn't betray the music like Stokowski does with Stravinsky.  Mostly he turns it into Herbie Hancock Mwandishi.



  Jimi Tenor - Deutsche Grammophon Recomposed  (flac   303mb)

01 Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ 6:29
02 Wing on Wing 5:32
03 Section 1 (Répons) 3:15
04 Vexations - Version 1 1:32
05 Déserts 5:45
06 1. Largo (Symphony No.2, Op.9 "Antar") 3:24
07 Vexations - Version 2 3:10
08 Six Pianos 5:38
09 Très rapide (Messagesquisse pour violoncelle solo et six violoncelles) 3:55
10 Ionisation 6:17
11 Vexations - Version 3 3:49
12 3. Choral (Choral Concerto without Words in Memory of Alexander Yurlov) 4:30

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Yes, that's a dashiki-clad Jimi Tenor on the cover of Joystone (and on the back cover, crouched in the grass, accompanied by a walking stick), although the earthy '70s avant-garde of Astral Traveling and Thembi is only a partial influence on this, his first record released with help from the new-groove merchants at Ubiquity. From the first track, it appears Tenor is using his "special instruments" (from the credit) to connect the dots from Lonnie Liston Smith to Fela Kuti to Stereolab. His co-credited partners are Kabu Kabu, a potent West African rhythm section including at least one of Kuti's former sidemen, Nicholas Addo Nettey. (Support also comes from nine of Tenor's Finnish compatriots, jazz musicians all.) Despite the heavy jazz quotient, Joystone is above all a party album, with Tenor once again playing the interstellar love man with features like "Hot Baby," "I Wanna Hook Up with You," "Bedroom Eyes," and "Love Is the Only God." His vocals are as quavery as ever but also quite endearing, and best of all, they're over soon enough as the fabulous musicians (Tenor among them) use his themes as launching pads to more great solos and rhythmic finesse.



Jimi Tenor & Kabu Kabu - Joystone (flac   398mb)

01 Anywhere, Anytime 7:06
02 Green Grass 1:49
03 I Wanna Hook Up With You 4:20
04 Hermetic Man 3:49
05 Hot Baby 5:26
06 Bedroom Eyes 5:21
07 Love Is The Only God 5:27
08 Ariane 4:25
09 Smoking 6:12
10 Horror Water 4:25
11 Sunrise 7:56
12 Dede 7:23

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The fourth installment in Strut's Inspiration Information series pairs two innovators, Afro-beat drummer Tony Allen, and the ever-mercurial Finnish musical chameleon Jimi Tenor -- with members of Tenor's large Kabu Kabu band and Daniel Givens. The set was recorded in Paris and in Finland, and includes a wide range of funk, Afro-beat, jazz, beat-conscious rock, and dub-wise reggae. It's all groove conscious, however. Check the opener "Against the Wall," with its Afro-beat grooves, funky breaks, horns and bassline pumping out a dark minor-key vamp as guitars snake their way inside the melody. Moody and swampy, it is turned around by a hilarious rap, and the mood turns decidedly funky. "Sinuwe" and "Got My Egusi Fix" offer two sides of Afro-beat funkiness. On the former, it begins on the bluesy tip with a kalimba, Allen's drums, a Wurlitzer piano, an electric guitar atop the bassline, and the male and female chorus line chanting in call and response. On the latter, a fat horn section -- heavy on the tenor and baritone saxes -- creates a vamp that is double-timed by Allen's drums and aided by hand percussion, as vibes, bass, and guitar slither underneath. The vocals appear in syncopated rhythmic lines in both English and Nigerian. Tenor appears to be the musical director of this wooly ensemble which effortlessly slides from tracks like the aforementioned to the stellar jazz of "Path to Wisdom." with a killer spiritual rap by Allonymous, and the ritualistic percussion jams in "Cella's Walk," where dub effects, Tenor's saxophone, an organ, and even a flute allow themselves to be spirits guided by Allen's astonishing kit work. "Selfish Gene" is pure reggae goodness, with its beautiful Wurlitzer organ and a purposely out-of-key but utterly soulful Tenor vocal. As always, Allen double-times, even in his breaks, but the bassline, guitars, and organ bubble along with a sweet minor-key melody line. Tenor's spindly vocal also graces "The Darker Side of Night," which is highlighted by one of the hippest, funkiest flute solos this side of '70s-era Hubert Laws. What Inspiration Information, Vol. 4 reveals is that Allen and Tenor are not only natural collaborators, but that they should work together again -- and soon. Each of its nine tracks is a wonder, one that takes some time to wrap your head around but no time at all to get up and start dancing to. I’d lean toward the slinky reggae of “Selfish Gene,” a wicked-cool ramblin’ song with a mean organ vamp, but I could just as easily point to the thirteen-minute closing epic, “Three Continents” a free-flowing suite that travels the globe without ever leaving the club. Come to think of it, that might be the best way to summarize this sensational recording – this is music that reaches high and far without losing its footing, an album of big ideas but even bigger grooves. It’s a knockout from top to bottom, and it’s almost as fascinating as it is fun.



Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen - Inspiration Information (flac   373mb)

01 Against The Wall 4:37
02 Sinuhe 6:11
03 Selfish Gene 3:47
04 Darker Side Of Night 6:54
05 Got My Egusi 7:58
06 Path To Wisdom 5:48
07 Cella's Walk 5:16
08 Mama England 5:09
09 Three Continents 13:51

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Aug 4, 2020

RhoDeo 2031 Re Up 250

Hello, looks like holidaze have limited the number of requests this week, good thing because my provider Ziggo still sucks, i pay for 25mb uploadspeed but getting 2,5 usually i get 9/10 and i can live with that  but 2,5 is unacceptable the thing is i never know what i'm getting and it makes no sense to me why the fluctuation, aaahrgh.



Here at Rho-xs visitor numbers have been stable but i did notice a big rise in re-up requests which points to my visitors spending more time at Rho-Xs (glad to be at service). Alas over the years i've lost access to a number of disks, specially the loss of my Aetix and Roots collection hinders my capability to re-up. Obviously the torrent world offers a solution, but this scene is dynamic and suffers the same fate as my posts , the hosts delete the file when demand has dropped, in the torrent world this even worse. Unfortunately this means whilst bigger names get revived the more obscure tend to completely disappear, a fate that is suffered by roots artists as an example Salif Keita a relative big name is nowhere to be found in flac these days (just one album) when a few years ago there were many titles to be had. Same goes for many a reggae artist and even in Aetix the choice of what is on offer is diminishing day by day. I'm doing my best to fulfill requests but it's difficult and in the future i will request you my visitor to give back the odd title that you downloaded via Rho-xs and repost it here.


4 correct requests for this week , 0  too early,  1 double, no confused=people requesting at the wrong place, whatever another batch of 12 re-ups (4.2 gig)


These days i'm making an effort to re-up, it will satisfy a smaller number of people which means its likely the update will  expire relatively quickly again as its interest that keeps it live. Nevertheless here's your chance ... asks for re-up in the comments section at the page where the expired link resides, or it will be discarded by me. ....requests are satisfied on a first come first go basis. ...updates will be posted here remember to request from the page where the link died! To keep re-ups interesting to my regular visitors i will only re-up files that are at least 12 months old (the older the better as far as i am concerned), and please check the previous update request if it's less then a year old i won't re-up either.

Looka here , requests fulfilled up to August 02nd... N'Joy

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4x Grooves Back In Flac (A Certain Ratio – Early, A Certain Ratio – Rarities & Sessions, A Certain Ratio – acr:mcr, A Certain Ratio – Mind Made Up )



2x Aetix Back in Flac (VA - New Wave Club Class-X X-1, VA - New Wave Club Class-X X-2.)



3x Grooves Now in Flac (G Gaynor - Never Can Say Goodbye, Lipps Inc..- Mouth To Mouth , Niteflyte - Niteflyte )



3x Grooves  Back in Flac (Funkadelic - Funkadelic (rem) , Parliament - Osmium (rem), Funkadelic - Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow)





As announced please return if you have it




you can do this by uploading at https://bayfiles.com/   no need to fill in anything there, just copy the result as a comment at Rho-Xs



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Aug 3, 2020

RhoDeo 2031 Expanse 2

Hello, that was a rather predictable F1 race at Silverstone today, some good midfield overtaking, at the front Hamilton getting lightly pestered by his team mate Bottas, followed at a distance by Verstappen who was in a world of his own, not much to see up front, nothing to see at the back where Leclerc's Ferrari only came close when the safety car bunched up all, the 2nd safety car saw all change tires to the hard compound, bit earlier as planned, which caused a sensational ending. First victim was Bottas who's tire shredded 3 laps before the end, he came in 11th, 2nd victim was Verstappen who was called in to go for the fastest lap as he was way upront from Leclerc, had he stayed out he'd won the race because Hamilton saw his tire go too in the last lap, but being 36 seconds up , he managed his tire from fully desintegrating and crossed the finishline 5 seconds ahead of Verstappen. Sainz too saw his race ruined as his 4th place got anulled as his tire went as well in the last lap. Better luck next week when no one will dare to go for a one stop and Hamilton will win with more ease....


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What is Gateway Experience®

Mind Awakening program to help you achieve expanded awareness, and much more.

The Gateway Experience® In-Home Training Series is dedicated to developing, exploring and applying expanded states of awareness. Beginning with Discovery, there are seven "albums” called "Waves of Change.” Each Wave (3 CDs, 6 tracks) contains special Hemi-Sync® exercises designed to gently lead the listener into profound states of expanded awareness. While in such states, one has available a broader range of perceptions with which to solve problems, develop creativity or obtain guidance.

Each album is progressive in nature, building on the tools and techniques from the previous albums. Therefore, the albums must be used sequentially. The Gateway Experience Guidance Manuals, included with each Wave, prepare you for these exercises which help you to know and better understand your total self so you might enjoy a more fulfilling life.

What can you expect from the Gateway Experience?
"As much or as little as you put into it. Some discover themselves and thus live more completely, more constructively. Others reach levels of awareness so profound that one such experience is enough for a lifetime. Still others become seekers-after-truth and add an on-going adventure to their daily activity."
-- Robert A. Monroe

The Gateway Experience - Wave VI - Odyssey

Wave VI features high adventure exercises in Focus 21 (the bridge to other energy systems). Explore realms of awareness that defy description in dimensions beyond physical time-space reality in this much-requested continuation of the Gateway Experience. Voiced by A.J. Honeycutt. Includes Guidance Manual and the following six exercises:

Sensing  – learn to control your energy body
Expansion  – reach out further from your physical body
Point of Departure – project “out of phase” from your physical self
Nonphysical Friends – meet your “helpers in energetic form”
Intro to Focus 21 – travel the bridge to other energy systems
Free Flow Journey in Focus 21 – brand-new territory for your exploration



The Gateway Experience - Wave VI - Odyssey 3,4       ( 71min flac   294mb).:

CD2 - 3 - Point of Departure 34:46
CD2 - 4 - Expansion in Locale 36:01

The Gateway Experience - Wave V - Exploring Focus 15 (PDF)


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High temperatures in galaxy clusters are an enigma, because astronomers have only one force in their bag of tricks: gravity.

Whenever energetic events are found in deep space, like high temperatures in galaxy clusters, it “must be” caused by a gravity-driven collision in the remote past. Electric charge is sometimes mentioned, but it is usually said to be negligible in its effect, if it has any effect at all. In visible light, there is a serene, undisturbed galaxy cluster. In X-ray frequencies, temperatures over 70 million Kelvin exist where two clusters are thought to be colliding. Astronomers believe that plasma is ionized gas, behaving according to physical laws that apply to neutral matter. They cannot measure the properties of extragalactic space, directly, so they develop mathematical models based on the behavior of neutral gases. Hannes Alfvén, in his monograph, Cosmic Plasma, described how theory has lost touch with reality. He, on the other hand, studied its properties in the laboratory.

In previous Picture of the Day articles, it was noted that charged particles streaming from stars like the Sun are called a “wind” by the majority, instead of an electric current. Ions accelerated by magnetic fields are referred to as “jets”, instead of the collimated transmission of electrical energy through space. Changes in the density and speed of charged particles are almost always deemed to be “shock waves”, and not the mark of double layers that can store and dissipate electricity, or even explode. In the consensus view, Abell 2744 is thought to be incredibly hot because molecules of gas and dust “crash into each other”, resulting in X-rays flashing out from the blue color-coded regions. Computer simulations assure astrophysicists that what is unobservable “billions of light-years” away can be modeled on the desktop. It is not surprising, therefore, that observations appear to match the simulations. The ideas used to build computer algorithms are also in the minds of those working with the instruments. Building a device that is designed to see what has been simulated is how modern science works. Carts and horses come to mind.

A lack of knowledge about electricity in space can account for the opinion that gases “crashing into each other” produce X-rays and other energetic emissions. Since perception comes from training and education, without exposure to theories about the behavior of electricity flowing through plasma no perception of it can exist in the mind’s eye. Among the many differences between plasma and models based on neutral gas are temperature anomalies like the ones seen in various galaxy clusters: temperatures are 10 to 100 times higher than expected. So, from an Electric Universe point of view, anomalous temperatures are a normal property of plasma interaction between clusters.

Alfvén wrote:

“The cosmical plasma physics of today . . .is to some extent the playground of theoreticians who have never seen a plasma in a laboratory. Many of them still believe in formulas which we know from laboratory experiments to be wrong . . . several of the basic concepts on which theories of cosmical plasmas are founded are not applicable to the condition prevailing in the cosmos. They are ‘generally accepted’ by most theoreticians, they are developed with the most sophisticated mathematical methods; and it is only the plasma itself which does not ‘understand’ how beautiful the theories are and absolutely refuses to obey them. . .”

As written many times in the past, Birkeland currents are electromagnetic filaments that carry electric charges through space. The filaments isolate regions of opposite charge and prevent them from neutralizing. Almost every body in the Universe displays some kind of filamentation. Since the various loads in galactic circuits radiate energy, they must be powered by coupling with larger circuits. How large those circuits are can be inferred by the observation that galaxies occur in strings, and are also joined together by filaments.

Two of the most pressing issues in the modern approach to understanding the Universe are the adherence to redshift as the only tool for estimating distances and ages of stars and galaxies, and a lack of knowledge when it comes to electricity. For this reason, while the consensus scientific worldview only permits isolated galactic “islands” in space, the Electric Universe hypothesis emphasizes connectivity with a vast network of electrically active “transmission lines.” That spatial wiring is composed of Birkeland currents.

Stephen Smith

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A new scientific paper describes an unprecedented and “mind boggling” event around a so-called black hole – an event so rapid, energetic and completely unexpected to astronomers, it challenges the very bedrock of black hole theory.

A team of scientists studying an active galactic nucleus observed the brightness of a so-called black hole corona drop by a factor of 10,000 in less than one year. A co-author of a new paper on the discovery stated, “We expect that luminosity changes this big should vary on timescales of many thousands to millions of years. But in this object, we saw it change by 10,000 over a year, and it even changed by a factor of 100 in eight hours, which is just totally unheard of and really mind-boggling.”

In fact, the conundrum of cosmological entities such as galaxies, quasars and stars experiencing seemingly impossibly rapid evolutionary changes is an increasingly common conundrum. This Space News episode explores why such rapid cosmological events illuminate the electrical circuitry that pervades the cosmos.





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The Expanse is a series of science fiction novels (and related novellas and short stories) by James S. A. Corey, the joint pen name of authors Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. The first novel, Leviathan Wakes, was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2012. The series as a whole was nominated for the Best Series Hugo Award in 2017.

As of 2019, The Expanse is made up of eight novels and eight shorter works - three short stories and five novellas. At least nine novels were planned, as well as two more novellas. The series was adapted for television by the Syfy Network, also under the title of The Expanse, then they dropped the ball despite the succes of the series, i suspect the whole thing got too serious (expensive) so once again Syfy network proved they can't handle success. Anyway fans were outraged and got Amazon Prime to pick it up for a fourth and fifth series and considering the mountain of money Jeff Bezos sits on i suspect several more as long as the fans keep cheering.

The Expanse is set in a future in which humanity has colonized much of the Solar System, but does not have interstellar travel. In the asteroid belt and beyond, tensions are rising between Earth's United Nations, Mars, and the outer planets.

The series initially takes place in the Solar System, using many real locations such as Ceres and Eros in the asteroid belt, several moons of Jupiter, with Ganymede and Europa the most developed, and small science bases as far out as Phoebe around Saturn and Titania around Uranus, as well as well-established domed settlements on Mars and the Moon.

As the series progresses, humanity gains access to thousands of new worlds by use of the ring, an artificially sustained Einstein-Rosen bridge or wormhole, created by a long dead alien race. The ring in our solar system is two AU from the orbit of Uranus, and passing through it leads to a hub of starless space approximately one million kilometers across, with more than 1,300 other rings, each with a star system on the other side. In the center of the hub, which is also referred to as the "slow zone", an alien space station controls the gates and can also set instantaneous speed limits on objects inside of the hub as a means of defense.


The story is told through multiple main point-of-view characters. There are two POV characters in the first book and four in books 2 through 5. In the sixth and seventh books, the number of POV characters increases, with several characters having only one or two chapters. Tiamat's Wrath returns to a more limited number with five. Every book also begins and ends with a prologue and epilogue told from a unique character's perspective.

Novels
# Title Pages Audio
1 Leviathan Wakes 592 20h 56m
2 Caliban's War 595 21h
3 Abaddon's Gate 539 19h 42m
4 Cibola Burn 583 20h 7m
5 Nemesis Games 544 16h 44m
6 Babylon's Ashes 608 19h 58m
7 Persepolis Rising 560 20h 34m
8 Tiamat's Wrath 544 19h 8m
9 Unnamed final novel

at 3 hours everyweek that's beyond 2021 before we're finished here, that's to say as long as there's enough interest...

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Leviathan Wakes was nominated for the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Novel and the 2012 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The novel was adapted for television in 2015 as the first season of The Expanse by Syfy.

Leviathan Wakes is set in a future in which humanity has colonized much of the Solar System. Earth, governed by the United Nations, and the Martian Congressional Republic act as competing superpowers, maintaining an uneasy military alliance in order to exert dual hegemony over the peoples of the Asteroid belt, known as "Belters." Belters, whose bodies tend to be thin and elongated due to their low-gravity environment, carry out the gritty, blue-collar work that provides the system with essential natural resources, but they are largely marginalized by the rest of the Solar System. The Outer Planets Alliance (OPA), a network of loosely-aligned militant groups, seeks to combat the Belt's exploitation at the hands of the "Inners," who, in turn, have branded the OPA a terrorist organization. The story is told from the point of view of Belter detective Joe Miller, and Earther Jim Holden.

James Holden is XO (Executive Officer) of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for – and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why.

Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything.

Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations – and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe.



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