Nov 20
Things became untenable briefly, but have resolved themselves. There’s a general panic over UFOs fostering across New York, and likely beyond the metropole, though I have no access. I suppose it has to do with that comet, which we are told comes from outside our solar system. I’m not impressed. It was those same “scientists” who drew up the borders of the solar system who also tell us that our little backwater is being penetrated by a foreign body for only the third time. Sickeningly, they seem to be gleeful about this fact.
When I was working for Wrestlemania in New Orleans many years ago as a video stagehand, one of the riggers was telling me that Obama had changed the mission of Nasa to for the sake of Muslims1. Maybe this is related to this absurd attitude of interspace welcoming. Don’t be mistaken. I am not worried about an immigrant invasion of our little solar system- I am not trying to raise a panic about the various barbarians at our gates ready to sneak past Pluto and alter the orbital patterns of us or our neighbors. I consider the boundaries of our solar system completely fictional. After all there is nothing there. Not even nothing, but vacuum. I’m not even sure about this whole space thing. Obviously, I haven’t been there, so I can’t attest to its existence directly. Furthermore, last time I checked, God gave us the Earth and no other, and it seems unwise to go beyond his firmament. I fear that if one dies in space, outside of God’s purview, one’s soul can’t even make it to hell to be punished, let alone Purgatory.
Happily, only three people have ever died in space. While many astronauts have died during take-off or re-entry incidents, only the ill fated Soyuz 11 mission from 1971 saw the death of anyone in space. While the spacecraft was preparing for reentry, the various components blew themselves apart- which was the plan. This led to a catastrophic failure of the hatch they were planning to use to leave the module they were in, which was not planned for. They rapidly decompressed in space and died quickly.
There was about a half an hour between the jettisoning of the spacecraft components and the automated landing of the module. This, metaphysically speaking, is the questionable window. We don’t presently know how long it takes one’s soul to travel to the afterlife and become a shade. Its still possible that in this scenario, an ensouled individual could die, and because the body is already in motion, during the timeframe of the soul exiting the now lifeless corpse, the return to earth could rejoin the soul with God’s kingdom, whereafter judgement could be meted out for eternity. On the other hand, we know that souls are not subject to the same physical laws, so it stands to reason that the cosmonauts souls could have been left precisely in the atmosphere where they died. In this case, the questions that remain are where exactly they died, and how far up into the atmosphere God’s has sovereignty.
Happily, overall, none of these questions need to be answered, as the deaths were of Cosmonauts. Because they were Cosmonauts they surely subscribed to State Atheism and the immortal science of Marxism-Leninism. The instrumental question, I suppose then, is whether their space-deaths ushered forth the dialectic, concentrated the contradictions, and pushed along the inevitable worldwide permanent revolution of the proletariat. These matters are beyond the scope of this substack post.
The most notable thing about that guy’s statement was that it was kind of based on the truth. https://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0714/NASA-chief-says-agency-s-goal-is-Muslim-outreach-forgets-to-mention-space