Sun emits radiation in terms of light and heat energy. These radiations are in the form of visible rays, UV rays and Infrared rays. These rays will have to first pass the earth’s atmosphere before reaching the earth’s surface. The ozone layer present in the atmosphere blocks some amount of the ultraviolet rays from reaching the earth surface.

Of the remaining rays reaching the surface part of it are absorbed by the earth and some especially the infrared rays are reflected back into the space. But some gases in the atmosphere trap this heat radiation and re-emits it to the surface which leads to heating up of the environment. This exchange of the incoming and outgoing heat radiation that warms the earth is referred as greenhouse effect and the gases involved in it are called greenhouse gases which mainly include CO2, Methane (CH4), CFCs, Water Vapor etc.

This greenhouse effect is necessary to keep our planet warm. In the absence of this effect the temperature of the earth’s surface would have been -20 to -40 degree celsius. But too much of anything is not good.

The Event Horizon Telescope is a new instrument that a global team is assembling that will have the magnifying power to resolve the region immediately around a black hole. The goal of the Event Horizon Telescope is really easy to state we’re gonna take the first picture of a black hole.

The larger the telescope the better it is able to see tiny objects. To resolve the black hole in the center of our galaxy or the bigger black hole in M87 we need a telescope nearly the size of the earth. Well, that’s clearly impossible. So we do the next best thing we take telescopes scattered around the world and make them all look simultaneously at the back hole.

We set up telescopes around the earth that can talk to each other, that can record data in tandem.

With regard to the social media, these tools (such as FB, Instagram, Google, Twitter) actually have created some wonderful things in the world. They’ve reunited lost family members. They’ve found organ donors. When you post or share something about blood requirement or donating money (like gofundme) lots of people come forward to contribute to the cause. So they’re meaningful, systematic changes have been happening around the world because of these platforms.

The cosmetic procedures are becoming so popular with teens, plastic surgeons have coined a new syndrome for it i.e. “Snapchat dysmorphia”, with young patients wanting surgery so they can look more like they do in filtered selfies.

ISIS inspired followers online, and now white supremacists are doing the same.

Everything people do online is being watched, is being tracked, is being measured. Every single action you take is carefully monitored and recorded. Exactly what image you stop and look at, for how long you look at it. They know when people are lonely, they know when people are depressed, they know when people are looking at photos of your ex-romantic partners, they know what you’re doing late at night. They know the entire thing. Whether you’re an introvert or extrovert. So, all of this data that we are pouring out all the time is being fed into these systems that have almost no human supervision. And they make better and better and better predictions about what we are going to do and who we are.

A lot of people have this misconception that it is our data being sold. It’s not in Facebooks business interest to give up our data. What do they do with that data? They build business models that predict our actions and whoever has the best model wins. All of the things we’ve ever done, all the clicks we’ve ever made, all the videos we’ve watched, all the likes, that all gets brought back into building a more and more accurate model. The model, once you have it, you can predict the kinds of things that person does. Like where you’re gonna go, I can predict what kind of videos you’ll keep watching. I can predict what kind of emotions tend to trigger you. We want them to take this action, we want them to keep scrolling. You pull down and refresh, it’s gonna be a new thing at the top, pull down again and it’s new. You don’t know when you’re gonna get it, or if you’re gonna get something which operates just like the slot machines in Vegas. It’s not enough that you use the product consciously, I wanna dig down deeper into the brain stem and implant, inside of you. An unconscious habit so that you are being programmed at a deeper level, you don’t even realize it. That way, they are affecting real world behavior and emotions without every triggering the user’s awareness.

“There are only two industries that calls their customers ‘users’ i.e. illegal drugs and software.

VWAP = the average value of a stock traded over a set time period.

For example at 9:41 AM a stock $PCG was trading at like $12.10 but the average adjusted for the entire day at that point was $12.25. So with that information you now know that at that point in time $PCG shares were trading below average.

VWAP tell you whether or not a stock is trading below or above average for the selected time period. This indicators doesn’t predict the price action (how the price is going to change) but they are just a statistical tools. This is important because it is good to know whether or not you are buying in at a higher than average price or in at a lower than average price if you are taking a position. That being said its not necessarily bad to buy in at a higher than average price (above vwap) or good to buy in at a lower than average price (below vwap). VWAP line serves as a sort of support or resistance.

If a stock is trading above vwap then the vwap line serves as a support. (In the below chart vwap is the purple line)

And when the price of a stock dips below the vwap line then that line switches to resistance.

When something breaks above resistance that’s the sign we will see higher highs and when something breaks below support that’s the sign we will see lower lows.

AVOID PLASTIC BOTTLES, ADAPT COPPER BOTTLES

Why does it rain a lot in Seattle?

To the north of Washington state is Canada, to the south is Oregon, to the east is Idaho and to the west is Pacific Ocean. And in the middle is Cascade Mountain Range.

Since there is pacific ocean to the west of Washington, the water evaporates from it into the air and the condensation occurs where the tiny water droplets fall as rainfall.

The cascade mountain range sort of gathers all the moisture from pacific ocean. If you look at the weather for all the cities along this mountain range, including Victoria B.C., Vancouver B.C., Seattle, Portland, cities along the Canadian border like Bellingham, etc. they ALL get a boatload of rain and cloudy days, it’s not just Seattle.

One of the reasons I’ve heard is moist air comes in off the ocean, rises when it hits the mountains (mountains hold these moist air/water vapor), and the water vapor condenses in the colder air and falls to earth as rain.

Combination of being so close to the coast and having the mountains directly to the east. If you go to eastern Washington (Idaho) it is flat and desert like.

https://www.tripsavvy.com/does-it-really-rain-in-seattle-4159184#:~:targetText=Seattle%20is%20right%20in%20the,we%20all%20know%20and%20love.

What is plutonium?

Difference between synthetic and leather?

Doc explains that the only power source capable of generating the necessary 1.21 gigawatts (1,620,000 hp) of electricity for the time machine is a bolt of lightning

A black hole is a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light cannot get out.

There are three main types of black holes:

• Primordial
• Stellar and
• Super massive black holes

Primordial black holes are the smallest, with some being just the size of an atom but possessing the mass of a mountain. These are believed to have formed soon after the big bang during the radiation dominated era.

Stellar black holes are somewhat larger , like as in 10 miles diameter and can possess as much as twenty times more mass than our sun. These are formed when the center of a massive star collapses on to itself.

Finally super massive black holes are the largest with some possessing the mass of billions of suns. These are found at the center of massive galaxies like the milky way. Some people believe that cluster of black holes merges together to form a super massive black hole. Astronomers have found the evidence of supermassive black holes  at the center of almost all galaxies.

https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_hole

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-a-black-hole-k4.html

The documentary begins with the narration by James Wilks, a combative expert teaching fighting techniques to U.S Marines, U.S. Marshals, Navy and SWAT teams. He also won a UFC. He got injured (tore ligaments in both of the knees) at a point when he was sparring for heavy weight championship and was rested to bed for 6 months. He used this time to do study on peer reviewed science for research on nutrition and recovery. He then found/discovered some of the things:

The Gladiator Graveyard (Ephesus, Turkey) is the only one with a significant no of individuals buried there. Archeologists recovered the remains of at least 68 gladiators. There have been more than 5000 bones analyzed for this study. It was found that in the cross section of the bone there is high bone mineral density which indicated intense training and high-quality diet to build up strong muscles and strong bones. This diet gave the gladiators, a nick name Hordeari which means “beans and barley muncher”. Different food sources give different amounts of strontium in the bones. Highest strontium levels in vegetarians and lowest strontium levels in carnivores. The gladiators were predominantly vegetarian. This study blew James mind. Even in the UFC, in one of the greatest fight against Conor McGregor vs Nate Diaz. McGregor was a big meat eater, he eats steak all day. Diaz was on a plant based diet. There were several other plant based athletes.

Dr. James Loomis, a team physician (St Louis Rams/Cardinals) who was part of two championships, a world series and a super bowl said that several people has a perception that protein is what sustains the energy. The actual energy for exercise mainly comes from carbohydrates in the form of glycogen that we store in our muscles. And when we sacrifice those carbohydrate calories for protein calories in our diet what ends up happening is you will develop a glycogen depletion which leads to chronic fatigue and loss of stamina.

Proteins are strings of amino acids, there’s some amino acids that our bodies cannot make so we have to get them from food. One of the misconception is that plan-based diet is inferior to animal-based as they can’t get all amino acids from plants. Event single plant contains all amino acids in varying proportions. As long as the proper amount of amino acids are consumed the source is irrelevant. 

Vegan is no meat, no milk and no eggs.

Some of the points mentioned in the documentary like: When I stopped eating meat, I became more stronger and bigger is absolutely absurd.

An experiment was conducted by  Dr. Robert Vogel, co-chair of the NFL’s subcommittee on cardiovascular health. The endothelium is a lining of blood vessels, it regulates blood flow throughout the body. It knows that a particular muscle group or organ needs more blood flow, and it dilates, it opens up. When the endothelium is impaired it cannot open up, it cannot allow blood flow to increase as much. So the experiment is:

The test subjects three football players from Miami Dolphins. One day there were fed with three burrito breakfasts with lot of protein. Two of them have sources of animal-based protein and fat. One is from beef, one is from chicken. Third is a plant-based burrito which has beans in it, so the protein and fat came from a plant-based source. And the next day all those three were fed with plant-based burritos. Two hours after each meal the players had their blood drawn and put into a centrifuge. The red blood cells sinked to bottom and an amber colored fluid called plasma rises to the top. If the plasma is see through then it means there is not much fat in the blood and the endothelium is likely functioning well.

Looking at the above picture that shows what circulates in their bloodstream. At the top is fat circulating in the blood (the one that is cloudy from meat burrito). For the vegan guy, the blood is nice and clean

The Dr said that sources of animal-based protein and fat have tremendous impact on endothelial function that lasts for six or seven hours after you eat. So if you have bacon and eggs for breakfast, hamburger for lunch, and a steak for dinner. If this is going on all day long your blood will always be cloudy. And the ability to operate at your best is always impaired. Dr. Vogels experiment was backed up by numerous studies measuring how a single animal-based meal can impair blood flow. There is also a large body of research that showing plants have the opposite effect, improving endothelial function and increasing blood flow.

Controlled studies show that simply drinking beet root juice before training allows subjects to cycle 22% longer and bench press 19% more than the total weight. Getting enough energy and protein from meal is one thing but seeing a single-animal based meal would do to the bloodstream sealed the deal and proves plant-based diet is better.

Dr. Scott Stall, a former olympian and a team physician for the USA olympics team said the below:

In animal products we are getting protein packaged with inflammatory molecules like Neu5Gc, endotoxins and heme iron. The study that showed that single hamburger impairs blood flow also showed that it can increase measures of inflammation by 70%. In the arteries, inflammation reduces blood flow. In the muscles and joints it can increase soreness and delay recovery. On the other hand in plant based products we are getting protein that’s packaged with antioxidants, phytochemicals, minerals and vitamins that are gonna reduce inflammation and helping to optimize blood supply and body’s performance. The antioxidants that Dr. Stall is talking about are found entirely in plants which have 64% antioxidant content of animal foods. Even iceberg lettuce has more antioxidant content than salmon or eggs. As a result switching to a plant-based diet reduces the measures of inflammation by 20% in just three weeks.

When you eat animal foods you start to form plaques in the coronary arteries. Plaque formation in the arteries doesn’t just limit the function of arteries it can also block the blood flow and that’s when the heart starts to having some real problems. For nearly 50 years we were told that the primary causes of heart disease was saturated fat and cholesterol. The research now also shows that other inflammatory compounds in animal based foods like those that can impair athletic recovery also play a significant role in the development of heart disease.

Studies found that Heme iron which comes from animal protein (red meat, poultry, seafood, fish) is one of the cause for coronary heart disease (CHD). According to that one milligram of heme iron a day is associated with 27% increase in risk of CHD. To put that in perspective an average hamburger patty has about two to three milligrams heme iron. And it isn’t just the iron that causes heart problems, it’s actually the animal protein itself. When the protein found in animal food is cooked, preserved or even digested by our gut bacteria highly inflammatory compounds are formed that corrode our cardiovascular system. This helps explain people who get all of their protein from plants reduce their risk of heart disease by 55%.

The studies also found that patients with CHD after started taking animal foods, there is good blood flow, the heart pumps blood more normally. After a year, even severely clogged coronary arteries became measurably less clogged and even more improvement after five years. On the contrary who are eating red meat, seafood, poultry and doing less exercise their arteries got more clogged after one year and even more clogged after five years. It is also said that there is accumulating evidence that high consumption of proteins from diary sources is related to a higher risk of prostate cancer.

Arnold Schwarzenegger said he ingests 250 grams of protein a day as he weights 250 pounds. He said after changing to plant-based diet his cholesterol went down to lowest.

Everyone kept warning that you could only get B12 vitamin from animal foods. But it turns out B12 isn’t made by animals after all. It’s made by bacteria that these animals consume in the soil and water. Before industrial farming, farm animals and humans could get B12 by eating traces of dirt on plant foods or by drinking water from rivers or streams. But now because of pesticides, antibiotics and chlorine they kill the bacteria that produces this vitamin. Even farm animals have to be given B12 supplements. And up to 39% of people tested, including meat eaters are low in B12. As a result the best way for humans to get enough B12, whether they eat animal foods or not is simply to take a B12 supplement.

One doctor conducted a experiment on three athletes and proved that those who eat more meat on a regular basis loose manhood and might not get erections after sometime. Where for those on plant-based diet erections happens more often it seems 😛

Conclusion:

To sum up, it seems the objective or purpose of the documentary to to emphasize that animal based diet is not superior than plant-based and it is just a misconception. Have said it above, As long as the proper amount of amino acids are consumed the source is irrelevant. 

The documentary also emphasized about the following:

• It also wants to prove that animal based foods impairs the blood flow by effecting the endothelial function. The blood test with the Miami Dolphins NFL players measure how a single meal could affect blood flow through the entire body.
• Animal food increases inflammation and delays the recovery process.
• Ingestion of animal protein increases the risk of heart problems as it has heme iron in it. (They explicitly stated that animal food increases the risk of heart attacks).
• Switching from animal-based diet to plant-based diet reduces the risk of high blood pressure and heart problems.
• One doctor also said that the scientific study shows the more meat men eat the more quickly they loose manly manhood.