Thursday, October 8, 2026

Introduction To This Blog System

                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

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Posting is usually done once a week, on Thursday.

Postings may be later combined into a compound posting on this blog. Many of the postings concern my observations in various branches of science, but there are also many on technology, religion, economics and, general world issues.

I would really like to thank everyone who reads any of these blogs for your interest.
 
SCIENCE WRITING
 
Most of the postings on this blog are visits to various places around the world, and articles about such topics as history and religion. But much of the writing is about science. I do not write about what is already known but only if I can write something new, or at least a new way of looking at things.
 
If you would like a quick background in the science and mathematics that everyone should really know in the 21st Century, the posting "Scientific Literacy" provides this in about a hundred paragraphs. Similarly, "The Way Things Work" provides a quick background in everyday technology.
 
I am a Christian and I want to show that belief in God is not unscientific at all. I was interested in science long before I was interested in religion, and have never had any trouble believing that God created everything.
 
There are six major scientific theories, each arranged in the form of a textbook. The first five of the following six are on this blog.
 
"The Theory Of Stationary Space" is my cosmological theory of how so much revolves around time being explained by us being in four-dimensional space, with the dimension that we cannot access being perceived as time. This is my version of string theory, with matter actually being strings in four dimensions rather than particles in three dimensions. Everything is ultimately based on negative and positive electric charges, with energy being able to overcome the laws of attraction and repulsion of electric charges. No one has ever explained exactly what time is, and a myriad of explanations of other things fall right into place around it.
 
"The Flow Of Information Through The Universe" is about how so much can be explained by seeing how there is a limited amount of information, and it must be the same information that constructs the highest levels as the lowest levels. A ready example is how the orbits of planets around the sun is based on the orbitals of electrons around the nucleus, in the atoms of which the sun and planets are composed. This concept is extremely useful because, understanding this, we can study things that we cannot directly see by analyzing things that we can see because all must be built on the same information.
 
"The Theory Of Complexity" is about what information actually is, how energy and information is really the same thing, and how we see the universe as we do because of our perspective of being at a higher level of information than our inanimate surroundings.
 
"The Lowest Information Point" is about how, since information and energy is really the same thing and the universe always seeks the lowest energy state, it also always seeks the "Lowest Information Point". So much is explained by how the universe prefers equalities to inequalities and related ratios where the numerator of one ratio is also the denominator of the other. This explains so much from why dust particles are as big as they to why the planets and stars are the scale that they are.

"The Theory Of Infinite Dimensions" is the most recent scientific theory. It is the second cosmological theory, after"The Theory Of Stationary Space". We see the universe as an infinity of distance in three spatial dimensions and light as always moving in straight lines. But this is another example of how we see the universe as we do not only because of what it is but also because of what we are. It is more logical that the universe has an infinite number of dimensions. We can see in all of the dimensions because light actually can turn corners but it requires energy. We can only see it as three dimensions because of our limited dimensional order. Light consists of two-dimensional waves and we perceive space as being three-dimensional. This means that we can see light as coming from different directions but can only perceive it as moving in a straight line.
 
"The Story Of Planet Earth", on the geology blog, is about how virtually every major feature of the earth's surface, both on land and seafloor, can be explained by lines of magma emergence from below that were affected by the landing of three Continental Asteroids. Many people believe that land originated from a past "super-continent", but there is no explanation of where it came from.
 
There are a few of what we could call "minor" theories, where there is not as much written as with the major theories. On this blog, there is "How Biology And Human Life Fits Into Cosmology". On the meteorology and biology blog, there is my theory of the nature of water, "Water Made Really Simple".
 
There are compound postings about science which are groupings of writing about a certain topic.
 
Scientific compound postings include, "Computer Science", "Atomic Science", "Measurement", "A Celebration Of The Inverse Square Law", "Our Solar System", "Mind-Bending Cosmology", "The Configuration Of The Solar System Made Really Simple", "In Appreciation Of Electrons", "The Science Of Human Society " and "Orbital And Escape Velocities And Impacts from Space".
 
Compound postings about history and the world include "The House Of Holy Wisdom, Where The Modern World Began", "Niagara Stories", "Economics", "How History Repeats Itself", "The Meaning Of Freedom", "The Western Hemisphere", "Our Language" and, "America And The Modern World Explained By Way Of Paris".
 
There are two compound postings about prophecies and the Bible. There is "The Aztec Prophecy" than, for prophecies that are directly made in the Bible there is "New Insight Into Bible Prophecy".
 
"Investigations" is the compound posting that is a collection of any posting about an investigation.
 
The rest of the postings are individual postings. For more detailed information about this blog, see the posting "Thanks To Readers". For general topics of conversation, see "Thoughts And Observations", on the world and economics blog.  

Other Blogs And Books

                                                                                                                                                                        

Lights at night 

Here is a quick look at my other blogs before you start this one.

On this blog, you can see a list of all postings by clicking on the year or month to the right. But on the topical blogs, that is not the case. If you click on a year or month on those blogs, it will display the postings themselves, but the list on the right will still only show those postings that were added most recently.

To access a list of all postings on those blogs, it is necessary to click on the arrow in front of the year or month in question.

http://www.markmeekeconomics.blogspot.com/ is about economics, history and, general human issues.

http://www.markmeekprogress.blogspot.com/ concerns progress in technology and ideas.

http://www.markmeekearth.blogspot.com/ is my geology and global natural history blog for topics other than glaciers. My natural history blogs concerning the impact of glaciers is http://www.markmeekworld.blogspot.com/ .

http://www.markmeekniagara.blogspot.com/ is about new discoveries concerning natural history in the general area of Niagara Falls.

http://www.markmeeklife.blogspot.com/ is my observations concerning meteorology and biology.

http://www.markmeekphysics.blogspot.com/ is my blog about physics and astronomy.

http://www.markmeekcosmology.blogspot.com/ is my version of string theory that solves many unsolved mysteries about the underlying structure and beginning of the universe.

http://www.markmeekpatterns.blogspot.com/ details my work with the fundamental patterns and complexity that underlies everything in existence.

 http://www.markmeekreligion.blogspot.com/ is my religion blog.

 http://www.markmeekcreation.blogspot.com/ is proof that there must be a god.

http://www.markmeekphotos.blogspot.com/ is my travel photos of Europe.

On my photo blogs, Blogspot will not hold all of the photos in each blog in a straight line. To see all of the photos, you must click on the bottom posting listed on the right at the top of the blog after seeing all that there are in the initial showing. The last posting in the North America blog should be "Tijuana, Mexico" and the last posting in the Europe blog should be "Notre Dame Cathedral Door And Arc De Triomphe, Paris". Each photo in the photo blogs can be clicked on to enlarge it to full screen.

My autobiography is http://www.mark-meek.blogspot.com/

My books can be seen at http://www.bn.com/ http://www.amazon.com/ or, http://www.iuniverse.com/ just do an author search for "Mark Meek".   

Bengaluru (Bangalore)

The history of India seems to revolve much more around the northern part of the country, as that is where new people such as the Aryans and Mughals entered, than the southern part of the country. The world-famous Taj Mahal, the capital of New Delhi, the financial center of Mumbai and, the Sikh religious center of Amritsar, are all in the northern part of the country.

But yet it is the far southern city of Bangalore that is, in many ways, the focal point of modern India. I am going to refer to it as Bangalore because, unlike Mumbai, the correct Indian name of Bengaluru is not well-known outside India. Bangalore is located in the heat of southern India, but is at a considerably high altitude which makes it more comfortably cool.

Bangalore is where India's space agency is located, the launch site is on the east coast but the headquarters are in the city. It is also the aeronautic and aerospace center of the country. It is known across the world as India's IT and software hub. Bangalore is also known as India's "Science City". It may not have the Taj Mahal, but it is leading India into the future.

Space missions to Mars have a high casualty rate. It is more difficult to get to Mars than to Venus, because Mars if further from the sun than earth. To get to Venus, it is necessary only to fire retro rockets so that the spacecraft loses the orbital momentum that it began with as part of the earth, and the sun's gravity will do the rest. If the timing is right, the spacecraft will fall into orbit around Venus.

India remains the only country to launch a successful Mars mission on it's first attempt. From Bangalore, a spacecraft had earlier been put into orbit around the moon. From that spacecraft, a projectile spacecraft was purposely crashed into the moon, at it's south pole, so that the lunar debris that flew up from the collision could be analyzed. Communication was later lost with the main spacecraft, but NASA has located it still in orbit around the moon.

Symbolism is a powerful force and I believe that the driving force behind India's space program is it's flag. The green at the bottom represents Earth. The Ashoka Chakra represents the moon and the orange at the top represents Mars. Also notice that the Ashoka Chakra is like looking at one of the poles of the moon. India has concentrated on exploring around the south pole of the moon and I have already suggested here that the area around the pole should be called "New India". Images from the Wikipedia articles "Mars" and "Flag of India".



ALL FOLLOWING IMAGES ARE FROM GOOGLE STREET VIEW 

There are multiple scenes following. To see the scenes, after the first one, you must first click the up arrow, ^, before you can move on to the next scene by clicking the right or forward arrow, >. After clicking the up arrow, you can then hide the previews of successive scenes, if you wish.

Here is the area around Bangalore Fort.





This is Bangalore Palace.












This is a look at residential streets of central Bangalore. Notice the bright pastel colors of the buildings, compared to northern India. I suppose that Bangalore is like the Florida of India.






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Southern India has a significant Christian presence. Around the year 1500, Vasco da Gama and missionaries like Francis Xavier thought that they were bringing Christianity to the east. They were greatly surprised to find that Christianity had already been in India for well over a thousand years. It is believed that the Apostle Thomas, the one sometimes referred to as "Doubting Thomas", went to India and established a church.

Bangalore has a facility called Snow City. It makes artificial snow so that people can play in the snow. Just what we need where I live.





This is around the City Market area.




This is the far south of India and we can see that the writing looks very different from Hindi, which is a northern Indian language.






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This is a business and residential area, to the west of the city center.

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This is an area to the south of the city center.

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This is a newer part of the city, where many IT and software companies are headquartered. You may well have already talked to someone in Bangalore, when calling customer service or tech support.






Modern India And The Past Golden Ages

Here is a summary of the links between modern India and it's past golden ages.

MAHATMA GANDHI AND ASHOKA 

The Mauryan Empire was founded by Chandragupta Maurya and can be thought of as the empire that first unified India and brought in it's first golden age. The Mauryan Empire arose after Alexander the Great had withdrawn from India. The grandson of Chandragupta was Ashoka. 

Ashoka is regarded as one of the greatest leaders ever. After leading his forces to victory in battle, he was horrified by the death and destruction of the battle and converted to Buddhism. The Buddha had lived about two centuries before. 

The Ashoka Chakra is on the flag today, even though India is overwhelmingly a Hindu nation. Image from the Wikipedia article "Flag of India".

Image from Google Street View.

Mahatma Gandhi, who led modern India to independence, certainly resonated with Buddha, even though Gandhi was a Hindu. Gandhi in the lotus position working on his spinning wheel very much evoked Buddha and the Ashoka Chakra. The first of the following two images is from the Wikipedia article "Spinning Wheel", the second is from the article "The Buddha".


Both had renounced the luxuries that the world had to offer and adopted ascetic ways of life. Buddha was about inner peace and Gandhi's objective was outer peace.

THE CONGRESS PARTY AND CHANDRAGUPTA 

The Indian National Congress was formed during British rule as an independence movement. After independence in 1947 it became the Congress Party and would mostly dominate Indian politics until the election of Narendra Modi in 2014. 

The Congress Party revolved around the Nehru-Gandhi family. Mahatma Gandhi was the leader of the independence movement and the spiritual leader of India. The first prime minister of independent India was Jawaharlal Nehru, until his death in 1964. He had a daughter named Indira, who would become prime minister. Indira Gandhi would be assassinated in 1984 and her son, Rajiv, would become prime minister until 1989. He would be assassinated while campaigning in 1991.

Indira Gandhi was not related to Mahatma Gandhi, she was Nehru's daughter. But she happened to marry a man named Gandhi, thus gaining the name.

Much earlier in India's history, there had been the Mauryan Empire. This had been founded by Chandragupta Maurya and can be considered as India's first golden age. About 650 years later came another golden age as the Gupta Empire was founded by a leader who would take the name Chandragupta I. His grandson would rule as Chandragupta II. 

Indira Gandhi started her own faction of the Congress Party, called Congress I with the "I" standing for "Indira", which eventually took over the whole party. So not only had she gotten the name of Gandhi by marriage, she had also linked herself with the founder of the Gupta Empire just as he had linked himself with the earlier Mauryan Empire, Chandragupta Maurya.

The "I" implied that Indira Gandhi's rule would begin a dynasty. Sure enough her son Rajiv would become prime minister following her assassination, effectively becoming "Congress II", the modern democratic version of Chandragupta II.

Attempting to link to India's past golden ages is nothing new. Chandragupta II, of the Gupta Empire, had an iron pillar made with his inscription. The pillar is now about 1,700 years old. Centuries after it was made the Delhi Sultanate, which was an Islamic empire that preceded the Mughals, moved the pillar to their Qutb Complex, the monuments and tombs in Delhi. This linked them with the greatness of the Gupta Empire.

The "I" in Indira Gandhi's Congress I also evoked this famous iron pillar. Image from Google Street View.

But, the way I see it, Narendra Modi of the Hindu party effectively became Chandragupta III and is now leading India into it's fifth golden age. His term in office began in 2014, the same year that India became the first nation to launch a successful Mars mission on it's first attempt and this was the beginning of India's fifth golden age.

THE CHOLA EMPIRE AND THE SPACE PROGRAM 

India's space program, with spacecraft launched from Chennai, has been so successful that I wondered if there might be something behind it, besides the obvious flag symbolism. We know that history is a powerful force. We tend to repeat history, sometimes intentionally but often without realizing it. 

The Chola Empire, from the Ninth to Thirteenth Centuries, was one of India's golden ages. It only ruled south India but it was a maritime empire. It conquered nearby Sri Lanka and then much of southeast Asia. 

The Cholas brought Hinduism with them and this is the reason for so many Hindu temples across southeast Asia, even if they were later converted to Buddhism. One of these temples is Angkor Wat, which is today the largest temple complex in the world and is on the Cambodian flag. Image from the Wikipedia article "Flag of Cambodia".

The Cholas are why the island of Bali, in Indonesia, is still predominantly Hindu. Indonesia is actually named for India. The name of Singapore comes from the Sanskrit term for "City of the Lion".

The city of Chennai, from where India's spacecraft are launched, is in what was Chola territory and near the capital of the territory. Bengaluru , from where the space program is run, is also in what was Chola territory. I have concluded that the Chola maritime expeditions are being reenacted today as India's space expeditions, first to the moon and then to Mars. The moon represents nearby Sri Lanka and Mars represents distant southeast Asia.

THE MUGHALS AND THE BRITISH 

I get the impression that the British were following what the Mughals had earlier done, presenting themselves as the new Mughals. This is a reenactment of what the Normans had long ago done in Britain, building castles and other great buildings not only for defense but to make an impression on the local people.

The Mughals had founded Dhaka, in what was then the eastern part of Bengal. The British built the fort around which the city of Calcutta grew, in the western part of Bengal. The state was later divided into East and West, with East Bengal becoming East Pakistan which is now Bangladesh.

The Mughals built the Taj Mahal, near their fort in honor of an emperor's favorite wife. The British built their version of the Taj Mahal in Calcutta, near their fort, in honor of Queen Victoria.

Delhi is an ancient city. Successive empires have built their own cities of Delhi adjacent to the previous ones. The Mughals built what is today called the Old City of Delhi, although it is far from the oldest one. Adjacent to that, the British built what is now known as New Delhi. The British moved their capital from Calcutta to New Delhi just as the Mughals had moved their capital from Agra to Old Delhi. The British built the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi just as the Mughals had built the Red Fort in Old Delhi.

The Golconda Sultanate built the Charminar, meaning "Four Towers", a gateway in Hyderabad, which was later taken over by the Mughals. The British built the similar Gateway of India, in Mumbai.

The British continued the princely states that had existed during the Mughal Empire and the Gupta Empire long before that. There were over five hundred autonomous princely states at independence. All ended up joining either India or Pakistan, but the one that is still an issue is Kashmir.

The Mughals and the British ended up leaving India on the same day, the Mughals separating as Pakistan.

Apocalyptic Developments

This is in regard to the parallel postings "The End Of The World As We Know It" and "Inducing The Apocalypse", both June 2026. 

Iran has to participate in the future invasion of Israel that will start the final series of wars of the world. It seems that Donald Trump was encouraging Iran this week. While discussing Iran having a nuclear weapon, he invited them to "take out" Los Angeles and San Diego. 

He also encouraged the further development and deployment of drones by quickly pulling planes out of Fairford because they were vulnerable to a drone attack.

Nancy Guthrie And The Lindbergh Case

The investigation into the kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie has been going on for nine months and has gotten nowhere. Here is something that will be helpful, aside from what has already been written. It would be best to review the original posting before reading this. Here is a link to the original posting.

https://markmeeksideas.blogspot.com/2026/02/solving-nancy-guthrie-kidnapping.html?m=0 

Why is the U.S. so fascinated and absorbed by this kidnapping of Nancy Guthrie, even though we know now that she is dead? This case just feels so familiar, like we have been here before. 

We actually have been here before, and the Nancy Guthrie case is so compelling because it is a reenactment of our cultural history. Charles Lindbergh was a hero for being the first person to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean. Flying was still a novelty, far removed from most people, but he did a lot to popularize it.

There is a nearby avenue named for Charles Lindbergh. Image from Google Street View.

Over ninety years ago, on March 1, 1932, Charles Lindbergh's namesake infant son was kidnapped from their home in New Jersey. The case was also a fascination to the whole country and, given the difference in technology, is strikingly similar to the Nancy Guthrie case. Both revolve around the kidnapping of a family member of a famous person from home by a lone kidnapper demanding money.

A ransom was paid to the Lindbergh kidnapper, partially in gold certificates as the country was still using the Gold Standard, although it would turn out that the child was already dead. The gold certificates could be cashed in at various banks and businesses. The numbers of the ransom certificates had been recorded and banks were asked to keep watch for them. The kidnapping took place in New Jersey but it soon became apparent that the kidnapper was in New York City, as that was where a number of the certificates had been cashed in.

A man had cashed in a certificate at a gas station. The attendant had written the license plate number on the certificate because the man had appeared to be nervous. The certificate turned out to be one of those that had been paid as ransom. This led the police to Bruno Hauptmann, of the Bronx, who was convicted of the crime and executed in the electric chair.

There is so much similarity between the Lindbergh and Guthrie cases that it is very unlikely to be a coincidence. The difference between the two is that, as we have seen, the Guthrie case was not a real kidnapping for money. It was done to get someone else, the Target Burglar, blamed for it. Why else would the kidnapper send a communication that Nancy Guthrie had died? 

Could it be that the kidnapper of Nancy Guthrie chose to kidnap and set it up to resonate culturally with the Lindbergh kidnapping, all in an effort to lead to the Target Burglar? If the Target Burglar had committed a crime, and allowed the Kidnapper to get the blame for it, the Kidnapper would have time to plan all of this while in prison.

Aside from both kidnappings being of a family member of a famous person from home, another close parallel between the two cases is that of familiarity. We saw how the Kidnapper of Nancy Guthrie was clearly familiar with the house and what her schedule would be. The Lindbergh Kidnapper used a homemade ladder to enter a second floor window and take the unattended baby. 

But he lived nowhere near the Lindbergh family and it remains a mystery how he knew where the baby would be, when the baby would be temporarily left unattended, and that the window would not be locked or the catch broken. It was March 1 in New Jersey so the windows wouldn't be open because of warm weather.

Both kidnappers sent multiple ransom notes that were vital to the investigation. The Lindbergh ransom notes were handwritten and were evidence against Bruno Hauptmann because the handwriting matched samples that would be found in his home. A later communication that was received in the Nancy Guthrie case was determined to be genuine because it was sent from the same IP address as the one that was received immediately after the kidnapping.

The Lindbergh ransom notes made it obvious that the kidnapper was a foreign national. English clearly wasn't his first language. He sometimes used German words that were similar to their English equivalents, such as "gut" for "good" and "und" for "and".

The Guthrie ransom notes also definitely point toward a foreign connection. The communication admitting that Nancy Guthrie had died used phrases that would probably not be used by a person whose first language was English, such as "She is buried in nature now" and "Time is no longer of the essence". At first I thought that the Kidnapper was using this to point to the Target Burglar because he used such phrases or had studied literature. That is possible but now I think it was purposely done to reenactment the Lindbergh case, with which there is a strong cultural resonance, and point to the Target Burglar as having some foreign connection.

In particular is the currency in the Nancy Guthrie ransom demand. It lists the amount, followed by USD, meaning United States Dollars, such as $1,000 USD. Tucson is a long way from Canada and it was utterly unnecessary to include USD in the figure. It is highly unlikely that Americans, dealing within America, would add USD to a currency figure. I think it was done intentionally, to resonate with the Lindbergh case and point to the Target Burglar as having some foreign connection, possibly to nearby Mexico or a Central American country.

The Kidnapper of Nancy Guthrie sent a communication indicating that she had died. This makes no sense if this was really a kidnapping for money. But it makes perfect sense if it was planned to get the Target Burglar blamed for it because this makes him a murderer, as well as a kidnapper. It is yet another resonance with the Lindbergh case because the baby was killed although, like Nancy Guthrie, maybe unintentionally. The communication reported Nancy Guthrie as "buried with nature" just as the Lindbergh baby was found buried in a grove of trees.

Then there is the clothing of the victims in both cases. This is yet another close parallel. The Lindbergh kidnapper provided the baby's sleeping suit to prove that he was the kidnapper, or connected to the kidnappers, and the Kidnapper of Nancy Guthrie described the pajamas that she had been wearing when kidnapped, and her Apple Watch, which hadn't been reported in the news.

The ladder in the Lindbergh case parallels the plants in the Nancy Guthrie case. The homemade wooden ladder that could be assembled and disassembled indicated that the kidnapper was a skilled woodworker, and he turned out to be a carpenter. Likewise, the emphasis on the plants in the Nancy Guthrie case is intended to point to the the Target Burglar, who may have worked in landscaping, or as a gardener, or in a nursery.

There was a go-between in the Lindbergh case, one John Condon who met with the kidnapper twice in cemeteries at night. This was an important part of the kidnapping story. John Condon was a character and publicity-seeker who was considered as a suspect himself for a while. He put an ad in the news, offering to add to the reward for the baby's return, and got a response from the kidnapper asking him to act as a go-between. The Nancy Guthrie case didn't have a go-between that met the kidnapper face-to-face at night. What it had instead, as a parallel in Twenty-First Century technology, is the kidnapper's encounter with the doorbell camera at night.

Both kidnappings were done on the first of the month, although Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped on February 1 and the Lindbergh Kidnapping was on March 1. It couldn't be on the anniversary because that would make the copying obvious. The purpose was resonance, without being obvious.

So many parallels between the two cases, although nearly ninety years apart, is very unlikely to be a coincidence. The Lindbergh case was part of American culture and we know that history tends to repeat itself. The level of national interest in the Nancy Guthrie case is because of the cultural resonance, even if we are not consciously aware of it.

My conclusion is that the kidnapper of Nancy Guthrie not only chose the kidnapping as a way to get revenge on the Target Burglar but also, knowing that there would be great national interest in the case, set it up to closely resonate with the Lindbergh case. 

The Lindbergh case ended up just as the Nancy Guthrie Kidnapper would like, the perpetrator being caught and sent to execution. But the Kidnapper would add another layer to it. He would set it up to look as if the Target Burglar had done it, and bring about a case against him that would resonate with the Lindbergh case, with the Target Burglar ultimately meeting a fate similar to that of Bruno Hauptmann.

This is definitely a copy of the Lindbergh kidnapping. But the Lindbergh kidnapping was a failure as a crime. The kidnapper didn't get away with it. He got ransom money but was ultimately caught and executed. So it makes no sense to copy it if Nancy Guthrie was really kidnapped for money. But it makes perfect sense if the real purpose of the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping was to get it blamed on someone else, the Target Burglar.

We can see the cultural influence of the Lindbergh case in how the Son of Sam, a serial killer in New York City, would be caught in a very similar way 43 years later. The Son of Sam wrote multiple letters to the news just as Bruno Hauptmann had written ransom notes.

Bruno Hauptmann was caught when a gas station attendant wrote down his car license plate number because he was acting "nervous" when paying with a gold certificate. The Son of Sam was caught when he walked toward a woman and shot at her from the direction of a parked car that she saw had been ticketed. 

Both were arrested in the same way. Police tracked the car and then arrested the suspect when he emerged from home and got into the car.

The Armageddon Flight

With the news this week of the co-pilot of a passenger plane stabbing the pilot and then attempting to crash the plane, it's time to reconsider what happened on another flight. This is not something that I have just come up with. I have thought about this before.

In 1983, relations between the U.S. and Soviet Union were very tense. Ronald Reagan made a speech against the Soviet Union, referring to it as the "Evil Empire". The Soviets installed a system of satellites to watch for nuclear missile launches in the U.S. Ronald Reagan had announced an elaborate system of space-based defenses against Soviet nuclear missiles, the Strategic Defense Initiative. NATO announced military exercises called "Able Archer" that would simulate a nuclear conflict. This greatly alarmed the Soviets and they suspected that it was really preparation for an actual attack.

Right in the middle of all of this tension, Korean Airlines flight 007 departed New York City for Seoul with a refueling stop in Anchorage. It left Anchorage at 4 AM local time. Because the plane would be flying westward, along with the sun, the long flight would be in darkness.

The plane was subtly off course from the beginning. Nearly three hours after takeoff the plane entered restricted Soviet airspace over the Kamchatka Peninsula. Soviet military jets intercepted the plane after they got no response to communication efforts. The Soviet jets flew alongside the Boeing 747 where they would have been clearly visible from the cockpit.

The plane left Soviet airspace but, continuing on it's course, reentered it over Sakhalin Island. This was also the site of sensitive military installations. I have read reports that the Soviets continually tried to contact the plane, offering it an emergency landing, as well as contacting Seoul Airport. They claimed to have gotten no response at all from the plane and it continued through forbidden airspace.

It should be noted that a Boeing 747 is intended as a passenger plane but can be modified for military use. A couple of years before this, Iran had modified 747s to use as aerial refueling planes and an aerial control center. These were used in the long-range air raid on the Iraqi airfield known as H3, during the Iran-Iraq War.

It should also be noted that the Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov, had suffered devastating kidney failure. He entered hospital not long before Flight 007. He would spend the rest of his term, and life, in hospital and would be dead in a few months. The resulting lack of leadership from the top made the tense situation even more dangerous because it was now more likely that a military officer might take it upon himself to take action.

So the plane flying into restricted Soviet military airspace could not possibly have come at a worse time. The plane suddenly began to increase it's altitude, which the Soviet planes flying alongside it considered as an attempt to evade them. The decision was made that there was no choice but to shoot the plane down with missiles.

The plane crashed into the Sea of Japan after it had left the airspace over Sakhalin Island. No one on the plane survived. 269 people were killed. Tapes of the cockpit that were recovered reveal no indication at all of the flight crew realizing that they were off course or of the Soviet jets alongside them. The crew couldn't have been incapacitated because they had requested permission for the increase in altitude from Japanese controllers. Ronald Reagan was disgusted at the shooting down of a passenger plane, and made sure that the world knew it. But it didn't quite lead to Armageddon.

The purposefully crashing of a passenger plane wasn't something that we thought about back in 1983. But there have been a number of cases in recent years, including the attempt this week. How can anyone seriously believe that this straying into restricted Soviet airspace, at the worst possible time, was an accident? It looks like an attempt to bring about Armageddon by someone on that plane, not necessarily the pilot.

This map is from the Wikipedia article "Korean Airlines Flight 007". It shows the intended flight path, the actual flight path, and where the plane was shot down.


The plane must have spent at least an hour over the Kamchatka Peninsula. How could whoever was in control of the plane not know that they were over land when they were supposed to be over the sea? Even aside from whatever radar and navigation tools the plane was equipped with, the Kamchatka Peninsula is mountainous. The moon's phase was last quarter, meaning that there was a half moon. The mountains, illuminated by the moon, would be very visible from the cockpit of the plane.

The plane passed near Petropavlovsk, the major city of the Kamchatka Peninsula. The lights of the city would have been very visible at night to the crew of the plane who would have known that they were supposed to be over the sea, as it would be hours before they would be flying over Japan.

The plane had actually left Soviet airspace when it crashed, as it flew from some distance after being hit by missiles from a Soviet plane. There was no distress call or SOS from the plane. If the plane had continued on it's course it would have entered Soviet airspace a third time, passing the city of Vladivostok.

It is impossible that this deviation in the plane's route was an accident. Considering that it came at the absolutely worst possible time in superpower relations, I consider it as an attempt to initiate Armageddon although not necessarily by the pilot of the plane.

Because of the islands and peninsulas in the Soviet far east, the plane was on a route that would enter Soviet airspace three separate times, all near sensitive military installations. This would increase the chance that the plane would be shot down and I am sure that it was planned this way. The first entry, over the Kamchatka Peninsula, didn't get the plane shot down. It was the second entry, over Sakhalin Island, that got it shot down.

The plane couldn't fly directly into restricted Soviet airspace because that would make it appear that the Soviets were justified in shooting it down. It had to appear to have been an honest mistake that would absolutely not be cause to kill 269 people.

But why would a Korean plane be involved in bringing about Armageddon? Here is something interesting although I cannot prove that it had anything to do with it.

Sun Myung Moon was a Korean religious leader who founded the Unification Church. He claimed that Jesus appeared to him when he was a teenager and anointed him to complete Jesus' mission that was interrupted by the Crucifixion. Many people have claimed to be the Messiah or the Second Coming of Jesus in recent times, as foretold by Jesus for the Last Days. Sun Myung Moon was a global figure and by far the highest profile person to make these claims.

The theology of the Unification Church is detailed in the document "Divine Principle". The Unification Church is known for it's mass weddings as a way to bring about the redeemed world, including one great event in Madison Square Garden. The movement was very anti-Communist, with Communism representing the Forces of Evil on earth. Sun Myung Moon was into many business ventures because capitalism was righteous.

What is so interesting is that Sun Myung Moon served a prison sentence in the U.S. for tax evasion. This event with Flight 007 happened not only at the height of superpower tension but also after he had been convicted, but before he had been sent to prison. Maybe the beginning of Armageddon would reveal him to be the Messiah.

(Facts verified with Wikipedia articles "Sun Myung Moon" and "Unification Church").

I use the term "Armageddon", instead of "Apocalypse", because Armageddon is a great war at the end of the world while Apocalypse has religious connotations, and we don't know for sure the motivation of whoever was guiding the plane.

For more about deliberate attempts to initiate the Apocalypse see "The Far-Reaching Legacy Of Charles Manson", June 2025.