19 July, LV A.S.

1. The Devil’s Advocate

Time Stamp: 13:36

• Is Satanism tied to humanity evolving on this earth?
  • The religion celebrates our carnal existence
  • What if humanity evolves past it’s carnality?
  • What if we were created rather than naturally evolved?
  • Is Satanism malleable to the human experience?

2. Infernal Informant

Time Stamp: 35:34

• Comet NEOWISE: 10 big questions (and answers) about the icy wanderer
  https://www.space.com/comet-neowise-strange-facts.html
  • The comet made its closest approach to the sun on July 3 but, until now, was only visible in the sky before dawn.
  • Now, for keen observers in the Northern Hemisphere, the comet has been getting higher in the evening sky, sparkling northwest below the Big Dipper constellation, according to Joe Masiero, deputy principal investigator of NEOWISE (NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the NASA space telescope that first spotted the comet).
  • it won’t return to our skies for another 6,800 years
  • What is Comet NEOWISE?
    • Officially known as C/2020 F3, Comet NEOWISE is a comet that was discovered on March 27, 2020, by NEOWISE, the asteroid-hunting afterlife of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. 
    • Comets, often nicknamed “cosmic snowballs,” are icy, rocky objects made up of ice, rock and dust. These objects orbit the sun, and as they slip closer to the sun most comets heat up and start streaming two tails, one made of dust and gas and an “ion tail” made of electrically-charged gas molecules, or ions.
  • Can I see it?
    • Yes! Because it is especially bright, the comet is visible in the night sky with the naked eye.
  • Do I need a telescope?
    • “The fact that we can see it is really what makes it unique,” Kramer said. “It’s quite rare for a comet to be bright enough that we can see it with a naked eye or even with just binoculars.”
  • What does it look like in the sky?
    • To those spotting the comet with the naked eye, without any tools or instruments like a telescope, it looks like a fuzzy star with a little bit of a tail. You do need to be away from city lights, though.
  • How much water is in the comet?
    • There is “about 13 million Olympic swimming pools of water,” in Comet NEOWISE, Emily Kramer, a science team co-investigator forNASA’s NEOWISE at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said during a news conference July 15. “So that’s a lot of water.”
      “Most comets are about half water and half dust,” she added.
  • Does it have a tail?
    • As a comet nears the sun, it warms up and material pulls away from the surface into a tail. Often, dust is pulled away along with gases from sublimating (going directly from solid to a gas) ice. This dust tail is the sweeping trail seen in most comet images. Comets also have an ion tail made up of ionized gas blown back by the solar wind.
      Researchers studying Comet NEOWISE might actually also have a sodium tail. By observing what they believe to be atomic sodium in the comet’s tail, researchers can glean keen insight into the object’s makeup.
  • How big is Comet NEOWISE?
    • Comet NEOWISE is about 3 miles (5 kilometers) in diameter, “which is a reasonably large but roughly average-size comet,” Kramer said.
  • How fast is Comet NEOWISE?
    • The comet is traveling at about 40 miles per second (that’s about 144,000 mph, or 231,000 km/h). 
  • Will it hit Earth?
    • Have no fear, Comet NEOWISE will not hit Earth. 
  • Is it from interstellar space?
    • No, Comet NEOWISE originates in our own solar system. To date, only two interstellar objects have been discovered: ‘Oumuamua and Comet Borisov.

• Here are seven things you probably didn’t know were connected to slavery
  https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/19/us/us-slavery-connections-trnd
  • Throughout the South, monuments and flags celebrating the Confederacy are being taken down. Companies like Mars and Quaker Oats are planning to change or retire racist brand characters like Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima. And popular music groups such as Lady Antebellum and The Dixie Chicks — now Lady A and The Chicks — have changed their names.
  • Slavery has marked everything from the US Capitol to the alcohol Americans consume.
  • Here are seven institutions that many people may not know are linked to slavery:
    • New York Life Insurance Company
      • In 2001 New York Life provided the New York Public Library its archival records containing insurance policies sold to slave owners.
    • Yale University
      • Yale’s namesake. Elihu Yale was a slave trader who profited from the sale of human lives.
      • Many US universities also have ties to slavery. Harvard and Princeton had presidents who owned enslaved people. At public universities like the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Virginia, enslaved people worked on campus or helped build campuses. Some schools, like Georgetown University, sold enslaved people to pay off debts and keep the school running.
    • CSX Transportation
      • CSX Transportation owns a railroad that was built by enslaved people.
      • The Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Railroad in Virginia — acquired by CSX in 2003 — owned and hired enslaved Black people from 1834, when it was chartered, until the end of the Civil War in 1865, according to The Virginia Museum of History and Culture.
    • Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey
      • Though Jack Daniel never owned enslaved people, he did learn to make whiskey in Tennessee from an enslaved person named Nathan “Nearest” Green, who was owned by a Lutheran minister, according to the company.
      • Daniel bought the business from the minister, then hired Green as his first head distiller.
    • Wall Street
      • Before Wall Street became the world’s largest stock exchange, the location thrived as a slave market between 1711 and 1762, according to JSTOR Daily, a digital library.
      • In 2015 Mayor Bill de Blasio commemorated a marker to the enslaved people who laid the foundation for Wall Street.
    • The White House and US Capitol Building
      • Former First Lady Michelle Obama caused a stir in 2016 when she said enslaved people built the White House. She wasn’t wrong.
      • Construction on the original White House began in 1792. Officials planned to import European workers to help build the structure, but recruitment didn’t go as planned so they turned to Black people, free and enslaved, according to the White House Historical Association.
      • The US Capitol building was also constructed with the labor of enslaved people. The building’s construction started in 1793. Like the White House, officials struggled to find skilled labor so they turned to enslaved people, who were often rented from owners. Congress unveiled a marker in 2012 honoring the enslaved people who built the Capitol, according to the Architect of the Capitol.
    • George Washington
      • Though George Washington’s ties to slavery are fairly well known, the extent of those connections may surprise some.
      • Enslaved people formed part of Washington — literally.
      • Though folklore depicts Washington with wooden teeth, there’s no evidence to support that claim, according to historian Alexis Coe, who wrote the best-selling biography “You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington.”
      • The first president’s mouth, Coe said, was full of the teeth of walruses, hippopotamuses and enslaved people. Washington paid the enslaved people an under-market rate for their teeth, Coe said.
      • Coe said Washington also signed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, which allowed enslavers to arrest fugitive enslaved people and reclaim them as property.

3. Creature Feature

Time Stamp: 50:42

• Scream, Queen! My Nightmare On Elm Street
  https://www.screamqueendocumentary.com/
  • Scream Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street sets the records straight about the controversial sequel to A Nightmare on Elm Street, which ended Mark Patton’s acting career, just as it was about to begin. Scream Queen follows Patton as he travels to horror conventions across the U.S.
  • Each new city unwraps a chapter from his life that is met with equal parts joyful and bittersweet detail, as he attempts to make peace with his past and embrace his legacy as cinema’s first male “scream queen.” Scream Queen also finds Patton confronting Freddy’s Revenge cast and crew for the first time, including co-stars Robert Rusler, Kim Myers and Clu Gulager, as well as Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund.
  • Initial release: April 5, 2019
  • Directors: Tyler Jensen, Roman Chimienti
  • Producers: Mark Patton, Roman Chimienti, Jeff Harden
  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
    • The film follows Jesse Walsh, a teenager who begins having recurring nightmares about Freddy Krueger after moving into the former home of Nancy Thompson from the first film.
    • Written by David Chaskin
    • Directed by Jack Sholder
    • Starring Mark Patton & Robert England