The Metaphysical Connection #14
Nikola Tesla

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The show Walt has been dying to do for months now - All about Nicola Tesla and how he changed the world, and how the world would have been better if he wasn't screwed over by Thomas Edison. We also talk about Ted Cruz returning to The Musters, Kent State, Star Wars Day, and Alan B. Shepard!

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Alan B. Shepard - First American in Space

NASA: This Day In History: THIS DAY IN HISTORY: ALAN SHEPARD BECOMES FIRST AMERICAN TO TRAVEL INTO SPACE.

Mission Objective:
The main scientific objective of project Mercury was to determine man's capabilities in a space environment and in those environments to which he will be subject upon going into and returning from space. A few of the basic flight problems included: The development of an automatic escape system, vehicle control during insertion, behavior of space systems, evaluation of pilots capabilities in space, in flight monitoring, retrofire and reentry maneuvers and landing and recovery.

May The Fourth Be Wth You

Kent State

The Kent State shootings occurred at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, in the United States and involved the shooting of unarmed college students by the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4, 1970.

"THE MAY 4 SHOOTINGS AT KENT STATE UNIVERSITY: THE SEARCH 
FOR HISTORICAL ACCURACY," BY JERRY M. LEWIS and THOMAS R. HENSLEY

Kent State & George Lucas connection.

The Politics Behind the Original “Star Wars” By Benjamin Hufbauer

"Lucas’s first film, the dystopian THX-1138, released in 1971, was a critique of a soulless future society where brutal police, videogames, and tranquilizing drugs subdue the population. Its basic message, according to the director, is that, “Modern society is a rotten thing.” It was a box-office disappointment.

The Vietnam War intensified with President Richard Nixon’s incursion into and bombing of Cambodia. Protests against the war gripped the nation, and turned tragic at Kent State, Ohio, when the National Guard fired into an unarmed crowd of students, killing four and wounding nine. This led to the famous Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young song “Ohio,” with its with its warning that “Nixon’s coming.”

As Lucas began work on his space epic during these years, he envisioned an evil Emperor who was pulling strings, and sowing destruction and tragedy. He has said that President Nixon was one of the models for Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars saga." 

Stem Cells Reanimate dead!

A biotech company has been given permission to try to resurrect the clinically dead - This is really happening.

In a controversial move, a US biotechnology company has been given permission to recruit 20 clinically dead patients and try to bring their central nervous system back to life. 

If they can successfully reanimate parts of the upper spinal cord, where the lower brain stem is located, there’s a possibility that they could kickstart vital body functions such as breathing and heartbeats - something these patients can only do with the help of machines.

"This represents the first trial of its kind and another step towards the eventual reversal of death in our lifetime," CEO of Bioquark Inc., Ira Pastor, told Sarah Knapton at The Telegraph.

Cruz Into The Loser's Circle

Ted Cruz says "Adios, I'm going back to being Grandpa Munster..."

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