I must admit that I've been guilty of going off-topic too. Actually, if you consider a celestial occurance as a potential signal to terrorists, and HAARP/Tesla type instruments as being in terrorists hands, they are relevant.
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how certain celestial occurrences in themselves are not potential threats. If the thread is intended to be concerned only with terrorist threats, then it should be titled "Terrorist Threat Matrix", not "Threat Matrix". Otherwise, the presumption that only very narrow topical posts should appear is just that - presumptuous. If the next thread is titled that way I will certainly observe it.
Anyway, the idea that any one person or group (other than Jim or FR) owns the content of a thread here is antithetical to the whole nature of FreeRepublic.
For those who are interested in space science and threats thereof, I earlier commented that it was puzzling that few ordinary "shooting stars" are visible right now, with the significant meteorite activity. Well, I went outside again tonight and lo and behold saw one of the ten brightest meteors I have ever seen. In fact, many years I have sat through a Perseid show and not seen one this bright.
The Jihadi terrorists as well as Russia, China, Cuba, Mexico et al will very likely be keenly cocked to take advantage of any 'natural' disaster types of events and to push the terror cause in ways maximally taking advantage of such. The most dramatic way they might do so would be to start WWIII if the natural disasters plus Jihadi devastations reached enough USA cities and deaths.
I realize that many people have trouble holding many conceptual balls and complex sets of dynamics on a diversity of fronts comfortably in their minds, not to mention their emotions. It can be a challenge for the best of us in this era. But the fact remains that our era is INCREDIBLY COMPLEX, INCREDIBLY CONVOLUTED; full of a great diversity of even very wild, strange, unheard of, crazy, frightening etc. components. It will get worse. It may be very difficult even to tell which way is up, literally.
It is hard for lay persons to even guess with any reliable accuracy the validity of this or that puzzle piece. But collectively, many laypersons hereon with the many professionals hereon, could well come up with insights which are crucial to us as individuals, to our families and even to our country. DIVERSITY IS EXCEEDINGLY HELPFUL AND CRUCIAL when collecting, analyzing and interpreting such a huge complexity and diversity of puzzle pieces.
It would be foolhardy, imho, to LIMIT ALMOST ANY potentially useful puzzle pieces from our incredibly powerful TM context and analysis.
And, haughtiness toward one another or toward one another's perspectives is not overly helpful.
Certainly some would assert that the Tesla etc. stuff is sooooo tinfoil as to be at least a distraction if not worse. But how can we know. The evidence is all over the water front. It bears at least awareness and watching. Who knows if this or that puzzle piece will fit in with whatever cluster of other puzzle pieces--ahead of time--who knows. So what if some eventually turn out to have been thrown into the mix from unimportant puzzles. It's too hard to tell at this point, precisely and 100% confidently what puzzle pieces are worth our time and which aren't--SUFFICIENTLY FOR US TO CONFIDENTLY EXCLUDE WHOLE CLASSES of puzzle pieces.
Sigh.