Fabulous photos! The first time I really saw the stars so bright was camping in Montana in 1987. The Northern Lights Timelapse is impressive! I just saw them for the first time a couple months ago in Iceland.
Michael, after my tour in the army in the 70's I lived in Alaska and did bush work all over the state. I saw skies like I had never seen before. Makes you feel small doesn't it? Crazy that God created all of it to show us his glory. We serve a great God my brother
AAUP supports professor & argues university's own rules/due process was circumvented.
More: Published: 2:23 PM EDT March 31, 2025 - Local News - IU professor allegedly fired after FBI raids on homes in Carmel and Bloomington - According to the American Association of University Professors, Professor Xiaofeng Wang has been terminated by IU.
CARMEL, Ind. — In a letter to the Indiana University provost, the American Association of University Professors is protesting the termination of Professor Xiaofeng Wang.
Wang's homes in Bloomington and Carmel were raided by the FBI on March 28. - Wang was listed as a professor at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, but his profile on the school's website had been removed as of Monday, March 31. An archived version of the website listed Wang as the Director of the Center for Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering and the Director of Secure Computing at Luddy.
The union said Wang, who is a tenured professor, was fired on the same day of the FBI searches of his homes. The president of the association said Wang was suspended on March 14 for research misconduct.
A letter from the union protests Wang's firing, saying the university did not follow its own rules in terminating Wang. It says, in part:
"We are aware of news reports indicating that Professor Wang is under investigation by law enforcement. While the outcome of those investigations may ultimately bear on Professor Wang’s continued appointment at IU, the mere fact of an investigation or of unadjudicated allegations cannot justify failure to comply with university policies on the part of the administration. It is fundamental that individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty."
"Big Brother" has authoritarian heavy boots, an itchy trigger finger & hates the Constitution. Not to mention "it" controls the Mockingbird press, the courts/judiciary & the military too. :/ The US military is a gangster/bankster/globalists' military & is no longer (if ever?) for the US.
"A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer, Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why."
"Xiaofeng Wang has a long list of prestigious titles. He was the associate dean for research at Indiana University's Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, a fellow at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a tenured professor at Indiana University at Bloomington. According to his employer, he has served as principal investigator on research projects totaling nearly $23 million over his 21 years there."
"He has also co-authored scores of academic papers on a diverse range of research fields, including cryptography, systems security, and data privacy, including the protection of human genomic data. I have personally spoken to him on three occasions for articles here, here, and here."
[Lots of critical topics listed there so Wang is definitely someone the state might want to silence, shut up or persecute to make him go away. Or hide him away as an asset??]
“None of this is in any way normal” Well...in the new US of Convid it's all entirely normal.
Yep. People, research sources & cites are being increasingly scrubbed (& de-linked from the interweb). Our known facts, history & confirmed info are being erased/manipulated & changed. (Remember the Mandela Effect which was prob a psyop to mess w/our minds?) Error messages are rampant now.
Creeping controls/fascism are accelerating even more now as the globalists speed up Agenda 21/2030. Truly Orwellian - poof! - it's gone. What to do when someone says: Give me a link to prove your point but it's blank now.
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” – Party slogan, 1984, George Orwell
Do NOT comply. Fuk ALL the fascists. Fight always for truth, justice, & the better angels.
... FDR/Truman/Eisenhower/JFK/LBJ/Nixon/Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama/Biden/Trump... doesn't matter to the UNI-party. Trump's a critical role now to the globalists as he LARPs & "ducks" HAH & weaves while bringing in bio-digital convergence posthaste.
Saw a similar display when we took a client on a fishing trip to Alaska---Fella had his own island, an old WWII vintage airplane with no seats, not very large island, luxurious cabin and a nice fishing boat---We lived on that boat for 2 weeks and saw some amazing sites including somewhat similar displays pictured here.
Caught a believe, 600 LBS Halibut. Call em Garage Doors up there. 6 hours (at least) to haul that beast in with the rod stand like in Jaws--Sat down, locked in both sides on my vest so I didn't get dragged in and had at it. Line goes slack--he ain't gone--just gotta wait and tease em a bit--roll some slack in and she'll run again.
Good, firm white meat from that big fish. Good eatin! Caught Tuna too. (Maybe that was Mexico or Hawaii). Oh, King Salmon by the dozens! Enormous King Salmon. They fight like hell. Thats a fun fish to catch. Smaller Halibut too.
Sounds FABULOUS! We caught huge trout while flycasting in a glacier lake in the mountains of WY as a kid (but not as big as yours)! I, the only female, cleaned and cooked the fish for breakfast, cast iron pan, butter, onion over an open fire. The males were all too squeamish to handle fish guts, LOL!
I envy you that fabulous experience. Fishing (and eating them) is the bomb!
Too squeamish to clean a silly fish? Maybe just puttin y'all on the get out of work or maybe a hormone imbalance--Low T. I like to filet my fish with a nice sharp Rapala knife but we were spoiled and the owner had our fish cleaned, filleted and flash frozen vacuum packed. I just packed a huge cooler I had bought (I was told to bring the biggest cooler I could buy--it was huge---25-35 gallon or so-- maybe 50 gallons--it was Yuge!). I went home with years worth of fresh fish--I gave much of it away (had new friends all of a sudden)---Fed-Ex'd some to my folks back East with ice packs enclosed. Thats when Fed-Ex had overnight ship for $16. It's $100 bucks now. That Halibut is one fine fish.
Your cooking methods sounds delicious--would never occur to me to bring an onion on a fishing trip. Woman are more creative in that regard---Men just bring poles, tackle, some Sourmash whiskey and maybe a big cal pistol if y'all are in the mountains---Bear issues had been a concern in the past camping/fishing.
I still find it curious they did not return with even one shot (to my knowledge) of the stars. Very strange. Some of those photos should have had stars.
Sharing and Caring, I agree. When asked why we haven't been back to the moon in over 50 years, NASA says that they lost the technology. They must laugh at us as they cash their paychecks and/or pensions.
No, they did not "lose the technology." What was lost was the ability to MAKE the technology. When Apollo ended, all of the contractor and sub-contractor factories and workers moved on to other things. You couldn't build a brand new Apollo rocket today any more than you could build a brand new 1970 Chevy today. The machines are all gone. The parts no longer exist. But most of the original Apollo drawings and blueprints still exist, some of which are preserved in the National Archives.
Why haven't we been back? Politics and money. NASA can only do what it has the budget to do. Apollo was VERY expensive...about $279 billion in today's dollars. It's only now with SLS that NASA has the budget to go back to the moon.
The ability to MAKE the technology was DESTROYED. AGAIN, many of the original blueprints still exist, some of which are preserved in the National archives. Stop believing every nonsense conspiracy you find on the internet.
Where did you see the Aurora Borealis, Michael? I flew fighters for 20 years and got to see them through a bubble canopy many times. I also flew with night vision goggles, and was able to see stars, hundreds of times better (greater number) than the naked eye.
When things cool off in Panama, I’d love to see you write an article about your experiences in Afghanistan. 🫡
Do not believe Panama is going to cool off, but your Afghanistan diaries would be thrilling. What is an NVG....a lens? Saw such a sky in the Jordan desert when visiting son in Peace Corps. Complete silence. The silence and the sky together, most humbling, extreme beauty. In awe. Wanted to sit there for hours and take it in. Quite calming until I noticed these long-legged jumping ants on my pant legs.
Fabulous photos! The first time I really saw the stars so bright was camping in Montana in 1987. The Northern Lights Timelapse is impressive! I just saw them for the first time a couple months ago in Iceland.
Michael, after my tour in the army in the 70's I lived in Alaska and did bush work all over the state. I saw skies like I had never seen before. Makes you feel small doesn't it? Crazy that God created all of it to show us his glory. We serve a great God my brother
Great shots! You should make a coffee table book. Seriously
Unbelievable beautiful!!
May be of interest: https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/
AAUP supports professor & argues university's own rules/due process was circumvented.
More: Published: 2:23 PM EDT March 31, 2025 - Local News - IU professor allegedly fired after FBI raids on homes in Carmel and Bloomington - According to the American Association of University Professors, Professor Xiaofeng Wang has been terminated by IU.
https://www.wthr.com/article/news/local/after-fbi-raids-on-homes-union-defends-iu-professor-xiaofeng-wang-indiana-university-carmel-bloomington-termination-provost-letter/531-3c9b9625-c4f9-4f6a-ac80-1325f1da491d
CARMEL, Ind. — In a letter to the Indiana University provost, the American Association of University Professors is protesting the termination of Professor Xiaofeng Wang.
Wang's homes in Bloomington and Carmel were raided by the FBI on March 28. - Wang was listed as a professor at the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, but his profile on the school's website had been removed as of Monday, March 31. An archived version of the website listed Wang as the Director of the Center for Security and Privacy in Informatics, Computing, and Engineering and the Director of Secure Computing at Luddy.
The union said Wang, who is a tenured professor, was fired on the same day of the FBI searches of his homes. The president of the association said Wang was suspended on March 14 for research misconduct.
A letter from the union protests Wang's firing, saying the university did not follow its own rules in terminating Wang. It says, in part:
"We are aware of news reports indicating that Professor Wang is under investigation by law enforcement. While the outcome of those investigations may ultimately bear on Professor Wang’s continued appointment at IU, the mere fact of an investigation or of unadjudicated allegations cannot justify failure to comply with university policies on the part of the administration. It is fundamental that individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty."
"Big Brother" has authoritarian heavy boots, an itchy trigger finger & hates the Constitution. Not to mention "it" controls the Mockingbird press, the courts/judiciary & the military too. :/ The US military is a gangster/bankster/globalists' military & is no longer (if ever?) for the US.
More on Wang's background from article above:
"A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, had his professor profile, email account, and phone number removed by his employer, Indiana University, and had his homes raided by the FBI. No one knows why."
"Xiaofeng Wang has a long list of prestigious titles. He was the associate dean for research at Indiana University's Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, a fellow at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a tenured professor at Indiana University at Bloomington. According to his employer, he has served as principal investigator on research projects totaling nearly $23 million over his 21 years there."
"He has also co-authored scores of academic papers on a diverse range of research fields, including cryptography, systems security, and data privacy, including the protection of human genomic data. I have personally spoken to him on three occasions for articles here, here, and here."
[Lots of critical topics listed there so Wang is definitely someone the state might want to silence, shut up or persecute to make him go away. Or hide him away as an asset??]
“None of this is in any way normal” Well...in the new US of Convid it's all entirely normal.
Yep. People, research sources & cites are being increasingly scrubbed (& de-linked from the interweb). Our known facts, history & confirmed info are being erased/manipulated & changed. (Remember the Mandela Effect which was prob a psyop to mess w/our minds?) Error messages are rampant now.
Creeping controls/fascism are accelerating even more now as the globalists speed up Agenda 21/2030. Truly Orwellian - poof! - it's gone. What to do when someone says: Give me a link to prove your point but it's blank now.
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” – Party slogan, 1984, George Orwell
Do NOT comply. Fuk ALL the fascists. Fight always for truth, justice, & the better angels.
... FDR/Truman/Eisenhower/JFK/LBJ/Nixon/Reagan/Bush/Clinton/Bush/Obama/Biden/Trump... doesn't matter to the UNI-party. Trump's a critical role now to the globalists as he LARPs & "ducks" HAH & weaves while bringing in bio-digital convergence posthaste.
I, too, have noticed records disappearing. Been kinda wondering myself.
Michael Yon thank you for your service sir, God bless you
Saw a similar display when we took a client on a fishing trip to Alaska---Fella had his own island, an old WWII vintage airplane with no seats, not very large island, luxurious cabin and a nice fishing boat---We lived on that boat for 2 weeks and saw some amazing sites including somewhat similar displays pictured here.
Caught a believe, 600 LBS Halibut. Call em Garage Doors up there. 6 hours (at least) to haul that beast in with the rod stand like in Jaws--Sat down, locked in both sides on my vest so I didn't get dragged in and had at it. Line goes slack--he ain't gone--just gotta wait and tease em a bit--roll some slack in and she'll run again.
Good, firm white meat from that big fish. Good eatin! Caught Tuna too. (Maybe that was Mexico or Hawaii). Oh, King Salmon by the dozens! Enormous King Salmon. They fight like hell. Thats a fun fish to catch. Smaller Halibut too.
Sounds FABULOUS! We caught huge trout while flycasting in a glacier lake in the mountains of WY as a kid (but not as big as yours)! I, the only female, cleaned and cooked the fish for breakfast, cast iron pan, butter, onion over an open fire. The males were all too squeamish to handle fish guts, LOL!
I envy you that fabulous experience. Fishing (and eating them) is the bomb!
Too squeamish to clean a silly fish? Maybe just puttin y'all on the get out of work or maybe a hormone imbalance--Low T. I like to filet my fish with a nice sharp Rapala knife but we were spoiled and the owner had our fish cleaned, filleted and flash frozen vacuum packed. I just packed a huge cooler I had bought (I was told to bring the biggest cooler I could buy--it was huge---25-35 gallon or so-- maybe 50 gallons--it was Yuge!). I went home with years worth of fresh fish--I gave much of it away (had new friends all of a sudden)---Fed-Ex'd some to my folks back East with ice packs enclosed. Thats when Fed-Ex had overnight ship for $16. It's $100 bucks now. That Halibut is one fine fish.
Your cooking methods sounds delicious--would never occur to me to bring an onion on a fishing trip. Woman are more creative in that regard---Men just bring poles, tackle, some Sourmash whiskey and maybe a big cal pistol if y'all are in the mountains---Bear issues had been a concern in the past camping/fishing.
I meant to say "huge trout". Won't let me correct.
I wonder why there are no stars in the nasa photos.
Camera exposure set for a bright foreground. Dim starts in the background would not be visible. I'm sure Mr.Yon could explain it to you.
I still find it curious they did not return with even one shot (to my knowledge) of the stars. Very strange. Some of those photos should have had stars.
Why would they? What would be the point or scientific value? We already know what the stars look like.
Time exposure and short illumination of subject during exposure will do it
I do not have a need to bother Mr. Yon with such a simple concept.
You obviously aren't the sharpest tool, sooo....
Exactly what i was waiting for from you..
Glad I could oblige. Buh bye
Perhaps the studio lights.
Perhaps not.
That is bizarre.
Sharing and Caring, I agree. When asked why we haven't been back to the moon in over 50 years, NASA says that they lost the technology. They must laugh at us as they cash their paychecks and/or pensions.
No, they did not "lose the technology." What was lost was the ability to MAKE the technology. When Apollo ended, all of the contractor and sub-contractor factories and workers moved on to other things. You couldn't build a brand new Apollo rocket today any more than you could build a brand new 1970 Chevy today. The machines are all gone. The parts no longer exist. But most of the original Apollo drawings and blueprints still exist, some of which are preserved in the National Archives.
Why haven't we been back? Politics and money. NASA can only do what it has the budget to do. Apollo was VERY expensive...about $279 billion in today's dollars. It's only now with SLS that NASA has the budget to go back to the moon.
Astronaut Don Pettit "The problem is we no longer have the technology to do that anymore. We used to but we destroyed that technology...."
I put NASA on the same truth barometer as the gubmint's 9/11 and Covid narrative.
The ability to MAKE the technology was DESTROYED. AGAIN, many of the original blueprints still exist, some of which are preserved in the National archives. Stop believing every nonsense conspiracy you find on the internet.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
thank you
Where did you see the Aurora Borealis, Michael? I flew fighters for 20 years and got to see them through a bubble canopy many times. I also flew with night vision goggles, and was able to see stars, hundreds of times better (greater number) than the naked eye.
When things cool off in Panama, I’d love to see you write an article about your experiences in Afghanistan. 🫡
Maybe you were doing gun runs I photographed.
“My war” was in the Balkans.
Northwest Territories. Near Yellowknife.
Spent two years in Afghanistan. Was very interesting.
Stars with NVGs is a whole new level. I use PVS14 sometimes and is great.
Do not believe Panama is going to cool off, but your Afghanistan diaries would be thrilling. What is an NVG....a lens? Saw such a sky in the Jordan desert when visiting son in Peace Corps. Complete silence. The silence and the sky together, most humbling, extreme beauty. In awe. Wanted to sit there for hours and take it in. Quite calming until I noticed these long-legged jumping ants on my pant legs.
When I lived on top of a moderately tall peak in CO, the star were like that every night. Just gorgeous and humbling.
lol -- ants in pants
Marcia, NVG - Night Vision Goggles
Oh, of course! Thank you.