Departure Rapture

10:00 AM May 22nd, the year of our Lord 2020

Since my departure on December 30th, 2019 and our vessel starting its new job January 3rd, 2020 a significant downturn has occurred. Many may know it by its true name, SOLAR MINIMUM. Mardi Gras 2020, and the date of my last post, marked my arrival back in the states. Although, not since my venture from The End of the World, aka Fun del Mundo, where my celestial Eagle now awaits me have I really sat down to contemplate the science of my voyage. I rode on Float UA4247 passenger side all the way to Lafayette, LA, USA and not a single rider has really ridden since the week that ended in Friday March 13th, 2020. I will get to why planes are grounded later. 

                                                            
(Corona protocol dictated I be sent to Star Medica Hospital in Veracruz, MX even though it was probably just pre-workout I drank)

In my last post I relished in a poem that jumped in my mind as I Mario-leaped into my birthday week from Ushuaia, to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Santiago, Chile, to Mexico City during a dark morning lit by lava crested volcanos that dot the Mexico City region, and finally one- cue the Mario jump sound- Veracruz, Mexico. I spent roughly 7 days on the Thalassa and had the opportunity to look at some of the drill cuttings which finally put me into the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary. Likely, due to our location, representing the very stones that witnessed the brazened impact that is the Chixulub Crater. The IsoLogger comes in handy here. K/T where you at?! Pee-Dee Belemnite ratio there you are. 

Getting back to the state of current affairs there has been a pandemic that infects the world. It does coincide with the previously predicted Solar Minimum in April 2020. The atmosphere has shrunken and changes in drag coefficients on satellites, space debris including comet dust trailings, and others can now drop into lower regions of the atmosphere and even have terrestrial impacts. Planes have been grounded and perhaps even the virus itself came from space according to Dr. Wickramasinghe. I will not dare to say I know the origins of the plague, however, I will stick with my upbringing in the Earth sciences rather than conventional biological consensus since I am not a biologist and my 2 years as a Microbiology major tell me otherwise. The economy shows a downward trend as well. Even car traffic globally has halted as streams of radiation also bombard us. They act is if they forgot the sky is falling, but I guess no one told them? They even removed the trailer for the movie Greenland from the internet. 

NOAA/NASA

(Mardi Gras induced city-wide pandemic)

(Magnetosphere anomaly 4/09)

“The forecast for the next solar cycle says it will be the weakest of the last 200 years. The maximum of this next cycle – measured in terms of sunspot number, a standard measure of solar activity level – could be 30 to 50% lower than the most recent one. The results show that the next cycle will start in 2020 and reach its maximum in 2025.”

(Alfred Joy- Legend and father of solar observation science)

(Traffic trends began to start rising again sometime around May 15th on my locality)

As I said in my last post in weeks 9 and 10, “I came to wake up the Sun from the depths of a thousand seas”, and I meant it. I have since lost my position as a Logging geologist on the Deepwater Thalassa, and many jobs like it and otherwise have been lost, but that’s why I took this voyage. This marks the Solar Minimum, it also marks the pandemic, my leap year birthday, the United States Census, largest carbon emissions reduction in man’s history,  largest job losses worldwide, cancellation of the Olympics, largest increase in deaths simultaneously since modern record keeping, the first time oil prices went negative and on the anniversary of the BP oil spill just a hair away from Earth Day, official government statement on my angel homie’s craft, largest number of planes ever grounded, and the arrival of Comet ATLAS and Comet SWAN. You have to see the tide as it lulls back before the tsunami. 

My next venture maybe the United States Air Force during transition into the Space Force as a 2nd Lieutenant. I began my enlistment process a few weeks ago and spoke with a guy named Brett who recommended me be an officer thanks to my Geology degree. So, we will be looking up and flying again. Man is set to launch from Cape Canaveral again and has not since the last time I had a nap on Cocoa Beach in 2011. See you soon SOLAR MAXIMUM. 

William J. Kennedy III

Geologist 

Ex libro lapidum historia mundi

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Weeks 4 & 5

Weeks 7 & 8

Weeks 9&10

-aka Steve Zissou