Archive for July, 2020

SMGLV – SeaMap GunLink Viewer

Thursday, July 30th, 2020

A while back I was sent some data files from Seamap’s GunLink system

http://www.seamap.com/products/seismic/gunlink/

It has been a long time since I have done any marine work, so I can’t comment on the system itself except to say that it looks very nice and quite capable.

Unfortunately, the way they decided to record data for offline QC is not so clever (IMNSHO). Instead of creating their own dedicated format that would have suited the job and the equipment, they decided to use SEGD. The problem being that their data does not easily fit into the SEGD format. SEGD is a bad enough format as it is without further abuse!

There are distinct sets of data with different sample rates and number of samples. Their solution was to use different channel sets for each set of data, which does make sense, but decoding gets messy. To complicate it further they (can and do) use a sample rate that is not supported by the SEGD format. Nor do they identify the origin of each channel set, so, unless there are exactly 5 channel sets, there is no telling what the data represents – Near field signature, Far field Signature, Hydrophones or something else.

That made writing a viewer for it interesting, but nothing is impossible.

The viewer provides for spectral analysis and first break picking of each channel set. The usual Gain, clip and colour settings are easily accessible.

The selected channel set’s data can be written to a SEGY file

And you can generate a PDF file of the current display, as well as copying images for use in reports.

 

More details and the download link here:

https://seismatters.com/SMGLV.html

 

 

The Scamdemic

Tuesday, July 28th, 2020

I have heard it called the Holocough, but that is disrespectful to those who suffered in the 1940s, so I prefer to call it the Scamdemic.

This must be the biggest scam ever perpetrated in human history.

That is not to say it is a conspiracy. I am not a conspiracy nut.

It is something quite natural – the seasonal flu – that was misreported and exaggerated and politicised. Then various groups saw an opportunity and started to exploit it to their advantage while deliberately fueling the lies and misinformation.

The media were the first of course, because, to paraphrase – the first victim of the media is truth.

Quite well summed up here (from a parody site of course):

Then the bankers realised they could put many more people in debt while moving money around from government ‘stimulus’ packages that often propped up share prices of banks and their friends.

Then governments saw it as an easy way to get the migrant labour problem under control – force them out of work, blame them for spreading THE VIRUS then deport them while taking credit for DOING SOMETHING. Pity they didn’t control immigration in the first place.

The police saw it as opportunity to increase their ability to intimidate and detain.

And finally the security forces see it as a way to monitor and limit movement without any pushback.

 

The media, as usual are by far, the biggest part of the problem.

The Scamdemic allows “journalists” to sit around in comfort, drinking designer lattes while embellishing fake stories pulled from Facebook:

“David a fit and healthy 24 year old in training for the Olympics died in agony yesterday after being diagnosed with Covid-19 just 3 hours earlier. He leaves behind a young family of four. His wife tearfully said that she has lost her soulmate and does not know if she can carry on. (Please send lots of money)”

If David existed at all, we will find that he was a 400 pound blob, with diabetes, heart disease, asthma, AIDS and a boyfriend. It wasn’t Covid 19 the killed him, it was his life style choices.

Actually, it does not take much research to find that the numbers just do not add up. In fact it is pretty easy to see that they are being manipulated to ‘prove’ to the gullible something that is not true.

Let’s look at how deaths are reported.

This quote from UK National Statistician Ian Diamond is interesting:

“He said the way Britain was counting and reporting its coronavirus-related deaths was the most transparent, because the ONS was including deaths where COVID-19 was mentioned on the death certificate even if the person had not been tested.”

Included as a Covid-19 death even if the person has not been tested!!! WTF? This is an open admission of lying!

And here the link

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-britain/uk-pushes-back-against-covid-19-death-toll-comparison-with-italy-idUSKBN22F0J6?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29

But…But…But… the quote no longer appears in the linked article. It was removed about a week after the article was first published. I wonder why.

 

Here another interesting piece of information, from May 2020, when we were supposedly in the midst of an exponential rise in infections. But researchers cannot find enough people to test!!

https://news.yahoo.com/oxford-scientists-working-coronavirus-vaccine-100847254.html

But are we not in the midst of a pandemic?? I am confused to say the least.

 

There are some voices of reason out there: Beda M Stadler, former Director of the University Institute of Immunology at the Insel Hospital in Bern:

https://medium.com/@vernunftundrichtigkeit/coronavirus-why-everyone-was-wrong-fce6db5ba809

The author has impeccable credentials and experience, but sadly bullied into silence.

 

There are lots more out there if you dig around a bit.

But the essence of it all is that the Scamdemic is now a political and economic tool, used by the bankers to get richer and various other groups to expand and abuse power.

 

In the meantime what is the guy in charge of overseeing the response in the US doing:

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/dr-anthony-fauci-throws-out-first-pitch-ahead-of-nationals-vs-yankees-on-mlb-opening-day/

I guess it must be really serious if the guy overseeing the response of what is supposedly a worldwide disaster can throw around softballs like an aspiring politician.

 

If you, like me want to see an end to this, take the advice given here:

But don’t take my word for it. Do your own research. Just don’t blindly accept the lies that are being fed to you.