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Secretarial Program

Page-6: Celestial

Celestial and Cosmic Events

The Scheduler also looks up Cosmic Events. For example, Each SunSet and each SunRise.

SunRise

Here is the SunRise:
I get a notice 2 minutes prior to the SunRise, and a notice 1 minute prior.
Then the actual SunRise.
And one notice that is 1 minute after.

Mom's favorite flower was a yellow rose.
I am sure, it was forced to be a yellow rose, only because of the pressure of the question from the kids: "What is your favorite flower?"
I know this, because Mom traveled back to Arkansas, and returned with Purple Roses, which she was very proud of. They grew by her bedroom window. Every morning she could see them.

Then he began to call down curses, and he swore to them, "I don't know the man!" Immediately a rooster crowed.

"Truly I tell you," Jesus answered, "this very night, before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times."

Matthew 26:34, Matthew 26:74

The crow of a rooster gained a special significants in the Bible.
I know of many personally supernatural events, some large, some small.
Supernatural events surround us, bathe us, and endlessly occur every moment.
And the rooster fits the Natural setting of a SunRise, especially with our country home.
This Rooster was sent to me by my sister Becky. She said that she liked it, and did not know why.
So, I animated it, and included it. Thank you Becky.

My program technically knows very accurately the exact time of SunRise and SunSet. But I did not want to put Science in the highest esteem. I wanted to put the "magical" in the highest esteem and significants. Therefor, I had my AI Secretary use the rooster for supreme reference. In this example, she knows that it is SunRise, because of the Rooster Crow, not her clocks unparalleled in accuracy.

SunSet

SunSet is similar, except is played at full volume, because the secretaries assume that I am not asleep. However, long ago at KHSL, and Broadcasting in general, SunSet was very important for Legal reasons. It was the time, I think 30 minutes prior, that tower lights had to on. In addition all lights had to be visually verified, or remotely measured. I wrote the programs that measured the current from every side light bulb, and both beacon bulbs, for our two big towers.

Of course, my programs were serious back then. The were official, without the satire, drama, or sexual color. Nowadays, my programs are private and not so serious. But fun! My wife can not figure out how it could be "fun".

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Visual Moon Map

Here is a screen shot of a Celestial Screen. So far, it is only for the Moon. The moon is presently shown "under the Earth", and is not visible, at the 02:00 position. The phase is a "Full Moon", and the phase is known to several dismal places, but I have only created 8 moons depicting a moon in a particular view. The brightness is also know, and is listed as 99%. The hour of the "Apex", as I have it listed, is also known. In this case, the highest point in the sky is 00 hours, or "Midnight". Also note that for a Full Moon, the Sun is 180 degrees of the Moon, or 12 hours. With the Earth in between the Sun and the Moon, the Moon will be fully illuminated as viewed from anywhere on the Earth. And a New Moon is when the Moon is in front of the Sun, such that the sunlit side of the moon is not visible from the Earth. When the moon is out to the sides of the Earth in its orbit, only part of the sunlit side of the moon is visible.

I wrote this so that I would know where the moon is located in reference to a flat-looking Earth. Too make it easy and simple, I divided the "sky" into 24 parts, corresponding to Hours. I could have used 360 degrees, or of course two pi radians. But 24 hours works also by being intuitive. A 24 hour sky matches our biology. The precission is in the numbers, not in the illistrated positions. On an eleps, the position-numbers should bunch up at the apogee ends. Mine do not, out of laziness, I guess.

However, the 24 hour cycle is divided into two 12 hour sub cycles that represent day and night. From the perspective of a person standing on the surface of the earth, one witnesses two skys; a daytime sky and a nighttime sky. The label numbering changes, as well as the label coloring. On the one 24 hr map, any day begins near the "06" label. And any night begins near the "18" label. The labels change to keep a human standing upright and not upside down. Although, having a male brain, I can easily handle the mental gymnastics. Like being in a fighter jet or spacecraft. When I step out on the porch to look at the moon, I would rather have my "up" pointing up. Just saying...

How does it work? Of course, my secretaries have access to this information on the Internet, but they do not use or need it. I seed the program once a year. The accuracy of the lunar cycle is known to many decimal places. For example, 29.530588 days for the moon to circle the Earth, measured with Sun-facing reference. . I am also using the 27 day Star-cycle, which does not consider the moon's prograde with the earths rotation. And I suppose that I could seed, with initial conditions, once every twenty years if I wanted. But, there is a limit. Even with double precision, numbers begin to degrade with noise and uncertainty. It is like DNA replicating; you are going to get errors, and even more so in biology, in the real world of insults. But even in mathematics, with no external influence, fundamentally, as a pure principle, accuracy degrades; EVEN if you have telemiers and error correcting. No way around it; entropy wins, you can not even get a draw. Go look in the mirror.

There is entropy in the mirror as well as entropy of mathematical precision. I search for numerical ways to measure entropy. For example, every year there are more makeup bottles on the counter. My wife started out with a half dozen, now about 30. There is a corelation here, perhaps even a measurement. I dare not discuss physics type principles, like "Cant Win" with my wife. She might take away my computer.

Here, I have made more changes. I no longer use tables. My Remote Control MicroProcessor Chips still use tables. But here I have wrote Algorithms for all Sun and Moon Rise and Set times. The Secretaries already have this information and more, in cryptic tabulated form perfect for a digital agent. They do not need a picture of the moon and the sun. They live in a foreign world of numbers. But my human brain is more visual, and subjectively, this is just a quick depiction. A pictorial abstraction. A picture gives me a quick overview that is familiar to a human. The human brain is not capable of 4 or 5 digits of accuracy anyway. In evolution, there is no advantage to such a stupid need. But there is an advantage for speed and abstraction.

My Secretaries have no capabilities of analysing an image - far from it. But they love images when they are a gift to me. After all, they serve me. For example, my Nurse Secretary shows me actual pictures of my pill bottles, just to make sure I get it right. And now, I have a picture of the Solar System.

I do not use AI when I write. My code is my own, and if it is not natively in my head it does not get wrote. But, even now, ordinary people will be able to use AI to help with certain aspects of their lives, similar to this program.

And AI agents will be better at it than I. At least in high speed running of mechanical gears and gymnastics. In the mean time, I, out of breath, enjoy running along side a precession giant with wonderful promise. I may be clunkity and slow, and make mistakes. But for the present, I still have magical powers that clearly put me out ahead. I have to admitt that the leg-work has me out of breath, and I can not compete. But I know where I am going.

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Now the program has a Moon-Meridian line. This line marks when the Moon is at its zeneth on either side of the Earth, Light or Dark. The equations for the Moon are complicated, and I have spent weeks on them. The equations can be simplified with the help of the Sun. For example, the tilt of the Earth is ridiculously simple. Just measure it using the Sun, and do not calculate it. The horizontal line represents the Earth at the equator, no Earth tilt, and runs through "6" and "18". Six and eighteen represent hours, but could also represent 180 degrees and 0 degrees. Sun up could be above or below the "6", and Sun Down could above or below the "18". For example, if SunUp is at 05:03, there is a difference of 6.000-5.050, or 0.95 Hours. You can actually use "Hours" to measure the tilt. Every one else uses degrees, as in Latitude. And the Earth's Tilt is basically the same for the Sun as for the Moon. Why make things difficult? Actually, the moon has a 5 degree difference in orbital plane, but it is small enough to egnore. This illeminates a lot of equations.

Made some changes.

Added red tab markers for each hour. I am careful to maintain the concept of two 12 hour periods withen the 24 hour cycle. Our biological history dictates two skies. A 12 hour Day-Sky, and a 12 hour Night-Sky. But the 24 hour system is the only way to tell time. The 24 hour system is fundamental, and is the framework for all calculations. It does not matter on the units; the 24 hour system can be expressed in degrees, radians, or a fraction, as in a fundamental wave, 0 to 1. The 24 hour system is essential. But once the sun passes below the ground on the horizon for any given location, the sky changes to a NightTime sky. The letters change to a blue color and they change in enumeration to the 12 hour letters.

I am probably the first person in the world to build a hybrid clock that is both a 12 hour display and a 24 hour display. And of course it can only be done if you know the sunrise and the sunset times. It can only be done if you can accurately simulate a real nighttime sky and a real daytime sky, as it looks to a real person, standing on the earth.

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