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Sleep 'tight' and don't let the bedbugs bite


In the past two years there has been a resurgence in the number of bed bug infestations in North America. Bedbug city has maps showing the extent of the plague, with the situation being worst with some of the heaviest infestations spreading in the Western Coastal regions of the United States which has a climate the most favorable to year round bed bug travelling (they are killed in winter should they be found outside the warm comfort of a nest in someone's bedroom, which inhibits their ability to travel in some regions of the country).

Bed bugs are making a comeback ... The story linked to here is typical of much of what you can read out on the internet about this rising plague of bed bugs. The plague is blamed upon 'international travel' in this article, while in other articles the plague is blamed on conditions in homeless shelters. Chemical bed bug Weapons of Mass Destruction are praised for allowing North Americans to live bedbug free for decades.

One thing is certain. People having been travelling internationally throughout the twentieth century, and they did not bring home a plague of bed bugs. Similarly people have been living in homeless shelters throughout the twentitieth century without infecting the rest of the country with a plague of bedbugs. Cities like New York had no major bed bug problem right up until 2005, and now infestations are spreading far and wide throughout New York City.

This leads one to ask the following question - why now? What has changed. International travel has not changed and homeless shelters have no changed, although these are being blamed for the currently raging epidemic of bed bugs. We also know by reading reports that pest control experts are holding emergency meetings around the country since it turns out that they don't have any effective pesticides against bedbugs, and thus are meeting to try to figure out what to do when someone calls for an exterminator and expects an extermination to result. We also know that bed bugs must be exterminated over and over again, repeatedly, and repeated and constant exterminations are the standard advice now being given on the bedbug websites out on the internet, since it is understood that the little buggers cannot easily be killed and thus have to be exterminated over and over again.

When you study the problem and have a couple of weeks to think it over, as I have, you draw the inevitable conclusion that we do not have a bed bug problem because people are travelling internationally or because homeless people live in shelters, but rather we have an explosive plague of bedbugs raging all over the country because the pest control experts have run out of pesticides that work, and now, having adapted to spraying, the little red buggers have burst through the pesticide barrier and are now out on a rampage all over the continent. It took them a few decades to overcome every pesticide we have available, and if there is one lesson people should have learned during the twentieth century, it is that you cannot rely on weapons of mass destruction forever, and that if you strike nature she strikes back, even if it does take a few decades. Each time those bed bugs are sprayed, and they need to be sprayed and sprayed and sprayed, because they are already so resistant, the survivors are the toughest of the little buggers. The end result is that today's spreading plague of bed bugs are the descendants of the toughest survivors of repeated sprayings over the past few decades. Since each spraying knocks out the weak and leaves the environment wide open for the strong to take over, spraying bedbugs with pesticides speeds up the development of resistance by artificially 'selecting' for resistant bed bugs, and therefore we can conclude that spraying is not the solution to the current bedbug plague but rather that spraying is the cause. It is because spraying has caused this modern eco-plague that pest control companies are now having emergency conferences to discuss what they are going to do about bed bugs now that the pesticides are no longer working.

There are those who might wonder what to do about the rising tide of super bed bugs that are spreading like a plague over the entire continent, and if calling for that biological nerve gas which is all that is left is off your list (as it is off my list) you might be wondering what you can do now that the bedbugs have kicked down the pesticide barriers and are coming for you sometime soon. (And yes, there are voices on the internet calling for the nerve gas, provided it is done properly, which involves throwing a tent over your dwelling and then exploding a biological weapon of mass destruction inside the tent, consisting of nerve gas, since it turns out that now bed bugs are so resistant to pesticides that only a wide spectrum killer, like a WMD, will now kill them, since it is capable of killing not only bedbugs, but anything else that lives on the planet. This could be considered our 'last line of defence' and it could be called a solution if you don't mind having your sofa and all your stuff coated with nerve gas in order to get rid of a bed bug, and if you don't mind the risk of shaving 10 or 20 years off of your life because you were exposed to carcinogenic substances which are as harmful to you as they are harmful to a bedbug).

I would like to propose a common sense solution to this bed bug plague, and I turn to the wisdom of the ages, the wisdom of our ancestors, who after all have had to put up with bedbugs since time immemorial, and did not have any WMDs to fall back on when the going got tough. They said, "Sleep 'tight' and don't let the bedbugs bite.' This is simple common sense, for you see people who have bed bugs have bedbugs because they allowed the bed bug to bite them. What happens is that first the bed bug will scout out your place, and then it will bite you just to find out if it can bite you. Once the bedbug bites you, thus confirming that it is possible to bite you, it will then proceed to scout out a location for a nest and set up camp so that it can bite you at its convenience from that time on. I know from my own experience that bed bugs are well adapted to humans, for you see if a human knows that a bedbug is around a human will not allow bed bugs to bite them, and so therefore bedbugs have adapted to be real sneaky since they don't want to be caught biting anyone. For you see you are a human and that thing is just a bug and therefore you are (theoretically anyways) smart enough to do something to stop a bed bug from biting you if you find out about that bedbug, so the bed bug would rather that you did not know. Therefore what it does is waits until you are in the deepest REM sleep, typically around five in the morning, and then it bites you and then it takes off and hides. It also injects an anesthetic so you can't feel anything when it bites you, because it does not want you waking up and finding out there is a bed bug in your room. Bedbugs have also adapted so that close to three quarters of the humans they bite do not even show signs of having been bitten (unlike a mosquito, they leave no welt, since a mosquito isn't trying to be real sneaky like a bed bug is sneaky.)

Here is an example. I set my alarm to wake up two hours early, and I caught a bunch of bed bugs running like hell to hide before I could see them. Apparently they did not expect the human to be waking up early and thought they had plenty of time, but I needed to get up early for a reason, and thus I caught the little red buggers. Now, you see, those bedbugs are in trouble, because they got caught, for you see, I am a human, and therefore I am not going to let them bite me anymore now that I know they are around.

When I surfed the internet and found out about all that spraying that is going on, and found out about how useless that spraying is and how resistant those bed bugs are, and then I found out that even though you have to spray over and over and over again, calling that exterminator again and again and again, because the buggers are resistant, and even then, people are going mad about spraying bed bugs, right then and there I knew that I needed a long term solution since apparently everyone else in the country has plans to replace our current super bed bug with an even more virulent strain, which will be the end result of all the spraying going on right now. I knew that somehow I would have to stop those things from getting me, since it was obvious that the rest of the country was planning to make damn sure that bed bugs became a part of life from now on and I also knew I couldn't put up with those disgusting little vampires.

Therefore I have isolated my bed. I am sleeping 'tight', and I just will not let those bed bugs bite. Bedbugs have trouble climbing the side of a metal coffee tin, which some people use around the bottom of their bed posts. I am using the highly polished slippery surface of a stainless steel bowl, since if bed bugs have trouble with a coffee can, I am sure they will have even more trouble walking upside down up the slippery slope of that stainless steel bowl. Inside the stainless steel bowl I have water. I have been considering adding some insecticide, but even water would probably be good enough. You see a soaking wed bed bug can hardly walk, due to the extra weight of that water, and therefore, since I have greased my metal bed posts with slippery vaseline, it seems unlikely that such an overburdened creature will be able to pull its soaking wet carcass vertically up that greased pole. I have a glue trap consisting of double sided carpet tape further up the pole. I am wrapping my mattress and box spring, trapping bed bugs inside where they will starve to death. I am adding tropical insect netting, as an extra barrier. I will be putting a six inch barrier of fresh water Diatomaceous Earth around the stainless steel bowls (do not use the salt water variety as it is unsafe, and keep in mind that there is an inhalation risk when spreadin this substance). This substance cuts the shell of crawling insects and causes them to dehydrate and die within 48 hours. The bed bug will also be falling upside down off that stainless steel bowl I am sure and landing on that DE a few times I am sure and getting cut up a little more each time. If need be I will pitch a tent, using velcro or duct tape around the zipper each night, since immature bed bugs are as small as a pin head and can make it through a zipper.

In short I am going to "sleep 'tight' and I will not let the bedbugs bite. After all, I am a human and those things are bugs. They know that, which is why I am sure that these bed bugs are real sorry they got caught since now they can't get away with it anymore. For you see, if someone has bedbugs, that means it is their own fault. Instead of feeling sorry for people who are telling horror stories about bed bugs, a common sense response would be to say to them, 'you aren't letting them bite you, are you?' They do not have a 'moral responsiblity' to increase pesticide usage by spraying bedbugs, thus sparing their neighbours the ordeal of possible infection, but rather everyone has a moral responsibility to not allow a bed bug to bite them, because if the allow bedbugs to bite them, they will nest, then breed, and then move on in greater numbers to bite you neighbour, which would be your fault, since you did not sleep 'tight', but instead you just let some bed bug bite you, which was morally wrong, since now it will be biting someone else.

If you do not have bed bugs now, the best thing to do since their is plague of pesticide resistant bedbugs now sweeping the country, is to prepare in advance by taking such steps as I described above, or other steps as seem sensible to you. In the days ahead, a bed bug will coming by to check out your pad, and when it finds out that it can't bite you, it will shove off and move next door and bite your neighbour, provided that your neighbour is morally irresponsible, and decides to host and feed a nest of bed bugs, in which case you should not feel sorry for your neighbour or feel guilty for having sent that bedbug next door when it found out it couldn't bite you, but rather you should give your neighbour a scolding for doing something so stupid as allowing themselves to be bitten by a bedbug, thus spreading the plague even more, instead of starving that bed bug to death, a solution for which a bedbug has no known resistance, nor could it ever develop such resistance.

So then "sleep 'tight' and whatever you do, don't let those bed bugs bite," for your neighbours are going to spraying bedbugs like mad now that the pesticides aren't working anymore, which means that we are going to be putting up with a virulent plague of bed bugs for quite some time, and you might as well adapt to the new reality right now and start getting used to the idea that the world has suddenly changed for you. And if you hear about someone else who has been bitten by a bed bug, be sure to give them supreme hell for allowing that to happen, and just tell them the same thing our ancestors used to tell anyone who pissed them off by being bitten by a bed bug, th us keeping those around for another generation - 'Sleep 'tight' and don't let the bedbugs bite.'


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A Unified Field Theory

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The Unified Field Theory
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Introduction :The Pioneer Effect and the New Physics. A brief description of the new physics required to explain the 'Pioneer Effect', which is the constant deceleration of space craft as they fly through space.







Principles of Evolution: A Study in the Evolution of Bedbugs


A couple of years ago my bedroom was invaded by bedbugs. There were two variant genetic lines. One type of bedbug was an enlongated, thin, tubular insect, and the second genetic line was a flat, perfectly circular insect. The result of the cross breeding of these two genetically distinct variants was the production of a bedbug with charcteristics of both, an enlongated, flat bedbug with a central bulge (such that the shape of the bedbug was somewhere between 'long' and 'circular'). The long skinny bedbugs were such strange and unfamiliar looking insects that at first I did not recognize them as being bedbugs, and considered them to be a seperate species of insect. However, as the photographs of bedbugs above indicate, enlongated and skinny bedbugs are not uncommon, and the photographs also show the variants that are produced by genetic combinations that result in an insect somewhere in between 'circular' and 'enlongated'.

Therefore it is my hypothesis that evolution occurs by means of the transfer of dominate genes, with the production of such dominant genes being the product of 'biological algorithms', a genetic software program that brings physical characteristics into harmony with behavior, such that when behavior changes, and a conflict then exists, this acts as a trigger and causes the release of dominant genes. The result is rapid evolution of species. The bedbug is a relatively new insect, not the product of millions of years of evolution but rather an insect that is evolving in real time. The newly emerging dominant form of the insect is the flat, round ciruclar insect, well adapted to living in human bedrooms (it is flat, rather than tubular, thus allowing it to hide in the smallest cracks, living a stealthy lifestyle, and it is round, which gives the insect a maximum storage capacity such that it must endanger itself only a few times a month by emerging to feed.

Other examples of rapid evolution include the development of long legs in an invasive species of toad in Australia. As the toads move into the mountainous regions of Australia, and their behvaior changes, making them 'climbing toads', over the course of just a couple of decades the toads in the highlands have grown long legs specially adapted to climbing. It is worth noting here that the toads are poisonous, and are a successful invasive species because they have no natural predators in Australia, and so it would not be the case that the toads with long legs were 'the fittest survivors', because all the toads are survivors, and therefore predation does not explain the rapid emergence and spread of such well adapted, long legged toads. Once again we see evidence for the existence of biological algorithms and the rapid spread of dominant genes through a population, which once introduced proceed to overwhelm the older genes which are being replaced (making toad long legged and a bed bug round and flat).


A Theological Experiment

My interest in pursuing the Unified Field Theory is spurred on by my need to discover the theoretical explanation of a new form of propulsion (as explained on this page: Why the Unified Field Theory?). The experiment involving the bedbugs came out of nowhere.

I also believe that it is possible to justify theological propositions using experimental methods. If a thing is an objective truth then it can be verified and proven true by means of experimentation. Such a theological proposition is of more value than a ‘divine revelation’, since such revelations depend upon nothing more than establishing authority figures which requires the creation of artificial hierarchies, for the only reason why I might be encouraged to believe an authority figure who orders me to believe unsubstantiated opinions is if I could somehow be convinced that this authority possessed a mind that was somehow superior to mine, and thus was fit to express opinions as though opinions were unquestionable facts and thus worthy of being elevated to the status of absolute dogma.

There is a self evident human inequality which is visibly apparent. Some people are ‘beautiful’ and thus are the true elite on this planet, and some people are not. It is this sexual inequality and the degeneration that follows upon beauty that is the true driving force behind all the evil that happens on earth. The need for ruthless oppression and the pursuit of wealth and the consequent creation of suffering and poverty which must follow upon this practice is for the purpose of creating an artificial alpha elite.

The true elites are the young and the beautiful. The artificial elite are the rich and the wealthy. The elite aging rich artificial alpha male has no good looks, for he is physically degenerate, but he will be found escorting beauty because he has a beautiful wallet. If he loses his wallet he will be found at home with all the other unattractive aged beta males sitting in a rocking chair watching reruns of Bonanza. No money, no sex. It is for this reason that the alpha males are found to be so ruthless and so violent in pursuit of their goal. The alpha male has fallen. The beta male has arisen and now the whole planet is full of ruinous destruction for it.

We see in religion a confused and contradictory reaction to this reality. On the one hand religion preaches a sexless heaven where castration and the clitorectomy create ‘pure spirits’. Muslims throw women under sacks. On the other hand religion supports hierarchy and is the prop of the elite alpha male. It is for this reason that religion is incoherent when it comes to speaking about sex.

Now we see this same principle at work in all of nature. Guppies dance and show off their colorful tails and the guppy who dances with the most colorful tail is the sexually successful guppy. Therefore it is the doctrine of the ruthless oppressor which teaches that the solution to human sexual violence is to be found in castration and the creation of pure ghosts. This would be equivalent to damning an aardvark for having the ‘sinful aardvark nature’ or prosecuting an anteater for the high crime of ‘ant genocide’.

Therefore it was my theological hypothesis that the correct solution to this problem is to give every guppy a beautiful colorful tail. I compare this solution to the classic religious solution which is to cut off every tail since having a tail is ‘sinful’. If having a tail is sinful then God must be sinful for no human being has any choice in deciding whether or not they would be born with a colorful tail, or whether they would not.

When I was young I was a beautiful guppy with a lovely tail. So everyone seemed to think. I am older now. My nose became very badly sunburned and destroyed. It seemed good to me to test my hypothesis by using these ‘biological algorithms’ to correct this problem. I healed half my nose as you can see by the line separating the still very dark patch on the side in the photograph below.





I documented my experiment on these pages. one two t hree four fi ve six


I have confirmed to my own satisfaction that my theological proposition is correct and that religious dogma is erroneous, being based as it was upon nothing more than ‘divine revelation’ which is just a form of opinionated speculation. For the time being I am not continuing this experiment, for I must wait until the weather on this planet improves, and the dark clouds of ruthless oppression break letting a little sun shine come through so that I can show the world the truth about God, by showing people how God goes about giving an old guppy back his beautiful colorful tail.


Until then I will have to sit on the sidelines, while all my scientific breakthroughs are deliberately ignored, while I wonder to myself what ever in the world could be wrong with the human race, because what this all will prove at the end of it all is that there definitely was something wrong with the people on this planet.