‘During that 2029 close approach, Apophis will be visible to observers on the ground in the Eastern Hemisphere without the aid of a telescope or binoculars.’
A GRAVITON disruption allowed us to download nuggets from 1942’s first two weeks: The Malays failed to defend their turf from fascists and Kuala Lumpur fell to the Nipponese (11 January 1942); but “The Dutch garrison of Tarakan Island surrenders after a heroic fight against overwhelming odds.(12 January 1942)” [https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/world-war-two-timeline-of-events-1942] In the Eastern Front of World War Two, the Soviet Red Army recovered Kirov and Dorokhovo from the Nazis; in Germany itself, the first ejection seats were developed independently by Heinkel and SAAB; and in the United States of America, the Social Security Board made the earth-shaking decision to “share administrative expenses of State public assistance agencies incurred in services of an exploratory and organizational nature for war or defense purposes, even though such activity may not have been concerned directly with the assistance program on which the employee normally worked.(13 January 1942)” [https://www.ssa.gov/history/1940.html]
More alarming were the Nazi submarines sighted off Nantucket (13 January 1942). “The following morning, one of them sank a tanker 60 miles from Montauk Point. That U-boat traveled southwest and was soon hugging the South Shore beaches of Long Island, passing Long Beach, the Rockaways, and Coney Island. When it found no shipping outside the Narrows of New York harbor, and fearing possible mines, it turned eastward and patrolled our South Shore in the other direction. The U-boat soon found a British tanker carrying oil back to England. A torpedo sunk it off Quogue, Long Island.”
[https://www.liherald.com/stories/a-true-long-island-war-story-75-years-ago,92861]
Downloaded from the past, our first glimpse of Tokyo’s wartime military sexual slavery system: “Reign of terror! The law of the gun! People avoid Japanese soldiers in the streets. Everybody is afraid. When you pass a Japanese sentry, you must bow. A man was slapped for not bowing. Others have been tied to posts and made to look at the sun for hours. A man stealing a can of milk from a parked Japanese truck was bayoneted to death. Saw a naked woman bound to a post. She was quite young. There were many onlookers.”
[January 4, 1942entry in the Diary of Victor Buencamino] “Some sentries are odious, like the one in Santa Mesa, who is a mean-looking fellow. A man bowed before him, holding a cigar. He slapped the man, got the cigar and burned the man’s face with it. Saw another naked woman tied to a post. She was a mestiza. Street urchins were giggling.”
[https://philippinediaryproject.wordpress.com/1942/01/06/january-6-1942-2/]
That was Manila. In Bataan, a defender jotted: “Visited hospital in Base Camp. The sick were in make-shift bamboo beds. Many are afflicted with malaria. Others with dysentery.
Some are suffering from bullet-wounds, others from shrapnel injuries sustained during shelling and bombardment. Everyday hundreds of boys are being brought to hospital.
Doctors in hospital work 24 hours. Medicine used are leaves of plants and herbs. Doctors know when there is heavy fighting in front due to truckful of wounded brought to hospital while fighting is in progress. It is a heart-rending sight to see boys with open wounds diving on the sand when planes fly overhead. Wounds have to be cleaned all over again. Many shell-shocked cases. Sulfa-thiasol works miracles to injuries. But supply is very limited now. Some boys are suffering from vitaminosis. Weighed myself in hospital. I have lost ten pounds already. Got some quinine. I think I have malaria.” [January 12, 1942 entry in the Diary of Felipe Buencamino III of the HQ Intelligence Service]
The series of sacrifices had begun: 2nd Lt. Alexander Ramsey Nininger, Jr (Philippine Scouts, Company A, 1st Battalion, 57th Infantry, U.S. Army), “though assigned to another company not then engaged in combat, voluntarily attached himself to Company K, same regiment, while that unit was being attacked by enemy forces superior in firepower. Enemy snipers in trees and foxholes had stopped a counterattack to regain part of the position. In the hand-to-hand fighting which followed, 2d Lt. Nininger repeatedly forced his way to and into the hostile position. Though exposed to heavy enemy fire, he continued to attack with rifle and hand grenades and succeeded in destroying several enemy groups in foxholes, and enemy snipers. Although wounded three times, he continued his attacks until he was killed after pushing alone far within the enemy position. When his body was found after recapture of the position, one enemy officer and two enemy soldiers lay dead around him.” [https://www.cmohs.org/recipients/alexander-r-nininger-jr]
Nininger’s Medal of Honor (bestowed posthumously on January 29, 1942 for his action on January 12, 1942) was “the first of World War II” and it was earned at the Battle of Bataan, which opened at 1500 on 09 January 1942. [https://www.nasflmuseum.com/nininger.html]
So much for the yester-years. The graviton disruption also allowed us to upload a couple of destiny entanglement leaks from the future. Behold! “One of the most hazardous asteroids that could impact Earth” as it encounters our planet’s gravitational field in 2029, which could change that spin state and even cause ‘asteroid quakes’ … “On April 13, 2029, the asteroid Apophis will pass less than 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) from our planet’s surface — closer than the distance of geosynchronous satellites. During that 2029 close approach, Apophis will be visible to observers on the ground in the Eastern Hemisphere without the aid of a telescope or binoculars.” [https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasa-analysis-earth-is-safe-from-asteroid-apophis-for-100-plus-years]
Asteroid 99942 is one possibility. Another was made by the MIT computer program World One (originally created by the computer pioneer Jay Forrester): “At around 2020, the condition of the planet becomes highly critical. If we do nothing about it, the quality of life goes down to zero. Pollution becomes so seriously it will start to kill people, which in turn will cause the population to diminish, lower than it was in the 1900. At this stage, around 2040 to 2050, civilised life as we know it on this planet will cease to exist.”
[https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/in-1973-an-mit-computer-predicted-the-end-of-civilization-so-far-its-on-target/]
The computer did not even factor in the pandemic that broke from Wuhan. But its extrapolation seems on track: Computer predicts the end of civilisation (1973) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCxPOqwCr1I]
We shall upload more nengajos from the future when we get access to the Aeon time-ship.
Meanwhile, enjoy your fukubukuros and Osechi-ryÅri.
“Time travel. Ever since my first day in the job as a Starfleet Captain I swore I’d never let myself get caught in one of these god-forsaken paradoxes. The future is the past, the past is the future. It all gives me a headache.” — Janeway to Chakotay at Starling’s computer.
