While I share your concern that this may be a hoax, I think that unfortunately internet searches won't be too fruitful for pre-2000 urban legend material. I would remain highly skeptical, but I'd ask a civil war historian first before ruling this out entirely.
Manifest Destiny was the spirit of the times during western expansion. The West was considered "free and empty" (Let's ignore the natives), and it was America's destiny to control the continent from coast to coast.
So not as much about expanding, and more about growing in to what room "was available", I think.
You should look in to "The No Agenda Show".
You'll like it- news and media deconstruction that is entirely listener supported. 0 ads for EXACTLY the reason your stating.
I did a bit of digging after the show, he said that it would be "an explosive issue" or something- but the way he emphasized "explosive" made me think it was a hint- and so it was.
Turns out portobello mushrooms contain a decently large amount of agaritine, which can be made in to hydrazine, which can in turn be used for explosives or rocket fuel. Agaritine is also fairly cancerous/mutagenic to humans.
That's my best bet as to why he wouldn't talk about it, though the threat to his life I would think is more for comic effect.
In my experience, a desk is a reflection of your mind: cluttered desk, cluttered mind. Empty desk, empty mind. I need to strike a balance with ordered things on the periphery of my desk, and a large empty zone to bring work in to.
Desk hygiene cannot be overvalued- if that is the way your mind works best. I find I am often a product of my environment- wthats why working from home is so difficult; home is "relaxation and projects" space, not work space.
Same deal with clothes. I try to dress in a buttondown and slacks to go to work, whereas a lot of my coworkers just do a T-shirt and jeans.
Like the stanford prison experiments, it is all about the environment.
It can be a punishment for certain crimes- or as an extended punishment after jail. Things like stalking where a computer was a primary method, valid threats made on a computer, etc.
You know it goes away right? For all the hate in this thread, I am still in love with my vive. The motion sickness is a problem at first, but your body eventually adapts- took about 2 weeks for me, now I never get motion sick what-so-ever.
It seems fascination with the occult is a growing trend among the educated for some reason. In the past year I've met physicists, engineers, mathematicians, and more who have all gotten in to the field recently. I have too, so I suspect some confirmation bias, but it seems to me more than I was expecting.
I can see how a new listener might be thrown off, but they really aren't conspiracy nuts.
Yes, they frequently joke about chemtrails, but it is within a context of a joke, or as a punchline.
Yes, they mock scientists that advocate for global climate change- not because of the actual phenomena, but because of the low quality of the papers that promote it, the corrupt method by which grants are only given to those that agree with the hypothesis, and the near fanatical following that people have created around it.
Is climate change real? Of course, they aren't doubting that.
Is there a lot of hokum surrounding it? Absolutely. People become fear mongers to turn a quick buck.
No Agenda is, as many fans of the show put it "a twice weekly dose of sanity". When people were freaking out about "Russia hacking the DNC", they scoured the news and put all the evidence on the table, which turns out there wasn't much. Other news just took the headline and ran. Same deal on the other side of the conspiracy-isle with pizzagate: they scoured and put all the evidence on the table. Turns out there wasn't much. They are fantastic for calming you down when the news winds you up about something.
In defense of the Clinton body count thing, I think it would be an assassin's number 1 goal to make an assassination seems like anything but, so it would be reasonable that there would be more reasonable explanations for every incident.
Not saying it happened, or any of those deaths were assassinations, but the nature of the claim makes it perniciously difficult to refute.
The way it works is that the satellite has very high velocity tangent to the earth- so they are constantly falling to earth, but they are moving tangent at the same rate that they are falling- because the earth is a sphere, the ground "falls away" from underneath them. They're constantly "missing" the Earth.
I only glossed the article, but from what I gathered, this didn't prove anything about QM, rather it was a technical achievement. One of the biggest problems with entangled pair distribution is actually separating the particles over some distance, because when the entangled particles interact with something ("observed") their state collapses and the entanglement may end.
This is what the achievement was, they managed to not destroy entanglement of a pair over a very long distance.