At first I attempted to place my old weather modification discussion on here but the layout will not allow me to post the graphics in their necessary format. For now I think I will move in the direction of my personal life and use this as a blog for a growing tool in my journey in an attempt to figure out why am I here on earth, why did God grant me so much power and what my purpose is.
The past 11 years have been amazing. I thought a lot about when it all started and how it was kick started and when was that one critical moment where the ball started rolling. I remember when it was and it was just one of those ho hum I have no confidence as a teenager kind of things.
It was another alarm clock morning waking up to goto a first period to have a class which I liked, American Dream English, but with a teacher I extremely resented. She treated me like a slave a little kid. I even took a song by AC/DC and used their beat and created lyrics to help overcome the stress and anguish her grip was having on my personal life. It was the last day to turn in my application for AP Physics and I was extremely depressed about life. I had a job the summer before and had the first smells of satisfaction and what it means to work. I worked on a snowball truck that traversed the Glen Burnie area. The winter before Mr. Jim said I was the only teenager on his entire route that he ever trusted. He said I was special but I never understood why. My peers in HS turned on me. I knew the value of work, they spent most of the summer playing video games. I had money, a g/f and God.
In school many teachers hated my guts because I was outspoken about their unethical ways of treating students and treating myself. Then there were the five that I still hold dearly to this day. Ms. Kosla my AP European History teacher,Mrs. Crum my Pre-Calc teacher, Mr. Ritz my 7th and 8th grade geography/history teacher, Mr. Lang my Economics teacher and most of all my idol to this day, Mr. Moore,my junior/senior yr physics teacher former teacher of the year in 2000 or 2001 I believe.
I sumbitted a paper to him as to why I wanted to learn AP Physics and I thought at the time, no one sees a damn thing in me at this high school, no one believes I'm worth anything and it was mild mid-Janurary morning during my Pre-Calc class that he pulled me out of class to have a one on one chat with me.
"I read your paper for wanting to be in AP Physics."
"you read that?"
"Would you be interested in an internship at NASA in Greenbelt that focused on
the current '97/'98 El Nino?"
"Sure, but I have no way to getting to NASA."
"Good, that can be taken care of."
"Really?"
" I have a senior that would be willing to take you."
That's all that was needed to start this adventure. I remember during the '97/'98 winter everyone asked, did that storm form because of El Nino? No one on the weather channel had the answer, but everyone kinda agreed that the extra warm waters in the Eastern Pacific were having an effect on global temperatures and the increase in global storms.
It was two years later while taking a walk on a warm summer night in July that I put two and two together on how El Nino/La Nina affect the weather. My first valid prediction was on 11/19/00. I hit it on the head. I was right...
Saturday, January 24, 2009
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