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Coincidence

1/4 Yesterday morning, I was thinking about persons I’ve known who I have not seen or heard from for 40+ years. I searched for some of them on the internet. Google AI mis-informed me that a few of them had undergone major career changes: One had gone from a degree and career in forestry into medical school and become a physician; another had become a freelance journalist in South Africa after I knew him as a forester and firefighter. But, in reality, neither of those career changes was true. Google AI had seamlessly combined the search results for different persons who just coincidentally shared the same names. Google AI also claimed that I worked professionally in Tokyo, though I have no recollection of ever being in Japan.

#Coincidence #Serendipity #Biography #Memoir #PeaceCorps

"Doubleday"
Teableau for 04/11/26

When a daughter is born on her mother's own birthday.

#Tea #Coincidence #Teableau #TeaCozy #TeaCosy #Handmade #Sewing #VanGogh #Irises #HerbalTea

When 4 "Coincidences" Stop Being Coincidences

A 5.6km object is heading toward Jupiter with four characteristics that break the rules:

🎯 Targeting precision - Arriving at the exact gravitational boundary used for orbital insertion (1 in 25,000 odds)

⚖️ Impossible density - Would need to be lighter than cotton candy while staying intact (physics violation) (or hollow)

🔬 Industrial chemistry - Spectral signature matches refined aerospace alloys, not space ice

🎮 Active control - Jets that defy rotational physics without stabilization systems

Combined probability: <1 in 100,000
But that is just a number, let's visualise 1:100000;

3I/ATLAS arriving at Jupiter's Hill sphere boundary after a course correction is like watching five cars in a row all have license plates ending in 777 - while they're all driving to the same address - and they all arrived exactly on time.

Or

Three spins of a Roulette Wheel landing on the same number.

March 2026 Jupiter encounter = the moment of truth.
My prediction: Something totally anomalous will happen which will either be under-reported or, totally ignored or misrepresented. Can't wait!

And in a new paper NASA documents how it shut down ("contingency mode") it's TESS probe just when it could have gathered precise data about #3iAtlas (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.21569)

#space #coincidence #spaceship #nhi #nhe #uap #phenomenon #astronomy

How are you?

I would like to say I knew the sign in the background said, “How are you?” but it’s more likely I did not. I’m glad it worked out, and it just proves that you have to be ready to take the photograph when you’re doing street photography or you’ll miss the moment. In 2004, Ireland

https://inphotos.org/2025/12/20/how-are-you-2/
#2004 #Candid #coincidence #Cork #Ireland #PatrickStreet #PhoneCall #Photo #Photography #serendipity #Sony717 #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography

How are you?

I would like to say I knew the sign in the background said, “How are you?” but it’s more likely I did not. I’m glad it worked out, and it just proves that you have to be ready to take the photograph when you’re doing street photography or you’ll miss the moment.

In 2004, Ireland was in the midst of a mobile phone boom. The average Irish person was sending lots of text messages per month. The phones of the era were mostly Nokia models and early flip phones. The iPhone wouldn’t arrive for another three years. Making an actual voice call, as this woman is doing, was still the primary use of a mobile phone, rather than the app-launching, social-media-scrolling pocket computers we carry today.