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What Would Happen to a Self-Driving Car During a Geostorm? . by Alice B. Clagett

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What Would Happen to a Self-Driving Car During a Geostorm?

Image: “Aurora borealis (Northern Lights) forecast for 12 November 2025,” by NOAA, public domain

Image: “Aurora borealis (Northern Lights) forecast for 12 November 2025,” by NOAA, public domain

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Dear Ones,

I was sparked by the Veterans Day Geostorm we all just experienced, along with a new Patch.com article …

Link: “Waymo Is Hitting The Highway. Here’s What To Know About The Robotaxi’s Expanded Service: The little driverless cars will now be seen on freeways and interstates around San Francisco and Los Angeles,” by AP News Partner, 13 November 2025 … https://patch.com/california/san-francisco/waymo-hitting-highway-heres-what-know-robotaxis-expanded-service ..

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I asked Google AI: What happens to waymo driverless cars during a geostorm?

Google AI said: “During a geomagnetic storm, Waymo vehicles are programmed to pull over and safely stop, as the company prioritizes the safety of its passengers and other road users over continuing the trip. While Waymo has extensive weather testing experience and systems to handle conditions like heavy rain and snow, a geomagnetic storm presents a unique challenge by potentially disrupting the vehicle’s GPS and other navigation systems, which are crucial for its safe operation. The cars are equipped with technology to detect extreme weather, and their primary response is to stop and wait for the conditions to improve before resuming their journey.

Sensor limitations: Geomagnetic storms, unlike other weather events like rain or snow, don’t directly obscure a car’s cameras, lidar, or radar. However, they can interfere with the GPS system’s ability to pinpoint the vehicle’s location accurately.

Safety protocols: Waymo vehicles are designed to detect and react to extreme weather events that could compromise the safety of their operation. In a geomagnetic storm, this would include automatically pulling over to a safe location and stopping the vehicle until the storm has passed.

Trained response: While Waymo vehicles are trained for various weather conditions, they may not be able to navigate through a severe geomagnetic storm as they could with heavy rain or snow. The company’s primary response is to stop and wait for the storm to pass.” [bolding is mine]

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I noticed this response was considerably different from the first response I elicited from Google AI regarding this question. It looked to me as if Google AI had possibly moved quite swiftly into ‘data massaging’ mode and sculpted the changeup … possibly so as to lull our minds to possible upcoming dangers on the California highways?

I checked the WordPress code of the new Google AI response and found an impressive maze of code. Huh! Maybe those of you who are adept at code can proclaim the ‘yay or nay’ of my perhaps unfounded ‘data massaging’ hunch?

Here is the above question with code …

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Along similar lines, I noticed an article in today’s SpaceWeather.com … https://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=15&month=11&year=2025 … “Did the Solar Storm confuse this lawnmower?”

As it devolved, this was about a Lymow One Robotic Lawnmower that uses GPS/RTK. During the Veterans Day Geostorm the lawnmower went off course and started eating a flowerbed.

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So I asked Google AI: What happens with RTK [real-time kinetic positioning] during a geostorm?

Google AI said: “During a geostorm, RTK (Real-Time Kinematic) systems experience significant signal degradation, which can cause them to lose centimeter-level accuracy and drop from a “FIX” to a “FLOAT” state or an even less accurate mode. This happens because the storm causes large, rapid fluctuations in the ionosphere, which disrupt the GPS signals RTK relies on. These disturbances can lead to errors, delays, or temporary loss of signal lock, making precise positioning unreliable or impossible.” [bolding is mine]

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I asked Google AI: What uses RTK?

Google AI said: “RTK is used in applications that require high-precision, real-time positioning, such as precision agriculture, surveying and mapping, construction and excavation, and autonomous vehicles like drones and self-driving cars The technology is also used in mining for locating underground utilities and in cinematography for stable drone shots.” [bolding is mine]

CONCLUSION

So then tractors, surveying and mapping instruments, construction and excavation equipment, and driverless drones and cars that use RTK might … like the LyMow lawnmower, go off course during a geostorm.

And Waymo driverless vehicles might pull to the side of the highway and stop during a severe geostorm.

Now we know.

God bless you all
And keep you safe,
And be with you
Through all your days!

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Written and published on 14 November 2025; revised on 17 February 2026

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On Living Life Nobly . by Alice B. Clagett

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On Living Life Nobly

Image; “Nobility,” adapted from Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay … Pixabay License

Image; “Nobility,” adapted from Image by Sasin Tipchai from Pixabay … Pixabay License

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Dear Ones,

I asked Google AI: From what is the word Alice derived? Google AI said:

“The word Alice is derived from the Old French name Aalis, which is a short form of the Germanic name Adalheidis. The original German name means ‘noble’ and ‘exalted’, making Alice essentially mean ‘of noble kind’ or ‘noble-natured’.

Old High German: The name traces back to Adalheidis, a compound of two elements: aþala (‘noble’) and haidu (‘kind’ or ‘appearance’).

Old French: In Old French, the name became Aalis, a diminutive form of Adelais.

Norman Conquest: The name entered the English language through the Norman Conquest in the 12th century and gained popularity after that.”

I LEARNED ABOUT THE MEANING OF MY FIRST NAME EARLY IN LIFE by looking it up in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary [which was the favorite of all my books when I was young] under the category “A Pronouncing Vocabulary of Common English Given Names.”

RIGHT AFTER THAT category is the most excellent “Vocabulary of Rhymes.” And then – the rules of Spelling, Plurals, Punctuation, Compounds, and Italicization. And then [now outmoded] – Lists of Colleges and Universities in the United States and Canada!

This edition can still be found in used book stores from time to time.

I FIGURED, SINCE MY FIRST NAME MEANS ‘NOBLE’, that I ought to do my best to live up to that name. And so, I do my best to think noble thoughts, and to treat other people nobly, and to do noble things in the world.

At my website “Awakening with Planet Earth’ I strive to speak nobly, and to help other Lightworkers uplift the world.

For awhile, back in the day, I studied with the American Sikhs. Because of the meaning of my first name, I was taken with their notion that women are noble. I loved the song we sang about that, which Sat Kirin Kaur Khalsa sings quite beautifully here …

Video: “Living Your Truth – Nobility,” by Sat Kirin Khalsa – Topic, 28 October 2015 …  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE600KPFFPk ..

I know the notion of living nobly doesn’t get much press these days. I do feel, for myself, that while we are blessed with human form, we might go for the highest principles and live these truths.

Nobility is not just a dream.
It is what we can become
What we can right now be
How we can find sanctuary in a world of pain
How we can heal the All That Is
How we can be the very best
That we can be.

God bless you all
And keep you safe,
And be with you
Through all your days!

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

Written and published on 13 November 2025

 

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Theotokos – The Mother of God – and Mary Magdalene, Christ’s Spouse . by Alice B. Clagett

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Theotokos - The Mother of God - and Mary Magdalene, Christ's Spouse

Image: “Pentecost Icon,” by unknown author, date unknown, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pentecost_icon.jpg … public domain … Description: “An icon depicting the Theotokos with the apostles filled with the Holy Spirit, indicated by “cloven tongues like as of fire” (Acts 2:3) above their heads.” – Wikimedia Commons

Image: “Pentecost Icon,” by unknown author, date unknown, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pentecost_icon.jpg … public domain …

Description: “An icon depicting the Theotokos with the apostles filled with the Holy Spirit, indicated by “cloven tongues like as of fire” (Acts 2:3) above their heads.” – Wikimedia Commons

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Dear Ones,

Here is a great word: Theotokos. It means ‘the Mother of God’. The above image shows Mother Mary in an honored, central place as the apostles are filled with the Holy Spirit, which might also be termed God’s grace.

This reminds me of how the American Sikh Yogi Bhajan, who brought the science of kundalini yoga to America, thought of women as ‘the grace of God’. I recall in particular a meditation he once taught women. You can learn about it here …

Video: “Grace of God Meditation” by 13 Moons, 19 March 2023 …   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp798w_u7JA ..

It seems to me the role of Mother Mary and her honored position as the Mother of God are often overlooked in Christian churches today.

Quite the opposite, on the astral plane I have experienced a barbaric practice termed ‘excoriation’ by gatherings of spiritual men. It seems to me that this took place because of my role as conveyor of the grace of God to humankind.

Excoriation is a way of excising a person from the company of holy people. In other words it is a form of shunning. The excoriated person is eschewed. He or she becomes pariah

This is done through denunciation spoken in the foulest terms. The cause of this practice is pent-up anger. In other words, excoriation is a way of blaming that anger on a sacrificial victim.

I suggest as a healthy alternative the primal scream as a way of releasing pent-up anger. Through personal experience I have found the best place to practice the primal scream is somewhere no one else can hear us. Otherwise, what will they think of us?! Heaven only knows.

Or else get together with a group of friends for an anger release primal scream, as in this video where a group of mothers gathered on a field during COVID for a primal scream …

Video: “Moms gather on field for a ‘primal scream’ to let out pandemic emotions,”  by Good Morning America, 24 January 2022 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcJjj1t8hUA ..

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And now, on to the topic of religions demeaning women as sinful temptresses of men. When this thought-form is prevalent in a faith, then women are treated quite shamefully. A case in point is the story of Mary Magdalene in the New Testament.

Image: “Christ and the Sinner,” by Andrey Mironov, 2011, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christ_and_the_sinner.jpg … CC BY-SA 4.0 International … COMMENTS: This I feel to be a false representation of the role the Betrothed in relation to the Christ. — Alice B. Clagett

Image: “Christ and the Sinner,” by Andrey Mironov, 2011, in Wikimedia Commons … https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christ_and_the_sinner.jpg … CC BY-SA 4.0 International …

COMMENTS: This I feel to be a false representation of the role the Betrothed in relation to the Christ. — Alice B. Clagett

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In the Christian faith this story is sometimes taken as supporting evidence that women are evil and must be castigated and humiliated before men … before their spouses, before Christian groups of men before pastors, and even before hate-filled men unrelated to these Christian churches. This is a terrible evil of the current day; it represents a deeply Dark samskara or instance of Soul wounding that afflicts many, many people of the current day.

Image: “Christ and His Spouse Saint Mary Magdalene,” adapted from Image by Juergen Striewski from Pixabay, Pixabay Content License

Image: “Christ and His Spouse Saint Mary Magdalene,” adapted from Image by Juergen Striewski from Pixabay, Pixabay Content License

Amongst the Lightworkers, on the other hand, there is an uplifting story about Mary Magdalene. Some of us feel that Christ met her at the well, knew that she had been abused by many men, yet fell in love with her and asked to stay in her home that night.

Some of us feel Christ was betrothed to her that night, that he became her husband, and that she bore him five children. Four of these, we feel, were boy children who met their deaths before or at the time of Christ’s crucifixion.

One of Christ’s children was a girl. This child was named ‘Jeshua’ after her father. Along with Mother Mary and five of Christ’s Apostles Christ’s daughter Jeshua followed her Mary Magdalene as she fled to a far land to escape certain death at the hands of the Pharisees.

Image: “Christ and His Daughter Jeshua,” adapted from Image by Chil Vera from Pixabay, Pixabay Content License … COMMENTS: Here Christ’s daughter is 6 or 7 years old; she was 15 when her mother fled with her from Jerusalem. –Alice B. Clagett, on the advice of others who remember those days.

Image: “Christ and His Daughter Jeshua,” adapted from Image by Chil Vera from Pixabay, Pixabay Content License …

COMMENTS: Here Christ’s daughter is 6 or 7 years old; she was 15 when her mother fled with her from Jerusalem. –Alice B. Clagett, on the advice of others who remember those days.

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In that foreign place, for five decades we feel Mary Magdalene taught Christ’s truths to those whose hearts were open to His teachings.

In love, light and joy
This is Alice B. Clagett.
I Am of the Stars … and so are you!

This channeling is, in part, on the advice of others who remember those days.

The mark up images in this post have been added here: Link: “Tiny Anthologies: Image Markups 17,” by Alice B. Clagett, compiled and published on 21 December 2025 … https://wp.me/p2Rkym-Fzl ..

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Link: “Maryam and Yeshua,” A Short Story by Kate Osterloh, in The Sun, May 2020, pp 40-45 … https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/533/maryam-and-yeshua ..

Written and published on 21 April 2024

Image: “Church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem,” adapted from Image by krystianwin from Pixabay, Pixabay Content License

Image: “Church of Saint Mary Magdalene in Jerusalem,” adapted from Image by krystianwin from Pixabay, Pixabay Content License

 

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