"Blue" Earth Grid by Bill Nelson

reprinting this obscure grid info, hoping to get updates! please comment or email ask[at]danshaw[dot]com

Blue Grid

by Bill Nelson

What is this Blue Grid?

You're probably familiar with this Planetary Grid System map. Let's start by looking at this:

The following credits need to be given when reprinting this photo:

The Planetary Grid System shown [here] was inspired by an original article by Christopher Bird, "Planetary Grid," published in New Age Journal #5, May 1975, pp. 36-41. The hexakis icosahedron grid, coordinate calculations, and point classification system are the original research of Bethe Hagens and William S. Becker.

Now the pattern in the above map corresponds to the Becker-Hagens grid. The only problem is, the coordinates for this grid don't fit too well into real life once you go walking along the lines attempting to feel some energy. That's where this website comes in:

http://www.gewo.applet.cz/earth/planetary_grid.htm

This website has a similar grid pattern also inspired by Christopher Bird, but these coordinates are shifted quite a bit from the Becker-Hagens grid. The site also calls these lines the "Russian Grid".

But if you just consider the basic lines of that Russian Grid, it's not enough to just draw the white lines like you see in the main menu of this site. There are these extra "blue lines" that are needed to tell the rest of the story. So I found those extra blue lines from the work of Buckminster Fuller, in his book, Synergetics 2. Here's his lines for one triangle:

http://www.rwgrayprojects.com/synergetics/s09/figs/f87132f.html

However, I first found out about these extra blue lines from Dan Shaw's Vortexmaps.com site. There, these lines have a more pleasant sounding "EarthStar" name.

So here's where the story gets confusing: at the time I thought it would be helpful to draw those "EarthStar" lines all over the globe. So I attached this EarthStar system to the Becker-Hagens grid, thinking it would help. To make a long story short, it turned out that the Becker-Hagens grid itself wasn't allowing energy-sensitive people to feel any energy along these lines.

So that's when I remembered the ol' "Russian Grid", and thought that maybe... The "EarthStar" pattern would fit into real-life better with this grid. Little did I know just HOW well...

So when I was drawing the Becker-Hagens grid, I used RED lines in maps. That's because I only had four basic colors to choose for a line. When I went to draw these EarthStar lines into the Russian Grid, I was forced into using BLUE. That's how this "Blue Grid" got started. And it's better to use blue because my only other color choice was green.

So the Russian Grid is not my idea, and Buckminster Fuller's EarthStar lines are not my idea either. I haven't found anyone on the web who has drawn these EarthStar lines into the "Russian Grid", so maybe, this linking of two ideas is the only thing you could call "mine". Not that it matters. You can have the idea be "yours" too if you want.

I didn't plan on this (EarthStar)-(Russian Grid) idea lining up with NORAD, UFO sightings, Lake Vostok, and Eltanin antennas, but it just happened to turn out that way. It's also good to know that if you walk along these blue grid lines, you have a much better chance at sensing some energy.

The odd part is: a lot of people have already BEEN to some of these blue lines. They've known all along WHERE they can feel the energy -- they just didn't have a precise grid pattern like the Blue Grid to follow.

I cannot think of a better name for this (EarthStar)-(Russian Grid) idea, so for the lack of a better catch phrase, I'm just calling it the "Blue Grid".

TECHNICAL INFO

This area is for explaining how I arrived at the coordinates for the Blue Grid, etc. This page (after this first paragraph) was all written back when I was first figuring out how to find places along the grid lines. My current version now uses thousands of pre-calculated headings, to speed things up in MS Access XP. I'll explain it all later...

How to find the proper Second closest grid point:

Repeat this over and over until you get it down pat:

Remember: Latitude degrees for North have positive (+) values.

Remember: Latitude degrees for South have negative (-) values.

Remember: Longitude degrees for East have positive (+) values.

Remember: Longitude degrees for West have negative (-) values.

Wisdom: Why are West values are negative? Because some group decided that the degrees should start with zero in the Eastern Hemisphere. Then imagine as you fly in the direction from London to Moscow, the degrees get higher and higher: 10, 20, 30. But when you fly beyond Japan, you approach 179 degrees East. When you go beyond this point, you end up in the Western Hemisphere and the values would go higher: 190, 200, 210, etc., up to almost 360 degrees. If you ever see longitude values above 180, that means they're in the Western hemisphere, see? So to force these values to be negative, you subtract 360 FROM that degree value in the West. For example, 260 minus 360 is -100 degrees. Usually you see observatories listed with longitude values ranging from 0 to 360, and they don't do that "subtracting thing" because they use a whole different ball game to note their global position. That's the parallax method, and it's too complicated to try and describe it here.

Wisdom: with this grid of 62 points around the earth, six of them are NORTH, and six are SOUTH. Whenever you find one of these points, that means TEN lines radiate away from that spot. For all the rest of the points, either FOUR or SIX lines radiate away from each point. When all the points are connected right, the whole earth ends up being covered in triangles. The short end of each triangle is about 1254.3 nautical miles (nm). The medium line is about 1903.04 nm, and the longest line is about 2242.6 nm. If any of the 62 points isn't placed right, they'll have to get prodded back in place so that the distance for all lines related to that spot are either Short, Medium, or Long. That's important, as we'll see soon.

Wisdom: the distance between two points on the earth is called the Great Circle Distance, or GCD. The usual method with trigonometry functions will suffice here, because we don't have to care that the earth isn't perfectly spherical. That's because in a separate process, we'll let our earth location be up to TWO degrees away from a grid line on EITHER side.

Wisdom: the direction you're headed in from one point to another is called the True Course, or Heading. Even more complicated-looking trigonometry is used to get this handy-dandy value in degrees. BEWARE: because this grid has starting and ending points that share either a latitude or or longitude number, you have to remember the 180/360, 90/270 rule with finding true course. If both longitudes match and you're headed from more north to more south, the true course is 180 degrees; if you're headed from more south to more north, the true course is 360 degrees. Likewise, if both latitudes match and you're headed in one direction, it's 90 degrees; the other direction is 270 degrees. My programming factors this in to properly find the true course.

NOW, let's find the best Second closest grid point!

01. Set LineShort to 1254.3.

02. Set LineMedium to 1903.04.

03. Set LineLong to 2242.6.

04. Start with a location (MY)'s two values: latitude and longitude.

05. If either latitude or longitude is blank, then STOP here and say "--" is the answer.

06. Somehow remember the locations for all 62 grid points. You'll need them.

07. Now find PT1, the closest node to point MY, by finding the lowest GCD between point MY and each of the 62 nodes. Keep a list of all these 62 GCD values; we'll need them too!

08. Remember the GCD of PT1 to point MY! I'll tell you why at the end.

09. Now ignore that node for PT1, and find the second closest node to point MY. That's PT2.

10. Now ignore PT1 AND PT2, and find the third closest node to point MY. That's PT3.

11. Now ignore PT1, PT2 AND PT3, and find the fourth closest node to point MY. That's PT4.

12. WAIT! Check the GCD from PT1 to PT4. If the distance ain't LineShort, LineMedium, or LineLong, then forget about using PT4 from now on. That's because the PT1 to PT4 line would be an ILLEGAL one; meaning, you'd be trying to connect THREE triangles! Not good. We HAVE to care about this because: for nodes where there aren't many lines, PT4 is IGNORED; for nodes with ten lines emanating, we HAVE to consider PT4 because of all those TEN lines having all those angles.

13. HOLD ON AGAIN! Check the GCD from PT1 to PT3. If the distance isn't LineShort, LineMedium, or LineLong, then forget about using PT3 from now on too. However, if PT3 is no good, chances are PT4 WILL be used.

14. Find the Heading of PT1 to PT2, and call it TC2.

15. Find the Heading of PT1 to PT3, and call it TC3.

16. Find the Heading of PT1 to point MY, and call it TCX.

17. If we're allowed to use PT4, find the Heading of PT1 to PT4, and call it TC4.

18. Now play "To Tell The Truth" with TC2, TC3 (if you're allowed to), (and PT4 if you're allowed to), by taking the absolute values of TCX-TC2, TCX-TC3, (and TCX-TC4 if you're allowed to). If you get a relative heading of more than 180 degrees, you have to subtract that number from 360 (i.e. 360-x). The lowest value WINS and is the Best PT2 point!

19. Put your answer together so LOTS of values all fit in one field. The Best PT2 point goes first, then a space, then PT1 and a space, then PT2 and a space, then PT3 and a space, then PT4 and a space, and finally that GCD of PT1 to MY.

20. HERE'S WHY you need to save that GCD of PT1 to MY: if your point MY is insanely close (within a couple nautical miles) to one of the 62 nodes in the earth, who cares at all about PT2, PT3, OR PT4? When your point MY is close by distance like that it doesn't matter WHAT the heading is: you just say your point MY is close to a node by distance alone, and note that point MY. You HAVE TO do this because OTHERWISE, your Heading is all outta WHACK: the system says your point is like 20 degrees away from a grid line, and you'd ignore the point not realizing how close your point is to a node.

After this, you take that crummy-looking answer and paste it into a field in a table. Then pull out the values you need and compare the Heading of PT1-PT2 to PT1-MY. If the headings are within 2 degrees of each other, then you're flying in the same direction. You'd have to be! And that means your point MY is along the PT1-PT2 grid line.

If your method of finding the Best PT2 node is quicker than my version, then we'll all use your version! Good luck. I'm baffled as to how pilots would do this process any more efficiently. At least my version won't ignore any grid lines like it did before.

Download the global list of junction points for this "Blue Grid":

bgnodesdms.zip has decimal format as well as deg/min/sec format.

bgnodesgps.zip has decimal format as well as GPS-Tool format (e.g.. N45*45.38333).

I can also make a PCX5 2.05/Garmin format if you want.

If you need other GPS-Tool formats you can go download TrackMaker at http://www.gpstm.com.

The following list is a sample of what's available... as of 09/28/2003, the links ARE here!

And HEY! Knock, knock, knock! Some of the text files are in Unicode (UTF-8) format!

These lists show what places are found along these blue grid lines. All the lists have at least three extra columns:

Triangle - To tell you the grid triangle where the point is found

ESpt1 - This is the closest junction to your point X

ESpt2 - This is the second best junction to your point X.

If you see a field called ESpt1nm, that value tells you how far away your point X is from that ESpt1 junction. This is IMPORTANT when you are trying to get close to a grid junction, because when you're really close to a junction, heading comparison does not matter.

bgabandonedmineus.zip - Abandoned mines in US. Complete list has 11,845 places so far.

bgairportworld.zip - Airports around the world

bgairportrural.zip - Airports classified as "rural", such as helipads, or tops of hospitals, etc.

bgairportaband.zip - Airports that have been abandoned, or perhaps torn down and reused in another way.

bgantarctica.zip - Antarctica points. Remember Lake Vostok? This is the rest of the list.

bgasclose.zip - Australia places, including all types of points

bgascrsites.zip - Australia, another list of cities that may not all be included in bgasclose.zip

bgasnodeclose.zip - Australia. Here are the notable places close to ANY node in the country.

bgbrclose.zip - Brazil. Ten text files break up what's close by TENTHs of a degree. 00=0.0, 01=0.1, etc.

bgbrnodeclose.zip - Brazil. Here are the notable places close to ANY node in the country.

bgcaclose.zip - Canada places, including all types of points.

bgcanadadtv.zip - Canada digital TV antennas.

bgcenteqclose.zip - 20th Century earthquakes over 5.5, sorted by year, month, and day

bgcitieseurope.zip - some cities in some of the countries in Europe

bgcraters.zip - Craters along grid lines. Wonder what effect the creation of these craters had on life?

bgdisa.zip - DISA locations.

bgfrclose.zip - France, all types of points. Sorry, I didn't manage to get Rennes Le Chateau to fit into this Grid.

bgfrnodeclose.zip - France. Here are the notable places close to ANY node in the country.

bggloss.zip - some GLOSS stations.

bggrclose.zip - Greece, all types of points.

bggrnodeclose.zip - Greece. Here are the notable places close to ANY node in the country.

bgidclose.zip - Indonesia, most of the cool types of points, except cities.

bgidnodesclose.zip - Indonesia. Here are the notable places close to ANY node in the country.

bgizclose.zip - Iraq, most types of points.

bgiznodeclose.zip - Iraq. Here are the notable places close to ANY node in the country.

bgjaclosemisc.zip - Japan, most types of points except for cities.

bgmilitaryus.zip - Military sites in the US

bgneic.zip - NEIC stations

bgngdchotsprings.zip - Hot springs in the USA

bgnoclose.zip - Norway, including ALL types of points

bgnonodeclose.zip - Norway. Here are the notable places close to ANY node in the country.

bgnukereactors.zip - Nuclear reactors. Only these reactors are insanely close to a grid line

bgppclose.zip - Papua New Guinea, including all types of points.

bgppnodeclose.zip - Papua New Guinea. Here are the notable places close to ANY node in the country.

bgradioworld.zip - some radio stations around the world

bgrbsn.zip - RBSN stations around the world

bgrpclosemisc.zip - Philippines, including most types of points except for cities.

bgrscloseruins.zip - Russia - only RUINS are in this list. The word "razvaliny" is repeated.

bgseaports.zip - Seaports around the world

bgsuaeuro.zip - SUAs (Special Use Airspaces) in Europe

bgsuanorthamer.zip - SUAs (Special Use Airspaces) in North America.

bgsummitsus.zip - The majority of the mountains or hills in the USA

bgtelescopes.zip - Telescope observatories around the world

bgtvcanada.zip - Canada, TV stations.

bgtvmexico.zip - Mexico, TV stations.

bgufclose.zip - UNDERSEA FEATURES, so you know where the reefs or seamounts lie.

bgukchurch.zip - United Kingdom, just the churches.

bgukclose.zip - United Kingdom, including all types of points.

bguknodeclose.zip - United Kingdom. Here are the notable places close to ANY node in the country.

bgusconcise.zip - United States, a concise list of all types of points for all fifty states.

bgvolcanoclose.zip - Volcanoes around the world. Take note of these!

WaterfallUS - Most of the waterfalls in the United States

bgwptclose.zip - NEW: Waypoints from DAFIF's WPT list

If you want other countries done, such as Mongolia, or some other far away place, let me know.

Lake Vostok

Here's a photo of Antarctica showing the Blue Grid lines. After getting this done, doesn't make you think "HEY isn't this NEAT?" I labeled the major nodes connected by the white lines. And would you look at that?! LAKE VOSTOK is placed right on junction point [31] (Lat. -77.4734121648443, Lon. 104.690146373659) of the Blue Grid!

Note here how minor grid junctions [22] and [28] are northeast of Lake Vostok. All these junctions are placed inside the S1-47-46 grid triangle. And in the map below, the perspective was fixed to overlay the Blue Grid lines. The map is upside-down, so the south pole is at the top of the map, along with the Vostok science station (78°27'51"S, 106°51'57"E). So because this map is upside-down, junctions [22] and [28] are northeast of junction [31] in real life.

By the way, if you look at the path the vehicles take as they head northwest across the lake, the vehicles pass right over junction point [31].

Now what are the odds of coming up with a grid pattern that BY CHANCE just happens to line up with Lake Vostok? I wasn't planning for this to happen. Lake Vostok is placed near a junction point of two blue lines and runs through the middle of a grid triangle. I've called Vostok's junction point <31>, because it was the original number used for the same point in Buckminster Fuller's book, Synergetics 2. Most of the other junction points have letter names so that the map doesn't get too confusing.

You may want to check out the other places along the blue grid lines in Antarctica, which you can get from the GET LISTS menu. Or you may want to just visit the junction points themselves.

PS: The Eltanin "thing" was shown to resemble a sponge in October 2003. In the 1911encyclopedia.org site, there is an entry for Cladorhiza Longipinna. If people had been allowed to see the figures on that encyclopedia page, we might have all seen the resemblance to the Eltanin object long ago. Even still, it doesn't take away from the fact that it is placed on a junction point of the Blue Grid.

Here's some important notes from this Wayback Machine archived webpage:

http://web.archive.org/web/20020221100805/http://www.clever.net/tenthmuse/paranormal/uso.html

From time to time strange mechanical objects have been found and, in some cases, physically contacted on the beds of the world's seas. During an expedition to the coast of Cape Horn in 1964 the ocenagraphic ship Eltanin photographed a strange "machine" at a depth of 13,500 feet. The object had a number of rods or antennae protruding from it. Attempts to determine what it was or how it got there have been unfruitful. On July 26, 1970 a diver in water 25-35 feet deep and 200 feet off the shore of Alcocebre in eastern Spain came across a 20 foot long cylindrical metal object on the sea floor. He tried unsuccessfully to move the cylinder and had equal luck in an attempt at scratching its surface with his knife. The following morning he and a friend were in a rowboat in the same area when the friend saw something suddenly fly out of the water. A subsequent dive several hours later revealed that the mysterious object was no longer there. On July 27, 1984 an object was seen crashing into the waters off Lummi Island, Washington, USA. Shortly afterward divers in the area came upon a metallic, egg-shaped object that seemed to be orange or gold in color. One diver actually stood on the object and felt it "humming." When he returned to the surface he found that his boots were covered in red dust. Another dive several days later showed the object to be missing.

{So tell me: how many unscratchable 20-foot-long cylindrical objects do you find on the sea floor? By the way, Alcocebre is right near major node N5 of the Blue Grid. AND: Lummi Island is ALSO along a Blue Grid line!}