{"id":24381,"date":"2022-07-18T20:08:29","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T20:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=24381"},"modified":"2022-07-18T20:08:29","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T20:08:29","slug":"terrence-howard-in-developing-new-hydrogen-technology-for-ugandas-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/07\/18\/terrence-howard-in-developing-new-hydrogen-technology-for-ugandas-defence\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrence Howard in developing new hydrogen technology for Uganda\u2019s defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-139bh9t\"><span class=\"dcr-1i2w9iu\"><span class=\"dcr-o4cepu\">I<\/span><\/span><span class=\"dcr-139bh9t\">n this day and age, it has become common for movie stars to develop their own little side hustles.\u00a0Gwyneth Paltrow, for instance, has Goop, and\u00a0Rob Lowe\u00a0has a podcast. And then there is Terrence Howard. Terrence Howard\u2019s side hustle is developing a new hydrogen technology to help defend the sovereignty of Uganda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-139bh9t\">It almost feels like a shame to back this up with anything as ugly as details, but here goes. Last week, the actor, singer and\u00a0aborted War Machine\u00a0Terrence Howard was invited by Uganda\u2019s agriculture minister Frank Tumwebaze to give an address to help attract investment from people in the Ugandan diaspora.<\/p>\n<div id=\"sign-in-gate\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dcr-139bh9t\">This in itself is fairly common. Getting a famous person to say some blandly inoffensive things about a subject or issue has long been part of the awareness-raising toolkit. However, this time there was a problem. The problem was that Terrence Howard doesn\u2019t do blandly inoffensive. No, Terrence Howard only does impenetrably batshit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-139bh9t\">\u201cI went out to explore a new way of understanding how the universe works,\u201d he told the crowd in a video that was quickly shared by UBC\u00a0Uganda. \u201cI was able to define the grand unified field equation they\u2019ve been looking for, and put it into geometry. What I am saying is that we have invented a new form of flight that I would like to bring here to Uganda to replace the drones, to replace the helicopters, to replace the planes \u2026 This is the geometry of hydrogen\u201d.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"414b8b7f-ec10-4cd1-9ec7-7c36e415d4bf\" class=\" dcr-10khgmf\" data-spacefinder-role=\"inline\" data-spacefinder-type=\"model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.EmbedBlockElement\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">VIDEO: I want to develop a New Hydrogen technology in Uganda. The main purpose of the project would be to defend the sovereignty of the country as far as technology is concerned &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/terrencehoward?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@terrencehoward<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/UBCUpdates?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#UBCUpdates<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CFkr8Fhkmk\">pic.twitter.com\/CFkr8Fhkmk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UBC UGANDA (@ubctvuganda) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ubctvuganda\/status\/1547229228533522433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 13, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-139bh9t\">On and on he went, somehow managing to cram several decades\u2019 worth of gobbledygook into two short minutes. He talked about his new drone system, the Lynchpin, that can apparently use unlimited hydrogen bonding and super-symmetry in order to form swarming colonies that can defend countries and remove plastics from the ocean.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-slot-container \"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dcr-139bh9t\">Now, obviously this sounds wonderful, because who doesn\u2019t want to have safer borders and cleaner seas backed by the power of super-symmetry? So I Googled \u201cSuper Symmetry\u201d and found a website called\u00a0Super Symmetrical Systems, which does little but blather on about how humanity\u2019s purpose \u201cwas deliberately branded into our genetic code. Like a sub-atomic, interwoven prime directive for us to search for the Greater Truth, to recall lost echoes of conversations from the past and to reveal that which has never been uncovered\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad-slot-container  offset-right ad-slot--offset-right ad-slot-container--offset-right\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dcr-139bh9t\">So I started clicking around, and found a link on the site called \u201cTerry on Wave Fields\u201d. This took me to the site where Terrence Howard explains his infamous (and arguably inaccurate) claim that\u00a0one multiplied by one equals two. It contains one video entitled \u201cTerrence proves gravity is an effect not a cause\u201d, captioned by an explanation for phenomena such as \u201chyperbolic geometric inertial systems\u201d and \u201cNon-Euclidean chiral asymmetries of force in motion\u201d. It also contains another video, of Terrence Howard\u00a0singing the second song from an album he released in 2008.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-139bh9t\">Anyway, long story short, I am now convinced that Terrence Howard is the cleverest man in the universe. He has to be, surely. Because I don\u2019t understand a single thing that he says. And, by all accounts, nor does anyone else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-139bh9t\">Underneath the UBC tweet, you will find scores of people all painfully unsure of how to react to his solution of the unified field equation. All the coverage it received, far from luring the diaspora\u2019s money to Uganda, only really achieves a kind of stunned inability to process anything. Even the people around Howard in the clip start to look actively uncomfortable the more he keeps talking, the same way you do when you realise you\u2019re too far into a conversation with a Jehovah\u2019s Witness to politely back out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-139bh9t\">Oh fine, listen, one of two things is going to happen here. Either Terrence Howard has gone bananas, and reacted to the disintegration of his personal reputation (he has been accused of domestic abuse multiple times) by falling into a hole of obscure mathematics that will ensure he is never taken seriously again. Or he is right, and will one day have an army of weaponised super-symmetrical murder drones at his solitary disposal. And I don\u2019t exactly want to get on his bad side if that happens, so you\u2019ll excuse me for sitting on the fence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this day and age, it has become common for movie stars to develop their own little side hustles.\u00a0Gwyneth Paltrow, for instance, has Goop, and\u00a0Rob Lowe\u00a0has a podcast. And then there is Terrence Howard. Terrence Howard\u2019s side hustle is developing a new hydrogen technology to help defend the sovereignty of Uganda. 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