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UNO UPDATE: Does Meteor Spashdown cause 9.0 Earthqauke and Tsunami?
UNO UPDATE: Does Meteor Spashdown cause 9.0 Earthqauke and Tsunami? - Part 2
UNO UPDATE: Does Meteor Spashdown cause 9.0 Earthqauke and Tsunami? - Part 3
5 years ago
Meteor showers to devastate planet Earth
Residents of Jakarta and two other neighboring Indonesian towns were frightened with a series of loud explosions on December 18th overnight.
Geminid meteor showers alarm area residents
KTRE-TV East Texas – Dec 16 6:51 AM
Geminid Meteor Shower Could Be Spectacular
NASA's Web site explains that the shower is created as Earth moves through a cloud of dust trailing the asteroid known as 3200 Phaethon. A cloud of dust is trailing the asteroid and Earth plows through it every year in mid-December, according to SpaceWeather.com. Bits of dust traveling 80,000 mph hit our atmosphere and turn into glowing meteors.
Scientists say the show features meteors shooting across the sky in all directions, and it's visible all over the world.
The meteor shower is expected to peak on Monday night, and the best time to look is around midnight.
"All I knwo is that I knwo nothing."
Both our senses and our reason are unreliable to some degree, so we can never lay claim to absolute truth, or real knwoledge.
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5 years ago
that pravda article is something else. normally when I read something like "Someone in deep black space deliberately bombards the Earth with meteorites," given without any source or evidence usually I'm a little skeptical, but hey, it's Pravda, so it has to be true!
5 years ago
hmm well all i know is that it appears all around this tsunami not a single person was given a warning.
were there no tremors? did the east coast of africa 2800 miles away not have time to react?
what the hell is going on here?
i read the times (uk) today (btw its my old mans and has no implication on MY politics) and it had a picture of the resultant wave, which were concentric rings covering Indonesia, India and across the indian ocean towards africa.
now i have a very limited knowledge of Tsunami's and earthquakes but i assumed that the ground under the ocean shifted and caused the sea to displace and would have given the resultant wave a definate direction. the quake itself wouldnt have caused a tsunami but the earth plates underwater moving outta level with each other.. is that right?
ermm need an explanation otherwise this was a comet, asteriod or summit that crashed into the sea causing one major-fuckin-ripple.
more-so the times report that there was NO WARNING, that the day was clear and pleasant.. now again i aint a scientist but even i realise that a scale 9 quake would be felt before the tsunami hit land… so what gives?
the guardian, which is run by a different media group to the Times shows this diagram… now its fuckin madness surely… how can a tsunami be created that travels, north, south east and west.. look at the dark blue lines which indicate the worst affected areas.
link to better clearer picture embedded
5 years ago
Earthquakes were felt actually and the tsunamis were also noticed by observers in the West about an hour or two before the tsunamis hit. The problem was a lack of a proper warning network and an inability of the people in the West to find someone to contact (besides which this happened in areas not set up for emergency services of the kind we have in NA). Also, as noted by neverknwo, locals in some areas reported seeing odd explosions or flashes in the air but they didn't seem to impact anywhere on solid ground. Considering that this is an area of active volcanoes, it's not surprising that an impact could trigger an earthquake trigger the tsunamis. Also, it's taking longer to piece together information because obviously a lot of the effected areas will be having trouble getting info out (just as aid workers are having problems getting supplies in).
5 years ago
Sarcasm blames SOLLOG.
5 years ago
Zark, you may be onto something!
I suggest you immediately begin telling everyone you know about how the US deliberately triggered these tsunamis. Don't let your self-confessed lack of knowledge about tsunamis or geology stop you, just as you didn't let the same lack of knowledge of physics dissuade you from offering forth your conspiratorial views on the Pentagon and WTC.
Don't let the man keep you down!
5 years ago
Sollog writes for pravda? :)
It looks to my admittedly untrained eye like the quake occured along the fault line between the Eurasian and Indian-Australian tectonic plates. That would seem to make a terrestrial explanation quite plausable.
5 years ago
NPR says that this was a plate shift, with one pushing the other down 15 meters or so….
5 years ago
Over the last few months, the world has seen a series of seeming coincidences. They may have been just that, coincidental. However, they are odd, no matter which way you look at them. The things we are talking about cross a very broad range of events, making it less obvious to connect them as dots.
International financial markets have seen strange movements, as have the political and military arenas. In addition, there has been a sudden, strong increase in meteor sightings around the globe. Perhaps we should take a closer look for a possible connection between these events.
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5 years ago
Strange Object Seen in Sky Across Fort Wayne makes it in the Russia News
Fort Wayne News Link:http://wane.com/Global/story.asp?S=2415755&nav=0RYbRsHg
UFOs attack Russian planes, US airport
Unidentified flying objects were spotted above the airbase on the outskirts of the town of Lipetsk. Colonel Vladimir Litvin was making a usual training flight, the newspaper (Zhisn) wrote. "There was no interference at all. Everything was working just fine. The plane of my conditional enemy was flying underneath mine. I was preparing to attack it, when I suddenly saw six objects on the target screen. The green and blue balls were different in size. The biggest one was in front of the smaller ones." The colonel saw the green ray of light coming out of the biggest object. The light was too bright, but the pilot managed to protect his eyes with the color filter of the helmet. He bent down to hide from the blinding light and took the plane to a different direction. When he looked at the target screen, he could not see any objects on it. The objective control device of the aircraft photographed the balls. Specialists found the pictures genuine, although they failed to identify the objects.
Meanwhile, an identified flying object probably crashed in the States several days ago. Brandon McBroom from Fort Wayne, Indiana, was driving his car to the airport to see his relatives. He looked at the clouds and saw a strange object flying across the sky. The object was shining with very bright light. McBroom has never believed UFO stories, so he was not flabbergasted with the sight of the bright object in the sky. He grabbed the video camera and taped the UFO until it disappeared behind the hills around Fort Wayne.
The American man sold the tape to a local TV channel, whose specialists analyzed the video material. It turned out that it was neither a plane nor a meteorological balloon. In addition, the object was flying very fast, faster than jetliners. Military men rejected their implication in the incident: they said that they would never test a new aircraft near the airport.
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5 years ago
shogo… i was asking for an explanation.
thats silly…
maybe the reports are just incinuating devastation everywhere from the tsunami but the quake damaged east and south while the tsunami went west and north …
come on people help me out here.
5 years ago
Zark, tsunami's form from earthquakes and basically move out radially. I guess i don't see what part of it is hard for you to picture. Fill a bathtub and then drop a golf ball in the middle, the ripples go out in all directions.
5 years ago
Tlaloc — That's why he thinks it's a meteorite.
zark — there is nothing strange with that pattern from an earthquake. that's the way energy moves. sometimes the media tells the truth.
5 years ago
geez tlaloc is on to something here, but instead of a golfball into bathtub, maybe try a bowl of water and strike the bottom with a spoon.
you should see radial waves created
there are always radial damage circles on land for earthquakes too.
sucks though nonetheless, first Bam inland and now a litttle farther east… damn thats bad =P
5 years ago
Exactly Tyre. Its the same whether the initial impetus is from the top down or from the bottom up, its just harder to make a "bottom up" metaphor.
heh. I said "bottom."
5 years ago
I never heard off an earthqauke theory using a golf ball as a prop to provoke a circle ripple effect, it sounds like what made those ripples was a giant gulf ball by the way you described instead of an earthquake.
Wouldn't dropping a meteor in water cause the same effect?
Drop a gulf ball in water and it make ripples then when it hits bottom it makes ripples again.
5 years ago
Could A Meteor Have Caused A 9.2 Mega-Quake?
As more scientific information begins to become available relating to the events surrounding the 9.0 earthquake off of the Northern Coast of Sumatra on December 26th, it is being reported that the depth was 10km. More importantly perhaps are the growing signs surrounding this event that rather than being caused by internal earth dynamics, as is being widely reported, it was instead caused by an extraterrestrial event, a meteorite strike into the ocean having come from the Southern Hemispheric skies. More Details.
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5 years ago
" I never heard off an earthqauke theory using a golf ball as a prop to provoke a circle ripple effect, it sounds like what made those ripples was a giant gulf ball by the way you described instead of an earthquake.
Yes it would. Well there'd be other effects too like a large amount of water vaporizing. I'm not saying it makes a meteor impossible I'm just explaining why any localized disturbance in water sends out circulal ripples. The fact that the epicenter was right on/near a fault line makes it more probable that it was an earthquake. We know earthquakes are common along tectonic boundaries but there's no reason a meteor should hit at a boundary rather than in the middle of the pacific per se.
5 years ago
Meteor hits house in Iran
According to local police official Mohammad Arab, the sparkling crystalline rock hit a home in Saravan in Sistan-Baluchestan province. No injuries or serious damage were reported.
The report said most of the meteor had already been broken up and taken away by local people before police arrived at the scene.
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5 years ago
see this is my problem with the whole thing;
the media reports as if the earthquake was a ripple effect, wrong wrong wrong
the plates of the earth push against each other and summit gives. therefore one plate drops and causes a drop in ocean level and hence a tidal wave the size of the drop.
a circular plate is not unheard of but highly improbable, a plate movement will result in a tidal wave with specific direction west and north but it wont be a ripple .. that is just silly.
if it was north and west then the water level south and east may be affected a little but wont produce a wave as the water level before the drop isnt affected except as a fill and therefore water will retreat from nearby coasts.
so what gives with the media reports of circular energy waves?
5 years ago
Earthquakes are petty common in this region (there was a biggish one last new years). Though there were some reports of something bright or an explosion around December 18th (if I remember clearly) it's unclear if they're interrelated with the tsunami. No signs of comets were picked up by the usual means however. It's also a bit too close to shore for nuclear testing (a lot of which goes on in the region). It would need to be an extremely large meteor to create a tidal wave and an earthquake is actually a much more powerful force in terms of creating a tidal wave since the wave starts on a much deeper level (which is what gives it so much power and momentum). (You can test this out in the bathtub by seeing the difference between creating a wave on the surface and one at the bottom of the tub and seeing the difference in force and momentum.)
Apart from Bush being able to use it to justify star wars if it's a meteor, does it really make a huge difference whether it started out as an earthquake or a meteor? We know that large earthquakes are quite common in the region, and we know that meteors hit earth all the time, best just to accept that nature can crush us like a bug under her heel pretty damn easily despite our best attempts to make her submit.
5 years ago
zark, here's your actual problem:
"now i have a very limited knowledge of Tsunami's and earthquakes"
that is all too apparent.
and yet, you continue to argue despite your avowed ignorance on the subject.
5 years ago
"a circular plate is not unheard of but highly improbable, a plate movement will result in a tidal wave with specific direction west and north but it wont be a ripple .. that is just silly."
You are mistaken. Any localized disturbance in the water will send out ripples in all directions. Try it in a bathtub. The plate buckles up or down causing a localized rise or drop in water level. That change then radiates outward.
5 years ago
just as you didn't let the same lack of knowledge of physics dissuade you from offering forth your conspiratorial views on the Pentagon and WTC.
You mean like the way the 2nd rule of thermodynamics magicaly failed to be true at the WTC on 9/11? You know the planes crashing into the buildings and their fuel burning away in explosions, then the same fuel that burned away in those explosions somehow unburning itself so it could fuel the fires that were able to melt structural steel dispite the steel having a higher melting point then the magic fuel could've created provied it hadn't burned off when it burned away during the impact explosions.
EDIT: The 2nd law of thermodynamics pertains to energy and it's expenditure.
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5 years ago
2nd law of thermodynamics pertains to entropy.
How is that relevant to your blathering nonsense about jet fuel?
5 years ago
Oh, and by the way, nobody said the steel melted, the steel was weakend.
Kind of like your mind.
5 years ago
Oh good now we've segued from one misunderstanding to another.
By golly its been a while since a good knock em out drag em out thread on the WTC collapses. Who wants to start in on the seismograph? We've already had the "steel melting" fallacy pop up once. Maybe someone'd like to goback to the devil face in the clouds. Man that takes me back.
5 years ago
Space Weather News for Dec. 31, 2004
QUADRANTID METEORS: On Monday morning, January 3, 2005, Earth will glide
SOLAR ACTIVITY: A new sunspot emerged this week and, with it, solar
GREEN COMET: Now that the full moon is fading, sky watchers are seeing
Visit http://spaceweather.com for sky maps and more information.
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5 years ago
Spacecraft setting off to shoot comet with 370kg bullet
American scientists are planning the ultimate drive-by shooting, 268m miles from home.
With luck, and if the calculations are right, the comet will hit the 370kg (820lb) projectile at 23,000mph. The projectile will be vapourised, but it should also blow a hole in the comet big enough to house the RomanColosseum. The mothership will witness the whole thing, and send pictures back to scientists in Pasadena.
It will be the closest ever study of a phenomenon that medieval observers thought to herald disaster. In one sense, they were right: a direct collision between a comet the size of Tempel 1 and the Earth could effectively wipe out human civilisation.
Such impacts have happened many times in geological history, and could do so again. Researchers have begun to think of ways to prevent them, but nobody has any idea of the mass, or density, of a comet – whether they are like frozen concrete, or have the texture of frosted candyfloss.
Deep Impact is a carefully planned act of celestial vandalism designed to deliver an answer.
"We will be capturing the whole thing on the most powerful camera to fly in deep space," said Michael A'Hearn of the University of Maryland, the scientific leader of the project. "We know so little about the structure of cometary nuclei that we need exceptional equipment to ensure that we capture the event."
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5 years ago
Our Rock Who Art In Heaven, Hallowed Be Thy Name
January 1, 2005
A new year has begun with new warnings of destruction and cataclysm resounding throughout our earth and solar system, as the older peoples of earth are warning us today.
"Comet Machholz is approaching Earth and gliding through the constellation Taurus. It's easy to find. Go outside and look south between 9 and 10 PM. To the unaided eye, it looks like a faint and fuzzy green star. Through a small telescope, you can see the comet's two tails.", says the American website SpaceWeather.Com
"A comet discovered earlier this year has now moved close enough to be visible without binoculars or telescopes by experienced observers under dark skies. It is expected to put on a modest show this month and into January.", says another American website Space.Com about this Comet Machholz also.
But to the older peoples this new green comet is not new, and not unexpected, and this New Years day event of the sun exploding a most powerful mass eruption confirms to them the legends of this comet and the dire warnings it brings to the peoples of Earth.
In a book titled "Our Rock Who Art In Heaven, Hallowed Be Thy Name", written by Jacqueline Brook, it is written: "The comet [or literally, "swordfish"] associated with Hermes shines bright green with an oval shape…"
We know that Hermes was the herald (messenger of the gods), and it was his duty to guide the souls of the dead down to the underworld. We read further that, "Hermes, the herald of the Olympian gods, is son of Zeus and the nymph Maia, daughter of Atlas and one of the Pleiades. Hermes is the god of shepherds, land travel, merchants, weights and measures, oratory, literature, athletics and thieves, and known for his cunning and shrewdness. Most importantly, he is the messenger of the gods. Besides that he was also a minor patron of poetry. He was worshiped throughout Greece — especially in Arcadia — and festivals in his honor were called Hermoea."
As Hermes is also associated with the Pleiades it must be noted, and as shown in this star map, this Comet is presently in the Pleiades in a seemingly coincidence with the ancient legends about this Green Comet.
Western scientists do not acknowledge the wisdom of the older peoples of the world but it is most interesting that these scientists, and those who follow their new ways of thinking, were not able to save the hundreds of thousands who have perished in this past week's cataclysmic events in Asia. But a tribe of the older peoples from this area named the Morgan Sea Gypsies were able to save themselves from mass death with no device or thinking about Western science.
In a Western news report about this event titled, "Elders' Sea Knowledge Spares Some Thais" it is said, "Knowledge of the ocean and its currents passed down from generation to generation of a group of Thai fishermen known as the Morgan sea gypsies saved an entire village from the Asian tsunami, a newspaper said Saturday. By the time killer waves crashed over southern Thailand last Sunday the entire 181 population of their fishing village had fled to a temple in the mountains of South Surin Island, English language Thai daily The Nation reported."
Many peoples of the world now stand wondering about the wisdom of Western scientists and their teachings to their peoples that all is normal and fine with the world, that only the foolish have cause for fear and only the lazy of mind look to the myths and legends of the world's older peoples for guidance and direction.
The older peoples of the world stand across from the Western scientists and warn of cataclysmic events to come and the signs in the heavens and on the earth continually warning those who will listen.
Between the Western scientists and the worlds older peoples are the events of this past year alone, where one year ago today tens of thousands of human beings lay dead in the Iranian city of Bam from a massive earthquake striking this most ancient of cities, to today itself where hundreds of thousands of human beings lay dead across thousands of miles of Asian coastlines.
In between these tragic beginnings and endings to this past year we now know that, "The deadly seaquakes in South Asia this Christmas brought to an end the costliest year ever for the insurance industry, during which around 650 natural disasters battered different parts of the world," as reported in this article, "From World's Largest Reinsurer on Global Weather Extremes, "Time is running out"
And as if add a punctuation mark to this most disastrous of years in our worlds modern history, we read, "Snow has fallen over the United Arab Emirates for the first time ever, leaving a white blanket over the mountains of Ras al-Khaimah as the desert country experienced a cold spell and above-average rainfall.", and as reported in the article titled, "UAE sees first ever snow",
Who to believe, and follow the advice of, are the questions being asked by a most troubled world this New Years Day. For my advice to all the worlds' peoples it would be to follow human logic. And human logic would acknowledge that in this latest cataclysm human lives were saved by the older people's knowledge, and as I had previously reported to you, all the lives of the animals were saved also.
In one published article titled Tsunami Adds to Belief in Animals' 'Sixth Sense' a Mr. H.D. Ratnayake, who is the deputy director of Sri Lanka's Wildlife Department, says, ""No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit. I think animals can sense disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening."
Therefore, if the saving of your life and those of your children and families is the most important fact for you, I would humbly suggest that the warnings being given by the passing of this harbinger of doom Green Comet be heeded as the older peoples suggest you do. Western scientists and media reporting will ridicule you of course, but like the animals and the older peoples of the earth you will begin to hear again the songs of the earth and the universe and find within yourselves the true answers you had always been seeking from outside.
© January 1, 2005, EU and US all rights reserved
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5 years ago
December 22, 2004
Unknown Energy Surges Continue to Hit Planet, Global Weather Systems in Chaos
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to the Russian Academy of Sciences
An increasingly panicked global effort is now underway by the worlds top scientists to understand an unprecedented series of 'blasts', energy surges, which the planet has been taking from as an yet unknown source which has been bombarding Antarctica with cosmic rays and disrupting Northern Hemisphere weather systems on a global scale.
The first of these cosmic ray blasts occurred nearly 5 years ago and have been increasing in their frequency and intensity since the end of November. The once normally darkened skies of the Northern Hemispheres Arctic regions are now in twilight due to these blasts. Wayne Davidson, from the Canadian Government's weather station at Resolute Bay, located in the Arctic Circle, says about this mysterious lighting, "The entire horizon is raised like magic, like the hand of God is bringing it up."
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5 years ago
Ok, Zark. Info time.
1. By "plates" we're referring to the entire Indian and Pacific plates. These are not small. The entire Pacific ocean lies over one single plate. They're moving horizontally in relation to each other- rubbing edges or colliding head-on. Below the plates is semi-liquid hot rock which is convecting- which means circulating. They do not move up or down. As they grind together, they're usually motionless, but there's literally billions of tons of pressure behind them, because the plates are pushed around by the churning magma under them. When an earthquake occurs, a small portion of the "crack" (fault) between the two plates gives way, and all that pressure is released as the plate lurches to a stop. In this earthquake, the plate actually moved almost a hundred feet- the entire island of Sumatra was moved.
2. The forces released by an earthquake are sharp jolts of motion radiating from the spot that gave way. Each wave of kinetic (motion) energy travels out from that point in an essentially spherical pattern. On the flat surface of the earth, that means that the energy travels IN A CIRCULAR PATTERN.
3. If you've never been in an earthquake, it's an interesting experience. I was in one just a few months ago in Mexico- just a little titchy one. The ground felt like it was heaving up, but also lurching slightly to the west. It felt like…a wave. If that energy is capable of causing solid, rocky ground to roll like water under my feet, imagine the results of an earthquake several orders of magnitude- several THOUSAND times more energetic- on a shallow ocean. Big fucking wave. And there you go.
4. A meteorite would not just make a tsunami. It would have also had noticeable effects like the formation of a huge crater, an explosion that would make Hiroshima look like a frat boy's lit fart, the delivery of tons of dust into the atmosphere, and the like. It would not trigger an earthquake, or be mistakable for one, even though it could be detected with seismographs. Thousands of people would have seen the passage of a massive object thru the atmosphere- big fireball with shit falling off it and trailing gas and glowing dust. It would probably also be accompanied by a tsunami, but unless it was roughly the size of a small city it would not make a tsunami the size of the Asian one. (and, if it were city size, we would be dead).
I suggest, no offense intended, that you go bone up on your geology before you start making statements like "a circular plate is not unheard of but highly improbable, a plate movement will result in a tidal wave with specific direction west and north but it wont be a ripple .. that is just silly." You obviously don't know what's probable, improbable, or what happens with earthquakes and plate tectonics. And instead of asking- and I know that many would have been more than happy to give you information- you start making your own theories based on incomplete and false information.
5 years ago
Neverknwo- The cosmic ray article you posted is pure bullshit. As are most of the other ones you're tossing on here. Kindly do a fact check before you believe everything you read.
5 years ago
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5 years ago
Snark- Where are facts to support your Opinion>?
Kindly show some other fact besides your Bullshit!
5 years ago
Got a link?
5 years ago
Cosmic rays—high-speed bits of atoms thought to be created by the blasts of exploding stars—bombard Earth's atmosphere constantly. Not many people besides physicists pay much attention to them, but that may soon change. A Danish physicist has found evidence that cosmic rays greatly influence Earth's climate, and may even trigger ice ages.
Henrik Svensmark of the Danish Space Research Institute was led to this idea while studying eras of climate change, including the little ice age, one of the most jarring shifts on record. From about 1300 to 1850, global temperatures plunged. Svensmark found that the most plausible explanation—changes in the sun's temperature—didn't hold up: they were too small.
Svensmark speculated that as cosmic rays streak through the atmosphere, they collide with atoms, creating reactions that help trigger cloud formation. Increased cloud cover would lower global temperatures by reflecting sunlight away from Earth's surface.
Fortunately for Svensmark, Earth preserves a record of this barrage. When cosmic rays hit carbon atoms in the atmosphere, they create radioactive carbon 14. The amount of carbon 14 in Earth's sediment layers thus reflects cosmic-ray bombardments throughout the centuries. During the little ice age, Svensmark says carbon 14 levels "went up by almost a factor of two."
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5 years ago
Extremely potent cosmic rays—high-speed atomic fragments that pack as much energy as a bullet—reach Earth from quasars billions of light-years away. That perplexes cosmologists, whose calculations suggest the rays should collide with the bits of microwave radiation that fill the universe and be destroyed long before they arrive. Some researchers consider the conundrum so strange that it can be solved only by trashing Einstein's theory of relativity. But Richard Lieu, an astrophysicist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, says the theory is fine, once you understand how to combine it with quantum theory.
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5 years ago
Pierre Sokolsky quoted in Discover© (Vol. 24, No. 9 September 2003) article,"They Came From Outer Space: Does The Very Existence Of Cosmic Rays Defy The Laws Of Physics?"
5 years ago
Galactic Cosmic Rays — coming from outside the solar system
Anomalous Cosmic Rays — coming from the interstellar space at the edge of the heliopause
Solar Energetic Particles — associated with solar flares and other energetic solar events
The term "cosmic rays" used to include X-rays and gamma rays, which are well covered in Imagine the Universe!
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5 years ago
neverknwo, you're confused. Yes sunspots and geomagnetic storms exist. They're not the same things as meteors. Meteors are chunks of matter, sunspots are explosions of gas. Your whole thing about the what's happening in the arctic is off. Yes there's a "dawn" and light when historically it's generally dark at certain points of the winter but scientists attribute it to global warming (in fact I'm pretty sure your article is taking a quote I read elsewhere out of context and manipulating/misrepresenting the meaning of what was said). It's reflected light actually and has to do with changes in the earth's atmosphere. Right now you're proving how a little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing if you haven't learned the tools of critical thinking. If you want to use science to "prove" your point then you need to understand the basics of critical thinking and the difference between theory and establishing something as the most probable cause.
Though you'd be hard pressed to one up Zark's circular plates theory. Then again, you seem to be more of a cut-paster than an actual thinker so I have to give zark points for creativity.
5 years ago
'Got a link?"
Because as we all know, if it's posted on the internet it must be true!
Always nice to see high standards at work among the foil-hatted.
You know, you COULD do some of your own research and educate yourself.
5 years ago
Ah but I may be oce again not talkin out my point and being pulled off topic,'
I was questioning the possablity of an Outer space connection to the EQ and Tsunami occuring on 12/25 maybe your the one who does't have a clue to what I'm thinking, while I'm posting a vast amount facts or bullshit!
If you are accussing me of being a Cut-n-paster then how do you attribute me in making qoutes from other linked sources?
5 years ago
Here is an article today that is explaining how NASA wants to Blow up a Comet.
There was an article published last year where they wanted to create an explosion near an object in outerspace like an astroid, etc…., which would result in the shock waves sent towards it and directing towards the sun.
So if the are expiermenting with this kind of project, is it posibble that TPTB could make a mistake and cause it to slice towards earth?
5 years ago
NASA Excited for Comet-Busting Spacecraft?Red Nova – 2 hours, 7 minutes ago?
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The big, grown-up boys on the NASA team can hardly wait. Next Fourth of July, they get to bust up a comet, Hollywood-style. "Blow things up? I'm there. Yeah, I don't have any issue with that," says Richard Grammier, manager of the project for Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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5 years ago
Would a spacecraft in outerspace exploding cause any cosmic rays?
5 years ago
Could Cosmic Rays send outerspace matter towards earth's atmosphere?
5 years ago
Can Solar Flares Cause Earthqaukes?
5 years ago
Can a Full Moon Trigger Earthqaukes?
5 years ago
I have provided some facts that the Sky is Falling and yet it isn't what the Spoon feed Media has programed in you so you don't wanna put together more facts in
Why do the Earth's Plate's Shift?
5 years ago
You can call Cut-n-Paste or Sluething what ever the case maybe but
"All I knwo is that I knwo nothing."
5 years ago
Is Meteor singular or plural?
5 years ago
I'm not laying claim to absolute truth or knowledge, just using a bit of the accummulated knowledge about how the planet works amassed by years of work by many many people who are dedicated to this kind of thing. Earth's plates shift because there's molten lava underneath the crust of the earth. It's been doing it since earth began and long before humans were trying to shoot things in space and even before humans.
Anyway, enjoy your conspiracy theory since you're obviously not interested in the actual science of what happened. Quite honestly I don't know why people are so freaked out that dangerous things happen in the universe. It's not like it revolves around us…shit even us humans gave up believing that a couple of centuries ago. Fucking hubris man lol
5 years ago
Fifi_Lamour, wrote, "Right now you're proving how a little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing if you haven't learned the tools of critical thinking. "
How critical do you want thinking to be?
"4. A meteorite would not just make a tsunami. It would have also had noticeable effects like the formation of a huge crater, "
Where would the crater be if you were answering the Topic's Question?
5 years ago
Ok Fifi,
" just using a bit of the accummulated knowledge about how the planet works amassed by years of work by many many people who are dedicated to this kind of thing."
Yep, and so many people are all ready to speaking for it, too, as if they knwo why there is Lava!
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Why does the earth contain, Lava?
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I would expect that with all that accumulated knwoledge ammassed by years of work who are dedicated about that sort of thing, that someone could answer at least one off my questions.
5 years ago
neverknwo, it may actually help discussion if you learned to structure a sentence so that it actually makes sense. Are you not actually english speaking? Is that why you're having issues understanding and expressing yourself?
5 years ago
Are upset someone will bash you because your mamma taught you to use purfect english
5 years ago
Are you upset someone will bash you because your mamma taught you to use purfect english
5 years ago
A secret project in India's Defense Research Organization that can change the world as we know it – anti-gravity lifters tested in Himalayas?
Dighi in Pune, the city of the brightest Indian defense research scientists and engineers is full of whispers these days. According to some sources in Pune the scientists are tight lipped and say they cannot speak till 2012. What is going to happen in 2012? No one knows but they keep saying before any question is asked – "I know nothing!" If you carefully keep your ears on these whispers you will realize India has tested something no one wants to talk about, It is a break through in conventional Physics and traditional mechanical and aeronautical engineering.
Still the question comes back why should all stay quiet till 2012? Where did this anti-gravity technology come from? Strange activities are being seen for quite some time in the Indian side of Himalayas. Some say the technology came from a Tampere University of Technology in Finland where an Indian scientist was research engineer. Others says it is really a planned diversion – it came from indigenous research that started in 1070s just after India exploded the first nuclear device in Pokhran. Mrs. Indira Gandhi in late seventies while communicating with news journalists once in Kolkata during a whirlwind election trip mentioned that India must research forgotten technologies that were part of Hindu mythologies like Ramayana and Mahabharata. When quizzed further she mentioned that like in ancient days we should be able to fly effortlessly.
Anti gravity technology can change India and the world. Uses seem limited only by the imagination: Lifts in buildings could be replaced by devices built into the ground. People wanting to go up would simply activate the anti-gravity device — making them weightless — and with a gentle push ascend to the floor they want.
Space-travel would become routine, as all the expense and danger of rocket technology is geared towards combatting the Earth's gravitation pull. By using the devices to raise fluids against gravity, and then conventional gravity to pull them back to earth against electricity-generating turbines, the devices could also revolutionize power generation.
India will most likely announce the discovery as part of peaceful innovation series. But obviously the military applications can make conventional missiles and aircrafts obsolete overnight.
Effortless lifting and low cost denial of gravity can change our world. And if the whispers are right, India may be changing the world forever. But why the magic year 2012? Why everything has to be kept secret till then?
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Here is an exerpt from an article entitled,
FIRE FROM THE SKY: Battle of Harvest Moon & True Story of Space Shuttles
by "One Who Knows"
Is it more B.S. or another clue?
The cover headline article of my October 1978 issue was NUCLEAR WEAPONS – SOON OBSOLETE! The following is what that article said:
General George Keegan – grad of Harvard, flew 56 combat missions in WWII,
U.S. scientists at Lawrence Livermore Lab (bicycle riding distance from me)
Keegan retired and started making the information public, through the
The article states, "Experts on Capitol Hill, who have surveyed all the
The Soviets have already successfully tested particle beam weapons (as has
The Pentagon has initiated a program called "Chair Heritage" to field our
If you remember, Russia beat us into space with Sputnik, then we went into
Now we are once again in a race for strategic superiority, but this time
A problem we now have is the top leadership – the President and Secretary
So what is a particle beam weapon? It is similar to a laser, but it is not
Whoever puts satellites with particle beam weapons into orbit first
Under those conditions, we will still have nuclear bombs, but it would be
An editorial in AW & ST said, "For beam weapons offer the promise of
If you want to know what particle beam weapons are like, just watch "Star
This is the end of the quote from my 1978 newsletter. And now, as Paul
Russia launched the Intercosmos 17 octagon space vehicle on September 26,
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"There have been cases of damage and destruction caused by hypervelocity impacts. Just last week, we had to do an avoidance manoeuvre," says Prof. Flury.
Space debris spotlight
At closing speeds reaching 50 thousand km per hour, even the smallest bits of space debris can cause serious harm to spacecraft; larger ones cause catastrophe. Near-Earth missions, like the International Space Station, now carry ever-more sophisticated shielding. Not only is space debris a hot topic, it is also a fascinating — and growing — field of space science. ( Part 1 of a 3-part series. )
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neverknwo – My english is hardly perfect or "purfect" either lol I just figured english may not be your first language because you seem to have problems expressing yourself in a way that actually makes much sense. And you certainly don't have any kind of poetic or rhythmic flow or structure to indicate that you're taking poetic license.
So is english your mother tongue?
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A secret project in India's Defense Research Organization that can change the world as we know it – anti-gravity lifters tested in Himalayas?
Where did this anti-gravity technology come from?
5 years ago
Where did you read I threatened you?
5 years ago
Your not being consistant and your twisting what I write as a way of trying to turn into some kind of assault, when you started adding false statements.
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neverknwo, actually I asked if that was your intent because you brought up "bashing". Was it your intent? I'm not "twisting" anything just asking a question.
You still didn't answer my question about english being your first language? I'm unclear whether your lack of clarity is a reflection of your mental confusion or just not being terribly literate in english.
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Ok. I'll answer your questions, neverknwo. I've got undergrad degrees in astronomy and ecology, with a minor in geology- not bragging, just wanted you to know that you're getting accurate information.
1. There are very few cosmic events that would result in an earthquake. The exception being meteorites- which this could not have been. A meteor big enough to be mistaken for a 9.0 quake would destroy civilization and flatten the region with a gigantic shockwave and fireball. It would shift the earth in its orbit. Trust me on this one little thing, ok? And cosmic rays, sunspots, and other celestial events would have no geologic impact.
2. The Deep Impact mission is not intended to blow up the comet. It's an impactor the size of a trash can which will blow a crater in the comet's surface, baring the interior to sensors on the main spacecraft. That small pit will allow them to see the inside of a comet, something that's never been done. The comet will no more be affected by the impact than you would be if somebody flicked some gravel at your forehead.
3. A spacecraft exploding would release no cosmic rays. Cosmic rays come from sources with a shitload of energy- such as black holes, quasars, neutron stars, and the like. They're a form of very high-energy light, basically.
4. Because they are light, they would not send any extraterrestrial matter towards earth.
5. Solar flares do affect the upper atmosphere, but they cannot cause earthquakes. They are mostly charged subatomic particles and high-energy radiation, and are blocked by the earth's magnetic field.
6. The full moon cannot cause earthquakes- nor could the moon cause quakes at any other time of the month. Its gravitational pull is too weak.
7. Meteor is singular.
8. Plate shifts are caused by the fact that under the solid crust is a semi-liquid sea of very hot liquid rock, which rises from the very hot core of the earth, runs underneath the plates for a ways, then sinks back to the core after it cools a bit. This is called convection. Now, the crust is split into a number of continent-size sections. Each of those sections moves independently- sometimes rubbing along its neighbors, sometimes butting into them head-on, sometimes moving away from each other. Along these boundaries, quakes and volcanoes are common. A quake is the result of plates grinding slowly past each other; they're usually motionless, but occasionally they lurch a few more inches, and that's the earthquake.
9. That crater would probably be right off the shore of Sumatra, if it existed, which it doesn't.
10. We DO know why lava exists. Radioactive material in the core of the earth decays, releases heat, and keeps things toasty.
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When did Bashing become an intent to cause a terrorist act?
5 years ago
Oh, yeah. The geminid meteor shower isn't big honking meteors. They're mostly the size of household dust. The biggest ones are the size of sand grains or MAYBE pea gravel. They vaporize forty miles above the surface. It's a light show, nothing more.
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Only about 88%, Thanks Snark!
I don't think you could make me 100% happy because that would be an extreme emotion.
Two thumbs up.
Except the Moon thing,
Doesnt the Moon effect the Ocean's Tide?
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Terrorist act? WTF are you talking about?
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Terrorist act? WTF are you talking about?
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Yeah. However, it's a lot easier to move a layer of liquid water no more than six miles deep than it is to move several thousand miles of rock. There actually is a tidal effect on land, but it's imperceptable. A much bigger moon might cause noticeable effects, but ours is pretty small.
5 years ago
If a meteorite did slash in the ocean, what would it's size be to cause the X-Mas Tsunami?
5 years ago
"Funny, I've never had anyone threaten me because of the way I use language. Is that what you're trying to do neverknwo?:"
Which I asked him to clarify about neverknwo
Terrorism constitutes the illegitimate use of force to achieve a political objective when innocent people are targeted.
—Walter Laqueur
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Terrorism is the unlawful use or threat of violence against persons or property to further political or social objectives. It is usually intended to intimidate or coerce a government, individuals or groups, or to modify their behavior or politics.
—Vice-President's Task Force, 1986
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Hmm. Say, somewhere around the size of a small city. Maybe ten kilometers across, several billion tons. The crater would probably be around 70-80 km across, speculatively. The shockwave would have reached Australia.
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Are Answers #5 and #10 both the same?
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No. The heat within the earth is mostly low-energy radiation released by radioactive elements like uranium, plutonium, etc. The radiation of a solar flare is gamma rays and charged particles released by the process of nuclear fusion, which is (put simply) why the sun is hot and bright.
5 years ago
If the sun is Hot why don't Comets melt when they orbit the sun?
5 years ago
Here's another Clue!!!
India tests rocket launcher
The Pinaka launched was tested thrice at the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur-on-sea, about 14 km from here, between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m., the sources said.
The system can fire at least 12 rockets, with a range of 39-40 km and carrying 1.2 tonnes of high explosives, within 40 seconds.
It can neutralise a target area of 350 sq km and is meant to supplement existing artillery systems at ranges beyond 30 km.
The Pinaka can be fitted with a variety of warheads ranging from blast-cum-pre-fragmented high explosives to anti-tank mines, it said.
The system had undergone several tests since 1995.
—Indo-Asian News Service
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5 years ago
They only are relatively close to the sun for short periods of time. The majority of the time, they're too far away. They do melt. That's why comets have a tail. The tail is the gas and water coming off the comet as the sun heats its surface. The tail always points away from the sun, btw.
5 years ago
Here's another Clue
Russia launches GLONASS satellites
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5 years ago
Clue to what?
5 years ago
I"ndia signs rocket upgradation deal with Israel":
"The initial deal is worth 30-40 million dollars, but could expand to as much as one billion dollars over five years," IMI Chairman, Brig-Gen (Retd) Arie Mizrachi told 'Globes Online'.
The deal was signed recently and involved upgradation of Russian-made rockets with Israeli technology to improve their precision and range, the report said.
Post Modified: 02/02/05 15:42:36
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Jesus, man, you're jumping all over the place! Are you thinking clearly, or what?
5 years ago
UFO Sightings over Iranian nuclear installations – Iranian Air Force orders shoot at sight but admits technical inability
Iranians complained about Unidentified Flying Objects at very low altitudes around its nuclear installations all around the country. United States has excellent satellite imagery and hence do not need low altitude spy planes to monitor the activities as the Iranian nuclear scientists and engineers as they assemble their nukes.
Sources in Iran say, the Iranian Air Force have admitted these sighting and assuming these are US spy crafts, directed Iranian Air Force to shoot them down at sight.
Sources also reveal that Iranian Air Force have failed shoot down even a single UFO and many in Iranian Air Force are complaining about lack of technical ability in shooting these UFOs down.
Post Modified: 02/02/05 15:43:50
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An enormous number of UFO sightings before Tsunami and earthquake in South and Southeast Asia – were they trying to warn?
Was it a coincidence? Lots of people now from the Tsunami and earthquake hit areas are reporting about strange Unidentified Flying Objects they saw a few days before the mega quake and Tsunami. People in Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Andaman and Nicobar Island as well as many in Indonesia were reporting for some time about strange flying objects in the sky.
The local media in these areas did not know what to do with the reported sightings. But it seems now from the reports that many UFOs were in the sky and were trying to communicate something.
Some even are conjecturing that this horrific Tsunami and earthquake may be some kind of experiment. In Port Blair, the capital city of Andaman Island of India, last week some tourists saw strange silent flying objects. In Sumatra, remote places also had similar experiences for quite some time.
According to some UFO experts, UFOs always hover around the epicenter of major calamities. They somehow sense these coming natural disasters. Some believe that they try and communicate with us to warn. Some even believe these UFOs simulate natural disasters in the earth.
India especially in the Himalayas, China, Indonesia were experiencing heavy UFO sightings in recent days. Remote areas of Bangladesh, Mayanmar, and Andaman Island, Sri Lanka have also recently reported such sightings.
Indian Government and the military are quiet for a long time about these numerous UFO sightings. Some believe that India in recent days have been contacted like America was in the middle of the last century.
The recent excessive UFO sightings all over the world are forecasting serious disasters in the world. Many people believe, we are in for a rough time as far as earthquakes; volcano and similar natural calamities are concerned.
The lining up of Sun, Earth, Moon, Venus and Jupiter is dangerous. And this has caused some to belief that earthquakes can havoc the earth. As a matter of fact India has seen many earthquakes in last few months.
Earthquakes in India are not common like Japan.
It is possible that UFOs are trying to communicate to us to warn about the planetary positioning effects on the Earth's tectonic plates and crust.
In older days, Mayans and Egyptians were always scared about planets lining up in one line. How did they know that earthquakes are eminent? It may be they did communicate with the extra-terrestrials and understood about planetary angular momentum theory that we just started learning this week
Post Modified: 02/02/05 15:46:11
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Human Hand behind earthquake and Tsunami? It is time for Indian Navy to investigate!
Was this an earthquake creation experiment that ran out of control? Many countries are working on methods of creating massive earthquakes as means to defeat the enemy. The technologically advanced countries are working on this project.
If an earthquake and Tsunami can be created artificially and directed to a specific enemy, it can literally create havoc to the enemy. Weather control, controlling tectonic plate movements, electromagnetic wave simulated weaponry are all on the table of many countries.
Many all around the world are puzzled with the fact that Tsunamis never happen in South Asia. Also is perplexing is the fact that Tsunamis traveled 1000 miles at a speed of 500 miles an hour and smashed the coastal lines of South and South east Asia where Tsunamis do not happen.
There are technologies on the research table that is used to create electromagnetic effects to release the gravitational effects which can cause this kind massive earth movements.
Another astonishing feature of this earthquake and Tsunami is the amount by which the Kar Nicobar Islands have displaced. The level of devastation simulates 10 or higher Richter scale earthquake.
Was this a show down by a country to show the region what havoc can be created?
We do not have the answers to this. We know many courtiers including India are working on anti-gravity lifters and devices.
No matter what, it can be an experiment that went out of control. If it is not, that is the best news.
But given the level of devastation and given the fact India is a regional power in South Asia, Indian Navy has the obligation to investigate and tell the world what they found.
Post Modified: 02/02/05 15:48:00
5 years ago
Significance of successful testing of Russia's Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile
The Russian military successfully test-fired a mobile version of its top-of-the-line Topol-M intercontinental ballistic missile on Friday, officials said.
The missile was fired from a mobile launcher at the Plesetsk launch pad in the northern region of Arkhangelsk and hit a designated target on a testing range on the far eastern Kamchatka peninsula, Russia's Strategic Missile Forces said in a statement.
The new force of Topol-M Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs), described by Russian defense officials as a "21st-century weapon" unrivaled in the world and allegedly capable of defeating U.S. anti-missile defenses, is due to be created in 2005, posing a deadly threat to the United States.
The Topol-M was described last year by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov as "the most advanced state-of-the-art missile in the world. Only such weapons can ensure and guarantee our sovereignty and security and make any attempts to put military pressure on Russia absolutely senseless."
The Russian SS-27, or Topol-M, is an intercontinental-range, ground-based, solid-propellant ballistic missile, according to the Claremont Institute's MISSILETHREAT.com. "It represents the pinnacle of ballistic missile technology, incorporating modern fuel and warhead designs, as well as being capable of being launched from both missile silos and Transporter-Erector-Launcher (TEL) vehicles."
Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, Economics Minister German Gref and other top officials attended the launch. Friday's launch is expected to be the last of four test-firings of the Topol-M's mobile version before its deployment set for next year, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported. The Topol-M missiles, capable of hitting targets more than 6,000 miles away, have been in silos since 1998 and about 40 are on duty now, according to military officials. Russian media reports have said the missile lifts off faster than its predecessors and maneuvers in a way that makes it more difficult to spot and intercept. It is also reportedly capable of blasting off even after a nuclear explosion close to its silo. "The missile can penetrate all invented and even yet to be invented missile systems, including those equipped with space-based elements, with high probability," said Yuri Solomonov, who heads the Moscow Institute of Thermal Systems which designed and manufactured the missile. The deployed Topol-Ms have been fitted with single nuclear warheads, but officials have mentioned plans to equip each missile with three individually targeted warheads. President Vladimir Putin has said Russia is developing new strategic nuclear weapons excelling anything which other nations have. Military analysts have said the new weapon would likely be based on the Topol-M.
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Look, I know it's comforting to try to figure out someone to blame for a distaster like this, but you need to realize that shit just happens. Earthquakes this powerful have been happening since the formation of the Earth and will go on happening forever. It's a consequence of living on this planet that we have to deal with it. It's not productive to try to bullshit a "reason" into existence when you're talking about natural events.
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All over the place?
I thought it was settled that a Meteor couldn't have caused a 9.0 Earthqauke and Tsunami.
Which means that eveything else except the shallow lava flow, plate slips shifting theory, earthqauke triggering a Tsunami. Like figuring out how the cosmik forces fit into how gravity is the most destructive force of energy.
Now what kind of effect on the earth's rotation would occur if a lesson in physics
5 years ago
Or a Nuclear Warhead Exploding during testing by India causing is a possiblity which to many Government Double Speaks Debunkingbashers until they see the facts.
5 years ago
Look, there's no debate here. Plate tectonics has been proven to exist. That's how earthquakes happen. There's no need to invoke a bunch of hypothetical mumbo jumbo about antigravity- which I doubt is possible- or nuclear weapons, which couldn't trigger an earthquake anyway. Are you really so intellectually immature that you're willing to believe everything you read on the internet?
5 years ago
Doesn't the earth's magnetic field hold some possible connection to gravitational forces that produce the energy that compress the Tectonics Plates?
5 years ago
Couldn't it be possible that through a multiple of combinations, the cosmik cycles could produce record destructive events?
5 years ago
Nope. Magnetism and gravity are totally different. And gravity does not drive plate tectonics- the motion of convecting lava does. Compression of the tectonic plates does not have anything to do with plate tectonics. And, as I indicated above, antigravity would probably be impossible.
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That's "cosmic" by the way. And what cycles are you talking about?
5 years ago
If Gravity has nothing to do with Earth's Magntic Field than how do you explian this
Scientists: Quake may have made Earth wobble
The deadly Asian earthquake may have permanently accelerated the Earth's rotation, shortening days by a fraction of a second and caused the planet to wobble on its axis, U.S. scientists said Tuesday.
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That story has nothing to do with either gravity or magnetism. That's simple physics. The earth is a spinning ball in space. The earthquake literally caused it to quiver a little, and it wobbled in its spin and maybe lost a little angular momentum. That has nothing to do with magnetism or gravity, both of which are inherent properties of matter.
5 years ago
If an Earthqauke can make the Earth wobble, Can a bigger Earthqauke shift the Earth's Axis?
5 years ago
If the Earth's axis shifts can the cause of theu unbalanced globe create other plates to shift?
5 years ago
It would take something stronger than an earthquake to permanently shift the axis. The only thing I can think of would be something the size of the moon hitting Earth. So no, I don't think so.
5 years ago
Whatz holding all those plates around that Lava?
5 years ago
1. No. An axial shift would not create earthquakes.
5 years ago
Whats makes the moon orbit the Earth?
5 years ago
Does Water float over the Earth?
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Do Earthqaukes trigger Tsunamis that trigger the earth to flip over triggering the plates to float away and the lava hitting the moon?
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Do Earthqaukes trigger the plates to float away triggering Tsunamis that trigger the Earth to flip over and triggering the Lava to float away hitting the moon?
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Quake may have shifted earth
Geophysicist Richard Gross, a member of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, thinks that a shift of mass toward the Earth's center during the quake caused the planet to spin 3 microseconds faster and to tilt the planet about an inch on its axis.
5 years ago
Did the Earth Expand or contract on X-Mas?
5 years ago
A Smaller Earth
An argument has been released on December 28 that the earth has contracted and its rotation period permanently reduced, though insignificantly, due to the earthquake that hit the Southeast Asian region on December 26.
Reuters reported that researcher and geophysicist Richard Gross with the U.S. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory theorized, "The tectonic plate of the Indian Ocean has gone under the boundary of a different plate, which resulted in the earth's 'slight' contraction and 'miniscule' acceleration of its rotation."http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2004123049518
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Be Quite Fitting the Earth is beginning to show some signs of it having Labor Contractions. The Legend is so Real this year with the EQ's and Tsunami.
What if the Earth is just a Egg and inside is a Baby Sun wanting to get out?
What if One day a third of the crust of the earth could rip apart and get shot into outer space while a chunk is being hurled into the universe the rest of the earth begins it's crumbling and the debis turns into astroids?
Christmas, once celebrated as Yule in ancient times, is a time of rebirth; the return of the sun after the longer darkness of night. According to the legend, on the night of the Winter Solstice (the longest night of the year), the Great Mother Goddess gives
by Barbara Aho
The great Bimillennial celebrations which were launched in December of 1999 presaged the celebration of Christmas in a new form. Evangelical leader Jay Gary, in collaboration with former U.N. Assistant Secretary-General, Robert Muller, called for "an entire year of Christmas" through A.D. 2000. Commencing these high profile celebrations on this particular holiday signified quite another commemoration than the birth of Jesus Christ. In the various pagan religions of remote antiquity, December was the celebration of the Winter Solstice. Alexander Hislop revealed the true meaning of the festival of the Winter Solstice in his classic work, The Two Babylons:
"This festival has been commonly believed to have had only an astronomical character, referring simply to the completion of the sun's yearly course, and the commencement of a new cycle. But there is indubitable evidence that the festival in question had a much higher influence than this—that it commemorated not merely the figurative birthday of the sun in the renewal of its course, but the birth-day of the grand Deliverer…the Sun-God and great mediatorial divinity." 1.
The Sun-god Osiris and his consort, Isis, together with Re-Atum, the "Father of the Gods," were regarded by the ancient Egyptians as the supreme rulers of a Golden Age of plenty called Zep Tepi or the "First Time." Their kingdom ended abruptly when Osiris was murdered by his evil brother, Seth or Typhon. The childless Isis searched for the dismembered body of Osiris, which she then reassembled and resuscitated long enough to conceive a son named Horus. Horus was believed to be the reincarnation of Osiris, and the new husband of Isis, whose destiny it was to repossess the Kingdom of Osiris from the control of Seth.
"Like the goddess Isis, who found and restored all of the lost pieces of her husband, Osiris, many are restoring the unity of all life, bringing together the separate parts of humanity — different races, religions and cultures." – 42:62
The fable of Isis and Osiris, which forms the basis of Freemasonry and other occult belief systems, is currently experiencing a revival through entertainment, literature, education, and religious traditions. For example, the theme of Horus is the basis of the popular Hollywood production, Lion King. Through many points of entry, the pagan alternative to Jesus Christ is subtly being introduced to the world—and also to the Church—as mankind is subconsciously undergoing preparation for a universal return to the ancient practice of Sun worship.
http://www.threeworldwars.com/new-world-order.htm New World Order Definition
Attached is the Report of the Special Study Group established by you in August, 1963, 1) to consider the problems involved in the contingency of a transition to a general condition of peace, and 2) to recommend procedures for dealing with this contingency. For the convenience of nontechnical readers we have elected to submit our statistical supporting data, totaling 604 exhibits, separately, as well as a preliminary manual of the "peace games" method devised during the course of our study.
Because of the unusual circumstances surrounding the establishment of this Group, and in view of the nature of its finding, we do not recommend that this Report be released for publication. It is our affirmative judgement that such actions would not be in the public interest. The uncertain advantages of public discussion of our conclusions and recommendations are, in our opinion, greatly outweighed by the clear and predictable danger of a crisis in public confidence which untimely publication of this Report might be expected to provoke. The likelihood that a lay reader, unexposed to the exigencies of higher political or military responsibility, will misconstrue the purpose of this project, and the intent of its participants, seems obvious. We urge that circulation of this Report be closely restricted to those whose responsibilities require that they be apprised of its contents.
We deeply regret that the necessity of anonymity, a prerequisite to our Group's unhindered pursuit of its objectives, precludes proper acknowledgement of our gratitude to the many persons in and out of government who contributed so greatly to our work.
[signature withheld]
30 September, 1966
http://guerrillacampaign.com/Report%20From…%20Mountain.htmMYSTERY BABYLON – mp3 http://www.deepabove.com/hott.htm
Download and listen to these before they 'go away'.
I've listened to Bill several years ago his broadcasts over the years, and I pick up on more each time.
5 years ago
Did an Earthquake trigger the return of a Star?
5 years ago
Are Stars the controlling force in the Universe?
5 years ago
Snark, why do you even bother replying to this knob?
He's an idiot, fuck him.
Go to Los 2 Pedros and have a taco – forget this douchebag.
5 years ago
Did anyone see a Wormwood on X-Mas?
5 years ago
The Coming Asteroid
There is a asteroid headed our way according to the scientists. It will arrive in the year 2028 in October. It was first reported that it could come possibly within 26,000 miles of the surface of the earth or about 1/4 of the distance from the earth to the moon according to the first calculations. The size of this large asteroid called "1997 XF11" is one mile in width. If it was to hit the earth, it would be bad news. If it landed in the ocean, the tidal waves would wipe out all coastal cities. If it hit the land, it could have the power of a couple million atomic bombs. The debris could darken the sky for weeks. The more recently reports indicate that it could miss the earth by 600,000 miles. Only God knows for sure what will happen. Of course, the scientist are also tracking 109 potentially dangerous asteroids.
"And the angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and on the fountains of waters; And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the water became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter. And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them ws darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise"
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Is not the the Area effected from the Tsunami's close to 1/3 of the Earth, and that thier water supply has turned bitter?
5 years ago
PREDICTION: Dateline Jan 26th, 2003. There is a chill wind blowing. Make no mistake, this is going to induce a wobble in the Earth's axis of rotation.
Not a big wobble
You simply can't get away with messing with geomagnetic magma currents inside the Earth —especially when it goes on for days— without generating a wobble in the Earth Axis. They better get this Iraq issue sorted out very soon or there will be literally hell to pay.
The technology being used is on a different scale entirely to the space-based scalar system which was used to take down the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center on 9/11. It's like the difference between a cannon and a popgun.
It's a VERY big HAARP indeed.
The Earth is no hard-boiled egg. This is an old party trick which will give you an idea of the fluid dynamics involved in all this: Place a raw egg on a table top and spin it. Then stop the spin by quickly pressing your finger on the egg, and as quickly removing it. The egg starts to spin again. Why? The fluid inside was not stopped when you stopped the shell. That trick can be used to tell the difference between a raw and a hard boiled egg.
And those are exactly the dynamics involved in the Earth's rotation. Except for one difference. The Earth is spinning within a stasis system that involves the Sun and the operation of gravity as well as magnetics. It's a delicate balance.
But when you turn on this kind of weapon it is drawing it's energy from magma currents inside the Earth. Maybe the scalar science of all this is beyond you, but the fluid dynamics certainly is not. It's basic physics.
Mess with the magma and you mess with the spin angle of the earth. The Earth will inevitably twist to reestablish stasis.
Another illustration: Imagine a gyroscope sitting on the end of your finger spinning with it's axis at the same angle as the Earth. Now bring a strong electromagnet near the gyroscope so that it interferes with the internals of the gyroscope. The angle of the gyroscope will shift.
In exactly the same manner, the Earth will change it's angle of rotation. It's will do so, slowly, ponderously —but inevitably. The effect will be only fractional, but do you really want to mess with that angle. I don't think so!
Neither does Yuri Solomatin. In a front page article of the online edition of the Russian version Pravda he spoke about the dangers of deployment of scalar weaponry at full intensity. The kind of intensity that is being used to create the big chill in the USA. Who is doing it? Go figure.
What was the purpose of such a high-profile article on a topic that is an open secret in the top echelon of science and politics -but still unknown to the average person? Certainly it's unknown to Joe Six-pack in the USA, who doesn't even know what a Scalar Weapon is!
Yuri is the man in charge of the Committee with responsibility for the cleanup of the world's worst nuclear accident: Chernobyl.
Think about that.
Think about it some more.
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Sunday Times, UK
When a Russian scientist announced he had invented an anti-gravity machine,
The fumes would mean hours of recalibration, but the smoker was his superior and Podkletnov, a quiet, shy man, felt unable to stop him. Then, in the midst of his annoyance, he spotted something peculiar. As the smoke drifted over his machine it suddenly changed direction, shooting upwards to form a bizarre column shape above it. .
At the time it seemed no more than a curiosity. But that observation, in an obscure university in Finland 10 years ago, would soon change his life and prompt some of the biggest aerospace companies to come knocking at his door. For Podkletnov had unwittingly discovered a device that, if his claims are to be believed, can change gravity itself.
From futuristic airliners hanging weightless in the sky to hovering cars held aloft by gravity repulsion, the significance of such a discovery is not hard to fathom for any fan of science fiction. The science fact, though, is a little more complicated.
Podkletnov had built his equipment to test superconductivity, the ability of some metal alloys to transmit electricity with no resistance at low temperatures.
The kit was basic by current scientific standards: a ceramic disc coated in specially formulated alloys was cooled to -220C and then spun at high speed in a magnetic field.
It was important but dull work, and had no apparent link with challenging the forces of gravity.
But when Podkletnov observed his columns of smoke he was puzzled enough to investigate further. First he suspended a metal ball above the machine, then some silicone and wood. Each time he found that the objects lost about 2% of their weight above the spinning disc.
That wasn t all. Investigating further, Podkletnov found that the anti-gravity effect extended far above the machine, right to the ceiling. Then he went up to the roof and, sure enough, there was a narrow circular beam penetrating right the way through the building which reduced the weight of anything placed in its path. It was just as strong there as it was above the machine. His anti-gravity beam, it seemed, had no limit. It extended upwards forever.
Podkletnov, an experienced researcher with two doctorates, immediately knew the impact of his discovery. If he had found a way of changing an object s weight, even by a small degree, then the aerospace and transport industries could be revolutionised.
PODKLETNOV was not the first man to dream of the benefits of anti-gravity. More than a century ago H G Wells, the writer, suggested that spacecraft might fly to the moon using gravity shields. He had realised that a device that could negate gravity would enable spacecraft to launch without fuel. It followed that planes, ships and even cars could also have their weight reduced, saving on fuel and enabling incredible speeds.
Others imagined a more sinister purpose. Nazi Germany devoted serious research to developing an anti-gravity weapon in a programme headed by the Austrian scientist Viktor Schauberger.
For the past five decades Schauberger s achievements have remained shrouded in mystery. When the war ended, the invading Americans stripped his laboratories of all machinery and documents and shipped them home.
Last year, however, Nick Cook, an aerospace expert at Jane s Defence Weekly whose book The Hunt for Zero Point describes the history of gravity research tracked down Schauberger s family and former colleagues. From them he coaxed an extraordinary tale of flying saucers that levitated without fuel and glowed silver and green.
Sadly for Schauberger, the machines also apparently all crashed. They had, however, hinted at the power of an undreamt of new technology and within months of the war ending his documents and prototypes were in the hands of engineers at secret US laboratories.
Two years after the war the knowledge gleaned from them prompted Nathan Twining, a general in the US air force, to state that America could now build a plane that would defy gravity.
Then everything went silent. The world has still never seen a plane that flies without fuel or a spacecraft that can defy gravity. No research papers have been published and official sources deny all knowledge of anti-gravity research before 1990. What could have happened?
One logical answer is that anti-gravity research proved fruitless. Cook believes otherwise. Over the past few years he has interviewed dozens of researchers from Lockheed Martin, Boeing and other companies involved in aviation research. His conclusion? That the anti-gravity research programmes have continued amid the utmost secrecy.
Someone realised that anti-gravity could be so destructive that it would endanger world peace and decided to keep it secret for a long time, he claims.
COULD it be, then, that Podkletnov had stumbled on a secret other scientists had been trying to keep quiet for half a century? What is certain is that since his work was released to the public in 1996 some very big names have admitted their enthusiasm.
Last week George Muellner, the executive who oversees Phantom Works, Boeing s secretive research organisation, told The Sunday Times that anti-gravity works . He added: We know it can work but what we don t know is whether it can be useful. The systems we have seen consume too much energy. I believe that one day there will be a breakthrough but it is a long way away.
What Muellner would not talk about was an internal seminar held at Boeing earlier this year in which the researcher Jamie Childress and other senior Phantom Works executives described the potential of anti-gravity research.
Childress, who has been in contact with Podkletnov, concluded: It is plausible that gravity modification is real. He warned that, if it were proven, the aerospace industry would experience a gold rush that would alter Boeing s entire business.
The story is similar at Nasa. It has commissioned a 3m study that will aim to replicate Podkletnov s work. Mark Millis, head of Nasa s breakthrough propulsion programme at the Glenn space centre in Cleveland, confirms he is particularly interested in Podkletnov s recent claim that he has generated a beam that can exert a force 1,000 times more powerful than Earth s gravity.
Podkletnov s device, built with Giovanni Modanese, a respected Italian physicist, could be the basis for launching anything from spacecraft to missiles.
Millis, like Boeing, emphasises the peaceful uses of such technology, but both accept that it could have a darker purpose. Such a beam could, for example, be projected against an aircraft, satellite or missile, knocking it off course or smashing it apart from huge distances.
Like Boeing, Nasa has been trying to bring Podkletnov and his equipment to America, but has been blocked by Russian laws banning the transfer of such sensitive technology.
Nasa may, however, have more of a head start than it is admitting. It emerged recently that in 1993 the advanced concepts office at the Marshall Space Flight Center received a paper written by Ning Li and Douglas Torr, both respected physicists, who knew nothing of Podkletnov but like him described how rotating superconductors could alter gravity.
Nasa immediately set up a programme to study the phenomenon which has continued ever since.
SUCH potential has also interested British researchers including some at BAE Systems. It has appointed Ron Evans, a senior researcher and mathematician, to run its anti-gravity research, codenamed Project Greenglow. Similar work is under way at Toshiba s research centre in Japan.
Getting any of these companies to discuss their work is another matter. Whether for fear of ridicule, or to protect the scope of their discoveries, none will outline the form or success of their experiments.
The same applies to Podkletnov. Since 1996, following the surge of media attention that greeted his research, he has been a near-recluse. The last public sighting of him was two years ago, when he slipped into Britain to give a lecture at Sheffield University and sensationally announced that he d been able to reverse gravity so effectively that his experimental equipment had actually levitated just as Schauberger s flying saucers had done five decades earlier.
But having dropped his bombshell, Podkletnov disappeared again and has never published details of that work. Officially he still works for the Moscow Chemical Science Research Centre, a secretive institute that does not even publish its address.
This weekend The Sunday Times traced Podkletnov to Finland, to a home near the University of Tampere, where he did his first gravitational research. He will not talk to anyone about anything, said a woman who then slammed the phone down. What is he hiding from? What does he know?
One day all may be revealed. Boeing, Nasa and BAE are taking his principles seriously enough to challenge our most basic understanding of gravity itself. It could be that the very force that binds us to the ground could be harnessed to carry us to the stars.
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Tsunami death toll hits 144,000
THE RAPTURE? 144,000 suddenly 'dispappear, are 'swept' away…
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Seven year tribulation . . . 2005 + 7 years =
Tibetan monks see Extra Terrestrial powers saving the World from destroying itself in 2012
Remote viewing is nothing new in Tibetan monasteries. For thousands of years remote viewing in the middle of other spiritual activities have dominated Tibetan culture. What some Indian tourists came to learn from a few Tibetan monasteries under the current Chinese rule is extremely alarming and fascinating.
According to these tourists remote viewers are seeing world powers in the course of self-destruction. They also see that the world will not be destroyed. Between now and 2012 the world super powers will continue to engage in regional wars. Terrorism and covert war will be the main problem. In world politics something will happen in and around 2010. At that time the world powers will threaten to destroy each other.
Between 2010 and 2012, the whole world will get polarized and prepare for the ultimate dooms day. Heavy political maneuvers and negotiations will take place with little progress.
In 2012, the world will start plunging into a total destructive nuclear war.
And at that time something remarkable will happen, says, Buddhist monk of Tibet. Supernatural divine powers will intervene. The destiny of the world is not to self-destruct at this time.
Scientific interpretation of the monks' statements makes it evident that the Extra Terrestrial powers are watching us every step of the way. They will intervene in 2012 and save the world from self-destruction.
When asked about recent UFO sightings in India and China, the monks smiled and said the divine powers are watching us all. Mankind cannot and will not be allowed to alter the future to that great extent.
Every human being though their current acts in life called "Karma" can alter the future lives to some extent, but changing the destiny in that large extent will not be allowed to that great an extent.
Monks also mentioned that beyond 2012 our current civilization would understand that the final frontier of science and technology is in area of spirituality and not material physics and chemistry. Beyond 2012, out technologies will take a different direction. People will learn the essence of spirituality, the relation between body and the soul, the reincarnation and the fact we are connected with each other are all part of "God".
In India and China UFO sightings have increased in many folds. Many say the Chinese and Indian Governments are being contacted by the Extra Terrestrials.
In recent days most UFO activities have been seen in those countries who have indigenously developed Nuke capabilities.
When asked if these extra-terrestrials will show up in reality in 2012, the answers remote viewers are giving is: they will reveal themselves in such a way that none of us scared. They will reveal themselves only if they have to. As our science and technology progresses, we are destined to see them and interact with them any way.
According to the remote viewers, our earth is blessed and is being saved continuously from all kinds of hazards all the time that we are not even aware of. As our technologies progress we will realize how external forces saved us.
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X-FLARE: The New Year began with a bang. A powerful X2-class solar flare erupted near sunspot 715 at 40 minutes past midnight GMT on Jan. 1st. The explosion might have hurled a coronal mass ejection (CME) toward Earth. If it did, the CME would reach our planet on Jan. 3rd and possibly spark auroras.
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Comment on the SE Asian tsunami disaster, 26 Dec 04.
Japan and the USA have a very a effective tsunami warning system in the Pacific Ocean. It is based on pressure sensors on the ocean floor. Tsunami waves are so long that they change the pressure at the seafloor whereas wind waves get smoothed out.
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Although, for a given location on the Earth's surface, the risk of a "direct" hit from an asteroid is slight, researchers realized that an ocean impact had the potential to be much more destructive due to the effects of tsunami. An airburst explosion is a three dimensional event and energy decreases according to the square of the distance but a radiating ocean wave is a two-dimensional phenomenon and, in theory, energy decreases in proportion to distance. Since the early 1990s some advanced computer simulations have been conducted to estimate the effects of asteroid impacts above deep oceans.
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The main items of contention appears to be:
the initial size of the wave – based on analysis of the size and shape of the "crater" and the manner in which it collapses, and
Crawford & Mader (1998) explain that, for an impact to produce a coherently propagating wave (one that does not dissipate substantial energy when it travels over great distances) the "cavity" must be 3 to 5 times broader than the depth of the ocean. Using a rule-of-thumb (derived from simulations) that the cavity diameter is 20 times the asteroid diameter then, for a typical ocean depth of 4km, the impactor must be at least 1 km in diameter to produce a coherent wave. On this basis, for asteroids smaller than about 1km, the wave will dissipate considerably as it travels over thousands of kilometres of ocean.
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Would the airburst from an Explosion from a falling Meteor Create an Earthqauke?
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A spokesman for the Turkish UFO and Paranormal Organization says that
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"Police said they found no evidence that the blasts were caused by
"An official from the Indonesian space centre LAPAN told the official
"´It´s probable that a fireball originating from a big meteor entered
"Police had said they were investigating the blasts." (See the Lahore
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WTF?! Neverknwo, what are you on about? You're not winning any of us over with your obsessive compulsive disorder! Whats with all these pix? And whats supposed to happen on the 3rd of January 2005 (today)? I'm still waiting.
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Yet Another Prime Time Clue For You all.
Small Asteroid Passes Between Satellites and Earth
Astronomers spotted an asteroid this week after it had flown past Earth on a course that took it so close to the planet it was below the orbits of some satellites.
The space rock was relatively small, however, and would not have posed any danger had it plunged into the atmosphere.
The object, named 2004 YD5, was about 16 feet (5 meters) wide, though that's a rough estimate based on its distance and assumed reflectivity. Had it entered the atmosphere, it would have exploded high up, experts figure.
Satellite territory
The asteroid passed just under the orbits of geostationary satellites, which at 22,300 miles (36,000 kilometers) altitude are the highest manmade objects circling Earth. Most other satellites, along with the International Space Station, circle the planet at just a few hundred miles up.
2004 YD5 is the second closest pass of an asteroid ever observed by telescope, according to the Asteroid/Comet Connection, a web site that monitors space rock discoveries. The closest involved a rock that flew by last March and was not announced until August.
2004 YD5 was discovered Tuesday, Dec. 21 by Stan Pope, who volunteers his time to examine images provided by the FMO (Fast Moving Object) project, an online program run by the University of Arizona's Spacewatch Project. After the initial detection, other observers noted the object's position during the day and its path was then calculated back. Closest approach occurred on Dec. 19.
The rock approached Earth from near the Sun and so would have been nearly impossible to detect prior to close passage. It soared over Antarctica — underneath the planet, Washington State University researcher Pasquale Tricarico told the Asteroid/Comet Connection.
Astronomers are aware of this significant blind spot for asteroids that approach Earth while in the glare of the Sun. Only a space telescope could detect such objects before they arrive.
Similar events
Asteroids orbit the Sun, mostly in a belt between Mars and Jupiter. Some are redirected closer to the Sun, often by gravitational nudges provided by the planets. Earth has been hit by devastatingly large asteroids many times in the distant past. Astronomers say sooner or later the planet will be struck again, but the odds of a large impact occurring in any given century are extremely small.
This has been an interesting year for asteroid encounters.
On March 18, a giant boulder about 100 feet (30 meters) wide passed just above the orbits of geostationary satellites. Its path was bent about 15 degrees by Earth's gravity. The asteroid, 2004 FH, was discovered a mere three days prior.
On Sept. 29, the largest asteroid ever known to pass near Earth, named Toutatis, roamed by at about four times the distance to the Moon. Astronomers had known for years the flyby would occur, since Toutatis is 2.9 miles (4.6 kilometers) long and had been in Earth's vicinity before.
But many near misses by small asteroids likely go unnoticed, astronomers say, because the entire sky is not continuously monitored. Such small asteroids have been detected only in recent years as more sophisticated telescopes have been hooked up with digital cameras.
And some asteroids come even closer, entering the atmosphere. Most never reach the ground because they break apart under the stress of entry. One study of data collected by U.S. military satellites logged 300 in-air asteroid explosions.
2004 YD5 was announced Tuesday evening by the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass, where comet and asteroid observations from around the globe are digested.
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Komet flyby and Earthqaukes isnt that some urban legend tale ?
GREEN COMET: Comet Machholz (C/2004 Q2) is approaching Earth and gliding through the constellation Taurus. It's easy to find. Go outside and look south between 9 and 10 PM: sky map. To the unaided eye, it looks like a faint and fuzzy green star. Through a small telescope, you can see the comet's two tails:
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Earth's Safe Zone Became Hot During Legendary Solar Storms
The observations revealed the Van Allen Radiation Belt Slot, often considered a safe zone, filled with concentrated radiation during the ferocious solar storms of October and November 2003. The radiation surge was the most intense ever observed in this region, according to researchers.
"Space weather matters. We know that no matter what orbit we choose, there is the possibility a spacecraft could get blasted by a significant dose of radiation," said Daniel Baker, Director of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and lead author of the study. "We need to take space weather into account when designing spacecraft. We also need the ability to continuously monitor space weather, so satellite operators can take protective measures during solar storms," he said.
High radiation occasionally forms in the safe zone during solar storms. This radiation is usually not intense and dissipates in a few days. During the 2003 solar storms, billion-ton eruptions of electrified gas slammed into the Earth's magnetic field at millions of miles per hour. This generated powerful electric fields that forced much of the plasmasphere into interplanetary space. It was eroded to an unprecedented degree, to the point below the safe zone. Since the plasmasphere was below the safe zone, an intense radiation belt powered by the solar storms formed in the region.
If the Van Allen radiation belts were visible from space, they would resemble a pair of donuts around the Earth, one inside the other with the planet in the hole of the innermost one. The safe zone would appear as a gap between the inner and outer donut, beginning about 7,000 km (4,350 miles) and ending approximately 13,000 km (8,110 miles) above the Earth's surface. The belts are comprised of high-speed electrically charged electrons and atomic nuclei trapped in the Earth's magnetic field.
The Solar, Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer (SAMPEX) satellite flies through these belts, taking measurements of the particle types, their energy and abundance. SAMPEX observed the formation of the new belt in the safe zone on October 31, 2003. The radiation remained intense for about two weeks, and then gradually dissipated.
NASA's Imager for Aurora to Magnetopause Global Exploration (IMAGE) satellite observed the loss of the plasmasphere during the solar storms. Since solar ultraviolet radiation energizes helium ions in the plasmasphere, causing them to glow in ultraviolet light, the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager instrument on IMAGE can record the extent of the plasmasphere by observing this glow.
IMAGE discovered the plasmasphere was at its lowest point on October 31, 2003. The plasmasphere slowly expanded past the safe zone, replenished by particles from Earth's upper atmosphere. After its expansion beyond the safe zone, SAMPEX observed the dissipation of the new radiation belt.
"We were surprised to see the radiation belt persist so long after the plasmasphere expanded past the safe zone," said Jerry Goldstein of the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), San Antonio, a co-author of the paper. "Radiation in the safe zone remained strong for a few weeks, a lot longer than usual," he said.
The research used theory, modeling, and observations from work sponsored by the National Science Foundation and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The research team included Drs. Shri Kanekal, Xinlin Li, and Steven Monk also of the University of Colorado and Dr. James Burch of SwRI.
The research data was presented today during the American Geophysical Union Fall meeting in San Francisco, and it appears tomorrow in the journal Nature. For more information about the research and images on the Web, visit:
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/safe_zone.html For information about NASA and agency research programs on the Web, visit:
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Last year I had an ultra-sound surgen blast my Kidney Stone into pieces, couldn't ultra-sound blast and explode parts of earth?
Solar Ultrasound Waves Discovered By Satellite
The Sun's atmosphere is filled with ultrasound-like waves that may help solve decades-old mysteries about the Sun and space weather, according to Southwest Research Institute scientists who found the waves in data from NASA's TRACE spacecraft. Astrophysical Journal Letters reported on the findings in its December 10 issue.
"At 10-second period, these waves qualify as ultrasound because individual atoms on the Sun experience only a few collisions during the brief passage of each wave, just as with ultrasound here on Earth," says Dr. Craig DeForest, a senior research scientist in the SwRI Space Science and Engineering Division. DeForest found the signature in TRACE data collected in January 2003.
The waves are most likely created by the sudden collapse of magnetically induced electric currents (magnetic reconnection) or by lower frequency sound waves that crash like ocean waves as they make their way up from the surface of the Sun. Both of the sources are likely candidates for the source of the solar atmosphere's mysterious extra heat, making the new waves a valuable tool for exploring a decades-old mystery.
At up to 100,000 deg C (180,000 deg F), the chromosphere, or middle solar atmosphere, is nearly 20 times hotter than the 6,000 deg C (11,000 deg F) surface of the Sun. The solar corona, at 1,000,000 deg C (1,800,000 deg F), is about 10 times hotter still, or 200 times hotter than the surface of the Sun. Although scientists have been studying the process for more than 50 years, the reason for this difference in temperature remains elusive.
"By examining these waves more closely, we should be able to discern the source of energy release in the solar atmosphere, just like you can tell by listening whether the car is running in a dark garage," says DeForest. "In both cases, something is releasing energy into the environment, and that release has a recognizable sonic signature."
The Sun is filled with lower-pitched waves, at about 3 mHz (5-minute period), that are used to probe the solar interior and even to make images of the far side of the Sun. The solar ultrasound is too high pitched to be directly related to these more well-known "photospheric oscillations."
Sound waves cannot travel through interplanetary space, so they are detected remotely as small fluctuations in the brightness of solar ultraviolet emissions. The TRACE spacecraft, built by Lockheed-Martin for NASA's Explorer program, is an ultraviolet telescope in orbit around Earth. The solar ultrasound is at the limit of detectability by TRACE — so faint that individual waves cannot be resolved. Instead, DeForest sleuthed for patterns in the background noise of the telescope.
"Each individual wave train has an amplitude of about one-tenth of the smallest brightness value that TRACE can see," he says. "But when we average many images together in the right way, a pattern emerges that we can recognize as the signature of trapped waves." The pattern emerges through three-dimensional Fourier analysis, a mathematical technique that isolates individual types of motion from the morass of activity above the solar surface.
Although the waves appear faint, they are quite energetic. "These ripples seem to be carrying about 1 kilowatt of power per square meter on the surface of the Sun," says DeForest. "That is similar to the sonic energy you might find coming out of the speakers at a rock concert. Very loud."
"The discovery of coherent waves at such high frequencies in the upper solar atmosphere challenges our understanding of the magnetic structures in the quiet Sun," says Dr. Joseph Gurman, TRACE mission scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
"This work proves that we need new tools to understand the propagation of energy into and out of this part of the solar atmosphere where much of the activity that can affect life here on Earth originates."
The open data policy of the TRACE mission boosts scientific productivity by allowing researchers and the general public to download solar data collected by the spacecraft. This allows individuals to re-use the data for purposes beyond those of the original mission.
Future instruments will be able to better detect the waves. While TRACE is a simple telescope that can detect only changes in brightness, the waves are likely to have a much stronger Doppler signature. One problem remains, however; Earth's ozone layer is opaque to the ultraviolet light used to see and "hear" the solar ultrasound, making the light difficult to detect from the ground.
SwRI scientists are designing rocket- and balloon-borne instruments to observe from above the bulk of Earth's atmosphere to catch a better glimpse of the wave spectrum for probing the solar atmosphere.
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Huh, maybe more of the Chicken Littles will arise an overthrow all you Ostrich's?
Earth's Magnetic Field Is Fading
John Roach
Not surprisingly, Hollywood has already seized on this new twist in the natural-disaster genre. Last year Tinseltown released The Core, a film in which the collapse of Earth's magnetic field leads to massive electrical storms, blasts of solar radiation, and birds incapable of navigation.
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Mercury, Mars and Venus to Align in a Way That's Not Been Seen for a Century
Fright Night – alignment of planets frightens superstitious – Brief Article
DES MOINES, Iowa Dec 26, 2004 — Three planets will align over the weekend, giving Iowans a glimpse at something they haven't seen for at least 100 years, astronomy experts said.
Mercury, Mars and Venus will be able to be seen in the southeastern part of the sky before sunrise from Saturday through Wednesday, said Michael Bakich, associate editor at Astronomy Magazine.
"Next to the sun and the moon, (Venus is) the brightest in the sky, so it'll be brilliant," he said.
Mars will be to the upper right of Venus and Mercury will be noticeable at its left.
It's been at least 100 years since the planets have aligned this way, Bakich said.
He speculated that the bright star the Bible says wise men followed to Bethlehem to find Jesus may have been a similar grouping of planets.
"Nobody really knows what's called the Star of Bethlehem was," he said.
Information from: The Des Moines Register,
Doomsayers are howling through their teeth about the alignment of planets on May 5
THIS MONTH IT WON'T BE EASY TO DISTINGUISH REAL sky drama from hype. A so-called grand conjunction, in which Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn line up with the Earth, sun, and moon, has generated a New Age buzz with its own cryptic warning label: Beware , doomsayers claim, gravitational forces reverberating throughout the solar system will trigger earthquakes and volcanoes on Earth.
The Question
Is it possible that on May 5, 2000 the alignment of the planets can have enough gravitational effect on the earth to cause it to tip slightly causing mass destruction.
I have tried to find this answer from many, but everyone refuses to respond. Please help.
The Answer
F = (G x M1 x M2) / (R x R)
G is the universal gravitational constant which has a value of 6.6732 × 10-11 newton-meters2/kg2 for all pairs of objects. A "newton" is a unit of force that physicists use. It is defined to be the amount of force needed to accelerate a 1 kg mass at 1 meter per sec2. The important thing to remember here is that a newton, as a unit of force, is fairly small… like a millimeter is a small unit of distance or a microsecond is a small unit of time.
So let's examine the pull of the planets on the Earth.
We know the following:
Planet Planet Mass Minimum Distance from Earth (Earth Masses) (106 km)
The Earth has a mass of about 6 × 1024 kg.
So… let's hypothesize that we can miraculously put all the planets at their minimum distances from Earth, all in a straight line in one direction — so their gravitational forces add. This, of course, can never actually occur, but it will give us the maximum possible gravitational pull of the other planets on the Earth. So let's pretend that we can do this. What do we get?
If you put all the numbers in Newton's law (and make the units compatible), you get that the maximum force that all the other planets can exert on the Earth is roughly 3 × 1018 newtons. What sort of result will this have on the Earth… well, we use Newton's First Law which says that if a force F is applied to a mass M, the mass is accelerated by a value A. (This is the famous equation F=ma). A force of 3 × 1018 newtons acting on the Earth causes the Earth to accelerate by 5 × 10-7 meters per second per second. In other words, the planets in our solar system — aligned or not — cannot cause a shift in the movement of the Earth which will lead to mass destruction.
To compare, let us look at the gravitational force that the Sun exerts on the Earth. The mass of the Sun is about 329,400 times that of the Earth. They are separated on average by approximately 149,000,000 km. Thus, the Sun exerts a force of ~3.5 × 1022 newtons on the Earth. So you see, that the other planets in our solar system don't matter at all compared to the Sun!
To be entirely correct, we must tell you that the laws of physics involved actually show that the Moon is the one of the most important objects to the Earth… gravitationally speaking. It is the Moon which is responsible for things like ocean tides and such. All the other planets in our solar system added together do not have as large a gravitational effect on the Earth as the Moon does.
Here is a table of tidal forces of the Sun, Moon, and Planets. With the sun's tidal force equal to 1.00, the following values are given in Thompson (1981):
Moon 2.21
A last thought: alignments of various planets in the solar system occur all the time. It seems that every time one comes along, doom-sayers arise to cry that this is the end of life on Earth as we know it. The laws of physics, however, cannot be denied in this Universe of ours. If life on this Earth ends, it will not be because of planets aligning in our solar system.
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At first glance, the claims that planetary alignments or groupings will cause earthquakes, floods, solar eruptions, and perhaps even the destruction of the Earth do seem interesting. Gravity is a long reaching force, and the planets are big. Can their influence reach across the solar system and cause all sorts of headaches here on Earth?
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Here comes the Floods!
Flooding ocuring throught the Mid-West Tonite, Bitter Cold and Major Snow Storm expected tommorrow!
Flood watch issued
The Advocate – 2 hours, 12 minutes ago
Flood watch today, more snow possible soon
The News-Messenger – Jan 03 10:35 AM
Much of Central Indiana is under a flood watch until 6 p.m. today after being under a flood warning most of the morning.
More than an inch of rain fell in Indianapolis since midnight.
With streams and creeks rising in west-central Indiana, the National Weather Service issued a flood warning for Clay, Parke, Putnam, Vigo and Vermillion counties.
The downpours around Indianapolis created ponding on streets and flooding of low-lying areas.
Dispatchers in Marion County said a creek spilled over to the road in the 5000 block of Winterberry Drive on the Northwestside, just northwest of 56th Street West and Georgetown Road. Also, a street was flooded in the 5200 block of Eastbourne Drive at East 46th Street and North Emerson Drive.
At Indianapolis International Airport, the National Weather Service at 2 p.m. had recorded 1.36 of inches of rain since midnight after .41 was recorded on Sunday.
About one-third of an inch of rain may still fall today, forecasters said.
Moderate to heavy rain is expected to continue across the area on Tuesday.
Freezing rain may hit northern parts of Central Indiana on Tuesday night and Wednesday, forecasters warned.
River levels rise in region, spur flood warnings
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette – Jan 03 3:11 AM
Parts Of North Texas Under Flash Flood Warning Area Under Flood Watch Through Monday Evening
NBC 5 Dallas Fort Worth – Jan 03 7:22 AM
5 years ago
neverknwo – I think I know what you're talking about.
under the influence of mind-bending cosmic rays, caused by the explosing of an interstellar spacecraft outside the orbit of jupiter, caused sea turtles in the indian ocean tp all start humping on a certain spot on a circular plate, causing the earthquake leading to the tsunami.
5 years ago
Under the influence of mind-bending cosmic rays caused by the explosion of an interstellar spacecraft outside the orbit of jupiter, sea turtles in the indian all start converging on a rare circular plate, where the start mating, unleasing the power of the eath's magma, and causing the earthquake responsible for the tsunami.
5 years ago
woah…god I feel like a moron.
5 years ago
You just don't got Questions!
You got Anwsers!
5 years ago
Astonishing Evidence Points to Worldwide Disaster in Our Lifetime!
5 years ago
More Bizzre Weather Stories:
UAE sees snow for first time ever
Thu Dec 30,12:09 PM ET Mideast – AFP
DUBAI (AFP) – Snow has fallen over the United Arab Emirates for the first time ever, leaving a white blanket over the mountains of Ras al-Khaimah as the desert country experienced a cold spell and above-average rainfall.
Dubai airport's meteorology department told AFP that snow fell over the Al-Jees mountain range in Ras al-Khaimah, which is the most northerly member of the UAE federation.
The English-language Gulf News reported that the mountain cluster, 5,700 feet (1,737 metres) above sea level, "had heavy night-time snowfall for the past two days as a result of temperatures dropping to as low as minus five Celsius (23 Fahrenheit)" and stunning the emirate's residents.
5 years ago
Tornado, rain hit Los Angeles
140,000 people in 5 counties lose power
Associated Press
Power outages hit more than 140,000 customers across five counties and portions of several highways were closed due to flooding, mud or snow. Statewide storm-related deaths since Monday mounted to five.
The tornado struck the Los Angeles suburbs of Inglewood and Ladera Heights around 1:30 a.m., ripping the roof off a house, snapping trees and damaging cars, but causing no injuries. Dan Keaton, an NWS meteorologist, confirmed that it was a twister after examining the damage.
Derek Williams said he awakened when the tornado blasted out a bedroom window of his Ladera Heights home.
''I heard sort of a low rumbling noise, sort of like a freight train and shortly after that, I heard a ripping noise — obviously, that was my roof,'' Williams told KCAL-TV. ''Thank God everyone was OK in the house.''
Lightning flashed and thunder cracked over the Los Angeles area throughout the early morning, but after dawn the bands of rain became intermittent. Storminess continued in the inland region to the east, where warnings remained in effect in the wintry mountains.
Interstate 5, the state's major north-south artery, was blocked overnight by snowfall high in Tejon Pass north of Los Angeles, but reopened around 5 a.m.
Twin 44-year-old brothers were rescued in the afternoon after being stranded on Mount Baldy, a huge peak northeast of Los Angeles that got up to 30 inches of snow. Richard and Robert Encinas, of Rancho Cucamonga and Covina, respectively, were uninjured, said San Bernardino County sheriff's spokeswoman Cindy Beavers.
The storm's two days of heavy rain in Los Angeles and Ventura counties amounted to between 2 inches and 6 inches in coastal and valley areas, and 6 inches to 12 inches in foothill and mountain areas, the NWS said.
In Manhattan Beach, children paddled improvised rafts on streets flooded by runoff.
High winds in San Diego County snapped off the top 170 feet of the KSON radio tower in National City and bits of the falling tower struck about 20 cars. The mishap took two radio stations and a cable television station off the air, said Darrel Goodin, vice president and general manager of Jefferson Pilot Communications San Diego, which operates four radio stations in the area.
In Orange County, wind toppled a brick wall onto a carport roof in Costa Mesa.
are tornado hits California
5 years ago
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Man is "playing God", rejecting the true and casting away all fear of Him, and nothing but tyranny, devastation, destruction on mass scales, like that recently in Indonesian earthquake and Tsunami (where the "official count" is over 140,000), are sure to come, and make 9/11 to pale as a speck of dust in comparison. These "technologies of terror"—"weapons of mass destruction"—are more alarming than that of nuclear weapons, in that they can be prolonged at will, wielded upon any provocation, at the mere whim or unchecked temper of any government, real or "shadow", in complete stealth, by whoever has the power in their hands, and no God-fearing conscience to restrain them. Whole nations (like Sumatra) can be overthrown in a day, without standing armies, sorties of bombers, or fleets of ships. World Revolution will come as an "act of God", creating fear and terror, by the "lying wonders" of Man who plays God, and usurps control and power, like Leviathan, which no man can prevent or subdue by any normal means. They can "shake the heavens and the earth" and cause all to bow to their global craft of a new world order and claim that the "god of forces" is on their side, that "he is fighting for us". "Who can make war with the Beast?"
The following credible testimonies to this fact are so detailed in some, that even their calm recitation of the means that can be employed with these techologies is enough to strike alarm in the most calm and sedated minds.
- Secretary of Defense William Cohen speaking at an April 1997 terrorism conference at the University of Georgia, revealing the existence of earthquake weapons
"[W]eather-modification offers the war fighter a wide-range of possible options to defeat or coerce an adversary… In the United States, weather-modification will likely become a part of national security policy with both domestic and international applications. Our government will pursue such a policy, depending on its interests, at various levels."
- Air University of the US Air Force, AF 2025 Final Report
"Technology will make available, to the leaders of major nations, techniques for conducting secret warfare, of which only a bare minimum of the security forces need be appraised… [T]echniques of weather modification could be employed to produce prolonged periods of drought or storm."
- Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Adviser, Between Two Ages, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1992)
"All distant-destruction can be done from a control room, and to any point on earth. The destructive power of 'men' has just increased by orders of magnitude. While the United States has experimented with electomagnetic weapons using ordinary transverse EM waves, the longitudinal [LW] weaponized waves are truly of another order altogether. For one thing they do not have to travel through space, for they come from the time domain, which is everywhere. The energy of the blast, the heat or light or whatever, comes from the vacuum of space at the location of the target itself. This is astonishing. The weapons actually just trigger the release of immense energy from the vacuum at the target location. Here's how you initiate a very large earthquake with such weapons. Take a convenient fault zone or set of them. Focus the interferometry on the fault zone, in the "diverging" mode, and deposit EM energy there in the rocks on both sides, increasing (slowly) the stress in the rocks by the reverse piezoelectric effect (deposit excess energy, get crystal mechanical movements). Do it slowly, and the stress will build up to large pressures well-above a plate slip minimum energy required. At some point, the rocks yield and one or both sides "slip" and move rather sharply, giving a very large earthquake in that zone. Do the same thing down in the earth (remember, LWs easily penetrate right through the earth and ocean at will, and so the 'interference zone' focus can be inside the earth or beneath the ocean, at will)."
- Tom Bearden, Ph.D., nuclear engineer, retired Lieutenant Colonel (U.S. Army), CEO of CTEC, Inc., Director of the Association of Distinguished American Scientists, and Fellow Emeritus of the Alpha Foundation's Institute for Advanced Study, in "The Tesla Howitzer and its Modes of Action"
"We need a treaty now…before the military leaders of the world start directing storms, manipulating climates and inducing earthquakes against their enemies."
- Senator Claiborne Pell, as chair of a Senate sub-committee hearing in 1975 on artificially induced earthquakes
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B Quite Fitting the Earth is beginning to show some signs of it having Labor Contractions. The Legend is so Real this year with the EQ's and Tsunami.
What if the Earth is just a Egg and inside is a Baby Sun wanting to get out?
What if One day a third of the crust of the earth could rip apart and get shot into outer space while a chunk is being hurled into the universe the rest of the earth begins it's crumbling and the debis turns into astroids?
by Barbara Aho
The reverend he turned to me
Well I guess
Believe the word
Sometimes when I'm alone
Through all those
The way we were
Believe the word
The way we were
Believe the word
The great Bimillennial celebrations which were launched in December of 1999 presaged the celebration of Christmas in a new form. Evangelical leader Jay Gary, in collaboration with former U.N. Assistant Secretary-General, Robert Muller, called for "an entire year of Christmas" through A.D. 2000. Commencing these high profile celebrations on this particular holiday signified quite another commemoration than the birth of Jesus Christ. In the various pagan religions of remote antiquity, December was the celebration of the Winter Solstice. Alexander Hislop revealed the true meaning of the festival of the Winter Solstice in his classic work, The Two Babylons:
"This festival has been commonly believed to have had only an astronomical character, referring simply to the completion of the sun's yearly course, and the commencement of a new cycle. But there is indubitable evidence that the festival in question had a much higher influence than this—that it commemorated not merely the figurative birthday of the sun in the renewal of its course, but the birth-day of the grand Deliverer…the Sun-God and great mediatorial divinity." 1.
The Sun-god Osiris and his consort, Isis, together with Re-Atum, the "Father of the Gods," were regarded by the ancient Egyptians as the supreme rulers of a Golden Age of plenty called Zep Tepi or the "First Time." Their kingdom ended abruptly when Osiris was murdered by his evil brother, Seth or Typhon. The childless Isis searched for the dismembered body of Osiris, which she then reassembled and resuscitated long enough to conceive a son named Horus. Horus was believed to be the reincarnation of Osiris, and the new husband of Isis, whose destiny it was to repossess the Kingdom of Osiris from the control of Seth.
"Like the goddess Isis, who found and restored all of the lost pieces of her husband, Osiris, many are restoring the unity of all life, bringing together the separate parts of humanity — different races, religions and cultures." – 42:62
The fable of Isis and Osiris, which forms the basis of Freemasonry and other occult belief systems, is currently experiencing a revival through entertainment, literature, education, and religious traditions. For example, the theme of Horus is the basis of the popular Hollywood production, Lion King. Through many points of entry, the pagan alternative to Jesus Christ is subtly being introduced to the world—and also to the Church—as mankind is subconsciously undergoing preparation for a universal return to the ancient practice of Sun worship.
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http://cyberjournal.org/cj/rkm/WE/jun00Matrix.shtml Richard K. Moore: Escaping the Matrix (Spoken http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=4101)
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http://eaglehost.com/ Citizens Against the NWO
http://100777.com/nwo/plan.htm Discover the only way you can defeat the NWO
http://www.theanalysis.net/ The Analysis – The New World Order is no longer a conspiracy theory
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http://4truthseekers.com/treeoflife/articl…O1_children.htm Peter Farley: Humanity vs The NWO Mind Control & Ritual Child Abuse—The True Weapons of Mass Destruction
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http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=125&row=1 Alex Jones Interviews Reporter Greg Palast – World Bank Secret Documents Consumes Argentina
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http://www.alphalink.com.au/%7Enoelmcd/ahistory.htm Liberty Australia – Australian History
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Bali Bombing
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http://www.voxfux.com/articles(closed)/00000033.htm Bali Disco Bombing – Another US "Inside Hit." or Looks like another US Military/Intelligence Black Op by voxfux
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/nov2002/fcnr-n22.shtml Australian ABC falls into line on Bali bombing (By Peter Symonds 22 November 2002)
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steveseymour/..._micro_nuke.htm Bali Micro Nuke – Lack of Radiation Confuses "Experts" "The bomb flashed and exploded like a micro nuke, but our Geiger counters don't show any radiation"
http://www.geocities.com/wijedoru/bali.htm Bali, 9/11 & Oklahoma, a comparison
http://www.users.bigpond.com/Takver/soapbo…021014_bali.htm Terror in Paradise THE WAR AGAINST TERROR?
Bilderberg Group
http://www.bilderberg.org/ The Bilderberg Group 'The High Priests of Globalisation'
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CFR (Council for Foreign Relations)
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http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0213/black.php How IBM Helped Automate the Nazi Death Machine in Poland – Final Solutions
Illuminati (Alumbrados)
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http://thegoldenreport.com/articles.aspid=00180.html Jerry Golden "REPORT" The Roots of Evil in Jerusalem
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http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/khazar.html Israel, Jews And ''Anti-Semitism"
http://alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15935 Leo Strauss' Philosophy of Deception
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EE09Ak01.html Neocons dance a Strauss waltz
http://www.rense.com/general45/zzo.htm The Zionist Jewish Role In Causing World War II
http://www.guerrillanews.com/cgi-bin/wwwth…&sb=5&o=0∂= Adolf Hitler's Last Will & Testament 1945 (Revised 2003)
http://philologos.org/__eb-trs/ Hannah Newman The Rainbow Swastika – Report To the Jewish People About New Age Antisemitism
http://www.wintersonnenwende.com/scriptori…es/jdecwar.html The Jewish Declaration of War on Nazi Germany
http://rense.com/general48/Palestinians.pdf The Origin of the Palestinians and Their Genetic Relatedness with Other Mediterranean Populations
http://www.bilderberg.org/kissing.htm Henry Kissiger – World's number one state terrorist at large?
Merovingian Blood Line (European Royalty) see Bush Crime Family also
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2249_windsor_food.html The Windsors' Global Food Cartel: Instrument for Starvation
Mind Control
http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/pro-freedom.co.uk/ The Use Of Military 'Non – Lethal' Weapons Upon Society Toward Social Control
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?...50&s1=3,951,134 US Mind Control Patent: Apparatus and method for remotely monitoring and altering brain waves
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/PRcorrupt.html Derrick Jensen: An Interview with John Stauber: WAR ON TRUTH The Secret Battle for the American Mind
http://www.rense.com/general17/dos.htm New Documents On Human Drug Testing And MK-ULTRA Mind Control
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?...RS=PN/5,159,703 United States Patent 5,159,703, Lowery, October 27, 1992 Silent Subliminal Presentation System, Inventors: Lowery, Oliver M. Appl. No. 458339 Filed December 28, 1989. (http://www.cuttingedge.org/news/n1345.cfm)
http://www.catalase.com/patent.htm Patents for Electromagnetics and Biomanipulation
http://www.rense.com/general17/imp.htm Microchip Mind Control, Implants And Cybernetics
http://www.trance-formation.com/ Cathy O'Brien and Mark Phillips: Trance formation of America
http://www.truthcampaign.ukf.net/articles/...thyandmark.html Mind Control Out of Control, Cathy O'Brien and Mark Phillips
http://www.ou-research.com/ewpatents/nsaPR.html Project StarGate Mind control patents
http://mindcontrolforums.com Mind Control Forum
http://www.mk-resistance.com/ The Government Psychiatric Torture Site
http://www.angelfire.com/or/mctrl/gall.html Richard G. Gall: Mind Control & MK-ULTRA
http://web.archive.org/web/20011127122908/...97/kubarkin.htm The CIA's Secret Manual on Coercive Questioning
http://web.archive.org/web/20011201070154/...ds/mkultra0.htm Jon Elliston: MK-ULTRA: CIA Mind Control
http://www.bvalphaserver.com/sections.php?...ticle&artid=193 The Black Vault FOIA Documents: Project MKUltra, The CIA's Program of Research in Behavioral Modification
http://www.bvalphaserver.com/sections.php?...ticles&secid=19 The Black Vault FOIA docs: Mind control articles
http://www.crvmanual.com/docs/hp95.html CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing At Stanford Research Institute
http://www.jfkmontreal.com/john_lennon/len…hapmans_version Rethinking John Lennon's Assassination – New research exonerates murder suspect Mark David Chapman.
Oklahoma Bombing
http://www.uhuh.com/reports/ocbomb/ocgrabbe.htm Secret Pentagon Report on Oklahoma City Bombing : Evidence of an Inside Job?
http://www.uhuh.com/reports/ocbomb/okcover.htm Oklahoma City Bombing Cover-up
http://www.devvy.com/oklahoma.html OKLAHOMA CITY: Have You Been Told The Truth?
http://www.rense.com/general11/know.htm The OKC Bombing Chronology You're NOT Supposed To Know
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americ…jsp?story=71520 The Oklahoma Conspiracy
http://www.blazing-trails.com/DarkConspira…/okbombing.html OK Bomb Conspiracy and Coverup
http://www.brasscheck.com/OKBOMB/ The Oklahoma City Investigation: A Sick $89 Million Joke
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/apfncont.htm Oklahoma City Bombing Cover-Up
http://www.skolnicksreport.com/okcity.html OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBINGS—-SPLIT IN FBI?
http://www.skolnicksreport.com/okcity2.html OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBINGS—-SPLIT IN FBI? more details
Prison Planet/Camps
http://www.nick2211.yage.net/chips.htm Blueprint for a Prison Planet by Nick Sandberg
http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_louis…internment.html Field Manual 3-19.40 Plans for Civilian Internment: Stalag 17 American Style
http://www.geocities.com/theawakeningnews/..._Locations.html Concentration Camps on US soil: Full list
http://www.conspiracyworld.com/index0015.htm US Concentration Camps
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/camps.htm American Concentration Camps
Port Arthur Massacre
http://www.shootersnews.addr.com/snportarthur.html Information About The Deception & Coverup At Port Arthur
http://www.2012.com.au/NWO.html MARTIN BRYANT and Port Arthur The Not So Lone Assassin?
http://www.alphalink.com.au/%7Enoelmcd/portarth.htm Liberty Exposure The Incident at Port Arthur
http://geocities.com/vialls/portarthur.html Joe Vialls: Deadly Deception at Port Arthur
http://www.joevialls.co.uk/passover/bryant.html Australian Officials Recklessly Endanger Martin Bryant's Life
http://www.tisheloo.com/readme/Bloodlines_…20Bloodline.php The Rockefeller Bloodline
http://www.voxfux.com/features/rockefeller…ex.html#metatop The Rockefeller File by Gary Allen
http://www.reformation.org/rockefeller.html Rome, Rockefeller, the U.S. and Standard Oil
http://www.reformation.org/rockefeller-inv…gates-bush.html Rockefellers and Rothschilds are the same Satanic Bloodline
http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/rothschild2.html#metatop The Rothschilds, LBMA, and Gold
http://www.savethemales.ca/000275.html Makow: Rothschilds Conduct 'Red Symphony' The 20th Century Unveiled
http://www.savethemales.ca/000280.html Makow: Terminated! Freemasonry's Final Revelation
Secret experiments on people
http://www.global-elite.org/modules.php?op…order=0&thold=0 PORTON DOWN – the terrible secret
http://www.global-elite.org/modules.php?op…order=0&thold=0 The CIA's Secret Experiments on Humans Code Name: Artichoke
http://www.rense.com/general25/militaryadmits.htm Military Admits Using Nerve Gas On US Personnel In 60s Tests
www.rense.com/general17/USadmitsbiological.htm US Admits Biological Warfare Test On Troops
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=22…165886&set_id=1 IOL US admits biological warfare tests on troops
http://www.americansovereign.com/articles/...rimentation.htm History Of Secret Experimentation On United States Citizens
http://home.earthlink.net/~bkonop/GermIncidents2.html Germ Warfare
http://hardtruth.topcities.com/populationcontrolagenda2.htm Robert Howard: A History Timeline of Population Control
http://www.rense.com/general24/secret.htm Millions Of British Citizens Used In Secret BioWarefare Tests
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3511.htm A History of Secret Human Experimentation
http://www.rense.com/general36/history.htm A History Of US Secret Human Experimentation
Skulls & Bones
http://www.observer.com/pages/story.asp?ID=4136 At Skull and Bones, Bush's Secret Club Initiates Ream Gore
http://www.freeworldalliance.com/filmreviews.htm The Skulls – Anthony J. Hilder (Film Review)
http://www.rense.com/politics6/skull.htm Anthony Sutton On 'Skull & Bones,' US Banks Financing Hitler, & 'Trance-Formation'
http://www.geocities.com/knoxvillegreenpar…secret_society/ Scarabbean Senior Secret Society
http://www.questionsquestions.net/feldman/ford_sb.html Ford Foundation's Skull & Bones Link
http://www.insightmag.com/news/257507.html Seeking New Light On TWA Flight 800
http://orlingrabbe.com/donaldso.htm The Donaldson Report on TWA Flight 800
World Bank/IMF
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=78&row=0 The Globalizer Who Came In From the Cold
http://www.economist.com/finance/displaySt…tory_id=1214462 The Fund bites back
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=128&row=1 Greg Palast On Globalization
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/PAL203A.html IMF/World Bank/Enron/Bush – Grand Theft LarcenyGuest Posted: Dec 30 2004, 10:55 PM
UnregisteredThe Report From Iron Mountain by Leonard Lewin
"The organizing principle of any society is for war. The basic authority of a modern state over its people resides in its war powers."
Section 2: Disarmament and the Economy
Section 3: Disarmament Scenarios
Section 4: War and Peace as Social Systems
Section 5: The Functions of War
Section 6: Substitutes for the Functions of War
Section 7: Summary and Conclusions
Section 8: Recommendations
Footnote Section
Leonard Lewin's self-review
Attached is the Report of the Special Study Group established by you in August, 1963, 1) to consider the problems involved in the contingency of a transition to a general condition of peace, and 2) to recommend procedures for dealing with this contingency. For the convenience of nontechnical readers we have elected to submit our statistical supporting data, totaling 604 exhibits, separately, as well as a preliminary manual of the "peace games" method devised during the course of our study.
Because of the unusual circumstances surrounding the establishment of this Group, and in view of the nature of its finding, we do not recommend that this Report be released for publication. It is our affirmative judgement that such actions would not be in the public interest. The uncertain advantages of public discussion of our conclusions and recommendations are, in our opinion, greatly outweighed by the clear and predictable danger of a crisis in public confidence which untimely publication of this Report might be expected to provoke. The likelihood that a lay reader, unexposed to the exigencies of higher political or military responsibility, will misconstrue the purpose of this project, and the intent of its participants, seems obvious. We urge that circulation of this Report be closely restricted to those whose responsibilities require that they be apprised of its contents.
We deeply regret that the necessity of anonymity, a prerequisite to our Group's unhindered pursuit of its objectives, precludes proper acknowledgement of our gratitude to the many persons in and out of government who contributed so greatly to our work.
[signature withheld]
30 September, 1966
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Was the Christmas/Boxing Day 2004 Earthquake-Tsunami Event Caused by Seismic Warfare?
READ FULL ARTICLE AT:http://www.ecologynews.com/ecologynews103.html
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Project INTAS 99-064
Final Report: May, 2000 ? May, 2002
Co-ordinator: Valerio De Rubeis
Address: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Via di Vigna Murata, 605, I-00143, Roma, Italy
Phone: +39 0651860215?
Fax:???? +39 065041303
e-mail: email@example.com
Summary of the obtained results:
The seismic, tectonic and geologic data in northern Tien Shan and Pamir were refined. The data on the influence of the firing runs of pulsed MHD generators, underground nuclear explosions, magnetic storms on seismicity were gathered. The records of temporal variation of potential geophysical triggers were compiled. The statistical analysis of the above data sets was performed to establish possible cause-effect relationships between seismicity and the various potential triggers. The spatio-temporal and energetic characteristics of induced seismicity and its relationship with the natural and technogenic triggering processes under study were investigated, and databases of temporal variation of the various geophysical fields ? potential triggers were created. The results of this study shows that the action of high energy electromagnetic pulses radiated by MHD generators causes substantial changes in the seismicity of earthquake source zones by accelerating the release of energy stored in the crust due to the activity natural tectonic processes in the form of comparatively small seismic events. Based on the consideration of energy balance to be preserved in the crust, it can be conjectured that a man-induced increase in the ratio of seismic energy radiated in the form of small earthquakes leads to an additional release of tectonic stresses, thereby diminishing the likelihood of catastrophic events (or at any rate, reduces the energy of such events). The high efficiency of electromagnetic excitation suggests the conclusion that the effect discussed can be used in development of the earthquake prevention techniques.
The experimental study of electric impact on the stressed rock specimen showed that at all stages of deformation an acoustic emission (AE) in the periods of electrical excitation was by 2 – 5% higher than at the phases of natural activity. The transmission of impulses of amplitude of the order of 3 kV caused short-term increase of AE by 10 – 15% as compared to the level of natural activity. A sharp decrease of activity was noted then within 2 – 3 seconds. The main conclusion from our first laboratory experiments could be stated as following: increasing of acoustic emission (AE) activity of loaded samples was found as result of triggering effect produced by electric pulses. The nature of the phenomena is remained not yet clear, although there are some reasons to assume trigger mechanism for AE initiating.
An hypothesis is proposed on physical nature of the EM impact on the seismicity regime. A phenomenological model is proposed of interaction between electromagnetic and seismic fields. The model includes electrokinetics as a dominant mechanism of energy conversion from electromagnetic into acoustic (seismic) form. Thus, as the medium is pored and fluid saturated, double electric layers are assumed to play the most significant role. All the media may be considered to be composed of sequence of the double electric layers, and electromagnetic impact produces variation of dielectric permittivity and thus variations in intra-pore stresses.
The laboratory experiments carried out by Georgian group were aimed to reproduce on the small scale the impact on mechanical stability of strong EM pulses that was discovered in the field experiments. It has been shown that: 1. strong EM pulses applied to the mechanical system (rock sample on the inclined surface) driven close to the critical state, initiate slip with some probability or hampers it depending on the mutual orientation of electrical field and slip surface; 2. weak (relative to the pulling force) periodical force of mechanical or EM origin applied to the sample pulled with constant speed on the horizontal surface invokes quite different regimes of slip depending on the amplitude and the frequency of applied perturbations. The regimes of slip vary from the perfect synchronization (control) of slip events with the perturbing periodical mechanical or EM impact to the complete desynchronization of these phenomena. The elementary theory of slip EM enhancement/hampering, similar to pore pressure approach in shear fracture is suggested.
Besides experiments, non linear analysis methods were applied to the sequences of interevent times of earthquakes of Bishkek region for three periods: before, during and after MHD experiments. It is shown that strong EM discharges lead to the significant increase of regularity in earthquakes temporal distribution.
In the Work Programme (WP), the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV) and Institute of Engineering Seismology and Earthquake Engineering (ITSAK) undertook to analyze the effect of the MHD discharges on the region?s seismicity (evolution in space, in time and energy distribution). The work was carried out jointly by INGV and ITSAK, with application of a jointly developed multifractal formalism.
Results show that, although the seismicity of the study region exhibits multifractal patterns both in space and in time, the stronger multifractality of the catalog corresponding to the period of the MHD runs is due to the spatio-temporal clustering of the aftershocks of a strong (m=6.28) event. Upon removal of this sequence, the three catalogs (before, during and after the MHD tests) show similar multifractal behaviour. On the other hand, seismic energy release is monofractal and unaffected by the electromagnetic discharges. All in all, our results imply that the EM discharges had a negligible (difficult to detect) effect on the spatio-temporal and energetic evolution of seismicity in the study region, as characterized by its multifractal structure. Nevertheless it should be noted that seismic catalogue of the region covering periods without EM discharges had strong events too. Corresponding sequences did not show the strong multifractal character of the main sequence during EM experiment in time and space domain. An open question can be formulated: did EM discharges affect the dynamics of the main sequence?
Impact of the results:
The results obtained may be potentially applied in any statistical processing of various natural and technogenic events. Especially useful are databases collected: refined catalogues of various natural (earthquakes, magnetic storms, earth tides) and technogenic (nuclear explosions, MHD generator runs) events. The high efficiency of electromagnetic excitation suggests the conclusion that the effect discovered can be used in a development of the technology of release of tectonic stresses in the Earth crust for the earthquake hazard mitigation.
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"Results show that, although the seismicity of the study region exhibits multifractal patterns both in space and in time, the stronger multifractality of the catalog corresponding to the period of the MHD runs is due to the spatio-temporal clustering of the aftershocks of a strong (m=6.28) event."
String together enough techno-babble, and every yutz on the internet will believe you.
Drew Hempel?
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I have to disagree with you on that last point. We actually have an enormous moon given the size of our planet. The only one that beats our moon to planet ratio is Pluto-Charon. Even in just strict size terms our moon is still rather large.
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Freezing rain, snow possible
Peoria Journal Star – Jan 04 2:12 AM
Freezing rain causes
Greater Milwaukee Today – Jan 04 10:28 AM
Chevo Gonzales salts the sidewalk adjacent to his home in the 1100 block of South East Avenue on Monday. Freezing rain swept into the southeastern part of the state early in the afternoon, making for slippery streets and sidewalks.
Galesburg Register-Mail – Jan 04 9:09 AM
GALESBURG – A mixture of freezing rain and snow is expected today through Wednesday, but quickly-changing forecasts make it difficult for local street departments to prepare for the storm.
Freezing rain creates havoc on area roads
Ionia Sentinel-Standard – Jan 04 6:28 AM
Freezing Rain Will Turn To Heavy Snow
WHBF-TV Quad Cities – Jan 03 3:35 PM
Southern Iowan Copes With Freezing Rain More Winter Weather Expected This Week
KCCI 8 Iowa – Jan 03 4:18 PM
Freezing rain in forecast
Ironwood Daily Globe – Jan 03 12:14 PM
Freezing rain slicks area roads; Dover fire truck hit twice
Foster's Daily Democrat – Jan 03 9:04 AM
Freezing rain continues to fall
Press-Citizen – Jan 03 8:48 AM
Freezing rain causes temporary airport closing, crashes
Gazette Extra Sports – Jan 03 6:54 AM
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That's some serious ADD you've got there, neverknwo.
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"To be able to cause natural disasters to that extent could put the entire world in jeopardy. Mother nature isn't exactly a force to reckon with, nor try to manipulate on such a large scale. "
Title: HAARP-watch: fake HAARP tremors rock earth deep beneath San Andreas Fault
Description: Mysterious tremors deep beneath the San Andreas Fault near the quake-prone town of Parkfield are shaking the earth's brittle crust, FAR BELOW THE REGION WHERE EARTHQUAKES NORMALLY STRIKE — and scientists say THEY CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING or what the motions mean. Seismic researchers are monitoring the strange vibrations…"..."We see this kind of tremor activity inside volcanoes like Mount St. Helens," Nadeau said, "but that's due to the movement of rising magma, and in the tremors we've recorded there's NO EVIDENCE OF VOLCANISM and NO SEISMIC WAVES TYPICAL OF ORDINARY EARTHQUAKES.""In the US, the technology is being perfected under the High-frequency Active Aural Research Program (HAARP) as part of the ("Star Wars") Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI). Recent scientific evidence suggests that HAARP is fully operational and has the ability of potentially triggering floods, droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes. From a military standpoint, HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction. Potentially, it constitutes an instrument of conquest capable of selectively destabilising agricultural and ecological systems of entire regions."
the how of HAARP causing seismic irregularities 11.Dec.2004 23:16
"A short scan of the verbiage pertaining to HAARP in this post shows no theories offered as to how a high-powered radio-frequency transmitter like HAARP can cause seismic irregularities."
I'm sure other people are curious so here is more:
SAID IN APRIL 1997 BY THE U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, WILLIAM COHEN: "Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves… So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations… It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts." —- Secretary of Defense William Cohen at an April 1997 counterterrorism conference sponsored by former Senator Sam Nunn. Quoted from DoD News Briefing, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, Q&A at the Conference on Terrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and U.S. Strategy, University of Georgia, Athens, Apr. 28, 1997.
"In short,...the Secretary of Defense of the United States confirmed that there are indeed novel kinds of EM weapons, right now and have been for some time, which have been and are being used to (1) initiate earthquakes, (2) engineer the weather and climate, and (3) initiate the eruption of volcanoes. We wrote about those exact uses of the weaponry decades ago. Several nations now have such weapons. Three of them (two on one side and the other on a hostile side) are even firing practice shots into Western Australia, as a convenient test range." [or undersea Indian ocean, just to see what their power can do].http://www.earthchangestv.com/ufo/0209gandor.htm http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/12/305741.shtml
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Typhoon Muifa creating battering waves
11 minutes ago Weather News – weather.com ®
Tim Ballisty, Meteorologist, The Weather Channel
What started Tuesday innocently enough as a moderate tropical storm has become a small, but potent, typhoon east of the Philippines. Typhoon Muifa (Moy-fa) became worthy of its prefix today when winds were estimated at near 105 mph. Muifa is at best meandering to the north while churning in the Philippine Sea just east of Manila. In fact, for all intents and purposes, the typhoon has stalled. Though forecast to move west over the islands, forward progression will be slow. Bad news for the island chain as flooding and mudslides will result from the copious amounts of rain expected to fall over the next 48 hours. There is no doubt that the large and powerful waves have been battering the eastern coast of the northern Philippines. The system is forecasted to weaken gradually over the next 5 days as it heads towards southern Vietnam
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Killer typhoon death toll hits 66
The death toll from powerful Typhoon No. 23, which tore across Japan on Wednesday, rose to 66 people as of 9 p.m. Thursday, with 20 people still unaccounted for, making it the worst typhoon in 10 years in terms of damage.Mainichi Shimbun Stranded passengers huddle on the roof of a submerged bus as they are rescued on Thursday morning.
The typhoon left many areas across Japan submerged in water. In Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture, 37 people were forced to spend the night on top of a bus whose roof was only centimeters above the water, while in Izushi, Hyogo Prefecture, 80 people who evacuated to a primary school were left isolated when the Izushi River gave wa
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Typhoon rips through Honshu leaving several dead
Mainichi Daily News – Dec 31 9:45 PM
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Winter Storm Hits Pakistan and Afghanistan
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Cosmology & zero point energy & Bondi
Dr. Jack Sarfatti wrote: O Paul is being too mystical in (2) the gravitational effects of zero point energy density are now completely understood. A good reference is Mike Turner's Op Ed in April 2003 Physics Today.
The basic equation is Einstein's: Guv + /zpfguv = 0
Dr. Jack Sarfatti: I say it again. The basic principles of the gravitation influence of ZPE are now COMPLETELY UNDERSTOOD indeed it's explicitly done in Chapter 1 of John Peacock's text book "Cosmological Physics" used at Cal Tech. No need to mystify it. Of course, how to apply that to practical metric engineering devices is not at all understood.
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What effect did the Planet Alignment have on Volcano activity?
Remember the Fuego en Buenos Aires Fire in Buenos Aires nightclub kills 169
Fire in Buenos Aires nightclub kills 169
A blaze in a Buenos Aires nightclub packed with young people celebrating the New Year holidays killed at least 169 and injured 375, city officials said on Friday. The blaze is thought to have been caused by a flare being fired into the club's ceiling, sending burning debris onto the crowd and triggering a stampede.
"The fire spread in a minute and we were a mountain of people trying to escape," said survivor Ariel Monges, 25, who lost a friend and a cousin in the fire and was searching for another friend at the Rivadavia Hospital.
Barren 1 Volcano (India)
Friday 31st December 2004
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Manam Volcano (Papua New Guinea)
Sunday 26th December 2004
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Manam Volcano (Papua New Guinea)
Sunday 26th December 2004
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India's last active volcano erupts on Andamans
30 December 2004
PORT BLAIR – India's last active volcano, in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, has erupted in the aftermath of the huge earthquake that set off tsunamis killing thousands of people, official sources said Thursday.
People have been evacuated from Barren Island since the eruption began Tuesday night and there were no reports of injury.
Lava was flowing out of the rim of the crater which towers above the Indian Ocean some 500 metres (yards) away, the sources said.
Tourists used to visit by boat and the island has a police station.
The volcano, known as Barren 1, is located some 135 kilometres (80 miles) northeast of the capital Port Blair, and last erupted in 1996.
It runs about 150 fathoms deep under the sea and usually gives off smoke.
M.M. Mukherjee of the Geological Survey of India told AFP the volcano presents little real danger.
"The risk is minimised because it is surrounded by the sea so if at all there is a lava flow it will roll off into the sea," he said.
The Andamans has reported a series of major aftershocks daily since Sunday's massive undersea quake off Sumatra.
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Over the period of time mentioned above the comet has been coming closer to the earth. The following distances are in A.U.'s:
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You know nobody is actually reading this stuff, right?
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More Proof Of Solar System Connection
Did you see the report? "Brownsville Texas gets first snow in 109 years!" In California the rains are breaking records almost every day. Says weatherman Fritz Coleman, "In two weeks, California has gotten a year's worth of rain." "The worst snow storm in 18 years" – CHP speaking of the Cajon Pass. Funnel clouds over the Pacific and tornadoes in the Los Angeles area. Sounds like a recent movie. The Midwest and East are experiencing snowstorms that are halting traffic and transportation in its tracks. Nearly the entire United States over the past few weeks has had some of the worst weather ever seen. And like Rush Limbaugh says, " It ain't Global warming!".
The Media has been focusing on the results of the 9.0+ earthquake and subsequent tsunami in South Asia. The destruction was quite severe. The estimates of deaths are really only beginning at 150,000. There have been plenty of other disasters over the past few years that have taken more lives. Typhoons, Malaria and other examples, consistently take equally or greater numbers of lives.
But before I go there, let's get this out of the way at the top of the story: This quote from one of our favorite detractors:
"It seems every time we have a modestly bright comet, someone or group or tabloid will claim that the comet is a threat to the Earth, has a spaceship traveling next to it or some other nonsense. They get on the radio and call themselves "scientists." To them, those of us that provide legitimate information on comets are obviously part of some grand conspiracy. If you are one that believes the nonsense that these people promote, that is certainly your right. However, remember their predictions. When they do not come true…and none of them came true with Comet Hale-Bopp…perhaps next time you will not be so willing to believe the psuedo-scientific predictions they make."
Mr. Morris wrote this a couple years ago after we made claims concerning Comet Lee and previously – Hale Bopp. I'm sorry to bring up the issue, however the statements that we made were 100% true and they stand true today. It is typical for people such as Mr. Morris to call people names and to avoid arguing the points, so they can avoid any conflict with their own paradigm. Insults are not really very becoming of an employee of honest tax payers. I am very willing to meet, talk to, or publically discuss these issues with Mr. Morris or any other person from a similar situation at their conveneince.
The day before the 9.0+ earth quake that resulted in the now infamous tsunami in South Asia, an earthquake measuring in excess of 8.3 struck 500 miles south of Tazmania. There was no media coverage even though the quake did not result in a tsunami. Actually, there was a whole string of earthquakes during the same period. First I want to present what the sun was doing during these few days before and during these quakes.
The first graph below is from December 23 through December 26.
We prescribe and cling to the theories of Velikovsky, in that the universe is full of plasma and electromagnetic flux is more of a force than gravity. We also support the writings of James McCanney (blackballed Cornell University Professor) which theorizes that comets are charged and are affected by the charges of the solar system. You can read his theory HERE.
If these two tails of Machholz 2 are the trailing gas of a dirty snowball, then why is it that there is one tail behind the comet and one that stretches out in another direction? Many times comets have what are commonly referred to as "antitails". In McCanney's theory the comets are connected to the sun by the dielectric field of the sun which extends out through the ecliptic of the solar system. We also recommend the writings of Wal Thornhill at Holoscience – The Electric Universe, which support the same ideas.
We postulate that as Comet Machholz 2 has come closer and closer to the earth and its position relative to the earth and the sun has changed, the flux that has been theorized in the above works disconnected from the sun on or about the 24th of December and then "re"connected strongly over a few days following the excited discharge into the earth which caused the earthquakes of the 26th and is causing the severe weather currently and in recent weeks. Comets are highly charged, fastly moving bodies (planetoids/planets) that travel through the flux/plasma of our solar system, wreaking havoc and truly earning their reputation as harbingers of disaster. No wonder historians have compelled us to view comets with mystery and fear; even in the face of criticism, name calling and even anger from the uniformitarians of our day.
Over the period of time mentioned above the comet has been coming closer to the earth. The following distances are in A.U.'s:
Before I close, there was one more contributing variable in all of this. During the week of the earthquake and tsunami there was a full moon. Now before the critics go off on me, let me say this: It is a common thing for there to be earthquake increases during a full moon. Because the moon is full to the eye doesn't mean that it's bigger or especially closer to the earth. However these occurrences are reportedly relative to tidal forces. However the reason that the moon is "full", is because it is opposite the sun. This is an alignment of the sun, earth, and moon. Moreover it is an alignment of the field. This is an oversimplification of the event, however adequately expressed. Adding the influence of the comet to the alignment of the field between the sun, earth and moon, we have the recipe for a strong electrical discharge. Will we have another "event" the next full moon? Or will we have another event before then? We're watching.
Machholz 2 is currently a naked eye comet in the night sky of North America. It can be seen between Taurus and the Plaeides from dark areas, better with small binoculars. But the question is, will there be more earth connections and disconnections in the next few weeks?
5 years ago
This is the sort of beast that may be brewing under the newly-active MAJOR seismic zone NW of Sumatra.
TOBA lies just inland from the 9.0 Richter tsunamis-forming earthquake epicentre – on a previously created NW trending fault harmonic – located onshore within the NW Sumatra Island Arc
During an explosive mega-erruption some 75,000 years ago, TOBA is thought to have nearly taken out the entire human race.
Krakatoa was a baby's baby in comparison !!!
I am indebted to anthropologist Sandra Belanger of San Francisco for the data sources re TOBA.
The NW Sumatra seismic event is still in progress (Monday 3-01-05) with regular periodic 5.0-6.5 richter quakes and thousands of smaller tremblors largely focussed within the proto NNW trending Andaman-Nicobar-Sumatra Island Arc.
This remains a HIGHLY-DANGEROUS situation and will remain so for many months.
The lack of regular press alerts on this scenario is disturbing. The public need to know the potential dangers involved AND what to do in case of an alert.
Here is a full article on TOBA from the BBC ...
5 years ago
Remember This Christmas Story, I almost Forgot about?
South Texas snow would be first in 100 years
5 years ago
Quake's Jolting Effect Leaves
Because of Sunday's gargantuan quake, planet Earth is ringing like a church bell.
You can't hear it, but it's being measured at seismic stations around the world, including Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y.
It will last for three days, perhaps longer.
The quake, which measured 9.0 on the Richter scale, was caused by the shifting of geological plates along a 600-mile area.
This changed the Earth's mass.
As the mass returns to normal, it moves back and forth, much like a church bell when struck by a tong, said Stony Brook geophysicist Teng-fong Wong.
The phenomenon was observed after the 9.5-magnitude quake in Chile in 1960 and the 9.2 magnitude temblor in Alaska in 1964.
After both quakes, the ringing lasted for three days, getting smaller every day.
The ringing now should last about that long and there's no need to worry.
Scientists say it's harmless. "Everything will calm down. We don't have any reason to be scared," said Constantin Cranganu, a geophysics prof at Brooklyn College.
Of far greater concern is the strong possibility of aftershocks as the geological plates adjust.
These could measure 6.0 to 7.0 on the Richter scale, the size of many earthquakes, and so could cause additional damage, said Lamont-Doherty seismologist Art Lerner-Lam.
He said, however, that it's unlikely the tremors will trigger the tsunamis, or killer waves, that caused most of the death and destruction in Sunday's quake.
Lerner-Lam said the aftershocks could last for months, although their size and frequency will die down.
The quake caused a shift in the Earth's rotation, as the change in the planet's mass altered the effect of the pull of gravity on the Earth.
But not to worry. The same thing happens in the summer and winter. It's harmless and it shouldn't last long.
A tsunami last crossed the Indian Ocean in 1509. Scientists had not expected anything close to the quake and killer waves that struck Sunday because 90 percent of tsunamis occur in the Pacific Ocean, where there are warning systems.
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5 years ago
Numerous readers wrote in with bits about a potential asteroid collision: "The recently discovered asteroid 2004 MN4 is currently listed as having a 1/233 chance of hitting the Earth. It is 420 m across and if it strikes the Earth it will release an energy of 1,900 Megatons of TNT (the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated, Tsar Bomba had a yield of only 50 Megatons). It is also the only asteroid
5 years ago
here's some more info:
2004 VW14 Orbital Elements
5 years ago
Possible Meteor Rocks Indonesian Capital
JAKARTA, Indonesia — A loud noise that several witnesses said resembled an explosion was heard in parts of Jakarta (search) early Sunday.
Media reports said an object that might have been a meteor (search) was seen flashing across the sky above the capital, but did not make clear if it had hit the earth.
Several callers to el-Shinta radio station reported a noise that sounded like an explosion at around 7:30 a.m. in western Jakarta.
Metro TV station reported that a large object, believed to be a meteor, was seen falling toward the earth at around the same time, also to the west of the city. The report did not say whether the object had hit the ground.
Police said they were investigating, but had no report of any bombings in or near the capital, or of any objects falling from the sky.
No other details were immediately available.
5 years ago
Like a Thief in the NightTsunami death toll hits 144,000
THE RAPTURE? 144,000 suddenly 'dispappear, are 'swept' away…
Magnitude 9.0 – SUMATRA-ANDAMAN ISLANDS EARTHQUAKE
Magnitude 9.0 Date-Time Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 00:58:53 (UTC) = Coordinated Universal Time Sunday, December 26, 2004 at 7:58:53 AM = local time at epicenter Time of Earthquake in other Time Zones Location 3.316°N, 95.854°E Depth 30 km (18.6 miles) set by location program Region OFF THE WEST COAST OF NORTHERN SUMATRA Distances 250 km (155 miles) SSE of Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia 310 km (195 miles) W of Medan, Sumatra, Indonesia 1260 km (780 miles) SSW of BANGKOK, Thailand 1605 km (990 miles) NW of JAKARTA, Java, Indonesia
Location Uncertainty horizontal +/- 5.6 km (3.5 miles); depth fixed by location program
5 years ago
Top Stories – Los Angeles TimesGravity May Lose Its Pull
Tue Dec 21, 7:55 AM ET
It was in 1980 that John Anderson first wondered if something funny was going on with gravity.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory physicist was looking over data from two Pioneer spacecraft that had been speeding through the solar system for nearly a decade.
Only something was off base. The craft weren't where they were supposed to be.
Rather than traveling at a constant velocity of more than 25,000 mph toward the edge of the solar system, Pioneers 10 and 11 were inexplicably slowing down. Even factoring in the gravitational pull of the sun and its other planets couldn't explain what he was seeing.
Some cosmologists even speculate the Pioneer Anomaly might help unravel some of the thorniest problems in theoretical physics, such as the existence of "dark matter" or mysterious extra-dimensional forces predicted by string theory.
For the record, gravity is one of the most closely studied forces in the universe.
Sir Isaac Newton first measured it in the 17th century. Every object in the universe attracts every other object, Newton determined, with a force proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. That means the bigger things are, and the closer they are, the greater their gravitational pull.
In 1915, a former Swiss patent clerk named Albert Einstein refined the theory, arguing that gravity occurs when planets or stars warp the fabric of space around them, much like a bowling ball on a trampoline warps the surface of the trampoline. Instead of a sucking force, Einstein's general theory of relativity said small objects fall toward larger ones like a marble rolling down the slope of the trampoline to the bowling ball.
One possibility is that invisible, so-called dark matter is holding the spacecraft back. Some cosmologists believe that dark matter exists because only 10% of the expected mass of the universe has been found. If 90% of the universe's mass and energy is invisible, maybe it could exert gravitational pull on spacecraft.
Another possibility, even more fanciful, is that invisible dimensions of space are tugging at the Pioneers. This idea has its origin in string theory, an idea that suggests we are surrounded by far more than the three dimensions we know about. Some versions of string theory suggest there may be as many as 11 dimensions, most of which are curled up and hidden from us.
As with dark matter, no hard evidence has been found proving the existence of vibrating strings far tinier than the smallest known particles.
A third possibility is that gravity has been hiding secrets that three centuries of research have failed to uncover.
5 years ago
'Mini tornado' damages 100 houses
Dozens of families were clearing up storm debris tonight after a "mini-tornado" damaged around 100 houses in the Republic of Ireland.
The sudden squall ripped slates from roofs, smashed windows and overturned sheds and cars at around 1pm.
The worst affected area covered three housing estates in Clonee in Co Meath on the Dublin border.
A main road between the Hansfield, Castaheaney and Hunters Run estates was closed off and residents were urged to stay indoors.
"There is still a danger of falling branches and slates," said one fire officer.
Earlier, residents fled into their homes as the freak storm swept through their estates.
One resident said: "It got very dark and blustery. I saw a flash of lightning and then the house started to shake. It was the most frightening thing I have ever gone through.
"It felt like an earthquake or a mini tornado."
Local fire service said they responded to dozens of calls reporting structural damage in Cos Dublin, Meath, northeast Kildare and Louth.
Fallen trees were reported in the Tallaght area of Dublin and a local road was closed until further notice because of fallen trees and power lines.
All Irish Ferries Swift sailings on the Dublin to Holyhead route were been cancelled.
There were 80mph winds at Dublin Airport which caused two parked planes to collide.
The unoccupied Aer Lingus A330 Airbus planes were on a ramp beside the terminal building when a sudden gale dislodged them around 1pm.
The nose of one aircraft suddenly struck the body of the adjacent aircraft under its wing area.
Passengers had been due to embark on one plane and depart for New York via Shannon at 1.30pm.
Up to 600 transatlantic passengers were being accommodated in hotels overnight while Aer Lingus arranged alternative aircraft tomorrow.
5 years ago
I'm actually starting to think you might have a point. All these weird weather conditions are strange.
5 years ago
I'm actually starting to think you might have a point. These weather reports are a bit weird.
5 years ago
Sumatra Continuing Seismic
Dear Jeff,
Re: SUMATRA BOXING DAY SEISMIC EVENT
I note that all seismic info web sites are showing large (6.0-5.0 richter scale) quakes continuing every couple of hours along the Andaman-Sumatra fault line. These have been occurring ever since Boxing Day (26-12-04) right up until today (1-01-05). The continuing quakes demonstrate VERY "noisy" high energy background seismograph records when viewed on seismograms collected from seismic stations located within a few thousand kilometers of the original 9.0 richter event. This may indicate continued high frequency micro-quakes of the type associated with volcanic intrusion in the upper crust – on a massive scale – along the Andaman-Sumatra island arc zone.
The IRIS and USGS web sites show the spread of recent quakes running along some 1000km of fault line from the Andamans to NW Sumatra. But the European Seismic Centre at http://www.emsc-csem.org/ has been re-calculating the many quake epi-centres and their work suggests these quakes are (mostly) clustering around the same point – off NW Sumatra.
Given the violent off-scale nature of seismograms over the last few days it is difficult to generate either precise richter level info OR precise Lat-Long co-ordinates for specific events. In fact the noise level on many seismograms suggest this has been and is a nearly continuous energy event with regular high energy peaks every few hours. This may indicate that igneous intrusive action is occurring here on a massive scale deep within the crust associated with continual faulting movement along the proto island arc???
A long dormant Andaman volcano has begun to errupt over the last few days and an Indian Government geologist has said that this erruption is nothing to be concerned about. Many volcanoes along the Andaman-Sumatran arc are of a highly explosive type – but I am unfamiliar with the specific newly errupting volcano type.
If you read the information below (taken from Dr. George Pararas-Carayannis site re the 1883 explosion of Krakatoa you might wish to contest the statement that "there is nothing to be concerned about" !!!
You should note that some 1000 years previously an exploding proto Krakatoa was literally the cause of the "DARK AGES" !!! But more recently, in 1883, it began all over again as follows :
"After a long period of inactivity (about 200 years), Krakatoa became active again in early 1883. The first indication that something was happening on Krakatoa was when a large earthquake struck the area. Seismic activity became stronger until May 20,1883, when the volcano abruptly came to life. The initial explosive eruptions of Krakatoa could be heard 160 km away. Steam and ash could be seen rising 11km above the summit of the volcano. By August 11, 1883. three vents were actively erupting. Eleven other vents were ejecting smaller quantities of steam, ash and dust.
Around 1 pm on the 26th of August 1883, the explosions became more frequent occurring on the average every 10 minutes. Sailors on a ship, 120 km away from the island reported a black cloud of smoke rising above the volcano. At the time the rim of Krakatoa's crater was approximately 1,000 meters in diameter and had and average depth of 50 meters. The volcano' s central vent was blocked by a plug of solid lava and underneath it pressure was rapidly building up.
The Great Eruption:
The renewed activity in May 1883 culminated in four gigantic explosions on August 26 and 27 of the same year. On the afternoon of August 26, 1883, (27 August local date) at 17: 07 Greenwich time (GMT), the first of these four violent explosions begun. A black cloud of ash was initially observed. It rose 17 miles (27 kilometers) above Krakatoa. In the morning of the next day, on August 27, 1883, at 05:30, 06:44 and 10:02 GMT, three more violent eruptions occurred. It was the paroxysmal eruption which occurred at 10:02 which blew away the northern two-thirds of the island. This was the most severe violent volcanic explosion on Earth in modern times. The explosion was followed by the collapse of the unsupported volcanic chambers of Krakatoa forming the huge underwater caldera. It was this explosion and collapse of Krakatoa that generated catastrophic tsunami waves as high as 37 meters. (120 ft.) that caused havoc and destruction in the Sunda Strait."
Well as you can see from the initial early 1883 Krakatoa region "large earthquake" a series of events unfolded that culminated in a massive explosion at Krakatoa and a huge tsunamis on August 27th 1883. Thus it took about 7 months for the Krakatoa incident to fully develop. Krakatoa also had a huge loss of life – if repeated today the loss of life could be MUCH higher.
It is early days yet BUT I do not believe that the danger from this Boxing Day Sumatra event has passed. The locality off NW Sumatra has now demonstrated unprecidented seismic instability over a duration of several days and the region has a VERY VIOLENT and well documented quake-tsunamis-volcanic erruption history. Whatever precipitated this disasterous event it is highly unlikely that it is over and therefore danger remains.
Keep your wits about you since yet more massive quakes and/or explosive volcanic erruptions and tsunamis may well occur over the next few months (or year(s)) – NB these may NOT be limited to the Indian Ocean region.
The world chart of real time earthquakes seems to indicate that fresh quakes are initiating in other stressed parts of the planets crust – particularly along the New Guinea-Japan-Alaska-California fault systems – probably in response to the dis-equilibrium in the Earth's tectonic stress field created by the 8.3r Macquarie Island quake and then the 9.1r Sumatra and subsequent quakes. The next few weeks will be critical in developing our understanding of this event.It will pay to keep abreast of this unfolding seismic event for several months if not years.
If a new major quake -tsunamis happened today or tomorrow is there any system in place to warn the relevant populations and get them out of harms way ???
Even here in Perth – Western Australia no such warning system exists yet. Sure radio etc. could give warnings but there are no evacuation plans, sirens, nor established disaster alert procedures – certainly none that 99% of the population are aware of. We need to educate public NOW and set up an immediate warning system. If nothing is in place here in a relatively developed society whatabout the rest of the largely third world Indian ocean. A seismic event warning system is an absolute MUST for the Indian Ocean. It should in fact be mandatory for the entire planet. There is ample geological evidence for previous catastrophic seismic related events just about where ever we look AND these type of incidents were recorded by the ancient Egyptians (33 known catastrophic events).
It will NOT cost much to develop, install, and operate such a system (probably MUCH less than We spend every day in Iraq). It should be rushed into operation NOW = THIS WEEK, as an adhoc system, then tuned up ASAP over future weeks. We are at continued MAJOR risk over the next few months from possible developments resulting from this Boxing Day Sumatra seismic event.
Such events WILL happen again – all be it most likely over long (say 100 year) time intervals but the cost is so high we MUST install insurance procedures NOW.
This is something our governments and the UN should initiate IMMEDIATELY.
Best Regards,
Harry Mason Geologist-Geophysicist
5 years ago
Parts of Alaska Turned Into Soggy Mess
By RACHEL D'ORO, Associated Press Writer
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – You might expect January in Alaska to be frightfully frigid. But this year, in some parts, you barely even need a coat outside.
South-central Alaska is so warm, an annual winter dog weight-pulling contest in Anchorage has been canceled because there's not enough snow. Kenai Peninsula roads have taken a beating with constant freezing and thawing.
Winters in the state can vary wildly, as any old-timer knows. But weather records dating back to 1917 show that most months of January have some kind of warming episode, said Bob Hopkins, chief meteorologist with the Anchorage office of the National Weather Service (news – web sites).
"It would be more unusual if we didn't have a couple of 40-degree days," Hopkins said. "Generally, those days are windy, mucky, slippery and just plain lousy."
The towns of Homer and Palmer had high temperatures of 46 degrees Tuesday, and it reached 43 degrees in Anchorage. But it was expected to cool down Wednesday, with a high of 37.
Some years the mild spells are more pronounced than others, especially winters like this one that are toyed with by El Nino, a phenomenon caused by disruptions in the Pacific Ocean's temperature.
So folks in Alaska, particularly in the southern end, might be trudging through slushy puddles while elsewhere people are bundled up in mittens and parkas.
Pat Anderson wishes Anchorage snow would stick. Anderson, an executive with Spenard Builders Supply, had to cancel an annual dog weight-pulling contest the company has sponsored for 17 years. The event, which had been scheduled for Saturday, features dogs competing by pulling heavy loads on sleds.
"It's become such a tradition," Anderson said. "But safety is an important thing for the dogs and we don't have enough of a snow and ice pack. That's what makes the loads go into a slide — and we're just down to gravel. Hopefully, it will be held again next year."
The contest also was scrubbed in 2002, a year of little snow. An unusually warm winter that year also forced organizers of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race to change the traditional route and move the start north to Fairbanks.
It's too early to worry about weather woes in this year's race, Iditarod executive director Stan Hooley said from headquarters in soggy Wasilla. Besides, farther north, mushers were enjoying the bounty of snow.
"Today it certainly doesn't look good here but my calendar tells me there are 59 days before this thing takes place," he said. "We all know things in Alaska can change dramatically in 24 hours."
5 years ago
Three storms threaten to strike U.S. at once
If the gloomy computer models at the U.S. Climate Prediction Center are right, we'll see this terrible trio:
• The "Pineapple Express," a series of warm, wet storms heading east from Hawaii, drenching Southern California and the far Southwest, already beset with heavy rain and snow. Flooding, avalanches and mudslides are possible.
• An "Arctic Express," a mass of cold air chugging south from Alaska and Canada, bringing frigid air and potentially heavy snow and ice to the usually mild-wintered Pacific Northwest.
• An unnamed warm, moist storm system from the Gulf of Mexico drenching the already-saturated Ohio, Tennessee and Mississippi valleys. Expect heavy river flooding and springlike tornadoes.
Meteorologists caution that their predictions are only as good as their computer models. And forecasts are less accurate the further into the future they attempt to predict. "The models tend to overdo the formation of these really exciting weather formations for us," said Mike Wallace, a University of Washington atmospheric scientist.
Yet the more Wallace studied the models, the more he became convinced that something wicked was coming this way.
"It all fits together nicely," he said. "There's going to be weather in the headlines this weekend, that's for sure."
The National Weather Service yesterday issued a statement warning that several inches of snow could fall by the end of the weekend in the central Puget Sound lowlands, including Seattle. The snow could begin as soon as tomorrow night, particularly in areas north of Seattle, with a growing chance of snow farther south Friday, the weather service said. Highs through this weekend are expected to be in the low- to mid-30s, with lows in the mid- to high-20s.
"Don't sound the alarm," weather service meteorologist Johnny Burg said. "But tell everybody to just pay attention to future forecasts."
The three storms are likely to meet in the nation's midsection and cause even more problems, sparing only areas east of the Appalachian Mountains. Property damage and a few deaths are likely, forecasters said.
"You're talking a two- or three-times-a-century type of thing," said prediction-center senior meteorologist James Wagner, who has been forecasting storms since 1965. "It's a pattern that has a little bit of everything."
The exact time and place of the predicted 1-2-3 punch changes slightly with every new forecast. But the National Weather Service, in its weekly "hazards assessment," alerted meteorologists and disaster specialists yesterday that flooding and frigid weather could start as early as Friday and stretch into early next week, if not longer.
"It's a situation that looks pretty potent," said Ed O'Lenic, the Climate Prediction Center's operations chief. "A large part of North America looks like it's going to be affected."
Kelly Redmond, deputy director of the Western Regional Climate Center at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nev., where an unusual 18 inches of snow is on the ground, said the expected heavy Western rains could cause avalanches. Southern California and western Arizona have had three to four times the normal precipitation for the area since Oct. 1.
"Somebody is in for something pretty darn interesting," Redmond said.
Somebody already knows.
A wintry blast yesterday closed schools and glazed roads with ice and snow in the Rockies and on the central Plains, a 40-mile stretch of Interstate 5 was closed north of Los Angeles after up to 3 feet of snow fell in the region, and new flooding hit northeast of Phoenix, killing one man and leaving another missing.
Various levels of winter-weather advisories and storm warnings were in effect into this morning from Arizona to Connecticut, the weather service said.
Up to 2 feet of snow was possible in Colorado, where one traffic fatality was blamed on the weather and an avalanche blocked U.S. 550 about 40 miles north of Durango, the weather service said.
The last time a similar situation seemed to be brewing — especially in the West — was in January 1950, O'Lenic said. Seattle received 21 inches of snow, killing 13 people in an extended freeze, and Sunnyvale, Calif., was the scene of an unusual tornado.
The same scenario played out in 1937, when there was record flooding in the Ohio River Valley, said Wagner, of the prediction center.
He was worried about the Ohio and Tennessee River valleys as the places where the three nasty storm systems could meet, probably with snow, thunderstorms, severe ice storms and flooding. Some of those areas already are flooded.
The converging storms are being steered by high-pressure ridges off Alaska and Florida and are part of a temporary change in world climate conditions, O'Lenic said.
Over equatorial Indonesia, east of where a tsunami hit Dec. 26, meteorologists have identified a weather-making phenomenon called the Madden-Julian Oscillation. It's producing extra-stormy weather to its east. Similar oscillations in the north Atlantic and north Pacific are changing global weather patterns. Add this year's mild El Niño — a warming of the equatorial Pacific — which is unusually far west, Redmond said.
5 years ago
Russians confirm planetary angular momentum theory to warn of another major tsunami even more devastating
The earth has entered a seismically active period when weakness in earth's crusts start breaking apart, volcanoes erupt, plate collisions cause major earthquakes, mud volcanoes erupt and geysers come out in different parts of the world with much higher frequency. This results in volcanic eruption, mudslides, Tsunamis, mega earthquakes and more.
According to the Russian scientists, the number of earthquakes in the earth has increased exponentially over the past few years, a phenomenon not seen in modern human history.
According thousands of years old Mayan civilization, this kind of period come after thousands of years. The ancient civilization warned that around 2012 the world would face major calamities from natural disasters and other factors. They used planetary positions and interferences as well as sun signs.
According to some Russian scientists, another major earthquake in the same vicinity and a series of the same near the equator is evident in near future. The resultant Tsunamis will be three to five time as severe as this one. The future Tsunamis will not effect South and South east Asia, they will devastate even many more countries.
"According to our theory, there exist latitudinal lineaments (cracks of the earth's core), which pose potential danger in terms of seismic activity. If we are to follow equatorial crack westward of South East Asia, we could expect rather serious seismic cataclysms in Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Nigeria and Gabon," informed the spokes person of the Russian scientists.
According to Pravda, earthquakes are also likely to hit equatorial countries of South America. Southern part of Ecuador and the islands in close proximity to it will be most susceptible to the quake. Should the seaquakes occur, the waves can easily cover the entire southern part of Colombia, Ecuador and northern part of Peru, noted Dr. Evgeny Dolgivov, director of geological-mineral sciences.
Dolginov has come up with a new theory of latitudinal lineaments, which according to the professor, had emerged during earth's early stages of development, reports "Interfax". Such cracks tend to become seismically active from time to time. In a place where such cracks intersect seismically active zones (i.e. meridian), these zones become most dangerous in regards to earthquakes. This was exactly what happened in South-East Asia, considers the scientist.
Tsunamis, earthquakes, mudslides and volcanic eruptions are evident in many parts of the world, say some Geological and Earthquake experts.
The angular momentum theory also says earth has become more wobbly and there is fair possibility that we will see a polar inversion like North Pole will become South Pole and vice versa. This kind polar inversion has never been experienced by modern human race. No one knows the implication and resultant havoc that can happen in the earth's crust.
Some experts are also saying that based on myths and ancient stories, Atlantis faced even larger – many times larger similar devastation. But the mega devastation that demolished a complete advanced civilization over night did not happen suddenly. Smaller volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and Tsunamis first started happening one year before the big one came. Normally the small ones occur around the epicenter of the future big one. People normally misunderstand the small ones as the big one.
5 years ago
Many Governments knew but did nothing to evacuate coastal areas – global conspiracy, UFO threats or concerted failure?
Sudhir Chadda, Special Correspondent
Recent alien contacts have been reported with the South Asian Governments especially India. UFO sightings have been rampant over the region affected. Some in Nicobar Island say that it was an experiment conducted by the alien extra-terrestrial entities to correct the wobbly rotation of the earth. And some of the Indian scientists are actually seeing that wobbly rotation of the earth has been corrected since the massive underwater earthquake and Tsunami.
In Indian capital of New Delhi, faxes were being sent to wrong fax numbers so that nothing much is done even though the Government clearly knew about the coming Tsunami. People have started asking the question – was this utter failure or global conspiracy to accommodate some entity or interest or was this for the good of the earth?
If this was an utter failure, how do you justify that all six Governments failed separately in their own domain one by one.
According to some extraterrestrial UFO observers, the UFO sightings before the earthquake and Tsunami were very unusual in that part of the world. They claim the world's Governments were told not to act for some reason.
The most amazing thing is that United States Geological Survey and Ocean Monitoring agencies came to know about the Tsunami and earthquake but decided not to do anything. Well it seems the whole world decided to fail to do anything together at the same time. Are we missing something?
Can it be that all the Government Agencies knew what was happening but were told not to do anything? Who told them? Or is this just a tragic coincidence?
In Thailand some in the Government said, they decided not to act because that will just scare people. Really? Are we not supposed to get scared of scary things?
5 years ago
ohhhh noooooo! da cosmiks is out to git us!
5 years ago
oh noooos! da cosmiks about to git us!1!1
5 years ago
Planetary alignment can devastate the world in next few months – Earth shaking Russian Volcano in Kamchatka erupts with massive earthquake
Russian hot spot volcano in Lamchatka Peinsula just exploded with earth shattering ground vibrations. This was the spot on 9.0 Richter earthquake in 1952.
There are no less than 50 other earthquakes that has been registered in the last few months. According tectonic researchers this is just dangerous and unbelievable.
The planetary alignment can cause many earthquakes all around the world of magnitude the modern mankind has never seen before.
There are also reports that Yellow Stone National Park may also explode with lava and earth shattering vibrations.
In west cost of America the Mount Helen is again becoming active and may create havoc soon.
According to some sources, whales have come on the shore in various countries including Australia and natives are saying that those are signs of tremendous under water upheaval.
1998 June 2 Solar Storm Picture:
In Sri Lanka where more than 14,000 people have died and the animal zoo had a direct hit from the Tsunami, not a single animal has died or is injured. They all ran to higher ground before the Tsunami came. Tsunamis have electromagnetic waves associated that the animals can sense. That may have saved them.
In the mean time death from Tsunami keeps going up. It stands at 65,000 and is approaching 100,000.
Thousands of bodies lay rotting and unidentified on lawns and streets of battered Sumatra island Wednesday and authorities called out bulldozers to dig mass graves, as the number killed in a mammoth earthquake and tsunami soared above 58,000 with tens of thousands still missing. The U.N. health agency warned that disease could double the toll yet again. Across a dozen countries, millions of people whose homes were swept away or wrecked by raging walls of water Sunday struggled to find shelter. "My mother, no word! My sisters, brothers, aunt, uncle, grandmother, no word!" yelled a woman at a makeshift morgue in Lhokseumawe, Indonesia. "Where are they? Where are they? I don''t know where to start looking." Along India's southeastern coast, hospital teams stood by to help the injured, but three days after the disaster still spent most of their time tabulating the dead as ambulances hauled in more bodies. A French cultural center in Thailand's capital provided clothes and food for tourist families left with nothing when the sea battered southern beach resorts. One of the most dramatic illustrations of nature's force came to light Tuesday when reporters reached the scene of a Sri Lankan train carrying beachgoers that was swept into a marsh by a wall of water Sunday, killing at least 802. Eight rust-colored cars lay in deep pools of water in a ravaged palm grove, torn off wheels and baggage scattered among the twisted rails. "Is this the fate that we had planned for? My darling, you were the only hope for me," a young man cried for one of the train victims — his university sweetheart — as Buddhist monks prayed nearby. Indonesia's Health Ministry said in a statement early Wednesday that thousands more bodies had been recovered, raising to more than 30,000 the number of confirmed deaths in parts of Sumatra island, the territory closest to the epicenter of the quake that sent tsunami waves rolling across the Indian Ocean. The count did not include a report of thousands more dead in the region around one coastal city. Sri Lanka listed 21,700 people dead, India 4,400 and Thailand 1,500, with the toll expected to rise. A total of more than 300 were killed in Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Somalia, Tanzania, Seychelles and Kenya. Officials had not yet counted the dead in two zones that suffered the brunt of both the earthquake and the tsunami that followed: the west coast of Sumatra and India's remote Andaman and Nicobar archipelagos just north of Sumatra. Purnomo Sidik, national disaster director at Indonesia's Social Affairs Ministry, said 10,000 people had been reported killed in and around Meulaboh, a poor Sumatran town where most people are fishermen or workers on palm oil plantations. In India, police said 8,000 people were missing and feared dead on the two island chains. Television footage from overflights of Meulaboh and other parts of Sumatra's west coast showed thousands of homes underwater. Refugees fleeing the coast described surviving on little more than coconuts before reaching Banda Aceh, the capital of Aceh province on Sumatra's northern tip, which itself was largely flattened by the quake. "The sea was full of bodies," said one refugee, Sukardi Kasdi, who sailed a small boat to Banda Aceh to seek help for his family in Surang. He said his family had nothing to eat but coconuts. "I don''t know how long everyone else will survive," he said. With aid not arriving quickly enough, desperate people in Meulaboh and other towns in Aceh were stealing whatever food they could find, officials said. "People are looting, but not because they are evil, but they are hungry," said Red Cross official Irman Rachmat in Banda Aceh. Bulldozers stood ready Wednesday in Banda Aceh to bury the thousands of dead bodies that littered the streets and lined the front lawns of government offices. With the threat of disease on the rise and few ways to identify the dead, officials said they had no choice to but start burying them in mass graves, said Col. Achmad Yani Basuki. "We will start digging the mass graves today," he said. Sjafrie Sjamsoeddin, a military spokesman, said that naval ships were headed for the west coast with tons of food, water and medicine. He also said the convoy would include a portable hospital. "We have very sketchy information about how many died there and the extent of the devastation. We''re having extraordinary problems communicating there," Sjamsoeddin said. The flooding uprooted land mines in Sri Lanka — torn for years by a civil war — threatening to kill or maim aid workers and survivors attempting to return to what's left of their homes. Aid groups struggled to mount what they described as the largest relief operation the world has ever seen, and to head off the threat of cholera and malaria epidemics that could break out where water supplies are polluted with bodies and debris. Dr. David Nabarro, head of crisis operations for the World Health Organization, warned that disease could take as many lives as Sunday's devastation. "The initial terror associated with the tsunamis and the earthquake itself may be dwarfed by the longer term suffering of the affected communities," he told reporters at the U.N. agency's offices in Geneva. A government official in India said Sunday's devastation had overwhelmed authorities, who were only now getting relief operations under control and starting to address health concerns. "It was all sudden and unexpected. There were just too many bodies to recover," Veera Shanmuga Moni said. "Now that we are close to finishing that job, we will now take care of sanitation and supply of clean water." The United States, Japan, Australia and other nations pledged millions of dollars to help the relief effort, and some sent military transport planes and helicopters to carry medical teams and emergency supplies. In southern Thailand's Phang Nga province, where resorts had been packed with thousands of tourists from Europe and elsewhere when the tsunami hit, soldiers and volunteers were still finding bodies lying bloated and rotting in the tropical sun. Survivors lined up at airports to leave the country, many without relatives or lovers they had come with. "I saw many kids perish. I saw parents trying to hold them but it was impossible. It was hell," said Karl Kalteka of Munich, Germany, who lost his girlfriend in the torrent. Amid the devastation, however, there were miraculous stories of survival. In Malaysia, a 20-day-old baby was found alive on a floating mattress and was reunited with her family. In Thailand, 2-year-old Hannes Bergstroem, who was found dazed and alone after the waves hit, was claimed by an uncle after his photograph was posted on the Internet. The Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet reported that the boy's mother and grandmother were missing, but later media reports said he was reunited with his grandmother. His father and grandfather were believed to be in another hospital in Thailand, but their exact location and conditions were not immediately known. A U.N. agency has said that one-third of the disaster's victims were children.
5 years ago
Most Powerful Eruption in the Universe Discovered
NASA/Harvard — Astronomers have found the most powerful eruption seen in the Universe using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. A supermassive black hole generated this eruption by growing at a remarkable rate. This discovery shows the enormous appetite of large black holes, and the profound impact they have on their surroundings.
The huge eruption is seen in a Chandra image of the hot, X-ray emitting gas of a galaxy cluster called MS 0735.6+7421. Two vast cavities extend away from the supermassive black hole in the cluster's central galaxy. The eruption – which has lasted for 100 million years and is still going – has generated the energy equivalent to hundreds of millions of gamma-ray bursts.
This event was caused by gravitational energy release as enormous amounts of matter fell toward a black hole. Most of the matter was swallowed, but some of it was violently ejected before being captured by the black hole.
"I was stunned to find that a mass of about 300 million Suns was swallowed," said Brian McNamara of Ohio University in Athens, lead author of the study that appears in the January 6, 2005 issue of Nature. "This is almost as massive as the supermassive black hole that swallowed it."
Astronomers are not sure where such large amounts of matter came from. One theory is that gas from the host galaxy catastrophically cooled and was then swallowed by the black hole.
The energy released shows that the black hole in MS 0735 has grown very dramatically during this eruption. Previous studies suggest that other large black holes have grown very little in the recent past, and that only smaller black holes are still growing quickly.
"This new result is as surprising as it is exciting", said co-author Paul Nulsen of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center of Astrophysics. "This black hole is feasting when it should be fasting."
Radio emission within the cavities shows that jets from the black hole erupted to create the cavities. Gas is being pushed away from the black hole at supersonic speeds over a distance of about a million light years. The mass of the displaced gas equals about a trillion Suns, more than the mass of all the stars in the Milky Way.
The rapid growth of supermassive black holes is usually detected by observing very bright radiation from the centers of galaxies in the optical and X-ray wavebands, or luminous radio jets. In MS 0735 no bright central radiation is found and the radio jets are faint. Therefore, the true nature of MS 0735 is only revealed through X-ray observations of the hot cluster gas.
"Until now we had no idea that this black hole was gorging itself", said co-author Michael Wise of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The discovery of this eruption shows that X-ray telescopes are necessary to understand some of the most violent events in the Universe."
The astronomers estimated how much energy was needed to create the cavities by calculating the density, temperature and pressure of the hot gas. By making a standard assumption, that 10% of the gravitational energy goes into launching the jets, they estimated how much material the black hole swallowed.
Besides generating the cavities, some of the energy from this eruption should keep the hot gas around the black hole from cooling, and some of it may also generate large-scale magnetic fields in the galaxy cluster.
Chandra observers have discovered other cavities in galaxy clusters, but this one is easily the largest and the most powerful. For example, the energy content here exceeds that of the Perseus cavities by 250 times, and dwarfs the cavities in M87 by a factor of 10,000.
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., manages the Chandra program for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington. Northrop Grumman of Redondo Beach, Calif., formerly TRW, Inc., was the prime development contractor for the observatory. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls science and flight operations from the Chandra X-ray Center in Cambridge, Mass.
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2005/01/06 00:56 M 6.2 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA Z= 22km 5.31N
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My friends, I think we've found a replacement for Alex!
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The Ecliptical Plane:The seven Cycles of Cosmic Evolution?
Do you knwo it's symbolism?
If we look at the geometry that defines p, the circle represents God, the circumference being that which encompasses all that is, and the area being all that is. All geometric forms that evolve out of prime numbers are contained within the circle, for it is the circle that defines their symmetry. Implicit within a circle, and its most fundamental product or creation is its diameter. The diameter is a straight line – it defines two points (at its ends, which lie on the circumference), thus symbolising duality or polar opposites. One, in the sense of absolute exclusivity as distinct from one as a unit amongst many, is incomprehensible, and only God is absolute unity. Try to imagine that you alone existed within an infinite void – you would be incapable of identifying even yourself as there would be no datum point for recognition to occur. One therefore is meaningless, as only God is absolute unity, and one represents creation unmanifested.
The next step in creation, moving from 2 points on the circumference of a circle is 3 points. When these are in symmetry with each other, they define the equilateral triangle. Three linear structural elements connected together at their end points form a rigid frame – a fundamental engineering principle. The triad or trinity in esoteric terms expresses a rigid structure, and demonstrates the stability within creation by virtue of the principles of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. All subsequent steps in creation contain triangles. The 3-dimensional version of the triangle is the tetrahedron, a solid object contained within a sphere, but one which is pure of form because it contains 4 faces all of which express the trinity. It has no diagonals, no shortcuts between its defining points. Although it appears to be a 3-dimensional object, it is really multi-dimensional, and represents consciousness on higher planes of reality wherein all manifestations are aware of their existence within the trinity. It also demonstrates how every single addition (point) in creation gives rise to another triangle as part of a larger rigid framework, the basis of construction of a stable universe.
Next we have four, the square, symbolising creation in matter. The square defines the four directions of north, south, east and west, and in its 3-dimensional form, the cube (contained within a sphere) defines the 3 directions of 3-dimensional reality. The square and the cube represent physical manifestation unevolved. The potential that lies within them is implicit. For example, the square's diagonal implies another square, which in turn contains a diagonal with an even larger square. Continued on, this creates a spiral which is the dynamic energy within all creation, and symbolises involution and evolution, progress towards the infinite, both inwards and outwards. Four also represents the first product of the procreative process, that is of multiplication 2 × 2 = 4.
The next step with five, brings consciousness into matter by virtue of f, the golden proportion. Five points equally spaced on the circumference of a circle give rise to the pentagon, within which lies the pentagram or 5-pointed star. This is generally accepted as representing man – the head, two legs astride, and two arms outstretched. The diagonal of a pentagon, in proportional relationship with its side, defines f. This is the purest form of proportion, and thus represents human consciousness in its greatest and most harmonious state. As such, it cannot be defined in absolute terms. Perfect consciousness in matter is something to be sought. An evolved consciousness recognises perfect harmony, but in the imperfect state it is given no status. All creative expressions that emanate from man can be evaluated to the degree in which they incorporate the golden proportion.
EVOLUTION – SIX HARNESSES THE POWER OF SPIRIT AND BRINGS IT INTO MATTER !http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~jkoch/Hexagram.gif!Whereas 5 expresses the potential for harmony hidden within the world of matter, 6 is explicit in its representation of symmetry and balance. The hexagon has all its diagonals passing through the centre of the circle and equal to the diameter. Within it lies the hexagram (6 pointed star) and its 3-dimensional form the star tetrahedron. The hexagram is made up of two superimposed equilateral triangles, one inverted. The trinity has replicated itself in the world of matter as represented by the inverted triangle. The hexagram thus presents the challenge for mankind to recognise his own divinity.
Welcome to the Age of Aquarius!
5 years ago
NASA's successfully launched SWIFT Probe to provide information on Black Holes that connect visible Universe with other Universes – answer to after death scenarios and advanced UFOs
Black Holes connect our visible Universe to other Universes. According to scientists this is the final frontier of astro-physics that may define what happen to us when we die and from where advanced UFOs come and observe or influence us. Some even go as far as linking these other Universes to "God", "Heaven" and more.
NASA took a vital step in Black Hole research as the SWIFT Probe was successfully launched. By the end of a day, somewhere in the visible universe a new black hole will have formed. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most distant and powerful explosions known, are likely the birth cries of these new black holes.
NASA's Swift mission is dedicated to studying the gamma-ray burst/black hole connection.
The Swift spacecraft lifted off aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket from pad 17-A at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., at 12:16:00.611 p.m. EST on November 20, 2004. Swift has successfully begun its mission to study gamma-ray bursts and identify their origins.
Swift is a first-of-its-kind multi-wavelength observatory dedicated to the study of gamma-ray burst (GRB) science. Its three instruments will work together to observe GRBs and afterglows in the gamma ray, X-ray, ultraviolet, and optical wavebands.
The Swift observatory comprises three telescopes, which work in tandem to provide rapid identification and multi- wavelength follow-up of GRBs and their afterglows. Within 20 to 75 seconds of a detected GRB, the observatory will rotate autonomously, so the onboard X-ray and optical telescopes can view the burst. The afterglows will be monitored over their durations, and the data will be rapidly released to the public.
Swift, a medium-class explorer mission, is managed by GSFC. Swift is a NASA mission with participation of the Italian Space Agency and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council in the United Kingdom. It was built in collaboration with national laboratories, universities and international partners, including Penn State University; Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico; Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, Calif.; Mullard Space Science Laboratory in Dorking, Surrey, England; the University of Leicester, England and the Brera Observatory in Milan, Italy.
The main mission objectives for Swift are to:
Determine the origin of gamma-ray bursts
Classify gamma-ray bursts and search for new types
Determine how the blastwave evolves and interacts with the surroundings
Use gamma-ray bursts to study the early universe
Perform the first sensitive hard X-ray survey of the sky
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Russian man to become exclusive owner of Earth's atmosphere and clouds – 01/05/2005 16:15
US citizen filed a declaration of ownership for Earth's Moon and the planets Mars, Venus, Mercury and other astronomic bodies
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The mystery of the Earth's magnetic field reversals may at last be solved.
change ahead: Some scientists suggest it is time for the poles to reverse.
True north. No phrase conveys as powerful a sense of place. No matter how far we wander or how dark the night, the slow drift of the compass needle to magnetic north points the way home. GPS is great. My trusty Garmin eTrex lives in the bottom of my backpack. But when I head into the desert or the mountains, it is my well-worn Brunton compass that sits in my shirt pocket. There is the confidence in knowing that while the U.S. Air Force can flick off GPS with a click of a mouse, my compass takes its orders from a higher authority, the Earth itself. For that reason, and for the countless times my compass has pointed the way home, I was a little disturbed when Jeremy Bloxham of Harvard University told scientists at last year's meeting of the American Geophysical Union that the Earth's magnetic field decreased by 10 percent during the past 150 years. There is a real, albeit slight, chance that it could disappear entirely. The consequences would be far worse than having to rely on GPS alone for navigation. The sun is forever kicking cosmic sand in our face in the form of electrically charged particles. The magnetic field diverts them, producing the astonishing northern and southern lights.
Without the magnetic field, the planet would be a much more hostile place. Charles Jackman of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., suggests that by exposing the planet to more protons from the sun, a weakened magnetic field can also change the chemistry of the atmosphere. Loss of most of the field could, over time, wipe out most life on the planet by exposing the surface to the full force of the solar wind.
Because the magnetic field is of such vital importance, the strength of the field has been studied in considerable detail. One of the earliest findings was that the north pole is not the permanent feature our experience with compasses suggests.
5 years ago
Need Another Reason to Lose Sleep?
Scientists say we're ill-prepared for devastating tsunamis.
By Rena Pacella | November 2004For years, scientist Bill McGuire of University College London has been warning the world about Cumbre Vieja, a volcano on the island of La Palma off the African coast. If it erupts, he says, it could force a Manhattan-size rock to splash down into the Atlantic Ocean, kicking up 300-story-high waves that would travel out from the island at jet speeds. Within nine hours, 85-foot-high swells would slam Florida's Cape Canaveral. Now scientists at the University of Hawaii say that this wild scenario has historical precedence: A similar event unfolded 120,000 years ago in the Pacific. The researchers found that 120 cubic miles of rock broke off the Mauna Loa volcano, sending an 820-foot tsunami racing across the ocean.
UC Santa Cruz geophysicist Steven Ward, whose computer simulations can project the path of giant waves, hopes that the new evidence will result in more vigilant monitoring of Cumbre Vieja. GPS receivers could be placed around the volcano and used to transmit data on landmass movements. "It wouldn't take a huge investment to keep better watch on the island," Ward says. And advance warning would give coastal citizens time to evacuate and wait out the waves.\
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2nd law of thermodynamics pertains to entropy.
How is that relevant to your blathering nonsense about jet fuel?
The 2nd law of thermodynamics deals with entrophy and energy expenditure. That has bearing on the tsunami since the energy radiated outward from the epicenter in all directions causing the tsunami(s) to act the way they did, just like the 2nd law of thermodynamics says would happen, the energy would disperse outward relatively evenly.
I related it to the WTC to show how stupid and distracting taking something that has relevance (2nd law) to a topic (tsunami) and applying it to something else(the WTC) and bringing it into the topic (tsunami) is. Remember who brought the WTC into it, YOU
Maybe you should melt your mind instead of insulting people.
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5 years ago
Wouldn't a change in Gravitational Forces have influence in the energenic forces applied in thermodynamics mathmatically ?
5 years ago
neverknwo has answered that age old question: what is the sound of one 'tard typing?
5 years ago
The history of Earth's encounters with asteroids remains largely mysterious to scientists. They can't even agree whether a huge space rock that hit Mexico's Yucatan Penninsula 65 million years ago killed off the dinosaurs or not.
Nor can astronomers say when the next catastrophic impact will occur. They only know that it will happen, sooner or later.
However, now anyone with a passing interest in the fate of the planet can remove some of the mystery regarding the effects of the next collision. A new University of Arizona web page allows visitors to plug in a hypothetical space rock's size, the visitor's distance from the impact site, and other parameters to generate an outline of devastation.
But be warned: Removing the mystery invites a bit of terror over the hypothetical slams, bangs, fireballs, falling skies and rushing winds generated by a giant impact.
Prepare to be scared
Being somewhat of a voyeur when it comes to natural catastrophe, I couldn't resist running some scenarios through the new catastrophe calculator.
If you read on, please keep in mind that the odds of a serious impact occurring in any year are extremely low. A civilization-ending impact, while possible, almost surely won't happen within our lifetimes (90 percent of all asteroids big enough and close enough to do the job will be found by 2008) and is extremely unlikely even over the next millennium.
But hurling big virtual rocks at the planet is admittedly kind of fun. And in this case it's at least more scientifically meaningful than the average video game. I started by dropping a 9.3-mile-wide (15-kilometer) asteroid — the estimated size of the suspected dinosaur killer — on San Francisco.
The Bay Area doesn't do so well.
The resulting crater, at 113 miles (181 kilometers) wide, pretty much tells the story. The entire metropolis vanishes faster than you can say where you left your heart. What isn't consumed is knocked over in an earthquake of magnitude 10.2, bigger than any in recorded history. Heat from a scorching fireball would turn much of the state, and parts of others, into toast.
The quick end to the Bay Area turns out to be a blessing compared to what Los Angeles residents face.
About 10 seconds after impact, radiation from the fireball sears Southern California, igniting clothing and even plywood. Within two minutes the ground under Hollywood begins to shake. Weak brick structures crumble. Concrete irrigation ditches are damaged. Frame houses not properly bolted to their foundations are knocked off. Even tree branches fall.
And then it gets nasty.
'Bad things happen'
Six minutes after impact, much of earth that used to be under San Francisco has soared high into the atmosphere and begins to fall on the City of Angels (and just about everywhere else). Ultimately, a blanket of ejected material nearly 18 feet (5.5 meters) deep is deposited in and around LA.
Within a half-hour of the initial cosmic impact, on comes a 66-mph (30 meters per second) wind to rake what's left of Los Angeles.
"If you're close to the site of a major impact, some pretty bad things happen," said Jay Melosh, an expert in impact cratering at the University of Arizona.
Melosh oversaw the computer program's development. It's intended to help scientists further their research and journalists to report on the risks of asteroid impacts. "We could have put in some worse stuff, but it started getting grisly," he told SPACE.com .
I continued with my West Coast disaster scenario by heading across the country. Denver, about a third of the way over, is coated with nearly a foot of ejected material, called ejecta. Winds reach 22 mph.
New York City residents are spared enough that they can at first sit comfortably and watch all this on TV (to the extent there are any video feeds). Still, about 13 minutes after impact, windows and doors rattle in the East. After about 21 minutes, stuff shot out from the world's largest new crater starts to rain down on the East, depositing a half-inch blanket across the city. About 3-1/2 hours later an 8-mph wind arrives.
Object as big as the one that presumably wiped out the dinosaurs — some investigators aren't convinced it was the sole cause — are extremely rare, slamming into the planet perhaps just once every 300 million years.
Presently there are no asteroids known to be on a collision course with Earth. And experts agree that one this big would almost surely come with decades or centuries of warning time, being fairly easy to spot well before it becomes an imminent threat. By then, experts hope, methods will be developed to divert or destroy such a rock.
More likely scenarios
But what about something the size of the asteroid that dug out Meteor Crater in Arizona? That 600-foot-deep (180-meter) hole in the ground, popular now with tourists, is less than 50,000 years old and was created by a space rock so small that another one like it might not be noticed until it hits.
The Arizona culprit was only about 66 feet (20 meters) wide. But instead of fragile stone, it was composed mostly of iron. Examples linked with the online impact-effect program show how to specify this harder, more destructive material. A rock this size (though not of this density) is thought to hit Earth every 158 years, on average.
I duplicated the Meteor Crater script in Newark, New Jersey, 10 miles (16 kilometers) from Manhattan as the crow flies.
Location, of course, is everything. A nearly mile-wide crater is dug in New Jersey. A moderate earthquake of magnitude 4.7 rattles the region. New York City has handled such temblors in the past and largely endures. No significant ejecta hits Manhattan, and winds reach an insignificant 3.7 mph.
So I cranked it up a bit.
An asteroid the size of two football fields, even if stony in nature, is another story. It carves a crater in New Jersey that's 2 miles wide (3.4 kilometers). The resulting earthquake is magnitude 6.4, enough to frighten the pants off New York City emergency planners. A rock this size hits the planet about every 14,000 years.
Just estimates
Melosh developed the program along with fellow researcher Gareth Collins and undergraduate Robert Marcus. Melosh said the program should prove valuable to scientists who otherwise would have to wade through complicated calculations to generate impact scenarios for their research.
It's important to point out that what actually happens when an asteroid crashes into the surface is not well known, because scientists have never actually witnessed an impact event of any scale. But they have used computer models to explore the probable effects of impacts, and they have some craters to study on Earth.
Researchers assume the blast of heat generated by a cosmic collision would be similar to nuclear bomb detonations. So for these thermal radiation effects, Melosh's team relied on a 1977 publication, "The Effect of Nuclear Weapons," by the U.S. Defense Department and the Department of Energy.
"We determine at a given distance what type of damage the radiation causes," said Marcus, who did most of the grunt work developing the computer program. "We have descriptions like when grass will ignite, when plywood or newspaper will ignite, when humans will suffer 2nd or 3rd degree burns."
For earthquake predictions, the researchers culled data from actual California events and knowledge of how earthquakes propagate like sound waves through the planet.
The global effects of an asteroid impact are harder to predict. Many scientists think the larger impacts throw so much dust into the atmosphere that a global winter would ensue, lasting for months or years. Melosh is skeptical about the dust.
"Nuclear explosions are good at raising dust that's already there, but they're not good at creating it," Melosh said. He figures most of the ejected material is melted and then hardens into tiny, hardened and almost microscopic spheres. "Most of the ejecta comes down within an hour." He calls the massive dust creation "a media myth."
More to come
There is much left out of the new online impact program. Melosh wanted it to be practical to use, and he's open to suggestions for improvement.
Important details of an impact — exactly how it penetrates the atmosphere and the surface, are simplified. And one major effect is not considered: the tsunami that would result from an ocean impact (Earth's surface is two-thirds water). In addition, the results of a user's input do not mention that a rush of wind can't blow down a tree that's buried under ejecta, nor does either matter if the tree were already burned to a crisp.
Minor and major revisions to the program may be made based on input from other scientists, Melosh said. And in coming weeks, his group will post background information explaining the complex calculations behind the program.
The Impact Effects program, as it's called, is at http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects
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Where did the Meteor go?
5 years ago
i've missed alex, but this one is fast approaching his intensity
yep, i vote we should adopt him
5 years ago
Another Earthqauke yesterday 2005/01/06 00:56 M 6.2 NORTHERN SUMATRA, INDONESIA Z= 22km 5.31N
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Most of it is fragmented under the floor of the crater….. 'tard.
This is really awesome. Just as insane as Alex, but differently.
5 years ago
ran across the following site today.
This is what the writer has predicted for the upcomming week.
"This year's January 10 extreme SuperMoon sees Luna approach to just 356,571 kilometers from Earth – the closest approach of the year, and within about 200 kilometers of the nearest pass in centuries. And it occurs less than 24 hours after the Moon reaches its extreme declination south of the celestial equator; with Jupiter in the same sign (Libra) as it was back in 1993. Another "Perfect Storm," as occurred the last time there was a SuperMoon so close to Earth? Not exactly. But as with any SuperMoon, you can expect extreme natural calamities to make plenty of headlines around the time of this unusual alignment. Severe storms with high wind and heavy precipitation (raising the risk of floods, mudslides and blizzards), higher than normal tides, and moderate to severe seismic activity (Richer 5+ quakes as well as volcanic eruptions, either of which could raise dangerous tsunamis if they occur at sea) -they're all on tap during the plus or minus three day window surrounding January 10's extreme SuperMoon alignment. And coming as it does within a week of Earth's perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) and with the full moon opposing Saturn in a T-Square configuration with Jupiter . . . well, this looks like a big one."
5 years ago
Co-seismic Excitation of Earth Rotational and Gravitational
IERS/GGFC/SB Mantle: Co-seismic Excitation of Earth Rotational
Co-seismic Excitation of Earth Rotational and Gravitational
Historical Background The Earth's polar motion has been observed for over a
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5 years ago
"Blue Star" Awakening? – Deep Space Blasts Strike Earth
BULLETIN ITEM: "Blue Star" Awakening? – Deep Space Blasts
Star's huge radiation burst shut down 2 satellites
By PAUL BECER, The Associated Press
WASHINGTON – A burst of radiation from a distant star smashed
The immense wave of energy, the most powerful ever recorded
"We've been monitoring things like this for 30 years and we've
The burst of gamma and X-ray radiation struck the Earth over the
Seven scientific satellites, five in orbit of the Earth, one
However, the energy was largely absorbed by the upper
The eruption came from a neutron star, called SGR1900+14 in
Astronomers said it is extremely rare for such a distant stellar
The source star is one of four known members of a class of
The dramatic proof of the star's existence, said Cornell University
Duncan said the energy burst probably occurred when the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Wednesday, September 30, 1998
It happened despite the embarrassing fact that science has no
You ask the reason? Changes in the vibratory frequency of your
These are the most exciting times in the history of the planet and
They receive but cannot absorb the new frequencies. Ida
In modern terms, we know that solar flares affect the magnetic
The first radical leap in solar activity was a new frequency that
Explosions in the sun's corona and solar tornadoes signaling
Matter of fact, the TimeStar predicted light displays like the
December 22, 2004
Unknown Energy Surges Continue to Hit Planet, Global Weather
An increasingly panicked global effort is now underway by the
The first of these cosmic ray blasts occurred nearly 5 years ago
On December 1, 2004 the largest recorded blast sent not only
As reported by the BBC in this
These German scientists from the from the Max Planck Institute
What they hadn't expected to happen though has been the large
The effects of these blasts have also been felt throughout the
Though not yet at a point to acknowledge this publicly, some of
The world's top scientists have begun coordinating with
Under Dr. Eun-Suk Seo her and her international team's
But as one Russian scientist said to us, and who wished to
Whatever the end results these experiments reveal for these
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In the fall of 2002, the Continuity of Government Commission was launched to study and make recommendations for the continuity of our government institutions after a catastrophic attack. September 11th raises the possibility that foreign enemies might seriously disrupt the filling of vacancies in Congress, presidential succession, and achieving a quorum for the Court so much so that our basic institutions might not function in a normal constitutional manner.
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In addition, Executive Order 12656 [Section 202] required that "The head of each Federal department and agency shall ensure the continuity of essential functions in any national security emergency by providing for: succession to office and emergency delegation of authority in accordance with applicable law; safekeeping of essential resources, facilities, and records; and establishment of emergency operating capabilities."
Among other things, PDD 67 required Federal agencies to develop Continuity of Operations Plans for Essential Operations. In response to this directive, many Federal agencies formed task forces of representatives from throughout the agency who were familiar with agency contingency plans. They developed the COOP as a unifying concept that did not replace existing plans but, instead, superimposed COOP functions if and when a problem threatens serious disruption to agency operations. The plans identify those requirements necessary to support the primary function, such as emergency communications, establishing a chain of command, and delegation of authority.
With the reduced threat to this country of nuclear attack by the former Soviet Union and its successor nations, Enduring Constitutional Government programs (the former Continuity of Government programs) were scaled back in the early 1990s. Most of the resources of the National Preparedness Directorate of the Federal Emergency Management Agency [FEMA] were spent on ensuring the continuation of civilian government in the event of a nuclear war, through what are known as the Enduring Constitutional Government programs. The directorate also supports ongoing studies through war gaming, computer modeling, and other methods.
The text of PDD-67 has not been released, and there is no White House Factsheet summarizing its provisions.
A Federal Preparedness Circular (FPC-65) provides guidance to Federal Executive Branch departments and agencies for use in developing viable and executable contingency plans for the continuity of operations (COOP).
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Residents Warned To Brace For Storm
Some Southland rsidents prepare for mudslides in preparation for the Thursday evening storm that is expected to bring heavy rain, snow, gale-force winds, high surf and flooding. More Details
Series Of Quakes Hit Southland
A swarm of earthquakes rattles the Southland Thursday. More Details
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Northern Cross is the Key to Cosmic Planetary Cycle,
The outer solar system in December.
The inner solar system this week.
Top: The sky as seen from mid-northern latitudes; Bottom: The sky as seen from mid-southern latitudes. Both are at 9:30 p.m., facing south. The curved line represents the plane of our solar system, called the ecliptic.
Top: The sky as seen from mid-northern latitudes; Bottom: The sky as seen from mid-southern latitudes. Both are at 9:30 p.m., facing south. The curved line represents the plane of our solar system, called the ecliptic.
The Northern Cross
Look low in the northeastern sky after sunset this evening for Cygnus the Swan, a.k.a. the Northern Cross. It's this latter incarnation that we focus on tonight and again on Christmas Eve.
Whether as a cross or a swan, this constellation is one of the more distinctive of the summer figures, with bright Deneb marking the head of the cross (or tail of the Swan) and Alberio marking the foot of the cross (or the Swan's head). The pattern has a rich and varied history but it is almost always associated with being some kind of bird — either a hen or duck to the Greeks, an eagle to the Arabs and a horned owl to the early Hebrews.
The 17th-century Christianized version, however, departs radically from the avian motif. Rather, it represents the constellation as the cross upon which Jesus was crucified, and that was later recovered by Saint Helena (mother of Constantine). This time of year, the Northern Cross takes on an additional Christian significance, for around 9 p.m. on Christmas Eve, the cross stands erect above the western horizon just before setting. Their name for it was alternately the Cross of Calvary or Christi Crux.
Cygnus the Swan takes on its Northern Cross identity this evening just before setting in the northwest. The bright star Deneb marks the head of the cross while 3rd-magnitude Alberio, a handsome binary star when viewed through a telescope, ma rks the foot.Alberio, by the way, is fine binary star worth viewing in a small telescope. The primary has a decided orange hue, while its companion is a smaller blue star. The two form a beautiful contrast at medium to high magnifications. You'll need to look fast, though. Alberio dips too near the horizon after 9 o'clock.
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Dr Lionel Carter …. Niwa Oceanographer
"It´s a sign of something really bigger. It´s a sign that the ice shelfs may be starting to disintergrate. And if that is the case we are going to see alot more fresh water pumped into the world´s ocean, and of course sea level will rise.
What these icebergs may be is a manifestation of how the ice cap is starting to break up."
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This is really important Everyone, and a physical and obvious manifestion of the world changes happening at a very fast rate around us….
Iceberg Warning For Southern Waters
Ships in New Zealand´s southern waters are being warned to beware of icebergs, some of them up to three kilometres long.
Already one Global Challenge yacht has survived a close encounter with one of the floating ice blocks.
The bergs are near the Antipodes, 600 kilometres south east of Port Chalmers.
NIWA scientist, Dr Lionel Carter, says the last reported sighting of icebergs this close to New Zealand was more than fifty years ago.
He´s not ruling out global warming as the cause.
He doubts the icebergs have anything to do with our particularly cold December.
Niwa scientist Dr Lionel Carter said 15 icebergs, some up to 3km wide, were recorded in a single sighting just before Christmas.
"In 30 years of working for Niwa, this is the first time I have recorded sightings of icebergs in New Zealand waters," he told NZPA.
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B]Quite Fitting the Earth is beginning to show some signs of it having Labor Contractions. The Legend is so Real this year with the EQ's and Tsunami.
What if the Earth is just a Egg and inside is a Baby Sun wanting to get out?
What if One day a third of the crust of the earth could rip apart and get shot into outer space while a chunk is being hurled into the universe the rest of the earth begins it's crumbling and the debis turns into astroids?[/B]
Christmas, once celebrated as Yule in ancient times, is a time of rebirth; the return of the sun after the longer darkness of night. According to the legend, on the night of the Winter Solstice (the longest night of the year), the Great Mother Goddess gives
by Barbara Aho
The great Bimillennial celebrations which were launched in December of 1999 presaged the celebration of Christmas in a new form. Evangelical leader Jay Gary, in collaboration with former U.N. Assistant Secretary-General, Robert Muller, called for "an entire year of Christmas" through A.D. 2000. Commencing these high profile celebrations on this particular holiday signified quite another commemoration than the birth of Jesus Christ. In the various pagan religions of remote antiquity, December was the celebration of the Winter Solstice. Alexander Hislop revealed the true meaning of the festival of the Winter Solstice in his classic work, The Two Babylons:
"This festival has been commonly believed to have had only an astronomical character, referring simply to the completion of the sun's yearly course, and the commencement of a new cycle. But there is indubitable evidence that the festival in question had a much higher influence than this—that it commemorated not merely the figurative birthday of the sun in the renewal of its course, but the birth-day of the grand Deliverer…the Sun-God and great mediatorial divinity." 1.
The Sun-god Osiris and his consort, Isis, together with Re-Atum, the "Father of the Gods," were regarded by the ancient Egyptians as the supreme rulers of a Golden Age of plenty called Zep Tepi or the "First Time." Their kingdom ended abruptly when Osiris was murdered by his evil brother, Seth or Typhon. The childless Isis searched for the dismembered body of Osiris, which she then reassembled and resuscitated long enough to conceive a son named Horus. Horus was believed to be the reincarnation of Osiris, and the new husband of Isis, whose destiny it was to repossess the Kingdom of Osiris from the control of Seth.
"Like the goddess Isis, who found and restored all of the lost pieces of her husband, Osiris, many are restoring the unity of all life, bringing together the separate parts of humanity — different races, religions and cultures." – 42:62
The fable of Isis and Osiris, which forms the basis of Freemasonry and other occult belief systems, is currently experiencing a revival through entertainment, literature, education, and religious traditions. For example, the theme of Horus is the basis of the popular Hollywood production, Lion King. Through many points of entry, the pagan alternative to Jesus Christ is subtly being introduced to the world—and also to the Church—as mankind is subconsciously undergoing preparation for a universal return to the ancient practice of Sun worship.
http://www.threeworldwars.com/new-world-order.htm New World Order Definition
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I suppose we are to believe that the tsunami bomb research and experiments simply came to a sudden halt, eh? Since I don't believe such a thing for a nano second, based on solid evidence regarding numerous related matters, the question then is, just how progressed today, is this tsunami bomb? And more to the point, was it put to practice underneath the island of Sumatra, causing the disastrous wave reaction involving two continents, eh?. You bet the terrible tsunami bomb must be advanced, very very advanced. Some who read this may think this absurd, but then consider when the most horrible and dreaded bomb "was put to experimental practice" under the sheer cover of deception. Then consider the UN Treaty the US and the then Soviets signed, around 1972, to never use weather weapons in warfare—as if any agreement on paper ever meant anything at all, except to the naive.
Never forget also the population control programs of the advanced Western "civilizations" imposed on the "lesser people" they call of the Third World. Read about the population control programs in the Rockefeller population fund's voluminous papers. Study it in the Nixon administration commissioned report, under the aegis of Kissinger and Haig: NSSM-200 Population and National Security—- A Review of U.S. National Security Policy 1970-1988:
In the magnificently revealing work, and censored until more recently, "Advance to Barbarism: The development of Total Warfare, (1948) English author and solicitor (attorney) F. J. P. Veale detailed his thoroughly educated predictions of a post world war II world where once advanced civilizations declined, given over to atavistic impulses of the rawest and most primitive nature. In the preface of the book, the Dean of St. Paul's "called attention to the terrible retrogression of civilized humanity towards the worst cruelties of barbarism." Documented painstakingly throughout the book, are examples of rules of "civilized warfare" gradually thrown aside and warfare reverting often almost entirely to ancient practices of barbarism and mass death. In a footnote on page 353, referring to the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan:
At the enquiry before the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission in the Spring of 1954 to investigate his alleged communist associations, Dr. Oppenheimer explained, "When you see something which is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it.. We always assumed that if the bombs were needed, they would be used…. We wanted to have it done before the war was over and nothing more could be done." His colleague Dr. Alvarez testified more tersely. "We wanted some method of testing the effectiveness of the bomb over enemy territory."
Veale writes "the dropping of the ..atomic bomb was…an act of pure terrorism…. just as the "air raid on Dresden a "dastardly act", not because of the number of victims but because i it served no military purpose." And so too have an ample number of well sourced books so revealed most recently.
> Furore over `tidal bomb' claims
SECRET WARTIME experiments were conducted off the New Zealand coast to perfect a bomb that could trigger devastating tidal waves, according to government files declassified in Auckland.
The New Zealand Herald, citing the files, said that senior United States defence officials believed the weapon had the potential to be as deadly as the atomic bomb. But the tsunami bomb, as it was known, was never fully tested and the war ended before the project was completed.
Its mastermind was Thomas Leech, an Australian professor who as the dean of engineering at Auckland University from 1940 to 1950. He was seconded to the New Zealand Army during the Second World War. He set off a series of underwater explosions that triggered mini tidal waves at Whangaparaoa, just north of Auckland, in 1944 and 1945.
Details of the research, known as Project Seal, are contained in 53- year-old documents released by the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
The papers, stamped "Top Secret", show that America and Britain were keen for Seal to be developed in the postwar years. They even considered sending Professor Leech to Bikini Atoll to watch the US nuclear tests and see if they had any application to his work.
In the end, he did not make the visit, although Dr Karl Compton, a member of the US board of assessors of nuclear tests, was sent to New Zealand to meet him.
In July 1946, a letter from Washington to Wellington Defence Headquarters stated: "Dr Compton is impressed with Professor Leech's deductions on the Seal Project and is prepared to recommend to the Joint Chiefs of Staff that all technical data from the test, relevant to the Seal Project, should be made available to the New Zealand government for further study."
The announcement in 1947 that he had been awarded a CBE for weapons research led to speculation in some newspapers outside New Zealand about the nature of the work that he had been conducting. No details were released about it at the time because the project was still under way.
Neil Kirton, a former colleague of Professor Leech, told the New Zealand Herald that the experiments involved laying a pattern of explosives underwater to create a tidal wave.
Small-scale explosions were set off in the Pacific and off Whangaparaoa, which was controlled by the army at the time. Mr Kirton said he doubted whether people living in Auckland at the time would have noticed the trials.
What happened to Project Seal once the final report was forwarded to Wellington in the late 1940s is not clear.
Mr Kirton said: "If it could ever be resurrected, under some circumstances I think it could be devastating."
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The Report From Iron Mountain
"The organizing principle of any society is for war. The basic authority of a modern state over its people resides in its war powers."
Section 2: Disarmament and the Economy
Section 3: Disarmament Scenarios
Section 4: War and Peace as Social Systems
Section 5: The Functions of War
Section 6: Substitutes for the Functions of War
Section 7: Summary and Conclusions
Section 8: Recommendations
Footnote Section
Leonard Lewin's self-review
Attached is the Report of the Special Study Group established by you in August, 1963, 1) to consider the problems involved in the contingency of a transition to a general condition of peace, and 2) to recommend procedures for dealing with this contingency. For the convenience of nontechnical readers we have elected to submit our statistical supporting data, totaling 604 exhibits, separately, as well as a preliminary manual of the "peace games" method devised during the course of our study.
Because of the unusual circumstances surrounding the establishment of this Group, and in view of the nature of its finding, we do not recommend that this Report be released for publication. It is our affirmative judgement that such actions would not be in the public interest. The uncertain advantages of public discussion of our conclusions and recommendations are, in our opinion, greatly outweighed by the clear and predictable danger of a crisis in public confidence which untimely publication of this Report might be expected to provoke. The likelihood that a lay reader, unexposed to the exigencies of higher political or military responsibility, will misconstrue the purpose of this project, and the intent of its participants, seems obvious. We urge that circulation of this Report be closely restricted to those whose responsibilities require that they be apprised of its contents.
We deeply regret that the necessity of anonymity, a prerequisite to our Group's unhindered pursuit of its objectives, precludes proper acknowledgement of our gratitude to the many persons in and out of government who contributed so greatly to our work.
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30 September, 1966
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seriously, stop.
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This technology is very far out—in miles and years. A pair of satellites orbiting several hundred miles above the Earth would serve as a weapons system. One functions as the targeting and communications platform while the other carries numerous tungsten rods—up to 20 feet in length and a foot in diameter—that it can drop on targets with less than 15 minutes' notice. When instructed from the ground, the targeting satellite commands its partner to drop one of its darts. The guided rods enter the atmosphere, protected by a thermal coating, traveling at 36,000 feet per second—comparable to the speed of a meteor. The result: complete devastation of the target, even if it's buried deep underground. (The two-platform configuration permits the weapon to be "reloaded" by just launching a new set of rods, rather than replacing the entire system.)
The concept of kinetic-energy weapons has been around ever since the RAND Corporation proposed placing rods on the tips of ICBMs in the 1950s; the satellite twist was popularized by sci-fi writer Jerry Pournelle. Though the Pentagon won't say how far along the research is, or even confirm that any efforts are underway, the concept persists. The "U.S. Air Force Transformation Flight Plan," published by the Air Force in November 2003, references "hypervelocity rod bundles" in its outline of future space-based weapons, and in 2002, another report from RAND, "Space Weapons, Earth Wars," dedicated entire sections to the technology's usefulness.
If so-called "Rods from God"—an informal nickname of untraceable origin—ever do materialize, it won't be for at least 15 years. Launching heavy tungsten rods into space will require substantially cheaper rocket technology than we have today. But there are numerous other obstacles to making such a system work. Pike, of GlobalSecurity.org, argues that the rods' speed would be so high that they would vaporize on impact, before the rods could penetrate the surface. Furthermore, the "absentee ratio"—the fact that orbiting satellites circle the Earth every 100 minutes and so at any given time might be far from the desired target—would be prohibitive. A better solution, Pike argues, is to pursue the original concept: Place the rods atop intercontinental ballistic missiles, which would slow down enough during the downward part of their trajectory to avoid vaporizing on impact. ICBMs would also be less expensive and, since they're stationed on Earth, would take less time to reach their targets. "The space-basing people seem to understand the downside of space weapons," Pike says—among them, high costs and the difficulty of maintaining weapon platforms in orbit. "But I'll still bet you there's a lot of classified work on this going on right now."
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everything is fine.
continue shopping.
avoid panic buying.
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I remember reading about wierd weather at christmas in conjuction noiw I realize that the alignments, comet, earthqauke, etc….... was another headline I over looked aand now searhed it down to show another Clue to this years Pole Shift.
Hurricane strikes Alaska ?
High winds hit Coast Guard base in Alaska
KODIAK, AK, Dec. 24 (UPI) — The Coast Guard base on Alaska's Kodiak Island was closed to non-essential personnel Friday after high winds and flooding ripped off a roof and downed trees.
Gusts of more than 90 miles per hour were reported by the Harbor Master in the early morning. At about 7 a.m., the wind blew the roof off a compressor room and debris struck the Northern Lights Recreational Facility, putting a 20-foot hole in the building.
Other damage included broken windows and downed trees. A broken pipe flooded several offices.
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Egyptian paper: Israel-India nuke test caused tsunami
The earthquake that struck the Indian Ocean on December 26, triggering a series of huge waves called tsunami, "was possibly" caused by an Indian nuclear experiment in which "Israeli and American nuclear experts participated," an Egyptian weekly magazine reported Thursday.
According to Al-Osboa', India, in its heated nuclear race with Pakistan, has lately received sophisticated nuclear know-how from the United States and Israel, both of which "showed readiness to cooperate with India in experiments to exterminate humankind."
Since 1992, the magazine argued, leading geological centers in Britain, Turkey and other countries, warned of the need "not to hold nuclear experiments in the region of the Indian Ocean known as 'the Fire Belt,' in which the epicenter of the earthquake lies.
Geologists labeled that region 'The Fire Belt' for being "a dangerous terrain that can move at anytime, without human intervention," Al-Osboa' wrote.
Despite warnings not to carry out nuclear experiments in and around the 'Fire Belt', "Israel and India continue to conduct nuclear tests in the Indian Ocean, and the United States has recently decided to carry out similar tests in the Australian deserts, which is included in the 'Fire Belt', the Egyptian weekly magazine wrote.
"Last year only, Arab and Islamic states have asked the United States to stop its nuclear activities in that region, and to urge Israel and India to follow suite," Al-Osboa' reported.
Although Al-Osboa' does not rule out the possibility that the tsunami could have been caused by a natural earthquake it speculates however that, "while it has not been proved yet, there has been a joint Israeli-Indian secret nuclear experiment [conducted on December 26] that caused the earthquake."
The Egyptian weekly magazine concludes in its report that "the exchange of nuclear experts between Israel and India, and US pressure on Pakistan which is exerted by supplying India with state-of-the-art nuclear technology and preventing Islamabad from cooperating with Asian and Islamic states in the nuclear field, pose a big question mark on the causes behind the violent Asian earthquake."
Incitement against Israel and Jews in Egyptian media is usually limited to the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict yet exceptions are known to occur.
In August 2002, the Paris Supreme Court summoned Ibrahim Naafi', editor of the Egyptian daily Al-Ahram, for having authorized the publication of a controversial article entitled 'Jewish matza is made from Arab blood' in the October 28, 2000 edition of the paper.
Naafi' was charged with incitement to anti-Semitism and racist violence
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Scientists from the British Antarctic Survey have determined that grass has gained a year around foothold in Antarctica for the first time in 10,000 years.
The Sunday Times – Britain
December 26, 2004
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"An Enterprise Mission Hyperdimensional Report
The entire solar system – not just our one small planet — is
This paper will address and scientifically document a wide variety of significant examples, drawing from a host of published mainstream sources.
We will also outline a new scientific model that, for the first time, coherently explains these simultaneous interplanetary changes via a fundamental "new Physics" – a Physics that predicts "even greater anomalies to come"…
Here are some highlights:
Sun: More activity since 1940 than in previous 1150 years, combined
Mercury: Unexpected polar ice discovered, along with a surprisingly strong intrinsic magnetic field … for a supposedly "dead" planet
Venus: 2500% increase in auroral brightness, and substantive global atmospheric changes in less than 30 years
Earth: Substantial and obvious world-wide weather and geophysical
Mars: "Global Warming," huge storms, disappearance of polar icecaps
Jupiter: Over 200% increase in brightness of surrounding plasma clouds
Saturn: Major decrease in equatorial jet stream velocities in only
Uranus: "Really big, big changes" in brightness, increased global
Neptune: 40% increase in atmospheric brightness
Pluto: 300% increase in atmospheric pressure, even as Pluto recedes farther from the Sun
None of these statistics are from "fringe" scientists; they are all very, very real, and what you have just read is only the
This Report's scientific data, from a variety of highly credible
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by Dr. Jeffrey M. Masters
The National Academy of Sciences—the board of scientists established by Congress in 1863 to advise the federal government on scientific matters—compiled a comprehensive report in 2002 entitled, Abrupt Climate Change: Inevitable Surprises. The 244-page report, which contains over 500 references, was written by a team of 59 of the top researchers in climate, and represents the most authoritative source of information about abrupt climate change available. Unless noted otherwise, all of the material that follows was taken from this report.
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MAYBE IT WAS AN ASTEROID Jan 5, 2005
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We're a fast moving target for asteroids, meteors, and other cosmic weapons of mass extinction. Maybe this universe is God's amusement park, and we're the most popular ride.
The circumference of the Earth at the equator is 25,000 miles. The Earth rotates in about 24 hours. Therefore, if you were to hang above the surface of the Earth at the equator without moving, you would see 25,000 miles pass by in 24 hours, at a speed of 25000/24 or just over 1000 miles per hour.
Multiply by cosine of your latitude to see how fast the Earth is rotating where you are.
Earth is also moving around the Sun at about 67,000 miles per hour.
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Water Spout in California
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Ohio River Floods in Aftermath of StormEmail this Story
Jan 7, 11:41 AM (ET)
By ERIK SCHELZIG
(AP) Residents begin digging out from the season's first heavy snowfall Thursday, Jan. 6, 2005 in Blue…
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) – Flooding on the Ohio River damaged hundreds of homes and businesses Friday, a soggy calling card left by the winter storm that had brought miserable conditions across much of the central and northeastern United States.
Schools were closed in river towns in both West Virginia and Ohio, and the historic National Road was underwater in Wheeling, where the Ohio was 6 feet above flood stage on Friday morning. The river was expected to rise an additional 3 feet before cresting after lunchtime.
Across the river and about 70 miles downstream, shopkeepers in Marietta, Ohio, stacked sandbags in front of their doors and moved goods off the floors.
"It's not a ghost town, but there are no businesses open that I'm aware of," emergency official Mike Cullums said.
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Snow falls on Vegas Strip as winter storm hits southern Nevada
LAS VEGAS (AP) – For a moment Friday, the view over the pool at the Mandalay Bay resort stopped casino workers in their tracks.
"It's snowing in Las Vegas," hotel spokesman Gordon Absher said as a winter storm swept into southern Nevada. "We looked out over the lagoon, and there's snow over the palm trees."
It's been about a year since a rare desert snowfall on the Las Vegas Strip, and Williams said her husband reported snow was falling heavier in the northwest neighborhood of Summerlin.
A dusting on cars was also reported in hillside neighborhoods across the Las Vegas valley in Henderson.
"We've got it all over," said Lisa Anderson, a Las Vegas police spokeswoman. She said that besides traffic tie-ups and fender-benders, no major problems were reported.
A Dec. 30, 2003, snowstorm was the first in five years to deposit an inch or two of snow on cars, trees, sidewalks and roads.
The National Weather Service predicted rain throughout the weekend in southern Nevada, with wind and heavy snow in the mountains.
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Weather – it's nature's conspiracy against humanity.
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Flooding Continues
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Southern Indiana flooding persists! http://www.indystar.com/images/pics2/image-207652-1717.jpg! A farm home is surrounded by flood waters from the White River south of Whitaker, Ind., this afternoon in southwest Morgan County. — Matt Kryger / The Star from WTHR Chopper 13 By Rick Callahan Associated Press January 7, 2005
National Guard soldiers helped southern Indiana residents fill sandbags to hold back floodwaters today as utility crews half a state away labored to restore power to more than 110,000 homes and businesses still cold and dark two days after an ice storm.
In the wake of a storm that brought heavy rain and ice, nearly 1,000 people awoke today in American Red Cross shelters in 15 flood- and ice-ravaged counties.
Many were expected to return to the shelter this evening after the flooding and outages persist, said Alden Taylor, a spokesman for State Emergency Management Agency.
Gov. Joe Kernan declared a disaster emergency for much of Indiana Thursday after the storm doused parts of the state with 3 or more inches of rain and others with up to 1 3/4 inches of ice.
Taylor said the East Fork of the White River and the White and Muscatatuck rivers in southern Indiana had reached or were nearing levels set in a May 1961 flood and could surpass levels last seen in January 1937.
"These areas flood periodically but it's going to be worse this time than most people have ever seen," Taylor said today. "Hopefully people will realize this could be a bad situation and get out early."
Among the communities most affected by the flooding were Bedford, Shoals, Bloomfield, Ewardsport, Petersburg and Hazelton. But the worst flooding was along the White River south of Spencer in southwestern Indiana, he said.
Authorities were positioning river rescue teams from the Department of Natural Resources, the Coast Guard and State Police dive teams for possible evacuations as the White River's crest pushes south over the next few days.
Up to 300 National Guard soldiers were helping with sandbagging operations n Greene and Owen in southwestern Indiana, as well as Shelby, Vigo and Madison counties.
In Edwardsport, about 60 miles north of Evansville, Guard troops were using East Elementary and Junior High as a staging area to fill sandbags, said Rod Perry, the school's principal.
About a half dozen homes in Edwardsport had been evacuated today ahead of floodwaters that were expected to crest Tuesday about 10 feet above flood stage. Perry said he was worried that more freezing rain and snow was expected today and Saturday.
"Our problem will be if we get any more rain, we'll get right back where we are," he said.
Residents of north-Central Indiana, meanwhile, were still dealing with widespread power outages after heavy ice accumulations brought down trees and power lines.
By mid-afternoon today, Indiana Michigan Power crews were still working to restore power to some 101,000 customers, most of them in Muncie and Delaware County, company spokesman Jim Riggle said.
The utility hopes to have power restored to 90 percent of the affected customers by late Monday and by all of them by late Wednesday.
Cinergy spokesman Robert Norris said today that about 11,000 customers remained without power, most of them in Kokomo, Noblesville and Lafayette. More than 400 workers from other utilities were working to get power back by Sunday, he said.
"Some are asleep and some are awake, but we've always got people working around the clock," he said.
Madison County officials said today the Central Indiana county's hospitals had treated 17 people in the previous 24 hours for carbon monoxide poisoning after they improperly used fuel-burning space heaters in their powerless homes.
Officials said that when space heaters or gasoline powered generators are used indoors a door or window must be left open to vent the gas.
Other people abandoned their chilly homes for American Red Cross shelters where they were served meals and slept on cots. About 50 people slept Thursday night at a union hall in Anderson, while 25 more gathered an Elwood elementary school.
"They look bored more than anything. They just wish they could go home. It's no fun staying in a shelter," said Joline Fuller, administrative assistant to the American Red Cross of Madison County.
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Ice storm leaves Indiana, but flooding remains
Associated Press
A heavy ice storm moved out of Indiana, leaving downed trees and power lines, thousands of homes and businesses without electricity and, as streams and rivers continued to rise, the threat in some areas of the worst flooding in at least 40 years.
Dozens of roads remained closed on Friday and the Indiana Department of Transportation considered the high water a serious threat that likely would increase from melting snow in the north and ice in central areas, and from rain in the south.
"There is just so much water everywhere…. There is water in areas that I have never seen water before," said Jerry Sitton, Rush County's highway superintendent.
Indiana 44 east of Rushville was closed, but the levee there held and officials opened flood gates south of town to relieve the pressure from the swollen Flatrock River, said Mayor Bob Bridges, who had Rush County Jail inmates help highway employees fill sandbags.
Gov. Joe Kernan declared a disaster emergency for much of the state, and the National Weather Service said the threat of major flooding in parts of central and southern Indiana will remain through Tuesday, with crests rising to their highest levels since the 1960s.
More Rain Coming
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Ice pelts region, snaps power lines; Allen, Seneca counties are declared disaster areas
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Antimatter Over Antarctica?
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 04, 2005
The instrument, called BESS-Polar, launched successfully on December 13 from McMurdo Station, Antarctica, beneath a 40-million-cubic-foot scientific balloon, as big as a football field.
Posted By: CliffMickelson
Greetings all:
This just in from one of my friends in Australia:
I have no verification on the story yet. Am attempting to get in touch with those who would know. No reply yet. Anyone else heard anything?
Hey Cliff,
What happening at Antartica?
According to inside Aussie news reports the US has decided to evacuate its base at McMurdo in the Antartic and has requested the Russians to also send its icebreaker the Krasin to assist evacuation. The Krasin, which I believe is one of their big mothers, is reported to be presently south of the equator under full steam to meet a US icebreaker. The story goes that 2 large icebergs are grounded in McMurdo Bay preventing supplies reaching the Base.
There's something wrong with this story.
This time of the year is favorable for all manner of activity at Antartica. The Russian tourist ship the icebreaker,Kapitan Khlebnikov, is probably at Antartic with tourists. Or at least it is capable of cancelling the tourists and rushing from its permanent dock in New Zealand or Tasmania to evacuate staff.
These big mother icebreakers are probably engaged to remove huge quantities of instruments and people. Why are they rushing to remove instruments, equipment, etc, and people??
It is doubtfull that grounded 2 icebergs would halt supplies. What is incoming…might be a good question with this story??
I am suspecting, more than anything incoming, is that ice is shearing off the Antartic land mass and the Base is draining out to sea.
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Western World Sleeps as Global Cataclysms Approach
Pandemic Nears as Cosmic Ray Mutated Virus Unleashes Its Power
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The webcam on
Black hole's blast pushes a galaxy around
Galactic Cosmic Ray Volleys: A Coming Global Disaster
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B-15A Iceberg
As the Southern Hemisphere enters summer, the 3,000-square-kilometer (1,200-square-mile) B-15A iceberg is disrupting the normal wind and current patterns that break up the ice, leaving McMurdo Sound frozen. An official from Antarctica New Zealand—the government organization that oversees New Zealand's research on Antarctica—told the Associated Press that more ice has accumulated in the sound this year than any other year on record, thanks to the giant berg.
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Volcanic eruption in north Pacific forces international flight diversions
Fri Jan 7,12:19 PM ET Science – AFP
SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands (AFP) – International aircraft were warned to steer clear of a volcano which has erupted in the north Pacific firing an ash plume 15,000 feet into the air.
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The volcano on uninhabited Anatahan Island in the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) became active again Tuesday.
"Although the volcano is not currently dangerous to most aircraft within CNMI airspace, conditions may change rapidly, and aircraft should pass upwind of Anatahan or farther than 30 kilometres downwind," the Emergency Management Office (EMO) said in a statement.
EMO director Rudolfo Pua said the size of the plume was getting higher.
"It may become a major eruption, we don't know yet," Pua said.
"We just want airlines to be on alert again."
It is the fourth eruption of Anatahan since it suddenly burst into life in May 2003, sending smoke and ash 30,000 feet into the air.
EMO seismic technician Juan Camacho said three airlines — Continental Micronesia, Air New Zealand and Japan Airlines — had confirmed the latest eruption was reaching 15,000 feet.
Under an emergency declaration, Anatahan has been declared off limits to all but scientific expeditions until the end of January.
Anatahan is a 33 square kilometre (13 square miles) island, 128 kilometres (80 miles) north of here and just over 322 kilometres (200 miles) north of Guam. It is around 2,250 kilometres (1,400 miles) south of Tokyo.
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Anatahan Volcano (Mariana Islands)
Tsunami Early Warning Systems
Veniaminof Volcano (Alaska)
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AURORA ALERT: The interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) near Earth has tipped sharply south—a condition which often leads to strong geomagnetic storms. Sky watchers everywhere should be alert for auroras tonight.
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is it just me or is the speed of loading thread now fast, (or slow), approaching the speed of the old gnn?
i could be wrong…naawwwww
maybe i just need a pick-me-up from…....
the gnn store
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1GREEN COMET: Tonight, Comet Machholz is gliding by the Pleiades. The blue star cluster and the green comet are only 2 degrees apart—a beautiful sight! Although a telescope is recommended, you can see them with the unaided eye. Step outside around 9 p.m. and look south: sky map.
A cloud of gas bigger than the planet Jupiter, glowing alien green, is about to sweep past the Seven Sisters in Taurus. Got binoculars? You can watch it happen.
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Step outside on Friday night, January 7th, between 9 and 10 o'clock, and face south. There's Orion the Hunter locked in combat with Taurus the Bull. The star patterns are unmistakable. Just above them hovers a delicate little dipper—the Seven Sisters, a.k.a. the Pleiades. [sky map]
Look 2o to the right of the Pleiades. (If you live in the southern hemisphere, look to the left.) The tip of your pinky finger, held at arms length is about 1o wide, so 2o is two pinkies. The cloud resembles a faint and fuzzy star, barely visible to the unaided eye, but easy to see through binoculars.
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U.K. to Be Battered by Hurricane-Force Winds, Heavy Rainfall
Jan. 7 (Bloomberg) — Hurricane-force winds and heavy rain are expected to batter parts of the U.K. later today, with gusts reaching speeds of 90 miles per hour (144 kilometers), according to the country's Met Office.
Trees will probably be uprooted, buildings structurally damaged and transport disrupted as an area of low pressure passes over the country, Barry Gromett, a spokesman for the U.K.'s weather forecasting and monitoring agency said in a telephone interview.
``We don't get these sort of conditions very often,'' said Gromett. ``There's going to be some structural damage round and about.''
The Met Office forecast heavy rain for parts of north and west England and the possibility of heavy snowfall in Scotland. Wind speeds of 73 miles per hour are classified as hurricane- force, Gromett said.
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The incoming hurricane "Gudrun", which is expected to hit the coast tomorrow. It has the potential to cause up to 20 meter waves in Skagerak, flash floods and of course strong winds. Last news I heard was that they said it had worsened, and that they might have to upgrade their warning if it developed further. People are advised to stay away from coastal areas and only venture outdoors in case of emergency. We've had such storms before, but never in January.
The overall weather status this winter is strange. In this part of the country, we've only had two days that could be considered a real winter. The only decent snowfall around here, was gone on day three just as I feared. Since then, all we've had is ice, and now it almost looks like spring came early. It's been 'warm' this entire winter, but today, we had +10 degrees Celsius! It's now the middle of night and it's around +4 outside. It should be -15 at this time of the year! Every person I know now agrees that something just ain't right around here. Is there anyone here, with a good grip on weather, who can reassure me that things really are normal? There have been debates on TV where the climatologists claim that all is well, while the meterologists claim that something must be wrong since their predictions are more uncertain than ever, sometimes they are ominously wrong. Who is right? Is it connected to all the other weird shit going on?
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MOSCOW, December 29 (RIA Novosti) – The reason for the earthquake and a gigantic tsunami which killed several tens of thousands of people in South and Southeast Asia was probably a global climate change. This is the opinion voiced Wednesday by State Duma Vice Speaker, co-chairman of the national organizational committee on holding the international polar year Artur Chilingarov.
In his words, scientists have registered lately a change of the average temperature, which is now growing at fantastic rates. These seemingly insignificant temperature changes allow the atmosphere and oceans to accumulate additional energy, said the deputy.
At the same time, in Mr. Chilingarov's words, the climate change entails not only an increase in the average yearly temperature, but also droughts, floods and hurricanes.
Such powerful regions as the Antarctic and Arctic render a big influence on the global climate change, said the deputy. In his words, for the last tens of years the average temperature in the Arctic has grown twice as fast as the average yearly temperature.
Besides a global warming, this may result in destruction of permafrost in northern regions and emergence of serious problems for the agriculture of such republics as Yakutia, said Mr. Chilingarov.
In connection with this, he believes the elaboration of "an adequate state policy in the coming decade" is necessary, "for which we need to have reliable forecasts of climate change on all Russian territory."
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The cause of Tsunami is earth's melting of permafrost in artic circle due to global warming: Indian Scientists – many more global landslides and earthquakes possible
Rising temperatures in the Arctic are melting the permafrost, causing it to release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. About 14 per cent of the world's carbon is stored in the permafrost of Arctic lands. Permafrost, which is a solid structure of frozen soil and on which can be used to build homes and other buildings, can, with rising temperatures, turn into a soft material causing subsidence and damage to buildings and structures. But worse yet is if, as a positive feedback, it loses its characteristic as a carbon sink and begins leaking carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. This is a typical effect of global warming.
According to some Indian scientists, the melting of permafrost has far reaching effects on earth's crust. The tectonic plates are susceptible to forces on different parts of the world including the Artic and Antarctic regions. The new theory says if the crust of the earth is imbalanced due to tremendous effect of global warming and melting of permafrost.
The ice experiences a cyclical ice ages and warm time. We are in the warm cycle. It has been observed, that during the receding ice ages in the past which means natural warming, ocean currents, Artic and Antarctic crusts' imbalances, the tectonic movements increase. Worse is the fact that the tectonic movements increase in thrust and violent characteristics. It is at this time world experience 9 and above Richter scale earthquakes – many of them all over the world in a short period of time.
According to these scientists we may be experiencing similar phenomenon where all on a sudden tectonic movements devastate the world.
The tsunami that happened was caused by an earthquake along a 600 mile fault line that got displaced. That is not common. It really never happened in recent history of the world.
Interestingly, the Tsunami traveled westwards at 500 miles per hour and did not traverse in the south with that kind of high velocity. According to the scientific analysts, that is another sign that this was caused by melting of permafrost in the Artic.
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THE TSUNAMI TERROR PROJECTHaving successfully initiated a population-reducing Tsunami, as prescribed by the ILLUMINATI DEPOPULATION AGENDA, the United States is continuing with intensive propaganda work to make believe that they are going to help the victims while actually taking advantage of the weakened condition of the victims to occupy these areas MILITARILY and impose everywhere US -style fake freedom and plutocratic democracy. In other words, many, many more victims can be expected from torture and executions, now legalized by terrorist USA in its WAR OF TERROR. Meanwhile, private fools have been donating billions of dollars naively intended for victims but, by some magic, ending as usual in the pockets of the US military-Industrial Complex: meaning the plutocrats (whether these are Zionists, Nazists or whoever) who, as predicted, never can accumulate enough cash to satisfy their greedy and selfish needs for power! But shhhhhhhhh! the ordinary people are sound asleep and refuse to wake up! SO, SLEEP WELL, PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, YOU WILL SOON WAKE UP IN SOME OTHER WORLD (ALSO CALLED HELL BY SOME SPECIALISTS).
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Eruptions of matter from the surface of the Sun can create chaos in a comet's tail, astronomers have found.
They have shown that three different coronal mass ejections in 2002 caused wobbles in the tail of comet Ikeya-Zhang. It is the first time the Sun's ejections have been shown to affect a comet in this way.
Astronomers Geraint Jones of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, and John Brandt, from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, used pictures taken by amateur astronomers at the time of the ejections to examine the tail. They publish their results online in Geophysical Research Letters1.
Jones and Brandt believe that by analysing distortions in the tails of other comets, they will be able to pinpoint exactly where short-lived solar eruptions are coming from, and how far their effects reach into space.
Although several satellites already monitor solar activity in our region of the Solar System, the researchers say that comets could provide useful information about the effects of coronal mass ejections farther away from the Sun.
Gale force
The stream of energetic particles thrown off by the Sun is known as the solar wind, and is responsible for comets' tails. As a comet approaches the Sun, the particles warm up its surface and push a stream of ionized material outwards, forming a distinctive tail that can be 200 million kilometres long.
Solar flares frequently burst from around sunspots, releasing extra energetic particles into the wind. But coronal mass ejections are the most impressive of the Sun's emissions.
These ejections boost the solar wind to gale force, as the star's magnetic field opens up and allows huge amounts of hot plasma to escape into bubbles that are sometimes as large as the Sun itself. If these outbursts reach Earth, they can damage communication satellites and even cause power grids to fail.
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Volcanic Eruption Could Unleash Giant Tsunamis on U.S.
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Lastets Info on Volcano Activity:Veniaminof Volcano (Alaska) 56.17 N, 159.38 W, summit elevation 2507 m, stratovolcano with summit caldera Thursday 6th January 2005 The color code for Mount Veniaminof has been upgraded to "yellow". This follows ash emissions from the intracaldera cone. Ash emissions are small and rise several hundred feet above the cone. Ashfall is likely to be confined to the caldera. Weak seismic tremor started on January 1, and has increased slightly over the past 2 days. Steam and ash emissions may continue intermittently and could pose a hazard to people and low-flying aircraft in the vicinity of the active cone. This activity is above the normal background level. More on Veniaminof Volcano…
Mt Etna Volcano (Italy)
Anatahan Volcano (Mariana Islands)
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Weather Goes Wild
Brazil has so few tornadoes that it doesn't even have the equipment to forecast them, but the town of Criciúma (population 180,000) got hit with two of them on Monday. In parts of Alaska, it's strangely warm—so warm that the annual winter dog weight-pulling contest in South-central Alaska has been canceled because there's not enough snow. And icebergs have been seen in the waters of New Zealand for the first time since 1948.
Rosamélia de Abreu reports in Brazil Magazine about the one-two punch of tornadoes hitting Brazil. The first one struck around 3 p.m. on Monday and the second one hit about an hour later. Two people were killed and 250 homes were damaged. Meteorologists there say that Brazil does not have the ability to forecast tornadoes more than a couple of hours before they strike, so most people have little or no warning that they're coming.
Rachel D'oro writes that Alaska is unusually warm this winter. In some places, people have even stopped wearing coats. Roads are a slushy mess, due to freezing and then thawing over and over again. But meteorologists aren't concerned—they say that weather records dating back to 1917 show that most months of January have a warming period. However, Alaskans who are trudging through slush instead of snow aren't too happy about it.
Agence France-Presse reports that icebergs have been seen in New Zealand for the first time in 57 years. New Zealanders have been complaining about the weather, and when the icebergs were spotted, they finally understood why. The last year there were icebergs in the local waters was 1948. Nearby Antarctic ice shelves have been collapsing due to global warming. The icebergs won't be a problem for long, since they'll eventually drift towards South America, where they'll finally melt.
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MSNBC is now reporting that "something" has altered the earth's rotation.
MSNBC is now reporting that "something" has altered the earth's rotation.
The two 8 + quakes and resulting tsunamis (one south of Tasmania and the second in Indonesia) may have been the result of meteor impacts.
Indonesia has been experiencing waves of meteors – some striking the ground – for about the past two weeks.
The alleged astronomy insider "Aussie Bloke" stated that there would be 3 major impacts. The first would occur in the Pacific Ocean south of Australia (south of Tasmania – the location of the first "quake")
The other two would be:
1. In the Atlantic off the NW coast of France.
2. In the North Pacific near the Alaska coast.
In one of his quatrains, Nostradamus speaks of a devastating destruction of the French coast around the time of the New Year.
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Earth's Pronounced Wobble Gave Warning Of Quake
Earth's pronounced wobble gave advance warning of quake!
AHMEDABAD: Mother Earth may have given out warning signals much
A leading Indian seismologist, Dr J G Negi said that the observations
These wobbles are changing rotation of the earth and are known
These wobble deviations were followed by earthquake in the southern
"The wobble of the earth's rotation clearly anticipated these two big
In the case of the recent events in December 2004, Negi said, "The big
It is already known that the earthquake that unleashed deadly tidal
Negi says such post-quake wobbling was expected as an earthquake of
"The earth is not a steady ball and wobbling can happen during change
However, the Indian scientist now feels that the Mansinha-Smiley
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Wow Snark, greatest respects… your level of patients with knwo is commendable. I have no formal training in astronomy or geology but I can look up information in my old high school text books and come to more rational conclusions than knwo seems to be able to by using the full resources of the internet.
I hate to say it but I think that an old saying is at play here. If you can't win them with wisdom bury them in bullshit. I have never seen someone add as many posts to their own thread since I discovered GNN. I guess that it keeps the thread at the top though.
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Electromagnetic Radiation Spectrum: (Frequencies List, Definitions, Physics, & Properties, Sources of Radiation,
Table of Contents: (Links with a * next to them are empty and in construction)1.Electromagnetic Radiation Spectrum (0Hz to 10^27 Hz)
(Definitions, Physics, & Properties, Sources of Radiation, Overexposure Symptoms, Testing Equipment & Procedures, Exposure Limits, Standards & Laws, Shielding & Jamming, Medical & Technical Protection, EMF Agencies, Organizations To Contact For Help, Reference Materials)
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MOSCOW, January 9 (RIA Novosti) – On Sunday, the Russian capital saw an absolute temperature record. According to Alexei Lyakhov, the head of the hydro-meteorological bureau of Moscow and the Moscow region, the temperature was 4.5 degrees above zero (Celsius) in the morning. The previous record for this day was set in 1976 when the temperature was 2.9 degrees above zero. Lyakhov told the Ekho Moskvy radio station that this was "unprecedented thaw."
The final record figure over the day will be known in the evening, Lyakhov said. Clearly, warm weather will set in in Moscow in the near future.
"No serious frost should be expected soon," said Lyakhov.
According to weather experts, the wind is getting stronger in the city.
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MOSCOW, January 9 (RIA Novosti) – On Sunday, the Russian capital saw an absolute temperature record. According to Alexei Lyakhov, the head of the hydro-meteorological bureau of Moscow and the Moscow region, the temperature was 4.5 degrees above zero (Celsius) in the morning. The previous record for this day was set in 1976 when the temperature was 2.9 degrees above zero. Lyakhov told the Ekho Moskvy radio station that this was "unprecedented thaw."
The final record figure over the day will be known in the evening, Lyakhov said. Clearly, warm weather will set in in Moscow in the near future.
"No serious frost should be expected soon," said Lyakhov.
According to weather experts, the wind is getting stronger in the city.
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MOSCOW, January 9 (RIA Novosti) – The Russian An-3T aircraft is stuck in the South Pole due to adverse weather conditions, Matvei Geller, spokesman for the Russian air expedition to the Antarctic, said on the phone from the Antarctic.
According to him, non-flying weather near the McMurdo research station where the expedition is due to arrive has been lasting for six days now. "Visibility is only 2 km, the cloud base is 200-300 metres, it is snowing and there is a strong wind."
According to weather experts at McMurdo, this situation is untypical for January, which is the peak of the Antarctic summer.
The aircraft was due to leave January 6.
"The expedition participants are used to waiting for better weather. The main thing is that the An-3T aircraft is fully prepared for departure, and the crew has studied the route in detail along with the peculiarities of piloting an aircraft in the Antarctic conditions," said Artur Chilingrarov, the head of the Russian Antarctic expedition.
Sergei Tarasyuk, the crew head, will decide on flying depending on weather forecasts, Geller said.
The expedition flew to the Antarctic to restore the An-3T aircraft and make an independent
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Big Island Summit
Issued at: 1:30 PM HST 1/9/05, expires at: 4:00 AM HST 1/10/05
Winter weather advisory in effect through tonight.
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1/9/2005 12:52:19 AM Pacific Standard Time
This is FYI:
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Cyclone threatens Sri Lanka
Colombo – Sri Lanka's tsunami-battered shores are in danger of being hit by a cyclone which is building off its east coast, the meteorological department warned on Sunday.
"It is not a cyclone at the moment, but there is a possibility of a cyclone within the next 24 hours," department deputy director Lalith Chandrapala told AFP.
Alerts were being sounded on radio telling people still trying to come to terms with the tsunami devastation to be "cautious and vigilant," he said.
A low pressure system had developed in the Bay of Bengal around 300km southeast of the town of Hambantota, Chandrapala said.
"There is no immediate threat to Sri Lanka, but if it develops into a cyclone then we will issue a cyclone alert."
Chandrapala said the department had cautioned all government offices and police on the southeast and eastern coast, especially in districts such as Ampara and towns like Galle, Matara and Hambantota.
"We are telling people to listen to radio bulletins so that they can be alert and if it strikes it is easier to evacuate people," he said, adding, however, "We are not expecting any need for that."
A statement by the department said rain or thunderstorms with isolated heavy falls and windy conditions would prevail in the eastern Ulva and southern provinces and in parts of central province overnight and on Monday.
"Strong winds, frequent showers and rough seas are expected in the sea areas off the coast extending from Trincomalee to Matara via Hambantota," the statement added.
Sri Lanka was seriously damaged by the tsunamis that struck on December 26, with more than 30 700 people killed and almost a million left homeless.
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Quakes rock Taal Volcano
Moderate volcanic earthquakes rocked Taal Volcano on Sunday, causing some residents to flee the area for fear of a possible tsunami, ABS-CBN News learned Monday.
Phivolcs official Allan Luz advised the public to remain calm, adding that volcanic quakes do not usually result in tsunamis.
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even though neverknwo comes across as weird i think all these extreme weather conditions should serve as a wake up call. think about it, we are heading towards our own destruction really fast. i agree with neverknwo with the point that something really weird is going on. in the months leading up to the tsunami in south east asia there were quite a few incidents of whales washing up on beaches in australia. this was very mysterious at the time and happened on a number of occasions.
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World Weather Woes January 09, 2005
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By COLLEEN MENSCHING
REDLANDS – Firefighters and police spent the weekend responding to weather-related calls, including more than 10 car accidents, a couple of felled trees, closed roads and a group of cars stuck in mud at the intersection of San Timoteo Canyon and Live Oak Canyon roads, according to officials.
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How the Earthquake
NASA Science News for January 10, 2005
The Dec. 26th Indonesian megathrust earthquake quickened Earth's
FULL STORY at
Home page: http://science.nasa.gov
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NASA Claims Polar Shift Due In 2012
Solar System – Did you notice? In February 2001, the Sun did a magnetic polar shift. The next one is due again in 2012. NASA scientists who monitor the Sun say that our star's awesome magnetic field flipped 22 months ago, signaling the arrival of a solar maximum. But it wasn't so obvious to the average human.
The Sun's magnetic north pole, which was in the northern hemisphere just a few months ago, now points south. It's a topsy-turvy situation, but not an unexpected one. "This always happens around the time of solar maximum," says David Hathaway, a solar physicist at the Marshall Space Flight Center. "The magnetic poles exchange places at the peak of the sunspot cycle. In fact, it's a good indication that Solar Max is really here."
The Sun's magnetic poles will remain as they are now, with the north magnetic pole pointing through the Sun's southern hemisphere, until the year 2012 when they will reverse again. This transition happens, as far as we know, at the peak of every 11-year sunspot cycle — like clockwork.
Earth's magnetic field also flips, but with less regularity. Consecutive reversals are spaced 5 thousand years to 50 million years apart. The last reversal happened 740,000 years ago. Some researchers think our planet is overdue for another one, but nobody knows exactly when the next reversal might occur.
Although solar and terrestrial magnetic fields behave differently, they do have something in common: their shape. During solar minimum the Sun's field, like Earth's, resembles that of an iron bar magnet, with great closed loops near the equator and open field lines near the poles. Scientists call such a field a "dipole." The Sun's dipolar field is about as strong as a refrigerator magnet, or 50 gauss (a unit of magnetic intensity). Earth's magnetic field is 100 times weaker.
When solar maximum arrives and sunspots pepper the face of the Sun, our star's magnetic field begins to change. Sunspots are places where intense magnetic loops — hundreds of times stronger than the ambient dipole field — poke through the photosphere.
"Meridional flows on the Sun's surface carry magnetic fields from mid-latitude sunspots to the Sun's poles," explains Hathaway. "The poles end up flipping because these flows transport south-pointing magnetic flux to the north magnetic pole, and north-pointing flux to the south magnetic pole." The dipole field steadily weakens as oppositely-directed flux accumulates at the Sun's poles until, at the height of solar maximum, the magnetic poles change polarity and begin to grow in a new direction.
Hathaway noticed the latest polar reversal in a "magnetic butterfly diagram." Using data collected by astronomers at the U.S. National Solar Observatory on Kitt Peak, he plotted the Sun's average magnetic field, day by day, as a function of solar latitude and time from 1975 through the present. The result is a sort of strip chart recording that reveals evolving magnetic patterns on the Sun's surface. "We call it a butterfly diagram," he says, "because sunspots make a pattern in this plot that looks like the wings of a butterfly." In the butterfly diagram, pictured below, the Sun's polar fields appear as strips of uniform color near 90 degrees latitude. When the colors change (in this case from blue to yellow or vice versa) it means the polar fields have switched signs.
The ongoing changes are not confined to the space immediately around our star, Hathaway added. The Sun's magnetic field envelops the entire solar system in a bubble that scientists call the "heliosphere." The heliosphere extends 50 to 100 astronomical units (AU) beyond the orbit of Pluto. Inside it is the solar system — outside is interstellar space.
"Changes in the Sun's magnetic field are carried outward through the heliosphere by the solar wind," explains Steve Suess, another solar physicist at the Marshall Space Flight Center. "It takes about a year for disturbances to propagate all the way from the Sun to the outer bounds of the heliosphere." Because the Sun rotates (once every 27 days) solar magnetic fields corkscrew outwards in the shape of an Archimedian spiral. Far above the poles the magnetic fields twist around like a child's Slinky toy.
Because of all the twists and turns, "the impact of the field reversal on the heliosphere is complicated," says Hathaway. Sunspots are sources of intense magnetic knots that spiral outwards even as the dipole field vanishes. The heliosphere doesn't simply wink out of existence when the poles flip — there are plenty of complex magnetic structures to fill the void.
Or so the theory goes…. Researchers have never seen the magnetic flip happen from the best possible point of view — that is, from the top down. But now, the unique Ulysses spacecraft may give scientists a reality check. Ulysses, an international joint venture of the European Space Agency and NASA, was launched in 1990 to observe the solar system from very high solar latitudes. Every six years the spacecraft flies 2.2 AU over the Sun's poles. No other probe travels so far above the orbital plane of the planets. "Ulysses just passed under the Sun's south pole," says Suess, a mission co-Investigator. "Now it will loop back and fly over the north pole in the fall."
"This is the most important part of our mission," he says. Ulysses last flew over the Sun's poles in 1994 and 1996, during solar minimum, and the craft made several important discoveries about cosmic rays, the solar wind, and more. "Now we get to see the Sun's poles during the other extreme: Solar Max. Our data will cover a complete solar cycle."
To learn more about the Sun's changing magnetic field and how it is generated, please visit "The Solar Dynamo," a web page prepared by the NASA/Marshall solar research group. Updates from the Ulysses spacecraft may be found on the Internet from JPL at http://ulysses.jpl.nasa.gov.
(Source: http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast15feb_1.htm)
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