Jan 10, 2013
They’re back: Unexplained ‘booming noises’ reported from South Carolina to California
There aren't many gaps between these waves. Is it military flights? Hi-tech tunneling? Earthquake precursors?
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India, Pakistan Tensions Rise Over Kashmir Killings
As if the massive pending war zones in the middle east and the eastern pacific were not enough, India and Pakistan, two heavily armed nuclear nations with truly bad and ancient feeling toward each other are looking for reasons to go to war.
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India's military says Pakistan soldiers made an armed incursion Tuesday under the cover of thick fog into the Poonch district of India-held Kashmir, engaging in a half-hour battle with Indian troops.
Two Indian soldiers were killed and one of the corpses was later found with its head severed, according to Col. Jagdeep Dahiya, an Indian military spokesman. Both bodies were "subjected to barbaric and inhuman mutilation," India's External Affairs Ministry said.
Asked how India knew it was Pakistan's military that committed the killings—and not militants—Col. Dahiya said the army had seen a Pakistan military unit cross the Line of Control, the de facto border in Kashmir. But he acknowledged that no one in the army had seen the killings occur. Soldiers recovered the bodies later, he said.
A Pakistan army spokesman, Col. Abid Askari, denied that soldiers had moved into Indian-held Kashmir or that there was any firing Tuesday over the Line of Control.
Clashes between the soldiers on the Line of Control aren't unusual. But India's claims of mutilation could strain relations between the two South Asian neighbors at a time they are attempting to improve ties through peace talks.
India and Pakistan have fought two wars over Kashmir, a territory that was divided between the two countries in 1948 at the end of the first conflict.
By TOM WRIGHT
NEW DELHI—India summoned Islamabad's envoy in New Delhi on Wednesday to address claims that Pakistan's military killed two Indian soldiers and decapitated one of the corpses after a firefight in the divided Himalayan region of Kashmir.
In this Aug. 2, 2012 file photo, Indian Border Security Force soldiers stand guard near the India-Pakistan Chachwal border outpost, 65 kilometers north of Jammu, India.
Two Indian soldiers were killed and one of the corpses was later found with its head severed, according to Col. Jagdeep Dahiya, an Indian military spokesman. Both bodies were "subjected to barbaric and inhuman mutilation," India's External Affairs Ministry said.
Asked how India knew it was Pakistan's military that committed the killings—and not militants—Col. Dahiya said the army had seen a Pakistan military unit cross the Line of Control, the de facto border in Kashmir. But he acknowledged that no one in the army had seen the killings occur. Soldiers recovered the bodies later, he said.
A Pakistan army spokesman, Col. Abid Askari, denied that soldiers had moved into Indian-held Kashmir or that there was any firing Tuesday over the Line of Control.
Clashes between the soldiers on the Line of Control aren't unusual. But India's claims of mutilation could strain relations between the two South Asian neighbors at a time they are attempting to improve ties through peace talks.
India and Pakistan have fought two wars over Kashmir, a territory that was divided between the two countries in 1948 at the end of the first conflict.
State of Fear
© Mr. Fish
Shannon McLeish of Florida is a 45-year-old married mother of two young children. She is a homeowner, a taxpayer and a safe driver. She votes in every election. She attends a Unitarian Universalist church on Sundays. She is also, like nearly all who have a relationship with the Occupy movement in the United States, being monitored by the federal government. She knows this because when she read FBI documents obtained by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) through the Freedom of Information Act, she was startled to see a redaction that could only be referring to her. McLeish's story is the story of hundreds of thousands of people - perhaps more - whose lives are being invaded by the state. It is the story of a security and surveillance apparatus - overseen by the executive branch under Barack Obama - that has empowered the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to silence the voices and obstruct the activity of citizens who question corporate power.
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the PCJF, said in a written statement about the released files: "This production [of information], which we believe is just the tip of the iceberg, is a window into the nationwide scope of the FBI's surveillance, monitoring, and reporting on peaceful protesters organizing with the Occupy movement. These documents show that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are treating protests against the corporate and banking structure of America as potential criminal and terrorist activity. These documents also show these federal agencies functioning as a de facto intelligence arm of Wall Street and Corporate America."
The FBI documents are not only a chilling example of how widespread this surveillance and obstruction has become, they are an explicit warning by the security services to all who consider dissent. Anyone who defies corporate power, even if he or she is nonviolent and acting within constitutional rights, is a suspect. These documents are part of the plan to make us fearful, compliant and disempowered. They mark, I suspect, a government attempt to end peaceful mass protests by responding with repression to the grievances of Americans. When the corporate-financed group FreedomWorks bused in goons to disrupt Democratic candidates' town hall meetings about the federal health care legislation in August 2009, Eric Zuesse of the Business Insider notes, "there was no FBI surveillance of those corporate-organized disruptions of legitimate democratic processes. There also were no subsequent FreedomWorks applications for Freedom of Information Act releases of FBI files regarding such surveillance being used against them - because there was no such FBI campaign against them."
The combination of intimidation tactics by right-wing fringe groups, which speak in the language of violence and hate, with the state's massive intrusion into the personal affairs of the citizen is corporate fascism. And we are much farther down that road than many of us care to admit.
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, executive director of the PCJF, said in a written statement about the released files: "This production [of information], which we believe is just the tip of the iceberg, is a window into the nationwide scope of the FBI's surveillance, monitoring, and reporting on peaceful protesters organizing with the Occupy movement. These documents show that the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security are treating protests against the corporate and banking structure of America as potential criminal and terrorist activity. These documents also show these federal agencies functioning as a de facto intelligence arm of Wall Street and Corporate America."
The FBI documents are not only a chilling example of how widespread this surveillance and obstruction has become, they are an explicit warning by the security services to all who consider dissent. Anyone who defies corporate power, even if he or she is nonviolent and acting within constitutional rights, is a suspect. These documents are part of the plan to make us fearful, compliant and disempowered. They mark, I suspect, a government attempt to end peaceful mass protests by responding with repression to the grievances of Americans. When the corporate-financed group FreedomWorks bused in goons to disrupt Democratic candidates' town hall meetings about the federal health care legislation in August 2009, Eric Zuesse of the Business Insider notes, "there was no FBI surveillance of those corporate-organized disruptions of legitimate democratic processes. There also were no subsequent FreedomWorks applications for Freedom of Information Act releases of FBI files regarding such surveillance being used against them - because there was no such FBI campaign against them."
The combination of intimidation tactics by right-wing fringe groups, which speak in the language of violence and hate, with the state's massive intrusion into the personal affairs of the citizen is corporate fascism. And we are much farther down that road than many of us care to admit.
Read more at - http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/state_of_fear_20130107/
So called ‘doomsday asteroid’ Apophis much larger than previously thought
Projected trajectory of Apophis in 2029. Before Apophis buzzes Earth in 2029, or 2036, it will streak by planet Earth on January 10, 2013. Scientists hope to get a better idea of the size and the dimensions of the asteroid in case they have to deflect it.
January 10, 2013 – SPACE – Astronomers following the so-called doomsday asteroid Apophis, which will be whizzing past Earth on Thursday morning, have found the rock is much larger than had previously been assumed. Since the asteroid could hit Earth in 2036, that’s a problem. The asteroid, named after an Egyptian god of death, had been thought to be around 885 feet (270 meters) wide, plus or minus a couple of hundred feet (60 meters). But as Apophis approached last weekend, astronomers at the Herschel Space Observatory took new observations and have concluded that astronomers have seriously underestimated both its size and its mass.
“The 20 per cent increase in diameter, from 270 to 325m, translates into a 75 per cent increase in our estimates of the asteroid’s volume or mass,” said Thomas Müller of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany. “These numbers are first estimates based on the Herschel measurements alone, and other ongoing ground-based campaigns might produce additional pieces of information which will allow us to improve our results.”
In addition, the asteroid has a much different reflectivity, or albedo, than previously thought; 0.23 rather than the previous estimates of 0.33. This changes astronomer’s calculations of the Yarkovsky effect, or how the Sun’s heating and cooling influence will alter the asteroid’s progress in orbit. Apophis caused alarm on Christmas Eve 2004 after a report that it had a 2.7 per cent chance of hitting Earth in 2029, and even if it missed, the encounter could set it up for another strike in 2036. The asteroid topped the Torino Scale of risk, briefly reaching level four out of 10 – where zero is no threat and 10 is WE’RE DOOMED!)
After checking the data and weeding out the false reports, Apophis was downgraded to a level one threat and is currently expected to whizz past on Friday, April 13, 2029 at a distance of about 36,000 miles, just inside the orbit of our geostationary satellites.
Some argue that asteroid will come closer. According to Universe Today, “the asteroid is expected to make a record-setting — but harmless — close approach to Earth on Friday, April 13, 2029, when it comes no closer than 18,300 miles above Earth’s surface.”
There’s a kicker. If the asteroid passes through a gravitational zone, it will perturb its progress just enough to make sure that it will most likely hit the Earth on April 13, 2036.
According to Neil deGrasse Tyson, geek icon and director of the Hayden Planetarium, if it passes through the center of the gravitational “keyhole” it’ll hit the Pacific off Santa Monica, California and “sandblast the Western seaboard” with the resulting wave of tsunamis.
The asteroid is making a relatively close appearance past Earth on Thursday, coming within nine million miles of us at 1am UTC (5pm Wednesday PST) and it’s being shown live on the Virtual Telescope Project. NASA and other space agencies are watching it closely to check on the current state of play with the asteroid’s orbit as it enters and leaves Earth’s orbit.
The odds of a 2036 impact are still tiny – an estimated 1 in 250,000 – but human ingenuity being what it is, there are already fertile minds working on a plan to deflect the asteroid. A recent Australian scheme called for paintballs to be fired at Apophis to increase the Yarkovsky effect and swing it out of harm’s way, and solar sails have been mooted. –Register
Germans unveil 'star wars' laser that can shoot a drone out of the sky from 2 miles away and cut through a steel girder at 700 yards
- High powered laser is powerful enough to cut through a steel girder from 1km away
- System is so accurate it could track and destroy an 82mm ball bearing designed to replicate a mortar round
- German firm hopes to create a portable version that could be used on the battlefield
The 'eyes' of the laser weapon, which can track an object the size of a bullet, and hit a drone from two miles away
The groundbreaking weapon uses a high powered 50kW laser, and is powerful enough to cut through a steel girder from 1km away, yet accurate enough to hit a target the size of a mortar round.
Rheinmetall Defence, the firm who developed it, say it could eventually become commonplace on the battlefield, and are developing a smaller version that could be taken to the front line to protect troops.
The latest test was conducted at Rheinmetall’s Ochsenboden Proving Groud (EZO) in Switzerland, in snowy conditions and blinding sunlight, and engineers are already drawing up plans to double the power of the laser before its next test.
'The demonstration delivered compelling evidence for the 50kW weapon technology,' a spokesman said.
'A massive, 15mm-thick steel girder was cut through at a distance of 1,000 metres, and the successful shooting down of several nose-diving target drones at a range of two kilometres formed the second major highlight.'
The team were also able to use the system to track and blow up a ball bearing the size of a mortar round.
'A steel ball measuring 82 mm in diameter and travelling at approximately 50 m/sec, the target replicated a mortar round, the firm said.
'The Skyguard fire control unit immediately detected the target, followed by mechanical tracking with the 30kW laser weapon station.
'At this point, the BFU of the laser weapon module took over, optically tracking the target, which was then engaged and destroyed in flight, leaving no doubt as to the tactical viability of using laser weapons.'
The system is currently mounted of a series of large metal containers. However, the firm is developing a smaller, portable version that could easily be transported to the battlefront.
HOW IT WORKS
The system uses a radar detection system called Skyguard to spot targets and track them.
Once the target is acquired, the two laser weapons use their 'beam forming units' to focus and fire the laser beam on a 'fire sector' the system works out.
Once the target is acquired, the two laser weapons use their 'beam forming units' to focus and fire the laser beam on a 'fire sector' the system works out.
The system, which uses two laser weapons combined to form a single beam, was also used to cut through a steel girder a kilometre away.
The system used a radar to detect the drones.
'Though they were flying at over 50 metres a second, the Skyguard radar had no trouble detecting the incoming unmanned aerial vehicles at a distance of three kilometres
'Then the 30kW weapon station used the Skyguard data to carry out rough tracking mechanically.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2259639/The-groundbreaking-Star-Wars-laser-shoot-drone-sky-TWO-MILES-away.html#ixzz2HXuecEGJ
Jan 9, 2013
What is the Object Approaching the Earth in February?
On February 15, 2013, an asteroid will come close enough to Earth to knock satellites out of orbit
January 9, 2013 – SPACE - Near Earth Asteroid (NEA) 2012 DA14 has its annual flyby of the earth on February 15, 2013. Its projected orbit, according to NASA, will bring it well within the orbits of geosynchronous satellites currently orbiting our planet. NASA has indicated that there is no danger of this asteroid impacting our planet, however they have not ruled out our gravity changing the asteroids orbital pattern. NEA 2012 DA 14 was discovered on February 23, 2012 by the Observatorio Astronómico de Mallorca (OAM), near the Spanish city of La Sagra. According to NASA’s Near Earth Object Program, NEO, the asteroid will pass the earth at a distance of 21,000 miles, putting the asteroid’s trajectory in between the earth and the satellites orbiting our planet.
Geosynchronous satellites orbiting our planet orbit at a distance of roughly 26,200 miles above the earth. Geostationary orbiting objects orbit at a distance of roughly 22,236 miles above the Earth’s equator. These objects are considered to be in High Earth Orbit (HEO). Any object in space considered to be in a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) is approximately 1250 miles above the equator. The term Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) refers to an orbiting object approximately 12,500 miles above the Earth’s equator, in between objects in an LEO and a HEO, geosynchronous orbit.
With Near Earth Asteroid 2012 DA 14′s flyby falling somewhere in between geosynchronous satellite orbit, and objects orbiting in a Medium Earth Orbit pattern, the potential for this NEO impacting other objects orbiting our planet appears to be almost guaranteed. Could one of these objects be impacted by the asteroid and then be propelled back into our atmosphere?
The chance of this happening is low, and NASA has not indicated if this potential happenstance will occur. Asteroid 2012 DA 14 has an estimated diameter of about 45 meters, and a mass of roughly 130,000 metric tons, making it a medium-sized asteroid. If Asteroid DA 14 were to impact the Earth, it would do so with the energy of 2.4 Megatons. Additionally NASA estimates the closest it can get to the earth will be 17,000 miles above the equator.
NASA continually tracks these asteroids, through their Near Earth Object Program (NEO) in association with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer program (WISE) searches the skies of our solar system making observations in an effort to assess Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHA) orbiting close to our planet. Potentially hazardous asteroids are a smaller subset of the larger group called the Near Earth Asteroids (NEA) that have close orbits to the Earth’s and are big enough to survive passing through our atmosphere and causing damage of great proportions. The asteroid hunting portion of the WISE program is called NEOWISE.
“The NEOWISE analysis shows us we’ve made a good start at finding those objects that truly represent an impact hazard to earth,” said Lindley Johnson, program executive for the Near Earth Object Observation Program at NASA. “But we’ve many more to find, and it will take a concerted effort during the next couple of decades to find all of them that could do serious damage or being mission destination in the future.
NASA’s NEOWISE project, which wasn’t originally planned as part of WISE, has turned out to be a huge bonus,” said Amy Mainzer, NEOWISE principal investigator, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena California.
“Everything we can learn about these projects helps us understand their origins and fate. Our team was surprised to find the over abundance of low inclination PHA’s. Because they will tend to make more close approaches to earth, these targets can provide the best opportunities for the next generation of human and robotic exploration.” Pres. Obama has called for NASA to access an asteroid in orbit for the purposes of exploring ways to divert its orbit away from the earth in the event of a potential impact.
A new project, initiated by scientists at California’s Institute for Space Studies, would put an asteroid into orbit around the Earth’s moon, giving us the ability to study it from a closer distance then the asteroids standard orbit. The majority of asteroids orbiting in our solar system do so in the main asteroid belt, between the planets Mars and Jupiter. –Guardian
How Christianity Changed the World - Stay Free part 5
Great story in here about the difference between paganism (rampant abortion) and Christianity (sanctity of life). Also a great story about the communist and the cannibal...worth listening to in this short infomentary...
Reagan Diary Hints at Space Command and Anti-Gravity Fleet
We are into "angeltech" and breakaway civiliztion stuff here. However, the bread crumbs left behind for us are undeniable. Further down when the article talks about the Biefield-Brown (anti-gravity) effect, which has been patented, they are referring to the same technology used on the U.S. stealth fleet. I would know, as I've seen a B-2 flying over my town late at night. Silent, fast and with a slight yellowish glow, part of the electrical field, flowing down the wings. Amazing stuff.
On April 13, the National Archive Records Administration made available almost 250,000 pages of documents from President Reagan's administration. It will take several months for researchers to read through the documents. The released material may yield insight into a curious comment found in President Reagan's Diary. The entry for Tuesday, June 11, 1985 (page 334) reads:
The United States has organized its military forces into ten unified combatant commands respectively led by a single four star General or Admiral who reports directly to the Secretary of Defense. Six of the unified commands span the globe in terms of different geographical areas. In addition, there are four functional commands where specialized military activities are run by a single “Combatant Commander.” From 1985 to 2002 Space Command was responsible for outer space operations by the U.S. military. In June 2002, Space Command merged with another of the functional commands – Strategic Command which is responsible for a range of space, satellite, missile, nuclear and intelligence activities.
Rumors that the U.S. has a highly classified fleet of antigravity vehicles have circulated for years. On March 23, 1993, at an engineering conference in Los Angeles, Dr. Ben Rich former CEO of Lockheed’s Skunkworks, showed a slide with a black disk headed for space and said: "We now have the technology to take ET home".
Corporate and military whistleblowers have come forward to claim first hand knowledge of classified space vehicles using antigravity technology such as the Aurora and TR-3B. In his book, The Hunt for Zero Point, Jane's Defense Weekly analyst Nick Cook writes about the Aurora: "there has been speculation since the late 1980s about the existence of a secret replacement for the Blackbird, a mythical plane called the Aurora that supposedly flew twice as fast and on the edges of space" (p. 14). Other whistleblowers such as Edgar Fouche, a former contractor with the Department of Defense, have come forward to claim that the Blackbird's [or SR-71] replacement, the Aurora actually comprises two types of hypersonic aircraft used for space flight. He said: "The Aurora comprises the SR-75 capable of speeds above Mach 5, and acts as a mother ship for the SR-74 that can travel at speeds of Mach 18 or more into space to deliver satellites."
More significant is the large black triangular vehicle, the TR-3B that Fouche claims generates an intense magnetic field that reduces its weight by 89 percent. He says that the TR-3B uses the Biefeld-Brown effect (created by large electrostatic charges) to reduce its weight so that more conventional propulsion systems such as scramjets can give it amazing speeds. This would be well above Mach 18 that he claims is the speed of the SR-74. Fouche claims the TR-3B is 600 feet across which would make it similar in size to an aircraft carrier.
Read more at - http://www.examiner.com/article/reagan-records-space-command-antigravity-fleet
By: Michael Salla
Lunch with 5 top space scientist. It was fascinating. Space truly is the last frontier and some of the developments there in astronomy etc. are like science fiction, except they are real. I learned that our shuttle capacity is such that we could orbit 300 people.This is curious since the Space Shuttle holds a maximum of eight people and only five were built for space flight. Even if all five took off fully loaded it would be impossible to place and maintain 300 astronauts in orbit. Was Reagan revealing the existence of a highly classified space program that could accommodate hundreds of astronauts in orbit? Apparently so according to dozens of military and corporate whistleblowers. Hidden within one of the ten unified combatant commands of the U.S. military, Strategic Command, is a highly classified fleet of aircraft carrier sized antigravity vehicles that operate in outer space.
The United States has organized its military forces into ten unified combatant commands respectively led by a single four star General or Admiral who reports directly to the Secretary of Defense. Six of the unified commands span the globe in terms of different geographical areas. In addition, there are four functional commands where specialized military activities are run by a single “Combatant Commander.” From 1985 to 2002 Space Command was responsible for outer space operations by the U.S. military. In June 2002, Space Command merged with another of the functional commands – Strategic Command which is responsible for a range of space, satellite, missile, nuclear and intelligence activities.
Rumors that the U.S. has a highly classified fleet of antigravity vehicles have circulated for years. On March 23, 1993, at an engineering conference in Los Angeles, Dr. Ben Rich former CEO of Lockheed’s Skunkworks, showed a slide with a black disk headed for space and said: "We now have the technology to take ET home".
Corporate and military whistleblowers have come forward to claim first hand knowledge of classified space vehicles using antigravity technology such as the Aurora and TR-3B. In his book, The Hunt for Zero Point, Jane's Defense Weekly analyst Nick Cook writes about the Aurora: "there has been speculation since the late 1980s about the existence of a secret replacement for the Blackbird, a mythical plane called the Aurora that supposedly flew twice as fast and on the edges of space" (p. 14). Other whistleblowers such as Edgar Fouche, a former contractor with the Department of Defense, have come forward to claim that the Blackbird's [or SR-71] replacement, the Aurora actually comprises two types of hypersonic aircraft used for space flight. He said: "The Aurora comprises the SR-75 capable of speeds above Mach 5, and acts as a mother ship for the SR-74 that can travel at speeds of Mach 18 or more into space to deliver satellites."
More significant is the large black triangular vehicle, the TR-3B that Fouche claims generates an intense magnetic field that reduces its weight by 89 percent. He says that the TR-3B uses the Biefeld-Brown effect (created by large electrostatic charges) to reduce its weight so that more conventional propulsion systems such as scramjets can give it amazing speeds. This would be well above Mach 18 that he claims is the speed of the SR-74. Fouche claims the TR-3B is 600 feet across which would make it similar in size to an aircraft carrier.
Read more at - http://www.examiner.com/article/reagan-records-space-command-antigravity-fleet
Jan 8, 2013
Foxe's Book of Martyrs - Part 5
Part 5 includes the death of Telemachus and how it helped end the gladitorial contests in the Coliseum. Also some background on the 6 centuries of the inquisition, the Roman Churches torture and murder in the name of the Pope.
Apophis – a 'potentially hazardous' asteroid – flies by Earth on Wednesday
Asteroid Apophis arrives this week for a close pass of Earth. This isn't the end of the world but a new beginning for research into potentially hazardous asteroids
A computer-generated image of a near-Earth asteroid. Astronomers will get a close-up view of Apophis on Wednesday. Photograph: Planetary Resources/EPA
Apophis hit the headlines in December 2004. Six months after its discovery, astronomers had accrued enough images to calculate a reasonable orbit for the 300-metre chunk of space rock. What they saw was shocking.
There was a roughly 1 in 300 chance of the asteroid hitting Earth during April 2029. Nasa issued a press release spurring astronomers around the world to take more observations in order to refine the orbit. Far from dropping, however, the chances of an impact on (you've guessed it) Friday 13 April 2029 actually rose.
By Christmas Day 2004, the chance of the 2029 impact was 1 in 45 and things were looking serious. Then, on 27 December astronomers had a stroke of luck.
Looking back through previous images, they found one from March on which the asteroid had been captured but had gone unnoticed. This significantly improved the orbital calculation and the chances of the 2029 impact dropped to essentially zero. However, the small chance of an impact in 2036 opened up and remains open today.
Read more at - http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/across-the-universe/2013/jan/07/apophis-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-earth-wednesday
There was a roughly 1 in 300 chance of the asteroid hitting Earth during April 2029. Nasa issued a press release spurring astronomers around the world to take more observations in order to refine the orbit. Far from dropping, however, the chances of an impact on (you've guessed it) Friday 13 April 2029 actually rose.
By Christmas Day 2004, the chance of the 2029 impact was 1 in 45 and things were looking serious. Then, on 27 December astronomers had a stroke of luck.
Looking back through previous images, they found one from March on which the asteroid had been captured but had gone unnoticed. This significantly improved the orbital calculation and the chances of the 2029 impact dropped to essentially zero. However, the small chance of an impact in 2036 opened up and remains open today.
Read more at - http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/across-the-universe/2013/jan/07/apophis-potentially-hazardous-asteroid-earth-wednesday
Massive outburst in neighbor galaxy surprises astronomers. Is the Milky Way next?
The gist of this story is this. The scientists have no explanation for what just happened, and don't know if it could happen again a lot closer to Earth.
The surprising discovery of a massive outburst in a neighboring galaxy is giving astronomers a tantalizing look at what likely is a powerful belch by a gorging black hole at the galaxy’s center.
January 8, 2013 – SPACE – “The discovery was entirely serendipitous. Our observations were spread over a few years, and when we looked at them, we found that one galaxy had changed over that time from being placid and quiescent, to undergoing a hugely energetic outburst at the end,” said Robert Minchin, of Arecibo Observatory, who presented the research. The scientists were using the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) 305-meter William E. Gordon Telescope at Arecibo for their study when they discovered the outburst in NGC 660, a spiral galaxy 44 million light-years distant in the constellation Pisces.
The outburst was ten times brighter than the largest supernova, or exploding star. They reported their findings at the American Astronomical Society’s meeting in Long Beach, California. After detecting the outburst, the team continued to observe NGC 660 with the Arecibo Telescope, and also sought to determine the cause of the outburst using an international network of telescopes to make a detailed image of the galaxy. “High-resolution imaging is the key to understanding what’s going on,” said Emmanuel Momjian, of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). “We needed to know if the outburst came from a supernova in this galaxy or from the galaxy’s core. We could only do that by harnessing the high-resolution imaging power we get by joining widely-separated radio telescopes together.”
The astronomers used a network called the High Sensitivity Array (HSA), composed of the NSF’s Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), a continent-wide system of ten radio telescopes ranging from Hawaii to the Virgin islands; the Arecibo Telescope; the NSF’s 100-meter Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia; and the 100-meter Effelsberg Radio Telescope of the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany.
“By adding the large collecting area of the three big dishes to the VLBA, we got the images much more quickly. What we did with the HSA in less than half a day would have taken nearly nine days with the VLBA alone,” Momjian said. The resulting images were more complex than the scientists expected. They thought they would see either the ring of an expanding supernova or a jet of superfast material from the galaxy’s core. Instead, they saw five sites of bright radio emission, one near the center of the galaxy and two on either side. “The most likely explanation is that there are jets coming from the core, but they are precessing, or wobbling, and the hot spots we see are where the jets slammed into material near the galaxy’s nucleus,” said Chris Salter, of Arecibo Observatory. “To confirm this, we will continue to observe the galaxy with the HSA over the next few years,” he added.
If the jet idea is correct, the outburst probably was caused by material pulled into the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. The material would form a rapidly-spinning disk around the black hole before finally falling into it, and the disk would generate jets of particles blasting outward at nearly the speed of light. Astronomers are carefully watching a gas cloud in our own Milky Way Galaxy that is expected to fall into our Galaxy’s central black hole in the middle of this year. –Physics
Jan 7, 2013
God Civilizes the World - Stay Free part 4
This includes discussion on the, conscience, civil law, creation and the great commission.
Foxe's Book of Martyrs - Part 4
The beginning of Constantine's reign and the establishment of Christianity as the official religion of the Roman political and religious structure. Also the bizarre story of Julian the Apostate, who followed Constantine, and his attempt to build a third temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Which Came First - VATT, Or The Real LUCIFER?
By Tom Horn & Cris Putnam
As mentioned in earlier entrees, the mountain range in Arizona
where the Mt. Graham International Observatory and the LUCIFER device resides is
considered one of the holiest mountains in America for the Apache
Indians.
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| The LUCIFER telescope, looking for it's namesake? |
History
suggests part of the reason native peoples considered it “holy” -- and partly
why the mountain was selected by the MGIO consortium -- involves unusual
heavenly activity there in ancient times when UFOs called “spirit lights” moved
through the sky, something that seems to have contributed to their attribution
of “powers” to the solar system, the location of metaphysical 'portals,' and
other supernatural phenomena. The Apache Creation Myth is telling in this
regard, as a particular version involves the “One Who Lives Above” and who
descended in a flying disc at the start of creation. “In the beginning
nothing existed—no earth, no sky, no sun, no moon, only darkness was
everywhere,” the legend starts before noting; “Suddenly from the darkness
emerged a disc, one side yellow and the other side white, appearing suspended in
midair. Within the disc sat a bearded man, Creator, the One Who Lives
Above.”
While no single “Apache Creation Myth” dominates all tribal
beliefs, most groups share key precepts as well as symbolism within their oral
histories. Besides the creator who rides in a heavenly disc, a Dragon with the
power of speech turns up, bargaining with men, as well as supernatural gateways
associated with mountains (ch’íná’itíh) through which spirit beings can come.
Sometimes these spirits are represented by the Owl (to an Apache Indian,
dreaming of an Owl signified approaching death, while the Hopis see the
Burrowing Owl [Ko’ko, “Watcher of the dark”] as the god of the dead and the
underground), which is fascinating given the connection with “alien abduction”
accounts where the Owl is a disguise wherein the abductee is led to believe the
bug-eyed alien in their memory was actually an Owl they had seen somewhere and
had lodged in their memory. Owls have been associated throughout Christian
history with sorcery and flying witches and the source of these legends seem to
mirror many abduction tales, which we shall consider later. Suffice to say these
ancient native ideas involving flying discs, flying creators, spirit lights,
Owls, a talking Dragon or great serpent, and even supernatural gateways tied to
mountain ranges began long before the Vatican cast its eyes on Mt. Graham.
WHO WERE / ARE THEY REALLY?
In 1988, an
American science fiction-horror film titled “They Live” (directed by John
Carpenter) depicted a nameless drifter played by professional wrestler “Rowdy”
Roddy Piper who discovers the ruling elite are in fact aliens that have
hypnotized the human race and are managing human social affairs through
subliminal messages concealed in memes and mass media. In an important early
scene, Nada, as the Piper character is called, enters an alleyway and finds a
box containing black sunglasses. He puts on a pair and soon discovers they
include a very special filter. Looking through them he can see “the reality of
the bleak world,” that global media and advertising actually contain
totalitarian commands of obedience and conformity in consumerism, to control an
unwitting human population by humanoid aliens with grotesque skull-like
faces. [i]
Though a commercial failure at the time, the film
eventually made its way to the top 25 Cult Classics, where it remains presently,
according to Entertainment Weekly Magazine. [ii]
The film and theatrical posters can often be
found today in mocking editorials depicting the goals of totalitarians and
elitists, but another suggestion of the work that usually goes without
discussion is how the world really might be infested with non-human agents of an
unknown reality, about which the bulk of mankind is unaware.
First, from a purely incorporeal
reality, we know that demons and their militaristic interest in people and
geography are ontological facts, according to the Bible. In the Old Testament,
demons are seen as the living dynamic behind idolatry (i.e., Deuteronomy 32:17),
and in the New Testament, every writer refers to their influence. Extrabiblical
texts including ancient pseudepigraphical works like the first Book of Enoch and
post-New Testament writings such as the Didache, Ignatius’ Epistle to the Ephesians, and the Shepherd of Hermas agree with this
concern. Early church fathers also reinforced the belief that evil spirits seek
to thwart the will of God on earth through attacks on the body of Christ in
particular and against society in general, as unseen intermediaries—both good
and evil—interlope between spiritual and human personalities at home, in church,
in government, and in society. Understanding how and why this is true is defined
in demonological studies such as the divine council (a term used by Hebrew and
Semitic scholars to describe the pantheon of divine beings or angels who
administer the affairs of heaven and earth), where experts typically agree that,
beginning at the Tower of Babel, the world and its inhabitants were disinherited
by the sovereign God of Israel and placed under the authority of lesser divine
beings that became corrupt and disloyal to God in their administration of those
nations (Psalm 82). Following Babel, these beings quickly became idolized on
earth as gods, giving birth to the worship of “demons” (see Acts 7:41–42; Psalms
96:5; and 1 Corinthians 10:20) and the quest by fallen angels to draw mankind
away from God. While the dominion of these entities and their goals are
frequently overlooked, close collaboration between evil ones and unregenerate
social architects operates on a regular basis outside the purview of the
countless multitudes who are blinded to their reality. In other words, as
suggested in the film “They Live,” behind governors, legislators, presidents,
dictators, and even religious leaders, wicked spiritual powers move throughout
the machine of ecclesiastical and civil governments and media as freely as they
are allowed. Whenever such principalities recognize a religious or political
body that has become a force for moral good, they set about—through a
sophisticated labyrinth of visible and invisible representatives—to bring that
organization down, one righteous soul at a time.
It is within this concealed
arena of evil supernaturalism that unregenerate men are organized. Under demonic
influence, they are orchestrated within a great evil system (or empire)
described in various scriptural passages as a satanic order. In more than thirty
important biblical texts, the Greek New Testament employs the term kosmos,
describing this “government behind government.” It is here that human ego,
separated from God, becomes hostile to the service of mankind while viewing
people as commodities to be manipulated in the ministration of fiendish
ambition. Some expositors believe the origins of this phenomenon began in the
distant past, when a fire in the mind of Lucifer caused the powerful Cherub to
exalt himself above the good of God’s creation. The once-glorified spirit,
driven mad by an unequivocal thirst to rule, conquer, and dominate, spawned
similar lust between his followers, which continues today among agents of dark
power who guard a privileged, “cause-and-effect” symmetry between visible and
invisible personalities.
At Satan’s desire, archons
command this supernatural, geopolitical sphere, dominating kosmokrators (rulers
of darkness who work in and through human counterparts) who in turn command
spirits of lesser rank until every level of earthly government, secular and
religious, can be touched by this influence. If we could see through the veil
into this domain, we would find a world alive with good against evil, a place
where the ultimate prize is the souls of men and where legions war for control
of its cities and people. With vivid testimony to this, Satan offered Jesus all
the power and the glory of the governments of this world. Satan said, “All this
power [control] will I give thee, and the glory of them [earthly cities]: for
that is delivered unto me: and to whomsoever I will I give it. If thou therefore
wilt worship me, all shall be thine” (Luke 4:6–7).
According to the epistle of the Ephesians, it is this dominion, not flesh and
blood, where opposition to God’s will on earth is initiated. Whereas people and
institutions often provide the “faces” on our problems, the conflict originates
beyond them, in this place where unseen forces scheme. These forces may indeed
be more influential than anyone ever imagined. In fact, there is a strong
likelihood that the first murder recorded in Genesis was demonically inspired
(in a manner which parallels the so called “alien abduction” phenomenon in
interesting ways.) Did you ever wonder why “sin” is personified when God warns
Cain "If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not
well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou
shalt rule over him" (Ge 4:7, underline
added). Doesn’t it seem odd that “sin”
is a “him” and if Cain does not do well he will be sin’s desire? How can “sin”
have desire? Apparently, there is something more going on here and scholars have
uncovered surprising answers.
The wonderful thing about
archeology is that we now have a greater understanding of the Bible’s context
than at any other time in history. Scholars have translated a wealth of tablets
from Mesopotamia which not only add contextual clues to scriptural references
but provide insight into borrowed Semitic vocabulary. In this case, a careful
examination of the Hebrew text leads many evangelical inerrancy-upholding
scholars to see the participle (Heb. rōbēṣ) rendered
“lieth” in the KJV (or “is crouching” in other versions) as an Akkadian loan
word, rābiṣu, for a demon (ancient Hebrew has no vowels so ‘rbs’ offers this flexibility).[iii]
Of course, there are other scholars who balk, preferring a less
supernatural exegesis, but the context of the passage supports the demonic
interpretation. Sin does not lie in wait but demons do. Biblical scholar John
Walton agrees, “The fact that the text mentions the desire to master Cain favors
rabiṣu
as a demon.”[iv]
Thus, just prior to the first
murder in history, “sin” is depicted as a doorway-demon waiting for an opportune time, an
invitation which comes all too soon.
The ancient Akkadian literature reveals more astonishing data.
In medical texts,
inflicted individuals are depicted as having “walked in the path of a
rābiṣu” and “a rābiṣu has seized him.” The root meaning of this
term means ‘one who lies in wait’.[v]
Uncanny parallels to modern abductions are seen
in the descriptions of demons who ambush their victims in various locations:
rābiṣ ūri, “the rābiṣu of the roof”; rābiṣ nāri,
“the rābiṣu of the river”; rābiṣ ḫarbati, “the
rābiṣu of the wasteland.” It seems there was a rābiṣu for just
about anywhere, even a rābiṣ musâti, “the rābiṣu of the
toilet.” Now that’s disturbing! Ill manners aside, consider the rābiṣ
urḫi, “the rābiṣu of the road.”[vi]
Might Barney and Betty Hill, while driving late
at night on that lonely road, have encountered something like the latter
manifest physically in modern garb?
But What If There Is Something
More—Something Embodied?
What if the
incorporeal or uncarnate reality described above is only part of the story? What
if in at least some instances there is something more physical than the
whispered influence demons can have on the human mind? What if there are
tangible human hybrids walking among us; fit extensions for incarnation or
embodiment of powerful alien-demonic entities, such as the creatures in the
movie “They Live” or the Nephilim of
ancient days? Is such a concept too incredible to be substantive? Would you be
surprised to learn that some very intelligent people—including academics and
scholars—believe (to borrow a line that Carol Anne so ominously expressed in the
1982 film Poltergeist) “They’re
here.” And is this secret knowledge why Vatican Astronomer Guy Consolmagno (see entry #2) sent us
the story of the Nephilim from the Bible as an example of the kind of “space
saviors” man will soon look to for salvation, suggesting that Jesus himself was
the product of alien-human hybridity?
Among secular and religious
researchers today there is a contentious behind-the-scenes debate going on in
this regard, which has been growing in intensity over the last few years among
those who recognize first of all that genetically modified plants, animals, and
yes, humans are now reality (documented in the next entry). Unnatural forms of
life first sprang up in ancient days and according to the Bible this is a repeatable phenomenon—that
is, human hybridization not only happened in earliest times, but was followed by
at least a second wave during the days of Abraham, Moses and the Davidic
kingdom, and, more importantly, was prophesied to erupt once more in the latter
days. Therefore, we shall show unequivocally that the question is not whether
humans were, can be or are being hybridized, but whether alien/demon agencies
are involved in the process. If so, does this imply something very
uncomfortable, which most of us do not want to think about; that a form of
“human” exists that quite possibly cannot be redeemed?
Read more at - http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/vaticana3.htm
Massive Energy Pulses Knock Out Roanoke NEXRAD Station
In the few years I've been watching these radar replays, I've never seen anything so powerful as the beams coming into and/or out of the Roanoke station. The pulses apparently shut the station down. Is this all weather control? Or is this possibly space related, as in trying to affect things higher in the atmosphere?
-LAST FRAME PIC
The Roanoke NEXRAD Station KFCX was knocked off the air some time after 5:40 UTC 1/6/13 by 64 electron beams launched over 24hrs by 31 different attacking radar stations. There are no reports of death, injuries or when the radar may be operative.
Last known Beam pic from that station is at bottom.
The pic and list below show the beam trajectories, originating points and facilities, where known, as tracked back from target, line of sight, over the horizon, exact heading to another radar facility. 28 of 31 attackers are identified with 95% certainty.
64 Individual frame pics were acquired from College of du Page
( http://climate.cod.edu/flanis/satellite/reg/index.php?type=usa-rad-48 ) 48 or 200 frames loops of individual station radar. Globe map and features from Google Earth
( http://www.google.com/earth/download-earth.html )
Dutch Sinse says this ‘Vortex’ event at Roanoke caused the concurrent EQ off the W. Canada coast: direct VIDEO link with unique perspective
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO3nhRNpJH0&feature=em-uploademail
similar to the Vortex in Mexico: redirect GRAPHIC link
http://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=http%3A%2F%2Fsincedutch.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F10%2F28%2F10282012-mexico-canada-spiral-vortex-shaped-radar-return%2F&session_token=dL3H4UU34ejo-qclcqCuYrrw4dx8MTM1NzU4Mzg0M0AxMzU3NDk3NDQz
What do you think about all of this?
List of attacking radar sites with name, location, orientation, distance and numbered from 1 to 31. Starting clockwise from 12 position (attacker number 31) the first trajectory line to the right (clockwise) is number 1.
(1) KING CITY ON 480 MI 30 degrees
(2) STATE COLLEGE PA 299 MI NNE
(3) KBGM BINGHAMTON NY 421 MI NNE
(4) KGYX PORTLAND ME 712 MI 225 degrees
(5) KDOX DOVER AFB NJ 294 MI ENE
(6) NASA WALLOPS VA 275 MI ENE
(7) NOAA WALLOPS VA 262 MI ENE
(8) SUPERDARN BLACKSTONE VA 129 MI E
(9) UNKNOWN ATTACKER
(10) TTA ASCENSION ISL 5,257 MI 295 degrees
(11) HAARP BRAZIL 3,567 MI 46 degrees
(12) UNKNOWN ATTACKER
(13) GUANTANAMO BAY CUBA 1,218 MI S
(14) CARIBE COLUMBIA AIRPORT 1,881 MI S
(15) SUPERDARN ANTARCTIC HALEY 8,096 MI S
(16) KAMX MIAMI FL 808 MI SSW
(17) KVAX MOODY AFB GA 451 MI 20 degrees
(18) KTLH TALLAHASSEE FL 514 MI 28 degrees
(19) KEVX EGLIN AFB FL 550 MI SSW
(20) KMOB MOBILE AL 627 MI SW
(21) KLCH LK CHARLES LA 885 MI 61 degrees
(22) KGWX COLUMBUS AFB MS 500 MI SW
(23) KSHV SHREVEPORT LA 833 MI WSW
(24) KSRX FT SMITH AR 796 MI W
(25) KVBX VANDENBERG AFB CA 2,239 MI WNW
(26) KILX LINCOLN IL 537 MI WNW
(27) KTFX GREAT FALLS MT 1,726 MI 122 degrees
(28) KIWX N WEBSTER IN 416 MI NW
(29) DETROIT MICHIGAN 426 MI NNW
(30) KCLE CLEVELAND OH 314 MI NNW
(31) SUPERDARN KAPUSKASING ON 856 MI N
We are going to make a big mistake if we are not careful.
Jan 6, 2013
Foxe's Book of Martyrs - Part 3
A number of 3rd and 4th century martyrs who gave up their lives for their faith before Pagan Roman leaders. The coming of Constantine and the transformation of the Roman empire is also included.
More on Mass Bird Deaths, Arctic Birds in Florida
This is all related to the article below, and the theory that the Earth's magnetic field is being hammered every year, starting around January and peaking late February through Early April. It won't be long before we know for sure...
Is A Dark Star Approaching Earth? A Force Other Than The Sun Twisting Earth's Magnetic Field
Fascinating research here. If this is true, we will see dramatic solar, magnetic field and earthquake events this year beginning February 24th and running through early April. The consistent annual nature of these events mean Earth is near something else on these dates, something that can powerfully affect the Earth's magnetic field and cause massive earthquakes. See for yourself...
Wild Weather the New Norm
January 5, 2013 – ARGENTINA – A blistering heat wave, power outages and a fuel shortage added up Tuesday to a second day of hellish conditions in Greater Buenos Aires, home to about a quarter of Argentina’s 40 million people. Amid a plethora of recommendations by the authorities on how to deal with the soaring temperatures, which on Tuesday were expected to reach 36 C (97 F), people took refuge in any shade they could find to get out of the blazing heat of the Argentine summer.
The National Meteorological Service renewed this Tuesday a high alert for the Argentine capital and its surrounding areas due to the high temperatures, which created scenes the total opposite of those seen these days in snowbound Europe and the United States.
“The city of Buenos Aires (with its 2.8 million inhabitants) has a summer average of 90 deaths per day but, for example, during the heat wave at the beginning of 2001 it went up to 250 deaths in a single day,” the weather service warned on its Web site. “Given that high temperatures will continue throughout the week, we ask the population to avoid as much as possible exposing themselves to sun rays and to drink a lot of water,” Argentine Health Minister Juan Manzur said, urging people to seek medical attention if they develop such symptoms as high fever, drowsiness, fainting or a racing pulse.
Added to the suffocating heat, the climatic phenomenon La Niña has spread drought across vast areas of the Buenos Aires and La Pampa provinces, the richest agricultural region of a country that is one of the world’s top grain exporters.
Sources in the farming sector believe that the lack of rain could continue until March, with the consequent loss of soybean and corn crops. The heat wave also set a “historic record” in consumption of electricity, according to the public utilities involved, to the point that in numerous Buenos Aires neighborhoods and urban districts there were power outages in the last few days that sparked bitter protests.
The Association for the Defense of User and Consumer Rights warned that 40 percent of the customers of Edenor, Edesur and Edelap, the distributors of electric energy in Greater Buenos Aires, suffered blackouts or diminished power. But the utilities said there were only a few isolated cases of power outages in an area of some 600 square kilometers (230 square miles). Dozens of traffic lights in the capital were not working, so the city government asked drivers and pedestrians to use “extreme caution” in proceeding through the streets, which in many cases were blocked by the now-customary marches protesting any number of offenses and inconveniences.
The sun blazed like molten metal on downtown Buenos Aires, where the starting point was being prepared for the Dakar rally scheduled for Saturday, while pickets of the poor and unemployed blocked one of the expressways into the city. Automobile traffic also appeared threatened by the fuel shortage, reflected in long lines of cars at the gasoline pumps. “There’s no gas anywhere. If I don’t fill up now I can’t work today,” a taxi driver lamented on a local radio station, saying that he was out “hunting” for gasoline. The fuel shortage is due to the increased demand of consumers traveling to other parts of the country to spend the year-end holidays and summer vacations, as well as the ordinary delays in distribution due to the Christmas festivities. –LAHT
Polar bear dies from heatstroke: The last remaining polar bear at Buenos Aires Zoo has died after overheating in soaring summer temperatures. ‘Winner,’ who was one of best loved attractions at the zoo, is believed to have been unable to control its body temperature in the extreme heat of the Argentinean summer and died of heatstroke.
The animal, which was covered in heavy fur to cope with freezing conditions in its native Arctic habitat, was also believed to have been frightened by the noise from fireworks let off to celebrate Christmas Eve. The animals used to live in a pool but their cage was improved in 1993 when a 145,000-litre pool was built along with a site for birthing and three security rings. The zoo said in a statement that it had been visited by experts and met all international regulations to house polar bears. –Daily Mail
Biologists baffled by discovery of penguin-like bird in Florida
Razorbills have flapped their way to Kennedy Space Center, where Audubon members spotted several during their annual Christmas Bird Count.
They typically winter no farther south than New Jersey. Maybe Hurricane Sandy steered them off course or disrupted their usual diet of schooling fish.
Biologists aren’t sure why these penguin-like birds, called razorbills, have flocked to the Space Coast and beyond, way farther south than normal.
The black birds with white underbellies have flapped their way to Kennedy Space Center, where Audubon members spotted several during their annual Christmas Bird Count.
“Everybody’s talking about it,” said Ned Steel, who coordinated the Audubon count on Merritt Island, which includes the security area of the space center.
Before this year, there had been only 17 sightings of razorbills reported to Florida’s bird surveillance program. Those were typically one or just a few birds.
This winter, about 100 razorbills have been spotted off Miami. They’ve also been seen from Naples to Pensacola on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
A few perished along the way. The state’s Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg recently received eight razorbill carcasses. The two juvenile birds examined so far had no food in their stomachs, said the institute's spokeswoman Wendy Quigley.
“It basically looks like those particular ones could not handle the stress of the situation,” she said.
Read more at - http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20121226/NEWS01/121226011/Biologists-baffled-by-discovery-penguin-like-bird-Brevard?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1
Biologists aren’t sure why these penguin-like birds, called razorbills, have flocked to the Space Coast and beyond, way farther south than normal.
The black birds with white underbellies have flapped their way to Kennedy Space Center, where Audubon members spotted several during their annual Christmas Bird Count.
“Everybody’s talking about it,” said Ned Steel, who coordinated the Audubon count on Merritt Island, which includes the security area of the space center.
Before this year, there had been only 17 sightings of razorbills reported to Florida’s bird surveillance program. Those were typically one or just a few birds.
This winter, about 100 razorbills have been spotted off Miami. They’ve also been seen from Naples to Pensacola on Florida’s Gulf Coast.
A few perished along the way. The state’s Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg recently received eight razorbill carcasses. The two juvenile birds examined so far had no food in their stomachs, said the institute's spokeswoman Wendy Quigley.
“It basically looks like those particular ones could not handle the stress of the situation,” she said.
Read more at - http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20121226/NEWS01/121226011/Biologists-baffled-by-discovery-penguin-like-bird-Brevard?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1
Asteroid 2012 DA14 may hit communications satellite in February
This was originally published months ago. The asteroid is no longer mentioned in NASA official press releases.
Asteroid 2012 DA14, discovered early this year by the LaSagra Observatory in Spain, will pass inside the geosynchronous satellite ring about 35,800 km above the equator on Feb. 15, 2013. Astronomers say the asteroid may hit a communications satellite. National Geographic reports that Paul Chodas, a planetary astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, said: "That's very unlikely, but we can't rule it out."
According to calculations, the asteroid will pass close enough to Earth to disrupt some orbiting satellites. Chodas, however, said that the orbiting International Space Station in low-Earth orbit is not at risk.
In spite of the fact that NASA astronomers assure that the asteroid will not hit the Earth, Steven Chesley, also of JPL, said: "We don't know exactly where it is, and that uncertainty maps through to an uncertainty in the orbit and predictions." The uncertainty, according to astronomers, means that they can't rule out that it will not hit Earth in subsequent close approaches to Earth after 2013.
NASA astronomers say there is an estimated cumulative 0.031% risk (1 in 3,230) of 2012 DA14 impacting Earth sometime between 2020 and 2082, a figure they hope to refine further as they collect more information during its close approach to Earth in February next year.
National Geographic reports that if the asteroid hits the the Earth, it will likely hit the Antarctica or the Southern Ocean because it approaches the Earth from the south. The impact of the 140,000 ton rock could release energy equivalent to a 2.4 megaton bomb, about the same as the 1908 Tunguska blast in which hundreds of square miles of forest in Siberia were leveled. According to Chodas, "If the asteroid were to strike the ocean, It could produce a tsunami," although "it probably wouldn't be big."
© Dieter Spannknebel, Getty Images
A communications satellite orbits Earth (file illustration).
A communications satellite orbits Earth (file illustration).
According to calculations, the asteroid will pass close enough to Earth to disrupt some orbiting satellites. Chodas, however, said that the orbiting International Space Station in low-Earth orbit is not at risk.
In spite of the fact that NASA astronomers assure that the asteroid will not hit the Earth, Steven Chesley, also of JPL, said: "We don't know exactly where it is, and that uncertainty maps through to an uncertainty in the orbit and predictions." The uncertainty, according to astronomers, means that they can't rule out that it will not hit Earth in subsequent close approaches to Earth after 2013.
NASA astronomers say there is an estimated cumulative 0.031% risk (1 in 3,230) of 2012 DA14 impacting Earth sometime between 2020 and 2082, a figure they hope to refine further as they collect more information during its close approach to Earth in February next year.
National Geographic reports that if the asteroid hits the the Earth, it will likely hit the Antarctica or the Southern Ocean because it approaches the Earth from the south. The impact of the 140,000 ton rock could release energy equivalent to a 2.4 megaton bomb, about the same as the 1908 Tunguska blast in which hundreds of square miles of forest in Siberia were leveled. According to Chodas, "If the asteroid were to strike the ocean, It could produce a tsunami," although "it probably wouldn't be big."
Powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes southeastern Alaska
January 5, 2013 – JUNEAU, Alaska — A powerful earthquake sparked a tsunami warning for hundreds of miles of Alaskan and Canadian coastline, but the alert was canceled when no damaging waves were generated. The magnitude 7.5 quake did generate a tsunami, but the Alaska Tsunami Warning Center said the waves didn’t pose a threat. The temblor struck at midnight Friday (1 a.m. PST Saturday) and was centered about 60 miles west of Craig, Alaska, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Originally, it was thought two 7.7 magnitude quakes had struck southern Alaska back to back but the USGS revised the information on its website.
The tsunami followed minutes later and was eventually expanded to include coastal areas from Cape Fairweather, Alaska, to the northern tip of Vancouver Island, Canada — an area extending more than 700 miles. A center had warned that “significant widespread inundation of land is expected,” adding that dangerous coastal flooding was possible.
In its cancellation statement, the center said that some areas were seeing just small sea level changes. “A tsunami was generated during this event but no longer poses a threat,” the center said.
After one community reported seeing just a small wave, the police in the coastal town of Cordova said they had no reports of any problems. The Alaska Earthquake Information Center said the quake was widely felt but it received no reports of any damage. In addition to the warning, a tsunami advisory was briefly in effect for some Alaska coastal areas to the north of the warning zone, as well as to the south of the zone, from the Washington state border to the northern tip of Vancouver Island. A tsunami warning means an area is likely to be hit by a wave, while an advisory means there may be strong currents, but that widespread inundation is not expected to occur. –LA Times, TEP
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