‘Shooting Star’ From SpaceCredit: NASA/Ron Garan (@Astro_Ron)NASA astronaut Ron Garan photographed a “shooting star” during the Perseid meteor shower on Aug. 13, 2011 from the International Space Station.
to see the full album of photos of the Perseids, go to: http://www.space.com/12630-photos-perseid-meteor-shower-2011.html
LITERALLY, smoke and steam coming out of the ground just NORTH of Los Angeles !!! just 2 days ago !
(video at: http://www.dutchsinse.com/blog/)
This 100% validates the plume activity we saw 3 weeks ago to the north east of Los Angeles, and all the way up the west coast … exactly what I thought it would look like.. steam venting like a very large fumerole, but on a MASSIVE scale all the way up the west coast.
Taken in conjunction with the announcement this past week of fresh lava flows off the coast of Oregon, I would say we have a full blown seismic event underway on the west coast of the USA.
to read more and see the video, go to: http://www.dutchsinse.com/blog/
Comet Honda speeds past Earth today, joins Comet Elenin this Fall
| Published on August 15, 2011 3:05 am PT – By Dave Tole – Writer – Article Editor and Approved – Warren Miller |
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(TheWeatherSpace.com) — Comet Honda is expected to pass by the Earth today above the South Pole at a distance of only 5.6 million miles.
This is about 23 times the distance from Earth to the moon. Will the comet cause an effects on our planet? Probably not, but Earth may actually alter this 0.6 mile across rock some.
The coma extends out to 43,000 miles and is currently a magnitude 8.0 in the Southern skies. The coma from Earth is half the width of the Full moon, which makes it a large night sky object for favored Southern observers.
On October 7th of 2011 (this year), Comet Honda will brighten to a magnitude 5 in the constellation Leo and favor a horizon view before sunrise for Northern sky observers.
That is not all, Comet Honda will join Comet Elenin and both will be visible on that morning in the same wide field of view in Binoculars and camera lenses, a rare treat with two comets at once!
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Last update: August 15, 2011 at 8:17 am by By Armand Vervaeck and James Daniell
UPDATE 15/08-07:20 UTC : The eruption is still going on but is weakening a little bit. Visual observation of the volcano has detected at least 40 debris avalanches around the craters. This means that volcanic activity is still continuing. The safety No-Go radius has been widened yesterday to 6 km. The closest village just outside the dangerous perimeter is Desa Kota Menara.
UPDATE 14/08-17:30 UTC : A couple of minutes ago “TheBuracho69″ has uploaded a video of the eruption on YouTube. The quality is not super, but the video footage shows very well the strength of the ash cloud. The last images are showing the strongest part of the eruption
to read more and see the video, go to: http://earthquake-report.com/2011/08/14/soputan-volcano-erupts-in-sulawesi-indonesia/
Check out this site for some images of a light energy. possibly plasma energy, seen at the Great Pyramid in Egypt. This energy is also attributed to a Grail Phenomenon:
SHUKAN ASAHI WEEKLY MAGAZINE
Tatsuhiko Kodama, right, a University of Tokyo professor, shows residents in Minami-Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, how to reduce radiation contamination in the soil. (Takeshi Kawasaki)
An exasperated University of Tokyo professor who launched an angry tirade at lawmakers over the Fukushima nuclear crisis has become a hero to many on the Internet.
Tatsuhiko Kodama, 58, who heads the Radioisotope Center at Todai, was called to provide expert testimony before the Lower House Health, Labor and Welfare Committee on July 27.
Facing a panel of lawmakers, Kodama said, “At a time when 70,000 people have left their homes and have no idea where to go, what is the Diet doing?”
Video footage of Kodama’s testimony was soon posted on YouTube, and within a few days, the video had been viewed more than 200,000 times.
Responses to the footage were generally favorable.
“I was deeply moved that Todai has a professor like him,” said one post.
“I understand the scary truth. I understand the inaction of the central government,” said another.
Besides being a doctor of internal medicine, Kodama is also an expert on internal radiation exposure. His background made even more shocking the testimony he provided in the Diet.
to read more, go to: http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201108120245.html
August 3, 2011, 5:32 PM
Steve Goldstein for The New York Times and Fred Greaves, via ReutersIs your dog a senior or a teenager?Most people think that one dog year equals seven human years. But according to WebMD, your dog’s real age is not that simple:
Dogs mature more quickly than children in the first couple of years. So the first year of a dog’s life is equal to about 15 human years, rather than seven.
Size and breed also influence the rate at which a dog ages. Although smaller dogs tend to live longer than larger dogs, they may mature more quickly in the first few years of life. A large dog may mature more slowly at first but already be considered elderly at age 5. Small and toy breeds don’t become “seniors” until around age 10. Medium-size breeds are somewhere in the middle in terms of maturation and life span.
To find out how old your dog really is, check out WebMD’s dog age calculation chart, which estimates your dog’s equivalent human age based on how old it is and whether it is a small, medium or large breed.
fr/ http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/calculating-the-real-age-of-your-dog/
Tony Cenicola/The New York TimesThe brains of frequent tanners may be similar to those of addicts.People who frequently use tanning beds experience changes in brain activity during their tanning sessions that mimic the patterns of drug addiction, new research shows.
Scientists have suspected for some time that frequent exposure to ultraviolet radiation has the potential to become addictive, but the new research is the first to actually peer inside the brains of people as they lay in tanning beds.
What the researchers found was that several parts of the brain that play a role in addiction were activated when the subjects were exposed to UV rays. The findings, which appear in the coming issue of the journal Addiction Biology, may help explain why some people continue to tan often despite awareness about risks such as skin cancer, premature aging and wrinkles.
“What this shows is that the brain is in fact responding to UV light, and it responds in areas that are associated with reward,” said Dr. Bryon Adinoff, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and an author of the study. “These are areas, particularly the striatum, that we see activated when someone is administered a drug or a high-value food like sugar.”
to read more, go to: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/12/how-tanning-changes-the-brain/?ref=health
| Posted by: JeffMasters, 2:25 PM GMT on August 14, 2011 | +3 |
Figure 1. Morning satellite image of TD 7.
92L
TD 7 isn’t the only system Bermuda needs to watch, Invest 92L is a day behind it, and will follow a path very similar to TD 7’s. The disturbance will pass close to Bermuda on Tuesday, bringing the island a second round of tropical rains. However, Invest 92L is very disorganized, as seen on recent visible satellite loops. Dry air and close proximity to TD 7 will likely keep 92L from showing significant development over the next two days, with NHC giving the system just a 30% chance of developing into a tropical depression by Tuesday morning.
Elsewhere in the tropics
The disturbance midway between the Lesser Antilles Islands and the coast of Africa we’ve been tracking over the past few days, Invest 93L, has fallen apart and is no longer a threat to develop. This system will need to be watched once it enters the Caribbean later this week, though. None of the reliable models for predicting tropical cyclone formation predict development of this system or any new disturbances over the coming week.
Jeff Masters
Last update: August 14, 2011 at 11:33 am by By Armand Vervaeck
Inside the Papandayan volcano crater – Panoramio image courtesy MatthijsWiggers – http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1636
UPDATE 14/08-10:26 UTC : The local government of Garut regency, West Java has started the planning of evacuation routes. The government does not want to improvise if the alert status would go up further to level IV (the alert level remains at III since yesterday).
Garut Regent HM Aceng Fikri, said that thevillages of Citeureup, Bayongbong andCisurupan located along the River Cibeureum, will probably be exposed to a possible direct impact of volcanic activity.
The villages are located approx. 7 kilometers from the crater of Papandayan volcano. Additionally, the local government will be ready with all necessary relief aid and equipment if an evacuataion would be imminent. As the Papandayan volcano has an explosive history, people are scared for destructive Lahars and pyroclastic clouds.
A lahar is a type of mudflow or debris flow composed of a slurry of pyroclastic material, rocky debris, and water. The material flows down from a volcano, typically along a river valley.