August 2011
I found this curious, the white in the flames:
And the most recent full moon seemed to be dancing in the sky:
Then there was that sunset, and what is going on with the light:
and on and on…
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Monthly Archives: August 2011
Younger Moon?
Moon may be younger than thought, study says
An analysis of a lunar rock raises questions about when and how the moon was formed. It may be 200 million years younger than widely believed.
 The moon rises over Los Angeles City Hall. The new analysis could leave scientists who model the moon’s formation “scratching their heads,” said an isotope geochemist who was not involved in the study. (Scott Harrison / Los Angeles Times)
By Amina Khan, Los Angeles TimesAugust 18, 2011
The moon may be 200 million years younger than widely believed, according to a new analysis of a rock brought back to Earth in 1972 by Apollo 16 astronauts. Or, if not, the moon may never have had the magma ocean that scientists think covered its surface soon after it formed.
Either way, the findings published online Wednesday by the journal Nature could send lunar scientists back to the drawing board to reconsider the moon’s evolution. The moon is thought to have formed from debris ejected into space after a Mars-sized body collided with the still-molten Earth about 4.5 billion years ago. The young moon would have been hot and blanketed by magma. But without a thick atmosphere to trap its heat, the molten rock cooled relatively quickly, while minerals that were less dense than the magma floated to the top first, forming the moon’s crust. These rocks give the white highlands of the moon’s near side their pale hue, and have been used to determine the point at which the moon solidified into the body we know today. to read more, go to: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-moon-age-20110818,0,4380476.story
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Gotta Love PETA on Mars
Vegans on Mars? PETA Says Yes, Please
by Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Senior Writer
Date: 19 August 2011 Time: 06:00 AM ET
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| Future astronauts may grow some of their meals inside greenhouses, such as this Martian growth chamber, where fruits and vegetables could be grown hydroponically, without soil. CREDIT: Pat Rawlings/NASA |
Most space fans hope that humans will eventually reach Mars. As for cows and chickens, that’s another question.
Animal rights group PETA (People for the Ethical Treaent a letter to spaceentrepreneur Elon Musk, founder of rocket company SpaceX, urging him to make any Space X missions to Mars vegan.
“We can get off on the right foot on our new biosphere by ensuring that Space X crafts traveling to Mars are stocked only with vegan food and that Mars’ colonists commit to enjoying an animal-free diet once they’ve arrived,” the group wrote in the Aug. 8 letter. [Space Food Photos: What Astronauts Eat]
to read more, go to: http://www.space.com/12679-vegans-mars-peta-campaign-space-food.html
Potentially Dangerous Storm System in Atlantic
Potentially Major Hurricane Hitting The United States
Posted: August 18, 2011 by Storm Central in Uncategorized
Good Morning Everyone. We could have a serious situation going on here come 8 days from now if this all pans out. Models have been very consistent on this wave that came off of Africa 2 days ago. We have been on current watch of this since this morning as i checked the models and i saw a very big center of circulation over the Bahamas come day 7. (My Outlook is posted below) Here is the information on this:
I pin-pointed it for you so it is easier to see the exact location. Please note: That is the location via lat and long at 3:00AM CDT and those estimates at long and lat are just estimates. Using Google earth, I estimated the location being about 1,400 Miles from Barbados Island. (Lat and Long are there on the graphic)
Below is the Current Observations on the projected cyclone:
to read more and see the images, go to: http://centralstorm.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/potential-major-hurricane-hitting-the-united-states/
Dolphins Offer Insight to Healing
In his letter published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, [Michael] Zasloff recounts several documentations about how quick dolphins manage to heal the wounds caused by severe shark bites, adding that some of these wounds which are larger than a basketball are cured in weeks without causing notable pain or infection or leaving a significant scar.
“If I saw this in a human being, I wouldn’t believe it,” Zasloff added. “It should awe us. You have an animal that has evolved in the ocean without hands or legs, which swims faster than we can, has intelligence that perhaps equals our social and emotional complexity, and its healing is almost alien compared to what we are capable of.”
Solar Storm Attacks Earth
Spacecraft Sees Solar Storm Engulf Earth
August 18, 2011: For the first time, a spacecraft far from Earth has turned and watched a solar storm engulf our planet. The movie, released today during a NASA press conference, has galvanized solar physicists, who say it could lead to important advances in space weather forecasting.
“The movie sent chills down my spine,” says Craig DeForest of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. “It shows a CME swelling into an enormous wall of plasma and then washing over the tiny blue speck of Earth where we live. I felt very small.”
A wide-angle movie recorded by NASA’s STEREO-A spacecraft shows a solar storm traveling all the way from the sun to Earth and engulfing our planet. A 17 MB Quicktime zoom adds perspective to the main 40 MB Quicktime movie.
to read more, go to: http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/18aug_cmemovie/
13 Year Old Uses Fibonacci Sequence to Increase Solar Power Output by 50%
After studying how trees branch in a very specific way, Aidan Dwyer created a solar cell tree that produces 20-50% more power than a uniform array of photovoltaic panels. His impressive results show that using a specific formula for distributing solar cells can drastically improve energy generation. The study earned Aidan a provisional U.S patent – it’s a rare find in the field of technology and a fantastic example of how biomimicry can drastically improve design.
Read more: 13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence
Mayan Calender Prediction
You decide. Anyhow, curious.
The Fifth Night of the Ninth Wave starts as of August 18th of 2011 and many are wondering what this energy will carry. When we look back at history the fifth night usually appears as a very destructive time period and this naturally adds drama to the interest. Typically, the Fifth night means a ¨dark age¨ with some kind of destruction and without exception it has meant a sharp economic decline. It is however never entirely true to talk about an energy in the Mayan calendar as exclusively being destructive or constructive, because similarly to how the god Shiva among the Hindus is both the creator and destroyer all calendrical energies carry both aspects and the destructiveness is there to give room for something new to be created. For us who are living in this momentous end time what is important is to be able to grasp the most relevant information from the Mayan calendar and not get stuck in simplistic labels. It was by recognizing this multifacetness of the calendrical energies (and, if you like, Revelation 16) that I was able to correctly predict that the economic collapse caused by the Ninth wave would be precipitated by the Fifth day that started July 31 and ends now on August 17. (For more on this, check out the website: http://www.calleman.com/). To some this downturn may seem like a destructive event, inconsistent with a day, but from the perspective of the emergence of unity consciousness, which is the chief purpose of the Ninth wave, the economic crisis is actually a constructive event that paves the way for the future. Based on that assumption it can actually be said that the development of this economic crisis has followed the Mayan calendar with exceptional precision. In the fifth day the stability of several major European banks has been seriously threatened and government leaders are in constant teleconferences to discuss how to halt the crisis. The US, on its part, has lost its status as AAA and since the midpoint of the fourth night (the seating of the energy of the fifth day) 7 trillion dollars of stock value has gone up in smoke.
to read the rest, go to: http://www.calleman.com/content/articles/5thNight_9thWave.htm
Sand Formation in China
Huge Sand Formation Reported Southwest of Xining, China
© 2011 by Linda Moulton Howe
“… very quite regular, straight lines form the perfect circle
and the diameter of a rough estimate of 1 to 2 kilometers (.62 to 1.24 miles).”
– Chinese traveler on Qinghai Highway southwest of Xining, China
One of several images posted August 17, 2011, at Chinese website, Awaker.net.
Xining, Qinghai, China (upper right red circle). Red road is the Qinghai Highway.
The Awaker.net news story says the huge lines and circles pressed into
sand is at a remote location about three hours from Xining towards Tibet on the
Qinghai Highway. Madoi (middle red circle) is about 200 miles southwest of
Xining and might be the region of the sand formation.
The Tibet border is the orange/red boundary line south of Madoi.
Lhasa, Tibet, is the bottom left red circle.
to read more, go to: http://www.earthfiles.com/news.php?ID=1882&category=Environment
New Tropical Wave
Potent Atlantic tropical wave could be big trouble for the United States
| Published on August 17, 2011 1:05 pm PT – By Kevin Martin – Senior Meteorologist – Article Editor and Approved – Ron Jackson |
Click for large image of tracking map
(TheWeatherSpace.com) — A disturbance in the middle of the Atlantic is moving westward and has promising features to develop into something of concern down the line.
Latest satellite images show a very broad circulation in the area. This area must be watched as the broad area has both stacked surface and mid/upper level features.
Thunderstorms should continue to form around the center of it as it moves toward the Lee and Windward Islands and strength as it does.
This was a very potent wave and was already spinning when leaving Africa so chances for a Hurricane are high with it.
As for tracking, usually I do tracking maps for these larger systems and this one looks like a United States threat, likely the Southeastern Coast.
Right now I have the tracking map (view it here) moving westward and just South (but impacting) Puerto Rico. It then moves across the Dominican Republic and enters the warm waters of the Bahamas.
to read more, go to: http://www.theweatherspace.com/news/TWS-08_17_2011_tropicalwave.html