Image by Adventures in Librarianship via Flickr'Extraordinary' ice comets crash into sun
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- s Canada worse off after five years of Stephen Harper?
- Woman who raised kidnapped child turns herself in: FBI
- RockTenn to buy Smurfit Stone for $3.5 billion
- Private equity vies for Sara Lee: sources
- U.S. government agency admits role in large bird kill
- Family suspected of electrocuting woman over marriage
- Napster founder calls Facebook film 'complete fiction'
- George Clooney vows never to marry despite girlfriend
- Third Olsen sister makes film debut with two movies
- Elton John tired of feeling like 'second-class citizen'
SOTT Focus: Pole Shift? Look to the Skies!
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High-ranking members of US military part of 'Knights of Malta,' 'Opus Dei,' reporter claims
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Image by Getty Images via @daylifeWell, get ready for the media storm, because that's essentially what Hersh told an audience in Doha, Qatar recently, according to a report published earlier this week by Foreign Policy.
Earth Changes
- Bye Bye Blackbird
- US: Sea otter deaths on the rise; 304 found dead on Central Coast in 2010
- Pole Shift? Look to the Skies!
- US: Earthquake Magnitude 3.5 - Sedona, AZ
- Ireland: Hundreds of fish die in County Antrim river
- New Zealand: Quake shook house 'like dog with a bone'
- Flashback: UK: M45 shut for hours by freezing rain
- New Zealand: Storm pounds North Island
- Video: U.S. shivers from season's coldest weather
- Vietnam: Cold Ruins Peach Blossom Harvest
More Recent News
Fire in the Sky
- Did You See That Fireball?
- US, Indiana: Meteorite Reported This Morning.....Historical Viewing-Area Meteorites
- Western Australia Meteorite Excites Scientists
- Two Major Fireballs Over North America on January 19
- Big, green and glowing: Was it a meteor seen in mid-Michigan and other states?
- UK: 'Fireball' Soars Across Penarth
- Unusually bright shooting star prompts sighting reports from Chicago to Indiana
- Probe to Survey Comet Dented by Deep Impact Mission
- Google, Dreaming lead to ancient crater
- Database of Near Earth Objects Grew Astronomically in 2010
More Recent News
- Quackbusters Are Busted!
- Lactose Intolerance Can Be a Symptom of Gluten Intolerance
- The Big Lie
- BP's spilled oil is washing up in people
- Study identifies previously unrecognised cause of persistent coughing
- The Facts About Bisphenol A
- Mindfulness meditation training changes brain structure in 8 weeks
- Video Game Addiction: Nearly 1 In 10 Children Is At Risk
- Sleep Deeply, Live Longer
- Thirteen catheterizations later
- Brain's clock influenced by senses
- Understanding and Overcoming the Myths of Suicide
- Good Old Melatonin - Making News Again
- Evening light exposure dangerous to health: new study
- Meditation for Depression Relapse
- Why First Impressions Are Difficult to Change: Study
- Apologies aren't as good as people imagine they'll be
- Is Dreaming a Form of Survival?
- Is Your Pet Psychic?
- Birth of a Moral Compass, Even for Science
- The Larger Banks Cripple American Industry Through 'Credit Hoarding'
- Yes, Virginia, A Climate Cover-Up
- Mexico to become first country to use iris scans on ID cards
- High-ranking members of US military part of 'Knights of Malta,' 'Opus Dei,' reporter claims
- British Prime Minister's Spin Doctor Resigned Over Illegal Phone Hacking
- America must brace itself for turbulence
- Massive 235ft rocket carrying a secret spy satellite replacement blasts off from California coast
- UK: Blair Faces 2nd Grilling on Iraq War
- Church pressure on Berlusconi rises over scandal
- Italy: The Caligulan Court of Silvio Berlusconi Laid Bare
- US: Woman Arrested For Sending Boy, 12, Into The Cold
- People Power: Phil Mocek found "NOT GUILTY" by Albuquerque jury
- US teacher on leave as school investigates student accounts that 2nd graders had oral sex
- China Sports Brand Tries to Break Into US Market
- US: 11 Teens Arrested in Mag Mile Robberies
- Social Networking Under Fresh Attack as Tide of Cyber-Scepticism Sweeps US
- Olbermann Leaves 'Countdown' on MSNBC
- US: Gabrielle Giffords Heard Cheers Leaving Arizona Hospital, Smiled
- US: Ex-Chicago Cop Gets 4 1/2 Years in Torture Case
- Graffiti Threatening Governor Brown Turns Up In 2 Places In Santa Ana,California
- Russia court confiscates 3 tonnes of mammoth tusks
- Bosnia: Convincing Evidence for largest Pyramid on Earth
- Saber-toothed cats could have preyed on early humans
- 9,400-year-old dog found, earliest found in Americas
- Canadian paleontologists reveal earthly origins of mysterious Tibetan footprints. But are they right?
- Neanderthal faces were not adapted to cold
- Archaeologists: Human Settlement in Syria Dates Back to One Million Years
- 2,100-yr-old Greek Coin Offers Insights Into Rare Astronomical Event
- Researchers find neolithic site
- 34,000-Year-Old Bacteria Discovered
- Beautiful Omega Sunset
- The biggest sunspots of the year are putting on a show
- Researchers Find Smoking Gun of World's Biggest Extinction
- Between Physics and Psychology
- Do Bees do a better Democracy then us?
- Scientists Discover That Amoebas Have Developed Rudimentary Agriculture
- Will Betelgeuse Really Become a Second Sun in 2012?
- Mars Missing Magnetic Field, Was It Destroyed by a Massive Asteroid Impact?
- Sunspot Activity - Sol breaks out in rash of sunspots
- Cosmic Rays Contribute 40 Per Cent to Global Warming: Study
- Mystery Goo Turns Icicles Green and Yellow in Snyder, New York
- On the Trail of the Roswell Debris & Bodies: Where Are They Now
- Flashback: Denver Flight forced to turn around due to crack in windshield
- US: Airlines to investigate spate of windshield cracks at DIA
- Connecticut, US: Newtown police see mysterious low-flying aircraft
- Spontaneous Human Combustion? 15-year-old girl dies of mystery burns
- US: Metal round UFO over Lansdown, Virginia - January 15, 2011
- UFO Sighting in Michigan: "Never Seen Anything Like it in my Life...
- New UFO Video of Unknown Lights Over Black Sea in Ukraine Jan-2011
- UK: Saffron Walden's 'earthquake' mystery
Battle about The Weather ?
http://my.opera.com/nepmak2000/blog/battle-about-the-weather?cid=53008032
The main issue currently being the aftermath of the global warming hoax promoted by Mr. Al Gore and members of the United Nations. They predicted a disastrous warming of our planet, whereas the measurable and verifiable signs then already stood on global cooling! The latter -in a way- being truly disastrous for all of us in due course, if indeed some new mini-Ice Age turns up. To establish that will take another 5-8 years or so. Many times I wrote about this, because I find it irresponsible (and costly) to deny verifiable facts as to continue policies for our future based on (a) ignorance, (b) using tampered and selective data, (c) causing misplaced fears. Now we see promoters of the climate hoax crawling backwards, or finding themselves entangled in contradictions. Yet, weather remains hardly predictable. I rely for my opinion on experts like AccuWeather weatherman Joe Bastardi and WeatherAction's Piers Corbyn, a British scientist who has his very own Sun-Moon related strategy to predict the air circulation. Bastardi follows the path of physics and what we know about the Earth and its history. Why is weather important? Because it is a factor for your future planning, where to live, to work, to prosper. What if you no longer could live in Northern-America; where to go to? Doom-thinking? I believe it isn't. It is reality thinking! Now hear and see what both experts have (not) in common about our mutual global weather future...
Haramein - the Rise of a new Prophet?
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Nikola Tesla - the forgotten Wizard
http://my.opera.com/nepmak2000/blog/?tag=science&startidx=14&nodaylimit=1
How to Predict an Earthquake?
http://my.opera.com/nepmak2000/blog/?tag=science&startidx=14&nodaylimit=1
Tutankhamun, Tunguska,... Tomorrow?
http://my.opera.com/nepmak2000/blog/?tag=science&startidx=14&nodaylimit=1
Beams of Doom from times before Time?
http://my.opera.com/nepmak2000/blog/?tag=science&startidx=14&nodaylimit=1
The non-linearity of Science
http://my.opera.com/nepmak2000/blog/?tag=science&startidx=21&nodaylimit=1
The Paracast: Jerome Clark
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This week’s Paracast with Gene Steinberg and co-host Chris O’Brien features Jerome Clark, author of “The UFO Encyclopedia” and “Hidden Realms, Lost Civilizations, and Beings from Other Worlds.”After listening to this interview, I was kind of surprised by a researcher in present day ufology who still adhered to the “nuts and bolts” theory of UFOs. To him, paranormal activities are a separate animal to be explained differently.
Tau Zero and Breakthrough Spaceship Propulsion
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In the mainstream, propulsion science does not recognize UFO propulsion technology per se, (Bob Bigelow not withstanding), but there are several theories being bandied about and while interstellar travel just might occur before we become a Kardashev Level One Civilization in around two hundred years (approx. 2200 ACE) , the chances of practical interstellar propulsion being found soon are nil.
From Centauri Dreams:
Notice that the space drive is fundamentally different from what is more and more known as a ‘warp’ drive, the point being that the space drive interacts with spacetime rather than warping spacetime.
....The primary issues are conservation of momentum and net external thrust, with the concept raising huge questions about the sources of inertial frames, the nature of the quantum vacuum energy, and the physics of photon momentum in media.
Tectonic Movement on Mars?
January 5, 2011
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In an attempt to quantify the Anthropic Principle (IMHO), one of Canada’s leading astrophysicists, Sidney van den Bergh tries to explain in a short paper that the Milky Way Galaxy is indeed a unique formation in the Universe for the fact that it carries along two companions; the Lesser and Greater Magellanic Clouds:
Astronomers have long known that the Milky Way’s two closest neighbours are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, giant clouds of stars, gas and dust called irregular galaxies.
This is strange for two reasons. These galaxies are much younger than ours and may have even formed together. It looks as if they may just be passing by, on their way to somewhere else. Most other galaxies like ours, such as Andromeda, don’t have a single companion like this, so having two seems rather fortunate.
But there’s something else as well. The Large Magellanic cloud is unusually luminous. In fact, there are only two other irregular galaxies in the entire local universe that come close. “In other words the Large Magellanic Cloud seems to be close to the upper luminosity limit for irregular galaxies,” says van den Bergh. That’s unusual too.
In recent years, astronomers have begun to work out just how rare this is. Sky surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey allow astronomers to work out the distribution of various types of galaxy. They’ve looked at 22581 galaxies like the Milky Way and found that 81% have no satellite galaxies as bright as the Magellanic Clouds, 11% have one such satellite, and only 3.5% host two such satellite galaxies.
That makes the Milky Way very unusual. As van den Bergh puts it: “That the Galaxy should have an irregular companion as luminous as the Large Magellanic Cloud is almost a miracle.”
One of the central tenets of cosmology is the Copernican principle: that we live on an ordinary planet, in an average galaxy, in a mediocre part of the Universe.
But it’s beginning to look as if the Milky Way, or at least its neighbourhood, doesn’t follow that rule at all. So the question for astronomers and cosmologists is why this has come about and what its significance should be. An interesting conundrum.
Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1012.3492: A Strange Mènage Á Trois
Posts tagged ‘Singularity’
Astronomers have long known that the Milky Way’s two closest neighbours are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, giant clouds of stars, gas and dust called irregular galaxies.
This is strange for two reasons. These galaxies are much younger than ours and may have even formed together. It looks as if they may just be passing by, on their way to somewhere else. Most other galaxies like ours, such as Andromeda, don’t have a single companion like this, so having two seems rather fortunate.
But there’s something else as well. The Large Magellanic cloud is unusually luminous. In fact, there are only two other irregular galaxies in the entire local universe that come close. “In other words the Large Magellanic Cloud seems to be close to the upper luminosity limit for irregular galaxies,” says van den Bergh. That’s unusual too.
In recent years, astronomers have begun to work out just how rare this is. Sky surveys such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey allow astronomers to work out the distribution of various types of galaxy. They’ve looked at 22581 galaxies like the Milky Way and found that 81% have no satellite galaxies as bright as the Magellanic Clouds, 11% have one such satellite, and only 3.5% host two such satellite galaxies.
That makes the Milky Way very unusual. As van den Bergh puts it: “That the Galaxy should have an irregular companion as luminous as the Large Magellanic Cloud is almost a miracle.”
One of the central tenets of cosmology is the Copernican principle: that we live on an ordinary planet, in an average galaxy, in a mediocre part of the Universe.
But it’s beginning to look as if the Milky Way, or at least its neighbourhood, doesn’t follow that rule at all. So the question for astronomers and cosmologists is why this has come about and what its significance should be. An interesting conundrum.
Ref: arxiv.org/abs/1012.3492: A Strange Mènage Á Trois
Posts tagged ‘Singularity’
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Now for a little “Pro” Singularity Tech
Last week I showed a couple of points against a technological singularity happening, but today I’ll show how a Singularity is being actively pursued by governments and corporations via the Internet. From Red Ice Creations: This is an interesting commercial for BBC’s “Superpower” about “The Extraordinary Power Of The Internet”. Showing how humanity is being [...]The Anti-Singularity
Definition of Technological Singularity from Wikipedia: “A technological singularity is a hypothetical event occurring when technological progress becomes so extremely rapid, due in most accounts to the technological creation of smarter-than-human intelligences, that it makes the future after the singularity qualitatively different and harder to predict. It has been suggested that a singularity will occur during the 21st [...]The Quantum Entanglement of Energy
When it comes to the discussion of quantum entanglement, you might as well be speaking Mandarin Chinese to myself and most folks (not a bad language to learn right now IMHO). The concept is alien and is far from the classical Newtonian physics we understand on a daily basis as the distance from Earth to [...]Duck and Cover, Quantum Computing and Kurzweil Interview
Duck your head! Astronomers say it may be space junk or it could be a tiny asteroid, too small to cause damage even if it hit. It’s 33 to 50 feet wide at most. NASA says that on Wednesday at 7:47 a.m. EST, it will streak by, missing Earth by about 80,000 miles. In the [...]The Hundred Paths of Transhumanism
What is Transhumanism? The term itself has many definitions, depending on who you ask. The stock meaning is that transhumanism is a step toward being ‘posthuman’, and that term is subject to many iterations also. One definition of being transhuman is using advanced technology to increase or preserve the quality of life of an individual. And [...]Cyclical Singularity **
Could zodiacal precessional cycles of our Solar System mark the ascensions and declensions of ‘Singularities’ throughout human history? And if we do experience a technological singularity within the next 20 years, is it just a repeat of what mankind experienced before? Discoveries like the ancient Greek Antikythera computer (1500 years before the invention of precision [...]The Undesigned Brain is Hard to Copy (Science Not Fiction, blog)
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