Article Archive for August 2010
Water Wars = Domino Effect?
A multitude of factors are coming into play for a global breakdown of society: water, food, oil, terrorism, global warming…
Because for most of us water is a plentiful and cheap resource, it is easy to ignore how perilous our situation has become. Egypt is one place that highlights the situation…
Egypt is 95% desert, and what keeps it alive is the Nile river. The Nile is sourced in other countries – poor countries that could use the water themselves, like Ethiopia. For a long time, via agreements and threats of violence, Egypt has maintained its domination of the Nile. But now we have the other, poorer countries standing up for their water rights. Uganda, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Kenya and Rwanda have decided to take more of the water sourced from their countries – which means less for Egypt.
We might have a serious situation arising, and this is just one location. The whole …
Russia Will Save Us From Asteroids
While other countries um and ah, Russia has bold plans. They are proposing a global monitoring system that some say could cost $300 billion. Obviously the US would rather spend that on a few months of war… Whether it is feasible or not, the land of super-bunkers deserves praise for even suggesting that such defence systems are necessary.
A large asteroid hitting the Earth could mean the worst natural disaster in millions of years – and threaten most forms of life.
“A giant tsunami wave will rise, submerging coastal cities. If a meteor hits land, a massive dust cloud will rise, and cause severe climate change,” Director of the Space Systems Research Centre, Valery Menshikov explains.
As a leading space engineer, Menshikov believes we have to do anything it takes to make sure this never happens.
His team has developed IGMASS, a groundbreaking network of satellites and telescopes on different continents. The system would …
Laurence Gardner / Jay Sean / Jeff Schweitzer
Laurence Gardner has died on August 12, “of metastatic carcinoma of the parotid gland, a long an hideous illness”. He was the author of Bloodline of the Holy Grail, Realm of the Ring Lords, Genesis of the Grail Kings, Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark, The Magdalene Legacy, and The Shadow of Solomon. I’m sure many 2012ers have heard of him, although he did not write anything about 2012 that I am aware of.
Jay Sean has a new single called 2012 (It Ain’t The End) – debuting at #50 in the USA. IMHO he’s aiming for a similar reaction to 1999 by Prince.
Jeff Schweitzer (Huffington Post: Religion and Science) has posted an opinion piece also proclaiming that The End is Not Nigh. As we have seen many times before, the author decides to list all the doomsday cults and failed prophecies they can find, and then tie …
Great Pyramid Air Shaft: New Robot Exploration in 2010
Dr. Zahi Hawass is not known for his speed. Even when extraordinary finds are potentially right there to discover, it can take decades, if at all, to get to the truth.
The first robot to explore one of the “air shafts” of the Queen’s Chamber was back in 1992, and it discovered a mysterious door. After a decade of waiting, a second mission was undertaken in 2002, and this time the robot had a drill. The new, surprising discovery was that just 20 centimetres beyond the first door was a second door.
Now a team from Leeds University will have a robot up there before the end of 2010. The goal is to keep drilling and looking until they get to the end of the both shafts (the other shaft in the Queen’s Chamber also has a door near the end).
When they make a TV special of the exploration, don’t think for …
Ohio Man Also Hit by Meteorite?
Following on from the man watching the cricket last week, if this in in fact a meteorite, then perhaps, just perhaps, we are seeing a rise in such phenomena…
An Ohio man claims he was hit in the shoulder by a chunk of meteorite falling from the sky Sunday night.
“I didn’t know what it was,” Pat Foraker said. “I thought somebody was playing a prank on me and threw something at me.”
“Hit me right here, I heard it,” he said. “It was like a whistling noise. It thumped my shoulder and landed in the swimming pool.”
The rock sliced the skin on Foraker’s shoulder, and was still warm when he plucked it out of the pool.
Geologists at Ohio State University will examine the rock, but believe it’s likely a meteorite.
Despite what the news report says, if you watch the video the University experts do not think it is a meteorite. Perhaps because …
Latest iPhone App for 2012
Convert modern time (on your iPhone) into ancient Mayan time, with full descriptions of what this really means… It is called 1320Sync
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The Immortal Jellyfish
Suddenly the years lived by those people before The Flood (according to the Bible) don’t seem so impossible!
The species turritopsis nutricula is able to transform itself from its mature state back into a polyp (immature jellyfish) and then back again – picture a gelatinous ‘Benjamin Button’ on repeat.
…Turritopsis nutricula isn’t the only species to use the technique; salamanders use the process to regrow limbs, while chickens utilize it to repair damaged eyes. Turritopsis nutricula, however, is the only species able to regenerate its entire body.
The entire transformation from adult to polyp takes place very rapidly, helping to explain why it has never been observed in the wild. The process, however, has been observed in the lab, and so far 100 per cent of specimens have been capable of the transformation.
…While the jellyfish can potentially live forever, it’s unlikely that one ever will. That’s because like other jellyfish, Turritopsis nutricula is often …
Bosnian House is Meteorite Magnet
This, if true (and it appears to be), is the most extraordinary meteorite story I have ever come across.
Since 2007, the home of Bosnian man Radivoke Lajic has been struck by meteorites on SIX different occasions. According to the Telegraph, scientists from Belgrade University have validated the claims, and they are investigating possible magnetic field anomalies.
Despite having to reinforce his roof with steel, Radivoke has a marvellous attitude, and does not seem to be paranoid (I think I would be!):
“But these meteorites have brought happiness to our family as well, as we’ve met different people from around the world that were interested in it,” he said. ”And I have had so many visitors that I plan to make a small museum in my back garden.”
British Man Hit By Meteorite
Following on from the German lad who was struck last year, in England a cricket fan was hit in the chest by a fragment of a meteorite. Sussex man Jan Marszel saw the meteorite approaching as he drank beer watching Sussex against Middlesex in a county cricket match. The meteorite missed him, but broke in two when it crashed into the ground, with one piece bouncing up and striking him in the chest. Could there be an increase in small meteorites? The most recent example of an injury, prior to Gerrit Blank last year, was back in 1954.
CME Heading for Earth
I don’t report all of these, because typically they amount to nothing of consequence. But there’s always the possibility of a CME causing us direct harm, and many believe that they can trigger earthquakes. This from Space Weather:
This morning around 0855 UT, Earth orbiting satellites detected a C3-class solar flare. The origin of the blast was sunspot 1092. At about the same time, an enormous magnetic filament stretching across the sun’s northern hemisphere erupted…
In short, we have just witnessed a complex global eruption involving almost the entire Earth-facing side of the sun.
A coronal mass ejection (CME) produced by the event is heading directly for Earth. High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras when it arrives on or about August 3rd.
