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US Grid Concerns Continue

On September 1st, 2010 by Robert Bast | No Comments | Posted in power grid, sun

One of the leading voices in the 2012 Doomsday field, Lawrence Joseph, has focussed on the potential for the next solar cycle peak to wreak havoc on electrical grids worldwide, but especially in the USA. The reasons the USA is singled out are:

  • their grid is antiquated
  • their grid is overloaded

Even without the Sun being a factor, the USA power grid can still easily have a cascading blackout. The concerns have been acknowledged by the US government, and bodies like NASA. Some books and articles have pointed out how catastrophic a nationwide outage could be. Basically, if the grid has failed in many locations, repairing it could take up to 6 months. That’s 6 months without electricity that runs hospitals, pumps water, runs gas stations, and powers heating and air conditioning. It is quite likely that millions would die.

While President Obama is supposedly committed to upgrading the US grid, in reality it looks like any upgrades are in limbo. Could the USA make the same mistake as they did with New Orleans, the same lack of sensible preparations?

Congressman Roscoe Bartlett, from Maryland, posted this on his website, regarding a Senate decision earlier this month:

“It is unfortunate that while one part of the federal government was warning us of possible solar electromagnetic pulse (EMP) damage to our electric grid, a key Senate Committee approved a bill to ignore this threat.  It’s particularly ironic since the Senate amended a bill, H.R. 5026, approved unanimously by the House that would specifically protect the grid against solar EMP and other physical threats.”

More on this can be read at WorldNetDaily

Scientific American – “The End” Issue

On August 26th, 2010 by Robert Bast | No Comments | Posted in possibilities

cover 2010 09 Scientific American The End Issue

There’s just no letting up – the End of The World meme keeps snowballing, and while we expected Fox News to milk it (and they’ve only just begun, IMHO), it is a little bit surprising to see Scientific American to get it on the act. Numerous articles covering the topic are in this month’s issue, such as:

The latter begins with:

Once again, the world is about to end. The latest source of doomsday dread comes courtesy of the ancient Mayans, whose calendar runs out in 2012, as interpreted by a cadre of opportunistic authors and blockbuster movie directors.

Water Wars = Domino Effect?

On August 24th, 2010 by Robert Bast | No Comments | Posted in Water

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 planet will soon be feeling the pinch. Hopefully, if we have water wars, they are not combined with food wars, oil wars and religious wars. Too many parallel wars could cause 2012 to be catastrophic.

Russia Will Save Us From Asteroids

On August 22nd, 2010 by Robert Bast | 1 Comment | Posted in Uncategorized

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 give advance warning of anything from space on course for a collision, meaning that action could be taken to save the Earth.

“We need to radically increase the number of monitoring devices. If we spot an asteroid, we will need to blow it up or, more effectively, divert it from its course. We must act before it is too late,” the engineer says.

Laurence Gardner / Jay Sean / Jeff Schweitzer

On August 17th, 2010 by Robert Bast | 1 Comment | Posted in In Brief

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 this in with 2012, proclaiming that it’s all just scaremongering. That’s a very easy, lazy populist stance:

And now we suffer the same silly predictions of chaos in 2012. We seem determined to keep ourselves in a constant state of preparation for the end of time, ever hopeful we’ll be here to witness the destruction. How very odd. When 2012 passes with nothing but time, we’ll soon forget the predictions and move on to the next fad of gloom and destruction.

Great Pyramid Air Shaft: New Robot Exploration in 2010

On August 16th, 2010 by Robert Bast | 1 Comment | Posted in Pyramids

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 a moment that we will really be alongside Hawass seeing beyond the second door for the first time. There’s every possibility that they will not share their discovery, depending on what, if anything, is found. More at The Independent.

Great Pyramid Air Shaft: New Robot Exploration in 2010

Ohio Man Also Hit by Meteorite?

On August 15th, 2010 by Robert Bast | No Comments | Posted in 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 they think a meteorite would cause more harm?

Latest iPhone App for 2012

On August 13th, 2010 by Robert Bast | No Comments | Posted in mayan calendar

Convert modern time (on your iPhone) into ancient Mayan time, with full descriptions of what this really means… It is called 1320Sync

2012app Latest iPhone App for 2012:

The Immortal Jellyfish

On August 11th, 2010 by Robert Bast | No Comments | Posted in Evolution

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 eaten by other animals and readily succumbs to disease.

Found at Yahoo Canada via a post on the forum.

Bosnian House is Meteorite Magnet

On August 8th, 2010 by Robert Bast | No Comments | Posted in meteorite

This, if true (and it appears to be), is the most extraordinary meteorite story I have ever come across.

Meteorite 1682037c Bosnian House is Meteorite Magnet

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.”