NASA Hiding Approaching Doomsday Space Event:

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Calling it a “once in a lifetime super solar storm event,” NASA warns that killer solar flares can slam the Earth knocking out the Northern Hemisphere’s technological infrastructure and kicking everything back to the level of the late 1800s.
Russia too has voiced concern. And now the eminent astrophysicist, Alexey Demetriev claims what is happening is worse—much worse—than what NASA and the ESA have admitted.
Terrified scientists at NASA discovered on July 14, 2010 that our system is passing through an interstellar energy cloud. This highly energized, electrified cloud of gas is disturbing and disrupting the sun. In conjunction with Earth’s weakening and moving magnetic shield, the world is becoming defenseless against massive solar flares and intense radiation.Russia too has voiced concern. And now the eminent astrophysicist, Alexey Demetriev claims what is happening is worse—much worse—than what NASA and the ESA have admitted:
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Argon18
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C2xxrEE5H4
Just as likely what NASA is hiding from people a most dire threat to all life on earth and need your help to gather enough resources to avoid an asteroid crashing into the planet, so Here's your chance to be a Hero do your part to help Save the Earth
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KZ_Rocky
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I thought about this and wondered if it would be a good idea to tell and convince the public that an inescapable galactic doom was a stone's throw away...
Folks would freak the geek out and go on a total global rampage. Like if you told an irresponsible teenager that his parents will be gone for a week and regardless of whatever happens, there will be no consequences whatsoever.
A real terrible part of that is that when Americans lose their cookies they throw more than rocks. People would throw car batteries off the roofs of buildings and I garuntee that there will be more than a few people welding armor plates onto bulldozers to turn them into mega-plow tanks. And even in the pre-internet era of the 60's and 70's rebellious college kids were exploding police cars with homemade pipe bombs.
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WHAT DO YOU WANT SAGAN DIE FREE SCIENCE BURIED WITH HIM. BACK TO ROOTS OF NASA IS NAZI SCIENTISTS TAKEN FROM GERMANY 1945-46
EVERYTHING NOW CLASSIFIED A SECRET! - 9 months ago
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slimcat
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Just what we need here on this little dust mote of a planet suspended in a sunbeam with all our current problems: Lunatic fringe douches pushing doomsday bullshit.
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Gravity_Man
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slimcat:
Is your head shoved in brown sand also? Peru just took a 6.9 quake hit. Do you require a mountain to fall on you? You might just get what you wish for. However, before that can happen wouldn't you rather NOT DIE LIKE AN ANIMAL NOT KNOWING WHAT HAPPENED AND WHY?
Study the Bible, then make your decisions, but for heaven's sake man don't die IGNORANT.
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Gravity_Man
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DEM46
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Gravity_Man:
The bible? really?
Why don't you just suggest Taro Cards?
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DEM46
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Mark701
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I'd like to address this and all other doomsday scenarios as follows.
Worrying about doomsday implies there is a way to escape something that by definition is inescapable. Second each of us will have to face doomsday anyway on the day we die. Whether it's via an asteroid, auto accident, cancer or old age the net result is you're no more or less dead than if cooked by a solar flare. Stop worrying about it.
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Mark701:
Your logic falls short Mark. There are 3 types of "Doomsday" => #1 Man-caused #2 God-caused and #3 Natural-caused. Two are avoidable if mankind started THINKING. #2 (God-caused) can only be avoided by seeking and finding the God who brings it.
I've been blessed to show various engine systems that had the wherewithal to accomplish avoiding numbers 1 & 3 but after 22+ years I haven't gotten one bit closer than Floyd Sweet who showed a device absorbing Cosmic Energy from the air and outputting gobs of great electric power in 1987. And Floyd Sweet didn't succeed any more than Tesla before him who also harnessed that same energy 50 and 60 years ahead of Mr. Sweet and his V.T.A. (Vacuum Triode Amplifier, a RADIO THAT PICKED UP & USED ALL THE STATIC COMING HERE FROM THE UNIVERSE).
Therefore we are facing the only Doomsday left. If you are correct in thinking the #2 God-caused is a non-existent fantasy that doesn't exist then you are putting your future AND THE FUTURE OF ALL EARTH'S CHILDREN in the hands of idiot-haters who are intent on killing us all indirectly using starvation and thirst.
They keep their consciences intact by not using Gatling guns this time.
The same ones who do have Tesla's power, who do have and use Sweet's power, who do have many other energies some my own, and they for a certainty already have space travel. Well what'd'ya know Mark => YOU DON'T HAVE ANY OF EM, AND NEITHER WILL YOUR FAMILY. You would do much better with Jehovah, the God of the Bible, the true God, who in order to form a more perfect union intends to scramble a few jets of his own and strafe away the garbage running this planet; soon.
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Gravity_Man:
wow.. what?
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jcarlson:
Energy reaches us from every sun in the universe, hanging free like ENERGY GRAPES to be picked & used. Sweet had the device to do that in 1987. ALL THE GRAPE-DERIVED ENERGY WINE ANYONE COULD EVER WANT.
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Gravity_Man:
correction.. There are only two types of doomsday events. Man-made and natural. Even IF (and that's a big if) god had anything to do with it do you really think it would go all comic book on everyone?
more likely it would use nature, so we would never be able to distinguish between the two. Which would still leave us with only two events that we could prove beyond any shadow of a doubt..and as far as everything else you said...
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blaino:
No. Our assessment is based on 120 years of insights given us by God and no other religions know what we know of the Scriptures. Keep your correction based on ignorance, our assessment is correct. Your time on Earth depends on Jesus.
How do you propose your parroting this calling the Bible, a book you know nothing significant about, to be a "comic book"? Pulleeze. Your basket is empty and Jehovah's Witnesses is full to overflowing. There's no contest here.
Unless you think universal law now embraces ignorance. 2,000 years of people who were NOT POLLUTED TO DEATH AS WE ARE BELIEVED THE BIBLE, AND THEY WERE CORRECT TO DO SO. It is people today fully laced with poisons who are wrong.
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Gravity_Man:
The only way people so fully poisoned and diseased to death can know Bible Truth is if they humble themselves before Almighty God and He will bless you, but you jacklegs who can't bend your knee to Jesus WILL REAP NOTHING FROM JESUS.
That's a pitifully-erred choice.
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Gravity_Man:
On the other hand of the pendulum spectrum people ask WELL WHY DOESN'T JESUS DO SOMETHING? The answer to that is he has been doing plenty you just don't know about it. He's making war preparations now to dethrone every world ruler that is now depriving you of paradise-level engine systems (Daniel 2 v 44).
Some of them it was given me to know about and I've told others as best I can the glory that Jesus brings soon, but he only brings it to the Humble, the Meek, not the ones who stand on the Evolution pedestal beating their chests in pride denying his Father.
http://current.com/green/93390416_fuel-pumps-whatre-those-daddy-child-we-stopped...
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Mark701:
Overall, good point and if you tend to believe in imaginary beings who you can go sit on their lap to find solace after you're worm food then have at it.
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Gravity_Man:
you fool!
I am my own god now.. - 9 months ago
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What are they hiding? They publish the data received from SOHO, SDO, and STEREO to name a few. You can look at spaceweather.com and find links to all
of the solar observatories, ground and space based. Bottom line though, if a CME (coronal mass ejection) of large size happens to line up with the earth. there in not a lot that can be done about it. - 9 months ago
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What is it with the headline of NASA trying to hide this? It sounds more like a disagreement in the international community of astronomers.
Everyone in the international science community that cares can see the data. It's not like the US government has some sort of hold on solar knowledge. For the most part the rest of the world is becoming more scientifically literate that the US anyway.
I've been reading about this event for some time. It's also part of a cycle and we happen to be going through a period heightened solar activity. Yes, there can be some danger here.
What I don't get is the ignorance and fear in the Current community of anything science related. I know that comment will get me some negative votes so go ahead :).
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michail77:
I agree. We continue using electric-based combustion engines instead of switching to Physics Fuel-powered engines, and the wiring of combustion engines will act as antennae for solar flare radiation and EMT-bomb radiation both. See http://tinyurl.com/superpage007 to learn about a real engine impervious to such stuff.
The engine conversion explained there will also supply power to every home on earth, and quite frankly your car sitting in the driveway while you're off work could be recharging a Home Battery System each day also.
This planet has always been an Energy Abundant Paradise. We starve in the midst of PLENTY.
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alexandrek:
We pay a heavy price surrounding ourselves with AC current. It throws off an electrical field that disrupts the insides of all body cells. For instance, a person stands in their kitchen and rests their stomach against the counter top at the dishwasher, saving their back. The dishwasher motor -even when not running- is on stand-by a trickle of current going through its motor windings.
=> And usually the refrigerator will be behind them, running on & off, hitting the kidneys and pelvis, which are down lower in the back nearer the compressor motor.
=> The pelvic area, ovaries, testicles, fallopian tubes, blood vessels in the legs (leukemia), all nearer the electrical outlets on the wall. Short children and crawling infants even more near these sources of radiation disrupting their cells, permeating through their softer AND THINNER FLESH AND SKULL BONE.
=> Thomas Edison was correct. We need to use DC current. It does not pulse and create electrical and magnetic fields. One very good way to find out where the strongest cancer-causing fiels are in the home is to take a portable AM radio tuned OFF TO ALL STATIONS between stations and walk around holding it like a Geiger counter. The AM radio will tell you where the problem cancer areas are.
=> I keep every circuit box breaker turned off to stuff I don't want getting so much as a trickle current, ESPECIALLY THE DISHWASHER AND KITCHEN DIVIDER CIRCUIT. I flip off the washer & dryer breakers 99% of the time, kill the heatpump often as I can too. Got my monthly electic bill down to 33% what it used to normally be also!
=> I found out something extremely important back in 2008 => Virginia's Power Companies appear to all be carrying on a scam, they are pushing too high a voltage through our home electric meters. I encountered high electric bills in Beford VA and Roanoke Virginia from their respective power companies pulling that trick. Too much voltage shoved into a home increases the trickle current they do that to keep the chicken gravy a'coming every month from their sap electric customers.
=> Ordinarily trickle current is SUPPOSED TO MEAN TRICKLE CURRENT, but when the voltage is cranked up 15+ volts above normal the trickle current used by everything plugged in even when not turned on is escalated up, sending many extra wheelbarrow loads of customer billing dollars into the evil power companies in Virginia => regularly raping their electric customers 12 times per year.
=> In my apartment on the 3rd Floor there are two added negatives above all these => #1 the wiring is 1974-old so the radiation fields are stronger from a lesser wiring insulation (increased cancerous cells being induced) and #2 the electric for the heatpump has to first come all the way up here into my circuit breaker box THEN ALL THE WAY BACK DOWN to keep the heatpump motor on CONSTANT STANDBY greatly increasing my electric bill because the heatpump motor is having so much extra AC shoved to it 24/7 by the hiked up voltage you see.
=> When I came all the circuit box breakers turned OFF that I can I lower my cancer risks across-the-board PLUS lower my electric bill PLUS when I first began doing all this switching off of breakers I discovered all those electric fields had been SCRAMBLING MY BRAIN, MY THOUGHT PROCESSES WERE AFFECTED, MY MENTAL CELLS, SYNAPSES, NEURONS, BRAIN CHEMISTRY REACTIONS, all because these Vriginia-based Power Companies were drawing $$$$$$ bills like vampires suck people's blood out their neck blood vessels, arteries & veins radiated too.
=> Now my apartment is calmed down, electrical fields gone, all I have running is this bedroom circuit with all my computer equipment, and the refrigerator stays on unless one day I occasionally decide to turn it off all night, but I usually leave it on because I don't like the cheese sweating.
=> In other words I've turned my apartment into a nice RV-type environment because the RV's are already on DC, as our homes should be, but the reason we're all on the wrong power supply is that basically, AC current is undulating current therefore destructive to anything electrical, whether it's our body cells, our mind cells, or the various kitchen motors, which means OUR LIVES WERE EXCHANGED FOR SHORTENED MOTOR LIFE SO THEY MOTORMANUFACTURERS COULD MAKE MORE MONEY.
=> Are all of my above conclusions correct? Why yes, as a matter of fact I am right yep, and everybody else is Wrong hahaha whew I like writing that. Fact is your own computer systems tell you I'm right because every computer uses a Power Supply that converts impure household AC to pure steady energy of DC... to protect the delicate PC wiring and delicate peripherals and the pci slot cards!!! People who know electricity know these things. Our computers are treated better than human beings, and their children with their eyes near the electrical fields.
=> Every day I think wistfully about living in an RV permanently....... but no, with only a monthly disability check the Poor of Virginia are stuck a sword through their ribcage unable to get ahead financially so we can make proper purchases and better our children's health. But last month I spent out $190.00 on nutrition supplements trying some new products, when I stumbled upon a FANTASTIC COMBINATION PUNCH TO CAUSE MY BODY'S "SUPERMAN GENE" TO TURN ON FULL BLAST.
=> Guggelsterones + Bulasterone + Turmeric all combine to build more skeletal muscles supporting the spine and torso weight, plus also taking a product called Scorch and Coleus Forskohlii both of which super-liquifies the fat content out of the adipose fat cells giving me EXTRA ENERGY in addition to turning on the Superman gene (discovered in a young boy several years ago but being purposely withheld from Americans).
=> In addition to those I also take Vitamin Code Raw-D3, Hawthorn, Bilberry~Ginkgo Biloba, Oxy-Nectar, spirulina, Cayenne and Chickweed and Stacker II and Mega-Hoodia portions all combined into capsules I put together with a pill-filler device manually, and these products have stopped the sticky blood platelets from causing my hypoxia, plus lowered homocysteine levels and positively lowered the cholesterol-packing in the heart muscle and reduced~reversed the damages of arteriosclerotic and atherosclerotic diseases both of which I've been diagnosed to have.
=> I stopepd going to doctors because they decided the old men in Virginia needed to croak and I disagreed with their desire to kill off males. I'm not quite finished inventing new energy source systems just yet so the VA physicians will have to drink the hemlock of not getting any Medicare monies from me a while longer yet. VIRGINIA'S DOCTORS CAN DRINK THE POISON THEY GAVE ME TO DRINK.
=> I STOPPED CANCERS, AND THEY KNOW IT, AND THEY GET SENT TO BED EVERY NIGHT CRYING TO LEGISLATORS TO BRING ALL NUTRITION PRODUCTS UNDER RESTRICTIONS. In fact, one really great product I used to rebuild muscle in my accident-damaged foot called MUSCLE JACK they had it yanked off the market several years ago to prevent people from doing Self-healing as I have learned to do.
=> Now that I have told you, the Internet Public needing the healthcare they refuse you, how to also use these products TO UNLOCK THE SUPERMAN WITHIN YOU ALL, you can bet the Greed-putrified physicians of America will engage the Borg (call their lawyers) and move against them also. I have already seen their weapons of destruction in action, close up. The American Medical Community and AMA and so on are evil would-be/wannabee killers. Observe how they do not stop Obesity Epidemics that give them so many great sources of income from all obese-generated cascading diseases, the diabetes mellitus, the heart diseases, circulatory. America's medical community AND OUR ENEMY. on my website I explain how to stop cancer cells dead in their tracks => www.newpath4.com for free instructions. I do not leach the incomes of my fellow man.
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Gravity_Man:
It takes less DC current to kill from electric shock than AC.
Also, it is harder to transmit DC over any distance. We would have significantly more energy invested in a DC system.
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michail77:
not if the supply was localized, for instance solar panels on every building Sun-DC power with no lossy transmission or inverters.
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ilikeike:
http://www.wholesalesolar.com/batteries.html
Solar panels hooked up to rechargable batteries, that's the ticket!
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michail77:
No sir, you're not quite right there. AC would still be used for distances to get it to the homes, where the system converter/inverter/whatever would be producing the DC current for the remaining leg of the race. And also of course if the home had its own power supply => solar, wind, solar+wind, car engine running on non-polluting steam sitting in the driveway, whatever.
Be careful young Luke, your brainwashing is showing. We may have to send you back through Star Trek Academy all over again.
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Gravity_Man:
I'm wondering if Gravity Mans rant is some kind of secret agenda toastmaster's figurative speech suggesting something other then what he is literally saying. What is he going with?.
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ilikeike:
localization is an answer for most of our issues, but that means getting along and sharing resources
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Gravity_Man:
Your on a role Gman
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squarethecircle:
AND OUT OF THE SKY SWOOPS SKY KING! HAHAHA (and Penny).
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Calodemon:
SAY BUDDY YOU'RE THE SMARTEST ONE HERE. YOU HAVE CORRECTLY ASSESSED THE SITUATION. THE SMART PEOPLE REALIZE WE ARE SPEAKING A NEW LANGUAGE. IT WAS FORETOLD IN THE BIBLE THAT IN THE "LAST DAYS" THERE WOULD ARISE ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE SPEAKING BIBLE TRUTH.
YOU'RE CORRECT IT DOES SOUND LIKE A HAT FULL OF SECRETS.
sshhh that'swhyweknowwhatscomingdownthepikeandnoothersdo
Here ya go Boss, just don't let the others see it => http://concordance.biblebrowser.com/al3/zephaniah/3-9.htm
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Is that why the ipads are dropping in price?
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haha this reminds me of an episode of dilbert...
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lol while all this BS is happening i will be on my boat (ancient tech) with my gas free longboard, running everything from solar :D
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The End is Near. I'm just say'n.
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You got a link to prove any of this?
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I agree with coolplanet, in the sense that this is not the kind of thing that a global apocalypse, or end of humanity event is made out of. Most certainly if this does create such a level of ionization across the planet, unshielded and delicate electronics will totally spaz out, but that's pretty much as far as it would go...
So how about instead of waving our cardboard signs with "REPENT" written on them we go to work on developing some method of damage control. If it even comes to that....
Otherwise, relax, crack open a cold one and enjoy the view of the northern ( or southern) lights from any place on Earth.
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Two major quakes today one in Colorado the other East half of the US. Both were called "RARE". Both happened while both facing the Sun.
Was the North American continent yanked hard towards the sun?
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Gravity_Man:
Nah. The twin quakes were probably from blasting that super secret tunnel from D.C. and Langley to the massive underground shadow capital in Colorado. Yep. That's my story and I am sticking to it.
Now, about solar flares and the magnetic field failing to protect our toys: Instead of doing a full panic, I choose to daydream of the mass confusion when everybody who relies on OnStar and their gps gadgets to guide them and be their nanny all meet in one big traffic circle.
Need to get the big COSTCO popcorn package. Gonna make for fascinating people watching.
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Why does everyone look at this as doomsday?
Disruption of global satellite communications and power generation, if only for a day or week or month, would be the best thing that ever happened to modern humans!
It would get us back to reality. - 9 months ago
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coolplanet:
It will take a lot longer than that. National Geographic (web site) has covered this at least twice that I know of. Since I don't know how to properly link stuff to here, I'll post the article in chunks because it's too long. It's heavy reading but worth wading through.
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As Sun Storms Ramp Up, Electric Grid Braces for Impact
Published August 3, 2011
This story is part of a special series that explores energy issues. For more,
visit The Great Energy Challenge.
Storms are brewing about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers) away, and if
one of them reaches Earth, it could knock out communications, scramble GPS, and
leave thousands without power for weeks to months.
The tempest is what's known as a solar storm, a flurry of charged particles that
erupts from the sun. Under the right conditions, solar storms can create extra
electrical currents in Earth's magnetosphere—the region around the planet
controlled by our magnetic field.
The electrical power grid is particularly vulnerable to these extra currents,
which can infiltrate high-voltage transmission lines, causing transformers to
overheat and possibly burn out.
"The concern is if the electric grid lost a number of transformers during a
single storm, replacing them would be difficult and time-consuming," said Rich
Lordan, senior technical executive for power delivery and utilization at the
Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI).
"These power transformers are very big devices, and the lead time to get a
replacement can be two months—if there's a spare one stored nearby. If a utility
has to order a new one from the manufacturer, it could take six months to up to
two years to deliver."
The danger is becoming more critical, as the sun is approaching what's known as
solar maximum—the high point in our star's roughly 11-year cycle of activity.
Scientists anticipate stronger storms around solar max, in 2013.
Using the latest sun-watching satellites and computer models, scientists have
been trying to improve solar storm predictions. At the same time, electricity
operators are developing plans for how to respond to solar storm warnings and
determine what the consequences for the grid might be in a worst-case scenario.
"Geomagnetic storms are low-probability, high-impact events," Lordan said. "When
assessing the risk to the grid, one has to ask, What's the level of storm
intensity that the grid system should be prepared for?
"Based on the data and the scenarios we can reasonably expect, I believe the
power-delivery system can operate through a solar storm." - 9 months ago
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Listening for the Solar Whistle
Earth is being constantly bombarded by charged particles from the sun, which
emits material in all directions. This is known as the solar wind. But sometimes
the sun ramps up magnetic activity on its surface, triggering huge flares of
plasma.
Such "solar flares are like the whistle on a freight train," said Joe Kunches, a
space scientist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Space
Weather Prediction Center (SWPC). The big impacts come from coronal mass
ejections (CMEs), cloud-like bundles of plasma that are sent racing off the
sun's upper atmosphere, or corona, during periods of intense surface activity.
That's not to say every CME is a harbinger of doom—the clouds are highly
directional and can miss Earth entirely or strike only glancing blows.
"The sun doesn't give a hoot about us," Kunches said. "It erupts and produces
lots of energy, and sometimes we get a direct hit and sometimes we don't."
However, said Antti Pulkkinen, a sun researcher with NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center, "if these clouds do move toward Earth's near-space environment . . .
they can carry billions of tons of matter moving at 2,000 kilometers [1,242
miles] a second."
When the cloud reaches our magnetosphere, its charged particles become
electromagnetically coupled to Earth's magnetic field, generating large
electrical currents millions of amperes strong, Pulkkinen said. The sprawling
electrical grid on Earth's surface then acts like an antenna, allowing these
currents to flow into transmission lines.
"These storms are by their basic nature global," Pulkkinen added. But the risks
to electrical grids are greatest at higher latitudes, since the largest electric
currents are funneled toward Earth around the Poles.
For instance, in 1989 the transmission system for Canada's Hydro Quebec
electricity provider collapsed during a solar storm, leaving millions of people
without power for nine hours or more. And the "Halloween storms" of 2003
triggered blackouts in the city of Malmö, Sweden, and likely caused transformer
failures in South Africa.
"Because they are located closer to the magnetic North Pole, Canadian utilities
are deeply involved in monitoring geomagnetically induced currents, modeling
impacts for vulnerability, and refining their operational protocols," EPRI's
Lordan said.
European utilities and the South African electricity provider ESKOM also are
preparing for the upcoming solar maximum, in part with advice and data from
NASA. - 9 months ago
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The AC/DC Problem
Technically, geomagnetically induced currents aren't that strong compared with
the currents that normally flow between power plants and electricity consumers.
For electricity to travel long distances, it needs to be transformed to high
voltage and back again, to limit energy loss due to resistance in the
transmission wires.
Trouble arises because the extra currents from solar storms are direct current
(DC) flows, and the electricity transmission system is used to handling
alternating current (AC) flows, said EPRI's Lordan.
The extra DC flows saturate transformers, which start to overheat, causing their
insulation to break down and their parts to experience accelerated aging. Above
a certain temperature, a transformer will fail.
At the same time, the saturated transformer starts to consume what's known as
reactive power.
"When you look at power in the system, there's real power—like that in
incandescent light bulbs—and then there's 'imaginary' power called reactive
power, measured in vars," Lordan said.
Reactive power is produced when the current and voltage are out of phase. This
type of power flow needs to be carefully managed to keep the voltage steady in
transmission lines.
During a solar storm, however, any saturated transformers draw on more reactive
power than what normal control equipment can handle. This can lead to voltage
collapse, when it's no longer possible to push the needed power through
transmission wires.
Even without a full collapse, fluctuating voltage in the transmission system can
cause the grid to become unstable, which can impact transformers, relays,
capacitors, and even the generators at power plants.
A Satellite Shield
In 2007 NASA Goddard began a collaborative effort with EPRI called the Solar
Shield Project, which uses monitoring data from several sun observatories to run
state-of-the-art computer simulations and make solar storm predictions.
Solar Shield first collects a constant stream of data from satellites such as
the Solar and Heliophysics Observatory (SOHO) and the Solar Terrestrial
Relations Observatory (STEREO).
"When an operator sees an eruption on the sun, he or she will derive the
three-dimensional parameters of that eruption, such as size, speed, and
direction," NASA's Pulkkinen said. The resulting model can provide one- to
two-day warnings of incoming solar storms to EPRI, which then disseminates the
alert to participating utilities across the North American power industry.
"If operators know a couple days beforehand that there's a good likelihood of a
storm, they can postpone maintenance of critical lines," Pulkkinen said. This
step maximizes the amount of the grid available, reducing strain if localized
portions fail.
"Operators can also bring in more reserve power to the system to make it as
stable as possible," he said. If particular transformers start showing signs of
trouble, operators can reduce their load or disconnect them.
If the storm is expected to be severe enough, "the most dramatic action is to
close down the entire grid," Pulkkinen said. "If the system is turned off, the
extra DC currents alone won't harm the transformers."
But such a move would be "the last mitigation measure in the toolbox," he said,
because switching the system off intentionally would result in temporary
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"The industry's goal is to provide safe, reliable, and cost-effective power,"
EPRI's Lordan said. "Utilities would be watching the system closely and would
attempt to operate through the storm."
"If the utility system did go down because of a voltage collapse, utilities
would have to wait for the storm to pass and then activate procedures to bring
the system back up," Lordan said.
"If transformers are lost, the system can operate around a certain number of
failed units. But if it's hundreds of transformers, then the industry would
quickly get together and move the spares where they are most needed."
The European Union is working on a similar solar-storm alert project called
SPACECAST, which is projected to be operational by March 2012.
Trying to Avoid Surprises
As with other natural disasters, the ability to react to a solar storm depends
first on the accuracy of monitoring and prediction efforts, which in turn need
to be based on real-world physics.
But unlike hurricane predictions, for instance, "we have a tougher nut to crack,
because the space weather system is so vast," NOAA's Kunches said. "If you were
to make the sun the size of a basketball, Earth by comparison would be like a
pinhead. Then you put the basketball at one end of a full-size court and the
pinhead at the other end."
In addition, space weather forecasters don't yet have all the pieces of
information needed to say for sure whether an incoming storm is going to be the
type that will create geomagnetically induced currents.
"The strength of a CME is a function of the polarity of the embedded magnetic
field in the plasma," Kunches said. "Polarity dictates whether the storm will be
short-lived, very strong, etcetera, and stronger storms are more likely to
induce geomagnetic currents. But we don't have that information until the storm
is very near Earth."
What's more, even with a host of sun-watching instruments and monitoring
centers, sometimes the sun simply "throws us a curveball," he said.
Between SOHO, STEREO, and NOAA's GOES satellites, "we're looking like crazy back
at the sun, and we still get one out of ten or twenty surprise CMEs that just
don't show up very well in the imagery," Kunches said.
Not only do the satellite-watchers miss some events, they also run the risk of
false positives. The forecasters were recently duped just a few weeks ago, on
June 21. "All our instruments saw what appeared to be an Earth-directed CME as
plain as the nose on your face, so we put out a warning," Kunches recalled. "And
it turns out nothing happened."
New Era in Space-Weather Forecasts - 9 months ago
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Answers may come from recently launched satellites such as NASA's Solar Dynamics
Observatory (SDO), which is now watching the sun around the clock in high
resolution, taking pictures every tenth of a second in multiple wavelengths.
"One of the goals of SDO is to provide us with the keys to unlock the physics of
solar eruptions," NASA's Pulkkinen said. "The SDO team can't predict when the
eruptions will happen, but it can observe them and help us predict from there."
Overall, he added, "from a space-weather forecasting viewpoint, we're living in
a very exciting time. This is the first time in history we're able to make one-
to two-day predictions. It's the first time we have the observation capacity via
satellites, and the first time we have full-scale models and the computational
power to run those models."
According to NOAA's Kunches, perhaps the most vital aspect today in space
weather forecasting and mitigation is well-coordinated communication.
"It's important to be as well-educated about the sun as possible," he said.
"There's a recognition in the emergency management community and other levels of
government that, as best we can, we need to communicate about space weather.
"If something does happen, even if we didn't predict it very well, the idea is
that we can get the word out quickly, and people will know what to do." - 9 months ago
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freehit:
Did currents ebatic enjoinment of numenust toastmaster hate group of windlass wallydrag moderation cancel your account yet?.
- 9 months ago
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Quick, if you put on your tin hats now, you might be able to bounce back some of that radiation!
In a more serious tone, though, when the world ends, it will end. I've grown tired of all these apocalyptic predictions and such.
- 9 months ago
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CalPal:
Tired? How tired will you be after 20-50 years of shit hitting the fan? The global population can't continue to grow exponentially, lots of people are going to have to start dying or people are going to have to be sterilized willing or un.
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ilikeike:
Or stop playing the zero sum game of a closed system and go some place else, it may not save the planet, but at least it would save the race
- 9 months ago
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CalPal:
Ha, Ha,. Star trek's second Crystalline Entity production is Hark!, people of the earth evolve from tin hats to "snake bombs Dia, 4' alloy steel, thickness 3". cause I-robot CIA RMS psychic system is corrupt nation wide, the star treks "crystalline entity" written in the 1970's is a wireless digital psychic propaganda broadcast broadcasting system of ultra secret wireless digital hate group matrices causing school shootings and domestic mass murder. they won't stop broadcasting their wireless digital terrorism onto our innocent societies. victim's set out to take down broadcasting tower's broadcasting ultra secret CIA RMS, HATE GROUP MATRICES. the new sequel to the original Gene Roddenberry's star trek thriller named Crystalline Entity. someone knew. it's a stupid venure from other star trek venure's but it's still propaganda of it. clear back to the 1970's.
- 9 months ago
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ilikeike:
I tried telling the census to instill birth control by making everyone sterile for decade but Gerald ford needed more people and big business had to have the masses.
- 9 months ago
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No thank you,..........I will pass on the "Doomsday Special" . . .
- 9 months ago
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Deep underground military bases acronym D.U,M.B and mass underground housing used to be a huge construction boom all by it's self. but the severity of everything all jumbled together like ozone depletion global warming and now this it's looking as if either were screwed or someone want's us to think so even though the impact of it will take a life time to become an immediate hazard to life on earth. I feel the suns intensity is already getting unbearable with the ozone thinning. along with this it could be the fan in the microwave effect. I'm wondering if this event will finish off the ozone layer's and start cooking the earth.
- 9 months ago
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No Worries, Mate. The Justice League will step in and save the day.
lmao
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Milieu:
http://lulzimg.com/i8/fc69f513.jpg
Maybe as a backup team to The Mighty Avengers that are more reliable by comparison to get the job done
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Argon18:
+^d !
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Milieu:
+^d !
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Argon18:
Yeah, they're a better choice. You're correct, I'm wrong.
Marvel was always better than DC.
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Argon18:
NOW we're talking, just get Alan Scott's' G.L. to get Hal Jordan to bring the rest of the G.L. Corp in and we will have a whining team, I mean winning team.
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mickyjon420:
I agree with Milieu "Marvel was always better than DC"
The Avengers are the better choice, not only do they have the resources of Stark Industries at their disposal, they can also consult with the Reed Richards for his expertise and get the strength of the Fantastic Four.
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Argon18:
Yeah but words still have no meaning, their acronym's such as F.A.N.T.A.S.T.I.C... F.O.U.R is acronym to Famacidal Acquisition's of Nomologist's Travesty of Acculturated Syndicate's Travisty Iniquitizing Calodemon's From Occults Underwriter's Rotarian xenolalia linguistic's underwriter's of vorat engentum hate group's illegally reverse engineering the linguistic's of evgenvalue-vector-functions candy coating it then exploiting the secret and ultra secret geoloc signatures of everyone who has geoloc signature's. (so guess what happen's you end up hurting or killing who you like and rewarding who you hate) so don't put any faith in it. just using argo n for communiocation purposes, Ha Ha. don't stumble on my words!. know what they mean or stay on the porch!.
- 9 months ago
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Theres allot of things about local space most people dont know about, like did you know Earth has a second moon named Cruithne and have you heard of the planet Eris that is a part of our solar system and is larger than Pluto?
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Eventually, the solar system will run into some of them, and their strong magnetic fields could compress the heliosphere even more than it is compressed now. Additional compression could allow more cosmic rays to reach the inner solar system, possibly affecting terrestrial climate and the ability of astronauts to travel safely through space. On the other hand, astronauts wouldn't have to travel so far because interstellar space would be closer than ever.
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Well Nasa has been vocal about increased chance of solar flares, and the government lies...
Safe or Sheeple...
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Anonmaly:
Is it only a choice between "safe or sheeple" and attachment to fear? Some would argue the there are other options that could bring better results
http://awakeningasone.com/seek-the-truth/the-quickening-transcript/
"And thus, it is our intention with the presentation of the following information, to encourage people to prepare for the possibility that the world could be greatly changed this year; for the magnitude of shifting events that are set to unfold in the next couple of months could be so great, that anyone might be so shocked by the suddenness of events that all they will be able to do is react in fear; thereby making them more easy to control while at the same time blinding them to the divine purpose and opportunities that are present in the moment.
For, we believe that by expanding our imaginations to explore possible future events, we may prevent ourselves from REACTING in fear should the previously unimagined become manifest. And as a result of having already experienced these events in our minds we will be more centered, and able to see the opportunities they present should they, or something similar occur.
And though many in the world today will ignore these prophecies and stories of destruction because of their fear of contemplating the end of the material world as we know it, what so few people understand, is that prophecies can be changed.
For if it can be understood that the destructive stories and events detailed in prophecies exist for the sole purpose of encouraging a shift in consciousness, then it may be realized that once the collective mind has made that inner shift, the cataclysmic events that are no longer needed will eventually give way, as the group mind’s vibrations are raised to match those of a harmonious new experience of reality, where there will be an entirely new set of lessons to be learned.
Meanwhile, those who out of fear, choose to deny our spiritual purpose and cling to the material world, will be required to experience increasingly more destruction at an intensity that exactly matches that of their attachment to their material-based perspective of existence.
For some, it will not be until they’ve experienced the complete destruction of the planet and all its life, that they will finally be inspired to surrender their hate, fear and pride and see the spiritual purpose and Oneness of everything in existence. Having thus awakened to the spiritual reality of All as One, their soul would then rise to the spirit level, at which point they would join all of the other souls, energies and entities who have made the same choice to Return to One.
And here it is essential to realize that our reality is not, nor can it be changed by our fearful efforts of self will, (such as “let’s focus our will to stop this from happening”); for in any such efforts, the lower limiting vibrations of fear that motivate people to try to control events, will create blockages that prevent the free movement of the higher vibrations of divine love, will and wisdom throughout the body."
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Not sure what you're point is other than fear mongering.
On the list of things human beings should be concerned over, much less do worried about...I'd say this ranks right down there with asteroids hitting the earth and wiping out all life on the planet.
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I think the whole point is BE PREPARED.
Make sure you have plenty of bottled water, canned goods and rice stored in case global power and communications go down, which is possible just with a large solar flare alone. - 9 months ago
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JustZ:
those are good to.
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Voyager Makes an Interstellar Discovery + Play Audio | + Download Audio | + Join mailing list
December 23, 2009: The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist. In the Dec. 24th issue of Nature, a team of scientists reveal how NASA's Voyager spacecraft have solved the mystery.
"Using data from Voyager, we have discovered a strong magnetic field just outside the solar system," explains lead author Merav Opher, a NASA Heliophysics Guest Investigator from George Mason University. "This magnetic field holds the interstellar cloud together and solves the long-standing puzzle of how it can exist at all."
Right: Voyager flies through the outer bounds of the heliosphere en route to interstellar space. A strong magnetic field reported by Opher et al in the Dec. 24, 2009, issue of Nature is delineated in yellow. Image copyright 2009, The American Museum of Natural History. [larger image]
The discovery has implications for the future when the solar system will eventually bump into other, similar clouds in our arm of the Milky Way galaxy.
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Astronomers call the cloud we're running into now the Local Interstellar Cloud or "Local Fluff" for short. It's about 30 light years wide and contains a wispy mixture of hydrogen and helium atoms at a temperature of 6000 C. The existential mystery of the Fluff has to do with its surroundings. About 10 million years ago, a cluster of supernovas exploded nearby, creating a giant bubble of million-degree gas. The Fluff is completely surrounded by this high-pressure supernova exhaust and should be crushed or dispersed by it.
"The observed temperature and density of the local cloud do not provide enough pressure to resist the 'crushing action' of the hot gas around it," says Opher.So how does the Fluff survive? The Voyagers have found an answer.
"Voyager data show that the Fluff is much more strongly magnetized than anyone had previously suspected—between 4 and 5 microgauss*," says Opher. "This magnetic field can provide the extra pressure required to resist destruction."
Above: An artist's concept of the Local Interstellar Cloud, also known as the "Local Fluff." Credit: Linda Huff (American Scientist) and Priscilla Frisch (University of Chicago) [more]
NASA's two Voyager probes have been racing out of the solar system for more than 30 years. They are now beyond the orbit of Pluto and on the verge of entering interstellar space—but they are not there yet.
"The Voyagers are not actually inside the Local Fluff," says Opher. "But they are getting close and can sense what the cloud is like as they approach it."
The Fluff is held at bay just beyond the edge of the solar system by the sun's magnetic field, which is inflated by solar wind into a magnetic bubble more than 10 billion km wide. Called the "heliosphere," this bubble acts as a shield that helps protect the inner solar system from galactic cosmic rays and interstellar clouds. The two Voyagers are located in the outermost layer of the heliosphere, or "heliosheath," where the solar wind is slowed by the pressure of interstellar gas.
Voyager 1 entered the heliosheath in Dec. 2004; Voyager 2 followed almost 3 years later in Aug. 2007. These crossings were key to Opher et al's discovery.
Right: The anatomy of the heliosphere. Since this illustration was made, Voyager 2 has joined Voyager 1 inside the heliosheath, a thick outer layer where the solar wind is slowed by the pressure of interstellar gas. Credit: NASA/Walt Feimer. [larger image]
The size of the heliosphere is determined by a balance of forces: Solar wind inflates the bubble from the inside while the Local Fluff compresses it from the outside. Voyager's crossings into the heliosheath revealed the approximate size of the heliosphere and, thus, how much pressure the Local Fluff exerts. A portion of that pressure is magnetic and corresponds to the ~5 microgauss Opher's team has reported in Nature.
The fact that the Fluff is strongly magnetized means that other clouds in the galactic neighborhood could be, too. Eventually, the solar system will run into some of them, and their strong magnetic fields could compress the heliosphere even more than it is compressed now. Additional compression could allow more cosmic rays to reach the inner solar system, possibly affecting terrestrial climate and the ability of astronauts to travel safely through space. On the other hand, astronauts wouldn't have to travel so far because interstellar space would be closer than ever. These events would play out on time scales of tens to hundreds of thousands of years, which is how long it takes for the solar system to move from one cloud to the next.
"There could be interesting times ahead!" says Opher.
To read the original research, look in the Dec. 24, 2009, issue of Nature for Opher et al's article, "A strong, highly-tilted interstellar magnetic field near the Solar System."
Author: Dr. Tony Phillips | Credit: Science@NASA
more information
Voyager Mission Home Page*What is a microgauss? -- A microgauss is one millionth of a gauss, a unit of magnetic field strength popular among astronomers and geophysicists. Earth's magnetic field is about 0.5 gauss or 500,000 microgauss.
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/23dec_voyager/ - 9 months ago
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sue4e3:
Thank you. This is truly excellent information - and super interesting.
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Hardytoo:
I have a family member who is very scared when he sees stuff like these head lines . So I try to stay up on what to worry about and what not to .Glad you liked it
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sue4e3:
Thank you for that A GRADE "value added" additional info ! +^d !
- 9 months ago
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remanns:
you are very much welcome .Thank you for voting it up
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remanns:
It's too bad sue couldn't have done that to both george bush's before they turned into Hitler and gave half our country away.
- 9 months ago
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Calodemon:
what the hell do the Bushes n Hitler have to do with the topic of space ?
You lost me.
- 9 months ago
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remanns:
Well if we all knew bush was going to start three wars, ruin our country and give half of our jobs away maybe we wouldn't have allowed him to become president. poking fun at the idea that if sue could have revealed that then bush would have never became president and we would be way better off. but it's beyond that simple thinking cause bush sabotaged his way into office twenty years before he ever ran for president. his demon-ocracy knew exactly who to fuck over so that people would want bush to come in and screw the hell out of everything and that's exactly how they manipulated it. and that's exactly how bush got the presidency. and the fact that the people were exacerbated exactly the way ultra secret government engineered the global and domestic Eigenvalue-vector-function's of psychic visual linguistics engineering.
- 9 months ago
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The propaganda machine can use anything or any race of people for it's hype and it's usually not for anything good. the only things about the myans is that they disappeared into almost extinction, but it was a chain of natural events that wiped them out, underwater volcanos, tsunami's and disease. the myan's civilization and calender coming to an end was heavily used as propaganda before and during the drug war and the Egyptology propaganda was heavily played before war against Iraq, Afghanistan and Tripoli. so now you know what a propaganda war machine is. I remember during the Reagan day's the government synoptic administration's used to pay ordinary citizens to watch TV and report which programs could be promoting propaganda of some sort. in this article their talking about dooms day, so what the hell does space have to do with dooms day is more of the question.
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Calodemon:
Good pints. Thank you for the elaboration. +^d
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Ribbon at Edge of Our Solar System: Will the Sun Enter a Million-Degree Cloud of Interstellar Gas?
ScienceDaily (May 24, 2010) — Is the Sun going to enter a million-degree galactic cloud of interstellar gas soon?--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
See Also:
Space & Time
•Nebulae
•Sun
•Galaxies
•Astronomy
•Solar Flare
•NASA
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•Interstellar medium
•Solar wind
•Planetary nebula
•Comet Hale-Bopp
Scientists from the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Southwest Research Institute, and Boston University suggest that the ribbon of enhanced emissions of energetic neutral atoms, discovered last year by the NASA Small Explorer satellite IBEX, could be explained by a geometric effect coming up because of the approach of the Sun to the boundary between the Local Cloud of interstellar gas and another cloud of a very hot gas called the Local Bubble. If this hypothesis is correct, IBEX is catching matter from a hot neighboring interstellar cloud, which the Sun might enter in a hundred years.First full-sky maps of the emissions of energetic neutral atoms (ENA), obtained last year by IBEX, showed a surprising arc-like feature called the Ribbon. This astonishing discovery was later announced by NASA as one of the most important findings in space exploration made in 2009. Shortly after the discovery six hypotheses were proposed to explain the Ribbon, all of them predicting its relation to processes going on within the heliosphere or in its neighborhood. In a paper recently published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, a Polish-US team of scientists led by Prof. Stan Grzedzielski from the Space Research Centre of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, offers a different explanation. "We observe the Ribbon," says Grzedzielski "because the Sun is approaching a boundary between our Local Cloud of interstellar gas and another cloud of a very hot and turbulent gas."
Energetic neutral atoms, registered by IBEX detectors, are born out of ions (protons) speeding from the very hot Local Bubble when they exchange charge with the relatively cool atoms "evaporating" from the Local Interstellar Cloud. The newly created ENA have no electrical charge and therefore can dash freely in straight lines from their birth site, oblivious of the impeding magnetic fields. Some of them may reach Earth orbit and be detected by IBEX. "Had the Ribbon ENA been created at the boundaries of the heliosphere, their birth site would be relatively nearby, within just a couple of hundreds of astronomical units," explains Dr Andrzej Czechowski from SRC PAS, one of the co-authors of the paper. "According to our hypothesis, they are born much, much farther away."
The team of Polish and US scientists suggests that the Ribbon ENA are born by electrical charge exchange between the atoms which "evaporate" from the Local Interstellar Cloud into the nearby Local Bubble of a very hot and fully ionized gas. The Local Bubble is probably a remnant of a series of supernova explosions that occurred a few million years ago and thus is not only very hot (at least million degree Kelvin), but also turbulent. The protons in the Local Bubble nearby to the boundary with the Local Cloud snatch electrons from the neutral atoms and run away in all directions, some of them reaching IBEX.
"If our hypothesis is correct, then we are catching atoms that originate from an interstellar cloud that is different from ours," says Dr. Maciej Bzowski, co-investigator of the mission and head of the Polish IBEX team. But since the creation of such ENA atoms is occurring throughout the entire boundary layer between the clouds, why do we see the Ribbon? "It's a purely geometrical effect, which we observe because the Sun is presently just in the right place, within a thousand of astronomical units from the cloud boundary," explains Grzedzielski. "If the cloud-cloud boundary is flat, or better slightly extruded towards the Sun, then it appears the thinnest towards the center of the Ribbon and thicker at the sides, right where we see the edge of the Ribbon. If we were farther away from the boundary, we would see no Ribbon, because all the ENAs would be re-ionized and dispersed in the intervening gas of the Local Cloud."
The model developed by the Polish-US team suggests that the boundary between the Local Cloud and the Local Bubble might be not within a few light years from the Sun, as it was believed earlier, but within just a thousand of astronomical units, a thousand-fold closer. This might mean that the Solar System could enter the million-degree Local Bubble cloud as early as the next century. "Nothing unusual, the Sun frequently traverses various clouds of interstellar gas during its galactic journey," comments Grzedzielski. Such clouds are of very low density, much lower than the best vacuum obtained in Earth labs. Once in, the heliosphere will reform and may shrink a little, the level of cosmic radiation entering the magnetosphere may rise a bit, but nothing more. "Perhaps future generations will have to learn how to better harden their space hardware against stronger radiation," suggests Grzedzielski.
IBEX is the latest in NASA's series of low-cost, rapidly developed Small Explorers space missions. Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, TX, leads and developed the mission with a team of US and international partners. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., manages the Explorers Program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington DC.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100521191114.htm
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Sounds like the Title article, as posted, came from Alex Jones' site "prisonplanet" which is just total bunk - can anyone give me a citation for this? Until then... I'll suspend any belief in the story.
The others from Science Daily, and from NASA, are excellent.
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The Earth has been scheduled to be destroyed to make way for a new hyber-space bypass. The permit has been posted at your local intergalatic office on pluto for over a thousand years! If you can't be bothered to evolve enough to get there, thats your problem.
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dinm76:
http://www.marketing.fm/wp-content/2008/10/dont-panic.jpg
Don't panic, the Dentrassi are always suckers for picking up hitchikers, you just really have to know where your towel is
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Argon18:
perfect...!
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Argon18:
I told the Politicians not to initiate the Reality Drive until ALL were Strapped in correctly.
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mickyjon420:
Did you mean the Infinite Improbabilty Drive? You know Politicians, they always want to jump the gun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjbtZ4NgtdA
It could still get a LOT worse, with people turning into a sofa, ball of yarn, whale or bowl of petunias. But the effects don't usually last very long
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Argon18:
Infinite Improbability Drive? DAMN! I told them the wrong drive, sorry people my fault, I take full blame for the Politicians turning into FECES. I like yarn.......
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mickyjon420:
It's a shame you didn't tell them The Bistromathic Drive instead, we could've been there already and had a nice meal along the way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bistromathic_drive#Bistromathic_drive
"Bistromathics itself is simply a revolutionary new way of understanding the behaviour of numbers. Just as Albert Einstein's general relativity theory observed that space was not an absolute but depended on the observer's movement in time, and that time was not an absolute, but depended on the observer's movement in space, so it is now realized that numbers are not absolute, but depend on the observer's movement in restaurants.
Effectively, the ship takes advantage of the strange rules that only restaurants operate under by turning itself into a controlled, artificial restaurant. This allows a ship equipped with a bistromathic drive to accomplish feats quite outside the normal capabilities of spacecraft, such as travelling two thirds across the galactic disk in a matter of seconds. The drive is notably more controllable than the Infinite Improbability Drive. It is also said to "make the Heart of Gold seem like an electric pram."
- 9 months ago
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Argon18
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Argon18
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Wyley_Wombat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2BfobqkUY8
The answer of 42 still doesn't give you the correct question to go with it like
How many roads must a man walk down?
- 9 months ago
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Argon18
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Calodemon
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Argon18:
the field is more corrupt then you know, California alone has 11 different diversity wars going on from chain yanker's, drug traffickers, ultra secret and secret psychic visual linguistics engineers dacnomania cults, methodology war's, graphic visual propaganda, supression through illegal zygnomic control, conspiracy of engineering ebatic enjoinment of streamlining secret psychic visual medical assaults onto the public, illegal psychic tampering of legislative officials, mass murder attempts onto congressional event's, sabotaging the public so they don't want to inform, psychic visual hate groups working against law enforcement causing friendly fire. I'm dangerously befriended by them they been moving in next door to me since the mid 1980's. hey first responder's using false concern while falsely patrionizig me, did you jump the gun on this one too!.
- 9 months ago
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Calodemon
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Calodemon
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Argon18:
I think you guy's think you think. I also think the real corruption is in the perduellious secret and ultra secret psychic linguistic's engineering.
- 9 months ago
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Calodemon
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Joeydee44
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Just in time for 2012. Damn those Mayans!
- 9 months ago
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Argon18
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Joeydee44:
Damn them? It's not like they haven't been trying to warn us for centuries, wouldn't that deserve some gratitude? According to Calleman they've even been trying to leave signs with the pyramids they left behind.
"Though to many, the Mayan Pyramid is simply a monument used for ceremonies and sacrifice, Calleman’s research reveals that the Mayan Pyramid is in fact a calendar of Evolving Consciousness; where each of its nine steps, also known as Waves, or Underworlds, are related to a specific type of consciousness that is learned during the period of time that it takes us to move from the beginning of each step towards its end. Which in doing so, it is said we are moving from seed to fruition of the consciousness that is the focus for that level.
Interesting to note, is that each step of the pyramid (or underworld) is divided into 13 equal segments, comprised of alternating dark and light energies (referred to as ‘days’ and ‘nights’; which are as necessary for the growth and expansion of our consciousness as the cycles of night and day are for the harmonious growth of our earth’s surface-dwelling ecosystems"
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Argon18
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Argon18:
Too bad no one warned the Mayans about their demise. Guess they couldn't see the forest for the trees. That Hotties site is exhausting.
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OlBlue
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OlBlue:
Yep the same blindness about polluting their enviroment and the damage it can cause, but since their land area and resources were smaller it caught up to them a lot faster.
Doesn't that drive home the point about developing through stages of consciousnss that Calleman was trying to make? Have we developed further or not?
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Argon18
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OlBlue
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Argon18:
Yes! to both questions. Interesting stuff!
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OlBlue
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Joeydee44
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Argon18:
Just an expression. My apologies to all you Mayans out there.
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Joeydee44
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coolplanet
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Joeydee44:
May I make a correction without coming across as a cranky school teacher?
The Maya people are called Maya.
The Mayan calendars are called Mayan.
And did you know that there are about 13 million Maya currently living in Central America? - 9 months ago
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coolplanet
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coolplanet:
No I did not but I would like to offer my sincerest apology to them all. I meant no slight to the Maya.
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Joeydee44
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coolplanet
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Joeydee44:
I feel the same way.
I want to apologize to all native people for the ignorance of my race.
I think they will welcome us back with open arms just like they did on the first Thanksgiving.
I only hope we are more respectful this time..... - 9 months ago
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coolplanet