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Velikovsky was amongst the first to recognize the importance of electro magnetism as a more poweful force than gravity in the Universe, In addition he saw mythology as a source of catastrophic events in the history of mankind that demonstrated the chaotic past of the solar system.
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Velikovsky changed my life. Please watch 'Bonds of the Pas't and 'Worlds in Collision', both full length documentaries. Just type in goole, click video and it should be there, both about an hour.Velikovsky was amongst the first to recognize the importance of electro magnetism as a... more
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We think of space as a silent place. But physicist Janna Levin says the universe has a soundtrack -- a sonic composition that records some of the most dramatic events in outer space. (Black holes, for instance, bang on spacetime like a drum.) An accessible and mind-expanding soundwalk through the universe.
Janna Levin is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University. Her scientific research concerns the early universe, chaos and black holes. Her second book – a novel, A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines – won the PEN/Bingham Fellowship for Writers and was a runner-up for the PEN/Hemingway award for "a distinguished book of first fiction." She is the author of the popular science book, How the Universe Got Its Spots: Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space.
She holds a BA in Physics and Astronomy from Barnard College with a concentration in Philosophy, and a PhD from MIT in Physics. She has worked at the Center for Particle Astrophysics (CfPA) at the University of California, Berkeley before moving to the UK where she worked at Cambridge University in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP). Just before returning to New York, she was the first scientist-in-residence at the Ruskin School of Fine Art and Drawing at Oxford with an award from the National Endowment for Science, Technology, and Arts (NESTA).We think of space as a silent place. But physicist Janna Levin says the universe has a... more
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Wow what an pretty picture of the sun - it looks like my grandma's old rya rug from the 70s (see below).
Here is the geeky part:
The image of the sun, not my nan's rug, was taken by astrophotographer Alan Friedman with a filter that lets through a narrow wavelength of light emitted by hydrogen (called Hα), which tracks the gas activity on the solar surface. The image of the solar disk is inverted, making it a negative in order to increase the contrast while adding a three-dimensional quality and reveals an amazing amount of texture.
So there you go!
Source: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/03/08/seriously-jaw-dropping-picture-of-the-sun/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+BadAstronomyBlog+%28Bad+Astronomy%29
Wow what an pretty picture of the sun - it looks like my grandma's old rya rug... more
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The spacecraft my best friend's husband has been working on daily for several years now is resting at the bottom of the ocean after a failed takeoff... -EmperorThan
A rocket that blasted off early Friday carrying an Earth-observation satellite has failed to reach orbit, NASA said.
The Taurus XL rocket carrying NASA's Glory satellite lifted off about 2:10 a.m. PST from Vandenberg Air Force Base, officials said .
But NASA said in a brief statement that a protective shell or fairing atop the rocket did not separate from the satellite as it should have about three minutes after the launch.
That left the Glory spacecraft without the velocity to reach orbit, NASA launch commentator George Diller said.
"The flight was going well until the time of fairing separation," Diller said. "We did not have a successful fairing separation from the Taurus and there was insufficient velocity with the fairing still on for the vehicle to achieve orbit."
The status of the flight wasn't immediately clear and flight officials didn't immediately respond to calls for further comment.
Glory was launched on a three-year mission to analyze how airborne particles affect Earth's climate. Besides monitoring particles in the atmosphere, it will also track solar radiation to determine the sun's effect on climate change.
The $424 million mission is managed by the NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
Friday's launch came after engineers spent more than a week troubleshooting a glitch that led to a last-minute scrub.
Glory was supposed to study tiny atmospheric particles known as aerosols, which reflect and trap sunlight. The vast majority occurs naturally, spewed into the atmosphere by volcanoes, forest fires and desert storms. Aerosols can also come from manmade sources such as the burning of fossil fuel.
NASA suffered a mishap two years ago when a global warming satellite also destined to join the Earth-observation network crashed into the ocean near Antarctica after launching from the same kind of rocket that carried Glory. An accident board was formed to investigate and corrective action was taken to prevent future problems. A duplicate is now scheduled to fly from Vandenberg in 2013.
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http://newtechlover.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/new-tech-lover-Glory-mission-01.jpgThe spacecraft my best friend's husband has been working on daily for several... more
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When physicists realized most of the universe was missing, they suddenly knew they had a major problem on their hands—so big, they hardly even know how to imagine it. “The questions that raises are so provocative and so profound," says author Richard Panek. "We don’t even know how to know about it.”When physicists realized most of the universe was missing, they suddenly knew they had... more
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India's Bombay High Court has ruled that astrology (which took a recent and very public drubbing after an astronomer pointed out that astrological signs have changed over millennia) is not merely a harmless diversion but instead a science, presumably on par with biology, astronomy and physics.
link: http://www.livescience.com/12856-astrology-science-indian-court-ruling.htmlIndia's Bombay High Court has ruled that astrology (which took a recent and very... more
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These ten articles stood out amongst the thousands out there, whose authors also do not believe that this was NASA’s genuine giant leap for mankind. If you are interested in this topic (whether or not you’re a believer), check out these articles to see the background information, theories, facts, and supposed proofs as to how this event did not actually occur.
link: http://www.bachelorofscience.com/was-it-all-a-hoax-the-top-10-moon-landing-conspiracy-blogsThese ten articles stood out amongst the thousands out there, whose authors also do... more
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Three-dimensional images showing the entire surface of the sun have been released for the first time.
The images, taken from two separate Nasa satellites launched in 2006, will allow scientists to see both sides of the star together for the first time.
This will enable huge advances in space weather forecasting for Earth and improve planning for future spacecraft missions throughout the solar system and the images are believed to be as significant as those taken of the first men on the Moon.
Three-dimensional images showing the entire surface of the sun have been released for... more
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The first stars in the universe were not as solitary as previously thought. In fact, they could have formed alongside numerous companions when the gas disks that surrounded them broke up during formation, giving birth to sibling stars in the fragments.
:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/02/110204130908.htmThe first stars in the universe were not as solitary as previously thought. In fact,... more
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There are a multitude of celestial bodies, and all of them spin.
Any substance that contains charged particles is a form of plasma: electrons, positive ions, electrically charged dust particles, neon lights, lightning, Earth’s magnetosphere, the solar wind, stars, and even galaxies are plasma.
In energetic regions of plasma, filaments of electric current flow in closed circuits, otherwise the charged particles would accumulate and the flow would stop. The existence of electric circuits in space is what distinguishes Electric Universe theory from most, if not all, conventional viewpoints. As Electric Universe advocates insist, it is the behavior of electricity that explains phenomena that appear "mysterious" to space scientists.
X-ray emissions from planets, braided plasma filaments, hourglass-shaped nebulae, and jets of charged particles erupting out from galactic axes provide observational evidence for the existence of plasma circuits. Celestial bodies are not isolated from one another, but are connected across vast distances.
Electromagnetic forces squeeze those conductive channels into filaments that tend to attract each other in pairs. Electric fields that form along the long strands generate an attractive force that can be 39 orders of magnitude greater than gravity. However, when they get close to each other, instead of merging, the plasma "cables" twist into a helix that rotates faster as it compresses tighter. It is those "cosmic transmission lines" that make up galactic circuits.
Astronomers maintain that galaxies are condensed clouds of hydrogen and dust that have been compressed by gravity until they ignite with multiple thermonuclear fireballs. Since there is not enough luminous mass to account for their large angular momentum estimates, theories that involve "haloes of dark matter" around galaxies, or "supermassive black holes" in their centers have been proposed for why galaxies spin.
The cosmos appears to be interlaced with untold numbers of interacting circuits that occur in nested hierarchies. Each of those circuits appears to be composed of untold numbers of twisting filaments of plasma called Birkeland currents. At the largest observable scale there are power-consuming objects, or loads in the various circuits, that appear to be converting electrical energy into rotational energy.
Consensus opinions suggest that galaxies, stars, and planets spin because of how they formed. A comparatively large cloud of gas and dust is said to contract, causing its spin rate to increase. Although, why a randomly moving cloud of particles should have a net spin rate is both illogical and unexplained. In the case of a galaxy, spiral arms form, a disk of material surrounds the central nucleus, and eddy-currents inside the disk condense into stars. The spinning cloud is supposed to overcome its internal gravitational attraction with centrifugal force, flinging out material like drops of paint.
In the same way, stellar systems develop within eddies that form in discrete bands around fusion-hot gravity wells that, in turn, become planets, moons, comets, and asteroids. Since they are all supposed to share a similar genesis, they are all believed to spin for the same reason.
Hannes Alfvén's "electric galaxy" hypothesis, on the other hand, states that galaxies (and by extension, stars and other objects) are more like a device invented by Michael Faraday, the homopolar motor. A homopolar motor is driven by magnetic fields induced in a circular, conductive metal plate. The plate rotates between the poles of an electromagnet, causing it to spin at a rate proportional to the input current.
Since galaxies exist within a filamentary circuit of electricity that flows through the cosmos, they and their attendant stellar and planetary offspring most likely spin because of electricity flowing through them like it does through Faraday's motor.
Stephen SmithThere are a multitude of celestial bodies, and all of them spin.
Any substance that... more
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Alien worlds beckon to us Earthlings today, promising visions of a sister planet to our own orbiting a nearby star.
http://bit.ly/dPdRJdAlien worlds beckon to us Earthlings today, promising visions of a sister planet to... more
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Go figure. And you get an amazingly wicked view of our atmosphere, meteorites, and such. Make sure you watch til the end to see the NASA magic of adjusting camera settings to blot out the stars. Those tricky rascals!
Now, I have agrued until I am blue in the face with those who insist it is impossible to video tape stars in space around the the Earth. If you notice, that just isn't true. You can even see the stars through the SHINE of the SUN. So, when Neil Armstrong said he couldn't see stars on the daylight side of the moon, by EYE ALONE, do you still believe him?
Now, after dealing with the cognitive dissonance you've been suffering from for years, by believing in Apollo as authentic, and come to your senses, I'll be available for discourse on reality-based space exploration.
Peace and Truth, no matter how bizarre!Go figure. And you get an amazingly wicked view of our atmosphere, meteorites, and... more
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As much of the world lives on the brink of collapse the masses find themselves weary from their trials and hopeless for the future. Never before have so many suffered so greatly. Since November of 2008 Pluto's transit through Capricorn has coincided with the most corrupt, sinister, despotic global power structure the world has ever known. The nations reel from the onslaught waged upon them by a vampiric system that places profit over life, deception over truth, and decay over evolution. On personal levels we've all been facing the most extreme challenges of our lives, albeit in different ways unique to our individual destinies.
Despite these grim realities humanity does have tremendous reason to rejoice for relief is at hand and is heralded with Jupiter's coming transit into Aries this January 22nd! Jupiter's movement into Aries signals a desperately needed period of new growth, opportunity, and fortune. Like all transits, this one moves in perfect synchronicity with Cosmic Order, meaning, that the Divine Grace that comes for us will manifest in ways that are absolutely perfect for each of our unique life paths. It serves as a 'cosmic jumpstart' for the events to come later in the year, most important of which is Uranus' transit into Aries on March 11th.
Read more @ http://www.tokenrock.com/read-Jupiter-in-Aries-Fortes-Fortuna-Adiuvat-974.htmlAs much of the world lives on the brink of collapse the masses find themselves weary... more
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The greatest revolution in human history begins March 11th, 2011 with the planet Uranus' entrance into the constellation of Aries. This is a pinnacle moment in human history that will come to be known as the Revolution of Consciousness. Unlike revolutions of old, this revolution will be centered in the hearts and minds of the men, women, and children that inhabit the planet Earth. What is about to unfold is nothing less than the most brilliant period of not only our lifetimes, but of all lifetimes - and it starts in just a few short weeks!
Read more @ http://www.tokenrock.com/blogs/read/Uranus-in-Aries:-The-Revolution-of-Consciousness/975/The greatest revolution in human history begins March 11th, 2011 with the planet... more
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Watch "A Year on Earth" here
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Parke Kuntle did not say that we should have a new astrological sign. The star tribune came to him and asked him to talk a little about astrology and how it relates to astronomy. They then took his description of precession, which the video above describes, and arranged it to mean that our zodiac signs are changing and we are not who we think we are.
That was the most popular story on current today, and it's not true. Goes to show you, you can't believe everything you hear or read for that matter.Watch "A Year on Earth" here... more
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News Update: New Zodiac Sign Dates, In astronomy, the zodiac is the ring of constellations that the lines of the ecliptic are the apparent paths of Sun in the celestial sphere during the year? The paths of the Moon and planets are also roughly in the ecliptic, and therefore are also within the constellations of the zodiac.News Update: New Zodiac Sign Dates, In astronomy, the zodiac is the ring of... more
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