Tuesday, February 1, 2011
The Katrina down under: Australia ready to be impacted by massive cyclone the size of 2005 American storm Hurricane Katrina..
For those paying attention to earthly disasters, Australia has been impacted by significant flooding over the past several weeks.
Cyclone Yasi promises to be a potentially devestating storm is causing orders for 30,000 to evacuate the city of Cairns... There are fears of flooding, a storm surge, and massive wind gusts from Yasi..
Lots of people make lots of accusations about big-Pharma.. But this one is quite possibly breaking new ground
Man claims Glaxo drug made him ‘gay sex addict’
And not just gay sex but also a gambling.. And all he wanted to do was treat his Parkinson’s..
The protests continue in Egypt, but are now attracting not just young, but also old, not just poor but also middle class
The unrelenting cry for Hosni Mubarak to leave is not stopping.
The protests continue in Egypt, but are now attracting not just young, but also old, not just poor but also middle class
Walk like an Egyptian
Interesting developments occurring in Jordan: Jordan’s King Abdullah II, bowing to public pressure, fired his government on Tuesday and tasked a new prime minister and says he will give Jordanians more say in the government..
And while we may not appreciate the weather that IS falling, we perhaps should respect it
The storm is hitting about 2,100 miles in length of the United States with over a foot of snow, and there is a large radius around that 2,100 miles that will be burying people under heavy snow and a dangerous amount of ice.
Living through history typically means you’re living through something bad. And this storm is historic in its affects.. Which means it won’t be fun in the least..
Greetings from a snowy East.
Ice and snow abounds..
Slush covers the grounds..
Misery in your town.
A rhyme is the best I can come up with to deal with the misery of yet another storm.. this time affecting over 100 million Americans. The future radar of my area is appalling, frightening, and yet mesmerizing. If what they say will happen indeed happens, it appears there will be a massive ice storm that by tomorrow will have over 1 inch of ice in parts of the dark coal region of Pennsylvania and many other places too. That is a prospect sure to cause fear.. power outages.. no heat during a cold storm that has snow, ice, and rain all mixed together.. It may be nasty.
Hopefully not. After all, the staple of the great winter storm, the frozen pizza, won’t be able to be made without power..
We are slaves to modern life, aren’t we?
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Tonight, Tonight — The Smashing Pumpkins.
May you’re night be filled with mid-1990s memories.
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Monday, January 31, 2011
I have had it..
Enough with snow.
Enough with ice.
Enough with cold.
And hopefully it’s all gone by the time my child decides to tell my wife he’s ready to come out..
We're only alone if we stop looking for others
More and more planets are being discovered.. NASA images are going back in time. If you’re amazed with space and time, it’s an amazing moment to be alive on the planet earth.. even if you’re not, you’re being hurled into a vast unknown.. A time when doubt is abundant and answers are not. This is the future. And the future is now.
DISCOVER MAGAZINE is reporting that scientists are taking a very active role in trying to answer one of the many age old questions: Is there anybody out there..?
Discover reports,
"We still have no idea whether any planet beyond Earth harbors life, but that could soon change too: Scientists are increasingly optimistic that they will find evidence of biological activity on an alien planet within the next few years. In collaboration with the Thirty Meter Telescope and the National Science Foundation, DISCOVER invited four top researchers in the field to discuss how that extraordinary discovery might unfold"
…In a vast land of galaxies and who knows what else, the thought that we are alone seems foolish. Now what the other versions of the “us” would be is cause for …concern.
Double rainbow! ... strike that. Double solar flare.
NASA cameras had a front row view to an amazing scene in space, as solar flares erupted two sides of the sun at the same time..
NASA placed images of the solar eruption on its website with some context behind in. NASA wrote,
"This still (below) from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) caught the action in freeze-frame splendor when the Sun popped off two events at once on Jan. 28, 2011. A filament on the left side became unstable and erupted, while an M-1 flare (mid-sized) and a Coronal Mass Ejection on the right blasted into space. The movie (above), taken Jan. 26-28, 2011, shows several other flashes and bursts from the active region on the right as well. Neither event is headed towards Earth"
Perhaps the last sentence in their press release is the most reassuring. Neither eruption is poised to strike the little blue planet..
At least not these eruptions.
Speculation has abounded for years that we are going to go into a period of dramatic solar activity—activity that could potentially hit a high point in 2012, according to experts that have been quoted in stories over the past several months.
These two flares, perhaps more than anything, are warning shots and messages of the sun’s power.
NASA also placed a six-second video on their website of the solar activity.
While the solar flares that were visible to the world didn’t sear the world, the images are seared into the memory of all who watch the sky and wonder, one day, if that massive ball of light will turn on the planet it warms..
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