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Jun 05 2009 ∞
Circles in Thin Ice, Lake Baikal, RussiaImage copyright: ISS NASA Astronaut photograph ISS019-E-10556 was acquired on April 25, 2009 with a Nikon 2DXs digital camera fitted with a 400mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The image in this article has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast. The image in this article has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast. Lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by Cynthia Evans, NASA-JSC. Instrument: ISS - Digital Camera Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=38721

Circles in Thin Ice, Lake Baikal, Russia
Image copyright: ISS NASA

Astronaut photograph ISS019-E-10556 was acquired on April 25, 2009 with a Nikon 2DXs digital camera fitted with a 400mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The image in this article has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast. The image in this article has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast. Lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by Cynthia Evans, NASA-JSC.

Instrument: ISS - Digital Camera
Source: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=38721

Jun 03 2009 ∞
Crash mystery tests limits of technology It weighs less than half a pound, is 4 inches long, and can potentially unlock the mystery of Flight 447. French navy ships searching the Atlantic Ocean will dip a receiver into the water to pick up signals from the 4-inch “pinger” attached to the airplane’s “black box” recorders possibly resting on the ocean floor. Source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-06-02-crashinside_N.htm Brazil: More debris found from Air France jet Searchers from three continents are focusing on a remote Atlantic Ocean stretch where Air France Flight 447 mysteriously went down in water thousands of feet deep, leaving debris scattered for miles and little hope of finding survivors. A 23-foot chunk of plane and a 12-mile-long oil slick were found early Wednesday, Brazilian air force spokesman Col. Jorge Amaral said. Rescuers have still found no signs of life.

Crash mystery tests limits of technology

It weighs less than half a pound, is 4 inches long, and can potentially unlock the mystery of Flight 447.
French navy ships searching the Atlantic Ocean will dip a receiver into the water to pick up signals from the 4-inch “pinger” attached to the airplane’s “black box” recorders possibly resting on the ocean floor.

Source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-06-02-crashinside_N.htm

Brazil: More debris found from Air France jet
Searchers from three continents are focusing on a remote Atlantic Ocean stretch where Air France Flight 447 mysteriously went down in water thousands of feet deep, leaving debris scattered for miles and little hope of finding survivors.
A 23-foot chunk of plane and a 12-mile-long oil slick were found early Wednesday, Brazilian air force spokesman Col. Jorge Amaral said. Rescuers have still found no signs of life.

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Update comment on the ‘Jellyfish’ Crop Circles: http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2009/waylandsmithy/comments.html

Update comment on the ‘Jellyfish’ Crop Circles:
http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2009/waylandsmithy/comments.html

Jun 02 2009 ∞
Giant jellyfish invades Earth… in the form of a mysterious crop circle A 600ft jellyfish has washed up in a barley field miles from the sea - in the form of one of the biggest and most bizarre crop circles ever seen. Experts say the gigantic pattern in the field in Kingstone Coombes, Oxfordshire, is the first of its kind - and far larger than most crop patterns. Aficionado Karen Alexander said: “We have seen butterfly and bird patterns in the past, but this is the first jellyfish crop circle in the world.” Read more here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1190279/Giant-jellyfish-invades-Earth—form-mysterious-crop-circle.html Other source for info on the same Crop Circles: http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2009/waylandsmithy/waylandsmithy2009.html See also | Huge Yin and Yang crop circle discovered in Wiltshire: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1189518/Mesmeric—elaborate-creation-Wiltshires-crop-circle-capital.html Latest reported formation | Below Milk Hill, nr Alton Barnes, Wiltshire - Reported 2nd June: http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2009/milkhill/milkhill2009.html Follow Crop Circles updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/cropcircles

Giant jellyfish invades Earth… in the form of a mysterious crop circle

A 600ft jellyfish has washed up in a barley field miles from the sea - in the form of one of the biggest and most bizarre crop circles ever seen.
Experts say the gigantic pattern in the field in Kingstone Coombes, Oxfordshire, is the first of its kind - and far larger than most crop patterns.
Aficionado Karen Alexander said: “We have seen butterfly and bird patterns in the past, but this is the first jellyfish crop circle in the world.”

Read more here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1190279/Giant-jellyfish-invades-Earth—form-mysterious-crop-circle.html
Other source for info on the same Crop Circles: http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2009/waylandsmithy/waylandsmithy2009.html

See also | Huge Yin and Yang crop circle discovered in Wiltshire: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1189518/Mesmeric—elaborate-creation-Wiltshires-crop-circle-capital.html

Latest reported formation | Below Milk Hill, nr Alton Barnes, Wiltshire - Reported 2nd June: http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/2009/milkhill/milkhill2009.html

Follow Crop Circles updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/cropcircles

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NESDIS Atlantic Ocean 1st June 2009 Air France Flight 447 on Wikipedia English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447 Portuguese: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voo_Air_France_447 French: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vol_447_Air_France Accident summary: Date: 1 June 2009 Type: Unknown Site: Atlantic Ocean Passengers: 216 Crew: 12 Injuries: Unknown Fatalities: Unknown Aircraft type: Airbus A330-200 Operator: Air France Tail number: F-GZCP - photo here: http://www.planespotters.net/Aviation_Photos/photo.show?id=081451 Flight origin: Rio de Janeiro-Galeão International Airport Destination: Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport

NESDIS Atlantic Ocean 1st June 2009

Air France Flight 447 on Wikipedia
English: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447
Portuguese: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voo_Air_France_447
French: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vol_447_Air_France

Accident summary:
Date: 1 June 2009
Type: Unknown
Site: Atlantic Ocean
Passengers: 216
Crew: 12
Injuries: Unknown
Fatalities: Unknown
Aircraft type: Airbus A330-200
Operator: Air France
Tail number: F-GZCP - photo here: http://www.planespotters.net/Aviation_Photos/photo.show?id=081451
Flight origin: Rio de Janeiro-Galeão International Airport
Destination: Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport

Jun 01 2009 ∞
A Dark, Stormy Night over the Atlantic An Air France plane (Flight AF 447) carrying 228 people from Brazil to France has vanished over the Atlantic after flying into turbulence, airline officials say. The Airbus sent an automatic message at 0214 GMT, four hours after leaving Rio de Janeiro, reporting a short circuit. It may have been damaged by lightning. In a place that is home to the world’s worst thunderstorms. Just as it disappeared, the Airbus A330-203 was flying into a thick band of convective activity that rose to 41,000 feet. This equatorial region is known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone – it is where Northeast and Southeast Trade Winds meet - forcing a lot of warm, moist air upward - which condenses – an efficient thunderstorm producing machine. More info here: http://trueslant.com/milesobrien/2009/06/01/a-dark-stormy-night-over-the-atlantic/ Intertropical Convergence Zone: http://iri.ldeo.columbia.edu/~bgordon/ITCZ.html Timeline of the flight via BBC website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8077304.stm

A Dark, Stormy Night over the Atlantic

An Air France plane (Flight AF 447) carrying 228 people from Brazil to France has vanished over the Atlantic after flying into turbulence, airline officials say.

The Airbus sent an automatic message at 0214 GMT, four hours after leaving Rio de Janeiro, reporting a short circuit. It may have been damaged by lightning.

In a place that is home to the world’s worst thunderstorms. Just as it disappeared, the Airbus A330-203 was flying into a thick band of convective activity that rose to 41,000 feet. This equatorial region is known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone – it is where Northeast and Southeast Trade Winds meet - forcing a lot of warm, moist air upward - which condenses – an efficient thunderstorm producing machine.

More info here: http://trueslant.com/milesobrien/2009/06/01/a-dark-stormy-night-over-the-atlantic/
Intertropical Convergence Zone: http://iri.ldeo.columbia.edu/~bgordon/ITCZ.html
Timeline of the flight via BBC website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8077304.stm

May 20 2009 ∞

Disinformation: Grant Morrision Special
The Short lived channel 4 disinfonation program (from disinfo.com). This is a special where Grant Morrision dicusses The Invisibles, their origin and meaning.

Grant Morrison (born January 31, 1960) is a Scottish comic book writer and artist. He is best-known for his nonlinear narratives and counter-cultural leanings.

More info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Morrison | http://www.grant-morrison.com/

Grant Morrison bibliography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Morrison_bibliography

On Google Video | Hacking The Matrix: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6148569602584070911&ei=kL8OSp7qHoqCqQKYtaWmCw&q=grant+morrison&hl=en&client=safari

May 17 2009 ∞
The growing sphere of space junk surrounding the Earth is a hazard to spaceflight, as International Space Station astronauts found out Thursday when their home was buzzed by a five-inch piece of debris. How to Track Space Junk Online As the story about the near miss was unfolding this morning, Twitter users quickly made a provisional claim about where the debris came from by examining space junk data visualized on Google Earth. Given that the space junk problem just continues to get worse, here’s a quick guide to tracking our extraterrestrial garbage. First, download Google Earth, which is available for free from that search engine company. It allows you to visualize the positions of debris around the old blue marble. Once you’ve got Google Earth installed, you can plug different datasets into it. You can simply click on the files — they usually have the extension KMZ — and they’ll open up in Google Earth. What Can I Download? Visit Orbiting Frog blog website for a collection of various files for use with Google Earth: http://orbitingfrog.com/blog/satellite-kml/ More info: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/howtojunk/#previouspostGoogle Earth: http://earth.google.com/

The growing sphere of space junk surrounding the Earth is a hazard to spaceflight, as International Space Station astronauts found out Thursday when their home was buzzed by a five-inch piece of debris.

How to Track Space Junk Online

As the story about the near miss was unfolding this morning, Twitter users quickly made a provisional claim about where the debris came from by examining space junk data visualized on Google Earth. Given that the space junk problem just continues to get worse, here’s a quick guide to tracking our extraterrestrial garbage.

First, download Google Earth, which is available for free from that search engine company. It allows you to visualize the positions of debris around the old blue marble.

Once you’ve got Google Earth installed, you can plug different datasets into it. You can simply click on the files — they usually have the extension KMZ — and they’ll open up in Google Earth.

What Can I Download?

Visit Orbiting Frog blog website for a collection of various files for use with Google Earth:
http://orbitingfrog.com/blog/satellite-kml/

More info: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/howtojunk/#previouspost
Google Earth: http://earth.google.com/

May 14 2009 ∞

Swiss Weather Radar Anomaly - UPDATE

On the morning of the 24th of April 2009 employees at MeteoSwiss (Switzerland’s Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology) got the surprise of their lives. Huge circular fields hovering over Switzerland were picked up by their radars. The question was asked as to whether a massive UFO was in the upper-atmosphere above the scenic mountainous nation or perhaps these circles were signs of an imminent hurricane or maybe some sort of electromagnetic radio frequency/microwave technology is in use to cause such an anomaly.

Felix Schacher, a senior Meteorologist at MeteoSwiss claimed the circles were not UFOs or the signs of a hurricane about to wreak havoc on his country. Mr Schacher told the Swiss news site 20 Minutes | Link: http://www.20min.ch/news/wetter/story/Gigantisches-Ufo-ueber-der-Schweiz—24496881 | that they were merely caused by the reflection of water droplets that just happened to form a circular shape.(same report in another website/in English: http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/6587/56/)

A few minutes after being queried on the issue the radar images were hurriedly removed from the departments website. Many Swiss UFO researchers have left comments on various internet forums expressing their doubt on the ‘reflection water droplets’ story, asking why was the image so quickly removed and who ordered its removal.

See the animation/montage I did below:

Swiss Weather Anomaly - animation

As I found the subject very interesting, I decided to contact the MeteoSwiss Office in Switzerland asking if the Radar Photo was authentic. The answer I received is the following:
This picture is the real radar picture we had that day, but it was nothing extraterrestrial, but a technical problem. In addition I send you all the pictures from that day, but I can’t change the resolution.
Kind regards
Meteorological Adviser, MeteoSwiss Zurich

PHOTOS

Yes, they were very helpful and I indeed received 286 Radar Photos from them for that day (24.Apr.2009) covering the 24 hrs clock - one photo per 5 mins gap!

I did a montage and here it is:

- Circular Pattern #1: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3405/3526276550_214bea94a7_o.jpg (5 mins gap from 04:15 to 04:55 hrs)
- Circular Pattern #2: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3650/3526277050_4f2397f07d_o.jpg (10 mins gap from 05:25 to 06:45)

Animation:

- Circular Pattern from 04:10 to 5:00: http://www.flickr.com/photos/crystaleagle/3526271174/sizes/o/in/set-72157617957731281/
- Circular Pattern at 06:20 as it appeared on the web with animation and published image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/crystaleagle/3526264408/sizes/o/in/set-72157617957731281/
- Bigger image with animation and 06:20 frame: http://www.flickr.com/photos/crystaleagle/3525463861/sizes/o/in/set-72157617957731281/

I also contacted a few people in my Network List asking their opinion on the matter and if they think the Radar Photo was authentic. I had many opinions - and Andrew Johnson (from http://www.checktheevidence.co.uk) emailed me some material showing that the same anomalies are happening wordwide and can wrote the following:

“I suspect the image could be genuine - because I have seen a fair few of these images. We know that Wilhelm Reich experimented with “Cloud Busting” in the 1950’s and 1960’s - and we know what Hurricane Erin was closest to NYC on the morning on 9/11. I therefore regard these images as supporting evidence”. - Andrew Johnson

Additional information:

- Weather Radar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_radar
- CERN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cern
- Large Hadron Collider: http://lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

How does the precipitation-radar work?

Raindrops, snowflakes and hailstones reflect radar-radiations. The representation of the echoes of the precipitation-radar sets shows the geographic distribution of rain, snow and hail. The colors refer to the precipitation-intensity.

More about the Swiss weather-radar

The Swiss radar-picture is a composite from the radar-pictures of the three Radar-Weatherstations in the Dôle, on the Albis and on Mount Lema. This information is collected by the MeteoSchweiz and is processed into a picture. The pictures are then distributed to the three weather-headquarters in Zurich, Geneva and Locarno. In these weather-headquarters, the pictures are updated every 2.5 minutes and can also be used to create animations. They allow meteorologists to make very precise short-term statements, 1-2 hours in advance, about when precipitations begin or stop again at a certain place. In addition to this these images allow us to localize thundercloud-layers which can cause localized wind-gusts.

Technically speaking the weather-radar works the same as any other radar except that it is optimized to recognize the individual types of precipitation, rain, hail or snow.

The radar works as follows: A signal is sent out from a rotating antenna. If the signal meets with a precipitation-zone, a part of the signal is reflected back to the antenna which sent out the signal. This antenna works simultaneously as a receiver and can calculate the distance of the precipitation-zone by measuring the time lapse between the sending and the return of the signal. The intensity of the reflected signal provides information about the type and intensity of the precipitation-zone. It is consequently partially possible to distinguish between a mild drizzle, rain, hail and snow. If one approximately knows the diameter and the number of precipitation-particles, it is then possible to generate a color-scale, which gives us the intensity of rain.

The pictures from the Swiss weather-radar have a spatial resolution of up to 1 km3. Each of the radars scans the surrounding area between the horizon and a 40° angle over the horizon in two narrow bands with each Scan lasting 2.5 minutes. One consequently gets a complete radar-picture every 5 minutes. The wavelength is of about 5 cm length. The echoes generated through the terrain are suppressed in order to get a better picture of the precipitation. Due to the geographic nature of Switzerland and blind spots caused by the mountain ranges of our Alps, (comma added) precipitation in e.g. Zentralwallis or Graubünden is more difficult to measure than for example in the less mountainous regions.

(above translation/text - my thanks to Peter Stumpfle)

Please feel free to expand the research and send some feedback!

May 03 2009 ∞

We have now the software of life

“We have now the software of life - the code that underlines it. We have tools now to change the software. How often do you go without updating the software on your cellphone? Probably not more than a couple of weeks as it updates automatically. When was the last time you updated the software running in your body? It is out of date.”
Ray Kurzweil

Interview: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/may/02/google-univeristy-ray-kurzweil-artificial-intelligence

Apr 28 2009 ∞

The Basilica

After the Roman Empire became officially Christian, the term ‘Basilica’ came by extension to specifically refer to a large and important church that has been given special ceremonial rites by the Pope. Thus the word retains two senses today, one architectural and the other ecclesiastical.

Filmed on location at the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady of Aparecida, in the town of Aparecida, state of São Paulo, Brazil.

Apr 25 2009 ∞

Ubatuba-Paraty Timelapse

Timelapse of a road trip to Ubatuba via Serra do Mar and from Ubatuba to Paraty via Rio-Santos BR-101, Brazil.

Apr 23 2009 ∞

A Tweet To Shake The World

A simple message, less than 140 characters, is sent out by a single individual to followers around the world, and within hours, perhaps minutes, more than 100 million people have been mobilized to act as never before.

Imagine an official Twitter account for the United States or Chinese Government, created with the specific purpose of mobilizing its citizens at a moment’s notice to respond to a natural disaster, military attack, or any number of other emergencies.

Then there’s the tweetnova, a single blast of information that causes not 100 million, but rather 1 billion people to act.

Read the original article via the Singularity Hub | http://singularityhub.com/2009/04/22/tweetbomb-a-tweet-to-shake-the-world/

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