Proximity

Holmes

What up, holmes?

What Up, indeed.



Hat tip to Urban, once again, for keeping tabs on
what stories don't make the 11 o'clock news.

Here's some interesting language.

A article in New Scientist tells us that Comet Holmes has brightened by a factor of a million in 24 hours and according to David Morrison, senior scientist at the NASA Astrobiology Institute in Moffett Field, California, "This is equivalent to the planet Saturn suddenly becoming as bright as the Full Moon."

Science tells us that the comet is heading away from us, but cannot explain why it has suddenly brightened. Although there are many theories of why we can't see the tail of the comet, many are speculating that we can't see the tail because the comet is heading towards earth. Most do not believe it will hit earth, but think we may be due for an amazing sky show as the months pass. Others feel that this close encounter will change us as a society and that the comet has been brought to us because we are war hungry.

While reading as much as I could on Comet Holmes the most interesting thing I discovered is how little coverage this anomaly is receiving. Although this comet is not new, its explosion of light is unusual and I am confused as to why the major news outlets have yet to report this story. Could it be that since the experts don't understand what is ocurring, the decision makers don't want to cause fear? Whether Comet Holmes continues to grow and brighten or simply fades out of sight and mind, no one seems to know, including the experts, so take a look and be amazed.

I say, WTF?


...the BBC report

...the SpaceWeather gallery

...the SkyandTelescope gallery

...the map

UPDATE (11/1/07):

a nice close up of Holmes...



continuing updates...

Steorn Energy - Update

Hat tip to Free Energy Truth for this exclusive interview
with Sean McCarthy of Steorn.



Excerpt:

FE Truth: Surely politicians would be interested in the technology for lots of reasons.
Has Steorn ever been contacted by anyone in political positions?

Sean: We’ve been contacted by everybody from humanitarian groups to top range politicians, however we have taken the same position with all of them. We are not engaging with the political community or the industrial community until after validation.

FE Truth: Can you give us any news on Steorn’s African water pump project?

Sean: It’s an ongoing project. We have contracted a local engineering company to conduct water surveys and to design a one-fits-all water pump, (i.e. a water pumping system that can be used in multiple sites in Kenya) that work is ongoing, they haven’t finalized their work. Effectively what we will be providing them is the power to drive this system.

FE Truth: "In your opinion does Orbo create or extract energy?"

Sean: It’s a question of views. I would say that, in the same way as there is a mass/energy equivalent there is also a form of time/energy equivalent and whether you consider that energy creation or conversion is a matter of semantics. The explanation behind Orbo is that ÄT can equal E as simple as that.

Excerpt - The Book Of The New Sun

When I had first come to realize, as a boy, that the green circle of the moon was in fact a sort of island hung in the sky, whose color derived from forests, now immemorially old, planted in the earliest days of the race of Man, I had formed an intention of going there, and had added to it all the other worlds of the universe as I came in time to realize their existence. I had abandoned that wish as a part (I thought) of growing up, when I learned that only people whose positions in society appeared to me unattainably high ever succeeded in leaving Urth.

Now that old longing was rekindled again, and though it seemed to have grown more absurd still with the passage of the years (for surely the little apprentice I had been had more chance of flashing between the stars at last than the hunted outcast I had become) it was immensely firmer and stronger because I had learned in the intervening time the folly of limiting desire to the possible. I would go, I was resolved. For the remainder of my life I would be sleeplessly alert for any opportunity, however slight. Already I had found myself once alone with the mirrors of Father Inire; then Jonas, wiser by far than I, had without hesitation cast himself on the tide of photons. Who could say that I would never find myself before those mirrors again?

- Gene Wolfe, The Sword of the Lictor, The Book of the New Sun

Window To The Hooke

Most have never heard of him...



Those, like myself, who've read The Baroque Cycle,
remember Robert Hooke fondly.

Hat tip to the TimesOnline for calling our attention to:

"
The papers of one of Britain’s greatest scientists, which were lost for centuries and saved for the nation in a £1 million sale last year, become available to read online today.

The innovative “digital folio” provides unprecedented public access to hundreds of pages of manuscript notes and minutes kept by Robert Hooke, who is sometimes described as Britain’s Leonardo da Vinci.

The remarkable collection contains Hooke’s minutes of early meetings of the Royal Society, taken while he was curator of experiments and then secretary of the national academy of science, between 1661 and 1692.

They record many of the scientist’s own experiments and others conducted by figures such as Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Christopher Wren, as well as the disputes and rivalries that arose among the founding fathers of British science.

Hooke’s achievements included Hooke’s law of elasticity, Hooke’s universal joint, and discoveries in microscopy including the cellular structure of plants. He invented the iris diaphragm in cameras, the balance wheel in watches, and coined the word 'cell'.
"

Brighten The Blackout

Heck, I hate to see a story with such a happy ending blacked out.

Copy That

www.letssaythanks.com


(chose the last of the message options, 'other')

"We're strangers. But you're fighting for me, for your country, for all of us. I know sometimes the reasons for your struggle are contested, and argued.

Whatever the preambles that led you to where you are now, whatever the stories history will speak of your actions, your sacrifice and courage ennobles all of us, inspires every one of us.

You are believed. We believe in you."

Exile Hat Tip

Howdy!
Yo!
здравствулте!

I was just reading one of my more favorite and obscure sites,
THE EXILE, a Moscow-based alternative newspaper.

It's kinda like our THE ONION,
but funnier in the way of Charles Bronson playing "Flight Lt. Danny Velinski
'The Tunnel King'" in The Great Escape.

The Exile is also the home of one my top five columnists,
Gary Brecher - The War Nerd (as I've mentioned in previous posts).

Their front page article,
COLD BULLSHIT: Ten Piles of "New Cold War" Crap,
had me laughing and learning.

Ya see, as all of you of course know, because I repeatedly repeat and reiterate and sometimes even reply to myself in schizophrenic conversations with myself....
there is more news and information to be had than just from mainstream american media. (Even if it is from a sarcastic paper embedded in red-faced Russia,
"history is repeated first as tragedy, and then as farce.")

Now go my children, and laugh and play with the annoying amount of links I have presented you. Enjoy the sunlit fields of indian summer innocence.

End of Line.

This Night's Day

Will we march with the monks of Burma,
Each foot light and heavy with complex purity

Will we squat only with the denizens of
Entertained America,
Before the stippling glow of a single boxed vision



What star do we follow,
What star-found members follow us

What Will will have its way with us

What face do we turn to this near hallowed time,
This harvesting moon





----------------------------------------------------


(Happy return to this special certain spot in Earth's orbit, my V!)

Do Not Avert Your Eyes, Continue To Watch The Skies

Anyone notice the sky falling in Peru?



Hundreds of people have suffered headaches, nausea, and respiratory problems after an object from space - believed to be a meteorite - crashed in southern Peru.





--------------------------------------------------

Best keep an eye on the news...
for a martian-assembled tripodic death walker kicking off the invasion,
or maybe the emergence of 'space flu'...

whatever it turns out to be,
stay in FEAR,
and check your shoelaces,
again.

Current Events / Science Report / Take That Gum Out Of Your Mouth!

ok ok... settle down in the back there...
You will be tested later on this material.



Astronomers have mapped the positions of vast, invisible isles of dark matter in the sky, within which normal "bright" matter galaxies are embedded like glittering gems. The three-dimensional map spans not only space, but also time, and stretches back to when the universe was only about half its present age.

Dark matter is a mysterious hypothetical substance that is thought not to interact with light photons and is thus invisible to current detection instruments.

. . .

Not everyone is convinced that the new map reveals the presence of dark matter. Some skeptics think there is a good reason dark matter is invisible: It doesn't exist.

According to these scientists, an alternative explanation for the universe's mass discrepancy is that gravity does not operate equally in all parts of the universe, as is predicted by Newton and Einstein.

"The authors here converted their observed wiggles into matter density using Einsteinian formula," said HongSheng Zhao, a researcher at the University of St. Andrews in the UK, about the new map. "If we take a different formula, we would get somewhat different densities or clumps."

Zhao is an advocate of a theory of modified gravity called TeVeS, in which gravity is stronger in certain regions of space than others. In these gravity-boosted regions, gravitational lensing would work differently.

Until a dedicated mission is launched to measure the law of gravity in weak gravity environments, far away from the influence of the Sun and planets, such possibilities cannot be ruled out, Zhao said in an email interview.

"If the law does have a factor depending on the environment, then it could explain away much of dark matter," he said.

-------------------------------------------------


Radio Frequencies Help Burn Salt Water



An Erie cancer researcher has found a way to burn salt water, a novel invention that is being touted by one chemist as the "most remarkable" water science discovery in a century.

The radio frequencies act to weaken the bonds between the elements that make up salt water, releasing the hydrogen, Roy said. Once ignited, the hydrogen will burn as long as it is exposed to the frequencies, he said.

The discovery is "the most remarkable in water science in 100 years," Roy said.

"This is the most abundant element in the world. It is everywhere," Roy said. "Seeing it burn gives me the chills."

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Holy crap a video, this must be for real.


Ok, that's the bell. Before you all rush outta here like a freshly opened barrel of monkeys, let me just say, I'm proud of you.

I think we really learned something today.

11:11:11

Numbers between zero and one zero.

Lives between zero and some unspoken measure.

Lives for us, by us, behind us.

To those who've sacrificed,
To those who will...
We Remember.

Even So

even so
even tide
even flux
every side

eventry
evention
dangerous sight
in sky tension

even told
even seen
even tried
strike the scene

underfell
evenflow
wash the mine
wear the soul

even felt
eventual
even forgotten
ever for

fulcrums riding
upon themselves
shifting worlds
amongst God’s shelves



even death
even breath
every finger buried and cleaved
in the mane, pale horse
in the vein, pale rider

boil us some tea
boil us the sea
even though
even so

break the band, burn the stand
find the tiger, break the toe
even though
even so

find the pockets for the hand
turn away, colors from the bow
even though
it rages
even so
it fades

evenly evening comes
even though
even so

The While

And upon the face of fear
I cast the dream,
the memory,
the moorless knowledge
of heroes and friends
and Baskervilles.

Funny how little we
know of the effect
of the smallest moments of love.

Timeless legends affecting generations of life,
from the littlest twitch of compassion,
interpretation and sacrifice.

Girthing ourselves in light,
finally dreaming with one eye,
we can hear the wells speak of older waters,
and wishes... fulfilled with a sigh.

Do drink from the spoon that is offered,
from the quiet hand.

Do tilt the same offering
from the center of your heart.

Do see,
Do smile,
As we all wonder together
The face, the bravery, the saintly laugh,

The while.

'Let's Save Up A Jar Of Money' - Doughty

Review combustion
Unsettled hydration breeds
And breathes
And bleeds in melody
And time is for finding

When you have the self conscious DNA
And we are offered a tray
A display
To take our minds away from choice
Away and false feeling

And we will reel
I hate to drop the bucket
But the well is spent
Truth is, the rail is gonna get bent.
And the road won’t run,
And then

And tomorrow we’ll remember the sun
And the one
In the sight, in the seeing.
Away from flies in the jar
The rides in the car
The lives in the bar.

'Bottle up the sauce.
Down, put it down.'

The Issue Is Material

It's nice to see the good side of science,

the savior side to Man's imaginings,

and the upside to trying to win a bet.


Witness! Frozen Smoke


If you follow what NASA's recent probe, Stardust, was using to capture
tiny grains of material in space, you have already heard of 'Aerogel'.

But I had no idea of the further implications of this stuff.

Go read the article. This could be one of the more poignant signposts
on the road to the interior of the 21st century.

Pay Attention, Damn It

"The Roman Republic fell for many reasons, but three reasons are worth remembering: declining moral values and political civility at home, an overconfident and overextended military in foreign lands, and fiscal irresponsibility by the central government."

...familiar...?



I want everyone to think for second.

I want everyone to consider how their life will change very soon.

The system is consuming itself.

It is becoming visible to even the blindest sheep.

This is not a new reality television show.

The Troubles are coming back to us and our land.

The reset button will slam down like a thunder clap.

The road to Mt. Doom is long,
and the Ring is heavy.

Not all of us are going to make it.




(as always, a daily read should be
The People's Economist,
a long-time link here on The Wall)

Condition Self / NoSelf

Sometimes,
whistling heals
and smoke doesn't reveal destruction.

The sound of something moving,
is the sound of air getting the heck outta the way.

Often, time tells itself.

No, you're not supposed to get anything out of this.
You are not the customer. You are not automatically right.

I like Carrie's attitude,
a good budding buddhist.

Kiss hello,
Kiss goodbye,
Hello you,
Goodbye you.


That's it.
Right there.

Did you miss it?

Do you still?