Friday, 31 January 2014

Cassini Sees Rigid, Weathered Ice Shell on Titan

“The best explanation for the findings is that Titan’s ice shell is rigid and that relatively small topographic features on the surface are associated with large roots extending into the underlying ocean,” explained study lead author Dr Douglas Hemingway of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and his colleagues, who reported the results in a paper published in the journal Nature.

The scientists used new data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. They were surprised to find a negative correlation between the gravity and topography signals on Titan.

“Normally, if you fly over a mountain, you expect to see an increase in gravity due to the extra mass of the mountain. On Titan, when you fly over a mountain the gravity gets lower. That’s a very odd observation,” said study co-author Prof Francis Nimmo, also from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

19th-century samurai training text deciphered

Can you imagine hundreds of Samurai charging towards you with their swords raised ready to strike? Can you feel the fear that would have been felt knowing you were up against these masters? Today it’s far to easy to pull a trigger, but the skills these guys had surely put them up there with the best of the best. With a bullet, things are over in seconds and from great distances, but a sword is a different matter.

A training text, used by a martial arts school to teach members of the bushi (samurai) class, has been deciphered, revealing the rules samurai were expected to follow and what it took to truly become a master swordsman.

The text is called Bugei no jo, which means “Introduction to Martial Arts” and is dated to the 15th year of Tenpo (1844). Written for samurai students about to learn Takenouchi-ryū, a martial arts system, it would have prepared students for the challenges awaiting them.

“These techniques of the sword, born in the age of the gods, had been handed down through divine transmission. They form a tradition revered by the world, but its magnificence manifests itself only when one’s knowledge is ripe,” part of the text reads in translation. “When [knowledge] is mature, the mind forgets about the hand, the hand forgets about the sword,” a level of skill that few obtain and which requires a calm mind. [See Images of the Last Century of Samurai Swordsmen

In 1844, only members of the Samurai class were allowed to receive martial arts training. Szabó explained in an email to LiveScience that this class was strictly hereditary and there was little opportunity for non-samurai to join it.

The newly translated text sets out 12 rules that members of theTakenouchi-ryū school were expected to follow. Some of them, including “Do not leave the path of honor!” and “Do not commit shameful deeds!” were ethical rules samurai were expected to follow.

The text offers only a faint glimpse at the secret techniques the students would have learned at this school, separating the descriptions into two parts called “Deepest Secrets of Fistfight” and “Deepest Secrets of Fencing.”

Scientists Discover World’s Largest Fish

More than 160 million years ago, even as dinosaurs were roaming Earth, a massive plankton-trawling fish known as Leedsichthys problematicus swam its oceans. Scientists, who have known of the fish’s existence since the late 19th century, could only guess at its size due to the poor quality of the fossil specimens that survived. But now, after the discovery of a nearly complete skeleton buried in a quarry near Peterborough, England, a Scottish and Canadian team of researchers has confirmed this week that the Leedsichthys was nearly twice the size scientists had previously believed, and could grow to a whopping 55 feet in length

The journey to this week’s revelations actually began with a chance discovery several years ago. Two geology students were working on a project at the quarry outside Whittlesea when they spotted fragments of bone sticking out of the rocks. When a team led by Professor Jeff Liston of the National Museums of Scotland unearthed the remains, it turned out to be a nearly complete skeleton of Leedsichthys problematicus, which lived during the Jurassic era, more than 160 million years ago.

Moon Water Discovery Hints at Mystery Source Deep Underground

Evidence of water spotted on the moon’s surface by a sharp-eyed spacecraft likely originated from an unknown source deep in the lunar interior, scientists say.

The find — made by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument aboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 probe — marks the first detection of such “magmatic water” from lunar orbit and confirms analyses performed recently on moon rocks brought to Earth by Apollo astronauts four decades ago, researchers said.

“Now that we have detected water that is likely from the interior of the moon, we can start to compare this water with other characteristics of the lunar surface,” study lead author Rachel Klima, of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., said in a statement. [Water on the Moon: The Search in Photos]

Mystery of the ancient kingdom discovered in Nepal where thousands of caves are carved 155ft off the ground

I think Dr. R. Schoch may be the man for this mystery

Hidden within the Himalayas, 155ft from the ground, these man-made cavesare one of the World’s greatest archaeological mysteries.

Thousands of holes are carved into the fragile, sandy-coloured cliff in a gorge so large it dwarfs the Grand Canyon.

The astonishing number of caves, some dug into the cliffside, others tunnelled from above are thousands of years old but who built them and why remains a mystery.

It is also not known how people climbed into the caves which are dug into a cliff 155-foot above the valley floor.

PNG find prompts human migration rethink

49,000-year-old artefacts have been unearthed in PNG, suggesting a rethink of human migration patterns.

ANCIENT ARTEFACTS UNEARTHED IN the highlands of Papua New Guinea provide some of the earliest evidence of human settlement of Sahul, the primordial landmass that once joined Papua New Guinea with Australia.

Charred nut shells from pandanus trees, fragments of animal bone and the remains of stone axes were found in the remote Ivane Valley of south-eastern Papua New Guinea – near the famous Kokoda Track – by a team led by archaeology Professor Glenn Summerhayes from the University of Otago, New Zealand.

These artefacts, which have been dated to between 49,000 and 44,000 years old, may prompt a rethink of the traditional view that the prehistoric migration of people throughout the world took place along the coasts.

“This is among the earliest evidence of human habitation in this part of the world, or indeed any place outside Africa, India and the Middle East,” Glenn told Australian Geographic. “Many models for the movements of people argue for a colonisation route along the coast, arguing that people were pre-adapted to a coastal way of life…Our evidence shows such a pre-adaptation would have been short lived as people moved into highland valleys as soon as they got out of their canoes.”

Ancient Astronaut theory

This is quite a difficult subject to get into for many people, yet there are others who swear by it.

The ancient astronaut theory is based on the idea that there were once visitors to this planet from elsewhere and that we have recorded their visits in art around the world and over a long period of time. It seems that of all the different cultures, from all of our time periods, there has been some form of visitation going on.

Many will argue it is due to our ancestors having drug fueled experiences, or dream states, that have brought about these images, yet why so many? Why is it that this is a common theme? Why did nobody else dream, or see, something completely different?

The only answer for that is tthat they all saw the same thing, or variations of the same thng, in other words different races of visitor.

i’m sure you have seen some of these image but let’s take a look at one in particular for the moment.

This painting is from a cave in Val Camonica, Italy and has been dated back to about 10,000 B.C.

Take a momment to have a good look at them, then consider this, take a look at their feet.. they are not flat on the ground, so to speak, now look at their knees, all are bent as though they are not supporting themselves, so both the feet and the knees suggest they are not stood up.. It would appear that they are actually floating.. maybe in a no gravity environment such as space for example. We do not need to comment on the apparent use of a helmet of some description. I think the feet and the knees are part of the key here. Now look at something wel are all familiar with.

Can you see how the legs and feet ‘hang’. The pose is identical to those in the painting. The helmet goes without saying, yet the two characters also appear to have tools in their hands. Were they doing repairs on their ship in space?

There are many more examples that suggest similar, yet for me, this is most compelling due to the legs and feet. But it also raises more questions, like how were they observed in that position? Was the artist taken on board a ship and was able to view these guys from a window, just as we do, or a camera even? The mind boggles!

Anyway, should you wish to follow up on this with some further study, then there are some stunning sites full of info out there. Here are a few;

http://www.crystalinks.com/ancientastronauts.html

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/vida_alien/alien_AAtheory05.htm

http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/column.php?id=248152

http://www.world-mysteries.com/aa.htm

Ancient Astronaut theory

NASA Captures Radar Images of Huge Asteroid Near Earth

NASA scientists captured detailed radar views of a huge asteroid as it whizzed by Earth earlier this month.

The new radar images show the asteroid 2005 WK4 as it passed Earth on Aug. 8 at a safe distance of 1.93 million miles (3.1 million kilometers), which is about 8.2 times the distance between Earth and the moon. The images revealed the large asteroid to be between 660 and 980 feet across (200 to 300 meters), NASA officials explained in a statement.

NASA captured the asteroid images by using the agency’s Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif., a 230-foot (70 m) antenna that can be used to conduct radar astronomy as well as track spacecraft in deep space.

“Radar is a powerful technique for studying an asteroid’s size, shape, rotation state, surface features and surface roughness, and for improving the calculation of asteroid orbits,” NASA officials said. “Radar measurements of asteroid distances and velocities often enable computation of asteroid orbits much further into the future than if radar observations weren’t available.”

Be careful out there!

As much as it pains me to add this rather sour news to this site, I feel that the more informed we are the better chance we have. So call this a precautionary message rather than the doom and gloom of what it might possibly turn into.

I’ve been follwing things for a while now, global events and the like, and have kept one eye on this lot whilst getting on with usual stuff, such as living..

But when you get to see some potentialy nasty things all in one boat you begin to ask yourself if something is about to hit the proverbial.

Firstly, let’s go over to Fukushima… We all know the trouble there.. the nuclear power station that is in dire need of a massive and urgent rescue.

Fukushima in Freefall: Radioactive Water Filters Taken offline, Tepco in Desperation as Leaks Just won’t Stop

After a 29-month cover-up, the Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) is now calling for international help and has all but admitted Fukushima’s radiation leaks are spiraling out of control. In addition to the leaking water storage units that are unleashing hundreds of tons of radioactive water each day, Tepco now says 50% of its contaminated water filtration capability has been taken offline due to corrosion.

The result is that radiation leaks are escalating out of control and attempted remediation efforts are faltering. This is in addition to the fact the Japanese government’s attempted brainwashing propaganda campaign has also been exposed. It attempted to convince people that if they drank beer or smiled, they would be immune to radiation poisoning. (Yes, this is how desperate they’ve become…)

From day one, the Fukushima fiasco has been all about denial: Deny the leaks, shut off the radiation sensors, black out the news and fudge the science. Yet more than two years later, the denials are colliding with the laws of physics, and Tepco’s cover stories are increasingly being blown wide open.

As Businessweek.com now reports, Japan seems to have no practical interest in solving this problem:

Then we havethis issue with Syria.

The UK and the USA seem hell bent on going in there and starting a big match of “who’s got the bigger muscles”.

Problem is, Russia has warned both about doing anything at all over there.

At some point, according to all sources, someone in Syria let off a chemical weapon and now the gloves are off as the Syrian goverment say it was the rebels, whilst the rebels say it was the Government..

Meanwhile, nobody is asking who provided the chemical weapons in the first place.. If anyone should be considered for an arse whooping, then it should be those who manufactured the chemical, built the weapon and supplied it.. then go after those who let it off..

A BBC news ticker has just announced a decision will be made this week..so..

To top all that off, and in what seem to be perfect timing, the USA iis about to reach its debt ceiling and will not be able to borrow anymore in order to contnue running the country..

US Treasury to reach debt ceiling in mid-October

But wait! What’s this?

The USA seems to be aiming its financial troubles at the citizens of the USA..

PENTAGON PREPPING FOR ‘LARGE SCALE ECONOMIC BREAKDOWN’

High level government documents reveal that the Pentagon is preparing in full force for ‘large scale economic meltdown’ and massive revolt via the US public — exactly what we are criticized for doing.

You see the Pentagon and agencies like the Department of Defense (DoD) are in full scale emergency readiness in their own words for ‘cataclysmic’ events that are believed to ultimately ignite riots in the face of chaos and economic collapse, and it’s all out in the open. And it’s one of the reasons that we’re seeing such a massive amount of spying on activists of all kinds, alternative news writers and personalities, and basically anyone preparing for themselves.

So where are we headed?

To me, it looks like a war is about to break out that will allow the collapse of all monetary systems and the fall of Fukushima which will all lead to a massive wipe out of Humanity.

Then, once the smoke has cleared, those left will be microchipped, there will be one global currency and one global power. Looks real nasty doesn’t it?

BBut yeaah.. it only looks that way right now.. there is a chance it might not happen..

Well, you know what they say… there’s always a BUT!

Be careful out there!

The face on Mars really is a face on Mars!!?!?

On the surface of Mars lies a mound of, well, Mars! Can’t quite say a mound of earth!

But this is no ordinary mound of Mars. This mound has a design to it. It is a design that can only be compared to one earthly image, the eye of Horus. Or the eye of Ra as some prefer, but they are almost the same thing as they represent two forms of the same deity.

Horus is one of the oldest and most significant deities in ancient Egyptian religion and the symbol that most relates to him is known around the world. He is either seen as the eye we know or as a bird of prey, there is doubt over exactly which one, or he is seen as a bird headed man. He is also being associated with Mars

“…the Egyptian God HORUS is identical with planet MARS. And that means that all the Gods inside of the myth are celestial bodies, in the same way as in the Epic of Creation. So this myth describes a very special cosmic event.”

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/marte/esp_marte_18.htm

“The sky god Horus protecting the red (?) disk of Mars (NOT THE SUN!) which at this particular time was named Ramesses (‘Fashioned by Re’), personified here as the young king. Photo credit: Jon Bosworth”

http://www.gks.uk.com/Horus-falcon-god/

So what has this all got to do with the face on Mars and the potential of it being a real representation of what everyone thinks it is.. A face? How does the mirroring of it, and showing a lions face, fit into this picture as well? What else do we need to help us prove that what we see is what we have really got?

We need more things that can actually connect in such a way that there can be little room for any doubt. But even with these things, are we really happy to admit that there is a connection or is it all still so strange that we cannot yet accept it as a possible reality? These questions and many more have been flooding my head for a long time, but now, I feel more ready than ever and am discovering new connections almost on a weekly basis, as I have said before, and this week something came my way that has helped me enforce the possibilities listed above.

This picture came my way courtesy of NASA doing all the leg work and Gary Leggiere…aka…MARS REVEALER for the actual find and posting of.

This image is on the surface of Mars and it is the eye of Horus.

How am I so sure of that? From my findings in the Chauvet cave art. The 30,000 year old art has led me on a rather wild ride these last seven months and I know it is not over yet, not by a long shot! I know there is far more to discover in the art. But what could possibly be in the art that this Martian image could relate to?

Well, obviously the eye of Horus, of course.

Now to show you the points of interest as to how these image match. There are a few pieces that give us a deeper idea as to how they ‘connect’. This is more than a ‘looks similar’ type of match as you will see in this next set.

What are we exactly looking at? Firstly, the yellow circles, they are showing the ‘shark tail’ effect given to the art work. It is a sloping tail that ends in a point rather than the square ended version we also see which is in the blue circle and seen on many other versions.

The green circle is the barely visible ‘physical’ eye that we see. Then, the wavy blue line is clearly seen in the last image as a matching wavy blue line. These factors placed together can only mean that the image on Mars was designed and was made to resemble something that was either from Mars or travelled to Mars via Earth or some other variation. Perhaps Earth was the final destination before departing for somewhere else and they left their mark here? The second image 30,000 years old and can be found in the Chauvet cave art and is easily spotted.

Now we shall continue with the actual face on Mars itself and its connection to the Chauvet cave.

In my book, I presented a face. This face is seen in a panel of lions and only half the face is showing. So I mirrored that face and what I found was astonishing.

This humanoid face is rather bizarre, yet it is there, no denying it. Why was it painted into the art? Anyway, I felt that there was something important about it being in the set of lions, and I could not work out what. Out of curiosity I turned the image upside down and found more, a lion, as you will see in this set.

Due to a lot of other things that I have found in the cave art, I realised that I may be looking at something that is not on this world. I was seeing the face on Mars. I was aware that some thought that the two mirrored halves of the Mars face created a humanoid and a lion. Well, this cave face is mirrored and has two halves, so, here in this set we see how they compare to the face on Mars. I have included one of the original versions of the face and one of the so called ‘more up to date’ version.

Some may think we’re seeing what we want to see in land formations that have been there for millions of years, but I feel we might need to throw that idea out. If anyone was capable of travelling so far to reach two separate planets you can bet they have the skill to be able to transform terrain. There are a few more images from the surface of earth that I was led to by the Chauvet cave art, one of which is actually shaped using the land itself. In this image we see some form of creature, a bird maybe or a seal or possibly even a plesiosaur, but the point is, this can be seen from about 60km up at this scale and surely it cannot be pure luck that the hilly terrain that forms the shape is natural. Also, this creature is not alone in the area.

Therefore, can we now say that the face on Mars, and lots of other things we think we see on the surface, really are what we think we are seeing? Apart from going there, this is one of the best examples I can think of (this and the pyramids) and for the amount of content that relates to images on Earth, well, this is where you come in. I’m already sure we have either been visited before or were so advanced that we left this planet or a combination of the two. Now it is up to you to review the evidence and take your step forwards into what was known and what we are re-learning.

For more on my research into all of the Chauvet cave art you can grab your copy of the book “Chauvet, the dream unlocked from my website in that link.

Thank you for reading and feel free to comment below

For further content from my book, check this link and its following page.

The face on Mars really is a face on Mars!!?!?

One of the biggest mysteries in Russian history – What or who slaughtered nine hikers?

This is the first time I’ve ever heard of this and it truly is stunning. They obviously have done a good job in keeping it as quiet as they possibly could and maybe now we can bring it out into the open and give it the exposure it rightly deserves.

We’ve all heard of cattle mutilations, but this goes one step further. The condition that these hikers were found is appalling and shocking. How could nine people become so scared that they had to cut their way out of a tent then run barefoot through snow to their doom?

In 1959 a group of experienced hikers had set out upon one of Siberias mountains until something whent incredibly wrong. After it was realised the hikers were mising, a search team found the tent with its outer doors still buttoned up and warm clothing, equipment and other items still inside the tent. The temperature outside was around the minus twenty four degree mark.. and the hikers were barefoot..

from here, we read this…

Lev Ivanov, could find no answers. He concluded in his hastily composed report that all nine deaths had been caused by what he described as ‘an unknown elemental force which they were unable to overcome’.

Privately, he told people he thought they’d been killed by aliens in a UFO.

When the bodies were found, they were described as looking as though they had aged, skin colour was different and one had had the tongue removed, another had skull damage so severe it looked like they’d been in a car crash, others had ribs crushed and there was an overall recording of radiation present.It appears, from this combined image that they had all run quite a distance before things cae to a horrible end;

Although the barefoot prints of the hikers had been found in the snow leading away from the tent, there was no other trace of anything, or anyone, coming anywhere near the tent. So what gave them such a scare? It would seem that whatever frightened them so badly was inside the tent and unbottoning the tent to escape would have taken too long in such a panic.

From this rather impressive sketch, we can almost get a sense of what occurred over that time period. We see them leaving the base camp, setting up camp out in the field and then, according to the direction the footprints are pointing, they all headed off in one direction. Four were found dead at this first point near the tree line of a forest. It seems the group then almost doubled back on themselves. Two more fell just inside the tree line and then the final three were taken down in what looks like one action as they all face the same way as though hit from behind. Only with further images and the full detailed report of how they were found can this idea of the final events be confirmed, but this image seems to say a lot about it.

From other images, the distance they ran, some barefoot others in just socks, was 1.5km in the snow.

It would seem that the idea of alien visitors doing this might be the only thing left to explain this mystery. But it’s not the normal thing we hear about.. When was the last time you ever heard of anything remotely like this?

A mystery that may never be solved.

Apparently, this is the last photograph to be taken found on the roll of film inside the camera the team used.. It is yet to be explained as to what we are seeing, if anything.

This site gives us a fantastic report on the events. Mostly taken from the diary of the team plus autopsy reports etc.

The Dyatlov pass incident

One of the biggest mysteries in Russian history – What or who slaughtered nine hikers?

Thursday, 30 January 2014

Hunt for Intelligent Aliens Focuses on Faint Laser Flashes

I, for one, am always open to new methodsof communication and laser lights seemed to be one of the best and easiest methods we could use.. The light travels fast, can be seen from almost all directions and will keep travelling so that our position can be pinpointed..

But are we ready for the results? Can we really say we’d be happy to receive a contact? Would we really tell the world that we had found something of this nature being pointed at us? If history is anything to by, then we might have a hard time getting to that..

When it comes to detecting laser pulses aliens might shoot at Earth to attract our attention, scientists now find they can detect signals as faint as a single photon of light every few tiny fractions of a second.

Astronomers have gazed at the skies for decades searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. Lasers can in principle help transmit messages over extraordinary distances, but while scientists have monitored a large number of stars looking for alien laser signals — for instance, facilities at Harvard and Princeton scanned more than 10,000 sun-like stars for several years — no evidence for any have been found yet.

Prior attempts to look for extraterrestrial laser signals concentrated on isolated bursts of light, ones so extraordinarily intense they are likely artificial. In contrast, laser scientist Walter Leeb at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria and his colleagues are focusing on repetitive, faint laser signals received over a sufficiently long amount of time. [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Aliens]

“We assumed that aliens would use the simplest possible way of attracting our attention, one already implemented in seafaring since ancient times using lighthouses — that is, periodic light pulses,” Leeb said.

Hunt for Intelligent Aliens Focuses on Faint Laser Flashes

Fossil insects tweak date of deadly “Atlantis” eruption

well, that’s great news! But what about Atlantis? Where was it, if it ever existed? Why does this report feel the need to link an erruption to Atlantis? I have read how some people think Atlantis was in the mediterranean whilst others argue it’s the reason we call the atlantic ocean the atlantic ocean.. becasue Atlantis was there.

How can we be so sure that this particular erruption was THE one? Perhaps, the truth behind the legend will one day come to the surface and we may be rather surprised by what we find.. I certainly hope so..

An article by Colin, similar to this one, appeared in the London Daily Mail on Saturday, August 21, 2004.

Atlantis in the Mediterranean?

IN a month’s time, I intend to set off with a team of explorers in search of the lost continent of Atlantis.

Our destination is not, as you might suppose, the mid-Atlantic, or even (as I once believed) the continent of Antarctica. It is the island of Cyprus. For new evidence seems to indicate that the lost Atlantis is the southern part of the island, which was submerged more than eleven thousand years ago, when the Atlantic ocean burst though the dam of mountains that stretched between Gibraltar and North Africa, and created the Mediterranean.

A new study of insect pests found in an ancient storage jar on the Greek island of Santorini suggests the major volcanic eruption that took place there around 1600 B.C.—and which may have inspired the legend of Atlantis—happened in early summer.

The “Atlantis” eruption was one of the most significant volcanic eruptions in human history. The blast is credited for not only ending the Minoan civilization, but also for affecting ancient Egypt and other communities around the eastern Mediterranean, explained Eva Panagiotakopulu, a palaeoecologist and fossil-insect expert at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

Based on previous evidence, scientists had concluded that the eruption happened sometime between 1627 to 1600 B.C. But there has been one important and unresolved question about the event: What season did it take place in?

In a new study, published in a recent issue of the journal Naturwissenschaften, Panagiotakopulu and her team now say that based on insect remains found in a jar containing seeds of sweet peas discovered at the Bronze Age settlement of Akrotiri, they think the eruption occurred sometime between June to early July.

It was only during these months, the scientists say, that the insect, a species of bean weevil, would have had an opportunity to infest the crops and end up in the storage area.

“There is a short window from early to mid summer just after threshing which could justify the assemblage [of insects] recovered,” Panagiotakopulu explained in an email.

Tweets printed by home-built ticker-tape machine

This is one of those things you buy if you’re rich, bored, or happy to put up with the tick tick tick of the machine printing your tweets.. What’s the point? What do you do with the paper afterwards? Put it in a box and into a storage cupboard but remembering to write down a brief description of tweets, time received and who from?

Yeah, it might be a cool little toy to show off to your friends.. It could give you the experience of how things were donebut not sure if I would want one.. It’s bad enough having to buy ink for a modern printer.. with this you’d be forever running out to get a roll of ticker tape..

It’s a nice piece of art, histry and modern technology but i think we could have found something more useful to do with our time.. Saying that, I doubt I would be able to build one

This reminds me of he Titanic II that is being built and planned to sail in 2016..

First testing of Titanic II to take place

Are we really that bored that we cannot come up with something original to do?

The ticker tweeter report..

A web developer from Cumbria has built a modern version of a 19th Century ticker-tape machine which prints out tweets.

The ‘twittertape’ device was built from scratch using second-hand parts from clocks and other sources, said creator Adam Vaughan.

The wooden base hides a thermal printer and a micro-controller, he added.

Share prices were traditionally distributed via telegraph lines and printed out on ticker-tape machines.

They were invented in 1867 and some original machines are now considered to be high value antiques.

“I have a keen interest in history and have always been fascinated by ticker-tape machines as a design piece,” Mr Vaughan told the BBC.

Future telescope to be 10X sharper than Hubble telescope

An enormous mirror will be cast inside a scorching-hot furnace Saturday, marking a key milestone in the development of a future telescope that will collect more light than any instrument built to date.

The Giant Magellan Telescope mirror, the third of the seven primary mirrors planned for the observatory, will be 27 feet across and weigh 20 tons when complete. It will be forged from chunks of borosilicate glass subjected to temperatures of 2,140 degrees Fahrenheit inside a rotating furnace Saturday at the University of Arizona’s Steward Observatory Mirror Lab in Tucson.

Once cast and polished, these seven mirrors will be arranged to function as a single mirror 80 feet in diameter, giving the $700 million GMT a resolving power 10 times greater than that of NASA’s famous Hubble Space Telescope once the new instrument is up and running in northern Chile in 2020. [See more images of the Giant Magellan Telescope (Gallery)]

Ancient mound in Greece fuels heady speculation

Is Greece about to strike gold.. again?

After the news of the pyramid structure we find ourselves possibly looking at the grave of Alexander the great..

If it is, then what a find that will be.. One of the types of finds that you hope would happen..

here is the report..

Greece’s Culture Ministry has warned against “overbold” speculation that an ancient artificial mound being excavated could contain a royal Macedonian grave or even Alexander the Great.

Site archaeologist Aikaterini Peristeri has voiced hopes of finding “a significant individual or individuals” within.

Pyramid in Argos, Greece

I recently posted about how there are global connections to many things, such as the Pyramids, around the world.

Global connections..

Turns out we may be having to add to the list of connectons on a weekly, if not daily, basis due to the immense amount of discoveries being made.

Here is one in Greece..

“When we hear the word pyramids, our minds immediately go to Egypt; however there are pyramids scattered all over the world : America, Europe, Asia and India. One of those pyramids that few know is the pyramid of Hellenikon in Argos, Greece.

The ancient Greek traveller and geographer Pausanias, in his Description of Greece, refers to the Pyramid of Hellinikon close to Argos.”

On the way from Argos to Epidauria there is on the right a building made very like a pyramid, and on it in relief are wrought shields of the Argive shape. Here took place a fight for the throne between Proetus and Acrisius; the contest, they say, ended in a draw, and a reconciliation resulted afterwards, as neither could gain a decisive victory. The story is that they and their hosts were armed with shields, which were first used in this battle. For those that fell on either side was built here a common tomb, as they were fellow citizens and kinsmen. Pausanias: 2.25″

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Pyramid in Argos, Greece

Detroit goes to the dogs

Detroit is in trouble. But why? Why has this large city come to an almost grinding halt? With the car industry almost wiped out of the city, there has been very little reason to go there. Yes, there are still jobs there but not enough to support all of those that once garced the area.

Why is it being left to ruin? Is it part of some plan of getting everyone out of some cities in order to bundle them together in a mega city? The type of mega city we see in he English comic book stories of Judge Dredd. I read once of a super highway stretching from Mexico to Canada whilst the vast majority of the USA was left to itself and allowed to return to the wiilds, whilst all the people live in mega cities.

But this is just the tip of the iceberg. There is a major problem there right now and one that will get so out of control that we will be highering gun men to go and hunt down and destroy packs of wild dogs.. and these dogs will spread. It reminds me of the mini series “the last train” where a group of people find themselves in a future time and packs of wild dogs take on the challenge of killing a couple of people and eating them.. rather succesfully too!

this clip may not be suitable for everyone, but it is here as an example of what might happen in Detroit pretty soon.

“As the human exodus from bankrupt Detroit picks up speed, packs of feral dogs are overrunning the city’s streets and abandoned buildings.

Bloomberg reports that as many as 50,000 canines prowl through the Motor City’s darkened roads and condemned houses, causing serious problems for the few people that remain.

“It was almost post-apocalyptic,” said Amanda Arrington of the Humane Society, who visited the city last October. “There are no businesses, nothing except people in houses and dogs running around.”

Animal control personnel are hamstrung by the city’s shoestring budget, and overcrowded shelters are forced to euthanize more than 70 percent of the dogs brought in.

As dog owners abandon Detroit, many leave their canine companions to fend for themselves. The animals often form packs around a female in heat, and then go looking for trouble.

One police officer told a story about a pack of 20 pooches found in the flooded basement of an abandoned home.

“The dogs were having a pool party,” he said. “We went in and fished them out.”

The basement initially flooded after thieves hacked out the water pipes.

The threat of dog attacks have forced the Postal Service to temporarily halt delivery in certain neighborhoods. One mail carrier recalled using clouds of pepper spray to disperse swarms of small but savage hounds.

“It’s like Chihuahuaville,” she said.

One woman was attacked four months ago by two strays while sitting on her porch. The animals tore off the woman’s scalp during the assault.

Detroit’s problems extend beyond their canine infestation. The city declared bankruptcy last July, possesses over $18 billion in long-term debt and has run up a deficit of nearly $400 million this year.”

Detroit goes to the dogs

“Absolutely Every One” Bluefin Tuna Tested In California Waters Contaminated with Fukushima Radiation

We noted more than a year ago:

The ocean currents head from Japan to the West Coast of the U.S.

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Of course, fish don’t necessarily stay still, either. For example, the Telegraph notes that scientists tagged a bluefin tuna and found that it crossed between Japan and the West Coast three times in 600 days:

And see this.

CNN reports today:

Low levels of radioactive cesium from Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident turned up in fish caught off California in 2011, researchers reported Monday.

The bluefin spawn off Japan, and many migrate across the Pacific Ocean. Tissue samples taken from 15 bluefin caught in August, five months after the meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi, all contained reactor byproducts cesium-134 and cesium-137 at levels that produced radiation about 3% higher than natural background sources

The Wall Street Journal quotes the studies’ authors:

“The tuna packaged it up and brought it across the world’s largest ocean,” said marine ecologist Daniel Madigan at Stanford University, who led the study team. “We were definitely surprised to see it at all and even more surprised to see it in every one we measured.”

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“We found that absolutely every one of them had comparable concentrations of cesium-134 and cesium-137,” said marine biologist Nicholas Fisher at Stony Brook University in New York state, who was part of the study group.

The bad news is that it is only going to get worse.

As Reuters points out:

Astronomers Discover New Earth-Sized Exoplanet Kepler 78b

An international team of astronomers reporting in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org) has discovered an Earth-sized exoplanet called Kepler 78b that orbits its parent star in a mere 8.5 hours.

The astronomers, led by Dr Buchhave from the University of Copenhagen, looked through more than 150,000 stars that were monitored by NASA’s Kepler Telescope. Their goal was to look for Earth-sized planets with very short orbital periods.

“We’ve gotten used to planets having orbits of a few days. But we wondered, what about a few hours? Is that even possible? And sure enough, there are some out there,” explained co-author Dr Joshua Winn of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kepler 78b is extremely close to its star – about 40 times closer than Mercury is to our Sun. Its orbital radius is only about 3 times the radius of the parent G-type star Kepler 78, also known as KIC 8435766.

The planet is most certainly not habitable, due to its extreme proximity to its host star.

'One Way Astronaut' Film Follows Aspiring Mars Colonists

A new documentary profiles the people who are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice: leaving Earth on a one-way trip to Mars.

The film, “One Way Astronaut,” tells the story of the Mars One mission to send colonists to Mars starting in 2023. It follows four of the nearly 80,000 aspiring astronauts who have applied for the mission, which is the brainchild of Dutch entrepreneur Bas Lansdorp.

“We are always looking to find engaging stories,” filmmaker Kai Dieho said. “Here you have a group of people willing to give up everything they have to be pioneers. There’s a lot of drama in there.” [Watch the film trailer for 'One Way Astronaut']

The full movie is available now in under a pay-per-view format.

The first applicant profiled is Stephan Guenther, a 44-year-old software engineer and pilot from Germany who has a wife and three kids. In the film, Guenther said it’s his dream to go to Mars, even though it means leaving his family behind.

Decorated boulder in United States reveals links to Early Bronze Age Ireland

Again, we see yet another item of archaeological interest that points at the fact that we were spread across the globe at some point and not just living in small groups using stones to scratch each others backs and make pretty pictures in caves.

Oh no, we were far more than that.. A lot more..

Posted recently was another set of examples which you can read about here.

“After 11 years of searching the Funk Heritage Museum, near Atlanta, Georgia, has identified the 11-foot long boulder decorated with ancient petroglyphs are being identical to those found along the Atlantic Coast in Ireland, which date from the Early Bronze Age.

The new discovery creates more questions about North America’s history than it answers.

Dr Joseph Kitchens, Director of the Funk Museum, on the campus of Reinhard University took over the challenge back in 2008 to find out where this massive boulder with concentric rings, circles, crosses and stars (what archaeologists call petroglyphs) carved into its side came from.

Having ruled out the more likely sources such as Native American Indians Kitchens cast his search wider and found his answer last week in Northern Ireland, according to reports in The Examiner.

Kitchens contacted the Irish Megalithic Organization and its founder, author Anthony Weir. It has been confirmed that this boulder in Georgia is identical to many found in Ireland. Weir has been documenting and photography petroglyphs in Ireland for over 30 years.”

Decorated boulder in United States reveals links to Early Bronze Age Ireland

Copper identified as culprit in Alzheimer's disease

Have you got old plumbing in your house?

At one time, we used to have lead pipes that fed our water supplies to us. Millions of us have copper pipes in our homes and workplaces. Over the last few years, there has a been a ‘silent promotion’ of plastic pipes for water feeds. You might have seenthem, black poly pipe for mains water into a building then red and blue pipes internally.

I wonder why these new pipes were introduced a few years back. Did someone know something back then and has just not said anything? If this copper poison is the cause of Alzheimers then why is there so very little media coverage on the subject?

“Copper appears to be one of the main environmental factors that trigger the onset and enhance the progression of Alzheimer’s disease by preventing the clearance and accelerating the accumulation of toxic proteins in the brain. That is the conclusion of a study appearing today in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“It is clear that, over time, copper’s cumulative effect is to impair the systems by which amyloid beta is removed from the brain,” said Rashid Deane, Ph.D., a research professor in the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) Department of Neurosurgery, member of the Center for Translational Neuromedicine, and lead author of the study. “This impairment is one of the key factors that cause the protein to accumulate in the brain and form the plaques that are the hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease.”

Copper’s presence in the food supply is ubiquitous. It is found in drinking water carried by copper pipes, nutritional supplements, and in certain foods such as red meats, shellfish, nuts, and many fruits and vegetables. The mineral plays an important and beneficial role in nerve conduction, bone growth, the formation of connective tissue, and hormone secretion.”

Copper identified as culprit in Alzheimer's disease

Wednesday, 29 January 2014

France plans on doubling organic farmland area by 2017

Recently, many people around the world have been up in arms against Monsanto and GMO crops/food. There is growing concern about the safety of these manufacatured sources of food. We have seen a flood of images where people are wearing full hazmat suits and spraying crops with pesticides. If these pesticides are safe to be sprayed on our food, why the need for a hazmat suit?

Many countries are now banning GMO/Monsanto items of all kinds and are foccusing on organic fostuffs. Of course, organic food is nothing new. We’ve been eating it for hundreds of thousands of years. At this time, though, the corporations are having a field day with the high prices on these organic foods. It is an artificially inflated price on something that we all have the right to.

The supermarket chains have cornered the market on food supplies tthrough the use of GMO foods and have wiped out much of the competition and have taken over farm lands and put many farmers out of business. Soon the supermarkets will be supplying us with all organic foods, but how will the prices reflect this in, what seems to be, a total scam.

These GMO crops and pesticides are being blamed on the vast amount of deaths in bee colonies. Without the bees, we are almost doomed.

France is taking a step forwards;

According to the country’s Agricultural Minister, France wants to double the area of farmland devoted to organic agriculture by 2017 to meet growing consumer demand through local production.

France is the European Union’s biggest agricultural producer and has lately seen rapid growth of organic framing, which, at the end of 2012, accounted for 3.7 percent of its farmland.

Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll said that they want to increase the amount of research and training in growing techniques and the amount of organic food available in outlets.

“We’re going to develop in such a way that we’ll increase volume while maintaining the level of quality,” he said. “I want the French (organic) sector to be a high-quality one.”

The French government plans to raise annual subsidies for organic farmers from 90 million euros to an average of 160 million euros between 2014 and 2020.

Officials said that attracting organic farmers remains a challenge due to the high yields and profitable market prices seen with conventional grain.

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France plans on doubling organic farmland area by 2017

Is comet Ison really a comet? or is it an alien Spacecraft?

There seems to be a bit of doubt as to what comet Ison really is.

A new video has been posted that has given a buzz to the internet.. The images are presented in such a way that makes some kind of sense to me, but I am not a photography expert or an ‘objects in space’ expert either.. I amsure that there are some of you out there who know exactly what this guy is talking about and it is upon you that we rely..

The images in the video seem to be hinting at comet Ison being three objects, or one object that appears to have three lumionous parts to it. What bothers me is how it still manages to have, what appears to be, a corona.

I’m quite excited about the comet and its flypast.. so much so that I put an interactive map of its journey on my site here;

http://www.chauvetdreams.co.uk/comet-ison/

So, because of this new video, here I am discussing this from another point of view.

Here is the video, and I would appreciate oppinions and/or facts in the comments section as I would like to get to the bottom of this.

I thought it might be lense flare or three extreme forward facing parts of the comet that are being lit up by the sun.. but I can only guess the best I can.

So, come in and throw your thoughts at this interesting video.

Is comet Ison really a comet? or is it an alien Spacecraft?

'Planet X?' Odd Orbits In Solar System May Mean Unseen Object, Astronomer Conjectures

A planet four times the size of Earth may be skirting the edges of the solar system beyond Pluto, according to new research. Too distant to be easily spotted by Earth-based telescopes, the unseen planet could be gravitationally tugging on small icy objects past Neptune, helping explain the mystery of those objects’ peculiar orbits.

The claim comes from Rodney Gomes, a noted astronomer at the National Observatory of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro. Gomes presented his recently completed computer models suggesting the existence of the distant planet at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Timberline Lodge, Ore., earlier this month.

Astronomers who attended the talk find Gomes’ arguments compelling, but they say much more evidence is needed before the hypothetical planet can be crowned as real.

For several years, astronomers have observed that a handful of the small icy bodies that lie in the so-called “scattered disc” beyond the orbit of the planet Neptune, including the dwarf planet Sedna, deviate from the paths around the sun that would be expected based on the gravitational pulls of all the known objects in the solar system.

Sedna, for example, swings around the sun in an extremely elongated orbit — tracing out a very long oval. “Sedna’s orbit is truly peculiar,” said Mike Brown, an astronomer at Caltech who led the team that discovered Sedna in 2003.

However, when Gomes ran the same calculations with the addition of the gravitational pull of a massive planet at the outskirts of the solar system, Sedna and the other anomalous objects’ expected orbits fell in line with observations. The unseen planet would be too far away to perceptibly perturb the motions of Earth and the other inner planets, but close enough to the scattered disc objects to sway them. [The True Stories of 5 Mystery Planets]

The book of shadows and the rise of wicca

Wicca is now one of the worlds fastest growing belief systems. It is a rather new religion in comparison and was started by a man named Gerald Gardner.

The odd thing is, though, is that it is relatively new in its shape and form. Most people would associate Wicca with devil worship, scarifices and sexual orgies, all in the name of invoking the devil, or Satan.

How wrong those people are.

Wicca is more along the lines of Harry Potter but without the wand and all the whizz, pop, bang that goes with the general events at Hogwarts. Yes, it is about the use of spells or methods with which to ensure good tidings.. a bit like Feng Shui in a way.

So let’s cut to the chase and say the word that is mostly connected to Wicca… Witchcraft.. Yes, that which most people think is evil or tends to end up getting a bit hot and crispy tied to a stake whilst an angry mob swarms around you crying “witch!”

It is a religion and way of life. It is the craft with only the utmost respect for Mother Nature. They may possess supernatural abilities and can perform rituals that are out of the ordinary but they are not what the society pictures them to be.

Witchcraft has been with humanity probably since we first needed help or guidance or realised there was more to life than hunting and gathering. Modern witchcraft has its rules and a witch will have his/her own book of shadows.

The book of shadows, giving its first appearance thanks to the hands of the pioneering Wiccan Gerald Gardner sometime in the late 1940s or early 1950s, and which he utilised first in his Bricket Wood coven and then in other covens which he founded in following decades. The concept of the Book of Shadows was then adopted by other Wiccan traditions,

It used to be that each coven would have one book and that was held by the top dog, er, i mean witch..but it soon evolved into everyone having their own copy. I guess this saved the head witch from being woken up at three in the morning with someone rapping on the door trying to get a spell to stop their partner snoring..

I might sound as though I am mocking Wicca, but i assure you I am not as voodoo is also a part of this ancient skill and is held highly by those who follow and practice it.. Also, as a rule, I try not to knock that which I do not understand for that is kinda foolish, especially when things come back around and slap you in the face. Voodoo is just one of the other varities of witchcraft practiced throughout the world and many cultures have had their own versions of both.

So where is Wicca going? Why is it becoming a major player on the world stage? Could it be that many of us are waking up to the fact that we must do more to protect our planet and ensure we pass on a good, clean environment to those who will come next? Have our minds grown in inteligence to a point where we no longer fear the power and control of the governments and their propaganda systems, sales techniques and drive for greed, profit and possesion of material items?

Are we becoming that which we have always been but have been supressed for thousands of years?

If our ancient history is anything to go by, then we may be finding ourselves once again. Some seem to think there was a race of beings here on earth many thousands of years ago that had incredible knowledge and skills and built some wonderous things. But they are no longer here. Some think these beings were from another planet or cross bred with us to help us improve for some reason.. Either way, there is something going on.

Current events in Egypt with protests and battles against the Islamic bortherhood are being thrown in our faces daily. Why, i wonder, are so many people following something that wishes to invoke sharia law? Have you ever read about it and some of the things it wishes to impose? If not, go do so now..

It is on par with the medieval inquisition and the Christian church burning people at the stake for being witches or for heresy or simply not believing in some imaginary entity named God!

Let’s make no mistake here.. a vast majority of global religions have all been to blame for more bloodshed and death than any other reason. The crusades, the Jewish slaughter during WW2, the battles in northern Ireland against Catholics and Protestants and many more….

Wicca is making its move and the original book of shadows seems to have some power behind it.

It is locked away in a secure vault and is worth a LOT of money, which is kinda odd when you think about it.

Gerald Gardner, the “father of Wicca”, first introduced the Book of Shadows to people that he had initiated into the craft. He claimed that it was a personal cookbook of spells that have worked for the owner; they could copy from his own book and add or remove material as they saw fit. A lot like the internets Wikipedia then? Witchcrafts very own Wiccapedia!

We have been seeing this exact same thing going on with the Christian church too.. especially out of the mouths of those who reside in the Vatican.. What a pit of snakes and swine that is.. with its St. Peters square, which is not square..it’s round, with a circle in the middle representing the sun which is a forbidden symbol according to that church…so is the massive phallic symbol in the centre

And let’s not forget that repulsive sculpture that sits right behind the popes chair..

It’s depiction of christ is awful.. but that’s not the worst bit.. again, there is a hidden image in this sculpture.. you can check this out for yourself..

Let’s mirror the image and see what we get..

BAPHOMET!!!!

Can we really allow these creeps to carry on re-writing the rules to protect themselves and keep them in power in order to be rich and gloating and have this insane grip on peoples hearts, minds and souls?

If you’re still not convinced that these liars are not as bad as I’m making them out to be.. how’s this?

More symbology.. forbidden apparently..

Wicca is more in line with “Earth day” and the protection of everything.. it’s not about enforcing burka wearing or giving 10% of your wages to a church each and every Sunday morning for the rest of your life either…

At least with Wicca, you can touch, taste, see, hear and smell everything that you worship…whereas most other religions rely on something called faith.. faith in someone that someone else created out of thin air..

The book of shadows and the rise of wicca

Global connections that span the test of time!!

(UPDATED.. due to request in comments section)

On an almost daily basis, I am seeing more and more things that appear to be deeply connected in some shape or form. As you may know, this site is aimed at the 30,000 year old cave art of Chauvet and its hidden meanings. These hidden bits of art are incredible on their own but made even more so when you actually find someting of worthy comparison.

On this page you will see a connection with a face I found in the cave and Leonardo da Vinci

http://www.chauvetdreams.co.uk/who-was-ra/

That is one example of the things that are popping out of the cave but this connection below was made just yesterday (16/08/13) Here you will see a mirror image of a set of lions that appear to be guarding a chalice or grail… (this is not photoshopped, this is a direct vertically mirrored image of this particular section of the cave art)

Now here is a roman relief from a church in Austria (the pose of the lions is known as ‘lions rampant’)

How similar does it have to be before we decide that the cave art needs more investigation?

Staying on the theme of ‘lions rampant’ we get to see more of these images elsewhere around the world and from different periods in time. In this set we see these lions from Gobekli Tepe, an ancient Egyptian temple, Seminole park Texas and a view of a lion 150km above the earths surface.

So, what else do we currently have that we can almost say that what we see is an identical object but designed or built slightly differently? Well, how about temples or pyramid like structures, in particular, stepped ones..

An interesting line of structures stretching across the globe in amazing fashion.. It even gets personal with particular items seeming to have the same design are being found on pieces of art or carvings as well. What are they and why are we finding them everywhere?

even pine cones are involved..

So with these few examples (there are loads more out there) I will leave you with a couple of interesting maps to go over that you can browse at your leisure and follow your own path back through time..

One thing does seem to be for sure.. we were here way before we think we were and we may have lost some way of living that is simply mind boggling

Well, here’s to Skeptic and Anonymous who both (might be the same person but it does not matter) suggested that there was some form of digital trickery going on (photoshopping) in the image of the lions guatfing the chalice from the 30,000 year old Chauvet cave art. A request was made for me ro post the original image. I will go one further than that

What you will now see is the original panel from the cave. Then below it will be a cropped version of the same image but cut off at the exact ‘mirror’ point so you can see where the image would ‘double up’. then I will put the mirrored image under that.

As I discuss in my book on all of the things that I am finding in the art, there is usually some other piece of art that has something very similar with which to confirm exactly what you think you’re seeing. Almost no single hidden image does not have a ‘back up’ or confirmation to sustain itself. In other words, it’s a bit like having information on a web site but it is linked to another website where that information came from. This is the principle behind a lot of the hidden work here in the cave. This mirror technique is no exception as you are about to see.

If you look at the original panel you will see a lot of lions.. and a face.. a humanoid face, over on the far right hand side. I’ve presented this face on another page, but this is here to show how the mirroring is confirmed. So, again the original, with the mirror crop, then the mirror.

So, there you have it! It helps, but it hinders at the same time as it just opens up a whole lot of questions and thoughts like never before. Why is this art so clever? Who really painted it? How long did it take to plan such things? Who, or what, is this humanoid face? Plus a lot more questions.

Global connections that span the test of time!!