Unexplained flashes are turning the night into day in Russia ..
We reported this when they occurred but more news agencies are picking up on the weird occurrences after midnight on March 17 in the sky above the southern Russian city of Stavropol..
Thanks to dashcams in Russia , the rest of the world has the chance to be perplexed by whatever mystery lights are creating fire in the sky after the midnight hour..
Lots of speculation..pick your favorite conspiracy theory..
If the 2014-YB35 asteroid hit Earth it could wipe out a country
Even more troulbing: This fire in the sky is about to skim past Earth this FRIDAY—THIS FRIDAY—at 23,000 MPH..
It will not hit us.. But it’s relatively close and will be viewed by professional and amateur astronomers alike..
It’s also a huge reminder—in size and meaning—of how much is beyond us that can endanger this planet.
While we argue about useless memes and toil away with trouble, the danger lurks in our galaxy. It can strike at any time. So far we’ve been lucky.. But you sure would think by now we would have found a way to find these threats and do something about them …
Earlier today it was announced that two Americans were on board flight 9525 when it went down over the French Alps.. Now the names have been revealed:
Yvonne Selke of Nokesville, Virginia, was a longtime and highly regarded employee of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
Daughter Emily was a 2013 graduate and music industry major from Drexel University in Philadelphia
The family has issued a written statement asking for prayers and privacy…
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Eisenberg has been comic relief.. he was Mark Zuckerberg.. and now he will toughen up and play evil in BATMAN VS SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE..
And he looks foreboding.
Remi Jouty, the head of BEA, is quoted by media sources as saying that the debris field in the French Alps where Germanwings flight 9525 crashed is ‘not characteristic’ of a plane that exploded in mid-air.. MORE: It would be more a plane that broke apart as it hit the ground, the official said..
At this point, investigators are being dropped by helicopter to the site of the crash.. The rugged terrain and weather conditions have complicated matters..
Investigators have managed to hear some audio from the flight data recorder, one of two so-called “black boxes” on the flight. The other “black box,” the flight data recorder, has not yet been found, Jouty said.
Earlier, French President Francois Hollande said the outside frame of the second “black box” has been found, though not the recorder itself.
Manufacturing and the service industry may be hardest hit during the robot boom happening in the job market.. But who knew that Hollywood stars would face the same peril..
Carolyn Giardina, reporter for the HOLLYWOOD REPORTER, has a fascinating article running today about how Paul Walker was digitally created for FURIOUS 7.. Walker died in a tragic accident during filming of the movie, but that doesn’t stop his starring role in the film.. HR reports,
Today, it’s possible to create an actor entirely from digital composites. The Mill, for example, has completed a 90-second Johnny Walker ad featuring a CG Bruce Lee for agency BBH in China. “We created his entire face in CG and hand-animated that, using shots of the actor for reference,” says Shenfield. He believes that a CG actor is an option, as long as artists can create his face convincingly. “The eyes require a lot of work,” he says. “Keeping motion continuous in the musculature and the eyes is the key to making it look real.”
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Some movies now even create 3D scans of actors as production begins, so that they can make CG doubles for complicated stunt scenes. It’s not known if that occurred on Furious 7, but it was done on Captain America: The Winter Soldier. Explains VFX supervisor Scott Squires: “If there’s any inkling that you might need a scan, they scan the actor at the start of production. I’ve also heard of certain studios having actors scanned just as an archival thing.” That way, 20 years from now, filmmakers would still have access to the likeness of that actor — dead or alive.
That is a huge this, as well.. Just as labor unions in various other industries have had to respond to management phasing out employees for the systematic help of robotic machinery that never needs water breaks or paychecks, perhaps the Actors Union may face the same issue..
CGI is the future. You may not believe what you see.. what you already see isn’t real. So why should be the players in the play?
Southern California may face tense moments on Wednesday.. The NOAA will issue a tsunami warning–it may or MAY NOT include the word ‘test’..
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Some television systems are programmed to scroll a standard emergency alert text message and in some cases, the message may not contain the word “TEST.” An audio message will say that the message is only a test, but if the volume is turned down or otherwise unheard, viewers may not realize the message is a test.”
This seems to be the year to warn California about urgent needs to prepare for killer quakes.. Movies and television are constant reminders with upcoming summer entertainment featuring California breaking off of the United States. Also official warners from official places are speaking out about upcoming dangers during the next decade when it comes to the chances for quakes or even tsunamis..
Tomorrow will be a test of nerves.. Especially for those who don’t know it’s a ‘test’ ..
Accused Newtown shooter Adam Lanza’s house has been wiped from the face of the earth.. Making good on promises to destroy it, the town of Newtown Connecticut purchased the 2-acre lot and 3100 square foot home for $1 .. it was torn down and will now be used as an empty space.
According to reports, neighbors wanted the house gone, saying it served as a reminder of the events of December 2012 in Sandy Hook elementary school.
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Everything in the house was already removed prior to the razing. Reports indicate that rugs, curtains, furniture, fixtures, and all the rest were removed from the property and incinerated.
36 Yogananda Drive is now just an address. No home. Just a vacant plot of ground on top of a hill..
A lot of initial reporting on the Germanwings flight crash in the French Alps has been discredited as more information has surfaced.. The initial report yesterday that a mayday distress call was placed was wrong.. And then another issue was reported, that the descent of Flight 9525 took 8 minutes. Instead, new information suggests, it took 18!
John Lichfield with the UK INDEPENDENT reports this for history:
The French environment and transport minister, Ségolène Royal, said that the crew of the Airbus A320 had stopped responding on radio at 10.30am yesterday when the aircraft was over the Mediterranean.
The aircraft slammed into the sheer side of a mountain in the French Alps soon after 10.48am. For those 18 minutes, it gradually shed height from 28,000 feet to less than 2,000 feet without transmitting any form of distress signal.
This information is also being reported: The French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said that so-called “black box” had been damaged in the crash but was “usable”. .. For some reason, I hesitate buying into this at this point. With the number of times official stories have already changed, I wouldn’t doubt a change in this factoid either.
At this point, the results from yesterday’s crash are horrific.. one family last three generations of people. A school lost 16 of its best and brightest children.. The heartache extends to the United States with news that two passengers on the doomed flight were from here..
And a few more things of note as well:
Three generations of one family dead in plane crash..
Mystery: What happened on Flight 9525?
Two people from the United States were on flight..
Weather an issue in search ..
Today as the Germanwings flight fell to the earth over the French Alps, other news was silently being reported at the Large Hadron Collider. There was a short circuit.. Now the big firing up has been postponed, it is being reported..
This is how Reuters captured the event for historical record:
CERN scientists expressed disappointment at the last-minute problem, in just one of the underground machine’s eight sectors, which have been rewired and checked thoroughly during the closedown. But the research centre’s director general, Rolf Heuer, played down its significance.
“All the signs are good for a great run 2,” he said in a statement. “In the grand scheme of things, a few weeks delay in humankind’s quest to understand our universe is little more than the blink of an eye.”
Scientists and engineers at CERN, mindful of a serious leakage in 2008 which caused a delay of two years in the start-up for the first LHC run, have long insisted that there can be no rushing into full operations.
