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  • April fools! A comet will NOT hit earth

    April fools! A comet will NOT hit earth

    ….first of all, let me say this: April fools day is the most wretched day of the year. In the old days (pre 2016) ‘fake news’ was abundant on April fools day. Now fake news is just out there every day.

    Anyway, be sure of this: Tomorrow you will hear someone famous died, a war started somewhere, and aliens landed. All of it will be very unfunny lame jokes on you. April Fool’s day. Awful.. just awful.

    But what IS true is this: A comet will not hit earth..

    A comet named 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák is set to make its closest flyby to Earth since it was originally discovered in 1858.

    A few days before Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák reaches perihelion, the comet will be very near its closest point to Earth for a 6-day period between March 29 and April 3, according to Space.com.

    The absolute closest it will come to the Earth will be smack in the middle of that date range — on April Fools’ Day — when it will zoom by approximately 13.2 million miles away. Pending atmospheric conditions, viewers in the Northern Hemisphere should be able to see it on Saturday night around 9 PM EST near the handle of the Big Dipper — however, since the comet is less than a mile in diameter, you’ll need either high-quality binoculars or a telescope to check it out.

    There may be an article or two tomorrow that the comet will strike. But it won’t.

    HOWEVER.. that said.. so often we are hit with stories of night skies lighting up from asteroids or comets that have gone undetected.. from meteors and space rocks flying through the atmosphere. So it’s not comforting, at least to me, to think that a comet is making a close flyby.

    Space is vast and large.. we’re a pale blue dot.
    ….folks, it’s just a matter of time.
    April fools or not. One day it won’t be a joke regulated to the final story on late local news after sports and weather..

     

  • Supermassive black hole discovery from deep in space

    Supermassive black hole discovery from deep in space

    A statement from NASA:

    “An international team of astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered a supermassive black hole that has been propelled out of the centre of the distant galaxy 3C186. The black hole was most likely ejected by the power of gravitational waves. This is the first time that astronomers found a supermassive black hole at such a large distance from its host galaxy centre.”

    There are multiple theories.. perhaps two black holes combining..
    But what is amazing: The galaxy, 8 billion light years away (meaning 8 billion light years in the past), is featuring something amazing.. a discovery to change science–something that seemingly happens daily.
    At the speed the black hole is traveling: It could be from Earth to the moon in three minutes..

  • Purging the body of ‘retired’ cells could reverse aging, study shows

    Purging the body of ‘retired’ cells could reverse aging, study shows

    Purging the body of ‘retired’ cells could reverse aging, study shows:

    Research published last year showed that removing the cells using a genetic trick caused mice to live 20% longer on average. The latest paper is the first to show that ageing can not only be delayed by removing senescent cells – but potentially reversed.

    In the study, published in the journal Cell, scientists used a compound designed to knock senescent cells out of their state of suspended animation, towards cell death.

    People have a goal that they want to live forever.. .that they want to ensure their lifespan meets or exceeds others.. that death forgets them.

    We are constantly trying to spare ourselves of the final confrontation between life and death..  It’s the ultimate fear we all have. We don’t speak of it much.. we would much rather say we are afraid of spiders or heights. But it’s death. We are afraid the spider will kill us, or that we will fall from a building.

    This article about purging the old cells can bring hope for those who want to try living longer? But … it doesn’t answer one conundrum: What happens when the spider bite kills your or the fall off a building splats you like a bug? ….death still wins in the end.

  • The bodies frozen for 50 years waiting to wake up in the future

    The bodies frozen for 50 years waiting to wake up in the future

    The bodies frozen for 50 years waiting to wake up in the future:

    This is a must read story .. it’s real, completely real…

    Whether the bodies ever reanimate themselves is yet to be seen..

    The leap to reanimating one of the frozen humans in the three cryogenic facilities may be some time away, but the state of Bedford’s body when he was examined 24 years after his initial preservation was promising.

    Bedford was dying from kidney cancer at the age of 73 in 1966 when he made plans to become the first successfully frozen corpse of cryonics pioneer Bob Nelson.

    Nelson, a television repairman and president of the Cryonics Society of California, had been inspired by Siberian salamanders which freeze in permafrost for years and walk off when the ice melts.

    Bedford provided $US4200 for a steel capsule and enough liquid nitrogen to keep his body frozen at 200 below.

    After his death on January 12, 1967, Nelson packed Bedford’s body on ice in a wooden box and loaded it into his Ford utility for temporary storage at a doctor’s house.

    When, after a time, the doctor’s wife threatened to call the police, Bedford’s body was placed by his widow Ruby and son Norman with a company as they fought off legal challenges to his preservation.

    Norman later transferred his father to Cryo-Care Equipment Corporation, run by wigmaker and real estate investor Ed Hope, in Arizona, where he was submerged in the cryocapsule tank or dewar.

    There are hundreds of people who decided to join in with the frozen fun! So many people who want to recover from what ails them at the moment in time they became frozen in a scientific state of repose..

    But the last century has also featured people who were decomposing while frozen, some outraged parents in the late 1970s even found their young daughter in that state after they demanded the company show them the body..

    There are some hopeful scientific advances that permit one to think the future is coming where these frozen bodies will walk again, or at least blink a few more times in the modern era.. however it would appear to be still some time away.

    If science does allow such possibility to occur, there are at least 100 some odd bodies (and maybe more by then) laying in a frozen chamber just waiting to breathe another breath…
    Unless …the power goes out.
    And the decomposing begins.

  • The habitable zone: Maybe the entire entire universe. New research says the life count could be in the trillions

    The habitable zone: Maybe the entire entire universe. New research says the life count could be in the trillions

    Alien Civilizations May Number In The Trillions, New Study Says »

    Proving again that we hardly know anything about our universe and certainly nothing about the potential for how abundant life may be ‘out there’ in the cosmos.. enter this study.

    The research, published in the journal Astrobiology last week, suggests that more planets in the Milky Way galaxy may harbor advanced civilizations than we previously imagined.
    Study co-authors Adam Frank and Woodruff Sullivan looked at recent discoveries of potentially habitable exoplanets and considered the odds of whether sophisticated civilizations existed on them in the past or present.
    “What we showed was the ‘floor’ on the probability for a civilization to form on any randomly chosen planet,” Frank, a University of Rochester physics and astronomy professor, told The Huffington Post in an email. “If we are the only civilization in cosmic history, then that what we calculated is the actual probability nature has set. But if the actual probability is higher than that floor, then civilizations have happened before.”

    According to the theory, the amount of life on planets beyond ours is potentially staggering.

    “Even if you are pretty pessimistic and think that you’d have to search through 100 billion (habitable zone) planets before you found one where a civilization developed, then there have still been a trillion civilizations over cosmic history!” Frank wrote. “When I think about that, my mind reels — even if there is just a one in a 100 billion chance of evolution creating exo-civilizations, the universe still has made so many of them that we are swamped by histories other than our own.”

    So there you have your “feeling small on Sunday morning” post.. The notion that we are just existent in a universe abundant in other civilizations like this. Or maybe hopefully NOT like us at all..

  • If a tree talks in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?

    If a tree talks in the forest and no one hears it, does it make a sound?

    This is an amazing study.. Trees were studied in two nations for a first of its kind analysis.. Proving, perhaps, that trees do sleep?

    The full story is here..

    Read it. It’s truly amazing to consider that trees actually become at rest during the darkness of night.. Sleeping Giants in the woods around us.

    When I was younger, my father used to tell me that trees could hear and see.. That trees could listen and understand. And that they were smart…
    These days with CIA spying it’s more likely that trees literally watch you.

    But while I laughed when I was younger at my dad’s tall tales, I realized he wasn’t kidding in what he said and quite possibly was correct in some creepy and deeply paranormal way..

    Have you ever been in the woods, alone, but felt like every tree was either greeting you with open branches or dismissing you with fluttering leaves? Have you even felt like a tree, in all its might, may just be able to see and discern your intentions?
    And maybe trees have to sleep too..

    It’s not easy standing that tall for hundreds of years. Even trees have to take a break sometime.

  • Mystery over El Salvador

    Mystery over El Salvador


    The skies over El Salvador turned red and people feared a meteor was about to strike.. The appearance of the red was visible for seconds and went back to normal again..
     
     More.. http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/database/?pageid=event_summary&edis_id=CO-20160421-53003-SLV
     

  • HALLOWEEN 15: I AIN’T AFRAID OF NO ASTEROIDS

    HALLOWEEN 15: I AIN’T AFRAID OF NO ASTEROIDS

    Who is afraid of a potentially life ending asteroid on Halloween!?Not us earthlings!Costumes will still be donned.. makeup still applied. Scantily clad outfits at Saturday night Halloween parties still being stuck on..Even though this was just discovered: An enormous asteroid will whiz past earth..CREDIT: The IFL SCIENCE website:2009 FD will approach within 6,194,000 km of Earth, about 16.3 times further away than the Moon. The asteroid was discovered in February 2009, a month before its closest recorded approach to Earth on March 27, 2009, at a distance of 624,100 km. 2015 TB145 will pass about 500,000 km from Earth, just beyond the lunar orbit.2009 FD has been tracked by several instruments since its discovery. It was first estimated to be 130 meters in size by NASA’s Near Earth Program. A better estimate for its size came from NASA’s NEOWISE, which gave a value of 470 meters, although this is considered anupper limit.2015 TB145 was discovered just over a week ago by the Pan-STARRS I telescope in Hawaii, and it has an estimated size of 320 meters. The passing of 2015 TB145 will be the closest approach by something this large until asteroid August 2027, when 1999 AN10 will pass within one lunar distance (380,000 km). NASA has given these objects a value of 1 on the Torino Scale, which is the value assigned to non-dangerous asteroids. Business as usual.Gather ye candies while ye may..

    Who is afraid of a potentially life ending asteroid on Halloween!?
    Not us earthlings!

    Costumes will still be donned.. makeup still applied. Scantily clad outfits at Saturday night Halloween parties still being stuck on..

    Even though this was just discovered: An enormous asteroid will whiz past earth..

    CREDIT: The IFL SCIENCE website:

    2009 FD will approach within 6,194,000 km of Earth, about 16.3 times further away than the Moon. The asteroid was discovered in February 2009, a month before its closest recorded approach to Earth on March 27, 2009, at a distance of 624,100 km. 2015 TB145 will pass about 500,000 km from Earth, just beyond the lunar orbit.

    2009 FD has been tracked by several instruments since its discovery. It was first estimated to be 130 meters in size by NASA’s Near Earth Program. A better estimate for its size came from NASA’s NEOWISE, which gave a value of 470 meters, although this is considered anupper limit.

    2015 TB145 was discovered just over a week ago by the Pan-STARRS I telescope in Hawaii, and it has an estimated size of 320 meters. The passing of 2015 TB145 will be the closest approach by something this large until asteroid August 2027, when 1999 AN10 will pass within one lunar distance (380,000 km). NASA has given these objects a value of 1 on the Torino Scale, which is the value assigned to non-dangerous asteroids.

    Business as usual.
    Gather ye candies while ye may..

    Just to give you a bit more of a scare than the ghosts and goblins who will be at your door, CNN pointing out this factoid that may bring chills to you: 

    It’s a good thing it will miss, though. The asteroid is estimated to be 300 to 600 meters wide and traveling at 78,000 mph. By comparison, the meteorite that exploded in the sky over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013 was about 20 meters wide.

     

  • Dyson Spheres but not an advanced species to see it

    Dyson Spheres but not an advanced species to see it

    Dyson Spheres but not an advanced species to see it

    This week, the buzz was clear.. there is a potential “megastructure” somewhere out there..  it is a structure, or thing in space, that blocks a lot of sunlight.. It may be a Dyson Sphere.. it may be well.. dust.. It could be something very exciting, or something exciting but just not contained within it life.  From a few days back: DISCOVERY’s website quoted: A star, named KIC 8462852, has been…

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  • Dyson Spheres but not an advanced species to see it

    Dyson Spheres but not an advanced species to see it

    1444929678284This week, the buzz was clear.. there is a potential “megastructure” somewhere out there..  it is a structure, or thing in space, that blocks a lot of sunlight.. It may be a Dyson Sphere.. it may be well.. dust.. It could be something very exciting, or something exciting but just not contained within it life.  From a few days back:

    DISCOVERY’s website quoted:

    A star, named KIC 8462852, has been found with a highly curious transit signal.In a paper submitted to the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, astronomers, including citizen scientists from the Planet Hunters crowdsourcing program, report: “Over the duration of the Kepler mission, KIC 8462852 was observed to undergo irregularly shaped, aperiodic dips in flux down to below the 20 percent level.”

    The research paper is thorough, describing the phenomenon, pointing out that this star is unique – we’ve seen nothing like it. Kepler has collected data on this star steadily for four years. It’s not instrumental error. Kepler isn’t seeing things; the signal is real.

    “We’d never seen anything like this star,” Tabetha Boyajian, a postdoctorate researcher at Yale University and lead author, told The Atlantic. “It was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out.”

    Today I saw a headline speaking about the internet buzz. It asks what do “real scientists” think of the megastructure idea.. I found that to be a somewhat dismissive headline, no? Something that alleges, in a sense, that the researchers who found this thing to begin with are not real. . . ?

    The megastructure story won’t go away.

    Last week, one person responsible for pushing it to a wider audience was Art Bell on his show MIDNIGHT IN THE DESERT. His competition, George Noory, said the megastructure idea was debunked. Noory is wrong.  It is not debunked. Without further research from Kepler we are without an answer.. speculating about what could be but not knowing what is . It’s amazing and strange, mysterious and inspiring. All at the same time.

    One man’s comments are worth listening to .. Michio Kaku has some extremely interesting words to CBS news.. Give it a whirl and see if you have the same dismissive thoughts after listening.
    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5UHULLK1sY&feature=youtu.be]