There’s been the Mars rat. The Mars face. The Mars figure walking.. the Mars arm.. leg.. You name it.
This random rock formation has become a phenomenon online. And it’s fun.
But I don’t think Martians would have street lights. I really don’t. That’s too earthly. And anyway, that light clearly looks like it had four bulbs, nothing like us Earthlings’ types.
X flares incoming.. amazing solar storm happening tonight..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-IpJ4m_lzI
This from the AP:
An extreme solar flare is blasting its way to Earth and could mess up some power grids, satellites and radio transmissions, scientists say.
It’s been several years since Earth has had a solar storm of this size coming from sunspots smack in the middle of the sun, said Tom Berger, director of the Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado.
And this:
Forecasters don’t yet know when Wednesday’s solar storm will arrive here and which part of the planet will be facing the sun and bear the brunt of the effects. It could arrive as early as Thursday morning or may take a few days.
As the President spoke tonight about an new coming war to the world, the world began to brace itself for the hell unleashed from the sun.
Perhaps another reminder that the gates of hell have blown wide open..
Solar games from Ed Dames.. the man behind the term ‘killshot’ goes to Facebook to talk about the coming dreadful moment he claimed he foresaw in remote viewing sessions.
But apparently not this one ..
Yet
Latest CME prediction model released by the Goddard Space Flight Center is showing a nearly direct CME impact by Friday
The Northern Lights may be awfully bright by the week’s end.
FROM SPACE WEATHER:
Earth-orbiting satellites have just detected a powerful X1.6-class solar flare (Sept. 10 @ 17:46 UT). The source was active sunspot AR2158, which is directly facing Earth. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the extreme ultraviolet flash
From SOLAR HAM:
Geoeffective Sunspot 2158 produced a strong solar flare this afternoon measuring X1.6 at 17:45 UTC. The event event was associated with a Type II Radio emission with an estimated velocity of 3750 km/s. This is indicative of a strong coronal mass ejection. Updated imagery by SDO shows plasma racing away from the blast site and possibly towards Earth
This is earth facing.. and it’s a powerful X flare..
The camera on my iPhone cannot do any justice to the sky I see right now. It’s chilly, breezy, and the sky is becoming a welcoming location for tonight’s super harvest Moon. Now it feels like September.
Right after I took the picture of the sky tonight a large fireball flew through it
It happened around 8 PM Eastern time, it looked to be flying over the Ashland PA area..
The fireball looked close enough for me to literally reach up and touch, it was flying behind the mountain near my home. I did not hear any bones or crashes, but it was an amazing sight.
After that meteor strike in Nicaragua, seeing it tonight made me nervous
Heads up world, anything is possible on this planet
As the super moon rises in the meteors fly in the sky, it’s just another night here on the pale blue Dot
The big asteroid sailed past earth today. We were told no worries.. no dangers.. no damage. It may be huge, but it would be safely far enough away from earth that nothing memorable will happen..
A mysterious explosion that rocked Nicaragua’s crowded capital Managua, creating a large crater, appears to have been caused by a meteorite, officials said Sunday.
Amazingly, in a sprawling city of 1.2 million people, the impact near the international airport did not cause any known injuries, but it did leave a crater measuring 12 meters (39 feet) across.
“We are convinced that this was a meteorite. We have seen the crater from the impact,” said Wilfredo Strauss of the Seismic Institute.
Let’s take a breather.. and wonder.
Remember when Cherlyabinsk happened?
We were all watching the wrong part of the sky—a big close flyby that day was happening, and NASA hadn’t been tracking anything that could hit the planet.. as a matter of fact, Cherlyabinsk caught us all off guard.
And now today, apparently, it happened again.
While we were watching New Zealand, Nicaragua’s crater happened.
I wonder, and have wondered, if some of these large objects travel in pairs, or at least have a trail of friends that come with them.
Cherlyabinsk scared me a bit, especially with how unexpected and sudden it all was.
And now today, a near miss and a slam to the planet.. all at once.
History repeats itself..
But at least this was one “small.” In the scheme of things..
But either way, we should be a little concerned about our overall well being.
Consider this: The asteroid was discovered August 31. And we were told it would safely pass by earth. And then maybe now a piece of it broke off and hit earth—or it was traveling with a friend.
And this is just one of the many many space rocks to worry about.
We are sitting ducks.
Hopefully we stay quacking.
I remember a very cool summer night in 2006 when I gathered around a fire with friends in the mountains of Pennsylvania.. We shared laughs, cold beer, and scary stories.. Mine was about an upcoming event; The beginning of the end. I told them that a big super collider was going to hunt for God. And that an alternate universe may open, or a black hole would be created to swallow us whole.
Years later, and a “God particle” being found too, we didn’t die in a big tremendous bang or even a whimper. Instead, life has gone on.. in some cases that’s been an awful thing for humanity.
But the super collider was just the beginning.. other colliders are coming. Bigger ones.. better ones.. Badder ones. Maybe that black whole we fear may open yet.
Or even this, as Stephen Hawking apparently thinks: The God particle could wipe out the universe! If only I knew that back in 2006 when beers were talking late in the night ..
This is what Hawking believes, according to others who are reporting on it:
The Higgs potential has the worrisome feature that it might become metastable at energies above 100bn gigaelectronvolts (GeV).
This could mean that the universe could undergo catastrophic vacuum decay, with a bubble of the true vacuum expanding at the speed of light. This could happen at any time and we wouldn’t see it coming.
A particle accelerator that reaches 100bn GeV would be larger than Earth, and is unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate.
Now imagine that.. the same Hawking that brought us some amazing theories of US and .. aliens.. and all of that, now says that it’s possible—though highly unlikely—that the act of ‘being’ may end..
Now here’s my take, a purely non scientific one at that. Ever since the Higgs Boson was found two years ago I felt things to be off kilter.. that something weird was happening. That time and space were somehow locked in a struggle. And that, in many cases, time slips were becoming more common. I had some actual weird experiences happen in my person life in the final month of 2013. Did the discovery of Higgs Boson do something? Did we all speed up, or .. slow down?
And really, think of this: As silly as my not to intelligent conjecture may seem, would anyone really know if something THAT big was happening anyway? Even Hawking said that if his total end of everything theory happens, it would hit us like a ton of bricks at night. We would never see it coming.
So many if something weird has already started, our bodies can’t see it coming because it would, in all other ways, seem to be ‘normal.’ But nothing is normal.
Actually, everything is amazing.
And we are living through it.
Maybe in multiple ways.
Every time we see news that another asteroid is going to have a ‘close shave’ or a ‘nearby run’ at the planet Earth, we also note this: The asteroid was typically discovered just days (or in some cases mere hours) prior to the collision that will not be.
The scenario is no different than the one playing out concerning asteroid 2014 RC.. It will pass ‘very close’ to the planet this coming Sunday. It will not be visible by the naked eye but those aware of it will be able to scope it with their equipment..
Oh, and it was just discovered on August 31 by the Catalini Sky Survey in Tuscon, Arizona..
This particular space rock is 60 feet .. it is expected to fly over New Zealand around 2:18 PM EDT..
A near miss, though.
Far enough away .. not to worry.
But we should worry–we should also be acting on these worries with fixes. There are tons of space rocks looming out there. Some are distant.. some are close. And often time, as we see with 2014 RC, we discover them only a short time before they may come close to the planet—or hit. That’s the scary part.. the knowing of the unknowing..
Chelyabinsk was no different. Recall, when Chelyabinsk happened, the world was fixated on another part of the world as a close by asteroid was ‘safely’ missing the planet. Just then, a boom occurred and the news broke about a big Chelyabinsk explosion. But not by NASA, or other scientists.. instead on Twitter resulting from the use of dashcams that caught the flying ball of fire in the sky..
And that is how things happen..the ‘pink stars’ are always falling.
Let’s just hope the sky doesn’t.
In the mean time.. keep looking up. You never know what you’ll find.
Things didn’t go well for private space exploration Friday. This is a Space-X rocket. It self-detonated after an ‘unexplained malfunction,’ causing the explosion in the blue sky..
The flight was a test run..The video of the explosion can be seen here.
Space-X issued a statement regarding the explosion, saying in part that they were pushing the limits further than any other tests..
But what no one, including this company, wants to happen: This with wealthy affluent space explorers on board..
Where’s Richard C. Hoagland when you need him!? The ‘Enterprise Mission’ was famous for spotting a ‘face on Mars,’ one that turned out to just be a trick of the camera and lightning gone awry.. But there’s a new trick in space, one perhaps even creepier: The face on the Comet..
It was spotted by the Rosetta probe, the European Space Agency’s craft in orbit.. It captured a photo of the ‘face,’ most likely another optical illusion that will create years of wild speculation..
The face is more like that of a skeleton. Freakishly pale, with a mummified appearance.
Tariq Malik from SPACE.COM points that that these types of ‘faces’ seen on planets, and now comets, are examples of pareidolia, in which the human brain perceives faces or shapes on random images.. Such as clouds, if you have a good imagination on a summer day..
And anyway, if you take a close look at the extreme left hand side of the comet, it looks like Ferb from Phinneas and Ferb. I think.
The amazing part of this story isn’t the fictitious face, it’s the true science: Rosetta will be landing on the comet in November. And then it will accompany the comet until its closest approach to the sun in August 2015..
To major stories here: 1) Earthlings are landing a probe on a comet. And 2) NASA isn’t doing it..
