Prepare & Fortify Power Grid for National Security - OpenDefense - by IdeaScale Prepare & Fortify National Security: for an inevitable Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP), both natural and man made are deemed likely. One man made device over the center of the USA and detonated near 100-200 miles high, will cripple the USA - coast to coast, and most of the urban areas of Canada and Mexico in an instant. It could take decades to repair our way out of such an event. To secure our National Security, harden our power grid infrastructure-backbone against an EMP – pre-position spare parts & and create a core system hardened to allow something to come back on-line quickly allowing us to build our way out of a crashed grid, and save millions of lives in the short and near term. Devise a plan to abruptly disconnect the critical grid components to prevent a continent-wide cascade of failure in event of a solar event (or enemy attack). For natural solar events search: "The Carrington Event" for a historical analysis of the current solar cycle and what happened in 1859. "Rep.
Titan « Lights in the Dark Illustration of a sunrise above a liquid methane lake on Titan. © Ron Miller. All rights reserved. We’ve known for quite some time now that lakes of liquid methane and ethane exist on the frigid surface of Saturn’s overcast moon Titan. Now, a research team led by Jason Barnes of the University of Idaho has released findings showing what might be wave action — however small — captured by instruments aboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft during several Titan flybys. Read the rest of this article here. Like this post? Like this: Like Loading... Time Machine A METEOR SHOWER IN BROAD DAYLIGHT: The annual Arietid meteor shower peaks this week on June 7th and 8th. The Arietids are unusual because they are daytime meteors; the shower is most intense after sunrise. People who wake up early might notice a small number of Arietids during the dark hours before dawn. The real action, however, occurs in broad daylight. M-FLARE AND RADIATION STORM: This morning around 0641 UT, magnetic fields above sunspot complex 1226-1227 became unstable and erupted. more movies: YouTube; 5 MB mpeg; 2 MB Quicktime A video with commentary from solar physicist C. Coronagraphs onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) are still monitoring the CME as it billows away from the sun. Although the blast was not squarely Earth-directed, it will affect our planet. June 2011 Aurora Gallery [Aurora alerts: text, voice] [previous Junes: 2010, 2008, 2001] Alan Friedman took the picture from his backyard observatory in Buffalo, New York, on June 5th.
Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA: Huge solar flare may disrupt power and communications By Agence France-PresseTuesday, June 7, 2011 18:13 EDT WASHINGTON — An unusual solar flare observed by a NASA space observatory on Tuesday could cause some disruptions to satellite communications and power on Earth over the next day or so, officials said. The potent blast from the Sun unleashed a firestorm of radiation on a level not witnessed since 2006, and will likely lead to moderate geomagnetic storm activity by Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service. “This one was rather dramatic,” said Bill Murtagh, program coordinator at the NWS’s Space Weather Prediction Center, describing the M-2 (medium-sized) solar flare that peaked at 1:41 am Eastern time in the United States, or 0541 GMT. “We saw the initial flare occurring and it wasn’t that big but then the eruption associated with it — we got energy particle radiation flowing in and we got a big coronal mass injection,” he said. “You can see all the materials blasting up from the Sun so it is quite fantastic to look at.”
The Greatest Mysteries of Mars| Is there life on Mars? | Biggest Questions of the Universe | Space.com This is a portion of the first 360-degree view of the martian surface taken by Spirit's panoramic camera. Part of the spacecraft can be seen in the lower part of the image. PhotoCredit: NASA/JPL/Cornell Each Friday this summer, Life's Little Mysteries presents The Greatest Mysteries of the Cosmos, starting with our solar system. Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, gets its name from the Roman god of war on account of its blood-rust color. Despite these setbacks, our curiosity regarding Mars has never abated. Abode of life? You can't talk about Mars without raising the question of life. "What everyone wants to know is: has the planet ever harbored life?" Today, and for most of its history, Mars has been a "cold, dry, desolate world," said Squyres. To make life, you (most likely) need water. Warm and wet to cold and dry The next biggest mystery concerning Mars is, "What happened?" A tale of two hemispheres Bonus boggler: Funky, lumpy moons
The Ancient Solar Hypothesis « Secrets of the Sun Sects By Christopher Jordan The Ancient Solar Premise is simple, the ancients were originally using the sun, not idolizing it. There are two key devices that support this view, parabolic sun dishes and structures that collected and stored solar energy in large stones. These technologies allowed the ancient world to thrive for centuries with the sustainable energy of the sun. The ease with which sun dishes could be made to concentrate sunlight by thousands of orders is outlined in the paper ‘The Math Behind Burning Mirrors’. Sun Temples have many names throughout the world, they are identified by the local solar deity and are variously dedicated to Ra, Siva, Brahma, Baal, Bel, Re, Marduk, etc. The Solar Chamber Below is a generic Asiatic ‘shrine’, usually described as a sanctuary. A Simple Solar Shrine The diagram shows the classic Brahman design with a yoni and linga (D) sitting in the center of the sealed chamber with two reflective doors flanking the long doorway. Solar Alignment Conclusion
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