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Hexagon Formation on Saturn

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Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn
03.27.07

Pasadena, Calif. — An odd, six-sided, honeycomb-shaped feature circling the entire north pole of Saturn has captured the interest of scientists with NASA’s Cassini mission.

NASA’s Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged the feature over two decades ago. The fact that it has appeared in Cassini images indicates that it is a long-lived feature. A second hexagon, significantly darker than the brighter historical feature, is also visible in the Cassini pictures. The spacecraft’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer is the first instrument to capture the entire hexagon feature in one image.

six-sided feature at Saturn's north pole Image right: This nighttime view of Saturn’s north pole shows a bizarre six-sided hexagon feature encircling the entire north pole. The red color indicates the amount of 5-micron wavelength radiation, or heat, generated in the warm interior of Saturn that escapes the planet. Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

“This is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides,” said Kevin Baines, atmospheric expert and member of Cassini’s visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. “We’ve never seen anything like this on any other planet. Indeed, Saturn’s thick atmosphere where circularly-shaped waves and convective cells dominate is perhaps the last place you’d expect to see such a six-sided geometric figure, yet there it is.”

The hexagon is similar to Earth’s polar vortex, which has winds blowing in a circular pattern around the polar region.  On Saturn, the vortex has a hexagonal rather than circular shape. The hexagon is nearly 25,000 kilometers (15,000 miles) across. Nearly four Earths could fit inside it.

The new images taken in thermal-infrared light show the hexagon extends much deeper down into the atmosphere than previously expected, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) below the cloud tops. A system of clouds lies within the hexagon. The clouds appear to be whipping around the hexagon like cars on a racetrack.

“It’s amazing to see such striking differences on opposite ends of Saturn’s poles,” said Bob Brown, team leader of the Cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer, University of Arizona, Tucson. “At the south pole we have what appears to be a hurricane with a giant eye, and at the north pole of Saturn we have this geometric feature, which is completely different.”

Spinning Saturn Image left: This nighttime movie of the depths of the north pole of Saturn reveals a dynamic, active planet lurking underneath the ubiquitous cover of upper-level hazes. Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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The Saturn north pole hexagon has not been visible to Cassini’s visual cameras, because it’s winter in that area, so the hexagon is under the cover of the long polar night, which lasts about 15 years. The infrared mapping spectrometer can image Saturn in both daytime and nighttime conditions and see deep inside. It imaged the feature with thermal wavelengths near 5 microns (seven times the wavelength visible to the human eye) during a 12-day period beginning on Oct. 30, 2006. As winter wanes over the next two years, the feature may become visible to the visual cameras.

Based on the new images and more information on the depth of the feature, scientists think it is not linked to Saturn’s radio emissions or to auroral activity, as once contemplated, even though Saturn’s northern aurora lies nearly overhead.

six-sided feature encircling the north pole of SaturnImage right: Another view of the bizarre six-sided feature encircling the north pole of Saturn. Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
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The hexagon appears to have remained fixed with Saturn’s rotation rate and axis since first glimpsed by Voyager 26 years ago. The actual rotation rate of Saturn is still uncertain.

“Once we understand its dynamical nature, this long-lived, deep-seated polar hexagon may give us a clue to the true rotation rate of the deep atmosphere and perhaps the interior,” added Baines.

The hexagon images and movie, including the north polar auroras are available at: http://www.nasa.gov/cassini and http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and http://wwwvims.lpl.arizona.edu .

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer team is based at the University of Arizona.

from:     http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/cassini-20070327.html

Weekly Color VIbe 7/28-8/3

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July 28-August 3

The theme this week is  “I feel the earth move,” and that will be true for anything and everything that you feel is your foundation, your basis, your rock solid.  This means that you must look to becoming more solid, more able to take things as they come and to break out of the old patterning.

Overall Color for the Week:    Frosty White

This is a week for dealing with a lot of the realities, the real realities in your life.  They will come up in all different ways and many at inconvenient times.  There have been so many things that you were not looking at, and this week, well, it is there like a shadow in the wings.  You will be aware of these things in everything that you do.  They can drive you a bit crazy because they are there making you question what is really important and what are you doing right now in terms of what is truly meaningful for WHO you are.  This will not be an easy week, but if you keep a sense of humor and if you are open to your own power, your own possibility, your own uniqueness, well, then this week can be pivotal.  Accept or not.  The choice is up to you.  No worries.  No judgment.  No guilt.  Just go inside, do-be, do-be, do-be, do-BE, and let that be your guide.  Do what is right for you.  You cannot walk another’s path.  You cannot be responsible for their choices.  It is all about you.  Accept that, and be WHO you are.  That is what this week is all about.  The stuff you do not want to deal with, the stuff you feel you have to deal with, and what is really important.  It is time to know the difference.

 

On the larger scale, Gaia has much in store for us this week, so be prepared for anything anywhere.  You can find that there are many elements coming together in a crazy mixture in which water flows uphill and into the air, while the movement of the earth seems more like water than a solid.  Also, weather patterns are shifting so that they no longer follow the old ways.  Storms come and go, and then double back. There will be coming forward some people who will try to explain these things as proof of various religious prophecies, but there will be no general consensus on this as people more and more look to Gaia as a living organism and a mother who has taken her time to see what has been learned and realizes now it is time for some ‘hard’ lessons.  This can lead to some interesting commentaries in the news and among a lot of the spiritually oriented individuals.  There will be kind of free fall in the markets which will take an interesting turn this week, but do not worry!  These will all be explained away as ‘corrections’ or some such thing.  There will also be some indications that the leaders of the world’s governments, including the USA, are not really leading but are being pushed into certain directions due to some large plan to which they are referring.  Along with this, look to the skies for some odd occurrences and perhaps some sightings.  There is also the possibility that people will begin to read messages into the hums that are being heard around the world as the ground in those areas takes on a new measurable vibration.  There is some strange activity going on within the Sun.  There can be some magnetic reverberations as a result of this, so keep your electronics backed up.  The galactic energy is interacting with the Sun in a new way.  Interestingly, tis galactic energy exists in more than one dimension, and as such, has been somewhat overlooked by most astronomers.  There is however the possibility of more cosmic wave and ray phenomena which can lead some of these researchers to start looking into other directions.

A Hole in the Sun

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Spacecraft Sees Giant ‘Hole’ In the Sun (Video)

SPACE.com

Megan Gannon
Spacecraft Sees Giant 'Hole' In the Sun (Video)
A space telescope aimed at the sun has spotted a gigantic hole in the solar atmosphere — a dark spot that covers nearly a quarter of our closest star, spewing solar material and gas into space.

The so-called coronal hole over the sun’s north pole came into view between July 13 and 18 and was observed by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory, or SOHO. NASA released a video of the sun hole as seen by the SOHO spacecraft, showing the region as a vast dark spot surrounded by solar activity.

Coronal holes are darker, cooler regions of the sun’s atmosphere, or corona, containing little solar material. In these gaps, magnetic field lines whip out into the solar wind rather than looping back to the sun’s surface. Coronal holes can affect space weather, as they send solar particles streaming off the sun about three times faster than the slower wind unleashed elsewhere from the sun’s atmosphere, according to a description from NASA.

“While it’s unclear what causes coronal holes, they correlate to areas on the sun where magnetic fields soar up and away, failing to loop back down to the surface, as they do elsewhere,” NASA’s Karen Fox at the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., explained in an image description.

These holes are not uncommon, but their frequency changes with the solar activity cycle. The sun is currently reaching its 11-year peak in activity, known as the solar maximum. Around the time of this peak, the sun’s poles switch their magnetism. The number of coronal holes typically decreases leading up to the switch.

After the reversal, new coronal holes appear near the poles. Then as the sun approaches the solar minimum again, the holes creep closer to the equator, growing in both size and number, according to NASA.

The $1.27-billion (1 billion euros) SOHO satellite was launched in 1995 and is flying a joint mission between NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). It watches solar activity from an orbit about the Lagrange Point 1, a gravitationally stable spot between Earth and the sun that is about 932,000 miles (1.5 million kilometers) from our planet.

from:    http://news.yahoo.com/spacecraft-sees-giant-hole-sun-video-153040642.html

Targeting GMO Activists

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New Investigation Alleges US Military, Monsanto Targeting GMO Activists and Independent Scientists

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29th July 2013

By Sayer Ji

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

A highly concerning new investigative report from the largest daily newspaper in Germany alleges that Monsanto, the US Military and the US government have colluded to track and disrupt both anti-GMO activists and independent scientists who study the adverse effects of genetically modified food.

As revealed by Sustainable Pulse, on July 13th the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung detailed information on how the US Government “advances the interests of their corporations,” focusing on Monsanto as a prime example.

The report titled, “The Sinister Monsanto Group: ‘Agent Orange’ to Genetically Modified Corn,” described a ‘new fangled cyber war’ being waged against both eco-activists and independent scientists by supporters and former employees of Monsanto, who are described as “operationally powerful assistants” and who have taken up sometimes high ranking posts in the US administration, regulatory authorities, and some of whom have connections deep within the military industrial establishment, including the CIA.

“Monsanto contacts are known to the notorious former secret service agent Joseph Cofer Black, who helped formulate the law of the jungle in the fight against terrorists and other enemies. He is a specialist on dirty work, a total hardliner. He worked for the CIA for almost three decades, among other things as the head of anti-terroism. He later became vice president of the private security company Blackwater, which sent tens of thousands of soldiers to Iraq and Afghanistan under US government orders.”

“Thanks to Snowden and Wikileaks, the world has a new idea of how these friends and partners operate where power and money are concerned. The whistle-blowing platform published embassy dispatches two years ago, which also included details about Monsanto and genetic engineering.”

“For example, in 2007, the former US ambassador in Paris, Craig Stapleton, suggested the US government should create a penalties list for EU states which wanted to forbid the cultivation of genetically engineered plants from American companies. The wording of the secret dispatch: “Country team Paris recommends that we calibrate a target retaliation list that causes some pain across the EU.” Pain, retaliation: not exactly the language of diplomacy.”

The report details the case of Australian scientist Judy Carman, whose work on GMOs underwent heavy criticism by Monsanto supporters. Soon sites that published her work were attacked by hackers with apparent military connections:

Hackers regularly target various web pages where Carman publishes her studies and the sites are also systematically observed, at least that is the impression Carman has. Evaluations of IP log files show that not only Monsanto visits the pages regularly, but also various organizations of the U.S. government, including the military. These include the Navy Network Information Center, the Federal Aviation Administration and the United States Army Intelligence Center, an institution of the US Army, which trains soldiers with information gathering. Monsanto’s interest in the studies is understandable, even for Carman. “But I do not understand why the U.S. government and the military are having me observed,” she says.

The report went on to describe the ongoing though mostly failed crusade of the United States, seemingly on behalf of Monsanto, to open up the European Union’s markets to genetically engineered food and feed crops. According to the report:

“The USA is hoping that negotiations started this week for a free-trade agreement between the USA and the EU will also open the markets for genetic engineering.”

“The Americans want to use the Free Trade Agreement to open the European GMO Market. The negotiations will be detailed. Toughness will rule the day. US President Barack Obama has therefore appointed Islam Siddiqui as chief negotiator for agriculture. He has worked for many years for the US ministry of agriculture as an expert. However, hardly anyone in Europe knows: From 2001 to 2008, he represented CropLife America as a registered lobbyist. CropLife America is an important industry association in the United States, representing the interests of pesticide and gene technology manufacturers – including of course Monsanto. “Actually, the EU cannot accept such a chief negotiator because of bias”, says Manfred Hausling, who represents the Green Party in the EU parliament.

If this report is accurate, we can assume that Monsanto has so thoroughly populated both the government and military industrial complex with its own supporters that any remaining illusion of there being a division of Corporation and State has now been dispelled.  Worse, we are bearing witness to the preeminence of the Corporation over State, the very definition of a corpocracy.

from:    http://wakeup-world.com/2013/07/29/new-investigation-alleges-us-military-monsanto-targeting-gmo-activists-and-independent-scientists/

Latest on Schrodinger’s Cat

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Bizarre ‘Schrodinger’s Cat’ Comes Alive in New Experiments

Jesse Emspak, LiveScience Contributor   |   July 22, 2013

an illustration of the quantum teleportation of 'Schrodinger's Cat' wave packets of light from a past physics study.
New research bolsters the validity of Schrodinger’s Cat, a thought experiment suggesting a cat can be both alive and dead at the same time. (Shown here, an illustration of the quantum teleportation of ‘Schrodinger’s Cat’ wave packets of light from a past physics study.)
Credit: Image courtesy of Science/AAAS

The strangeness of the world of the very small that allows a particle to be in two states at once may extend to larger scales, two new studies reveal. If the research proves true, that would bolster the validity of a thought experiment suggesting a cat can be both alive and dead at the same time.

The idea, called Schrödinger’s Cat after the physicist,Erwin Schrödinger, who proposed it in 1935, goes like this: Put a cat in a box with a vial of poison gas. The vial opens when a tiny piece of radioactive metal emits an alpha particle (the nucleus of a helium atom) as it decays. Emitting an alpha particle is a quantum-mechanical process, which means that whether it happens in any given stretch of time is basically random.

Quantum mechanics says that it’s impossible to know whether the radioactive decay has happened (and the cat is dead) unless one measures it — that is, unless the alpha particle interacts with the environment in some way that an observer can see. Until that happens, the alpha particle is emitted and not emitted at the same time. The cat is both dead and alive, a state called superposition. Opening the box is a measurement — one sees the effect of an alpha particle as the dead cat, or the absence of an alpha particle as a live one.

In the two new studies, detailed in the July 21 issue of the journal Nature Physics, researchers used particles of light, or photons, to test the limits of such superposition. If there is no limit to how many particles or photons you can put into a quantum system, that means the cat really is both dead and alive at once, and the act of measuring its state makes the mathematical formulation that describes it (called a wave function) “collapse” into a definite state, alive or dead.

Another possibility, called the many worlds interpretation, would be even weirder: that all the possible states are real, and when the wave function collapses to one state, we’re just experiencing one of many universes that exist simultaneously, in which every possible outcome happens. When the wave function collapses, we (and the cat) remember one history — a dead cat — but there’s another universe where the cat is alive.

Entangling photons

Both experiments, one conducted at Canada’s University of Calgary and the other at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, involved enough photons to be seen with the naked eye, which shows that their quantum properties could be made macroscopic, researchers say.

In the two experiments, researchers measured the quantum states — a group of physical properties, including polarization and phase — of the light using polarization, or the angle through which a photon rotates. One can see polarization while wearing polarized sunglasses and tilting one’s head while looking at the screen of a smart phone or computer. The screen will look black until the head is tilted at a certain angle.

While the exact technique was slightly different in the two experiments, both teams amplified the states of a single photon, entangling it with many other photons, and then restored it to its original state. When a photon gets entangled with other photons the state of the photon is affected by the states of the particles it is entangled with.

The polarization measurements after restoration told the researchers that the quantum entanglement with other photons had happened.

The scientists are now trying to see how large a quantum system can get before it loses its quantum nature. “It’s one of the few big unanswered questions in modern physics,” said Alexander Lvovsky, a professor of physics and lead author of the University of Calgary paper.

Superposition states

The new experiments aren’t the only ones to show superposition states.

In 2010 scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara built a resonator — basically a tiny tuning fork — the size of the pixel on a computer screen, and put it into a superposed state, in which it was both oscillating and not oscillating at the same time. But that wasn’t as extensive a system as those in the two recent papers.

“That experiment corresponds to one quanta,” said Nicolas Gisin, a professor at the University of Geneva, who led the Swiss research team. “Imagine a nano-mechanical motor showing no oscillation and 500 states. That would be ours.”

In the future, both groups will try to expand to bigger systems, where instead of translating a quantum state from a single photon to a large set of photons, they will try to translate the states of one large group to another. But that experiment will be a tough one, because in order to preserve quantum effects, groups of atoms or photons must be completely isolated from the surrounding environment, or the superposition states will be spoiled. “There are a lot more angles of attack,” with more particles, Lvovsky said.

from:    http://www.livescience.com/38339-experiments-bolster-schrodingers-cat-idea.html

Siberia heat Wave, South America Cold, Thailand Rains

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Cold Snap hits southern South America. UPDATE: (and ‘Big Fish in Living Room’ story!)

It has been a wild week for temperature extremes with the amazing heat wave in north central Siberia juxtaposed with an unusual cold spell in portions of Brazil, Bolivia, and Argentina occurring simultaneously almost exactly opposite one another on the planet. Scroll down to end of blog for my fishy story! It actually has some context considering the amazing rainfall record set at Chantaburi, Thailand this past week.

South American cold snap

Between 20-25th July a mass of very cold air suddenly froze a large area of southern South America (where temperatures had been running above average for weeks prior to the abrupt change).

Snow was recorded for the first time since 1996 at Catamarca, Argentina (28°S and located at about 500m/1,650’), and cold rain (temperatures of 5-6C/41°-43°°F) at sea level altitudes like Florianopolis, Brazil. Montevideo, Uruguay also experienced rain with temperatures as low as 3C (37°F). The town of Campos Novos, Brazil (at an elevation of 947m/3,100’) had a high temperature of just 3.6°C (38.5°F) and low of -2.7°C (27.1°F) on July 23rd, a daily average of almost freezing (0.9°C/32.8°F). There was no precipitation at the site that day, if so it probably would have been snow. In fact, a little snow was reported in Brazil in the hills above nearby Curitiba for the first time since 1975.

Snowfall in the mountainous region of Santa Catarina, Brazil is not so unusual. Above is an image of a deep snowfall near Rio Grande do Sul during the cold wave of July-August 2010. Ironically, this occurred at the same time as the famous Moscow heat wave of that summer, a somewhat similar situation as is now occurring. Photographer not identified.

There were incredible temperature contrasts in Bolivia (which isn’t unusual given the complex Andean topography) but what was unusual was that it was actually colder at the low elevations in the Amazonian jungle than in the higher mountainous terrain of the country: temperatures at Bolivian locations above 4000m (13,000’) on 23 July were higher than those in the Bolivian portions of the Amazon jungle at low elevations. For instance, the temperature at Reyes (located at 14°S and 140m/462’ elevation) had a maximum of 9.3C/48.8°F while at El Alto Airport, La Paz (elevation 4,000m/13,200’) the temperature maximum reached 13.9°C (57°F). Temperatures in the Chaco region of Bolivia were remarkably chilly with a reading of -5.8°C (21.6°F) observed at Villamontes.

Some places in the middle of the Andes, protected by mountains on all sides, like Cochabamba didn’t experience a single degree drop in temperature, while low areas experienced drops as high as 22-25°C (40-45F) in 24 hours. In Paraguay sleet was recorded in Itapua and the minimum temperature reached -5.2C (21.6°F) at Prats Gill on 24th, not far from the all-time national record of -7.5C (18.5°F) (also set in Prats Gil) on July 13, 2000

The cold air actually filtered as far north as the western part of the Amazon jungle near the Equator, with 7°C (44.6°F) at Rio Branco, Brazil (10°S latitude) and 16°C (60.8°F) at Leticia, Colombia (4°S latitude). Both are low-level sites in the Amazon Basin.

The most exceptional cold wave, in regard to how north cool air has ever penetrated, was that of July 1975 when air of polar origin reached the Caribbean affecting the whole of South America (including the extreme western part of Amazon in Peru, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guyanas, and even Trinidad and Tobago. Unlike other cold waves (such as those of 1955, 1973 and 2010) the July 1975 event didn’t stop south of the Equator, but continued well into the Northern Hemisphere. This remains unique and the only documented occurrence of such an event. The surface high pressure reached 1044 hPa (30.82”) over central South America on July 15, 1975, the highest yet measured (modern records) on the continent (REF: Markgraf, Vera Interhemispheric Climate Linkages p. 37)


500 mb MAP

Surface air temperature anomaly for the week of July 19-24 (top map) and 500 mb height anomalies for the same period (bottom). Note how the cold air over South America is almost exactly on the opposite side of the world from the heat dome over north central Siberia. NCEP/NCAR maps, courtesy of Stu Ostro.

The cold snap this past week was caused by a strong upper-level low centered over the southern third of the continent. Curiously, it has been unusually mild over the portions of Antarctica opposite South America with a high of 7.8C (46.0°F) being recorded at Base Esperanza (63°S), higher than the normal summer average maximum and just 1.5°C less than the Amazonian maximum of Reyes in Bolivia at 14°S latitude!

Meanwhile on the other side of the world…

The unrelenting heat wave in north central Siberia continues with Svetlogorsk (on the Arctic Circle) recording its 13th consecutive day (as of July 26) with temperatures above 30°C (86°F). Meanwhile, all eyes are turning to Western Europe where a potentially historic heat wave is expected to develop this weekend and continue into next week! There is a chance that some all-time national heat records may fall in some countries like Germany, Liechtenstein, Austria, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Hungary when all is said and done.

Phenomenal Rainstorm in Thailand

On a side note, a historic rainstorm has caused serious flooding in portions of southeastern Thailand. Chantaburi picked up 445.7mm (17.55”) of rain on July 23rd with an amazing 385mm (15.16”) of this falling in just 12 hours and an even more amazing 297 mm (11.69”) in just 6 hours! This may be one of the (if not the) heaviest 24-hour rainfall on record for Thailand (previous record was 414.8mm (16.33”) at Ko Samui on March 28, 2011. A famous flood in Bangkok occurred on May 9-10, 1986 when 401.1 mm (15.79”) of rain fell in just 8 hours. The ensuing floods almost cost the mayor (Chamlong) his job.

My ‘fish story’

I lived a few blocks from the Bangkok Met office at the time (during the storm of 1986) on Soi 49 Sukhumvit Rd. and caught a 15″ fish that swam through a break in the screen porch door off my living room which flooded about half a meter deep at one point. My girlfriend at the time and I trapped the sucker hiding under the water-logged couch in the living room. We grilled it later that same day (after the water receded) and it was delicious (no idea what kind of fish it was). I think I must be one of the only people who have caught a large live fish swimming around their living room and then cooked it in their kitchen just 10 feet away hours later :-). I’d love to hear from other WU friends if they have had a similar experience!

METARS for Chantaburi, Thailand July 22-23 when a peak 24-hour rainfall amount of 445.7 mm (17.55”) accumulated, a possible national record. Flooding continues as more rain has since fallen over this region of southeastern Thailand. From OGIMET.

KUDOS: Thanks to Maximiliano Herrera for much of the above information about the cold wave in South America.

Christopher C. Burt
Weather Historian

from:    http://www.wunderground.com/blog/weatherhistorian/show.html

Petunias in Space

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PETUNIAS AT THE EDGE OF SPACE: The students of Earth to Sky Calculus have recovered the petunias they sent to the stratosphere last Friday. The flowers left Earth July 19th onboard a helium research balloon, ascended to 110,570 feet, then parachuted back to Earth on the same day. These four screenshots, culled from more than 2 hours of high-definition video, summarizes what happened:

(1) The flowers were pink and alert when they left Earth. (2) An hour later, in the stratosphere, the flowers appear limp and wilted, but they were not. Actually, the flowers were frozen. The petals were bent downward by onrushing wind during the ascent, and they froze in place as the petunias passed through the tropopause where the temperature was -63 C. (3) You can see that the flowers were frozen stiff because when the balloon exploded, they did not move at all. (4) Finally, as the payload parachuted back to Earth the flowers thawed and turned deep purple.

The petunias were just one of several experiments flown to the stratosphere on July 19th during Cassini’s historic photo-shoot of Earth through the rings of Saturn. Other items on board were selected competitively from more than 1056 entries suggested by Spaceweather.com readers.

from:  spaceweather.com

Coming Gold Standard?

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Use your discretion.

The Hidden Meanings in the New $100 Bill!

Bix Weir

First of all, I must admit that I am one of those “Conspiracy Nuts” who loves to read meaning into the back of the US $1 bill like I’m trying to solve a centuries old puzzle. The “All Seeing Eye”, the pyramid, “One World Government”, Masonic symbols, the implications of the Latin words, even the words “In God We Trust” added in 1955…all of it…I’m a big fan of secret meaning. Just Google “US Dollar Hidden Meaning” and you will find almost EVERY INTERPRETATION you can imagine. Since I don’t know which is true…I tend to believe ALL OF THEM. More fun that way. If you think this is all hogwash and there is no meaning to the back of the $1 bill…”Duh, it’s just a nice picture”…then this article is not for you.

So, of course, I was more than excited when the new $100 bill was FINALLY announced and IT HAD ALL THAT GOLD ON IT!

http://www.newmoney.gov/newmoney/default.aspx

I admit that I am slightly biased on this. One of the central themes of my work at the Road to Roota Letters is that there is a group of people working to end the fiat money system and return the US back to the Gold Standard. For those unfamiliar with the concept read:

The Road to Roota Theory
http://www.roadtoroota.com/public/190.cfm

A subscriber tipped me off years ago that the new $100 bill would be “special” when it finally got released and he wasn’t lying. I LOVE this bill! Check out how it turns gold in the light…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEabYIStM8Y

Ok. So it may be a coincidence and I may have an over active imagination but bear with me while we explore further. Take a real close look at the new bill keeping in mind that the US has a special history of hidden meaning behind their bills and there’s a real possibility of a currency crash (with a return to the Gold Standard) in the very near future.

Let’s start with the most glaring difference even from the other new colored bills: that huge Blue Stripe down the right center. For those not familiar with the symbolism of the American flag colors: Red symbolizes Hardiness and Valor, White symbolizes Purity and Innocence and Blue represents Vigilance, Perseverance and Justice. Is it possible that the big Blue Stripe may have more significance that you might expect?

When it comes to monetary theory there are really only two serious camps. The first believes in fiat/paper money and the second believes in a “hard money” backed by gold. Lets assume these two opposing ideologies are represented on this bill. Look closely at the left side of the Blue Stripe.

 

Let’s say the left side represents the fiat/paper money camp. There is no new coloring at all just the same ole drab green. The same ole fiat money. It’s all there…the words “Federal Reserve Note”, the Official Fed Seal, Ooo..looks like the US Treasury Secretary signature has been moved from the right to the left side(come on…which camp did you think Geithner would be put in?!). And for you currency buffs, even Benjamin Franklin is positioned on the left of the Blue Stripe with that quizzical grin…why you ask?

Well, not many know it but Ben Franklin was a BIG supporter of paper money in his day. Don’t get me wrong, he was a great and loyal American who was very much anti-banker but in his day the battle was reversed. It was the English bankers who were all about forcing the colonists onto a Gold/Silver standard but Franklin knew that the overseas trade would leave no physical money for the colonies to conduct domestic commerce with. It was probably the TRUE cause of the American Revolution! Here’s a good representation of what happened:

http://21stcenturycicero.wordpress.com/fraud/how-benjamin-franklin-made-new-england-prosperous/

Truthfully, it’s high time we rewrite the all the US History books and tell the world the REAL STORY. The American Revolution was actually…A REBELLION AGAINST THE BANKSTERS!

Back to the “Greenback”…

So you can see that everything on the left side of the new $100 bill relates to the continuance of fiat money.

Now let’s look at the right side of that Blue Stripe…the “Vigilance, Perseverance and Justice” side!

 

OH MY GOODNESS…GOLD GALORE!! A Gold Ink Well, Gold Liberty Bell, Gold Feather Pen, Gold “100”, Gold Watermark, Gold Writing in the background, Gold “July 4, 1776″…there’s even a HUGE gold “100” on the back of the right side. The right side of this bill is so full of gold it will probably droop when you hand it to the cashier!

Here’s my take on all the Gold symbolism:

– The US has long prepared to return to a Gold Standard and the time has come.

– The Gold Ink Well symbolizes the power of Congress to pass laws that can dismantle the Fiat Money System with the stoke of a pen.

– The Gold Liberty Bell within the ink well symbolizes Congresses ability to write laws that destroy the banking cabal’s strangle hold on the Liberty of citizens in the United States.

– Notice the words “THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER FOR ALL DEBTS,PUBLIC AND PRIVATE” has also been moved from the left to the right side (or the gold standard side!)

– Notice how the color of the “100” on the bottom front changes from GREEN to GOLD…still not convinced?

– And now my favorite… look at the wording right above the “100” on the far right.

Do you see it?

 

“…the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new…”

That, my friends, comes directly from our Declaration of Independence and says the following:

“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.”

Has there ever been a time in the last 100 years that the people were more ready to “alter or abolish” our government?!

Can “They” make it more obvious…GET READY FOR A GOLD STANDARD!

The odd fact that the US Treasury chose to “anti-counterfeit” the $100 bill last is very telling. The US $100 is the MOST counterfeited bill in the world by far. So much so that the fake bills even have their own name…the “SUPERDOLLAR” or “SUPERNOTE”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5PTzBRwk5M

The new $100’s were going to be released on Feb 10, 2011 but the Federal Reserve announced a “delay due to production problems”. Why wait so long? In this video it sure looks like they are in full production already. (what’s with the “Wizard of Oz-esque” green drapes? No, I won’t run with that!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUALVgbyZ84

Oh, did you notice that the bill in all the sample photos was printed in “SERIES 2009”? I believe that the new $100’s are ready to go and HAVE BEEN READY SINCE THE ONSET OF THE CREDIT CRISIS! They were waiting for the crash and the return to a gold standard. With this announcement they might as well say …WE ARE READY TO COLLAPSE THE SYSTEM!!

The monetary camps split by the Blue Stripe, the Liberty Bell in the Gold Inkwell, the quotes of overthrowing the government, the delayed implementation of the $100 bill…

Get ready for a Gold Standard because we are just about there!

from:    http://www.roadtoroota.com/public/261.cfm

Denver Airport Oddities

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Denver Airport The Truth

 

Denver Airport in Colorado Springs has been the topic of debate among Truth Seekers and Conspiracy Theorist’s alike since the erection of the new Airport. Although Truth Seekers and Conspiracy Theorist’s don’t normally like to be referred to in the same sentence, on this matter they are fairly untied in opinions.
The airport I am referring to in this article is Denver Airport, which was built in 1995, despite the fact Denver already had a fully functioning airport called Stapleton International Airport. This is one of many interesting facts which has initially attracted groups such as the fore mentioned. Ordinarily when a new construction is built to replace another, it is either due to the fact the previous structure is faulty or that the new proposed structure needs better technology or in the case of an airport, more runway space. None of this was in fact the case with Denver Airport. Stapleton was fully operational with no underlaying issues and the replacement airport had less runway space nor did it sport an fantastic new technological advancements over the previous. However having said all that, the new Denver Airport did have an enormous amount of dead space surrounding the Airport which is owned by the Airport and has no plans in place for extra runways or parking etc. One final aspect to the actual construction of Denver Airport, from an arial perspective or satellite image, the entire complex forms the shape of a giant Nazi Swastika, which understandably does not sit too comfortable with some people.
Perhaps the single most talked about feature of the new Denver Airport, and this is only due to it’s blatant visibility as there are many other disturbing features; is the collection of protected murals.
In plan site of passengers departing and entering the airport, there are approximately four giant sized wall murals depicting horrifying images. Many people have expressed the fact that airports for the vast majority of people, are intimidating places at the best of times, to be bombarded with such explicit images of death before boarding an airplane is boarder line sadistic. Are these murals one mans warped artistic mind running wild, or are they a visual representation of plans laid out by the NWO (New World Order) who many people feel are the true architectures of Denver Airport. As you can see from the images, there are many interpretations one can see within the murals. The image of what looks to be a Russian Stormtrooper wielding an Arabian Sword in one hand as it slices through the Earth leaving devastation and destruction in it’s path and an AK-47 in the other hand. It is worth noting about this particular image, the sword appears to be slicing through two tower blocks, pretty reminiscent of the Twin Towers disaster in 9/11. Whats more frightening about this image is that it was painted well before the 9/11 tragedy. The artist responsible for the murals is Leo Tanguma, who to the best of my knowledge has never actually held an interview explaining the meaning of the murals, if in fact there are meanings.

 

As I have already briefly mentioned the New World Order and their involvement behind the Airport, let me just explain a little bit about this group. Many people believe and with good reason, that an elite group of individuals run the world and we are not alluding to simple straight forward individuals such as President’s, Prime Minister’s and Monarchy’s but much more influential destructive people than these. The individuals who really pick and chose governments throughout the globe, people who hold much more power and fare grater evil minds than the lunatics we openly call our leaders. It is thought that the New World Order group need to reduce the population on this planet by quite a bit, and by that I mean a reduction of billions, lives that are only seen as parasitic to the globalist mentality and therefore totally expendable.
On entering Denver Airport you are openly welcomed by a large Cornerstone, which has engraved on it the following message. “New World Airport Commission Contributors”. There is other information on the stone however this particular phrase is of special interest as there is no such organization as “New World Airport Commission Contributors”, and so could this be a metaphor for the New World Order, or perhaps a secret building block in their plan for global domination?
On further investigation of the airport the periodic table symbol for gold and silver (Au Ag) appears throughout different areas of the airport, however certain individuals think it represents something far more sinister. One of the main sponsors of Denver Airport is also supposed to have discovered a new deadly strain of the Hepatitis B Virus also known as Australia Antigen, which also has the (Au Ag) symbol. Obviously due to this people assume the symbol with the (Au Ag) represents the method on which the New World Order are to reduce the population to the preferred size.
The final piece of the puzzle as far as Denver Airport is concerned is the massive underground network that many local people have watched materialise over the last few years or more. Vast underground buildings and a network of tunnels connecting have been witnessed and when the Airport officials are questioned or even people working on the construction asked about it, they simply reply that they are not permitted to talk about it, or ignore the question altogether. Within this vast network of underground tunnels and buildings made of concrete, sprinkler type systems have been installed, again when people inquire about a sprinkler system installed in a non flammable environment, blank expressions are returned. All of this adds fuel to the theory that when the New World Order kickstart their mission to overthrow the globe, that Denver Airport’s underground networks and others like it around the wold will be used to contain citizens under Martial Law. Once they have been rounded up and herded into these complexes, the so called sprinkler systems will become apparent. Much like the terrible concentration camps of Nazi Germany, these sprinkler systems will pump through the deadly Hepatitis B virus (Au Ag Australia Antigen)
As with all Truth Seeking Theories or Conspiracy Theories of this nature, there is always another group who are more than willing to explain all the demonic type actions I have explained in this article. For example while (Au Ag is partially correct in representing Australia Antigen) after I conducted my own research on this matter, I discovered that it is only partially right and that the correct abbreviation for the strain is (Au Ag-Ab), so one must ask has this been left off to fit someone else’s theory. Also as far as the sprinkler system, regardless of the environment being concrete and pretty much non flammable, in all underground establishments oxygen is constantly pumped and pure oxygen like this can cause massive potential for fire and this could be what the sprinkler system is in place for.
As for the other things such as the shape of the complex and the terrifying murals, I don’t have an answer as to why they have been situated at an airport in the intimidating fashion they have been sited. It has also been reported on various occasions that high profile individuals such as the British Royal Family and many others in this realm of status, have purchased property close to the facility. It is of course no secret, that not far from Denver Airport, in the Cheyenne Mountains of Colorado Springs, NORAD (North American Aerospace Defence Command) are stationed deep within and under the mountain’s. It is quite obvious to the reasoning behind this, NORAD are responsible for maintaining control over Satellite’s placed in space by America, NORAD monitor much further than the skies for the possibilities of foreign attack. They are also the last line of defence in terms of command centre should we ever face a Nuclear Holocaust
For me personally, I am always open minded to pretty much everything, I think to shut off and ignore what is going on around us, is to be ignorant and that is neither helpful to me as an individual or to other people around me. However I do try to take a logical approach on matters, I don’t always get things right, but so long as I have researched the matter for myself, then I know I am not simply being lead by the few who want it to be like that.

I would love to know your thoughts and opinions on this matter and if you have read about this before or simply about the idea of a New World Order in general.

from:     http://fusednews.blogspot.ca/2012/07/denver-airport-truth.html

Debt Elimination Coming?

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All Debt To Be Erased Within The Next Few Months
All Debt To Be Erased Within The Next Few Months

by Gregg Prescott, M.S.

Right on schedule, banking systems are collapsing and will result in the elimination of all debt, according to Bix Weir, who has 30 years experience in the financial industry with various fortune 500 companies.

As mentioned numerous times on In5D,  we are currently under the energies of Pluto In Capricorn, which will continue to bring an end to all sources of control and manipulation, including the banking systems, governments and religion. Pluto entered Capricorn in 2008 and, right on schedule, we saw the collapse of hundreds of banks.

For those who question the power of how astrological alignments dictate what is happening right now, look no further than the last time when Pluto was in Capricorn.  During that time period, we saw both the French and American Revolutions.  If you look around the world, there are revolutions either currently going on or are about to explode, so it is NOT a coincidence that we are seeing this happen once again.

“We are at a point in our system and in the manipulation where there are people within the Fed, and within our government, who are ready to pull the plug on the game and basically crash the system,” stated Weir.

Many people will question whether this is a controlled demolition of the financial system in order to All Debt To Be Erased Within The Next Few Months | in5d Alternative News | in5d.com |implement a one world currency, which is a valid concern, but the current financial system based on fiat currency cannot sustain itself as it creates money out of thin air and charges interest on it.  In other words, it is going to collapse whether you want it to or not.  The most important issue is deciding what form of currency will be its replacement and if there is any assurance of whether this new system will inevitably collapse as well.

Right now in the United States, the U.S. debt is more than all of the money on the planet so it is impossible to repay.  The only other solution is to eliminate all debt and create a new asset based currency that does not rely on creating money out of thin air.

During the last bailout in 2008 after the housing boom, we saw a huge derivatives explosion which is due to crash the system in a few months. Derivatives are basically when a bank sells the obligation of the mortgage holder to another company and in essence, bets on the failure of the homeowner to fall into foreclosure. There is no way the Fed can bailout the trillions of dollars in derivatives so the only other option will be to eliminate all debt and create an asset based currency.

The Fed still continues to pump fiat currency into a rising stock market that should have begun collapsing in 2008, create a false sense of security for those who have stocks.  This too, will collapse.

Will this happen in other countries as well?

Once the big banks fall in the United States, all other banks will follow.  Weir stated, “If you take down the banks, you take down every individual checking, savings, 401K (etc…).  Everyone holds their money in banks, even the brokerage houses.  The derivative situation is such a mess that once a couple of those big banks go (under), every other counter party will fall, too.  So you’re looking at a complete wipeout of all debts in all banks.”

Greg Hunter added that we have $10.8 trillion in deposits with (only) $33 billion in the FDIC deposit insurance fund and a line of credit worth $100 billion in the Treasury.  In other words, there isn’t anywhere near enough money to back all of the depositors.  Weir added that the FDIC also insures all of the derivatives for JP Morgan and the Bank of America for hundreds of trillions of dollars.

What will happen to any money we have in the bank?

All Debt To Be Erased Within The Next Few Months | in5d Alternative News | in5d.com |Weir mentioned an example where a person might have $10,000 in the bank along with $200-300,00 mortgage IOU’s.  In this situation, the person would lose the money in their account, but would not have to pay off the mortgage to his or her home.

Weir added, “The people who will lose out the most are those people who are completely out of debt with a savings account in a bank that they thought was AAA rated.”

When will this happen?

According to Weis, the collapse should happen anytime from August to October of this year.

Will Federal Reserve notes be honored until the new currency arrives?

According to Weir, he believes that this would be a good plan but it would only work for those who have physical Federal Reserve notes versus having money in the bank, “at least for a little while.”

Gold and silver

Hunter added to be sure to buy rolls of quarters and half dollars because they are printed by the All Debt To Be Erased Within The Next Few Months | in5d Alternative News | in5d.com |Treasury and not the Federal Reserve.

As his number one investment, Weir recommended to buy pre-1965 silver coins because “everybody will be scrambling for gold and silver.  It would be the last theoretical form of money that people have.  People are starting to wake up now and when they can’t get money out of their bank that defaulted, that’s when you’re really going to se people scrambling for physical gold and silver in your possession.”

The moment the banks are no longer manipulating the gold and silver market is the moment that these metals go “limit up.  You will not really know the price of silver and gold for a while because it’s the anti-dollar.”

Redistribution and reallocation of money

The US Dollar is the longest lasting currency that is not backed by assets and history will dictate, every previous currency that was not backed by assets has collapsed.

In the United States, people will receive new currency based on how much money they paid into Social Security, where those who worked the hardest and paid into Social Security while those who are young and working will get more as they work more.

At this time, it is unclear how other countries will allocate and redistribute money.

The elimination of debt should create numerous immediate benefits, such as the significant lowering of rent due to the owner no longer having debt on his building, house or apartment along with a lower cost of goods and services for the same reason.  In other words, prices for everything will drop significantly from what we are paying today.

According to Weir, it might take “a few weeks to reallocate money” so there might be a transition period where grocery stores and other businesses may temporarily close.  You want to be sure to have enough food and water stored up to cover you and your family for up to several months.

“The government knows that this is going down quickly.  These banks cannot survive much longer.  They are literally on their knees and the main stream media is not going to tell you about it, but in the financial world, we all know about it.”

Whether or not the banking collapse happens between now and October remains to be seen.  What we already know is that our current system is unsustainable and its collapse it’s inevitable.  It’s only a matter of time.

from:    http://in5d.com/all-debts-to-be-erased.html