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Joplin Supercell fr/Space

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Joplin, Missouri Tornado Seen From Space

by NANCY ATKINSON on MAY 24, 2011

This video from NOAA’s GOES geostationary satellite shows the development of the supercell storm that produced the devastating tornado that struck Joplin, Missouri. Here you can see the storm develop over Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas state lines on May 22, 2011 between 12:44pm to 7:15pm CDT. This was part of the great wave of severe storms that swept across the central United States, with tornado warnings from Minneapolis to Dallas. The most damaging storm struck Joplin at 5:30 pm local time (2230 UTC), killing at least 116 people.

To read more and see more images go to: http://www.universetoday.com/85919/joplin-missouri-tornado-seen-from-space/

 

More Ash from Icelandic Volcano

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Flights cancelled as ash cloud heads towards UK

 

 

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Philip Hammond: “We know much more about the composition, direction and size of the plume than we did last year”

Flights in Scotland have been cancelled by a regional airline as volcanic ash continues to head towards the UK.

Loganair, based at Glasgow airport, has cancelled 36 flights on Tuesday as the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) warns that disruption cannot be ruled out.

Analysts expect the ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano to reach Scotland and Northern Ireland by Monday evening.

The event comes a year after ash from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano spread across Europe, causing huge disruption.

to read more go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13498477

Reports of Blue/Green Meteor in Georgia

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Georgia Blue Meteor 20MAY2011

Chickamauga station video (c) 2011 NASA
Atlanta, Georgia Meteor just before 11:00 pm 20MAY2011
Just before 11pm, I saw a blue meteor. White tail, blue front. Am sure it was in our atmosphere, it was close, huge! Atlanta, GA area. Today is May 20, 2011 -Anon.


hour south of Atlanta, Georgia

Guest775 (guest): We saw a green with white and yellow meteorite type object shoot across the sky in Georgia -an hour south of Atlanta – heading north. It lasted 3-5 seconds. Moving very fast. Very far away.Very pretty.

Check out more of the reports, plus see some images and watch the video, at:

http://lunarmeteoritehunters.blogspot.com/2011/05/georgia-blue-meteor-20may2011.html

Earthquakes Running Backwards

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Scientists Find Odd Twist in Slow ‘Earthquakes’: Tremor Running Backwards

ScienceDaily (May 22, 2011) — Earthquake scientists trying to unravel the mysteries of an unfelt, weeks-long seismic phenomenon called episodic tremor and slip have discovered a strange twist. The tremor can suddenly reverse direction and travel back through areas of the fault that it had ruptured in preceding days, and do so 20 to 40 times faster than the original fault rupture.

to read more go to:   http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110522141545.htm

 

Roswell Crash Confirmed?

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File photo of children viewing model of an alien at the International UFO Museum (© Eric Draper/AP)
One of the thousands of documents the FBI placed in its new online site (find out where) reportedly seems to confirm that aliens did land at Roswell, N.M., in 1947. (See where that is.) Conspiracy theorists have said for years that the U.S. government covered up its discovery of this in a field, saying instead it was a weather balloon.
More on aliens:
Find out who had roles in the TV series.
Learn about other possible UFO cover-ups.

 

Minus 200 Million…

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What If 200 Million People Go Missing on Saturday?

Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer
Date: 20 May 2011 Time: 11:14 AM ET
Judgment Day
According Christian tradition, the rapture is the day when believers will ascend to heaven and be rewarded with everlasting life.
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According to the predictions of Christian radio broadcaster Harold Camping, May 21 will be the day of the rapture, when God calls believers to heaven to live in everlasting paradise.

By Camping’s estimation, that means the Earth will be 200 million souls lighter by Sunday morning. [Infographic: A Brief History of Doomsday]

While there’s no reason to believe that Camping’s doomsday predictions are more reliable than the hundreds of failed end-of-the-world predictions throughout history, the loss of 200 million people all at once would be the largest single population decrease in human history. It’s safe to say the world would take notice — but the effects of such a mass disappearance would depend on where believers were concentrated.

to read more go to: http://www.livescience.com/14251-200-million-rapture-12.html

Solar Filament

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JUMP: Solar activity is low, but it’s not zero. Just look at what happened yesterday. On May 20th, an enormous filament of hot plasma and magnetism reared up from the edge of the sun and …. (click on the image)


Credit: NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory [movie]

…it jumped! The magnificent leap spanned more than 200,000 km of fiery starscape. This is the sort of thing that happens routinely when a 1027ton nuclear explosion (a star) is “quiet.”

 

What to do in case of a… Zombie Invasion???

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Zombie Apocalypse Post Sends Hordes to CDC Blog

Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer
Date: 19 May 2011 Time: 01:53 PM ET
Zombie apocalypse
Zombies, the brain-craving, shambling undead, are a pop culture phenomenon.
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First there was “Dawn of the Dead.” Then there was “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” (Quirk Books, 2009). Now, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are jumping on the zombie bandwagon.

Yes, that CDC. A post on the health agency’s blog titled “Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse” went viral this week, causing the blog’s servers to temporarily crash. The blog normally gets 1,000 to 3,000 hits per day, said CDC spokesperson Dave Daigle. Before the page went down on Wednesday (May 18), the post had garnered 30,000 hits. As of Thursday morning, 55,000 people had clicked on the post.

“We did not anticipate this type of reaction,” Daigle told LiveScience.

to read more go to:   http://www.livescience.com/14240-cdc-zombie-apocalypse.html

 

Panera ‘Pay-What-You-Want’ A Success

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Year Later, Pay-What-You-Want Panera a Success

By JIM SALTER Associated Press
CLAYTON, Mo. May 16, 2011 (AP)

 

 

Rashonda Thornton looked up at the menu on the wall, ordered a Caesar salad and dropped a $10 bill in a box. Pretty generous, considering the meal at Panera Bread Co.’s café in the St. Louis suburb of Clayton sells for less than $7.

It was a year ago that Panera converted the Clayton restaurant into a nonprofit pay-what-you-want restaurant with the idea of helping to feed the needy and raising money for charitable work. Panera founder and Chairman Ronald Shaich said the café, operated through Panera’s charitable foundation, has been a big success, largely because of people like Thornton.

“Sometimes you can give more, and sometimes you can give less,” said Thornton, a teacher’s assistant. “Today was one of my ‘more’ days.”

to read more go to:   http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=13612571