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[gotsnowgotslush]

Thu May 12, 2011

Songcatcher- Does the Alter- Community have any explanations for this?

Mystery Boom in Virginia Likely a Meteor

Tuesday evening, residents across Virginia Beach, Norfolk and Suffolk, Va.,
dialed 911 to report what sounded what a large explosion.
Today, a NASA scientist explained that it might have been a meteor.

The area is home to several military bases, so residents are accustomed to loud sounds.
This was out of the ordinary, though; several 911 callers reported a loud noise that rattled
their screen doors and windows. One woman told the local television station, WAVY,
that it felt like an earthquake.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20110512/sc_space/mysteryboominvirginialikelyameteor

Zawodny-

"The only other thing that I've been holding open as possibility — and this would be quite rare — is this could be a result of an atmospheric ducting phenomenon," Zawodny said.

This phenomenon requires just-right weather conditions to create layers in the atmosphere that then act as a wave guide and channel sound waves from one place to another, sometimes over long distances.

"We've had the right temperature profile in the area [to create an atmospheric duct]," Zawodny said. "There could have been an offshore Navy thing that made sound that traveled along the duct inland. It would have had to be a really huge sound, though."

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Pleads not guilty in Manhattan. Président?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Anything on cluster events of people crashing their cars and trucks into buildings?

 

[philosophygirl]

where is song catcher. The Siamese must be on holiday.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Maybe he found something offline that has his full attention....

 

[Lady Reiha]

Maybe he found something offline that has his full attention....

It's Anime.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

There is still some great stuff floating around. *wishes for true anime TV channel to subscribe to*

 

[Lady Reiha]

There is still some great stuff floating around. *wishes for true anime TV channel to subscribe to*

http://www.theanimenetwork.com/Watch-Online

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/alerts/alerts_timeline.html

And the USGS said nothing in the area.

 

[Lady Reiha]

http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/alerts/alerts_timeline.html

And the USGS said nothing in the area.

Stop living in the Northern Tundra.

 

[Songcatcher]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c07_1305468939

Ask him.

 

[eyer]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c07_1305468939

Ask him.

Russian Speaker of the House:

"There are only these 4 ruling capitals in the world: Washington, Brussels, Moscow, Beijing. That's it. The only 4 capitals of the world. No one else matters. No one else has any serious influence. The rest of the countries are not real players in the international scene."

"Players are: Obama - Representatives of the EU - Medvedev - Representatives of China. That's it."

"Everything is decided in the 4 capitals of the world, and nowhere else."

"Now add to this, that: Washington has no future, that artificial state will collapse; Then this old Europe will collapse, a continent, with no importance whatsoever; China is also about to explode.

"And what remains is Russia! In possession of orbital launch capability and space power. Russia, with lots of money and resources. And new weapons, which nobody knows about...not yet. With these weapons we will DESTROY any part of the planet within 15 minutes. No explosion, no ray burst. Not some kind of a laser, not lightning. It is a calm and quiet weapon instead, with which whole continents will be put to sleep, forever."
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Thank goodness the Soviet Union is no more and Russia is a democracy...

...huh?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Where do Ancient Chinese Secrets come from?

"When people were trying to synthesise high-temperature superconductors it was found as a by-product, accidentally," says Suchitra Sebastian, a condensed matter physicist at the University of Cambridge in England.

Researchers were preparing a sample of material containing barium and copper. When they heated the mixture in a container made from silica, a magenta residue formed on the container. It was BaCuSi2O6 – Han purple. The phenomenon has generated much interest among condensed matter physicists ever since.

In the early 1990s, detailed chemical analysis by researchers at the Bavarian State Department of Historical Monument in Munich, Germany, revealed that the purple found on the terracotta warriors is a barium copper silicate with the chemical formula BaCuSi2O6. It has also been found on artefacts from the Han dynasty (206 BC to 220 AD), and was dubbed 'Han purple' – though it has since been detected on artifacts dating back to 700 BC or earlier.

SO WHERE DID HAN PURPLE COME FROM?

The remarkable implication of this is that Chinese artisans were performing synthetic inorganic chemistry over 2,700 years ago, long before the development of the compass or papermaking.

But peer a little deeper into the constituents of this lustrous shade and a new mystery appears. It turns out that, chemically, Han purple (BaCuSi2O6) differs only slightly from another pigment, Han blue (BaCuSi4O10).

That's not so unusual, but Han blue in turn holds a striking visual resemblance to Egyptian blue – and an uncannily similar chemical make-up. Swap Han blue's barium for calcium and you have Egyptian blue: CaCuSi4O10.

But Egyptian blue has never been found in China. And why would the Chinese replace calcium with barium? There's plenty of limestone in China, and using barium would have required higher temperatures. Finally, one other nagging little thing: all the Chinese pigments contain traces of lead. And that has turned out to be the most important clue of all.

Berke and colleagues used a scanning electron microscope – which uses electrons instead of visible light – to look at a Han purple fragment right down to the micron (one thousandth of a millimetre).

When the synchrotron X-rays bounced off the molecules in the pigment crystals, they created a diffraction pattern that contained information about their structure and molecular make-up. "We could then figure out how big the grains were and how they were oriented," says Mehta.

Next they tried X-ray fluorescence. This is strong evidence, says Mehta, "that lead was intentionally put in the samples … to use as a flux to control the temperature."

According to Berke, the lead performed another, unintended function: the lead salt was able to catalytically break down barite, enabling the pigment to form. He doubts this was fully understood by the artisans at the time.

Thee unique materials and their novel use suggest the Chinese pigments were developed independently of Egyptian blue. So how did Chinese pigment-making processes evolve?

When Han purple was first described, it was noted that the same constituents – barium, lead, and silicates – had been used in ancient glass-making in China, which began as early as 1,100 BC.

A number of ancient glasses were imitations of jade. 'Jade' is a broad term, but the jade of ancient China was usually the mineral nephrite. It was highly valued and has been used in ornaments and ritual objects for more than 7,000 years.

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/2909/full?sms_ss=twitter&at_xt=4dd0d4a4c1ddcc48,0

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

????

Obama Dates Westminster Abbey Guestbook Entry '24 May 2008'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/24/obama-westminster-abbey-guestbook-date_n_866324.html

 

[Songcatcher]

China issued ultimatum to USA.

"Quit messing with Pakistan, or we will move. Attack on Pakistan is attack on China."
- Webster Tarpley.













Mate, WWIII is coming.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Are Sichuan peppercorns high on the Scoville scale?

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Not much being said about 2011?

Chernobyl

radioactive cloud to Zagreb, Yugoslavia. 14. Radiation detected in Paris, France. 15. Radioactive cloud reaches Tromso, Norway. Day 7 --May 2 16. Small amounts of radiation measured near Reykjavik, Iceland. 17. Radiation reaches Bucharest, Romania. 18. Winds carry radioactive particles into Brussels, Belgium. 19. Radioactive cloud moves over London, England. High amounts of radiation wash out when it rains north of London. 20. Radioactive cloud detected in Sofia, Bulgaria. Day 8 May 3 21. Radioactive cloud reaches Glasgow, Scotland. 22. Winds carry radioactive cloud to Athens, Greece. 23. Radioactive pa...

Pollution Pathways--Pollution Points

Day 2 -- April 27 1. Winds blow radioactive cloud northwest over Gdansk, Poland.
Day 3 -- April 28 2. Radioactive cloud reaches Stockholm, Sweden.
3. Radioactive cloud reaches Helsinki, Finland.
4. Radioactive cloud reaches Oslo, Norway.
Day 4 -- April 29 5. Radiation continues north through Scandinavia reaching Trondheim, Norway.
6. Radiation detected in Copenhagen, Denmark.
7. Winds carry radioactive cloud to Prague, Czechoslovakia.
Day 5 -- April 30 8. Cloud moves over Munich, West Germany.
9. High amounts of radioactive particles wash out when it rains in Vienna, Austria.
10. Radioactive cloud reaches Geneva, Switzerland.
Day 6 -- May 1 11. Cloud travels to Rome, Italy.
12. Radioactive cloud reaches Budapest, Hungary.
13. Winds carry radioactive cloud to Zagreb, Yugoslavia.
14. Radiation detected in Paris, France.
15. Radioactive cloud reaches Tromso, Norway.
Day 7 -- May 2 16. Small amounts of radiation measured near Reykjavik, Iceland.
17. Radiation reaches Bucharest, Romania.
18. Winds carry radioactive particles into Brussels, Belgium.
19. Radioactive cloud moves over London, England.
20. Radioactive cloud detected in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Day 8 -- May 3 21. Radioactive cloud reaches Glasgow, Scotland.
22. Winds carry radioactive cloud to Athens, Greece.
23. Radioactive particles detected in Ankara, Turkey.
Day 9 -- May 4 24. Radiation reaches Beirut, Lebanon.
Day 10 -- May 5 25. Radiation detected in Damascus, Syria.
Day 11 -- May 6 26. Radioactive particles reach Kuwait, the capitol of Kuwait.
27. Radioactive cloud moves over Xian, China.
Day 12 -- May 7 28. Radioactive particles reach Tokyo, Japan
Day 18 -- May 13 29. Slight amount of radiation detected in Richland, Washington, in the United States

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

The Brits let their files be seen. Why are the Aussies hiding theirs?

June 7, 2011
Australia UFO Sighting Files Mysteriously Disappear

Bill Chalker also expressed his dismay and claimed to have accessed the archives just a few months ago.

"Some of those UFO documents would still be classified, and would not be available for viewing,'' he told the Sydney Morning Herald.

The department spent two months searching its offices for files that would be captured by the Herald's FOI application, which sought a ''schedule of records held by the Department of Defence … which relate to unidentified flying objects''.

But in late May, the department's FOI assistant director, Natalie Carpenter, delivered a reply that seemed almost designed to set online chat rooms alight with conspiracy chatter.

The only file Defence was able to locate was titled ''Report on UFOs/Strange Occurrences and Phenomena in Woomera''; the others had been destroyed.

''The earliest file so far located in South Australia is from series D174, control symbol SA5281 titled 'Unusual Occurrences Flying Saucer at Woomera' with a date range of 1952-1955. It was originally classified 'Secret'. It is a 25-page file.''

In November 2000, the then defence chiefs decided the department would stop collecting UFO reports.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sc...-xfiles-are-lost-in-space-20110606-1fpea.html

 

[rosco rathbone]

The Jared Laughner of Lit does not do "interlocutor".

Like the Delphic oracle of old, he "communicates" in his own way, on his own schedule.

You do not "ask" the songcatcher anything. You just read the entrails.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

I was born in 1954. "Do your own thing," is something that I grew up with.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Pollution Causes Male Fish to Carry Eggs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrHaJXli18U

Scientists and activists reported this past week that more than 80% of the male bass fish in Washington DCs major river are now exhibiting female traits such as egg production because of a "toxic stew" of pollutants.

Intersex fish probably result from drugs, such as the contraceptive pill, and other chemicals being flushed into the water and have been found across the US.

And there is evidence that the anomaly is not confined to the Potomac. A report last year by the US geological survey found intersex fish in a third of 111 sites tested around the country

 

[Songcatcher]

European biohazard E-coli is artificial bio-weapon.

Be carefull, mate.

Me; 0.03 microsieverts/h.

Spain: 0.1 microsieverts/h

http://www.safecast.org/en

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

DW-TV

Athens

The streets are filled with people, and people are being arrested.
65 billion Euros?
Selling off assets to raise 50 billion Euros.

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

25,000 people in the streets of Athens. They do not like the austerity measures. Running skirmishes.

 

[rosco rathbone]

25,000 people in the streets of Athens. They do not like the austerity measures. Running skirmishes.

Good for them.

They're standing up to the takeover of their country by financiers from Northern Europe. As Michael Hudson says, finance has replaced military force, but the end result is the same.