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Mars

Earth's pull is 'massaging' our moon

Ninderthana
Astro-Climate Connection
Fri, 18 Sep 2015 04:10 UTC
The Moon in front of Earth
© NASAThe Moon in front of Earth
Many scientists deny that factors external to the Earth can have a significant impact upon the Earth's climate yet there is considerable evidence that this indeed the case. Their instincts tell them that they must always look for internal factors, and internal factors alone, to explain the Earth's climate systems. Most will admit that Moon might have some influence upon the Earth's climate through the dissipation of its tidal forces in the Earth's oceans but beyond that they have little time for thinking outside the box.

It is now emerging that those who reject the idea that factors external to the Earth can have a significant influence upon the Earth's climate are increasingly at odds with the evidence.

One quirky way to show that this is the case is to reverse the argument around. This can be done by asking the question: Is there any evidence to show that the Earth can have a significant influence upon the Moon and nearby planets? If this is indeed the case then would it be so hard to imagine that it might possible for the reverse to happen (in specific cases). One piece of evidence that shows that the Earth can have a significant impact upon external astronomical bodies is the gravitational interaction between the Earth and Venus.

Every time the planet Venus passes between the Earth and Sun it presents the same face towards Earth. This happens because the slow retrograde rotation rate of the planet Venus (approximately 243 days) has allowed the Earth's gravity to nudge Venus's rotation period into a resonance lock with the Earth's orbital period.
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Earthquake lights? Mysterious cloud filmed above Costa Rica


Before Its News
Wed, 16 Sep 2015 00:28 UTC
mysterious cloud over costa rica
© youtube
On September 15, 2015 witness filmed a very strange cloud phenomenon above Costa Rica at about 3.00 pm local time. We may wonder whether this strange cloud is just a natural phenomenon or a so-called earthquake light or there's more than our eyes can see?

Earthquake lights are reported to appear while an earthquake is occurring, although there are reports of lights before or after earthquakes.

They are reported to have different shapes with a white to bluish hue, but occasionally they have been reported having a wider color spectrum.


Comment: There has been significant seismic activity this week, including the huge 8.3 magnitude earthquake which struck off Chile. Could this bizarre cloud formation be an 'earthquake light' or 'plasma discharge' of sorts?

In the chapter, Earth 'opening up', in Earth Changes and the Human-Cosmic Connection, Pierre Lescaudron discusses various factors pertaining to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, including the Earth's minute slowdown exerting mechanical stress on the crust and electromagnetism.
Precursors that indicate alerts of this potential rise also include increases in: low frequency electromagnetic emission, magnetic field anomalies, earthquake lights from ridges and mountain tops, temperature anomalies over wide areas and changes in plasma density of the ionosphere
As seismic and volcanic activity increases across the planet, such 'earthquake lights' and plasma discharges will likely become more common. For a recent probable plasma (not HAARP - see articles below) discharge activity, check out this youtube video (contains some strong language) published on June 12, 2015 which happened in Greenwood, Indiana USA.


Read the following articles to learn more about HAARP:

HAARP and The Canary in the Mine

Mind Control and HAARP

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Airplane

'Computer issues' ground all American Airlines planes at major US airports


RT.com
Thu, 17 Sep 2015 17:47 UTC
AA Airlines
© CNN Money
American Airlines has issued a ground stop for its entire fleet, citing computer issues at the hubs in Chicago, Dallas and Miami.

Airport computers are not allowing customers to check in, the airline confirmed. Passengers can still check in on their home computers or cell phones.

Thousands of passengers are currently stranded at Miami (MIA), Chicago O'Hare (ORD) and Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) international airports.
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Question

The strange and unexplained phenomenon of raining objects

April Holloway
Ancient Origins
Sat, 12 Sep 2015 00:31 UTC
Raining Stones
© Trevor Victor Harvey GalleryRaining stones by Mackenzie Thorpe.
Throughout history, there have been numerous recorded instances of strange objects falling from the sky - fish, frogs, candy, jellyfish, beans, nuts, seeds, and all manner of bizarre and unlikely objects.

A popular theory explains these events as being caused by strong winds that whisk things up from the ground or water and hurl them towards an unsuspecting town many miles away.

But can this theory also explain showers of heavy stones that have been known to damage houses and even kill people and livestock?

A Long History of Raining Objects

One of the first recorded instances of "raining" objects comes from the writings of Roman philosopher and naturalist Pliny the Elder, who documented storms of frogs and fish in the 1st century A.D. in what is now Italy. In the 3rd century A.D., ancient Greek rhetorician and grammarian Athenaeus wrote in his work The Deipnosophists (Book VIII):
In Paeonia and Dardania it has, they say, before now rained frogs; and so great has been the number of these frogs that the houses and the roads have been full of them; and at first, for some days, the inhabitants, endeavoring to kill them, and shutting up their houses, endured the pest; but when they did no good, but found that all their vessels were filled with them, and the frogs were found to be boiled up and roasted with everything they ate, and when besides all this, they could not make use of any water, nor put their feet on the ground for the heaps of frogs that were everywhere, and were annoyed also by the smell of those that died, they fled the country.
Since then, numerous other unusual instances have been documented, including a storm in Italy in 1840 that deposited thousands of partially germinated Judas Tree seeds native to Central Africa; a dusting of sugar crystals in 1857 in Lake County, Calif.; a rain of hazelnuts over Dublin, Ireland, in 1867; live pond mussels in Paderborn, Germany, in 1892; and jellyfish in Bath, England, in 1894.
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UFO

Leaked: US government video of UFO flying over Puerto Rico airport in 2013

Scott C. Waring
ufosightingsdaily.com
Thu, 13 Aug 2015 08:49 UTC
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This is a fantastic capture of a UFO. I often say that infrared cameras will reveal cloaked UFOs and here we are with a confirmed UFO by US government aircraft, and a massive report to boot. The UFO is seen for almost 3 minutes, and followed closely, cloaking off and on along the way. At 2:57 the UFO is recorded diving into the water and not returning. From the screenshots I can tell you, this object 100% alien tech. The UFO is rotating slowly, about one time per 5 seconds, which gives us a nice view from different angles. It is an unmanned drone. It looks to be about the size of a motorcycle, and the report confirms this by stating, "it was about 3 to 5 feet in length and its speed varied between 40 to 120 mph."
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Airplane

AOPA seeks answers about notice-to-airmen (notam)

Elizabeth A Tennyson
AOPA.org
Fri, 04 Sep 2015 19:34 UTC
TCAS Display
© Wikimedia Commons
AOPA is trying to get to the bottom of ambiguous notam language and determine why the aviation community was given just one day's advance notice of military exercises that could make Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) and TCAS unreliable along a significant portion of the East Coast for a month.

A notam issued Sept. 1 announced that, beginning Sept. 2, both ADS-B surveillance and TCAS may be unreliable in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, as well as in airspace extending approximately 200 nautical miles off shore. The situation is expected to last through Oct. 1 as a result of military exercises in the area.

But similar military exercises in the past have caused no interference with civilian ADS-B or TCAS, and AOPA is asking the FAA to explain both why the notam was issued so late and what has changed to raise these new concerns.

"We are working to get answers for our members," said Rune Duke, AOPA director of air traffic and airspace. "This notam has caused considerable alarm and much confusion, while giving pilots little time to prepare. The long duration, ambiguous language, and short notice of this notam are all cause for serious concern. We have spoken with representatives of the FAA and the Department of Defense and will continue to pursue this until we get the answers pilots need."

The wording of the notam has led many general aviation pilots to believe that ADS-B-based traffic information might not be available to them. But the notam does not specify any interference with 978 MHz ADS-B systems, which are most commonly used by light GA aircraft. As a result pilots should continue to have access to TIS-B and FIS-B services. The greatest impact will be on aircraft using 1090 MHz ADS-B systems or TCAS, which are primarily used by larger, faster aircraft operating in the flight levels. Air traffic controllers will help ensure separation between military and civilian traffic during the exercises, and no delays or reductions in ATC services are anticipated.
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Question

There may be a massive disturber beyond Pluto

Matthew Riley
The Monitor Daily
Fri, 04 Sep 2015 06:29 UTC
KBO
© The Monitor DailyArtist’s impression of a Kuiper Belt Object.
After New Horizons probe's historic flyby of planet Pluto on July 14, 2015, NASA plans to get the tiny craft even further. New Horizons is now slated to reach a tiny icy body in the Kuiper belt on New Year's Day, 2019, but scientists believe that beyond that region a hidden planet may be lurking, the famous Planet X.

Scott Sheppard of the Carnegie Institution of Washington explained that the some of the rocky bodies in the Kuiper belt are large enough to be qualified as dwarf planets, but none of the known KBOs (Kuiper Belt Objects) is larger than Pluto.

Yet, there's a chance that scientists missed out something since there are clues that a tenth planet may be lurking in our galaxy's outer reaches. Planet X may be larger than Pluto and our planet. Sheppard thinks that it may be as big as Neptune.

"I think there are definitely things out there bigger than Pluto that are yet to be discovered," he added.

Sheppard and a fellow researcher disclosed the theory in the journal Nature last year. According to the document, there may be a "massive perturber" located beyond the Kuiper Belt. Scientists believe that the mysterious planet is a dwarf planet that is located three times farther from our star than Pluto is. Astronomers based their theory on awkward disruptions in the orbits of several large space objects in the region.
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Solar Flares

Comet plunges into the Sun


SpaceWeather
Sun, 30 Aug 2015 18:58 UTC
On Friday, Aug.28th, the sun swallowed a comet. The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spotted the icy visitor from the outer solar system making a headlong plunge into our star. One comet went in; none came out. Click to play the movie:


Heated by the sun at point blankrange, the comet's fragile ices vaporized, leaving at most a "rubble pile" of rock and gravel scattered along its sungrazing orbit. Any remains are invisible from Earth.

The comet, R.I.P., was probably a member of the Kreutz family. Kreutz sungrazers are fragments from the breakup of a single giant comet many centuries ago. They get their name from 19th century German astronomer Heinrich Kreutz, who studied them in detail. Several Kreutz fragments pass by the sun and disintegrate every day. Most, measuring less than a few meters across, are too small to see, but occasionally a bigger fragment like this one (~10 m to 50 m) attracts attention.
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Cloud Lightning

Unusual Cape Town lightning storm


traveller24
Sun, 23 Aug 2015 21:40 UTC
Weird weather took hold this past weekend as both Saturday and Sunday evening saw the skies over the Mother City light up due to thunder and lightning storms.

Many in Cape Town took to social media to document the unusual weather, saying they felt as if they were in Joburg or Durban.

Following are seven shots we thought completely nailed the stunning occurrence.

The South African Weather Service confirmed in an update on Sunday afternoon that there was a 30% chance of rainfall for Sunday evening with similar conditions for the Western Cape continuing into Monday and Tuesday.

Mild conditions can be expected in Cape Town on Monday with maximum temperatures reaching a 17°C, while cold conditions could be expected in the Northern Cape with Sutherland reaching a low of 2°C.

Weather conditions for Joburg, Pretoria and Vereeniging would be fine and warm with maximum temperatures of 25°C but the SA Weather Service warned of extremely high fire dangers over the western interior of the Eastern Cape.
Lightning Storm Cape Town_1
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Bizarro Earth

Rare "fire rainbow" seen in skies over South Carolina

Alexander Sehmer
The Independent
Wed, 19 Aug 2015 19:14 UTC
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© Twitter/@TiffanyBJenks

A rare 'fire rainbow' has been sighted in the sky over South Carolina, dazzling viewers for about an hour before fading away.

The display, known as circumhorizontal arcs, occurs when light hits tiny ice crystals in high-level cirrus clouds. The photo was taken by Tiffany B Jenks and posted on Twitter.

Despite the popular name of 'fire rainbow', it has nothing to do with fire. It is the lower part of a large halo of the sun and runs parallel to the horizon.

It only occurs when the sun is high in the sky - above 58 degrees. The display was seen in the skies over Isle of Palms in South Carolina.

The unusual natural phenomena inspired onlookers, with channel 14 News quoting one woman as saying the display reminded her of a dear friend. "I'm sure she came to visit us on the beach we all love!" said Tracey Smith.
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