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51. truthmod
    Administrator

    Quake moved Japan coast 8 feet; shifted Earth's axis
    http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/12/ja...

    The powerful earthquake that unleashed a devastating tsunami Friday appears to have moved the main island of Japan by 8 feet (2.4 meters) and shifted the Earth on its axis.

    "At this point, we know that one GPS station moved (8 feet), and we have seen a map from GSI (Geospatial Information Authority) in Japan showing the pattern of shift over a large area is consistent with about that much shift of the land mass," said Kenneth Hudnut, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

    Reports from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Italy estimated the 8.9-magnitude quake shifted the planet on its axis by nearly 4 inches (10 centimeters).

    The temblor, which struck Friday afternoon near the east coast of Japan, killed hundreds of people, caused the formation of 30-foot walls of water that swept across rice fields, engulfed entire towns, dragged houses onto highways, and tossed cars and boats like toys. Some waves reached six miles (10 kilometers) inland in Miyagi Prefecture on Japan's east coast.

    Posted 13 years ago #
52. truthmod
    Administrator

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/12/have-scienti...

    Have scientists found Atlantis?

    By Reuters Saturday, March 12th, 2011 -- 4:40 pm

    NORTHAMPTON, Mass (Reuters) - A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago in mud flats in southern Spain.

    "This is the power of tsunamis," head researcher Richard Freund told Reuters.

    "It is just so hard to understand that it can wipe out 60 miles inland, and that's pretty much what we're talking about," said Freund, a University of Hartford, Connecticut, professor who lead an international team searching for the true site of Atlantis.

    To solve the age-old mystery, the team used a satellite photo of a suspected submerged city to find the site just north of Cadiz, Spain. There, buried in the vast marshlands of the Dona Ana Park, they believe that they pinpointed the ancient, multi-ringed dominion known as Atlantis.

    The team of archeologists and geologists in 2009 and 2010 used a combination of deep-ground radar, digital mapping, and underwater technology to survey the site.

    Posted 13 years ago #
53. truthmod
    Administrator

    This story seemed to receive a major yawn from the public and the media. I guess one of the most profound discoveries in the history of science isn't that exciting to people. Somehow, this is how I imagined it would go down. Maybe people won't really care until we are told that giant monster aliens are invading our planet.

    Exclusive: NASA Scientist Claims Evidence of Alien Life on Meteorite

    http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/05/exclusiv...

    We are not alone in the universe -- and alien life forms may have a lot more in common with life on Earth than we had previously thought.

    That's the stunning conclusion one NASA scientist has come to, releasing his groundbreaking revelations in a new study in the March edition of the Journal of Cosmology.

    Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist with NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, has traveled to remote areas in Antarctica, Siberia, and Alaska, amongst others, for over ten years now, collecting and studying meteorites. He gave FoxNews.com early access to the out-of-this-world research, published late Friday evening in the March edition of the Journal of Cosmology. In it, Hoover describes the latest findings in his study of an extremely rare class of meteorites, called CI1 carbonaceous chondrites -- only nine such meteorites are known to exist on Earth.

    Though it may be hard to swallow, Hoover is convinced that his findings reveal fossil evidence of bacterial life within such meteorites, the remains of living organisms from their parent bodies -- comets, moons and other astral bodies. By extension, the findings suggest we are not alone in the universe, he said.

    “I interpret it as indicating that life is more broadly distributed than restricted strictly to the planet earth,” Hoover told FoxNews.com. “This field of study has just barely been touched -- because quite frankly, a great many scientist would say that this is impossible.”

    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/03/05/exclusiv...

    Posted 13 years ago #
54. truthmod
    Administrator

    Why does 2012 seem to be so on schedule? Mass unrest, earthquakes, nuclear meltdowns...

    Maybe 2012 (as a model of the evolution of consciousness) will be both a positive (and necessary) awakening and a realization of all our greatest fears and mistakes.

    Technology hasn't helped us, that's for sure. It has put us into an insanely precarious position. I believe that nearly all of its champions (most of the world) are delusional. If anything, we seem to be living out a mass death wish. Our effort to control everything is morbid, suicidal, and anti-nature.

    It is also very sad. I believe 2012 could mean something like the awakening I and many others have gone through in terms of realizing the insanity and corruption of the system we live under, except on a mass, global scale. I expect much denial, depression, anxiety, chaos, and grief, but ultimately, it will lead us to a more truthful understanding of ourselves and our predicament.

    Unless you can face the truth, there is no hope.

    Posted 13 years ago #
55. truthmod
    Administrator

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/8391415/Stand-b...

    Tonight the moon will be closer to the earth than it has been for 18 years - a spectacular sight awaits us, says

    This weekend a new word rises over the horizon of the English language. The full Moon tonight has been designated a “supermoon” as it will be the nearest approach of the Moon to Earth for the past 18 years, bringing it some 30,000 miles closer than usual. If we have clear skies, this lunar event will be weighted with a special sense of expectation – perhaps, for some people, even dread.

    Posted 13 years ago #
56. truthmod
    Administrator

    Geologist Predicts West Coast Earthquake

    http://mobile.sfist.com/2011/03/17/earthquake_pred...

    We do not want to cause any alarm, and other earthquake prediction folks have been wrong plenty of times in the past, but one prominent dude in the suspect science of earthquake prediction, Jim Berklund, has come out saying that one of the most major seismic windows in recent history is approaching between March 19 and 26. Berklund believes in connections between full moons, tides, and magnetic field changes leading to seismic activity. He's been at this for a while, and did happen to publish something in the Santa Cruz Sentinal warning of a coming quake just days before Loma Prieta. He points to shifts in the Earth's magnetic fields, which he believes are responsible for the recent mass fish die-off in Redondo Beach, as a contributing factor to his prediction. Where in California this will happen and how big it will be he doesn't know -- a vagueness which contributes to his self-touted accuracy rate on his website (which he seems to have stopped updating last year).

    Posted 13 years ago #
57. truthmod
    Administrator

    Japan disaster raises fear of megaquake cluster
    Some experts think big earthquakes can trigger other giant temblors

    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/japan-disaster-ra...

    SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Most experts believe giant earthquakes happen randomly. The 9.0-magnitude temblor that devastated Japan on March 11 may be changing that assumption.

    The Japan disaster followed two damaging earthquakes in New Zealand in recent months and an 8.8-magnitude quake off the coast of Chile in late February 2010.

    “Chile, New Zealand, and now we have seen this,” said Tom Larson, product architect and senior vice president at catastrophe-modeling firm Eqecat.

    “The general consensus is that this is strictly a coincidence, but there are people who believe there are clusters of these events,” he added. “A lot of people are investigating these clusters. They have happened in the past.”

    Posted 13 years ago #
58. mark
    Member

    Earthquake prediction is extremely "suspect." Lots of noise on ultra conspiracy sites warning of imminent earthquakes but this is just fear mongering unless they have developed new techniques previously unknown to geologists and seismologists. Making lots of "predictions" to eventually be correct on something is not helpful.

    Sure, there are lots of places primed for earthquakes and there are probably interconnections between big quakes but specific predictions on precise timing are almost certainly BS.

    Posted 13 years ago #
59. truthmod
    Administrator

    Sales of luxe doomsday bunkers up 1,000%
    http://money.cnn.com/2011/03/22/real_estate/doomsd...

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    A devastating earthquake strikes Japan. A massive tsunami kills thousands. Fears of a nuclear meltdown run rampant. Bloodshed and violence escalate in Libya.

    And U.S. companies selling doomsday bunkers are seeing sales skyrocket anywhere from 20% to 1,000%.

    Northwest Shelter Systems, which offers shelters ranging in price from $200,000 to $20 million, has seen sales surge 70% since the uprisings in the Middle East, with the Japanese earthquake only spurring further interest. In hard numbers, that's 12 shelters already booked when the company normally sells four shelters per year.

    "Sales have gone through the roof, to the point where we are having trouble keeping up," said Northwest Shelter Systems owner Kevin Thompson.

    UndergroundBombShelter.com, which sells portable shelters, bomb shelters and underground bunkers, has seen inquiries soar 400% since the Japanese earthquake. So far sales of its $9,500 nuclear biological chemical shelter tents are at an all-time high -- with four sold in California last week, compared to about one a month normally.

    Hardened Structures said inquiries have shot up about 20% since the earthquake -- particularly for its apocalyptic 2012 shelters, radiation-protection tents, and nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) air filters.

    Posted 13 years ago #
60. truthmover
    Administrator

    Arctic ozone levels dropped by as much as half in the past year

    http://gizmodo.com/#!5787696/arctic-ozone-levels-dropped-by-as-much-as-half-in-the-past-year

    Posted 13 years ago #
61. truthmod
    Administrator

    Scientists afflict computers with schizophrenia to better understand the human brain
    http://scienceblog.com/45099/scientists-afflict-co...

    Computer networks that can’t forget fast enough can show symptoms of a kind of virtual schizophrenia, giving researchers further clues to the inner workings of schizophrenic brains, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and Yale University have found.

    The researchers used a virtual computer model, or “neural network,” to simulate the excessive release of dopamine in the brain. They found that the network recalled memories in a distinctly schizophrenic-like fashion.

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    After being re-trained with the elevated learning rate, DISCERN began putting itself at the center of fantastical, delusional stories that incorporated elements from other stories it had been told to recall. In one answer, for instance, DISCERN claimed responsibility for a terrorist bombing.

    In another instance, DISCERN began showing evidence of “derailment”-replying to requests for a specific memory with a jumble of dissociated sentences, abrupt digressions and constant leaps from the first- to the third-person and back again.

    Posted 12 years ago #
62. truthmod
    Administrator

    Norwegian Institute for Air Research: Radiation Forecasts on the ‘Zardoz’ Subdomain
    http://cryptogon.com/?p=22317

    Posted 12 years ago #
63. truthmod
    Administrator

    The Century of Disasters Meltdowns. Floods. Tornadoes. Oil spills. Grid crashes. Why more and more things seem to be going wrong, and what we can do about it.

    http://www.slate.com/id/2294013/

    Solar flares, scientists believe, are a disaster waiting to happen. Thus one of the sessions at the American Physical Society's annual meeting was devoted to discussing the hazard of electromagnetic pulses (EMPs) caused by solar flares or terrorist attacks. Such pulses could fry transformers and knock out the electrical grid over much of the nation. Last year the Oak Ridge National Laboratory released a study saying the damage might take years to fix and cost trillions of dollars.

    But maybe even that's not the disaster people should be worrying about. Maybe they should worry instead about the ARkStorm. That's the name the U.S. Geological Survey's Multihazards Demonstration Project gave to a hypothetical storm that would essentially turn much of California's Central Valley into a bathtub. It has happened before, in 1861-62, when it rained for 45 straight days. The USGS explains: "The ARkStorm draws heat and moisture from the tropical Pacific, forming a series of Atmospheric Rivers (ARs) that approach the ferocity of hurricanes and then slam into the U.S. West Coast over several weeks." The result, the USGS determined, could be a flood that would cost $725 billion in direct property losses and economic impact.

    While pondering this, don't forget the Cascadia subduction zone. That's the plate boundary off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, one that could generate a tsunami much like the one that devastated Japan in March. The Cascadia subduction zone runs from Vancouver Island to northern California, and last ruptured in a major tsunami-spawning earthquake on January 26, 1700. It could break at any moment, with catastrophic consequences.

    Posted 12 years ago #
64. truthmod
    Administrator

    Judgment day is Saturday, May 21
    I can't believe how many billboards they bought for this...

    http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_18089431...

    Judgment Day is fabulous for business.

    Just ask Family Radio, the evangelical nonprofit that has plastered billboards and driven vans across the Bay Area and the world proclaiming the end of the world will be Saturday. The Oakland-based nonprofit has raised more than $100 million over the past seven years, according to tax returns. It owns 66 radio stations across the globe and was worth more than $72 million in 2009.

    As The End nears, donations have spiked, a board member says, enabling Family Radio to spend millions of dollars on more than 5,000 billboards.

    But it is not about money, say President Harold Camping and board member Tom Evans. It's about spreading the Gospel and saving as many people as possible.

    Posted 12 years ago #
65. JohnA
    Member

    so now he's saying October 21st. he's doubling down on stupid.

    and people are going to believe him.

    ya know - i just love how the supposedly 'sane' religious people are calling him out and claiming he is a fraud when all they have to do is look in the mirror to see someone who believes in bullshit JUST as absurd as Family Radio's claims. it is just easier to claim that all of these miracles happened thousands of years ago than to claim they will happen tomorrow. water into wine. TOMORROW i will turn water into wine. who would believe such a thing. 2,000 years ago - oh.... ok. i'll go with that.

    Posted 12 years ago #
66. truthmod
    Administrator

    Global panel adds cellphones to list of ‘possible’ carcinogens

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/experts-say-ce...

    A respected international panel of scientists says cellphones are possible cancer-causing agents, putting them in the same category as the pesticide DDT, gasoline engine exhaust and coffee.

    The classification was issued Tuesday in Lyon, France, by the International Agency for Research on Cancer after a review of dozens of published studies. The agency is an arm of the World Health Organization and its assessment now goes to WHO and national health agencies for possible guidance on cellphone use.

    Classifying agents as “possibly carcinogenic” doesn’t mean they automatically cause cancer and some experts said the ruling shouldn’t change people’s cellphone habits.

    “Anything is a possible carcinogen,” said Donald Berry, a professor of biostatistics at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas. He was not involved in the WHO cancer group’s assessment. “This is not something I worry about and it will not in any way change how I use my cellphone,” he said — speaking from his cellphone.

    Posted 12 years ago #
67. truthmod
    Administrator

    Severe Solar Storms Could Paralyze Earth this Decade: NOAA

    http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/194166/20110808/so...

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a federal agency that focuses on the condition of the oceans and atmosphere, said that a severe solar storm could cause global chaos, wreck satellite communications and take down the most important power grids in the world for a period of years.

    With solar activity expected to peak around 2013, the Sun is entering a particularly active time and big flares like recent one will likely be common during the next few years.

    Most solar flares will only cause minor problems with satellites and power grids, but a major flare in the mid-19th century blocked the nascent telegraph system, and some scientists believe that another such even is now overdue.

    In a huge solar storm back in 1859, telegraph offices worldwide were hit, some telegraph operators reported electric shocks, the telegraph systems malfunctioned and even paper caught fire. It is the strongest solar storm on record and is called the “Carrington Event,” which is named after Richard Carrington, who viewed and reported on the solar flare of Sept. 1, 1859. In 1989, six million people in Quebec, Canada were left without power for several hours when a solar storm took down a power grid.

    Posted 12 years ago #
68. truthmod
    Administrator

    Worst extinction ever linked to massive CO2 spill
    http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/11/17...

    The precise timing coincides with a huge outpouring of carbon dioxide and methane from volcanic lava flows in northwest Asia known as the Siberian traps.

    "That led to cascading effect — global warming, aridity in various areas, giant wildfires, acidification of the ocean," said Charles Henderson, a geosciences professor at the University of Calgary who co-authored the paper with a large international team.

    "All of these things led to a very inhospitable world."

    Researchers are interested in the causes of previous mass extinctions because they hope it will help them understand the rapid loss of biodiversity that is taking place in the present day, Henderson said.

    Posted 12 years ago #
69. truthmod
    Administrator

    Life began with a planetary mega-organism
    http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228404.300...

    ONCE upon a time, 3 billion years ago, there lived a single organism called LUCA. It was enormous: a mega-organism like none seen since, it filled the planet's oceans before splitting into three and giving birth to the ancestors of all living things on Earth today.

    This strange picture is emerging from efforts to pin down the last universal common ancestor - not the first life that emerged on Earth but the life form that gave rise to all others.

    The latest results suggest LUCA was the result of early life's fight to survive, attempts at which turned the ocean into a global genetic swap shop for hundreds of millions of years. Cells struggling to survive on their own exchanged useful parts with each other without competition - effectively creating a global mega-organism.

    It was around 2.9 billion years ago that LUCA split into the three domains of life: the single-celled bacteria and archaea, and the more complex eukaryotes that gave rise to animals and plants (see timeline). It's hard to know what happened before the split. Hardly any fossil evidence remains from this time, and any genes that date that far back are likely to have mutated beyond recognition.

    That isn't an insuperable obstacle to painting LUCA's portrait, says Gustavo Caetano-Anollés of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While the sequence of genes changes quickly, the three-dimensional structure of the proteins they code for is more resistant to the test of time. So if all organisms today make a protein with the same overall structure, he says, it's a good bet that the structure was present in LUCA. He calls such structures living fossils, and points out that since the function of a protein is highly dependent on its structure, they could tell us what LUCA could do.

    Posted 12 years ago #
70. truthmover
    Administrator

    The Supervolcano That Can Devastate Europe Is Showing Signs of Awakening

    http://gizmodo.com/5872418/the-supervolcano-that-c...

    Posted 12 years ago #
71. truthmod
    Administrator

    It's telling how the writer makes light of this news and mentions "2012 doomsday idiots." The apocalypse is well underway, no matter how you slice it, even if this volcano never erupts again.

    I wonder what would happen to the world's weather if this, the deadly Mount Tambora and the Yellowstone hypermegasupervolcano explode at the same time. I can already imagine the 2012 doomsday idiots screaming "I told y*" before getting engulfed in flames. [Daily Mail]

    Posted 12 years ago #
72. truthmod
    Administrator

    All Eyes on Antarctic Drillers at Scott Expedition Centennial
    http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/01/...

    Along with all the festivities surrounding the anniversary of explorer Robert Falcon Scott's reaching the South Pole on 17 January 1912, Antarctic researchers are at the edge of their seats waiting for news that will merit another celebration. The centennial coincides with an expected new landmark: This week, a Russian team drilling into Lake Vostok in the center of the Antarctic continent is likely to break through the ice to water. It will be the first time that a subglacial lake has been breached. These modern-day explorers hope to discover whether Vostok, which at 5000 km 3 is the third largest lake on the planet, is teeming with hidden, cold-loving life that could have evolved separately from the rest of the world for hundreds of thousands of years.

    Posted 12 years ago #
73. truthmod
    Administrator

    The chips that are good for your health

    Pharmacy to sell edible microchips that will alert doctors if patients are not taking right medicines.

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-chip...

    An edible microchip that records the precise details of a patient's pill regime will be available in Britain by the end of year following a commercial deal that opens the door to an era of digital medicines.

    An American biomedical company has signed up with a British healthcare firm to sell digestible sensors, each smaller than a grain of sand, that can trigger the transmission of medical information from a patient's body to the mobile phone of a relative or carer.

    The aim is to develop a suite of "intelligent medicines" that can help patients and their carers keep track of which pills are taken at what time of day, in order to ensure that complex regimes of drugs are given the best possible chance of working effectively.

    Posted 12 years ago #
74. truthmod
    Administrator

    ‘Big Bang’ probe reveals strange microwave haze in the center of the galaxy

    http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/13/big-bang-pro...

    PARIS — A probe designed to delve into the “Big Bang” that created the cosmos has uncovered an enigmatic fog of microwave radiation in the centre of our galaxy, European astronomers reported on Monday.

    Planck, a billion-dollar European space telescope launched in May 2009, found “a mysterious haze of microwaves that presently defies explanation” during a scan of the centre of the Milky Way, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.

    It could be a form of energy called synchrotron emission, which occurs when electrons zip through magnetic fields after being accelerated by the blast of an exploding star, or supernova.

    But the newly discovered emission is something of a mystery, as its signature lingers far longer compared with other synchrotron sources spotted in the Milky Way.

    Posted 12 years ago #
75. truthmod
    Administrator

    2012 came and went, but the techno and eco apocalypses are still in full swing.

    Zombie Replicants to Outperform the Living

    http://energy.gov/articles/zombie-replicants-outpe...

    “Zombie” mammalian cells that may function better after they die have been created by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories and the University of New Mexico (UNM).

    The simple technique coats a cell with a silica solution to form a near-perfect replica of its structure. The process may simplify a wide variety of commercial fabrication processes from the nano- to macroscale. It’s also allowing scientists to preserve cells down to the minor grooves of its DNA.

    ...

    Summing up, lead researcher Bryan Kaehr, a Sandia materials scientist, offers what may be the first distinction in scientific literature between a mummy cell and a zombie cell. “King Tut was mummified,” he said, “to approximately resemble his living self, but the process took place without mineralization [a process of fossilization]. Our zombie cells bridge chemistry and biology to create forms that not only near-perfectly resemble their past selves, but can do future work.”

    Posted 11 years ago #

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