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POPSStar Trak for January
Here are the rest: "Mercury, the smallest planet, will pass between the sun and Earth on Jan. 4 and then move quickly into the morning sky. It may be visible by Jan. 13, when it will be very low in the southeast a half hour before sunrise. Mercury will brighten more and climb a little higher each morning for the rest of the month. Venus, the brightest planet, will be out of sight all month as it passes behind the sun. On Jan. 11 it will be on the far side of the sun from Earth. Saturn will rise in the east around 11:30 p.m. local time at the start of the month and two hours earlier by month's end. It will be highest in the hours before the start of morning twilight, the best time for viewing its rings. The rings will be tilted nearly five degrees toward Earth on Jan. 8, before they gradually start to close again over the next few months. Saturn's largest moon, Titan, will appear close to the planet on Jan. 2, 10, 18 and 26. Meteor shower The Quadrantid meteor shower wil
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POPSCrying Over Dead Trees - How Ignorant!!!! My comment begins in the clip... it finishes here... I never thought I could BE an emotional hippie and it is something I wouldn't do in a group - but the emotions these people are expressing is no less than what I felt, when that jungle that "had been my friend and a friend to the native wildlife" that I loved, got decimated. No wonder the earth is as "in a state of crisis as it is" we really don't care, we are so "disconnected" to the life force that flows through the natural habitats of not just one species (human) but millions bacteria, insects, minerals, trees, animals in all their sub groups. I AM angered by "human belief" that we are the most important species on this planet and no other life form matters as long as humans survive. I would gladly leave this planet, if all I had to look forward to was humans, humans and more humans and their neurotic pets, all the neuroses, psychoses, their lack of harmony within themselves and hence the planet - Give me an "injectio
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POPSGalileo's Spyglass Using ever-more powerful telescopes over the next year, Galileo observed that the Moon was not perfectly smooth, as claimed by Aristotle, but cratered and mountainous. He spotted hundreds of stars previously untouched by human eyes. More critically, he discovered the four inner satellites of Jupiter - still known as the "Galilean moons" in his honour - and learnt that Venus, Earth's closest planet, goes through a full range of phases. Put together, his observations validated the revolutionary theory of Nicolaus Copernicus that Earth orbits the Sun, and not the other way round. Galileo understood the implications of what he had seen, but the Catholic Church was not ready to accept such heresy. Only in 2000 did the Holy See apologise for putting Galileo on trial in 1633, forcing him to recant his ideas lest he face imprisonment or worse. The Vatican also pays tribute to him in an exhibition that opened this month. I never knew that it was only in 20
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POPSBombing the Moon Gives A New Meaning to Lunatics So how much does a metaphor weigh? A lot more than NASA thinks. The first man on the moon wasn't an American or a Russian, it was The Man in the Moon we all saw when we were kids, and somebody older showed him to us. That's the first man on the moon, her permanent resident, and now he's got a NASA rocket at his backside... They used to call the mentally ill lunatics. But now I wonder who the real lunatics are. And if there is water on the moon, what are we going to do with it? Grow moon-corn for ethanol until we kill the Earth? Such a great article it touched something, it really touched something more beautiful than finding water on the moon.
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POPS9 Environmental Boundaries We Don't Want to Cross Records of global transitions between geological ages, and of regional changes between environmental stages, suggest that planet-wide change could happen relatively quickly. It might not take thousands or millions of years for Earth’s environment to be altered. It could happen in centuries, perhaps even decades. Exactly what Earth would look like is difficult to predict in detail, but it could be radically different from the mild environment that has prevailed for the last 10,000 years. It was temperate stability that nurtured the rise of civilization, and it should continue for thousands of years to come, unless humanity keeps pushing the limits. “The Earth of the last 10,000 years has been more recognizable than the Earth we may have 100 years from now. It won’t be Mars, but it won’t be the Earth that you and I know,” said Foley. “This is the single most defining problem of our time. Will we have the wisdom to be stewards of a world we’ve come to dominate?” Th
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POPSColdest, Driest, Calmest Place on Earth Found All these elements combine to make the perfect recipe for an astronomical observation post: "The astronomical images taken at Ridge A should be at least three times sharper than at the best sites currently used by astronomers," Saunders said. "Because the sky there is so much darker and drier, it means that a modestly-sized telescope there would be as powerful as the largest telescopes anywhere else on earth."
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POPSPure Imagination & The Supernatural Within Nature A number of years ago I read the book "Earth - Pleidian Keys to the Living Library". It reads like a science fiction novel, yet, it inspired the seeds of imagination of what is possible. She poses the theory that all the other life forms that share this planet with us are from other planets. They have chosen to share this space called Earth with us. Don't know if I believe or disbelieve - it really doesn't matter unless I want to write a story about it. What captured my imagination was this "seed concept" - we can learn from all the other species on the planet. There are things that these species are naturally endowed with that we may learn from and benefit from. An example that stays with me is that of the cockroach - current science tells us that the cockroach has the capacity and capabilities to outlive nuclear holocaust, where as, humans most likely won't. read on at "amplify" http://celestialdancer.amplify.com/2009/08/27/pure-imagination-the-supernatural-within-natur
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POPSThe Subtle Life of Rocks There is a fantastic book by a fellow called Marko Pogacnik titled, "Nature Spirits & Elemental Beings". This fellow is a harbinger of "new earth healing". He works with "geomancy" and a method he calls "lithopuncture". According to his view of working with earth healing - the earth is a multidimensional living organism. (Probably not new to many of you). Yet, so often we fail to "see, hear, feel, taste, smell" that - our heads are so full of "stuff" - we miss those subtle, beautiful, powerful connections with the earth. Our lives are filled with humans, so much so, that we fail to even "see, hear, taste, touch, smell" each other and I am not speaking just about our physical senses. We are so disconnected from our real senses that we miss so much. Animals don't do that. Plants don't do that. They are still connected to their subtle senses. They still operate from that place/space - we are just too blind, deaf, and dumb to experience it. Yet, those very senses lay dormant .
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POPSWatch Satellite Data In Action Unfortunately you may have to play this through once before watching but I think most of you will find it worth your time. You can make this full screen by clicking the middle button in the lower right corner. This clip is an audio visual "Living Atlas" journey of our world, showing the beauty and fragility of planet Earth as seen through satellite data.
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POPSNASA scientists want to move the Earth full at source: The plan put forward by Dr Laughlin, and his colleagues Don Korycansky and Fred Adams, involves carefully directing a comet or asteroid so that it sweeps close past our planet and transfers some of its gravitational energy to Earth. ‘Earth’s orbital speed would increase as a result and we would move to a higher orbit away from the Sun,’ Laughlin said. Engineers would then direct their comet so that it passed close to Jupiter or Saturn, where the reverse process would occur. It would pick up energy from one of these giant planets. Later its orbit would bring it back to Earth, and the process would be repeated.
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POPSTotal Eclipse of the Wed 22nd July 2009 "...Earth will be near aphelion, the most distant point in its orbit around the Sun, so the Sun will appear a bit smaller in the sky than at other times of year. And, coincidentally, the Moon will be near perigee, when it is closest to Earth in its own orbit, so its disk will appear slightly enlarged." More info at source...
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POPSHave you found your soul place? Richard Ford, Pulitzer Prize winning author, was born and raised in Jackson, MS. His wife’s job as a city planner took them to many cities but when they moved to New Orleans, Ford said he had “an instantaneous recognition.”Even now, living in Maine, he considers New Orleans home. Often we are inspired to build monuments on these sacred grounds: pyramids, cities, stone circles, churches, mosques. Whatever caused our ancestors to pilgrimage to these spots, it is still drawing us as well. Perhaps the earthy taste of freshly squeezed olive oil, never before experienced, causes you to feel as one with the rocky landscape of a Greek island. No matter the reason, we are inexplicably attracted to locations and feel a connection that we cannot readily explain. In their special issue on Sacred Places, U.S. News and World Report states that that these spots are “as varied as the human sense of the sacred and as various as the world’s spiritual traditions.”
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POPSEureka!!! 1908 Tunguska Event Caused by Comet ( photos & video ) An Explosion 1000 times greater than Hiroshima, to find out the amazing story of how the mystery was solved, go to http://www.universetoday.com/2009/06/24/1908-tunguska-event-caused-by-comet-new-research-says/ "As the sun rose on the 30th June 1908 in Central Siberia, it was drowned out by a bright light streaking across the sky. Moments later, the atmosphere was reeling from an almighty explosion that, according to eye witness reports, sounded a lot like persistent artillery fire. However, the Earth was not under attack from UFOs, as one popular theory insisted, neither had a black hole just passed through the Earth or antimatter been annihilated as equally popular hypotheses suggested, but instead the natives of the remote Tunguska region had just experienced the most powerful impact event in recent history." The Earth had been hit by a Comet.
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POPSLesser Known Facts About Lightening There is a story towards the end of the article which is fascinating. "A dramatic report of ball lightening comes from a housewife in the Midlands are of England on August 8, 1975. She was in her kitchen in Smethwick during a very strong thunderstorm. A sphere of light about ten centimeters in diameter and surrounded by a bright purple halo appeared over the stove. The witness is quoted in saying, 'The ball seemed to hit me below the belt, as it were, and I automatically brushed it away from me and it disappeared. Where I brushed it away there appeared a redness and swelling on my left hand. It seemed as if my gold wedding ring was burned into my finger.' She also reported that it vanished with a bang."
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POPSHOME... The full movie can be watched: http://www.youtube.com/homeproject
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POPSAmazing Stones/Earth I am constantly amazed by the sheer beauty of the earth. I remember a while ago seeing a map of the world as it would appear according to the types of rocks, minerals etc that are found around the world. The earth looked like a rainbow coloured ball. It was beautiful (at least in my mind's eye) and possibly would have been even more spectacular had the colours resembled the luminousity of the minerals with lights being shone through them. It was such an totally different view of the earth - subterranean magic, alive, yet we don't see it growing, slowly, slowly, slowly - imperceptibly... to our normal awareness.
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POPSOVER POPULATION. Can We Continue to Ignore It? It is the achilles heel of democracy~ no one is likely to vote for a politician that might tell you how many children you can have, but if there are no leaders to tackle the problem then would we rather rely on natural causes to regulate the human population? Like so many things, the longer it is ignored the harder its going to be to deal with. I believe the problems of resource abuse and population could both be addressed by a willingness to realise when we have enough~ enough clothes, or enough cars, enough houses, or enough children. And then stop acquiring more.Some believe that if contraception was available to every woman, that alone would prevent the population from increasing, as the indigenous populations of developed countries are often found to be in decline. But that still requires the ability to say 'Enough' ~ is enough....
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