I love this picture; sent by my daughter Kersti. Walking through the veil; becoming yourself.
And it leads nicely in my mind to this one.
Scientists Confirm Our Minds Can Influence Matter
Our thoughts are
powerful. We already know this. Our minds have tremendous influence
over our life and our body. We already know this. Did you know that
our minds are interconnected to the world to such a degree that they have a
direct measurable bearing on the flow of electrical currents? Our
thoughts, intentions, and energetic state actually have a scientifically
provable impact on the flow of electricity. More than 800 relevant
experiments to the affects of consciousness on the world have been reported,
with these just being a few.
https://www.qwaym.com/scientists-confirm-minds-can-influence-matter/
Can you believe this little critter is still sending us information from space. Thank you, gallant traveler, we will follow soon.
Abandoned in space in 1967, a U.S. satellite started transmitting again in 2013
After learning that a satellite that’s been silent for decades has suddenly started sending out new signals you may, of course, suspect that the device has been hijacked by aliens now trying to communicate with Earth. Perhaps they’re warning us that they are planning an invasion!
It’s possible such thoughts ran through the mind of Phil Williams, an English amateur radio astronomer based in Cornwall, who was the first person to pick up the strange signals coming in as “ghostly sounds” in 2013. It turned out that the transmitted messages were coming from an abandoned LES1 satellite, but experts needed three more years to authenticate that this was indeed the American satellite that was “lost” in 1967.
LES1 was one of several units produced and launched into space by the Lincoln Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in between 1965 and 1967. These units, primarily designed for testing new satellite communication technology, were each labeled with numbers, running from LES1 to LES9.
As it turned out, the launch of the first four satellites did not go that well. LES1, in particular, failed to reach most of its planned objectives. Contact with the satellite was completely lost two years after its launch, and it has ever since revolved around our planet, staying entirely out of touch. Things went better for the later four, LES5 to LES9 units; the LES7 unit was canceled as the program was then coming to an end and there was no more funding for it.
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/11/28/abandoned-in-space-in-1967/
Jupiter's North Pole Looks Totally unexpected in These New Photos From NASA
NASA
released a new 3D animation on Wednesday that was made using infrared photos of
Jupiter's poles. Juno is documenting those mysterious regions of the enormous
planet for the first time in history.
"Before
Juno, we could only guess what Jupiter's poles would look like," Alberto
Adriani, a Juno team member at Rome's Institute for Space Astrophysics and
Planetology, said in a NASA-JPL press release about the animation.
The newly released pictures reveal the shape and structure of the jam-packed collection of storms.
https://www.sciencealert.com/these-latest-storm-choked-jupiter-images-from-juno-are-so-stunningly-strange?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Branded+Content&utm_campaign=ScienceNaturePageSign
ANIMAL TIME 😊
Swam next to one of these guys more than once - incredible!
Group photo
Here's a couple of "hero's working in the field to help conserve these beautiful and invaluable critters.
https://www.facebook.com/biographic.magazine/photos/pcb.1874706082549326/1874705782549356/?type=3&theater
And here's a novel plan:
And here's a novel plan:
While many see prisons
only as places to lock people up, rainforest ecologist Nalini Nadkarni saw
something different: tremendous potential. She saw eager minds, fresh
perspectives, and people that could benefit from participating in meaningful
research.
In 2005, with Washington’s Cedar Creek
Correctional Center, she hatched a plan. She wanted to bring science to the
incarcerated—and share their findings with the world.
https://www.facebook.com/biographic.magazine/photos/a.1181199255233349.1073741829.1124522697567672/1862915363728398/?type=3&theaterHere’s an interesting side light. As most of you probably know there is still debate regarding the authenticity of many of the aspects regarding the man called Jesus Christ and of course the entire myth recorded in the Early Testament and the many discrepancies in The New Testament.
I was first introduced to the “missing” years of the man called Jesus in The Urantia Book many years ago and of course intrigued. Not being of the Judeo-Christian-Muslim persuasion I looked at it all as information to be examined and evaluated for knowledge sake but soon lost interest as I became more and more “tuned” to Atheism and then Pantheism. Now I see it all as “The Great Mystery” as introduced to me by a Huichol shaman back in the day.
My intellect was aroused once again however by this article because it related to other information I had gleaned over the years.
“The discovery of Jesus’s time in India lines up perfectly with The Lost Years of Jesus, as well as with the degree of significance of his birth in the Middle East. When a great Buddhist, or Holy Man (i.e. Lama), dies, wise men consult the stars and other omens and set off — often on extraordinarily long journeys — to find the infant who is the reincarnation of the Lama. When the child is old enough he is taken away from his parents and educated in the Buddhist faith. Experts speculate that this is the foundational origin of the story of the Three Wise Men, and it is now believed Jesus was taken to India at 13 and taught as a Buddhist. At the time, Buddhism was already a 500-year-old religion and Christianity, of course, had not even begun.”
https://moon-child.net/bbc-doc-claims-jesus-was-a-buddhist-monk-named-issa-who-spent-16-years-in-india-tibet/
Speaking of ancient times; and there is so much yet to learn and UNLEARN, here’s an interesting article for those interested in Marine Archeology. I was especially interested because I have been to Corinth in Greece.
“Some two millennia ago, Lechaion, one of the ports of the ancient city of Corinth, occupied a special place on the map of southern Greece. It was a strategic point that easily connected to a number of significant trade routes that snaked through the Mediterranean and led to Italy, Turkey, and Tunisia, among other territories, helping Corinth to prosper. For the past five years, archaeologists have been busy with underwater excavations to locate this lost ancient trade port, but it was not until 2017 that they came across some ground-breaking findings.
As a strategic center on the south coast of Greece, Corinth was initially diminished by the Romans in the 2nd century B.C. However, a century later, the Romans had gone after recolonizing Corinth, so the place was resurrected in 44 B.C. under none other than Julius Caesar himself (the same year of his death). The famed ruler even named the colony after himself: Colonia Laus Iulia Corinthiensis.
The recent underwater surveying and exploration of the area have been conducted within the Lechaion Harbor Project, which commenced as early as 2013. Activities have been led by both Danish and Greek researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities. Some of their findings feature remarkably preserved remains of the 1st century A.D. harbor, while a portion of the underwater artifacts date to five centuries later.
The quest to locate the harbor has paid off in any case, revealing remarkable examples of ancient Roman engineering, included remnants of an island monument, which archaeologists believe served religious purposes, amid the restoration efforts of the entire Corinth.”
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/01/13/main-harbour-of-ancient-corinth-discovered-2/
Another intriguing question of the past and it’s importance to us today.
“Humanity’s cherished hope that we are building a long-lived civilization may be nothing more than a pipe-dream. Human endeavour, two scientists argue, may carry within it the seeds of its own destruction.
The two astrophysicists have turned one of the great questions in science into a way of examining the down-to-earth consequences of global warming, the pollution of the oceans with indestructible polymers, and the wholesale destruction of species in the last 300 years.
They put an innocent question: if there had been an advanced technological and industrial civilization on Earth several hundred million years ago, how could anyone know? What marks would have been left by a race of intelligent reptiles with motorised transport, housing estates, international trade and an arms race?
In what they call the Silurian hypothesis – a reference not to the geological period long before the first creatures crawled from the sea onto the empty continents, but to a 1970 episode of the British television serial Dr Who – they turn to the only testbed available to contemporary Earthlings: the evidence of the Anthropocene, the geologists’ name for a new era that could be considered to have commenced with the Industrial Revolution.”
Water will be one of the primary factors in our civilizations continuation. Here are some facts about water that may cause you to wonder and appreciate it more.
Water Behaves Differently From All Other Liquids, And We Finally Know Why
“You might not think about it much, but water is super weird. It doesn't behave like any other liquid. Now, by thinking outside the box, scientists believe they have figured out why - and it has to do with the strange arrangement of its molecules.
"With this procedure, we have found that what makes water behave anomalously is the presence of a particular arrangement of the water's molecules, such as the tetrahedral arrangement," explained lead author John Russo."Four of such tetrahedral arrangements can organise themselves in such a way that they share a common water molecule at the centre without overlapping. It is the presence of this highly ordered arrangement of water molecules, mixed with other disordered arrangements, that gives water its peculiar properties."
Without water being the way it is, life as we know it wouldn't be possible. It doesn't compress easily, which means it can be pushed around - flowing through our veins carrying our blood cells, for instance.
And because it's such a good solvent, the water in our bodies can dissolve the nutrients we need to function. Even the low density of water ice helps life - if lakes froze from the bottom, life within them would die.
And that same low density is also why water expands when frozen - which in turn has helped shaped our planet when water seeps into rocks, freezes, expands, and breaks the rock apart from the inside.”
https://www.sciencealert.com/water-unique-properties-tetrahedral-molecule-arrangement?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Branded+Content&utm_campaign=ScienceNaturePageSign
The harder side of matter:
Courtesy Brandy Johnson
For lots more really cool science stuff go to:
Tesla and Hashem’s site
https://www.facebook.com/ScienceNaturePage/photos/a.693601310772130.1073741828.693504594115135/1307749779357277/?type=3&theater
70,000 years ago, our keen-eyed ancestors may have noticed something in the sky: a red dwarf star that came as close as 1 light year to our Sun. They would’ve missed the red dwarf’s small, dim companion—a brown dwarf—and in any case they would’ve quickly returned to their hunting and gathering. But that star’s visit to our Solar System had an impact astronomers can still see today.
"Goblin? Ghoul? Just an ostracod, a
creature that has thrived for millennia “as little more than [a] floating
head.” It’s an animal that lacks segmentation; the ostracod’s body, head, and
appendages are all tucked away into its globular shell. This particular species
also has mirror-like reflectors for eyes that it uses to locate tiny, floating
prey in the deep. More “aliens” from 600-plus feet below the ocean’s surface:
https://www.facebook.com/biographic.magazine/photos/a.1168248919861716.1073741828.1124522697567672/1873947735958494/?type=3&theater
Some very cool whale
stuff!!!
When Whales and Humans Talk
Arctic people have been communicating with cetaceans for centuries—and scientists are finally taking note. A wonderful example of why we must pay attention to our “Ancient Ones”
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/features/when-whales-and-humans-talk/
And amongst themselves?
Whale speak: Why does a humpback slap its tail?
A
first attempt at explanation for a slapping humpback is simple: tail-slapping
might merely be a feeding technique. The behavior is officially called
“lob-tailing.” In studies of
humpback whales off the coast of Maine, lob-tailing is often coupled with
another feeding technique called “bubble-net feeding.” The whale slaps its tail
to scare fish away from the surface. Then it descends, blows a giant bubble to
corral the fish into dense schools, and lunges up with its jaws open wide.
The lob-tailing step is critical to keep prey from jumping out of the water
away from the whale. Lob-tailing is particularly effective for capturing
sand-lance, a type of fish whose population swelled in response to the collapse
of Atlantic herring stocks. This explanation, though it paints lob-tailing as
an innovative adaptation to take advantage of new prey, nevertheless suggests
its function is no more than basic nutritional need.
According
to studies of
sperm whales, lob-tailing is a key coordinator of group and unit
dynamics in whale communities. It may signal things like, “Please leave!”, “May
I join?”, or “Let’s get going!” This explanation elevates lob-tailing to more
than a basic tool for food. Instead, many scientists take the slap as evidence
of the complex social dynamics in whale communities.
Energetically
speaking, it is extremely expensive.
Surprisingly,
the complex energy trade-off of a tail-slap might be the exact reason why it’s
used. Biologist Hal Whitehead
suggests,
“Breaches and lob-tails make good signals precisely because they are
energetically expensive and thus indicative of the importance of the message
and the physical status of the signaler.” A tail-slap means that a whale is
physically fit, traveling at nearly maximum speed, capable of sustaining
powerful activity, and carrying a message so crucial it is willing to use a
huge portion of its daily energy to share it. “Pay attention!” the whale seems
to say. “I am important! Notice me!”
The whale’s tail
represents a bridge between science, the complexity of natural systems, and
personal investment in their well-being. Many months later, I’m still not sure
why a humpback slaps its tail. A signal? A search for food? A mating cry? No
reason at all? But I’ve seen it. I’ve felt it. I’ll speak and write about it.
Each slap is here to remind us that action is rooted in understanding.
Understanding arises from wonder and connection. So pay attention. Be amazed.
Tell about it.
http://yalescientific.org/thescope/2015/11/whale-speak-why-does-a-humpback-slap-its-tail/
Let's not forget the little critters.
Let's not forget the little critters.
AHH……more science; an
endangered species of education! How low we have come in the last year.
According
to Nobel Prize winner inventor of quantum mechanics, Neils Bohr, reality is
a truly misunderstood concept. Bohr notes that everything we perceive is
composed of things we cannot credit as realistic or attainable.
https://www.qwaym.com/how-consciousness-really-affects-the-reflection-of-reality/
https://www.qwaym.com/how-consciousness-really-affects-the-reflection-of-reality/
A last bit of fun,
don’t take it too seriously! All those of us excluding the “First Nations” are
immigrants here. Many from Europe and Asia. Here are some early names for where
our people came from.
Till next time –
adios!
BTW: that’s my
grandfathers hat I’m wearing; my only momento of THE BELOVED PATRIARCH of our
family.
