Showing posts with label Astronomy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Astronomy. Show all posts

December 5, 2015

Nature Rules. Computer Models Follow




The "science" of global warming is based upon computer model predictions. Can these computer models predict what nature will do to maintain its equilibrium? Einstein recognized the need to compensate for the differences in time between satellites and people on earth. Else GPS systems would mislead them. Where is the role of nature cooling itself, warming itself when needed that is built into the "science" of computer modeling? Geologists and astronomers observe that weather patterns and earth temperatures go through 40,000 year cycles. Are there "scientific" computer models based on these cycles? "The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." and "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H. L. Mencken



http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20151205/NEWS/151207477

EDITORIAL: Setting climate goals, promises
Posted Dec. 5, 2015 at 1:14 PM
CAMBRIDGE Chronicle

October 18, 2015

Astronomers Study Internal Changes In Saturn



Images of the rings taken by Nasa's Cassini spacecraft are helping to reveal patterns within the rings, which are giving scientists clues about what could be going on inside the planet. Saturn's rings captured using an ultraviolet imager by Cassini are shown above.

Perhaps one of Al Gore's many legal climate change experts can file a lawsuit compelling Saturn to behave according to desirable computer modeling.

[From article]
Strange ripples in the rings around Saturn have suggested there may be something moving deep inside the gas giant.
Astronomers have found unusual wave like patterns in the rock and ice that make up Saturn's rings which appear to be travelling towards the centre of the planet.
Most of these 'waves' in Saturn's rings move outwards as a result of the gravitational pull by the planet's 62 moons drawing material in the rings towards them.
[. . .]
Dr Phillip Nicholson, a planetary scientist at Cornell University in New York who has been leading the analysis, told Space.com: 'Even dropping a probe into the atmosphere would not necessarily help a lot, because the probe will only get down to a pressure of five or 10 atmospheres before it gets cooked or squashed.
'We need to go much deeper to understand this.'
They are using data being beamed back by Nasa's Cassini spacecraft which has been carefully measuring the light passing through each of the rings.
This is allowing scientists to build up a picture of their density and look for subtle changes in the waves, which give clues about the oscillations going on inside Saturn.
Similar techniques are used to study distant stars to understand more about their internal structure.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3253680/What-stirring-deep-inside-Saturn-Strange-spiralling-ripples-gas-giant-s-rings-revealing-planet-s-internal-structure.html

What is stirring deep inside Saturn? Strange spiralling ripples in gas giant's rings are revealing the planet's internal structure
Scientists are studying strange waves moving through Saturn's rings
The unusual patterns suggest something is spinning deep inside the planet
They may help to unravel what lies beneath the planet's dense atompshere
By Richard Gray for MailOnline
Published: 10:50 EST, 29 September 2015 | Updated: 11:31 EST, 29 September 2015

September 3, 2015

Sturgeon Moon 2015 August 29, 2015



Supermoon From East Matunuck Beach RI 
@Ginger_Zee
8:17 PM - 29 Aug 2015


In the days leading up to the Sturgeon Moon of 2015, the teams that take turns harassing me went through some quick changes. First there was a team of police employees, Communists from Washington state, and associates of the California crime Syndicate. They continued their effort to try to make me into a homosexual and prevent me from interacting with heterosexual loving women. They limited for many years my interaction to man-hating feminists and lesbians, and control freak psychologists, psychiatrists, police and FBI informants. Often they are hateful and hostile homosexuals who like to pretend to be women.


They were replaced by a team of police from New York or New Jersey. They arrived with some new purchasers of personal journals that the FBI stole from me in 1973. They sold copies to local police and crime families who proceeded to humiliate me and ridicule me for the next 45 years. They usually share the journals with an unsuspecting young woman, or a knowing homosexual, who enjoys reading them. She/or he is recruited to make contact with me and engage me in conversation. After that period, with the passage of the first of three super moons, that team left the field.


They were immediately replaced by a team from unknown geographic area. They were new to the rotation, and first tried using a young woman as bait. When I did not go for it, her, they tried a young man. That indicates it is a new psychologist who does not know me at all. It is a frequent occurrence with teams brought in and told that I just arrived from the planet Alpha Centauri. They need to test me "to see what he does."

A new homosexual who apparently did not get any of the several memos that "He's not a homosexual." was/is an associate of the Kennedy cult. He tried a new approach of attempting to have me arrested or put into a hospital. He insulted me trying to provoke a criminal response online, with threats about guns and terrorist groups. It was obvious. His speech showed he was one of many wannabe psychologists.

There is a large group of otherwise unemployable young men who took jobs working in mental hospitals as guards, called technicians. They act as if they are therapists and talk with the inmates as if they were providing therapy. They bring their wishful thinking out into the real world and treat others as if they are mental patients. It is hilarious when they speak to you as if they are sane and that they think you are not.

David Rosehan described his graduate student experiment. His students were given an assignment to get themselves admitted to a mental hospital. They said they heard voices which was enough for admission. Everyone employed at the institution thought all the students were insane. The only exceptions were the inmates who knew something was up. It proved that sanity has no pathology and no rational standards.

But that does not prevent millions of police, politicians, lawyers and journalists from believing in psychiatry. It is one more example of what Henry Louis Mencken described as "The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind."

What is truly amazing is that all of the groups over the past 46 years, police, crime families, Communists, FBI informants, Harvard University campus police and building superintendents, performed the exact same pattern of harassment with minor flourishes added. Basic and unrelenting is sleep disturbances every one or two hours, and 24/7 surveillance. They are usually uneducated mercenary psychopaths who will do anything for money. Harassing a 70-year-old man. Provoking, insulting, ridiculing, humiliating, and relentless character assassination. No problem.



[From article]
Tonight the world has been able to observe a spectacular celestial phenomenon – the supermoon, also known as the Sturgeon Moon. It is the first of three consecutive “supermoons” occurring this year.
[. . .]
Such celestial phenomena are not rare – there were five supermoons in 2014, and there will be six in 2015. Three have already occurred – in January, February and March – one will be observed tonight, and two are still to come, in September and October.
[. . .]
Native Americans used to give every full moon a special name. For example, the full moon in August was often referred to as the Sturgeon Moon.
“The fishing tribes are given credit for the naming of this Moon, since sturgeon, a large fish of the Great Lakes and other major bodies of water, were most readily caught during this month,” the Farmer’s Almanac website says.
The Year 2015 has done a lot to thrill social media with astronomical events of all kinds. In July the world witnessed a phenomenon dubbed the Blue Moon. However, it wasn’t really blue and looked like a regular full moon. The label Blue Moon is applied to the second full moon in a single month, which occurs very rarely, hence the expression – “once in a Blue Moon.”
Stargazers were treated to another cosmic spectacle in July when the two brightest planets, Venus and Jupiter, came so close to each other in the sky that they appeared to be a single, super bright star, which some astronomy-lovers claim resembled the biblical ‘Star of Bethlehem.’

https://www.rt.com/news/313812-supermoon-rising-saturday-august/

Sturgeon Moon 2015 rises: Stunning supermoon lights up Saturday night sky (PHOTOS)
Published time: 29 Aug, 2015 23:45
Edited time: 30 Aug, 2015 08:25

August 7, 2015

Spectacular Sky Show Wednesday August 12, 2015




[From article]
When the celestial show hits its peak overnight Wednesday next week, up to 100 shooting stars per hour will streak across the sky for a spectacle visible around the globe.
In a lucky development, the Moon's glow will not interfere with meteor-watching, as it will be approaching its darkest or "new" phase, experts say.
"It's going to be a spectacular show this year," astronomer Morgan Hollis of the Royal Astronomical Society told AFP. "You'll be able to a see a lot more than normal."
The mid-July to mid-August light show comes from the tail of comet Swift-Tuttle, which swings around the Solar System every 130 years or so, depositing debris in Earth's orbit as it nears the Sun.
As Earth races around the Sun, these grains smash into the atmosphere at about 60 kilometres (37 miles) per second, burning up in flashes of light.
Occasionally, longer and brighter streaks are seen, from pea- or marble-sized comet remnants.
The showers -- named after the constellation of Perseus from which they appear to fly out -- peak when Earth passes through the heart of the debris field.
[. . .]
Unlike some celestial events, one doesn't need special technology to watch the Perseids unfold. It is best to find a wide open space away from tall buildings or trees, and with as little artificial light as possible.
"The more of the sky you can see the better," said astronomer Affelia Wibisono from the Royal Observatory Greenwich. "You don't need any binoculars or telescopes. It's actually better if you use your eyes."
The only equipment she suggested was a nice comfy chair from which to watch the show, and some warm clothes.

http://news.yahoo.com/spectacular-meteor-showers-light-sky-153555475.html
'Spectacular' meteor showers to light up the sky
August 7, 2015
AFP



April 16, 2015

Brief History of Mathematics And The Question of Its Origin




Math is great for describing the physical world, but falls short when describing economics, the stock market and weather. Engineers use approximations for their creations, which work well in the real world. Fun and exciting brief history. In a recent conversation I said math is an integral part of music. This was verified in this film. Explained are Aristotle's error, Gallileo's, Newton's and Maxwell's contribution to knowledge, and many more. 

Program Description
Join NOVA on a mathematical mystery tour—a provocative exploration of math's astonishing power across the centuries. We discover math's signature in the swirl of a nautilus shell, the whirlpool of a galaxy, and the spiral in the center of a sunflower. Math was essential to everything from the first wireless radio transmissions to the prediction and discovery of the Higgs boson and the successful landing of rovers on Mars. Astrophysicist and writer Mario Livio, along with a colorful cast of mathematicians, physicists, and engineers, follow math from Pythagoras to Einstein and beyond. It all leads to the ultimate riddle: Is math a human invention or the discovery of the language of the universe?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/great-math-mystery.html

Mystery of Mathematics
NOVA
April 15, 2015

January 22, 2015

Astronomers Find Two New Planets Beyond Pluto



Researchers suggest that "at least two" planets lie beyond Pluto
(AFP Photo/)
[From article]
The official list of planets in our star system runs to eight, with gas giant Neptune the outermost.
Beyond Neptune, Pluto was relegated to the status of "dwarf planet" by the International Astronomical Union in 2006, although it is still championed by some as the most distant planet from the Sun.
In a study published in the latest issue of the British journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers propose that "at least two" planets lie beyond Pluto.
Their calculations are based on the unusual orbital behaviour of very distant space rocks called extreme trans-Neptunian objects, or ETNOs.
[. . .]
"This excess of objects with unexpected orbital parameters makes us believe that some invisible forces are altering the distribution" of the ETNOs, said Carlos de la Fuente Marcos of the Complutense University of Madrid.
"The exact number is uncertain, given that the data we have is limited, but our calculations suggest that there are at least two planets, and probably more, within the confines of our Solar System," the Spanish scientific news agency Sinc quoted him as saying.
[. . .]
So far, there is no direct evidence to substantiate the theory.

http://news.yahoo.com/two-more-planets-solar-system-astronomers-134043845.html

Two more planets in our Solar System, say astronomers
By Richard Ingham
January 19, 2015

September 11, 2014

Settled Science Useful Idiots Censor Scrutiny of Science


AlGore's movie quoted numerous scientists, friends, but none of them appeared. No astronomer is quoted. In his book The Life of Super-Earths, Harvard University astronomer, Dimitar Sasselov explains that weather patterns go in 40,000 year cycles. Geologists show periods of heating and cooling weather changes to the environment of the planet over billions of years. With minimal ranges using computer models, useful idiot, elitist, moralist, scientists demand they know what others fear to assert.

See Sasselov's 22 minute video here
http://youtu.be/F8bM8K7W_R8

[From article]
According to their dogma, it’s blasphemous to oppose giving unaccountable bureaucrats (in the EPA or internationally) unprecedented power to centrally plan and control economic life without even a vote of Congress.
That’s because the faithful overlook the stunning failure of their doomsday-predicting models to forecast warming’s nearly 18-year pause (confirmed by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) or Al Gore’s 2007 prediction that polar bears’ Arctic habitat would be ice-free by 2013.
[. . .]
Today, skepticism is synonymous with greed and immorality to church adherents who bask in the influence and profits they derive from sermonizing and policy advocacy. Yet, they ignore the “inconvenient truth” that their policies adversely impact the lifestyles of the budget conscience.
So, who are the heretics?
Are they alarmists intent on circumventing scientific inquiry and the free and open debate on which national consensus in a pluralistic democracy depends, or skeptics “not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead,” as Thomas Jefferson encouraged?
“It is error alone which needs the support of government,” Jefferson believed, because “truth can stand by itself.”
In his farewell address, noteworthy for military-industrial-complex warnings, President Dwight Eisenhower articulated the modern version of Jefferson’s concern. “A government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity,” he said, and “the prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present — and is gravely to be regarded.”

http://www.aspentimes.com/opinion/12965067-113/climate-policies-sturm-think

Sturm: Inconvenient truths denied by climate faithful
Melanie Sturm
Think Again
September 11, 2014

February 12, 2014

Astronomers Found Thousands of More Galaxies


[From article]
Four unknown galaxy clusters, each potentially containing thousands of individual galaxies, have been discovered some 10 billion light years from Earth.
Astronomers used a new way of combining data from the two European Space Agency satellites, Planck and Herschel, to identify more distant galaxy clusters than has previously been possible.
The researchers believe up to 2,000 further clusters could be identified using this technique, helping to build a more detailed timeline of how clusters are formed.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2556972/A-peak-early-universe-Four-galaxy-clusters-10-BILLION-light-years-away-farthest-2-000-more.html

A peek into the early universe: Four galaxy clusters 10 BILLION light years away are the farthest ever found - and there could be 2,000 more
Clusters were found by combining data from Planck and Herschel satellites
Each cluster contains hundreds of thousands of galaxies bound by gravity
They reveal what the universe looked like when it was just three billion years old
Up to now, the most distant clusters found by astronomers date back to when the universe was 4.5 billion years old
Daily Mail (UK)
By ELLIE ZOLFAGHARIFARD
PUBLISHED: 01:03 EST, 12 February 2014 | UPDATED: 05:30 EST, 12 February 2014




December 14, 2013

Is Universe Collapsing?




[From article]
The universe could be about to collapse and everything in it - including us - will be compressed into a small, hard ball.
The process may already have started somewhere in our cosmos and is eating away at the rest of the universe, according to theoretical physicists.
The mind-bending concept has been around for a while, but now researchers in Denmark claim they have proven it is possible with mathematical equations.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2523177/Could-universe-collapse-TODAY-Physicists-claim-risk-likely-started.html

Could the universe collapse TODAY? Physicists claim that risk is ‘more likely than ever and may have already started’
Collapse could be down to a subatomic particle known as the Higgs boson
Higgs boson is evidence for an energy field that pervades the universe
Shift in field will cause particles in it to become billions of times heavier
The new weight will squeeze all material into a small, super-hot and heavy ball, and the universe as we know it will cease to exist
By ELLIE ZOLFAGHARIFARD
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 08:39 EST, 13 December 2013 | UPDATED: 10:47 EST, 13 December 2013

October 11, 2013

Harvard Star Gazers Furloughed By US Government. Danger of Asteroids?







If an asteroid hits the earth, it will be one more disaster that Massachusetts Governor "Cadillac" Deval Patrick and US Senator Chuck "You" Schumer (D-NY) can blame on the Tea Party. Are they delusional or just graduates of Harvard Law School being Harvard lawyers?

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/10/10/smithsonian-center-workers-furlough/

Center for Astrophysics Workers Furloughed Following Government Shutdown
By TYLER S. OLKOWSKI, CONTRIBUTING WRITER
Harvard Crimson
October 10, 2013

August 14, 2013

Perseids Meteor Shower



Amazing: About 50 to 60 meteors hit the Earth's atmosphere per hour during the peak of the Perseids Meteor Shower

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2392617/Perseid-Meteor-Shower-Amazing-time-lapse-photo-captures-comets.html

Amazing timelapse photograph captures the Perseid Meteor Shower in all its dazzling beauty
When the debris hits the Earth's atmosphere, it's traveling at about 100 kilometers per second
The meteor shower is caused by debris from the orbit of the Swift-Tuttle Comet
The shower peaked on Sunday night leading into Monday morning, with roughly 50 to 60 visible meteors per hour
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER and AP
PUBLISHED: 01:01 EST, 14 August 2013 | UPDATED: 02:23 EST, 14 August 2013

June 25, 2013

Image of Two Galaxies Colliding





This striking image of two galaxies colliding, taken with the NASA Hubble Space Telescope, shows what looks like the profile of a celestial bird, hovering protectively over an egg

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2347493/Incredible-Nasa-image-shows-happens-galaxies-collide-looks-like-penguin-playing-egg.html

Incredible Nasa image shows what happens when two galaxies collide (and it looks like a penguin playing with an egg)
Striking image of galaxies colliding, taken with NASA Hubble Telescope
Astronomers compare it to a bird, hovering protectively over an egg
Unusual shape is caused by galaxies 'exchanging matter and causing havoc'
By AMANDA WILLIAMS
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 10:57 EST, 24 June 2013 | UPDATED: 10:57 EST, 24 June 2013

May 20, 2013

Astronomers Say More Than One Universe Exists








http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2326869/Is-universe-merely-billions-Evidence-existence-multiverse-revealed-time-cosmic-map.html

Is our universe merely one of billions? Evidence of the existence of 'multiverse' revealed for the first time by cosmic map
Scientists studied radiation data gathered by Planck telescope
Claim anomalies show gravitational pull from other universes
Could be the first real evidence to support controversial theory
By ROSIE TAYLOR
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 08:15 EST, 19 May 2013 | UPDATED: 08:15 EST, 19 May 2013

May 8, 2013

Climate Change Beyond Human Control




In recent three part PBS series about Australia: First Billion Years it was reported that the earth always wins no matter what man does to fight climate change. Are there so few scholars at Harvard and at MIT who have a historical perspective longer than ten years? Or see Harvard University astronomer Dimitar Sasselov's 2012 book, Life of Super Earths. He describes a 40,000 year cycle of climate changes on earth. Al Gore made $200 million exploiting human ignorance. Why not try to stop the 100,000 needless deaths each year in hospitals which humans can control.


http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x1039442877/MIT-Harvard-sign-climate-change-compact-with-Cambridge#axzz2TPkclBGz

MIT, Harvard sign climate change compact with Cambridge
By Erin Baldassari/ebaldassari@wickedlocal.com
Cambridge Chronicle
Posted May 16, 2013 @ 05:08 PM


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http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/5/8/harvard-cambridge-green-compact/

University Signs Sustainability Compact With MIT, City
By SAMUEL Y. WEINSTOCK,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
May 8, 2013

March 12, 2013

Largest Telescope Begins Operating In Chile

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2292165/Earths-largest-telescope-set-switch--reveal-came-from.html

The £1billion 'time machine' which could finally reveal mysteries of the universe: World's largest telescope will finally be turned on tomorrow
Made up of 66 giant antennae which gather faint radio waves from space for processing by a supercomputer
ALMA is situated in the Chile desert at 16,400ft – roughly half the cruising height of a jumbo jet and almost four times higher than Ben Nevis
By collecting radio waves rather than optical light, ALMA can look through the dense dust clouds of deep space
By FIONA MACRAE SCIENCE CORRESPONDENT
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 10:12 EST, 12 March 2013 | UPDATED: 15:51 EST, 12 March 2013