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Revealed: The stunning green glow of the Southern Lights photographed by astronauts from ABOVE

By DAILY MAIL

Like a green ribbon snaking its way out into space this stunning image shows the famous Southern Lights from a rather unusual angle - above. Taken by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS), this picture shows the aurora australis against the backdrop of Earth's horizon. These ever-shifting displays are most visible near the North (aurora borealis) and South (aurora australis) Poles.

The ISS was over the Southern Indian Ocean at an altitude of 350 km, with the astronauts looking towards Antarctica and the South Pole. Dense cloud cover is dimly visible below the aurora. The curvature of the Earth’s horizon can be clearly seen as well as the faint blue line of the upper atmosphere.

The stunning sight is formed as charged particles streaming from the Sun – known as the solar wind - interact with Earth’s magnetic field, resulting in collisions with atoms of oxygen and nitrogen in the upper atmosphere. This striking aurora image was taken during a geomagnetic storm that was probably caused by a coronal mass ejection from the Sun on May 24th. The atoms emit photons as a means of returning to their original energy state. The photons form the aurora that we see.

The most commonly observed colour of aurora is green, caused by photons (light) emitted by excited oxygen atoms at wavelengths centered at 0.558 micrometers, or millionths of a metre. Visible light is reflected from healthy (green) plant leaves at approximately the same wavelength. Red aurora are generated by light emitted at a longer wavelength (0.630 micrometers), and other colours such as blue and purple are also sometimes observed. While aurora are generally only visible close to the poles, severe magnetic storms impacting the Earth’s magnetic field can shift them towards the equator.

"In this painting Salvador Dali gives us a large egg-shaped globe of the world out of which a man is struggling to "hatch". This "new man" is coming out of North America - the United States. There is blood running out of the crack in the egg and the new man's hand has England firmly in its grasp. In the foreground two figures are watching; one an adult the other a small child. The adult, of indeterminate sex, is drawing the child's attention by pointing at the new man being birthed. The child is standing as if afraid - both hiding behind and holding on to the adult's knees. "

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Choose The Light Over Darkness

Earthlings attend the annual summer solstice at the Stonehenge monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, southern England June 21, 2010. Druids and revellers visited Stonehenge during an annual pilgrimage to the site to celebrate the summer solstice, the longest day of the year.

Stonehenge is located on the Salisbury Plain about 90 miles southwest of London. The ancient landmark was built over three phases between 3000 B.C. and 1600 B.C.























(Lefteris Pitarakis ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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The following crop circles are the first to appear of the 2010 UK crop circle season.





Old Sarum - May 5, 2010


Stonehenge - May 9, 2010


Yarnbury Castle Wiltshire - May 16, 2010


Yarnbury Castle Wiltshire (wide angle) - May 16, 2010


Wilton Windmill - May 22, 2010


Westwoods Lockeridge - May 31, 2010


Silbury Hill - May 31, 2010


Liddington Castle - June 2, 2010


Codford Saint Peter - June 3, 2010


Long Barrow, Stony Littleton - June 7, 2010


Walbury Hill, Berkshire - June 12, 2010


Poirino, Torino, Italy - June 13, 2010


Chirton Bottom - June 16, 2010


Vale Of Pewsey - June 21, 2010

* all photographs are the copyright of their respective owners. These photos are presented for discussion purposes only. To learn more about crop circles please go to Crop Circle Connector or Temporary Temples.

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From the East comes the Rising Sun as the night recedes to the West. What will come from the North?

This clip from the live video stream shows volcanic activity evident at BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. The narrator of the scene says he see flames. But, how can you have flames underwater? It looks more like it could be magma or sulfur. What do you think?



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Ocean Intervention III:
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Viking Poseidon:
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Boa Deep C:
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Skandi:
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Enterprise:
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Q4000:
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Here is a listing of the best barbecue joints in Texas, in no particular order.

TXBBQ - Sam’s Bar-B-Cue
512-478-0378
2000 E 12th St
Austin, TX 78702


TXBBQ - Stubb's BBQ
512-480-8341
801 Red River St
Austin, TX 78701


TXBBQ - City Market
830-875-9019
633 Davis
Luling, Texas


TXBBQ - Cooper's Old Time Pit Bar-B-Q
915-247-5713
604 W. Young (Tx Hwy 29)
Llano, Texas


TXBBQ - Kreuz Market
512-398-2361
619 N. Colorado
Lockhart, Texas


TXBBQ - Louie Mueller Barbecue
512-398-2361
206 W. Second
Taylor, Texas


TXBBQ - County Line on the Hill
512-327-1742
6500 W Bee Cave Rd
Austin, TX 78746


TXBBQ - The Salt Lick
512 858 4959
18001 Farm-to-Market 1826
Driftwood, TX 78619


TXBBQ - Rudy's Country Store
512-418-0444
2451 Capital of Texas Highway S
Austin, TX 78746


TXBBQ - Hinze's Barbecue
979-885-7808
2101 Hwy 36
Sealy, Texas


TXBBQ - Poke-E-Joes Smokehouse
512-302-1200
1000 E. 41st Street
Austin, TX 78751


TXBBQ - Peggy Sue BBQ
6600 Snider Plaza
Dallas, TX 75205-1352


TXBBQ - North Main BBQ
406 N Main St.
Euless, TX 76039


TXBBQ - Otto's Barbecue
5502 Memorial Dr.
Houston, TX 77007-8095

According to Shinyribs' old friend and mentor, Doug Sahm, you have only two types of climate in the great State of Texas...

"You've got yer West Texas Dust and yer East Texas Rust..."

Rust is an interesting thing, it is basically the decomposition of a metal usually steel or iron. It is the destruction of once-useful machinery. On the surface you would think people would hate rust. But rusty old items, be they automobiles or buildings, have become somewhat picturesque over the years. As machinery from the dawn of the industrial age outlives its usefulness it falls into disrepair and the elements of nature begin to take their toll. Rust, therefore, has come to symbolize a certain bit of nostalgia.









































WHAT EXACTLY IS RUST?



Rust is a general term for a series of iron oxides. Colloquially, the term is applied to red oxides, formed by the reaction of iron and oxygen in the presence of water or air moisture. Yet, there are also other forms of rust, such as the result of the reaction of iron and chlorine in an environment deprived of oxygen, such as rebar used in underwater concrete pillars, which generates green rust. Several forms of rust are distinguishable visually and by spectroscopy, and form under different circumstances. Rust consists of hydrated iron(III) oxides Fe2O3·nH2O and iron(III) oxide-hydroxide (FeO(OH), Fe(OH)3). Given sufficient time, oxygen, and water, any iron mass eventually converts entirely to rust and disintegrates. Surface rust provides no protection to the underlying iron unlike the formation of patina on copper surfaces.

Rusting is the common term for corrosion of iron and its alloys, such as steel. Other metals undergo equivalent corrosion, but the resulting oxides are not commonly called rust.

A color enhanced photograph of the Earth's moon, Luna.

The Moon is a satellite of the planet Earth and is the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System. It is the largest satellite in the Solar System relative to the size of its planet, a quarter the diameter of Earth and 1/81 its mass, and is the second densest satellite after Io. It is in synchronous rotation with Earth, always showing the same face; the near side is marked with dark volcanic maria among the bright ancient crustal highlands and prominent impact craters. Its prominence in the sky and its regular cycle of phases have since ancient times made the Moon an important cultural influence on language, the calendar, art and mythology. The Moon's gravitational influence produces the ocean tides and the minute lengthening of the day. The Moon's current orbital distance, about thirty times the diameter of the Earth, causes it to be the same size in the sky as the Sun – allowing the Moon to cover the Sun precisely in total solar eclipses.

The Moon is the only celestial body on which human beings have made a manned landing. While the Soviet Union's Luna programme was the first to reach the Moon with unmanned spacecraft, the United States' NASA Apollo program achieved the only manned missions to date, beginning with the first manned lunar orbiting mission by Apollo 8 in 1968, and six manned lunar landings between 1969 and 1972 – the first being Apollo 11 in 1969. These missions returned over 380 kg of lunar rocks, which have been used to develop a detailed geological understanding of the Moon's origins, the formation of its internal structure, and its subsequent history.


The Moon transiting the Earth as seen from the NASA satellite, Deep impact.

Since the Apollo 17 mission in 1972, the Moon has been visited only by unmanned spacecraft. Since 2004, Japan, China, India, the United States, and the European Space Agency have each sent lunar orbiters. These spacecraft have confirmed the discovery of lunar water ice in permanently shadowed craters at the poles and bound into the lunar regolith. The future manned missions to the Moon is uncertain. For now, the Moon remains, under the Outer Space Treaty, free to all nations to explore for peaceful purposes.

Photograph of the full moon by Luc Viatour.

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THEORIES ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF THE MOON

1. Fission Theory, invented by the astronomer George Darwin (son of Charles). He proposed that the earth spun so fast that a chunk broke off.

2. Capture Theory, the moon was wandering through the solar system, and was captured by Earth’s gravity.

3. Condensation Theory, the moon grew out of a dust cloud attracted by Earth’s gravity.

4. Impact Theory, the currently fashionable idea that material was blasted off from Earth by the impact of another object.

5. Artificial Satellite Theory, The Moon is an artificially built hollowed out space ship brought to our solar system by a group of extra-terrestrials in the remote prehistoric past. The moon was placed in Earth orbit at just the right distance to help balance the forces and allow for a stable living environment on the planet. This theory was first developed in the 1960s by Russian scientists Mijail Vasin and Alexander Sherbakov.

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Earth and moon as seen from planet Mars


The South Pole of the Moon as photographed by NASA's Clementine Mission



MOON FACTS

Mean distance from earth --- 384,404 km or 239,000 miles

Diameter ---- 3,476 km or 2172.5 miles (0.273 Earth, 1/400 Sun)

Mass --- 7.35 x 1022 kg (0.0123 Earth)

Density --- 3.34 g/cm3 (0.6 Earth)

Surface Temperature --- 204°C (400°F) day, -205° C (-338°F)

True (sidereal) orbital period --- 27.322 Earth days (29.531 day phase cycle)

Orbital angular momentum --- 2.68 x 1034 kg m2/s (82.9% of earth-moon system)

Inclination of equator to orbital plane --- 6° 41¢ (cf. Earth 23° 27¢)

Earth-moon gravitational attraction --- 1.98 x 1020 N (2.23 x 1016 tons)

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LUNAR MYSTERIES

Large Satellite For Small Planet:
Compared to other planets in our solar system, both the orbit path and size of our moon turns out to be a fairly considerable anomaly. Other planets, of course, have moons too. But with their weaker gravitational influence, the smaller planets —like Mercury, Venus and Pluto—do not. Similarly sized Earth, on the other hand, carries a moon one-quarter its size. Compare this with the immense Jupiter or Saturn, which have several comparatively tiny satellites (Jupiter’s moons measure about 1/80th the size of the large planet), and our moon seems to be a rather rare cosmic occurrence. Another interesting detail is the moon’s distance from Earth—close enough so that it appears equal in size to our sun. This curious coincidence is most apparent during total solar eclipses, where the moon completely covers our closest star. Finally, with a nearly perfect circular orbit, the moon does not behave like other satellites that tend toward a more elliptical path.

Unlikely Surface Curvature:
The gravitational center of the moon is nearly 6,000 feet closer to Earth than its geometric center. With such a significant discrepancy, scientists remain unable to explain how the moon manages to maintain its nearly perfect circular orbit without wobbling.

Crater Depth:
The depths of the craters on the Moon are remarkably shallow in comparison to their circumference, it suggests that the moon possesses an extremely resistant material that prevents deeper penetration. Even craters over 180 miles in diameter do not go deeper than 4 miles. If the moon were merely a homogeneous hunk of rock, it is estimated that there should exist craters of at least four to five times as deep. Vasin and Sherbakov proposed that the lunar crust was perhaps made of a titanium frame. In fact, it has been verified that the lunar crust possesses an extraordinary level of titanium. The layer of titanium estimated by the Soviet team is nearly 20 miles thick.


Moon crater, Daedalus

Lunar Oceans:
How did the so-called lunar oceans form? These gigantic extensions are believed to be hardened lava said to have come from the moon’s interior due to an impacting meteorite. While this theory can be easily explained with regard to a warm planet having a molten interior, many say that the moon is more likely to have always been a cold body.

Gravitational Inconsistency:
The gravitational attraction on the moon is not uniform. The crew onboard Apollo VIII noticed their craft taking abrupt dips when flying near the satellite’s ocean areas. At these sites, gravity seems to mysteriously exhibit a greater influence.


The dark side of the Earth's moon

Geographical Asymmetry:
On the moon’s far side (the side that can’t be seen from Earth), we have found many craters, mountains, and geographical upheaval. Yet the side facing Earth is where we find the great majority of the satellite’s oceans. Why are 80 percent of the lunar oceans found only on one side of the moon?

Low Density / Hollowness:
Our moon’s density is found to be about 60 percent of Earth’s density. Various studies demonstrate what many consider its inevitable hollowness. In his 1982 book “Moongate: Suppressed Findings of the U.S. Space Program,” nuclear engineer and researcher William L. Brian II writes that evidence provided by Apollo seismic experiments suggest that “the moon is hollow and relatively rigid.” Furthermore, several scientists have been so bold as to postulate that such hollowness is artificial. In fact, according to the position of the superficial layers that have managed to be identified, scientists have declared that the moon appears to be a planet that was formed “in reverse,” which some cite as another argument for the artificial construction hypothesis.


Earthrise as seen from the surface of the Moon during Apollo 8.

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SYMBOLS REPRESENTING THE MOON


Triple Goddess Symbol


Triple Hecate Symbol


Triple Crescent Of Artemis


Triskele - triple spiral


Man in the moon symbol

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Moon transiting Sun as photographed by NASA's STEREO-B satellite


MAN ON THE MOON


Buzz Aldrin - Apollo 11 - 1969


Man's Footprint On The Moon


Astronaut And Moon Rover On Lunar Surface


American Astronaut On The Moon


Crew Of Apollo 11

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