A couple of days ago, a good friend asked me if the world was really going to have a serious problem with all the 2012 Mayan prophecy etc. I told her, "as far as I know, I don't think so". However, there are changes and events taking place on our planet that will, as they already have, cause diasters and take many lives. Look at the number of significant earthquakes and volcanic eruptions in the last couple of years. Look at the floods/flooding and fires that have happened recently. Look at all the bad weather with tornadoes/twister/cyclones that have occurred in areas that dont get this kind of event. Unless you are a complete dummy, you have to wonder, "what is going on"?
What is going on is, a "26,000 year wobble", which in turn, brings about a polar shift(which is underway)and various other anomolies that come with this event. Which, in short form, has to do with the Earth's rotation and axis events. For further info in depth, check out these sites I have found.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
http://www.weathernotebook.org/transcripts/2000/12/13
The best thing You can do for You and yours, is just pay attention and keep"opyn mindz"....!
"Pay Attention",
Bobby Sharpe reggae8@aol.com
Showing posts with label earth. Show all posts
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Plankton, base of ocean food web, declineing fast!
Despite their tiny size, plant plankton found in the world's oceans are crucial to much of life on Earth. They are the foundation of the bountiful marine food web, produce half the world's oxygen and suck up harmful carbon dioxide.
And they are declining sharply.
Worldwide phytoplankton levels are down 40 percent since the 1950s, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. The likely cause is global warming, which makes it hard for the plant plankton to get vital nutrients, researchers say.
The numbers are both staggering and disturbing, say the Canadian scientists who did the study and a top U.S. government scientist.
"It's concerning because phytoplankton is the basic currency for everything going on in the ocean," said Dalhousie University biology professor Boris Worm, a study co-author. "It's almost like a recession ... that has been going on for decades."
Half a million datapoints dating to 1899 show that plant plankton levels in nearly all of the world's oceans started to drop in the 1950s. The biggest changes are in the Arctic, southern and equatorial Atlantic and equatorial Pacific oceans. Only the Indian Ocean is not showing a decline. The study's authors said it's too early to say that plant plankton is on the verge of vanishing.
Virginia Burkett, the chief climate change scientist for U.S. Geological Survey, said the plankton numbers are worrisome and show problems that can't be seen just by watching bigger more charismatic species like dolphins or whales.
"These tiny species are indicating that large-scale changes in the ocean are affecting the primary productivity of the planet," said Burkett, who wasn't involved in the study.
When plant plankton plummet - like they do during El Nino climate cycles- sea birds and marine mammals starve and die in huge numbers, experts said.
"Phytoplankton ultimately affects all of us in our daily lives," said lead author Daniel Boyce, also of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. "Much of the oxygen in our atmosphere today was produced by phytoplankton or phytoplankton precursors over the past 2 billion years."
Plant plankton - some of it visible, some microscopic - help keep Earth cool. They take carbon dioxide - the key greenhouse gas - out of the air to keep the world from getting even warmer, Boyce said.
Worm said when the surface of the ocean gets warmer, the warm water at the top doesn't mix as easily with the cooler water below. That makes it tougher for the plant plankton which are light and often live near the ocean surface to get nutrients in deeper, cooler water. It also matches other global warming trends, with the biggest effects at the poles and around the equator.
Previous plankton research has mostly relied on satellite data that only goes back to 1978. But Worm and colleagues used a low-tech technology - disks devised by Vatican scientist Pietro Angelo Secchi, in the 19th century. These disks measure the murkiness of the ocean. The murkier the waters, the more plankton.
It's a proxy the scientific community has long accepted as legitimate, said Paul Falkowski of Rutgers University, who has used Secchi disk data for his work.
He and other independent scientists said the methods and conclusions of the new study made sense.
Instead of sitting around worrying about whether your country becomes a socialist/communist entity, or any other frivolous crap that you think is important, you might want to focus on something a little more important. Like, what's happening on our planet!
"Pay Attention",
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Space or Planet Earth
Tonga, underwater volcano eruption
QUESTION? "70% of Earth is covered in water, of which, we have only explored about 5-10% of. So, why are we spending countless money and energy for space exploration, but, very little on our own planet"? ANSWER possibly: don't want to know what's down there, already know and don't want to disturb it, OR, we need a safe place to go if our planet encounters a "problem"!
What's your take??
"Opyn Mindz, Better Lives,"
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Bobby Sharpe - Shields Down(Today) - 4 Words
For those of YOU that read my blogs on a fairly regular basis(thank YOU), YOU probably know that I am pretty hardcore and straight to the point. I pull very few punches and take NO prisoners. Some of YOU probably think I'm not even human half the time. Well, that's okay, because, THAT is who I am and what I do. However, I do periodically, "drop my shields" and let the humanity traits come forth. YOU know, sadness, anger, disappointment, hurt, all those "good" kind of things that make humans.
Today, March 17, 2009, I had one of those "shields down" days. It all started by riding past a "closed and shuttered" Bennigans. Not too many years ago, St. Patty's Day and Bennigans, went together like hand and glove. IT was just wrong for Bennigans NOT to be opened on this day. To make matters even worse, less than 2 blocks away, a Fridays was also closed and shuttered. A half a block away from that, a Pizzeria Uno suffered the same fate. As did a Straubs Seafood Rest. that had been around for years. Not to mention about another handful of stores in this 3-4 block stretch on a major roadway in Orlando Florida. This brought out the "sadness" and "hurt". Not only did I frequent these places, but alot of my friends and clients worked at these places and are now unemployed.
The above paragraph lead to the "anger" and "disappointment". Because of 4 words, "stupidity", "greed", "vanity" and "incompetence", the above scenario is playing out all over this country and planet. It is, to say the least, "heartbreaking" and a very sad day for humanity.
Having restored my shields to full strength, it is time for my awakened self to acknowledge the big picture. What we are seeing taking place on this planet these days, economically and environmentally, in computer terminology, "is a disc cleanup and a defrag" of our hard drive, WHICH, is the planet itself. When it is all said and done, as has happened in the past many times, there will be alot less of everything, including us. What remains though, will be what needs to be for the prosperity of the planet and the future of life here on Earth. And believe me, there is nothing we can or will do to affect what will be.
"Opyn Mindz Have Better Journeys",
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Star Wars, Star Trek, Aliens, This Is Real Space
Astronomers Baffled by Bizarre Star
Astronomers are baffled after finding an exotic type of star called a pulsar apparently locked in an elongated orbit around a star much like the sun -- an arrangement defying what had been known about such objects.
The rapidly spinning pulsar -- an extraordinarily dense object created when a massive star exploded as a supernova -- is called J1903+0327 and is located about 21,000 light years from Earth, the astronomers said.
A light year is about 6 trillion miles, the distance light travels in a year.
"The big question is -- how in the heck did this thing form, because it doesn't follow our standard models of how these things form," astronomer Scott Ransom of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Charlottesville, Virginia, said in a telephone interview on Thursday.
This object is known as a millisecond pulsar because of its speedy whirl -- it spins on its axis 465 times per second.
"The reason why we're so excited about this is the impact it might have on our understanding of where the pulsars that we look at are coming from," David Champion, an astronomer at Canada's McGill University, told SPACE.com. "We've never seen anything like this before."
Until now, all of the ones found orbiting with another star have been doing so with a white dwarf, another type of dying star. In each case, they shared a perfectly circular orbit. But this one has a very elongated orbit around a star similar in size and composition to our sun.
"What we have found is a millisecond pulsar that is in the wrong kind of orbit around what appears to be the wrong kind of star," astronomer David Champion of the Australia Telescope National Facility said in a statement. "Now we have to figure out how this strange system was produced."
It was detected using a radio telescope in Puerto Rico.
Pulsars are a rare type of neutron star whose strong magnetic fields channel lighthouse-like beams of light and radio waves that whirl around as the star spins.
Typical pulsars spin once a second to about 10 or 20 times a second. But millisecond pulsars spin far more rapidly.
The understanding had been that these started out as typical, slower-spinning pulsars, then built up speed after material expelled from another star reached the pulsar's surface, giving it momentum.
"If you were to ask any astronomer if we would have found a system like this, they would have said no. So this is a very big surprise," Ransom said.
The scientists, writing in the journal Science, speculate a third star -- perhaps a neutron star or white dwarf -- might be orbiting with the other two. Scientists know of about 100 pulsars in two-star, or binary, systems, and this might be the first in a triple-star system, Ransom said.
Okay, so, we have crazy volcano activity, major earthquakes, serious cyclones and all kinds of other weird or normal events taking place here on Earth these days, and now, unprecedented never before seen phenomena taking place in space. It's not even 2012 yet. Hopefully, this new event will give up or, lead to some more answers.
The Universe Rules,
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Big Bang Theory Long Before Earth
Distant Star's Explosion Shatters Record
WASHINGTON (March 21) - The explosion of a star halfway across the universe was so huge it set a record for the most distant object that could be seen on Earth by the naked eye.
The aging star, in a previously unknown galaxy, exploded in a gamma ray burst 7.5 billion light years away, its light finally reaching Earth early Wednesday.
The gamma rays were detected by NASA's Swift satellite at 2:12 a.m. "We'd never seen one before so bright and at such a distance," NASA's Neil Gehrels said. It was bright enough to be seen with the naked eye.
However, NASA has no reports that any skywatchers spotted the burst, which lasted less than an hour. Telescopic measurements show that the burst - which occurred when the universe was about half its current age, before Earth was formed - was bright enough to be seen without a telescope.
"Someone would have had to run out and look at it with a naked eye, but didn't," said Gehrels, chief of NASA's astroparticles physics lab at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.
The starburst would have appeared as bright as some of the stars in the handle of the Little Dipper constellation, said Penn State University astronomer David Burrows. How it looked wasn't remarkable, but the distance traveled was.
The 7.5 billion light years away far eclipses the previous naked eye record of 2.5 million light years. One light year is 5.9 trillion miles.
"This is roughly halfway to the edge of the universe," Burrows said.
Before it exploded, the star was about 40 times bigger than our sun. The explosion vaporized any planet nearby, Gehrels said.
I thought this was a really fascinating story for a number of reasons. There are so many of us/you that have all these preconceived theories etc about how Earth and all came to be. Most of those theories are totally bogus and hold NO facts whatsoever. The more time passes, the more things come into play that refute alot of what YOU have been taught to believe. As the title of this blog suggests, YOU have to have "Opyn Mindz" to further your journey properly.
Big Bang, It Was,
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