4 and 20 blackbirds, and 3,000, dead in the sky“I turn and look across my yard, and there’s all these lumps,” said Shane Roberts, who thought hail was falling until he saw a dazed blackbird beneath his truck. His 16-year-old daughter, Alex, spent Saturday morning picking them up. “Their legs are really squishy,” the teen said.
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Karpen’s Pile
Karpen’s Pile: A Battery That Produces Energy Continuously Since 1950 Exists in Romanian Museum.
Half a century ago, the pile’s inventor had said it will work forever, and so far it looks like he was right. Karpen’s perpetual motion machine now sits secured right in the director’s office. It has been called “the uniform-temperature thermoelectric pile,” and the first prototype has been built in the 1950s. Although it should have stopped working decades ago, it didn’t.
The scientists can’t explain how the contraption, patented in 1922, works. The fact that still puzzles them is how a man of such a scientific stature such as Karpen’s could have started building something “that crazy.”
Partial Solar Eclipse - January 04, 2011Tomorrow we will have the first of four Solar eclipse of the year 2011. 
The first solar eclipse of 2011 occurs at the Moon’s ascending node in eastern Sagittarius. A partial eclipse will be visible from much of Europe, North Africa and central Asia (Figure 1).
The penumbral shadow first touches Earth’s surface in northern Algeria at 06:40:11 UT. As the shadow travels east, Western Europe will be treated to a partial eclipse at sunrise. The eclipse magnitude [1] from European cities like Madrid (0.576), Paris (0.732), London (0.747), and Copenhagen (0.826) will give early morning risers an excellent opportunity to photograph the sunrise eclipse with interesting foreground scenery.
Greatest eclipse [2] occurs at 08:50:35 UT in northern Sweden where the eclipse in the horizon will have a magnitude of 0.858. At that time, the axis of the Moon’s shadow will pass a mere 510 km above Earth’s surface. Most of northern Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia also lie in the penumbra’s path. The citizens of Cairo (0.551), Jerusalem (0.574), Istanbul (0.713), and Tehran (0.507) all witness a large magnitude partial eclipse.
A sunset eclipse will be visible from central Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and northwest China. The partial eclipse ends when the penumbra leaves Earth at 11:00:54 UT.
Major Volcanic Eruptions of 2010
Major Volcanic Eruptions of 2010
1. Eyjafjallajökul, Iceland
2. Mount Merapi, Indonesia
3. Tungurahua, Ecuador
4. Pacaya, Guatemala
5. Kliuchevskoi, Kamchatka, Russia
6. Sheveluch, Kamchatka, Russia
7. Santiaguito, Guatemala
8. Mount Sinabung, Indonesia
9. Kizimen, Kamchatka, Russia
10. Cleveland, Alaska
11. Manam, Papua New Guinea
12. Soufrière Hills, British West Indies
13. Reventador, Ecuador
~ Weather ~
A Magnesium Deficiency Increases Cancer Risk SignificantlyInteresting article. Not to forget that magnesium is present in fresh leafy green vegetables. The darker green the veggies the more magnesium
Link…
Vitrified FortsVitrified forts or, forts where the rock was heated, so much so, that it turned into glass or, had “vitrified”. There seem to be quite a few of these forts.
Robert M. Schoch has an interesting angle on the subject.
Plasma hitting the surface of Earth could heat and fuse rock, incinerate flammable materials, melt ice caps, vaporize shallow bodies of water creating an extended deluge of rain, and send the climate into a warming spell. The release of pressure that follows the melting of thousands-of-meters-thick ice sheets can induce earthquakes and even cause hot rock under pressure to melt and erupt to the surface as volcanoes. The world was in chaos, and this is the event recorded by petroglyphs and the rongorongo texts.
The plasma event of 9700 B.C. eradicated advanced civilizations and high cultures of the time, and the radiation emanating from the plasma may have affected mental and psychical abilities. This could be the basis for the nearly universal myth of a Golden Age, a time when beings on Earth had mental abilities far surpassing those of later times. The 9700 B.C. event may be the original basis for the Atlantis legends; the timeframe fits well with Plato’s account.
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Fossile graveyardsDiscovered in Spain a spectacular graveyard of dinosaurs - 2007
These massive graveyards really are all over the world… Here’s an interesting article or, at least makes you think Link…
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La Brea Tar Pits
The LaBrea Tar Pits.
It’s interesting to note how many animals are found together, in one place. The only thing that can cause something like this would be a major flood.
On February 18, 2009, George C. Page Museum formally announced the 2006 discovery of 16 fossil deposits which had been removed from the ground during the construction of an underground parking garage for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art next to the tar pits.[8] Among the finds are remains of a saber-toothed cat, six dire wolves, bison, horses, a giant ground sloth, turtles, snails, clams, millipedes, fish, gophers, and an American lion.[8][9] Also discovered is a near-intact mammoth skeleton…
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Red blood cells lump by mobile phoneThe testees were not allowed to use their mobile phones for 24 hours. Afterwards the researchers took blood from a finger tip and earlobe. Then the testees had to use a phone for 20 seconds. Immediately after that the researchers took blood again and ten minutes later again. The result: …
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