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  1. Biak

    Biak Boy from Illinois Staff Member

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    I live in a conundrum : F16's flying just above the overcast ; Auroras predicted overhead but are as usual blocked by clouds. Always so close but so far. Hopeful and Disappointed in a single moment of anticipation.
     
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    OpanaPointer I Point at Opana Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    I 'lived' near a few air facilities. NAS Oceania at Norfolk, VA; NAF Sigonella, Sicily; NAF Oceanside (Top Gear ground scenes); Miramar Marine Air Facility, California, an unnamed base in southern Georgia, used for Covert Ops hilos (SEAL taxis). More, probably, who remembers.
     
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    GRW Pillboxologist WW2|ORG Editor

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    In other words, they don't actually know.
    "An international team of scientists has found unexpectedly high levels of the rare radioactive isotope beryllium-10 in samples from the Pacific seabed.
    And they believe it could have been caused by a blast of radiation from space more than 10 million years ago.
    Beryllium-10 is an isotope - a variant of an element with a different number of neutrons in its atomic nuclei, formed when cosmic rays hit oxygen and nitrogen in the upper atmosphere.
    After forming, this isotope falls to the ground in the rain and settles to the bottom of the seabed at a fairly constant rate.
    However, when the researchers looked at samples of the seabed from 10 million years ago, they found that the levels of beryllium-10 were almost twice what they had expected.
    Study author Dr Dominik Koll, from Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany, says: 'We had stumbled upon a previously undiscovered anomaly.'
    Scientists baffled by radioactive 'blip' deep under the Pacific Ocean
     
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    OpanaPointer I Point at Opana Staff Member WW2|ORG Editor

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    Most of the elements were created in stars, especially in super novas, so clouds of star shit floats around out there, in various and sundry flavors.
     
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    GRW Pillboxologist WW2|ORG Editor

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    We are stardust. We are golden. :)
    Good ole Joni.
     
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    ♫And we've got to get back to the garden...♫
     
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    GRW Pillboxologist WW2|ORG Editor

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    Just a heads-up; could be interesting over the next couple of days, according to this guy.
    Its from FB , so can't post the whole thing.

    "Jacques van Delft Solar Observations
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    A prominent coronal hole, visible in the latest SDO/AIA 193 Å image (captured April 18 at 10:48 UT), is now nearly directly facing Earth. Coronal holes are regions where the Sun's magnetic field opens outward, allowing solar wind to escape at high speeds.
    This Earth-facing position means a high-speed stream of solar wind is likely to reach our planet between April 20 and April 22, potentially sparking enhanced geomagnetic activity. If the solar wind carries a sustained southward magnetic component (Bz), it could lead to auroras at higher latitudes, minor disruptions in GPS, HF radio, and possibly satellite operations."
     
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    Biak Boy from Illinois Staff Member

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    Einstein says there’s a limit…
     
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    Biak Boy from Illinois Staff Member

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    He also admitted he wasn't infallible.
     
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    It’s been tested…the effects predicted did occur…no one has taken it to the limit as ultimate proof, but that’s not far away…in terms of travel and communications we know there are ways around this limit. Not break the laws, but work around them to get the same result.
     
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    Biak Boy from Illinois Staff Member

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    Okay how about this :
    Would Light from a Star passing through an extremely cold portion of space be 'slowed' throwing off the distance measurement.
    And since photons have mass, Could/would light get a gravity boost just like any other object.

    Just spitting out some curiosity.
     
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    I would say no to the first…and light would be affected by gravitational changes yes…I think : ) I think light rarely, if ever actually travels at the speed of light…
     
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