“This Solar Cycle 24 at best is going to be half as big as Cycle 23!”
- David Hathaway, Ph.D., NASA Solar Physicist
Huge, twisting coronal mass ejection (CME) erupting thousands of miles into space. If powerful CME's unleash a path of solar particles headed straight for Earth, then satellites, communications, air traffic and power grids can be affected - even brought down. How big will Solar Cycle 24's Maximum be in 2013? Image by SOHO.
April 1, 2011 Huntsville, Alabama - In the March 3, 2011, issue of the journal Nature, astrophysicist Dibyendu Nandy from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in Kolkata, published his theory about why there was such a long, spotless Solar Cycle 23 minimum that broke a century of records. Dr. Nandy built a computer simulation in which “the fast meridional flow in the first half of a solar cycle, followed by a slower flow in the econd half, leads to a deep sunspot minimum, effectively reproducing the Cycle 23 minimum the sun underwent.”
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“The red-brown color observed and photographed in the Levittown leaves implies that the June and July leaves, filled with green chlorophyll, were subjected to external radiation - presumably the beamed energy from the aerial craft - that provoked leaf production of the red, protective pigment anthocyanin usually associated with fall leaves, not summer growth.”
April 1, 2011 reprint of November 14, 2008 Grass Lake, Michigan - W. C. Levengood, a biophysicist who worked on his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, has received several patents concerning seed development. His research work about evidence of spinning plasma vortices containing microwave and other energies affecting plants and grasses in the global crop circle phenomenon has been published in the prominent journal, Physiologia Plantarum:An International Journal for Plant Biology.
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After exposure to the aerial object's glittering light energy,
there were “respiration-related increases in the internal energy
of the privet leaves 17 times normal and 15 times normal
in the silver maple leaves.”
April 1, 2011 reprint of November 17, 2008 Grass Lake, Michigan - The biophysical and biochemical research by biophysicist W. C. Levengood continues with this laboratory report about somatic leaf growth anomalies in privet bush leaves exposed to energy dispersed from unidentified aerial craft over Levittown, Pennsylvania, apartment three times on June 12, July 10 and July 16, 2008.
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“This seems to be physical evidence of very thin energy beams
only 1/10th of a millimeter wide, probably of a microwave nature,
that caused these straight line lesions in the leaves. ... I’ve never seen
anything like this before.”
April 1, 2011 reprint of November 17, 2008 Grass Lake, Michigan - The biophysical and biochemical research by biophysicist W. C. Levengood continues with this laboratory report about somatic leaf growth anomalies in privet bush leaves exposed to energy dispersed from unidentified aerial craft over Levittown, Pennsylvania, apartment three times on June 12, July 10 and July 16, 2008.
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“We describe a bacterium, strain GFAJ-1 of the Halomonadaceae family, isolated from Mono Lake, California, which substitutes arsenic for phosphorus to sustain its growth. Our data show evidence for arsenate in macromolecules that normally contain phosphate, most notably nucleic acids and proteins. Exchange of one of the major bioelements may have profound evolutionary and geochemical significance.”
- Felisa Wolfe-Simon, Ph.D., Biochemist, USGS; NASA Astrobiology Institute
GFAJ-1 is a bacteria that can live without phosphorus, replacing it with arsenic. Photomicrograph source Science/AACS.Researchers working in the harsh, arsenic-rich environment of Mono Lake, California, have discovered arsenic-eating bacteria called GFAJ-1 able to thrive and reproduce using arsenic, changing the fundamental knowledge about what comprises all known life on Earth. Mono Lake's large amount of toxic arsenic and very little phosphorus should kill Earth microorganisms, not make them thrive. But the GFAJ-1 bacteria grows and reproduces on an arsenic-rich diet and even has arsenic encoded in its DNA genome where phosphorus would normally be encoded. That means the GFAJ-1 organism in Mono Lake is radically different than other known Earth life.
Updated December 3, 2010Washington, D. C. - Today NASA held a much-awaited astrobiology press conference at its headquarters in Washington, D. C. But instead of announcing that Mars has bacteria or watery moon Europa has marine life, the scientists reported finding an Earth-based bacteria called “GFAJ-1” of the Halomonadaceae family in Mono Lake, California, that thrives on arsenic that would ordinarily poison and kill any multicellular life on this planet. In fact, arsenic is used to produce pesticides, herbicides and insecticides because it is so toxic. This is the first form of life known to be capable of growth in environments with little or no phosphorus.
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“We are establishing a milestone connection between progress and the past to preserve this unique heritage for future generations. At the end of a comprehensive and profound examination, we have succeeded in recruiting the best minds and technological means to preserve this unrivaled cultural heritage treasure which belongs to all of us, so that the public with a click of the mouse will be able to freely access history in its fullest glamour.”
- Shuka Dorfman, Director, Israel Antiquities Authority
Scholar working with Dead Sea Scroll images on computer. The Israel Antiquities Authority is collaborating with the Google R&D center in Israel to upload all 30,000 Dead Sea Scrolls fragments, as well as additional data that will allow users to perform searches across a broad range of data in a number of languages and formats. Image 2010 courtesy Israel Antiquities Authority.
October 21, 2010 Jerusalem, Israel - The entire collection of 900 Dead Sea Scroll manuscripts made from 30,000 Dead Sea Scroll fragments are being digitally photographed by the Israel Antiquities Authority and Google's Research and Development center in Israel to put the entire historic writings online. According to the Antiquities Authority, the digital Dead Sea Scrolls will be equal in quality to actually viewing them in person.
NASA space age multi-spectral imaging technology will be used to produce high-resolution images of the sometimes-faded texts that may reveal new letters and words. The estimated cost of $3.5-million will be funded by the Israel Antiquities Authority and Google R&D's division in Israel. The entire Dead Sea Scroll collection will be made available online free of charge online in a searchable database complemented by translations. The first images could go online in the next few months, with the project completed within five years.
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“It appears that the Earth’s interior is probably a thousand to ten thousand times wetter than the moon’s interior. ...the original lunar magmas had no water in them.”
- Chip Shearer, Ph.D., Geologist, Univ. of New Mexico
Apollo 11 photograph of wet, blue Earth rising over dry, gray lunar foreground, July 20, 1969.
August 26, 2010 Albuquerque, New Mexico and Honolulu, Hawaii - In the most recent edition of Nature Geoscience published online August 22, 2010, University of Arizona planetary geologists presented new lead isotope analysis from a chondrite meteorite found in the Sahara Desert that suggests our solar system is 4.568 billion years old. That could be almost 2 million years older than previously estimated.
Our Earth's age is about 4.5 billion years old and most planetary scientists say the moon is about 30 million years younger. Our Earth is very wet and the moon is very dry. The oxidized iron content in moon rocks is also different than Earth's.. So, where did our younger, very dry moon come from?
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“The Air Force is trying to keep the X-37B secret, but if you have a stopwatch and personal computer, after you have seen it a few times, you can use well-known math to calculate the orbit and predict where it’s going to be.”
- Jonathan McDowell, Ph.D., Harvard Astronomer
The Boeing X-37B unmanned space plane began as a NASA project in 1999, before transfer in 2004 to the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Then its mission control was transferred to the USAF Space Command in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
June 23, 2010 Cambridge, Massachusetts - Two months ago on April 22, 2010, at Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, there was a launch of America's first unmanned robotic spacecraft.
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“The new object, which appeared in May 2009, has left us scratching our heads — we've never seen anything quite like this before.”
- Tom Muxlow, Ph.D., U. K. Jodrell Centre for Astrophysics
M82 is a “starburst” galaxy 10 million light-years from our Milky Way galaxy. The mysterious radio wavelengths appeared very suddenly, have persisted and have never been seen before in our galaxy. Supernova explosions in the core of the galaxy have produced a hot wind which can be seen escaping in this infra-red image where dust emission is colored red. Image by NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA.
April 30, 2010 Manchester, U. K. - Our universe is estimated to be 13.7 billion light-years old and still expanding. In all that vastness, there are billions of galaxies. Our Earth is in the Milky Way galaxy and 10 million light-years from us are two companion galaxies that astronomers call M81 and M82.
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Privet bush about 15 feet high grows next to eyewitness's apartment back door in Levittown, Pennsylvania, where “little squares of light” first fell on June 12, 2008 - and two more times in July 2008 - from a pink-colored aerial disc and surrounded the privet bush and a silver maple tree about 65 feet away. Image © 2008 by Robert Gardner.Return to 
