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n-morgan:

Posted: May 12th, 2012 by Facebook Friend


Ok so this Greenberg / Zuckerberg thing is getting weirder by the second.
A Jacob Greenberg was arrested for possession of Marijuana and this mugshot was taken. It was later revealed that this could indeed be the man the world knows…

proofmathisbeautiful:

un:

Animation of the Fibonacci sequence, the Golden and Angle Ratios, the Delaunay Triangulation and Voronoi Tessellations.

OHHHHHHHH :O

n-morgan:

Shortly after the Senate voted in The National Defense Authorization Act, S. 1867, according to an exclusive and confidential report given to Alex Jones at www.infowars.com, FEMA camps all over the country are now being activated. The report talks of outsourcing and providing temporary fencing, medical, laundry equipment, catering, refuse collection and power supplies. Alex Jones walks us through several acts and bold movements toward confining US citizens into camps.

thescienceofrealities:

Is a giant, cloaked spaceship orbiting around Mercury?

That’s been the speculation from some corners after a camera onboard NASA’s STEREO spacecraft caught a wave of electronically charged material shooting out from the sun and hitting Mercury.

Theorists have seized on the images captured from the “coronal mass ejection” (CME) last week as suggestive of alien life hanging out in our own cosmic backyard. Specifically, the solar flare washing over Mercury appears to hit another object of comparable size. “It’s cylindrical on either side and has a shape in the middle. It definitely looks like a ship to me, and very obviously, it’s cloaked,” YouTube-user siniXster said in his video commentary on the footage, which has generated hundreds of thousands of views this week. Now, how this user was able to determine that the object was “obviously” a cloaked spaceship with no other natural explanation remains as much a mystery as the object itself.”

  

Of course, there’s another scientifically sanctioned explanation for the curious images, though we’re not certain that skeptics and UFO enthusiasts such as SiniXster will endorse it. Natalie Wolchover of Life’s Little Mysteries put the question to scientists in the solar physics branch at the United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). They’re the people who analyze data from the Heliospheric Imager-1 (HI-1)—better known in this context as the camera that shot the footage in question.

 

Head NRL group scientist Russ Howard and lead ground systems engineer Nathan Rich say the mysterious object is in fact Mercury itself. And what we’re seeing in the footage is the equivalent of Mercury’s wake, “where the planet was on the previous day,” as it travels through the solar system on its natural gravitational path:

To make the relatively faint glow of a coronal mass ejection stand out against the bright glare of space—caused by interplanetary dust and the stellar/galactic background—the NRL scientists must remove as much background light as possible. They explained that they determine what light is background light, and thus can be subtracted out, by calculating the average amount of light that entered each camera pixel on the day of the CME event and on the previous day. Light appearing in the pixels on both days is considered to be background light and is removed from the footage of the CME. The remaining light is then enhanced.

The analysts say the practice works even better when applied to far-off objects such as stars, which don’t move much relative to the sun. But for moving objects, especially planets, the process is a little more complicated. And making matters even trickier is Mercury’s staus as the closest planet to the sun.

“When [this averaging process] is done between the previous day and the current day and there is a feature like a planet, this introduces dark (negative) artifacts in the background where the planet was on the previous day, which then show up as bright areas in the enhanced image,” Rich explained in an email.”

mrtrueman:

New Zealand food bill may take away the right to grow and share food.
parapolitical:

Ohio-based Defense Research Associates (DRA) have developed the  Medium Voltage Vigilant Sensing System (VSS). The VSS is a  closed-circuit camera that is placed on top of utility lines, which it  not only uses as a power source but also to transmit signals back to a  remote operator. Because it is placed on live power lines, the potential  for tampering or destruction is lessened. And, to the untrained eye it  will appear to be a regular piece of utility equipment, meaning the  subject may not know they are being watched.

parapolitical:

Ohio-based Defense Research Associates (DRA) have developed the Medium Voltage Vigilant Sensing System (VSS). The VSS is a closed-circuit camera that is placed on top of utility lines, which it not only uses as a power source but also to transmit signals back to a remote operator. Because it is placed on live power lines, the potential for tampering or destruction is lessened. And, to the untrained eye it will appear to be a regular piece of utility equipment, meaning the subject may not know they are being watched.

n-morgan:

A lot of people believe the world as we know it is going to end on December 23, 2012. Nonsense, I say. The far more honest answer is that the end of the world as we know it has already begun. And it doesn’t mean the end of the world; it means the closing of one era and the birth of a new one. It is a transition between the ages. This particular transition, however, promises to be the most tumultuous and costly transition humankind has ever seen.