solar eclipse

moon passing in front of sun in Perth

UFO crashes in Saudi Arabia

Astonishing events are occuring around the world and not as much as a word about them is being written or said in the West. In Saudi Arabia last week what might well have be a UFO, possibly crashing into earth, was witnessed by literally millions of people in the vicinity. Multiple photos of the object have come to light.

Arabic language forums are abuzz with Saudi citizens claiming to have witnessed what is even being described by some in the normally conservative Saudi Arabian press as a possible UFO either crashing to earth or simply executing manoeuvres designed to scare humans. Others are claiming the object was an Asteroid or a Satellite. Witnesses are reported to be waiting for an explanation from local meteorological bureau’s but have received no answers yet. ON Wednesday 7^th of January after evening prayers a loud noise was heard in the sky followed by the sighting of an intense large light heading from the west above the Al-Qasim region east of Saudi Arabia’s capital city Riyadh. Many locals had seen meteors prior to this but claimed this one did not fit the typical description at all: it was a blue green colour and was shooting out green lasers.One witness Khalid commented ‘No one has ever seen anything like it’Amazingly for an incident that hasn’t even made the news in the West, the object was seen as far away as Kuwait. The complete absence of this story within western media is truly surprising as this was not your average incident involving a few people seeing strange things in the sky, the Saudi police recieved thousands of calls about this one incident alone. It was also reported that thousands of people were terrified by what they saw and heard and many even began to pray. Some have even posted messages on the web warning that this might be a sign from God for the Kingdoms silence on Gaza. Locals in the region where the object appeared to be heading claim they heard an explosion and felt a large tremor indicating that the object crashed. The Saudi government has not released information regarding the crash site but is reported to have sealed the area. source: all news web

2009

2009 is the International Year of Astronomy and seeing this is something I am interested in I will be posting munch information on this and related fields

There is so much we don't know

Bizarre carnivorous sea squirts, large spider-like creatures and an ancient fossilised coral reef have all been found in a voyage into ultra-deep Australian waters.The scientific examination Chronology of the Tasman Fracture, a four kilometre-deep crack in the earth's crust off the coast of Tasmania's southwest, has led to the discovery of creatures never seen before."A thing that was really surprising was the diversity of life down there," said Dr Ron Thresher from the CSIRO, who took part in the trip."We really didn't know what to expect in these really deep areas. It could have been anything from bare mud to lush communities. It was really a shot in the dark."Never before have life forms at such depths in Australia's oceans been studied.Using a remotely-operated submarine about the size of a small car to collect samples and data, the scientists took photos and film at different depths.At up to 3,000 metres were thousands of sea spiders, creatures about 30 centimetres in diameter that look like land spiders but are in fact unrelated.At 3,500 metres were millions of sea anemones, Dr Thresher revealed."They had never been described before. They had never even been observed before," he said."The entire bottom was covered in these things as far as you can see and it was just completely unexpected to see this huge dominant community down there."Expedition leader Jess Adkins, from the California Institute of Technology, said the deepest life forms observed were anemones living at about 4,050 metres down."Almost immediately we saw there were things living in the sediment," Professor Adkins said.There were also carnivorous sea squirts half a metre high, which trap small fish and other creatures, and differ from most other sea squirts, which filter feed.In depths from about 1,000 metres to shallower water was a reef of black, dead coral that dated to more than 10,000 years old.But for the scientists one of their most bizarre discoveries was what they did not find on the ocean floor.Dr Thresher said the team of Australian and US researchers who took part in the $US2 million ($A3 million) voyage had expected to find coral skeletons that were hundreds of thousands of years old lying in very deep depths."One of the main reasons we went out on this cruise was to find fossil corals so we can reconstruct long-term changes in oceanography and climate, so we spent a lot of time looking for these things all over the place," he said."We looked down around 3,000 metres expecting to find vast quantities of these things and they were all gone."The living ones are there, but the dead ones are simply missing. Either something really weird is going on with the water chemistry or it is a brand new community. That just doesn't seem to make any sense."Something very bizarre is happening at the bottom of the Tasmanian fracture zone, and it is going to take us a long time to work that one out."He said it was possible some layers of deep water were being affected by climate change."It is entirely possible we are getting a water mass signal that is tracking some sort of long-term climate change."That is speculative. The few bits (of coral) we picked up looked sufficiently weird. It looked like something weird was going on chemically. We will try and work that out," Dr Thresher said.The bulk of the funding for the trip, which occurred from December 16 to January 17, came from the US National Science Foundation, with extra money contributed by the CSIRO.

Youthfulness

From Dr Mercola:Since time immemorial, man has searched for the Fountain of Youth. Nothing has changed in that regard, only the methods of inquiry and discovery have progressed, catching up with some of the most outlandish sci-fi scenarios imaginable.Personally, I’m not one to want to veer too far from the natural order of things -- I don’t even want to eat a piece of genetically modified corn. But the technology and science enthusiast in me can’t help but be intrigued by the ideas and radical advances in the field of extreme life extension.This is one of the latest installments in the ongoing quest, and Russian biochemist Mikhail Shchepinov believes he may have discovered the type of water needed to make the Fountain of Youth deliver on its promise.

The Free-Radical Theory

The most widely accepted idea for life extension is the free-radical theory. According to this theory, we begin to self destruct” as we age. Our DNA becomes damaged beyond our body’s ability to repair and we eventually accumulate enough damage that can’t support life, and we die.The main agents of this destruction are oxygen free radicals; aggressive chemical compounds created as a byproduct of your natural metabolism. Over a lifetime, this progressive damage accumulates to the point where your body’s basic biochemical processes fail.This is one of the primary reasons that Coenzyme Q-10 works and why I take the reduced form, ubiquinol, every day.One of the most destructive processes is protein carbonylation, in which oxygen radicals attacks the carbon-hydrogen bonds in proteins. This process has been implicated as a cause for many age-related diseases, such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, chronic renal failure and adult-onset diabetes.Antioxidants continually combat these free radicals – which is why a diet high in natural antioxidants is so important for your health – but over the years, your biological defense systems eventually begin to suffer from oxidative damage as well and can’t function as effectively. Your state of health suffers as a result, and “age-related ailments” set in.This is where Shchepinov’s theory for youth extension comes in.The basic concept of his discovery is that heavy isotopes can slow down a molecule’s chemical reactions. Hence prolonging the time it takes before the molecule suffers damage. Is it Safe to Drink “Heavy Water"?

It’s important to note that some heavy isotopes are radioactive and obviously should not be consumed. But others, like the ones studied by Shchepinov (deuterium and carbon-13) are stable and occur naturally in your body. And, so far, they appear to be non-toxic when ingested -- up to a point. In mammals, toxic effects become apparent once 20 percent of their body water is replaced with heavy water, and is deadly once you reach the 35 percent mark. That said, a research team at the Institute for the Biology of Aging in Moscow recently tested Shchepinov’s idea on fruit flies. Though large amounts were deadly, smaller quantities increased the flies’ lifespans by up to 30 percent. But whether this was due to the isotope effect, or simple calorie restriction – which is another well documented life extension technique – is still unclear.

Aubrey de Grey Weighs in on Heavy Water

Shchepinov’s idea has been embraced by one of my favorite biogerontologists, Aubrey de Grey, Dr. de Grey is a Cambridge researcher, and chairman and chief science officer of the Methuselah Foundation. He is one of the leading pioneers in aging research and I recently had the pleasure of interviewing de Grey about his fascinating ideas for “engineering immortality.Aubrey de Grey is also the editor of the journal Rejuvenation Research that published Shchepinov’s theory in 2007. Since then, de Grey has become the scientific advisor of Retrotope, the company Shchepinov launched to pursue his anti-aging theory.Currently, Retrotope is not advocating heavy water as a cure for aging. Rather, they’re considering creating what Shchepinov calls “iFood.” This would be food products that have been already altered by the isotope effect (for example by feeding chickens heavy water), so your body’s proteins would receive nutrients that already had their vulnerable bonds strengthened, hence being less prone to free radical damage.I’m not surprised that Dr. de Grey has chosen to support this new anti-aging theory. After all, his own “strategies for engineering negligible senescence” (SENS) plan focuses on finding the main causes of age-related damage and using science to prevent or reverse them.According to Dr. de Grey, nature has not specifically pre-programmed you to die, as there is no “death gene”. You don’t perish because of some internal clock counting down to death, but because nature doesn’t bother to promote self-healing past a certain point.He claims there are seven major known causes of aging:

1. cell loss
2. death resistant cells (that overstay their welcome)
3. nuclear DNA mutations
4. mitochondrial DNA mutations
5. intracellular junk
6. extracellular junk
7. extracellular crosslinks (which link together molecules that should be kept separated)

From a strictly biological standpoint, the maximum lifespan of human beings seems to be set at around 120 years. However, I do believe it’s possible to extend your lifespan well beyond this with the regenerative technologies that Dr. de Grey discusses.And, who knows, perhaps heavy water will one day be one of them, although I believe there’s still a lot of research that needs to be done before we unleash yet another manipulated food product. The theory appears sound, but nature has a way of rebelling against too much of a good thing.Remember, too many antioxidants can be just as bad as too few! This is yet another reason to make sure you’re getting your antioxidants from healthy, raw, organic foods, rather than supplements.

How to Live Longer, Starting Today

Regulating your insulin pathways, and all the other important lifestyle changes I advocate, would clearly increase not only the quantity of your years but the quality of them as well.Proper nutrition; feeding your body the fuel it needs based on your individual biochemistry rather than a one-size-fits-all regimen, exercise, and maintaining emotional well-being should never be underestimated in the anti-aging quest.

Researchers measure heart nerve signals

Australian scientists have for the first time measured nerve signals being sent to the heart, in a breakthrough they hope will lead to better treatments for people who suffer heart attacks.Scientists placed micro-electrodes into the nerves leading to the heart and kidneys of sheep to accurately measure the impulses - with immediately unexpected results.Despite the heart's vital and unceasing work, during times of rest the brain directs more sympathetic nerve activity at the kidneys than the heart."We found that very interesting," said Dr Clive May, Principal Research Fellow at the Howard Florey Institute (The University of Melbourne )."The sympathetic nerves are the nerves which are stimulated in fight and flight, so they stimulate the heart to work faster and harder."So when you're just sitting around there's not a lot happening (nerve-wise), but when you get up to run down the street, suddenly the whole system fires up."The scientists were also able to accurately measure how, after a heart attack, these sympathetic nerve impulses are known to fire at an elevated level even when at rest.The constant bombardment of nerve impulses - at close to maximum rate - can cause an irregular heart beat in heart attack patients and even sudden death."It's the bodies way of trying to get the heart to pump more blood ... but the problem is the heart is damaged after the heart attack," Dr May said.In the past the elevated nerve activity could only be inferred from blood tests, and Dr May said an improved understanding of it could help to produce new drugs or techniques designed to control it.Medical advances also meant that more people were surviving their initial heart attack, adding to the number of people now living with these elevated nerve impulses."Because medicine has got so much better, doctors are able to save many of these patients - but they still have damage to their heart," Dr May said."Just in Australia there are 300,000 patients with heart failure, and the prognosis for it is worse than many cancers at the moment."Results of the study are published in the prominent US journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Science).

Mayan elder interview

This interview was conducted from the Seattle studios to Guatemala where Carlos resides. Carlos has spoken with elders of his clan and has been given permission to share their knowledge with us. This interview has been placed on ECM's 'Recent Audio Files' page and can now be accessed. Carlos Barrios Audio File: http://www.earthchangesmedia.com/audioarchives.phpWith just 4 minutes into our discussion, Carlos told us the period between August 9th and September 4th could be hazardous. He tells us according to the Mayan Calendar, this is a period of intense energy. He is most concerned about "war". It will most likely not have to do with the Republic of Georgia and Russia, but with US backed Israel and Iran.Although China is now accepted as the wealthiest nation, and the leading industrial-manufacturing country in the world, Carlos tells us it will be 'India' which will be the world's mightiest merchant. Carlos tells us prophecy speaks of an internal revolt in China due to repression which will bring China down. He tells us India has temporarily drifted from its spiritual practices and integrity, but will regain its balance allowing India to surpass all nations of the world as the richest and healthiest country.Yes, Carlos maintains there will be a single strike nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan. To my surprise, it may be India which strikes first to prevent a devastating escalation.There is more - lots more. He mentioned Yellowstone Super Volcano, undersea volcanoes in the Pacific, and of course what surrounds 2012.Reminder: It is important to maintain your own balance as your quest for information. It is very important to question, then verify, then question again what you hear or read. As I often say: "Just because I may say something with passion and conviction does it make it a truth. It only makes it "my" truth. It can only be up to each individual to "discern" and implement whatever knowledge you have of "critical thinking".In this interview, you will hear Carlos remind us again and again we are not powerless, nor is fate carved in stone. We can collectively make a difference. I think you will find a most interesting exchange between Carlos and myself regarding "critical mass" and to further define a difference between a "Spiritual Experience" and "Spiritual Awakening".