nasa believes once-in-a-century solar flare overdue

Telegraph.co.uk article, "Airline frequent fliers 'radiation poisoning risks' from space 'solar flare' storm activity", presents risk to airline pilots and frequent fliers of radiation exposure and cancer risk from a big solar storm while flying at 40,000 feet the equivalent of dozens of x-rays at once. "NASA scientists believe the earth is facing danger from a once-in-a-century 'solar flare', a disturbance on the Sun's surface that could cause geomagnetic storms on this planet... One in the mid-19th century blocked the nascent telegraph system and many scientists believe another is overdue." The scientific community raises concerns as the solar system approaches the galactic ecliptic. An increase in solar activity seems plausible as the greatest mass in the galaxy is around the ecliptic and increased gravitational pull on the sun may be expected. Is it also predictive programming?

jack blood reports on false alarm or drill gone live?

Jack Blood reports on shooting at NASA Glenn Research Center in Brook Park, Ohio next to the Cleveland Airport on his Deadline Live Nov. 5, 2010 broadcast. Blood adds alleged shooting was quickly amended to a false alarm and all clear broadcast over the base's public announcement system by 11:50am, Friday.

There were reports at 9:50 am of a man with a gun in Building 77 and of shots fired. Building 77 was placed on lockdown. Local ambulances and SWAT teams were dispatched to the base. The false alarm was, later, announced by officials as caused by a message sent in error to someone at Glenn meant for an employee at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida where a test (drill?) was in progress. "An employee at NASA Glenn with the same last name as a person at the other center mistakenly received a call at about 9:30 a.m. from an automated system with the message that there 'is a shooter in the building'. The employee did not realize it was a test."

Blood jumps on the similarities to the Fort Hood Shooting and rightfully so, exactly one year ago! Blood asks, "could the same thing have happened?" You have to ask, "how far did the drill go?" We will never know! Two days earlier, there was a similar incident at Vandenberg AFB. It's a sad commentary that nearly everyone misses these reports, present writer included, and fail to see the similarities right down to the dates! It's a tip of the hat to Jack Blood!

canals on mars?

Cecil Adams wrote "Whatever Happened to the Canals of Mars?", as a response to the popular myth.  Adams believes the lines spotted on the planet were an optical illusion.  In 1877, Giovanni Schiaparelli, an Italian astronomer, was first to widely circulate observations of  "canali" which means channels in Italian.  The English translation of Schiaparelli's work became canals, implying a source of higher intelligence however. "This idea was taken up a few years later by the amateur American astronomer Percival Lowell, who had built an observatory near Flagstaff, Arizona. Lowell made detailed observations of Mars and published several popular books about the planet, notably Mars and Its Canals (1903), which included elaborate maps of the canals and outlined the theory that they were waterways used for irrigation."

 Lowell is the principal source for the longevity of the myth with Lowell's 1909 map of Mars.  Adams concludes the Mariner 9 satellite, which took close up pictures of Mars in 1971, dispelled once and for all "the canals myth" as an illusion, but at the same time, refers to many channels formed by some liquid that appear to be of natural origin.  Adams, an obvious debunker, brutally concludes his response with throwaway lines, "...the old theory that one of the Martian moons is an artificial satellite is out the window, too. As for that business in recent years about a "face" on Mars … please, let's say no more." 

Pictures taken by telescope of Mars such as this one by the Air Force as recent as 1962 along with a mapping history of the Red Planet can be found at the Planetary Blog.  The pictures would seem to push the idea of canals at least into the sixties as the present writer remembers?  Were the Mariner program pictures air brushed (no Photoshop) and why only map projections shown in this blog, which distort the planet's surface? The blog states the inelegant map projection is great for storing data but makes features far less apparent!  Is the Red Planet really red or a tint added? Do you trust NASA?  Please move along there is nothing to see here!

11/4 defcon: cybercom, holograms & chatbot

it begins: military's cybercom is fully operational*
military ready for war in cyberspace*
russia to wikileaks: we could break you*
china takes supercomputing lead*
myanmar hacked before election*
denver voters reject tracking space aliens*
insider claims US govt funds 'the event'*
groups fear huge health database*
hologram messaging coming of age*
prize-winning chatbot steers the conversation*
'internet of things' is on the way*

large hadron collider 'set to create a mini-big bang'

from bbc: Since 2009, the world's highest-energy particle accelerator has been smashing together protons, in a bid to shed light on the fundamental nature of matter. But now the huge machine will be colliding lead ions instead. The experiments are planned for early November and will run for four weeks.

The LHC is housed in a 27km-long tunnel on the Franco-Swiss border and is managed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern). The collider consists of four different experiments and one of them, ALICE, has been specifically designed to smash together lead ions.

The goal of these collisions is to investigate what the infant Universe looked like. Colliding protons at high energies was aimed at other aspects of physics, such as finding the elusive Higgs boson particlesupersymmetry and signs of new physical laws, such as a framework called.

Cern's spokesman James Gillies told BBC News that besides ALICE, the ATLAS and Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiments will also be temporarily colliding ions.

how secure is your vote?

J. Alex Halderman, University of Michigan computer scientist, helped produce ten minute video demo of vote flipping in Diebold machine, some time ago.  Halderman made a name for himself by accepting  the DC area internet voting challenge just last month to test security of internet voting.  The computer scientist led team took control in a matter of hours of most of the voting system, including database username, password and encryption key. Halderman, who believes it's virtually impossible to make internet voting secure, changed all votes and installed a backdoor to surveil votes cast after the attack.   A vote-hacking hero for our times is born and hats off to Professor Halderman!

vote flipping in fort wayne, in

Indiana voter selected straight Republican ticket on voting machine but when checking ballot, showed marked all Democrat. "He called over an election judge, who reset the machine, which then worked correctly. The viewer tells us he was then able to vote the way he wanted." It just goes to show how easy and innocent fraud may look on the surface! How many voters are too hurried to double-check? Rumor has vote fraud leaning towards benefiting democrats this political season, possibly, making up for lost ground in past elections? A brief article and video are available at www.indiananewscenter.com.