This story has just brought me a crashing down. So called 'experts' look at implications of GM crops yet not one of them makes a connection with GM crops and bee colonies becoming extinct.
Read on
A four-year ban on genetically modified (GM) canola crops is to be lifted in NSW, giving farmers the opportunity to grow the crop if they want.NSW Primary Industries Minister Ian Macdonald said the changes would be made within the next month and would put NSW farmers on a level playing field with their overseas counterparts for the first time. The Victorian government is also lifting a ban on growing GM canola.
Mr Macdonald said farmers had been missing out on export opportunities to the US and Canada because of the failure to adopt GM canola. "Market conditions have changed since the Act was introduced, with GM canola now responsible for 70 per cent of the world's trade," Mr Macdonald said in a statement. "NSW farmers will now have a choice as to whether they want to grow GM canola or not, and customers will be able to decide whether or not they want to buy them. "This is all about informed choice." (NO GUYS i BEG TO DIFFER, IT ALL ABOUT MAKING MONEY AT THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR PLANET)
The bill to change the legislation will also establish an expert committee that will assess whether the industry is capable of segregating GM and non-GM food crops. The decision to allow GM canola to be grown follows a comprehensive review by a Three-member panel chaired by former Nationals leader Ian Armstrong. Victorian Premier John Brumby said his government had decided not to extend a moratorium on growing GM canola, which expires on February 29. A panel headed by Sir Gustav Nossal reviewed the economic impact of removing the ban on the commercial planting of GM canola. Mr Brumby said the state government had accepted federal government approval and the findings of Sir Gustav's report. Mr Brumby said lifting the ban would make Victorian farmers more internationally competitive and deliver environmental and economic benefits to the state. "In direct terms, the review panel concluded that the economic benefit to the state over the next eight years of this decision will be something like $115 million of additional economic activity," he said. "The benefit of GM canola is that it uses far less pesticide than does traditional canola."
Some Western Australian farmers are calling on the government to review its ban on GM crops. WAFarmers president Trevor De Landgrafft said WA growers have been left behind by their overseas competitors in recent years. Now, he said, they faced the risk of falling behind their interstate colleagues with NSW and Victoria ending their Respective moratorium on GM canola. "There is no reason that the WA government should not follow the leadership demonstrated by their interstate counterparts and keep WA growers on an equal footing in relation to access to technology," Mr De Landgrafft said in a statement. On Monday, WA's Agriculture and Food Minister Kim Chance and Tasmania's Primary Industries and Water Minister David Llewellyn had jointly called on Victoria, NSW and South Australia to maintain their moratorium on the commercial production of GM crops.The South Australian government says it is considering an expert report on GM crops with a current ban due to expire in April next year.
A moratorium on GM crops, including canola, has been in place in SA since 2004.
The government has pledged to make a decision on the issue before it expires and is currently assessing a report from the Genetically Modified Crops Advisory Committee.
"We will respond to the recommendations in the report in a timely manner, well ahead of the deadline for the end of the current moratorium," acting Agriculture Minister Paul Holloway said.The Australian Democrats introduced a bill to state parliament earlier this month to extend the ban until 2013.State Democrat MP Sandra Kanck said there was growing support from consumers for SA to remain GM free."Australian governments have ignored nature's limits with climate change," Ms Kanck said.
"We can't make the same mistake with our food sources."If Australia wants to keep its clean, green image and ensure food security it must keep GM crops out."Ms Kanck said extending the moratorium until 2013 would give scientists a chance to provide some definitive answers on the benefits or dangers associated with GM foods.Tasmania is reviewing its ban on genetically modified (GM) crops and will make a decision mid-way through next year, a government spokesman says."Tasmania's position on GM crops is currently subject to a joint house parliamentary review which is due to provide advice to the government so it can review the moratorium by June 2008," the spokesman says.
Tuesday 27 November 2007
SEED of EXTINCT DATE PALM SPROUTS After 2,000 YEARS
Ain't nature spectacular????!!!!
It has five leaves, stands 14 inches high and is nicknamed
Methuselah. It looks like an ordinary date palm seedling, but for
UCLA- educated botanist Elaine Solowey, it is a piece of history
brought back to life. Planted on Jan. 25, the seedling growing in
the black pot in Solowey's nursery on this kibbutz in Israel's Arava
desert is 2,000 years old -- more than twice as old as the 900-year-
old biblical character who lent his name to the young tree. It is the
oldest seed ever known to produce a viable young tree.
The seed that produced Methuselah was discovered during
archaeological excavations at King Herod's palace on Mount
Masada, near the Dead Sea. Its age has been confirmed by
carbon dating. Scientists hope that the unique seedling will
eventually yield vital clues to the medicinal properties of the fruit of
the Judean date tree, which was long thought to be extinct....
The Judean date is chronicled in the Bible, Quran and ancient
literature for its diverse powers -- from an aphrodisiac to a
contraceptive -- and as a cure for a wide range of diseases
including cancer, malaria and toothache. For Christians, the palm
is a symbol of peace associated with the entry of Jesus into
Jerusalem. The ancient Hebrews called
the date palm the "tree of
life" because of the protein in its fruit and the shade given by its
long leafy branches. The Arabs said there were as many uses for
the date palm as there were days in the year. Greek architects
modeled their Ionic columns on the tree's tall, thin trunk and
curling, bushy top. The Romans called it Phoenix dactylifera --
"the date-bearing phoenix"
-- because it never died and appeared to be reborn in the
desert where all other plant life perished.
Now Solowey and her colleagues have brought this phoenix of the
desert back to life after 2,000 years.
The ancient seeds were found 30 years ago during archeological
excavations on Mount Masada, the mountaintop fortress on the
shore of the Dead Sea where King Herod built a spectacular
palace. When the Romans conquered Palestine and laid waste to
the Temple in Jerusalem, Masada was the last stand of a small
band of Jewish rebels who held out against three Roman legions
for several years before committing mass suicide in A.D. 73.
Archaeologist Ehud Netzer found the seeds, which were identified
by the department of botanical archaeology at Israel's Bar-Ilan
University. Then they were placed in storage, where they lay for
30 years until Sallon heard about the cache. "When we asked if
we could try and grow some of them, they said, 'You're mad,' but
they gave us three seeds," she said. Sallon took the seeds to
Solowey, who has cultivated more than 3,000 date palms and
rarities like the trees that produce the fragrant resins frankincense
and myrrh. Solowey admits she was skeptical about the chances
of success with this project. "When I received the seeds from
Sarah, I thought the chances of this experiment succeeding were
less than zero," said Solowey, cradling the precious seedling in a
specially quarantined section of her nursery on the kibbutz. "But
Dr. Sallon insisted and I took this very seriously. Lotus seeds over
1,000 years old have been sprouted, and I realized that no one had
done any similar work with dates, so why not give it our best shot
-- and we were rewarded."
"It's certainly the oldest tree seed that's ever been sprouted.
Wheat seeds from pharaohs' tombs have been sprouted, but none
of the plants have survived for very long. Before this, the oldest
seed grown was a lotus from China, which was 1,200 years old,"
she said. "I'm very excited. I wasn't expecting anything to happen.
I'm really interested in finding out what the DNA testing is going to
show. I know that date seeds can stay alive for several decades.
To find out that they can stay alive for millennia is astonishing."
... When the Romans invaded ancient Judea, thick forests of date
palms towering up to 80 feet high and 7 miles wide covered the
Jordan River valley from the Sea of Galilee in the north to the
shores of the Dead Sea in the south. The tree so defined the local
economy that Emperor Vespasian celebrated the conquest by
minting the "Judea Capta," a special bronze coin that showed the
Jewish state as a weeping woman beneath a date palm.
Today, nothing remains of those mighty forests....
The ancient Judean date, renowned for its succulence and famed
for its many medicinal properties, had been lost to history. Until now
~Matthew Kalman, SF Chronicle Foreign Service.
SOURCE: www.sfgate.com
It has five leaves, stands 14 inches high and is nicknamed
Methuselah. It looks like an ordinary date palm seedling, but for
UCLA- educated botanist Elaine Solowey, it is a piece of history
brought back to life. Planted on Jan. 25, the seedling growing in
the black pot in Solowey's nursery on this kibbutz in Israel's Arava
desert is 2,000 years old -- more than twice as old as the 900-year-
old biblical character who lent his name to the young tree. It is the
oldest seed ever known to produce a viable young tree.
The seed that produced Methuselah was discovered during
archaeological excavations at King Herod's palace on Mount
Masada, near the Dead Sea. Its age has been confirmed by
carbon dating. Scientists hope that the unique seedling will
eventually yield vital clues to the medicinal properties of the fruit of
the Judean date tree, which was long thought to be extinct....
The Judean date is chronicled in the Bible, Quran and ancient
literature for its diverse powers -- from an aphrodisiac to a
contraceptive -- and as a cure for a wide range of diseases
including cancer, malaria and toothache. For Christians, the palm
is a symbol of peace associated with the entry of Jesus into
Jerusalem. The ancient Hebrews called
the date palm the "tree of
life" because of the protein in its fruit and the shade given by its
long leafy branches. The Arabs said there were as many uses for
the date palm as there were days in the year. Greek architects
modeled their Ionic columns on the tree's tall, thin trunk and
curling, bushy top. The Romans called it Phoenix dactylifera --
"the date-bearing phoenix"
-- because it never died and appeared to be reborn in the
desert where all other plant life perished.
Now Solowey and her colleagues have brought this phoenix of the
desert back to life after 2,000 years.
The ancient seeds were found 30 years ago during archeological
excavations on Mount Masada, the mountaintop fortress on the
shore of the Dead Sea where King Herod built a spectacular
palace. When the Romans conquered Palestine and laid waste to
the Temple in Jerusalem, Masada was the last stand of a small
band of Jewish rebels who held out against three Roman legions
for several years before committing mass suicide in A.D. 73.
Archaeologist Ehud Netzer found the seeds, which were identified
by the department of botanical archaeology at Israel's Bar-Ilan
University. Then they were placed in storage, where they lay for
30 years until Sallon heard about the cache. "When we asked if
we could try and grow some of them, they said, 'You're mad,' but
they gave us three seeds," she said. Sallon took the seeds to
Solowey, who has cultivated more than 3,000 date palms and
rarities like the trees that produce the fragrant resins frankincense
and myrrh. Solowey admits she was skeptical about the chances
of success with this project. "When I received the seeds from
Sarah, I thought the chances of this experiment succeeding were
less than zero," said Solowey, cradling the precious seedling in a
specially quarantined section of her nursery on the kibbutz. "But
Dr. Sallon insisted and I took this very seriously. Lotus seeds over
1,000 years old have been sprouted, and I realized that no one had
done any similar work with dates, so why not give it our best shot
-- and we were rewarded."
"It's certainly the oldest tree seed that's ever been sprouted.
Wheat seeds from pharaohs' tombs have been sprouted, but none
of the plants have survived for very long. Before this, the oldest
seed grown was a lotus from China, which was 1,200 years old,"
she said. "I'm very excited. I wasn't expecting anything to happen.
I'm really interested in finding out what the DNA testing is going to
show. I know that date seeds can stay alive for several decades.
To find out that they can stay alive for millennia is astonishing."
... When the Romans invaded ancient Judea, thick forests of date
palms towering up to 80 feet high and 7 miles wide covered the
Jordan River valley from the Sea of Galilee in the north to the
shores of the Dead Sea in the south. The tree so defined the local
economy that Emperor Vespasian celebrated the conquest by
minting the "Judea Capta," a special bronze coin that showed the
Jewish state as a weeping woman beneath a date palm.
Today, nothing remains of those mighty forests....
The ancient Judean date, renowned for its succulence and famed
for its many medicinal properties, had been lost to history. Until now
~Matthew Kalman, SF Chronicle Foreign Service.
SOURCE: www.sfgate.com
Friday 23 November 2007
Theory of everything
From UK Telegraph
Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything
An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which has received rave reviews from scientists. Despite this unusual career path, as a surfer, his proposal is remarkable because, by the arcane standards of particle physics, it does not require highly complex mathematics. Even better, it does not require more than one dimension of time and three of space, when some rival theories need ten or even more spatial dimensions and other bizarre concepts. And it may even be possible to test his theory, which predicts a host of new particles, perhaps even using the new Large Hadron Collider atom smasher that will go into action near Geneva next year.Although the work of 39 year old Garrett Lisi still has a way to go to convince the establishment, let alone match the achievements of Albert Einstein, the two do have one thing in common: Einstein also began his great adventure in theoretical physics while outside the mainstream scientific establishment as a patent officer.
The new theory reported today in New Scientist has been laid out in an online paper entitled "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything" by Lisi, who completed his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1999 at the University of California, San Diego.
He has high hopes that his new theory could provide what he says is a "radical new explanation" for the three decade old Standard Model, which weaves together three of the four fundamental forces of nature: the electromagnetic force; the strong force, which binds quarks together in atomic nuclei; and the weak force, which controls radioactive decay.
The reason for the excitement is that Lisi's model also takes account of gravity, a force that has only successfully been included by a rival and highly fashionable idea called string theory, one that proposes particles are made up of minute strings, which is highly complex and elegant but has lacked predictions by which to do experiments to see if it works.
Lisi's inspiration lies in the most elegant and intricate shape known to mathematics, called E8 - a complex, eight-dimensional mathematical pattern with 248 points first found in 1887, but only fully understood by mathematicians this year after workings, that, if written out in tiny print, would cover an area the size of Manhattan.
E8 encapsulates the symmetries of a geometric object that is 57-dimensional and is itself is 248-dimensional. Lisi says "I think our universe is this beautiful shape."
What makes E8 so exciting is that Nature also seems to have embedded it at the heart of many bits of physics. One interpretation of why we have such a quirky list of fundamental particles is because they all result from different facets of the strange symmetries of E8. Lisi's breakthrough came when he noticed that some of the equations describing E8's structure matched his own. "My brain exploded with the implications and the beauty of the thing," he tells New Scientist. "I thought: 'Holy crap, that's it!'"
What Lisi had realised was that he could find a way to place the various elementary particles and forces on E8's 248 points. What remained was 20 gaps which he filled with notional particles, for example those that some physicists predict to be associated with gravity.
Physicists have long puzzled over why elementary particles appear to belong to families, but this arises naturally from the geometry of E8, he says. So far, all the interactions predicted by the complex geometrical relationships inside E8 match with observations in the real world. "How cool is that?" he says.
The crucial test of Lisi's work will come only when he has made testable predictions. Lisi is now calculating the masses that the 20 new particles should have, in the hope that they may be spotted when the Large Hadron Collider starts up.
"The theory is very young, and still in development," he told the Telegraph. "Right now, I'd assign a low (but not tiny) likelyhood to this prediction
"For comparison, I think the chances are higher that LHC will see some of these particles than it is that the LHC will see superparticles, extra dimensions, or micro black holes as predicted by string theory. I hope to get more (and different) predictions, with more confidence, out of this E8 Theory over the next year, before the LHC comes online."
COMMENTS:
*I suggest the new theory is respected, not the least because it may get us out of the clutches of the Particle-philes. Before any number of Big Bangs there was no matter. An event of such magnitude would have represented a rapidly changing wave front, from inf. positive to inf. negative in zero time. Or near enough as not to matter. Fourier analysis would then give the reason for any amount of 'Matter waves' to be produced. Don't just object!!! Look at Radar wave guides as to the production of rotational waves, possibly spherical or barrel shaped waves. Look at Aether theory again. Light is refracted around the Sun. Mass is 'attracted' by 'Gravity' to the sun. Gravity would be the refraction of the matter wave by the Sun's 'mass'. In other words mass does not 'attract' mass by 'Gravity'. The apparent attraction is due to the slowing down of those parts of the 'matter wave' nearest to the other's mass.
Refraction, no direct pull as such. Other references:- Ball lightning, superconductivity, where the particles pass through as waves in a wave guide,
Inertia, where movement of a 'particle' would force part of the matter wave to exceed the speed of light and another part to drop below the speed of light. Since this would not be possible, then the wave would distort it's path and absorb energy during the acceleration.Momentum, just the reverse, energy released on decceleration.
*My guess is that Lisi experienced, first hand, the zen of particle physics (surfing).
*So is E8 actually what a block hole looks like? And is the spirograph the ultimate telescope back to the beginning of time, or even a time machine itself? Was it surreptitiously planted here by advanced alien life forms to give a species of bone-headed ape a bit of a clue
Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything
An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which has received rave reviews from scientists. Despite this unusual career path, as a surfer, his proposal is remarkable because, by the arcane standards of particle physics, it does not require highly complex mathematics. Even better, it does not require more than one dimension of time and three of space, when some rival theories need ten or even more spatial dimensions and other bizarre concepts. And it may even be possible to test his theory, which predicts a host of new particles, perhaps even using the new Large Hadron Collider atom smasher that will go into action near Geneva next year.Although the work of 39 year old Garrett Lisi still has a way to go to convince the establishment, let alone match the achievements of Albert Einstein, the two do have one thing in common: Einstein also began his great adventure in theoretical physics while outside the mainstream scientific establishment as a patent officer.
The new theory reported today in New Scientist has been laid out in an online paper entitled "An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything" by Lisi, who completed his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1999 at the University of California, San Diego.
He has high hopes that his new theory could provide what he says is a "radical new explanation" for the three decade old Standard Model, which weaves together three of the four fundamental forces of nature: the electromagnetic force; the strong force, which binds quarks together in atomic nuclei; and the weak force, which controls radioactive decay.
The reason for the excitement is that Lisi's model also takes account of gravity, a force that has only successfully been included by a rival and highly fashionable idea called string theory, one that proposes particles are made up of minute strings, which is highly complex and elegant but has lacked predictions by which to do experiments to see if it works.
Lisi's inspiration lies in the most elegant and intricate shape known to mathematics, called E8 - a complex, eight-dimensional mathematical pattern with 248 points first found in 1887, but only fully understood by mathematicians this year after workings, that, if written out in tiny print, would cover an area the size of Manhattan.
E8 encapsulates the symmetries of a geometric object that is 57-dimensional and is itself is 248-dimensional. Lisi says "I think our universe is this beautiful shape."
What makes E8 so exciting is that Nature also seems to have embedded it at the heart of many bits of physics. One interpretation of why we have such a quirky list of fundamental particles is because they all result from different facets of the strange symmetries of E8. Lisi's breakthrough came when he noticed that some of the equations describing E8's structure matched his own. "My brain exploded with the implications and the beauty of the thing," he tells New Scientist. "I thought: 'Holy crap, that's it!'"
What Lisi had realised was that he could find a way to place the various elementary particles and forces on E8's 248 points. What remained was 20 gaps which he filled with notional particles, for example those that some physicists predict to be associated with gravity.
Physicists have long puzzled over why elementary particles appear to belong to families, but this arises naturally from the geometry of E8, he says. So far, all the interactions predicted by the complex geometrical relationships inside E8 match with observations in the real world. "How cool is that?" he says.
The crucial test of Lisi's work will come only when he has made testable predictions. Lisi is now calculating the masses that the 20 new particles should have, in the hope that they may be spotted when the Large Hadron Collider starts up.
"The theory is very young, and still in development," he told the Telegraph. "Right now, I'd assign a low (but not tiny) likelyhood to this prediction
"For comparison, I think the chances are higher that LHC will see some of these particles than it is that the LHC will see superparticles, extra dimensions, or micro black holes as predicted by string theory. I hope to get more (and different) predictions, with more confidence, out of this E8 Theory over the next year, before the LHC comes online."
COMMENTS:
*I suggest the new theory is respected, not the least because it may get us out of the clutches of the Particle-philes. Before any number of Big Bangs there was no matter. An event of such magnitude would have represented a rapidly changing wave front, from inf. positive to inf. negative in zero time. Or near enough as not to matter. Fourier analysis would then give the reason for any amount of 'Matter waves' to be produced. Don't just object!!! Look at Radar wave guides as to the production of rotational waves, possibly spherical or barrel shaped waves. Look at Aether theory again. Light is refracted around the Sun. Mass is 'attracted' by 'Gravity' to the sun. Gravity would be the refraction of the matter wave by the Sun's 'mass'. In other words mass does not 'attract' mass by 'Gravity'. The apparent attraction is due to the slowing down of those parts of the 'matter wave' nearest to the other's mass.
Refraction, no direct pull as such. Other references:- Ball lightning, superconductivity, where the particles pass through as waves in a wave guide,
Inertia, where movement of a 'particle' would force part of the matter wave to exceed the speed of light and another part to drop below the speed of light. Since this would not be possible, then the wave would distort it's path and absorb energy during the acceleration.Momentum, just the reverse, energy released on decceleration.
*My guess is that Lisi experienced, first hand, the zen of particle physics (surfing).
*So is E8 actually what a block hole looks like? And is the spirograph the ultimate telescope back to the beginning of time, or even a time machine itself? Was it surreptitiously planted here by advanced alien life forms to give a species of bone-headed ape a bit of a clue
Saturday 17 November 2007
When to see Holmes
University of Hawaii astronomers have measured the diameter of
Comet 17P/Holmes: 1.4 million kilometers. This makes the exploding comet bigger than the sun and now the largest object in the solar system. Not surprisingly, the comet is visible to the naked eye; with only a backyard telescope you can watch its gigantic debris cloud expand from night to night.
Nov. 19th is an especially good night to look: Comet Holmes will glide by Mirfak, the brightest star in the constellation Perseus, and appear to swallow it. Visit
http://spaceweather.com for a sky map and images.
UPDATE
Holmes is still visible to the naked eye as a fuzzy star low above the northern horizon between 1-2 am (daylight saving.
Comet 17P/Holmes: 1.4 million kilometers. This makes the exploding comet bigger than the sun and now the largest object in the solar system. Not surprisingly, the comet is visible to the naked eye; with only a backyard telescope you can watch its gigantic debris cloud expand from night to night.
Nov. 19th is an especially good night to look: Comet Holmes will glide by Mirfak, the brightest star in the constellation Perseus, and appear to swallow it. Visit
http://spaceweather.com for a sky map and images.
UPDATE
Holmes is still visible to the naked eye as a fuzzy star low above the northern horizon between 1-2 am (daylight saving.
Thursday 15 November 2007
but wait, there's more....
Comet Holmes Bigger Than The Sun
Summary
Formerly, the Sun was the largest object in the Solar System. Now, comet 17P/Holmes holds that distinction.
Spectacular outbursting comet 17P/Holmes exploded in size and brightness on October 24. It continues to expand and is now the largest single object in the Solar system, being bigger than the Sun (see Figure). The diameter of the tenuous dust atmosphere of the comet was measured at 1.4 million kilometers (0.9 million miles) on 2007 November 9 by Rachel Stevenson, Jan Kleyna and Pedro Lacerda of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy. They used observations from a wide-field camera on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT), one of the few professional instruments still capable of capturing the whole comet in one image. Other astronomers involved in the UH program to study the comet include Bin Yang, Nuno Peixinho and David Jewitt. The present eruption of comet Holmes was first reported on October 24 and has continued at a steady 0.5 km/sec (1100 mph) ever since. The comet is an unprecedented half a million times brighter than before the eruption began. This amazing eruption of the comet is produced by dust ejected from a tiny solid nucleus made of ice and rock, only 3.6 km (roughly 2.2 miles) in diameter.
Caption: (Left) Image of comet Holmes from the 3.6-meter Canada-France-Hawaii telescope on Mauna Kea showing the 1.4 million km diameter coma. The white ''star'' near the center of the coma is in fact the dust-shrouded nucleus. (Right) the Sun and planet Saturn shown at the same scale for comparison. (Sun and Saturn images courtesy of NASA's SOHO and Voyager projects). [The same image is available here as a 300 dpi tif file.]
The new image also shows the growth of a tail on comet Holmes (the fuzzy region to the lower right in the comet picture), caused by the pressure of sunlight acting on dust grains in the coma. Over the next few weeks and months, the coma and tail are expected to expand even more while the comet will fade as the dust disperses. Comet Holmes showed a double outburst in November 1892 and January 1893. It is not known if the present activity in the comet will follow the pattern from 1892, but continued observations from Mauna Kea are planned to watch for a second outburst. Most comets show small fluctuations in brightness and some have distinct outbursts. The huge event on-going in comet Holmes is unprecedented, however.
The orbit period of comet Holmes is about 6 years, putting it in the class of Jupiter Family Comets whose orbits are strongly influenced by Jupiter. These objects are thought to have spent most of the last 4.5 billion years orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune, in a region known as the Kuiper Belt. Holmes probably was deflected into its present orbit within the last few thousand years and is losing mass as it evaporates in the heat of the Sun. In another few thousand years it is likely either to hit the Sun or a planet, be ejected from the Solar system, or simply die by running out of gas. David Jewitt. Last updated 09 Nov 2007
Comet Holmes update
I have been looking into this whole issue of this Comet and have come across very interesting information. check out this link: http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/time2007g.html
it has to do with an event happening on Nov 21 2007 that has been shown in crop circles back in 2005.
November 21, 2007 will be when the newly-exploded Comet Holmes conjuncts a bright star Mirfak in Perseus. Comet Holmes suddenly exploded in the constellation Perseus on October 25, 2007. While studying the near-future path of that comet through Earth's sky, it was noted that it would conjunct (or join very closely) with a very bright star Mirfak in Perseus on November 21, 2007.
Many different crop pictures from 2005 show in retrospect what appears to be an "exploding comet"
One full turn of the comet happens by Nov 21 07.It will be interesting to see how the real Comet Holmes behaves over the next month, will it taper off after Dec 8?
Another crop picture from Crabwood 2002 told us in plain English: "Much pain but still time". That was five years ago. How much time do we have left?
So this begs the question, why are we being shown this information from other beings, whether it's us in the future or the past or beings from other galaxies unless it was of major concern and significance to us. just how blind and stubbornly ego driven are we that we don't want to see that which is plainly plastered infront of our noses.
it has to do with an event happening on Nov 21 2007 that has been shown in crop circles back in 2005.
November 21, 2007 will be when the newly-exploded Comet Holmes conjuncts a bright star Mirfak in Perseus. Comet Holmes suddenly exploded in the constellation Perseus on October 25, 2007. While studying the near-future path of that comet through Earth's sky, it was noted that it would conjunct (or join very closely) with a very bright star Mirfak in Perseus on November 21, 2007.
Many different crop pictures from 2005 show in retrospect what appears to be an "exploding comet"
One full turn of the comet happens by Nov 21 07.It will be interesting to see how the real Comet Holmes behaves over the next month, will it taper off after Dec 8?
Another crop picture from Crabwood 2002 told us in plain English: "Much pain but still time". That was five years ago. How much time do we have left?
So this begs the question, why are we being shown this information from other beings, whether it's us in the future or the past or beings from other galaxies unless it was of major concern and significance to us. just how blind and stubbornly ego driven are we that we don't want to see that which is plainly plastered infront of our noses.
Sunday 4 November 2007
Comet 17P/Homes. Comet or something else?
The Comet 17P/Holmes thing is really such
an anomolous event in the cosmos! Latest
reports indicate the comet has now reached
2 Million brighter which has never happened
per comets and astronomers are completely
puzzled with no real explanation to what has
happened to this comet. On Oct.23-24 comet
Holmes did a strange thing ~ erupted into a
400,000 brighter comet, the Oct.25-26 went
to 1 Million times brighter and images show
a gold colored core with green atmosphere.
Then October 31 reports indicate this comet
has now brightened to 2 Million times
Sorry guys, but in my humble opinion and with my untrained eye, this does not look like a comet!
ok, I retract that statement
images at cyberspaceorbit.com
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