SEATTLE — Forget about gamma rays from the hearts of distant galaxies. Scientists now believe gamma rays, as well as beams of energetic particles of antimatter, are common components of lightning storms right here on Earth. In 2009, researchers announced that NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope had, for the first time, detected gamma rays produced by antimatter generated in terrestrial lightning storms (SN: 12/5/09, p. 9). Now, after analyzing additional gamma-ray signals produced by terrestrial positrons — the antimatter counterpart to electrons — Michael S. Briggs of the University of Alabama in Huntsville and his colleagues think that the antimatter beams do not require special conditions to be generated. Briggs presented the latest findings during a news briefing January 10 at the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Details will also appear in an upcoming Geophysical Research Letters. “The idea that any planet has thunderstorms that not only produce antimatter but then launch it into space seems like something straight out of science fiction,” commented Steven Cummer of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who was not part of the study. “That our own planet does this, and has probably done it for hundreds of millions of years, and that we’ve only just learned it, is amazing to me.”
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_FINANCIAL TYRANNY: Defeating the Greatest Cover-Up of All Time Section Two: The History Section Three: The Real World Section Four: The Occult Economy All Pages ---------------------------------------------------- (DivineCosmos) A 122-nation alliance is backing a lawsuit that could free the Earth from financial tyranny. This investigation reveals who the perpetrators are and what we can do to solve the problem. JUST IN THE NICK OF TIME 2012 has begun as a year of rampant paranoia and hopelessness on the Internet and throughout mainstream media. The economy appears to be in a dire predicament -- ready to go over a cliff into an abyss few can even allow themselves to consider. The Euro has been teetering on the brink of total collapse. A frantic bailout of the entire European Union, proposed by the Federal Reserve, has done very little to relieve the fears of the public. On December 19th, 2011, Britain announced they will refuse to participate in this bailout -- showing how tense and uncertain the situation really is. Simultaneously, very aggressive and blatant moves are being made to start World War III in the Middle East -- with imminent, ever-increasing threats from Israel and the United States to attack Iran. Since 9/11, Americans and much of the Western world have been led to believe that the biggest enemy they face is terrorism from Islamic extremists. Nonetheless, there is now overwhelming, undeniable evidence that the true enemy... is within. You are about to read a comprehensive investigation summarizing all the best information I have gathered about the true nature of this crisis since I became directly aware of it in 1992. Very few people are aware that a massive 122-nation coalition has formed to solve the problem -- just in the nick of time – and they are backing a legal, public solution to end Financial Tyranny. A TRILLION DOLLAR LAWSUIT A trillion-dollar lawsuit was filed as of November 23, 2011 -- and the resulting investigation will provide a rock-solid legal framework to reveal the full nature of the problems we face... and arrest those responsible: http://divinecosmos.com/media/Keenan_complaint_11-23-2011_SDNY.pdf Bear in mind that the evidence backing this lawsuit, if made public, will completely expose what has been going on at the highest levels -- by the people themselves, speaking in their own words. This would be the most dramatic public expose' of the group responsible for this Financial Tyranny since the early 1800s -- as you will see. Our initial announcement and confirmation of this lawsuit has already received over 650,000 hits, 34,000 Facebook Likes and 1000 written comments as we publish this final, completed investigation. Pakistani children read verses from the Koran while studying in a madrassa, located next to the house of Mumtaz Qadri, alleged killer of Punjab governor Salman Taseer, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Jan. 11, 2011. Taseer was killed by his bodyguard who was reportedly enraged by his opposition to laws decreeing death for insulting Islam. (Muhammed Muheisen/AP Photo) Image 1, Recent Hubble Picture [High Res] The Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the eerie, green-glowing gas highlighted by a recently deceased quasar. The Milky-Way-sized object, located about 730 million light-years away, surrounds a supermassive black hole that was once the heart of a galaxy. The black hole gobbled up its last available meal of gas and dust as a quasar between 45,000 and 70,000 years ago, ionizing oxygen in distant gas clouds into a bright green glow before fading back into darkness. The glowing gas cloud, known as Hanny’s Voorwerp, is now 100 to 10,000 times dimmer than the quasar was when it was still devouring matter. The green object is named after Hanny van Arkel, the Dutch schoolteacher who discovered it in 2007 while helping classify more than 60 million galaxies for the Galaxy Zoo project. In the new Hubble image (above) of Hanny’s Voorwerp, taken with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys, the nearby spiral galaxy IC 2497 is helping to spark star formation in the yellow-orange fringes of the Voorwerp. The new stars are a few million years old. Original Article: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/01/hannys-voorwerp-quasar-hubble/ By Mike Wall This story originally appeared on Space.com When considering the prospect of alien life, humankind should prepare for the worst, according to a new study: Either we're alone, or any aliens out there are acquisitive and resource-hungry, just like us. These two unpalatable options are pretty much the only possibilities, according to the new study. That's because evolution is predictable, and alien biospheres should thus produce intelligent creatures much like us, with technological prowess and an ever-increasing need for resources. But the fact that we haven't run across E.T. yet argues strongly for the latter possibility -- that we are alone in the universe's howling void, the study suggests. "At present, as many have observed, it is very quiet out there," study author Simon Conway Morris, of the University of Cambridge, told SPACE.com in an e-mail interview. "And given many planetary systems are billions of years older than ours, I'd expect us to be best grilled on toast back in the Cambrian." |
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