Cross-Country Solar Plane Expedition Set for Takeoff

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Nytimes, By: DIANE CARDWELL, 05/01/2013

 

 

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — When Bertrand Piccard was growing up in Switzerland, heady discussions about the boundless potential for human endeavor were standard fare.

 

His grandfather, a physicist and friend of Albert Einstein and Marie Curie, had invented a special capsule so he and a partner could be first to reach the stratosphere in a balloon. His father, an engineer, helped design the submarine that made him and an American naval officer the first to plunge undersea to the earth’s crust.

 

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Sine Waves, ET Connections and The Power of Thought!

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Something interesting and wildly/wonderfully strange is beginning to be shown through so many of us.  Yes, this sharing is still going to be the rest of the story I started yesterday, but done differently.  I am going to start with the new of yesterday and work my way backwards to connect it all to where I left off the day before.

I had 6 people on my calendar yesterday, I read efficiently for the first 4, completely crashed in the middle of my 5th and didn’t even dare try to poke my nose into the higher light for the 6th.  It was as if all the readings I had done yesterday were in a sort of parenthesis formation.  Every one of the readings was revealing the very same importance, solar flares that are getting ready to come in and fire up the area that was being shown.  Granted, every one was vastly different in their appearance, but yet, every one was prepared for incoming solar flares that had such an electrical purpose to their connections.

Everything you need to know: Eta Aquarid meteor shower

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EarthSky.org - 5/1/13, Bruce McClure

 

Radiant point of Eta Aquarid meteor shower. It's in the constellation Aquarius, in the southeast before dawn on May mornings.

 

Radiant point of Eta Aquarid meteor shower. It’s in the constellation Aquarius, in the southeast before dawn on May mornings, as seen from mid-northern latitude

 

The Lyrid meteor shower – which peaked before dawn April 22, 2013 – hasn’t been great for skywatchers in Earth’s Southern Hemisphere. The reason is that the radiant point, or point in the sky from which the meteors appear to radiate, is far to the north on the sky’s dome. Meanwhile, our friends in the Southern Hemisphere are asking which meteor showers are worth watching in their part of the world. We’re pleased to inform southern (and northern) skywatchers that one meteor shower in particular – the Eta Aquarid shower – is coming up in early May, and it’s a fine one to view from both northerly and southerly latitudes. No matter where you live, you can watch the Eta Aquarids in early May. Plus the moon is not a problem for this shower this year!

Fun Stuff: Video: World’s smallest movie, made with atoms

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earthsky.org- 5/2/13, Elenor Imster

 

 

 

BM researchers working on how to store data atom by atom created this short film. They call it A Boy and his Atom, and it holds the Guinness World Records™ record for the world’s smallest stop-motion film. Sure, it looks kind of old-fashioned and Pong-like, but it looks a lot cooler when you think about it – that it was made by moving individual atoms, the smallest particles of any element in the universe.

 

 

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What are the Hottest and Coldest Inhabited Places in the World?

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Wunderground.com - 5/2/13, Christopher C. Burt

 

 

Most weather-minded people know that Death Valley, California and Vostok, Antarctica have measured the highest and lowest extreme temperatures on earth but what about the warmest and coldest inhabited places so far as average annual temperatures are concerned? Ace temperature detective Maximiliano Herrera has just finished researching this. Here are his findings.

Hottest inhabited place in the world

Although it has been widely reported that Dallol in the Danakil Depression of Ethiopia has the highest average annual temperature on earth with a figure of 34.5°C (94.1°F) the figure was derived from only seven years of data (1960-1966) by a mining company that was prospecting in the depression during those years. Actually, there were many missing months of record during those seven years and the total number of months with complete data was just 58. The location has never been permanently inhabited and there has been little or no weather data for the site since the 1960s. Nevertheless, from a climatological viewpoint the Danakil Depression probably is the hottest place on earth (in terms of average annual temperature). But for inhabited locations it would appear that Mecca (or Makah), Saudi Arabia is the warmest inhabited location on earth. Its average annual temperature is 30.7°C (87.3°F).

Heavy rain soaks southwestern WA

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Weatherzone, By: Ben McBurney, 05/02/2013

 

Southwestern parts of Western Australia received a drenching overnight, with some places seeing their heaviest rain in years. A low pressure system just south of the state and an associated trough brought rain and isolated thunderstorms to the region from Wednesday afternoon and into this morning.

 

The South West copped the heaviest rainfall, with widespread falls of 30-50mm to 9am this morning. Pemberton picked up 50mm, its heaviest rain in four and a half years, and the heaviest for May in eight years. Busselton and Manjimup also saw their heaviest May rain in eight years, picking up 42mm and 37mm respectively. The highest official total was at Paynedale, which recorded 65mm, also the town's heaviest fall in six years.

 

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No Zane for northern QLD

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Weatherzone, By: Ben Domensino, 05/02/2013

 

Tropical Cyclone Zane weakened to a tropical low overnight, although will still cause showers, thunderstorms and strong winds over Cape York Peninsula today. After intensifying into a category two tropical cyclone earlier this week, Zane weakened during Wednesday as it moved into a region of strong wind shear, causing the system to lose its structure.

 

At 3am EST today, the ex-tropical cyclone was estimated to be 160 kilometres east of Lockhart River and moving towards the QLD coast at 17 km/h. The low will continue to weaken as it moves from east to west across the QLD Peninsula today, triggering gusty showers and isolated thunderstorms. The heaviest rainfall will occur along the eastern coast, between about Cooktown and Lockhart, where 20-40mm is possible.

 

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Méline Lafont ~ Grounding, manifesting and coping with those new intense energies of the eclipses.

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pleiadedolphininfos Thursday, May 2, 2013

Haleluja, what a TIME!!  This partial moon eclipse is the hardest and most intense one EVER!  Do you feel it in your cells, your heart and entire body as well?  I am for sure!  I have been getting some messages from hearts that are a bit concerned about this entire shift at present and all the discomfort that is participating in all of this, as well as my own experiences and intense shifts, that I have decided to write about this and about grounding.

 

 

 

Big Story Weather – May 2, 2013

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RedOrbit - 2nd May 2013 - Joshua Kelly 

 

Daily weather forecast and wrap-up provided by redOrbit meteorologist Joshua Kelly.

redOrbit Meteorologist Joshua Kelly

Heavenletter #4542 - The Heights of Love

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Heaven Letters Published on: May 2, 2013

God said:

Let Me be like the Statue of Liberty. All the weary, come to Me. All the persecuted, come to Me. All the hungry, all the poor, all the wayward and all the lost. All the happy, come to Me. All who give, come to Me. All who take, come to Me. All the seekers in the world, come to Me. Come to Me for My sake because it gives Me joy to know that you are aware of where you are and Whom you are with every moment of the day or night and on into Eternity. You have never left. You are on a Continuum which you have always been on and which you are incapable of leaving. I know this.

If you want to know where you are, it is Eternity. You don’t really think that you are off somewhere in a desert or frozen reef? My heart is the Heart of Eternity, and that is where you are. No exceptions. None.

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