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Humanity is Waking Up to the Intelligence of Nature

October 2, 2013 | By WakingTimes | 10 Replies

Paul Lenda, Guest

There’s a heightening level of awareness within the human race with regards to nature and all that is contained within it. Everything from the discoveries of the rudiments of language in monkeys, metacognition in dolphins, self-awareness of elephants, the ability for animals to tell “right” from “wrong”, to the creation and extension of the bills of rights for animals and plants by countries such as Switzerland and Ecuador, as well as the acknowledgment of dolphins as being non-human persons.

There’s a growing awareness by humanity that nature and its inhabitants are not as primitive and simple as it may have been believed to be the case in the past. With this growing awareness, comes growing understanding of the unity that humanity has with the environment within which it exists. This sense of unity with nature is not something new and indeed has been the primary position of awareness for many societies in existence before their industrialization.

In today’s post-modern societies, there is a resurgence of that connection with the biosphere and interconnected organism that is the planet and all that exists within its domain. As more discoveries are made, greater awareness shines down on humanity’s collective consciousness and thereby, allowing us to evolve the transpersonal consciousness to a level where the ego is no longer the dominator of the Self.

Science can be a wonderful thing. It can prove without a doubt what may have been suggested in times past, but was not completely understood as being the absolute truth, which always left a bit of doubt or confusion. However, with continuous scientific discoveries occurring all the time, it is of great fortune that we are able to attain substantial data and knowledge concerning the environment and all that it encompasses.

With these new discoveries, it is being quite apparent that humans have mistakenly been ignorant and arrogant concerning the mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms with respect to their levels of sophistication, evolution, consciousness, and awareness. If we were to start looking at the mineral kingdom, much can be seen from recently-made discoveries.

 

Of course, there has been such an influx of findings that they would be able to fill up an entire book. However, just a few will be looked at in order to demonstrate the point at hand. All of the discoveries and findings mentioned within this article have been announced publicly within the last few years.

Rocks have been looked at as generally non-living, inanimate, unconscious, and completely devoid of any life-like characteristics, even though everything in nature possesses self-organization. However, stunning new evidence shows the incredible diversity of crystals and minerals after the rise of life on this planet and points to the reality that rocks, like plants and animals, have been evolving all this time, and we did not even realize it until now. This idea is being called “mineral evolution,” which is the concept that many of the our planet’s rocks, minerals and crystals are dynamic species which emerged and transformed over time.

Of course, the evolution of the mineral kingdom is not exactly the same as the evolution of the plant and animal kingdoms, since minerals do not mutate, reproduce or complete like other living organisms, at least to our knowledge. However, the vast variety and abundance of all the various minerals on Earth have changed quite dramatically over the 4.5+ billion years of Earth’s past. US geologist Robert Hazen, who led the research team for this finding, said that “for at least 2.5 billion years, and possibly since the emergence of life, Earth’s mineralogy has evolved in parallel with biology.”

This should not be too big of a surprise to us, however. It makes quite a bit of sense that evolution is all-encompassing…everything from our consciousness, to galaxies, to rocks. Everything is in a constant state of be-ing and become-ing, and the condition that the various aspects of Reality are static does not find much underlying evidence. It looks more and more as if Reality is dynamic and extropic in nature.

Stepping out of the mineral kingdom, we make our way to the plant kingdom. Although it has been known for quite some time that the rainforests of the world act as lungs for the planet, it has recently been discovered that they act as a heart as well. What this implies is that not only are rainforests giant carbon sinks of the planet (acting as lungs), but they may also be responsible for moving many of the weather patterns that we see all around the globe (just as the physical heart moves blood throughout the entire body).

The new study researching this subject suggests that rainforests, such as the ones in Africa and South America, create winds that circulate water around the planet. It is known that more than half the rainfall in rainforests evaporates and recirculates, which then keeps the upper air moist. New findings show that rainforests are also moving the air around them, which also has the effect of moving the water around.

It turns out that as important as plants and trees are to ensure that there is enough clean oxygen for all sentient beings on the plante to thrive and survive, they are now acknowledged as being even more important by affecting the very weather patterns of our biosphere.

Perhaps as a response to the various discoveries concerning the plant kingdom, there have been governments across the planet that have taken it upon themselves to become trailblazers in the area of plant and ecosystem rights. This higher awareness has been most recently demonstrated in the countries of Switzerland and Ecuador.

In the case of Switzerland, the Swiss Government’s Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology has come to the consensus that plants have rights and that they have to be treated appropriately. Making our way to Ecuador, we can see that the country has changed its constitution to say that nature has “the right to the maintenance and regeneration of its vital cycles, structure, functions and evolutionary processes.” The basis of these rights “change the status of ecosystems from being regarded as property under the law to being recognized as rights-bearing entities.”

The idea of plants having a degree of consciousness is very well documented, and so it is not unreasonable for a government to come up with such a conclusion in respect to the plant kingdom. However, the perceptions of humans are not always quick to shift and change. It is demonstrations such as these which show that there is indeed a higher awareness being experienced by humanity with relation to its biosphere neighbors.

Emerging out of the plant kingdom and into the animal kingdom, a myriad of recent discoveries exemplify humanity’s growing awareness of the sophistication and higher level of be-ing at which animals exist. The latest and most well-known finding is concerning dolphins. Dolphins have been perceived as being very intelligent beings for at least several thousand years. In ancient Greece, it was punishable by death to kill or harm a dolphin.

Much mythology revolves around dolphins. However, concerning the scientific data being research and analyzed, it has been found without doubt that human language and dolphin movement patterns show similarities in brevity. The law of brevity in human language, according to which the most frequently-used words tend to be the shortest, extends to dolphins, as well as other animal species. It was observed that when dolphins move on the surface of the water, they tend to make the simplest movements, in the same way that humans tend to use words comprised of fewer letters when they are speaking or writing.

Perhaps it is discoveries such as these and others that are altering the positions of awareness that humanity has concerning dolphins to the point where they are being described by scientsts as being non-human persons and, as a result, should be treated as such. Dolphins are recognized as being the most intelligent beings on our planet, after humans. The signs are numerous, such as: the anatomical research showing that dolphin brains have many key features associated with high intelligence; and studies showing that dolphins have distinct personalities, strong sense of self, and the ability to think about the future. Dolphins are also cultural animals, which means that new types of behavior can be quickly picked up by one dolphin from another.

There’s a heightening level of awareness within the human race with regards to nature and all that is contained within it. Everything from the discoveries of the rudiments of language in monkeys, metacognition in dolphins, self-awareness of elephants, the ability for animals to tell “right” from “wrong”, to the creation and extension of the bills of rights for animals and plants by countries such as Switzerland and Ecuador, as well as the acknowledgment of dolphins as being non-human persons.
There’s a growing awareness by humanity that nature and its inhabitants are not as primitive and simple as it may have been believed to be the case in the past. With this growing awareness, comes growing understanding of the unity that humanity has with the environment within which it exists. This sense of unity with nature is not something new and indeed has been the primary position of awareness for many societies in existence before their industrialization.

In today’s post-modern societies, there is a resurgence of that connection with the biosphere and interconnected organism that is the planet and all that exists within its domain. As more discoveries are made, greater awareness shines down on humanity’s collective consciousness and thereby, allowing us to evolve the transpersonal consciousness to a level where the ego is no longer the dominator of the Self.
Science can be a wonderful thing. It can prove without a doubt what may have been suggested in times past, but was not completely understood as being the absolute truth, which always left a bit of doubt or confusion. However, with continuous scientific discoveries occurring all the time, it is of great fortune that we are able to attain substantial data and knowledge concerning the environment and all that it encompasses.

With these new discoveries, it is being quite apparent that humans have mistakenly been ignorant and arrogant concerning the mineral, plant, and animal kingdoms with respect to their levels of sophistication, evolution, consciousness, and awareness. If we were to start looking at the mineral kingdom, much can be seen from recently-made discoveries.

Of course, there has been such an influx of findings that they would be able to fill up an entire book. However, just a few will be looked at in order to demonstrate the point at hand. All of the discoveries and findings mentioned within this article have been announced publicly within the last few years.
Rocks have been looked at as generally non-living, inanimate, unconscious, and completely devoid of any life-like characteristics, even though everything in nature possesses self-organization. However, stunning new evidence shows the incredible diversity of crystals and minerals after the rise of life on this planet and points to the reality that rocks, like plants and animals, have been evolving all this time, and we did not even realize it until now. This idea is being called “mineral evolution,” which is the concept that many of the our planet’s rocks, minerals and crystals are dynamic species which emerged and transformed over time.

Of course, the evolution of the mineral kingdom is not exactly the same as the evolution of the plant and animal kingdoms, since minerals do not mutate, reproduce or complete like other living organisms, at least to our knowledge. However, the vast variety and abundance of all the various minerals on Earth have changed quite dramatically over the 4.5+ billion years of Earth’s past. US geologist Robert Hazen, who led the research team for this finding, said that “for at least 2.5 billion years, and possibly since the emergence of life, Earth’s mineralogy has evolved in parallel with biology.”
This should not be too big of a surprise to us, however. It makes quite a bit of sense that evolution is all-encompassing…everything from our consciousness, to galaxies, to rocks. Everything is in a constant state of be-ing and become-ing, and the condition that the various aspects of Reality are static does not find much underlying evidence. It looks more and more as if Reality is dynamic and extropic in nature.
Stepping out of the mineral kingdom, we make our way to the plant kingdom. Although it has been known for quite some time that the rainforests of the world act as lungs for the planet, it has recently been discovered that they act as a heart as well. What this implies is that not only are rainforests giant carbon sinks of the planet (acting as lungs), but they may also be responsible for moving many of the weather patterns that we see all around the globe (just as the physical heart moves blood throughout the entire body).
The new study researching this subject suggests that rainforests, such as the ones in Africa and South America, create winds that circulate water around the planet. It is known that more than half the rainfall in rainforests evaporates and recirculates, which then keeps the upper air moist. New findings show that rainforests are also moving the air around them, which also has the effect of moving the water around.
It turns out that as important as plants and trees are to ensure that there is enough clean oxygen for all sentient beings on the plante to thrive and survive, they are now acknowledged as being even more important by affecting the very weather patterns of our biosphere.

Perhaps as a response to the various discoveries concerning the plant kingdom, there have been governments across the planet that have taken it upon themselves to become trailblazers in the area of plant and ecosystem rights. This higher awareness has been most recently demonstrated in the countries of Switzerland and Ecuador.

In the case of Switzerland, the Swiss Government’s Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology has come to the consensus that plants have rights and that they have to be treated appropriately. Making our way to Ecuador, we can see that the country has changed its constitution to say that nature has “the right to the maintenance and regeneration of its vital cycles, structure, functions and evolutionary processes.” The basis of these rights “change the status of ecosystems from being regarded as property under the law to being recognized as rights-bearing entities.”

The idea of plants having a degree of consciousness is very well documented, and so it is not unreasonable for a government to come up with such a conclusion in respect to the plant kingdom. However, the perceptions of humans are not always quick to shift and change. It is demonstrations such as these which show that there is indeed a higher awareness being experienced by humanity with relation to its biosphere neighbors.

Emerging out of the plant kingdom and into the animal kingdom, a myriad of recent discoveries exemplify humanity’s growing awareness of the sophistication and higher level of be-ing at which animals exist. The latest and most well-known finding is concerning dolphins. Dolphins have been perceived as being very intelligent beings for at least several thousand years. In ancient Greece, it was punishable by death to kill or harm a dolphin.

Much mythology revolves around dolphins. However, concerning the scientific data being research and analyzed, it has been found without doubt that human language and dolphin movement patterns show similarities in brevity. The law of brevity in human language, according to which the most frequently-used words tend to be the shortest, extends to dolphins, as well as other animal species. It was observed that when dolphins move on the surface of the water, they tend to make the simplest movements, in the same way that humans tend to use words comprised of fewer letters when they are speaking or writing.

Perhaps it is discoveries such as these and others that are altering the positions of awareness that humanity has concerning dolphins to the point where they are being described by scientsts as being non-human persons and, as a result, should be treated as such. Dolphins are recognized as being the most intelligent beings on our planet, after humans. The signs are numerous, such as: the anatomical research showing that dolphin brains have many key features associated with high intelligence; and studies showing that dolphins have distinct personalities, strong sense of self, and the ability to think about the future. Dolphins are also cultural animals, which means that new types of behavior can be quickly picked up by one dolphin from another.

More stunning research has discovered that dolphins, as well as other animals such as macaque monkeys, have shown to have conscious metacognition. There is a growing amount of evidence that animals share functional parallels with human conscious metacognition. Metacognition is essentially the ability to reflect upon, monitor or regulate various states of mind, and, although this was once considered solely the domain of humans, it is now seen as evident in some animals as well. J. David Smith, Ph.D., a comparative psychologist who has conducted a study on this topic, has concluded that “metacognition rivals language and tool use in its potential to establish important continuities or discontinuities between human and animal minds.”

Metacognition aside, animals are also now known to possess self-awareness. First seen in gorillas and then later in elephants and dolphins, self-awareness is no longer solely recognized as being the domain of the human being. When most animals see themselves in a mirror, they will interpret what they see as another animal, possibly a threat, and may attack the image or be scared away. After a while, the animals habituate and ignore the reflected image entirely. However, an animal that is self-aware will recognize the image as its own reflection, which is something that requires a degree of abstract thought and cognitive association.

As fascinating as these things may be, new research has discovered that several species of animals, such as monkeys, wolves, coyotes, elephants, chimpanzees, rodents, bats, and whales, have a sense of what is called “morality”, in that they are able to subjectively tell “right” from “wrong”. In a series of studies, scientists have found that monkeys and apes can make judgments about fairness, offer altruistic help and empathize when a fellow animal is ill or in a difficult situation. The existence of a conscience is also apparent, and remembering obligations also exists. Even when there is no obvious reward for an an altruistic action, chimpanzees were still observed as willing to help others. The conclusion of this observation led to the statement by one of the researchers that “chimpanzees spontaneously help both humans and each other in carefully controlled tests.”

Perhaps the most interesting point in this discovery is that everything else being equal, animals such as chimpanzees prefer to reward a companion together with themselves rather than just themselves alone. The act of giving by the monkeys is self-rewarding and can be said as being a demonstration of the interconnected consciousness of monkeys, just as humans, within their interconnected transpersonal consciousness, will experience the same effect. As the old adage goes: what you do to another, you do to/for yourself.

Language among animals is the one final demonstration, at least in this article, of the elevated level of consciousness and be-ing in other aspects of nature. It has been recently found that the rudiments of language exist among monkeys. Certain monkeys that have been studied have been seen to combine the same calls in different ways, using rules of grammar that turn sound into language. Alban Lemasson, a primatologist at the University of Rennes in France, has stated that “this is the first evidence we have in animal communication that they can combine, in a semantic way, different calls to create a new message.”

As it stands, it seems that humans are no longer the sole users of language in the sophisticated manner in which we use it. Although nowhere as complex as the syntax of human beings, monkey calls are more advanced and complex than we have ever previously been aware.

All these discoveries have occurred within a few years and are demonstrative of the incredibly accelerated rise in awareness that humanity is experiencing with respect to the level of consciousness of the various aspects of nature, as well as how primitive nature and all its various aspects seemed to be in times past. There is an awakening to a more intelligent nature than has ever been previously acknowledged. This is a step towards a new age in which humans and the rest of nature will hopefully have a more symbiotic and unifying relationship, and more respect will be given to the environment. Baby steps, for sure, but baby steps towards a positive future, nonetheless.

About the Author

Paul Lenda is a conscious evolution guide, author of The Creation of a Consciousness Shift, and co-founder of SHIFT>, a social community focused on anchoring in the new paradigm and assisting the positive transformation of humanity. With the drive to be aware of and experience the wider horizon of Reality, Paul has developed an extensive background in the spiritual and transformative elements of life; one that is both knowledge and experienced-based. Visit his website www.shift.is, follow him on Twitter or visit the Shift Facebook community.

This article is offered under Creative Commons license. It’s okay to republish it anywhere as long as attribution bio is included and all links remain intact.

More stunning research has discovered that dolphins, as well as other animals such as macaque monkeys, have shown to have conscious metacognition. There is a growing amount of evidence that animals share functional parallels with human conscious metacognition. Metacognition is essentially the ability to reflect upon, monitor or regulate various states of mind, and, although this was once considered solely the domain of humans, it is now seen as evident in some animals as well. J. David Smith, Ph.D., a comparative psychologist who has conducted a study on this topic, has concluded that “metacognition rivals language and tool use in its potential to establish important continuities or discontinuities between human and animal minds.”

Metacognition aside, animals are also now known to possess self-awareness. First seen in gorillas and then later in elephants and dolphins, self-awareness is no longer solely recognized as being the domain of the human being. When most animals see themselves in a mirror, they will interpret what they see as another animal, possibly a threat, and may attack the image or be scared away. After a while, the animals habituate and ignore the reflected image entirely. However, an animal that is self-aware will recognize the image as its own reflection, which is something that requires a degree of abstract thought and cognitive association.

As fascinating as these things may be, new research has discovered that several species of animals, such as monkeys, wolves, coyotes, elephants, chimpanzees, rodents, bats, and whales, have a sense of what is called “morality”, in that they are able to subjectively tell “right” from “wrong”. In a series of studies, scientists have found that monkeys and apes can make judgments about fairness, offer altruistic help and empathize when a fellow animal is ill or in a difficult situation. The existence of a conscience is also apparent, and remembering obligations also exists. Even when there is no obvious reward for an an altruistic action, chimpanzees were still observed as willing to help others. The conclusion of this observation led to the statement by one of the researchers that “chimpanzees spontaneously help both humans and each other in carefully controlled tests.”

Perhaps the most interesting point in this discovery is that everything else being equal, animals such as chimpanzees prefer to reward a companion together with themselves rather than just themselves alone. The act of giving by the monkeys is self-rewarding and can be said as being a demonstration of the interconnected consciousness of monkeys, just as humans, within their interconnected transpersonal consciousness, will experience the same effect. As the old adage goes: what you do to another, you do to/for yourself.

Language among animals is the one final demonstration, at least in this article, of the elevated level of consciousness and be-ing in other aspects of nature. It has been recently found that the rudiments of language exist among monkeys. Certain monkeys that have been studied have been seen to combine the same calls in different ways, using rules of grammar that turn sound into language. Alban Lemasson, a primatologist at the University of Rennes in France, has stated that “this is the first evidence we have in animal communication that they can combine, in a semantic way, different calls to create a new message.”

As it stands, it seems that humans are no longer the sole users of language in the sophisticated manner in which we use it. Although nowhere as complex as the syntax of human beings, monkey calls are more advanced and complex than we have ever previously been aware.

All these discoveries have occurred within a few years and are demonstrative of the incredibly accelerated rise in awareness that humanity is experiencing with respect to the level of consciousness of the various aspects of nature, as well as how primitive nature and all its various aspects seemed to be in times past. There is an awakening to a more intelligent nature than has ever been previously acknowledged. This is a step towards a new age in which humans and the rest of nature will hopefully have a more symbiotic and unifying relationship, and more respect will be given to the environment. Baby steps, for sure, but baby steps towards a positive future, nonetheless.

About the Author

Paul Lenda is a conscious evolution guide, author of The Creation of a Consciousness Shift, and co-founder of SHIFT>, a social community focused on anchoring in the new paradigm and assisting the positive transformation of humanity. With the drive to be aware of and experience the wider horizon of Reality, Paul has developed an extensive background in the spiritual and transformative elements of life; one that is both knowledge and experienced-based. Visit his website www.shift.is, follow him on Twitter or visit the Shift Facebook community.

This article is offered under Creative Commons license. It’s okay to republish it anywhere as long as attribution bio is included and all links remain intact.

MOON PLASMA FIELD

MOON PLASMA FIELD

Report 230

September 21, 2013

Joseph P. Skipper

J. P. Skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/apollo/view?image_name=AS16-P-4095

In my opinion, what we are looking at in the 1st and 2nd Apollo 16 AS16-P-4095 image above is a flattened plasma field generated and outlined in the dark Moon terrain shadows. This evidence was brought to my attention by Stephn Hannard of the UK. He has since put up a very good video of this evidence on YouTube at the link below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmEw4kG-3FA

The thing about it is that, although some will find a camera or film artifact explanation as more comfortable, this isn't that. Yet the Moon is supposed to be a dead body in space without ever having experienced living civilizations. It is suppose to be caught and held in orbit around the Earth mainly by Earth's gravity well and should not be generating such a plasma energy field.

Plasma is considered one of the fundamental states of matter with the others being solid, liquid, and gas. When one sees plasma in the open unconfined and a lot of it as appears here, one is looking at energy and POWER being displayed likely on level with nuclear fusion or greater. In fact, plasma physics is essential to the understanding and development of nuclear fusion.

In the above image note the many fingers of plasma energy that arc up to meet and terminate in some surface overhead that we cannot see the details of here. The question becomes is this being generated by some separate object like a UFO at the Moon's surface not native to the environment or by some structure as part of the surface or perhaps something exiting or entering the surface at this location?

Note how flattened the plasma field appears to be. Is it being generated by some sort of disc shaped object like a UFO? Is there a craft of some kind hidden within the plasma field taking off or landing at this point? Could this be generating an electromagnetic field that the Moon topography is responding to? Could this be a refueling station? Note that the underside of the plasma field suggests this with a solid dark flat rounded appearance as seen mostly on edge that does not exhibit any plasma discharges at all.

 

http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/apollo/view?image_name=AS16-P-4095

 

The Apollo 16 AS-P-4095 image at the link above allows one to increasingly zoom in and out from a small thumbnail size and so the above 3rd and 4th images provide increasingly wider context views of the evidence site. The hope was that something else informative might be revealed but there really isn't anything. So do we believe just what we see considering it anomalous and move on ignoring it or do we speculate based on what little we have? I'm inclined to speculate because reactive plasma fields do not appear based on nothing. They are associated with something real producing charged particles. Something here we are not able to see is causing this. That of course suggests there is more here than meets the eye.
Although we can't be certain, the most likely scenario is that this plasma field is responding to the presence of an electromagnetic source such as it is suspected alien space ships may employ for propulsion. The point being that what we are seeing here may be the interaction of a craft inside this plasma field that is going or coming just a little too close to the Moon's surface.
Alternatively, we may be looking at something that is really part of the Moon itself and just can't be easily hidden. If someone with very advanced technology is on or in the Moon and has been there for a very long time but yet wished to still remain hidden as long as possible from Earth's view, they might start out by disguising their presence from Earth through visual distortions of the Moon's surface. After all, some of our scientist are already experimenting successfully with this kind of technology. If employed, the visual distortions might work better from a distance than in closer views.
In other words, an obscuring technology that might have worked well for them during older times when only telescopes provided distant lesser quality feedback images to Earth populations of the Moon might not work nearly as well coming from satellites taking much closer images while orbiting the Moon. If secrecy is to be maintained, the latter would require the application of fake graphics in the resulting images to correct and hide from Earth's populations what ever is really on the Moon. It is noted that fake graphics technology with problems in it would take time to develop to achieve really successful levels of performance.

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2004/067/moon-towers.htm http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2004/068/moon-objects.htm http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2004/071/more-moon-banding.htm

 

When we are thinking along these lines about the Moon, I think back on the Clementine Moon mission and the discoveries I made there and reported on here at this website in 2004 from the original data before the Navy and DOD managed to get it "cleaned up" and such embarrassing anomaly evidence removed. Links to some Moon Clementine evidence samples appear above. If you will remember some of that anomaly evidence in the form of structures was very large and very likely the type that would produce large electromagnetic fields.

http://www.apogeekits.com/plasma_ball_vdl8plu.htm

 

Now it is well known that plasma is reactive to electromagnetic fields. I suspect that many of you have seen the harmless plasma ball lights whereby an object is suspended in the center of a clear sphere. The above 5th image depicts this. When turned on, bright plasma fingers extend out from the center object and terminate repeatively against the inside wall of the clear outer sphere providing a display of shifting plasma light patterns readily visible in a darkened environment.
It can be mistaken for controlled lightening but is not that. If a person places a hand or fingers against the sphere's outside surface as you see above, more plasma discharges will appear and usually with greater intensity. The human appendage above represents an electromagnetic source. The above is the least extreme example of a plasma field.

 

http://www.upi.com/blog/2013/02/22/WATCH-NASA-VIDOW-vidow-shows-plasma-rain-on-sun/1591361567511/

The above 6th image depicts a most extreme and dangerous example of a plasma field. It is a still image taken from a NASA video of the surface of the Sun made on 7/18/2012. It shows a tremendous nuclear eruption on the Sun's surface in the form of giant plasma streams many times larger than our planet Earth. They're falling back to the Sun's surface and called corona rain. Believe me, you wouldn't want to dip your big toe in it as bad things would happen. That discharge on the Sun, considered by NASA to be relatively mild, would devoir entire worlds if touched directly by it.
The point being that visible plasma fields most often equate to the presence of energy and POWER and are not to be ignored or dismissed as nothing or just some sort of inexplicable anomaly. Seeing the plasma field evidence outlined against the Moon's surface as background is not a camera or film artifact, it is the presence of something generating a lot of power, something that we would be very interested in. So what is it? Is it some craft or some structure on the Moon or is it an entry/exit point temporarily and briefly exposed?
Sadly, as is so often the case with the older incomplete Moon imaging posted online for Earth public's consumption, the context information has been messed with and is not providing the information detail that we need here. None the less, it demonstrates that all is not what it appears to be in the Moon exploration data and one dismisses evidence at one's peril.
Joseph P. Skipper, Investigator

World’s Fastest Computer Will Operate Like a Human Brain

 

 

World’s Fastest Computer Will Operate Like a Human Brain

A large group of scientists and researchers is working to develop the fastest computer known to man that would operate much like the human brain.

The Human Brain Project, which this month (October 2013) at a conference in Switzerland, combines the brainpower of 135 science institutions and government entities to create the computer brain. The project will cost about $1.6 billion.

 

The human brain is the most complex machine in existence, so it seems almost natural that technology would want to replicate its powers. The computer in development would be 1,000 times faster than even the fastest ones we use today.

Before you start picturing 2001: A Space Odyssey, know that these computers aren’t HALs in the making.

The first phases of the project, which is expected to last about a decade, is meant to better understand the functions of the human brain.

Next, the researchers are hoping to grasp how we learn, think, see and hear.

Currently, the hardware inside a computer reaches performance speeds of one quadrillion operations per second. But Henry Markram, the director of the Human Brain Project, has his sights set even higher.

“Well-known manufacturers of supercomputers like IBM, Cray, Intel and Bull are committed to building the first exascale machines by approximately 2020,” he told Fox News.

“So we are confident we will have the machines we need.”

These unbelievably fast computers will require new forms of memory and force scientists to develop new storage techniques.

The overarching goal of the project, as outlined on its website, is “to piece together our rapidly growing knowledge of the human brain.” Simulating the human brain provides insights into the brain’s inner workings and where our thoughts and emotions originate.

The implications reach beyond technology; such a simulation could help us learn how to heal the human brain, giving us a tangible model of its functions.

The project is still in its initial planning stages. The brain is about as complex as the universe; its three pounds of mass contains a comparable number of neurons as the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy. How’s that for brain power?

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Are There Really as Many Neurons in the Human Brain as Stars in the Milky Way?

This is a phrase a lot of science communicators like to use because giving people a sense of scale when it comes to large numbers is so difficult.

That’s why journalists report distances as number of football fields, mass as number of fully-loaded 747s, energy in terms of Hiroshima bombs, etc.

Even though we can’t conceive of the number of stars in the Milky Way or the number of neurons in the human brain, equating the two gives people a sense of enormity.

. And as conscious beings we like to find patterns, and we find equivalencies interesting, especially when the things being equated are “important” or “epic” (like neurons and stars).

For a long time, neuroscientists would say that there are about 100 billion neurons in the human brain.

Interestingly, no one has ever published a peer-reviewed scientific paper supporting that count. Rather it’s been informally interpolated from other measurements. Arecent study from 2009 published by Azevedo and colleagues took a crack at a more precise estimate. Their answer?

Approximately 86 billion neurons in the human brain. The latest estimates for the number of stars in the Milky Way is somewhere between 200 and 400 billion. So close, but the human brain certainly doesn’t quite stack up!

But why do scientists think there are 86 billion neurons? How did they get that number? Well the easiest way to estimate the number of neurons in the brain is to count how many are in one part of the brain and then extrapolate out for the rest of the brain’s volume.

Interestingly, this method can also be used to estimate how many stars are in the Milky Way!

But the method has a few issues:

1. The brain’s neuronal density isn’t uniform. For example, the cerebellum (the artificially purple-colored structure in the bottom back in the image to the left (source: wikipedia)) contains about half of all the neurons in the central nervous system, but it is well below half the volume.

2. It’s hard to get an estimate even for one brain region, because the neurons are so dense and intertwined (and mostly clear!) that they’re hard to count separably. One method is to use a staining technique to make neurons visible enough to count them. A classic method is the “Golgi stain” (named after Nobel prize winner Camillo Golgi). This method stains only a few percent of neurons (no one’s quite sure why). So in the stain below (source: Scholarpedia), even though only one neuron is visible, there may be hundreds more in that space that you can’t see because they didn’t stain.

 

Using this method, you can estimate what proportion of neurons gets stained, count the number in some patch of brain, then extrapolate. But you’re introducing two variables for your guess here! Not very accurate.

The new method that gives us the 86 billion figure is… clever and unique.

The method involves dissolving the cell membranes of cells within the brain and creating a homogeneous mixture of the whole soup. The nuclei of these cells are stained using different markers to differentiate neurons from glia, allowing you to count the number of cell nuclei belonging to neurons (as opposed to other cells in the brain such as glia) and then scale up to get the overall number. The great advantage of this method is that unlike counting the number of neurons in one part of the brain and then extrapolating from that, it gets over the problem that different brain regions may have more or less densely packed neurons.

There you go! This is the latest plausible estimate. But you notice that to do this, the researchers are still using the extrapolation method.

Maybe soon, new crowd-sourced efforts such as the Human Connectome Project Eyewire game will eventually provide us with a more accurate number that doesn’t rely so heavily on estimation.

Source >>

Links

• http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/brain-metrics
• To learn more about the project, visit HumanBrainProject.eu
• Top Image Source: Human Brain Project

What are your thoughts on building a computer brain? Let us know in the comments below.

Many different images of comet Ison or its orbital path were drawn in crops, long before that comet was discovered by astronomers on Earth in September of 2012: why is it so significant to the crop artists?

Many different images of comet Ison or its orbital path were drawn in crops, long before that comet was discovered by astronomers on Earth in September of 2012: why is it so significant to the crop artists? http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/anasazi/fringe2013r.html “Until they see a UFO in their telescopes, they will not believe”---Chinese scientist friend, commenting on the narrow-mindedness of most professional astronomers The modern crop-circle phenomenon is one of the most enigmatic and misunderstood occurrences in all of human history (for recent reviews, see /time2012a or time2012b). Still it is our underlying ignorance of cosmology which makes “crop pictures” seem mysterious and hard to understand, not the field images themselves.   What exactly defines “our space” and “our time”? Could intelligent species (or even humans) from another space or time send us pictorial messages in the fields, by means of spacetime wormholes? Indeed, might such field images sometimes predict the future?  Images of near-future events are sometimes drawn in crops, consistent with the use of spacetime wormhole technology  The extra-terrestrial crop artists seem to possess spacetime wormhole technology. By means of such technology, they have occasionally revealed certain details of the future to humans on Earth. For example during the summer of 2010, we saw images of “nuclear power” or “radiation in the landscape” drawn in crops. We even saw a “lunar clock with an atomic hour hand”, indicating the month of March 2011. Many such images were drawn in crops, nine months before a nuclear power disaster happened at Fukushima during the suggested month of March 2011 (see japantsunami2011). There was no specific mention in crops, however, of its geographical location in Japan.   The crop artists also sometimes reveal near-future astronomical events in our solar system. For example, we saw drawn in crops the outburst of comet 73P Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 in 1996, three months before it happened (see time2007a). Likewise we saw drawn in crops the outburst of comet 17P Holmes in 2007, two years before it happened (see time2007g or time2007h). Predictions of high earthquake or solar activity were made correctly in 2011 (see fringe2013e or fringe2013g), although the detailed locations of those earthquakes again remained unspecified.   Here we will present a series of English and/or European crop pictures which seem to show images of comet C/2012 S1 Ison, as well as its orbital path through our solar system, long before that comet was discovered by astronomers on Earth in September of 2012, Field images of “comet Ison” began to appear in 1996, and were quite numerous by 2008 or 2009. Additional images continued all throughout the summers of 2011, 2012 or 2013.   We cannot be sure that every crop picture to be discussed below was paranormally made. Yet in some cases, they show such distinct images of the future, that no other possibility seems plausible. No other major comets have appeared in Earth’s sky since 2007, and many of the sky images for comet Ison as drawn in crops tell exactly where it will be located in space (or in Earth’s sky), many years later. The scientific case for future-predictive crop pictures is thus very strong.   A near-future image of “comet Ison” was drawn in crops as long ago as 1996 The earliest crop picture to show “comet Ison” appeared at West Overton seventeen years ago on July 13, 1996. There we could see a small “comet” flying past our Sun and Moon, in the exact sky location which comet Ison will occupy on December 3, 2013:   Nearby we can see an Aztec symbol for the galactic centre, from which many “small waves” are emerging. Will we see actual waves from the galactic centre on that day, when comet Ison emerges from behind the Sun? Might this happen because a large cloud of gas called “G2” has just entered a black hole at the galactic centre, as viewed from Earth? (see www.ast.cam.ac.uk/content/dating.our.galaxys.dormant.volcano or discovermagazine.com or waylandsmithy2007a or time2007m).  Images of comet Ison in crops from 2008  The next major crop picture to predict “comet Ison” appeared in the summer of 2008. It showed a bright comet passing Earth and Moon, eleven months after the Mayan Long Count calendar would end on December 23, 2012:   On the left-hand side of that crop picture, we can see a schematic image of our solar system from Mercury to Pluto. for a calendar date of December 23, 2012. On the far left we can see where comet Ison was located in 2008, headed our way. The central “Sun” image from that crop picture became slightly larger when going from Phase I on July 15, 2008, to Phase II on July 22, 2008. Might such an “enlargement of the Sun” represent a prediction of high solar activity in December of 2013? Or was it meant simply to help us interpret the right-hand side, which shows comet Ison passing the orbits of Earth or Venus eleven months later?  On the right-hand side of that crop picture, we can see a bright comet passing Earth’s orbit around the Sun in late November of 2013, eleven months after the Mayan calendar would end on December 23, 2012. It will be a first-quarter crescent Moon. As an alternative interpretation, the right-hand side of this crop picture might show comet Ison, not far from Venus’s orbit around the Sun in late December of 2013, and a crescent shape for planet Venus (see the various images available on ssd.jpl.nasa.gov).   Near the bottom of this crop picture, we can see a series of detailed star or constellation patterns, which will be analysed further below.   Interestingly enough, the left-hand side of Avebury Manor could be “flipped” to reveal the orbital location of comet Ison in 2008, far beyond the orbit of Saturn:   The right-hand side of Avebury Manor (near the bottom) then showed a series of detailed star patterns, which reveal the exact path of comet Ison through Earth’s sky in late November of 2013:   The diffuse stat cluster M80 was drawn in crops with a cross-like shape, just as it appears in a standard star map. The bright star delta-Scorpius was drawn in crops with a ring-like shape, because it is a binary star system.   Several other symbols which were drawn there (“serpent”, “snail”, “spiral”, see above) may represent various constellations through which comet Ison will pass, on its long voyage through our solar system. Their “serpent” symbol could represent our modern constellation Serpens, through which comet Ison pass in early December of 2013 (see in-the-sky.org). Another of our modern constellations (Draco) was called “the snail” in ancient Babylon (see www.hwg-astro.de). Comet Ison will pass through the constellation Draco (or “snail”) in late December of 2013 (see www.aerith.net). Finally, comet Ison may trace out a “spiral” in Earth’s sky during 2014 or 2015, depending on how its orbit is affected by passing around the Sun.   Images of comet Ison in crops from 2009   Two crop pictures from the summer of 2009 next showed comet Ison flying “like a swallow” through Earth’s skies, sometime after the Mayan calendar ends on 13.0.0.0.0:   Another comet-related crop picture came down near Milk Hill in two separate parts or phases. Its first part on June 21, 2009 asked us to look up into Earth’s sky using a “sextant”, two years later on June 2, 2011. Then we would see five planets from Mercury to Uranus, plus the Moon, all lined up in a row:   The second part of that crop picture on June 23, 2009 showed a “new comet” near Mars and Jupiter. This unexpected event happened four years later during September of 2013, with the novel appearance of comet Ison: Another small crop picture on June 23, 2009 near Milk Hill (not shown) described the new comet as an “Aztec star in the night”.   Two clever codes for comet Ison within the Quetzalcoatl Headdress of July 5, 2009   One of the most famous crop pictures of all time was the “Quetzalcoatl headdress” of July 5, 2009. This crop picture, when studied carefully, seems to show comet Ison flying past our Sun like a “serpent” on the Mayan date of 0.0.0.17.0, which equals November 28, 2013 in our Western calendar:  Their July 5, 2009 crop picture showed a large, round “Sun” (the face of Quetzalcoatl) just below its centre, with an equally large “lunar crescent” drawn slightly above. On either side of the “Sun” we can see 8 or 9 small wedges, which add together to give 17 wedges in total, and suggest a Mayan date of 0.0.0.17.0.   Near the top of this crop picture we can see a zig-zag “serpent”, which is called “Awanyu” by north American tribes. The path of that “serpent” suggests a motion of comet Ison through Earth’s sky from right to left.   Close to the outside on both left and right, we can see “pointed three-dot” comet symbols, which have been joined to five “sextant boxes”, just like those which were drawn on June 23, 2009 near Milk Hill. In this case, those five boxes seem to possess a second meaning as five digits 1-2-3-4-5 of the Mayan Long Count calendar.   Finally on the very outside, both left and right, we can see two large “comet” shapes. This seems to leave no doubt: the crop picture concerns itself with the appearance of a “comet”! The central part of this remarkable crop picture shows a Mayan feathered headdress, with seven quetzal feathers on each side, just like that worn by Aztec emperors such as Moctezuma. It also contains a clever dot-and-dash code in the shape of a Mayan pyramid:   The right-hand side of its dot-and-dash code shows the same 6-4-3-2-1 planetary orbits as were drawn in crops near Milk Hill on June 23, 2009:                                                                                                                        A small central dot, which divides planetary orbits “2” and “3”, may represent comet Ison passing behind the Sun on November 28, 2013, which is a Mayan date of 0.0.0.17.0. Five planetary orbits as drawn there (and labelled with thin red or blue lines) represent Mercury (1), Venus (2), Mars (3), Jupiter (4) or Uranus (6).   The left-hand side of this dot-and-dash code is slightly different. It seems to show a Mayan date of 0.0.1.4.12 or March 20, 2014, which may be derived from a combination of five numbers 1 = 1, (2 + 2) = 4, or (6 + 6) = 12:   On the spring solstice of March 20, 2014, a metaphorical “serpent” will descend from heaven to earth along one face of the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl at Chichen Itza. In the crop picture, we can see how one of seven “dots” along the left-hand side has “descended” from its linear alignment with six other dots (see the downward-pointing blue arrow). Might such symbolism suggest a change in the orbit of comet Ison, after it goes behind the Sun on November 28, 2013? Or a near-future descent to Earth of the real Feathered Serpent? A related crop picture at Chesterton Windmill on July 9, 2009 (four days later) showed three long diagonal lines on each face of a triangular pyramid, which was rotating inside of a sphere (see fringe2013n), Those three diagonal lines appear similar to the thin, red or blue lines which were drawn in several slides above. At Chesterton Windmill, the triangular pyramid was drawn rotating clockwise from right to left, just as for that “serpent” near the top of the “Quetzalcoatl headdress” on July 5. All three crop pictures therefore: near Milk Hill on June 23, near Silbury Hill on July 5, or near Chesterton Windmill on July 9, show different aspects of the same underlying symbolic information. A triple conjunction of comet Ison with Mars and Regulus during October of 2013   During mid-October of 2013, there was a triple conjunction (or joining in Earth’s sky) between comet Ison, planet Mars and a bright star Regulus from the constellation Leo. We can see a night-sky photograph of that conjunction in the slide below, along with a schematic diagram at lower right:   That triple conjunction in Earth’s sky was described in crops by an amazing field picture which appeared near Silbury Hill on August 3, 2009. It showed what is known as a Mayan “Katun calendar wheel”. Some Katun calendar wheels contain 18, 20 or 13 squares in each ring, to yield multiplicative products such as (18 x 20) = 360 days for their Long Count calendar, or (13 x 20) = 260 days for their Tzolkin calendar:  This calendar wheel, which was drawn in crops on August 3, 2009, contained 24, 20 or 15 swirled circles within each of three large rings. When multiplied together as (24 x 20 x 15) = 7200, those three numbers yield 7200 days or one “Katun” period from the Mayan Long Count calendar.   Furthermore, a series of three large circles and one small circle meaning “0”, plus one ring of small “crop knobs” equal to “15”, together suggest a Mayan calendar date of 0.0.0.15.0 or October 19, 2013:   The suggested date is close to October 15, 2013, when a triple conjunction took place in Earth’s sky between comet Ison, Mars and Regulus. Outside of their Katun calendar wheel, we can see (above or below) two large “comet” shapes, which contain five circles each, and show various motifs near their flattened centres:   The fourth flattened circle of their upper comet shape shows a “6-around-1” motif, suggestive of the Pleiades M45 star cluster (see two slides below).   The first circle of their lower comet shape shows a “smiley face”, meaning simply that “we are friendly”. Another “smiley face” was drawn near their June 23, 2009 crop picture, discussed above.  The second circle of their lower comet shape shows a “7-7” motif, suggestive of comet Ison passing by a “planet” and a “star” (see the next slide below).   The fourth circle of their lower comet shape shows a clump of three “crop knobs”, to suggest a sky conjunction of three separate objects (comet, planet and star).   At the very centre we can see a ring of 15 “crop knobs”, to suggest a Mayan date of 0.0.0.15.0 which equals October 19, 2013, or possibly “October 15” in our Western calendar.   The “7-7” ground feature as drawn at Silbury Hill on August 3, 2009 has been seen in crops several times before. It seems to represent a “crown” with seven points, such as that worn by Quetzalcoatl in ancient central America. In the present case, such a “crown” might be meant to represent a bright star “Regulus the king” in Leo, by which comet Ison passed closely:   The “6-around-1” ground feature as drawn at Silbury Hill on August 3, 2009 has also been seen in crops many times before. It seems to represent the Pleiades M45 star cluster, which may be where these particular crop artists come from:  Comet Ison as a “trilobite”  One amusing crop picture from the summer of 2009 compared comet Ison to a “trilobite”. That was a small, beetle-like animal which lived abundantly on Earth 400 million years ago. At Ogbourne St, Andrew on July 29, 2009, the crop artists first showed comet Ison heading for our Sun on a Mayan date of 0.0.0.15.0 or October 19, 2013:   Next they compared comet Ison to a “trilobite”, heading for the heat of our Sun in late November of 2013. Will comet Ison shed its exo-skeleton as it orbits the Sun in late November, just as real trilobites did in ancient times on Earth, as a regular part of their life cycle?   Comet Ison as described at Windmill Hill in August of 2009   One of the most detailed and impressive crop pictures to predict comet Ison appeared at Windmill Hill on August 6, 2009. There we could see five successively larger circles near its centre, when going from bottom to top in the two images shown below   This five-circle symbol often means “comet”. It matches a similar five-circle symbol which was drawn in crops in 2005, to predict the outburst of comet 17P Holmes two years later in 2007. It also matches a five-circle symbol which was used to describe comet Ison at Silbury Hill on August 3, 2009, just three days earlier (see above).   Just outside of the centre, we can see four dumbbell-shaped symbols which mean “four years from 2009 to 2013”. There was also a small clump of four “crop knobs” on one side of the centre (not visible in this aerial view), which was intended to confirm that interpretation.   Going further out from the centre, we can next see an inner ring of five different astronomical objects. One of those is clearly “Earth and Moon”. What might the other four inner-ring symbols represent?  By carefully comparing this crop picture to known maps of our solar system on different dates, we found that all five symbols from its inner ring match the orbital locations of comet Ison, Mars, Mercury, Earth-Moon or Venus, for a date of August 6, 2009. That is precisely four years after the original crop picture appeared.   Along its outer ring we can count nine different astronomical symbols, which presumably match the orbital locations of eight major planets plus comet Ison on some different date. Again by carefully comparing this crop picture to known maps of our solar system, we found that the near-future date seems to be November 28, 2013, when comet Ison will follow a tight circular path around our Sun:   Images of comet Ison in crops from 2011   Only one possible image of comet Ison seems to have been drawn in crops during the summer of 2011. At Windmill Hill on July 26, we could see another “Mayan calendar wheel”. Its inner part showed our “Sun” and three thin circles, to suggest Mayan calendar numbers of 0.0.0. Just outside of the “Sun”, we could see two sets of 13 circles, to suggest an overall calendar date of 13.0.0.0.0. That was when the Mayan Long Count calendar would end on December 23, 2013:   Its outer parts showed two sets of 14 or 18 circles. These suggest a calendar date of 12.19.18.14.18 or October 28, 2011, when the Mayan Tzolkin calendar would end. Finally its central part showed a large thin circle, to suggest a tight circular orbit of comet Ison around our Sun on November 28, 2013. The orbital locations of Mercury and Venus were also drawn for that same date.   Images of comet Ison in crops from the summer of 2012 (before it was “discovered” on Earth)    At Santena, Italy on June 17, 2012, we saw drawn in crops a near-future path of comet Ison through the constellation Cancer for the dates of August 10, 2013 (when it first emerged from behind our Sun) to September 15, 2013:   Elsewhere in the same crop picture, we could see the approximate path of comet Ison through Earth’s sky from December of 2012 to August of 2013:   Four planets at the centre of that crop picture (on the right) represent Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars on a date of December 21, 2012, when the Mayan Long Count calendar would end. Comet Ison was drawn metaphorically as a large, egg-shaped UFO, just like we saw at Cook’s Plantation on August 23, 2013 (see cooks).   The outer surface of that “egg-shaped UFO” showed 17 “light rays” which contained five small circles each, plus one “light ray” which contained six small circles. The total number of small circles thus equalled (17 x 5) + (1 x 6) = 91, which is the same as the number of steps on each face of the Pyramid of Quetzalcoatl in Chichen Itza.   One week later at Fabbrico, Italy on June 24, 2012, we saw the image of some spacecraft leaving the Pleiades M45 star cluster on a Mayan calendar date of 12.19.19.8.16, to enter a spacetime wormhole and perhaps travel to Earth (see Fabbrico2012e). Quetzalcoatl the great Mayan leader always promised that he would return in a year One Reed, the first of any 52-year cycle, and 2013 would seem to be such a year, at least until December 18.  Images of comet Ison in crops from 2013 (after it was “discovered” on Earth)   During the summer of 2013, many different images of comet Ison were drawn in crops. We will discuss some of those crop pictures here, while listing references to the others, so that an interested reader may study them further.   A crop picture at Wessex Ridgeway on July 24, 2013 showed comet Ison (pictured as a “large triangular UFO”) flying through the stars of Gemini toward Cancer, on a date of July 26 two days later:   There was a Grand Sextile of six planets on July 29, 2013, so this kind of triangular or hexagonal symbolism seems appropriate.   Strangely enough, comet Ison was drawn at Wessex Ridgeway on July 24 as a “triangular UFO”, much like the one which appeared in crops near West Kennett Long Barrow three weeks later on August 13, 2013:     Originally in 2009 or 2010, comet Ison was drawn as “flying into a spacetime wormhole”. Now in 2013, comet Ison is being drawn as “flying out of a spacetime wormhole”:  Next at Chute Causeway on August 10, 2013, we saw the detailed image of a two-tailed comet circling the Sun (see chute):   The two “tails” of that comet were drawn with slightly different angles and lengths. Several “guide lines” were also drawn (marked with blue or yellow colours in the slide above). Those guide lines tell us how to fold the entire crop picture up into three dimensions as a hexagonal pyramid, just like for an origami model:   Comet Ison will approach our Sun from below the plane of the solar system, which is why such a crop drawing needs some kind of three-dimensional character. A similar crop picture appeared at Hackpen Hill on August 11, 2013, showing a tailed comet approaching and then circling the Sun (see hackpen). In this case, our Sun was drawn like a “star of David”, with a small comet orbiting around it.   Will comet Ison break up and/or slow down as it orbits the Sun?  Will comet Ison break up and/or slow down as it orbits the Sun on November 28, 2013? At Etchilhampton on August 19, 2013, we saw the image of a “long-tailed comet” going into circular orbit around the Sun, and then emerging with a “shorter tail”:   Looking at the same crop picture more closely, we can see that its “cometary tail” becomes slightly shorter as it goes around the Sun, while its orbital velocity (as suggested by six internal curves) decreases:   The lengths of six thin arrows (or “cometary tails”) vary from long = 11 to short = 7, when measured in terms of inner grid marks. There were 6 x 13 = 78 grid marks around the inner perimeter of that crop picture, or 6 x 15 = 90 grid marks around its outer perimeter.   In one place at upper left, the comet has been drawn with “three dots”, to suggest that it may break up into three or four pieces when it circles the Sun. A similar “four dot” image appeared for comet Ison at Stadskanaal in the Netherlands on July 29, 2013 (see Stadskanaal). Another crop picture at Stonehenge on August 1, 2013 suggested that one of those cometary fragments may outburst or explode (see stonehenge). Comet Ison currently shows an orbital eccentricity of 1.0000035. If its eccentricity is close to 0, then the orbit will be circular. If its eccentricity is close to 1, then the orbit will be elliptical. If its eccentricity is greater than 1, then the orbit will be hyperbolic. After perihelion, comet Ison is expected to follow a hyperbolic orbit away from the Sun (see www.cometison2013.co.uk). Yet this crop picture from Etchilhampton on August 19, 2013 suggests that the orbit of comet Ison may change from hyperbolic to elliptical as it “slows down”:   Comet Ison as a “new star”   On August 13, 2013, the crop artists drew an image of some “stellar explosion” at Hackpen Hill, one day before light from Nova Delphini reached Earth on August 14, 2013:   No astronomer on Earth knew about Nova Delphini 2013 when this crop picture appeared! Several landscape features suggested the nearby “summer triangle” of stars, and also a bright star Gienah in Cygnus (see comments or hackpenhill4).   The “stellar explosion” crop picture at Hackpen Hill on August 13 originally showed 22 “light rays”. Then on September 2, 2013, a second phase of the same crop picture showed (yet another) “Katun calendar wheel” with 17, 24 or 29 small squares along each of three rings:                                                                                                                                                   The total number of days now equals (22 + 17 + 24 + 29) = 92. That is how long it will take from September 2 to December 3, 2013, when comet Ison will emerge from behind our Sun as a “new star”.   Many different Mayan calendar wheels have been drawn in crops. For example, we have seen not only “Katun calendar wheels”, but also an “Ahau calendar wheel” at Ogbourne St. Andrew on July 24, 2009:    One week later there was a “12 Ahau” date in the Mayan calendar on August 1, 2009.   Comet Ison as a “tetrahedron inside of a sphere”  Previously in a discussion of Chesterton Windmill on July 9, 2009 (see above), we said that it resembled a triangular pyramid or “tetrahedron inside of a sphere”. A similar image appeared near Klepp, Norway on September 15, 2013. There we saw comet Ison described as a “tetrahedron inside of a sphere” which is headed towards the Sun:   Three other crop pictures of related appearance from 1991, 2009 or 2013 are shown below. In the next slide, we can see the latest sky photograph of comet Ison (at the date of writing), compared with the new Norway crop picture:   What might those enigmatic crop artists be trying to tell us?   Other possible “comet” images in crops from the summer of 2013   Several other possible images of “comet Ison” appeared in crops during the summer of 2013. Not all of these examples may be relevant, yet we will list them here for the interested reader.  June 6 at Barbiano in Italy (a round comet with a short tail) see Barbiano  June 8 at Cava Manara in Italy (a two-tailed comet circling the Sun) see CavaManara  July 3 at Rheinau in Switzerland (a two-tailed comet like a “swallow” circling the Sun) see Rheinau  July 4 at Imling in France (a comet with two tails) see Imling   July 22 at Rozsec in the Czech Republic (a comet circling the Sun) see Rozsec  July 28 at Lime Kiln Wood (a comet headed for close orbit around the Sun) see Cluddley August 1 at Milk Hill (some new comet as a bright star with a short tail) see milkhill  Possible “UFO” images in crops from the summer of 2013            We will also list three “UFO” images which appeared crops during the summer of 2013, for the interested reader.  July 7 at Silbury Hill (a Sumerian “Boat of Heaven”, breaking apart and sinking, on the yearly anniversary of a UFO crash near Roswell in 1947) see comments or aveburytrusloe  August 13 at West Kennett Long Barrow (a large triangular UFO landing on Earth) see westkennettlongbarrow   August 23 at Cooks Plantation (a large egg-shaped UFO, overlaid with Mayan dates and a man’s face) see cooks So many amazing crop pictures: why are Earth’s scientists ignoring them?  Many amazing crop pictures have appeared in various countries around the world for the past 23 years. Why are the vast majority of Earth’s scientists ignoring them? My personal view is that those scientists have become very narrow in how they choose to think (see fringe2013h).   Three hundred years ago, great men such as Descartes, Newton or Locke or sought enlightenment. To become a "scientist" then was to seek out new ideas with an open mind:   Today to be a scientist means “conforming to the opinions of other people in power”. Sometimes that requires narrow-minded thinking. Sometimes you must refuse to study the observed facts, because they might not agree with what your peers think.   Thus we can see today a complete reversal of the situation present in 1860, when prominent theologians ridiculed Darwin’s theory of evolution, while young upstarts such as Thomas Huxley supported it (see Thomas_Henry_Huxley):   “The Bishop rose and assured us there was nothing to the idea of ‘evolution’. Turning to his antagonist with smiling insolence, he next begged to know: was it through his grandfather or grandmother that Thomas Huxley claimed descent from an ape? Mr. Huxley then rose, and spoke words whose meaning took our breath away. He explained that he was not ashamed to have a monkey for his ancestor. Yet he would be ashamed to be associated with any man, who used great mental gifts to obscure the truth.”    Let there be no doubt: most scientists today are “theologians” like Bishop Wilberforce. They only believe what they read in their academic journals, just as the good Bishop only believed what he read in his Bible. To be a “real scientist” and study the facts would be something entirely different, and seems far beyond them.   Red Collie (Dr. Horace R. Drew, Caltech 1976-81, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology 1982-86, CSIRO Australia 1987-2010)   P.S. We would like to thank all of the sincere, helpful people who have contributed to our documentation and/or understanding of crop circles for the past twenty years. They come from all countries on Earth, and to them we should be ever grateful.   Appendix 1. Many different images of “spacetime wormholes” have appeared in crops   Many different images of “spacetime wormholes” have appeared in crops (see wormholetechnology). For example, four different “wormhole” crop pictures from the summer of 2006 are shown below: Each of these crop pictures has their own distinct meaning in terms of spacetime physics.  There is now good evidence that paranormal crop pictures are being transmitted to us from another space or time by means of spacetime wormholes. This is actually what they told us in 2002, using a 1359-bit ASCII code (see time2007n or time2007o):  “Beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises. Much pain but still time. Believe. There is good out there. We oppose deception. Conduit closing."  In this brief message, the crop artists first warned us about a malign alien race (pictured nearby). Then they warned us about serious problems on Earth in the near future. Next they asked us to believe that some extra-terrestrials are “good”. They oppose efforts being made by Earth governments or news agencies to hide the crop circle phenomenon from their own citizens. Finally, they tell us that their message is ending, as a “conduit” or “wormhole” closes through space and/or time.   Appendix 2. Are some paranormal crop pictures being sent to us by “machine” from a parallel universe?   Where might be the home star for these extra-terrestrial crop artists? Some of them seem to be visiting our solar system using small spacecraft, yet where is their home star? We cannot be sure, but images of the Pleiades M45 or Hyades star clusters appear often in crops. They might even live in a parallel universe!   Sean Carroll, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology, accepts the scientific basis for parallel universes, even if the case cannot be proven: “Unless you imagine that some super-advanced alien civilization has figured all of this out, then we won’t be affected by the existence of other universes. Still someone could devise a machine, which lets one universe communicate with another” (see www.foxnews.com or  preposterousuniverse.com)  Some crop pictures have suggested the existence of a mirror-plane universe, which can be reached through a Schwarzschild wormhole (see comments or ridgeway). Other crop pictures have shown mirror images of the Pleiades M45 or Hyades star clusters (see fringe2013k). Physicists such as Michio Kaku accept the reality of spacetime wormholes and parallel universes (see www.youtube.com): “There could be an infinite number of universes, each with different laws of physics.” The image of a sphere passing through our 3-D space from extra dimensions was shown by physicist Lisa Randall in this video (see www.youtube.com). Similar images have appeared in crops on many occasions: for example on August 6, 2011 with an image of “Flatland” (see www.lucypringle.co.uk  ), or on July 1, 2012 with the image of a hyperbolic cube passing through our 3-D space from other dimensions (see fringe2013b). Many crop pictures have shown “extra dimensions”, as if they were trying to teach that concept to physicists here on Earth (see fringe2013b or fringe2013c). The crop artists also seem to be studying carefully the progress of physics on Earth, because three Nobel Prizes for Physics were drawn schematically in crops during August of 2009, 2010 or 2011, in each case two months before they were awarded in Sweden (please scroll down on cropcircleresearch).   References to a parallel universe have appeared sometimes in popular music or TV shows. For example, the rock band Led Zeppelin used a crop circle from Alton Barnes for their album cover in 1990:   Inside of that album, some of the lyrics suggest “other people” who are watching Earth, west of London. Those other people are blowing “rings of smoke through the trees”, and hoping to “lead us into reason” (see Stairway_to_Heaven):   “There's a feeling I get when I look to the west, And my spirit is crying for leaving. In my thoughts I have seen rings of smoke through the trees, And the voices of those who stand looking.  Oh, it makes me wonder, Oh, it really makes me wonder.  And it's whispered that soon, if we all call the tune, Then the piper will lead us to reason. A new day will dawn, for those who stand long, And the forests will echo with laughter.  The idea of a parallel universe figured prominently in a TV science-fiction series called “Fringe” (see Fringe_(TV_series) ). This TV show explored the idea of spacetime wormholes as they might be used to reach a parallel universe, where lighter-than-air zeppelins are flown instead of airplanes! Each person living on Earth in our universe has a “twin” living on some “parallel Earth”, who may be similar or slightly different. The fifth season of that show explored the idea of time travel, and how humans from the future may influence the past or vice-versa.   Clearly if modern crop pictures are being sent to us from a “parallel Earth” in some other universe, then in that alternate universe, the ancient Mayan culture seems to have remained very strong. Perhaps the Mayan people on that parallel Earth made contact with friendly extra-terrestrial visitors from the Pleiades or Hyades 2000 years ago? In which case, they could now be thousands of years ahead of us technologically. They use certain aspects of electromagnetism to create clean energy, or spacetime wormholes for space travel, while we burn coal, oil or gas to make electricity, and travel to space in chemical rockets. We simply have to catch up.

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