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duncan124
duncan124:
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lunacy-and-the-full-moon/

" Greek philosopher Aristotle and Roman historian Pliny the Elder suggested that the brain was the “moistest” organ in the body and thereby most susceptible to the pernicious influences of the moon, which triggers the tides. Belief in the “lunar lunacy effect,” or “Transylvania effect,” as it is sometimes called, persisted in Europe through the Middle Ages, when humans were widely reputed to transmogrify into werewolves or vampires during a full moon.

Water at Work?
Following Aristotle and Pliny the Elder, some contemporary authors, such as Miami psychiatrist Arnold Lieber, have conjectured that the full moon’s ­supposed effects on behavior arise from its influence on water. The human body, after all, is about 80 percent water, so perhaps the moon works its mischievous magic by somehow disrupting the alignment of water molecules in the nervous system.

According to Raison, the lunar lunacy effect may possess a small kernel of truth in that it may once have been genuine. Raison conjectures that before the advent of outdoor lighting in modern times, the bright light of the full moon deprived people who were living outside—including many who had severe mental disorders—of sleep. Because sleep deprivation often triggers erratic behavior in people with certain psychological conditions, such as bipolar disorder (formerly called manic depression), the full moon may have been linked to a heightened rate of bizarre behaviors in long-bygone eras. So the lunar lunacy effect is, in Raison and his colleagues’ terms, a “cultural fossil.”
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duncan124
duncan124:
That post belongs with the rest of that conversation!
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duncan124
duncan124:
Pleasant rain followed the super moon on July 12th. I wonder if it will in August and September?
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Zanjan
Zanjan: NASA is planning to send astronauts to lasso a rather large asteroid and bring it into the Moon's orbit to study it - god knows what for - and possibly mine any minerals it may have.

This idea goes against nature. If God had thought there was a good reason to have asteroids circle the moon, it would have some. I perceive the possibility of a slight mathematical error and the asteroid hurtling to earth instead. Unfortunately, the astronauts would be stranded in space.

On the bright side, this event will end all wars.

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LiptonCambell
LiptonCambell: Asteroids are the remnants of the origins of the solar system- the rocks on Earth have melted down and cooled thousands of times over, leaving little to gain from them. Asteroids, however, have the potential to be billions of years old. It would be the oldest rock any human being- any terrestrial life form even- has come into contact with. The scientific uses for such a discovery is monumental.
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Zanjan
Zanjan: Like what?
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LiptonCambell
LiptonCambell: Getting a more accurate age of the solar system, and a greater understanding of what the early solar system was made of
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Zanjan
Zanjan: That helps us monumentally....... how? What a total waste of public money and labour!!

They should be putting their heads together on how to deal with space junk pollution and solve the problem of coastal cities that are soon to go under the rising sea waters.

This lends new meaning to "head- in- the- clouds"
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duncan124
duncan124:
If you were in space and far from Earth you could use knowledge of asteroids to resupply or mend your spaceship.

But spending a lot of money on it seems to be a waste when there are still the planets to explore.
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Zanjan
Zanjan: I doubt they could find duct tape on an asteroid.

It makes more sense to learn how to safely deflect and incoming asteroid headed for earth - some scientists are working on that now but, so far, all they have is an identification satellite to locate them.
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LiptonCambell
LiptonCambell: Wouldn't understanding what astroids are composed of go a long way towards figuring out the best way to destroy them?

Or we could just make it up along the way.....you know, whatever....

Hey Zanjan, would any studies on the age of the Earth, it's formation, or it's contents- you know, the entire science of geology- be worth it? Because there will always be problems with society that people would insist are a 'better investment' than understanding our surroundings....
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Zanjan
Zanjan: If you blow up an asteroid, it smashes into many more asteroids with a few big chunks and rains hell on everything around it - in space, everything keeps going in all directions. Don't you ever watch disaster movies? You'd have to do it millions and millions of miles out and we wouldn't have that kind of time or distance. They'd have only 2 options - tow it somewhere or bump it slightly off course of the earth.

The only usefulness for an asteroid would be to mine minerals and gems but then you'd have other concerns - causing fractures. We know from experience what happens when you drill a mountain to death for coal. You'd also have to disinfect the product before bringing it back to earth.

We already know the approximate age of the earth and the only thing we got out of that is proof that the Biblical creation took longer than a week, what killed the dinosaurs and a few ancient groups of peoples.

There will always be a place for geology on earth; however, like other sciences, it's branched off into many special fields, like geophysics, paleontology, vulcanology and so forth. As you know, any science can whore itself out to big business, like the oil industry, which has no problem fracking the earth until our waters are ruined.

The people don't trust science because there's only so much fun experimenting one can do on our environment before we all feel the pain. Any advanced exploration and other meddling with nature will eventuality have to follow international ethics with approval from all nations before proceeding.





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duncan124
duncan124:
Like NASAs science on Mars, when it has to be reminded that it had already discovered that the atmosphere and soil was strongly acidic and that would dissolve the planed lander; or that it had already spotted polar ice caps!

The recent comet Ison has shown that an object could be shown to have broken up by already proven science but still the mongers would not allow that as part of the media story.

Worse still for asteroid destroyers the comet was shown to have disintegrated near the sun but a substantial amount continued along the predicted path after passing through the heat of the sun.

Topic: Science
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LiptonCambell
LiptonCambell: Hey, heres an interesting website on the subject of asteroids- it visually shows where the asteroid is, it's rotation around the sun, and even it's value- there are asteroids out there whose value is more than all the nations of Earth combined

http://www.asterank.com/
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Zanjan
Zanjan: That's a cool site to find out which asteroids are most threatening.
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Zanjan
Zanjan: I suppose anything can be looked at with dollar signs, be it potential resources or earth's doom.

Scientists have discovered a huge water deposit deep between the earth's crust and core (about 500-700 miles down) which constitutes a greater volume of water around the planet than we have in all our oceans. Seems to me that water would be very hot.

The Biblical mention of the 'fountains of the deep' could easily spring forth - question is what would trigger that?

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Zanjan
Zanjan: Scott Sutherland
Meteorologist, theweathernetwork.com
@ScottWx_TWN
Friday, July 18, 2014, 6:40

Russian scientists and officials are currently investigating a giant hole that mysteriously opened up in the ground in northern Siberia to figure out exactly what caused it, and one scientist believes that it may be due to global warming.

This large crater, first estimated from aerial views as between 50 and 100 metres wide, apparently opened up around two years ago, according to the Siberian Times, in the permafrost of a region of northern Siberia called Yamal - known as 'the end of the world' by locals. Its sudden appearance was a total mystery at the time, and it has remained so until now, when an expedition journeyed to the region to investigate it.

"Occurrences like this are nothing new in Yamal," a spokesman for the governor’s office told Interfax-Ural, according to Russia Times. "This happened last year, as well as two years ago… earth and ice behave unpredictably An underwater river might have moved the soil," the official added, saying how this happens again and again through permafrost melting and freezing, and that there is no emergency tied to the crater.

The appearance of the deep hole have caused some speculation about out-of-this-world origins, such as due to a meteorite strike or possibly even a UFO crash, however the investigators are focused on Earthly explanations.

"We can definitely say that it is not a meteorite. No details yet," a spokesman from the Yamal authorities told Siberian Times...........

Given the large deposits of gas in the region, with the Bovanenkovo gas fields only 30 kilometres away, Anna Kurchatova, from Sub-Arctic Scientific Research Centre, told the Siberian Times that she thinks the crater was formed as a result of an underground explosion. According to her, the explosion was ignited from a combination of gas, ice, sand and salt inside the ground. The 'alarming' melt of the permafrost, due to global warming, she said, "released gas causing an effect like the popping of a Champagne bottle cork."
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Zanjan
Zanjan: No need to panic. Just remember, everything is connected.
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duncan124
duncan124:
Islam discovered there was more water trapped under ground thousands of years ago.

And in the UK we have recently seen the other water that has gone all the way around the earth and wont mix with the ordinary water .
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Zanjan
Zanjan: The North American Indians discovered it before that - mineral hotsprings, hot oceanic flumes.

Not sure what water you're talking about. Fresh water floats on top of salt water because its lighter.
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duncan124
duncan124:
Things are not as we were told.
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Big Bopper
Big Bopper: What a great planet! I think I'll stay.
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yawho92
yawho92: Zanjan you are so right everything is connected but probably not in a way that the human mind can comprehend.
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LiptonCambell
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Zanjan
Zanjan: Well, it looks like the earth is leaving the Holocene Epoch and entering the Anthropocene Age; scientists are arguing this a bit because its so new. The Holocene began at the end of the last Ice Age, around 11 thousand and some years ago. The new global warming is man-made, an epoch defined specifically by human activity.

I've always said that mega dams, seismic sounding, fracking, and drilling deep holes in the ground while sucking everything out, will one day bite back.

The earth is capable of making enough of its own vents; when you add more, there's going to be a problem. You cant be punching the earth's crust into lace and not expect something to fall though.

Here's the scoop:

http://www.livescience.com/47530-human-activity-changing-geological-timeline.html

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