Shortly after 7 AM Central, Saturday morning, September 3, 2016, a 5.6-magnitude quake hit centered about 9 miles northwest of Pawnee, Oklahoma, at the cluster of yellow and green markers on this USGS map. Buildings and houses shook from Kansas City, MO to Dallas, TX, to Fort Smith, ARK. The Pawnee County Sheriff’s Dept. reports structural fires, including a barn, near Pawnee. Only one other 5.6M quake in the region hit Prague, Lincoln County, Oklahoma, in November 2011. Fracking oil and natural gas in Oklahoma has been linked to a large increase in 3.0M quakes. See: Oklahoma Booms and Quakes - 2015-2014.
Dorchester County, SC officials apologized Tuesday, August 30, 2016, for unintentionally killing millions of honeybees when it failed to notify local beekeepers about its Naled mass mosquito-spraying operation from planes last Sunday, August 28, 2016. Summerville, SC, beekeeper Kristina Solara Litzenberger reports that all of her 46 hives of 2.5 million honey bees have died. She asks, “If that much damage was caused to the bees, how will this affect people, wildlife and the ecosystem?”
On August 12, 2016, the Miami Herald reported: “Several studies suggest that long-term exposure to even low levels of Naled can have serious health effects for children and infants as well as wildlife, including butterflies and bees, for whom exposure can be lethal. Some studies suggest it might have neurological and developmental effects on human fetuses, including on brain size, echoing the severe consequences that eradication of the Aedes aegypti mosquito that carries the Zika virus is meant to prevent.” See protest against Naled.
“This is the first time I have ever heard of reindeer dying from a lightning strike, let alone 323 all at the same time. It’s unprecedented. …I have no idea why so many antlers would be off.
- Knut Kielland, Ph.D., Prof. of Ecology, Univ. of Alaska, Arctic Biology
Why are big antlers off the heads of many male reindeers? Frame from video by Thomas Mossing, RT.com News.
— “Zika can be passed through sex from a person who has Zika to his or her sex partners. Sex includes vaginal, anal, oral sex, and the sharing of sex toys. Zika can remain in semen longer than in other body fluids, including vaginal fluids, urine, and blood.”
— “Because most people infected with the Zika virus don’t show any symptoms, blood donors in transfusions may not know they have been infected and can transmit Zika virus.”
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
CDC reports in this August 29, 2016, map that the Zika virus that causes microcephaly, in foetuses; blindness, deafness, seizures and other congenital defects in infants; and Guillain Barre paralysis syndrome in adults continues to spread from South America to Central America, Mexico, Puerto Rico, United States and to Asia’s Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand, French Polynesia north of Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Map by CDC, see Sexual Transmission.
“The animals seem to be in an area that was 50 to 80 feet in diameter and on a hillside, which gives you some idea that lightning can travel a good distance and still be deadly. It’s the electricity going into the body. It passes through the nervous system and nerves, and the deadly part is that it stops the heart.”
- John Jensenius, M. S., NOAA Lightning Safety Specialist
Some of the 323 reindeer herd lying dead in Hardangervidda National Park, Norway, on Friday, August 26, 2016. Image by Havard Kjontvedt, Environment Directorate, The Norwegian Nature Inspectorate.
Why are big antlers off the heads of many male reindeers? Frame from video by Thomas Mossing, RT.com News.
On Friday, August 26, 2016, this photograph was taken of 323 wild reindeer all dead in a severe thunderstorm, so cause of death is presumed to be a lightning strike. But what exactly happened is still unknown. NOAA lightning safety expert John Jensenius says, “Ground currents are the thing that’s responsible for the most lightning deaths and injuries in both people and animals. In this case, the animals seem to be in an area that was 50 to 80 feet in diameter and on a hillside, which gives you some idea that lightning can travel a good distance and still be deadly. It’s the electricity going into the body. It passes through the nervous system and your nerves, and the deadly part is that it stops the heart.” This is one of the largest animal kills attributed to lightning on record.
“Zika can clearly enter the brain of adults and can wreak havoc. But it’s catastrophic for early brain development.”
- Sujan Shresta, Ph.D., La Jolla Inst. of Allergy & Immunology, Calif.
Left: Aedes aegypti ranges throughout all the southern tier of states in America. Right: Aedes albopictus also ranges throughout all the southern tier states, but goes as far north as Vermont and Minnesota. Images by CDC.
— More Evidence of Ancient Thermonuclear Explosions On Mars At American Inst. of Astronautics and Aeronautics 2016 Space Conference.
John E. Brandenburg, Ph.D., plasma physicist from Morningstar Applied Physics LLC, will be among NASA managers and astronauts along with Boeing, Northrop Grumman and other aerospace managers to present a technical paper for the AIAA 2016 Space Conference in Long Beach, Calif. about accumulating data and hypothesis there were hydrogen bomb explosions over Cydonia Mensae and Galaxias Chaos in the Martian northern hemisphere eons ago.
Sunday morning, January 18, 1942, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, with front page TWA Flight # 3 airliner crash headline and photo of right to left: actress Carole Lombard, actor Clark Gable and Carole’s mother.
— Zika Virus Threatens Both Adult and Fetal Brain Cells. How Many Mosquito Species Can Spread Zika? Report Upcoming.
“Zika can clearly enter the brain of adults and can wreak havoc. But it’s catastrophic for early brain development.”
- Sujan Shresta, Ph.D., La Jolla Inst. of Allergy & Immunology, Calif.
Left: Aedes aegypti ranges throughout all the southern tier of states in America. Right: Aedes albopictus also ranges throughout all the southern tier states, but goes as far north as Vermont and Minnesota. Images by CDC.
— More Evidence of Ancient Thermonuclear Explosions On Mars At American Inst. of Astronautics and Aeronautics 2016 Space Conference. Report Upcoming.
John E. Brandenburg, Ph.D., plasma physicist from Morningstar Applied Physics LLC, will be among NASA managers and astronauts along with Boeing, Northrop Grumman and other aerospace managers to present a technical paper for the AIAA 2016 Space Conference in Long Beach, Calif. about accumulating data and hypothesis there were hydrogen bomb explosions over Cydonia Mensae and Galaxias Chaos in the Martian northern hemisphere eons ago.
— Part 1: Glowing Yellow UFO Linked to One of Strangest Airliner Crashes in U. S. History. Report Upcoming. —Part 2: Some FBI Docs About Unidentified Light, But Much Still Sealed 74 Years Later. Report Upcoming.
Sunday morning, January 18, 1942, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, California, with front page TWA Flight # 3 airliner crash headline and photo of right to left: actress Carole Lombard, actor Clark Gable and Carole’s mother.
“The lifetime of Proxima (small red sun 4.25 light-years from Earth) is several trillion years, almost a thousand times longer than the remaining lifetime of our Sun. A habitable rocky planet around Proxima would be the most natural location to where our civilization could aspire to move after the Sun will die, five billion years from now.”
- Abraham (Avi) Loeb, Ph.D., Astronomy Chair, Harvard University, and Chair, Breakthrough Starshot Initiative
Artist’s impression of the Earth-like exoplanet (upper right) discovered orbiting Proxima Centauri, a small red dwarf that the ESO has been studying with the La Silla Observatory’s High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) for years. Proxima Centauri has two other star companions: Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B. Illustration by ESO, European Southern Observatory. See: ESO. Also see Nature.
Illustration of laser array beaming photons at small, unmanned spacecraft to accelerate up to 30% the speed of light, opening up the possibility of interstellar research to nearby stars. Graphic by Experimental Cosmology Group at the Univ. of California – Santa Barbara. See: Interstellar Travel with Laser Light Propulsion.
The ESO press conference will start at 1 PM Central European Time (CET), which is 1 PM EDT / 10 AM PDT. ESO Director General Tim De Zeeuw will open the press converence at its headquarters in Garching near Munich, Germany. The European Southern Observatory is a 16-nation intergovernmental research organisation for ground-based astronomy. Created in 1962, ESO has provided astronomers with state-of-the-art research facilities and access to the southern sky. See: ESO.
Artist’s impression of the Earth-like exoplanet (upper right) discovered orbiting Proxima Centauri, a small red dwarf that the ESO has been studying with the La Silla Observatory’s High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) for years. Proxima Centauri has two other star companions: Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B. Illustration by ESO, European Southern Observatory.
