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This is the year, 2012, Mayan predictions, Long Count, Mass Solar Coronal Ejections, O Eh! those Cosmic Rays!!!!, End of Day……fret not, come to this event, The Mystery of the Bosnian Pyramids, to be enlightened……

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Things are changing in the World at a rate that has not been seen before. This forthcoming Talk and Experiential Workshop by Nigel Grace will help to give us an understanding of what these changes mean.

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At the G20 this week, a growing group of G20 countries from France to Brazil backed the Robin Hood Tax, and the link between the Robin Hood Tax and fighting poverty and climate change became clearer than ever. Momentum is building and leaders like David Cameron who opposed the tax have been left looking increasingly isolated.
This happened because millions of people like you forced the Robin Hood Tax to the top of the political agenda…….more
Also, David Cameron, the British PM, opposed this tax, but is coming under greater pressure to agree to doing something to alter the massive disparity between us and the bankers.

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Voyager set to enter interstellar space

The two probes are currently in the heliosheath — the outer ring of our solar system that features a magnetic froth no spacecraft has ever encountered before.

By Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California — Published: April 29, 2011

More than 30 years after they left Earth, NASA’s twin Voyager probes are now at the edge of the solar system, and they’re still working. And with each passing day, they are beaming back a message that is both unsettling and thrilling.

The message is, “Expect the unexpected.”

“It’s uncanny,” said Ed Stone from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. “Voyager 1 and 2  have a knack for making discoveries.”

On April 28, 2011, NASA held a live briefing to reflect on what the Voyager mission has accomplished and to preview what lies ahead as the probes prepare to enter the realm of interstellar space in our Milky Way Galaxy.
The adventure began in the late 1970s when the probes took advantage of a rare alignment of outer planets for an unprecedented grand tour. Voyager 1 visited Jupiter and Saturn, while Voyager 2 flew past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Voyager 2 is still the only probe to visit Uranus and Neptune.
When pressed to name the top discoveries from those encounters, Stone said, “It’s so hard to choose.”
His partial list includes the discovery of volcanoes on Jupiter’s moon Io; evidence for an ocean beneath the icy surface of Europa; hints of methane rain on Saturn’s moon Titan; the crazily tipped magnetic poles of Uranus and Neptune; icy geysers on Neptune’s moon Triton; and planetary winds that blow faster and faster with increasing distance from the Sun.
“Each of these discoveries changed the way we thought of other worlds,” said Stone. In 1980, Voyager 1 used the gravity of Saturn to fling itself slingshot-style out of the plane of the solar system. In 1989, Voyager 2 got a similar assist from Neptune. Both probes set sail into the void.
Sailing into the void sounds like a quiet time, but the discoveries have continued. Stone sets the stage by directing our attention to the kitchen sink. “Turn on the faucet,” he instructs. “Where the water hits the sink, that’s the Sun, and the thin sheet of water flowing radially away from that point is the solar wind. Note how the Sun ‘blows a bubble’ around itself.”
There really is such a bubble — researchers call it the heliosphere and it is gargantuan. Made of solar plasma and magnetic fields, the heliosphere is about 3 times wider than the orbit of Pluto. Every planet, asteroid, spacecraft, and life-form belonging to our solar system lies inside.
The Voyagers are trying to get out, but they’re not there yet. To locate them, Stone peers back into the sink: “As the water — or solar wind — expands, it gets thinner and thinner, and it can’t push as hard. Abruptly, a sluggish, turbulent ring forms. That outer ring is the heliosheath and that is where the Voyagers are now.”
The heliosheath is a strange place filled with a magnetic froth no spacecraft has ever encountered before, echoing with low-frequency radio bursts heard only in the outer reaches of the solar system.
“In many ways, the heliosheath is not like our models predicted,” said Stone. In June 2010, Voyager 1 beamed back a startling number: zero. That’s the outward velocity of the solar wind where the probe is now. No one thinks the solar wind has completely stopped; it may have just turned a corner. But which way? Voyager 1 is trying to figure that out through a series of “weather vane” maneuvers in which the spacecraft turns itself in a different direction to track the local breeze.
No one knows exactly how many miles the Voyagers must travel before they “pop free” into interstellar space. Most researchers believe, however, that the end is near. “The heliosheath is 3 to 4 billion miles (5 to 6.5 billion kilometers) in thickness,” estimates Stone. “That means we’ll be out within 5 years or so.”
There is plenty of power for the rest of the journey. Both Voyagers are energized by the radioactive decay of a Plutonium 238 heat source. This should keep critical subsystems running through at least 2020.
After that, he says, “Voyager will become our silent ambassador to the stars.” Each probe is famously equipped with a Golden Record — literally, a gold-coated copper phonograph record. It contains 118 photographs of Earth; 90 minutes of the world’s greatest music; an audio essay entitled “Sounds of Earth” (featuring everything from burbling mud pots to barking dogs to a roaring Saturn 5 liftoff); greetings in 55 human languages and one whale language; the brain waves of a young woman in love; and salutations from the secretary general of the United Nations. A team led by Carl Sagan assembled the record as a message to possible extraterrestrial civilizations that might encounter the spacecraft.
“A billion years from now, when everything on Earth we’ve ever made has crumbled into dust, when the continents have changed beyond recognition and our species is unimaginably altered or extinct, the Voyager record will speak for us,” wrote Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan in an introduction to a CD version of the record.
Some people note that the chance of aliens finding the Golden Record is fantastically remote. The Voyager probes won’t come within a few light-years of another star for some 40,000 years. What are the odds of making contact under such circumstances? On the other hand, what are the odds of a race of primates evolving to sentience, developing spaceflight, and sending the sound of barking dogs into the cosmos?

Article and top right image courtesy of Astronomy Magazine

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Update to my post of the 26th October 2010, this is the latest from the Robin Hood Tax Campaign for action to make this tax a reality.

Robin Hood Taxes would take from the richest in society and give to those who need it.
A Tax on banks that would give billions to tackle poverty worldwide.

Bill Nighy (Ambassador for the Robin Hood Tax Campaign) is set to take on the Bankers with a challenge:

Bill’s Banker Challenge.

The British have a sense of fairness that is legendary, and it has been stretched to the limits by the continued spectacle of huge pay increases and bonuses while ordinary people suffer.
So Bill Nighy, everyone’s favourite Robin Hood Taxman, has laid down a challenge. He’s offering to accompany Britain’s biggest bankers on a world-changing trip around the UK and then on to Kenya.
Bill is asking them to see the impact of crushing poverty on poor people in the UK, on those who will lose the Disability Living Allowance, on those made homeless and jobless or those struggling to pay their heating bills and onto see the havoc it has wreaked in Kenya.
Why? So these mega-money-makers can see the impact the banking crisis has had first-hand. And, crucially to ask them to see this and to then explain why they don’t support a Robin Hood Tax
We want to challenge the government too. It doesn’t have to be this way. Polls show that more than three quarters of those who voted for the coalition government also support more taxation on the banks (75% conservatives, 87% Lib Dems). This would be the most popular tax in history.

YOU’RE PART OF THE WORLD’S GREATEST BANK JOB

A tiny tax of 0.05% from international bankers’ transactions could generate hundreds of billions of pounds every year to stop cuts in crucial public services in the UK and help fight global poverty and climate change. And it shouldn’t cost the public a penny.Turning a crisis for the banks into an opportunity for the world.

For more information, to read Bill’s letter, and to join the Robin Hood Tax Supporters (a must!)…… Click here

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