Merry Christmas!

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.  ~Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself…
~Norman Wesley Brooks, “Let Every Day Be Christmas,” 1976

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.  ~Harlan Miller

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away.
~Eva Logue

Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.  ~Author Unknown

At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year
~Thomas Tusser

Nikola Tesla Childhood Accident

He almost died in a accident at a mill. He best described the accident in his autobiography:

“There was a large flour mill with a dam across the river near the city where I was studying at the time. As a rule the height of the water was only two or three inches above the dam and to swim to it was a sport not very dangerous in which I often indulged. One day I went alone to the river to enjoy myself as usual. When I was a short distance from the masonry,
however, I was horrified to observe that the water had risen and was carrying me along swiftly. I tried to get away but it was
too late. Luckily, though, I saved myself from being swept over by taking hold of the wall with both hands. The pressure
against my chest was great and I was barely able to keep my head above the surface. Not a soul was in sight and my voice
was lost in the roar of the fall. Slowly and gradually I became exhausted and unable to withstand the strain longer. Just as I
was about to let go, to be dashed against the rocks below, I saw in a flash of light a familiar diagram illustrating the
hydraulic principle that the pressure of a fluid in motion is proportionate to the area exposed and automatically I turned on
my left side. As if by magic, the pressure was reduced and I found it comparatively easy in that position to resist the force of
the stream. But the danger still confronted me. I knew that sooner or later I would be carried down, as it was not possible
for any help to reach me in time, even if I had attracted attention. I am ambidextrous now, but then I was left-handed and
had comparatively little strength in my right arm. For this reason I did not dare to turn on the other side to rest and nothing
remained but to slowly push my body along the dam. I had to get away from the mill towards which my face was turned, as
the current there was much swifter and deeper. It was a long and painful ordeal and I came near to failing at its very end,
for I was confronted with a depression in the masonry. I managed to get over with the last ounce of my strength and fell in a
swoon when I reached the bank, where I was found.”

Mariana Trench

The Mariana Trench

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The Mariana Trench (in the Pacific Ocean) supposedly was formed by “Ocean to ocean subduction” and is the deepest place in the sea and the earth, and at seven miles deep, only one attempt to reach the bottom has been successful. The names of the oceanographers who made it are: “Don Welsh” and “Jacques Piccard,” they reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench in a mini-sub called the Trieste and were members of the U.S. Navy.

The Navy purchased the “bathyscaphe” (or “deep subs” are the deepest diving subs) from Italy for $ 250,000 ($1,819,517 in 2010 value) in the 1960s for the purpose of scientific research. The sub was almost completely a gas tank, being able to carry 70 tons of gas, and the only occupied part of the sub was the dome on the bottom, which was plated with bronze.

The Trench is divided in several sections and the deepest of them is the Challenger Deep named by Piccard while on a fishing boat “Converted into a laboratory.” Their goal was to reach the bottom of the Challenger Deep. On 26 August 1953 they dived, and they went down using thrusters and at 9,840 feet they began to slow down as a impact would be fatal. The sudden pressure of stopping cracked one of the windows, but it was an outer window and was of no danger.  To come back up they released 2.2 tons of “iron-pellet ballast.” They reached the surface and they set the record for the deepest dive in history, the record has never been broken. One robot came within two feet of the record, but had to surface. Jacques died November 1, 2008 and Don Walsh is still alive at the age of 80

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“Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.” ~ Gillian Anderson

End Comments:
The Trench is located approximately 585.96 miles from Tokyo Japan
Visit the image gallery for more images.
You can see a video of the Trieste here.

Source[s]:
http://marianatrench.com/
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageseas/deep-side-journey.html
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/just_remember-you_can_do_anything_you_set_your/207562.html
Odious Oceans, by: Anita Ganeri

Kitt Peak National Observatory

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Kit Peak National Observatory, (abbreviated KPNO) member of NOAO (National Optical Astronomy Observatory) is “50 minutes southwest of Tucson” in Arizona. Aden B. Meinel (the first manager) chose the mountain as the building spot for an observatory with a contract from NSF (National Science Foundation) with the land being leased from Tohono O’odham (a group of native Americans in Arizona) in 1958. The “council” approved the lease for unknown reasons in the 1950s, charging a first-time payment of $25,000 and after that $10 per acre per year. By 2005 they had 22 telescopes for eight different organisations, and after the NOAO started planning 7 more telescopes called: The Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) The Tohono O’odham became angry because they were trespassing on sacred grounds, and in 2005 they took legal action on NOAO.

“Kitt Peak observatory never should have been built, The one thing that keeps bothering me, is that they want to keep building and building and building. They keep desecrating the mountain over and over again.” ~ Mildred Antone, Tohono O’odham

They attempted to stop construction of the 17 million dollar project and harassed several employees, an example would be when they stopped someone in his car. “Most Tohono O’odham are friendly, but the tribe has shown no interest in tourism.”

You could take a free virtual tour here.
You can see there hours here.

Apollo 11

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Apollo Mission Emblem

Apollo 11 was the first moon landing carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, it was launched July 16, 1969 13:32:00 UTC on the purpose of reaching the moon before the Soviets (who launched the 184-pound Sputnik I) and before the end of the 1960s. This goal was set by President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (John F. Kennedy) when he said in front of congress: “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” Apollo 11 was part of NASA’s Apollo mission which had many failures, a rocket blowing up “Practically every day” “It looked like a … quick way to have a short career.” and everyone on board had been on other missions and so the were called “veterans.” It was launched from The Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39 A.K.A “Mission Control.” They then launched it and while in flight the switch for the Portable Life Support System (PLSS) broke and Buzz Aldrin used AG-7 black ink pen to fix it, Paul Fisher (who designed the “Space Pen”) took advantage of it instantly, saying they used it to “push in the bi-metallic strip of the breaker assembly, thus saving two of the Apollo 11 crew from being stranded on the moon.” —————————————– Bonus Material from taylorspectrum on Buzz Aldrin, “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” ~ Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin punches conspiracy reporter, Source[s]:

1. http://www.nasm.si.edu/collections/imagery/apollo/as11/a11.htm
2. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo11.html
3. http://history.nasa.gov/ap11ann/kippsphotos/apollo.html
4. http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo11/index.html
5. http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace/media/apolloprogram/images/32423/diagram-of-apollo-11-route.jpg
6. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090720-apollo-11-moon-facts.html

The Wardenclyffe Tower

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The Wardenclyffe Tower was built by “The Man Who Invented the 20th Century” Nikola Tesla as the first telecommunications tower, but mainly as a demonstration that it is possible to send energy without the connection of wires. The accompanying building was designed by Stanford White, a wealthy and famous architect of the time. The tower was named after James S. Warden, the man who contributed 200 acres to the project. The initial funding was provided by John Pierpont Morgan who contributed $ 150,000 (which in 2010 dollars would be $ 3,878,091) but more  funding was found by other benefactors, the  second biggest benefactor being John Jacob Astor. Nikola  Tesla began planning the tower in 1898 and began building in 1901. The tower was designed by W D Crow,  who was an associate of White. In June 1902 Tesla Moved his laboratory from Houston Street to the  tower, because of his tight personal financial situation. The tower was to have been completed by 1903  but was still nonfunctional due to several last-minute changes in design (it was functional to the extent of lighting a light bulb up to 2 miles away). Around this time he talked to a radio operator across the pacific ocean. However a rumor was started  that the energy consumption from the outside, could not be measured, thus anyone could receive energy from it without being detected and Morgan, saw no reason for providing free energy to everyone and he then withdrew his funding and over a period of time, convinced the other benefactors to do the same.  By July 1904 all benefactors had cut their funding for the building of the facility. With no funding Tesla  looked for other Benefactors but met with little to no success. In May 1905 Tesla’s patents on alternating  current motors and other methods of power transmission expired, halting royalty payments and leaving  him with almost no funding. By 1905 most activity of the site had to be shut down, employees were laid  off then but parts of the building remained in use until 1907, but by 1908 the mortgage was foreclosed.  But Tesla procured a new mortgage from George C. Boldt, proprietor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, but the tower was partially abandoned around 1911. Between 1912 and 1915, Tesla’s finances unraveled, and he was asked how he would repay the benefactors and could give no satisfactory answer. He had fallen into a depression at this time because a fire had destroyed most of his instruments and notes at his apartment. In 1915, legal ownership of the Wardenclyffe property was transferred to George Boldt of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for a $20,000 debt (about $400,000 in 2010 dollars). In September 1917, (during World War I) the government feared that the tower was being used as a reference point for German submarines, and acting on this, blew up the tower with dynamite. George Boldt wished to make the property available for sale, On April 20, 1922 Tesla lost an appeal of judgment versus his backers in the second foreclosure, This kept him from any further work on the tower.

On February 14, 1967, the nonprofit public benefit corporation Brookhaven Town Historical Trust was established. It selected the Wardenclyffe Tower to be designated as a historic site and as the first site to be preserved by the Trust on March 3, 1967. On July 7, 1976, a plaque from Yugoslavia was installed by representatives from Brookhaven National Laboratory, it said:

IN THIS BUILDING
DESIGNED BY STANFORD WHITE, ARCHITECT
NIKOLA TESLA
BORN SMILJAN, YUGOSLAVIA 1856—DIED NEW YORK, U.S.A. 1943
CONSTRUCTED IN 1901-1905 WARDENCLYFFE
HUGE RADIO STATION WITH ANTENNA TOWER
187 FEET HIGH /DESTROYED 1917/, WHICH
WAS TO HAVE SERVED AS HIS FIRST WORLD
COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM.
IN MEMORY OF 120TH ANNIVERSARY OF TESLA’S BIRTH
AND 200TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE U.S.A. INDEPENDENCE

July 10, 19760

The plaque was stolen from the land in November, 2009 and an anonymous benefactor is even now offering a $ 2,000 reward for it’s return. The Tesla Wardenclyffe Project, Inc. was established in 1994 for the purpose of having the Wardenclyffe Tower placed in the national register of historic places, a attempt had been made earlier, but was rejected. Designation of the structure as a National Landmark is awaiting completion of plant decommissioning activities by AGFA corporation (its present owner).

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“The glow retreats, done is the day of toil;
It yonder hastes, new fields of life exploring;
Ah, that no wing can lift me from the soil
Upon its track to follow, follow soaring!

A glorious dream! though now the glories fade.
Alas! the wings that lift the mind no aid
Of wings to lift the body can bequeath me.” – Nikola Tesla

Earth

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The earth is the third planet from the sun and the fifth largest planet in the solar system. The earth is also one of the four terrestrial planets, the earth is sometimes referred to as the world, the blue planet, Terra (the Latin word for earth) earth is also the densest in the solar system. The earth has Millions of species and supposedly has tectonic plates. One theory is that the tectonic plates float around like boats and when the collide it causes an earthquake. There are different kinds of movement: Convergent boundaries, that is when the plates smash into each other, Divergent boundaries when the plates are pulled away from each other, and Transform boundaries, when the plates scare alongside each other. The oldest rock ever dated is 4,030 million years old. The oldest oceanic rock ever found was 200 million years old. Most of the ocean floor is 100 million years old. The slowest moving is the Eurasian Plate. It moves at about 21 mm a year. Most move at the same speed as your fingernail grows. The fastest moving plate, is the pacific plate moving at 59-69 mm a year. But in the  Francisco earthquake the scientist are compelled to think that the Francisco was not in the direct path of the vibrations. Instead they think that the vibrations started approx. 120 miles away from Fransisco, and traveled at an angle and hit the outer core of the earth and went in a direct line under Fransisco. the core is said to have a layer, and when the pressure becomes intense it can give way causing it to bulge up and forming a mountain. When the ash/magma begins to push on the top of the mountain it makes it erupt. In the mount saint Helen incident, it was mostly ash and not magma,  The main threat at that time was the “pyroclastic flows”  These flows can be 50 feet high and usually go faster than 70 miles an hour and can wipe out anything in their way, because they have the consistency of wet cement, If they hit anything it crushes it. These flows are created by debris but mostly melted water from the mountain which combines with all the dirt resulting in these flows. Scientists think that is an asteroid any larger than 20+ miles could destroy all life on the planet in approximately 4 months. If it landed in the ocean it would cause tidal waves bigger than any in history. If Yellow Stone state park or any other super volcano erupted it would send ash into the upper atmosphere blocking out the sun and steadily freezing the planet (which supposedly already happened). It would also make glaciers come down from the upper part of the earth (Alaska, Russia, Canada…). These giant glaciers would cover approximately 50% of the earths surface (as they supposedly did in the last ice age). This would of course devastate the rest of the earth horribly and would eventually destroy it. They also believe that giant tornado’s called “hypercanes” could cause severe global damage. The scientists are mildly sure that there have been prehistoric hypercanes thousands of years ago. There is one little snag, it is very difficult to raise a hypercane in the modern oceans. The temperature of the water is hundreds of degrees short of the required water temperature to make a hypercane. The water would have to be approximately 200°f. because the water would have to evaporate quickly enough for the winds to catch it at the right angle to swirl it into a vortex creating a hypercane. They could move a long distance inland and go 80 miles an hour, they have even been blamed for killing the dinosaurs. They were (according to models) roughly 50 miles wide and would draw everything within 20 miles to be crushed.

The Giant Clam

The Giant Clam is from the Tridacna gigas. T. gigas is one of the one of the most endangered clam species. It was mentioned in scientific reports as early as 1825. They live in shallow coral reefs and can weigh up to 441 lbs. They can also live as deep as 66 ft. They live in flat coral sand or broken coral. They are also found off the coast of the Philippines where they are called taklobo. Although larval clams are planktonic they become sessile in adulthood. The creatures mantle tissues act as a habitat for the symbiotic single-celled Dino Flagellate algae from which it gets its nutrition. By day the clam opens it’s shell and extends it’s mantle tissue so that algae receives the sunlight they need to photosynthesize. Young T. gigas are difficult to distinguish from other species of Tridacnidae. Adult T. gigas are the only clams unable to close they’re shells completely even when closed part of the mantle remains exposed. unlike the very similar T. derasa T. gigas have 4-5 folds in they’re shells unlike the T. derasa which has 6-7 folds. The largest known T. gigas specimen measured 137 cm it was discovered around 1817 on north-western coast of Sumatra the weight of the two shells was 230 kilograms 507 lbs this suggests that the live weight of the animal would have been roughly 551 lbs today these shells are on display in a museum in north Ireland today. Algae provides T. gigas with all supplement needed, in small clams 10 milligrams dry tissue weight filter feeding provide about 65% of total carbon needed for respiration and growth. Large clams 10 g acquire only 34% of carbon from this source. Legend as is often the case with uncharacteristically large species the giant clam has been historically misunderstood was known as “killer-clam” and “man-eating clam” and versions of the U.S. Navy Diving Manual even gave detailed instructions for releasing oneself from its grasp by severing the abductor muscles used to close its shell. In a colorful account of the discovery of the pearl of Lao Tzu, Wilburn Cobb said he was told that a Dyak diver was drowned when the Tridacna closed it’s shell on his arm. They also have thousands of tiny eyes all over them. They are not particularly good eyes, just good enough so that they can see a shadow pass over them so they can close they’re shell.

(Giant Clam)                                                                                                 (Pearl of Lao Tzu)

Nikola Tesla

(Nikola Tesla)

Nikola Tesla July 10th 1856 – August 1st 1943
Born

Nikola Tesla had three sisters “Milka” “Angelina” and “Marica” who all “doted on him,” but at the age of five Tesla’s brother Dane (who was considered to be the family genius), died in a horse-riding accident. This caused him to acquire a life-long sense of obligation towards his parents. He would work until he was mentally exhausted to be worth his parents love, on this He said:

“Anything I did that was creditable, merely caused my parents to feel their loss more keenly. So I grew up with little confidence in myself.”

He felt a kind of guilty that he had survived and not his brother. Physiologists today think that he suffered from a excessive compulsion disorder. The entire family was gifted with exceptional memory. This was magnified by the way in which he was raised, such circumstances as when his mother invented a mechanical eggbeater, or when “QUOTE” When “Tesla” started messing around with X-rays he at first took the X-rays from 50 feet away. He tried to prove the dangerous after effects of X-rays. To prove it he placed his hand directly in front of the X-ray tube. His hand turned black and was covered with blisters almost immediately. The reaction was so violent he decided at once that particles had passed through his hand. Nikola Tesla said that occasionally something larger than an electron would break off. He said he felt a stinging pain where it entered his hand and felt it again where it left his hand. He said it could be possible to put chemicals into any part of the human body which could make it a very good therapeutic device. It is supposed that once he made a oscillator and he turned it on and it shook a few tools and things of tables. Out of curiosity he attached it to one of the iron support pillars in his room. He sat down and noted his observations. He did not know but the vibrations were being sent down the pillar and into the pavement. As the vibrations increased it started shaking the nearby buildings to. As the police (which were by now used to Tesla’s experiments) bursts open the door they see Tesla breaking a small device with a sledgehammer. He Said:

“Gentlemen, I am sorry, but you are just a trifle to late to witness my experiments. I found it necessary to stop it suddenly and unexpectedly and in an unusual way just as you entered. … now you must leave, for I have many things to do. good day gentlemen.”

There is doubt as to the truth of this story because it was not in the newspapers. The USS main exploded somewhat mysteriously from the harbor. The U.S.A. declared war against Spain. On July 1 1898 he filed patent number 613,809, It was an apparatus for controlling mechanism of moving vessels or vehicles. About a month after it was filed the first electrical exhibit opened in the Madison square garden. Every one expected a surprise from Nikola Tesla but were very unprepared to see a little wooden boat going round a tank. The crowd was so astonished that he had to remove the top to prove there was no one inside controlling it. A reporter shouted “what is the cube rout of sixty-four?” the lights on the little boat flashed 4 times. In a time only a hand full of people knew about radio waves some thought he was controlling it with his mind. Tesla calculated that world war I would last five years. He also said that the duration of the world war I could be reduced to zero with a weapon of sufficient magnitude. He said he could destroy 10,000 planes from 250 miles away. He EVEN dared to say that it would make war impossible. For $3,000,000 he tried to sell it to the British war office. But interest collapsed much to Tesla’s disappointment. He said that during that time several attempts had been made to steal his papers, But he said that the thieves were disappointed because he kept all his brilliant thoughts in his head. Just prior to world war II a number of other inventors and scientists said they were interested in the “death beam”. Marconi was reported to be making a beam himself that, he claimed that it could disable the motors of planes from large distances. Nikola Tesla said his “beam” used no rays. He said

“Beams are not applicable because they cannot be produced in requisite quantities and diminish rapidly in intensity with distance”

Albert Einstein worked on his own beam weapon in the 1930s which was shown by his FBI records.

Source[s]:
Tesla Master of Lightning
http://www.wimp.com/nikolatesla/
http://www.tesla-museum.org/meni_en/nt.php?link=tesla/t&opc=sub1
http://www.jvdcreativity.com/ckiosk.htm