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ALIEN SPACESHIPS TO ATTACK EARTH IN MARCH 2013!
Three giant alien spaceships are again heading for Earth! Scientists predict the new ships will arrive in March 2013.
UFO encounters continue to increase – as documented on WWN. And today scientists at SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), an independent non-commercial organization, made a major announcement:
“Three giant spaceships are heading toward Earth. The largest one of them is 200 miles wide. Two others are slightly smaller. At present, the objects are just moving past Jupiter. Judging by their speed, they should be on Earth by the fall of 2012,” said John Malley, the lead extraterrestrial expert at SETI.
Three similar giant ships landed in China and the Indonesia Sea in November, 2011. They were identified as alien spaceships from Planet Gootan. Three more giant Gootan ships are headed her for March, 2013.
Read two of WWN’s many stories about the three Gootan ships landing in 2011:
THE STORY ABOUT THE LANDING OF THE THREE SHIPS IN NOVEMBER 2011
THE GOOTANS ARE HERE
The new Gootan spaceships have been detected by HAARP search system. The system, based in Alaska, was designed to study the phenomenon of northern lights. According to SETI researchers, the objects are extraterrestrial spaceships. They will be visible in optical telescopes as soon as they reach Mars’s orbit – sometime in November of 2012. The US government has been reportedly informed about the event.
Channa Daswatte’s Bawa Tour
“Geoffrey Bawa and his works are national treasures and Trekurious is proud to collaborate with Channa Daswatte and the Geoffrey Bawa Trust to create this wonderful tour. Channa, of course, is the perfect person to host this tour, having worked closely with Bawa himself and being a highly accomplished and lauded architect himself,” says Rukmankan Sivaloganathan, CEO of Trekurious, adding that tours of this nature are absolutely essential if Sri Lanka is to attract and cater to more affluent and discerning tourists.
The tour, on 27 January includes visits to some of the resorts designed by Bawa in Bentota; tours of Brief – the work of Geoffrey’s brother Bevis - and Lunuganga gardens with lunch at Lunuganga; Seema Malakaya, a Buddhist meditation centre on the Beira Lake; and ends with cocktails and dinner hosted by Channa at Bawa’s former residence, now the home of the Geoffrey Bawa Trust.
You can book this tour on www.trekurious.com or call +94 724 202020 for more information.
An All-Wet Meteorite Arrives from Mars
The Curiosity rover has been getting all sorts of attention lately, and no wonder: it’s by far the most sophisticated robotic explorer that has ever set down on another planet. The Mars Science Laboratory — Curiosity’s formal name — is armed with a suite of instruments that can analyze the Red Planet’s rocks and soil at a level of detail never before possible. There’s every reason to believe the rover, still just at the beginning of its mission, will ultimately reveal all sorts of secrets about Mars’ geologic, and perhaps even biologic, history.
Back here on Earth, however, a chunk of rock known as NWA 7034 is answering at least some of those questions already. The prosaically named bit of rubble is an artifact of Mars that was blasted off the surface eons ago, made the long, cold journey to Earth and eventually slammed into the Sahara Desert as a meteorite. And as a new report in Science makes clear, it’s got a remarkable story to tell. “We know that Mars may have been warm and wet very early in its history,” says lead author Carl Agee, of the University of New Mexico. “But this sample suggests the water may have lingered much longer than anyone realized.”
The fact that bits of Mars fall to Earth every so often is well known to planetary scientists. NASA has cataloged nearly three dozen pieces of the Red Planet so far, presumably flung into space by one of the asteroids that whacks Mars every so often. It’s not as hard for Earth to intercept so many of these space rocks as it seems. For one thing, Mars has produced a lot of the stuff over time, especially since its tenuously thin atmosphere makes it more vulnerable to asteroid hits than the well-swaddled Earth is. Mars’ lower gravity also makes it easier for any rubble that’s kicked up to escape into space. Once that happens, one of these rocks may, over time, make millions of orbital passes by Earth, eventually getting drawn in by our planet’s gravity. Scientists can confirm a meteorite’s Martian origin by comparing its mineralogy and trace atmospheric content to what they know of Mars’ makeup. The best-known Mars rock so far: ALH84001, which made headlines in 1996 when scientists claimed — wrongly, most now believe — that it contained evidence of ancient Martian bacteria.
But while the excitement about ALH84001 has long since faded, scientific interest in Martian meteorites hasn’t at all. So when a meteorite collector handed NWA 7034 over to Agee back in 2011, it was immediately clear that even among Mars rocks, this one was special. “I’d never seen anything like it,” says Agee. Most meteorites are black on the outside, thanks to their superheated passage through Earth’s atmosphere, but NWA 7034 was black on the inside as well. “It also had other colors — patches of white, and so on. Just a very unusual texture. It sat on my shelf for a month while I scratched my head, wondering, ‘What is that thing?’”
It took more than a year of analysis by labs across the U.S. and in China before Agee and his co-authors could really say. As they explain in Science, while NWA 7034 is different in composition from any other Mars meteorite ever seen, it turns out to be quite similar to the chunks Curiosity has been finding. “All the other meteorites,” says Agee, “are thought to be from just two or three places on the Martian surface.” The reason those spots are overrepresented is that even with Mars’ higher rate of asteroid bombardment, it’s still not easy for a rock to be launched on just the right trajectory to reach Earth. That would be fine if the two or three places that have donated meteorites to Earth were typical of the rest of Mars, but they appear not to be.
Instead, it’s the crustal region that produced NWA 7034 that seems a better representative of the rest of Mars and thus holds more information about the planet’s history. The most exciting finding so far: while the rock is extremely dry, it still has about 10 times the water content of other Martian meteorites. “It suggests,” says Agee, “that when it formed, there was water permeating and interacting with it.” Yet radioactive dating showed NWA 7034 is a mere 2.1 billion years old, which places it in an era long after the water was supposed to have vanished.
This sample, says Agee, may therefore be telling us that the loss of Martian surface water happened much more gradually than has been believed. “There could be other interpretations as well,” he cautions. NWA 7034 is volcanic, and it’s possible it formed near a hydrothermal vent, where deep subsurface water — much less surprising than surface water would be, and possibly present on Mars to this day — was heated and forced up from below. “There’s always more than one way to explain something like this,” he says.
This and other questions about NWA 7034 could still be resolved, however: the Science paper is only the first volley in what will likely be a barrage of findings. “We’ve got 10 labs working on this meteorite right now,” says Agee. “This was just NWA 7034’s debut.”
Volcanoes on Venus? New Clues, and Mysteries, About Earth’s Boiling Twin
A volcano named Sapas Mons dominates this computer-generated view of the surface of Venus. Lava flows extend for hundreds of kilometers across the fractured plains shown in the foreground to the base of the mountain, which measures 248 miles (400 km) across and 0.9 mile (1.4 km) high.
It’s got to be frustrating for planetary scientists that the world closest to Earth and most similar in size as well—so similar that it’s often described as our planet’s twin—is in many ways the toughest to study. Venus’ perpetual shroud of thick, opaque clouds makes it impossible to see the surface with even the most powerful telescopes, and its sweltering surface temperature (think 900°F) makes it impossible for landers to survive for more than a few minutes.
Nevertheless, orbiting spacecraft armed with radar and other instruments have taught scientists quite a lot about Venus’ atmosphere over the years, and even its surface—and a new study in Nature Geoscience is now reporting another, intriguing piece of information. The European Space Agency’s Venus Express has detected a sharp decline in sulfur dioxide (SO2) concentrations in the planet’s atmosphere following a spike in SO2 just after the probe arrived in 2006. The most plausible explanation, says lead author Emmanuel Marcq, is a volcanic eruption, caught in the act.
It’s not the only possible explanation, he admits. “We know that on Earth there are long-term atmospheric cycles, so it could happen on Venus as well. We can’t dismiss this possibility at the moment.”
Volcanoes, however, are a lot more likely. One reason is that they’re known sources of SO2, at least on Earth. Another is that Venus is peppered with them — hundreds upon hundreds of volcanic mountains, lava flows and other features that make the planet’s history of volcanism unmistakable. Most of them appear to be long dead, but there have been hints in the past that a few might still be active. In the early 1990’s for example, radar on the Magellan spacecraft detected what appeared to be fresh lava, and back in the early 1980’s Pioneer Venus documented SO2 levels nearly 50 times higher than anyone expected, followed by a steady dramatic decline. “It’s very similar,” he says, “to the one we’re observing now.”
If a volcano really did erupt just after Venus Express showed up, the event could have been seen directly by the satellite’s infrared detectors — but only on the planet’s night side, since average daytime temperatures are so high that an extra hotspot wouldn’t stand out very easily. And even so, the orbiter only passes over a given spot on the Venusian surface every 100 days. “It’s unlikely,” says Marcq, “that we would be able catch an eruption.”
It’s also highly unlikely that this eruption, or any conceivable eruption on Venus, could do much to make the planet more hospitable. When a big volcano goes off on Earth — Krakatoa, for example, or even the more modest Pinatubo — its sulfur dioxide output forms light-reflecting particles high in the stratosphere that bounce sunlight back into space and temporarily cool the planet. Indeed, volcanic eruptions are one of the natural forces that climate scientists take into account when trying to discern the fingerprint of manmade climate change.
On Venus, however, the carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere has created a runaway greenhouse effect and global warming beyond anyone’s worst nightmares. This recent eruption could cool the planet – but only by a few degrees. When you’re talking temperatures that are already hot enough to melt lead, a few degrees of relief isn’t going to make a whole lot of difference for vulnerable rovers – or astronauts.
2013: A Cloudy Forecast for Renewable Energy, with a Silver Lining
Photovoltaic panels track and rotate along the path of the sun in Hinesburg, Vt., on Dec. 24, 2012
On the surface, it looks like the renewable-energy industry has never been healthier. This year, wind-turbine installation in the U.S. actually outpaced the installation of new natural-gas capacity — despite the shale-gas boom, which has pushed down the price of natural gas. In 2012 new wind capacity reached 6,519 MW as of Nov. 30, just edging out gas capacity and more than doubling new coal installations. Meanwhile, new solar capacity in the U.S. reached nearly 2,000 MW, beating out 2011’s numbers. Globally the stock of installed wind and solar power hit 307 GW in 2011, up from 50 GW in 2004, while total investment in the sector hit $280 billion last year. Those are some bright numbers.
Yet there are clouds on the horizon for renewables. (Sorry — weather metaphors are hard to avoid with wind and solar.) The wind industry faces the loss of the valuable production tax credit next year if Congress can’t get its act together to renew it — and indeed, some of the growth the industry experienced this year may be due to companies rushing to get their projects in while the credit is still in place. (And those capacity figures comparing wind to gas or coal are a bit misleading — the intermittency of renewables means that a megawatt of wind doesn’t deliver the same amount of actual juice as a megawatt of gas.) The solar industry faces serious global oversupply, which has driven a number of manufacturers in the U.S. and elsewhere into bankruptcy and helped depress the recent IPO of the major panel installer SolarCity. According to the Financial Times, total investment in wind and solar in 2012 may well fall compared with 2011 — the first time that’s happened in nearly a decade.
So what’s the real forecast for wind and solar power?
That’s dependent — as it always is with the power sector, regardless of whether it’s renewable or not — on policy. For the wind industry in the U.S., continuation of the tax credit would be vital. It pays wind-farm owners 2.2 cents per kilowatt-hour of electricity they produce over 10 years. If Congress fails to renew the tax credit, Bloomberg New Energy Finance predicts installations could fall by 88% next year to just 1.5 GW, at the cost of nearly 40,000 jobs, according to a study sponsored by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA).
A quick check at the headlines will show how unlikely renewal is in the current political atmosphere. It’s so bad that the AWEA, in an effort to get fiscal conservatives on their side, this month proposed a six-year phaseout of the credit. But while a bill to renew the credit was passed by the Senate Finance Committee in August and is sponsored by a Republican — Senator Chuck Grassley of wind-rich Iowa — little has happened since, and producers are getting ready for the fallout. Already turbinemakers have announced hundreds of layoffs.
As for the solar industry, the low costs for modules that have driven installation are a double-edged sword for manufacturers, who increasingly can’t make money off their products at current prices. That’s also led to something of a trade war — the U.S and Europe have charged Chinese solar manufacturers, with ample help from Beijing, of selling solar modules at below cost. The E.U. opened up an antidumping investigation in September, and the U.S. slapped tariffs on Chinese solar panels. That might be good for domestic manufacturers, but a trade war would likely hold back global growth of solar power.
There is good news, though. Both wind and solar are becoming more competitive against fossil fuels — solar modules are 75% cheaper than they were four years ago, while the cost of wind turbines has fallen by 25% over the past three years. And that’s not just due to government help — technological advances have continued to drive down the cost of renewable energy, and grid parity has already been achieved in some areas. It’s important to remember that a decade ago renewable energy was just a hobby. We’ve come a long way.
That’s why I’m ultimately pretty optimistic about both the immediate and long-term future of renewable energy. There’s still an enormous market out there for new electricity generation, especially in untapped markets like Latin America and the Middle East. Renewable power is an excellent option — sunny Saudi Arabia, for its part, has said it wants more than $100 billion in renewables, while Japan and Germany need renewables to replace forsworn nuclear power. As wind and solar improve, the need for supportive public policy will drop away, like the scaffolding that surrounds a rocket at liftoff. The year 2013 may not be as good for renewables as 2012 — a lot will depend on how the larger global economy fares — but we won’t be going backward.
Jetwing launches Smart Phone Apps
(Mirror) - Jetwing, Sri Lanka’s largest owned family company in the hospitality industry launches launches two of the first ever mobile apps of their kind today for the popular Android operating system; with the iOS version to be released in January.
The first app – Jetwing Hotels - has been built to provide functionality and the best user experience at each step, and be a convenient method of accessing information on Jetwing Hotels via your phone. Essentially, the app will be a catalogue of all of Jetwing’s properties, including details, accommodation types, special offers, and an image gallery for easy viewing.
The app will also seamlessly enable customers to book their favourite Jetwing hotel right from the palm of their hand and effect payments and obtain secure reservations in real time. In addition, a QR (quick response) code reader will be incorporated which will enable guests to unlock special offers, and access exclusive content during their stay at the hotel.
The second app, Jetwing Travels (www.jetwingtravels.com) was developed in-house, and thus fully customized to display content about Sri Lanka, tailor-made tour programmes, special offers, and other information on your smartphone. Through the app itself, users are able to select itineraries, unlock seasonal gifts and establish contact with the company efficiently. At present, the Android version is released and will be available for other platforms such as iOS, Windows, and Blackberry.
The Jetwing Travels app will provide international visitors to Sri Lanka a good overview of the island and what it offers before travelling to the country and whilst in Sri Lanka. Detailed information on travel programs, sights, attractions and other valuable travel tips and advice are provided in a concise and user friendly interface.
The smartphone has opened a world of innovation and easy access to products and services all around the world, and is definitely here to stay. Today, almost everyone uses their smartphone as a mobile alternative to computers, with many similar features available to them including others such as mobile payments, gift shopping, for hotel information and reservations thanks to internet ready smartphones.
