Evacuating Japan & the Vision of Edgar Cayce

It's far worse than first believed.
Update this hour: Tepco has just reported that it “estimates total cesium-137 release from Fukushima at 360,000 terabecquerels — 4 times higher than Chernobyl’s 85,000 terabecquerels”

And there is still a daily release. The entire world is now being effected adversely by this with death rates going up rapidly all over the world including America.

Japan is desperate!
It is much worse than first admitted. It is not getting any better.

This area of Japan alone will not see a rice crop for over 300 years.

The famous Dr. Helen Caldicott says, “They don’t know how to clean it up. It’s not in cold shutdown.
The corium — the mass, hundred tons of melted uranium lava — is laying on the floor of the containment vessels.
It hasn’t finished and will never finish.
I think it means the end of Japan financially.”
Energy News reports on the findings of Chris Canine a man no one would question as to experience and knowledge of all things nuclear. Here is what he writes about Fukishima.

“There are several reasons why I believe the country will be evacuated if the #4 SFP collapses. The amount of radioactive material in the fuel pool dwarfs the total amount at Chernobyl by a factor of 5 to 10. Chernobyl’s core was still mostly contained in a building (although heavily damaged), and most of the radioactive material melted downward and became lava like. If #4 SFP collapses it will be lying on the completely open ground, probably going critical on and off in portions of the pile for years. The dose rate from this pile will make dropping sand or anything from the air much more lethal than anything at Chernobyl. And probably impossible. The entire site at Fukushima will be uninhabitable and unworkable because of the dose rate coming from this pile of fuel. That means there will be no control of the other fuel pools, and we could lose control of them.

Nuclear experts will soft sell the ramifications because that is how the industry works. When the experts “have concerns” about the situation at #4 that means they are pooping their pants. My experience at Fukushima was 30 years ago. I worked in the industry for about 15 years as a health physics technician. I was also referred to as a “nuclear gypsy” because I traveled from plant to plant working outages. That meant I was always in the middle of the hottest jobs in the heart of the plant. The engineers will talk about this part or that part of a plant, but I have been all those places wearing full gear.”

It is interesting to note the words of the so-called 'sleeping prophet' Edgar Cayce who said,“The greater portion of Japan must go into the sea.”
I hope it is not so.
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Big Cats of North America

The beauty, the power and majesty of creation is all around us even in the animals that live next to us.
I remember Rabbi Avigdor Miller zt'l asking us what we would say to G-d when he asked us if we had seen his great wonders or if we had ignored them. After all , they are here not only for utilitarian reasons but for us to admire and enjoy and marvel at.

There are increasing reports of big cats all around America in areas where they were thought to be long gone.
Those reporting the sightings are reliable witnesses.
 Wolves and ever increasing packs of coyotes that are also increasing in healthy groups even in  New York and New Jersey.
They travel in packs through the woods of Ocean County including Jackson, N.J.

Big cats native to the United States are the Cougar, Jaguar, Bobcat, Lynx and the Black Panther which is a kind of Jaguar.
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Black Panthers have been reported in the UK lately as well.
They can weigh up to 200 pounds and measure up to 7 feet in length.
They are known for their extraordinary fighting skills and extreme musculature.

While many articles say they do not exist, photos and eye witness reports tell an entirely different story.

Mountain Lion/Cougar. Isn't he beautiful?

The Cougar, or Mountain Lion, puma ,etc can weight up to around 180lbs. It stands about 32 inches high at the shoulder alone.  They are long, slender with long tails.  They live all throughout the United States from Florida to Washington .

American Bobcat

Bobcats are not house cats by any means though they are smaller than cougars and panthers.
They can live almost anywhere , even on the edges of cities.
They can weight up to 40lbs and  can be as long as 41 inches in length. He stands 24 inches tall
They are formidable hunters and are found all across the U.S.
It prefers to eat rabbits and hares but will dine on deer as well.

Lynx are more common in cooler areas. They are found from Michigan and Minnesota to Oregon and up into Canada and Alaska.
 They can be up to 42 inches in length and up to 40 pounds in weight.  They can be about 2 feet tall at the shoulder.

The Jaguar lives in the warmer climes. It is found along the Mexican border and well into Arizona and Texas.
It is the third largest cat after African Lions and Tigers.
Muscular and compact, males can weight up to 211 lbs , as long as 6 .5 feet long, 30 inches tall at the shoulder.

It has the hardest strongest bite of any feline at 2,000 lbf (910 kgf).
(pounds/kilograms force)
So powerful is this animal that it can drag a huge bull over 25 feet with little effort and pulverize the bones to powder as it eats.

Solar Flares What are they? What do they do?

Tonight's 2^nd Post

 What are they? 

Class X solar flare(the biggest )

Wikipedia does a decent job of telling us:

“A solar flare is a sudden brightening observed over the Sun's surface or the solar limb, which is interpreted as a large energy release of up to 6 × 10²⁵ joules of energy. They are mainly followed by a colossal coronal mass ejection also known as a CME  (about a sixth of the total energy output of the Sun each second or 160,000,000,000 megatons of TNT equivalent, over 25,000 times more energy released from the impact of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with Jupiter). The flare ejects clouds of electrons, ions, and atoms through the corona of the sun into space. These clouds typically reach Earth a day or two after the event.   The term is also used to refer to similar phenomena in other stars, where the term stellar flare applies.
Solar flares affect all layers of the solar atmosphere (photosphere, chromosphere, and corona), when the medium plasma is heated to tens of millions of kelvins and electrons, protons, and heavier ions are accelerated to near the speed of light. They produce radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum at all wavelengths, from radio waves to gamma rays, although most of the energy goes to frequencies outside the visual range and for this reason the majority of the flares are not visible to the naked eye and must be observed with special instruments. Flares occur in active regions around sunspots, where intense magnetic fields penetrate the photosphere to link the corona to the solar interior. Flares are powered by the sudden (timescales of minutes to tens of minutes) release of magnetic energy stored in the corona. The same energy releases may produce coronal mass ejections (CME), although the relation between CMEs and flares is still not well established.”

 What are the hazards they pose?

Again, Wikipedia has a good explanation:

“Solar flares strongly influence the local space weather in the vicinity of the Earth. They can produce streams of highly energetic particles in the solar wind, known as a solar proton event, or "coronal mass ejection" (CME). These particles can impact the Earth's magnetosphere (see main article at geomagnetic storm), and present radiation hazards to spacecraft, astronauts and cosmonauts.
Massive solar flares are sometimes associated with Coronal Mass Ejections which can trigger geomagnetic storms that have been known to knock out electric power for extended periods of time. According to Matthew Stein, many hundred thousands of miles of high voltage lines would act like an antenna drawing the electro-magnetic pulse from a solar flare toward thousands of transformers on the world's power grids. Many transformers could burn out and be difficult to replace.
The soft X-ray flux of X class flares increases the ionization of the upper atmosphere, which can interfere with short-wave radio communication and can heat the outer atmosphere and thus increase the drag on low orbiting satellites, leading to orbital decay. Energetic particles in the magnetosphere contribute to the aurora borealis and aurora australis. Energy in the form of hard x-rays can be damaging to spacecraft electronics and are generally the result of large plasma ejection in the upper chromosphere.
The radiation risks posed by coronal mass ejections are a major concern in discussions of a manned mission to Mars, the moon, or other planets. Energetic protons can pass through the human body, causing biochemical damage,  presenting a hazard to astronauts during interplanetary travel. Some kind of physical or magnetic shielding would be required to protect the astronauts. Most proton storms take at least two hours from the time of visual detection to reach Earth's orbit. A solar flare on January 20, 2005 released the highest concentration of protons ever directly measured, taking only 15 minutes after observation to reach Earth, indicating a velocity of approximately one-third light speed, giving astronauts as little as 15 minutes to reach shelter.”