Flora and Fauna/Misc weather

[Chris Hamilton]

"japanese scientist's unveiled the world's latest genetic breakthrough (or abomination, depending on your point of view): clear, transparent frogs, whose internal organs can be seen through their skins." quoted from fate magazine.

here is an article from reuters:

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifes...st222820070926

chris

[LightEye]

dear friends,

interesting interview with paul davies.

http://podcast.sciam.com/weekly/sa_podcast_071212.mp3

be well, be love.

david

are there (microbial) aliens on earth?

in this episode, theoretical physicist, cosmologist and astrobiologist paul davies ponders the question of whether life originated more than once on earth, and how to find examples of a second origin if it did.

[donald@newdirectionscs.com]

i just found this one this morning just confirming more of what we have learned from david, donald

the rise and fall of species on earth might be driven in part by the undulating motions of our solar system as it travels through the disk of the milky way, scientists say.

two years ago, scientists at the university of california, berkeley found the marine fossil record shows that biodiversity-the number of different species alive on the planet-increases and decreases on a 62-million-year cycle. at least two of the earth's great mass extinctions-the permian extinction 250 million years ago and the ordovician extinction about 450 million years ago-correspond with peaks of this cycle, which can't be explained by evolutionary theory.


here is link to whole article
http://www.livescience.com/space/sci...osmic_evo.html

[Starseedling]

not only the bees having a die off problem, but it seems that bats in the northeastern us are having one, too.

http://www.organicconsumers.org/arti...icle_11135.cfm

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...evolution.html

be well, be love.

david

"reverse evolution" discovered in seattle fish
anne minard for national geographic news
may 20, 2008

when a historic cleanup helped clear the waters of a polluted lake near seattle, a population of tiny, spiny fish called sticklebacks may have "evolved in reverse" to survive.

in the 1950s, lake washington, an inland lake that parallels washington state's pacific coast, took on 20 million gallons (76 million liters) of phosphorous-laden sewage a day (see washington state map).

then an unprecedented u.s.-$140-million cleanup in the mid-1960s transformed the lake into the pristine boaters' paradise that it is today.

but the lake's recovery put at least one species in a pickle: the three-spine stickleback.

the small fish, formerly hidden in the murky depths, found itself swimming in plain view of predators like cutthroat trout.

researchers now think the threat of predators spurred the fish into rapid evolution toward an older version of itself, evolutionarily speaking.

today's lake washington sticklebacks are a throwback to their ancestors, which grew armored plates as a defense, according to katie peichel, a biologist at the fred hutchinson cancer research center in seattle.

[Jacob]

so there is a route back to the womb!!

[Yusuf]

greetings to you,
it would be interesting to see what dna changes have taken place as well.
it just shows how quickly adjustments can be made when the environment you're living in change.

peace and love to you,

yusuf

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jun...ng-the-weather

be well, be love.

david

harnessing the weather
could new technology help humans eliminate "acts of god"?
by donovan webster

not far from the dead dog saloon, behind a body shop on the main street of grantsville, utah, stands a rusting, four-foot-tall metal box. the box sits atop a tank of gaseous silver iodide that, when fired up, sends a plume downwind toward the nearby oquirrh mountains. once carried up on the wind, each silver iodide crystal forms a core, or nucleus, around which water droplets collect. since silver iodide has a crystalline structure similar to that of ice, it allows the tiny water droplets to coalesce until they are big and heavy enough to fall out of the sky, ultimately increasing snowfall between 10 and 15 percent a year. that’s more water for later release across the state’s thirsty desert during spring and baking summer, more water for irrigation, livestock, human consumption, and sports. it means millions of dollars in water-related revenues for the state’s economy every year.

the utah cloud-seeding effort comes courtesy of north american weather consultants, america’s oldest weather modification company, located in an upscale office park in nearby sandy, utah. founded in the 1950s, the group is currently run by two solid-citizen scientists with commercial aims, don griffith and mark solak, who have spent their careers working in privately funded weather modification efforts around the country and the world.

in colorado they seeded the gunnison river drainage, a series of reservoirs and dams in the west of the state. in california they run seeding programs for the santa barbara county water agency, a group that says the effort may increase rain in target areas up to 20 percent a year.

[SuperManny]

there's no need to get too technical about the process. i think the native americans had it right with their rain dances, and the way they approached the weather.

in my experience, if you invite the rain, the way you would invite a friend to dinner, and then get into the feeling of the blessed rain feeding the earth and nourishing all the little green living things, your chances are pretty good. and of course be sure and thank the rain for coming.

i've done this for years, because i've worked outside for most of my life i would simply ask for 8 hours of clear weather at the worksite, and i almost always got it. i can remember driving home several times and just getting a mile or two away from the jobsite, i'd run into a shower or thunderstorm, or sometimes everything would be soaked because one had just passed thru.

i reseeded part of our back yard this spring, so i asked for extra rain until the seedlings had taken root. we got rain every day for about 10 days, and i overheard one of the local meteorologists puzzling over all the "unexpected" rain we were getting! :d

[Earthforce]

indigenous peoples had insight into the sending of love and affirmation to the higher self reality to affect positive weather changes. now the mobius coil, orgone towerbusters, orgone cloudbusters and even orgone pyramids are being made and placed in different communities for atmospheric cleansing by creating a positive energy field to block the negative effects of modern technologies. this form of affirmation may be working on an esoteric level as well as physical level. certainly we need positive energy to negate the harmful effects of chemtrails and the encroaching 90mhz transmitter towers. more scientific work needs to be done to clarify accumulator use in energetic environments. i welcome comments.