Lost and Found...?

Funny how the number of "fantastic" claims begin to surface when worldwide events turn ugly...

My thoughts are with Japan but found the timing on this quite interesting.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_tsunami_atlantis

By Zach Howard – Sat Mar 12, 11:36 am ET

NORTHAMPTON, Mass (Reuters) – A U.S.-led research team may have finally located the lost city of Atlantis, the legendary metropolis believed swamped by a tsunami thousands of years ago in mud flats in southern Spain.

"This is the power of tsunamis," head researcher Richard Freund told Reuters.

"It is just so hard to understand that it can wipe out 60 miles inland, and that's pretty much what we're talking about," said Freund, a University of Hartford, Connecticut, professor who lead an international team searching for the true site of Atlantis.

To solve the age-old mystery, the team used a satellite photo of a suspected submerged city to find the site just north of Cadiz, Spain. There, buried in the vast marshlands of the Dona Ana Park, they believe that they pinpointed the ancient, multi-ringed dominion known as Atlantis.

The team of archeologists and geologists in 2009 and 2010 used a combination of deep-ground radar, digital mapping, and underwater technology to survey the site.

Freund's discovery in central Spain of a strange series of "memorial cities," built in Atlantis' image by its refugees after the city's likely destruction by a tsunami, gave researchers added proof and confidence, he said.

Atlantis residents who did not perish in the tsunami fled inland and built new cities there, he added.

The team's findings will be unveiled on Sunday in "Finding Atlantis," a new National Geographic Channel special.

While it is hard to know with certainty that the site in Spain in Atlantis, Freund said the "twist" of finding the memorial cities makes him confident Atlantis was buried in the mud flats on Spain's southern coast.

"We found something that no one else has ever seen before, which gives it a layer of credibility, especially for archeology, that makes a lot more sense," Freund said.

Greek philosopher Plato wrote about Atlantis some 2,600 years ago, describing it as "an island situated in front of the straits which are by you called the Pillars of Hercules," as the Straits of Gibraltar were known in antiquity. Using Plato's detailed account of Atlantis as a map, searches have focused on the Mediterranean and Atlantic as the best possible sites for the city.

Tsunamis in the region have been documented for centuries, Freund says. One of the largest was a reported 10-story tidal wave that slammed Lisbon in November, 1755.

Debate about whether Atlantis truly existed has lasted for thousands of years. Plato's "dialogues" from around 360 B.C. are the only known historical sources of information about the iconic city. Plato said the island he called Atlantis "in a single day and night... disappeared into the depths of the sea."

Experts plan further excavations are planned at the site where they believe Atlantis is located and at the mysterious "cities" in central Spain 150 miles away to more closely study geological formations and to date artifacts.

Earth, Sun, Moon

March 9th: POWERFUL SUN STORM
http://www.ksby.com/news/powerful-sun-storm-produces-major-solar-flare/

March 11th: JAPAN HIT BY 8.9 EARTHQUAKE PRODUCING MASSIVE TSUNAMI
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/03/biggest-japanese-earthquake/

March 19th: UPCOMING SUPERMOON
http://www.redicecreations.com/article.php?id=14512

***TRIDENT ALERT*** The RISING SUN (Son)

Land of the Rising Sun (SON) hit by 8.9 magnitude earthquake. Aftershocks, and post-quake tsunami devastate the countryside. Stay tuned for possible TWIN Event or Mirroring of SUN or SON in conjunction.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-japan-quake-20110311,0,1950058.story

Also be sure to check in with Goro Adachi for his unique take on the situation as things unfold.

http://www.goroadachi.com/etemenanki/

Twin Suns or Twin Sons?

Adonis DNA, Tiger Blood...is Charlie Sheen a egotistical rambling lunatic or is he truly speaking to us in not so secret code? Say what you will about the man's lifestyle choices...at some level he has shown that he is a TRUTH SEEKER.

In 1997, Sheen wrote his first movie, Discovery Mars, a direct-to-video documentary revolving around the question, "Is There Life on Mars?"

On March 20, 2006, Sheen stated that he questions the US government's account of the September 11 attacks. Sheen said during the interview that the collapse of the World Trade Center towers looked like a controlled demolition.

Sheen has since become a prominent advocate of the 9/11 Truth movement. On September 8, 2009, Sheen appealed to US President Barack Obama to set up a new investigation into the attacks. Presenting his views as a transcript of a fictional encounter with Obama, he was characterized by the press as believing the 9/11 commission was a whitewash and that the administration of former US President George W. Bush may have been responsible for the attacks.

For more info on the TWIN SON & TWIN connection in general please see my previous posts:

Bloodlines

The Black Swan Part 1

**UPDATE**
This just submitted from Copycat Effect, Twilight Language, and Cryptozoology expert Loren Coleman.

I was looking to see if the Point Pleasant Register had reacted to Linda Scarberry's death yet, and ran across a disgusting story of apparent family sexual abuse. But, jeez, look at the names of the two people charged: Double. So this is a double Double incident, and it reminded me of your recent twins posting tied to the same date these people were being interviewed.

(BTW, Mothman's Linda Scarberry died on March 6th. The initial Mothman event involved two couples ~ 2 x 2 ~ seeing the creature. She was one-half of one of those couples, of course.)

http://www.mydailyregister.com/view/full_story/12260960/article-Father--son-arrested-for-sexual-assault--abuse

"The Year We Make Contact" in Full Effect

http://news.yahoo.com/s/digitaltrends/nasascientistfindsevidenceofalienlife

NASA scientist finds evidence of alien life

Yahoo News - Andrew Couts Andrew Couts – Sat Mar 5, 5:28 pm ET

Aliens exist, and we have proof.

That astonishingly awesome claim comes from Dr. Richard B. Hoover, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, who says he has found conclusive evidence of alien life — fossils of bacteria found in an extremely rare class of meteorite called CI1 carbonaceous chondrites. (There are only nine such meteorites on planet Earth.) Hoover’s findings were published late Friday night in the Journal of Cosmology, a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

“I interpret it as indicating that life is more broadly distributed than restricted strictly to the planet earth,” Hoover, who has spent more than 10 years studying meteorites around the world, told FoxNews.com in an interview. “This field of study has just barely been touched — because quite frankly, a great many scientist [sic] would say that this is impossible.”

Hoover discovered the fossils by breaking apart the CI1 meteorite, and analyzing the exposed rock with a scanning-electron microscope and a field emission electron-scanning microscope, which allowed him to detect any fossil remains. What he found were fossils of micro-organisms, many of which he says are strikingly similar to those found on our own planet.

“The exciting thing is that they are in many cases recognizable and can be associated very closely with the generic species here on earth,” said Hoover. Some of the fossils, however, are quite odd. “There are some that are just very strange and don’t look like anything that I’ve been able to identify, and I’ve shown them to many other experts that have also come up stump.”

In order to satisfy the inevitable hoard of buzz-killing skeptics, Hoover’s study and evidence were made available to his peers in the scientific community in advance of the study’s publications, giving them a chance to thoroughly dissect his findings. Comments from those who decided to sift through the evidence will be published online, alongside the study.

“Given the controversial nature of his discovery, we have invited 100 experts and have issued a general invitation to over 5,000 scientists from the scientific community to review the paper and to offer their critical analysis,” writes Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics scientist Dr. Rudy Schild, who serves as the Journal of Cosmology’s editor-in-chief. “No other paper in the history of science has undergone such a thorough vetting, and never before in the history of science has the scientific community been given the opportunity to critically analyze an important research paper before it is published.”

Needless to say, if Hoover's conclusions are found to be accurate, the implications for human life will be staggering. Here's hoping that he's right.

Update: While the Journal of Cosmology says that “no other paper in the history of science has undergone such a thorough vetting,” some highly respected names in the scientific community are challenging the validity of Cosmology, and the findings of Dr. Hoover.

“[The Journal of Cosmology] isn’t a real science journal at all,” says PZ Meyers in Science Blogs, “but is the ginned-up website of a small group of crank academics obsessed with the idea of Hoyle and Wickramasinghe that life originated in outer space and simply rained down on Earth.”

So there you have it — this is either reality-altering news, or the work of kooks. Our hearts believe, but our brains are kind of bummed.

Edit: This article has been updated with an additional photograph and altered for clarity.

http://www.space.com/11038-china-suns-video-unexplained.html

China's 'Two Suns' Video Unexplained By Science

Weeks after a story shot across the Web claiming that the imminent explosion of a nearby star would result in the appearance of a second sun in the sky – a story that was later debunked – two suns were caught on camera yesterday in China. The suns – one fuzzy and orange, the other a crisp yellow orb – appeared side-by-side, one slightly higher than the other.

What's going on? Life's Little Mysteries, a sister site to Space.com, asked Jim Kaler, the University of Illinois astronomer who squelched the excitement over the aforementioned exploding Betelgeuse and who has written books on the day and night sky. The double sun image is an effect of optical refraction, Kaler said, but it's a "pretty darn rare" one, and one not fully explained by science.

"I doubt it's been computer modeled," he said. "There must have been some blob of atmosphere somewhere that caused this truly spectacular phenomenon, which in a sense is a mirage." [Amazing Sun Photos From Space]

Mirages appear when particles in the atmosphere refract, or bend, light. This typically happens near the horizon, where air is thicker, though, and mirages are usually aligned vertically above or below the original source of the light – not beside it, like in the video. It's possible, Kaler said, that an unusually thick patch of atmosphere wandered in front of the sun to create the unusual effect.

Previous sightings of horizontally-aligned double images of the sun and moon are recorded in a book called "Light and Color in the Outdoors" (English edition: Springer 1993) by the famous Flemish astronomer Marcel Minnaert, which remains the most complete reference on double suns. "So many other instances have been reported that there is no longer any doubt about … observations of sun and mock sun(s) being at exactly the same altitude," Minnaert wrote.

"The case of a mock sun 3 degrees and 25 arc-seconds to the left of the nearly set sun sounds incredible but has been recorded photographically." Indeed, Minnaert's description sounds nearly identical to the scene in question.

He goes on to state that the double or multiple image phenomena are produced by abnormal refraction, but that "it remains extraordinary that the images of the sun and moon were sharp and of the same size as the real sun and moon."

To check whether more has been learned about the double sun effect since the time of Minnaert's writing, Life's Little Mysteries consulted several atmospheric optics experts. None of them had ever seen anything quite like the effect shown in the video.

"This is not a common optical phenomenon that we're seeing here," said Grant Perry, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Wisconsin Cooperative Institute for Satellite and Meteorological Studies. "I'm asking myself if this is an artifact of the lens, but if that were the case – if it's reflections of the lens elements – then the images would move in relation to each other as the camera moves," Perry said. "But that doesn't happen."

In terms of an optical explanation, he said, "You would have to assume it is particles of ice or something in the atmosphere aligned in such a way that they would refract the sunlight at that very small angle, but only in one direction. It would require some fairly peculiar characteristics."

Several related atmospheric optical effects are fully explained by science. Sun dogs, sunset mirages, sun pillars and sun halos are all relatively common and well understood. But not this effect.

"It's very intriguing," said Kaler.

This article was provided by Life's Little Mysteries, a sister site to SPACE.com. Follow Natalie Wolchover on Twitter @nattyover.

Twin Suns and/or Twin Sons

High Weirdness at Temple Mount

While chaos rules in Egypt, and the elements wreak havoc on OZ, something very wicked may have been going down at The Dome of the Rock...

UFO caught on Video from numerous angles around the city...

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/50545/

Many UFOs have been sighted recently. Widely interpreted as a UFO, a bright light hovering over The Dome of The Rock and Temple Mount of Jerusalem was filmed from multiple parts of the city around 1 a.m. local time on Saturday, Jan 29.

The Dome of The Rock, an iconic Islamic shrine, is built over a sacred stone where the Prophet Muhammed is believed to have ascended to heaven.

Onlookers watched as the glowing orb descended to the site, then hung pulsing above the spire for around 20 seconds, before suddenly shooting back high into the sky at a rapid speed, accompanied by a bright flash.

The videos are posted on YouTube and have generated plenty of buzz on the Internet, with comments divided as to whether the footage has been doctored.

But the fact that the incident was filmed from several different perspectives makes it hard to dismiss the ball of light as a hoax.

"If these are real, they are some of the most incredible videos ever shot," said Nick Pope, former UK Ministry of Defence UFO investigator, according to Fox News. "If they are not, then this is a very well-planned and coordinated hoax designed to eliminate elements of doubt."

"The way it shoots up into the sky suggests it is unmanned, because no living thing could survive those kinds of G-forces," Pope added.

4 Days prior this interesting event was taking place at the same location...

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/141937

Huge electricity generators donated by the government of Jordan were brought into the Temple Mount Tuesday. A group led by Likud's Moshe Feiglin documented the entry of the generators into the Mount.

Sources in the Jerusalem Municipality's Supervision Department told the Temple Heritage Fund that the municipality had not given permission to bring in the generators and that they were informed of the matter by Avi Roif, Commander of the Old City Police. The municipality sources were said to be outraged at Roif for allowing the generators' entry despite his not not being authorized to do so.

It is not clear to what use the generators will be put. The Wakf has in the past conducted unauthorized digging and construction activity on the Mount, apparently in order to obliterate any archaeological vestiges of Jewish presence there. The heavy generators themselves might damage the holy site and they might be used to illuminate and provide energy for projects about which Israel has not been informed.

According to an urgent Temple Heritage Fund e-mail message, generators of this size are capable of supplying electricity to tens of thousands of homes. The Fund quoted municipality sources as surmising that the generators might be intended for use in the event that Muslims want to remain up on the Temple Mount for a long period of time. This could occur to prevent an imagined takeover by the Jews, with Muslims gaining PR points in the process.

"The Arabs may be planning a rebellion or a large-scale operation," the Fund's email added. However, it is also possible that the Wakf would like to use an alternate source of energy other than Israel's Electric company.

There has been tension for other reasons around the Temple Mount in the past few days after news was leaked that Israel had cleared out an ancient tunnel that led from where the Davidson Visitors' Center currently stands, next to the Kotel Plaza, and the City of David.

Rabbit's Moon

Happy 84th Birthday to Kenneth Anger!

1950 Short "Rabbit's Moon"

Today also marks the beginning of The Year of The Rabbit in the Chinese Zodiac!

Click here for more on Rabbit Moon imagery in Chinese Folklore

Deeper down the Rabbit Hole goes...