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Not a 2012 Disaster: Large Hadron Collider

For all I know it is just spin, but the news this week is that the LHC couldn’t possibly cause a doomsday in 2012 – it will be shut down for repairs. In September 2008, just 9 days after physicists first circulated protons through the 27-kilometer-long subterranean accelerator, the LHC suffered a catastrophic failure when one of [...] Related posts:

1. Testes multiply mutations
2. HAARP and 2012
3. Retinoids to protect from Cosmic Rays?

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Protecting Earth: Governments Finally Getting Serious

The timing could be better, because Dec 2012 is only 2.5 years away, but better late than never! Last month, Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R – CA) introduced the new bill before Congress, H.R. 5587, titled: “To establish a United States Commission on Planetary Defense and for other purposes.” The commission will investigate the role of the United [...] Related posts:

1. NASA: Earth Not Worth Saving
2. Solar Storm Could Cause $2 Trillion in Damage!
3. Eta Carinae – A Risk to Earth?

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Siberia: A New, Recent Hominin Added to the Mix

For a very long time, homo sapiens were the only human species that were thought to have existed in the last tens of thousands of years. Recently we have witnessed the addition of two species, the Neandertals (latest research says that everyone apart from Africans have some Neandertal DNA), and the Hobbits (who we do [...] Related posts:

1. New Human Ancestor Increases Odds of Mysterious Elders
2. Humans previously almost died out
3. Risk Distribution Law For Evolution

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Mel Gibson Update

[that Mel Gibson has any special knowledge regarding 2012 is pure speculation on my part, as an example of how a famous person, in the know, might seem to act as 2012 approaches] Well, well – back in February I speculated that perhaps Mel Gibson – the only person who has ever made a movie about [...] Related posts:

1. What Does Mel Gibson Know About 2012?
2. 2012 Trial Update – March 26

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NASA Discovers 25,000 New Asteroids

And as an example of how infrequent it is for an asteroid to crash into our planet, not one of the 25,000 is aimed for Earth. It’s a pretty impressive haul for WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer), finding that number since last December, and also discovering 15 new comets. The telescope is up in space, just [...] Related posts:

1. Planet X & Asteroids – They Will Be Found!
2. NASA: Impact of Solar Flare
3. Asteroids: We Aren’t Prepared

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