Wednesday, February 28, 2018

About My Upcoming Book of Poetry


Heads up my folks!

I just want to make a brief announcement about my upcoming, yet-to-be published, book of poetry entitled Zen is Now.

As you already know, I've been on the New York poetry circuit for nearly 30 years and have read my works and have published them in several anthologies as well as numerous publications, and online. However, never have I presented the bulk of my work for you to view. Zen is Now is just that.

It is a compilation of nearly 30 years of my poetry material, many of which you might've heard and seen me perform on stage. Some of which you may not be acquainted with, since they were never read or submitted for publication. There are also a few new verses included as well.

So stay tuned for the follow-up preface to Zen is Now, as well as pertinent information about how to place a "pre-order" in advance of the book's release!

-Daniel Canada aka Obsidian


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Saturday, February 24, 2018

Should We Take This Warning Seriously?

North Korea EMP attack could ‘shut down US power grid and kill 90% of Americans’
The Independent   
By Rachael Revesz

The Independent•October 16, 2017


North Korea EMP attack could ‘shut down US power grid and kill 90% of Americans’1 / 2 North Korea EMP attack could ‘shut down US power grid and kill 90% of Americans’. Experts have warned Congress that it is ignoring a newly-developed weapon from North Korea which could shut down the US power grid and kill the vast majority of Americans within a year.

Two members of the disbanded congressional Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) commission said at a recent House Homeland Security subcommittee hearing that a nuclear EMP attack from Kim Jong Un was the “biggest threat” to the US yet it remains “unacknowledged” by the government.

More attention has been focused on the regime’s continued testing of intercontinental ballistic missiles this year, but the dictatorship also recently claimed to have tested a hydrogen bomb underground in September.

The regime said in a public statement that such a bomb could be detonated at high altitudes for “super-powerful EMP attack according to strategic goals”.

William Graham, chairman of the former EMP commission and its former chief of staff, Peter Vincent Pry, warned the hearing that such an attack could “shut down the US electric power grid for an indefinite period, leading to the death within a year of up to 90 per cent of all Americans.“

They urged the House to protect the grid, and warned that US ballistic missile defence systems are currently designed to intercept missiles from North Korea that approach the US over the North Polar region, but not over the South Polar region.

Former Republican representative Curt Weldon, one of the founders of the former commission, wrote in The Hill last month: "A nuclear EMP attack would destroy electronics everywhere, cause planes to crash, stop cars and rail traffic, blackout electric grids and other critical infrastructures that make modern civilization, and life itself, possible. Eventually, millions would die from starvation, disease, and societal collapse."

The two former commission members added that North Korea is thought to have 60 nuclear weapons, and its intercontinental ballistic missiles could reach Denver and Chicago, and “perhaps the entire US”.

The regime is developing H-bombs which are “comparable to sophisticated US two-stage thermonuclear weapons”, they said.

Experts such as former NASA rocket scientist James Oberg have previously warned that the regime could use a satellite to carry a small nuclear warhead and detonate it over the US.

Mr Graham and Mr Pry condemned the one-upmanship between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un, who have called each other “rocket man” and “mentally deranged”, which has worsened tensions between the two countries.

The EMP commission was defunded under the new administration.









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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

For All My astroner Friends



Eight Weird, Spindle-Like Galaxies Discovered by Astronomers

Hannah Osborne

Newsweek•October 13, 2017

Scientists have discovered eight new spindle-like galaxies—huge structures once thought to be extremely rare features of the cosmos.

Traditionally, we think of galaxies as being flat, rotating disks made up of billions of stars, with a black hole at their center. Scientists say another type, known as “prolate rotators,” are cigar-shaped galaxies that rotate along their axes, making them look like spindles. Until now, only a handful of them had ever been observed.

The surprising discovery of the eight prolate rotators, nearly doubling the total known number, to 20 from 12, was accomplished using data from the Calar Alto Legacy Integral Field Area Survey (CALIFA), a systematic mapping of more than 600 galaxies in the local universe. Athanasia Tsatsi of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany, and colleagues published their findings in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.

“Our findings suggest that prolate rotation in massive early type galaxies might be more common than previously expected, and can help toward a better understanding of their dynamical structure and formation origin,” the researchers said.

The discovery allowed the team to analyze how these galaxies might have formed. Galaxies such as the Milky Way grow when other, smaller galaxies merge with them. But with prolate rotators, two giant disk galaxies collide to create the spindly galaxies observed.

Previously, the relative lack of prolate rotation galaxies meant scientists could not get a clear view of how they could have formed. But with a larger dataset, they were able to run various simulations, providing models on which to base their formation hypothesis.

The key is the presence of gas. If the merging galaxies have plenty of gas, they will remain in the flat disk shape. However, when gas is absent, the stars in the galaxies are not constrained by the motion of the gas.

Models revealed that prolate galaxies emerge when two gasless galaxies are orientated at right angles. One of the galaxies then develops a strong bar shape. As they merge, this shape remains and turns into the spindle galaxy we observe.

The findings also suggest prolate rotators probably formed about 10 billion years ago, very early on in the history of the universe. However, the team says it is now up to observational astronomers to make new predictions about the properties of these galaxies.





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