Friday, May 12, 2006
Full Moon
Day: Friday
Date: 12th May 2006
Time: 0900 hours

Check this out! It's a FULL MOON tonight! Bloody cool!! Tonight's moon is known as a Full Flower Moon - May. In most areas, flowers are abundant everywhere during this time. Thus, the name of this Moon. Other names include the Full Corn Planting Moon, or the Milk Moon. The predicted day and time for the full moon to appear this month is on MAY 13. The full moon has been linked to crime, suicide, mental illness, disasters, accidents, birthrates, fertility, and werewolves, among other things. Some people even buy and sell stocks according to phases of the moon, a method probably as successful as many others. Numerous studies have tried to find lunar effects. So far, the studies have failed to establish much of interest. Lunar effects that have been found have little or nothing to do with human behavior. So don't make any excuses if you act a bit crazy tonight...It has nothing to do with the moon.

The next phase for the moon is the last quarter. Then the last phase is the NEW MOON.The first quarter of the moon happened on May 5, 2006. Quite some time ago.It is predicted that the last quarter moon will appear on May 20,2006. It is also predicted that the new moon will appear May 27, 2006. Let's see if it will appear as predicted.

Here's some interesting facts about the moon....

As you read this, the Moon is moving away from us. Each year, the Moon steals some of Earth's rotational energy, and uses it to propel itself about 3.8 centimeters higher in its orbit. Researchers say that when it formed, the Moon was about 14,000 miles (22,530 kilometers) from Earth. It's now more than 280,000 miles, or 450,000 kilometers away.

Our Moon is bigger than Pluto. And at roughly one-fourth the diameter of Earth, some scientists think the Moon is more like a planet. They refer to the Earth-Moon system as a "double planet." Pluto and its moon Charon are also called a double-planet system by some.

Apollo astronauts used seismometers during their visits to the Moon and discovered that the gray orb isn't a totally dead place, geologically speaking. Small moonquakes, originating several miles (kilometers) below the surface, are thought to be caused by the gravitational pull of Earth. Sometimes tiny fractures appear at the surface, and gas escapes.

Scientists say they think the Moon probably has a core that is hot and perhaps partially molten, as is Earth's core. But data from NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft showed in 1999 that the Moon's core is small -- probably between 2 percent and 4 percent of its mass. This is tiny compared with Earth, in which the iron core makes up about 30 percent of the planet's mass.

The Moon is not round (or spherical). Instead, it's shaped like an egg. If you go outside and look up, one of the small ends is pointing right at you. And the Moon's center of mass is not at the geometric center of the satellite; it's about 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) off-center.

More than 400 trees on Earth came from the Moon. Well, okay: They came from lunar orbit. Okay, the truth: In 1971, Apollo 14 astronaut Stuart Roosa took a bunch of seeds with him and, while Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell were busy sauntering around on the surface, Roosa guarded his seeds.
Later, the seeds were germinated on Earth, planted at various sites around the country, and came to be called the Moon trees. Most of them are doing just fine. Ooohh....There's moon trees around us...

Perhaps the coolest thing about the Moon is that it always shows us the same face. Since both the Earth and Moon are rotating and orbiting, how can this be? Long ago, the Earth's gravitational effects slowed the Moon's rotation about its axis. Once the Moon's rotation slowed enough to match its orbital period (the time it takes the Moon to go around Earth) the effect stabilized. Many of the moons around other planets behave similarly. What about phases? Here's how they work: As the Moon orbits Earth, it spends part of its time between us and the Sun, and the lighted half faces away from us. This is called a new Moon. (So there's no such thing as a "dark side of the Moon," just a side that we never see.)
As the Moon swings around on its orbit, a thin sliver of reflected sunlight is seen on Earth as a crescent Moon. Once the Moon is opposite the Sun, it becomes fully lit from our view -- a full Moon.

Enough about moon facts...Now... I just love gazing at the moon. Beautiful, breath-taking sight. Simply amazing. Try this! Your firstmoon gazing should be with the naked eye. Become familiar with the Moon's major features. Then use binoculars to study the features more closely. Learn the names of a few craters and plains (called maria, after the Latin word "mare," which means sea).If you want, you can use the telescope for better explorations of the moon.Even if you don't have a telescope or a pair of binoculars, you can go out and look at the Moon and make a discovery. There are two kinds of rock that you can see from Earth, even with the naked eye.

What you can see with the naked eye:
When you look up at the Moon you see a bright disk and dark splotches. The bright areas are the ancient crust leftover from the Moon's formation, and the dark areas are relatively newer rock that formed from lava that erupted from the interior. Those are the so-called seas.

What you can see with binoculars:
With binoculars, you'll start to see some of the surface features. In particular, you can see some of the Moon's largest craters. The craters tell you that the Moon was the victim of some cosmic target practice. You can see that the Moon was a pretty violent place when the planets were forming. Each one of those craters is the result of an impact that was so violent it dwarfs any atomic weapons we have on Earth.

What you can see with a telescope:
You can start to look the details of craters. Some of the big craters have walls that look terraced like a staircase, and this is because right after the crater was blasted out of the Moon's crust, the rock that formed the walls of the crater was fractured by the impact and slumped down, or collapsed, to form a series of stair steps.It's hard to tell how big these things are when you're looking through a telescope, but you can rest assured that these mountains are thousands of feet high. These are called central peaks, and they formed when the crust rebounded after the impact.

Try it out...Moon gazing is absolutely amazing....

Cherios

8:56 PM

Thursday, May 11, 2006
Life versus death
First topic: Life
What is life?A characteristic state or mode of living; "social life"; "city life"; "real life". The course of existence of an individual; the actions and events that occur in living. The period from the present until death.
Maybe that's the definition for some. Life is like the beginning of the life of a new born baby. So pure in the beginning. Sooner or later. It'll get cold. Well, it seems to me that life is getting colder than expected. Optimism doesn't really help you through life. That's how I feel. Enough about life. Let me sum up life.
Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink. That's how I would put it in a nutshell.
Something interesting to share.......
Latest research have shown that homosexual man have the same response as heterosexual woman.To put it simply, they have act the same way and respond the same way to Man. I had read this article about it. No idea why I was reading it. I guess it's good to increase one's general knowledge. I don't understand the deal with homosexuals. What's the point? Why? How? When it began? Oh well, everything's a mystery. I just wonder how they lead their lives....
Next Topic: Death
Ooo....wow! Death.... It's something personal to everyone. Death has been surrounding us everywhere. You'll just have to be observant.
What is death? The act of dying. Temination of life.a permanent cessation of all vital bodily functions.The cause or occasion of loss of life.The absence of life or state of being dead. I have been studying the topic of death lately. I managed to find out some interesting stuff when I typed "Death" in a search engine.
Near death experience can happen when you experience
Death, Surgery, Dreams, Hallucinogens, Stress, Meditation, Deathbed, Seizures, Relaxation, Coma, After-death, Out-of-body, Eye movement, Mirror gazing, Alien abduction, Falling, Orgasm, Mental illness
Interesting wasn't it?
Death is inevitable.
In the long run we will all be dead. You'll see.
Cherios

6:59 PM

Monday, May 08, 2006
Bloody hell....It's still very hard to be at three places at one time. I'm not superman,wonderwoman or anything. I'm just human. It's hardder for me to be at four bloody places at one time.


Strange things have happened during the first half of the year. Really strange. This tale is just bizarre. Very freaky. Oh well, as if people want to know.


It's been a long time since I have updated my blog. Why you may ask? Why now? It seems to me that blogs are just ways or means of communicating or finding more about what have happened to someone by not talking to them or probably never will. I find it disturbing. What happened to the normal way of talking to someone and find out what's been happening to them or something. what happened to the old fashioned way of talking? The traditional way of having a real conversation? Noo...That is all gone I have seen. It is indeed a tragic thing.


We are all living in a time where everything is out to get you. Honestly, when you think about it, everything is going at you. All electronic devices such as handphones, fax machines, etc... are coming at you. Handphones ringing, for YOU! Computers...emails...all out to get you. All these devices are very close and"dear" to you. Sooner or later you get sucked into THE DIMENSION. When the first world war started, it was a turning point. A tragic turning point for mankind. Think about it. Think deeply. Unless you are seriously willing to get yourself in a political,emotional,mental puddle of MESS! Now, we are all going down hill. Well, not downhill, I suppose, down the mountain.... or maybe down the ocean trench....or maybe down into the deepest depths of the hell pits....Muahahaha.....


*Ahem ahem* Pardon me for that just now. Got to engrossed in it. I'll get down to business here. Well, actually I haven't really thought about what exactly is the business. I still can't believe how homosapoens are evolving so fast. They say evolution occurs faster around the equator. Could this be true? Possibly. From my gruesome, exhausting, tedious, research and keen observation, I have come to a conclusion. Homosapiens are evolving into their worst selves. Behaving like animals. Homo sapiens all over the world are becoming more and more like animals. Try this! Sit at a public place. shopping mall, library or something. Keep your mouth shut. That is, just keep quiet. Use eyes to observe people. Everyone. Note down mentally how they behave. Use your nose to smell the atmosphere.Well, be careful what you're smelling. Use your ears. Listen. Listen. Listen. Try to do all this if you have time... It is indeed amazing how it really activates your brain into thinking deeply. I did it. It was spectacular.


For now.......

Cherios

10:21 PM