Ahh man, I love/Hate a good doomer Peak Oil article every now and then to snap me out of the general consensus trance which it is so easy to fall into. I always wonder about posting stuff like this, because I love cars and bikes and people never like bad news, but this is pretty serious and since I have this little window to show what I am aware of, would it not be irresponsible of me if I didn’t talk about it?
This one is fairly grim. Likely? Probably, You can see the consequences of it already as witnessed by the recent riots in Haiti, Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Mauritania, Mozambique, Senegal and Cameroon as people in these poorer countries have been priced out of food and fuel over the last couple of months. Rising prices are also contributing to the global economic slowdown and housing woes. Anyway, you can read the article here.

Some more updates soon…

Right place, right time…

My little sister started a little blog here.

The great mystery of the ruins of Baalbek, and indeed one of the greatest mysteries of the ancient world, concerns the massive foundation stones beneath the Roman Temple of Jupiter.
They range in size from 450 tons (Cheops at Giza has an avergae block weight of 2.5 tons) all the way up to the three biggest, called the Trilithon, whose weight exceeds 1000 tons each. Another even larger stone lies in a limestone quarry a quarter of a mile from the Baalbek complex. Weighing an estimated 1200 tons, it is the single largest piece of stonework ever crafted in the world.

Why these stones are such an enigma to contemporary scientists, both engineers and archaeologists alike, is that their method of quarrying, transportation and precision placement is beyond the technological ability of any known ancient or modern builders.

Read more here

The local inhabitants of the Beqa’a Valley preserve legends about the origins of the Great Platform which say that Baalbek’s first city was built before the Great Flood by Cain, and later re-built by a race of giants…. Dig in..

The civilization of Ancient Egypt occurred in a past so remote that today it seems mystical. The pyramids and other temples, with their hieroglyphics depicting a flourishing civilization, have a mysterious, almost magical appeal. It seems inconceivable that people of an advanced society could have walked those ancient streets.
However, a civilization has been uncovered that would have appeared just as ancient to the people who built the pyramids as the pyramids seem to us.
According to marine scientists in India, archaeological remains of this lost city have been discovered 36 metres (120 feet) underwater in the Gulf of Cambay off the western coast of India and carbon dating says that they are 9,500 years old. Read more here.

Interesting interview with Professor Richard Lindzen, an atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at MIT; The Earth, he says, is in good shape and Money is partly to blame for the global warming hysteria. Read it here..

A new epic picture every day from the cosmos.. Check, Check it out!!

In the early 1960′s, the previous owner of our family house started collecting beer mats, and nailing them up on the wall in an outbuilding. When we sold the house years later, I painstakingly removed all 391 of them from the wall, thinking they might be worth something one day.

They have been in storage for the last 12 years gathering a lot of dust and very little value.

As I am going to be moving out of London soon, I decided to document them before they go back to gathering dust…

Here’s a few…

Jerry Lodriguss has taken some of the most amazing images I have ever seen of the night sky. Due to the length of exposure and the rotation of the planet, he has to use a motorized mounting that is tracking the stars, otherwise they come out blurred. It really gives you an idea of the movement of earth and the stars through space. I never realised that space was quite so full before either. Check out more here..

Circumpolar star trails seem to rotate around the North Celestial Pole due to the rotation of the Earth on its axis.

Sagittarius – Scorpius Milky Way