Alien Spacecraft on Moon

What! Well something alien is sure on the moon. With Google Earth, you can look at the surface of the moon with maps and photographs made by NASA.

Select ‘Moon’ from the menu icon that looks like Saturn, and then enter the coordinates 22°42’38.46″N 142°34’44.52″E. (Click on the yellow pin and enter the coordinates for N latitude and E longitude.)

This is what you will see until it is scrubbed from the Google Earth and Nasa servers.

This is bigger than a city and certainly bigger than any space craft ever built on earth.

What is it, and why is it here?

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About Argyria

Argyria is the gray/blue discoloration of the skin caused by the ingestion of certain types of silver preparations. According to studies done with electron microscopes, the blue/gray color is the result of silver compounds within the cells. The silver compounds inside the cell have been determined to be silver sulfide (sulfur) and silver selenide (selenium).

The major types of silver are metallic or ionic.

Ionic silver means the silver exists as a soluble compound with other substances, like oxides, chlorides, nitrates, citrates, acetates, etc. In its ionic state, the silver has a positive electric charge because it has donated an electron to the other part of the compound. Not all silver compounds are soluble, and therefore are not ionic. Insoluble compounds are not ionic. Silver sulfide for example is a silver compound that is not water soluble and therefore not ionic in water.

Metallic silver is a cluster of individual silver atoms about 15 billionths of a meter in diameter, and carries no net electric charge because it has not given any electrons away. However, it has an effective negative charge because its electrons are on the surface of the atoms. Opposite electric charges attract to each other, while like electric charges repel.

This difference in electric charge is very important in understanding how argyria occurs. Human cells require certain ions for life, like sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium etc. Human cells carry a negative electric charge on their surface which attracts positively charged ions like sodium and potassium to their surface where they are ingested through special pores on the cell wall. Metallic silver particles are repelled by cell walls, so it is not possible for metallic silver to enter a cell and be trapped inside. Also, metallic silver particles are at least 50 times larger than an ion, and as such are far too large to enter through the cells’s pores.

Many purveyors of colloidal silver say that ionic silver cannot cause argyria because ions are the smallest size and cannot get ‘stuck’ within cells. The fallacy of this argument is that it assumes that the silver ion remains an ion, but this is untrue. Once inside the cell, the silver ions combine with sulfur inside the cell and become insoluble silver sulfide, or combine with selenium and become insoluble silver selenide. These silver compounds are very stable and there is no way for them to leave the cell.

So, ionic silver is attracted to cell walls, and will enter them the same way that the essential metal ions like sodium and potassium do. Once inside, they chemically react with any sulfur or selenium in the cell and become insoluble. At that point they are stuck with no way out. As more silver becomes trapped, it begins to color the cell the characteristic blue/gray hue that Paul Karason is famous for.

Granted, it takes a long time and a lot of silver to make your skin turn blue. This is because most of the ionic silver is absorbed by the cells of a person’s internal organs long before it gets to the skin. However, it is cumulative, and builds up slowly. The first place it becomes visible is the whites of the eyes and the fingernails. Also, most of the silver which escapes being quickly absorbed by the cells of the digestive tract and liver will soon be converted to metallic silver by the glucose and other antioxidant chemicals in the blood. However, some remains as free ions circulating with the blood, and ends up in skin cells. It is the ionic silver which has been converted in the body to metallic which becomes effective against pathogens. This has been proved by electron microscope studies of metallic silver attacking bacteria.

Bacteria carry a positive electric charge, which is how they are able to enter and infect cells. This positive charge makes them attracted to metallic silver particles. When they come into contact, the difference in electric field between the two burns a hole in the cell wall of the bacteria, effectively killing it. Therefore, it would be wise to avoid ionic silver and use only metallic silver.

To tell whether your silver is metallic or ionic is very simple. Ionic silver is clear like plain water, and has a metallic taste. Metallic silver is yellow colored and is tasteless.

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Marketing gaffes….

I was in Perkins Restaurant a couple days ago for breakfast. As I was paying my check to leave, the manager asked if I wanted something from the bakery case to go. I told her that would be a big mistake, whereupon she looked me strangely and asked what I meant. I told her that there were two very large pencil erasers in the pastry case, with one saying “OOPS”, and the other saying “BIG MISTAKES”. I advised her that she was practicing negative advertising essentially saying that the pastries were a mistake. Apparently she had never thought of that before.

Twenty years ago, I worked in the I.T. department of an insurance company. This particular company liked to buy up smaller companies, and rename them as subsidiaries. I saw on my bosses desk one day, business cards with great big letters NIS. I asked him what that was and he told me it was an new company they were starting called National Information Services. I told him that was a really bad name for a company. He asked why. I said “Turn the business card upside down and read it”. NIS upside down is SIN, and not a good subliminal message to be laying about. Two days later, the name was changed.

More recently, an animal rescue organization that I sometimes help out has a dog which no one wants to adopt. Its a perfectly sweet dog with a nice personality. Unfortunately, they have named the dog “Andreas Goof”. My suggestion was to rename the dog to just “Andy”. No one wants a dog named “Andreas Goof”

I’m certainly no marketing expert, but anyone should be able to see that some things are just not appropriate if the goal is to sell a product.

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Myths and Misconceptions About Colloidal Silver

Copyright © 2011,2012,2013 William Peters, cgcsforum.com

Here are some of the more common myths about colloidal silver and how its made.

1) Silver kills 650 kinds of organisms
False: While it has been shown to be effective against a wide variety of pathogens, there is no recorded documentation anywhere in the scientific literature proving or even suggesting that that number is 650. This is just folklore and sales hype perpetuated by companies that are trying to sell product. There are 1407 human pathogens according to the Center For Infectious Diseases at the University of Edinburgh. It is highly probable that colloidal silver would be effective against most of the bacteria and virii but silver has been tested against very few of these.

2) Pathogens cannot become resistant to silver.
False: There are recorded instances of bacterial strains which are resistant to silver5,6. Therefore this claim is proven false. Some strains of Klebsiella pneumonia1, Salmonell, and Ecoli2 are resistant, proving that organisms can and do become resistant. Some colloidal silver sites claim that pathogens cannot ever become resistant to silver because silver suffocates the pathogen. Obviously, just one example of a silver resistant bacteria falsifies that claim. The way to make pathogens resistant is to introduce them to low levels of a substance so that the weakest die off, and the strongest are selected to survive. Eventually, the remaining pathogens are all the strongest and resistant.

3) Ionic silver cannot cause argyria because it is the smallest particle size and cannot “get stuck”
False: Ionic silver can react with sulfur and selenium compounds in the body to produce non-soluble particles which are larger than ions and become immobile. Scanning electron microscope studies of argyria victims show that the silver stuck in the skin is silver sulfide and silver selenide resulting from ionic silver.3

When ionic silver (silver oxide) is consumed, it undergoes a chemical reaction with stomach acid and turns into silver chloride. Silver chloride is photosensitive… it can be used to make photographic film, and turns from white to black on exposure to light. Silver chloride will react chemically with sulfur or selenium compounds in the body which becomes silver sulfide or silver selenides, which are both insoluble compounds. Metallic silver (true colloidal silver) has very low reactivity with stomach acid, and thus does not create the compounds which are found in the skin of argyria victims.

4) Electric current pulls tiny pieces of silver from the electrodes to create colloidal silver.
False: This claim is made by people unknowlegeable in chemistry and physics. The electricity creates free silver ions on the surface of the positive electrode which chemically reacts with hydroxide ions in the water. This creates silver hydroxide which dissolves in the water and floats away from the electrode. The only compounds which can be made from silver and pure water without further chemistry or heat are silver hydroxide and its decomposition product of silver oxide. If salt is present, then silver chloride will also be produced.

5) Both electrodes must be pure silver.
False: The negative electrode can be any metal. The negative electrode repels anything that could react chemically with it, and instead attracts silver from the positive electrode. Only the positive electrode contributes any material to the solution. This is the basic electroplating process. (It is also why only the positive battery wire in a car corrodes.)

6) Silver strengthens the immune system.
False: Antibiotics do not strengthen the immune system. Silver does nothing except kill pathogens, and it does this without modifying any part of the immune system.

7) Silver is a nutritional supplement:
False: The human body has zero requirement for silver, and taking small doses of silver as a supposed nutritional supplement only increases the chances of bacteria and virii becoming silver resistant. The reason colloidal silver is sold commercially as a nutritional supplement is because that is the only way it can be sold without violating FDA regulations. IE: it is illegal to sell it as a treatment or cure for any disease.

8 ) Ionic Silver (Clear like water) is more effective than Metallic Silver (Yellow color)
False: Recent tests by accredited labs show that metallic silver is often more effective.
“Interestingly, AgNP’s have been shown in a variety of cases to be more toxic to bacteria and fungi than free ions (Choi et al., Fabrega et al., 2008; Lok et al., 2006)”4

9) You can measure the strength of Colloidal Silver with at TDS meter:
False: TDS meters are calibrated to read a mix of ions commonly found in ground water, and do not even read salt solutions correctly. Since ppm is the weight of one substance in another, a TDS meter would have to be specially calibrate to read Silver Oxide, and could not read true colloidal silver at all since true colloidal silver is not ionic. For a more in depth discussion, see this article.

10) Colloidal Silver does not kill off beneficial gut bacteria
False: Of course it does. Silver cannot distinguish good bacteria from bad, just as no other antibiotic can. The feces in the human digestive tract is about 60% bacteria by weight, and there are 10 times more bacteria than cells in the human body. So while colloidal silver can kill off beneficial gut bacteria, a few milligrams of silver is not enough to substantially alter the amount even if all of the silver consumed targeted only gut bacteria.

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1) Antimicrobial Agents And Chemotherapy, Jan. 1986, p. 165-167
2) FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Volume 27, Issue 2-3, pages 341–353, June 2003
3) Silver in Healthcare: Its Antimicrobial Efficacy and Safety in Use By Alan B. G. Lansdown
4) Advances in Applied Microbiology Vol. 77 By Allen I. Laskin, Geoffrey M. Gadd, Sima Sariaslani
5) Gentamicin- and silver-resistant pseudomonas in a burns unit, K BRIDGES, A KIDSON, E JL LOWBURY, M D WILKINS
6) Mechanism of resistance to silver ions in Klebsiella pneumoniae. P Kaur and D V Vadehra

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Why the war on coal is a scam

Global warming is a perfect example of why politics and science do not mix. One is a search for truth, and one is a search for control.

Recently, Obama and the liberals in the US government announced a war on coal under the guise of reducing (non-existent) global warming. This is scientifically unsound for anyone with the tiniest bit of scientific thinking.

Coal is almost pure carbon and when burned produces only carbon dioxide. If coal is abandoned as a fuel source, then oil, natural gas, and nuclear will pick up the difference. I seriously doubt any new nuclear plants will be built because of the disaster in Japan. That leaves oil and natural gas, both of which are hydrocarbons.

Hydrocarbons are carbon compounds with hydrogen. Methane, the simplest hydrocarbon, has 1 carbon atom and 4 hydrogen atoms in each of its molecules. When burned, each molecule of methane creates 1 molecule of carbon dioxide plus 2 molecules of water vapor (H2O). All hydrocarbons (gases and oils) give off carbon dioxide and water vapor when burned.

In his book, Radiation and Climate, by Vardavas & Taylor, published by Oxford University Press (2007); the authors state:

Generally speaking, water vapor is the single most important atmospheric absorber in the IR band..

No other atmospheric constituent is better known to the general public as a “greenhouse gas” than CO2. In actuality, water vapor has a larger overall impact on the radiative energy budget of the atmosphere..

Given that water vapor is a much stronger atmospheric greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, it makes no sense to increase the usage of hydrocarbon fuels over coal. So it would seem that any war on coal has a different agenda than fixing (non existant) global warming and in fact could only make it worse. No, a war on coal is a war on the economy and prosperity of the USA.

Obama claimed that cutting coal use would save lives. Quite the contrary, it will cost lives. Without coal, the cost of electricity will rise, along with the cost of heating oil and natural gas because of the increased demand. A lot of people just barely survive as it is, and any increase in the cost of home heating will either force people out of their homes, or prevent them from eating and heating both. No one can survive winter in the northern part of the country without heat!

Phasing out coal fired electric plants will also cause electric shortages, and ultimately send more of our money to Saudi Arabia, Libya, and the other OPEC countries. Perhaps that is the real goal.

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More data shows no global warming.

A recent report by the British Meteorological shows that the earth has not warmed in 16 years!

The world stopped getting warmer almost 16 years ago, according to new data released last week.

The figures, which have triggered debate among climate scientists, reveal that from the beginning of 1997 until August 2012, there was no discernible rise in aggregate global temperatures.

This means that the ‘plateau’ or ‘pause’ in global warming has now lasted for about the same time as the previous period when temperatures rose, 1980 to 1996. Before that, temperatures had been stable or declining for about 40 years.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217286/Global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago-reveals-Met-Office-report-quietly-released–chart-prove-it.html#ixzz2Xi6oIG4Q

The earth is about the same temperature as it was 1000 years ago and from http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html

The idea that man-made pollution is responsible for global warming is not supported by historical fact. The period known as the Holocene Maximum is a good example– so-named because it was the hottest period in human history. The interesting thing is this period occurred approximately 7500 to 4000 years B.P. (before present)– long before humans invented industrial pollution.

Big surprise? Nope. Global warming is a hoax and the real goal is more control and taxation over the populace.

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Fear: Why health care reform will never be good.

Fear is a great motivator, and is useful for short term situations. It prompts us to jump out of the way of the oncoming car, and it prompts us to cross the dimly lit street when there is a gang of young kids wearing hoodies and carrying baseball bats in your path. But fear is not a place to make long term rational decisions from.

What has this to do with health care? Almost everyone I have talked with has approached the health care discussion from fear. We have all heard the sad stories about people with no or little health care and the economic hardship it caused them, and most people, subconsciously are thinking “God, that could be me… I want to figure out how to make someone else pay for it.” I know you, my reader, will probably deny this because you don’t want it to be true, but it is. You are thinking from fear.

The basic premise for the fear is also true; you could face real economic hardship because of the cost of health care. However, the real problem is that it is so expensive, far more so than it should be. Wouldn’t it make more sense to use our collective brain power to figure out how to make health care affordable instead of how to mandate that someone else pick up the tab?

At my last colonoscopy in a local hospital, I was charged $13,000 for the procedure including $2800 to lie on a gurney in the hall for 2 hours as recovery room time. During that time, no medical staff checked on me, I just waited there until a nurse removed my IV 2 hours later. How can this be justified? I don’t think it can. Compare that to my first which was done in a doctors office for a total charge of $700 ($1024 adjusted for inflation) 20 years ago. Something is wrong, and it is not who is paying the bill, it is the bill itself.

Then there is the issue of supporting an entire industry which provides no health care, but adds greatly to its cost. I am talking about insurance of course. When I visit my family doctor, he has a team of people dedicated to billing insurance companies. Who pays for that? We all do. On the other end of that connection, there are thousands of people employed by health insurance companies who decide whether or not to pay my claim. Who pays their salaries? We all do. Who pays the 15% profit margin1 which is the average for the health insurance business? We all do, and no one ever got well by taking a big dose of Blue Cross.

1) http://biz.yahoo.com/p/522qpmd.html

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Myth of pH 10 Colloidal Silver

Some people are under the misconception that colloidal silver generators can produce alkaline water of pH 10. This is absolutely false. It is however possible to produce colloidal silver which reads pH 10 on an electronic pH meter. This is because standard electronic pH meters have silver based probes which do not read correctly in solutions containing silver, gold, and most transition metals.

From the pH Meter Guide at http://www.professionalequipment.com/guide-to-pH-meters/articles/

Since standard electrodes contain silver in the reference solution within the electrode, there are numerous applications where this kind of electrode can’t be used. The subsequent solutions cannot be measured with general purpose electrodes.

Heavy metals including silver, iron and lead
Proteins
Organics such as acetone
Low ion solutions such as distilled water
High sodium concentrations such as solutions containing large amounts of salts
Sulfides

The standard electrode supplied with most electronic pH meters is the silver based electrode.

The true pH of the colloidal silver solution can be determined by using the correct pH meter electrodes, called Calomel electrodes. Calomel electrodes are based on mercury instead of silver, so silver in the solution does not interfere and produce a false reading. It can also be verified with Hydrion pH test paper, which is also not affected by metal ions in the water.

A knowledge of general chemistry and the periodic chart of the elements should also make it clear that silver solutions cannot be pH 10 unless there is sufficient sodium, potassium, magnesium, calcium, or other elements present from columns one or two of the periodic chart (except hydrogen). Elements from column 1 are called alkali metals because they react with water to form hydroxides. Elements from column 2 are called alkaline earth metals and also form hydroxides in water. Of these elements, only sodium, potassium, calcium and magnesium are friendly to the human body. Beryllium for example is very toxic.

Normal water has a pH close to 7 because a portion of the water ionizes creating 10-7 moles of H+ ions and 10-7 moles of OH ions per liter of water. The 7 comes from the mathematical operation of taking the logarithm of 10-7 which is -7 and multiplying that by -1 giving 7.

To make water more acid, there must be more H+ ions than OH ions. To make water more alkaline, there must be more OH ions than H+ ions. At pH 8, there is 10-8 moles of H+ ions, and 10-6 moles of OH ions per liter. The exponents always add up to 14.

Where do the extra OH ions come from? They come from the alkali or alkaline earth hydroxides. Thats why only these elements can raise the pH of the water to any extent.

Silver does not form hydroxides with water. During electrolysis, silver hydroxide is formed at the anode, but quickly decomposes into silver oxide, which is not an alkaline substance.

At pH 10, there must be 1000 times as many OH ions and 1/1000 times as many H+ ions.

Anyone claiming that their colloidal silver equipment produces ph 10 alkaline water is proving their ignorance of basic chemistry.

Starting with distilled water with a milliliter of 1 molar sodium carbonate, the pH measures slightly over 7 to 7.5. After reducing the resultant silver with invert sugar, the pH us usually less than 7 because of the formation of gluconic acid which results from the oxidation of the sugar. Never is the pH anywhere near a true value of 10.

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Circulon Contempo 18X10 Double Burner Griddle Review

Last weekend, I purchased this unit which claimed to be non-stick and metal utensil safe. I thought it would be ideal for cooking bacon. So far I have made two batches of bacon. I cook on a Jenn-Aire gas cooktop, and cook bacon on med-low. The non-stick worked really well, but there is a problem.

After only two uses, the griddle has severely warped. If there is anything that irritates me, it is warped pans. This griddle has bowed up in the center by a full 1/8th inch. I consider this to be totally unacceptable and is a sign of poor quality metal or heat treatment during manufacture.

I would not recommend this particular item to anyone, and would question buying any Circulon products in the future.

Perhaps the store I bought it from will take it back. I hope so.

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My Favorite Baked Bean Recipe

Every so often, I get a hunger for baked beans. This is my favorite recipe.

2 Cups dried navy beans
1 Cup Ketchup
1 Quart Water
1 Med. Onion, chopped
1/4 Cup Dark Molasses
2 tsp dried Mustard
4 Slices Bacon
2/3 Cup Brown Sugar
1 tsp baking soda

Put beans in a quart of water plus 1 tsp baking soda and soak overnight
Drain and strain beans, rinse with plain water
Add other ingredients
Cook in a crock pot for several hours until done.

YUM!

Cook until done in slow cooker

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