Rapid Fire – Morning Coffee – Interactive Member Chat News 6:00 AM EST

Good Morning,


Isis7 here standing in for Phenn in this morning Rapid Fire.


For those who would like to prepare for the discussion. We have some very interesting threads pinned this morning.


First up is a special appearance from SHR

to discuss the

GLP Observatory Project: The Domes Are Up... ^TrInItY^ [link to www.godlikeproductions.com]


(Note: he emailed me and said if he wasn't to tired, he would show up and discuss an update. Here's crossing our finger's and hoping that he can make it.)

Here are the Pinned Threads:


Don't Feed The Shills.
Bigbayou87 / United States

Thread: Don't Feed The Shills.


Holy Eff!!! Roswell Alien video released....think its real!
Anonymous Coward / Australia

Thread: Holy Eff!!! Roswell Alien video released....think its real!


Ancient human relative was 'primate equivalent of a cow', say experts
SheldonCooper / United Kingdom

Thread: Ancient human relative was 'primate equivalent of a cow', say experts

Lets talk about the weather. This past week US was hit with a devastating tornado, now this:

Re: Breaking News: FREAK TORNADO HITS NEW ZEALAND!

Anonymous Coward (OP)
Australia

Thread: Breaking News: FREAK TORNADO HITS NEW ZEALAND!


This is absolutely outrageous weather folks:

Three killed as tornado hits Auckland
[link to www.theaustralian.com.au]


And includes this update:
And Queensland!

Torrential rain, hail whip SE Queensland 03 May 2011


CLUSTERS of thunderstorms are dumping torrential rain and hail over Brisbane and parts of southeast Queensland.

The Bureau of Meteorology has a severe thunderstorm warning issued for Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Lockyer Valley, Scenic Rim, Toowoomba and Redland council areas.

The bureau warns flash flooding is likely and there are reports of small hailstones in some Brisbane suburbs.

So far the highest rainfall was 32mm recorded in 30 minutes at Moogerah Dam at 1.40pm (AEST).

Storm cells will hit Rathdowney, Laravale and Maryvale by 3pm.

Energex said 946 homes at Ashgrove and The Gap were without power, along with 613 at Fassifern Valley, west of Boonah, at 2.30pm.

There had been about 2000 lightning strikes across southeast Queensland since midday, Energex said.

Police have issued a warning for motorists to slow down in the wet conditions and not drive through floodwaters.

THIS IS EXTREMELY INTERESTING YOU HAVE TO READ ---- EARTH ENTERING THE PHOTON BELT ---- MAGNETIC FIELD AHEAD MIGHT BE CAUSING TURBULENCES


Anonymous Coward
Switzerland

Thread: THIS IS EXTREMELY INTERESTING YOU HAVE TO READ ---- EARTH ENTERING THE PHOTON BELT ---- MAGNETIC FIELD AHEAD MIGHT BE CAUSING TURBULENCES


This thread has a link you might find interesting. Check it out.

[link to weekendworkshops.com.au]

Last nights "Raw Feed" was successful, A great big thank you to our guest's Dr. Lorraine Hurley and Mauro Oliveira who brought some interesting facts that GLP'ers had so many questions we were unable to get to. We hope to have them again soon.



Don't forget our Upcoming guests for GLPVC"s The Raw Feed


Monday, May 9, 2011 @ 11:00 PM EST

A Chat with "John Lear"

Posted in GLPVC this morning:

BAZA: [link to www.tuaw.com]

Unfortunately SHR didn't make it this morning, and I told the folks I would post the notes from yesterday. Hopefully soon he will make it in to update and explain what they are planning for us.


Taken in GLPVC on 5/1 -5/2 (the wee hours in the morning):

Earlier during chat SHR stopped in and talked about how things are going, and lots of technical points too.


All the big tubes are up and landed. It is fully up and in place. It's awesome man. So far it has really been good. There is nothing we haven't been able to overcome. The dome is like the biggest on earth. The small domes are pretty much commercially available. The big one is proto-type. Motors - asap. Full automation/ motors issue. Roto-moto (?) plastic dome. The larger dome is the only one of it's kind at the time when we bought it. (sold it in Sept. but waiting for the weather to break/ trade show coming up. Talked the dude into selling the one he had/ said he had to beat him into doing the deal) What are gonna be the capability of the small one - guy told him there were less than 20 of them on earth that was in 2008. Probably about 12 on earth, and maybe far less than that. Get this, we got the only one in stock on earth.

We have tapped that guy when it comes to the instructions/ hands on/ nut n bolts kinda thing. We have a wireless bridge. We're gonna use solar panels to run the main power, we some smaller ones to charge the motors on the doors, to rotate on the doom. We need to have that power supply to charge the battery to open the doom door. We are really at the root level automation...

Backyard program that we are thinking of throwing out and putting our own in. Thinking of coming up with our own system/ streamline the set up. We will see a lot of that in the future.

We have a magazine that loads different filters that take a series of photos depending on how many layers. We will have automated magazine. With this filter set up: Red, Green, Blue, Illuminance filters.

The Illuminant filter isn't a nebula filter / 5 one minute exposure @ five each, then stack a layer of them. Long exposure, deep light saturation.

SBI G System it's like a $7000 system. We got a great deal.

This is how these astro-photographer's do this. It takes a really long time to / SHR1 50 seconds in 3 minutes, SHR 2, SHR 3 all different timing of processing and be able to image these deep galaxy. You'll be able to do all these really great photos. So that everyone can do it. Good 5 minutes, Better 10 minutes, Best 15 minutes, Excellent 20 minutes.

Three clusters of three sets of scopes, and the medium scope, and for deep sky the big one.
Will have a Chat.
Will have to reserve 15 minutes of time.
You can reserve 15 minutes each for three days in a row to complete a project. We will have different time allotted for different projects.

Note: My typing isn't as fast as he was talking, I missed so much, but this is a good idea of some of the wonderful things they are doing. I hope I didn't get anything wrong, just take my notes with a grain, ok?

Solar X-rays: NORMAL

Geomagnetic Field: UNSETTLED

[link to solarimg.org]
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2008 FU6 May 5 75.5 LD -- 1.2 km


[link to ssd.jpl.nasa.gov]

2003 YT1 May 5 65.3 LD -- 2.5 km

[link to ssd.jpl.nasa.gov]


[link to spaceweather.com]
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[link to earthquake.usgs.gov]

MAP 4.6 2011/05/03 11:44:07 37.316 141.918 67.8 NEAR THE EAST COAST OF HONSHU, JAPAN
MAP 3.0 2011/05/03 11:24:26 18.754 -67.870 100.4 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC REGION
MAP 3.5 2011/05/03 10:42:30 61.921 -151.124 62.3 SOUTHERN ALASKA
MAP 2.7 2011/05/03 10:05:30 18.784 -65.009 10.6 VIRGIN ISLANDS REGION
MAP 3.2 2011/05/03 09:29:30 62.102 -148.934 18.1 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 3.1 2011/05/03 08:27:32 34.076 -117.865 10.5 GREATER LOS ANGELES AREA, CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.6 2011/05/03 07:22:40 46.709 147.407 292.8 NORTHWEST OF THE KURIL ISLANDS
MAP 2.8 2011/05/03 07:14:25 18.401 -65.901 114.7 PUERTO RICO
MAP 4.6 2011/05/03 05:47:03 12.591 144.369 32.6 GUAM REGION
MAP 2.5 2011/05/03 05:42:43 34.365 -116.464 4.4 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 2.5 2011/05/03 04:20:36 63.466 -150.855 10.5 CENTRAL ALASKA
MAP 4.5 2011/05/03 03:57:23 -31.191 -68.295 85.5 SAN JUAN, ARGENTINA
MAP 4.2 2011/05/03 02:58:30 30.677 -105.767 10.6 CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO
MAP 2.6 2011/05/03 01:38:27 38.813 -122.826 0.0 NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
MAP 4.4 2011/05/03 01:11:30 10.667 -85.828 53.7 COSTA RICA