Trigger from Space

[Jones Beene]

Remember, dear vortex reader, you heard it here first, off the record, on the QT, and very Hush-Hush....   No its not Roy's famous horse, which by the way is still with us... sort of: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/pet/trigger.html   Nor is it Fred's 'snowball from hell'   ;-)    One Dec. 26, 2004 a powerful undersea earthquake in the Indian Ocean that triggered a devastating tsunami. The earthquake has been upgraded to magnitude 9.0 and is reported to be the strongest the past 40 years. The tragedy is almost beyond comprehension.   It is part of the "human predicament" to always want to assign cause-and-effect, especially to major catastrophes. http://nichirenscoffeehouse.net/Ryuei/depen-orig.html   Consequently, much finger-pointing has already taken place about the putative cause of this devastating quake, assuming that no deity would have allowed it, so it must have a sinister cause - some of that speculation serious, some ludicrous. Exxon has even been blamed for taking out too much oil from the region. Go figure... even this anti-oil cynic would scarcely blame big-oil for this kind of thing.   This speculation in no way intends to make light of the immensity of this awful tragedy, but sometimes... if one cannot cry enough, a sardonic kind of levity is the only consolation ... as the Irish know well.   Not sure where this cause-and-effect observation, now to be added to the growing list, stands on the ludicrosity-scale, but consider this:     A once-in-a-lifetime cosmological event occurred at *about* the same time as the tsunami, a gigantic' star-quake' which rocked the entire Milky Way galaxy. It was probably the biggest explosion observed by human on our planet since Kepler saw a supernova in 1604. Actually the event itself occurred much earlier, but at light-speed the evidence arrived here at a remarkably coincidental time.    Astronomers have been stunned by the amount of energy released in this star explosion on the far side of our galaxy, 50,000 light-years away, which has just now been calculated.  The flash of radiation seen on 27 December was so powerful that it bounced off the Moon and lit up the Earth's atmosphere. But the gravity wave would have hit here slightly earlier, as the radiation would have been slowed by intergalactic dust and relic-hydrogen.   The blast occurred on the surface of an exotic star - a super-magnetic neutron star called SGR 1806-20.  If the explosion had been just 10,000 light-years away, Earth could easily have suffered a mass extinction. There is such a threat within that distance, by the way. More on that later.    One calculation has the giant flare on SGR 1806-20 unleashing about 10,000 trillion trillion trillion watts. http://i-newswire.com/pr7466.html   Not to mention... the "gravity wave" which could have gotten here first.   Jones