August 20, 2015 - July 2015 Highest Temperature On Record
for Global Land and Ocean Surfaces. El Nino in Pacific This Fall
to Winter Could be One of Strongest On Record.
August 20, 2015 - July 2015 Highest Temperature On Record
for Global Land and Ocean Surfaces. El Nino in Pacific This Fall
to Winter Could be One of Strongest On Record.
NOAA's combined land and ocean temperature percentiles for July 2015,
in which the pink to dark red colors are warmer than average to warmest
on record around the world. See NOAA.
Satellite images of the Pacific show warm surface temperatures
in the Pacific Ocean that cover a larger area than the last huge El Nino
of 1997. That's when there were floods and mudslides in California that
killed 17 people and caused half a billion dollars in damages. But California needs
the water and it might come strongly this 2015 fall to winter. See NOAA.
August 19, 2015 - Mysterious Unidentified Light Beams
and Light Flashes. Click for report.
— “Coming up from what I think would be the (Pacific) ocean was a
huge beam of light. ... The beam was striated....one beam with a stripe in it.”
- Resident, Marin County, California, August 16, 2015
— “The color was more like that of daylight than a lightening flash
... just a single bright flash and there was no sound.”
- Resident, Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania, August 12 and 13, 2015
Strange "striped" beam of light seen from Marin County,
CA, at 4 AM Pacific, on early clear weather Sunday morning, August 16, 2015.
Sketch by Kentfield, California, resident.
August 21, 2015 - UPDATED: More Sky Beam
Reports. Click for report.
“According to more than one caller, the mysterious beam of light
seemed to originate beyond sight in the upper atmosphere and 'landed'
on Coyote Street in north Nevada City. No injuries were reported.”
- The Nevada County Scooper news, August 17, 2015
August 18, 2015 - DNA Breakthrough: Storing Data for A Million Years.
“On a hard drive, we use zeros and ones to represent data,
and in DNA we have four nucleotides, A, C, T and G.”
- Robert Grass, Ph.D., Swiss Federal Inst. of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland
Scientists reporting this week at the 250th American Chemical Society meeting in
Boston, Massachusetts, have a breakthrough in digital data storage in which DNA
molecules preserved in glass or silica could store data like fossils do up to a million years
without loss of integrity. The longest that an external hard drive can
store 5 terabytes of data is only about 50 years. DNA image by WGBH/Nova.
Using DNA's four chemical building blocks of nucleotides A, C, T and G, Dr. Robert Grass confirmed that he and his science team have converted 83 kilobytes of text from the medieval Swiss Federal Charter of 1291 and the Methods of Archimedes from the 10th Century into the digital code of DNA after a synthesis process equivalent to storage at 50 degrees C. for 2,000 years and decoding back to the original text without a single error. Dr. Grass says that an ounce (28 grams) of DNA could store 300,000 terabytes of memory.
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