Jan 27, 2014

Behindhand Regrets


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It was then a sense of despair, cheerless when disastrous tragedy happen on November 8, 2013, leaving a trail of raging death toll and ramping devastation to Philippines barrelled through most of Visayas. However, what made the less fortunate people from coastal areas more misfortunate?
Television forecasters always says there’s a “storm surge”, a new and rare word for a typical rural individual, ignorance and unconsciousness dominates to public’s conception. But, it has no time for discussion… Yolanda is rushly coming.
If only they could ask… What these words really mean? How does it related to more famous disaster tsunami? to Tidal Wave? there individual characteristics?
No treatment comes before damage. After the tragic event of Typhoon Yolanda, flood of issues related to what they called “storm surge” emerge. Activist lawyer- Antonio Oposas’s published article says his seeking for Pilipino name for storm surge, which came up then to be “silakbo”.
 Storm surge is an offshore rise of water associated with a low pressure weather system, typically tropical cyclones and strong extra tropical cyclones , a property of hurricane. The impact on surge of the low pressure associated with intense storms is minimal in comparison to the water being forced toward the shore by the wind. When combined with normal tides, the surge can create water levels 15 feet or more about the mean water level. This rise in water can cause severe flooding in coastal areas. Way back 2005, at least 1500 death when Hurricane Katrina hits Philippines, as the result of storm surge.

Then how related is it to tidal wave? A storm surge is a rise in water along the shore caused by a storm while a tidal wave refers to the wave motion of tides. This incident is caused by the gravitational interactions between the Sun, Moon, and Earth. Tidal wave is often used to refer to tsunamis; however, this reference is incorrect, as tsunamis have nothing to do with tides.

Tidal waves are more predictable than tsunamis for you would know it by means of tides but Tsunamis are not. Disturbances like earthquakes, volcanic eruption and other underwater explosion cause tsunamis, which is unpredictable that you would not anticipate. It consists of a series of waves with periods ranging from minutes to hours, arriving in a so-called "wave train".

While everyday wind waves have a wavelength (from crest to crest) of about 100 metres (330 ft) and a height of roughly 2 metres (6.6 ft), a tsunami in the deep ocean has a much larger wavelength of up to 200 kilometres (120 mi) that can swallow an entire city. A tsunami can occur in any tidal state and even at low tide can still inundate coastal areas.

If only we can bring back the pass, to educate them with these essential ideas. Maybe we can save them from unconsciousness and ignorance. Maybe we can save their drowning hopes in the waves of tears and blood.

Sources:

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/surge/ 

Wikipedia     inquirer.net   ask.com

Dec 26, 2013

What Dwells Underneath



Photos from Google.com
             Stargazing on sky at night, where sparkling, twinkling ignite of stars and sometimes airplanes visible in our naked eye. But do you ever think of what other extra-terrestrial beings you could find on a wide-ranging space of a universe we certainly have? Mind you! . . . We don’t know... Maybe we are not alone in this particular domain we certainly living in so many decades pass. Maybe they are just there, guarding us throughout the time.

          Exotic, rare a recount of what the unbelievable yet still unproved theory embodied about crop circles, predicted to lead up the existence of extra-terrestrial creatures, the aliens.

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         Crop circles do in fact occur in all over the world in many countries and obviously they similar follow growing seasons in that particular part of the world. The origin of this occurrence was being debated, whether it starts in the mid 1970’s or maybe going back to the beginning of the century and even earlier. Many researchers try to prove if this phenomenon truly an act of alien creatures, in the end they have just found out it as a miracle. On the other side, according to Indonesian National Institute of Aeronautics and Space(LAPAN) described crop circles as “man-made” sensation. 

         Patterns produced by this absurd phenomenon mostly emerge in cereal crops such as wheatt & barley. Areas especially UK in the country of Wiltshire, played to be the host for most crop circles occur. Its first occurrence starts in April and May, reaching their height in late July and August. Various designs & shapes showed by this wonder were almost majestic. The most common is the single circle, followed by doublets, triplets, & quadruplets. But what an extraordinary design, if the stalks in a particular field typically bent and spin clockwise or counter clockwise and in some case formed a more complex crop patterns which known to us as pictogram, forming smiling faces, flowers or even words and sometimes based on ancient motifs and mathematical equations.

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        The question is, how do these things happen? If this was due to human being’s creativity, then how can they make such unique designs in a wide ground given a short period of interval? Maybe this notion evolved around the alien existence. Cerealogist  say that this diagram truly one of the evidence that the aliens are existing. Gaia hypothesis as known that earth is actually alive and that of crop circles are messages or response to stimuli such as global warming and human pollution.  Based on the witnessed view, light formation is also a hint for this theory , they said that after they saw some illume in a specific area at night ,a new crop formation was been found exactly where the light descended. People close to the site of crop circles reacted by feeling dizzy, disoriented, peaceful or nervous and even post-menopausal woman who suddenly began menstruating again after visiting the sites.

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        What an odd! Maybe extra-terrestrials are really prevailing, and maybe trying to send some message to us. We don’t know who are they and who are delivering that. They maybe some kind of genius species who want to communicate us in an unpredicted manner, like in the given, like the crop circles.