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Water On Mars and other Heavenly Delights

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In 1938 Orson Welles scared the crap out of America when he broadcast H.G.Wells “War Of The Worlds”, sparking a mass panic of fearful proportions amongst the more superstitious and imaginative part of the American population.

People were driving around in their rickety old trucks with their shotguns and pitchforks just looking for a damn commie martian from the red planet to skewer in order to protect freedom and liberty for all (except the martians of course).

Soundtrack to the article ? ~ Kit Cotter performs “Omniverse”

Although a bit smaller than earth, Mars has often been described as a twin to our beautiful blue planet and has inspired the imagination of science fiction writers and artists for more than a century.Many had hoped that there were civilizations living on our neighboring planet but when the Mariner 4 probe was finally sent to the red planet in 1964, these hopes of fantasy were dashed forever.
Instead of finding civilizations living in peace and harmony amongst tree lined lakes and rivers of tranquility, a desolate, wind swept planet containing the largest volcano in the solar system greeted us.
Although life was not found it was believed that life did once exist upon the fourth planet from the sun and so the search for water was instigated.

Now water has been found on Mars by NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander.

Finding water is a crucial first step toward learning whether the ground on Mars is hospitable, because all life as we know it requires water. Now scientists can study the chemistry of Martian dirt in more detail.

When the probe took photos of a ditch it had dug four days before, scientists noticed that about eight small crumbs of a bright material had disappeared. They concluded those crumbs had been water ice buried under a thin layer of dirt that vaporized when Phoenix exposed them to the air.
Phoenix’s robotic arm first revealed the crumbs about 5 cm deep in the trench called “Dodo-Goldilocks” on June 15.
By June 19, they had vanished.
If the crumbs had been salt, they wouldn’t have disappeared, scientists said, and if the ice had been made of carbon dioxide, they wouldn’t have vaporized.

The $420 million mission landed on the arctic plains of Mars on May 25th 2008, embarking on a quest of at least four months to search for signs that the environment was once habitable to life.
Finding ice on Mars isn’t completely shocking, since observations from past satellites sent to orbit the planet, such as the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft, have indicated that ice is likely to lie beneath the planet’s surface.

Although the 2001 Mars Odyssey satellite could measure the average water ice content in roughly the top meter of ground over areas of several hundred kilometers, these data didn’t reveal how that ice was spread out.
The form of the water isn’t known, beyond the fact that there is too much there to be explained solely by water bound in minerals.

Mission scientists plan to eventually put samples of ice into Phoenix’s oven instrument, the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer (TEGA), which is designed to bake Martian dirt and analyze the vapors it emits to detect its composition. They also plan to use the onboard Microscopy, Electrochemistry and Conductivity Analyzer (MECA) instrument, a wet chemistry lab that measures levels of acidity, minerals, and conductivity in dirt samples.

So now that water has been found on Mars, does this explain the huge canyons that snake across the surface of the planet?
Did they once contain vast amounts water? If so what happened to it all?
I asked a friend of mine who told me of some people who subscribe to the belief about a rogue planet called Nibiru.

This planet travels into our solar system every 3600 years or so and creates havoc and mayhem and was the cause for Mars being the desolate planet it is now.
Apparently the atmosphere of Mars was ripped away by the gravitational pull of Nibiru as it passed by on its last visit.
It was discovered by the ancient Mesopotamians who gave it the name Nibiru and was apparently also known by the Mayans.

Sounds plausible if the planet exists and my sources inside NASA tell me “no comment”.
Does this mean “yes it is true but we’re not going to tell you, you loser” does it mean “we’re damned if we do and we’re damned if we don’t, say anything” or is it simply a case of “don’t waste our time with conspiracy theories we are men of science not science fiction you nut”.

I must pause here for a moment and remind all our readers that it is too easy to let ones imagination run away with itself, cackling madly over the hills and valleys of ones mind as happened in 1938.
The existence of Nibiru is hearsay as I haven’t seen any of the pictures but I am not beneath sensationalizing my articles to make them more interesting.

The fact remains however that some of what was once thought science fiction is now viewed in the realms of reality, indicating that anything is possible just like the water that has been found on Mars.
Maybe someday my children’s children’s, great grandchildren will be able to hitch a ride to Mars and catch some awesome waves on the fourth planet from the sun and maybe I should leave you all alone for now to contemplate the reality of a multidimensional navel.

So from the planet of my imagination, this is Clip Tycles signing off for now and catching the next bus for Mars.

Some Cool Links.

Excellent interactive and video journey on MSNBC.com showing the Mars rovers mission.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25954096/

Revolutionary Space Exploration Concepts

http://ai.jpl.nasa.gov/public/home/chien/spAGU2006Images.html

NASA Animation and article - Peeling Back Layers of a Martian Polar Ice Cap

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/multimedia/sharad-20080515.html

Lunar Khandro Album Review - Relaxation Music

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What do you do when you have had a hard day full of stress and pressures?

I settle down into my big comfortable armchair letting waves of tranquility roll over my soul, washing away a hard day from my tired body and tired mind as I listen to a very special, hauntingly beautiful album - Lunar Khandro.

If ever there was music to go with the eternal dance of the infinite cosmos or just to have in the background as you picnic at the Sea of Tranquility on the moon, this is it.

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The three tracks “Dark”, “Still”, and “Adrift” carry your being up and out, somewhere away from the everyday worries, inviting us to slowly dance amongst its infinite beauty even if for a little while.

Simone Townsend’s bewitching vocals ease into you, transporting you to another place, another time, effortlessly weaving within the relaxing, brilliant music of Jai Larkan.

Lunar Khandro is a good album to finish the day on, allowing yourself the space to unwind and let go of the tension you have accumulated, recharging yourself for the next day ahead.

Find yourself a comfortable place, close your eyes and let yourself drift away from the worries of the world for a time with this masterpiece of serenity and etheric beauty.

The striking artwork was created by the artists in a piccaso-ish burst of inspiration, letting this album stand out from most both visually as well as musically.

If all the people of the world would listen to this album just once a day, the world would be a much more peaceful and better place to live in.

Lunar Khandro is not an album that can be summed up within a few words, it is an album that one must be immersed into to understand the full experience it offers.

This has been your roving reporter Clip Tickles signing off until I am once more called forth to review another album.

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This movie features music from the album “Lunar Khandro”.

NASA turns 50

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If you visit any one of their websites you will find the very best images for free download. Hubble images, space shuttle launches, Mars imagery. All in full resolution with absolutely no restriction. You can even use their images or video footage in your own productions as long as you credit them!

Their philosophy is that the universe and its wonders are too valuable to be exclusive. We agree.

Everyone deserves to have access to the mind and heart opening effect of the magnificent universe we inhabit.

So we celebrate the vital role that the spirit of exploration, innovation, and courage play in our role as Human beings that care about more than just ourselves but also knowledge and the greater good.

NASA, You Rock!

Visit their 50th Anniversary website at http://www.nasa.gov/50th/home/

Explore the August 1st total solar eclipse here.

Some People - Blossomhead - Dream Beautiful Music Video

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The many faces, flavours, colours and variety of people in this strange little world of ours. Parental advisory - brief nudity scenes.

About the song

Some People is one of those songs that turned into a gargantuan beast filling nearly every track we had on the mixer and then some. It’s a funky beast that although sweet as sugar in parts, has a message that is quite biting and confronting.

I love the sound Herrin has on his guitar parts and the “Funky Love Horns” do their thing again. The end of the song has a message that sums it all up rather nicely. We’re all much the same as the other when it comes to Love.

Greg Reid

Visit the website at http://blossomhead.com

More Famous Than Jesus - Blossomhead - Music Video

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Human Rights, Freedom, Oppression, War, Politics, Religion and Genocide.

All the big issues all rolled into one song. Blossomhead a.k.a Greg Reid has written a powerful song about all these things, and now this video clip will drive the message home. This song has an explicit lyrics warning too…

Read about how Blossomhead wrote the song here.

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Join the digital music revolution now! - The Easy iTunes Music Guide

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This short simple guide will show you how to:

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Like most people, I still enjoy having a real CD in my hands with the artwork and track names and lyric sheet. But, its hard to avoid the flexibility and convenience of digital music.

You can make your own compilations, burn CDs and easily share music with your friends.

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Meditation Music Video with Inspirational Quotes - Lunar Khandro

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This 6 minute video combines spacious music from the album “Lunar Khandro”, beautiful landscape images from around the world, and quotes from some of our greatest philosophers, saints, thinkers and doers.

Take a moment right here to be still and soak up the intention of peace and goodwill within this movie experience. Enjoy!

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Yoga Khandro - Relaxing Guided Yoga Flow - Album Sampler

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Download the Free MP3 sampler from this guided Yoga album, perfect for beginners to intermediate.

Jai Larkan performs the music as well as providing the voice over to this full 80 minute flow. If you have been looking for an album to gently guide you for your practice then this is it.

Jai has been a yoga teacher for over 10 years and a musician for longer. His deep reassuring voice perfectly complements the ambient calming music.

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A Mysterious Void in the Universe ~ NGC 1132

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In the constellation Eridanus, southwest of Orion something quite peculiar has been found. In this particular part of the universe, 6-10 billion light years away, there is a remarkable drop in the number of galaxies.Astronomers had known there was something different about this spot in the universe, it had been dubbed the ‘cold spot’ because it stood out on a map produced by the Cosmic Microwave Background or (CMB), which are faint radio waves that are a remnant of the Big Bang, kind of like the earliest baby picture available of the universe.

This cold region of Eridanus was discovered in 2004 after studying the ‘Sky Survey’, which as its name suggests is a mapping of regions of the sky, it was found that there was a scarcity of galaxies in this area.

That along with the slightly lower temperature in this area led astronomers to come to the conclusion that there is an enormous hole in this part of the universe, nearly a billion light-years across.

It is empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies and gas, as well as the mysterious dark matter. Read more about this phenomenon here.

This image taken by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. Visit the Chandra site : http://chandra.harvard.edu/

Astronomers have known for years that the Universe has voids largely empty of matter, but no one has ever found one this size and they believe that what they have found is not normal.

Well, I ask, what is normal in this universe of outstanding beauty and infinite possibilities?

That wraps itself around our tiny planet and carries us through its expansion of the infinite so vast, so bizarre and so delightfully stunning.

It is the envy of us all that astronomers have a very unique perspective as they gaze out into the boundless realms of the universe, seeing things few of us could imagine.
What they will discover next will be reported to you from the roving mind of your raving reporter,

Clip Tycles

Album Review - Where You Are by Murray Wall

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Album Review: Murray Wall - Where You Are

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From the outset you know that you are going to be listening to an album with presence.
This man has talent that wraps itself around your ears and takes you on a journey of 9 superb songs.

From the title track “Where You Are” to the instrumental “Storm Song”, the talent of this man oozes from the CD through the CD player and into my ears.

Think of Leo Kottke, Nick Harper or Michael Hedges with edges and then add another to this class of musician, Murray Wall.
On this album you can hear a competent musician, a man of thought and feeling who addresses issues close to his heart.“WHOLE NIGHTS JAMBOREE” and “FRIENDS” are both songs about finding some clarity amongst the confusion and complexity of relationships while “PEMULWUY” and the funky groove of “WICKED MOB” are both songs about the environment and the indigenous inhabitants of this ancient and beautiful country we live in, something Murray a committed environmentalist, holds dear.

He has a preference for writing instrumentals like “STORM SONG”, “PLATEAUX” and “OFF THE RAILS” because he feels they say more emotionally than songs with lyrics.
When writing instrumentals Murray explains he doesn’t have to deal with the limitations of words and can explore the world within the song in a more open way.
“It’s rather like a magic pudding that the trick is knowing when to stop, when the piece is written”, he says.
He often doesn’t know what a song is about until after it is written and given a title.

“WHERE YOU ARE” is basically a song about the exorbitant use and waste of fossil fuels.
One day while caught in a traffic jam and feeling deeply depressed about the amount of pollution being pumped into the air about him, Murray watched the other motorists being oblivious to the fact and he thought “Where are you?”
In this song he expresses the anger he feels towards those greedy few who profit from causing so much damage to the world we live in and the excessive waste of making more and more cars, exposing the mentality of our ‘throw out one and buy another culture’.
He has a wish that everybody would stop buying cars and see how we go with what we’ve got.
Maybe it’s not such a bad idea.

Murray tries to find humour amongst the myriad of things that can bring us down about how we treat each other and the world.

He admires the philosophy of W.B. Yates, a revivalist of the Gaelic language during the nineteen thirties who said “You’ve got to tell it from where you are” and that, he says, is where the title for the album came from.

Murray Wall is a man of thought and empathy who feels him self to be a topical songwriter and he has addressed certain issues close to his heart on this album that spans the best of twelve years of song writing.

This is a superb album from a master of the guitar enhanced with a lovely voice that blends beautifully with his guitar style.
It will remain on high rotation in my music collection for a long time to come and should grace the collection of any serious music lover.

Murray Wall. Remember this name for he is a man full of talent that I hope to hear more from in years to come.

Clip Tycles

Website: www.MurrayWall.com

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Album Sampler Download - Lunar Khandro - Relaxation Music

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This lush, spacious album is now available as an mp3 album sampler. Perfect for relaxation, massage, chill-out or a yoga workout, you will find this music takes you into space.

Broad keyboards create a magic carpet that allows the sparkling piano and the haunting female vocals to ride unhindered into your stress and take them gently away.

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Jai Larkan - Composer, Piano, Keyboards. www.jaitunes.com

Simone Townsend - Vocals. www.simonetownsend.com

The Best of Hubble - Slideshow of Magnificent Space Imagery

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These are some of the best and grandest images we could find of space and nebulas taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. This three and a half minute video displays some of the more spectacular imagery taken by this awesome piece of engineering. Its primary advantage as a telescope is that it sees the heavens without the distortion of the earths atmosphere.

Thank you to Nasa.gov and Hubblesite.org for the images.

The beautiful, lilting music was composed by Jai Larkan and comes from the album “Where To Land”. You can purchase this album in our downloads store. Enjoy!

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Download A Sampler for the Album “Just in Time” by Herrin

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Over the next few weeks we will be releasing samplers for all the albums on the label as one single file with snippets from every song, so that you can get a quick listen to what we have to offer.

The easiest way to get all these downloads automatically is to subscribe to our free podcast through iTunes.

This latest Podcast is for the album “Just in Time” by Herrin. http://herrinmusic.com.

Clean heartfelt vocals, smooth rock/jazz production and some help from some very accomplished musicians. Just in Time is a tour of the inner landscape of love, hope, and at times, a cry for our collective sanity in how we treat our world.

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