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| World Trembles With Irresistable Pull Of Uranus |
| 2005-03-30 |
| Uranus may be responsible for recent devastating Asian sea quakes because the mystery-shrouded "planet of calamity" is unusually close to the Earth, tabloid newspaper readers in Germany were warned on Wednesday. Under the front-page headline "Uncanny Uranus", the report in theBild newspaper cited an array of experts, ranging from Nasa scientists to TV astrologers, saying the seventh planet from the sun possesses a "quadripolar" magnetic field that acts as "a giant cosmic vacuum cleaner". This heavenly Hoover is literally sucking the Earth's tectonic plates out of their beddings, according to Bild, Europe's largest daily newspaper with more than five million readers. This magnetic pull is strongest along the Earth's equator because the tropics are marginally closer to Uranus than the poles are. The magnetic forces "are strong enough at the equator to suck up electrically charged dust particles", which could, in turn, disturb the Earth's crust and spawn killer sea quakes and resulting tidal waves. The reason these natural phenomena have increased of late is that the distant planet's orbit has brought Uranus uncomfortably close to Earth. Instead of being its usual 3,14-billion kilometres from Earth, Uranus currently is a mere 2,59-billion kilometres away. And it will remain this close through the year 2012, so Bild warns that we could be in for more uncanny Uranian catastrophes well into the next decade until Uranus slowly retreats back into its proper place in the Outer Solar System. "With its 11 rings and 18 moons, Uranus is in fact different from everything else in our Solar System," said Edward Stone, Voyager project scientist since 1972. The German paper quoted Stone at length, saying that Voyager 2 had raised almost more questions than it had solved... The mind boggles. |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |
| #1 Uranus - the Elder of Elders, the Dark/Great Father,Great Chaos, Father of Fathers, father of Saturn/Cronus whose the father of Zeus and his Gods-Siblings, and Neptune is His Emotional alter-ego. Janus of the Four Heads/WInds/Directions is Uranus the All-Seeing. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2005-03-31 12:00:10 AM |