Carlos Burle Surfs the biggest Wave

Praia do Norte

 Here's that Brazilian fellow which caught a gnarly wave out in the North Atlantic off the coast of Portugal.  Short video but has lots of meaning in one's life and the assist from a jet ski to track the wave, pretty cool.  But before the Brazilian caught the big one he saves fellow surfer Maya Gabeira.  She wiped out and was out cold face down, heading for the rock!  Carlos was on a rescue jet ski (another good idea for the ski) and found her after 5 min., she's OK!  Then he goes and breaks a record, thanks to St Jude’s storm that battered the coast of Europe early in the week, yep that would be a time for helping a friend and go break some records.

Maya Gabeira

Carlos Burle rode perhaps the biggest wave in history, Maya Gabeira almost died and a number of other surfers including Sylvio Mancusi, Rodrigo Koxa, Felipe "Gordo" Cesarano, Hugo Vau, Eric Rebiere, Pedro Scooby, Andrew Cotton and Garrett Macnamara all took on the fat swells from hell. The Brazilian crew traveled to Portugal with a goal in mind.  To beat the Guinness World Record for the largest wave ever surfed, which belongs to the Hawaiian hellman, Garrett McNamara. Carlos Burle, Pedro Scooby, Felipe Cesarano, and Maya Gabeira had big hopes for the European super swell.

Today, on the 28th October, 2013, Burle claimed one of the biggest wave ever ridden at Praia do Norte.  The first pictures show that he may be above the world record set by Garrett McNamara, at 23.77 m (78 feet) on 1 November 2011.  It's estimated to be 100ft high!

Carlos Burle, how long will I Slide

"It was luck.  We never know when we will be catching the wave.  I still hadn't surfed any wave and everyone had already had their rides.  Maya almost died.  For me, it was a big adrenaline moment to get back there after what happened", reveals Carlos Burle, 45, from Pernambuco, has been living the adrenaline life of the big wave riders.  In 2001, he rode a 22-meter (72 foot) wave, in Mavericks, Northern California.

"This video is gnarly"

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What's Up? from Sea to Shining Sea

  

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The Ocean is broken, this story of Ivan Macfadyen an Australian resident who sailed exactly the same course 10 years before from Melbourne to Osaka Japan which is due North, finds a haunting story of a voyage no one would want to believe. (Full story)  Did you read that? or you already knew this shipmates story, holy mother the humans are having an impact on the planet.

OK, we do need to pull or heads out of our ass and get a handle on what we create which is toxic waste, garbage, commercial fishing ah hell just the way we act as individuals in business with the intent to rape for profit is having an affect on us all.  First off how stupid is it to build a nuclear power plant next to an ocean, lake and river?  I understand the need for cooling but what happens if something goes wrong and it did!  We should have never turned on a nuclear planet because we don't know what to do with the nuclear waste, it last 10,000 years! and now it's killing part of the Pacific.  The leaks at Fukushima are only going to get worst along with the meltdowns itself.  Updates on Fuki right here

It's just not the Pacific, it's water all around the globe that's being raped by humans for food, power, oil fracking, dumping of waste and irrigation is having a heavy impact on what is left.  I wrote on this before, if you want to understand the conserving of water there is no better way to learn then carrying it before you use it.  Water is going to be like gold as time moves forward.

Here is a 2013 report of Study Group on Radionuclide Science in the North Pacific Ocean (PICES, an intergovernmental scientific organization made up of Canada, China, Japan, Korea, Russia, and the U.S.) Chairman Dr. Zhang pointed out that the widespread application of nuclear science and technology and a recent nuclear power plant accident Fukushima Daiichi had led to increasing amounts of radionuclides released into the North Pacific.  In addition, the long half-life radionuclides could potentially endanger the marine ecosystem, including human health through food chain exposures.  Consequently, it is important to monitor the radiation exposure level and assess the effects of radioactive substances on marine ecosystems in the North Pacific waters.   Full Report

 One Fine Day

I know we are not all idiots for we would be long gone by now but because the greed (set of beliefs that guides the actions of a person or group) of money and to save it sure gets us all off course and has a hard impact on how we raise our food, fish, mine, drill, farm and treat one another along with all living things on Earth is showing you as a society the monetary system sucks.   A little intro of the man and his home studio featuring David Byrne (former Talking Heads) then at 2:30 we go into the theme here, that is to snap out of it as a whole and care for all living things here or we to will get wasted.  For the elite who think they can live underground, well that would be like living on Mars, you have fun! 

In the meantime, we complete our tasks one by one.

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Lyrics to One Fine Day:

Saw the wandrin' eye- inside my heart 
Shouts and battle cries- from every part
I can see those tears- everyone is true 
When the door appears- I'll go right through---oooh 

I stand in liquid light- like everyone 
I built my life with rhymes- to carry on 
And it gives me hope- to see you there 
The things I used to know- that one fine 

One fine day 
One fine day 

In a small dark room- where I will wait
Face to face I find- I contemplate 
Even though a man- is made of clay 
Everything can change- that one fine-            

One fine day 
One fine day 
One fine day 

Then before my eyes- is standing still
I beheld it there- a city on a hill
I complete my tasks- one by one
I remove my masks- when I am done

Then a piece of mind- fell over me 
In these troubled times- I still can see 
We can use the stars - to guide the way 
It is not that far- the one fine…

Business as a Force for Good

One fine day 
One fine day 
One fine day
One fine day

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Why business as usual is no
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NASA "will be Back in the Meantime" - Ion

First a look at where no man has gone before, that would be Voyager 1.  In April 2013 a blast wave from a massive 2012 Solar eruption reached the Voyager 1 spacecraft in interstellar space.  It caused the plasma around the spacecraft to oscillate in a particular tone and was recorded.

This is huge for mankind we have been able to travel 11 billion miles into deep space and pass through our own Solar System bubble of this year and it's NASA's 55 birthday, nice present.

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New NASA Ion Thruster 

We're getting closer to deep space travel, one glitch that's holding us off is fuel the other is radiation but let's have a look at fuel and the engine that might get us there.

NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster (NEXT) project has completed the longest duration test for a Space propulsion system (48,000 hours/5 1/2 years).  This look inside the thruster's discharge chamber shows how it works.

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Ion Propulsion

The efficiency of a rocket engine can be described by its specific impulse, which is the change of momentum gained from a 1-kilogram weight of propellant.  The Space Shuttle main engines have a specific impulse of 453 seconds which is typical of a liquid fueled rocket engine.

An Ion thruster has a specific impulse of more than 3000 seconds and so requires less than a sixth of the fuel of a liquid fueled engine.   Gridded electrostatic ion thrusters commonly utilize Xenon gas.  The gas is first ionized by bombarding it with electrons.  The positively charged ions then diffuse through the positive grid and enter a potential difference between the positive and negative grids.  The potential difference accelerates the ions to high velocities, which then leave the engine to create thrust.  An electron emitter, on the exterior of the engine, neutralizes the ion beam to prevent charge build-up.

The typical thrust of an Ion engine is equivalent to a weight of 10 grams - about the weight of a sheet of paper.  This means ion thrusters need to provide continuous thrust for a very long time in order to achieve a reasonable change in velocity. This would be like your car coming off the ramp entering the highway at full throttle, would take four days to reach 60 mph but acceleration would continue on up to 90,000 mph, welcome to the fast lane!

Electrostatic ion engines have been tested for 3.5 years of continuous thrust at full power.  The collision of ions with the charged grids causes their erosion and will lead to eventual failure.  Ion engines consume more than 2 kilowatts of electrical power, which may be generated by solar arrays or nuclear generator.   NASA has developed a Xenon ion thruster called NSTAR for use in their inter-planetary missions. This thruster was tested in the space probe Deep Space 1, launched in 1998. The Dawn mission was launched in September 2007 to explore the dwarf planet Ceres and the asteroid Vesta. To cruise from Earth to its targets it will use three Deep Space 1, heritage, NSTAR thrusters firing only one at a time to take it in a long outward spiral.  The three thrusters are required to meet the lifespan requirement of the engine.

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The Dinosaur

So like many things on the planet that come to be extinct, the piston engine along with the Banksters and Government shutdown will go the way of the Dinosaur and future generation will be talking of.  Remember the country was on a monetary diet, how the hell did they get anything done?

May the force be with the US, the people.

With NASA down where do you GO? Cyclone Phailin

Well with much of the US Government sites in the dark one in particular, NASA is grounded and less info coming from this site to the public is damaging.  But like good shipmates NASA taught us, we execute our backups.  Even Noah is not up to speed.  So look at the individual countries and our friends, The Weather Channel.  I'm sure you'll find many sources until NASA comes back online, in this satellite imagery Cyclone Phailin is huge!

One site in-particular when looking for updates on Cyclone Phailin hammering the coast of India, you'll be surprised in what you'll find, IBN Live.      

 The Weather Channel 

Stormy Weather Crosby

U Control: Street level Radar

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Our friends in Europe esa

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FIDOCKAVE213 Sept Report

September 2013 was indeed a turbulent month for weather around the world, the massive flooding going on is of biblical times, just amazing the devastation and cost of lives.  We are getting our feet wet and the downfall of rain in just hours added up to a half a year, how is that possible? On Sept. 13, 14.62 inches of rain fell in Boulder, monsoon moisture flowing into Colorado from the south spawned the rain and thunderstorms that inundated the state. Unusually heavy rain falls across the region, narrow canyons and steep mountains help funnel raging torrents of water, back in 1976 the worst flood recorded killed 144 people in a flash flood known as "Big Thompson", Boulder Colorado is no stranger to flash floods but just the same many say it's the worst they ever seen.

Mud Island off Gwadar Pakistan

The most spectacular are the Mud island that popped up off the coast of Gwadar Pakistan, mud volcanoes burble up during earthquakes because the shaking releases mud and water that are trapped beneath barriers in seafloor sediments. Scientists are still far from consensus, but many think that Pakistan's newest piece of land may be a mud volcano.

Whatever of any of this, the vids from Fidockave213 and backup channel Seventhvial213 will get you thinking and concerned about Earth and quite possibly our existence. 

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