Just checking in very quickly.

You may have noticed that I haven’t been posting much lately. Never fear, it’s because I’ve had my head down creating.

There are LOTS of things happening, most of which I can’t talk about. But the one thing I can say is that the Decipher sequel is just days away from completion. Yipee!

More soon.

A shrimp like creature and a jelly fish have been found under the ice in Antarctica where no life supposed to exist.

Hmm.

From Technocult:

Space.com’s FAQ states “The question of a solar disturbance/magnetic field change related to earthquakes has been thoroughly investigated and found to be unproven,” and cites the conclusions of a 1996 conference on the subject.

However, Russian and Chinese scientists continue to study the possibility of a connection.

As you’ve probably already heard, this earthquake altered the axis of the earth. So, if it IS true that this earthquake was caused by the sun (and I’m not saying that it was), that means that the sun actually caused a change in the earth’s axis.

The irony is, a few weeks ago I’d written in the Decipher sequel that the effects of the events of the first book had added an extra second to the day. Then the Chile earthquake hit and the reports of the length of day changing began to surface. Spooky.

hatip: Cherie

Hi kids, I’m in crunch so it’ll be light posting this week, if any. Got to get this here sequel finished. Which turns out to be hard to do with a baby in the house. Who knew? Oh yeah, everybody but me.

Cherie writes:

lol!! Have they JUST read ‘Decipher’???  Looking forward to part II!!

The link she sends is this one at New Scientist.

IT IS midnight on 22 September 2012 and the skies above Manhattan are filled with a flickering curtain of colourful light. Few New Yorkers have seen the aurora this far south but their fascination is short-lived. Within a few seconds, electric bulbs dim and flicker, then become unusually bright for a fleeting moment. Then all the lights in the state go out. Within 90 seconds, the entire eastern half of the US is without power.

A year later and millions of Americans are dead and the nation’s infrastructure lies in tatters. The World Bank declares America a developing nation. Europe, Scandinavia, China and Japan are also struggling to recover from the same fateful event – a violent storm, 150 million kilometres away on the surface of the sun.

It sounds ridiculous. Surely the sun couldn’t create so profound a disaster on Earth. Yet an extraordinary report funded by NASA and issued by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in January this year claims it could do just that.

Over the last few decades, western civilisations have busily sown the seeds of their own destruction. Our modern way of life, with its reliance on technology, has unwittingly exposed us to an extraordinary danger: plasma balls spewed from the surface of the sun could wipe out our power grids, with catastrophic consequences.

The projections of just how catastrophic make chilling reading. “We’re moving closer and closer to the edge of a possible disaster,” says Daniel Baker, a space weather expert based at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and chair of the NAS committee responsible for the report.

Here’s the money quote:

It is hard to conceive of the sun wiping out a large amount of our hard-earned progress. Nevertheless, it is possible.

Hard to conceive? Not really. Decipher came out 9 years ago.

Thanks for the tip Cherie!