I very much wanted to visit it in 2009 with my ex wife but it was closed that day. Snce then it has been in my mind and finally I could find an opportunity to visit it in this February.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGhIjb3NHKI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhnQSdtr8Qk
Hello everybody. My wife called me as Mishka in our good days. I have liked this. So warm, lovely and cute. I got used to and liked this name.
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2016/05/05
2015/01/27
Mysterious booms in N. America.
Unexplained Loud Booms Are Escalating Across The USA in January 2015 And Nobody Knows Why!
Yesterday, mystery booms have been reported across the US from Texas to North Carolina, California to Indiana and Georgia, so literally all over the country. Freaky, isn’t it?
"It was this very loud boom that happened all of a sudden," Marjorie in Idaho, who asked that her last name be withheld, told RT. "My son and I went to look to see where it came from. It sounded like a door slamming very hard or something big falling down on the patio. But we couldn’t find anything. We watched the news later to see if anyone knew what it was, but no one did.”
“It was so loud the house shook. My kids ran in yelling, ‘what was that mommy?’” Tracy Walker, of Kennesaw County, Georgia, told WAGA.
Is it a secret new Russian weapon?
Perhaps.
Putin ordered his armed forced to work on "some new weapon systems work on new physcal principals" two years ago. Actually everything started with N. Tesla. The genious could achieve to generate an artificial earthquake in New York in 1930s. Then both the USA and Soviet Union had continue to conduct some top secret work on advaced directed energy weapons during cold war. They could reach some achievements.
SOVIET DIRECTED ENERGY WEAPONS -- Perspectives on Strategic Defense En Judgements o The Soviet Union is believed to be interested in the development of directed energy weapons (lasers, particle beams, and microwaves) for ballistic missile defense and anti-satellite (ASAT) applications. o The Soviet Union has been engaged in research on the directed energy weapons technologies for as long as the United States. Soviet efforts are under the leadership of some of the finest scientific minds in the USSR. The resources the Soviets have applied to these efforts are believed to be greater than those which the United States has applied. o In directed energy technologies, the Soviets are in a comparable, or highly competitive position with respect to the United States. In laser technologies, there is an essential equivalence, though the Soviets are pursuing some types of lasers which the US has either abandoned or has ignored for weapons applications. In particle beam and microwave technologies, the Soviets may have the edge over the US in some important areas. o The Soviets are believed to have progressed beyond the stage of pure or basic laboratory research in directed energy technologies; the Soviets have begun to develop and test laser weapons. The Soviets already have a ground-based laser capable of damaging some US satellites and which may be used to investigate the feasibility of lasers for ballistic missile defense applications. o Hostile Soviet reactions to the US Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) and lobbying against the SDI by highlevel Soviet scientists must be tempered by the fact that the Soviet Union has not admitted to its own longstanding counterpart research and the most vocal Soviet scientists have themselves been heavily involved in that weapons research.
http://www.foia.cia.gov/sites/default/files/document_conversions/17/19850305.pdf
The Soviet Union invested some effort in the development of ruby and carbon dioxide lasers as anti-ballistic missile systems, and later as a tracking and anti-satellite system. There are reports that the Terra-3 complex at Sary Shagan was used on several occasions to temporarily "blind" US spy satellites in the IR range.
It has been claimed[who?] that the USSR made use of the lasers at the Terra-3 site to target the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1984. At the time, the Soviet Union were concerned that the shuttle was being used as a reconnaissance platform. On 10 October 1984 (STS-41-G), the Terra-3 tracking laser was allegedly aimed at Challenger as it passed over the facility. Early reports claimed that this was responsible for causing "malfunctions on the space shuttle and distress to the crew." The United States filed a diplomatic protest about the incident.[42][43] However, this story is comprehensively denied by the crew members of STS-41-G and knowledgeable members of the US intelligence community.
Object 2014-28E – Space junk or Russian satellite killer?
It is a tale that could have come from the cold war. A mysterious object launched by the Russian military is being tracked by western space agencies, stoking fears over the revival of a defunct Kremlin project to destroy satellites.
For the past few weeks, amateur astronomers and satellite-trackers in Russia and the west have followed the unusual manoeuvres of Object 2014-28E, watching it guide itself towards other Russian space objects. The pattern appeared to culminate last weekend in a rendezvous with the remains of the rocket stage that launched it.
The object had originally been classed as space debris, propelled into orbit as part of a Russian rocket launch in May to add three Rodnik communications satellites to an existing military constellation. The US military is now tracking it under the Norad designation 39765.
Its purpose is unknown, and could be civilian: a project to hoover up space junk, for example. Or a vehicle to repair or refuel existing satellites. But interest has been piqued because Russia did not declare its launch – and by the object’s peculiar, and very active, precision movements across the skies.
Russia officially mothballed its anti-satellite weaponry programme – Istrebitel Sputnikov or satellite killer – after the fall of the iron curtain, though its expertise has not entirely disappeared. Indeed, military officials have publicly stated in the past that they would restart research in the event of a deterioration in relations with the US over anti-missile defence treaties. In 2010, Oleg Ostapenko, commander of Russia’s space forces, and now head of its space agency, said Russia was again developing “inspection” and “strike” satellites.
Moscow’s ministry of defence did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
SECRET WEATHER WEAPONS CAN KILL MILLIONS, WARNS TOP RUSSIAN POLITICIAN
Vladimir Zhirinovsky is Vice-Chairman of the Russian State Duma and leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), the first officially sanctioned opposition party after the fall of communism. The LDPR has deep links with the former KGB and Communist Party and has become a significant force in Russian politics, despite Zhirinovsky himself being branded as a militant neo-fascist.
According to a translation provided by a Russian speaker, during the interview Zhirinovsky went off on a bizarre tangent after he was asked how Russia should treat countries like Georgia and the United States who try and block Russia’s entry into the World Trade Organization.
Saying that the American government in Washington DC had “no future” and would “collapse,” Zhirinovsky cited Russia’s supremacy in space and stated that the country had, “Lots of money, resources, and new weapons that no one knows about.”
“With them we will destroy any part of the planet within 15 minutes,” he sensationally warned.
“Not an explosion, not a ray burst, not some kind of laser, not lightning, but a quiet and peaceful weapon,” added Zhirinovsky, warning that “whole continents will be put to sleep forever” and that “120 million will die” if anyone interfered with Russia’s claim on the Kuril Islands, which are the subject of a territorial dispute with Japan.
The female presenter of the news program smirked as he made the comments, but Zhirinovsky’s manner was far from jovial.
From the TIME 19 April 2012
The first mention of these mega-weapons came in February, when Vladimir Putin, Russia's perennial leader, published an article as part of what would be a successful campaign to win a third term as President. In the near future, he wrote, military strength will rely on a country's prowess in space and cyber warfare, but further down the line, weapons will emerge based on "new physical principles," such as "lasers, geophysics, waves, genetic engineering, psycho-physics and etc." Not only will they be at least as deadly as Russia's nukes, Putin wrote, but they will be "more acceptable in a political and military sense." That is supposed to be part of their appeal: unlike biological and chemical weapons, which are banned under international law, these would be well within bounds.
Putin Laughs Off Hilary Clinton's Threat To Russia
Or basically it was Americans tested their own such type of weapons caused those louds.
2014/02/16
2013/02/16
Something strange with Chelyabinsk meteor.
Since yesterday, many experts!! have had claims that it was too small and fast to track and intercept the meteor hit Chelyabinsk the city in Russia hosts greatest Russian nuclear facilities.
Well let us look a bit American sources about other impacts before. Here you are an example below:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/12/20/california-meteor-broke-speed-record-for-atmospheric-entry/
Keep on reading the details.
Meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens must move quickly to trap evidence of a fresh meteorite fall. In 2008, a small asteroid roughly three meters across struck Earth’s atmosphere over northern Sudan, producing a brilliant fireball in the sky. The asteroid’s orbit had been tracked before striking Earth, upping the chances that searchers would be able to locate pieces of the meteorite on the ground. So Jenniskens traveled to the Nubian Desert to recover fragments, as did dozens of searchers from the University of Khartoum.
In April of this year, he did not have to travel nearly so far to gather fresh meteoritic material. A bright fireball lit up the daytime sky April 22 over northern California’s gold country, a few hours’ drive from Jenniskens’s bases of operations in the San Francisco Bay Area: the SETI Institute in Mountain View and the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field. The California bolide, like its African predecessor, made a well-documented entry—three Doppler radar stations picked up the track of the fireball, pointing the way to meteorite fragments on the ground. (The asteroid itself had not been spotted in space—such small objects usually escape astronomers’ notice.) Given the convenient location, the searchers were even able to marshal a slow-moving zeppelin to scan the area from the air, to look for impact scars on the terrain below caused by large meteorite fragments, but none were found.
Jenniskens and other searchers did ultimately locate 77 smaller pieces of the meteorite on the ground, according to a study he and his colleagues published in Science on December 21.
Drawing on witnesses’ photos and videos of the fireball, the researchers have calculated that the parent object of the Sutter’s Mill meteorite entered the atmosphere at 28.6 kilometers per second (64,000 mph)—the highest such entry velocity recorded for recovered meteorites.
So the claims of those experts about speed of Chelyabinsk meteor prevented to be tracked remain invalid by this events. Even smaller eighter faster objects could be tracked according to this source.
And this is from NASA's official web site:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/asteroid20130214.html
Like trailers for the coming attraction, new images show asteroid 2012 DA14 on its way to a record-close approach to Earth on Feb. 15. One image, taken by amateur astronomer Dave Herald of Murrumbateman, Australia, on Feb. 13, shows the asteroid as a tiny white dot in the field of view. Another set of animated images, obtained by the Faulkes Telescope South in Siding Springs, Australia, on Feb. 14, and animated by the Remanzacco Observatory in Italy, shows the asteroid as a bright spot moving across the night sky.
These are some of many images that may be taken of the asteroid during its close - but safe - encounter with Earth. It will be observed by numerous optical observatories worldwide in an attempt to determine its rough shape, spin rate and composition. NASA scientists will use NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar, located in California's Mojave Desert, to take radar images of the asteroid to determine its precise size and shape on Feb. 16, 18, 19 and 20. The NASA Near Earth Object Observation (NEOO) Program will continue to track the asteroid and predict its future orbit.
Asteroid 2012 DA14 is about 150 feet (45 meters) in diameter. It is expected to fly about 17,200 miles (27,000 kilometers) above Earth's surface at the time of closest approach, which is about 11:25 a.m. PST (2:25 p.m. EST) on Feb. 15. This distance is well away from Earth and the swarm of low Earth-orbiting satellites, including the International Space Station, but it is inside the belt of satellites in geostationary orbit (about 22,200 miles, or 35,800 kilometers, above Earth's surface.) The flyby of 2012 DA14 is the closest-ever predicted approach to Earth for an object this large.
The NASA Near Earth Object Observation (NEOO) Program detects and tracks asteroids and comets passing close to Earth using ground- and space-based telescopes. The network of projects supported by this program, commonly called "Spaceguard," discovers these objects, characterizes a subset of them and plots their orbits to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our planet.
And other example from NASA:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-017
Russian tracking and early warning systems may be insufficent and unfunctional for such threats but it s clear NASA is enable to do it even 23 years before the close flyby. Chelyabinsk residents were unlucky NASA could not detect the meteor this time. Otherwise I am sure they would make a friendly warning to Russian authorities to avoid 1000 people to be injured.
Well let us look a bit American sources about other impacts before. Here you are an example below:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/12/20/california-meteor-broke-speed-record-for-atmospheric-entry/
California Meteor Broke Speed Record for Atmospheric Entry
December 20, 2012| 
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10Keep on reading the details.
Meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens must move quickly to trap evidence of a fresh meteorite fall. In 2008, a small asteroid roughly three meters across struck Earth’s atmosphere over northern Sudan, producing a brilliant fireball in the sky. The asteroid’s orbit had been tracked before striking Earth, upping the chances that searchers would be able to locate pieces of the meteorite on the ground. So Jenniskens traveled to the Nubian Desert to recover fragments, as did dozens of searchers from the University of Khartoum.
In April of this year, he did not have to travel nearly so far to gather fresh meteoritic material. A bright fireball lit up the daytime sky April 22 over northern California’s gold country, a few hours’ drive from Jenniskens’s bases of operations in the San Francisco Bay Area: the SETI Institute in Mountain View and the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field. The California bolide, like its African predecessor, made a well-documented entry—three Doppler radar stations picked up the track of the fireball, pointing the way to meteorite fragments on the ground. (The asteroid itself had not been spotted in space—such small objects usually escape astronomers’ notice.) Given the convenient location, the searchers were even able to marshal a slow-moving zeppelin to scan the area from the air, to look for impact scars on the terrain below caused by large meteorite fragments, but none were found.
Jenniskens and other searchers did ultimately locate 77 smaller pieces of the meteorite on the ground, according to a study he and his colleagues published in Science on December 21.
Drawing on witnesses’ photos and videos of the fireball, the researchers have calculated that the parent object of the Sutter’s Mill meteorite entered the atmosphere at 28.6 kilometers per second (64,000 mph)—the highest such entry velocity recorded for recovered meteorites.
So the claims of those experts about speed of Chelyabinsk meteor prevented to be tracked remain invalid by this events. Even smaller eighter faster objects could be tracked according to this source.
And this is from NASA's official web site:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/asteroids/news/asteroid20130214.html
Like trailers for the coming attraction, new images show asteroid 2012 DA14 on its way to a record-close approach to Earth on Feb. 15. One image, taken by amateur astronomer Dave Herald of Murrumbateman, Australia, on Feb. 13, shows the asteroid as a tiny white dot in the field of view. Another set of animated images, obtained by the Faulkes Telescope South in Siding Springs, Australia, on Feb. 14, and animated by the Remanzacco Observatory in Italy, shows the asteroid as a bright spot moving across the night sky.
These are some of many images that may be taken of the asteroid during its close - but safe - encounter with Earth. It will be observed by numerous optical observatories worldwide in an attempt to determine its rough shape, spin rate and composition. NASA scientists will use NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar, located in California's Mojave Desert, to take radar images of the asteroid to determine its precise size and shape on Feb. 16, 18, 19 and 20. The NASA Near Earth Object Observation (NEOO) Program will continue to track the asteroid and predict its future orbit.
Asteroid 2012 DA14 is about 150 feet (45 meters) in diameter. It is expected to fly about 17,200 miles (27,000 kilometers) above Earth's surface at the time of closest approach, which is about 11:25 a.m. PST (2:25 p.m. EST) on Feb. 15. This distance is well away from Earth and the swarm of low Earth-orbiting satellites, including the International Space Station, but it is inside the belt of satellites in geostationary orbit (about 22,200 miles, or 35,800 kilometers, above Earth's surface.) The flyby of 2012 DA14 is the closest-ever predicted approach to Earth for an object this large.
The NASA Near Earth Object Observation (NEOO) Program detects and tracks asteroids and comets passing close to Earth using ground- and space-based telescopes. The network of projects supported by this program, commonly called "Spaceguard," discovers these objects, characterizes a subset of them and plots their orbits to determine if any could be potentially hazardous to our planet.
And other example from NASA:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2013-017
January 10, 2013
PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA scientists at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., effectively have ruled out the possibility the asteroid Apophis will impact Earth during a close flyby in 2036. The scientists used updated information obtained by NASA-supported telescopes in 2011 and 2012, as well as new data from the time leading up to Apophis' distant Earth flyby yesterday (Jan. 9).Russian tracking and early warning systems may be insufficent and unfunctional for such threats but it s clear NASA is enable to do it even 23 years before the close flyby. Chelyabinsk residents were unlucky NASA could not detect the meteor this time. Otherwise I am sure they would make a friendly warning to Russian authorities to avoid 1000 people to be injured.
2013/02/15
RUSSIA IS HIT.
A bright flash was seen in the Chelyabinsk, Tyumen and Sverdlovsk regions, Russia’s Republic of Bashkiria and in northern Kazakhstan.
Around 950 people have sought medical attention in Chelyabinsk alone because of the disaster, the region's governor Mikhail Yurevich told RIA Novosti. Over 110 of them have been hospitalized and two of them are in heavy condition. Among the injured there are 159 children, Emergency ministry reported.
Army units found three meteorite debris impact sites, two of which are in an area near Chebarkul Lake, west of Chelyabinsk. The third site was found some 80 kilometers further to the northwest, near the town of Zlatoust. One of the fragments that struck near Chebarkul left a crater six meters in diameter.
Servicemembers from the tank brigade that found the crater have confirmed that background radiation levels at the site are normal.
http://www.en.rian.ru/photolents/20130215/179482019_2/Meteorite-Shower.html
Around 950 people have sought medical attention in Chelyabinsk alone because of the disaster, the region's governor Mikhail Yurevich told RIA Novosti. Over 110 of them have been hospitalized and two of them are in heavy condition. Among the injured there are 159 children, Emergency ministry reported.
Army units found three meteorite debris impact sites, two of which are in an area near Chebarkul Lake, west of Chelyabinsk. The third site was found some 80 kilometers further to the northwest, near the town of Zlatoust. One of the fragments that struck near Chebarkul left a crater six meters in diameter.
Servicemembers from the tank brigade that found the crater have confirmed that background radiation levels at the site are normal.
http://www.en.rian.ru/photolents/20130215/179482019_2/Meteorite-Shower.html
Russian space agency Roskosmos has confirmed the object that crashed in the Chelyabinsk region is a meteorite:
“According to preliminary estimates, this space object is of non-technogenic origin and qualifies as a meteorite. It was moving at a low trajectory with a speed of about 30 km/s.”
“According to preliminary estimates, this space object is of non-technogenic origin and qualifies as a meteorite. It was moving at a low trajectory with a speed of about 30 km/s.”
Was it faster than an ICBM. Why it could not be seen in
air defence radars and destroyed before the hit? It means if it was a balistic
missile, it would not be intercepted by Russian air defence system. I dont know
if it was really a kind of new weapon to be tested on Russia with such an
extrem timing just after "Post-Soviet Integration is Unstoppable –
Putin" or not but it s clear a meteor should be detected and tracked much earlier
with its route to earth. And I expect Russian S300 or S400 systems to destroy
it on air preventing to be so harmful. Only a couple of days ago there was a
news about estimates of the orbit of the meteor Apopsis. Russian scientists
from a missile development interprise in St. Petersburg promised to develop a
missile system to track it s orbit and destroy if it will be necessary in
following 50 years. It s tragicomic to talk about to track and to destroy a
meteor is millions of miles away from the earth since 2050 and in the same week
to be hit by a meteor. This a meteor (if it is) should be thousands of times
closer than Apophis. There was no warning to local people by public authorties
before the impact. And no attempt to intercept it by air defence systems. globally scientists say one more meteor will pass nearby the earth within few hours. NASA says no need panic it has no risk to hit the planet. But why nobody could predict for Chelyabinsk one?
And one more thing seems very strange in the videos of the
incident, the white tracks of the meteor in the blue sky. It s not straight as
expected. I am not a space expert but according to physical rules an object
goes by the gravity should have a direct and straight route but not a way like it is done minor corrections in its route by any navigation.
And finally I have a question to specialists, if the meteors
have been observed since now had white tracks in the skye or black?
Every August there are meteor showers in the earth and we
have observed them for centuries. But only at nights. We like to see them as
falling stars but we can not see any white track in the sky daytime when it
happens every August.
2012/07/30
Buran.*
* Means "Snowstorm" in Russian.
Did you know anything about it? Soviet Space Shuttle in 1988. Bigger and more advanced than American counterpart. With flybywire system.
Unfortunatelly Buran shuttle program had to be finished after Soviet Union's collapsing because of lack of funds.
Check it in the videos below.
Did you know anything about it? Soviet Space Shuttle in 1988. Bigger and more advanced than American counterpart. With flybywire system.
Unfortunatelly Buran shuttle program had to be finished after Soviet Union's collapsing because of lack of funds.
Check it in the videos below.
In the last video you may see also another miracle of Soviet technology AN 225 carrying Buran. AN 225 still holds the record as World's biggest and heaviest plane.
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