BLEND OF LOVING ENERGIES

19-year-old Boyan Slat has unveiled plans to create an Ocean Cleanup Array that could remove 7,250,000 tons of plastic waste from the world’s oceans. The device consists of an anchored network of floating booms and processing platforms that could be dispatched to garbage patches around the world. Instead of moving through the ocean, the array would span the radius of a garbage patch, acting as a giant funnel. The angle of the booms would force plastic in the direction of the platforms, where it would be separated from plankton, filtered and stored for recycling.

Read more at : http://inhabitat.com/19-year-old-student-develops-ocean-cleanup-array-that-could-remove-7250000-tons-of-plastic-from-the-worlds-oceans/

Meteor Over Manhattan: East Coast Fireball Sets Internet Abuzz

By Tariq Malik, SPACE.com Managing Editor – March 23, 2012

http://www.space.com/20360-east-coast-meteor-fireball.html

A bright meteor briefly outshone the lights of New York City and more late Friday (March 22), according to reports by witnesses who used Twitter and the Internet to report sightings of the fireball streaking over the U.S. East Coast.

“Strange Friday night … a meteor passed over my house tonight!” wrote one New Yorker writing as Yanksmom19.

The first fireball sightings came at about 8 p.m. EDT (0000 March 23 GMT), and sparked more than 500 witness reports to the American Meteor Society. Reports of the meteor flooded Twitter from New York, Boston and Washington, D.C.

 ”The witnesses range from along the Atlantic Coast ranging from Maine to North Carolina,” Robert Lunsford, the society’s fireball coordinator, wrote in an update.

“This object was also seen as far inland as Ohio.”

The CBS WUSA 9 television news station obtained several security camera videos of the fireball as it lit up the night sky over Washington and parts of Maryland (see second video below).

In New York, some observers reported seeing the meteor low in the sky as it streaked from west to east across the night sky.

“It shot over Manhattan and broke up over the East Village,” observer Ross E. of New York City wrote in his fireball report on to the meteor society.

In fact, the meteor streaked across hundreds of miles and was visible from many states along the Eastern Seaboard.

According to Lunsford, meteors often appear closer than they actually are due to the observer’s perspective.

Fireballs occur every day and are typically caused by small space rocks about the size of a basketball disintegrating as the streak through Earth’s atmosphere, officials with NASA’s Asteroid Watch outreach program wrote in a Twitter post.

On Feb. 15, a bus-size meteor exploded over Russia near the city of Chelyabinsk, shattering windows in hundreds of buildings and injuring nearly 1,500. The rare meteor explosion, which scientists have classified as a superbolide, was the most powerful in more than a century, NASA scientists said.

And the view from Maryland:

The Earth is bombarded by nearly 100 tons of material from space every day, but most of those objects are tiny dust grains that burn up harmlessly in the atmosphere.

NASA scientists and astronomers around the world regularly monitor the night sky for signs of larger asteroids that could pose an impact threat to Earth. Friday night’s meteor came just days after back-to-back hearings in the House and Senate over the threat of near-Earth asteroids to Earth. Those meetings were scheduled in the wake of the Feb. 15 Russian meteor explosion.