I've mentioned this before ... Its in response to this thread =->
http://www.christian...ge__pid__145008
NASA Indirectly Confirms Wormwood Prophecy By Irene Klotz, SAN FRANCISCO | Wed Dec 7, 2011
http://www.cogwriter...mwood-prophecy/
In addition to looking like a star falling from the heavens looking like a torch (and an asteroid could possibly do that), comets normally appear with cyanogen. Astronomers state hydrogen cyanide on comets may be their source of cyanogen gas. Interestingly, the cyanogen gas mixes with water to form hydrogen cyanide, which has an almond odor and bitter taste, and reportedly causes death at concentrations over 5 parts per million.
http://www.dailymail...wake-Cusco.html
Meteorite blasts across skies of Peru leaving forest fires in its wake By Claire Bates
Last updated at 2:19 PM on 29th August 2011
Blazing with the fury of a mini-sun this amazing video shows the moment a suspected meteor streaked across the sky over the city of Cusco in Peru. It was captured blasting through the upper levels of the atmosphere ... leaving an irredescent trail in its wake. Astonished residents watched as the impressive natural phenomenon eventually disappeared over the horizon.
Peru last saw a meteorite fall in September 2007 near the border with Bolivia. The basketball-sized meteorite left an impressive crater that was 44ft in diameter. Fragments of rock tested positive for iron, nickel and cobalt with traces of iridium. It was dated as about 4.5 billion years old and formed around the same time as our Solar System.
http://news.national...eteor-peru.html
http://news.national...eor-peru_2.html
Meteor Crash in Peru Caused Mysterious Illness José Orozco in Caracas, Venezuela for National Geographic News September 21, 2007
Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Pro 5:4 - Wormwood - In Eastern medicine this herb, the absinthium of Greek and Latin botanists, was looked upon as poisonous rather than medicinal. Compare Rev_8:11.
The People's New Testament
Rev 8:11 A star is a symbol of a great leader. Such a star as this, a blazing meteor, is a symbol of a leader who suddenly appears, rapidly does an awfully baleful work, and then disappears. In some way the rivers will be the scenes of his malign influence. They shall become bitterness and shall be scenes of death.
Robertson's Word Pictures
Rev 8:11 - Wormwood (ho Apsinthos). Absinthe. Usually feminine (he), but masculine here probably because astēr is masculine.
Rev 16:3 - Into the sea (eis ten thalassan). Like the first Egyptian plague (Exo_7:12 -41) though only the Nile affected then. Blood as of a dead man (haima hos nekrou). At the trumpet (Rev_8:11) the water becomes wormwood. Here hōs nekrou is added to Exo_7:14-24, “the picture of a murdered man weltering in his blood” (Swete). “Coagulated blood, fatal to animal life” (Moffatt).
John Gill's Exposition on the Entire Bible
Burning as it were a lamp; this star resembled that which is called Lampadias, which Pliny says (t) imitates, or bears a likeness to burning torches; and he speaks of a spark which fell out of a star, which had such an appearance (u): this is expressive of war, and great destruction in the empire:
The invasions of the [Barbarians], particularly the Vandals under Genseric, who being turned out of Spain by the Goths, went into Africa, where peace was made, and part of Africa given them to dwell in; after which Genseric, through treachery, seized upon Carthage, and greatly afflicted Sicily: Theodosius made war against them to no purpose, and peace being made between Valentinian and Genseric, Africa was divided between them; and some time after Rome was spoiled by Genseric of all its riches ®.
Mr. Daubuz thinks Attila, king of the Huns, called the dread of the world, and the scourge of God, is meant by this star; who was a rebel against the Romans, and made sad ravages in the empire; at the beginning of which troubles a great comet appeared; and, according to Cassiodorus (s), the Huns were auxiliaries to the Romans against the Goths; but Litorius the Roman general was taken; and after this the Huns rebelled, and depopulated Thrace and Illyricum; and Attila, their king, having slain his brother Bleda, and partner, became sole monarch; and though the Romans under Actius, by the help of the Goths, beat him in the fields of Catalaun, and obliged him to depart, yet afterwards, having got a reinforcement, he entered with great force into Aquileia, with whom Pope Leo made peace:
® Cassiodor. Chronicon in Theodos. 44. & in Marcian. 45. (s) Chronicon, ib. (t) Nat. Hist. l. 2. c. 25. (u) lb. c. 35.
EW Bullinger's Commentary on Revelation
Cicero [De Div. ii. 27] tells us that the word was brought to the Roman Senate, on one occasion, that it had rained blood, and that the river Atratus had flowed with blood. On August 17, 1819, Dr. Seiss tells us that "Captain Ross saw the mountains at Baffin's Bay covered for eight miles with blood-red snow many feet in depth." Also that Saussare found it on Mount St. Bernard, in 1778; that Ramond found it on the Pyrenes; and Summerfield in Norway. Why may it not be seen again? ... Events somewhat similar have happened. In the Annual Register for 1823, p. 683, we read that, as the result of a volcanic explosion, showers of sand darkened the sky and "the sea water became thick, and river water assumed the colour of beer, and was so extremely bitter as to be unfit for use. This was in the Aleutian Islands, and it is quoted by Mr. Govett in his Apocalypse Expounded.
What John saw was a fiery mass like a mountain cast into the sea, and turning it into blood. "This cannot be literal" exclaim the interpreters. But again we ask, Why not? In one of the plagues of Egypt it is written that Moses "lifted up his rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants, and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood" (Ex. viii. 20)
http://books.google....ved=0CFAQ6AEwCA
wormwood contains a volatile oil ... cyanogen, which when it is united with hydrogen forms hydrocyanic acid
http://www.christian...1988715493.html
Information Gained from Comet Hartley Already Written About in the Bible
Archeologist and geologist Dr. Jeffrey Goodman in Tucson expressed excitement for another reason – he said that the data about Comet Hartley's multiple vents and its powerful emission of cyanide gas supports the Biblical text. In Goodman's new book "THE COMETS OF GOD-New Scientific Evidence for God: Recent archeological, geological and astronomical discoveries that shine new light on the Bible and its prophecies" he reports that most of the scientific data learned about comets in the last 25 years has already been recorded in the Bible!
http://www.foxnews.c...,494944,00.html
Strange Green Comet Passing by Earth Next Week Wednesday, February 18, 2009
WASHINGTON — An odd, greenish backward-flying comet is zipping by Earth this month, as it takes its only trip toward the sun from the farthest edges of the solar system. The comet is called Lulin ... The story behind the comet is more intriguing than its appearance — the greenish tinge may be hard for many to discern. The color comes from a type of carbon and cyanogen, a poisonous gas.
While all the planets and most of the other objects in the solar system circle the sun counterclockwise, Lulin circles clockwise, said NASA astronomer Stephen Edberg. Thanks to an optical illusion, from Earth it appears as if the comet's tail is in the front as the comet approaches Earth and the sun. "It essentially is going backwards through the solar system," he said. It came from the outskirts of the solar system, 18 trillion miles away. Once it's made the journey around the sun, Lulin will gain enough speed to escape the solar system, Edberg said.
http://www.foxnews.c...,491648,00.html
"There is a case to be made that dark, dormant comets are a significant but largely unseen hazard," said Bill Napier at Cardiff University. Dark comets happen when a comet's reflective water ice evaporates away, and leaves behind an organic crust. Since the water's gone, they don't reflect light, making it hard for astronomers to see them until they're right on top of us.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanogen
Cyanogen is used to measure the temperature of interstellar gas clouds[6].
Cyanogen is found in many comets and gives them their greenish halo[7]
6. # ^ Interstellar cyanogen and the temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation | Mendeley
7. # ^ Green Comet Approaches Earth - NASA Science
http://www.mendeley.com/research/interstellar-cyanogen-temperature-cosmic-microwave-background-radiation/
http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2009/04feb_greencomet/
Like other inorganic cyanides, cyanogen is very toxic, as it undergoes reduction to cyanide ... Cyanogen produces the second hottest known natural flame (after carbon subnitride) with a temperature of over 4525 °C when it burns in oxygen.[10]
10. ^ Thomas, N.; Gaydon, A. G.; Brewer, L., A. G.; Brewer, L. (March 1952). "Cyanogen Flames and the Dissociation Energy of N2". The Journal of Chemical Physics 20 (3): 369–374. Bibcode 1952JChPh..20..369T. doi:10.1063/1.1700426
Astronomy Picture of the Day - NASA
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
In the center, surrounding the comet's nucleus, is the green-tinted coma, so colored as it is a mix of dust and gasses that include green-emitting cyanogen.
NASA's Swift and Hubble Probe Asteroid Collision Debris 04.28.11
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/asteroid-collision.html
Late last year, astronomers noticed an asteroid named Scheila had unexpectedly brightened, and it was sporting short-lived plumes. Data from NASA's Swift satellite and Hubble Space Telescope showed these changes likely occurred after Scheila was struck by a much smaller asteroid. "Collisions between asteroids create rock fragments, from fine dust to huge boulders, that impact planets and their moons," said Dennis Bodewits, an astronomer at the University of Maryland in College Park and lead author of the Swift study. "Yet this is the first time we've been able to catch one just weeks after the smash-up, long before the evidence fades away." none of the emissions most commonly identified in comets, such as hydroxyl or cyanogen, show up in the UVOT spectrum. [confirmed in a negative way here, for this comet]
New crops needed for new climate | e! Science News
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/06/29/new.crops.needed.new.climate
Researchers at Monash University in Victoria, Australia have found an increase in toxic compounds, a decrease in protein content and a decreased yield in plants grown under high CO2 and drought conditions. The research ... has shown that the concentration of cyanogenic glycosides, which break down to release toxic hydrogen cyanide, increased in plants in elevated CO2. This was compounded by the fact that protein content decreased, making the plants overall more toxic as the ability of herbivores to break down cyanide depends largely on the ingestion of sufficient quantities of protein.
Chemists reveal how algae delete unwanted 'competitors'
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-chemists-reveal-algae-delete-unwanted.html
Every morning when the sun comes up, the ocean ground is radically cleaned. As soon as the first rays of sunlight find their way into the water, the microalgae "Nitzschia cf pellucida" start their deadly 'morning hygiene'. The algae, the size of only some few micrometers, wrap themselves and their surroundings in a highly toxic poison: cyanogen bromide, a chemical relative of hydrocyanic acid, although much more toxic.
Like a 'molecular toothbrush', which removes other micro-organisms thoroughly, every morning this chemical mace 'disinfects' the ground on which these diatoms grow. "Thus they can ideally grow and keep direct competitors for light and free space in check," Professor Dr. Georg Pohnert of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany) states. As soon as the first rays of sunlight find their way into the water, the cellular 'devil's workshop' starts to work. "From two up to four hours after day break the concentration of the released cyanogen bromide is at its highest, later on it decreases," Professor Pohnert explains.
The scientists can still only speculate about the fact that the poison doesn't harm the diatoms [other algae] themselves ... While the 'competing' algae give up.
Prussian blue linked to the origin of life | e! Science News
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/12/14/prussian.blue.linked.origin.life
A team of researchers from the Astrobiology Centre (INTA-CSIC) has shown that hydrogen cyanide, urea and other substances considered essential to the formation of the most basic biological molecules can be obtained from the salt Prussian blue. "We have shown that when Prussian blue is dissolved in ammoniac solutions it produces hydrogen cyanide, a substance that could have played a fundamental role in the creation of the first bio-organic molecules, as well as other precursors to the origin of life, such as urea, dimethylhydantoin and lactic acid", Marta Ruiz Bermejo, lead author of the study and a researcher at the Astrobiology Centre (CSIC-INTA), tells SINC.
Urea is considered to be an important reagent in synthesising pyrimidines (the derivatives of which form part of the nucleic acids DNA and RNA), and it has been suggested that hydantoins could be the precursors of peptides and amino acids (the components of proteins), while lactic acid is also of biological interest because, along with malic acid, it can play a role in electron donor-recipient systems.
The researcher and her team have proved that these and other compounds originate from the cyanide liberated by the salt Prussian blue (the name of which refers to the dye used in the uniforms of the Prussian Army) when it is subjected for several days to conditions of pH12 and relatively high temperatures (70-150ºC) in a damp, oxygen-free ammoniac environment, similar to early conditions on Earth. The results of the study have been published recently in the journal Chemistry & Biodiversity.
Astrobiologists discover 'sweet spots' for the formation of complex organic molecules in the galaxy | e! Science News
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2011/11/02/astrobiologists.discover.sweet.spots.formation.complex.organic.molecules.galaxy
Scientists within the New York Center for Astrobiology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have compiled years of research to help locate areas in outer space that have extreme potential for complex organic molecule formation. The scientists searched for methanol, a key ingredient in the synthesis of organic molecules that could lead to life. The scientists conclude in the paper that there is a "sweet spot" in the physical conditions surrounding some stars that accounts for the large discrepancy in methanol formation in the galaxy. The complexity of the chemistry depends on how fast certain molecules reach the dust grains surrounding new stars, according the Whittet. The rate of molecule accumulation on the particles can result in an organic boom or a literal dead end.
"Comets are time capsules," Whittet said. "Comets can preserve the early history of our solar system because they contain material that hasn't changed since the solar system was formed." As such, the scientists could look at the concentrations of methanol in comets to determine the amount of methanol that was in our solar system at its birth.
What they found was that methanol concentrations at the birth of our solar system were actually closer to the average of what they saw elsewhere in interstellar space. Methanol concentrations in our solar system were fairly low, at only a few percent ... "This means that our solar system wasn't particularly lucky and didn't have the large amounts of methanol that we see around some other stars in the galaxy," Whittet said. "But, it was obviously enough for us to be here." The results suggest that there could be solar systems out there that were even luckier in the biological game than we were, according to Whittet.
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