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I live in a neighborhood called Teneriffe. It's a little place surrounded by a river with the city hanging off one side. You can walk across it in 15 or 20 minutes, as i did just here, taking night picutres along the way.

Night photography is always a surprise. Our eyes aren't as sensitive to colour when it's dark, so that barely dark blue sky turns out a vivid deep blue when you expose the shot for a while.

Most of these shots are 10-60 second exposures, to really soak in the available light. The amount of colour always blows me away.

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What could possibly exist that has anything to do with an 'Outback Tesla blast Japanese cult'? Surely i've employed a random word generator.

Or, maybe, not.

This is all going to sound a bit crazy, but i ask you, loyal Robotblogger reader, to press on.

I'm going to sum it all up in a single paragraph, then break it down after. This is insane.

There is significant evidence to suggest that a Japanese terror cult has stolen plans from the Nikola Tesla archives (held in secrecy by the US Gov after Tesla died) and with Russian help, have built and tested a plasma and/or earthquake weapon in the Australian outback.

WTF? Let me break it down further. There are strange explosions in the Australian skies, and violent earthquakes - in a geologically dormant area - which happen with precise frequency and at exact distances apart, and have been recorded by dozens of seismographs.

Oddly, it's not newsworthy.

Here are some undisputed facts:

2:00 AM May 1, 1995: A fireball slowly approaches Perth and 500,000 people are woken up by the blast. Witnesses first heard a loud roaring pulse like a train engine, saw a ball of fire with a tail going about the speed of a jet, heard no sonic boom, then saw a bright orange red fireball with a light tail. It exploded, sending things shaking.

News reports said it was an atmospheric meteor. What's unusual is that meteors have entirely different characteristics. You don't hear them first, since meteors go >25,000 mph. They don't cause vibrations unless they contact the ground, and if they do make impact, they leave stuff behind. Nothing of this May 1 incident was in line with a meteor strike. Experts asked said it was no meteor. It was quickly out of the news.

Years before...

Late April, 1993: The Terrorist group Aum Shinrikyo buys a large sheep farm in an area called Banjawarn, just between Laverton and Lenora. They made a shell company called Clarity Investments to buy the property. Members of Aum flew into Perth with a number of school girls, each transporting 'geological equipment', some of which was stopped at the border because it was unrecognizable as geological equipment. Why would a religious cult purchase a farm in the middle of nowhere - arguably one of the least populated areas outside of the polar regions?

11:03 May 28th, 1993: A large fireball with a tail, making a pulsing sound like a freight train, passes over the Australian outback, between the mining towns of Laverton and Lenora. It came down to earth, made a huge fireball igniting the entire sky, and sent seismographs scribbling. There has not been any previous seismic activity in the region since the seismographs were placed, or in Aboriginal racial memory. 56 Seismographs recorded the event. Geologists scrambled to the location and found nothing. Why would giant fireballs and the ONLY RECORDED seismic activity in that area happen, just after Aum purchased it?

Who are Aum Shinrikyo? They're a very well funded Japanese religious cult, with over $1Bn in reserves, and a penchant for high-end terrorist gear. They are also very interested in Nikola Tesla. Before Tesla died, he is believed to have designed a few superweapons, one of which could 'split the earth in two'. After he died, the US government classified his plans and hid them, somewhere in New York. There is some suggestion that Aum Shinrikyo has acquired some of these plans, on their many documented visits to NYC, and the Tesla Museum.

The Soviets have also advertised a super weapon, Kruschev warned the US in the 1960's about one, based on similar designs to Tesla. Aum's chief arms dealer, Kiyode Hayakowa, traveled to the USSR 21 times during the 90's, repeatedly meeting with the chief of the Soviet security council.

Tesla, in the 1896, accidentally triggered an earthquake across a dozen New York city blocks. He claimed he created it 'By a little piece of apparatus you could slip in your pocket'. When the police came, he smashed it. That sounds so far fetched, i know.. but check here for the info (scroll to bottom) or here

The 1995 Kobe earthquake - which was predicted bu the head of AUM, Shoko Asahara, 9 days beforehand saying on the radio "Japan will be attacked by an earthquake in 1995, the most likely place is Kobe" Hideo Murai, who was Aum's science and tech adviser also suggested the same. He was murdered by the Yakuza shortly after speaking about it to foreign news correspondents. Did they get the Tesla machine working?

You may also recall that Aum Shinrikyo was responsible for the Tokyo subway sarin attack of 1995. This event collapsed the organization. There is some evidence that suggest that Aum Shinrikyo was framed for this attack, by their arch rivals: the militaristic Soka Gakkai, a truly massive cult with 15 million members and extraordinary funding. The SG has members in most major companies and has significant power in the Japanese political system. Check that out... v-interesting stuff. Be suspicious of their friendly front / image when you do check them out.. they've done very nasty stuff. Some people believe that Aum was developing Sarin at their Australian outback location also. Who knows.

If Soka Gakkai did frame Aum with the Sarin attacks, it sure did weaken their main opponent, maybe around the time they got some of their plasma stuff going?

Ok, you think i'm crazy. Well, read for yourself:

http://www.cheniere.org/misc/brightskies1.htm
http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk/doom_weapons_1.htm
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1995_rpt/aum/part06.htm

This Sunday, some mates from work drove down to Currumbin for some surfing. Currumbin is a beautiful little seaside town about an hour south of Brisbane. World class surfing! A right point break which can get pretty big sometimes, but was only around 5 feet when we were there, i mean, about 1.5 meters. What a great area, a nice little bay for learning and the bigger stuff if you head out towards the point. A near perfect beach.

A number of kids were surfing there, and when i say kids i mean like humans under 10 years old. There was this one little girl who couldn't have been over 5, and she was riding the smaller waves in the bay - seriously surfing them. She entirely put me to shame with her skills. Cute! (embarrassing)

Wanna see Currumbin from space?
Have you got Google Earth installed? (if you haven't yet played with Google Earth, um.. you should stop what you're doing right now and install it)
Click here to get Google Earth

Click here to checkout Currumbin on Google Earth
Download the file to your desktop and double click it (Google Earth must be installed..)

If you look closely, you can see the surfers! They're the little white shapes. Amazing!

"Oh, you're in Australia! Hey, i know [so and so] is there, you guys should hook up! "

Yeah, i should! Perth is only 3,600 km away! That's close, sure! That's like Vancouver to New York, or London to Cairo! Perfect! I'll see if i can come visit this afternoon!

The place is big. Even this east coast of Australia is big. Brisbane to Sydney is 726 km, and it's only a quick 1350 km to Melbourne. We're neighbours.

Vanocouver isn't so close. It's 11,880 km apart, give or take. That's almost 39 million feet, which if you were to walk here, ignoring the wet ocean bit, it would only be 2,453 hours, assuming a comfortable 3mph (yes i'm mixing metric and imperial, and did the conversions too...) That's merely 102 days. OK, sleep and stuff. Let's say you walk for 9 hours a day (you are determined, this determines) you'd get here in a cozy 275 days.

Speaking of metric and imperial, it seems imperial has all but lost the battle. The USA is imperial - well mostly - science and aerospace are all metric there, since, uh, it actually makes sense. Try to take the wing off an f-16 fighter jet and you better have your metric set ready. A Ford? not so much. Few other countries support the imperial system.

Jamaica officially switched, just a few years ago. Not many left now..

Britian officially has - or did - in this big push to convert during the 70's, you know, when everyone else was doing it (well, most other people were doing it in the 60's) but then a new government came in and they gave up the idea half way through. Yes, you still buy gas in liters, but the road markings are in miles per hour. The UK even has an EU obligation to complete it's metrification, but hasn't set the date to do so, or even a date to say when they'll talk about setting the date to do so.

Ireland got fed up with waiting and in 2004 they changed all the road signs over.

This leaves the US and A, Burma and Liberia as the last Imperial hold outs. Well, and Britain too, a sort of half-baked foot in both camps kind of thing (are there Imperial-only parties, and are they that good?)

If anyone detects a tone of supremecy with my writing, then i must confess something..

I'm 6'2" and one hundred and -cough-ty-cough-four? centimeters tall and weigh 200 pounds, or cough-um-cough kilograms.