Space Vanguard

The Sun usually has a cyclical increase in solar flares about every eleven years. It has been slowly ramping up lately and now it is getting very violent. David Sereda says that the worst flares start with a long filliment hanging out of a sunspot and when it collapses back into the sunspot it creates a large hydra-flare eruption of a charged plasma wave that hits the Earth about 3 to 4 days later. These plasma waves spin up the Earth's magma core and the timing is linked so they probably caused the large recent earthquakes in Chile, Haiti and in Alaska. It is probably also firing off the new undersea volcanoes around the world. Get ready for some major Earth Changes.

The Japanese government has made a committment to developing a robotic moon base at the lunar south pole by 2020. I think that is a noble goal but I doubt that robots can learn to pick up dropped tools, fix crossthreaded bolts, and solve other complex tasks by then. The amateur experimental scientists around the world are advancing the robotic art by developing printing machines that can lay down layer upon layer of sprayed on plastic until a whole 3 dimensional plastic part is created. But much more work needs to be done before robots can pick up these created plastic parts and assemble them into useful machines in outer space. And the fabrication of necessary metal parts is much more difficult than plastic. I think a good strategy for the Japanese would be to find a crater near the lunar south pole and place two tempered glass domes over it. Small meteorites might crack the first dome but the second one should be able to resist the remaining impact force and still contain the artifi