The recently launched NASA telescope known as the Solar Dynamics Observatory captured video of an enormous solar flare on Sunday. The huge eruption threw a tsunami across the surface of the Sun. The image above is a snapshot of a solar flare taken on March 30th of this year.

Tulum is cool because it’s where Mayan ruins intersect with sugar sand beach and crystal clear blue waters. It’s only about a one hour drive South of Cancun. Believe it or not I snapped this photo in December.

The Mayan king known as “Pakal The Great” ruled from the age of 12 in 615 A.D. til his death at age 80. Pakal’s sarcophagus lid strangely appears to depict a man flying a rocket ship. The man seems  bent over with his hands on some kind of “gear-shifter” type controls. At the bottom see what appear to be flames shooting  out of a rocket. Around the edges are glyphs that depict the Sun, Moon, Venus and various star constellations. Is it possible that the Mayans could have learned Astronomy from Aliens?

Archaeologist Stephen Houston discovered a 1600 year old Mayan burial chamber that was so well sealed that the odor of putrification wafted out upon its opening.

Inside the tomb among other items were the remains of six children thought to have been sacrificed to the King. Perhaps it’s fitting that the pyramid built on top of the tomb is known as El Diablo.

See the link for more:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38310459/ns/technology_and_science-science/?gt1=43001

At midnight my wife and I witnessed an amazing Eclipse- at the movies 8-).

That’s right, the new film Twilight Eclipse. As always Bella was torn between her obsession for Edward and her love for Jake, however in Eclipse the Indian Spirit Warrior Wolves cooperated with the Culin Vampires on a mutual mission to protect Bella from young rogue vampires.

Jake and the wolf pack stole the show as they battled vamps from the rainforest to open fields and the peaks of the Olympic Mountains and also as he fought to win Bella’s heart.  

In his broken-hearted circumstances as the underdog he symbolizes the perseverance of the human  heart and the power of unconditional love. Jake’s character is a reminder to me  to ask for what I want out of life and to fight for it and not give up.

I think Eclipse was the best out of the three Twilight films.

In June 1972, while flying a helicopter over Mexican flatlands, American Archaeologist Peter Harrison discovered the ancient Mayan city of Chacchoben. At first they appeared to just be hills, but Harrison suspected they were Mayan Pyramids and reported the site to the Mexican Government.

From 1994 to 2002 the Mexican National Institute of Anthropology and history excavated and studied the site, eventually concluding that Mayans built Chacchoben at around 700 A.D.

My family and I will journey to Mexico and explore the ruins of Chaccoben for ourselves later this year. Stay tuned in for updates.

Photo by Ichthyologist Prosanta Chakrabarty.

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.

- The Apostle Paul