Ozone was proposed as a new substance in air in 1840, and named, even before its chemical nature was known, after the Greek verb ozein (ὄζειν, "to smell"), from the peculiar odor after lightning storms. Ozone's odor is sharp, reminiscent of chlorine, and detectable by many people at concentrations of as little as 10 parts per billion in air. Ozone's O₃ formula was determined in 1865. The molecule was later proven to have a bent structure and to be diamagnetic. In standard conditions, ozone is a pale blue gas that condenses at progressively cryogenic temperatures to a dark blue liquid and finally a violet-black solid. Ozone's instability with regard to more common dioxygen is such that both concentrated gas and liquid ozone may decompose explosively.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone
Ozone cracking used to be a serious problem in car tires for example...

Does the sun make a noise or have a smell?
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080330104949AArF5sk

Yes the sun make sound. That's like asking if a volcano erupting has sound. Just because that sound can't get to Earth doesn't mean there isn't sound on the Sun. That's like saying the Earth doesn't have sound just because the sound can't get through space to the sun.

The entire Sun vibrates from a complex pattern of acoustical waves, much like a bell. If your eyes were sharp enough, you could see a bell's surface jiggle in complex patterns as the waves bounced around within it.The Sun's acoustical waves bounce from one side of the Sun to the other in about two hours, causing the Sun's surface to oscillate, or wiggle up and down. Because these sound waves travel underneath the Sun's surface, they are influenced by conditions inside the Sun. So scientists can use the oscillations to learn more about how the structure of the Sun's interior shapes its surface. 

The Sun's sound waves are normally at frequencies too low for the human ear to hear. To be able to hear them, the scientists sped up the waves 42,000 times -- and compressed 40 days of vibrations into a few seconds. What you'll be hearing are just a few dozen of the 10 million resonances echoing inside the Sun. 

Go here to listen to a collection of sounds of solar ocillations:
http://solar-center.stanford.edu/singing…

Like someone said, it could smell like welding. If you ever smell hydrogen (like from a flameless heater in a military ration) it would smell just like that.

As for smell you should consider that everything around you has an odor and in most cases that smell originates from the sun. For simplicity, take for example an orange. The orange when peeled has a distinctive and delightful citrus smell. Citrus trees as well as all other growing things depends on sunlight for photosynthesis and to grow and produce fruit. So, in essence when you smell an orange your actually, in a manner of speaking, smelling the sun.


Wikipedia:

The Sun releases energy at the mass-energy conversion rate of 4.26 million metric tons per second. This mass is not destroyed to create the energy, rather, the mass is carried away in the radiated energy, as described by the concept of mass-energy equivalence.

The Sun is a magnetically active star. It supports a strong, changing magnetic field that varies year-to-year and reverses direction about every eleven years around solar maximum.

The Sun was formed about 4.57 billion years ago from the collapse of part of a giant molecular cloud that consisted mostly of hydrogen and helium and which probably gave birth to many other stars. This age is estimated using computer models of stellar evolution and through nucleocosmochronology. The result is consistent with the radiometric date of the oldest Solar System material, at 4.567 billion years ago. Studies of ancient meteorites reveal traces of stable daughter nuclei of short-lived isotopes, such as iron-60, that only form in exploding, short-lived stars. This indicates that one or more supernovae must have occurred near the location where the Sun formed. A shock wave from a nearby supernova would have triggered the formation of the Sun by compressing the gases within the molecular cloud, and causing certain regions to collapse under their own gravity. As one fragment of the cloud collapsed it also began to rotate due to conservation of angular momentum and heat up with the increasing pressure. Much of the mass became concentrated in the center, while the rest flattened out into a disk which would become the planets and other solar system bodies. Gravity and pressure within the core of the cloud generated a lot of heat as it accreted more gas from the surrounding disk, eventually triggering nuclear fusion. Thus, our Sun was born.

The Sun lies close to the inner rim of the Milky Way Galaxy's Orion Arm, in the Local Fluff or the Gould Belt, at a hypothesized distance of 7.5–8.5 kpc (25,000–28,000 lightyears) from the Galactic Center, contained within the Local Bubble, a space of rarefied hot gas, possibly produced by the supernova remnant, Geminga. The distance between the local arm and the next arm out, the Perseus Arm, is about 6,500 light-years. The Sun, and thus the Solar System, is found in what scientists call the galactic habitable zone.

The Apex of the Sun's Way, or the solar apex, is the direction that the Sun travels through space in the Milky Way, relative to other nearby stars. The general direction of the Sun's galactic motion is towards the star Vega in the constellation of Lyra at an angle of roughly 60 sky degrees to the direction of the Galactic Center.

The Sun's orbit around the Galaxy is expected to be roughly elliptical with the addition of perturbations due to the galactic spiral arms and non-uniform mass distributions. In addition the Sun oscillates up and down relative to the galactic plane approximately 2.7 times per orbit. It has been argued that the Sun's passage through the higher density spiral arms often coincides with mass extinctions on Earth, perhaps due to increased impact events. It takes the Solar System about 225–250 million years to complete one orbit of the galaxy (a galactic year), so it is thought to have completed 20–25 orbits during the lifetime of the Sun. The orbital speed of the Solar System about the center of the Galaxy is approximately 251 km/s. At this speed, it takes around 1,190 years for the Solar System to travel a distance of 1 light-year, or 7 days to travel 1 AU.

The Sun's motion about the centre of mass of the Solar System is complicated by perturbations from the planets. Every few hundred years this motion switches between prograde and retrograde.

For many years the number of solar electron neutrinos detected on Earth was ¹⁄₃ to ¹⁄₂ of the number predicted by the standard solar model. This anomalous result was termed thesolar neutrino problem... in 2001 the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory was able to detect all three types of neutrinos directly, and found that the Sun's total neutrino emission rate agreed with the Standard Solar Model, although depending on the neutrino energy as few as one-third of the neutrinos seen at Earth are of the electron type. (?)

Faint young Sun problem

Main article: Faint young Sun paradox

Theoretical models of the Sun's development suggest that 3.8 to 2.5 billion years ago, during the Archean period, the Sun was only about 75% as bright as it is today. Such a weak star would not have been able to sustain liquid water on the Earth's surface, and thus life should not have been able to develop. However, the geological record demonstrates that the Earth has remained at a fairly constant temperature throughout its history, and that the young Earth was somewhat warmer than it is today. The consensus among scientists is that the young Earth's atmosphere contained much larger quantities of greenhouse gases (such as carbon dioxide, methane and/or ammonia) than are present today, which trapped enough heat to compensate for the smaller amount of solar energy reaching the planet.

Present anomalies

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The Sun is currently behaving unexpectedly in a number of ways.

• It is in the midst of an unusual sunspot minimum, lasting far longer and with a higher percentage of spotless days than normal; since May 2008.
• It is measurably dimming; its output has dropped 0.02% at visible wavelengths and 6% at EUV wavelengths in comparison with the levels at the last solar minimum.
• Over the last two decades, the solar wind's speed has dropped by 3%, its temperature by 13%, and its density by 20%.
• Its magnetic field is at less than half strength compared to the minimum of 22 years ago. The entire heliosphere, which fills the Solar System, has shrunk as a result, thereby increasing the level of cosmic radiation striking the Earth and its atmosphere.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_deity

[In Norse mythology Sól, the Norse sun goddess, will be devoured by the wolf Skoll.]

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_to_find_the_sun_in_the_Bible

[Ex:17:12: But Moses' hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.]

[Ex:22:3: If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.]

Deut:33:14: And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun, and for the precious things put forth by the moon,

Josh:10:13: And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. 

Judg:5:31: So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might. And the land had rest forty years.

Ps:19:4: Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun,

....

New Living Translation (©2007)
"But for you who fear my name, the Sun of Righteousness will rise with healing in his wings. And you will go free, leaping with joy like calves let out to pasture.
.

Ms Cephalopodina

Warning to Children 

Robert Graves

Children, if you dare to think
Of the greatness, rareness, muchness
Fewness of this precious only
Endless world in which you say
You live, you think of things like this:
Blocks of slate enclosing dappled
Red and green, enclosing tawny
Yellow nets, enclosing white
And black acres of dominoes,
Where a neat brown paper parcel
Tempts you to untie the string.
In the parcel a small island,
On the island a large tree,
On the tree a husky fruit.
Strip the husk and pare the rind off:
In the kernel you will see
Blocks of slate enclosed by dappled
Red and green, enclosed by tawny
Yellow nets, enclosed by white
And black acres of dominoes,
Where the same brown paper parcel -
Children, leave the string alone!
For who dares undo the parcel
Finds himself at once inside it,
On the island, in the fruit,
Blocks of slate about his head,
Finds himself enclosed by dappled
Green and red, enclosed by yellow
Tawny nets, enclosed by black
And white acres of dominoes,
With the same brown paper parcel
Still untied upon his knee.
And, if he then should dare to think
Of the fewness, muchness, rareness,
Greatness of this endless only
Precious world in which he says
he lives - he then unties the string.

http://vrzhu.typepad.com/vrzhu/a_poem/page/2
"Vrzhu believes in phonemes as sapphire bullets of pure love."

Ms. Dina is a young Greek heiress raised to the highest standards, although she refuses to behave as a proper lady.
She can instead be found exploring the deep caves and crevices under the sea that watched her being born.

Maurice Blanchot with his canes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Blanchot

http://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/25/books/language-lying-and-treacherous.html?pagewanted=all

ALL BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED

Sound of Sun

Sun Sound Cluster
http://www.liveh2o.info/Introduction.html

Salpingectomy refers to the surgical removal of a Fallopian tube

The procedure was first performed by Lawson Tait in 1883 in patients with a bleeding ectopic pregnancy;

this procedure has since saved the lives of countless women.

Bilateral salpingectomies will lead to sterility.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salpingectomy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laparotomy

Karperien Strange Attractor

"I don't believe anything.
Except when ... I am confronted by an awareness, an intelligence, a network of highly advanced lifeforms. We interact. I do not submit. There is symbiosis. An axis mundi. We share. We mirror.
We expand and bring back bits to stack to the inverted fractal growing inside of me."
Leaving Babylon
Location: Cymatic synesthetic symphony of the undivided instance

His first film for the company, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), was a success and his second, The 39 Steps (1935), is often considered one of the best films from his early period.^[49] This film was also one of the first to introduce the concept of the "MacGuffin", a plot device around which a whole story seems to revolve, but ultimately has nothing to do with the true meaning or ending of the story. In The 39 Steps, the MacGuffin is a stolen set of design plans. Hitchcock told French director François Truffaut:

There are two men sitting in a train going to Scotland and one man says to the other, "Excuse me, sir, but what is that strange parcel you have on the luggage rack above you?", "Oh", says the other, "that's a Macguffin.", "Well", says the first man, "what's a Macguffin?", The other answers, "It's an apparatus for trapping lions in the Scottish Highlands.", "But", says the first man, "there are no lions in the Scottish Highlands.", "Well", says the other, "then that's no Macguffin."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock

Wamsutta (ca. 1634–1662), also known as Alexander Pokanoket, as he was called by New England colonists, was the eldest son of Massasoit (meaning Great Leader) Ousa Mequin of the Pokanoket Tribe and Wampanoag nation. His sale of Wampanoag lands to colonists other than those of the Plymouth Colony brought the Wampanoag considerable power, but aroused the suspicions of the Plymouth colonists. He was imprisoned for three days at Plymouth; he died shortly after release, causing tribal suspicion of the colonists. His death possibly contributed to King Philip's War of 1675. Wamsutta's name is memorialized in and around New Bedford, Massachusetts in various ways.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wamsutta
Wamsutta Mills, was a textile manufacturing company located in New Bedford, Massachusetts, a port known for its whaling ships. The company was named for Wamsutta, the son of an Native American chief who negotiated an early alliance with the English settlers of thePlymouth Colony in the 17th century. Wamsutta Company's textile mill was founded by Thomas Bennett, Jr. on the banks of theAcushnet River in 1846 and opened in 1848. It was the first of many textile mills that gradually came to supplant whaling as the principal employer in New Bedford. Other mills in the area soon sprang up. By the 1870s, cotton textile manufacture was more important to the local economy than whaling. Wamsutta Mills became well known for producing fine quality shirtings, sheetings and other fine cotton products. The Wamsutta brand continues to this day.
... Wamsutta, however, increased its sales in 1925 while others were liquidating and closing. By 1935, their sheets were henceforth known as Supercale instead of percale... At some point Wamsutta changed the fiber content of Lustercale to 100% cotton. They also created the perfect weave for sails on sailing ships. Furthermore, because of the wars, they created tailored their products for hot air balloons, gas mask fabric, military uniforms, and supplies. Many other fabric types were created for many other purposes and to this day Wamsutta remains a household name for fabrics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wamsutta_Mills

Most synthetic rubies originate from flame fusion, due to the low costs involved. Synthetic rubies may have no imperfections visible to the naked eye but magnification may reveal curves, striae and gas bubbles. The fewer the number and the less obvious the imperfections, the more valuable the ruby is; unless there are no imperfections (i.e., a "perfect" ruby), in which case it will be suspected of being artificial. Dopants are added to some manufactured rubies so they can be identified as synthetic, but most need gemological testing to determine their origin.
Synthetic rubies have technological uses as well as gemological ones. Rods of synthetic ruby are used to make ruby lasers and masers...
Ruby lasers are still in use. Rubies are also used in applications where high hardness is required such as at wear exposed locations in modern mechanical clockworks, or as scanning probe tips in a coordinate measuring machine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby

INTERVIEW WITH TIBETAN PHYSICIAN
- When a patient comes to your query, how find out what is your condition?
- Looking at how he moves, his posture, the way they look. No need to talk to me or tell me what's wrong. An experienced doctor of Tibetan medicine, the patient only to approach him about 10 meters, can know what ailment suffers.

- But listen to the pulses.
- So I get the information I need from the patient's health. With the reading of the pulse rate can be diagnosed by 95% of diseases, including psychological. The information given is strictly as a computer. But read requires much experience.

- And then, how cure?
- With your hands, eyes, and prepared from plants and minerals.

- According to Tibetan medicine, what is the origin of diseases?
- Our ignorance.

- Well, forgive mine, but what do you mean by ignorance?
- Do not know do not know. Do not see clearly. When you see clearly, you have to think about. When you do not see clearly put thought in motion. And the more we think, the more ignorant we are and create more confusion.

- How I can be less?
- I'll give a very simple method: practicing compassion. It is the easiest way to reduce your thoughts. And love. If you want a real person, that is, if you do not want it just for you, increase your compassion.

- What problems seen in the West?
- Fear. Fear is the murderer of the human heart.

- Why?
- Because in fear is impossible to be happy and make others happy.

- How to deal with fear?
- With acceptance. Fear is the unknown resistance.

- And as a physician, what body part is most problems?
- The column in the bottom of the column you sit too long in one position. Vitally, you have too much rigidity.

- We have many problems.
- We believe we have many problems, but really our problem is that we do not.

- What do you mean?
- That we have become accustomed to a level of basic needs met, so that any small disappointment seems a problem. Then activate the mind and began to spin round and round and fix it.

- Any recommendations?
- If the problem has a solution, is no longer a problem. If not, either.

- What about the stress?
- To avoid this, it is best to be crazy.

- ...?
- It's a joke. No, not as a joke. I mean to be or appear normal on the outside and inside to be mad: the best way to live.

- What is your relationship to your mind?
- I am a normal person, that is that I often think. But I have trained the mind. That means do not follow my thoughts. They come, but do not affect my mind or my heart.

- You laugh often.
- When someone laughs, opens his heart. If you open your heart, it is impossible to have a sense of humor. When we laugh, everything is clear. It is the most powerful language: it connects us to each other directly.

- Also just released a CD of mantras with an electronic base for Western audiences.
- Music, Mantras and energy of the body are the same. As laughter, music is a great channel to connect to the other. Through it, we can open up and transform us: that we use in our tradition.

- What would you like to be?
- I would be prepared for death.

- Is that all?
- The rest does not matter. Death is the most important thing in life. I think I'm ready. But before death, we must deal with life. Every moment is unique. If we give meaning to our lives, we will come to death with inner peace.

- We live here back to the death.
- Mantenéis death in secret. Until that one day of your life that is no longer a secret: you can not hide you.

- And life, what's the point?
- Life has meaning, and no. Depends on who you are. If you really live your life, then life has meaning. We all have life, but not everyone lives it. Everyone has the right to be happy, but we have to exercise that right. If not, life is meaningless.

via Buscadores de la Verdad

Original Yoshiyuki (active circa 1848 - 1864) Japanese Woodblock print
Minamoto no Yoshitsune Defeats the Ezo, 1847 - 1852

Comments - Fantastic triptych depicting Minamoto no Yoshitsune in his flagship off the rocky shore of Ezo. Historically, Ezo was the name given to the lands north of Japan and the peoples who lived their. According to legend, Yoshitsune made a mythical voyage to these northern islands and had many adventures there. Here, his elegant ship approaches an island, with Yoshitsune sitting under a black lacquer canopy topped with a golden yellow phoenix. He wears armor and a horned battle helmet, and holds a folding fan. His loyal warrior monk Benkei sits in front of him, a monk's white cowl wrapped around his neck, while a retainer stands in the prow shielding his eyes as he watches the enemy. The foreign warriors are dressed in exotic costumes, gathered at the base of a magnificent fortress. White-capped waves crash against the bow and two other Minamoto ships can be seen in the center in the distance. Beautifully detailed and colored with soft shading in the sky as a rosy glow spreads along the horizon. The Boston Museum of Fine Arts has this image in its collection. A terrific image from the life of this notable samurai.
Artist - Yoshiyuki (active circa 1848 - 1864)