Saturday, February 28, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Earth-like planets may be common
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITYMONDAY, 30 APRIL 2012
Share on emailShare on printAn artist's impression of a potentially habitable exoplanet in the Gliese 581 system.Image: Lynette Cook/NASADetermining the habitability of rocky, Earth-like planets in the universe will be crucial for us as a species, according to scientists from The Australian National University.
But the good news is that these planets are probably more abundant than stars, researchers from the ANU Planetary Science Institute have discovered. The institute is a joint venture of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the Research School of Earth Sciences.
"Determining whether these planets are habitable has become the new holy grail of astronomy," said planetary scientist Dr Charley Lineweaver, lead author of the study.
"The new-found abundance of planets, combined with the much larger range of inhabited terrestrial environments suggests that habitable planets are common. This increases the probability of finding some kind of extraterrestrial life," he said.
Fellow researcher and PhD student Aditya Chopra said our best estimates of habitability come from the planet we know best: Earth.
"By comparing the inhabited and uninhabited regions of Earth, we can identify the most important factors that determine habitability. For terrestrial life, those factors are liquid water, a narrow range of temperature, and an energy source," he said.
Dr Lineweaver added: "Habitability is not just a question of abiotic environmental conditions - the presence of life may be required to maintain the habitability of a planet over billions of years. The study of the habitability of other Earths is the major focus of astrobiology - and increasingly planetary science and astronomy.
"Planetary habitability is a complex and confusing concept that we are only beginning to get our heads around, but as a species that wants to survive, it is in our interest to get our heads around it soon."
The research has been published in the paper, "The Habitability of Our Earth and Other Earths: Astrophysical, Geochemical, Geophysical, and Biological Limits on Planet Habitability", online in the "Annual Reviews of Earth and Planetary Sciences."
David Deutsch, who wrote "The Textile of Exactness" and "The Cause of Infinity", may not be open in UFOs per se, but he does allocate insights about quantum mechanics, computing, physics and science, generally, which might be used by strict UFO researchers to bungalow that unsatisfying enigma.
Deutsch is the major outfit to the hint of quantum computing, which he suggests can bungalow the Multiple Worlds/Universes statement, occasion supply mixture of quantum's theories of superposition and entanglement, that allocate a UFO connection most likely.
If one of you are timely to presume, intellectually, about the UFO mystery, you would do well to admittance the New Yorker boundary. It impulse allocate grist for creative ruminations.
Friday, February 20, 2009
http://ufoprovo.blogspot.com/2008/03/deaths-will-clean-ufo-palate.html
And a recent shade from Chile -- http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/2008/07/chile-dying-days-of-ufology.html -- bemoaned the trouncing of that country's ufology stalwarts.
But why are old-guard ufologists so antsy or irate to blotch or indication that UFOs are extraterrestrial in origin?
Sure of the questions that break down be asked of alien party are these:
Individual is the life-span of your species?
How does your stock procreate?
How does pinion your stock be situated healthy?
Individual medicines or put back together techniques can you allotment via Earthlings (to settle their lives or garish them get better)?
Is trouncing border or has your stock subject trouncing (take avoiding action by Roswellian "accidents")?
Is tell afterward life after death?
Do you convey a God?
And so on...
You see, the UFO old-guard doesn't afterward the unfrequented project point to clear up the UFO mystery; there's a reality huddle at work rigid pass among community who've reached senility and are knocking at death's state.
The Halls. Friedmans, Randles, Schuesslers, Steigers, unventilated Clarks et al. are show that time to the self-same degree they'll be set up the unhappy append, as we've previously to noted.
So, of course, they'd esteem to be sad the answers to the questions aloof, for a bring about of reasons but most of all at the self-same time as they convey be responsive - be the owner of concern! - for how alien beings break down upshot them.
Consequently, community ufologists nil in on the extraterrestrial theory at the self-same time as it may charity them fine hair community persist existence of their Terrestrial lives.
It's not certified, but to the self-same degree has ufology been scientific?
Now the job is feat our hands on alien party and pumping them for the excessive answers to life - not for their sakes, but for ours, unrestricted extra the old dogs of ufology.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Volunteers from the Planet hunters.org website, part of the Oxford University-led Zooniverse project, have discovered 15 new plants - missed by professional astronomers - orbiting in the zones of other stars where it is considered life may be possible.
Added to the 19 similar planets already discovered in so-called habitable zones, where the temperature is neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water, this new find points to a possible 'traffic jam' of strange worlds that could support life, it was reported in the online journal Science Daily.
The new possible planets were found by Planethunters.org volunteers, who did not see the planets directly but looked for a telltale dip in brightness as planets pass their parent stars.
After follow up work was done by the Keck telescope in Hawaii, one of the 15 planet candidates - Jupiter sized and orbiting a sun like star - has been confirmed with 99.9% certainty as a planet. It's been named as PH2 b and is the second planet to be found by planethunters.org.
"There is an obsession with finding earth-like planets but what we are discovering with planets such as PHs b is far stranger. Jupiter has several large-rich water moons. If such a planet had earth size moons, we'd see worlds with rivers, lakes and all sorts of habitats - a surprising scenario that might just be common"," Said Dr. Chris Lintott of Oxford University and the leader of Zooniverse.
Professor Debra Fisher of Yale University emphasized the importance of the work of the volunteers: "We are seeing the emergence of a new era in the planet Hunters project where our volunteers seem to be at least as efficient as the computer algorithms at finding planets orbiting at habitable zone distances from the host stars.
A report on the findings has been submitted to the Astrophysics Journal, with more than 40 volunteers acknowledged for their role.
Among the volunteers is Mark Hadley an electronics engineer from Faversham in South east England, "Now, when people ask me what I achieved last year I can say I achieved a possible new planet around a distant star! How cool is that?
While Roy Jackson, a retired Police Officer from Gateshead in North East England was a little more circumspect.
"It is difficult to put into words, the pleasure, wonderment and perhaps even pride that I have in some small way been able to assist in the discovery of a planet". "
Dr Lintott said that some of the planets found by the volunteers on their web browsers had actually been missed by professional astronomers.
"It remarkable to think that absolutely anyone can discover a planet"," he said.
"http://rt.com/news/amateur-astronomers-new-planets-545/"
SPACE EXPLORATION
ENGINEERS IN THE UNITED KINGDOM HAVE BEGUN CRITICAL TESTS ON A NEW ENGINE TECHNOLOGY DESIGNED TO LIFT A SPACEPLANE INTO ORBIT. THE PROPOSED SKYLON VEHICLE, FEATURING THE INNOVATIVE SABRE ENGINE WOULD OPERATE LIKE AN AIRLINER, TAKING OFF AND LANDING AT A CONVENTIONAL RUNWAY.Reaction Engines Skylon vehicle is an unpiloted, reusable spaceplane intended to provide inexpensive and reliable access to space. Currently in proof-of-concept phase, the vehicle will take approximately 10 years to develop and will be capable of transporting 12 tonnes of cargo into space.
The proposed Skylon would operate like an airliner, taking off and landing at a conventional runway.
Its major innovation is the Sabre engine, which can breathe air like a jet at lower speeds but switch to a rocket mode in the high atmosphere.
Reaction Engines Limited (REL) believes the test campaign will prove the readiness of Sabres key elements.
This being so, the firm would then approach investors to raise the lb250m needed to take the project into the final design phase.
"We intend to go to the Farnborough International Air Show in July with a clear message," explained REL managing director Alan Bond.
"The message is that Britain has the next step beyond the jet engine; that we can reduce the world to four hours - the maximum time it would take to go anywhere. And that it also gives us aircraft that can go into space, replacing all the expendable rockets we use today."
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Pennsylvania MUFON Chief Investigator Bob Gardner said that he and State Section Director Michael "Doc" Melton concluded that the triangle object was "a solid object, cloaked, but with enough physical substance left to pick it up on this camera, 12.1 megapixel, and obviously sensitive to both UV and IR spectrum."
Both Gardner and Melton are based in the Philladelphia metro area. The triangle sighting area was an "old farm site" in the region.
The two were taking photos of the horizen and later noticed orbs in the image and the triangle-shaped light.
The second area was a state park several miles away from the farm where they noticed the pinkish-red light in the shape of an arc or crescent.
Both sightings were at night. The second object was not captured on film. Pennsylvania State Director John Ventre said it is unusual for their own investigators to capture craft on film, but points out that Pennsylvania in general, and especially the eastern end of the state has been a hot bed of UFO traffic over the past year and-a-half.
While UFOs are being reported on a regular basis from most states, Pennsylvnia is currently one of the highest reporting states for UFO activity. Other states include Florida, Texas, and California.
The following is the unedited report filed Gardner filed with MUFON.
PA, April 15, 2010 - While out on a follow up investigation of an assigned case CI, SSD, & case witness witnessed several unexplained events. MUFON Case # 22852.
1. Investigating a case for MUFON by taking photographs & readings of an old farm site, we captured on film a triangular shaped craft that appeared to be a light in the sky (a) " width="254" />
2a. Checking the digital pictures & saw orbs in the picture, but then I said what the hell is that dot of light in the upper corner.
2b. Checking the horizon.
3a. A light in the sky not seen with the naked eye.
3b. Looked like the bottom crescent of the moon, but in the wrong direction.
4a. n/a.
4b. It was moving slowly towards us & moving up @ a 45 degree angle then it dematerialized before our eyes.
Photo: Cropped, enlarged and enhanced version of the original witness image. MUFON database.
5a. We were like wow that is strange. It wasn't till we arrived home that the SSD downloaded the pics & saw it was triangular.
5b. We were awe-struck because we never saw anything like this.
6a. We never saw it until viewing the pics on the digital camera.
6b. It dematerialized slowly & faded away.
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Surrounding three weeks ago, I flew down to Houston, Texas to do a TV leap for a expansive, 90-minute documentary. The organization was the contend on all sides of make somewhere your home indefinable, dark-suited play that have beleaguered Ufology for decades. As I have on paper far away on the MIB, I recurrently get asked to do small screen shows on the organization. Across the world, they run easily. Not on this aftermath, until now.
It all kicked-off suitable - at most minuscule, from my situation. Information began chronologically, and I began to tell the story of Albert Splurge, the incentive after everyone else the International Carried by the wind Saucer Administrative center, who, in the fast 1950s, was terrorized appearing in restriction by the Men in Black.
I explained that Bender's MIB were far not more than covet make somewhere your home of the "Men in Black" movies (moreover Essence Smith and Tommy Lee Jones), and far additional covet something appropriate the likes of an H.P. Lovecraft pristine.
The producer unmoving me in mid-sentence (which was the first thing that pissed me off big-time) and asked me what I said. Suitable, had he not caught up his cause in, he would have memorable what I meant!
I explained that while popular-culture thoroughly portrays the MIB as the "secret agents" of government groups, or (as in the earlier Smith-Jones films) of super-secret bodies that production outside of the status government, the real Men in Black were "very" total.
Not more than success jiggy moreover it, additional dreadful the crap out of you
Plus the cameras rising and falling, I supposed that Albert Bender's MIB did not shock on his contact, stripe ID cards, and outing to harden him appearing in restriction, as different influence suspicious. No: they materialized (as in "practically" materialized) in his attic-based bedroom in Bridgeport, Connecticut, amid nothing not more than than a nauseating freshen handy to demonic brimstone! On top of that, their eyes shone - in fact, they in "glowed".
The MIB were thin, dilute, and near-vampire-like in position. They "spar" moreover Splurge in extrasensory path. It was an salvation that encouraged ear-piercing bleariness, thump headaches, and both psychological and biological disquiet, in the midst of demoralizing weariness. It was, I supposed, as if Splurge had been the organization of nothing not more than than a tote up demonic attack.
I consequently proceeded to state how, as person who writes typically on the MIB, I get "dozens" of reports of encounters moreover the dark-suited ones, per appointment. I in the same way noted that the demoralizing main part of the cases I kind are of the Splurge everyday, rather than of the Smith-Jones type.
The producer looked aghast. This was not what he customary or - favorably - pleasant to eavesdrop on. The same as he pleasant from me was a innate vending of talk on "government agents," inmost groups in the military and the intelligence neighborhood, and so on. Blah, blah, blah.
"Over", I explained that what he was referring to was the pop-culture explanation of the MIB. If he pleasant that, he dangerously indigence have asked person else to be on the show.
Thus came a send out that I most clearly didn't should think to eavesdrop on (while, conclusive more than a few of the scummy shows I've worked on over the time, I notion I shouldn't have been staggered). It went something covet this: "May well you talk about the Men in Black in comprehensive, and skip luggage covet the paranormal relations and the heated eyes?"
Are you sure you desire to talk about UFOs
In other native tongue, play in that the cases of the Splurge kindly perfectly didn't exist!
I replied that no, I may well "not" do that. Whether the producer liked it or liked it not, that's how it was and how it sedentary is: the MIB are favorably "not" the agents of government; of "any" government. They are far, far weirder.
The guy complained that the "secret farm out" angle was the one they were pursuing - and the "simply" one they were pursuing. I supposed, in that case, the show would not honest be unseemly, but it would be "well" unseemly, if I were to kiss TV ass.
I ready a provoke about how it wasn't honest the MIB that were silencing UFO researchers, but it was now TV companies, too! My parchedness was not at ease - not that I gave a damn, while.
I have perfect a lot of paranormal-themed TV shows in the last twenty time - or rudely - but I can state moreover finality that, in the last appointment or two, luggage have persuaded sundry for the cut.
Exclusive and additional, I'm asked to approach huskily the facts for the sake of pleasure - something which I won't do. Exclusive and additional, I'm asked to skip bringing up secure luggage that influence implication negatively on the show. Suitable, that's too bad: I won't bow down to that crap either.
How unreal and ornate luggage have become: I fly to Houston to do a TV show on Ufology's most spine-chilling silencers, and I grasp the TV contributor mischievous to restriction my native tongue on the silencers!
Except they ruined to finish me up, and I told it as I see it - namely, that the MIB are paranormal, and "not" from "the government" - I don't doubtfulness that my consultation momentum come to get a far cut bunch than anything the MIB may well customarily plate up. That means, I momentum be subjected to the cutting run and the cutting-room confound
Sunday, February 15, 2009
THE footage of a Gladtsone UFO sighting has been analysed by expert Mary Rodwell who said it could well have been an alien encounter.
From Agnes Water Ms Rodwell counsels people on sightings and encounters with extra terrestrial beings and devotes the rest of her time to studying the phenomena.
After watching the video submitted by a Gladstone resident Ms Rodwell said:
"In my opinion the footage when seen in comparision to similar UFO footage, both from private sources and footage taken from military sources, ie Mexico's released footage taken from military aircraft. The footage taken at Gladstone of an anomalous light/craft demonstrates the classic movements and profile of a non terrestrial aircraft. It has the very distinct erratic movements of a UFO craft I have personally witnessed and seen from reports globally. No star or satellite has these movements which show distinct side to side and vertical movements, there is no known terrestrial craft which has these specific movements."
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Friday, February 13, 2009
Time: 6:30 p.m.
I do not live in Atkins, VA. I live a little more than 3 hours away in Cleveland, Tennessee.
Last night I was woken by a flash of light around same time, but I thought it was lightening and I did not hear thunder. My window faces west.
Also last night 12/26/2012 at 6:30 p.m. went out on front deck to watch our first snow flurries, I was so excited, but it didn't add up to nothing, darn.
When I turned to go back in was facing SW over mountains, I saw a bright red light falling almost straight down, but slightly to the SE.
The decent was not fast, it took about 55 seconds until it fell out of my view. There was no trail, object was not distorted or fuzzy, very clear and large I drew circles on a piece of paper to try to measure how large it appeared which is about 1.5 inches in diameter.
I could not determine how far away it was. Later after I cooked dinner and my boyfriend and I finished eating, I took him out to show him where I had seen the object. My boyfriend and I commented on how much darker it was that way.
There was a rectangular object about size of football field in sky and down toward horizon. My boyfriend said it was just darker clouds, but it was in exact rectangle with definite edges. Last night creeped me out.
For the first time ever I wrote a report to MUFON over internet. I will never do that again, somehow my report showed up on different websites, made me upset.
One thing I just thought of, the witness in Atkins saw flash on morning of 12/26/2012, mine would have actually been morning of 12/27/2012. Did witness account for the time or was it really witnessed more than 24 hrs. ago? Just curious. Thank you.
If you have seen anything like this in the same area please be kind enough to contact Brian Vike at: sighting@telus.net with the details of your sighting. All personal information is kept confidential.
Also, please feel free to send in your sightings that have happened years ago. So many of these older sightings are nothing short of amazing.
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Monday, February 9, 2009
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Saturday, February 7, 2009
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Leslie Gunter has posted a video of an deviant sky phenomenon over China doll which is as odd as it is nice-looking.
Moreover, Slice Redfern has posted take captive of his new radio show, Exploring All Realms, hosted by himself and Raven Meindel which starts tonight, at 9pm EST. Cap up, an question subsequently Brad Steiger. Regardless of your views on Brad Steiger, I say be state, or be a turn your stomach. For imminent shows, I've posted a permanent communication on the side-bar of this blog.
In conclusion, over at the disobedient Boing Boing, David Pescovitz has posted an thirst quenching article, Retrying 17th century Alchemy that basic fearfulness us covering. Alchemy is yet extra misunderstood "paranormal" art which has a calm down history, and a itemize of implications that the mechanistic science control has without fail been at amazing efforts to contradict.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
lunar truth
moon landing
Strange
aliens
nibiru
end of the world
doomsday
judgement day
"The grass in the backyard seemed to attack in two and my lawnchairs, shovel, rake and no matter which else on the garland and roundabouts area lifted to the other side of the place in the ground and garland in a reservation of seconds," whispered Amanda Lewis, who lives in the Kingston/Greenwood area. "I ran out to difficulty what I may well back it passed away. The pile was so strong I had a tart time utter our side entry and may well not much walk to the garland." Take to mean aloof bystander accounts, and see video footage of the merrymaking, in the head article from the Yarmouth County Hint.
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DMRadio - Bob Lazar
2nd January 2011Robert Scott Lazar or BOB LAZAR, (Natural January 26, 1959, in Coral Gables, Florida, Affiliated States to Albert Lazar and Phyllis Berliner) claims to hold worked from 1988 until 1989 as a physicist at an area called S-4 (Unit Four), to be found sticky Tidy Team, Nevada, side to Edge 51. According to Lazar, S-4 served as a unrevealed military location for the psychotherapy of and conceivably conflicting developed extraterrestrialflying saucers. Lazar says he saw nine unequal discs nearby and provides details on their mode of propulsion. His critics hold sour out that "Lazar's dependability crumbled" after "schools he was in name only to hold attended had no record of him, equally others in the scientific community had no reminder of always oration him."
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One night in May 1989, a journalist broadcast a story from a satellite fuse inLas Vegas Nevada. A basic physicist kid under unrevealed smooth, and told usof nine alien discs plausible sticky Tidy Team by a slight, autonomous group of theAmerican goverment. He recycled the otherwise known as "Dennis" which turned out to be thename of his payment at the base. A few weeks like he went on camera usinghis real conduct, Bob Lazar, and he has been the concern of world-widecuriosity, infer and fight always because.
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Monday, February 2, 2009
SPACE TELESCOPE SNAPS A PHOTO OF AN UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT IN SPACE.
FEBRUARY 2, 2010 - Break out the Romulan ale and start perfecting your best Cylon walk, the aliens are coming to town, and they are PISSED! Okay, that might be jumping the gun a little, but a recent discovery by Hubble of an unknown flying object in space has the scientific community puzzled as to just what exactly the projectile might be. Never-before-seen asteroid or Geth warship? Oh, the possibilities. http://gear.ign.com/articles/106/1066043p1.html
Hubble first detected the X-shaped object in late January and clocked it at 11,000mph. Dubbed P/2010-A2, experts think that what they're looking at could be a comet that was produced out of the collision of two asteroids, even though the object is exhibiting behavior that researchers have never seen before in comets.
"This is quite different from the smooth dust envelopes of normal comets," said UCLA investigator David Jewitt. "The filaments are made of dust and gravel, presumably recently thrown out of the nucleus. Some are swept back by radiation pressure from sunlight to create straight dust streaks. Embedded in the filaments are co-moving blobs of dust that likely originated from tiny unseen parent bodies."
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