The first in general map of the world's persuasive anomalies has been formed (BBC story, project website). The mistrust that persuasive fasten and anomalies could be culpable for paranormal deeds and sightings has existed for decades. A major sever of of parapsychology believes that shady activity has an electromagnetic degree, or is equal a "playback" of electromagnetically "recorded" past deeds stored in courage or bricks. Paul Deveraux and his Dragon Problem deviate that ancient European megalithics were built to go around following electromagnetic fasten or ley coastal defenses. One segment of this includes earthlights, which is congruence to Michael Persinger's research featuring in EM awakening of the brain. Persinger has gotten senior custody for his attempts to restructure alien abductions in the laboratory. But his beforehand work was on electromagnetic anomalies, earthquakes, earth lights, and UFOs.
So I dubious anyone down the line in spooky studies inner self do no matter which following this EM geography research.
Reference: anomalies-in-backyard.blogspot.com
REPORTED ON: 2013-03-27 DATE OF EVENT: 1966-07-30 UFO representation from our UFO database "LOCATION: "Michigan, Garden City, US"Type: "Football shaped UFO" I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a warm summernight in the year 1966. I was just ten years old and my parents were in the kitchen playing poker with some of our Canadian relatives. I was a bit bored and so I went out front to sit on our porch. I noticed three of our neighbors two houses to the South of my location standing in their garden looking and pointing towards the sky. I followed their line of pointing with my eyes and saw a glowing flourescent blue football shaped object coming from the East and heading directly towards me. All of the object was glowing! It appeared low over the houses to my East and flew right over my head continuing West. There were no clouds in the sky and I am sure it could not have been a searchlight. I saw it up close from a distance of about a mile. The entire sighting lasted approximately ten seconds. The neighbors had enough time to set up a telescope in their front yard so it must have been there prior to me sighting it. The object never returned unfortunately. I was a bit of a nerd in those days and knew my airplanes so I was very sure that I had just witnessed something different. It was definitely not a speeding blimp or an aircraft. Very close and extremely real. I will never forget this situation and wanted to share it with as many people as possible! (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s); if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en US/all.js#xfbml=1 fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); The post Football shaped glowing UFO spotted in Michigan, Garden City appeared first on.
Earth-like planets may be common
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
MONDAY, 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."
"The New Yorker" magazine has an article in its May 2nd, 2011 advertise that may be authenticate to the study of UFOs: Aim Machine by Rivka Galchen, Expanse 34 ff.
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.
We've raised at all ire at the self-same time as of our leap a few months comprise that UFOs try modestly be explained to the self-same degree the UFO old-guard dies off, and a new benign of ufologist takes over.
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.
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Birth of an Earth-like Planet. (NASA/JPL-Caltech)
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/"