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Sun's Movement Through Milky Way Regularly Sends Comets Hurtling, Coincidin
2008-05-08 15:13:00
The sun's movement through the Milky Way regularly sends comets hurtling into the inner solar system -- coinciding with mass life extinctions on earth, a new study claims. The study suggests a link between comet bombardment and the movement through the galaxy.Scientists at the Cardiff Centre for Astrobiology built a computer model of our solar system's movement and found that it "bounces" up and down through the plane of the galaxy. As we pass through the densest part of the plane, gravitational forces from the surrounding giant gas and dust clouds dislodge comets from their paths. The comets plunge into the solar system, some of them colliding with the earth.
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Ancient Symbols Found to Come From A Universal Language
2008-04-20 23:46:00
Over the last several years, similar petroglyphs have been identified on as many as five continents. They all date from roughly the same time-period. In the late 20th century, archaeologists discovered a collection of symbols carved in stone as petroglyphs in the Negev desert of Israel that appeared to be writing. Dating of these symbols showed that they were made over an extended period time, beginning around 1700 BC. This strange collection of symbols was first examined by Dr. James Harris, a petroglyph expert and archaeologist from Brigham Young University. He identified the alphabet as being a proto-Canaanite system, which successfully translated by using old-Hebrew or Thalmudic phonetic sounds.Earlier, William McGlone, an amateur archaeologist and retired space engineer, discovered the same collection of symbols carved in heavily patinated stones surrounding the Southeast town of La Junta, Colorado. Dating of the patina corresponded to the same era as the writing found in Harka...
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Is Conscious Choice an Illusion?
2008-04-17 05:57:00
How much of the decision making process do we actually have a say in? That?s the question being raised thanks to new research coming out of the Max Planck Institute. Using brain scanners, researchers were able to predict people?s decisions seven seconds before the test subjects were even aware of making them. The decision is not necessarily one that involves a lot of mental preparation ? whether to hit a button with your left or right hand ? so whether this study is representative of our own self-direction is up for debate. Nevertheless, questions are naturally going to be raised over whether we have free will at all, or whether conscious choice is just an illusion. "Your decisions are strongly prepared by brain activity. By the time consciousness kicks in, most of the work has already been done," said study co-author John-Dylan Haynes, a Max Planck Institute neuroscientist. The research focused on revising a classic experiment pioneered by the late Benjamin Libet, which showed th...
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Brown Dwarfs -New Link Between Stars & Planets
2008-04-11 17:14:00
A cold brown about 40 light-years from our solar system might represent a new class of objects that are a missing link between planets and stars.The spent star floats freely in space, not bound to a star. Its mass is somewhere between 15 and 30 times that of Jupiter. And it is about 660 degrees Fahrenheit (350 Celsius), cooler than any other known object in its class. The mass of brown dwarfs is usually less than 70 Jupiter masses. A brown dwarf spends its lifetime getting colder and colder in contrast to a star like our sun, which spends most of its lifetime burning hydrogen and keeping a constant internal temperature,The brown dwarf, named , was found by an international team using the Canada France Hawaii Telescope and Gemini North Telescope, both located in Hawaii, and the a European Southern Observatory telescope in Chile.The newly-discovered brown dwarf, CFBDS J005910.83-011401.3, looks much more like a giant planet than the known classes of brown dwarfs, both because of its l...
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Solar Systems "Look A Like Found"
2008-04-07 16:56:00
Almost 300 planets have now been found outside our Solar SystemAstronomers have discovered a planetary system orbiting a distant star which looks much like our own. They found two planets that were close matches for Jupiter and Saturn orbiting a star about half the size of our Sun. Martin Dominik, from St Andrews University in the UK, said the finding suggested systems like our own could be much more common than we thought. And he told a major meeting that astronomers were on the brink of finding many more of them. The St Andrews researcher said this planetary system, and others like it, could host terrestrial planets like Earth. It was just a matter of time before such worlds were detected, he explained. Dr Dominik told BBC News: "We found a system with two planets that take the roles of Jupiter and Saturn in our Solar System. These two planets have a similar mass ratio and similar orbital radius and a similar orbital period. "It looks like this may have formed in a similar way to ...
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Who Are We Really?
2008-04-04 16:09:00
Editor's NoteWe are multi dimensional infinate consciousness incarnate in a physical body for a period of intense experience on the road of evolution; this world is not all there is and we don't actually die because we cannot die beccause we are energy and energy is consciousness and energy cannot be destroyed, only transformed into another expression of itself. When we come to terms that we are not our physcial body, but an infinate , external consciousness giving life to our body, our vision of ourselves and our potential is expanded beyond measure.

Watch for Auraro's - April 5, 6, 08
2008-04-03 16:43:00
High-latitude sky watchers should be alert for auroras on April 5th and 6th. That's when a solar wind stream is due to hit Earth's magnetic field. A similar encounter on March 27th produced Northern Lights over the United States as far south as Michigan and Oregon.
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See The Moon's With it's Stellar Companion The Pleiades April 8,08
2008-04-03 16:30:00
The night sky will deliver one of its greatest spectacles April 8 when a crescent Moon will appear against the colorful tapestry of a twilit sky. Add the Pleiades star cluster to the mix and the stage is set for a performance no skygazer will want to miss.Mark your calendar for Tuesday, April 8. Head outside no later than an hour or so after sunset (roughly 8:30 P.M. local daylight time), and look to the west. Your eyes should land immediately on the slender crescent Moon, oriented with its cusps standing nearly straight up from the horizon.
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Evolution of Life Claims Stalled for Possibly 2,000 Years
2008-04-02 03:51:00
coherent picture of the environmental conditions that led to the evolution of animal life is finally emerging. Scientists say that oxygen deficiency and a lack of the heavy metal molybdenum in the oceans had blocked the evolution of life on Earth for nearly two billion years.The molybdenum record shows that the second step occurred around 600 million years ago, when the entire ocean became oxygenated, which enabled the rise of multi-cellular life called eukaryotes -- the category that includes plants, humans and other complex creatures."These molybdenum depletions may have retarded the development of complex life such as animals for almost two billion years of Earth history," said Timothy Lyons, a professor at University of California Riverside. "The amount of molybdenum in the ocean probably played a major role in the development of life."Deprived of molybdenum, bacteria cannot fix nitrogen efficiently -- and this in turn affects multi-cellular, or animal, life which depends on bac...
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Unsolved Mystery Solved On Asteroid Impact by "The Planishpere" - An Ancien
2008-04-02 03:42:00
For those of us who enjoy the studies of the past, there is nothing quite as intriguing as seeing one discipline help solve questions in another. This is just the case in a recent revelation that has helped explain a mystery dating back to the 19th century. Köfels in Austria is the home to evidence of the largest rockslide in the crystalline Alps. The landslide measures in at 500 meters thick and five kilometers in diameter. For decades, geologists have struggled to explain how it came about. Originally it was theorized in the middle of the 20th century that it was caused by a large meteor impact. However further research in to impact events showed that the landslide didn?t have the necessary characteristics to fit such an explanation; mainly, that there was no impact crater. However thanks to new research by Alan Bond, Managing Director of Reaction Engines Ltd and Mark Hempsell, Senior Lecturer in Astronautics at Bristol University, an answer has arisen. Another 19th century myster...
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End of The World
2008-04-02 03:39:00
This is a Japanese short film -The End of the World - about the results of an asteroid the size of the one that slammed into the Earth 65 million years ago during the Cretaceous Period, suspected to be responsible for the mass extinction of many floral and faunal species, including the large dinosaurs. The film is in Japanese, which makes the film even more terrifying because you realize immedidately that absolutely no translation is needed. It makes the recent Hollywood flicks about asteroids look like Sesame Street productions.What makes the movie so terrifying is that I believe we all know deep in that atavistic reptilian area of our brain that in the future course of human and planetary evolution, that such an event will happen again; as it has millions of times before in our 4.5 billion-year history. I think this knowledge is imprinted into our DNA coding. But can we prevent such a catastrophic event from occuring? The people staffing NASA's NEO (Near Earth Object) Program are ...
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Ice Cap Alarmists Create Stories To Fit Carbon Emissions Theory
2008-03-31 05:32:00
A spate of alarmist articles in the media over the past few days have attempted to cause a frothing wave of panic concerning an accelerated melting of Arctic and Antarctic ice caps. However, the basic facts of the matter reveal that the science to prove this theory simply does not stack up. The cause of the great thawing? Carbon emissions of cause. The solution? Carbon taxes. UN climate chief warns of 'accelerated melting' of ice caps was the AFP headline yesterday that announced the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) call for international tariffs on carbon emissions: "Now there's enough evidence to show that there is accelerated melting of some of these large bodies of ice; west Antarctic ice-sheet, the Greenland ice-sheet," Rajendra Pachauri told reporters.His comments came after satellite images by the University of Colorado's National Snow and Ice Data Center showed Antarctica's massive Wilkins Ice Shelf has begun disintegrating under the e...
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Antarctica Ice Collapses
2008-03-31 05:24:00
A section of Antarctic ice seven times the size of Manhattan has broken away from a large ice shelf. Scientists say it is a sign of continued global warming.Cut and past the link below into your brower to review the video.http://news.nationalgeographic.com/ news/2008/03/080326-iceshelf-video-ap.htm l
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Massive Volcano Beneath Artic Ice
2008-03-31 05:20:00
PARIS: A powerful volcano erupted under the icesheet of Antarctica around 2,000 years ago and it might still be active today, a finding which raises questions about ice loss from the white continent.The explosive event ? rated "severe" to "cataclysmic" on an international scale of volcanic force ? punched a massive breach in the icesheet and spat out a plume some 12 kilometres into the sky, said British scientists behind the find.
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Prepare for the Worst, Because Solar Storms Are About to Get Ugly
2008-03-28 02:11:00
Every 11 years or so, the sun gets a little pissy. It breaks out in a rash of planet-sized sunspots that spew superhot gas, hurling clouds of electrons, protons, and heavier ions toward Earth at nearly the speed of light. These solar windstorms have been known to knock out power grids and TV broadcasts, and our growing reliance on space-based technology makes us more vulnerable than ever to their effects. On January 3, scientists discovered a reverse-polarity sunspot, signaling the start of a new cycle ? and some are predicting that at its peak (in about four years) things are gonna get nasty.Here's a forecast for 2012.DetoursClumps of ions in the atmosphere could interfere with GPS. Satellite signals are slowed by bumping into particles, meaning your trusty navigator may lose its way. Remember those colorful paper things called maps?Falling SatellitesIncreased solar energy heats Earth's atmosphere, causing it to expand. That's a drag on low-flying satellites and can even knock t...
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A Visit To The Doomsday Vault
2008-03-28 01:31:00
60 Minutes is going to take you on a journey to the end of the earth to show you a place that might someday save humankind. It?s a bank built to last 10,000 years. But as correspondent Scott Pelley explains, it's not money or gold that?s on deposit. Currencies rise and fall with civilizations. 60 Minutes was there last month, when the world's most important assets were made safe from climate change and nuclear war, locked deep inside the doomsday vault. Cut and past the link below into your browser to watch this short but interesting video.http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008 /03/20/60minutes/main3954557.shtml
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Solar Activity Alert March 25,08
2008-03-26 15:28:00
With little warning, three big sunspots have materialized and on March 25th one of them (989) unleashed an M2-class solar flare. This is the biggest flare of the year and it signals a significant increase in solar activity. The eruption also produced a coronal mass ejection (CME), but auroras are unlikely because the cloud is not heading toward Earth.
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?Global warming? is not a global crisis
2008-03-21 04:51:00
International Conference on Climate Change, New York City, 2008, Manhattan Declaration on Climate Change?Global warming? is not a global crisisWe, the scientists and researchers in climate and related fields, economists, policymakers, and businessleaders, assembled at Times Square, New York City, participating in the 2008 InternationalConference on Climate Change,Resolving that scientific questions should be evaluated solely by the scientific method; Affirming that global climate has always changed and always will, independent of the actions of humans,and that carbon dioxide (CO2) is not a pollutant but rather a necessity for all life; Recognising that the causes and extent of recently-observed climatic change are the subject of intensedebates in the climate science community and that oft-repeated assertions of a supposed ?consensus? among climate experts are false;Affirming that attempts by governments to legislate costly regulations on industry and individual citizens to encourage...
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Red Alert: Saturn's Rings are Vanishing
2008-03-19 16:42:00
Saturn: jewel of the solar system, taker of breaths, ringed beauty. Even veteran astronomers can't help but gasp when they see her through a small telescope.Around the world, amateur astronomers have noticed the change; Saturn's wide open rings are rapidly narrowing into a thin line. Efrain Morales Rivera sends these pictures taken through a backyard telescope in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico:"The rings have narrowed considerably in the last year," he reports. "The Cassini division (a dark gap in the rings) is getting hard to see." Four hundred years ago, the same phenomenon puzzled Galileo. Peering through a primitive spy glass, he discovered Saturn's rings in 1610 and immediately wrote to his Medici patrons: "I found another very strange wonder, which I should like to make known to their Highnesses?." He was dumbfounded, however, when the rings winked out little more than a year later.What happened? The same thing that's happening now: we're experiencing a "ring plane crossing." As ...
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Will Time Be Replaced by Another Space Dimension?
2008-03-19 16:30:00
What if time disappeared? Yes, it sounds like a silly question - and if the cosmos sticks to the current laws of physics - it's a question we need never ask beyond this article. Writing this article would in itself be a waste of my time if the cosmos was that simple. But I'm hedging my bets and continuing to type, as I believe we have only just scratched the surface of the universal laws of physics; the universe is anything but simple. There may in fact be something to this crazy notion that the nature of the universe could be turned on its head should the fundamental quantity of time be transformed into another dimension of space. An idea like this falls out of the domain of classical thought, and into the realms of "braneworlds", a view that encapsulates the 4-dimensional universe we know and love with superstrings threaded straight through?
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Population of Earth By 2050? Unknown
2008-03-19 01:44:00
On a planet that is so markedly divided between the ?haves? and the ?have nots? population growth is often seen as a massive problem. At the end of 2007 it was announced that the planets population had reached approximately 6.7 billion people. A common estimate also suggested that by 2050 the planets population would reach 9 billion people. However, according to the Worldwatch Institute, a nonpartisan Washington research group, there is absolutely no confidence in that number any more. The report points to the massive variability in fertility rates worldwide as the reason for this. There are simply too many factors to pin on too many people to arrive at a conclusion worthy of recognition. For pessimists, this only adds fuel to their fires of fear that Earth will be overrun.There are a veritable multitude of factors that have brought researchers to this conclusion. Amidst the factors exists a mass of contradictions.For example, there is a massive contradiction in the fact that famili...
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Meteorites may be remnants of destroyed dwarf planet
2008-03-17 15:50:00
Two rocks found together in Antarctica are chunks of a dwarf planet that was smashed apart early in the solar system's history, detailed studies suggest. Other remnants of the proto-world may still be floating around in the asteroid belt, and might be identifiable by the spectrum of the sunlight they reflect.In the solar system's first few tens of millions of years, collisions between rocky objects and the decay of radioactive isotopes melted the interiors of large objects. Magma oceans ? perhaps hundreds of kilometres deep ? lapped over the Moon, the Earth, and other large bodies, allowing dense material to settle towards their centres in a process called differentiation.The two meteorite pieces, called GRA 06128 and GRA 06129 after the Graves Nunataks area of Antarctica where they were found together in 2006, show evidence of such differentiation ? which suggests they came from a massive body.
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Earth-like planet that supports life could be circling Sun's nearest neighb
2008-03-13 02:30:00
Another Earth could be orbiting one of the Sun's closest stellar neighbours, scientists believe. Habitable rocky planets are likely to have formed in the Alpha Centauri system, a trio of stars 4.37 light years, or 25.8 trillion miles, away, a study has shown.
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Ancient Molecules Preserve Ancient Past
2008-03-12 02:54:00
An ancient molecule, known as Transfer RNA, central to every task a cell performs and thus essential to all life preserves some of the earliest and most profound events of the evolutionary past in its structure.?Perhaps in evolution there are things that are so fundamental that they are kept, held onto, for millions or even billions of years,? Caetano-Anollés of the University of Illinois said. ?Those are the fossils, the molecular fossils, that tell us about the past. Therefore, studying these molecules can address fundamental questions in biology and evolution.?Transfer RNA (tRNA) is the most direct intermediary between genes and proteins. Like many other RNAs (ribonucleic acids), tRNA aids in translating genes into the chains of amino acids that make up proteins. With the help of a highly targeted enzyme, each tRNA molecule recognizes and latches onto a specific amino acid, which it carries into the protein-building machinery. In order to successfully add its amino acid to the en...
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Earth's Secrets to be Kept in a Lunar Ark
2008-03-10 16:00:00
Dr Bernard Foing, the European Space Agency's chief scientist, has reported there should be a "Noah's Ark" on the Moon, in case life on Earth is wiped out by an asteroid or nuclear holocaust. He is concerned that if the Earth were destroyed, there would be little or nothing left of the rich diversity of life on the planet. His solution is to build a DNA library on Earth's satellite. "If there were a catastrophic collision on Earth or a nuclear war, you could place some samples of Earth's biosphere, including humans, [on the Moon]." Dr Bernard Foing said the ark should be a repository for the DNA of every single species of plant and animal. "You could repopulate the Earth afterwards, like a Noah's Ark," he said.A basic version of the ark would contain hard discs holding information such as DNA sequences and instructions for metal smelting or planting crops. It would be buried in a vault just under the lunar surface and transmitters would send the data to heavily protected recei...
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Intuition is Not Pseudoscience, Say Researchers
2008-03-10 01:38:00
I don't trust books. They're all fact, no heart. And that's exactly what's pulling our country apart today. Because face it, folks, we are a divided nation. Not between Democrats or Republicans, or conservatives and liberals, or tops and bottoms. No, we are divided by those who think with their head, and those who know with their heart...?~ Stephen Colbert, The Colbert ReportFrom an anecdotal perspective, nearly everyone has as some point in their life felt compelled to do something for a reason they couldn?t quite define that turned out to be a smart move. Sometimes it?s even an instantaneous response to something that wouldn?t normally elicit such a reaction, but ends up being a good thing. Maybe you just get a bad feeling about someone without knowing why and find out later that they?ve got a violent temper. Or maybe you make a snap judgment about working with a particular individual because there?s just ?something? about them that makes you think they?ll be successful. You c...
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Scientist have Found the 1,500 Year Climate Cycle
2008-03-08 17:52:00
The following is a list that includes more than 400 additional qualified scientists, with their home institutions, and the peer-reviewed studies they have published in professional journals, which reveal evidence of the moderate 1,500-year Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles. Together with a previous list released by Hudson on Sept. 12, 2007, this brings the total of scientific researchers who have published evidence of this natural cycle to more than 700. The lists also include dozens of authors who have published studies on the linkage of the 1,500-year cycle to variations in solar activity. The Hudson lists include researchers from many of the world?s top scientific institutions, including the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory affiliated with Columbia University, the Scripps Oceanographic Institute, various branches of the University of California, Australia?s Macquarie University, Canada?s Simon Fraser University, the Geological Survey of Denmark, the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Ch...
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A Death Star Aimed at Earth
2008-03-05 05:16:00
Australian astronomers have been studying an intergalactic assassin poised to wipe out life on Earth . Maybe. Observations indicate that cosmological curiosity WR104 may be a killer - and we might be the victim.The pretty pinwheel that makes the system so distinctive is now know to be a combination of two stars - a blue star orbiting the Wolf-Rayet 104. Note that the "Wolf-Rayet" name is the astronomical equivalent of a beeping red LCD countdown reading "0:01" - it's a swollen star getting ready for final supernova detonation. At the moment its fusion reactions are blasting its own photosphere off into space, where the blue companion orbits and illuminates the material, creating a seriously impressive spiral over twice the size of our solar system.We have a perfect view of this pinwheel pattern, since the spiral is at right angles to us, in the same way a man being held at gunpoint has a perfect view of the little hole the bullets come out of. And the gun is over twenty-five ti...
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Time Travel Is Comming Closer to Reality
2008-03-02 16:33:00
At a UCLA workshop attended by an assortment of future-thinkers, the late physicist Dr. Robert Forward told the group that further understanding of general relativity and quantum mechanics would one day enable humans to travel backwards and forwards through time. ?Given the money and the mandate,? Forward said, ?a time machine will be built.?This workshop convened in 1983, and today, 24 years later, scientists are bringing this bold concept closer to reality. Professor Amos Ori at Technion-Israel Institute of Technology recently created a theoretical model of a time machine based on Einstein?s theory of relativity, which would allow people to travel back in time.Ori?s theory, published in the prestigious science journal Physical Review, describes how a future time machine could be built by forming ?closed time-like curves? in a donut-shaped area of space-time. A person traveling around this donut loop would go further back in time with each lap.Although the laws of physics permit t...
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Planet X Found By Japanese Scientist?
2008-03-01 18:53:00
The search for the mythical Planet X may not be over yet. Scientist s at Kobe University, Japan, announced that they believe another planet is orbiting within our solar system, up to two-thirds the size of the Earth.The Kuiper Belt terminates suddenly at a distance of 55 Astronomical Units from the Sun, and there is some speculation this may be caused by the presence of an object with a mass between that of Mars and Earth located beyond what is known as the Kuiper cliff at 55 AU. Patryk Lykawka, an astronomer at Kobe University, Japan, claims that we will prove this object's existence or lack thereof by 2013. Lykawka's computer simulations suggest that a body roughly the size of Earth, ejected outward by Neptune early in the Solar System's formation and currently set in elongated orbit between 80 and 170 AUs from the Sun, While some astronomers have cautiously supported Lykawka's claims, others have dismissed them as contrived.The study by Tadashi Mukai, the lead researcher and P...
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