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The Cassini probe has imaged and analyzed plumes or "jets" on the south pole of Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons.
The plumes contain water ice and carbon, and they measure in at a relatively strong warmth of 'only' minus 120 degrees F (about minus 85 degrees C).
The evidence would seem to indicate that inside the moon we find a source of light and heat, and that the moon has some kind of an atmosphere that could potentially be host to life... 
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A new structure resembling the packed hexagonal form of honeycomb has been predicted and observed in computer models of groups of atoms that are cooled down to a point where they lose their individual identities – a state of matter known as a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC).
The honeycomb in this case is built not from wax but from a regular arrangement of spinning vortices that form holes in the pancake-shaped cloud of atoms. The wavelike behaviour of such BEC clouds has previously been tested by splitting them into two parts and allowing the parts to collide, in experiments that are analogous to Thomas Young's famous 200 year-old experiment with light.
Prompted by previous work on the Young's 3-pinhole interferometer [2], in this research we have shown that if the cloud is instead split into three parts, the pattern of dark stripes observed by Young and previous BEC researchers changes dramatically into the lattice of swirling vortices.
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"An amateur astrophotographer has managed to capture recent images of Mars which appear to show cloud like formations on Mars.
Mr Jaeschke, who has a private observatory, said it looked as though the formation had reduced in size but added that it was important to act quickly and investigate the phenomenon."
Well - leave it to the amateurs to discover things we pay the space agencies billions to find out for us...
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This paper, published in PESWiki, lays out a new conception of physics that considers the aether as a basic substrate that supports the existence of particles and therefore of all physical reality as we experience it.
The paper also allows unification of the various forces, a goal that has eluded scientists ever since Einstein tried and failed.
Definitely worth reading if you are into physics and are not satisfied with the somewhat peacemeal approach that branch of science has been taking in modern times.
To read the paper, click on the headline of this post.
Also, you can find the Quantum Aether Dynamics Institute's site here: http://www.16pi2.com/
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An international team of scientists, including a University of Waterloo chemistry professor, has conclusively demonstrated that water (actually steam) does exist on the sun, confirming a breakthrough finding made two years ago.
The team used an innovative method to calculate the water spectrum at sunspot temperatures.
(My comment:) An interesting piece of data, which would lend weight to the idea that the sun's heat and light emission is not a consequence of nuclear fusion, and that the sun's surface is relatively cool... something to reflect on.
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An enormous triangular hole in the Sun’s corona was captured earlier today by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, seen above from the AIA 211 imaging assembly.
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During his recent presentation at the IUFOC, Retired Chilean Air Force General Ricardo Bermúdez revealed a number of highly interesting UFO cases.
General Bermúdez spoke at the Congress on Saturday Feb. 25, revealing a number of highly interesting cases involving commercial and military pilots, as well as an extraordinary daytime multiple video case showing a clear metallic-looking object during an important Chilean Air Force ceremony in 2010. The message throughout his lecture was unmistakably clear: some UFOs are real and may pose a threat to air safety operations, that’s why they should be investigated officially not only in Chile but throughout the world.
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An unidentified metal sphere has plunged from the sky on unsuspecting villagers in northern Brazil, causing an uproar. According to eyewitnesses, the UFO weighs about 50 kilograms and measures roug...
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For the first time, "buckyballs" have been discovered in the cosmos in a solid form.
Until now, the only evidence in space for the bizarre little hollow balls of carbon atoms have been in interstellar gases, but with the help of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered buckyballs accumulating and stacking atop one another to form solid particles. Via S P H E R I C A L
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An interesting pictorial presentation of a book by
Kim Carlsberg; who is a photographer by trade, artist, author and UFO abductee, graduate of The Art Center College Of Design in Pasadena, California. She was the first woman accepted into the Hollywood camera union for her many years as the exclusive photographer for the television series “BayWatch”.
Kim’s first book, “Beyond My Wildest Dreams, Diary of a UFO Abductee” was a created from 8 years of continuous contact with non-human entities.
Her new book, “The Art Of Close Encounters”, is described as "a hard bound, fine-art coffee table book, consisting of 150 beautifully illustrated stories of individual contact."
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Chinese scientists have assembled the highest resolution map ever created of the entire Moon and unveiled a series of global Moon images on Monday, Feb. 6.
The composite Lunar maps were created from over 700 individual images captured by China’s Chang’e-2 spacecraft and released by the country’s State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence (SASTIND), according to reports from the state run Xinhua and CCTV new agencies.
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With Russia, China and Japan catching up, the game of space exploration will soon no longer be a NASA exclusive...
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The United States Air Force's secretive X-37B space plane has been circling Earth for more than 10 months, and there's no telling when it might come down.
The Air Force doesn’t disclose the X-37B's orbital parameters, but amateur observers have tracked the movements of both OTV-1 and OTV-2. They've found that OTV-2 is not looping around Earth in a polar orbit, which enables a good look at every spot on the globe.
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The supposed ‘consensus’ on man-made global warming is facing an inconvenient challenge after the release of new temperature data showing the planet has not warmed for the past 15 years.
The figures suggest that we could even be heading for a mini ice age to rival the 70-year temperature drop that saw frost fairs held on the Thames in the 17th Century.
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"Billions more across the galaxy - stand by for aliens"
"The HARPS team surveyed 102 red dwarfs over a six-year period, discovering nine "super-Earths" (planets with masses between one and ten times that of Earth, thus probably rocky planets as opposed to gaseous ones)."
"Because red dwarfs are so common — there are about 160 billion of them in the Milky Way — this leads us to the astonishing result that there are tens of billions of these planets in our galaxy alone," enthuses Xavier Bonfils, lead boffin on the investigation.
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A team of scientists led by geochemist Zunli Lu from Syracuse University in New York state found that the Medieval Warm Period was in fact a global phenomenon.
A rare mineral and the oxygen inclusions in it have opened the door to more accurately assess the temperature record based on an analysis of the ice preserved from ancient times.
The researchers found that a few hundred years ago, when Europe was much warmer than it is today, the warming was not confined to Europe, as global warming proponents have asserted, but was indeed a global phenomenon. The warming trend reached as far south as the Antarctic continent.
So we have at least one instance where "global warming" happened without the contribution of human-generated CO2.
What makes us think that this time it's different?
The globe may well be warming, and weather patterns may be changing, but it does not seem to be a matter of industrialization, the burning of oil or car exhaust...
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A Nasa spacecraft has found further tantalising evidence for the existence of water ice at Mercury's poles.
Actually the spacecraft delivered the photo which was then matched up with bright points from previous radar observations, overlaid in yellow on the image, indicating spots where what seems like ice is located.
So with good probability there is ice on Mercury.
But I am scooping this article for another reason: The photograph, shows the planet's south pole, with a grid overlay centered on the pole. That pole is marked by what seems to be a perfectly circular and extremely deep opening.
Question: Are circular holes (openings) at the planets' poles an accident or a feature?
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The 34th President of the United States met the extra terrestrials at a remote air base in New Mexico in 1954, according to lecturer and author Timothy Good.
(My comment:) That would tend to confirm the view that there is a whole world out there in space, that we are not being told about. Conspiracy theory? Hmmmm
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An orbiting Nasa space telescope captured a dark, planet-sized object flying close to the sun on Monday - then extending what looks like a refueling tube into the star's surface.
The imagery was captured by Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory and edited together by a YouTube user, Sunsflare, who challenged experts to explain the strange 'visitor.'
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Surprisingly conserved, this specific artifact is - at first glance, inlaid in rock (which is understandable since the peninsula is home to numerous volcanoes). Subjected to analysis, the conjunct turned out to be made of metal parts that seem to form a mechanism, gears which may be of a type of watch or computer. The astonishing thing is that the pieces were dated to be 400 million years old!
"Nobody could believe that 400 million years ago could have existed on Earth even a man [much less a machine]. At that time, the forms of life were very simple, but the finding - clearly suggests the existence of intelligent beings capable of such technology. Certainly, such beings would have had to come from other planets. It is possible that a spaceship could have been damaged [or there was an accident] and it was abandoned in that place."
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The 28-year countdown clock has started and it may be ticking away the seconds of life remaining to unsuspecting millions.
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The Exopaedia intends to provide information on all matters extraterrestrial. It focuses on those new
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An article in Foreign Policy Journal, a perfectly mainstream publication, mentioning Cold Fusion and putting on the table the politics of scientific research and their publications that are designed to relegate any different views that are not part of "their" science to the fringes ...
I commented:
"The article gives me hope. With the problem so clearly laid out in a mainstream publication, And Foreign Policy seems to fit that bill, maybe we have a chance to see a movement for change in this area of scientific publication. But more probably, what we will see is that the outside-the-mainstream online journals will gain respectability as the places where REAL scientific progress is happening.
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Swiss scientists plan to launch a shoebox-sized satellite with jellyfish-like tentacles to sweep up space junk as early as 2016.
... chase down space junk and drag it out of orbit, burning up during atmospheric re-entry in the process.
Once it has caught up with its quarry, CleanSpace One will deploy grippers inspired by jellyfish or sea anemones to embrace the spinning target. Then it will power its engines to steer itself on a suicide dive into Earth’s atmosphere.
International space law may keep the scheme from being widely useful, though. Legal issues about who owns space junk makes it difficult for one nation’s space agency to clean up another nation’s trash, so for now, CleanSpace One’s only available targets are also Swiss.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- During the past few years, CERN physicist Dragan Hajdukovic has been investigating what he thinks may be a widely overlooked part of the cosmos: the quantum vacuum.
He suggests that the quantum vacuum has a gravitational charge stemming from the gravitational repulsion of virtual particles and antiparticles. Previously, he has theoretically shown that this repulsive gravity can explain several observations, including effects usually attributed to dark matter. Additionally, this additional gravity suggests that we live in a cyclic Universe (with no Big Bang) and may provide insight into the nature of black holes and an estimate of the neutrino mass. In his most recent paper, published in Astrophysics and Space Science, he shows that the quantum vacuum could explain one more observation: the Universe’s accelerating expansion, without the need for dark energy.
Demonstrating the ability to successfully conduct an unmanned lunar landing is a key milestone that must be achieved before China can land astronauts on the Moon, perhaps within the next decade.
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Michael Tellinger and Klaus Dona visit the giant footprint in South Africa on the 17th Jan 2012. They talk about the mystery of this footprint in rough granite and debunk those who believe that it is a fake carved footprint by pranksters.
This amazing human-like footprint remains one of the least known of the many great mysteries on Earth. The being that left this footprint would have been about 7,5 metres tall - this supports the findings of giant skeletons of about 7,5m that Klaus Dona made in Ecuador.
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It appears that the history of life on this planet goes back much further than is commonly acknowledged. This footprint preserved in what, over a long time, became granite rock, is only one of those archaeological finds that do not neatly fit into our story of the development of humanity...
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