The Carrington Event: Will We Have Another?

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The world was a very different place in 1859. There were no motorized vehicles, only horse-drawn carriages, trains pulled by coal-fired steam engines, and ships powered by coal-fired turbines. Airplanes were still a pipe dream. As far as electronics went, there weren't any. Ben Franklin's work at Menlo Park didn't begin until 1876, and Nikola Tesla was only three years old in 1859. Long-distance communication happened by telegraph, when it happened at all.

Which is why the Carrington Event caused only a minor stir, and has largely been forgotten by history. But were it to happen again, the results for us would be disastrous.

A Close Look At The Sun

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NASA has done it again. Yesterday, Sunday, Feb. 6th, NASA released online of the first complete, panoramic view of the the whole sun, front and back simultaneously, the entire surface and atmosphere. The are pictures in stereo? and in 3-D. They were taken by the twin Solar TErrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) spacecraft. The crafts are on diametrically opposite sides of the sun, one hundred eighty degrees apart. One is ahead of Earth in its orbit, the other trailing behind.

NASA finds 54 potentially life-friendly planets

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The NASA orbiting telescope, the Kepler, has been at it for just a year, looking, at a small part of the Milky Way galaxy, in the search for alien life, and has found, not alien life yet, but 1,235 possible planets outside our solar system, of these 54, seemingly could be hospitable to life. These planets are, not too hot or too cold.

The NASA Kepler project chief scientist William Borucki said, fifty-four possibilities is "an enormous amount, an inconceivable amount. It's amazing to see this huge number because up to now, we've had zero."

UFO hovers over Jerusalem

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Item from ITN News -- "Two different films have surfaced of a glowing ball hanging over the Dome of the Rock." See the video.

What is it? An UFO? A solid object? Or is it the just the creation of jokers running a gag? Doing a light show? Or is it a physical manifestation of a spiritual presence? Is it a sign? The sign? The return of the Holy Spirit?

Whatever!

Well, there is buzz on the Internet and believers will believe what they want. The image in the video could be a clever hoax devised by a clever lad or lass. It would be ET dropping in and flying about, on a visit. It could be a spy craft. Jerusalem is just the kind of space where everybody is spying on everybody. Which ever it is, the video is entertaining. Why? Because it is grabbing eyeballs and making heads wonder. Well, some heads.

If aliens do exist? And Are Like Us? Watch Out?!

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Dylan Ratigan on his show earlier this week explored the question: If aliens do exist will they be mean?

Well, in so many words, famed physicist Stephen Hawking warned last year that we had better raise our Star Trek-like shields. Since we only have Star Trek-like shields in our fiction, we had better go dark, silent and quiet, and quit trying to contact aliens.

Why Take a One-Way Trip to Mars?

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NASA announced last year that it plans to send people to the planet Mars in the near future, but because Mars is so far away, a trip to Mars would be so expensive, so that the best way to send people to Mars would be on a one way trip. Well, a few days ago ABC's Ned Potter did a feature on settling the Red Planet. See the video.

My take on a one way trip to Mars?  Question 1: Would I go?  Question 2: Do I think anyone should volunteer?

More on a One-Way Ticket to Mars: Would You Volunteer to Colonize Mars?


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While the incredibly odd conspiracy theorist might still believe that man never made it to the Moon, scientists are predicting that we might be able to send people to Mars in as little as twenty years.  Because of a number of complicated factors involving the high cost of such an adventure, any ideas of a trip to Mars have been thus far postponed. However, a new idea is being floated around that would solve many of the problems with a mission—sending astronauts to Mars with a one-way ticket only. 

"You Are Here", Part 2

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The second part of “You are Here” by Colin Ellard leaves the science behind the navigation of animals, insects, and ants and instead focuses on how we as people relate to different kinds of environments. Ellard doesn’t look to scientists for answers; instead, he quotes and references urban planners, architects, and anthropologists.

 

Don’t expect the second half of the book to be as interesting as the first part—it’s just not as good.

 

New Zealand UFO video Explained?

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The New Zealand Defense Force has released thousands of files of UFO sightings. The files conclude that there are normal, explainable explanations for UFO's. For example, The New Zealand Defense Force's UFO; investigators took a look at the 1978 video of a UFO sighting and; concluded that it was either the image of Venus or of light waves. See the video and see for yourself how much sense that explanation makes.

New Zealand has also released reports of alien sightings by eye-witnesses, whom tell of aliens with big shoe sizes, and tell other bizarre stories. The emphasis put on these stories is to say, in so many words, these are unbelievable tales, like it's an joke, ya'll. You are meant to chuckle.

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