• New Point of Inquiry — Scott Atran: Violent Extremism and Sacred Values | The Intersection

    Updated: 2011-08-31 15:02:21
    I’ve been on the road so I’m a day late in notifying folks about my latest hosted episode of the show: In less than two weeks, the ten year anniversary of the deadliest terror attack on U.S. soil—9/11—will be upon us. In the past decade, there has been much debate and discussion about the root [...]

  • Home, from the start of a long, long journey | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-08-31 13:13:13
    , , Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Hurricane Irene from start to finish Home , from the start of a long , long journey Sometimes , my favorite pictures from space are among the ones that look least interesting until you understand what you’re . seeing For example , this doesn’t look like much , does it Ah , but that picture shows so , so much . It shows everything That’s us . You , me , everyone . That fuzzy blob on the left That’s Earth . The one on the right : the Moon . In this one simple picture , you can see everywhere humans have ever been hundreds of thousands of years spent on Earth , and a few brief

  • Dwarf Galaxies Found Cloaking Primitive Stars From the Early Universe

    Updated: 2011-08-31 08:30:00
    New observations using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have been used to solve an important astrophysical puzzle concerning the oldest stars in our galactic neighborhood hidden until recently in dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way. In comparison to the Milky Way,...

  • Extreme Galaxies --Some 3000 Times Brighter Than Milky Way

    Updated: 2011-08-31 07:40:00
    Arp 220 is the closest galaxy to the Milly Way with an extreme luminosity, defined as being more than about 300 times that of our own galaxy. Some dramatic galaxies have values of luminosity ten times brighter still. Astronomers are...

  • Do Earth's Ocean Extremeophiles Hint at What Lies Beneath Jupiter's Europa?

    Updated: 2011-08-31 07:10:00
    Wonder what life of Jupiter's moon, Europa, might look like? Checkout a new species of archaebacteria, Pyrococcus CH1,discovered thriving on a mid-Atlantic ridge within a temperature range of 80 to 105°C and able to divide itself up to a hydrostatic...

  • From the 'X Files' Dept: The SETI Enigma --What Caused this Signal?

    Updated: 2011-08-31 07:06:00
    No one at SETI headquarters knows for sure. The believe that there is a slight possibility that it just might originate from an extraterrestrial intelligence. The bright colors on the blue background indicate that an anomalous signal was received here...

  • Off to Dragon*Con

    Updated: 2011-08-31 06:46:58
    I’m venturing from my Canadian stronghold to the hotlanta for the next week to participate in DragonCon. I’m taking the whole family this time, and unleashing them on an unsuspecting crowd of sci-fi fans. Here’s what I’m scheduled to be doing: Parsec Awards: Saturday, 4:00pm Regency V Astronomy Cast Live: Sunday, 4:00pm Hilton 204. Junior [...]

  • Mars May Have Once Been a Cold, Wet World

    Updated: 2011-08-31 06:30:01
    Many planetary scientists suspect that Mars, now cold and very dry, once had a liquid water ocean covering parts of its surface. But this does not necessarily mean that the Red Planet was ever a tropical paradise… a recent paper by a team of astrobiologists suggests that Mars was much more bitter than balmy. (...)Read [...]

  • First Image Captured by NASAs Jupiter bound Juno; Earth – Moon Portrait

    Updated: 2011-08-31 05:31:29
    NASA’s solar powered Jupiter bound Juno orbiter has captured her first image – a beautiful portrait of the Earth & Moon – since the probe blasted off from the home planet. Juno lifted off 25 days ago at 12: 25 p.m. on August 5 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station [...]

  • NCBI ROFL: I just had donuts for dinner and went on a cocaine binge, but it’s ok — I took a multivitamin! | Discoblog

    Updated: 2011-08-31 00:00:36
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  • Hurricane Irene from start to finish | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-08-30 21:46:42
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Creepy bubbles and magnets Home , from the start of a long , long journey Hurricane Irene from start to finish NASA just released an amazing video showing Hurricane Irene from August 21th through the 29th essentially the entire lifespan of the : storm Unfortunately the resolution isn’t great , but this really gives a sense of the incredible size and momentum of this incredible storm . The animation was created using images from the NASA NOAA satellite GOES-13, an Earth-observer in geostationary orbit 36,000 km 22,000 miles above the Atlantic Ocean . It takes images of clouds ,

  • Creepy bubbles and magnets | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-08-30 19:59:55
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS NASA ponders de-crewing the space station in November Hurricane Irene from start to finish Creepy bubbles and magnets Science videos are pretty cool , so I was excited to see this cool one using soap bubbles to show how a fluid infused with a magnetic material would flow through the bubbles interstices until I watched to the very end and then decided this was actually some weird horror movie trailer . Still , way cool , and the editing was very good . But man , those last few seconds are creepy . Funny how we anthropomorphize things , or at least mentally give them a vitality

  • Human Mission to an Asteroid: Asteroid Field Testing

    Updated: 2011-08-30 19:05:04
    How will we work and set up a base camp on an asteroid? NASA is currently doing some field work to test technologies that could be used on future human missions to asteroids. The Desert Research And Technology Studies (D-R.A.T.S) crew is back in action, testing communication scenarios for near-Earth asteroids, and 2 new instruments [...]

  • Scenes from a Sci-Comm Training | The Intersection

    Updated: 2011-08-30 18:03:36
    We’re just wrapping up another installment of “Science: Becoming the Messenger,” this time in the beautiful Colvard Student Union at Mississippi State. The University ran this picture of one of my live improv interviews with a scientist–who did a very good job in response to some very crazy questions. Image caption below: COMMUNICATING SCIENCE — [...]

  • Jaw-Dropping 3-D Rock Garden on Mars

    Updated: 2011-08-30 16:03:53
    Want to experience a “you-are-there” moment with the Opportunity rover on Mars? Grab a set of 3-D glasses (red/blue) and take a gander at one of the latest views from Oppy as she starts her explorations around the rim of Endeavour Crater. This stunning 3-D version of an image taken by the rover was created [...]

  • Astronomy Foundation Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-08-30 16:02:59
    CURRENT ISSUE THE MAGAZINE Current Issue Next Issue Back Issues Preview the Magazine Special Issues E-mail Newsletter About the Magazine Subscribe , Renew or Give a Gift Subscriber Benefits Trips Tours Advertise Advertiser Links Sweepstakes Press Room Contact Us COLUMNISTS Bob Berman Glenn Chaple Tony Hallas David H . Levy Stephen James O'Meara NEWS OBSERVING Astronomy News Liz and Bill's Cosmic Adventures StarDome Plus Intro to the Sky Astronomy for Kids Urban Skies Astronomy Myths The Sky this Week The Sky this Month Star Atlas Ask Astro Astro Imaging Constellation Observing Glossary EQUIPMENT Products Reviews How To MULTIMEDIA Picture of the Day Reader Photo Gallery Videos Podcasts Wallpaper COMMUNITY Why Join Local Group Blog Dave's Universe Astronomy Events Astronomy Groups Forums

  • Arctic sea ice will be below average again this year | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-08-30 13:30:58
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS The increasingly antiscience Republican candidates NASA ponders de-crewing the space station in November Arctic sea ice will be below average again this year Geez , I hate to keep hitting this theme , but y’know what It’s . important Using a fleet of Earth-observing satellites , the European Space Agency is reporting that the ice in the Arctic circle is already retreating considerably , and will once again be below average in extent this summer . This has been going on for a few years now , which isn’t terribly surprising considering that global warming is real and that we keep

  • Odd "Red" Galaxy with a Gigantic Black Hole 100 Million X's Sun

    Updated: 2011-08-30 08:00:00
    A monster black hole 100 million times the mass of the Sun is feeding off gas, dust and a ring of stars at the center of Galaxy NGC-1097 50 million light-years away. The star-ringed black hole forms the bright eye...

  • Antarctica Meteorite Hints at Extraterrestrial Origins for Prebiotic Molecular Evolution

    Updated: 2011-08-30 07:30:00
    Ammonia found in a carbon-containing meteorite from Antarctica adds to a growing body of evidence that meteorites may have played a key role in the development of life here. The NASA image above below was released early this year, when...

  • Image of the Day: Star Birth --Gloria in Excelsis

    Updated: 2011-08-30 07:14:00
    Infant stars glowing gloriously in this infrared image of the Serpens star-forming region, located approximately 848 light-years away in the Serpens constellation. The reddish-pink dots are baby stars deeply embedded in the cosmic cloud of gas and dust that collapsed...

  • Cause of Progress Crash May Have Been Determined

    Updated: 2011-08-30 05:50:45
    The Russian news agency Itar-Tass is reporting that the cause of the August 24 failure and crash of the Progress re-supply ship that was supposed to bring supplies to the International Space Station may have already been determined. “Members of the emergency commission have determined the cause of the failure of the Soyuz carrier rocket’s [...]

  • Carnival of Space #212

    Updated: 2011-08-30 04:16:01
    A brand new Carnival of Space is hosted by Brain Wang over at Next Big Future. Click here to read Carnival of Space #212 And if you’re interested in looking back, here’s an archive to all the past Carnivals of Space. If you’ve got a space-related blog, you should really join the carnival. Just email [...]

  • NCBI ROFL: Spoiler alert! Spoilers actually increase enjoyment of stories. | Discoblog

    Updated: 2011-08-30 00:00:26
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  • Confirmed: Kids of Older Dads At High Risk of Mental Illness. But Why? | 80beats

    Updated: 2011-08-29 21:22:15
    : . Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS At the LHC , the God Particle” is Running Out of Places to Hide In Development : Networks of Unmanned Quadcopters to Ferry Medicine to Isolated Areas Confirmed : Kids of Older Dads At High Risk of Mental Illness . But Why Children of older mothers , scientists have long known , are at higher risk for certain genetic disorders such as Down syndrome But the father’s age is matters , too . As a father’s age increases , research shows , so does his child’s risk of mental illness , schizophrenia and autism in particular . In Scientific American Nicole Grey explores the link

  • At the LHC, the “God Particle” is Running Out of Places to Hide | 80beats

    Updated: 2011-08-29 21:12:47
    , Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Former Sun-like Star Is Now a Diamond Planet Confirmed : Kids of Older Dads At High Risk of Mental Illness . But Why At the LHC , the God Particle” is Running Out of Places to Hide After several years of nail-biting delays and breakdowns , the Large Hadron Collider one of the few science experiments to become a household name , got underway in March of 2010. The search for the Higgs boson the elusive God particle” that would resolve several problems in the Standard Model of particle physics was front-page . news But in the last 18 months , as the LHC has scanned through

  • Steampunk station | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-08-29 19:12:12
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Wyoming skies The increasingly antiscience Republican candidates Steampunk station I can’t help but think of Jules Verne when I see this spectacular picture of Europe at night , as seen by astronauts aboard the International Space Station on August 10, : 2011 Click to ennemonate . It’s not so much that the cities shown are Verne’s own though you can see London bottom left and Paris to the right of the dark swath of the English Channel It’s the color The brassy lights of the city , some fuzzed by clouds , are classic steampunk As you can see from the map the station was high

  • Wyoming skies | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-08-29 16:27:33
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Virgos have beautiful eyes Steampunk station Wyoming skies If you need a pick-me-up to start your week after a hurricane , a series of earthquakes , and just having to face another danged week at work then may I suggest this amazing time-lapse video by Eric Hines , called Wild Wyoming Make sure it's set to HD , and make it full screen . I personally think the music is very good , too it's from The Fountain so you might want to crank up the speakers as well . Isn’t that breath-taking At about a minute in I saw a couple of satellites heading across the Milky Way right-to-left ,

  • Climate Relicts: My new story for Yale Environment 360 | The Loom

    Updated: 2011-08-29 14:54:57
    : Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS More on Scientific American Podcast : Science Tattoos and the Myth of the Parasite-Driven Cat Lady Climate Relicts : My new story for Yale Environment 360 I’m among the 800,000 people in Connecticut without power thanks to Irene , so I won’t be blogging much for the foreseeable future . But before I get to other matters like dragging branches around , let me point you to my latest piece for Yale Enivronment 360. I take a look at a new concept called the climate relict . Around the world , there are pockets of plants and animals living hundreds of miles away from their main

  • Virgos have beautiful eyes | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-08-29 13:30:57
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Tim Minchin in Boulder Wyoming skies Virgos have beautiful eyes No , don’t fret : I’m not betraying everything I know to be true and suddenly supporting astrology I’m just having a little joke at the expense of NGC 4435 and 4438, two galaxies in the Virgo Cluster known as The Eyes and seen in lovely detail by the Very Large Telescope Click for orbus giganticus , and you really should the details are beautiful . Clearly , these guys know each other . NGC 4438 upper left is distorted and drawn out , which is a sure bet that it’s undergone a collision with another galaxy in the

  • "Black Holes Glow Like a Hot Body" --Stephen Hawking

    Updated: 2011-08-29 08:30:00
    The mathematician Louis Crane proposed a scifi-like scenario back in 1994 that billions of years in the future, after all the stars have burned out, that small black holes could be created to generate heat and guarantee survival of the...

  • The Plane Truth: Boarding by Rows Is the Worst Possible Way, Says Physicist | Discoblog

    Updated: 2011-08-29 08:17:13
    : , Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Kinky Skinks Show That Size Matters in Speciation NCBI ROFL : Spoiler alert Spoilers actually increase enjoyment of . stories The Plane Truth : Boarding by Rows Is the Worst Possible Way , Says Physicist Let’s face it : boarding an airplane with luggage is just downright frustrating . Not only do you have to puzzle out how you are going to wrestle your carry-on bag into the aircraft’s tiny overhead compartment , but you have to do it while trying not to get swept away by the tugging current of other . passengers OK , everybody count off Courtesy of Steffen , arXiv But

  • Colonization of Space Looms --Nuclear Power Plant for Settlements on Moon, Mars & Beyond

    Updated: 2011-08-29 08:00:00
    The first nuclear power plant being considered for production of electricity for manned or unmanned bases on the Moon, Mars and other planets may really look like it came from outer space. "The main point is that nuclear power has...

  • Image of the Day: The Haunting Beauty of NGC 3190 --A Deadly Supernova Factory

    Updated: 2011-08-29 07:14:00
    This magnificent galaxy inspires us, again, to ask: does advanced life exist there? The fact that we have no proof of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe may simply mean that intelligent civilizations have all too finite lifetimes. NGC 3190...

  • EcoAlert: Realtime Tracking of Near-Earth Asteroids & Comets --It Could Save the Planet

    Updated: 2011-08-29 07:10:00
    Stephen Hawking believes that one of the major factors in the possible scarcity of intelligent life in our galaxy is the high probability of an asteroid or comet colliding with inhabited planets. We have observed, Hawking points out in Life...

  • NASA's Massively Multiplayer Space-Exploration Game Now Online

    Updated: 2011-08-29 07:06:00
    NASA’s massively multiplayer online game, Astronaut: Moon, Mars and Beyond, launched with a hail of publicity in 2009 but very quiet since, is looking for pledges from supporters on the microfunding site, offering up access to the game’s beta in...

  • Who Knew “Anti-Reflexivity” Could be, Uh, Interesting? | The Intersection

    Updated: 2011-08-28 22:16:43
    I called it a war on science, some academics call it anti-reflexivity–either way, I thought this video was pretty entertaining and also informative:

  • Stephen Hawking: "What are the chances that we will encounter alien life, as we explore the galaxy?" (Weekend Feature)

    Updated: 2011-08-28 16:59:45
    In his famous lecture, Life in the Universe, Stephen Hawking asks: "What are the chances that we will encounter some alien form of life, as we explore the galaxy?" If the argument about the time scale for the appearance of...

  • More on Scientific American Podcast: Science Tattoos and the Myth of the Parasite-Driven Cat Lady | The Loom

    Updated: 2011-08-28 03:46:36
    : Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Scientific American interviews me about evolution in the city and more to come Climate Relicts : My new story for Yale Environment 360 More on Scientific American Podcast : Science Tattoos and the Myth of the Parasite-Driven Cat Lady Before Irene takes away my Internet connection , let me point you to part two of my interview on Science Talk , the podcast of Scientific American . If you missed it , here’s part one Talk you on the other side of the . maelstrom Update : Part one linked now fixed August 27th , 2011 10:46 PM by Carl Zimmer in Talks The Parasite Files 1 comments

  • My Moon hoax | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-08-27 14:57:34
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Irene sidles up to the east coast Landfall My Moon hoax In February 2011 I did a live web video interview with Andrew Shaner of the Lunar and Planetary Institute where we talked about the Moon Hoax It was a lot of fun Andrew just did something great for kids : he took some of the better moments of the interview , along with those from Paul Spudis , a lunar expert , and created a web page called Conspiracy Showdown It takes some of the more widely-known claims of hoaxery and sets up short clips debunking them . Here’s an example with me , talking about why the Soviets didn’t

  • Weekend Image: Irene from the International Space Station

    Updated: 2011-08-27 01:57:40

  • Scientists discover an instant cosmic classic supernova Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-08-27 00:40:31
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  • Scientists discover an instant cosmic classic supernova Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-08-27 00:40:28
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  • HOT NEWS Supernova in M101 could be visible in binoculars Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Commu

    Updated: 2011-08-27 00:40:23
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  • HOT NEWS Supernova in M101 could be visible in binoculars Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Commu

    Updated: 2011-08-27 00:40:22
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  • NewsAlert: NASA Cassini Flyby Captures Close-Up Images of Saturn's Odd Moon, Hyperion

    Updated: 2011-08-26 18:23:10
    NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured new views of Saturn's oddly shaped moon Hyperion during its encounter with this cratered body on Thursday, Aug. 25. The images were acquired as the spacecraft flew past the moon at a distance of about 15,500...

  • Heading north to observe Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Media Galleries Bl

    Updated: 2011-08-26 16:39:13
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    Updated: 2011-08-26 16:39:11
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  • Globular cluster M28, open cluster M25, and planetary nebula NGC 6781 Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-08-26 16:39:05
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  • Globular cluster M28, open cluster M25, and planetary nebula NGC 6781 Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-08-26 16:38:58
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  • From the X-Files Dept: "Galactic Flashes May Signal Transmissions By Other Civilizations"

    Updated: 2011-08-26 07:10:00
    "We'll be looking for the occasional celestial flash," said Joseph Lazio, a radio astronomer at JPL. "These flashes can be anything from explosions on surfaces of nearby stars, deaths of distant stars, exploding black holes, or even perhaps transmissions by...

  • Ability to Harness Sunlight Triggered Life on Earth 3 Billion Years Ago (Today's Most Popular)

    Updated: 2011-08-26 07:10:00
    Life on Earth dramatically surged around three billion years ago, possibly when primitive forms developed more efficient ways to harness energy from sunlight, Scientists at MIT built a "genomic fossil", in essence a mathematical model that took 1,000 key genes...

  • NASA’s invading aliens Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Media Galleries Blog

    Updated: 2011-08-24 14:48:21
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    Updated: 2011-08-24 14:48:20
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  • Life on Mars? Fossil find shows it’s possible

    Updated: 2011-08-22 21:15:22
    Scientists have found Earth’s oldest fossils in Australia and say their microscopic discovery is convincing evidence that cells and bacteria were able to thrive in an oxygen-free world more than 3.4 billion years ago."Could these sorts of things exist on Mars? It’s just about conceivable. This evidence is certainly encouraging and lack of oxygen on Mars is not a problem," ...

  • The Cosmic Thunderbolt (Video)

    Updated: 2011-08-19 20:49:21
    "Presented here are the first glimpses of Episode Three in the series "Symbols of an Alien Sky." Video from: YouTube.com Video from: YouTube.com ThunderboltsProject YouTube Channel Thunderbolts.info Also tune into: Wallace Thornhill - Proto-Saturn, The Purple Dawn of Creation & Our Strange Solar System Wallace Thornhill - The Electric Universe Donald E. Scott - The Electric Sky Rens van der Sluijs - Plasma Mythology & The Axis Mundi Freeman - ...

  • How you can help save the next space telescope Dave's Universe Astronomy.com Online Community Forums

    Updated: 2011-08-18 01:09:46
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  • UFOs, Aliens, and the Question of Contact

    Updated: 2011-08-14 01:18:30
    This video explores the secrecy surrounding the greatest cover-up of all time, presenting an overview of the UFO phenomenon, aliens, abductions, disclosure, and hyperdimensional realities. Based on "UFOs, Aliens and the Question of Contact". Our views on life and existence, science and religion, spirituality and evolution, consciousness and psychology as well as reality as we know it would take on a whole new understanding when looking deeper into the UFO phenomena and the possibility of a higher alien intelligence affecting our world. Perhaps we’re not the "main show" here on earth and maybe not even on "top of the food chain"? Let’s not forget, not too long ago we believed that the earth is flat. What else will we discover?

  • Moonless Earth Could Potentially Still Support Life, Study Finds

    Updated: 2011-08-10 15:49:00
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  • Scientists Discover Rare Flowing Water on Mars, Supports Alien Life

    Updated: 2011-08-09 16:22:41
    Scientists have discovered flowing salt water on Mars which has sparked conversations about potential alien life within the planet’s surface. The images sent from NASA’s orbiter unveiled flowing waters descending down from rocky slopes. This image combining orbital imagery with 3-D modeling shows flows that appear in spring and summer on a slope inside Mars’ Newton crater. CREDIT: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona Information ...

  • Orion StarShoot Deep Space Video Camera Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-08-04 07:07:14
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    Updated: 2011-08-04 07:07:13
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