on the cancellation of UFO Hunters
It throws up questions big time, has this got something to with the government? Are there not enough people watching this show? Or do people really not care about Aliens and UFOs? I think it’s a little bit of all them.
The Office is nothing but a bunch of comedian jewish people(nothing new), millions of other shows just like them:
Hate to say it, after reading books and reading the internet. I found out that Jews run the ball game in Hollywood, in fact they have most control of the United States. I don’t want to get into that right now.
“Megan Wants a Millionaire,” need I say more! Come to find out one of the candidates in the show cut his girl friend up into pieces, nice huh? What was he doing on the show if he had a girlfriend anyways.
I mean do I really want to learn about truckers that drive on ice or how people chop down trees. One world “boring!”
I think the general public is very stupid anyway.
from the comments
I heard Obama-care will pay for welfare moms to get clit piercings.
this is us
Twenty years ago the Voyager 1 space craft beamed back a photograph of our tiny planet.
Carl Sagan on the pale blue dot:
Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ’superstar,’ every ’supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
photo out of context
Pluto is changing color
See also: crash blossoms.
Inside the hut, looking out
from the comments
Matt:
Terrence McKenna had been saying something similar for years… he proposed personally that the alien was The Mushroom: entirely foreign with no evolutionary branch, thus unique in the plant kingdom, poisonous, hallucinatory, folklorish, phallic, spores as intergalactic panspermia… etc.
He also suggested that a primary characteristic of The Alien is that we would NOT recognize it’s presence.
do I need a tissue?
One astrobiologist says the best place to look for aliens may be right here on Earth. Paul Davies of Arizona State University said Tuesday that extraterrestrial life may have found its way to this planet at several different times.
If so, Davies says, the aliens could be “right under our noses — or even in our noses.”
diamond oceans on Uranus?
Then the diamond did something unexpected. The chunks of diamond didn’t sink. They floated. Microscopic diamond ice burgs floated in a tiny sea of liquid diamond. The diamond was behaving like water.
Awesome.
(via marginal revolution)
Vincent Fournier, space agencies
Fournier’s work focuses on the interiors of Chinese, Russian and US space agencies — and also includes some remarkable images of astronaut training grounds that, appropriately, look completely out of this world.
(via kottke)
earliest photo of the universe
Scientists released the photo Tuesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. It’s the most complete picture of the early universe so far, showing galaxies with stars that are already hundreds of millions of years old, along with the unmistakable primordial signs of the first cluster of stars.
super Earth
Astronomers have discovered a new Earth-like planet that is larger than our own and may be more than half covered with water, according to a study published Wednesday in the science journal Nature.
The so-called “super Earth” is about 42 light years away in another solar system and has a radius nearly 2.7 times larger than that of our planet, according to the study by the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics.
But:
Its temperature is estimated at between 280 and 120 degrees Celsius (536 and 248 degrees Fahrenheit) with its host star about one-fifth the size of the Sun, according to the scientists.
Video of That Weirdest Thing Thing
That thing from Norway from before:
‘the weirdest thing’
Dr Tandberg said: “I agree with everyone in the science community that this light was the weirdest thing. I have never seen anything like this ever.
“It may have been anything from an exploding missile whose launch went wrong – to a comet or other celestial object that for some reason has been behaving strangely.
Hat tip Andrea
closing down the UFO inquiry unit
The British military has shut down a hotline that took reports on UFOs.
The spokesman said closing down the UFO inquiry unit would save about 44,000 pounds ($73,000) a year and would not add to the security threats Britain faces.
He said no one has lost their job because of the closure of the UFO portfolio, which over the years had detailed tens of thousands of sightings, including many with fanciful illustrations about purported encounters with aliens.
GJ 758 B
Astronomers say they have taken the first direct image of a planet-like object orbiting a star much like our own sun.
The object called GJ 758 B orbits a parent star that is comparable in mass and temperature to our own sun, said study team member Michael McElwain of Princeton University. The star lies 300 trillion miles (480 trillion km), or about 50 light-years, from Earth.
Will extraterrestrials look like us?
Shermer debates Dawkens on the subject:
I replied to Dawkins that if something like a smart, technological, bipedal humanoid has a certain level of inevitability because of how evolution unfolds, then it would have happened more than once here. In his 2001 book Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Robert Wright argues that our existence precludes other terrestrial intelligences of our level from arising. But Neandertals were as close as one can get to a counterfactual experiment: they had hundreds of thousands of years to themselves in Europe without our interference and showed nothing like the technological and cultural progress of the modern humans who displaced them. Dawkins’s rejoinder to me is enlightening:
(via marginal revolution)
there’s gold in them thar hills the moon has water
Also: We choose to blow-up the moon!
Since the impacts, the LCROSS science team has been working almost nonstop analyzing the huge amount of data the spacecraft collected. The team concentrated on data from the satellite’s spectrometers, which provide the most definitive information about the presence of water. A spectrometer examines light emitted or absorbed by materials that helps identify their composition.
“We are ecstatic,” said Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. “Multiple lines of evidence show water was present in both the high angle vapor plume and the ejecta curtain created by the LCROSS Centaur impact. The concentration and distribution of water and other substances requires further analysis, but it is safe to say Cabeus holds water.”
there be stars
Japan to build solar station in space
With few energy resources of its own and heavily reliant on oil imports, Japan has long been a leader in solar and other renewable energies and this year set ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets.
But Japan’s boldest plan to date is the Space Solar Power System (SSPS), in which arrays of photovoltaic dishes several square kilometres (square miles) in size would hover in geostationary orbit outside the Earth’s atmosphere.
“Since solar power is a clean and inexhaustible energy source, we believe that this system will be able to help solve the problems of energy shortage and global warming,” researchers at Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, one of the project participants, wrote in a report.
“The sun’s rays abound in space.”
islands seen from space
Inside The Hut
So I’m renovating my work hut, and this is a photograph from stage 1 of the process. I’ve insulated the whole interior with space blankets and now I’m fronting it all off with thermal aluminium foil. After that, I’ll lay down some carpet underlay, with carpets and rugs over that, and Bedouin tent-style roof drapes from eave to eave, via the apex of the roof, with wooden tent poles. Looks like a little wooden cabin in a field from the outside, but inside will be silver factory meets desert gypsy caravan. That’s what I’m working on, anyway. I am the insulation queen, these days.
GRB 090423
Astronomers have seen the light from a gamma-ray burst, now the most distant object ever recorded.
The discovery is especially exciting for scientists because the explosion occurred during the so-called “cosmic dark ages”, which started a mere 400,000 years after the Big Bang set the Universe in motion some 13.7 billion years ago.
The Locative Value of the Nook
Tim notes that the Barnes & Noble’s Nook is taking a decidedly different marketing strategy than the Kindle:
The promise of the Kindle is that you can buy and read books any where at all — that is, nowhere in particular. The Amazon store has no location. You read the books on your screen, and they are technically stored on your device, but effectively, the books are likewise nowhere.
Barnes & Noble, on the other hand, is still committed to the idea that books have that they are most properly browsed and bought and read in specific locations. They say: yes, you can use your Nook anywhere — but the very best place to use it is in one of our stores. What’s more: as long as you’re in the store, you can read as much of as many books as you want. Just like if you were flipping the pages. That’s huge!
Why is this huge? Well, for the same reason geo-locating phones and augment reality are. Technology highest goal has been to destroyed our sense of distance, the vastness of space. Now, however, technology has an opportunity to redeem itself by augmenting the depth of space, by causing us to be more, as Tim says, “location aware.”
Anything that helps us recall our physicality is a good thing, a very good thing.
Graphic of 50 Years of Space Exploration
You really have to see the huge version of it on Flickr.
(Via Stevey.com)