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Obama 'alien contact' quip fuels rumours 2016 WILL be the year of UFO disclosure

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama has refused to deny the existence of aliens fuelling hopes among UFO believers 2016 will be the year the truth comes from "out there" to over here.

By JON AUSTIN
PUBLISHED: 14:49, Tue, Feb 16, 2016 | UPDATED: 15:41, Tue, Feb 16, 2016

Obama, who will give up office in January 2017, was put on the spot by a six-year-old girl who pulled no punches during a Q&A at a filming of the Ellen DeGeneres Show.

The direct youngster, Macey Hensley, asked Obama about the fabled "Book of Secrets" from the 2007 National Treasure movie of the same name starring Nicholas Cage, reported The Wall Street Journal.

In the film the legendary book is said to contain details about the top-secret military "alien base" Area 51 and the assasination of President Kennedy, and Obama has previously joked about having seen it.

Macey asked the president if it did indeed did hold information about contact with aliens, but he said: "That’s a secret.”

The girl theorised to Mr Obama that the “secrets” in the book could say whether “aliens are real".

According to a report by breitbart.com, the president replied: "We haven’t actually made direct contact with aliens yet.

“When we do, I’ll let you know.”

Previous presidents, including Bill Clinton, have reacted in a similar tongue-in-cheek fashion when put on the spot over the alien question.

And Obama's refusal to out right deny the existence of aliens to the girl has buoyed alien chasers that 2016 will be a turning point for so called alien disclosure.

It could be down to the X-Files returning to our screens this year, but conspiracy theorists and UFO hunters have been in overdrive since Hilary Clinton vowed in January she would send a task force into Area 51 to see what is going on there and get to the bottom of what the White House knows about aliens if she gets elected.

The disclosure movement want all world governments, and particularly the US, to release all confidential files they hold on aliens and UFOs.

There has already been much speculation about this year being the time for disclosure.

This was bolstered by an Express.co.uk explosive report yesterday which revealed a former US navy officer has contacted investigators to break his silence over thousands of confidential UFO files he claims to have seen, including some containing so-called "alien hieroglyphs."

One disclosure conspiracist, 34, told Express.co.uk: "Whenever a US president or senior official is put on the spot they get this smile and say something like 'I couldn't tell you even if I knew'…or something like that.

"You will never get a total denial, but it is a double bluff.

"Take what Obama just said to the girl 'we haven't made DIRECT contact.' He says it like they know they are there, so what about indirect contact? They can't hold it in much longer."
 
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#162
Hubble finds 'monster stars'

By Todd Leopold, CNN, Updated 1:40 PM ET, Fri March 18, 2016

(CNN)There are monsters in the universe.

That's the description of stars photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope, which took a shot of the R136 star cluster and revealed nine stars more than 100 times the mass of the sun, according to a statement from spacetelescope.org.

Hubble is operated by the European Space Agency and NASA.

One of the stars is R136a1, the most massive star known in the universe. Even the lesser stars in R136 are huge: "Dozens" of them exceed 50 sun masses, said the release.

They're also incredibly bright, with the nine largest stars together outshining the sun by a factor of 30 million.

R136 is about 170,000 light years away, in the Tarantula Nebula within the Large Magellanic Cloud. To give an idea of this distance, Alpha Centauri -- the closest star system to Earth -- is about 4.3 light years away, or about 25 trillion miles.

The discovery offers more information on star formation -- and, in terms of the cosmic scale, just in time. Massive stars live for only a few million years before going supernova.

Paul Crowther, a University of Sheffield astrophysicist and lead author of the study, praised Hubble for the revelations.

"Once again, our work demonstrates that, despite being in orbit for over 25 years, there are some areas of science for which Hubble is still uniquely capable," he said.

The results will be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
 
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For the first time, scientists have been given a look at the moment of extreme brightness when a star goes supernova in visible light.

In fact, not one, but two exploding stars were captured by the Kepler space telescope in 2011. Two red supergiants exploded in what are known as Type II supernovae, which occur when the star's core collapses and violently explodes in rapid succession. The shockwave, or shock breakout, of this explosion only lasts about 20 minutes, so capturing one of these events is incredible.

The international team, led by astrophysics professor Peter Garnavich of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, went looking for supernovae in the Kepler data. They analysed data from a three-year period, wherein Kepler captured images every 30 minutes, covering over 500 galaxies and 50 trillion stars.

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Cassiopeia A, a nebula left behind after a Type IIb supernova. Until now, these remnants were the best way to study exploding stars.​

They found what they were looking for with KSN 2011a and KSN 2011d. The first of the two supernovae occurred some 700 million light-years away, with a star nearly 300 times the size of the sun. The second occurred 1.2 billion light-years away, with a star around 500 times that of the sun.

Their research has been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal and is available to read in full on arXiv

Although both supernovae showed similar energy levels, and closely matched the mathematical models for Type II supernovae, only KSN 2011d was followed by a shock breakout.

This is not disappointing. By comparing the two very similar events, the team was able to look at the differences between them to figure out why one had a shock breakout and one did not. In the case of KSN 2011a, the team hypothesises that a gas cloud around the star absorbed or masked the shock breakout.

"That is the puzzle of these results," said Garnavich. "You look at two supernovae and see two different things. That's maximum diversity."

This discovery is important because actually observing an event in action will allow scientists to gauge much more accurately how that event came to pass. And understanding supernovae will help understand how not just elements, but life itself, have been scattered throughout the universe. This is in keeping with Kepler's mission to find life outside the solar system.

"All heavy elements in the universe come from supernova explosions. For example, all the silver, nickel, and copper in the Earth and even in our bodies came from the explosive death throes of stars," said Steve Howell, project scientist for NASA's Kepler and K2 missions.

"Life exists because of supernovae."
 
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ITER is the name of a gigantic machine that will change the world in 2022. The budget used for its construction is 12,000 billion surpassing that of the International Space Station, the Apollo missions and the Manhattan Project. The function of this machine will create infinite energy for the planet through nuclear fusion. For this, the machine will be able to create a small-scale sun. The problem arises when many scientists say there is immense to try to stabilize the sun inside the machine, getting to think about the possibility of creating a black hole danger. This project in turn holds something far darker, laser use atomic weapons enhancer, capable of erasing any target from space. What dark intentions are hidden by the creation of this machine?

Scary stuff, check the link for info
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Seems like they'd have to have a couple of thousand troops guarding this thing from the air, the land and the sea. If it fell into the wrong hands or was tampered with, it sounds like the apocalypse could be unleashed.

Of course, this reminds me a little of the fears in the 1930's that the first atomic bomb test would destroy the planet.

"There was a fear that the detonation of that first bomb would also initiate the destruction of the world. This fear was based on the exceedingly small but finite probability that the explosion of this bomb would initiate an unstoppable chain reaction in the most common element in the world: hydrogen. Their fears were perhaps not totally unfounded, as a rumor persists that the energy liberated by that bomb exceeded the very best theoretical calculations by as much as twenty percent, begging the question 'where did it come from?'

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#169
Stephen Hawking announces $100 million hunt for alien life
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From the American Museum of Natural History​

"What may have started as a science fiction speculation — that perhaps the universe as we know it is a computer simulation — has become a serious line of theoretical and experimental investigation among physicists, astrophysicists, and philosophers.

"On April 5, watch live as host and moderator Neil deGrasse Tyson, Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium, and a panel of experts hold a lively discussion about the merits and shortcomings of this provocative and revolutionary idea."

The debate will feature the following panelists:

David Chalmers: Professor of philosophy, New York University
Zohreh Davoudi: Theoretical physicist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
James Gates: Theoretical physicist, University of Maryland
Lisa Randall: Theoretical physicist, Harvard University
Max Tegmark: Cosmologist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

- To watch and see more visit:
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That's a good read. It's mind blowing stuff. I'm going to catch some of the program, as long as it doesn't go too far over my head...and that doesn't take much :)

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On the technical side, do you know if there's a way to increase the size of an uploaded image, rather than having it be a default, click-resizable thumbnail? I captured that image from the video feed. I note the code is

[ATT*CH=CONFIG]1111[ATT*CH]

On another board, that same code could be surrounded with resize brackets, specifying the height or width in the opening bracket. I tried that here but the code was not understood.

Thanks, Cap...
 
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ilan said:
That's a good read. It's mind blowing stuff. I'm going to catch some of the program, as long as it doesn't go too far over my head...and that doesn't take much :)

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On the technical side, do you know if there's a way to increase the size of an uploaded image, rather than having it be a default, click-resizable thumbnail? I captured that image from the video feed. I note the code is

[ATT*CH=CONFIG]1111[ATT*CH]

On another board, that same code could be surrounded with resize brackets, specifying the height or width in the opening bracket. I tried that here but the code was not understood.

Thanks, Cap...
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thanks ilan, yes some codes don't work here with images. Just about have to resize in an image program (gimp) and then upload.
Also if you upload a pic from pc, you can double click on it and tell it what size you want, ex...small,medium,large or full size.
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Good stuff you guys are posting. keep it up...:)
 
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Space probe finds 72 new objects near Earth​

(CNN) When you think of Earth, do you see our bright blue planet floating out in the vast darkness of space? Maybe you imagine the ring of satellites and spacecraft circling the planet.

But do you see the space rocks that could plunge into our planet, causing major destruction?

NASA does.

It's using a spacecraft called the Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer, known as NEOWISE, to track near-Earth objects -- asteroids and comets -- that could hit our planet.

NEOWISE has discovered 72 new NEOs since 2013. The tally includes eight objects that are classified as potentially hazardous asteroids -- asteroids that could one day approach or hit Earth.

NEOWISE also is helping scientists study space rocks detected earlier by ground-based telescopes. It's provided new information on a total of 439 NEOs previously detected by those telescopes.

"NEOWISE discovers large, dark, near-Earth objects, complementing our network of ground-based telescopes operating at visible-light wavelengths. On average, these objects are many hundreds of meters across," Amy Mainzer, NEOWISE principal investigator, said in a news release.

If you combine the number of NEOs spotted by the satellite with the ones identified by ground-based telescopes, a total of 14,246 NEOs had been detected as of this week

So now that you know Earth isn't sitting out in empty space, you may have some questions.

Are these things going to hit us?

According to NASA's Near Earth Object Program, no big space rocks are likely to hit us anytime soon.

But keep in mind that smaller space rocks can slip by undetected. Remember Chelyabinsk? There was no warning before a meteor streaked across the sky over Russia on February 15, 2013, and exploded, shattering windows and injuring hundreds of people.

If we do spot a big asteroid or comet on a collision course with Earth, what can we do?

Maybe we could nuke it, according to NASA. Here's what the agency's Asteroid and Comet Watch page says:

"Unless there are a few decades of warning time, hazardous asteroids larger than a few hundred meters in diameter will require enormous energies to deflect or fragment. In the rare case of a large threatening asteroid, nuclear explosions that could push or fragment the object might provide a sufficient response."

Where do these space rocks come from?

NEOs "have been nudged by the gravitational attraction of the giant planets in our solar system into orbits that allow them to enter Earth's neighborhood," according to space scientists.

Besides tracking them, what's being doing to protect the Earth from NEOs?

NASA says "no government agency, national or international, has been tasked or accepted the responsibility to stop such an asteroid, should one be discovered."

The space agency is working on a mission to "redirect" an asteroid if it threatens Earth. But that mission won't be ready to go until the 2020s.

So if you want do something yourself, NASA also has issued an "Asteroid Grand Challenge." Here's how it works: Find asteroids, win a prize and possibly save the Earth.
 
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Scientists Nuke a Fake Comet to Create Ingredients for Life
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#179
NASA asked to explain 'Millennium Falcon' UFO that appeared in live feed
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A space enthusiast has demanded NASA explain a "UFO" after an unexplained patch of light in the shape of a Star Wars spacecraft appeared above the earth during a live feed.


Jadon Beeson was watching a stream of the International Space Station on his iPhone on Tuesday when a strange object appeared in the background.


The 20-year-old Brit said NASA "cut the live feed for an hour" after it showed up.


He says he has asked NASA explain the "clearly defined UFO", which was broadcast on NASA's official app, but they have not responded.


"It was unquestionably real and present. It looked like the Millennium Falcon," he told The Mirror, referring to Han Solo's spaceship in Star Wars.


It is the second time in a month NASA has been accused of covering up "UFO" activity.


Scott Waring noticed a strange metallic object while watching footage from the International Space Station (ISS) on March 9.


Like Mr Beeson, he claimed NASA cut the footage after it appeared.


A likely explanation for the objects is that they are merely two of the 500,000 pieces of space junk NASA estimates are orbiting around Earth.


© ninemsn 2016
 
#180
Amazing Videos Show SpaceX's Epic Ocean Rocket Landing

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Two new videos let you relive SpaceX's incredible rocket landing at sea, giving two different perspectives of the historic event — including a stunning rocket's-eye view.

On Friday (April 8), SpaceX brought the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket down for a soft landing on a robotic "drone ship" in the Atlantic Ocean during the successful launch of the company's Dragon cargo capsule toward the International Space Station. SpaceX soon released two videos, which were captured by cameras aboard the booster stage and a monitoring "chase plane," respectively. We combined the two short clips into one awesome video of the SpaceX rocket landing here. (See link below.)

Nobody had ever landed a rocket on a ship at sea prior to Friday's milestone flight. SpaceX had tried such drone-ship touchdowns four times in the past and missed narrowly; on every occasion, the Falcon 9 stage managed to hit its target but fell over on the ship's deck and exploded.

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