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An intriguing video surfaced on YouTube showing a man traveling to the Giza Plateau in Egypt and sending a remote controlled car-camera into a small pyramid passage. While it is unknown what the camera specifically captured, the more info part of the video stated, “I just want to sell my silence. You have 30 days to pay me $5.000.000 otherwise I will upload the full version of this video.”
The video was uploaded to YouTube on November 16, 2011 by “n0w1kn0w” whose YouTube information claims to be a 28 year old from Russia. His account was created on the same day and
does not have any additional videos or favorites.
The amount demanded specifically stated $5.000.000, with periods placed where commas should be. If this criteria is not met within 30 days of November 16th, 2011, the video uploader stated he will release the “full version” of the video he captured.
It is unknown if this man has a “Plan B” in the event he is “silenced” before his 30 day demand. It
is also unknown who he is specifically demanding this amount from.
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM68NZ2vFHA
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/now-i-knowcom/277552865620302
Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/n0w1kn0wAn intriguing video surfaced on YouTube showing a man traveling to the Giza Plateau in... more
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This film and book project is a collaboration of evolutionary philosopher Brian Thomas Swimme and historian of religions Mary Evelyn Tucker. They weave a tapestry that draws together scientific discoveries in astronomy, geology, and biology with humanistic insights
concerning the nature of the universe.
PBS National Broadcast Premiere coming this December.
Click here for listings nationwide. WNET Ch. 13 in New York City will broadcast the film primetime on December 7th, 8:00pm.
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The space shuttle's Southland legacy
The space shuttle program helped carry Southern California's aerospace industry for four decades, bequeathing new aeronautical technology — and jobs — to the local economy.
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By W.J. Hennigan, Los Angeles Times
July 5, 2011
Bob Kahl slips in through a side door of the vast, abandoned hangar and looks at what's left of the assembly plant where he worked for nearly 40 years.
He remembers the hum of power tools, the biting aroma of cutting oil, swarms of workers plugging away on a labyrinth of yellow scaffolding. All that's left is a few piles of broken concrete and a sea of colorless dust that coats a Palmdale factory floor the size of two football fields.
"Welcome to the birthplace of America's space shuttle fleet," said Kahl, 60, smiling. "I never really thought it could come to this."
Photos: The shuttle's legacy in Southern California
Amid the odes to a shuttle program that ends with the last mission of the last shuttle, Atlantis, scheduled for liftoff Friday, is an awareness that the space plane helped carry Southern California's aerospace industry for four decades. It staved off decline after the end of the moon landings, bequeathing new generations of aeronautical technology — and jobs — to the regional economy.
"Building the space shuttle fleet enabled a historic chapter in NASA's space program," said NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, a former shuttle commander. "Southern California has a strong place in shuttle history as a key site where the spacecraft were built and often landed."
Constructing the shuttle fleet was testament to how advanced Southern California's aerospace engineering and labor workforce had become by the 1970s — and assured that the vast assemblage of brainpower and engineering know-how would not be lost in the Southland.
The history of the shuttle program may be linked forever to the flights of Challenger and Columbia, its two deadly tragedies. But the shuttle era will also be remembered for advancing technology, including reusable rocket engines and computerized guidance systems, that changed manned flight.
The shuttle is considered the world's most advanced flying machine because it blasted into space like a rocket, behaved in orbit like a floating laboratory, buzzed to and from the International Space Station with astronauts and supplies, and landed back on a runway like an airplane.
Before the shuttle, astronauts reached space by squeezing into a small capsule launched atop a massive rocket. By the time the shuttle was in design, the space program was looking for ways to keep as many as seven astronauts in orbit for weeks at a time in relative comfort.
To do this, scientists and engineers had to rethink nearly every aspect of the endeavor, notably flight controls, rocket engines and protection from searing heat generated by reentry.
"The shuttle was unlike anything that preceded it, so there were always new questions to answer," said Dwight Woolhouse, a shuttle engineer from the beginning of the program to this day.
The shuttle — large and aerodynamically unstable — needed sophisticated computer controls to guide the flight. The system, known as "fly by wire," is common on today's aircraft, but it was a rarity in flying machines in the 1970s. Engineers in Downey developed the computer-aided autopilot flight controls similar to today's systems that allow mammoth Boeing 747 jumbo jets to almost fly themselves.
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“A Saginaw, Michigan man claims he was horrified when he found a dead, disemboweled mouse in his bag of Dole salad. John K. Jones says he sat down with his girlfriend, Ebony Wright, and her 7-year-old son for dinner Sunday afternoon. He was shocked to find the gruesome rodent buried in the Italian dressing covered salad. “I moved a couple of leaves and there was a mouse, a dead mouse laying on its back, and you could see the guts hanging out. I immediately got up and ran to the bathroom,” Jones said.”
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I know that this new discovery has probably scared the BEJESUS out of ideologues and the religious who follow a strict script and any wandering departure from such script is a WORLD CATACLYSMIC EVENT. BUT AS THEY SAY... the cat is out of the bag so… DON'T STOP "ME" (SCIENCE) NOW!
I like to think on scientific discovery as good for mankind, that is if the greedy don’t get a hold of it and use it for reasons that will satisfy their lust for power and wealth, to the detriment of us all (like they have done --but not got away with-- so many times in the past)! thinkingblue
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Project Icarus is a 21st century theoretical study of a mission to another star. Icarus aims to build on the work of the celebrated Daedalus project. Between the period 1973-1978 members of the BIS undertook a theoretical study of a flyby mission to Barnard's star 5.9 light years away. This was Project Daedalus and remains one of the most complete studies of an interstellar probe to date. The 54,000 ton two-stage vehicle was powered by inertial confinement fusion using electron beams to compress the D/He3 fusion capsules to ignition. It would obtain an eventual cruise velocity of 36,000km/s or 12% of light speed from over 700kN of thrust, burning at a specific impulse of 1 million seconds, reaching its destination in approximately 50 years. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/submit-an-article/42972-project-icarusProject Icarus is a 21st century theoretical study of a mission to another star.... more
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Astronomers, including a NASA-funded team member, have discovered a new class of Jupiter-sized planets floating alone in the dark of space, away from the light of a star. The team believes these lone worlds probably were ejected from developing planetary systems. The discovery indicates there are many more free-floating Jupiter-mass planets that can't be seen. The team estimates there are about twice as many of them as stars. In addition, these worlds are thought to be at least as common as planets that orbit stars. This adds up to hundreds of billions of lone planets in our Milky Way galaxy alone. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/submit-an-article/42964-free-floating-planets-no-longer-sci-fi-Astronomers, including a NASA-funded team member, have discovered a new class of... more
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Two key predictions of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity have been confirmed by NASA's Gravity Probe B mission, scientists announced this week.
"We've completed this landmark experiment testing Einstein's universe, and Einstein survives," principal investigator Francis Everitt, of Stanford University in California, said during a press briefing.
(Also see "Einstein's Gravity Confirmed on a Cosmic Scale.")
Launched in 2004, the Gravity Probe B mission used four ultraprecise gyroscopes—devices used to measure orientation—housed in a satellite to measure two aspects of Einstein's theory about gravity."
Full story and link to probe report:
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PARIS – Scientists examining the remains of Napoleon Bonaparte admit they are “deeply puzzled” by the discovery of a half-inch long microchip embedded in his skull.
They say the mysterious object could be an alien implant – suggesting that the French emperor was once abducted by a UFO!
From the extent of bone growth around the chip, the expert believes it was implanted when Bonaparte was young.
From that time on, Napoleon’s rise was meteoric. By the next year, he’d been put in charge of the French army in Italy.
Miraculously, he was able to transform starving, rag-tag troops into a top-notch fighting force and to crush the Italians.
In 1804, after a string of startling victories, the pint-size general crowned himself emperor of France – and his empire soon expanded to include what is now Germany and Austria, as well as Switzerland, Italy and Denmark.
Go to the link to get the full story.
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The oldest man-made structure ever discovered on Earth, has been found by South Aftican explorers!
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JOHANNESBURG -- Scientists say they have discovered the first fossil of a dinosaur in Angola, and that it's a new creature, heralding a research renaissance in a country slowly emerging from decades of war.
A paper published Wednesday in the Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences describes a long-necked, plant-eating sauropod, among the largest creatures ever to have walked the earth. The international team that found and identified the fossilized forelimb bone say it is from a previously unknown dinosaur, citing unique skeletal characteristics.
The fossil was found along with fish and shark teeth in what would have been a sea bed 90 million years ago, leading its discoverers to believe the dinosaur might have been washed into the sea and torn apart by ancient sharks.
The new dinosaur has been dubbed Angolatitan adamastor – Angolatitan means "Angolan giant" and the adamastor is a sea giant from Portuguese sailing myths.
Matthew F. Bonnan, a sauropod expert at Western Illinois University, was not involved with the Angolan research. But after reading the report, he said he expected their claim to have found a new dinosaur to hold up.
"I think they've been very careful," he said, adding the find could add to knowledge about how sauropods adapted to different environments.
Bonnan also said it was "really cool" to see such research coming out of Angola.
"The neat thing about dinosaur paleontology is that it's becoming more global," he said, saying that was giving scientists a global perspective on the evolution of dinosaurs.
"The more people and places that we involve in science, the better off we all are," Bonnan said.
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AdvertisementThe researchers in Angola say their PaleoAngola project that yielded the fossil, started in 2005, is the first systematic paleontological expedition in Angola since the early 1960s.
"Angola has had more than its share of civil war," said Dutch project member Anne Schulp of the Natuurhistorisch Museum Maastricht. He said science hasn't been a priority, but "Angola is catching up right now."
An anti-colonial war broke out in Angola in the 1960s, and civil war followed independence from Portugal in 1975. The fighting ended in 2002 when the army killed rebel leader Jonas Savimbi. The country was left littered with land mines and impoverished. The discovery of oil in recent years has set off an economic boom, but many Angolans have been left behind.
PaleoAngola member Octavio Mateus of Portugal's Universidade Nova de Lisboa and Museum of Lourinha said lack of money has been the greatest barrier to research.
"We don't have problems with land mines, we don't have problems with safety" despite the country's troubled past, Mateus said.
Tatiana Tavares of the Universidade Agostinho Neto is also on the PaleoAngola team, and her Luanda, Angola university has Angolaitan adamastor fossil specimens on public display. Other specimens in Portugal will later be returned to the university.
Mateus discovered the Angolaitan adamastor in 2005. In the years since, excavations and research were completed and a paper was written for review by other scholars, culminating in Wednesday's publication.JOHANNESBURG -- Scientists say they have discovered the first fossil of a dinosaur in... more
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The space shuttle Discovery returned to Earth for the last time this morning, ending its reign as the world's longest running and most-traveled spaceship.
"It just played out the way we wanted it to," said Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana in a press conference after the landing. "We wanted to go out on a high note, and Discovery has done that. We couldn't ask for more."
When it touched down at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 11:57 EST on March 9, 2011, Discovery had flown 39 missions, spent a full 365 days in space, orbited the Earth 5,830 times and traveled more than of 148 million miles. It has carried 246 people into space, more than any other vehicle, including the first woman to ever pilot a spacecraft, the oldest person to fly in space, the first African-American to perform a spacewalk and the first sitting member of Congress to fly in space.
The shuttle's 27-year career hit several of the highlights of the space program, including delivering the Hubble Space Telescope to orbit in 1990 (and fixing it twice), carrying a 77-year-old John Glenn back into space in 1998, and leading NASA's return to space after the loss of Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003.
On its final flight, the shuttle linked up with the International Space Station to deliver a new spare room full of supplies and science experiments, plus bring the first human-like robot into space.
"We're going to miss Discovery," International Space Station commander Scott Kelly told shuttle commander Steve Lindsey on Sunday, before Discovery's crew left the space station. "Discovery has been a great ship, and has really supported the International Space Station, more so than, I think, any other space shuttle. And we wish her fair winds and following seas."
Now that it's back on the ground, Discovery will retire as a museum piece at the Smithsonian. Here we look back at the veteran spacecraft's high points as the shuttle era draws to a close.Wired Science News for Your Neurons
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Gliese 581g, situated a mere 20 light years away from Earth, sits in the “Goldilocks Zone” of its star: the very small zone where temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold to make the existence of life (as we know it) impossible. The planet has an atmosphere, gravity and temperatures that are cold, but not so cold as to make it uninhabitable.Gliese 581g, situated a mere 20 light years away from Earth, sits in the... more
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The Bosnian Pyramid, Visocica Hill, is the first European pyramid to be discovered and is located in the heart of Bosnia, in the town of Visoko. The pyramid has all the elements: four perfectly shaped slopes pointing toward the cardinal points, a flat top and an entrance complex.The Bosnian Pyramid, Visocica Hill, is the first European pyramid to be discovered and... more
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SOURCE: http://blog.the-scientist.com/2011/02/23/big-assed-dinosaur/
Ever been called 'thunder thighs'? Tell that to this dinosaur and you'll get your ass kicked.
A couple of palaeontologists discovered a new species of dinosaur when they were going through some bones in a museum storage cupboard in Oklahoma. The bones had sat there since the mid-90's. What the palaeontologists had discovered was a new type of sauropod with ginormous hip and shoulder bones.
So what do you name such a dino? “Thunder thighs” (or Brontomerus mcintoshi in Latin).SOURCE: http://blog.the-scientist.com/2011/02/23/big-assed-dinosaur/
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Space shuttle Discovery blasted off for the last time on Thursday, carrying six astronauts and carting a load of supplies, spare parts and a robot for the International Space Station.
link :http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/8346794/Discovery-space-shuttle-blasts-off-for-last-time.htmlSpace shuttle Discovery blasted off for the last time on Thursday, carrying six... more
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