Aliens exist and UFOs are covered-up by US government, says ex-astronaut

[Jimbo 175]

CNN are talking about in idiot terms that I can comprehend. lol

[Jimbo 175]

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have found evidence of the youngest black hole known to exist in our cosmic neighborhood. The 30-year-old black hole provides a unique opportunity to watch this type of object develop from infancy.

 

The black hole could help scientists better understand how massive stars explode, which ones leave behind black holes or neutron stars, and the number of black holes in our galaxy and others.

 

The 30-year-old object is a remnant of SN 1979C, a supernova in the galaxy M100 approximately 50 million light years from Earth. Data from Chandra, NASA's Swift satellite, the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton and the German ROSAT observatory revealed a bright source of X-rays that has remained steady during observation from 1995 to 2007. This suggests the object is a black hole being fed either by material falling into it from the supernova or a binary companion.

"If our interpretation is correct, this is the nearest example where the birth of a black hole has been observed," said Daniel Patnaude of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. who led the study.

 

The scientists think SN 1979C, first discovered by an amateur astronomer in 1979, formed when a star about 20 times more massive than the sun collapsed. Many new black holes in the distant universe previously have been detected in the form of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). However, SN 1979C is different because it is much closer and belongs to a class of supernovas unlikely to be associated with a GRB. Theory predicts most black holes in the universe should form when the core of a star collapses and a GRB is not produced.

 

"This may be the first time the common way of making a black hole has been observed," said co-author Abraham Loeb, also of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "However, it is very difficult to detect this type of black hole birth because decades of X-ray observations are needed to make the case."

The idea of a black hole with an observed age of only about 30 years is consistent with recent theoretical work. In 2005, a theory was presented that the bright optical light of this supernova was powered by a jet from a black hole that was unable to penetrate the hydrogen envelope of the star to form a GRB. The results seen in the observations of SN 1979C fit this theory very well.

 

Although the evidence points to a newly formed black hole in SN 1979C, another intriguing possibility is that a young, rapidly spinning neutron star with a powerful wind of high energy particles could be responsible for the X-ray emission. This would make the object in SN 1979C the youngest and brightest example of such a "pulsar wind nebula" and the youngest known neutron star. The Crab pulsar, the best-known example of a bright pulsar wind nebula, is about 950 years old.

"It's very rewarding to see how the commitment of some of the most advanced telescopes in space, like Chandra, can help complete the story," said Jon Morse, head of the Astrophysics Division at NASA's Science Mission Directorate.

 

The results will appear in the New Astronomy journal in a paper by Patnaude, Loeb, and Christine Jones of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., manages the Chandra program for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory controls Chandra's science and flight operations from Cambridge.

 

 

For more information about Chandra, including images and other multimedia, visit:

http://chandra.nasa.gov

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http://chandra.harvard.edu

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[Sonatine 11564]

talking about its birthday, and watching it grow into a teenager

ffs

 

 

 

I want aliens!

 

This.

 

Less science talk and more Captain Kirk getting off with green-skinned dancing girls.

[Monkeys Fist 43096]

talking about its birthday, and watching it grow into a teenager

ffs

 

 

 

I want aliens!

 

This.

 

Less science talk and more Captain Kirk getting off with green-skinned dancing girls.

Time to roll out the Shatnotron again

[TheMoog 0]

talking about its birthday, and watching it grow into a teenager

ffs

 

 

 

I want aliens!

 

This.

 

Less science talk and more Captain Kirk getting off with green-skinned dancing girls.

Time to roll out the Shatnotron again

 

Yeah, when will these stupid geeky scientists realise we just don't care about things like blackholes and other boring shit, we want aliens already!

[Guest alex]

You can't beat the trademark 'Kirk rape' scene.

[Sonatine 11564]

 

 

It’s not often that a literary masterpiece like “Captain Kirk’s Guide To Women” is available for $5 with free shipping. This 2008 guide normally commands a full $14 despite not being penned by the good captain himself but instead written by a fan. It’s only 84 pages long but this paperback promises to deliver life lessons and teach you to “be your own captain”.

From the Amazon product description:

 

Captain Kirk’s status as an interstellar stud is proven by his ability to seduce any woman, in any situation, in any part of the galaxy. From high-society princesses to unbalanced Orion slave girls, from gender-switching shape-shifters to emotion-deprived androids — they all swoon, acquiesce, and malfunction from just one kiss.

 

But a single question remains in the minds of millions: How does he do it?

 

Captain Kirk’s Guide to Women is the first book to answer this question by probing deeply into Kirk’s character, charisma, and seductive techniques, making it possible for any man to model himself after the Casanova of the Cosmos. It is also the only warp-powered romance manual written with enough wit, charm, and humor to help the female of the species make first contact.

 

Employing meticulous research, along with fanatic-level detail and the kind of pointy-eared logic even a Vulcan would find fascinating, Captain Kirk’s Guide to Women shows you how to be as effective as Captain Kirk.

Edited November 16, 2010 by Sonatine

[Monkeys Fist 43096]

Kirk banged Joan Collins!!

 

(that is her on the cover, isn't it?)

[Sonatine 11564]

Kirk banged Joan Collins!!

 

(that is her on the cover, isn't it?)

 

Aye, she was in an episode iirc.

[Monkeys Fist 43096]

 

[Jimbo 175]

NASA Sets News Conference on Astrobiology Discovery; Science Journal Has Embargoed Details Until 2 p.m. EST On Dec. 2

 

 

WASHINGTON -- NASA will hold a news conference at 2 p.m. EST on Thursday, Dec. 2, to discuss an astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life. Astrobiology is the study of the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.

 

The news conference will be held at the NASA Headquarters auditorium at 300 E St. SW, in Washington. It will be broadcast live on NASA Television and streamed on the agency's website at http://www.nasa.gov.

 

Participants are:

- Mary Voytek, director, Astrobiology Program, NASA Headquarters, Washington

- Felisa Wolfe-Simon, NASA astrobiology research fellow, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif.

- Pamela Conrad, astrobiologist, NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.

- Steven Benner, distinguished fellow, Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, Gainesville, Fla.

- James Elser, professor, Arizona State University, Tempe

 

Media representatives may attend the conference or ask questions by phone or from participating NASA locations. To obtain dial-in information, journalists must send their name, affiliation and telephone number to Steve Cole at stephen.e.cole@nasa.gov or call 202-358-0918 by noon Dec. 2.

 

For NASA TV streaming video and downlink information, visit:

 

http://www.nasa.gov/ntv

 

 

 

For more information about NASA astrobiology activities, visit:

 

http://astrobiology.nasa.gov

 

 

 

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[Kevin S. Assilleekunt 1]

Funny how none of this shite comes out on Wikileaks about reptile shapeshifters and the like. These leaks are probably a conspiracy designed to distract us from the truth tbh

[Jimbo 175]

Oxygen found on Saturn's moon Rhea

Nasa's Cassini probe has scooped oxygen from the thin atmosphere of Rhea – the first time the gas has been detected directly on another world

 

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Ian Sample, science correspondent

guardian.co.uk, Thursday 25 November 2010 19.00 GMT

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Rhea and a smaller moon Epimetheus against a background of Saturn and its rings. Every cubic metre of Rhea's atmosphere contains 50bn oxygen molecules. Photograph: Nasa

A spacecraft has tasted oxygen in the atmosphere of another world for the first time while flying low over Saturn's icy moon, Rhea.

 

Nasa's Cassini probe scooped oxygen from the thin atmosphere of the planet's moon while passing overhead at an altitude of 97km in March this year.

 

Until now, wisps of oxygen have only been detected on planets and their moons indirectly, using the Hubble space telescope and other major facilities.

 

Instruments aboard Cassini revealed an extremely thin oxygen and carbon dioxide atmosphere that is sustained by high-energy particles slamming into the moon's surface and kicking up atoms, molecules and ions.

 

Astronomers have counted 62 moons orbiting Saturn. At 1500km wide, Rhea is the second largest and is thought to be made almost entirely of ice.

 

"This really is the first time that we've seen oxygen directly in the atmosphere of another world," said Andrew Coates, at UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory, a co-author of the study published in the journal Science.

 

"Active, complex chemistry involving oxygen may be quite common throughout the solar system and even our universe," said team leader Ben Teolis of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas. "Such chemistry could be a prerequisite for life. All evidence from Cassini indicates that Rhea is too cold and devoid of the liquid water necessary for life as we know it."

 

Rhea's atmosphere makes it unique in the Saturn system. Only Rhea and Titan, the largest Saturnian moon, have enough mass to hold on to an atmosphere with their gravity. Titan, however, has a very thick nitrogen and methane atmosphere, with very little carbon dioxide and oxygen.

 

Astronomers have previously used telescopes to detect oxygen in the atmospheres of Jupiter's moons Europa and Ganymede, but similar searches drew a blank on Rhea because the concentration of the gas was so low.

 

According to instruments aboard Cassini, every cubic metre of Rhea's atmosphere contains around 50bn oxygen molecules and 20bn carbon dioxide molecules.

 

The carbon dioxide may come from dry ice trapped within the moon, or be produced by high-energy particles striking water ice on Rhea. Another source could be carbon-rich materials deposited by tiny meteors that have bombarded Rhea's surface.

[Billy Castell 0]

[@yourservice 67]

Aliens run Apple and UFOs are covered-up by US government!

 

[Park Life 71]

Aliens run Apple and UFOs are covered-up by US government!

 

 

Is that why crashes are so rare?

[Rob W 0]

Aliens run Apple and UFOs are covered-up by US government!

 

 

Is that why crashes are so rare?

 

 

also explains why Jobs is damn arrogant & Superior - Master race stuff...............

[Guest alex]

What's your excuse?

[Rob W 0]

never used an Apple in my life.....................

 

quite a Man of the People me - the common touch etc etc

[Park Life 71]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/aud...ast-paul-davies

 

 

Astrophysicist Paul Davies discusses new approaches to finding intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. The Seti scientist's new book is called The Eerie Silence and is on a lecture tour of the UK.

 

Good crack. Worth a listen.

[Rob W 0]

I suggest he starts on this forum - if he can find it here ha can find it anywhere

[Guest You FCB Get Out Of Our Club]

I suggest he starts on this forum - if he can find it here ha can find it anywhere

This post sums you up, your crack.

[Guest You FCB Get Out Of Our Club]

FWIW I do think there's something out there. Go on youtube and put MEXICO UFO's in, 30 UFO's in the Sky doing fuck all they go in formation like letters, you think it spells out CUNTS at first but it doesn't but it's like they're trying to communicate.

[Park Life 71]

FWIW I do think there's something out there. Go on youtube and put MEXICO UFO's in, 30 UFO's in the Sky doing fuck all they go in formation like letters, you think it spells out CUNTS at first but it doesn't but it's like they're trying to communicate.

 

 

Over the last few years they have started to broaden what a life bearing planet means and also the discorvery of water being more widely found. Current estimates are of at least a hundred thousand or so life bearing planets. That number keeps increasing.

 

 

drake equation

 

http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~jh8h/Foundations/drake.html

[trophyshy 7084]

http://www.ufostalker.com/

 

Look at all those reports ffs. Why would you bother logging on and filling that in? All the respected and senior officials who have come forward with incredible stories, invariably at personal and professional risk, and still the subject is not considered a valid one for open debate. You've seen something unexplainable and you want to talk about it? Well, you are a fucking whacko.

 

Do a youtube search on UFO and just look at what was posted in the last week. Hundreds of millions of people with cameras in their pockets now, collecting evidence of unexplained shit every day. They are surely not all hoaxes and swamp gas and weather balloons?

 

There sure to fuck is something going on. People and the media's denial, and worse, ridicule of this subject is the perfect method for maintaining ignorance, both for those who know and those who don't want to think about it.

 

The odds on extraterrestrial life being proven and announced soon are dropping, I got 100/1 6 months ago. Worth a punt, better than one of Stevie's tips. Obviously I'll struggle to spend my winnings what with all the looting and mayhem.

 

http://www.paddypower.com/bet/novelty-bets/alien-existence

 

Parky does come out with some fascinating stuff, but even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day.