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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Oct 14, 2010 11:59:20 GMT -5
There's UFOs over New York, and I ain't too surprised.
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Post by B on Oct 14, 2010 12:26:18 GMT -5
(apologies to Joanie Mitchell)Woke up, it was a Chelsea morning, and the first thing that I saw Was a UFO through yellow curtains, and a rainbow on the wall Blue, red, green and gold to welcome you, crystal orbs to beckon... Now the curtain opens on a portrait of today And the streets are paved with passersby And aliens fly And the papers lie Waiting for it all to blow away
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Post by Jai Guru Deva on Oct 14, 2010 13:03:24 GMT -5
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Oct 14, 2010 13:04:25 GMT -5
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Oct 14, 2010 13:07:41 GMT -5
Here's what jai is referring to.
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Post by B on Oct 14, 2010 22:06:17 GMT -5
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Post by Jai Guru Deva on Oct 15, 2010 12:05:22 GMT -5
www.youtube.com/watch?The Most Earthlike Planet Yet February 2, 2006 www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=3922 Astronomers have found the smallest and most distant extrasolar planet ever detected around a normal star. Gravity's lens reveals the smallest and most distant world to date. OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb weighs in at 5.5 times Earth's mass. It orbits 2.6 times farther from its M-type dwarf star than Earth circles the Sun. The system is located 21,500 light-years away toward the Milky Way's center. Artist's RenderingScientists using an observational technique that exploits Albert Einstein's theory of gravity report the discovery of a planet just 5.5 times Earth's mass. The new world, located in Sagittarius toward the Milky Way's center, orbits a cool M-dwarf star 21,500 light-years away."This finding means that Earth-mass planets are not that uncommon," says Kailash Sahu of Baltimore's Space Telescope Science Institute and a member of the discovery team. "If we found one, there must be more." The new world is the first discovered around another star that agrees with astronomers' theories of how planetary systems form. Princeton astronomer Bohdan Paczynski explains: "Around red dwarfs, the theory predicts Earth- and Neptune-sized planets to be more common than Jupiter-sized planets. The planets would be located between 0.1 and 10 times the Earth-Sun distance from their stars." The new planet falls into the correct mass range, between Earth's and Neptune's masses, and orbits its star 2.6 times farther than Earth orbits the Sun. In 1991, Paczynski and then-student Shude Mao proposed searching for extrasolar planets using a technique called gravitational microlensing. Distant starlight becomes temporarily magnified when a background star aligns with a foreground object along the line of sight to Earth. Lensing events can last for weeks as the two stars first enter, then exit, the critical alignment. The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE) regularly monitors 170 million stars in the galaxy's central region for telltale flare-ups caused when a foreground star drifts into alignment with a background star. "With this method, we let the gravity of a dim, intervening star act as a giant natural telescope for us, magnifying a more distant star, which then temporarily looks brighter," explains team member Andrew Williams of Australia's Perth Observatory. A small "defect" in the brightening reveals the existence of a planet around the lens star. "We don't see the planet, or even the star that it's orbiting, we just see the effect of their gravity," he says. On July 11, 2005, OGLE's early warning system announced a relatively bright G-type star was undergoing a microlensing event. Astronomers with OGLE, the Probing Lensing Anomalies Network (PLANET) team, and the Japan/New Zealand Microlensing Observations in Astrophysics (MOA) collaboration monitored the event. On August 10, the PLANET team discovered an additional brightening as the event waned. This meant another mass near the lens star was also amplifying light from the background star. An OGLE telescope also detected the change the same night; the MOA team later confirmed the planetary signature. "OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb is only the third extrasolar planet discovered so far through microlensing searches," notes team member Jean-Philippe Beaulieu at the Paris Institute of Astrophysics. "While the other two microlensing planets have masses of a few times that of Jupiter, the discovery of a 5 Earth-mass planet — though much harder to detect than more massive ones — is a strong hint that these lower-mass objects are very common." Beaulieu was lead author — with 73 coauthors — of the report on the discovery in last week's issue of the journal Nature. Since 1991, astronomers have cataloged more than 150 planets orbiting other stars. Most of those found orbiting Sun-like stars are Jupiter's mass or more. The most widely used detection technique, which senses an orbiting planet through the motion it imparts to its star, paints a distorted portrait of our galaxy's planetary population. The technique is most sensitive to massive planets circling very close to their parent stars. But, says University of Notre Dame astronomer David Bennett, the microlensing method, in use since 1998 and now catching hundreds of events each year, should have found dozens of exo-Jupiters by now if they were so common. Prior to this discovery, the smallest exoplanet known was GJ876d. Astronomers believe this planet is less than half Neptune's mass, or 7.3 &plusmin; 1 Earth masses. The new planet's is less certain — its possible mass ranges from 2.8 to 11 Earth masses. Nevertheless, say researchers, the microlensing technique is the only method currently capable of finding planets with similar masses to Earth's. Scientists say OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb is too small to have held together if it were a gas-giant like Jupiter or Neptune. Instead, astronomers believe the new world is a mixture of ice and rock and may possess a thin atmosphere. Its M-type star has only 22 percent the mass of our Sun and puts out a feeble light. Although the planet circles the star at less than 3 times the Earth-Sun distance, astronomers believe its surface temperature is –364° Fahrenheit (–220° C).
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Post by iameye on Oct 16, 2010 9:10:44 GMT -5
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Post by Jai Guru Deva on Oct 16, 2010 15:43:33 GMT -5
The WOW! Signalwapedia.mobi/en/Wow!_signal Excerpts:The Wow! signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected by Dr. Jerry R. Ehman on August 15, 1977, while working on a SETI project at The Big Ear radio telescope of The Ohio State University. [1] The signal bore expected hallmarks of potential non-terrestrial and non-solar system origin. It lasted for the full 72 second duration that Big Ear observed it, but has not been detected again. Much attention has been focused on it in the media when talking about SETI results. ... The location of the signal in the constellation Sagittarius, near the Chi Sagittarii star group. ... Determining a precise location in the sky was complicated by the fact that the Big Ear telescope used two feed horns to search for signals, each pointing to a slightly different direction in the sky following Earth's rotation; the Wow! signal was detected in one of the horns but not in the other, although the data were processed in such a way that it is impossible to determine in which of the two horns the signal entered. There are therefore two possible right ascension values: 19h22m24.64s ¡À 5s (positive horn) 19h25m17.01s ¡À 5s (negative horn) The declination was unambiguously determined to be −27¡ã03¡ä ¡À 20¡ä. The preceding values are all expressed in terms of the B1950.0 epoch. [4] Converted into the J2000.0 epoch, the coordinates become RA= 19h25m31s ¡À 10s or 19h28m22s ¡À 10s and declination= −26¡ã57¡ä ¡À 20¡ä This region of the sky lies in the constellation Sagittarius, roughly 2.5 degrees south of the fifth-magnitude star group Chi Sagittarii. Tau Sagittarii is the closest visible star. ... The Big Ear telescope was fixed and used the rotation of the Earth to scan the sky. At the speed of the Earth's rotation, and given the width of the Big Ear's observation "window", the Big Ear could observe any given point for just 72 seconds. A continuous extraterrestrial signal, therefore, would be expected to register for exactly 72 seconds, and the recorded intensity of that signal would show a gradual peaking for the first 36 seconds¡ªuntil the signal reached the center of Big Ear's observation "window"¡ª and then a gradual decrease. Therefore, both the length of the Wow! signal, 72 seconds, and the shape of the intensity graph may correspond to a possible extraterrestrial origin.[5]
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Post by iameye on Oct 17, 2010 9:13:47 GMT -5
ol' Sag, the center of the universe.... and the center of AL in BeaTles The Sumerian name Pabilsag is composed of two elements - Pabil, meaning 'elder paternal kinsman' and Sag, meaning 'chief, head'. The name may thus be translated as the 'Forefather' or 'Chief Ancestor'. The sexual potency inherent in this idea may lie behind the common convention of portraying the horse-centaur with an oversize penis. The figure is reminiscent of modern depictions of Sagittarius. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_Centerthe center is a line
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Oct 18, 2010 16:26:02 GMT -5
Very similar to the "balloons" that appeared over NYC.
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Post by iameye on Oct 18, 2010 19:14:19 GMT -5
Very similar to the "balloons" that appeared over NYC. " eventually, a fourth light was seen" where everything flows
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Oct 25, 2010 9:59:07 GMT -5
Similar triangle pattern over Cincinnati.
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Post by iameye on Oct 27, 2010 18:25:06 GMT -5
Similar triangle pattern over Cincinnati. do you not see the pattern? four burst, then three follow..... sounds like 7, to me
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Oct 28, 2010 9:44:53 GMT -5
UFO sightings Pennsylvania/Delaware line at 7pm EST.
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Post by iameye on Oct 28, 2010 9:50:37 GMT -5
UFO sightings Pennsylvania/Delaware line at 7pm EST. oh that dialogue is hilarious ;D Do you see them?
Everybody sees them, dear.
lol ;D
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Post by iameye on Oct 28, 2010 10:19:36 GMT -5
at one point, it looks as if they are building a tower.... Then again, I have a very active Imagination. ;D
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Post by The Deceptionist on Oct 28, 2010 10:35:51 GMT -5
seems to have been a lot of ufo/alien based TV shows on in the last few months and all
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Post by Doc on Oct 29, 2010 2:42:23 GMT -5
seems to have been a lot of ufo/alien based TV shows on in the last few months and all Everybody must be getting ready for....."The EVENT.'
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Post by B on Oct 29, 2010 4:47:44 GMT -5
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Post by P(D)enny La(i)ne on Oct 29, 2010 10:42:59 GMT -5
Denver's Dumbest Ordinance -- EverSaturday October 16, 2010 denver.about.com/b/2010/10/16/denvers-dumbest-ordinance-ever.htmI received my mail-in ballot for the Nov. 2 General Election on Friday, and like any good citizen, immediately sat down to read through it. Imagine my surprise when I encountered Initiated Ordinance 300 at the end of the ballot: Shall the voters for the City and County of Denver adopt an Initiated Ordinance to require the creation of an extraterrestrial affairs commission to help ensure the health, safety, and cultural awareness of Denver residents and visitors in relation to potential encounters or interactions with extraterrestrial intelligent beings or their vehicles, and fund such commission from grants, gifts and donations?So just to recap, the City and County of Denver wasted taxpayer dollars to print a ballot initiative about the possibility of extraterrestrial life. This should definitely make the Mile High City the laughingstock of all other major cities in the U.S. -- and beyond. I think Denver has more down-to-earth concerns to worry about, such as unemployment of human beings who currently reside on the planet. Now I'm not discounting the possibility of extraterrestrial life, but maybe we can cross that mothership when we come to it. As Denverites, we should come together in a bipartisan effort against idiotic ordinances. Vote "No" on Initiated Ordinance 300. (Of course, feel free to download a PDF of the sample ballot to peruse at your leisure.) What do you think of the E.T. ballot initiative? Share your comments below.
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Post by B on Oct 29, 2010 13:06:03 GMT -5
Hmmm. What do they know that we don't?
And whose pockets would be lined if said ordinance passes?
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Post by B on Oct 29, 2010 15:38:08 GMT -5
New Yorker Wants Vote on Big Apple ET Affairs Commissionwww.aolnews.com/weird-news-elections/article/new-yorker-wants-vote-on-big-apple-et-affairs-commission/19690139(Oct. 28) -- New York City is home to practically every ethnic group under the sun, and if one UFO researcher gets his way, it will soon be host to every extraterrestrial species in the universe. Michael Luckman, author of "Alien Rock," has shifted his time from writing books to writing ballot initiatives -- specifically one that, if passed, would create an ET Affairs Commission. The panel would consist of seven volunteers who would meet twice a year to gather the most compelling evidence regarding the existence of extraterrestrials and UFOs and post it on the city's website. UFO researcher Michael Luckman wants New York voters to decide whether the city should have an ET Affairs Commission to help decide the best place to put a landing site in the city. The initiative is almost identical to one being considered by Denver voters, but while that city's altitude makes it closer to outer space than New York, Luckman believes there's no contest as to which burg ETs should visit first. "New York is the media capital of the world," Luckman told AOL News. "UFOs don't visit that often, but there have been some extraordinary sightings. Muhammad Ali was training for a fight with George Foreman and running in Central Park when he saw a UFO. It was a mother ship and out of that came a smaller ship. "John Lennon saw one as well. He was with May Pang, his girlfriend at the time, and yelled at it, 'Stop! Take me with you!' " Getting signatures for any ballot initiative isn't easy, but Luckman believes New York's large size will actually make it easier to collect enough to make an impact. "Because New York is larger than Denver, I think it's an easier task to get signatures," he said. "The news media is extremely interested in this. Nothing says it better than the reaction to the recent UFO sightings in the Big Apple. Some may have been balloons set off by schoolkids, but there is something going on." Assuming the initiative passes and a commission is formed, Luckman says one of the first duties will be considering sites where alien spacecraft might land. Although the New York Jets and the New York Giants both play in New Jersey, he doesn't think having ET go there is a good idea. "It has to be in New York. If they landed in New Jersey, it would be like 'War of the Worlds,' " he said with a laugh. "I think Central Park is the most natural spot and I'd like to see space set aside as a landing site." Luckman says another duty of the proposed commission would be appointing a liaison to act as go-between for the city and visitors from other worlds. To that end, Luckman is concurrently working on another project called the Committee of 1,000 Humans to Welcome Extraterrestrials to Earth ("I know. It's long," he said). The world leaders Luckman would like to serve on that committee include Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, but he also has other folks in mind. Luckman....... believes there are 1,000 people who should have upgraded access to meeting any ETs that land on Earth. Folks on the short list include Larry King, Ringo Starr and Muhammad Ali. "Muhammad Ali has had 22 sightings and is the most recognized person on the planet," he said. "Also, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Steven Spielberg, Larry King and [British pop star] Robbie Williams." If Michael Jackson were still alive, he would presumably be on Luckman's short list. The author says the King of Pop once asked him to serve as a consultant on a project to build a high-tech alien landing pad in the Nevada desert. Although the Denver initiative would require its commission to be funded by private sources, Luckman hasn't made a decision on how the New York panel would be funded. But he is still confident his initiative will pass muster in the Big Apple. However, political experts familiar with the ways things are done in New York City are skeptical about the chances of the initiative ever getting to the voters. Republican consultant Gerry O'Brien says the truth is, Gotham is "as unfriendly to its own constituents as they are to ETs." "Unlike Western states, where voters can get initiatives on the ballot if they collect enough signatures, the only way that initiative could make on the New York ballot is if the mayor or a commission who answers to him places it there," O'Brien said. Luckman isn't worried, possibly because Mayor Michael Bloomberg is already on his list of 1,000 people who should meet the ETs first when they land. "The campaign will initially seek the support of the mayor," he said. "I have people inside City Hall who have expressed serious interest in the Extraterrestrial Ballot Initiative, but, right now, I can't comment more specifically. I wouldn't attempt this if I didn't think it was feasible. "However, this is an opportunity for Mayor Bloomberg to promote extraterrestrial tourism in the Big Apple."
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Post by iameye on Oct 29, 2010 18:29:20 GMT -5
ah, Denver. Home of the famous airport of murals and underground tunnels... I wonder. Would anyone recognize the Mother ship when it arrives?
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Post by iameye on Oct 30, 2010 7:22:18 GMT -5
Will you ever see your father's face?
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