A Controllable Flash Model of the Scale of the Universe

Now this is just mind-blowing. Some has created a flash scale model of the universe and other things foudn in it so you can really just get a vague idea of how big and small everything really is.


http://static.flabber.net/files/scale-of-the-universe-2.swf

It take a minute to load but it is completely worth you're time, if you don't check this out you're really missing out on something amazing.

CREATURES OF THE MARIANA TRENCH

 I found some pictures of creatures that were found in the Mariana Trench. It's amazing to see what's in these great depths of waters knowing that we hardly have any information on the oceans of our world.

The Mariana Trench is 11,033 meters (36,201 feet), (6033.5) fathoms deep. The Pressure at the deepest part of the Mariana Trench is over 8 tons per square inch. The Mariana Trench is 2, 542 km (1,580 miles) long and 69 km (43 miles) wide.




















This article and images were taken from: http://visboo.com/creatures-of-the-mariana-trench.html 

After 30 Years, They Reach The 20 Million Yeard Old Antarctic Lake

'Lost World' Reached: 20 Million Year Old Antarctic Lake 'Drilled'

Published: 06 February, 2012, 16:09
Edited: 06 February, 2012, 19:13

Image from lostlab.ru

After 30 years spent drilling through a four-kilometer-thick ice crust, researchers have finally broken through to a unique subglacial lake. Scientists are set to reveal its 20-million-year-old secrets, and imitate a quest to discover ET life.

The Vostok project breathes an air of mystery and operates at the frontiers of human knowledge. The lake is one of the major discoveries in modern geography; drilling operations at such depths are unprecedented; never before has a geological project required such subtle technologies.

The main inspiration for the project – the Russian scientist who posited the lake’s existence – died just six months before the moment of contact with the lake’s surface. Now, the whole world is looking to Lake Vostok for crucial data which might help to predict climate change.

“Yesterday [on Sunday] our scientists at the Vostok polar station in the Antarctic completed drilling at depths of 3,768 meters and reached the surface of the subglacial lake,” RIA Novosti reported, quoting an unnamed Russian scientist.

Meanwhile, Itar-Tass news agency says the scientists still have a few meters to go.

Lake Vostok is a unique closed ecosystem hidden under some four kilometers of ice. Its water has been isolated from the atmosphere – and therefore from any contact with the outside world – since before man existed. The key question for scientists is, could the lake harbour life?

 Image from earth.columbia.edu

If some primitive bacteria or even more complex life-forms are found to have survived the isolation, it could offer an earth-shattering insight into our planet’s past.

But if the lake proves to be a closed system devoid of any life, it would offer scientists the chance to test their theories on how to search for extra-terrestrial life on future space trips. Conditions in the lake are often described as “alien," as they resemble lakes on Jupiter's moon Europa.

When drilling work began around Vostok Station in the Antarctic in the 1970s, scientists had no idea a mysterious lake lay under the massive ice sheet. It was only in 1996 that Russian specialists, supported by their British counterparts, discovered with sonar and satellite imaging what later proved to be one of the world’s largest freshwater reservoirs. In size, Lake Vostok matches Lake Ontario.

Panoramic photo of Vostok Station showing the layout of the camp. Credit: Todd Sowers LDEO, Columbia University, Palisades, New York (Image from physorg.com)

However in 1998, drilling had to be halted just 130 meters from the lake’s surface after the alarm was raised over concerns that the ancient and unblemished waters risked being polluted if special precautions were not taken.

The relevant technology was developed in 2003 in St. Petersburg. Work resumed in 2005 after tests.
After the 24-hour-a-day drilling work is over, scientists are to take samples of lake water which penetrates through the crack. Specialists at the Russian Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute predict they will find “the only giant super-clean water system on the planet.” The pristine water will be “twice cleaner than double-distilled water,” they believe.

The Vostok Antarctic research station is no Bali resort. Its temperatures average around –66 degrees Centigrade. Earth’s the lowest ever temperature was recorded there on July 21, 1983, when it hit –89.2 C.


RT.COM. (2012). Search For Life| Newfound Alien Planet is Best Candidate Yet to Support Life Retrieved February 6, 2012 from http://rt.com/news/antarctic-million-secrets-lake-583

This article is not mine nor do I claim credit of any sort. All rights and ect. go to RT.COM

Newfound Alien Planet is Best Candidate Yet to Support Life, Scientists Say

by Denise Chow, SPACE.com Staff Writer

Date: 02 February 2012 Time: 10:01 AM ET

An artist's conception of the alien planet GJ 667Cc, which is located in the habitable zone of its parent star. CREDIT: Carnegie Institution for Science View full size image

A potentially habitable alien planet — one that scientists say is the best candidate yet to harbor water, and possibly even life, on its surface — has been found around a nearby star.

The planet is located in the habitable zone of its host star, which is a narrow circumstellar region where temperatures are neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on the planet's surface.

"It's the Holy Grail of exoplanet research to find a planet around a star orbiting at the right distance so it's not too close where it would lose all its water and boil away, and not too far where it would all freeze," Steven Vogt, an astronomer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, told SPACE.com. "It's right smack in the habitable zone — there's no question or discussion about it. It's not on the edge, it's right in there."

Vogt is one of the authors of the new study, which was led by Guillem Anglada-Escudé and Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution for Science, a private, nonprofit research organization based in Washington, D.C.

"This planet is the new best candidate to support liquid water and, perhaps, life as we know it," Anglada-Escudé said in a statement.

 

An alien super-Earth

The researchers estimate that the planet, called GJ 667Cc, is at least 4.5 times as massive as Earth, which makes it a so-called super-Earth. It takes roughly 28 days to make one orbital lap around its parent star, which is located a mere 22 light-years away from Earth, in the constellation Scorpius (the Scorpion).

"This is basically our next-door neighbor," Vogt said. "It's very nearby. There are only about 100 stars closer to us than this one."

Interestingly enough, the host star, GJ 667C, is a member of a triple-star system. GJ 667C is an M-class dwarf star that is about a third of the mass of the sun, and while it is faint, it can be seen by ground-based telescopes, Vogt said. [Gallery: The Strangest Alien Planets]

"The planet is around one star in a triple-star system," Vogt explained. "The other stars are pretty far away, but they would look pretty nice in the sky."

The discovery of a planet around GJ 667C came as a surprise to the astronomers, because the entire star system has a different chemical makeup than our sun. The system has much lower abundances of heavy elements (elements heavier than hydrogen and helium), such as iron, carbon and silicon.

"It's pretty deficient in metals," Vogt said. "These are the materials out of which planets form — the grains of stuff that coalesce to eventually make up planets — so we shouldn't have really expected this star to be a likely case for harboring planets."

The fortuitous discovery could mean that potentially habitable alien worlds  could exist in a greater variety of environments than was previously thought possible, the researchers said.
"Statistics tell us we shouldn't have found something this quickly this soon unless there's a lot of them out there," Vogt said. "This tells us there must be an awful lot of these planets out there. It was almost too easy to find, and it happened too quickly."

The detailed findings of the study will be published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

This graphic shows the orbits of the alien planet GJ 667Cc, which takes about 28 days to orbit its parent star. The orbits of other potential planets in the system are also shown.
CREDIT: Carnegie Institution for Science

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All rights go to Space.com and The Author of the Article Denise Chow Space.com Staff Writer. 2012

SPACE.COM. (2012). Search For Life| Newfound Alien Planet is Best Candidate Yet to Support Life Retrieved February 2, 2012 from http://www.space.com/14444-alien-planet-super-earth-habitable-zone.html

Man Films UFO in Costa Rica

The above video was filmed from a mobile phone. It includes the story and an interview like session at where it happened. Very good video and it's probably one of the few authentic ones. Though he said it made noise which is questionable it's still a good find. Nice job. I've the video maybe from about a year ago but either way you look at it that's okay.

UFO sightings part of spiritual universe Big Bang that da Vinci explained in 1510

By Dave Masko on 2012-01-30

UFO sightings part of spiritual universe Big Bang that da Vinci explained

PORTLAND, Ore. – Science merges with the spiritual based on a popular book being discussed in Portland and a local fine art exhibition about Leonardo da Vinci; with both pointing to UFO sightings as part of the universe’s spiritual plan.

When a curator at the famed Louvre Museum in Paris announced that he had found three sketches by the hand of Leonardo da Vinci on the back of the master’s “the Virgin and Child with St. Anne,” completed by da Vinci around 1510, ufologists had no reason to get excited. That changed recently when a fine art auction gallery in Portland – that specializes in old master art and works on paper – revealed how these and other “sketches by Leonardo da Vinci” show what appears to be “spaceships in the sky over Florence, Italy, where da Vinci lived.” At the same time, one new book “Three Big Bangs: Matter-Energy, Life and Mind” by Holmes Rolston III, claims to explain the origins of the universe and “scientific discovery about the potential presence of an underlying intelligence,” also concurs with da Vinci’s writings that claims how Earthlings are part of a “spiritual universe” that keeps its secrets hidden but is here now with us, and “we are not alone in this universe.”

Big thinkers think big about life outside Earth

Professor Holmes Rolston III claims there’s a “massive singularity” -- that’s given birth to language and culture – and thus “increasing the brain's complexity and promoting the spread of ideas. Ideas generate ideals, which lead life to take on spirit. The nature of matter-energy, genes, and their genesis therefore encourages humans to wonder where they are, who they are, and what they should do.”

Meanwhile, those ufologists who follow Leonardo da Vinci’s teachings – when pointing out da Vinci’s view that “real knowledge” is not just of this Earth, and that the universe is even “spiritual” – are now referencing recently unearthed da Vinci sketches from 1510 that reveal “out of this world views, that can’t be easily explained by either science or da Vinci’s religious background.”

Leonardo was, after all, more than just an artist. He was a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, writer and “genius,” and, perhaps, more than that of any other figure in human history, was a true believer in life outside Earth, based on what his friends and colleagues called an “unquenchable curiosity” and “feverishly inventive imagination when it came to the stars,” states the Louvre Museum’s official biography of da Vinci.

Leonardo’s UFO views never went mainstream

What’s fascinating, says Leonardo da Vinci fans in Portland -- who had a rare opportunity to view his sketches of “flying machines” and “lights in the sky over Florence,” – is “how ahead of his time, the master da Vinci was and still is today.”

For instance, when viewing a host of other out-of-this world da Vinci sketches recently at a fine art auctioneer’s gallery in Portland – local art experts make note “how da Vinci always designed machines to do things that only “aliens could have predicted back in say 1510 when these three sketches were discovered on the back of his painting ‘The Virgin,” explained Travis, a local Portland artist and a self-proclaimed UFO believer.

“I think da Vinci makes it alright to believe in such things as UFOs because, if you know his inventions, you know he was very far out for his day. I even read that they were going to stone da Vinci when he drew scenes of aliens, those creatures that his Prince and other benefactors questioned as ‘not being of this world,’” added Travis.

Also, other da Vinci fans that viewed some of da Vinci’s sketches “by his hand from circa 1510,” said they had a “eureka moment” Jan. 28 when noting how one sketch has da Vinci or “something else flying in the sky.” In turn, the art auctioneer said “it’s not of da Vinci’s flying machines,” while pointing to a book that features all of the master’s designs for aircraft.

Moreover, another recent discovery of a “self-portrait of Leonardo as a young,” in what the Louvre Museum in Paris calls as “the artist’s Codex on the Flight of Birds,” is, in fact, a work of art that fans call “another clue” of why paint your self-portrait with “something strange flying in the air” and then make sketches of what appear to be great lights in the sky that are framed with da Vinci’s ever present religious theme of a great creator, or God, that runs this spiritual universe of his that includes ‘beings’ who are obviously not from Earth?”

Seaside’s UFO connection still popular

Meanwhile, fans of Rolston’s new book ventured out to nearby Seaside, Oregon, to trek in search of a spot where UFO sightings have occurred each and every Saturday evening for the past “11 years,” say local watchers who point to “dramatic sunsets that reveal strangely twisted driftwood and other debris that becomes a “sort of art expression for the great mysteries of the universe.”

Local Oregon UFO watchers at Seaside note their previous claim-to-fame was the first X-Files TV episode was filmed at Seaside, Oregon, after locals make UFO lore with a 1980’s report that a group of 11 teens from Seaside “were abducted.”

In turn, the Seaside area has become a popular location for UFO "watchers," including those from out-of-town who meet in out of the way Seaside motel rooms to compare notes on hybrids and others they believe are aliens.

Three Big Bangs explained

According to famed Professor George Ellis of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, this new book by Holmes Rolston III titled “Three Big Bangs: Matter-Energy, Life and Mind” is both scientific and spiritual because the “Three Big Bangs” that Rolston writes about “is a scientifically informed mediation on three major historical developments of complexity that led to the existence of human beings in an evolving universe;” dating back to the 16th century and the time of Leonardo da Vinci’s when this great artist, scientist and thinker from Florence, Italy, viewed life on Earth as having what da Vinci wrote as “hidden qualities of spirituality.”

In turn, Ellis writes that Rolston’s “Three Big Bangs” brings to task “a profound knowledge of biological development and a deep wisdom about human nature” that we here on Earth are just discovering with “the clues” that Oregon UFO “watchers” say “is all around us if you just look and see, and even smell and hear that’s going down.”

Holmes Rolston III is a university “distinguished professor of philosophy Emeritus” at Colorado State University. Rolston’s new book “Three Big Bangs: Matter-Energy, Life and Mind” is filed in both the scientific and religion book section at Powell’s Books and over at the University of Portland where the theme and thesis of Professor Rolston’s book is now being discussed in a series of lectures on this theme of the “spiritual side of the universe.”

Rolston is a recipient of the much honored “Templeton Prize in Religion,” and claims he’s “lectured on seven continents,” with his other books” “Genes, Genesis, and God,” and “Science and Religion: A Critical Survey,” serving as text books for many of the world’s leading universities that study religion in the context of science and man’s role in the universe.

Professor Rolston’s theory on alien life

By dividing the creation of matter, energy, life and mind into three big bangs, Professor Rolston writes in his book “Three Big Bangs” that both scientists and religious leaders much focus on a “history of the universe that respects both scientific discovery and the potential presence of an underlying intelligence.”

For instance, the professor writes that “matter-energy appears, initially in simpler forms but with a remarkable capacity for generating heavier elements. The size and expansion rate of the universe, the nature of electromagnetism, gravity, and nuclear forces enable the explosion of life on Earth and other planets.”

Also, Professor Rolston writes that because “DNA discovers, stores and transfers information generating billions of species” – on both the Earth and other planets in the universe – “cognitive capacities escalate, and with neural sentience this results in human genius” to discover others “like us” in our universe.

Plato argued for a bigger universe for man

Professor Rolston also writes about Plato who argued that we (people on Earth) ought to “carve nature at the joints;” meaning to think beyond what you “think you know.”

In turn, the professor writes that “I plan to carve nature at the explosions.”

He adds: “There have been three big bangs: generating matter-energy, generating life, generating the human mind. These explosions form no simple continuum but a complicated, diffracted, exponential story. ‘Big Bang’ is here a metaphor for critical, exponential, nonlinear bursts with radical consequences for exploring new state spaces and novel combinatorial possibilities” such as what millions who believe that UFOs are real worldwide; while the professor pointing to his new theory of a “spiritual connection.”

For instance, when we on Earth consider the first seconds of the Big Bang, writes famed scientist Bernard Lovell, we are faced with: “It as an astonishing reflection that at this critical early moment in the history of the universe, all of the hydrogen would have turned into helium if the force of attraction between protons – that is, the nuclei of the hydrogen atoms – had been only a few percent stronger. In the earliest stages of the expansion of the universe, the primeval condensate would have turned into helium. No galaxies, no stars, no life would have emerged. It would have been a universe forever unknowable by living creatures. A remarkable and intimate relationship between man, and the fundamental constants of nature and the initial moments of space and time seems to be an inescapable condition of our existence.”

In turn, the famed scientist Bernard Lovell states that “human existence is itself entwined with the primeval state of the universe,” with man “not the only ones in our universe.”

At the same time, the Nobel prize-wining biologist Christian de Duve also notes in his writings – that Professor Rolston cites in his overview of this “spiritual universe” in which man is one with other beings – how there’s “landmarks on the pathways of life” that de Duve calls “singularities” or evolutionary in what this Nobel Prize winning biologist concludes is “self-evident that the universe was pregnant with life, and the biosphere with man.”

Image source of a strange “singularity” on the beaches at Seaside, Oregon, recently where recently dead life seems to have morphed into strange objects that are observed after recent UFO sightings on Jan. 28. Photo by Dave Masko

HULIQ.COM. (2012). News | UFO Sightings | Da Vinci. Retrieved Janurary 30, 2012 from http://www.huliq.com/10282/ufo-sightings-part-spiritual-universe-big-bang-da-vinci-explained-1510

This is not mine nor do I claim credit of any sort. All credit goes to Dave Masko and HULIQ.COM 
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Giants on Earth

Estimated between 200 million and 3 billion years ago this footprint was made. Now the guessing of when it was made is sort of ridiculous but the artifact itself is mind blowing. This is a fascinating find and it is truly incredible. Today's society would frown upon these thoughts but why? Here is evidence that these things really happened, long, long ago.

A Strange Dream.

I had this dream last night and started to write it down when I awoke so I could reminiscence on it and hopefully find out more about it. By doing so I remembered a lot more than I thought I could. Below is this story of mine created in the night by my subconsciousness.




         It's a sunny day in Oklahoma. We are based at a mall, well the bottom floor is a mall and the 8 or 9 above it are hotel rooms. This place is HUGE, absolutely giant.We all have weapons to defend ourselves though we don't really use them. Apparently an alien race has taken over and is trying to kill us all. For a while we run around and try to hide left and right, being okay for a moment and then having to run again and hide somewhere else. Many of us load up on school buses and get ready to leave this place. Some of the people seemed to stay behind. Right as the buses are about to leave I get a feeling that this isn't a good idea and that most of them if not all will die. I get off and I'm back in the humongous building. There are people left but not a lot.  At this point I've been running with this girl and trying to take care of her and help her get away. I think we were running through a half barricaded
department store. It had to have been a Sears I think. There were vending machines laying on the ground on their sides. We run to what ends up looking like a country club possibly but it's dark. The walls are stone. We stay here for a second and there are about 6-7 people. Then the girl and I start running. We get in the elevator and hit the button to go to what I think is the top floor, the sixth floor. Deja vu, I know at some point we had ridden this elevator at least once before but I don't know when that happened. It also had done what I'm about to explain to you... Once we get to the point the elevator hasn't slowed but a little bit and goes up 3 more floors I believe and come back down dropping to the sixth. Even though i know it was the sixth floor we were much higher up in the air looking down into the building. The middle of the building was open where you can look all the way down, like a hotel. Now that i think about it, not that it matters, while i was looking down it was as if the lights were off. After this we find a room that her and I can base up at in a safe place were the aliens can't find us. Suddenly I have to use the restroom. As I'm doing my business she asks if her clothes are in their, a shirt perhaps, and I don't remember how i responded. She walks in as I am peeing and gets the shirt and walks back out. After this I'm sure we do a little more running and at some point we wind up outside. One of the only points where I'm aware of this gun I've had the whole time. We are by the building at what appears to be a fireworks stand. We are stopping cars and helping them and telling them to get into the building. All we can do now is save the lives that are left. I remember being there with another guy and was talking to him, ran across the street to help direct a car that was passing by. The roads each way were barren, nothing to be seen for hundreds of miles. Just vast, open plains. I remember looking in the air making sure everything was clear. One of the last things I remember is possibly driving away from the building and looking to the side and realizing that the aliens had started to put a razor wire fence around the whole place to trap us in. I remember commenting on it. I looked back and saw this place, strangely like a prison I thought, as we slowly drove away.

The hotel looked something like this except it was about 4 stories taller and much wider than this. This is the closest representation I could find.

This is what the inside sort of looked like. The middle was hollow and you can see down from all floors. The colors were browns and dark greens and everything was forest like and earthy. Everything seemed dark also because there were no lights, just the sun from the windows.

Footage from Apollo 11. Did we really go to the moon?

Below I have linked footage from the Apollo 11 mission to the moon. I have never been a believer on either side, as always being unsure of what really happened. This footage is of the team faking a shot of the earth to make it look like they were far away. I just thought this was interesting. I still don't know what to believe but take a look and decide for yourself.