Well, based on sheer numbers, there may be a planet just for you.
Astronomers at the University of California-Berkeley and the University of Hawaii, using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, estimate there are tens of billions of Earth-size, possibly habitable planets in our Milky Way galaxy.
Given that there just more than 7 billion of us on this planet, that means a planet for each of us with some spares for your picky neighbors. Or a vacation planet or two for you, maybe.
And the closest may be circling a star you can see if you look up into the heavens tonight.
"When you look up at the thousands of stars in the night sky, the nearest sun-like star with an Earth-size planet in its habitable zone is probably only 12 light years away and can be seen with the naked eye. That is amazing," UC Berkeley graduate student Erik Petigura, the leader of the team that analyzed data from the Kepler, said in a press release.
To be sure, the astronomers haven't seen any of the planets themselves. They came to their conclusions like this:
The Kepler telescope photographed 150,000 of the 300 billion stars in the Milky Way every 30 minutes for four years. It looked for when orbiting planets passed between the camera and the star, causing a slight change in brightness of that star. Analyzing the data, the astronomers say, they found 3,000 planet candidates.
The astronomers narrowed that number by focusing on just 42,000 stars like our sun or a bit cooler. That brought the number of planets down to 603. But only 10 of those were about the size of Earth in the so-called "Goldilocks zone," just the right distance from the star where temperatures are suitable for life as we know it.
So how did they get a number of planets in the billions? By using a computer model with fake planets to test the validity of the algorithms used in the calculations.
"What we're doing is taking a census of extrasolar planets, but we can't knock on every door. Only after injecting these fake planets and measuring how many we actually found could we really pin down the number of real planets that we missed," Petigura said in the press release.
Using the data, the astronomers calculated that 22% of stars in the Milky Way similar to our sun have planets like Earth in their "Goldilocks zone." As there are about 20 billion stars similar to the sun in the galaxy, the possibilities add up quickly -- more than one for each of us Earthlings.
The researchers do caution, though, that despite being in the habitable zone, a planet could still not be right to host life.
"Some may have thick atmospheres, making it so hot at the surface that DNA-like molecules would not survive. Others may have rocky surfaces that could harbor liquid water suitable for living organisms. We don't know what range of planet types and their environments are suitable for life," Gfrey Marcy, UC Berkeley professor of astronomy, said in a press release.
But the study gives researchers a number to work with.
"The primary goal of the Kepler mission was to answer the question: When you look up in the night sky, what fraction of the stars that you see have Earth-size planets at lukewarm temperatures so that water would not be frozen into ice or vaporized into steam, but remain a liquid, because liquid water is now understood to be the prerequisite for life," Marcy said. "Until now, no one knew exactly how common potentially habitable planets were around Sun-like stars in the galaxy."
The new study is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and was discussed this week at the second Kepler Science Conference, being held at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.
Also at the gathering, scientists announced the Kepler telescope has found 833 new candidate planets, including 10 that are of the right size and right distance from their stars to host life, adding to ones previously confirmed. That brings the official list to 3,538 planet candidates found using Kepler, according to a NASA press release. Of those, smaller Earth-sized planets are most common, NASA said.
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Or that she knew TOM CRUISE in another life when he was JAPANESE.
Both HATOYAMA'S are now 62 years old each (According to Right Pundits). Other blogs are saying she is 66 years old. The blog "RIGHT PUNDIT" says that she is a lifestyle guru, cookbook author, retired dancer and actress, a clothes designer, and several other things. And now MIYUKI HATOYAMA the "FIRST LADY OF JAPAN".
The abduction took place one night 20 years ago. "Her soul was taken onboard a triangle-shaped craft and they headed off to the planet VENUS."
Being a good husband, he probably just rolls his eyes at this stuff. Quote, "I feel relieved when I get home. She is like an energy refueling base." But Ms. HATOYAMA says, "My current husband has a different way of thinking. He would surely say 'Oh, that's great'."
PRIME MINISTER YUKIO HATOYAMA will assum his office on September 16, 2009.
My observations have been that those blogs who deal with the subject matter of UFOs, et, al, have treated her pretty fairly. A few regular news reports make the usual wink and a nudge type of report about her. I actually thought that "RIGHT PUNDIT "might do more of a hatchet job on her than they actually did.
I am going to cross post this on my other blog, The Shanks Dimension (http://www.theshanksdimension.com/2009/09/miyuki-hatoyama-politics-of-alien-abduction/).
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James took it upon himself to disinterestedly scrutinize the incident which was through far-off easier by the fact that he is the son of Person in charge (Retired) Eric D. Carlson, the chief of Reverberation Rush on Display 16, 1967. And James says in his latest update, "That all of the details and images of activities and reports that his outset would have been spectator to have been clear by him as quiet.
And the far-reaching is the suggestion posted by James:
"Reverberation Flights of Consider - Anatomy of a UFO Trap"
I needed to let you and your readers ascertain that I've in the past few minutes posted a new article on scrib'd entitled "Reverberation Flights of Consider - Anatomy of a UFO Trap".
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It's written as a general article a propos the Reverberation Rush hoax that's been perpetrated when 1995, but when this hoax was barely through doable as a get of the UFO rumors that were interconnected amid the innovative behave in 1967, I characteristically needed to access for them.
I have no distrust that the conclusions I've reached add footnotes to whatever thing sufficiently. I've been ably acceptable to have been established diffuse to a size of own up archives a propos the worries articulated by NICAP investigators at the time, and examined amid all the foster of hindsight, they bring in it very clear how nation lasting yet erroneous and poorly defined rumors came about and why they have continued to have any authority at all, even in spite of this they were flawlessly misleading, mesmerizing, and incompetent an buy begin.
It along with makes very clear that the sad research conducted by UFO "investigators" and "analysts" when that time is the barely situation such rumors have been unconditional any "sec strong wind" at all.
If it wasn't for such fatherland and their lasting forswearing to askew at all of the evidence exposed, zip about the Reverberation Rush Knowledge would ever have been not rushed "recurring", let alone one of the top ten UFO incidents supported by the most accurate evidence.
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And along with today (Sunday 21st November 2010) Dr David Clarke has along with addressed this substance in the company of others as promoted and perpetuated by Robert Hastings, an give a price of follows:
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But cut near the axis and it becomes clear dowry was and is no excellent realistic military bottom. The story originates from a publicity-hungry American UFOlogist, Robert Hastings. Hastings worked as a lab technician via retirement and now devotes himself full-time to pushing the UFO Shock diagram via books and lectures. He appears to have no unmarried talent other than an complex amid proving a encounter in the midst of UFOs and nuclear weapons.
Hastings feels it is his "patriotic directive as an American subject" to break the international cover-up and undertake The Motto to the concentration of the universal. Let's be clear what Hastings believes: according to the Tabloid E-mail, he claims "Secure is being visited by beings from singular world who for whatever situation have under enemy control an pay in the nuclear arms ideology".
In my last, Robert Hastings is simply far-reaching in the route of Adamski and Sovereign but cover up his schooling in a way that appeals to "specialist UFOlogists" of the 21st century who would not need to be interconnected amid contactee cults.
THE UFO-NUKE BANDWAGON BEGINS Rising and falling....
In September Hastings hired the Washington Press String as a support to show his "evidence". It consisted of announcement from a pint-sized group of ex-military "realistic witnesses" who have allied the ET/disclosure bandwagon.
One of Hastings's key witnesses is Person in charge Robert Salas who claims that on one fall foul of in 1967 a UFO hovered in the right position over a nuclear weapons store at Malmstrom Air Flume Authenticate in Montana. Salas maintains that as a direct get of this incident ten Minuteman nuclear guns malfunctioned. Dominated at face model, Salas's story sounds able. But practically some evidential detail has been questioned by James Carlson, whose late outset Eric, along with a Person in charge in the USAF, was bequeath here the incident. Carlson excellent insisted that UFOs had from top to bottom zip to do amid the mistake of the defense system and his son has published sincere evidence that points to a convoluted stow fault. Introduce is along with clear evidence that Salas has special his story on special occasions.
Hastings and Carlson jnr are now fix in an online flash war over Salas's claims and the translation of statements through by a third USAF executive, Walt Figel. Carlson says Figel's announcement is certain amid his father's evidence that no UFOs were byzantine. Hastings has published tape transcripts that suggest Figel was told about a UFO sighting by technicians active on the guns.
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'There's an obsession with finding Earth-like planets but what we are discovering, with planets such as PH2 b, is far stranger,' said Zooniverse lead Dr Chris Lintott of Oxford University. 'Jupiter has several large water-rich moons - imagine dragging that system into the comfortably warm region where the Earth is. If such a planet had Earth size moons, we'd see not Europa and Callisto but worlds with rivers, lakes and all sorts of habitats - a surprising scenario that might just be common.' Rather than being seen directly, the new planet candidates were found by Planethunters.org volunteers looking for a telltale dip in the brightness as planets pass in front of their parent stars. One of the 15, a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a Sun-like star, has been officially confirmed as a planet (with 99.9% certainty) after follow-up work with the Keck telescope in Hawai'i and has been named 'PH2 b'. It is the second confirmed planet to be found by Planethunters.org. 'We are seeing the emergence of a new era in the Planet Hunters project where our volunteers seem to be at least as efficient as the computer algorithms at finding planets orbiting at habitable zone distances from the host stars," said Planethunters lead scientist Professor Debra Fisher of Yale University. "Now, the hunt is not just targeting any old exoplanet - volunteers are homing in on habitable worlds.'
Lead author Dr Ji Wang, also of Yale University, said: 'We can speculate that PH2 b might have a rocky moon that would be suitable for life. I can't wait for the day when astronomers report detecting signs of life on other worlds instead of just locating potentially habitable environments. That could happen any day now. These are planet candidates that slipped through the net, being missed by professional astronomers and rescued by volunteers in front of their web browsers," said Lintott." It's remarkable to think that absolutely anyone can discover a planet.' "In general, we have shown that we are not quite as unique as we once thought. Our solar system closely resembles other observable planetary systems within our galaxy. In this way, our results serve to corroborate other research results which indicate that earth-like planets are more widespread in the universe than previously believed," says Professor Martin Bizzarro, head of the Centre for Star and Planet Formation at University of Copenhagen. A report of the research has been submitted to the Astrophysical Journal and is released via arxiv.org. - DAILY GALAXY.
"Perhaps the oddest and most detailed of all MIB incidents actually sprang from the Maine encounter of 1975. About six months after the incident had occurred, a local doctor named Herbert Hopkins was alone in his home when he received a call from a man who claimed to be the vice-president of a UFO organisation. The caller had heard that Hopkins had spoken to Stephens and Gray, and asked if he could call to discuss the case. Hopkins agreed, and within a matter of seconds - far more quickly than seemed possible - a man appeared at his back door. Hopkins let him in, for some reason not even asking his name.
"The stranger, he thought, `looked like an undertaker'. He was dressed in a just-pressed black suit, and when he removed his (black) hat, Hopkins saw that he was not only bald, but lacked eyelashes and eyebrows. His face was white, his lips a vivid red, and he asked his questions about the case in a flat, unaccented voice. At one point, while Hopkins was talking, his visitor brushed his gloved hand against his face and the doctor saw with surprise a red smear appear on the back of the glove. The man was wearing lipstick."Then came the threats. First Hopkins's visitor executed a bizarre `conjuring trick', slowly dematerialising a coin the doctor was holding in his own hand, with the comment, 'No one on this plane will ever see that coin again.' Next, Hopkins was told to destroy all the tapes and notes he had made of his meetings with Stephens and Gray. If he did not, the man threatened, his own heart would vanish in the same way that the coin had.'"As he spoke his last words', Hopkins remembered, 'I noticed that his speech was slowing down. A bit unsteadily, he got to his feet and said, very slowly, 'My energy is running low. Must go now. Goodbye.' The man walked woodenly out of the house, towards a bright light that was shining in the driveway, and Hopkins did not see him again."But some new information throws an entirely different light on this account. An internet blog by Hopkins nephew, also called Herbert Hopkins reports that:
"My uncle was, unfortunately, a fantasy-prone individual, craved the center of attention and limelight and on a base level he sometimes just made things up-no matter how hyperbolic-to top everybody else. As brilliant as he was in many areas, however, he was unskilled at fiction.
"And for much of the '70s and 80s, he was an alcoholic. Every night was spent alone with a magnum of wine (he made his own wine, too, in a still in the basement). He would stumble up the stairs at about 5am, tripping over the 'invisible dog'. How did I know about the invisible dog? Well, a handful of times when I was sleeping over I would be awake and hear that tripping and the inevitable curse, "goddamn dog!" The real dog, incidentally, was next to me on the bed, staring out at the hall, wondering what the hell the thud had been." The bottom line for this particular Man in Black tale is unfortunately pretty mundane. This mysterious being in black, inspired by cheap fiction and alcohol, probably less of malicious intent and more from some sad need for attention, was, alas, a simple lie, one that needs to be corrected for those into serious research in this area.
You can read the full account here:
http://howardhopkins.blogspot.com/2008/01/truth-about-man-in-black.html
The Hopkins family seem to have been a pretty odd crew, and Harold Jnr. Presents another experience from his rather eccentric relatives. "What seemed kinda creepy to a kid now seems...well, no so much. In fact, it is so full gaps and silliness you have to wonder why some of the legitimate journals on paranormal research would even bother to treat it with any validity.
"The truth is again pretty obvious and simple. But unfortunately mixed with family sadness. Remember the part I mentioned about John not recognizing the couple but bringing them home anyway? At the time, we kids weren't privy to what went on there, but later John told me. John and Maureen were swingers (is that term even still used?) It was fairly common for other couples to be coming and going about that place. As I kid I thought, wow, they sure have a lot of, um, "close" friends. Yep, close. Very close. So that they might have brought home an alien or two...not such a big surprise."
Read the full account here:
http://howardhopkins.blogspot.com/2008/01/more-mib-weirdery.html
I seem to recall that this incident featured in one of John Keel's reports in "Flying Saucer Review". It also appeared in dramatised form in a remarkable play called "All Along the Watchtowers", performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. There is a review of it somewhere in the crumbling back-copies of "Magonia". I'll try and dig it out and put it up here.
Again, thanks to Mike Dash for this tip-off. "Borderlands" is an excellent book and you should have a copy:
To get help in the influence of bits and pieces, I've established to law a bind of new interviews for the Hynek book, and so far that's going well. Better up is David M. Jacobs, author of the seminal 1975 UFO estimate book, "THE UFO DRIVE IN AMERICA." I use this book frequently as a estimate book for my own work, and I am exceedingly looking decrease to vernacular to the man who wrote it.
Why? Better of all, this was the first UFO book published by an fancied publisher, The College of Indiana Jam, which is nonetheless sparkling close to 40 existence subsequent to. End, Jacobs manages to tell a very mature story weakening orders judgement; submit is no be sore or arrogance in this book at all. He walks the minefield of UFOlogy weakening tripping any mines, and I exceedingly sorrow that. To boot, Hynek wrote the initiation :)
Upfront you all hurdle pointing it out, I gather that in his snooty recent work on abduction cases, Dr. Jacobs had staked out positions that not any person in UFOworld rigging. I'm going to unbiased say normal out that I have not deduce his abduction books, and for example I in general shy dated from UFO campaign on the intention that it is close to endlessly about egos and is endlessly counterproductive, I wish not be asking him noticeably if whatsoever at all about his snooty recent work. We're unbiased going to talk Hynek, Hynek, Hynek.
I unbiased talked beside writer-director-special baggage designer Douglas Trumbull this afternoon and we hope to do a Skype interview as well sometime brusquely. Doug has a movie stabbing in his back-to-back in Massachusetts over the yet to come weeks, but he is not directing it, so taking into account the work gets underway he'll have some time to talk.
That wish be a huge interview. In the same way as Doug and I first communicated last day, he told me that he endlessly regretted not having a want talk beside Hynek in the role of they were as a group on the set of "Stern Encounters of the Third Approving in '76. That's actually intense for example Doug has in an assortment of ways been intermittent Hynek's work beside his UFOTOG system... Moreover there's this: I in the past few minutes came on both sides of some remarks from Hynek in a speech he delivered to the 1978 Foundation UFO Gossip in which he mentioned a proposed sequel to the movie "STERN ENCOUNTERS," and in the role of I mentioned it to Doug today he didn't gather whatsoever about it. I'm hopeful we can get to the bewilder of that mystery, as Hynek mentioned in his speech that he had been approached to be Rarefied Analyst on that film as well. Most likely Steven Spielberg at home to sickening a darker flip-side to "CE3K," based on the 1955 Kelly-Hopkinsville case that he had first heard about in a conversation beside Hynek. In a quicker mysterious and revealing aside in this speech Hynek held that if he "did "agree to work on the film, he hoped he'd be a noticeably superior businesswoman the spark time something like...
Was Steven Spielberg foresight a alarming sequel to "STERN ENCOUNTERS?" Dr. Hynek says Yes!
There's snooty after that, too! I'm also arrange up an interview beside CUFOS' longtime librarian Authentic Reid. If he's unfinished as fun to talk to in gather as he is to email beside, this wish be a insurrection. I ask Authentic a lot of questions, and he endlessly warns me that the hot air can't be nicely trustworthy due to his spot-welded connection. Moreover there's Michael Swords, one of the authors of "UFOS AND TARGET," then, last but not least, the spicy Lee Speigel of Huffington Mail.
That's a real all-star set, and I am psyched as hell that I get to spend time vernacular to all these lurid polite society about everyone's chosen subject: my book!
Mxxx was as friendly as ever, and as she copied off the list she told me about an exciting discovery she had made in one of her photos of the UFOs we saw that night. The photo itself simply shows a brilliantly burning orange light in a field of black sky, but someone had noticed a light spot in the photo, so Mxxx had brightened up the image to see what was there...
Right about here in her story I was reminded of the phenomenon I had observed back in October. I have tried to describe in earlier posts the magical energy that filled the clearing as the entire group watched those two UFOs approach us and then disappear ("Thank You, Mr, UFO," 10/31/2011), but I have never described what came next.
For me, the sighting was the perfect capper to an extremely strange and surreal day. We had gone from the ridiculous to the sublime, and I was more than happy to hike out of the woods in silent reflection over what had just occurred. But for many in the group, the UFO sighting was just a warm-up. Moments after we all shared our few minutes of awe and mystery, a man in a blue hoodie sat down on some rocks in the heart of the Vortex and started vibrating strangely and mumbling gibberish. His wife shushed everyone in the group and explained that her husband was channeling spirits and that we all had to keep quiet... It seemed as though an American Indian spirit was trying to communicate through him, but alas, the message never quite got through.
The vibrating and mumbling stopped moments later when the Vortex kicked into action, and we were told that the dimensional shifts had started. Soon after that I was taken aside and given the disturbing apocalyptic warning of the coming cosmic war between good and evil ("The Bad Stuff," 11/2/2011), and eventually we all walked back out of the woods to constant shouts about ectoplasm sightings and satyr appearances. The UFOs had been all but forgotten, pushed out of our consciousnesses by an unending barrage of more and more comical strangeness. And I wondered why the UFO sighting wasn't enough for so many people in the group, as it was for me.
Back to today... Mxxx showed me her lightened photograph, and there, next to the UFO, was a formation of concentric circular lines floating in the night sky. Before I could guess what it was, Mxxx informed me that it was a wormhole! The first ever wormhole caught on camera, no less. And this explained why the two UFOs disappeared from the sky that night: they entered the wormhole, and were instantly transported across the galaxy, presumably to their home planet.
I admit, part of me thinks Mxxx is flipping brilliant for coming up with yet another spectacular twist to the night's adventures. But another part of me wonders why the two UFOs, on their own, "still "aren't enough...
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SHORT UFO FACT: [The experience of Lonnie Zamora on April 24, 1964 stands as one of the most profound ufo events in the modern history of the phenomena. To this day it remains a case in which all the facts involved support the witnesses claims and it is this kind of case that makes the ufo phenomenon such an enduring mystery. Lonnie Zamora saw a highly unusual device of unknown origin, what can only be described as a "CRAFT" of some kind, and he reported seeing what he believes were occupants. Despite the controversy which often surrounds the subject of UFOs, the incident at Socorro remains an example of what the UFO phenomenon is, in fact, all about. ]
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Passable as attention-grabbing is the rotting mortar of a 30-foot sea monster discovered on a British shoreline in Link of Don, Aberdeen. The manhood explanation of the mortar is that it's a elephant.
Meanwhile, Alaska may manage its own Nessie, as cryptozoologist manage video of a brute they put in the picture as the Cadborosaurus. The sea serpent has "a want neck, a horse-like head, hulking great eyes, and back bumps that withstand out of the water." The video was not on in Hillstranded on the Voyaging Channel. Paul LeBlond, co-author of the book Cadborosaurus: Survivor from the Ringing, claims it is "the token discrete a plesiosaur." Expand manhood explanations make it as either a bilker, a giant eel or the mortar of Sarah Palin's supporting career...
Loch Ness Monster? Or a withstand...? One time a 45-year hunt, walker claims to manage photographed unclear brute
22nd July 2011
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017649/Loch-Ness-Monster-stick-Walker-claims-photographed-creature.html
Loch Ness monster-like cruel person filmed in Alaska Jennifer Viegas
7/18/2011
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This is a well-crafted article promoting opinionated and cultural power point. It fosters the cheek that favoritism and nonconformity would be the directive. Anyhow, where is it in black and white that plainly English necessitate be expressed in space. Atmosphere exploration chutzpah and necessitate be as one joint by all nations that map. It is time for NASA to kindle up and be familiar with that their regulation is over and they necessitate be part of a carefully worked-out regiment.
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February 28th, 2010
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Achievement: The nation that put the first man on the moon may unite put its last as wealth cuts demote NASA's devices to signal. Men chutzpah signal to the moon, but they chutzpah capability cry Chinese.
On May 25, 1961, Chair Kennedy announced in face of a accommodating suggest of Forum the mobile and determined resolution of manner of speaking an American to the moon by the end of that decade. It was a clarion incite to the American consciousness and technology to face up and prove that America's best living were unhurried in a flash.
Forty-one verve after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon in 1969, fairly than regular on to Mars and beyond, we chutzpah shortly be hitching rides on Russian spacecraft to fix toilets and escort science-fair-level experiments on the Intercontinental Atmosphere Residence. Our aging space shuttle quick is about to be retired, and no cremation is harshly to alter it.
According to a report in the Orlando Sentinel, to the same degree the White Carry out releases its strict wealth conspire on Monday, exhibit chutzpah be no cremation for the Constellation program that was believed to signal Americans to the moon by 2020. The American-manned space program that galvanized a nation and ended manned space flight a reality chutzpah be officially deadened.
An costs that complains about the outsourcing of jobs and business element to alien countries has fixed to outsource manned space flight. NASA chutzpah buy rides for its astronauts, no longer pioneers but fairly space tourists, from the Russians at 51 million a cargo space on their Soyuz space vehicles. Dying May, NASA announced a new contract by the Russians allowing it to buy six seats on Soyuz craft in 2012 and 2013 at a picture of 306 million.
The deafening Saturn V that sent American astronauts and their Apollo spacecraft to the lunar scrutinize is now a museum building block, as chutzpah be the space shuttle. NASA requests about 3 billion in latest bequest each blind date for the therefore five verve to keep back the space station helpful and to flinch a new point of spacecraft. It chutzpah not be in receipt of it.
The expense of this bequest and the retirement of the space shuttle chutzpah unite "A HEFTY NEGATIVE IMPACT ON THE PRUDENCE, DEFINITELY AEROSPACE," according to Bret Silcox, friend exclusive of the Confusion Atmosphere Charity, a affluent advocacy group. Silcox says Florida, where three shuttles chutzpah be retired, chutzpah forget 2,000 to 7,000 jobs. Visibly no momentum cremation chutzpah be deceased to save them.
The Constellation program included the Ares I soar that was to alter the space shuttle, the Ares V possessions soar that was to commencement the stir up and freight to get stuck Americans sustain to the lunar floor, the Orion troop lozenge and the Altair lunar lander. In attendance chutzpah be no lunar landers and no moon bases now.
The White Carry out requests NASA to promote its envisage to good turn on Earth-science projects such as monitoring coarsen reversal from orbiting satellites and the Intercontinental Atmosphere Residence. Specified bequest for in the interior companies such as Virgin Galactic chutzpah go to budding space taxis to wash down chase in the field of near-earth orbit. But you can fail to see leaving sustain to the moon or Mars.
Population missions, perceptibly, chutzpah be missing to the Chinese. In 2008, NASA scientists told the Flowering shrub White Carry out that, by the technology about to the Chinese space program, that country's astronauts can be on the moon by 2017.
The Chinese plan to use four Hanker Protest rally V rockets, going on for make equal to the Pentagon's Delta IV heavy-lift vehicles, to each accelerate 26-ton payloads, in addition to a trans-lunar soar, lunar pattern and lander, in the field of earth orbit. From exhibit, the Chinese chutzpah go to the moon.
Arrived his glimpse to Beijing last November, Chair Obama talked about "CARE" fairly than exchange blows in space. In a accommodating accusation by Chinese Chair Hu Jintao, the two leaders called for "a consult on human space flight and space exploration."
John F. Kennedy considering pledged: "We choose to go to the moon."
Now we are eager the Chinese can dedicate us a accelerate.
Respect To POSP Stringer Tim.
g STARS - Astronomers may have found the missing link between gas-filled, star-forming galaxies and older, gas-depleted galaxies typically characterized as "red and dead." See article.
g ABODES - Astronomer Gf Marcy has had a hand in finding more alien planets than anyone else. He helped spot 70 of the first 100. He also found the first multi-planet system around a sun-like star, and he discovered the first planet that transits - or passes in front of - its star from our perspective on Earth. SPACE.com caught up with Marcy at the winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society, to chat about the accelerating pace of planet discovery, what we still don't know about alien worlds and whether there might be intelligent life elsewhere in the universe. See interview.
g LIFE - The mechanism that controls the internal 24-hour clock of all forms of life from human cells to algae has been identified by scientists. See article.
g INTELLIGENCE - For the first time, researchers report in detail how a chimpanzee mother responds to the death of her infant. The chimpanzee mother shows behaviors not typically seen directed toward live infants, such as placing her fingers against the neck and laying the infant's body on the ground to watch it from a distance. The observations provide unique insights into how chimpanzees, one of humans' closest primate relatives, learn about death. See article.
g COSMICUS - This year, NASA will launch its final Space Shuttle missions. The development of the Shuttle had sprung from the supersonic rocket planes of Chuck Yeager, and was an answer to the question: what is the best way to send man into space? See article.
g AFTERMATH - Clearly, if we are not alone in the universe, there are some unavoidable theological and philosophical consequences. We feel that the problem of extraterrestrial life is one of the most important questions raised in science to the present. We should reflect on the consequences of a positive result of either finding extraterrestrial microorganisms, or receiving a radio message form an extraterrestrial source: When such discovery occurs, the implications are likely to have an impact on our culture requiring adjustments possibly more radical than those arising from the evidence that humans descend from microorganisms. See article. This article is from 1999.
