Space News/UFO's Etc...(Discussion/Pics/Vids)

[Capt.Kangaroo]

Dr Brown who discovered this ninth planet also was the same guy who produced proof that lead to the demotion of Pluto to a class called "dwarf planet,"

That was a decision mocked repeatedly last summer when NASA's New Horizons probe flew past Pluto and revealed a world with an atmosphere, weather and a volatile and dynamically reworked surface.

*that quote came from the link posted above.

Dr. Brown later revealed that his daughter has been very upset about his de-motion of Pluto and since then he had promised her to find a new planet for her.
Me thinks Dr. Brown messed up and his daughter should kick his ass

Agreed, kick his ass girl...

[ilan]

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2016/01/the-aliens-are-silent-because-they-are-extinct

The aliens are silent because they are extinct
In research aiming to understand how life might develop, scientists realized new life would commonly die out due to runaway heating or cooling on their fledgling planets.
By Australian National University in Canberra | Published: Thursday, January 21, 2016
RELATED TOPICS: EXOPLANETS | EXTRATERRESTRIALS
CSIRO Parkes radio telescope
CSIRO Parkes radio telescope is in the search for alien civilizations.
Wayne England
Life on other planets would likely be brief and become extinct very quickly, said astrobiologists from the Australian National University (ANU).

In research aiming to understand how life might develop, scientists realized new life would commonly die out due to runaway heating or cooling on their fledgling planets.

“The universe is probably filled with habitable planets, so many scientists think it should be teeming with aliens,” said Aditya Chopra from ANU.

“Early life is fragile, so we believe it rarely evolves quickly enough to survive.”

“Most early planetary environments are unstable. To produce a habitable planet, life forms need to regulate greenhouse gases such as water and carbon dioxide to keep surface temperatures stable.”

About four billion years ago, Earth, Venus, and Mars may have all been habitable. However, a billion years or so after formation, Venus turned into a hothouse and Mars froze into an icebox.

Early microbial life on Venus and Mars, if there was any, failed to stabilize the rapidly changing environment, said Charley Lineweaver from ANU.

“Life on Earth probably played a leading role in stabilizing the planet’s climate,” he said.

Chopra said their theory solved a puzzle.

“The mystery of why we haven’t yet found signs of aliens may have less to do with the likelihood of the origin of life or intelligence and have more to do with the rarity of the rapid emergence of biological regulation of feedback cycles on planetary surfaces,” he said.

Wet, rocky planets with the ingredients and energy sources required for life seem to be ubiquitous, however, as Enrico Fermi pointed out in 1950, no signs of surviving extra-terrestrial life have been found.

A plausible solution to Fermi’s paradox, say the researchers, is near universal early extinction, which they have named the Gaian Bottleneck.

“One intriguing prediction of the Gaian Bottleneck model is that the vast majority of fossils in the universe will be from extinct microbial life, not from multicellular species such as dinosaurs or humanoids that take billions of years to evolve,” said Lineweaver.

[Marley]

http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/hubble-reveals-a-diamond-like-cluster-of-stars-8000-light-years-away/vi-BBozpYc

[Capt.Kangaroo]

I've cleaned up the Space Section, it was getting a little out of control.
I appreciate everyones input and hope you all continue to contribute.
Please post in the appropriate areas, Pics, Tools,Ufo vids etc...
Thanks again for your help,
Captainkangaroo...

[ilan]

"Now I have been saying for years that IR cameras or night vision cameras can see things our eyes can't. Also, the angle of the sun during a UFO sighting causes the UFO cloak to become visible. Everything these doctors say in this video confirms that there are cloaked UFOs or Entities that our eyes cannot see."
-- Scott C. Waring

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gRC2q_VLEM&feature=youtu.be

[Kimbo]

NASA's GEOS-5 provides a satellite view of historic winter storm


The NASA GEOS-5 atmospheric data assimilation system follows an historic winter storm as it approaches the mid-Atlantic this weekend 2016 January 22-24 where it is expected to produce a wide swath of more than 2 feet of snow. The near-real-time operational GEOS-5 system ingests more than 5 million observations every six hours producing comprehensive analyses and forecasts of the atmosphere each day at 25-km global resolution. This experimental product uses the global mesoscale capabilities of GEOS-5 to downscale the operational product to 6-km global resolution. Subsequent forecasts are launched with this product providing a detailed view of the developing storm and its predicted evolution across the region.

The simulated field visualized here is outgoing longwave radiation (OLR). Clouds block longwave radiation that is emitted from the Earth's surface producing cold OLR values in regions of thick/deep cloudiness. Thus, OLR provides a satellite-eye view of clouds from storm systems around the globe, including the developing blizzard across the eastern United States.

here is the video:

http://gmao.gsfc.nasa.gov/research/science_snapshots/historic_winter_storm_2016.php?linkId=20596770

[ilan]

The storm looks pretty damn impressive as it rolls into the Northeast. You can sense its power!

Cool imagery...

[ilan]

Moon News...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/29/us/earth-moon-collision/index.html

(CNN)It's the only world besides Earth that man has set foot on. But we still don't know exactly how it got there.

Now, rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts in the late '60s and early '70s are providing new clues about how Earth got its moon.

Many scientists have long theorized that the moon formed after a planet called Theia crashed into Earth about 4.5 billion years ago.

A UCLA-led research team compared Earth rocks and moon rocks and determined the crash was a head-on collision, not a glancing blow as earlier theories stated.

"The moon was formed by a violent, head-on collision between the early Earth and a 'planetary embryo' called Theia approximately 100 million years after the Earth formed," the team said in on UCLA's website.

The team reported its new research in the journal Science.

The researchers analyzed seven moon rocks brought back to the Earth by the Apollo 12, 15 and 17 astronauts. They compared them with six volcanic rocks from Earth, five from Hawaii and one from Arizona.

They found the oxygen in all the rocks had a similar chemical signature.

"We don't see any difference between the Earth's and the moon's oxygen isotopes; they're indistinguishable," said Edward Young, the study's lead author.

Young said that if Earth had only received a glancing blow, most of the moon would have been made up of Theia, and the Earth and moon rocks would not be so similar.

So what happened to Theia? Scientists say it didn't survive the collision, except for some pieces that got mixed in with the Earth and moon. If it hadn't crashed with Earth, it might have become a full-fledged planet, Young said.

But then Earth wouldn't have a moon. That would mean no beautiful moonlit nights, fewer songs and much different weather for us Earthlings. The moon gets credit for moderating Earth's wobble and stabilizing its climate.

[Capt.Kangaroo]

NOW YOU CAN SEE FIVE PLANETS AT ONCE WITH THE NAKED EYE
TILL MID-FEBRUARY, EARLY RISERS WILL SEE THE FIRST FIVE-PLANET ALIGNMENT IN A DECADE



Starting tomorrow morning, all five* visible planets will shine down from the sky in the morning twilight. Head out about an hour before sunrise, and look toward the southeast.
The four bright ones—Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, and Venus—are pretty easy to spot, if you’ve got a star chart in hand. Venus, for example, will be the brightest thing up there (apart from the moon). Mercury is a little trickier, because it’s easily lost in the light of the soon-to-rise sun.
The planets should be visible from just about anywhere on the globe (though not from the North Pole), and the view will last until mid-February, if tomorrow’s too cold for you. And if you’re a night owl rather than an early bird, you’re in luck: The five planets will all be aligned in the evening sky come August 2016.
What makes all five visible at once? It happens because of the planets’ positions along their orbits. At the moment, these five all happen to lie to the right of the sun, when viewed from above the solar system. That means, as the earth spins, they’re all visible in the sky just before sunrise. You can think if it as a line of six, with Jupiter the first to rise and the sun rising last—and marking the end of the morning stargazing session.



*Yes, in total there are eight planets, but Uranus and Neptune are too dim to see without a telescope and Earth is the one just there at your feet. So we’re just talking about the big five of stargazing: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn.

popularscience

[ilan]

CIA releases UFO documents and images from the 40s-50s

http://www.techworm.net/2016/01/hundreds-secret-ufo-x-files-released-cia.html