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[ilan]

Einstein Quotes...

1. “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution."

2. “Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."

3. “Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth."

4. “Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."

5. “I, at any rate, am convinced that He (God) does not throw dice."

6. “The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing."

7. “Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

8. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."

9. “Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do— but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it."

10. “The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science."

11. “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

12. “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value"

13. “The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

14. “The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."

15. “Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."

16. “Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."

17. “Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But I do not doubt that the lion belongs to it even though he cannot at once reveal himself because of his enormous size."

18. “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

19. “It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."

20. “My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

21. “Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."

22. “I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

23. “Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are all greater"

24. “In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."

25. “The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

26. “Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."

27. “Truth is what stands the test of experience."

28. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving"

29. “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."

30. “Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen."

[Capt.Kangaroo]

Thanks guys...

[Blackbear199]

40 years ago...

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/video/40-years-ago-nasa-sent-a-message-to-aliens-%E2%80%94-heres-what-it-says/vi-BBpF9ZF

[ilan]

Cool... Here's hoping there's an audience some day.

[ilan]

Messages from around the world are to be beamed into space at the speed of light as part of a cultural project to create a celestial time capsule.

In autumn 2016, dispatches from the public will be converted into radio waves and broadcasted towards the North Star, Polaris, this autumn, reaching their destination in 434 years.

The interstellar message in a bottle will comprise of people's responses to a single question: how will our present environmental interactions shape the future?

A Simple Response to an Elemental Message is a collaboration between the University of Edinburgh, the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh, and the UK Astronomical Technology Centre (UKATC) along with other partners.

Within 21 hours of transmission, the signal will have travelled deeper into space than humankind's first message to the stars, Voyager 1, which was launched in 1977.

Project Coordinator Paul Quast said Polaris was chosen as the destination because of its cultural significance as a reference point for navigators and star gazers.

Researchers will be able to use the responses to gauge if there are significant geographical differences in how people think about the environment and the future of the planet.

Edinburgh College of Art postgraduate student Mr Quast said: "We are at a pivotal point in this planet's history. Our present ecological decisions will have a massive impact on the future for all Earth's inhabitants. This project will create a culturally-inspired message in a bottle capturing global perspectives that will travel into space for eons."

The public are invited to visit the official website

http://www.asimpleresponse.org

and leave their contributions to be broadcast into the cosmos.

The website is available in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. German, Arabic, Russian and Mandarin will be available soon.

Story Source:

The above post is reprinted from materials provided by University of Edinburgh. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.

[Capt.Kangaroo]

Astronaut Scott Kelly is home


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NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is back on Earth.

Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Sergey Volkov landed late Monday night in the Kazakhstan desert, NASA and Russian mission control said.

Kelly could be seen pumping his fist and giving a thumbs up after being hoisted from the Russian Soyuz spacecraft that brought the trio back.

All three underwent field tests immediately after leaving the spacecraft.

Spending 340 days in space could affect a person's vision and bones, but Kelly said last week that physically, he feels pretty good. "I could go for another 100 days or 100 years," the astronaut said during his last briefing with reporters from orbit.

But the long stay has also been lonely. "The hardest part is being isolated from people on the ground who are important to you," he said.

The space veteran said he has witnessed some of the most amazing scenes of Earth during his mission, like spotting the northern lights, passing over the Bahamas and watching huge storms like Hurricane Patricia

more..

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/01/us/astronaut-scott-kelly-one-year-mission-ending/index.html?sr=fbCNN030216astronaut-scott-kelly-one-year-mission-ending0634AMVODtopLink&linkId=21818482

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[ilan]

Area 51: Testing facility or nucleus of alien research?

It’s shown up in movies, television shows, comics, novels, video games, and more. This week, we go in depth exploring the one, the only Area 51. If you want more conspiratorial weirdness, check out our previous looks at the Hall of Records, Stonehenge, and the Voynich Manuscript.

Area 51
About 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas, on the shore of a salt flat known as Groom Lake, lies Homey Airport, a United States Air Force facility that is much more commonly known as Area 51. Though not its official name, the name given to the facility in Vietnam-era CIA documents has stuck, due largely to its ominous sound and its prevalence in other media.

There’s a lot that we don’t know about Area 51 — in fact, we know shockingly little about the facility with any certainty — as even its primary reason for existing is kept under lock and key. While it’s not technically a “secret base,” that’s largely a semantic distinction, as it is surrounded by special-use airspace and everything that goes on inside of it is regarded as Top Secret.

In fact, even though the site had been a fixture in pop culture for years at that point, the CIA didn’t even publicly acknowledge that the base existed until 2013, and only then as a response to a Freedom of Information Act request from back in 2005. Unfortunately, while those documents did shed some light on how the base had been historically used, pointing toward it being a site meant for the development and testing of new aircraft and weapons, they still leave a lot of questions unanswered, and leave conspiracy theorists, naturally, unsatisfied.

First up? The name. “Area 51” was used by the CIA during the Vietnam war, but it’s still unclear where the name actually came from. The more mundane guesses have to do with the grid developed by the Atomic Energy Commission. But the problem with that answer is that there is no Area 51. This has been explained as being kind of the point, as the name was perhaps chosen because it wouldn’t ever be confused with a AEC number, but that explanation is somewhat lacking. As you might imagine, there are countless theories — most wholly unsubstantiated — as to the real meaning behind the site’s name.

What we do know is this: The test facility was first set up by the CIA back in 1955 as part of the development of the Lockheed U-2 spy plane. Given the fact that we were hip deep in the Cold War at that point, secrecy was of the utmost importance, which is why such a remote location was chosen (along with the ease of testing aircraft over such flat areas of land). The area was euphemistically christened “Paradise Ranch,” which was originally an attempt to lure workers to the area, but has since become just another source of conspiracy theories.

Groundbreaking and high-tech (but for this column’s purposes, not really all that interesting) aerodynamic tests and development continued to take place at the facility through the 1960s. By the end of the decade, though, the site began to serve another purpose, testing rival fighter aircraft, most notably the Soviet MiGs, and even pitting them against domestic planes. Many Area 51 conspiracy theories deal with aircraft tests, though they are typically not just from outside the country, but outside of our galaxy.

Outside of this rather mundane test and development history, Area 51 remains inscrutable even to military pilots, who can be subject to severe disciplinary action if they go to parts of the facility for which they are not cleared. The Air Force itself, however, almost became subject to disciplinary action back in 1994, when a lawsuit was brought against the USAF and the Environmental Protection Agency for the burning of dangerous chemicals in open pits. Conspiracy theories were fueled not just by the suit itself, but by the government’s response, which included President Bill Clinton exempting Area 51 from environmental disclosure laws meant to protect the public. Since then, the President of the United States has extended the Area 51 exception each year, which is some of the rare acknowledgement that there is indeed something unusual or special about the site.

However, that’s not the only measure that the government has taken to continually shroud Area 51 in mystery. In 1974, astronauts on Skylab 4 had taken pictures of the site, which led to a series of CIA memos about whether the photos should be destroyed or not, though they did eventually see print. Plus, there’s the simple fact that the area is continually guarded by closed circuit camera, motion censors, and signs that prohibit photography and announce to passersby that the “use of deadly force is authorized.”

Like many popular sources of conspiracy theories, there are countless explanations for what’s really going on in Area 51, with all of the usual suspects represented: Weather manipulation, time travel, extraplanar entities, the New World Order, the Illuminati, and, most notably, aliens.

This should come as no surprise, given the site’s proximity to Nevada State Route 375, better known as the Extraterrestrial Highway due to repeated claims of UFO sighting and other alien activity. Area 51 is also said to be where the government conducts studies of captured alien technology, as well as of aliens itself, including samples that were said to have been found at Roswell. Despite their link in the public consciousness, however, Area 51 is not near Roswell — it’s in a completely different state and more than 900 miles away.

While Area 51 is extremely well-known, reputable information on it is exceedingly hard to come by. There have been examples of individuals who have claimed to have worked on any number of projects at the site, including underground railroads and flying discs recovered from alien spacecraft, as well as experiments into telepathy. But these claims raise a very important question: If their tales of a top secret alien laboratory are true, why would the CIA allow them to talk about it in public?

Of course, it’s easy to fall down the “Well, maybe that’s what they want you to think!” rabbit hole, but at best, all that line of thinking does is prove that there’s not definitely nothing happening at Area 51, which, double negatives aside, is pretty much meaningless. Still, this supreme secrecy, combined with a high concentration of UFO sightings in the area, has led to countless conspiracy theorists subscribing to any number of wild ideas about the purpose of Area 51 and what goes on behind its doors, and beneath its floors. Of course, skeptics readily discount those UFO sightings as a result of the government’s aircraft testing and people seeing what they want to see.

What do you think? Is Area 51 exactly what the government says it is? An Air Force research base kept under wraps in the name of national security? Or is there something, stranger, weirder, and perhaps more nefarious going on inside of it? Tell us below in the comments!

 http://www.geek.com/news/area-51-testing-facility-or-nucleus-of-alien-research-1649338/

[Capt.Kangaroo]

Thanks ilan.
Area 6 is a new test site thats starting to make the news now.

http://www.livescience.com/53967-area-6-tests-drone-planes.html

[Marley]

its funny the government give us the latest info but its 25 yrs old

[wickedjoker]

Probably will be the new test site for the new Long range bomber that was awarded to Northrop gonna be a beautiful plane.

http://breakingdefense.com/2015/11/why-northrop-won-the-lrs-bomber/

or they just using it as a base to spy on the american people...

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/03/09/pentagon-admits-has-deployed-military-spy-drones-over-us/81474702/

I love me a good conspiracy...