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[ilan]

Obama 'alien contact' quip fuels rumours 2016 WILL be the year of UFO disclosure

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama has refused to deny the existence of aliens fuelling hopes among UFO believers 2016 will be the year the truth comes from "out there" to over here.

By JON AUSTIN
PUBLISHED: 14:49, Tue, Feb 16, 2016 | UPDATED: 15:41, Tue, Feb 16, 2016

Obama, who will give up office in January 2017, was put on the spot by a six-year-old girl who pulled no punches during a Q&A at a filming of the Ellen DeGeneres Show.

The direct youngster, Macey Hensley, asked Obama about the fabled "Book of Secrets" from the 2007 National Treasure movie of the same name starring Nicholas Cage, reported The Wall Street Journal.

In the film the legendary book is said to contain details about the top-secret military "alien base" Area 51 and the assasination of President Kennedy, and Obama has previously joked about having seen it.

Macey asked the president if it did indeed did hold information about contact with aliens, but he said: "That’s a secret.”

The girl theorised to Mr Obama that the “secrets” in the book could say whether “aliens are real".

According to a report by breitbart.com, the president replied: "We haven’t actually made direct contact with aliens yet.

“When we do, I’ll let you know.”

Previous presidents, including Bill Clinton, have reacted in a similar tongue-in-cheek fashion when put on the spot over the alien question.

And Obama's refusal to out right deny the existence of aliens to the girl has buoyed alien chasers that 2016 will be a turning point for so called alien disclosure.

It could be down to the X-Files returning to our screens this year, but conspiracy theorists and UFO hunters have been in overdrive since Hilary Clinton vowed in January she would send a task force into Area 51 to see what is going on there and get to the bottom of what the White House knows about aliens if she gets elected.

The disclosure movement want all world governments, and particularly the US, to release all confidential files they hold on aliens and UFOs.

There has already been much speculation about this year being the time for disclosure.

This was bolstered by an Express.co.uk explosive report yesterday which revealed a former US navy officer has contacted investigators to break his silence over thousands of confidential UFO files he claims to have seen, including some containing so-called "alien hieroglyphs."

One disclosure conspiracist, 34, told Express.co.uk: "Whenever a US president or senior official is put on the spot they get this smile and say something like 'I couldn't tell you even if I knew'…or something like that.

"You will never get a total denial, but it is a double bluff.

"Take what Obama just said to the girl 'we haven't made DIRECT contact.' He says it like they know they are there, so what about indirect contact? They can't hold it in much longer."

[ilan]

Hubble finds 'monster stars'

By Todd Leopold, CNN, Updated 1:40 PM ET, Fri March 18, 2016

(CNN)There are monsters in the universe.

That's the description of stars photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope, which took a shot of the R136 star cluster and revealed nine stars more than 100 times the mass of the sun, according to a statement from spacetelescope.org.

Hubble is operated by the European Space Agency and NASA.

One of the stars is R136a1, the most massive star known in the universe. Even the lesser stars in R136 are huge: "Dozens" of them exceed 50 sun masses, said the release.

They're also incredibly bright, with the nine largest stars together outshining the sun by a factor of 30 million.

R136 is about 170,000 light years away, in the Tarantula Nebula within the Large Magellanic Cloud. To give an idea of this distance, Alpha Centauri -- the closest star system to Earth -- is about 4.3 light years away, or about 25 trillion miles.

The discovery offers more information on star formation -- and, in terms of the cosmic scale, just in time. Massive stars live for only a few million years before going supernova.

Paul Crowther, a University of Sheffield astrophysicist and lead author of the study, praised Hubble for the revelations.

"Once again, our work demonstrates that, despite being in orbit for over 25 years, there are some areas of science for which Hubble is still uniquely capable," he said.

The results will be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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[ilan]

For the first time, scientists have been given a look at the moment of extreme brightness when a star goes supernova in visible light.

In fact, not one, but two exploding stars were captured by the Kepler space telescope in 2011. Two red supergiants exploded in what are known as Type II supernovae, which occur when the star's core collapses and violently explodes in rapid succession. The shockwave, or shock breakout, of this explosion only lasts about 20 minutes, so capturing one of these events is incredible.

The international team, led by astrophysics professor Peter Garnavich of the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, went looking for supernovae in the Kepler data. They analysed data from a three-year period, wherein Kepler captured images every 30 minutes, covering over 500 galaxies and 50 trillion stars.

Cassiopeia A, a nebula left behind after a Type IIb supernova. Until now, these remnants were the best way to study exploding stars.

They found what they were looking for with KSN 2011a and KSN 2011d. The first of the two supernovae occurred some 700 million light-years away, with a star nearly 300 times the size of the sun. The second occurred 1.2 billion light-years away, with a star around 500 times that of the sun.

Their research has been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal and is available to read in full on arXiv

Although both supernovae showed similar energy levels, and closely matched the mathematical models for Type II supernovae, only KSN 2011d was followed by a shock breakout.

This is not disappointing. By comparing the two very similar events, the team was able to look at the differences between them to figure out why one had a shock breakout and one did not. In the case of KSN 2011a, the team hypothesises that a gas cloud around the star absorbed or masked the shock breakout.

"That is the puzzle of these results," said Garnavich. "You look at two supernovae and see two different things. That's maximum diversity."

This discovery is important because actually observing an event in action will allow scientists to gauge much more accurately how that event came to pass. And understanding supernovae will help understand how not just elements, but life itself, have been scattered throughout the universe. This is in keeping with Kepler's mission to find life outside the solar system.

"All heavy elements in the universe come from supernova explosions. For example, all the silver, nickel, and copper in the Earth and even in our bodies came from the explosive death throes of stars," said Steve Howell, project scientist for NASA's Kepler and K2 missions.

"Life exists because of supernovae."

[ilan]

Mystery Object Slams into Jupiter


Note bright spot of impact on right side

Video and news story...

 http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/30/world/object-hits-jupiter-irpt/index.html

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ITER is the name of a gigantic machine that will change the world in 2022. The budget used for its construction is 12,000 billion surpassing that of the International Space Station, the Apollo missions and the Manhattan Project. The function of this machine will create infinite energy for the planet through nuclear fusion. For this, the machine will be able to create a small-scale sun. The problem arises when many scientists say there is immense to try to stabilize the sun inside the machine, getting to think about the possibility of creating a black hole danger. This project in turn holds something far darker, laser use atomic weapons enhancer, capable of erasing any target from space. What dark intentions are hidden by the creation of this machine?

Scary stuff, check the link for info

https://www.iter.org/

[ilan]

Seems like they'd have to have a couple of thousand troops guarding this thing from the air, the land and the sea. If it fell into the wrong hands or was tampered with, it sounds like the apocalypse could be unleashed.

Of course, this reminds me a little of the fears in the 1930's that the first atomic bomb test would destroy the planet.

"There was a fear that the detonation of that first bomb would also initiate the destruction of the world. This fear was based on the exceedingly small but finite probability that the explosion of this bomb would initiate an unstoppable chain reaction in the most common element in the world: hydrogen. Their fears were perhaps not totally unfounded, as a rumor persists that the energy liberated by that bomb exceeded the very best theoretical calculations by as much as twenty percent, begging the question 'where did it come from?'

 http://www.scienceiq.com/Facts/AtomicAndHydrogenBombs.cfm

[Marley]

Stephen Hawking announces $100 million hunt for alien life

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/07/20/stephen-hawking-announces-100-million-hunt-for-alien-life/

[ilan]

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From the American Museum of Natural History

"What may have started as a science fiction speculation — that perhaps the universe as we know it is a computer simulation — has become a serious line of theoretical and experimental investigation among physicists, astrophysicists, and philosophers.

"On April 5, watch live as host and moderator Neil deGrasse Tyson, Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium, and a panel of experts hold a lively discussion about the merits and shortcomings of this provocative and revolutionary idea."

The debate will feature the following panelists:

David Chalmers: Professor of philosophy, New York University
Zohreh Davoudi: Theoretical physicist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
James Gates: Theoretical physicist, University of Maryland
Lisa Randall: Theoretical physicist, Harvard University
Max Tegmark: Cosmologist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

- To watch and see more visit:

http://www.space.com/17933-nasa-television-webcasts-live-space-tv.html#sthash.efVbEg6Y.dpuf