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Originally posted by Phage
Right. It is no big deal because the MSM gets it so very wrong.
Maybe, just maybe, if they could get it right, if they could do it without the sensationalist nonsense.
Originally posted by fieryjaguarpaw
I've been wondering when people were going to start posting anomolies from LRO.
Originally posted by FlyInTheOintment
For what it's worth Zorgon, I thought that pic was a good find.
Compared to how they've always treated the subject, it's clear their attitudes have quickly shifted since the start of this year.
Originally posted by IgnoreTheFacts
Yeah, but Zorgon you have to admit that one little press conference, carried without editing or sensationalism get lost in the noise of all the other sensationalism.
The small amount of serious news coverage this stuff gets is overshadowed by, well......sensational foolishness. Us "skeptics" are smart enough to understand in order to win this battle we are all fighting together we must work towards creating an environment where sensationalism is the exception, and not the norm.
Zorg, I know for a FACT you are a smart man. So that means I know you know exactly what I am talking about here.
Originally posted by zorgon
I see no threads made by ANY skeptics about recent articles covered in this thread.
Well judging by the huge number of threads on all this, and the number of posts, I would say your wrong NOTHING is getting lost in the noise. People are excited about the recent events. No amount of 'bullying' by the other side will really change that.
I may be completely wrong, but I feel confident serious progress is being made, I've never had such faith in the possibility of disclosure
Venus Flyby
Picture this: A spaceship swoops in from the void, plunging toward a cloudy planet about the size of Earth. A laser beam lances out from the ship; it probes the planet's clouds, striving to reach the hidden surface below. Meanwhile, back on the craft's home world, scientists perch on the edge of their seats waiting to see what happens. Sounds like science fiction? This is real, and it's happening today.
Moon Fountains
When astronauts return to the Moon in the years ahead, they might encounter electrified fountains and other strange things.
Here on Earth we see something similar: crepuscular rays. These are shafts of light and shadow cast by mountain ridges at sunrise or sunset. We see the shafts when they pass through dusty air. Perhaps the Moon's "twilight rays" are caused, likewise, by mountain shadows passing through levitating moondust.
Moon Storms
Every lunar morning, when the sun first peeks over the dusty soil of the moon after two weeks of frigid lunar night, a strange storm stirs the surface.
Here's some declassified documents from Project Saucer in Brazil
Originally posted by Phage
No? I guess I'm not considered a skeptic.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
With at least two potentially habitable planets and the most Earth-like planet discovered so far, the Gliese 581 system is one of the best candidates for life outside our Solar System
After the final message was collected on Monday 24 August 2009, messages were exported as a text file and sent to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, where they were encoded into binary, packaged and tested before transmission. The resulting collection beeps and pauses (on and off radio signals) was sent back to Australia to the NASA/CSIRO Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex at Tidbinbilla. At midday on Friday 28 August 2009, the 70-metre main antenna, known as DSS43, transmitted the signal to Gliese 581d at a frequency of 7.145 gigahertz and a power of 18 kilowatts.
Using the Hubble Space Telescope astronomers were able to detect a small amount of methane and water vapour in the upper atmosphere of the planet named HD 189733b.
Planets outside our Solar System may have orange, yellow, red or even black plant life, according to a new NASA study. Scientists with the U.S. space agency have studied how light is absorbed and reflected by plants on Earth, to predict what vegetation might look like on planets which have different atmospheres and orbit different stars. Published in the latest issue of the journal Astrobiology, the find may prove valuable in helping scientists recognise life on extrasolar planets. According to Nancy Kiang, lead author of the study and bio-meteorologist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, the light that hits the surface of other planets is likely to be very different to the sunlight we see. This is because not all stars emit the same distribution of wavelengths of light and not all atmospheres filter light in the same way.
A new space-based telescope costing about A$12.3 billion (US$10 billion) could detect alien life on extrasolar planets using technology already available today, said Steve Beckwith, author of the report and astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley.
Originally posted by Phage
You can hear her speak here:
www.abovetopsecret.com...
The message is encoded in binary and sent at a radio frequency at a particular bandwidth. To receive the message, Gliesians would need a radio receiver, and to understand it, the ability to interpret its binary nature (binary language, the language used by computers, consists of a series of zeroes and ones or on-and-off settings in a pattern).
Anyone can send a message to aliens - if they're listening, and are from a star very close by, aliens have already enjoyed TV and radio signals that form part of the general background radio noise of our planet. But if any aliens respond, Earth protocol steps in. Response to any non-human communication received from another planet needs to be coordinated by the SETI Post-Detection Taskgroup of the International Academy of Astronautics, chaired by Paul Davies.