British scientists have deciphered a mysterious ancient clay tablet and believe they have solved a riddle over a giant asteroid impact more than 5,000 years ago.
Geologists have long puzzled over the shape of the land close to the town of Köfels in the Austrian Alps, but were unable to prove it had been caused by [...]
Clay tablet holds clue to asteroid mystery
Mixed signals from NASA about fate of Mars rover
NASA sent conflicting signals Monday evening about what an official told CNN is a planned $4 million budget cut in NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover program.
Initially the Rover program’s principle investigator, Steve Squyres, said one of two vehicles operating on the planet will be suspended because of the cut. He said he learned he would have [...]
NASA cut means no roving for Mars rover
Scientists plan to put one of the twin Mars rovers to sleep and limit the activities of the other robot to fulfill a NASA order to cut $4 million from the program’s budget, mission team members said Monday.
The news comes amid belt-tightening at NASA headquarters, which is under pressure to juggle Mars exploration and [...]
Aliens downed Tunguska meteorite to save Earth?
Aliens downed Tunguska meteorite to protect our planet from devastation, stated Russian scientist Yuriy Lavbin. He showed 10 quartz crystals that he found at the place of the meteorite’s crash. Several of the crystals have holes in between, so they can be united in a chain.
What could this chain serve for? Besides, some crystals have [...]
Google Joins MIT in Search for Earth-like Planets
“When starships transporting colonists first depart the solar system, they may well be headed toward a TESS-discovered planet as their new home.”
George R. Ricker, senior research scientist at the Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at MIT
Google has joined MIT scientists who are designing a satellite-based observatory -the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS)- [...]
Nearest star’s wobbles could reveal Earth’s twin
Another Earth may be orbiting the star next door, and we could detect its presence within a few years, a new study argues. A telescope trained permanently on Alpha Centauri should be able to pick up the slight stellar wobbles induced by a small, rocky, Earth-like planet.
Alpha Centauri lies just over 4 light years away [...]
7 Conspiracies that were actually disclosed
(Prescott Bush)
#7. The Business Plot
The Plan:
In 1933, group of wealthy businessmen that allegedly included the heads of Chase Bank, GM, Goodyear, Standard Oil, the DuPont family and Senator Prescott Bush tried to recruit Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler to lead a military coup against President FDR and install a fascist dictatorship in the [...]
