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UFO Report - "A conspiracy of men who cooperated with alien beings to create human alien hybrids."


Dang It! I hate it when stuff from the X-Files turns out to be true!

Background from The X-Files Wiki:

A hybrid is the genetically manipulated product of alien and human DNA as part of the colonization project run by the Syndicate. Some humans became hybrids via gene therapy while others were conceived through a hybridization process.

When the Syndicate concluded a sinister alliance with the alien colonists in 1973, an alien fetus was given to them in exchange for family members to be used as test subjects. This fetus granted them access to alien and allowed them to create a hybrid race between man and alien, paving the way for colonization. A scientific method was also taught so they could produce successful specimens; the Syndicate had previously invited Nazi and Japanese scientists to participate in early experiments using alien DNA taken from corpses found at the Roswell crash site in New Mexico with disastrous results. The alliance implied that Syndicate members and their families would be spared as they became hybrids and this hybrid race would become the colonists’ slave race. But the Syndicate didn’t simply agree to this; they secretly planned to elaborate a vaccine against the black oil so they could resist the hegemony. Based on the work of Russian geneticists who had found an interesting anomaly in identical twins, the Syndicate’s scientists managed to create healthy hybrid clone series. These clones had a human appearance so they could easily blend in, but had inherited the colonists’ caustic blood and some of their particular abilities such as breathing underwater and fast healing of the wounds. These attributes made them practically indestructible and they could only be killed using a weapon or an alien stiletto inserted at the base of the skull, the colonist race’s only vulnerable point. Some of these clones were produced using female abductees’ ova, others using human fetuses obtained in abortion clinics where Syndicate researchers worked. The embryo would grow in a tank filled with a greenish amniotic fluid until it had reached the desired development stage for the task assigned to the hybrid.

Now check out this gem from Yahoo! News UK:

Self-described ‘researchers’ have made some extraordinary claims about three-fingered mummies unearthed in Nazca Peru – hinting that the creatures may be alien.

The mummies were unearthed in 2015, and have been touted as evidence of ‘ancient aliens’ by UFO fans.

UFO researcher Steve Mera said this week that DNA tests show one of the bodies is 98.5% primate, related to humans, and 1.5% ‘unknown’.

Mera suggests that the creatures might be a new species of human.

Steve said, ‘We can confirm that we have evidence that the Maria body constitutes an incredible discovery.

‘A discovery that may cause us to alter our history books forever. She could be the most important discovery of the 21st Century. 
Others are sceptical – pointing to the fact that some of the ‘researchers’ involved in the find are trying to charge people to download information from their website.

The World Congress on Mummy Studies has described the find as a fraud, and calls it, ‘an irresponsible organized campaign of disinformation.’

Hoax debunking site Metabunk has a detailed analysis here.

Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual said, ‘I think the whole saga of finding these mummies is laughable and they are very probably fakes.

‘If you think about it how would humanoid aliens with three long fingers survive? They would be incredibly clumsy and it seems doubtful they would be capable of making a cup of tea let alone a flying saucer.

‘It also doesn’t look good that this Earth shattering news was originally fed to us via a website you have to subscribe to, rather than through officially recognised scientific channels.

‘At the end of they day this is fake news delivered in a slick fashion to indulge our fascination with ancient aliens and UFOs.’

I think that the folks over at Ancestry DNA could solve this mystery in a jiff! Okay we have your results ... your 75% South American Native ... 20% Northern African ... and 5% Gliese (A planet 22 light years from Earth). According to the family tree you submitted online and your DNA we determined that your family migrated from Gliese to Peru in 300 BC. Your test also revealed that you may be <2% Kepler-22b ... but we can't confirm that with any accuracy.

My friend, can your heart stand the shocking facts about bacteria from outer space?


It seems that Soviet scientists have had swabs full of alien goo for some time now. They just plum forgot about it.

Here is the story from our friends over at BGR News:

Science fiction has taught us to expect our first contact with alien life to be a momentous event, with radio signals from another civilization filling our airwaves and perhaps even the arrival of an alien spaceship or two. Reality is somewhat less exciting, and scientists have long expected our first discovery of extraterrestrial life to be on the microscopic scale. Now, the Russian space agency claims they may have stumbled upon just that, and it may have been hiding under our noses the entire time.

Russian cosmonauts have reportedly discovered tiny bacteria on a swab collected from outside the International Space Station, and they’re confident that the organisms didn’t originate on our planet. If the discovery can be confirmed, it would be the very first concrete evidence of extraterrestrial life. That’s a pretty big deal.

The swabs, which were collected years ago but seemingly overlooked, contained living bacteria which may have come from outer space. “Somehow these swabs reveal bacteria that were absent during the launch of the ISS module,” Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov explains. “That is, they have come from outer space and settled along the external surface. They are being studied so far and it seems that they pose no danger.”

Along with the purported alien bacteria, other bacteria thought to have originated on Earth was also found on the swabs. Surviving in the vacuum of space is no easy feat, and intense temperature fluctuations failed to kill the bacteria over the course of three years, which is mighty impressive. It’s unclear exactly how the researchers were able to differentiate between terrestrial bacteria and the alien bacteria that appeared within the same samples.

The bacteria was brought back to Earth on the swabs and is now being studied, though the Russian space agency says it shouldn’t be considered dangerous. The group apparently didn’t actually know the bacteria was present on the swab samples until it was returned to Earth for closer examination.

There will surely be plenty of scientific interest and certainly debate over where the bacteria originated, but if you’ve seen sci-fi movies you already know that the bacteria will become sentient and lead to the total destruction of the Earth within a few weeks anyway, so get your affairs in order.

I have to agree with the author here. In just about about every Sci-Fi film I've ever seen once this kinda stuff gets exposed to oxygen it comes to life and mutates into some sort of critter.

In the 1968 movie 'Green Slime' a group of astronauts stepped in some sort of bacteria while exploring an asteroid. They returned to their space station only to have the stuff mutate into a bunch of one-eyed things with tentacles that looked like dill pickles. You couldn't kill the things because they lived on energy and simply spawned new ones every time their blood (fluids?) was spilled from trying to shoot them.

I think that the exact same kind of scenario is likely to play out here.

My friends, can your hearts stand the shocking facts about one-eyed pickle monsters from outer space?

Dasvidaniya

Robot Apocalypse Update: Don't Date Robots!


From Yahoo!

It's been just short of a year since I locked eyes with Harmony, RealDoll's first sex robot, at her home in Southern California. It was an arresting experience that has remained cemented in memory. In that moment, I suddenly understood the uncanny valley, a theory posited by roboticist Masahiro Mori, nearly half a century prior. It attempts to explain the feeling of revulsion and eeriness that human onlookers experience when they encounter an artificial life-form that appears nearly, but not quite human.

Today, she's ventured out of the dimly lit R&D room at Abyss Creations to meet me at CES. On the eve of her debut, Harmony has ventured to the hotbed of consumer electronics with a new face, an updated AI and a few new friends.

When I first met Matt McMullen, Harmony's creator and human chaperone, he planned to launch what I've called the world's first commercially viable sex robot in late 2017. Harmony's AI would be customizable via an accompanying Android app, but with limitations. While he had plans for a male version and mused about other gender variations, Harmony would launch as an artificial female with porn star proportions.

Harmony failed to launch in 2017, but McMullen and his team have been hard at work, making improvements to Harmony's AI and the robotic head it's housed in. He's now targeting the end of this month for a release date, and while he's says he's still refining the pricing, Realbotix modular robotic heads should cost between $8,000 and $10,000 at launch.

Just minutes after the lights went out at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Harmony lit up in a hotel just across the street. Perched on a bust that could just as easily be used to display jewelry, she made small talk and recited a few dad jokes. After a year of contemplation, I no longer felt the same uneasiness I had during our first encounter. It could be that the novelty has worn off or the fact that Harmony was basically a head on a stick. It could have been CES AI fatigue, but the existential anxiety was gone.

Related: Do You Want A Real Reason To Be Afraid? The Robot Apocalypse Is Upon Us!

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New Documentary, Dr MegaVolt: From Geek to Superhero, to Premiere at Comic-Con

From PR Newswire

Filmmaker Victoria Charters announces the world premiere of her documentary, Dr MegaVolt: From Geek to Superhero, on Saturday, July 11, 2015 at Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival (http://www.comic-con.org/cci/film-festival). The 1-hour, 12-minute screening will take place in the Grand Ballroom D of the Manchester Grand Hyatt, 1 Market Place, San Diego, California, from 2:35 pm - 4:05 pm. The independent film features Austin Richards, PhD, aka Dr MegaVolt, a physicist who has been enchanting friends, colleagues, and the media since 1997 with his high-voltage performances employing Tesla coils while he is enclosed in a metal Faraday suit. The result is a spectacular "lightning" show.

The film chronicles Austin Richards' journey from a precocious and curious young boy who loved to play with electricity, to a graduate student at U.C. Berkeley where he built a giant Tesla coil. The movie highlights Dr MegaVolt's escapades as a legendary and popular performing artist at the Burning Man Festival in Nevada, as the guest star on many science-minded TV specials, and when he added a female performer, Victoria Charters, to his performance, delighting the audience with "his and her" high voltage adventures.

According to writer/director/producer Victoria Charters, "This is a story about the spirit of science and the intersection of art and science in Industrial Art. Themes explored include love of extreme experiences, a driving passion to understand the physical world through science, creativity and collaboration, invention, and ultimately the responsibility of "passing the baton" in a world where tactile learning is out and digital is in."

Dr MegaVolt: From Geek to Superhero digital video is now available for pre-order purchase on VHX: https://drmegavoltfromgeektosuperhero.vhx.tv/buy/dr-megavolt-from-geek-to-superhero; the scheduled release date is July 17, 2015.

For more information about Dr MegaVolt, please visit http://drmegavolt.com/ or his Internet Movie Database (IMDb) page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3905450. For additional information about the filmmaker, please go to Victoria Charter's IMDb page: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0153559.

Physicist builds Star Trek ‘Warp Drive’ in his garage


From Yahoo! News

Nebraskan Star Trek fan claims he can already ‘warp space’ and move objects forward using array he has built in his garage

A three-pound weight hanging in a frame shifts forward gently in an electrical field generated by a V-shaped motor array - and its creator claims this is the first step towards a real, working Star Trek Warp Drive.

David Pares of the University of Nebraska at Omaha claims that his low-power array (it uses just 100 watts, and is housed in his garage) “compresses the fabric of space.”

If true, it would be a gigantic leap forward for propulsion systems - and potentially the first step on Man’s journey to other star systems.

Others claim that the system (where the weight is electronically isolated inside a Faraday cage) is not compressing space at all, but air.

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The Real Rodan? - Ancestor of giant flying reptiles found in China


From The Times of India

Scientists have discovered fossil of the earliest and most primitive reptile, the largest known flying creature to have ever existed that lived some 163 million years ago.

Working on a fossil discovered in northwest China, scientists named the new pterosaur species Kryptodrakon progenitor.

The team led by University of South Florida (USF) paleontologist Brian Andres, James Clark of the GW Columbian College of Arts and Sciences and Xu Xing of the Chinese Academy of Sciences established it as the first pterosaur to bear the characteristics of the Pterodactyloidea, which would become the dominant winged creatures of the prehistoric world.

"This finding represents the earliest and most primitive pterodactyloid pterosaur, a flying reptile in a highly specialised group that includes the largest flying organisms," said Chris Liu, programme director in the National Science Foundation's Division of Earth Sciences.

"The research has extended the fossil record of pterodactyloids by at least five million years to the Middle-Upper Jurassic boundary about 163 million years ago," said Liu.

Kryptodrakon progenitor lived around the time of the Middle-Upper Jurassic boundary.

Through studying the fossil fragments, researchers also determined that the pterodactyloids originated, lived, and evolved in terrestrial environments - rather than marine environments where other specimens have been found.

The fossil is of a small pterodactyloid with a wingspan estimate of about 4.5 feet. Pterodactyloids - who went on to evolve into giant creatures, some as big as small planes - went extinct with the dinosaurs, about 66 million years ago.

Pterosaurs are considered close relatives to the dinosaurs, but are not dinosaurs themselves.

The discovery provides new information on the evolution of pterodactyloids. This area was likely a flood plain at the time the pterosaur lived, Andres said.

As the pterosaurs evolved, their wings changed from being narrow, which are more useful for marine environments, to being more broad near the origin of the pterodactyloids - helpful in navigating land environments.

"He (Kryptodrakon progenitor) fills in a very important gap in the history of pterosaurs. With him, they could walk and fly in whole new ways," Andres said.

The research was published in the journal Current Biology.

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1 in 5 Americans think Blu-Ray is a sea creature

From The New York Post

Maybe think twice the next time you try to talk tech.

A study has found that one in five Americans think that a Blu-ray is a sea animal, and one in 10 think the coding language to build websites, HTML, is a type of sexually transmitted infection.

The study was conducted by Vouchercloud.net, a coupons website looking to see how well its users know their tech jargon.

A spokeswoman for the company told the LA Times: “It seems that quite a few of us need to brush up on our tech definitions.”

On top of the hilarity of the HTML and Blu-ray confusions, there were a few more humorous findings.

— Nearly half thought that a “motherboard” was “the deck of a cruise ship,” not the main circuit board of a computer.

— A quarter thought that the measurement unit “gigabyte” was an insect commonly found in South America.

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This clear purple sea creature is proof the ocean is where aliens hide


From SPLOID

Say hi to the Portuguese man o' war. It's purple, it's clear, it looks like a balloon, it's painfully venomous, but it's not a jellyfish and you wouldn't have to convince me too hard that it's from an alien world. This Portuguese man o' war, which other than being a fantastic name, washed up on a beach to freak people out (and to expose the alien hideout that is the ocean).

Ken's opinion ... Alien Purple Sea Penis anyone.

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Harvard, MIT Scientists Create Real Lightsaber

Modern physics has taught us quite a lot about light and how it behaves, but some of what we thought we knew might not be entirely accurate. A team of scientists from MIT and Harvard have been herding photons through a cloud of super-cold atoms in an attempt to get them to do something that was once considered impossible — bind together. According to a new paper, they may have succeeded in creating a new form of matter entirely from photons, which is basically a lightsaber.

Conventional wisdom holds that photons are massless particles that don’t interact with each other, so how can they form molecules? The key was to create a special medium in which photons can interact strongly enough that they attract one another as if they have mass. This so-called “photonic matter” has been theorized for some time in scientific circles, but only in the abstract.

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Star Trek’s Capt Kirk turns down Branson’s space flight invitation because he’s scared of flying


As Captain James T Kirk he was ready to boldly go where no man has gone before.

But it's been claimed that William Shatner turned down the chance to travel into space aboard Virgin Galactic's Spaceship Two because he's scared of flying.

Virgin tycoon Sir Richard Branson said he offered the original Star Trek star the opportunity to be among the first extraterrestrial tourists because of his links with space.

But the billionaire said the 82-year-old Canadian actor turned down the offer because he's scared to take to the skies.

'He actually said he's frightened of airline travel - which is slightly disillusioning. Captain Kirk is scared of flying,' the Sun quoted Sir Richard as saying.

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Meet Fanny, the world's largest robot who's a fire-breathing walking DRAGON


Looking like a creature straight out of the Game of Thrones TV series, Fanny is a 30-foot high, fire-breathing mechanical dragon that can flap its 40-foot wings and walk on all fours.

Designed by German electronic firm, Zollner Elektronik AG, the creature is powered by four remote controls, a two-litre turbo diesel engine and a series of hydraulic valves.

The beast was created as part of the Tradinno project - a portmanteau of 'tradition' and 'innovation' - set up to build the dragon that features in German folk play Drachenstich.

Fanny was awarded the largest walking robot accolade in the 2014 edition of the Guinness World Records book.

The Drachenstich play, which means Spearing the Dragon or more literally, dragon stab, has been performed in the town of Furth im Wald for the past 500 years.

Its story is a take on the legend of Saint George and was adapted during the early 1950s to symbolise the threat of communism from the East.

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5 Reasons Humans Should Never Become Machines


Are humans doomed to a machine-like future of radically-enhanced lifespan and intelligence, but without the intangibles that have made our 200,000 year-old species so unique?

Using technology to stave off Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s or other neurological maladies is easy to justify. But is it inevitable that humans and machines will meld into a Borg-like future?

That is, something akin to the “Trekian” villains who appear to have all the personality of a side-by-side refrigerator.

“I don’t think it’s inevitable, but there are powerful forces pushing us in that direction,” said Nicholas Agar, a philosopher at New Zealand’s Victoria University of Wellington and the author of the books, “Humanity’s End” and the forthcoming “Truly Human Ehancement.”

“Whether we want that future is often presented as a simple picture,” he said. “But we need to practice defensive ethics and think about what could go wrong.”

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Fully restored Star Trek Galileo Spaceship to call Space Center Houston home July 31


Space Center Houston will publicly unveil Galileo, the newly restored spaceship prop featured in the 1967 Star Trek episode “The Galileo Seven” after a yearlong restoration project lead by Adam Schnieder, a die-hard Star Trek fan and memorabilia collector. The life-size spaceship will be on permanent display inside Space Center Houston’s Zero-G Diner and will be one of only a few exhibitions in the world where visitors can see iconic sci-fi history that has influenced generations of innovators.

“Science fiction, especially a series like Star Trek, has inspired many astronauts and engineers,” said Richard Allen, president and CEO of Space Center Houston. “This exciting new addition to our collection connects and aligns with our ongoing mission to motivate, stimulate and inspire young minds to consider careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).”

Actors from the Star Trek television series, made possible by Space City Con will be part of the memorable event including original Star Trek cast member Don Marshall who appeared in The Galileo Seven episode as Lt. Boma; Robert Picardo who played The Doctor on Star Trek: Voyager; Galvestonian Tracy Scoggins who portrayed a Cardassian scientist in an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as well as Monica Colby in the popular 1980s drama Dynasty; Denise Crosby who played Security Chief Tasha Yar in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Gil Gerard, who appeared as a Starfleet Admiral from the new episode Star Trek Phase II and is best known as Captain William Buck Rogers in Buck Rogers in the 25th Century as well as Marshall Teague who played supporting roles in both Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager.

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'Star Trek' tricorder becomes the real McCoy

You'll soon be able to embrace your inner Bones McCoy. Decades after "Star Trek" made the small device that could scan for vital signs famous, the medical tricorder is ready for prime time.

The small handheld medical reader used by Dr. Leonard McCoy in "Star Trek" has been replaced by a smartphone. The real-life tricorder is a sleek, square device called a Scanadu Scout that works with your phone.

The Scanadu can read your vitals in 10 seconds, measuring heart rate, temperature, respiratory rate, blood pleasure, ECG, and emotional stress. You hold it to your forehead and the information is wirelessly transmitted to your smartphone. It works on iOS and Android devices.

Founder and CEO Walter De Brouwer explained the Scanadu Scout is not just for doctors. He's looking to enable patients with an informative, easy-to-use device so they can play a larger role in the healing process.

"People need something cool, that they immediately understand and that they can have a relationship with their doctor." De Brouwer joked, "We don't want to make something just for retired engineers with a chronic disease."

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Two Young Boys Discover Bigfoot Bones In Massachusetts Woods ... Maybe?


From The Daily Mail (UK)

It sounds like the plot of a childhood adventure movie.

Two young boys stumble across a giant, decomposing foot in the woods, leaving local police to wonder whether the grisly find is evidence of the fabled Bigfoot.

But that's exactly what has happened in Massachusetts, U.S., where tests are being carried out on the mysterious remains amid speculation over exactly what kind of creature it belonged to.

According to a report on Discovery.com, the boys found the decomposing foot in woods in Quincy last month.

Baffled officers at the Lakeville Police Department sent the foot to medical examiners to see if they can shed any more light on its origin.

'On March 29, Sgt Steven Leanues picked up what appears to be a decomposed foot that the boys found in the woods off Pantheon Road,' it said, citing the Patriot Ledger newspaper.

'Police Chief Frank Alvihiera sent it to the medical examiner, who determined it is not human, although it appears to have five toes.'

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'Jurassic Park' For Real? Dino-Chicken Experiment Underway


From: NextMovie

Beware, good sir: Nature will find a way.

Montana State University paleontologist Jack Horner served as a consultant on "Jurassic Park," but apparently all of the film's cautionary elements -- like the fact that what you bring back to life could kill you -- went over his head, as he's set to create his own modern dinosaur hybrid.

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Somewhat luckily, Horner isn't looking to make a T-Rex (although apparently not for lack of trying) but a ... chicken.

A dino-chicken, anyway.

"The whole idea of making a dinosaur came from ["Jurassic Park" author Michael Crichton's] original idea," Horner told Hollywood.com. "I kept thinking, 'There's got to be a way to do this.'"

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Trekkies Rejoice The Holodeck May Become A Reality In Your Lifetime!


Kif - "The holo-shed's on the fritz again! The characters turned real!"
Zap Brannigan -  "Damn! The last time that happened, I got slapped with three paternity suits!"

From The Inquisitor

A Star Trek-like holodeck might be as little as 10 to 15 years away, according to a report by Elizabeth Howell for Universe Today. As all true Trekkies already know, the holodeck is what the official Star Trek fan site describes as a “smart virtual reality” that allows users to feel as if they’re immersed in an actual world.

Star Trek characters can program the illusion of being on vacation at the beach or they can step into the action of a suspense novel. They can also play games or simulate battles for training purposes. (Sorry, President Obama, but even the holodeck probably doesn’t allow anyone to perform a “Jedi mind meld.”)

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It sounds great, but the Star Trek franchise predicted that the holodeck technology won’t be mature until around the 2360s.

Now Phil Rogers, a 3D development expert for AMD, a micro processor manufacturer, has told Universe Today that the technology could come much sooner — maybe even as soon as the next decade. And they don’t plan to do it alone. AMD wants to target the open source community, so they plan to leave some of the architecture open to amateur programmers. “It would be the equivalent of letting somebody with C++ or Java experience into the hardware,” Howell suggested.

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Shatner and Nimoy campaign to name Pluto’s moon Vulcan

From Radio Times

The satellite is likely to be named after the fictional planet (or the Roman God, depending on your point of view) thanks to Captain Kirk and Mr Spock

The fictional planet Vulcan – home of Star Trek’s Mr Spock – could soon have a real-life namesake tracing its orbit through our very solar system thanks to the show's stars William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.

Shatner, who played Captain James T Kirk in the classic sci-fi series, successfully nominated Vulcan for inclusion in a public poll by The Seti Institute which will decide the names of two of Pluto's newly discovered moons, currently known simply as P4 and P5. Meanwhile, Nimoy, aka starship Enterprise first officer Mr Spock, told his 447,000 Twitter followers "'Vulcan' is the logical choice. LLAP".

The duo's support seems to have done the trick – with less than three days until the poll closes, Vulcan is way out in front with over 13,000 votes, 5,000 more than its nearest rival.

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Mark Showalter of Seti (the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) said "Vulcan is the Roman god of lava and smoke, and the nephew of Pluto... Any connection to the Star Trek TV series is purely coincidental" but admitted "We can be sure that [Star Trek creator] Gene Roddenberry read the classics. Thanks to William Shatner for the suggestion!"

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What The Hell Is This?


Look out New Jersey a giant penis with a mouth like a shark is hiding in your water!

Source: The Blaze

This photo of a creepy-looking “alien-like” creature found in New Jersey has gone viral on Reddit, registering more than 400,000 views in just six hours after being posted Friday. And before you write the photo off as a fake, keep reading to hear the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) confirm the creature in the photo appears to be real.

According to the New York DEC, the creature, which unfortunately met its end after a sharp spear pierced its body, appears to be a very large sea lamprey.

“The photo doesn’t allow counting of gill openings (seven per side for sea lamprey), but based on size alone, this does appear to be a sea lamprey,” a spokeswoman for the agency told GrindTV.com.

However, it should still be noted that there is always the possibility the picture has been photoshopped to make the sea lamprey look larger, or it could just be the camera angle.

Sea lampreys are eel-like, jawless, boneless parasites equipped with mouths full of sharp teeth and a file-like tongue, according to the NY Department of Environmental Conservation. As if they weren’t creepy enough, juvenile lampreys apparently latch onto other fish and drain them of bodily fluids. “Most often, the prey, or host fish, dies as a result of either blood loss or infection,” GrindTV.com notes, which accurately labeled the creature “alien-like.”

“It sucks the life out of fish,” one Redditor commented.

Before moving out to sea to live off a host fish, sea lampreys spend their “egg and larval stages” in fresh water. They become parasitic once their bodies form and they are ready to go out to sea.

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In Case You Missed It Russia Clobbered By Meteor .... Again


From Pravda

The Russian Academy of Sciences, which investigates the unexpected "meteor attack" in the Urals, has shared preliminary results with the general public.

"According to our estimates, the body was a few meters large, it weighed about ten tons, and its power was a few kilotons. The celestial body entered the atmosphere at the speed of 15-20 kilometers per second, collapsed at an altitude of 30-50 kilometers, and the movement of fragments at high speed caused powerful glow and a strong shock wave. The bulk of the material of the falling body evaporated, the remaining pieces slowed down and could fall to the ground as meteorites," ITAR-TASS quoted the press service of the RAS.

The flight of the meteorite in the sky over the Chelyabinsk region was accompanied with three explosions of varying power, the chairman of the regional branch of the Russian Geographical Society, Sergey Zakharov said. "From what I saw, the balls of fire were flying from the south-east to north-west. There were three explosions that were preceded with a bright flash of light, with a temperature of approximately 2,500 degrees Centigrade. The first explosion was the strongest," the scientist said.

According to most recent information from the Interior Ministry, as many as 1,200 people suffered from the meteor attack. The local authorities have evaluated the damage at one billion rubles.

A report from the Russian Geographical Society said it was a bolide explosion, rather than a meteor shower. "A bolide is a large celestial body, actually a large meteor, that exploded when entering the lower, denser layers of the atmosphere, and showered the ground with debris, - said Zakharov. - A meteor shower is practically safe - it is a flow of crushed rocks falling from space. Repeat: we had a fireball, or a bolide explosion."



"A Bright white flash of light was so intense that it fully illuminated the huge yard of the apartment building where I live, - the scientist shared his personal impressions. - Its brightness was increasing incrementally - the flash lasted for about five seconds in total. Everything was happening in absolute silence. The sound that is, the shock wave, came six minutes later. Immediately after the explosion dogs started whining, flocks of pigeons flew up into the sky, car alarms went on. Nobody could understand what had happened ....."

According to experts, the explosion occurred at the height of about 60-70 km. The estimated power of the blast is 1 - 10 kilotons. "But according to measurements from the other side of the city, the height could be 30 km. In this case, the power of the explosion was from 0.1 to 1 kiloton. The epicenter of the explosion was to the south of Chelyabinsk," said the scientist.

Meanwhile, Interior Ministry officials said that two fragments of the meteorite were found in the Chebarkul district of the Chelyabinsk region. Another one was found in Zlatoust.

Official representative of the Central Military District, Yaroslav Roshchupkin, said that the military had found the location of the meteorite fall. The diameter of the crater is six meters.

EMERCOM officials are careful in their comments about the recovered fragments of the space body. "The fragments range from 5 mm to 1 cm. We do not have any precise information yet," officials told Interfax.



The Russian president is concerned about the situation with the fall of the meteorite, ITAR-TASS said. He held a meeting with the head of the Russian Emergencies Ministry, in which Minister Vladimir Puchkov requested Moscow specialists should be sent to the Chelyabinsk region.

The fall of the meteorite in the Chelyabinsk region affected, according to latest reports, up to 600 local residents. Dozens were hospitalized. "As many as 571 people have asked for help, 34 were hospitalized," officials said. Two victims remain in a serious condition. Meanwhile, according to the governor of the Chelyabinsk region, 725 people sought medical treatment, including 159 children.

Many people are still shocked about what happened. An employee of one of the branches of The Post of Russia was hospitalized with a heart attack. The blast frightened many children, who were at school at the time of the incident.



More than 100,000 square meters of windows have been smashed in the Chelyabinsk region as a result of the explosion. A total of almost 3,000 apartment buildings have been damaged. To repair the shattered windows, the local authorities want to resort to the help of a local glass factory. However, the number of workers at the plant is not enough to help people quickly, so the authorities seek the assistance of volunteers.

Windows were shatters in 34 medical institutions, 361 child care centers, schools and kindergartens.

As of 8:00 p.m. local time, February 16, the number of victims increased to 985 people. Forty-three people were hospitalized. Two remain in a critical condition. No casualties have been reported.

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The Tunguska event was an enormously powerful explosion that occurred near (and later struck) the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, at about 7:14 a.m. KRAT (00:14 UT) on June 30 [O.S. June 17], 1908.The explosion, having the epicenter (60.886°N, 101.894°E), is believed to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment at an altitude of 5–10 kilometers (3–6 mi) above the Earth's surface. Different studies have yielded widely varying estimates of the object's size, on the order of 100 meters (330 ft), It is the largest impact event on or near Earth in recorded history. The number of scholarly publications on the problem of the Tunguska explosion since 1908 may be estimated at about 1,000 (mainly in Russian). Many scientists have participated in Tunguska studies, the best-known of them being Leonid Kulik, Yevgeny Krinov, Kirill Florensky, Nikolai Vladimirovich Vasiliev, and Wilhelm Fast.


At around 7:17 a.m. local time, Evenks natives and Russian settlers in the hills northwest of Lake Baikal observed a column of bluish light, nearly as bright as the Sun, moving across the sky. About 10 minutes later, there was a flash and a sound similar to artillery fire. Eyewitnesses closer to the explosion reported the sound source moving east to north. The sounds were accompanied by a shock wave that knocked people off their feet and broke windows hundreds of kilometers away. The majority of witnesses reported only the sounds and the tremors, not the sighting of the explosion. Eyewitness accounts differ as to the sequence of events and their overall duration.



The explosion registered on seismic stations across Eurasia. In some places the shock wave would have been equivalent to an earthquake of 5.0 on the Richter scale. It also produced fluctuations in atmospheric pressure strong enough to be detected in Great Britain. Over the next few days, night skies in Asia and Europe were aglow; it has been theorized that this was due to light passing through high-altitude ice particles formed at extremely low temperatures, a phenomenon that occurred again when the Space Shuttle re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. In the United States, the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Mount Wilson Observatory observed a decrease in atmospheric transparency that lasted for several months, from suspended dust. - Wiki