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Sept 22, 2012 12:17:37 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Sept 22, 2012 12:17:37 GMT -6
gizmodo.com/5942634/nasa-starts-development-of-real-life-star-trek-warp-drive NASA Starts Work on Real Life Star Trek Warp Drive[/color] Jesus Diaz Sep 17, 2012 "Perhaps a Star Trek experience within our lifetime is not such a remote possibility." These are the words of Dr. Harold "Sonny" White, the Advanced Propulsion Theme Lead for the NASA Engineering Directorate. Dr. White and his colleagues don't just believe a real life warp drive is theoretically possible; they've already started the work to create one. Yes. A real warp drive, Scotty. When it comes to space exploration, we are still cavemen. We got to the Moon and sent some badass robot to Mars. We also have those automatic doors that swoosh wide open when you get near them, but that's about it. It's cool, but we are far from being the space civilization we'll need to become to survive for millennia. With our current propulsion technologies, interstellar flight is impossible. Even with experimental technology, like ion thrusters or a spaceship's aft pooping freaking nuclear explosions, it would require staggering amounts of fuel and mass to get to any nearby star. And worse: it will require decades—centuries, even—to get there. The trip will be meaningless for those left behind. Only the ones going forward in search for a new star system would enjoy the result of the colossal effort. It's just not practical. So we need an alternative. One that would allow us to travel extremely fast without breaking the laws of physics. Or as Dr. White puts it: "we want to go, really fast, while observing the 11th commandment: Thou shall not exceed the speed of light." CONTINUE READING: gizmodo.com/5942634/nasa-starts-development-of-real-life-star-trek-warp-drive
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Sept 23, 2012 14:00:06 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Sept 23, 2012 14:00:06 GMT -6
UFOTV® Presents : MOONWALKERS - Untold Story [/color] Published on Aug 27, 2012 by UFOTVstudios This program takes you on a journey, through the events of all the Manned Apollo Missions to the Moon's surface. From the launch pad, to touchdown on the Moon's surface, to splashdown safely back on Earth, this feature film provides clear evidence that NASA's Missions to the Moon did in fact actually happen. Coming to DVD from NASAFLIX and UFOTV - Go to www.UFOTV.com
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Nov 20, 2012 18:30:00 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Nov 20, 2012 18:30:00 GMT -6
Call for Feedback as We Prepare the Next NASA.gov We are starting on the next version of what NASA.gov looks like and want to know what you think. Do you like something you've seen? Is something missing? How do you interact with NASA online? Where else do you get your NASA news from? We have set up an online forum at Ideascale to take your feedback. You can offer ideas of your own or comment and vote on others' suggestions. We will take all the data and do some prototyping, then see what you think. www.nasa.gov/
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Dec 14, 2012 17:07:31 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Dec 14, 2012 17:07:31 GMT -6
NASA Progressing Toward First Launch of Orion SpacecraftDec. 13, 2012 — Recent engineering advances by NASA and its industry partners across the country show important progress toward Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), the next step to launching humans to deep space. The uncrewed EFT-1 mission, launching from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in 2014, will test the re-entry performance of the agency's Orion capsule, the most advanced spacecraft ever designed, which will carry astronauts farther into space than ever before. "These recent milestones are laying the foundation for our first flight test of Orion in 2014," said Dan Dumbacher, deputy associate administrator for exploration systems development at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "The work being done to prepare for the flight test is really a nationwide effort and we have a dedicated team committed to our goal of expanding the frontier of space." A tool that will allow the titanium skeleton of the Orion heat shield to be bolted to its carbon fiber skin is at the Denver facility of the spacecraft's prime contractor Lockheed Martin. This will enable workers to begin assembling the two pieces of the heat shield. Almost 3,000 bolts are needed to hold the skeleton to the skin. A special stand was built to align the skin on the skeleton as holes for the bolts are drilled. Work to bolt the skeleton to the skin will be completed in January. The heat shield then will be shipped to Textron Defense Systems near Boston where the final layer, an ablative material very similar to that used on the Apollo spacecraft, will be added. The completed heat shield is scheduled to be ready for installation onto the Orion crew module at Kennedy next summer. To test the heat shield during EFT-1's re-entry, Orion will travel more than 3,600 miles above Earth's surface, 15 times farther than the International Space Station's orbital position. This is farther than any spacecraft designed to carry humans has gone in more than 40 years. Orion will return home at a speed almost 5,000 mph faster than any current human spacecraft. This week, engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., received materials to begin manufacturing the adapter that will connect the Orion capsule to a United Launch Alliance Delta IV heavy-lift rocket for EFT-1. Two forward and two aft rings will be welded to barrel panels to form two adapters. This adapter design will be tested during EFT-1 for use during the first launch of NASA's next heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), in 2017. SLS will launch NASA's Orion spacecraft and other payloads beyond low Earth orbit, providing an entirely new capability for human exploration. Data from the adapter on the flight test will provide Marshall engineers with invaluable experience developing hardware early in the design process. Designing the adapter once for multiple flights also provides a cost savings. Of the two adapters welded at Marshall, one will attach Orion to the Delta IV heavy-lift rocket used for EFT-1. The other adapter will be a structural test article to gain knowledge on the design. NASA's Ground Systems Development and Operations (GSDO) Program also has passed a major agency review that lays the groundwork at Kennedy to support future Orion and SLS launches. www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121213204902.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily%2Fmatter_energy+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Matter+%26+Energy+News%29
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Dec 17, 2012 13:08:09 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Dec 17, 2012 13:08:09 GMT -6
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Dec 17, 2012 13:22:39 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Dec 17, 2012 13:22:39 GMT -6
www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/dec/17/nasa-crash-spacecraft-moon?CMP=twt_gu Nasa to crash two spacecraft into moon at nearly 4,000mph[/color] With fuel running low, Nasa took decision to stage 'controlled descent and impact' of probes into site near moon's north pole Press Association guardian.co.uk, Monday 17 December 2012 The spacecraft will be flown into a mountain on the edge of a crater near the moon’s north pole. Photograph: John Korduner/Icon SMI/Corbis Two spacecraft orbiting the moon are ending their mission by crashing into a lunar mountain at almost 4,000mph. The twin gravity recovery and interior laboratory (Grail) probes, known as Ebb and Flow, have spent almost a year mapping the moon's gravity in unprecedented detail. With their fuel running low, US space agency Nasa took the decision to stage a "controlled descent and impact". The alternative would have been to let the probes crash randomly which may have damaged places of historic interest, such as the Apollo landing sites. The spacecraft will be flown into a mountain on the edge of a crater near the moon's north pole. Both will hit the surface at 10.28pm UK time at a speed of 3,760mph. There will be no spectacular images of the impact because the region will be in shadow. Grail principal investigator Maria Zuber, from Massachusetts Institute of Technology said: "It is going to be difficult to say goodbye. Our little robotic twins have been exemplary members of the Grail family and planetary science has advanced in a major way because of their contributions." In one final experiment, the probes will fire their main engines until they have run out of fuel to determine the precise amount of propellant left in their tanks. This will help Nasa engineers come up with more accurate predictions of the fuel needs of future missions. www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/dec/17/nasa-crash-spacecraft-moon?CMP=twt_gu
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Dec 20, 2012 16:49:46 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Dec 20, 2012 16:49:46 GMT -6
www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/20/nasa-z1-spacesuit_n_2333909.html NASA Z-1 Spacesuit Prototype Looks Like Buzz Lightyear's Getup (VIDEO, PHOTOS)The Huffington Post | By Ryan Grenoble Posted: 12/20/2012 12:24 NASA's spacesuits are designed to go lots of places, but does that include "to infinity and beyond?" The agency's new Z-1 prototype suit bears an uncanny resemblance to the suit of Buzz Lightyear, the cartoon hero who made that phrase famous in Disney's animated "Toy Story" movies, io9.com notes. NASA hasn't made significant changes to its suits since 1992, when human space exploration was limited mostly to trips aboard the International Space Station (ISS) and the Space Shuttle. But now that the shuttle has been retired and there's renewed interest in mounting manned missions to the moon, Mars, and even asteroids, NASA reports the spacesuit is due for some serious upgrades. Perhaps most significant, the suit features a "rear-entry" system with a hatch in back that can latch directly onto a spaceship, rover, or habitat, Gizmag reports. That suggests astronauts could enter and exit the suit without having to go through an airlock, which takes time and wastes air. What, exactly, will be expected of the new suit? Nearly everything, according to NASA spacesuit engineer Amy Ross. “It’s like you’re trying to go on vacation, but you don’t know if you’re going to Antarctica, Miami, or Buckingham Palace,” she explained to UberGizmo about an earlier version of the Z-1 prototype in July. “We’re building a lot of tools for the toolbox. Right now we’re asked to be very flexible.” SEE SLIDE SHOW: www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/20/nasa-z1-spacesuit_n_2333909.html
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Dec 20, 2012 19:17:20 GMT -6
Post by CitizenK on Dec 20, 2012 19:17:20 GMT -6
My lil boy enjoyed this one very much! Thanks M
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Dec 21, 2012 18:37:35 GMT -6
Post by skywalker on Dec 21, 2012 18:37:35 GMT -6
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Jan 1, 2013 13:09:46 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Jan 1, 2013 13:09:46 GMT -6
Is NASA Lost in Space or Aimed at Asteroid?by Leonard David, SPACE.com December 2012 A report this month from the National Research Council (NRC) has called NASA’s overall trajectory into question. It pointed out the national disagreement over the U.S. space agency’s goals and objectives, a disparity detrimental to the organization’s planning and budgeting efforts.The 12-person blue-ribbon study group observed that the White House should take the lead in forging "a new consensus" on NASA's future in order to more closely align the agency’s budget and objectives and remove restrictions impeding NASA's efficient operations.For one, the NRC study team took aim at a lofty directive to NASA by President Barack Obama when he spoke at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in April 2010: "Early in the next decade, a set of crewed flights will test and prove the systems required for exploration beyond low-Earth orbit. And by 2025, we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first-ever crewed missions beyond the moon into deep space. So we’ll start…we’ll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history. By the mid-2030s, I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. And a landing on Mars will follow. And I expect to be around to see it."Dubious destinationWhile the NRC study team did not undertake a technical assessment of the feasibility of an asteroid mission, it was informed by several briefers and sources that the current planned asteroid mission has significant shortcomings. "A current stated interim goal of NASA's human spaceflight program is to visit an asteroid by 2025," said Albert Carnesale, chancellor emeritus and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who chaired the NRC committee that wrote the report. "However, we've seen limited evidence that this has been widely accepted as a compelling destination by NASA's own work force, by the nation as a whole, or by the international community. The lack of national consensus on NASA’s most publicly visible human spaceflight goal along with budget uncertainty has undermined the agency's ability to guide program planning and allocate funding."The NRC report added that there appears to be continued enthusiasm for a mission to the moon but not for an asteroid mission, although there is both U.S. and international interest in robotic missions to asteroids. But the view that a manned flight to a near-Earth object (NEO) is a dubious destination doesn’t settle well in some quarters. Bring the asteroid to the astronauts"I agree with the findings in the NRC report that NASA has a long way to go to fulfill the Obama goal of an asteroid mission by 2025," said former astronaut Tom Jones, author of the upcoming book, "Mission: Asteroid." Jones told SPACE.com that NASA has not taken any major steps, starting with a search for near-Earth asteroid (NEA) targets, necessary to achieve that goal. The agency has so little money that it can’t afford its own asteroid search program, relying instead on a private asteroid-hunting telescope commissioned by the B612 Foundation. NASA's Orion deep-space vehicle and large booster programs won't fly with a crew until after 2020, given current budgets and schedules, he said. "The best way for NASA to reach both its asteroid goal and to launch humans into translunarspace — beyond the moon — is to use a robot spacecraft to retrieve and return to a safe lunar orbit a small, 500-ton asteroid," Jones said. "Near the Earth-moon L2 point, astronauts and robot probes can explore and dissect this asteroid for science and commercial-scale resources … water being the most valuable." Bringing the asteroid to the astronauts, Jones said — as described by the Keck Institute for Space Studies team in 2012 — "could jump-start an entire industry between the Earth and the moon, using the energy and raw materials of space to enable everything from robotic probes to the planets, to eventual moon and Mars surface exploration," he said. Foundation of self-sustainability"U.S. strategic goals for human space activity need to be long-term. We should have continuous operational reach in near-Earth space, regular access to the surface of the moon, and regular access to Mars," said Mark Sykes, director of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz. He is also the chair of NASA’s Small Bodies Assessment Group. "All of this requires building space-based infrastructure on a foundation of self-sustainability. Accessing and utilizing resources available on near-Earth objects, particularly water for fuel, life-support and shielding, is the cornerstone and is critical to achieving any of these goals," Sykes told SPACE.com. Sykes said it would make sense to send a piloted mission to oversee the automated emplacement and startup of a resource recovery facility on a near-Earth object. "This could help guarantee the successful deployment of many untended facilities to other targets in the future by bringing what humans do best: dealing with the unexpected and improvisation," Sykes said. "In the meantime, great science could also be achieved, but this is strictly bonus…not a rationale." This could be done on the timescale envisioned by President Obama, Sykes said, with some initiative and little additional cost, and far less total cost than any other option. Live off the (space) landExisting Discovery mission proposals are on the table to fly a Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer-class spacecraft that would identify many NEO resource targets in orbits that would afford low-energy, short-duration missions, Sykes said. Additionally, resource recovery experiments could be undertaken on the International Space Station using meteorite samples and other analog materials, Sykes said. "Apollo taught us that doing something once or even a few times is no guarantee that it will ever be done again. If we want a permanent American presence in space, we need to learn to live off the land," Sykes said. "Near-Earth objects are our best opportunity to accomplish this cost-effectively," he concluded. Asteroids within reachThere's no lack of asteroids to focus upon, said Lindley Johnson, NEO Observations Program Executive at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Johnson noted that he doesn’t speak for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate (HEOMD) and not in a position to be able to say anything about the priorities for piloted/human spaceflight missions. "I just know HEOMD has a great challenge to be able to build the basic capabilities needed for future human spaceflight with the budget prospects they’ve been given," Johnson told SPACE.com. "But we also know there are a lot of near-Earth asteroids out there between here and Mars and we still see them on the horizon for the future of exploration. Maybe somewhat beyond this next hill we must climb, but they are still out there for us to reach for," Johnson said. www.space.com/19070-nasa-asteroid-mission-direction.html
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Feb 8, 2013 13:17:06 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Feb 8, 2013 13:17:06 GMT -6
www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2013/feb/HQ_13-042_ISS_Google_Hangout.html#.URUVK1Nxr-g.twitter News Releases[/color] John Yembrick/Jason Townsend Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1584/202-358-0359 john.yembrick@nasa.gov / jason.c.townsend@nasa.gov Feb. 7, 2013 RELEASE : 13-042 NASA Hosts Its First Google+ Hangout Connecting with Space Station WASHINGTON -- NASA will host its first Google+ Hangout live with the International Space Station from 11 a.m. to noon EST, Friday, Feb. 22. This event will connect NASA's social media followers with astronauts on the ground and living and working aboard the laboratory orbiting 240 miles above Earth. Google+ Hangouts allow as many as 10 people to chat face-to-face, while thousands more can tune in to watch the conversation live on Google+ or YouTube. NASA's social media followers may submit video questions prior to the Hangout. During the event, several video questions will be selected and answered by the station crew and astronauts on the ground. Unique and original questions are more likely to be selected. Additionally, NASA also will take real-time questions submitted by fans on Google+, Twitter and Facebook. The deadline to submit video questions is Feb. 12. To be considered, video clips must be no longer than 30 seconds and must be uploaded to YouTube and tagged with #askAstro. Submitters should introduce themselves and mention their location before asking their question. Also use #askAstro to ask real-time questions on Google+, YouTube or Twitter during the event. On the morning of the event, NASA will open a thread on its Facebook page where questions may be posted. The hangout can be viewed live on NASA's Google+ page or on the NASA Television YouTube channel. To join the hangout, and for updates and opportunities to participate in upcoming hangouts, visit the NASA's Google+ page at: www.google.com/+NASAAstronauts Kevin Ford and Tom Marshburn of NASA and Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency will answer questions and provide insights about life aboard the station. Crews conduct a variety of science experiments and perform station maintenance during their six-month stay on the outpost. Their life aboard the station in near-weightlessness requires different approaches to everyday activities such as eating, sleeping and exercising. For information about the space station, research in low-Earth orbit, NASA's commercial space programs and the future of American spaceflight, visit: www.nasa.gov/explorationTo follow Marshburn and Hadfield on Twitter, visit: www.twitter.com/AstroMarshburnand www.twitter.com/Cmdr_Hadfield
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Feb 8, 2013 13:38:19 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Feb 8, 2013 13:38:19 GMT -6
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Feb 26, 2013 17:38:33 GMT -6
Post by lois on Feb 26, 2013 17:38:33 GMT -6
This supposedly has been released from Nasa but took place in 2008. I have never seen this and if genuine what location on earth did these objects take off from?.. Original footage has just been released of the NASA space shuttle STS-126 mission showing 2 UFOs emerge from earth and take a good look at the space shuttle, they were seen on the 6th day of the mission. Was filmed on the 20th of November 2008 I have went to all my bookmarks for NASA. Don't see a thing about a new released video like this one. They don't seem to move or look like ufos.. Nasa was seeing something as you hear them tell of it. These could of been added I guess. I just wanted to know if true how to find out where they took off from..
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Mar 21, 2013 12:56:50 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Mar 21, 2013 12:56:50 GMT -6
NASA Technical Reports Database Goes Dark Mar 21st, 2013 Steven Aftergood This week NASA abruptly took the massive NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) offline. Though no explanation for the removal was offered, it appeared to be in response to concerns that export controlled information was contained in the collection. “Until further notice, the NTRS system will be unavailable for public access. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you and anticipate that this site will return to service in the near future,” the NTRS homepage now states. NASA Public Affairs did not respond yesterday to an inquiry about the status of the site, the reason for its suspension, or the timeline for its return. www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2013/03/ntrs_dark.html
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Mar 21, 2013 17:34:18 GMT -6
Post by skywalker on Mar 21, 2013 17:34:18 GMT -6
Could it be because of that Chinese spy they caught fleeing the country with all kinds of technical stuff? He was working for NASA in Langley.
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Mar 21, 2013 18:17:02 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Mar 21, 2013 18:17:02 GMT -6
Yeah, that's what the speculation is.
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Apr 17, 2013 12:16:56 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Apr 17, 2013 12:16:56 GMT -6
thesop.org/story/20130414/nasa-knows-et-exists.htmlPublished:April 14th, 2013 NASA Knows E.T. Exists? By Ron G Anselm "Out of the mysteries of space and our universe come other Life Forms that tend to suddenly show-up at our doorstep here on Earth because they are as curious about us as we are about them." (Anselm, R.) I normally don`t touch on this subject because I really never believed there are aliens out there that live among our universe but over the last few years I have developed a little more curiosity about this from what I have heard on the news and read about on the Internet. If you think about it f or a minute would it really make sense that we humans are the only life form that exists in this millions upon millions of square miles and beyond universe that our planet sits in and spins around? Not likely. I believe there are other forms of life that do exist and just like we have been curious about those other forms of life so are they about us. It`s normal for us humans to have a curious nature and sometimes we are as curious as a cat pawing at the fish bowl wondering what that little gold funny looking round thing with fins is staring back at me with those wide eyes that don`t blink. I mean, how many times a day to you tend to get that curious feeling when you go about your daily routine. You`re driving to work and you get behind a slow driver as old as dirt (most slow drivers as we know are normally older people) and you get that burst of anger and say to yourself after releasing a few F**bombs (I don`t do that but I have been with other people that do). I`m curious why this person is driving twenty-five miles an hour when the speed limit is seventy or you`re at work and you see two co-workers gossiping about something around the water cooler and you say to yourself, "I`m curious if they are talking about me?" Most people are more curious about different things than the old saying, "Curiosity killed the cat." So, if we have a curious nature why can`t other terrestrial beings that more than likely frequent the air space around us have one too? They can and many photos have been taken of what NASA has called "Space Junk." Being ex-military I have seen a lot of information out there that the general public does not even hear about or knows exists. This is what is classified as "Top Secret" or "Secret" information or at the lower level of classification a "Need to Know" at any of these three levels of classification if you are to have anything to do with whatever the information is you would have to have a secret or top secret clearance. That`s why you don`t hear more about the many other sightings and photos that NASA classifies as "space junk." Recently, there were photos taken in and around the International Space Station of what NASA again called "space junk" but what is NASA referring to as space junk? It really was not mentioned because more than likely it is classified information and the general civilian public does not need to know about it unless it became a threat to our national security and so far it has not. We have heard about other instances of different sightings of something that was explainable and the sighting made it to the evening news. One example was the recent bright flash of light over Phoenix a year or so ago that lit up the sky and half of the metropolitan area in the early morning hours. It was so bright that the local Air Force base received so many calls they had calls waiting in queue for hours of people reporting a UFO sighting. The local Phoenix police had so many calls the first shift had to wait before going on their beat until the calls were sorted out to what level of emergency each call was. The local news in Phoenix hopped in their news vans and reporters stormed the metropolitan area trying to find any information they could about the mysterious flash of light. Local weather stations reported no thunderstorms were in the area, the military reported there were no training exercises taking place, and so what was that mysterious bright flash of light? CONTINUE READING: thesop.org/story/20130414/nasa-knows-et-exists.html
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Jun 2, 2013 11:04:25 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jun 2, 2013 11:04:25 GMT -6
Jaden Smith and NASA have joined up to help promote Smith's new movie and NASA's Earth Sciences programs. Published on May 31, 2013 Jaden Smith and NASA have joined up to help promote Smith's new movie and NASA's Earth Sciences programs. In a new PSA, Jaden warns people that we need to learn more about our environment so we don't end up with the futuristic Earth portrayed in the movie. Open Minds recently interviewed Gary Whitta who co-wrote After Earth with the movie's director, M. Night Shyamalan. Whitta confirmed the script also includes extraterrestrials. Jaden ought to be happy about that, because it is one of his favorite topics. In fact, he says when he got to visit the White House with his family, Obama confirmed that aliens are real. He told Wonderland magazine that during his visit he took the opportunity to ask Obama about aliens. According to Jaden, Obama said that he could "neither confirm nor deny their existence." Jaden says that means aliens are real. He also says that "if people think we are the only people that live in the universe, then something is wrong with them. " After Earth opens in movie theaters today so you can check it out this weekend. If you do, let us know what you think in the comments below. You can also read our interview with Gary Whitta in our next issue of Open Minds Magazine. Read more at: www.openminds.tv
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Jun 17, 2013 14:17:42 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jun 17, 2013 14:17:42 GMT -6
www.space.com/21585-nasa-unveils-astronauts-deep-space.html?cmpid=514648 NASA Unveils New Astronaut Class for Deep-Space Explorationby Clara Moskowitz, SPACE.com Assistant Managing Editor Date: 17 June 2013 NASA's new class of astronauts include a diverse group of people from a variety of backgrounds. Image Released June 17, 2013. CREDIT: NASA NASA has picked eight Americans, a mix of scientists and military pilots, to begin training for future space missions that may one day launch them all the way to Mars. The new class includes four men and four women who will join the 49 active astronauts at the agency's astronaut corps at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. The new U.S. space travelers, which NASA unveiled today (June 17), could be part of the first crews to visit an asteroid or Mars, deep-space goals that NASA aims to explore. They could also be the first people to launch to space on a U.S.-built rocket since the era of the space shuttle, which ended in 2011. In the nearer term, the new recruits could launch on Russian rockets to serve long-duration missions on the International Space Station, which is expected to operate until at least 2020. [7 Notable Space Shuttle Astronauts] www.space.com/12156-7-notable-space-shuttle-astronauts-countdown.html"These new space explorers asked to join NASA because they know we're doing big, bold things here — developing missions to go farther into space than ever before," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a statement. "They're excited about the science we're doing on the International Space Station and our plan to launch from U.S. soil to there on spacecraft built by American companies. And they're ready to help lead the first human mission to an asteroid and then on to Mars." CONTINUE READING: www.space.com/21585-nasa-unveils-astronauts-deep-space.html?cmpid=514648
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Jul 16, 2013 12:57:18 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jul 16, 2013 12:57:18 GMT -6
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Jul 22, 2013 11:41:14 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jul 22, 2013 11:41:14 GMT -6
guardianlv.com/2013/07/why-nasa-hesitates-on-ufo-research/ Why NASA Hesitates on UFO ResearchAdded by Jessica Rosslee on July 21, 2013. NASA and the scientific community as a whole are aware of the implications of openly communicating their UFO studies. According to Dr. Davis, the seed reason for this lies in the fact that it is because the military operations govern this coveted research. His opinion is that UFO study falls within the communication category, something the military has under its wing. For years many scientists have avoided discussing their own hypothesis and research surrounding this topic of investigation. However, Dr. Davis is among many scientists who illustrate that this concept is shifting as more scientists are openly discussing UFO investigation. “UFOs are real phenomena. They are artificial objects under intelligent control. They’re definitely the craft of a supremely advanced technology,” says physicist Eric Davis. Eric Davis is a research physicist at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Austin. His accolades in the science realm include his research of light-speed travel. At present, he is studying propulsion physics; something he hopes may enable humans to travel with ease and speed through space. Sharing his opinion about skeptics’ harsh reviews, he is aware that it is a no-go area for most. “They’re wrong, naive, stubborn, narrow-minded, afraid and fearful. It’s a dirty word and a forbidden topic. Science is about open-minded inquiry. You shouldn’t be laughing off people. You should show more deference and respect to them … Scientists need to get back to using the scientific method to study things that are unknown and unusual, and the UFO subject is one of them.” Davis is presenting “Faster-Than-Light Space Warps & Interstellar Flight: What’s It All About?” this Sunday at the 2013 Mufon Symposium in Las Vegas. Dr. Davis, along with many other scientists including Dr. Steven Greer, are presenting research, findings and views on various UFO topics this weekend. So, what is the reason for the hush about scientific research into UFOs? Dr. Evans claims he knows many colleagues who quietly investigate this area. CONTINUE READING: guardianlv.com/2013/07/why-nasa-hesitates-on-ufo-research/
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Jul 24, 2013 11:41:22 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jul 24, 2013 11:41:22 GMT -6
rt.com/usa/nasa-warp-engine-light-488/#.Ue79FH86kB0.twitter NASA starts building faster-than-light warp engineEdited time: July 24, 2013 Still from Star Trek TV series Researchers at NASA’s Texas-based Johnson Space Center are trying to prove that it is possible to travel faster than the speed of light, and hope to one day build an engine that resembles the fictional Starship Enterprise. NASA physicist and engineer Dr. Harold G. White, 43, believes it is possible to bend the rules of time and space that Albert Einstein constructed when he postulated that it is impossible to exceed the speed of light. White's research is based on the theories of Mexican physicist Miguel Alcubierre, who in 1994 theorized that exceeding Einstein’s galactic speed limit was possible if scientists discovered a way to harness the expansion and contraction of space. And Harold and his team are trying to do just that. By creating a “warp bubble” that expands space on one side of a spaceship and contracts it on the other, “the spaceship will be pushed away from the Earth and pulled towards a distant star by space-time itself,” Dr. Alcubierre wrote in his hypothesis. Dr. White is trying to warp the trajectory of a photon to see if he can propel its travel at faster-than-light speeds. His laboratory floats above a system of underground pneumatic piers and was constructed in a way that it would be free from seismic disturbances, since his team’s measuring devices can pick up the smallest vibrations – even those created from people who are walking nearby. Dr. White told the New York Times that since nature can travel at warp speeds, there is a chance that humans can figure out how to do it too. “Space has been expanding since the Big Bang 13.7 billion years ago,” Dr. White told the Times. “And we know that when you look at some of the cosmology models, there were early periods of the universe where there was explosive inflation, where two points would’ve went receding away from each other at very rapid speeds.” CONTINUE READING: rt.com/usa/nasa-warp-engine-light-488/#.Ue79FH86kB0.twitter
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Jul 29, 2013 14:49:52 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jul 29, 2013 14:49:52 GMT -6
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Jul 31, 2013 13:22:40 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jul 31, 2013 13:22:40 GMT -6
First Hint of Sunrise From SpaceOn July 30, 2013, Expedition 36 Flight Engineer Karen L. Nyberg of NASA took this photograph of a sunrise viewed from the International Space Station. As the space station orbits the Earth every 90 minutes, traveling at about 17,500 miles per hour, the crew sees about 16 sunrises and sunsets daily. > Karen Nyberg (@astrokarenn) on Twitter Image Credit: NASA MORE: www.nasa.gov/content/first-hint-of-sunrise-from-space/#.UfljE6ynePW
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Aug 21, 2013 13:24:31 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Aug 21, 2013 13:24:31 GMT -6
www.space.com/22430-star-trek-warp-drive-quantum-thrusters.html?cmpid=532478 Engage! Warp Drive Could Become Reality with Quantum-Thruster Physicsby Miriam Kramer, Staff Writer August 21, 2013 DALLAS — Warp-drive technology, a form of "faster than light" travel popularized by TV's "Star Trek," could be bolstered by the physics of quantum thrusters — another science-fiction idea made plausible by modern science. NASA scientists are performing experiments that could help make warp drive www.space.com/16413-star-trek-s-warp-drive-are-we-there-yet-video.html a possibility sometime in the future from a lab built for the Apollo program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. A warp-drive-enabled spacecraft would look like a football with two large rings fully encircling it. The rings would utilize an exotic form of matter to cause space-time to contract in front of and expand behind them. Harold "Sonny" White, a NASA physicist, is experimenting with these concepts on a smaller scale using a light-measuring device in the lab. [Warp Drives and Transporters: How 'Star Trek' Tech Works (Infographic)] www.space.com/21201-star-trek-technology-explained-infographic.html "We're looking for a change in path length of the photon on the interferometer, because that would be potential evidence that we're generating the effect we're looking for," White told SPACE.com. "We've seen, in a couple different experiments with several different analytic techniques, a change in optical-path length. We're making one leg of the interferometer seem a little shorter because of this device being on, versus the device being off. That doesn't mean that it's what we're looking for." While these results are intriguing, they are in no way definitive proof that warp drive could work, White said. The scaled-down experiments are just a first step toward understanding if these concepts can be taken out of the realm of theory and applied practically. WATCH VIDEO & CONTINUE READING: www.space.com/22430-star-trek-warp-drive-quantum-thrusters.html?cmpid=532478
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Aug 22, 2013 14:11:44 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Aug 22, 2013 14:11:44 GMT -6
www.newscientist.com/article/dn24083-capturing-alien-auroras-in-a-bottle.html#.UhZwI3-nePV Capturing alien auroras in a bottle 21 August 2013 by Flora Graham (Image: Guillaume Gronoff) NASA scientists have bottled the sky-filling electric swirls of the Northern Lights – and auroras from several other planets too. This image shows a planeterrella, a large glass dome containing spheres and charged particles that glow under the influence of a magnetic field. The charged particles glow purple because of the nitrogen in the air inside the dome – unlike the real aurora on Earth, which is usually green due to the oxygen in the atmosphere. Planeterrellas are a spin-off of a 19th-century experiment called the terrella, which used a single sphere to demonstrated how the Earth's magnetic field accelerates electrons from the solar wind to collide with atoms in the atmosphere, so creating the curtains of light known as the aurora borealisMovie Camera and the aurora australis. www.newscientist.com/article/dn15147-northern-lights-captured-in-3d-for-the-first-time.html#.UhZyHX-nePU By upping the number of spheres, a planeterrella also recreates the auroral ovals that occur on other planets. "For example, we can show the reaction when Io, the satellite of Jupiter, sends particles to Jupiter. We can also simulate the aurora at Neptune and Uranus, when their magnetic fields are directly pointing towards the sun," says Guillaume Gronoff of the NASA Langley Research Centre, who led the creation of this planeterrella. Io, Europa and Ganymede produce bright spots in Jupiter's powerful auroral display. NASA's planeterella is among the first in the US, but Gronoff learned his aurora-wrangling craft while building the original planeterella with his PhD advisor, Jean Lilensten of the Grenoble Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics in France. Gronoff's next step is to add more magnets and some carbon dioxide to his mini solar system to simulate the auroras on Mars. MORE: www.newscientist.com/article/dn24083-capturing-alien-auroras-in-a-bottle.html#.UhZwI3-nePV
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Aug 25, 2013 11:36:57 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Aug 25, 2013 11:36:57 GMT -6
www.theufochronicles.com/2013/08/nasa-plans-to-put-astronaut-on-asteroid.html Saturday, August 24, 2013 NASA Plans to Put an Astronaut on an Asteroid; Animated Video Shows How | VIDEO By Deborah Netburn www.latimes.com8-24-13 A spacecraft blasts off from Earth, zips by the moon and nine days later rendezvous with an asteroid that has been neatly bagged and placed in a lunar orbit. Those are just some of the highlights from NASA's new Asteroid Redirect Mission concept video. The space agency released a video this week depicting how it might get an astronaut within arm's reach of an asteroid, then chip off a few chunks from its surface and bring them home to Earth. For this concept video to make sense, you have to assume the agency has already snagged an asteroid, enclosed it in what looks like a giant garbage bag and moved it into a stable lunar orbit. NASA released a concept video about how that might work earlier this year. In the newly released video we watch two astronauts leave Earth in the Orion spacecraft, travel through space for nine days, and then meet up with the asteroid capture vehicle, carefully docking the two vehicles together. Using a translation boom (what looks like a long piece of pipe), they move hand over hand from the Orion spacecraft to the asteroid capture vehicle, where the spacewalk tools are stored. It appears NASA engineers don't expect the astronauts to actually climb aboard the asteroid but rather to just get close enough to grab a few bits of it, double-bag them and then put them in a very important-looking silver suitcase. . . . CONTINUE READING: www.theufochronicles.com/2013/08/nasa-plans-to-put-astronaut-on-asteroid.html
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Aug 27, 2013 12:26:34 GMT -6
Post by lois on Aug 27, 2013 12:26:34 GMT -6
NASA admits there is a Blue Star.
I for one have never heard of this Hopi prophecy.
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Aug 27, 2013 12:34:15 GMT -6
Post by lois on Aug 27, 2013 12:34:15 GMT -6
Blue Star.
this is the one I meant to post above but it did not work so I'm trying again with this one.
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Aug 27, 2013 17:02:09 GMT -6
Post by bewildered on Aug 27, 2013 17:02:09 GMT -6
NASA admits there is a Blue Star. I for one have never heard of this Hopi prophecy. Blue stars are nothing new to astronomy. Stellar classification "O" refers to stars that appear blue in the visible spectrum, and are theorized to be the hottest stars in the known universe. The "mystery" surrounding whatever this is seems to me to be contrived. Why? Any astronomer or astrophysicist worth their salt will tell you that we know very little about the visible universe. The more we discover, the more we realize what little we know. We observe planets orbiting stars that "shouldn't" exist, proving that we can establish no "certainties" in how either planets or stars form and behave. Media sources are constantly supplying the public with very misleading stories on scientific subjects, and astronomy and astrophysics is one area where this happens constantly.
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