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The Earth may once have been surrounded by rings, like Saturn, which would have cast a shadow on parts of the planet all day long. The rings could have been formed after a glancing blow from an asteroid, when a space rock carves debris from a planet, then bounces off into the atmosphere. The resulting debris would also have shot off into space, and some of it would have ended up orbiting the Earth, forming a ring.

Peter Fawcett of the University of New Mexico and Mark Boslough of Sandia Labs say the debris ring would have cooled the planet by blocking or reducing the amount of sunlight it received in the tropics and subtropics. The rest of the planet would cool down too, because less heat would be transported from tropical regions to higher latitudes.
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Despite Saddam Hussein’s offer to let UN inspectors back into Iraq, the U.S. may not back down, so we may go to war with Iraq anyway. Saddam can afford to fight back: he gets his hands on as much as $3 billion a year, which he uses to maintain and develop weapons of mass destruction, despite UN sanctions imposed in the early 1990s. The funds come from oil smuggling and surcharges on the oil Iraq is allowed to sell under UN auspices.
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In his latest Journal, Whitley Strieber writes about his own personal experience fighting off psychic attacks, with the help of Australian author Robert Bruce. He speculates about cattle?and perhaps human?mutilations, here and abroad, and addresses the question of the man in Pennsylvania who may have been murdered by a UFO. Whitley tells about revelations from U.K. author Nick Cook about free energy and anti-gravity devices, which help to explain so much that has been kept secret for so long. He writes, ?Whatever the visitors are?and I am by no means am certain that they?re aliens in the conventional sense of that word?I believe that their primary interest in us involves the soul.? To read this extraordinary Journal,click here. You won?t soon forget it.
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[At a recent conference in Virginia Beach], I opened the proceedings by giving an account of how I came to learn of the recent discovery of a lost city in deep water off the west coast of Cuba, close to the district of Guanahacabibes, by Canadian firm Advanced Digital Communications (ADC). I shared my initial disappointment at the resulting video taken at a depth of 2,200 feet by a remote operated video (ROV) sent down from the vessel “Ulises” in July 2001 to investigate the several-mile area of presumed roads, avenues and rectilinear structures. Yet I emphasized that the sonar images obtained on site by ADC one year earlier were much more impressive.read more