On December 9, 1965, a strange object streaked overKecksburg, Pennsylvania and went down in nearby woods. Overthe course of the night, witnesses observed the object beingremoved, but no witness had ever come forward who saw thecrash itself. Now HbccUFO directorBrian Vike has interviewed a witness who came upon theobject in the woods moments after it crashed.
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Is Mom getting tired of scented soap? Is she bored by costume jewelry? Two years from now, you might decide to get her the same old gifts?except THIS time, they will have made a trip into space and back!
A company in California says it can send an object of your choice into space and back for as little as $99, starting as early as 2008. The item you send has to fit into a soda can-sized container and weigh no more than about 12 ounces (in other words, about the size and weight of a nice necklace).
In New Scientist, Kelly Young quotes Michael Mealling of Masten Space Systems as saying, “We’ll launch anything, as long as it’s legal.”
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Did you ever stop and think about how our alphabet was invented?about how the letters and symbols of all the different alphabets around the world were conceived? Scientists now think they all came from nature.
A new study of how robots view the world has given researchers the theory that the shapes of letters in all languages come from common forms in nature. But how did robot technology give rise to this revelation?
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The ongoing pole reversal, which is occurring right now, temporarily weakens the radiation shield around the earth, meaning that a burst of gamma rays could incinerate the planet. Thankfully, observations by the Hubble space telescope tell us that this is not a danger in the near future.
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