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Instead of gas-guzzling jets and trucks, which also release lots of greenhouse gases, the next transportation vehicle for goods AND people may be an updated version of the old-fashioned blimp or helium balloon.Whitley Strieber’s novel The Grays features a classified military aircraft of this type.

In the June 30th edition of the Guardian, Juliette Jowit quotes researcher David King as saying, “There are an awful lot of people we talk to who say this is going to happen. This is something I believe is going to happen.” In Europe 22% of greenhouse gases are from transportation, compared with 28% from heat and electricity, 21% from industry and construction and 9% each from agriculture and homes.
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Not everyone’s immune system is the same, but no matter how yours works, if it’s causing you problems with diseases like cancer and diabetes, scientists may be able to find a way to switch that part of it OFF.

Recent studies suggest that intentionally infecting people who have auto immune disease (in which the body attacks itself) with parasites relapse rates in people with diseases like MS, lupus and fibromyalgia.
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This time when we try to go to Mars – When it comes to traveling to Mars, the moon may save us– again.

Solar radiation may make it impossible to establish a colony on Mars. But a team of UK scientists has discovered that a tiny magnet, no wider than your thumb, can deflect the charged particles in the solar wind, and thus protect space colonists from being bombarded by these deadly cosmic rays.The only reason that life can exist on Earth is because our planet’s core is a churning cauldron of molten iron which acts like a magnetic shield that deflects the solar wind. Without this, we would be bombarded by tiny particles that would enter our bodies and tear apart our cells.
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Cygnus (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), also known as the Northern Cross, is one of the constellations you see in the nightsky. It looks benign but that may be deceiving: Some astronomers think it’s sending out a cosmic wind that blows thousands of times faster than a Category 5 hurricane.

So why don’t we feel it? Because this wind is made up of that mysterious substance called dark matter, which passes through most ordinary matter without leaving a trace. Dark matter is moving through you (and everything else) constantly, at a speed of over 500,000 mph.
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