Astronomers may be in for a treat early next month, as asteroid 2013 TX68 may make a close pass to Earth sometime between March 3–8, 2016, making it possible that it will be visible through telescopes. Despite how close it is expected to come to us, NASA doesn’t expect it to hit Earth — this time.
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The formation of the Earth-Moon system has long been theorized to have been heavily influenced by the impact of a Mars-sized celestial body, commonly called "Theia" by scientists. The Moon’s formation is theorized to have occurred when this object struck the primordial Earth, spinning off a portion of it’s mass, that formed into the Moon as we know it today. However, a common question has dogged the issue since it’s conception: did Theia just strike a glancing blow to the primordial Earth, or did it strike it head-on?
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This week, Whitley describes another contact with Anne, and goes on to discuss the soul and how we can live in such a way the there is much less of a veil between the worlds. It was Anne’s belief that our visitors are either part of what we call the dead, or live in such a way that the veil between the living and the dead that is central to our experience of being simply does not exist.
Whitley discusses how it might be possible to live in this new way, and what it might mean to do so.
(The image shown here is explained in the talk.)
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Dublin-based technology development company Steorn has revealed that their offices had been bugged by an unknown party. Steorn, itself having stirred up controversy with the announcement of their "Orbo" technology, a source of "free, clean and constant energy": while it is being dismissed as violating the laws of the conservation of energy, it has apparently been independently validated by other sources.
The discovery of the surveillance devices — a series of 5 pinhole cameras, embedded in the office’s wall conduits — was made when an employee was installing a power cable for a new piece of equipment. The affected room was used for brainstorming sessions, and contained a whiteboard used to illustrate their ideas.
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