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Earth Pic in The Cosmos

Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:43:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This made me stop and think. Wow!!

Powerful words by Carl Sagan

If you look carefully at the NASA photo below, you will see a little white dot. This minute speck is Earth seen from the Voyager 1 spacecraft as it exits the solar system, nearly 4 billion miles away. The photo was taken back in 1990.

Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

Tags: discovery, images, photo, space, thought-provoking, solar system, earth

How To Turn Water Into Ice...In Seconds!

Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:00:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I dunno...is this legit?

Clip Source: www.metacafe.com

Learn how you can take a glass of water and instantly turn it into a glass of ice! All you need is a few household items and timing. Amaze everyone with this COOL technique!

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Tags: bizarre, discovery, entertainment, fun, interesting, weird, vide

Guinness Book 'Fattest Man'

Sat, 21 Jul 2007 20:31:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: What an image! I never could have imagined.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Manuel Uribe, tipping the scales at 560 kilograms (1,234 pounds) and seen here at his home in 2006, will be listed as the world's fattest man by the Guinness Book of Records, while a loss of 200 kilos (440 pounds) may make him the man who lost the most weight.(AFP/Alejandro Acosta)

Tags: bizarre, culture, discovery, images, interesting, life, news, photo

New Speicies - Octosquid - discovered in Hawaii

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:27:02 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It's amazing to me that there could be/is unidentified life forms living on our planet. It's Great!

Clip Source: www.unexplained-mysteries.com

"Octosquid" discovered off Hawaiian coast

What appears to be a half-squid, half-octopus specimen found off Keahole Point on the Big Island remains unidentified today and could possibly be a new species, said local biologists.

The specimen was found caught in a filter in one of Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority's deep-sea water pipelines last week. The pipeline, which runs 3,000 feet deep, sucks up cold, deep-sea water for the tenants of the natural energy lab. "When we first saw it, I was really delighted because it was new and alive," said Jan War, operations manager at NELHA. "I've never seen anything like that."

Tags: ocean, discovery, science, mystery, hawaii

UFO sightings bring town to a standstill

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:02:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It's easier to believe these were UFO's than to believe they were hot air balloons.

Clip Source: www.unexplained-mysteries.com

Drinkers spilled out of pubs, motorists stopped to gawp and camera phones were aimed upwards as the five orbs, in a seeming formation, hovered above Stratford-Upon-Avon for half an hour. The unidentified flying objects lit up the otherwise clear night sky above Shakespeare's birthplace in Warwickshire on Saturday. Although Air Traffic Control reported no unusual activity, some witnesses were convinced they were witnessing an extra-terrestrial spectacle.

Sceptics dismissed the UFOs as nothing more than hot air balloons, fireworks or even lanterns which had broken loose from a local rugby club.

"I saw this light appear, then three others. They came over our heads in formation but then manouvered into different positions. "Three had formed a triangular shape and one was to the right. Then another one came hurtling towards the rest at what looked like a very fast speed. But as it neared them it suddenly slowed and stopped altogether.

Tags: discovery, images, interesting, news, photo, unexplained, ufo, cons

Scientists discover drug to erase bad memories.

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 22:15:12 GMT

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Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Researchers have found they can use drugs to wipe away single, specific memories while leaving other memories intact. By injecting an amnesia drug at the right time, when a subject was recalling a particular thought, neuro-scientists discovered they could disrupt the way the memory is stored and even make it disappear.

The research suggests memories can be manipulated because they act as if made from glass, existing in a molten state as they are being created, before turning solid. When the memory is recalled, however, it becomes molten again and so can be altered before it once more resets.

The researchers used propranolol, a drug normally used to treat hypertension in heart disease patients but also known to cause memory problems. They treated 19 accident or rape victims for 10 days with the drug or with dummy pills, while they asked to describe their memories of a traumatic event that happened 10 years earlier.

the patients given the drug suffered fewer signs of stress

Tags: science, research, drugs, discovery