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Monday, December 2, 2013

2010 News on Space and UFOs

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Sometimes they just aren't ready. To hear the truth. Or accept the experience when it belongs to someone else. There is no idea to try to convince anyone, nor does that usually drop in anyone's mind, from the ufological point of view. The other way it is more common. To try to make the "believer" or experiencer to believe that what he or she believes or thinks to be real, is not really real but a consequence of a certain personality trait. Of gullibility. Of wishful thinking.
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No matter what you say, you can't convince them. Nor should you. Nor need you to. There is a time for truth for everyone, in each individual time and manner. We are bound to hit blind spots and juxtapositions with any theme, also this one. It is in a way similar to discussing religious beliefs, where the discussion can become quite heated when each is defending one's own stand.
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But ufology is no religion. It is not necessarily even a belief system, but a wide-ranging study of certain phenomena. And cognisance based on facts and knowledge, and mathematical deduction. On logic really. A witness to a close encounter of any kind - let alone to a far away sighting - does not usually become a fanatic, but rather more humble in the face of existence.

Skeptics on the other hand are usually quite far from such humbleness, and much closer to arrogance. As if any individual person's opinion would really matter when it comes to truth. It is what it is despite us humans. Where each of us is on one's individual path of knowledge and truth is so wide and varied that it ill behooves any of us to speak badly of those who least of all pretend to know but simply accept the fact that we do not know everything.
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Far better to agree to disagree - until we all know.
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Friday, November 22, 2013

Mercury - facts and theories

Updated 22.11.2013 Mercury - the closest planet to the Sun - is known since prehistoric times. A very dense planet, and some scientists think that Mercury is actually shrinking.

50 years today since the assassination of JFK seems like an approriate day to publish this article on Mercury which astrologically governs - among other things - the gift of gab which John F. Kennedy certainly had! This blog too is very mercurial in nature, and in a constant state of change. Mercury also governs all the bits and pieces of knowledge and the inquisitive nature of man that in the end hopefully take us to the truth of things - even if that too may change.

Mean surface temperature: The side facing the Sun can reach 426 Celsius, but with no appreciable atmosphere the planet can't trap in the heat - so the side facing away from the Sun is way colder, even -173 degrees Celsius. Mercury is the coldest of the inner planets.

Circumference: 15,329 km.

Diameter: 4,879 km (3,031.9 miles) - 38% of Earth’s, so not much bigger than the Moon.

MERCURY'S CRATERS
Much like the Moon, the surface of Mercury is heavily cratered. Most Mercurian craters are named after famous writers and artists. The planet has not been geologically active for a very long time.

MERCURY SEEN FROM EARTH
Like the Moon and Venus, Mercury exhibits phases as seen from Earth. It is "new" at inferior conjunction and "full" at superior conjunction. The planet is rendered invisible from Earth on both of these occasions because of its relative nearness to the Sun. Mercury is more easily seen at tropical and subtropical latitudes than at higher latitudes.

EXPLORATION OF MERCURY

Mariner 10 in 1974-1975. The first spacecraft to visit Mercury. Unfortunately, due to the length of Mariner 10's orbital period, the same face of the planet was lit at each of Mariner 10's close approaches. This made observation of both sides of the planet impossible and resulted in the mapping of less than 45% of the planet's surface. On March 24, 1975, Mariner 10 ran out of fuel. Because its orbit could no longer be accurately controlled, mission controllers instructed the probe to shut down. Mariner 10 is thought to be still orbiting the Sun, passing close to Mercury every few months.

Messenger was the next to go. Launched on August 3, 2004, the first fly-by of Mercury occurred on January 14, 2008. The probe successfully entered an elliptical orbit around the planet on March 18, 2011. The probe finished a one-year mapping mission, and is now on a one-year extended mission expected to end in 2013. Have a look at NASA's Messenger Mission page, or the Messenger website.

The European Space Agency is planning a joint mission with Japan called BepiColombo, which will orbit Mercury with two probes: one to map the planet and the other to study its magnetosphere (Earth and Mercury are the only two planets in the Solar System to have a magnetosphere). Once launched in 2015, the spacecraft bus is expected to reach Mercury in 2019.

COLONIZATION OF MERCURY

Mercury has been suggested as one possible target for space colonization of the inner Solar System, along with Mars, Venus, the Moon and the asteroid belt. Thermal protection of colonists and any sensitive equipment would require shielding from the intense solar radiation that reaches Mercury's surface.

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

2011 News on Space and UFOs

Updated 29.12.2013 This page contains news on all of the blog topics (space, ufos, crop circles, abductions, etc) published in the mainstream newspapers and other media worldwide in 2011.

Major news events in 2011:

First UFO files released in Britain (3/2011)
Rover Curiosity is launched towards Mars(11/2011)

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2011-0102 En 2010 se registraron 360 casos de OVNIs en el país (Diario Popular/Argentina) SPA
2011-0107 The mystery of mass bird deaths (BBC News) ENG
2011-0108 Tunguusi plahvatus tuli maapõuest (Õhtuleht/Estonia) EST
2011-0121 Fobos, muy de cerca (El País) SPA
2011-0124 Yogyakarta Crop Circle Stirs Curiosity, But... (The Jakarta Globe/Indonesia) ENG
2011-0125 Mysterious crop circle found by farmer in Yogyakarta (The Jakarta Post/Indonesia) ENG
2011-0201 Tres personas en lugares diferentes grabaron un ovni en Jerusalén (El Comercio/Peru) SPA
2011-0203 Onko tämä kaikkien aikojen merkittävin ufohavainto? (Aamulehti/Finland) FIN
2011-0210 UFO-Videos: Alien-Alarm am Tempelberg (Der Spiegel) GER
2011-0221 Another Good Story Ruined - The Battle of Los Angeles (Los Angeles Times) ENG
2011-0225 Speakers, experts attract people to UFO conference (AzCentral) ENG
2011-0225 Vídeo com objeto estranho no céu causa polêmica no interior de SP (Globo/Brazil) POR
2011-0301 Brasilia kuhisee UFO-videosta - Mikä leijuu ja välähtää pilvissä? (Aamulehti/Finland) FIN
2011-0303 UFO files reveal 'Rendlesham incident' papers missing (BBC) ENG
2011-0303 Is the truth out there about UFOs? -video (BBC News) ENG
2011-0303 Hemmelige UFO-filer afsløret (J-P/Denmark) DAN
2011-0305 Attack of the flying saucers - a student hoax (Daily Mail/UK) ENG
2011-0322 'Red' rocker Sammy Hagar says abducted by aliens (China Daily) ENG
2011-0410 Estados Unidos: el FBI revela documentos relacionados con... (El Comercio/Peru) SPA
2011-0418 Foto de un ovni en Argentina es auténtica, segun la NASA (El Comercio/Peru) SPA
2011-0427 Alien-Suchern geht das Geld aus (Stern) GER
2011-0506 Waiting for contact (China Daily) ENG
2011-0510 Soomes on sagenenud teated UFOdest (Postimees) EST
2011-0512 Mystery awaits at Jinsha site (China Daily) ENG
2011-0513 Kesk-Soome taevas nähti kummalist ilmingut (Postimees) EST
2011-0514 US-Astronomen suchen aus 86 Planeten nach außerirdischem Leben (Stern) GER
2011-0514 Jakt på utomjordingar intensifieras (SvD/Sweden) SWE
2011-0519 Wycliffe Well, Australia -6 UFO Hot Spots Around the World (Time) ENG
2011-0523 Latest theory says Roswell UFO was Russian craft (The Tampa Tribune) ENG
2011-0523 Ovni de Roswell era nave rusa: nueva teoría (El Universal/Mexico) SPA
2011-0524 Scouring Space for Life: More Earths Out There than We Thought? (Time) ENG
2011-0608 Australia's defense department loses track of its UFO 'X-files' (China Daily) ENG
2011-0608 Austraalia UFO-failid läksid kaduma (Õhtuleht/Estonia) EST
2011-0704 Ученые нашли пришельцев под землей (Pravda) RUS
2011-0708 Svenskar mest skeptiska till utomjordingar (SvD/Sweden) SWE
2011-0715 Elaborate hoax or a sign of outta space? (Daily Mail) ENG
2011-0715 Stonehengen viereen ilmestyi mysteerikuvio (IS/Finland) FIN
2011-0726 FFH í Belgíu var prakkarastrik (MBL) ICE
2011-0804 Ufo fundet på bunden af Østersøen? (J-P/Denmark) DAN
2011-0806 Rendelsham Incident: US commander speaks for the first... (The Telegraph) ENG
2011-0811 The Truth is IN There (BBC) ENG
2011-0811 Britannian ufoarkistot avautuivat (SS/Finland) FIN
2011-0811 Files reveal Blackburn MoD police UFO sighting (BBC News) ENG
2011-0818 Aliens may destroy humanity to protect other civilisations,.. (The Guardian/UK) ENG
2011-0820 Utomjordingar kan utrota mänskligheten i förebyggande syfte (SvD/Sweden) SWE
2011-0822 New Mexico cop says military responsible for cattle mutilations (Huff) ENG
2011-0823 UFO sighting in Shanghai and Beijing (China Daily) ENG
2011-0902 Denkmalpflege auf dem Mond (Süddeutsche/Germany) GER
2011-0903 Konsten tar hand om utomjordingarna (SvD/Sweden) SWE
2011-0903 Rootslane tulistas alla ufo (Õhtuleht/Estonia) EST
2011-0908 Bestselling UFO Book Reveals New Evidence, Encounters, and... (Fox News) ENG
2011-0908 Apollo-Missionen - Spuren auf dem Mond (Süddeutsche/Germany) ß GER
2011-0913 Sagðist hafa flogið með geimverum - about Charles Hickson (MBL/Iceland) ICE
2011-0914 UFO abduction figure dies at age 80 (The Tampa Tribune) ENG
2011-0919 50th Anniversary of First UFO Abduction Story (Fox News) ENG
2011-0922 Betty and Barney Hill 'alien abduction' to hit the big screen (Daily Mail/UK) ENG
2011-0927 WikiLeaks прогнозирует инопланетное вторжение (Pravda) RUS
2011-1105 Editorial: Abducted (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) ENG
2011-1108 White House: No Jimmy, There's No Such Things as UFOs (Fox News) ENG
2011-1110 Is There a City on Pluto? (Time) ENG
2011-1126 Lancement du robot Curiosity - video (Le Journal de Québec) FRE
2011-1130 South Africa UFO Convention Theory: ETs Raid Earth for Gold (Huff ) ENG
2011-1201 Ufo-tutkija: Kullanhimossa Maahan tulleet alienit antoivat... (Aamulehti/Finland) FIN
2011-1229 Les Belges signalent toujours plus d'ovni (Le Soir/Belgium) FRE
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