Life- but not as we know it

[arc]

Interesting article
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120426104853.htm

[Littleenki]

Interesting article from the bottom of that lake, Arc!
I read it as a biology piece until i reached the four flagella part....Hmmmm
Arms and legs? ill have to see what else pops up with this story, but I have a feeling we may have just found our missing link.
Le

[Amaterasu]

Isn't "1,000 million" a billion...?  How silly to speak of it that way.

[Littleenki]

Isn't "1,000 million" a billion...?  How silly to speak of it that way.

Yes and a thousand billion is a gazillion!
Le

[Amaterasu]

Yes and a thousand billion is a gazillion!
Le

Teeheehee!

Good article, it is.  Despite the...odd...choice of number label.

[arc]

Galaxies to collide.
But dont cancel your dinner reservation...

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2012/31may_andromeda/

[Littleenki]

Collision party @ my house, arc!

Did you hear theyre going back down into the Balkan sea to dive on that "ufo" on the bottom?

I wonder what four flagellate folks theyll find down there?

Cheers, arc, good to see ya!

Le

[arc]

Hello LE

I had heard they were planning to dive on that "submerged formation"....  It will be interesting to see what they find, and what they announce.

arc

[zorgon]

Isn't "1,000 million" a billion...?  How silly to speak of it that way.

It is in USA but in Europe its a million million to equal a billion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_scale

and here a Trillion is 1000 billion but in Europe its a million billions

[zorgon]

Galaxies to collide.
But dont cancel your dinner reservation...

There is a great animation of that collision here in this thread

The Milky Way - Welcome to your New Home Galaxy!
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=152.msg5063#msg5063

[Amaterasu]

It is in USA but in Europe its a million million to equal a billion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_scale

and here a Trillion is 1000 billion but in Europe its a million billions

Oh.  Well.  Let's just see how confusing We can make the world!  LOL!

[Littleenki]

Hello LE

I had heard they were planning to dive on that "submerged formation"....  It will be interesting to see what they find, and what they announce.

arc

Hi Arc!
Well see what they say, as the ratio of findings to announcements will require quite the complicated math formula!;)
Of course they could just tell the truth...yeah riiiight!!

Ive seen a few mockups of what it looks like from a sonar perspective, and everyone says it looks like a crashed ship because of the apparent groove where it landed where it's at, but to me it looks like some sort of cold war device they might have dragged behind a soviet ship, a huge sonar array, or some sort of piece of a drilling platform that broke off and sank. Lotsa possibilities.

I am a believer in USO's, so that would be icing on the cake for me, but there just doesnt seem to be much government involvement in something that is clearly salvageable with decent equipment.

One would think if anybody anywhere in the world's cia's and three letter agencies were taking it seriously, they wouldve pulled that thing up so fast it would leave a whirlpool!

Wait and see....

Cheers,arc!
Littleenki

[arc]

VENUS:

Planet VENUS visually aligns with Earth and transits the face of the sun .  This wont happen again till year 2117.

Venus will cross the face of the sun on June 5th for Americans, June 6th for Deep Pacific timezone dwellers.

If you can get some welders goggles you may just see the small speck of Venus as it crosses.

If you have a telescope or a pair of binoculars then aiming them at the sun and holding a flat white card about 10 inch/30cm back from the eyepiece lens will hopefully show the disc of the sun and the black dot of Venus on its face as it crosses... DONT LOOK THROUGH THE EYEPIECE!!!.

more info here... http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/transit12.html

cheers
arc

[Littleenki]

Cool idea, arc, the lens issue has been confounding me.
I have a pair of rose colored didymium lens glasses for lampworking, and Ill be wearing those.
I have prepared a tripod and high end video camera for tuesday night, and as I work at the beach that night, Ill have a front row seat! www.sunsetsatpier60.com
Ill try to figure out how to share the video, and will let you know when it's ready!

Every night we see venus first, and this time we will be waiting for it more than ever!

Cheers, amigo!
Littleenki

[arc]

Another interesting article


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2154405/Secret-mission-accomplished-Americas-secret-space-plane-land-YEAR-orbit--knows-did-there.html

arc