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Saturday, August 16, 2003
Crop Circle - Wiltshire
Alton Priors - Wiltshire - UK - 8th August 2003 - South Field. Another variation of the 'celtic knot' type design, similar to the one in nearby East Field. This one however, looks much better from a geometric point of view.
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Friday, August 15, 2003
Iron-Breathing Life found at 250 degrees Fahrenheit
It may be small, its habitat harsh, but a newly discovered single-celled microbe leads the hottest existence known to science. Its discoverers have preliminarily named the roughly micron-wide speck "Strain 121" for the top temperature at which it survives: 121 degrees Celsius, or about 250 degrees Fahrenheit.
Researchers Derek Lovley and Kazem Kashefi write, "The upper temperature limit for life is a key parameter for delimiting when and where life might have evolved on a hot, early Earth; the depth to which life exists in the Earth's subsurface; and the potential for life in hot, extraterrestrial environments."
Baross's crew, also supported by NSF, used a remotely operated submarine to retrieve it from the Pacific Ocean's Juan de Fuca Ridge, a lightless seascape where vents called "black smokers" rise up like three- and four-story chimneys and continuously spew a blackening brew laced with iron and sulfur compounds.
While suffocating, crushing, scalding, toxic and downright abysmal by most living standards, the arrangement is not so bad for Strain 121 and its ilk. They are archaea, single-celled microbes similar to, but not quite, bacteria. They often live amid extreme heat, cold, pressure, salinity, alkalinity, and/or acidity.
Archaea literally means "ancient," and Lovley and other biologists tend to call them "deep branchers" because these microbes were among the first branches on the "tree of life."
According to Lovley, Strain 121--it will be given a species name after his lab finalizes the microbe's description--uses iron the way aerobic animals use oxygen.
"It's a novel form of respiration," Lovley says, explaining how Strain 121 uses iron to accept electrons. (Many archaea also use sulfur). As oxygen does in humans, the iron allows the microbe to burn its food for energy. Chemically, the respiration process reduces ferric iron to ferrous iron and forms the mineral magnetite.
The presence of vast deposits of magnetite deep in the ocean, its presence as a respiratory byproduct of some archaea, and the abundance of iron on Earth before life began all led Lovley and Kashefi to write that "electron transport to ferrous iron may have been the first form of microbial respiration as life evolved on a hot, early Earth."
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Crop Circles - Saskatchewan
REVENUE - SASKATCHEWAN - Canada - AUGUST 13, 2003
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Thursday, August 14, 2003
The Halifax to host UFO symposium
The Halifax International UFO Symposium will offer a seminar on international UFO sightings on Oct. 11 and 12, featuring a visit to Shag Harbour, where a UFO was alleged to have crashed into the water on Oct. 4, 1967.
UFO researchers speaking at Alderney Landing, Dartmouth, include UFO author Budd Hopkins, winner of the MUFON Award for outstanding contribution for the scientific advancements of UFO research in 1985, 1987 and 1994; Stanton Friedman, a nuclear physicist and lecturer who has been lecturing on the subject Flying Saucers Are Real since 1967; Antonio Huneeus, Chilean-American journalist who received the Ufologist of the Year award at the National UFO Conference in Miami Beach in 1990l.
Also participating is Don Ledger, producer and author of three books and regular contributor to Toronto-based radio show Strange Days Indeed, and Chris Styles, Dartmouth UFO researcher and author.
Topics to be discussed include the latest on triangle sightings, reality transformations, new abduction insights, cover-ups and crash scenarios. The symposium proceedings will be recorded and published and will be part of an upcoming two-hour feature documentary called Northern Lights: Canada's UFO Xfiles being produced for SPACE: The Imagination Station, and is scheduled to air in March.
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More than 5,000 people visit Hensall crop circles
“Due to 5,000 people walking in the crop circles, they are looking well tramped. Sorry,” reads a sign erected by Erv Willert, owner of the Hensall area farm where crop circles were discovered on July 30.
Ansberth said some researchers from London, Ont., took a sample of wheat from both outside and in the circles. She said they told her the wheat seeds from inside the circle may yield as much as 300 times more than normal wheat.
Matt Rock, of the Canadian Crop Circle Research Network (CCCRN), said he’s been to five real crop circle formations and added the Hensall formation is genuine. “It’s real. I don’t think it’s a hoax.”
Rock said the circles have been positioned almost exactly on an east/west axis and the accuracy is “pretty damned good.”
The crop circle researcher said a crop circle formation found in Stewarttown, the first sighting this year, may be pointing directly to the Hensall formation.
The Hensall formation looks like two cupped hands coming together and Rock suggested it represents two countries coming together. If the formation was split in two, he added the direction of the wheat falling are flowing in opposite directions.
WHITE ORB
Using a film camera, Roger Sugden, assistant state director of Mutual UFO Network for Northern Indiana, captured a white orb floating over the Hensall formation.
Eliminating all possibilities for an explanation, Sugden, of Fort Wayne, Ind., said that the orb cannot be dust in the air because the ground and wheat was wet, there were no insects in the air, he didn’t use a flash, he made sure the camera had a clean lens and the photo was taken during the day.
Sugden, an aerial photographer, said only one photo showed the white orb. He added that he prefers film to digital because film can be better analyzed.
A global positioning system (GPS) was used to find out the longitude, latitude and elevation of the crop formation, said Sugden, adding inside the formation, elevation varied from 411 to 1,300 above sea-level, which isn’t normal. Outside the crop circles all readings were at 852 feet above sea-level.
One of the signs that the formation is genuine is the expulsion cavities on the wheat. He explained steam builds up in the crop when the circles are formed and it blows little holes in the swollen node, which are the weakest part of the stalk.
JULY 13
On July 15, an unnamed man reported to the National UFO Reporting Centre that he saw a cigar-shaped UFO flying over Highway 4, north of Hensall on July 13.
The man wrote, “The object was white. It travelled from right to left across the highway approximately at the horizon, just above the tree-line.”
The object was about 10 km down the road from the car, he wrote, adding, “It did not look like a plane, balloon or anything else I have ever seen in the sky. It had to be quite large.”
The date that the UFO was sighted intrigued Sugden. He explained that July 13, 1993 was the day that Northern Indiana had its largest UFO sighting, including reports of cigar-shaped objects. He added that there were too many witnesses to interview.
Exactly three years later, on July 13, 1996, Sugden said crop formations were found in the same field over which the UFOs were sighted.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2003
Help Ray Bradbury Celebrate a Martian Birthday
Ray Bradbury, the celebrated science fiction author, has taken millions of people on imaginative journeys to Mars through his work for over half a century. Now Mars is coming to Bradbury, so to speak, when the planet draws closer to Earth than it has been in over 50,000 years.
To celebrate the opposition of Mars on August 27 and Bradbury's 83rd birthday on August 22, The Planetary Society is gathering birthday greetings from well-wishers around the world to present to Bradbury in a giant birthday card. Anyone can join in sending these greetings by visiting The Planetary Society's web page at http://planetary.org/bradbury. The deadline for birthday greetings is August 20.
"The Planetary Society has proclaimed August 27 Mars Day, and how better to celebrate than by honoring the man whose stories have captured the allure of Mars for generations of readers," said Bruce Betts, Director of Projects at The Planetary Society.
The Society is co-sponsoring over 250 Mars Watch events worldwide so that participants can enjoy this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity at star parties, programs and festivals. Venues include such diverse locales as the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California; the Zeiss Planetarium in Vienna, Austria; and the Nagoya City Science Museum in Japan.
Now appearing bright red-orange in the evening sky, Mars will be at perihelic opposition on August 27, which means that the planet is at a point in its orbit when it is both closest to the Sun and to the Earth. Greater detail than usual on the planet's surface can be discerned through telescopes, and the planet will appear brighter in the night sky to the naked eye.
For details on observing Mars in your locale, check the Mars Watch site at http://planetary.org/marswatch2003/. The web site also includes information on when Mars rises and sets at different locations around the world, hands-on activities for children, an international Mars Art Contest, and more.
Building on the excitement over this close approach to Mars, five spacecraft are en route to the Red Planet: NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission (Spirit and Opportunity), the European Space Agency's (ESA) Mars Express and Beagle 2, and Japans Nozomi mission.
The Planetary Society's Mars Watch celebrations will culminate January 2-4, 2004 at Planetfest in Pasadena, California, where thousands are expected to attend a weekend festival and witness the first Mars Exploration Rover landers touchdown on the Martian surface.
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