Evaluating NASA’s Futuristic EM Drive April 29, 2015 by José Rodal, Ph.D, Jeremiah Mullikin and Noel Munson - subedited by Chris Gebhardt A group at NASA’s Johnson Space Center has successfully tested an electromagnetic (EM) propulsion drive in a vacuum – a major breakthrough for a multi-year international effort comprising several competing research teams. Thrust measurements of the EM Drive defy classical physics’ expectations that such a closed (microwave) cavity should be unusable for space propulsion because of the law of conservation of momentum. EM Drive: Last summer, NASA Eagleworks – an advanced propulsion research group led by Dr. Harold “Sonny” White at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) – made waves throughout the scientific and technical communities when the group presented their test results on July 28-30, 2014, at the 50th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference in Cleveland, Ohio. However, in 2010, Prof. In 2014, Prof. Dr. In Dr. The tests reported by Dr. Applications: Moving out from LEO, Mr. Mr. Dr.
Is Your Religion Ready To Meet ET? How will humankind react after astronomers hand over rock-solid scientific evidence for the existence of life beyond the Earth? No more speculating. No more wondering. The moment scientists announce this discovery, everything will change. Not least of all, our philosophies and religions will need to incorporate the new information. Searching For Signs Of Life Astronomers have now identified thousands of planets in orbit around other stars. Having already found the physical planets, astronomers are now searching for our biological neighbors. And it’s very likely that astronomers will find it. Astronomers filter that light from far away through spectrometers – high-tech prisms that tease the light apart into its many distinct wavelengths. What is our place in the universe? If We Aren’t Alone, Who Are We? An affirmative answer to the question “Does life exist anywhere else in the universe beyond Earth?” Extrasolar Sinners? Mormon Worlds Bahá’í Without Bias Light Years From Mecca David A.
NASA - Robert Simmon - AKA Mr. Blue Marble Robert Simmon - AKA Mr. Blue Marble Name: Robert SimmonTitle: Lead Data Visualizer and Information DesignerFormal Job Classification: Senior Program Analyst Organization He Works For: Code 613, Climate and Radiation Branch, Earth Sciences Division, Sciences and Exploration Directorate Our team is purely about communications. We translate data into a useable and understandable form. What is the coolest thing you’ve ever done as part of your job at Goddard? The last time anyone took a photograph from above low Earth orbit that showed an entire hemisphere (one side of a globe) was in 1972 during Apollo 17. I was happy with it but had no idea how widespread it would become. We have since updated the base maps by increasing the resolution and, for 2004, we made a series of monthly maps. What was your best day or the best thing that ever happened to you at Goddard? The summer of 2007, I bought one of the first iPhones. Do you have a favorite way or place to kick back, relax, or have fun?
Professor debunks theories of skeleton’s alien origins Alien and UFO enthusiasts were left disappointed again last month, as Professor of Microbiology and Immunology Garry Nolan Ph.D. ’89 P.D. ’89 debunked theories of extraterrestrial origins surrounding a skeleton found in Chile’s Atacama Desert and instead identified it as a humanoid. The skeleton was featured prominently in the recent documentary “Sirius,” produced by Steven Greer, founder of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the Disclosure Project. The film is based on Greer’s efforts to reveal government cover-ups of UFO sightings and extraterrestrial encounters. Nolan was given the opportunity to examine the skeleton after contacting the makers of “Sirius.” The producers agreed to send Nolan pictures of the figure, which Nolan described as “pretty spectacular,” after he offered to provide genomics tools that could examine the skeleton’s DNA. “I wouldn’t enter this and at the first sign of humanity throw everything out,” Nolan said.
SpaceX to fly tourists to the Moon NEXT YEAR opening up route to WORLD | Science | News Planned for late 2018, the unnamed pair have already paid a “significant deposit” for the mission according to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. And they will travel aboard the private company’s Crew Dragon capsule which is set for its first unmanned test flight this year. Mr Musk claimed the co-operation of NASA had made the plan possible, adding the two passengers "will travel faster and further into the solar system than any before them". The CEO said: "This presents an opportunity for humans to return to deep space for the first time in 45 years.” But he declined to comment on the identity of the two individuals who approached the company last year, only saying that they knew each other and that it’s “nobody from Hollywood”. He added: "Like the Apollo astronauts before them, these individuals will travel into space carrying the hopes and dreams of all humankind, driven by the universal human spirit of exploration. He added: “We’re doing everything we can to minimise that risk, but it’s not zero.
Will ET Be Here Soon? NASA Brings Scientists, Theologians Together To Prepare Looking for extraterrestrial life is akin to a search for a cosmic needle-in-a-haystack, as evidenced by the above incredible Hubble Space Telescope image showing approximately 10,000 galaxies. In large part, thanks to NASA's Kepler spacecraft, more than 1,400 planets have been identified beyond Earth. A few days ago, NASA tried closing the gap between life on Earth and the possibilities of life elsewhere. The space agency and the Library of Congress (image below left) brought together scientists, historians, philosophers and theologians from around the world for a two-day symposium, "Preparing For Discovery." Their agenda: To explore how we prepare for the inevitable discovery of extraterrestrial life, be it simple microbial organisms or intelligent beings. "We're looking at all scenarios about finding life. "People just consider it much more likely now that we're going to find something -- probably microbes first and maybe intelligence later," he added. Those are big numbers to ponder.
Lunar Eclipses and Solar Eclipses :: NASA Space Place An eclipse happens when a planet or a moon gets in the way of the sun’s light. Here on Earth, we can experience two kinds of eclipses: solar eclipses and lunar eclipses. What’s the difference? A solar eclipse happens when the moon gets in the way of the sun’s light and casts its shadow on Earth. This total eclipse happens about every year and a half somewhere on Earth. Note: This diagram is not to scale. In this picture, the moon is covering up the sun in the middle of the day. But not everyone experiences every solar eclipse. On average, the same spot on Earth only gets to see a solar eclipse for a few minutes about every 375 years! Caution! Never look directly at the Sun, even for a second! To view a solar eclipse, use special solar viewing glasses. During a lunar eclipse, Earth gets in the way of the sun’s light hitting the moon. The moon can also look reddish because Earth’s atmosphere absorbs the other colors while it bends some sunlight toward the moon.
Fermi's paradox: does the lack of contact from extraterrestrials have implications for human survival? -Low impact living info, training, products & services “Where is everybody?” Enrico Fermi is supposed to have asked in 1950 of his colleagues at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Working from first principles, Fermi calculated that extraterrestrials should have visited the Earth long ago, and many times over; the absence of any evidence to suggest that they have done so presents therefore the basis of the paradox that now bears Fermi’s name. Fermi was neither the first nor the last to raise this puzzling question, and a decade after the famous lunchtime conversation at Los Alamos, Frank Drake formulated an equation to stimulate discussion of the chances that SETI (the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) would discover radio communicative civilisations on other worlds. More importantly you might be thinking, what on Earth has this subject got to do with Lowimpact.org? It might just be though, that intelligent life, again of an intelligence close enough to ours to be recognisable, has a tendency to destroy itself.
NASA Confesses to Dosing Americans with Air-borne Lithium and Other Chemicals | Chemtrails In Our Skies There’s the official explanation for why NASA is spraying lithium, a pharmaceutical drug most often used to treat people with manic depression or bi-polar disorder, into our ionosphere, and then there is the probable reason(s). It would be easier to accept NASA’s official explanation if they were not so secretive about everything they study and do in space – but one thing is for certain – NASA’s own personnel have admitted that lithium, along with other chemicals, are intentionally being placed into our environment regularly. It is possible that many of NASA’s own employees aren’t even aware of the true motivations for carrying out such a project, ironically displaying the very behaviors that these chemicals/pharmaceuticals are meant to instill. In the first bomb-shell video a NASA employee (Douglas.e.rowland@nasa.gov) admits that lithium is being sprayed in the atmosphere, and says that it is “harmless to the environment.” Of course, we can’t ignore the USA. Location: Wallops Range
NASA Scientists Reveal Four Alarming Facts About Extraterrestrial Life On Mars Last weekend, NASA called for a press conference to announce a major discovery regarding the planet Mars. During the meeting, they revealed some pretty shocking information, completely changing what we once thought about the “red” planet that, suddenly, doesn’t seem so red anymore. 1. Yesterday, NASA announced that Mars actually has rivers of flowing water on it. Lujendra Ojha, a planetary scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, made the discovery by using images from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This raises a number of other questions, many of which are brought up in the press conference below. “Mars is not the dry, arid planet that we thought of in the past … [and] liquid water has been found on Mars.” – James Green, NASA director of planetary sciences 2. “We are going to Mars, our journey to Mars is a science led expedition right now, but soon I hope we’ll be sending humans to the red planet to explore and science will lead the way. 3. 4. Free Happiness Training!
Pleiades Supercomputer Pleiades, one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, represents NASA's state-of-the-art technology for meeting the agency's supercomputing requirements, enabling NASA scientists and engineers to conduct modeling and simulation for NASA missions. This distributed-memory SGI ICE cluster is connected with InfiniBand® in a dual-plane hypercube technology. The system contains the following types of Intel Xeon processors: E5-2680v4 (Broadwell), E5-2680v3 (Haswell), E5-2680v2 (Ivy Bridge), and E5-2670 (Sandy Bridge). Pleiades is named after the astronomical open star cluster of the same name. System Architecture Interconnects Internode: InfiniBand®, with all nodes connected in a partial hypercube topology Two independent InfiniBand® fabrics InfiniBand® DDR, QDR and FDR Gigabit Ethernet management network Storage SGI® InfiniteStorage NEXIS 9000 home filesystem 29 PB of RAID disk storage configured over several cluster-wide Lustre filesystems Operating Environment
The World’s Top 20 Most Fascinating Alien Contactee & Abduction Cases By: Makia Freeman Alien contactee and alien abductee cases are much more common than you may believe. The topic is still largely taboo in the mainstream, due to a certain segment of society that is unable and unwilling to go beyond its narrow belief system, but despite this, investigation of alien contactee and abductee cases is genuine area of scientific research. Researchers (some alive, some dead) such as Dr. David Jacobs, Budd Hopkins, John Mack, John Carpenter, Joe Jordan, Barbara Lamb, Dr. There are, at least, tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands, or millions of individuals worldwide who are alien contactees. Since there is no way to cover every case, here is a list of my top 20 most influential, fascinating and mind-blowing alien contact or abductee cases. Alien Contactee / Abductee #1: Billy Meier Billy Meier (Eduard Albert “Billy” Meier) of Switzerland is perhaps the most famous of all alien contactees. Alien Contactee / Abductee #2: Alex Collier What About “Contact”?
Traveling to Mars with Immortal Plasma Rockets Nearly 50 years after landing on the moon, mankind has now set its sights on sending the first humans to Mars. The moon trip took three days; a Mars trip will likely take most of a year. The difference is in more than just time. We’ll need many more supplies for the trip itself, and when we get to the Red Planet, we’re going to need to set up camp and stay for a while. Carrying all this material will require a revolutionary rocket technology. The Saturn V was the largest rocket ever built. The ‘electric vehicles’ of space Plasma rockets are a modern technology that transforms fuel into a hot soup of electrically charged particles, known as plasma, and ejects it to push a spacecraft. The main downside to plasma rockets is their low thrust. But don’t worry, weak thrust is not a deal breaker. While the future of plasma rockets is bright, the technology still has unsolved problems. That’s where my research comes in. Understanding plasma rockets A self-healing wall Testing different materials
What This Brilliant MIT-Educated Astronaut Has to Disclose About Aliens Will Blow Your Mind NASA astronaut explains how aliens tried to save America from nuclear war. Now, we are used to hearing things that seem pretty crazy being uttered by people who seem equally crazy, but this man definitely does not seem crazy. He seems incredibly humble and wise. He is a retired US Navy Captain and aviator, test pilot, aeronautical engineer and NASA astronaut. He received his doctorate in aeronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1970, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Edgar Mitchell has made the rather shocking claim that aliens came to Earth to stop a nuclear war between America and Russia. The Nasa veteran has regularly spoken about his belief in aliens ever since he landed on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 14 mission in 1971. “White Sands was a testing ground for atomic weapons – and that’s what the extra-terrestrials were interested in,” Dr. Dr. Dr. Officials from NASA were quick to play the comments down. Dr.