Newsclippings #701: UFOs, evolution, anti-matter, etc.
From: Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk (Stig Agermose)
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 15:50:02 -0800
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[11 News clippings from Stig Agermose. Edited by moderator.]
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Subject: France Probes UFO Sighting Captured On Videotape
Source: Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/etcetera/wires/0911/e_rt_0911_14.sml
UFO sighting captured on videotape?
5:19 p.m. ET (2121 GMT) September 11, 1998
PARIS ó France's National Center for Space Studies (CNES) said Friday
it was investigating a reported sighting of an unidentified flying
object in the Alpine village of Voreppe after a witness videotaped the
phenomenon.
The videotape shows "a dark form that looks like it is floating and
then moves away in a curious way," CNES expert Jean-Jacques Velasco
told Reuters after viewing the videotape and conducting initial
interviews with witnesses.
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Subject: Ancient 'Volcanic Winter' Tied To Rapid Genetic Divergence In Humans
Source: Science Daily
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/09/980908074159.htm
Source: *University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
Posted: 9/8/98
Ancient 'Volcanic Winter' Tied To Rapid Genetic Divergence In Humans
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new hypothesis about recent human evolution
suggests that a horrific "volcanic winter" 71,000 years ago, followed
by the coldest 1,000 years of the last Ice Age, brought widespread
famine and death to modern human populations around the world. The
abrupt "bottleneck," or decrease, in our ancestors' populations, in
turn, brought about the rapid "differentiation" - or genetic divergence
- of the surviving populations.
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Archaeologists say primitive man was able to cross sea
Source: The Nando Times
http://www2.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/health/091198/health7_12114_noframes.
html
VILA REAL, Portugal (September 11, 1998 00:07 a.m. EDT
http://www.nandotimes.com) - Archaeologists digging in Indonesia have
unearthed evidence that primitive man was capable of crossing the sea
to colonize the islands in the archipelago nearly one million years
ago, an Australian scientist said here Thursday.
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Subject: Successful Anti-Matter Factory Set Up
Source: Reuters via Fox News
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/091098/antimatter.sml
Settle Down Trekkies: Anti-Matter Won't
Be Beaming Anything Up for a While
2.35 p.m. ET (1835 GMT) September 10, 1998
CARDIFF - Swiss-based scientists said Thursday that they had
manufactured anti-matter, one of the staple substances of science
fiction, but in such tiny amounts it would be of little use in powering
a Star Trek spaceship.
The scientists at the European Particle Physics Laboratory, on the
Franco-Swiss border, have now set up the world's first anti-matter
factory, one of them, Professor Frank Close, told the annual science
festival in Wales.
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Subject: Planets More Widespread Than Thought?
Source: AP via the Nando Times
http://www2.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/health/090998/health9_3678_noframes.html
Discovery of dust cloud could broaden search for other planets
(September 9, 1998 2:55 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) -
Astronomers have found a mysterious dust cloud far outside our solar
system that may be giving birth to a planet in distant orbit around a
dying sun.
That's a far different arrangement from our solar system, in which the
planets orbit in a relatively tight formation around a star in the
prime of life.
The finding, if confirmed, would help demonstrate that planets can form
even around very old stars. And it suggests that planets populate the
universe in greater numbers than astronomers had realized.
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Subject: Earth Life May Have Originated On Mars
Source: New Scientist September 12
http://www.newscientist.com:80/ns/980912/survivors.html
Survivors from Mars
Battered by meteorites, the early Earth was no place for life to take
hold. But our most primitive ancestors could have found refuge on the
planet next door, argues Paul Davies
ONE DAY, the Earth will probably be hit by an asteroid or comet large
enough to wipe out most living creatures. It is not likely to be
soon--but such events do happen. The comet that reputedly killed off
the dinosaurs and many other species 65 million years ago left a crater
180 kilometres in diameter and plunged the whole world into years of
cold and darkness.
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Subject: ...Or On A Dust Grain In Icy Interstellar Space
Source: New Scientist September 12
http://www.newscientist.com/usa/bayarea/stuffoflife.html
Stuff of life
When astronomers re-created outer
space here on Earth they were amazed to
find some of the key ingredients of life,
and even cell-like bubbles.
Gretel Schueller reports
IN THE near vacuum of interstellar space, temperatures hover just
above absolute zero, where even the wobbling of atoms grinds to a halt.
Dotting this empty, frigid world are huge globs of gas and dust grains,
so numerous they block out nearly all light. And outside the shelter of
these interstellar clouds, bombarding cosmic and ultraviolet rays slash
most molecules to shreds.
Millions of light years away, under the sunshine and palm trees of
Mountain View, California, in a lab tucked away in the grounds of
NASA's Ames Research Center, Lou Allamandola and his colleagues have
been recreating that world of extremes. And in doing so, they have
uncovered tantalising hints that life may have emerged not from some
warm primordial slime on Earth, but on a dust grain in the icy heart of
space.
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Subject: Einstein's Gravitational Theories To Be Revised?
Source: MSNBC
Data from spacecraft doesn't add up
If readings are right, it's back to the drawing board for Einstein
http://www.msnbc.com:80/news/194205.asp
By Alan Boyle
MSNBC Sept. 9 ó Is gravity broke? Or is it just the spacecraft? For
whatever reason, far-flung probes such as Pioneer 10 and 11 are showing
an anomalous slowdown effect. If the observations are correct, that
could force a revision of Einstein's theories.
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'HyperSoar' airplane design unveiled by scientists
Source: Reuters News Service via the Nando Times
http://www2.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/health/091098/health2_9985_noframes.h
tml
SAN FRANCISCO (September 10, 1998 10:25 p.m. EDT
http://www.nandotimes.com) - There's a new design for a hypersonic
aircraft which scientists say could travel between any two cities on
Earth in less than two hours by literally "skipping" across the
atmosphere.
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Subject: Origin Of Life On Earth?
Source: The BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_167000/167863.stm
BBC News Online: Sci/Tech
Wednesday, September 9, 1998 Published at 17:12 GMT 18:12 UK
Springing to life under the sea
Scientists have been explaining how they have discovered a living
example of how life may have first formed.
The site of their discovery is a hot spring more than 9,000ft under the
Atlantic Ocean where a volcanic vent pours out hydrogen and provides
conditions for the very earliest forms of life to thrive.
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Subject: No, It's Not A UFO, But Those New Pulsating Safety Lights
Source: The Dallas Morning News
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro-dfw-nf/dfw43.htm
Southwest Airlines says it's ahead with a flash
Carrier thinks pulsating safety lights will go national; others in
industry watching
09/10/98
By J. Lynn Lunsford / The Dallas Morning News
No, it's not a UFO. Or a loose bulb.
Those pulsating lights in the sky are just jetliners with attitude.
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines is leading what is expected to be a
national trend in airline safety: flashing landing lights on jets.
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