http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/pr0373.htm
Our solar system has a twin
By Leigh Dayton
July 4, 2003

"ASTRONOMERS are a step closer to finding a solar system that 
could support life - and it's just a hop, skip and jump from 
us in cosmic terms.

"They have discovered a giant gas planet like Jupiter in the 
constellation Puppis, just 90 light-years away. 

"What's more, the new planet has a circular orbit like Jupiter, 
sits a Jupiter-like distance from its star, HD70642, and has no 
bigger planets between it and the star, just like Jupiter. 
[...]
"The discovery will be announced today at an astronomy conference 
in Paris by team member Hugh Jones of the Liverpool John Moores
University in England. 
The Australian
www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6696903%255E13762,00.html

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Scientists Discover Planetary System Similar to Our Own
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/pr0373.htm
"An international team of scientists has discovered a planet 
and star that may share the same relationship as Jupiter and 
our Sun, the closest comparison that researchers have found 
since they began their search for extra-solar planets nearly 
a decade ago..." 
http://www.scienceblog.com/community/article1801.html

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Dark matter, phantom-energy, and the Pentaquark
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030519/030519-10.html
"This is also the latest and best evidence that 
galaxies sit at the centre of giant clouds of 
dark matter.

"The recent discovery of an accelerating universe 
raises the possibility that in future everything 
may rend asunder, starting with clusters of galaxies
and ending with the smallest of subatomic particles.

"All of this is driven, the argument goes, by 
something known as phantom energy, which fills all 
of space. The density of phantom energy increases
with time, like a bomb that grows ever bigger.

"No one knows if phantom energy exists at all. 
But recent astronomical observations hint that 
it might."
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030609/030609-7.html

Accelerating Universe theory dispels dark energy
Tweaking gravity does away with need for strange forces. 
3 July 2003 http://www.nature.com/nsu/030630/030630-7.html

Is Cosmic Speed-Up Due to New Gravitational Physics?
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0306438
Authors: Sean M. Carroll, Vikram Duvvuri, 
Mark Trodden, Michael S. Turner

http://fafnir.phyast.pitt.edu/exotica/bib/MultiTh.html
|||||Relativistic quark model and pentaquark spectroscopy|||||*
hep-ph/0211436: http://arXiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0211436

"... Here we show however that there are 
certain unified models for dark energy 
which are stable to perturbations in matter
density where the presence of phantom 
energy does not lead to such a cosmic 
doomsday." --Pedro F. Gonzalez-Diaz 
http://xxx.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0305559

Why Does Quark Matter Matter? 
"... The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) 
is designed to extend this frontier, providing 
access to the most fundamental building blocks 
of nature known so far -- quarks and gluons. 
By colliding the nuclei of gold atoms together 
at nearly the speed of light, RHIC will, for a 
fleeting instant, heat the matter in collision 
to more than a billion times the temperature of 
the sun. In so doing, scientists will be able 
to study the fundamental properties of the basic 
building blocks of matter, as well as learn how 
they behaved collectively some 15 to 20 billion 
years ago, when the universe was barely a 
split-second old..."
http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2003/RHIC-background-6.htm

* Pentaquark discovery confounds sceptics 
02 July 03
"A brand new sub-atomic particle called the 
pentaquark has made its debut at labs in 
Japan and the US. Unlike ordinary protons 
and neutrons in atomic nuclei, which contain 
three quarks, the pentaquark has five..."
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp

James Oberg [<http://www.jamesoberg.com/jimspeaks.html>]
[Excerpt from: 'Everything is Under Control' by
             Robert Anton Wilson - 1998 ISBN 0-06-273417-2]

James Oberg, a longtime skeptic of the extraterrestrial 
interpretation of the UFO  phenomenon, has more than once 
suggested a rather conspiritorial countertheory.

   In June 1980, Moscow had a major UFO flap. People saw a
giant light and some claimed that aliens were chasing cars 
and drilling holes through house windows. Tens of thousands 
of citizens allegedly saw some or all of this weirdity. 
In _Omni_ magazine, Oberg proposed that the KGB was behind 
it: "The KGB, eager to muddy the waters and cover up public
recognition of the military space center at Pietsk, is only 
too happy to promote scintillating stories about aliens
chasing cars and boring nasty holes in windows."
   More recently, Oberg has pointed an accusing finger at
agencies of the U.S. government:

   ... Government representatives--officials, military
   officers, etc.--used "UFO" as a convenient camouflage
   for other official classified activities (such as
   retrieval of crashed aircraft or nuclear weapons or 
   other objects); or used artificial "UFO stories" 
   (in oral, written, photographic, film, etc. form) as
   "tracers" in studying the function of security 
   safeguards and personnel psychological responses; or 
   used "UFO" as an excuse (either intended or accidental)
   to cover up improper, forbidden, or diplomatically
   delicate activities... or any other activity that the
   government--or any part of it--wanted to keep hidden.

   Oberg made these charges in an open letter to Dr.
Steven Greer of the _CSETI_ organization, who is trying
to force the government to release UFO secrets. Oberg 
supports Greer in wanting the secrets given to the public, 
even though Greer expects the hidden data will support the
extraterrestrial hypothesis and Oberg believes it will just
show that the government lies to us a lot of the time.
   Most conspiritologists would certainly like to see the
release of any alleged "UFO secrets" dealing with lost
nuclear weapons and "improper, forbidden, or diplomatically
delicate" activities.

See also:
William Cooper, Crop Circles, NASA, Nazis and JFK, UMMO Letters

References:
KGB lies--
  _Omni_, September 1982

U.S. government lies--
  _Saucer Smear_, Vol. 44, No. 6, June 1997 
  (P.O. Box 1709, Key West, FL 33041)

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And: _______________________________________

Robert Anton Wilson may be found at http://www.rawilson.com
     _______________________________________

 "As Thomas Huxley said, the universe acts a lot like a chess game
 in which the player on the other side remains invisible to us.
 By analyzing the moves, we try to form an image of the intellect
 behind them. Images that have seemed almost believable to me at
 various times have included the gods and goddesses of ancient
 Greece (if you develop a Classic Poetry habit, that kind of
 neurolinguistic programming can happen...) and also, of course,
 those extra-terrestrials who have so much popularity these days.
 I have also considered the player on the other side as more
 impersonal, like the Tao, or more bizarre, like Shiva Dancing,
 or more abstract, like Philip K. Dick's Vast Active Living
 Information System (VALIS.) Mostly, though I think of the player
 on the other side as a pookah -- a resident of Ireland, in rabbit
 form, who may at any time dump a truckload of the Unknown and
 Inexplicable right on your doorstep." --Robert Anton Wilson
   http://www.rawilson.com

  "What is necessary for man is to free himself from
  the entire past of mankind, not only his individual
  past. That is to say, you have to free yourself
  from what every man before you has thought, felt
  and experienced -- then only is it possible for you
  to be yourself. The whole purpose of my talking to
  people is to point out the uniqueness of every
  individual. Culture or civilization or whatever you
  might call it has always tried to fit us into a
  framework. Man is not man at all; I call him a
  'unique animal' -- and man will remain a unique
  animal as long as he's burdened by the culture."

  The "Anti-Krishnamurti":
  -- Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti (Born 9 July 1918)
  http://www.well.com/user/jct/mystiq1.htm