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friday july 21st 2017 you are listening

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to inception radio network voice of the

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fringe majority this is carol carl with

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we could almost begin tonight's earth

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sky forecast with that old nursery rhyme

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song i'm a little teapot short and stout

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but we won't but here is the headline

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find the teapot and the galaxy's center

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tonight or any moonless evening during a

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northern hemisphere summer or a southern

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hemisphere winter you can look in the

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evening hours toward the center of our

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milky way galaxy it's located in the

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direction of sagittarius the archer

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which happens to contain a famous

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asterism one of those noticeable

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patterns of stars but they're not really

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a constellation this one's called the

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teapot

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from the northern hemisphere you'll be

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looking south during the evening hours

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if you want to find this star pattern

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and if you're in the southern hemisphere

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look for the teapot to climb high

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overhead around mid to late evening

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if you're blessed with a dark sky

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finding this will be easy

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in a dark sky you're going to see a

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broad boulevard of stars the edgewise

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view into our own milky way galaxy which

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broadens and brightens in the direction

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of a galaxy center

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or maybe you know the planets if you

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have that dark sky in 2017 the starry

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band of the milky way passes between

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said teapot and the golden planet saturn

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it lies about midway between the spout

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of the teapot and saturn this year

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if you don't know saturn and you don't

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have a dark sky the chart you can find

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later at

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ufoheadlinenews.com will help you out

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with that it's provided by an individual

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named astrobob he expands the view

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including the constellation scorpius etc

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sagittarius the archer and its tepa

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asterism is next to scorpius on the

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sky's dome

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we can't really see the galactic center

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it's heavily veiled by intervening stars

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star clusters and nebulae those vast

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clouds of gas and dust

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the center of our milky way looms some

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26 000 light years away

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but we can gaze toward this direction in

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space and if your sky is dark enough it

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is a sight to behold

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by the way the teapot actually makes up

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the western half of the constellation

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sagittarius the archer modern eyes have

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an easier time envisioning a teapot than

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an archer with a drawn out bow from

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temperate latitudes in the northern

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hemisphere it's pretty easy to make out

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the summer triangle asterism rather high

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in your eastern sky at nightfall this

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huge star formation consists of those

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three brilliant stars we talk about here

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vega deneb and altair and can oftentimes

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withstand the glare of the full moon or

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even a light polluted city

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if you're otherwise lost on some starry

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night but you can't find the summer

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triangle let this signpost star

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formation escort you to the teapot and

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don't forget trying that imaginary line

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drawing from deneb through altar to star

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hop to that teapot here's the bottom

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line blessed with a dark sky try finding

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the teapot and the direction to the

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galactic center on these moonless nights

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here's an interesting headline written

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by swapnakrishna for engadget.com

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headline

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one single theory may have solved three

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mars mysteries

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we still aren't quite sure how mars

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there are many questions about its

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distinct geology and its weird but

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lovable potato moons that don't really

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make sense

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but now a study in the journal

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geophysical research letters may have

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solved some of the enduring mysteries of

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the red planet

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mars has hemispheres that are

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geologically different from one another

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additionally the aforementioned potato

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moons and a composition that is

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different from earth's add to its

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mystery

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researchers stephen moses and ramon

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brasser discovered that it was possible

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to have just one explanation for all

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three phenomena and here's that

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explanation a giant asteroid collision

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after the planets first formed a lot of

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leftover debris was floating around the

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these asteroids slammed into the planets

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bombarding re-shifting planetary

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the giant impact model theorizes that

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smaller than they are now asteroid

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impacts added to their masses as they

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absorbed the elements within the space

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debris and reformed themselves the

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researchers took a close look at martian

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meteorites and realized that the

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composition of metals within its mantle

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could have come from one large asteroid

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they calculated the size of the asteroid

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needed to deliver these metals found

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the final result an asteroid the size of

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ceres roughly 1200 kilometers 745 miles

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wide may have impacted the planet around

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4.43 billion years ago and mars likely

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was subjected to smaller impacts

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of mars which would explain the fact

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that that area's crust is younger than

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that of other martian areas and ejected

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create a planetary ring

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and this could possibly have resulted in

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the formation of mars two moons those

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potato guys phobos and deimos and that

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would also explain their composition

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these bodies are made of both martian

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we still don't know anything for sure

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such is space science but the fact that

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this one theory solves multiple

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mysteries of mars origins and geological

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features lends weight to it the

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researchers hope to add further credence

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to their theory by studying more martian

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meteorites and understanding how

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asteroids affected our solar system's

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formation yes the mysteries of space

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science speaking of which that segues us

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right into our next headline distant

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kuiper belt object observed by new

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horizons nasa team in argentina we

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grabbed this story from the

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international business times space

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department with a byline for nina

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nasa's new horizons team based in

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argentina made another groundbreaking

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observation of a distant kuiper belt

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object last weekend

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this object is four billion miles away

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and researchers were able to detect it

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because it passed in front of another

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star that's according to a news release

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in just a few seconds the researchers

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caught its shadow passing the bright

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light of a distant star

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the object effectively fully blocked the

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star that event called occultation and

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the researchers were able to capture the

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it was no coincidence that the

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researchers were able to catch the

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object on the move the team had set up

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telescopes in a fairly remote area in

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argentina to get a glimpse of the object

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that object 2014 mu69

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this makes five occultations the team

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has observed and record to beef up their

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the researchers had known they'd be able

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they knew the occultations would be

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they had more than 60 observers ready

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with 24 mobile telescopes ready to catch

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2014 mu69 and all of this was done to

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help prepare for an even more grand

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observation that's coming up new year's

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in addition to the research team working

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to see the kuiper belt object the

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government and people of argentina had a

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hand in making this observation possible

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to ensure the best conditions possible

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to observe street lights were turned off

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to help block the wind at these

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on january 1st 2019 the new horizons

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spacecraft is set to fly by the kuiper

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belt object and the hope is that these

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observations made from earth will give

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shape and size before the craft gets

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before these most recent observations

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to detect this object and it wasn't able

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to determine anything about size or

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even now with the observations it will

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determinations about this object

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the observations new horizons makes as

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it flies by the object will set the

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new horizons launched on january 19 2006

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and has been sending back observations

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it was observing pluto and its

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surroundings for much of its mission but

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now it's past that distant planet and

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soon enough it will conduct an extended

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mission to study the kuiper belt and

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so has this week maybe left you feeling

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a tad listless

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well don't worry we've got a list right

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here the top five places to look for

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extraterrestrial life this is from the

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publication cosmos

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their headline the top five places to

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look for extraterrestrial life a sub

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headline it's a mighty big universe but

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et hunters are zeroing in on these prime

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candidates this is a byline for andrew

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for all the hope and expectation it's

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sobering to recall that despite the best

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efforts of scientists and engineers

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there still is no evidence that life

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there are however some planetary prime

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suspects here are the five places

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astronomers and astrobiologists

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think are the best chances for harboring

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news of this planet a rocky super earth

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was announced in the journal nature last

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orbiting a red dwarf 39 light years from

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earth the planet sits in its star's

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habitable zone that goldilock zone and

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it has an estimated mass almost seven

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times that of our own planet leading to

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the assumption that it comprises rock

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encasing a solid iron core

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lhs1140b's density means that it might

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and if so it might now boast a stable

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atmosphere and liquid water quote this

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is the most exciting exoplanet i've seen

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in the past decade said jason ditman he

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continues quote we could hardly hope for

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a better target to perform one of the

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biggest quests in space searching for

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evidence of life beyond earth end quotes

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next on our list is enceladus thanks to

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the data from nasa's cassini spacecraft

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saturn's moon enceladus has emerged as

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every e.t hunter's favorite target this

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is mainly due to the strong likelihood

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that it features a subterranean ocean

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in april this year a team of scientists

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from the southwest research institute in

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texas revealed a plume of hydrogen

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erupting from the moon's surface

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this plume may be evidence of

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hydrothermal vents in the subsurface

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ocean these are the same type of vents

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that support extremophile life on earth

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said hunter waite the principal

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investigator quote the discovery of

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hydrogen gas and the evidence for

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ongoing hydrothermal activity offer a

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tantalizing suggestion that habitable

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conditions could exist beneath this

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and along comes titan we've spoken about

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titan recently here on the ufo headline

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news it's one of saturn's 53 moons titan

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is known to have permanent hydrocarbon

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lakes a nitrogen-heavy atmosphere and

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possibly a subsurface ocean beneath a

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salty crust

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so it's possible a host for either water

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dependent or methane dependent life

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now here's proxima b this planet

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discovered in august 2016 orbits the

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star proxima centauri 4.2 light years

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away from our own sun it's the nearest

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candidate beyond the solar system for

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hosting extraterrestrial life

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research in may's astronomy and

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astrophysics journal found that chances

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of life existing on the planet might

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hinge on its orbital speed

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astrophysicists at the university of

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exeter calculated that if proxima b

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rotates on its axis three times for

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every two times it orbits its sun

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then the chances for it being habitable

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are substantially improved

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and last but not least trappist-1

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the announcement of the trappist-1

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system last february with seven rocky

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planets orbiting an ultra-cool dwarf

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star sent ripples of excitement through

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astrobiologists everywhere at least

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three of these planets looked like they

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were within the star's habitable zone

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the latest analysis by eric wolf from

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the laboratory for atmospheric and space

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physics at the university of colorado

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boulder has somewhat dampened these

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expectations suggesting that only one of

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the group has life-sustaining potential

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but never mind one chance in seven is

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still better than no chance at all

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indeed

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here's a perfectly logical segue this is

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by elizabeth howell for the publication

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seeker

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headline finding extraterrestrial life

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may rely on identifying traces rather

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than aliens

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when the famous 15th century inventor

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and scientist leonardo da vinci examined

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petrified shells with borings in them

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very long ago he had a remarkable

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insight

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the strange fossilized formations he

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determined were likely left behind by

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ancient organisms

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half a millennium later this perspective

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is potentially useful in our search for

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alien life argues a new paper that

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appears in the earth science reviews the

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findings were recently presented at the

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european astrobiology network

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association congress held in the

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netherlands

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astronomers have been weighing options

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for how to identify the existence of

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life on other planets and moons in our

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solar system

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there are a range of

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okay kevin for the grand prize of one

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million dollars what color is the white

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house um

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i know this i know this i know this

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um five seconds oh switching to geico

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could save you a bunch of money on car

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insurance

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okay

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judges

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that's true kevin you'll allow it

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congratulations you're a winner

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geico because saving 15 or more on car

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insurance is always the great answer

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possibilities mars could be host to

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ancient or current life depending on how

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much water flows on the surface and how

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salty that water is

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there are also many icy moons some with

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water geysers in the outer regions of

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our solar system among them saturn's

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titan and enceladus and jupiter's europa

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and ganymede

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leonardo understood the biological

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nature of borings based on their shape

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not their biochemistry end quotes that's

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from andre bacon the lead researcher

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bacon is an ichnologist that type of

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scientist that studies life's traces

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through burrows borings and trails

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he previously studied da vinci's work

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and is a researcher at the university of

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modena and unesco geopark netourho

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here's what he says quote this

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observation appears to be trivial but it

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potentially allows us to detect

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extraterrestrial life that differs from

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known life end quotes

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a major limitation of this kind of study

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however is that animal traces and

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alterations by geology can sometimes

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appear very similar for example

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researchers have identified what they

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say are more than four billion-year-old

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fossils in formations in northern quebec

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canada this finding was announced

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earlier this year in 2016 a separate

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team claimed to find a 3.7

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billion-year-old microbial mat in

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greenland

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but given that the earth is about 4.5

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billion years old critics of these

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discoveries argue that changes in

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earth's geology over billions of years

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can sometimes mimic those appearances of

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life forms

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microbiologists therefore need to prove

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that the older life forms did exist by

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comparing the older fossils to much

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younger and better verified examples of

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life

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they must also attempt to verify

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markings by life against the chemistry

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of the rocks although again this can be

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altered by rock deformation over time in

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this latest study andre bacon and his

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colleagues attempt to explain the best

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way to find extraterrestrial traces

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one method of finding those could be

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looking for quote meandering end quote

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trails and burrows that efficient way

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for microorganisms to look for food

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rather than making straight lines in the

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environment or repeatedly crossing a

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surface this meandering allows a

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creature to search for food without

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exerting too much energy

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quote rangers looking for tracks on the

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snow to determine the presence of

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elusive animals such as the links and

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quotes said bacon he pointed out that

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the traces work for creatures ranging

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from microscopic organisms to large

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dinosaurs he continues quote why not do

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the same with alien tracks

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borings and burrows traces of

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interactions with the substrate that

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natural environment for a creature are a

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common evidence for life on earth and

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their fossils can survive the humongous

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pressures and temperatures generated by

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colliding continents end quotes he added

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we'll keep our eyes on this study

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we found a very cool article written by

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george knapp in the las vegas now dot

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com he writes this as the i team and

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here's his headline hacker says the

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united states military has secret space

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program besides nasa

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this hacker it's a name you will all

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identify gentle listeners here's the

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story

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las vegas a computer hacker says he's

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seen evidence that suggests the united

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states military has its own secret space

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program separate from nasa's space

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effort

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and that hacker yep it's gary mckinnon

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that computer whiz from the united

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kingdom and just to update you if you've

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forgotten mr mckinnon or perhaps never

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heard of him at all we thought it might

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be a good idea to meander over to

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wikipedia and just pick up this gary

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mckinnon born the 10th of february 1966

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is a scottish systems administrator and

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hacker he was accused in 2002 of

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perpetrating the quote biggest military

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computer hack of all time end quotes

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although mckinnon himself states that he

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was merely looking for evidence of free

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energy suppression and a cover-up of ufo

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activity and other technologies

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potentially useful to the public

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on the 16th of october 2012 after a long

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struggle a series of legal proceedings

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in britain home secretary theresa may

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withdrew her extradition order to the

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united states

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we think personally that was a very good

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thing oh by the way just a side note

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here if you are up for it and interested

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to sleuth around youtube has a couple of

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music videos yep gary mckinnon was a

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rock and roller check out his video

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wanton child by the way he was a

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computer whiz from the united kingdom

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and he's going to talk about all of this

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at a las vegas symposium the weekend of

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july 21st through the 23rd

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according to gary mckinnon in 2001 while

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he was searching online for evidence

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about ufos he accessed classified nasa

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computers a total of 13 times

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but instead of evidence of ufos mckinnon

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found files about a secret space program

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operated by the united states navy he

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said

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mckinnon says he even found the names of

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the off-planet crew members

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jan harzen the president of the mutual

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ufo network which meets in las vegas

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this week told the i-team george knapp

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what mckinnon uncovered

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quote basically donna hare spelled

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h-a-r-e who had worked for nasa told him

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about specific buildings where they were

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airbrushing ufos out of photographs

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before releasing them to the public for

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nasa that's from jan harzon from mutual

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ufo network mufon i quote he wanted to

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go find that stuff and in his search for

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that information this is what he

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stumbled upon literally a secret space

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fleet within the united states navy end

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quotes

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ultimately gary mckinnon was arrested

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for this computer break-in and the

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united states tried to extradite him for

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trial but after an eight-year legal

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battle the british government refused to

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turn him over

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saturday at noon mckinnon will speak via

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skype to the mutual ufo network

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symposium which meets in las vegas

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friday through sunday

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from what we understand there is live

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streaming of this symposium available

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it's kind of pricey but we're sure if

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you check it out you can find some kind

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of access either now or later

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just a reminder gentlelisteners we have

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off the beaten path our weekend feature

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for the ufo headline news here at

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inception radio network coming up

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tomorrow join us

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here's a sighting at long last this one

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comes out of mcclelland iowa it's got a

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move on case number 85213

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the date of this sighting is the 19th of

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july 2017 got a same-day report

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and it isn't actually a sighting by the

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way here's the summary was in-house

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everything went dark for one second

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it's more of an absence of light than a

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light in the sky the viewing distance

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provided under citing specifics by our

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witness unknown viewing distance the

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altitude unknown the sighting duration

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one second and the features object

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flight path object shape none of those

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apply obviously oh pity there isn't any

580
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weather but our witness does speak to

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that here's the event

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i was sitting in the living room

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watching tv

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it was about 4 25 in the afternoon

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all of a sudden the house went dark

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no sunlight was coming in the windows

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my daughter was in the kitchen at the

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time and she asked me what was that

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so i jumped up and went outside

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immediately to see what could have

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caused this

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i found nothing in the sky that could

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have caused a shadow no clouds today no

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visible planes and also it was totally

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silent outside there was no motor no jet

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noise

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i believe whatever this had to be was

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huge it had to have cast a shadow large

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enough to darken the whole house at once

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and also it had to be moving away very

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fast as this entire incident lasted one

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second

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i don't believe it was a cloud because

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there was no gradual darkening this was

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instantaneous and again when i went

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outside there were no clouds in the sky

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the wind today was about 10 miles per

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hour

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so what's going on in mcclelland iowa

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this is recent we'll keep our eyes on

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that area and see what happens

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but now we see what happens every time

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we've run out of time we've gotta bounce

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because

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that's a wrap thank you for listening to