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POPSBATCH OF 50 NEW ALIEN WORLDS DISCOVERED SEE ALSO: Kepler Scientist: 'Galaxy is Rich in Earth-Like Planets' WATCH VIDEO: What does it take to find a planet 63 light-years from Earth? Enter HD 85512b, an exoplanet with a mass 3.6 times that of the Earth. This "super-Earth" is exciting in that not only can it be considered a jumbo-sized Earth, it also orbits its sun-like star (HD 85512) on the inner rim of the star's habitable zone. "This is the lowest-mass confirmed planet discovered by the radial velocity method that potentially lies in the habitable zone of its star, and the second low-mass planet discovered by HARPS inside the habitable zone," said Lisa Kaltenegger, of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg, Germany and Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Boston, who is an expert on the habitability of exoplanets. SEE ALSO: Milky Way Stuffed with 50 Billion Alien Worlds
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POPSThe Hooked X: Key to the Secret History of North America
The Hooked X: Key to the Secret History of North America is the culmination of my seven-year odyssey to understand the origin of a mysterious symbol that first appeared on a highly controversial, century-old artifact called the Kensington Rune Stone. The discovery of the meaning of the Hooked X was stunning, as was the secret history behind it that gradually unfolded during my quest to learn more about that history through research. This journey has been nothing short of amazing as it winds through the mysterious worlds of the medieval Cistercians, the Knights Templar, and modern Freemasonry. The story begins with the discovery of a 202-pound stone unearthed by Swedish immigrant farmer named Olof Ohman, who was clearing trees in preparation for farming back in 1898. The slab of graywacke contained a lengthy inscription carved in Norse runes whose message has only been recently deciphered accurately. In 2005, I co-authored a book entitled The Kensington Rune Stone :
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POPSancient discoveries have always felt we have forgotten more than we now think that we know---and along this path- we have also forgotten how to learn....many things- like how to get along-!!! dang! keep the wars and rape of the planet going-- and there will be no need to learn- none of us will be here
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POPSMassive Volcanism May Have Caused Biggest Extinction Ever In Siberia, around 250 million years ago, a series of massive volcanic eruptions spewed out lava over more than 2 million square kilometers . Some scientists have blamed these eruptions, known as the Siberian Traps, for climatic changes that contributed to the extinction. The rocks contain tiny blobs of once-molten material, preserved like chemical time capsules from the earliest days of the eruption. Measuring the amounts of sulfur, chlorine and fluorine in those blobs, Black found surprisingly high levels of those elements ... Stephen Self, a volcanologist at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Washington, D.C., said the main question is how long the chemicals would have stayed in the atmosphere. In a 2008 Science paper, Self and his colleagues reported finding high levels of sulfur and chlorine in the Deccan Trap lavas, though not as high as Black’s team reports. Image: Wikimedia Commons
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