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An Internet archive of content available online for free; CoRot discovered its latest planet; and a well known astronaut said he believes aliens exist and they have visited Earth in the past

NASA has partnered with the Internet Archive in an effort to post an archive of images, film and video footage on the internet for the first time.  NASA has an extensive data catalog on its web site already, but working with the Internet Archive will make more content available with an easier search method for site visitors.

The first images have been posted on the internet and can be found by visitors at NASAimages.org.  NASA and the Internet Archive plan to have several million images and thousands of hours of audio and video available for free.

Astronomers have recently discovered planet CoRot-Exo-4b, which is a Jupiter-sized planet that is able to orbit its star in 9.2 days.  The European Space Agency CoRot space telescope, which the ESA hopes will help find extrasolar planets, made the discovery and astronomers presented their findings during the Cool Stars 15 meeting in Scotland's St. Andrews University.

The planet's star, a tad bigger than the Earth's sun, is able to rotate at the same pace as CoRot-Exo-4b -- which astronomers found surprising because they believed the planet doesn't have a high enough mass and is too far from the star for it to have a direct impact on the planet's rotation.  Astronomers are curious to try and discover whether or not the planet and its sun have always operated in sync since they were formed more than 1,000 million years ago.

"CoRot will no doubt find many more transiting planets, and by systematically measuring their host stars' rotation periods we will gain valuable insight into how stars interact with their planets," researchers said.

CoRot has already found 50,000 different stars in less than two years of commission in space.

Although alien life is a popular Hollywood story line for movies and TV shows, the astronaut who owns the record for the longest moon walk said he believes humans are not alone in the universe.  Former astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, who is one of only 12 astronauts who have walked on the lunar surface, shared his thoughts during a radio interview in the United Kingdom.

"Oh yes.  There's not much question at all that there is life throughout the universe," he said during the interview.  "I'm totally sure we are not alone."

Dr. Mitchell expanded on his comments, stating that humans on Earth have even been visited by extraterrestrials in the past, but "it's been covered up by governments for the last 60 years or so."

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Hmm
By StevoLincolnite on 7/28/2008 7:34:46 AM , Rating: 3
I'm not sure whether the worlds Governments would actually "hide" the existence of Alien life, And what would they gain by not sharing such information? - Besides if that was the case it would only take a few people to leak out the information and everyone would know about it, 60 years is a long time to keep something hidden from the worlds population.




RE: Hmm
By ninus3d on 7/28/2008 8:47:01 AM , Rating: 3
The discoverer of the visit, if the circumstances was something like an alien spaceship crash, then keeping it secret would at least give them the ability to be the sole researchers of the technology.

The world is a lot smaller today than it was during the cold war though and i think whatever nation who discovered something like this would be more interested in getting the worlds brightest mind to work on it rather then keeping it as a secret...

I atleast sure hope so!


RE: Hmm
By amanojaku on 7/28/2008 8:56:40 AM , Rating: 2
I agree; hiding the existence of aliens would be tough, especially today. I mean, if my history is on the 'net you can bet a secret like this would be leaking out. And I don't mean the Enquirer... I can guess why the government would keep such a secret, but I can refute each argument, too:

1) The aliens are hostile and we're going to die VERY soon, so the government is allowing us to live our remaining days in blissful ignorance
**This one is hard to believe because we would be dead already, unless we were just discovered or our governments finally managed to piss the aliens off.**

2) The aliens exist, but are too dumb for us to bother with
**It's possible the first sign of life we encounter is in its infancy. Or they could think the same about us. Very believable.**

3) Communication is fundamentally different enough to be (presently) impossible
**How do you decrypt a foreign language, anyway? How long does it take, blah blah... Kind of believable**

4) There's a strategic (military, financial, etc...) advantage in silence
**I don't see how. Military, maybe, if they're making death rays (while we're at it, what about assassin pleasurebots and exploding bubble gum?) Financially, the government could be selling us mind-control TVs that make us pay our taxes on time and stop smoking pot while fostering the need to play military FPS, join the Army and watch the History Channel. Iffy.**

Nah, I think the aliens would just put up a MySpace page with a demo track. Then they'd get a couple of interviews in, do some publicity photos, a record deal, 10 blockbuster movies, a video game series, comic book, countless illegitimate children, innumerable divorces, quadrillions of credits-worth of bars of gold-pressed latinum in alimony and eventually retire in California with the other weirdos. Why blow up Earth when you can become a star?


RE: Hmm
By maven81 on 7/28/2008 2:12:58 PM , Rating: 2
I think the technology required to travel even within our galaxy is so advanced that I don't see why any race which reaches that kind of advancement would bother to come to earth.
Maybe life out there is super rare, but odds are pretty good that it's not. They may want to entertain themselves and play god, but it would probably be rather boring.

Sure they could be simply curious but they can already know everything they want to know just by intercepting our broadcasts.

I bet at that point you're more interested in opening a portal to another dimension, or altering the passage of time, working on immortality etc. rather then messing around with some labrats.


RE: Hmm
By Ringold on 7/28/2008 3:28:35 PM , Rating: 2
I'm not sure why people think it'd be so hard to hide such information. Have ya'll forgotten it was only recently that we discovered who Deep Throat was? Do we really know the full and unedited string of events that lead to the assassination of Kennedy? They also manage to keep secret a number of technological and intelligence items, despite being known by a somewhat wide number of people.

No, I think if contact was limited or evidence was easy to keep under wraps, such as picking up a non-repeating communication signal of some sort, then we would only know what the government desired us to know, and not a bit more.

This isn't a conspiracy theory on my part; I'm not saying there is an active cover-up. But I do believe if they knew there were 'aliens' and felt the general populace should not be informed, then it'd be a cold day in hell before we did find out.


RE: Hmm
By Seemonkeyscanfly on 7/28/2008 4:47:40 PM , Rating: 2
You missed an easy one...
we humans were to dumb and war hungry (still are). If news of a space ship landed or crashed on Earth during the 40's or 50's, the fear would have been how the general public would act. Hell, you still have places in Alabama today if you put your toe on someone's property it will be shot off (unless they know you). Now, you have a green guy in a shinny suit show up to this guys house and what will happen? An hour later there would be a green naked guy, impaled on a stick cooking over a fire. With two guys in overalls and hats (nothing else), one saying, "funny looking croc" the other replying, "Yeeep."

P.S. to my friends in Alabama...sorry, for picking on ya.


RE: Hmm
By ralith on 7/28/2008 9:07:42 AM , Rating: 2
Man, didn't you ever watch the X-Files or Men in Black. They want to keep it secret cuz we can't handle the truth! :)


RE: Hmm
By StevoLincolnite on 7/28/2008 11:43:29 AM , Rating: 2
Some people might not be able to handle the truth, others might be just "Eh, whatever, where did I put my lipstick".


RE: Hmm
By JediJeb on 7/28/2008 5:25:35 PM , Rating: 2
Or maybe it is like the Stargate Episode where the Airforce helps the production of the Movie and TV series about gate travel so they can say someone got the idea from a TV show to cover up leaks. Hmmm makes you wonder where all those movie ideas come from. lol


RE: Hmm
By Ammohunt on 7/28/2008 3:15:26 PM , Rating: 2
Other then mass hysteria(google War of the Worlds radio broadcast) They are slowly warming up the public to the idea.


RE: Hmm
By Ringold on 7/28/2008 3:31:17 PM , Rating: 2
Heh, come to find out, Apple iPhones are in fact manufactured from high-quality Alpha Centaurian components, assembled in Rigel and delivered by way of Cheyenne Mountain.

In return, aliens are allowed to bask in the glory of Steve Jobs.


RE: Hmm
By islseur on 7/28/2008 3:33:52 PM , Rating: 2
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60 years is a long time to keep something hidden from the worlds population.

You are actually correct. They actually tried to hide, plant faked materials into the information zone, all this so you'll get the feeling all this thing is stinks with some wackos, crazies, lunatics, obsessed people.. after looking into the thing a bit you would actually leave it confused even more, sticking even harder to your previous belief system.

Today, thanks to the internet for some freedom. It's a documented fact that, that the governments have lied, manipulated and continue to do so today and get away with it. For example, there are NASA space shuttle videos and communication voice recordings that you can see for yourself online in which you can see unidentified UFO, the astronauts on those video materials talk and say that they see unidentified objects.. and so on. Did you see them show this video even once on the main stream media? Of course no! Dah! Why should they show you something that will discredit them? You can watch this documentary.
Secret Space, Volume 1 "The Illuminati's Conquest Of Space"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-257189405...

Did you know that the moon landing photos are inconsistent. The shadows are not in the right places, wrong lightning, many other stuff that's interesting to know. People should educate themselves and expose lies and injustice. Only truth can set someone free.


RE: Hmm
By maven81 on 7/28/2008 4:31:59 PM , Rating: 2
Oh god, enough with the moon landing hoax already. And you got this completely backwards... the mainstream media LOVES crazy theories, and will lie just to get people to watch. Case in point, I recall flipping channels one day, and wound up on some sort of history channel "documentary" on ufo sightings. They showed footage of the soviet nedelin catastrophe (a botched 1960 rocket launch which wound up killing hundreds of people in the vicinity) and claimed that it was "top secret, classified footage shot by a KGB camera man" of a soviet attempt to interface with an alien spaceship or something like that. Completely insane considering it was none of the above!


RE: Hmm
By islseur on 7/29/2008 12:40:37 PM , Rating: 2
hmmm.. You just proved my point. The MSM will LIE, tell you Crazy theories, half truths, manipulate and brainwash you with propaganda.. anything but tell you the real TRUTH like it is. This is a known fact and I see that you agree with me on this matter.

About the moon landing. Did you check the issue seriously?

Do you know that the official 9/11 theory is a hoax? If you knew that, then it would be easier for you to see how easy it's to manipulate the public, VERY easy. Then you would understand the moon landing connection.


RE: Hmm
By maven81 on 7/29/2008 1:12:50 PM , Rating: 2
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This is a known fact and I see that you agree with me on this matter.

We agree that they will manufacture stories. But I think what you're missing is that they don't care whether something is true or not! All they care about is ratings. That's why we have stories about hoaxes and conspiracy theories, they are far stranger then the truth and create controversy, which creates ratings. What would be the point of lying if the truth was a more interesting story?

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About the moon landing. Did you check the issue seriously?

Every possible hoax suggestion has been debunked. Worse yet are you trying to convince people through induction?! That if you believe one conspiracy theory to be true, then somehow that makes the other conspiracy theory true?! There's no logic in that.


RE: Hmm
By islseur on 7/29/2008 2:35:15 PM , Rating: 2
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What would be the point of lying if the truth was a more interesting story?
Because if they will tell the truth to the masses, it can bring into unpredictable and uncontrollable unfolding of events that can turn most likely not in the favor of those that committed the crime that they are trying to hide.

You have to acknowledge that the people that control the MSM are very intelligent, professionals in their work and experts on psychology of the masses. No doubt, public is being manipulated by professionals.

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Every possible hoax suggestion has been debunked.
Not exactly.
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Worse yet are you trying to convince people through induction?! That if you believe one conspiracy theory to be true, then somehow that makes the other conspiracy theory true?! There's no logic in that.
Of course not! There are so crazy and simply fantasy stuff conspiracies that they simply stupid. You have to be irrational to believe in them without any facts at all, only on the basis of someones imagination.

I hear a lot of times people dismiss credible witness accounts, scientific facts, documented video and audio material that contradict the official story being told to people, only on the basis of "it's just too much", "it's unbelievable".. and so on..

What I'm saying is this. If I prove you once that they have lied and committed high treason and you catch them. You will never believe anything being told right away, but will be willing to check facts and eventually will develop critical thinking.

9/11 official story has been proven wrong by physical facts, scientific calculations, physics laws, credible witness accounts, video and voice recordings, news broadcasts, etc. beyond any doubt.

If they lied and continue to do so about the events of 9/11, what makes you sure they don't do the same about the moon landing?


RE: Hmm
By maven81 on 7/29/2008 3:22:51 PM , Rating: 2
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Because if they will tell the truth to the masses, it can bring into unpredictable and uncontrollable unfolding of events that can turn most likely not in the favor of those that committed the crime that they are trying to hide.

You mean like watergate? Here you had a story that in the long run forced a president to step down. If the press was so scared of what would happen they would have never published the story. But they weren't concerned with the consequences at all. In fact "muckraking" is what good journalists strive for.

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You have to acknowledge that the people that control the MSM are very intelligent, professionals in their work and experts on psychology of the masses.

These days that's hardly true. They've become a bunch of lazy money grabbers who only care about which way the wind blows. Just ask the people that actually work in the media, or read the numerous blogs from news producers. These people are so dumb they didn't even know the pentagon was messing with them, when they sent them "independent commentators".

Name one moon conspiracy theory that hasn't been debunked!

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If they lied and continue to do so about the events of 9/11, what makes you sure they don't do the same about the moon landing?


How you could even compare the two is absolutely beyond me. Even regardless of what you believe, even if you think both are a conspiracy, they have a fundamental difference. With one, the conspiracy would be about how it happened, with the other the conspiracy is that it never happened. Notice the difference? I don't think there's a single person out there that could claim (unless they are insane) that 9/11 did not happen. We could argue about what exactly happened, but no one would be stupid enough to say it didn't. So to flip your arguement, why should anyone doubt that the moon landing happened at all, when all their "evidence" is about the how.
Worse still the evidence isn't even vague, you have to explain the moon rocks that were brought back, the soviet union's silence, the gravity experiments done on camera, the radio signals received from the moon, apollo 13, the laser re transmitters left on the surface, 400,000 people creating working hardware... one could go on and on forever!
Frankly, if you don't believe it there's nothing that would convince you. I could fly you to the moon and show you the landing site, and you'd still claim it was a hoax.