Rare 9/11 2nd Plane Hitting Video. 2nd 9/11 Stopped.

This rare 9/11 video shows the second jet hitting from an angle not usually seen.

Anyway, it seems a 2nd 9/11 has been stopped.

” LONDON: Terrorists had planned to blow up 10 US-bound planes by mixing a British sports drink with a gel-like substance and were hoping to stage a practice run followed by actual attacks “within days”, security officials said Friday … The 24 men arrested in overnight raids in Britain had not bought plane tickets but were in the process of surfing the Internet to find flights that had similar departure times. … a British agent infiltrated the group giving the authorities intelligence on the alleged plan.” - timesofindia

The bank released the following names: Abdula Ahmed Ali, Cossor Ali, Shazad Khuram Ali, Nabeel Hussain, Tanvir Hussain, Umair Hussain, Umar Islam, Waseem Kayani, Assan Abdullah Khan, Waheed Arafat Khan, Osman Adam Khatib, Abdul Muneem Patel, Tayib Rauf, Muhammed Usman Saddique, Assad Sarwar, Ibrahim Savant, Amin Asmin Tariq, Shamin Mohammed Uddin, and Waheed Zaman. The oldest person on the list, Shamin Mohammed Uddin, is 35. The youngest, Abdul Muneem Patel, is 17. -latimes

Human Memory and Eyewitness Testimony: Unreliable

If people’s perceptions matched reality, magicians would be out of a job.

“… there is a popular perception of eyewitness testimony being among the most reliable forms of evidence available, the criminal justice system treats such testimony as being among the most fragile and even unreliable available … Prosecutors recognize that eyewitness testimony, even when given in all honesty and sincerity, isn?t necessarily credible. Merely because a person claims to have seen something does not mean that what they remember seeing really happened…” - parapsych

A 1.5 Million Dollar Floating Bed

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A young Dutch architect has created a floating bed which hovers above the ground through magnetic force and comes with a price tag of 1.2 million euros ($1.54 million). - yahoo

Awesome Music Video Oldies: The Ross Sisters

This is something you don’t see every day. Check it out!

The Ross Sisters (Bizzare contorting singers!)

How NASA lost moon pictures

Here’s one for the “We never went to the moon” conspiracy theorists to chew over…

It is not widely known that the Apollo 11 television broadcast from the moon was a high-quality transmission, far sharper than the blurry version relayed instantly to the world on that July day in 1969.

Among those battling to unscramble the mystery is John Sarkissian, a CSIRO scientist stationed at Parkes for a decade. “We are working on the assumption they still exist,” Mr Sarkissian told the Herald. … But the searchers may be running out of time. The only known equipment on which the original analogue tapes can be decoded is at a Goddard centre set to close in October, raising fears that even if they are found before they deteriorate, copying them may be impossible… “There will only ever be one first moon walk.”

Originally stored at Goddard, the tapes were moved in 1970 to the US National Archives. No one knows why, but in 1984 about 700 boxes of space flight tapes there were returned to Goddard.” … “We have the documents to say they were withdrawn, but no one knows exactly where they went,” Mr Sarkissian said.

Also among tapes feared missing are the original recordings of the other five Apollo moon landings. The format used by the original pictures beamed from the moon was not compatible with commercial technology used by television networks. So the images received at Parkes, and at tracking stations near Canberra and in California, were played on screens mounted in front of conventional television cameras.

… “The quality of what you saw on TV at home was substantially degraded” in the process, Mr Sarkissian said, creating the ghostly images of Armstrong and Aldrin that strained the eyes of hundreds of millions of people watching around the world. - SMH

They couldn’t convert the video signal with all the money they had? If the Apollo video was fake, and I’m not saying it was, but *if* the first step on the moon took place on a sound stage, then they’d want to send out a low quality image so you wouldn’t see the walls or cables in the background. A fake video could have been fed to these dish stations and then broadcast from there around the world.

Evolution reversed in mice

US researchers have taken a mouse back in time some 500 million years by reversing the process of evolution.

By engineering its genetic blueprint, they have rebuilt a gene that was present in primitive animals [some 530 million years ago.] … “We are first to reconstruct an ancient gene,” said co-researcher Petr Tvrdik of the University of Utah. “We have proven that from two specialised modern genes, we can reconstruct the ancient gene they split off from. … “What we have done is essentially go back in time to when Hox1 did what Hoxa1 and Hoxb1 do today,” said Mario Capecchi, professor of human genetics at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

“It gives a real example of how evolution works because we can reverse it.” - bbc

A Case of Aging Reversed?

Someone could make a fortune on a method to turn grey hair back to its original color! Is this legit?

A GRANDAD suffering from a rare disease has found a bizarre side effect to his treatment - it makes him look 20 years younger. Reggie Myles, 62, feared he would be crippled for life after being struck down by the genetic disorder Porphyria Cutanea Tarda. He lost his mop of grey hair, his weight dropped to just seven stones and even the simplest tasks such as making a cup of tea became impossible. He was put on a gruelling regime of treatments including steroids and radiation therapy but his doctors were stunned when his hair grew back dark brown and his wrinkles disappeared. Reggie said the change is so dramatic that people think his wife Rosemary’s got a toyboy. … The retired sales boss, of Tullibody, Clackmannanshire, said: “When people comment on how young I look I don’t feel flattered, I just feel incredibly lucky. Before I couldn’t even lift the telephone and now I can do bits of housework and even go fishing with my sons and play with my grandchildren.- more on sundaymail Also: 2, 3

Harvesting the Energy of Footsteps

What a cool idea!

…Like solar and wind proponents, vibration harvesters argue that abundant, clean energy is all around us and goes to waste. The challenge is how to store the power efficiently so it provides a continual output even if the vibrations from footsteps or passing trains temporarily taper off.

Price has charged Jim Gilbert, an engineering lecturer at the University of Hull, with developing the prototype system for capturing footfall. Gilbert is working with hydraulic-powered heel-strike generators, which he believes could be installed in the floors of busy public places like subway stations. Those stations typically capture the footfall of 20,000 commuters an hour during peak usage — multiplied by 5 to 7 watts a person, that’s more than enough to power a building’s lights for the day.

“A few years ago I was asked to develop heel-strike generators for military applications — generators inside boots to power cell phones so soldiers wouldn’t have to carry around heavy rechargeable batteries — but it was very difficult to ensure that the generators inside the boots didn’t get dirty or wet,” says Gilbert.

Inside the floor, far from the elements, Gilbert thinks the generators will be safer, but they still need to be robust and reliable to withstand the tromping of tens of thousands of people. - read more on wired