The FBI memo after Roswell about Flying Disks

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Did Aliens crash at Roswell, NM in 1947? Was it a secret US Govt flying disk/parabola/crescent? Or is there another explanation?

The above document, once researched and shown to be genuine, represents evidence at a meaningful level of credibility. Direct physical evidence is best, but real DOD/DOJ memos and intelligence reports should also be taken seriously.

This memo shows that there was reason for the FBI to believe in Aug 1947 that some flying disks were secret US Govt. experiments. Flying disk experiments were denied, however. Still, the military decided there was indeed a need for a system to keep the FBI from accidentally exposing secret military craft experiments. This suggests some R&D military aircraft tests going on at the time.

Disney-MGM Studios 4th of July Fireworks

Here are some works in case you don’t want to go out. Enjoy!

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New Mercury Images Show Volcanoes, Magnetic Field, More

Mercury is full of volcanoes and other surprises, reveals initial data from NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft—the first to conduct an in-depth investigation of the solar system’s smallest planet in more than 30 years. … In January MESSENGER made its first of three flybys planned before 2011, when the spacecraft settles into orbit around the enigmatic planet.

During the pass, MESSENGER snapped more than 1,200 images of Mercury’s scorched sunlit side, including 21 percent of the surface Mariner 10 never saw.

The images reveal a dynamic surface pockmarked by craters and volcanoes. They also shed more light on Mercury’s magnetic field, which mirrors Earth’s on a tiny scale.

And they reveal widespread slip faults, relics of a time when the planet’s already-frozen surface weathered a spectacular collapse atop a shrinking, cooling core. – natgeo

Viacom wants to know what you’re watching on YouTube

On Tuesday, a judge in the Viacom vs. Google/YouTube copyright case ordered Google to give up detailed logs of users’ search behavior.

As Wired’s Threat Level puts it: “Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users’ names and IP addresses.”

Viacom’s hope is to show that users watch so many infringing videos that YouTube can be seen as nothing more than a hive of copyright violations and piracy. One question, however, is why Viacom needs access to the identities of YouTube users, many of whom are young people and even children. When they know peoples’ private viewing habits, what will they do with the information? Remember this?

I know I don’t want anyone seeing what I watch on YouTube — any more than I want people to know what I’m searching on Google, watching on TV, or listening to on the radio. YouTube users are simply using a video system that’s available free online. – continues on latimes

The old ways are dying. Companies like Viacom can fight it, but they can’t win in the long run. If they win this battle YouTube will be replaced by many more smaller YouTubes.

Malagasy Chameleon Spends Most Of Its Short Life In An Egg

There is a newly discovered life history among the 28,300 species of known tetrapods, or four-legged animals with backbones. A chameleon from arid southwestern Madagascar spends up to three-quarters of its life in an egg. Even more unusual, life after hatching is a mere 4 to 5 months. No other known four-legged animal has such a rapid growth rate and such a short life span.

“It really is a huge surprise,” says Christopher Raxworthy, Associate Curator in the Department of Herpetology at the American Museum of Natural History. “Adding to that, until now, the short life span of chameleons in captivity has always been considered as a failure to thrive. We need to rethink this.”

Most mammals, reptiles, birds, and amphibians (all tetrapods) typically live 2 to 10 years, an average bracketed at the upper end by some long-lived animals (for example, turtles and humans that can live for a century) and at the lower end by a handful of animals that only live for about a year.

The males in nine species of marsupials die off after a year, for example, as do most adults in about twelve species of lizards. But the chameleon described here, Furcifer labordi, not only has a brief, yearly life cycle, but the bulk of that time is spent incubating inside an egg. Once outside of the egg, all individuals in the population die within 4 to 5 months. – sdaily

Once something is ours, we fear losing it.

When people were asked to choose between an iPod and, say, $100, they were more likely to choose the money. But when they were given an iPod and then immediately asked if they would like to trade it for $100, they were more likely to leave the Ben Franklin on the table.

This is called the endowment effect, which researcher Brian Knutson of Stanford University calls “the poster child of strange (economic) behavior.” Chimps exhibit the effect, too.

Watching the subjects’ brains with an fMRI (neuroimaging) machine, Knutson and his colleagues found that activity in the nucleus accumbens, which signals how much we like an object, did not increase when the new iPod belonged to the subject. But the right insular, which warns us about possible loss, became more active when the iPod became my iPod.

The results are detailed in the current issue of the journal Neuron. – yahoo

Evolution Homo Sapiens Versus Neaderthals

For 200,000 years there were humans on Earth, which were not our species.

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Man, I feel like a woman, says ’she-man’

A BRITISH man is begging medical experts for help after he started turning into a woman.

Pub singer Terry Wright, 60, said children in his Birmingham neighbourhood had started taunting him with shouts of “she-man” after he started losing his beard and hair and began developing breasts and smooth skin about 10 years ago, The Sun newspaper reported.

“I am a man, not a woman. And I do not want to be a woman. I just want to get my life back to normal,” Mr Wright told the paper.

Blood tests showed the father of five had abnormally high levels of the female hormone estrogen but his doctors said they had never seen such a case and did not know how to treat him.

“Doctors call me an ‘interesting case’ and ‘unique’ but I just want to go back to being a proper man,” Mr Wright said.  – mnews

Watermelon, the New Oyster? Fruit Said to Have ‘Viagra-Like’ Effects on Blood Vessels

Forget the oysters. Texas A&M scientists say watermelon contains ingredients that deliver Viagra-like effects to the body’s blood vessels and may even increase the libido.

Researchers from Texas A&M long have studied the fruit and found that it contains natural “enhancers” to the human body. “We’ve always known that watermelon is good for you, but the list of its very important healthful benefits grows longer with each study,” said Bhimu Patil, director of Texas A&M’s Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center, in a news release from the university.

Watermelon and some other fruits and vegetables contain phyto-nutrients, including lycopene, beta carotene and citrulline, which are compounds that produce healthy reactions in the body, Patil said. Specifically, scientists believe it’s the citrulline that has the ability to relax blood vessels, much like Viagra does. When watermelon is consumed, citrulline is converted into the amino acid arginine, which works “wonders on the heart and circulation system and maintains a good immune system,” Patil said.

“Watermelon may not be as organ-specific as Viagra,” he said, “but it’s a great way to relax blood vessels without any drug side-effects.” – fox

Giraffe helps camels, zebras escape circus

msterdam police say 15 camels, two zebras and an undetermined number of llamas and potbellied swine briefly escaped from a travelling Dutch circus after a giraffe kicked a hole in their cage.

Police spokesman Arnout Aben says the animals wandered in a group through a nearby neighborhood for several hours after their 5.30am breakout.

The animals were back at the circus later in the day after being rounded up by police and circus workers with the assistance of dogs. -bb