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After searching 100,000 galaxies for signs of highly advanced extraterrestrial life, a team of scientists using observations from NASA's WISE orbiting observatory has found no evidence of advanced civilizations in them. "The idea behind our research is that, if an entire galaxy had been colonized by an advanced spacefaring civilization, the energy produced by that civilization's technologies would be detectable in mid-infrared wavelengths—exactly the radiation that the WISE satellite was designed to detect for other astronomical purposes," said Jason T. Wright, an assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds at Penn State University, who conceived of and initiated the research.

Roger Griffith, a postbaccalaureate researcher at Penn State and the lead author of the paper, scoured almost the entire catalog of the WISE satellite's detections—nearly 100 million entries—for objects consistent with galaxies emitting too much mid-infrared radiation. He then individually examined and categorized around 100,000 of the most promising galaxy images. Wright reports, "We found about 50 galaxies that have unusually high levels of mid-infrared radiation. Our follow-up studies of those galaxies may reveal if the origin of their radiation results from natural astronomical processes, or if it could indicate the presence of a highly advanced civilization."

In any case, Wright said, the team's non-detection of any obvious alien-filled galaxies is an interesting and new scientific result. "Our results mean that, out of the 100,000 galaxies that WISE could see in sufficient detail, none of them is widely populated by an alien civilization using most of the starlight in its galaxy for its own purposes. That's interesting because these galaxies are billions of years old, which should have been plenty of time for them to have been filled with alien civilizations, if they exist. Either they don't exist, or they don't yet use enough energy for us to recognize them," Wright said.

Like an Ancient Greek Philosopher in Perpetual Contemplation of Life in the Universe and how it must of came to be

I Gaze upon the Sunbeams as they pass through my window and watch all the micro-particles float and swirl, mixing and mingling, then wonder, Could this be where life began

At night i Gaze into the Cosmos Searching for unidentified movement as meteors Zip across and through Earths Atmosphere, thinking to myself, could these be the vehicles that brought life to this lucky planetary body

The building blocks of life must surely have water,carbon and energy, whether it be in a solid,liquid or gas.

In the Universe we see great Comets of Ice Emitting unknown volumes of gas vapor as they sprinkle along their journey. Could this be the Magical Mystery that delivers life like johnny Appleseed throughout the Cosmos

For every Twinkling Star in the Universe that's seen, we know that through time and space, those rays of light and energy are entering into our world, and within those Cosmic Rays most assuredly are all the Magic particles of life, Just as our Sun and its energy beams which give us light, also transports within those beams of energy, Life Itself

It must be the Answer to the Riddle

Through Time and Space, At the Speed of Light, Delivers Life and those welcoming places that nurtures it, Flourishes

According to perceived wisdom the entire universe came about when an object the size of a tennis ball of unimaginable intensity exploded.

Putting aside how the tennis ball object got there in the first place, I am wondering what is the difference between 'nothing' and what we currently call 'space' ?

Time waits for nobody, or so they say. This must make time the most precious resource of all. Once squandered, it is lost forever. It cannot be regenerated or recycled like water or money. No Save and Restore, no rewind and no backspace or delete key.

And yet, some people use their time so effectively compared to others that it does seem to wait for some people, which brings us to the old question; is time constant or relative? Also, if it is relative, then what is it relative to?

Every century a day gets 1.4 milliseconds longer due to the earth’s rotation slowing down, so at some stage it will stop spinning! Will a day then last into infinity?

Einstein said that gravity slows time. I never understood much of what he said but if I understand this one right, astronauts must age a few nanoseconds faster each day they spend in space. Apparently my interpretation of his relativity theory – that if you pull hard enough on your shoelaces, you can lift yourself up into the air – is not valid.

But to come back to Einstein and his sidekicks, some believe that the expansion of the universe is an illusion created by the slowing of time. If that is true, then eventually time must stop altogether, which will make us immortal. All that bothers me about that is how I am going to get my eggs soft boiled if there is no time to measure it against.

And I can imagine some doctors finding it problematic to determine a patient’s pulse rate but that cannot be much of a problem as all mammals have the same lifespan; about 15 billion heartbeats. Elephants only appear to live longer than mice because their hearts beat much slower.

In 1930, Stalin abolished the weekend to increase productivity and the Soviet Union changed to a six-day week. This went on until 1940 when they reverted to a seven-day week; effectively getting rid of more than five hundred days during those ten years. If Stalin could get rid of a day in each week, why can’t we just abolish time? I’m sure we can find alternative employment for all those watchmakers.

All we really have to hope for is that when time eventually comes to a standstill that it happens on a public holiday so work can be abolished with it.

No, I did not smoke monkey weed and yes, what is left of my hair used to be blond once upon a time, but that does not apply to men.


May the new year give you plenty of time to get your things done.

I was reading the latest news on the weapons of war and I am so flabbergasted on the capability when it comes to its power on destruction. But what bothers me most is why they even report it when in fact this should be as secretive as it should be?



Anyways below is a report written by Jeffrey Lin and Peter Singer on Popular Science Magazine December 2014.



A most intriguing development on the world's crazy attempt to annihilate human beings.


HGV - unmanned hypersonic glide vehicle.

Countries testing them? China and US

Capabilities? Capable of traveling faster than 10X the speed of sound- MACH 25 or 16,000 miles per hour.

When is expected to be operational? 2019


"If weaponized HGVs could fly as far as intercontinental ballistic missiles (more than 3,500 miles) but strike with greater accuracy. Since the gliders don't fly in a predictable parabolic arc like ballistic missiles do, they would be exceedingly difficult to shoot down with traditional missile defenses. And their speed would make possible a whole new pace of war. For example, upon discovering the location of a terrorist leader in Syria, and HGV fired from US army base in Western Europe could hit the target in half an hour."

I am kind of like what is this world getting into? So we can be evaporized fast in the clouds?

And most importantly, please don't be caught suspected as a terrorist?

Thank you all for your reads and comments.

i was having a dream about my teeth falling out.
a noise at my front door woke me up.
then voices.
footsteps in my hall & back room.
someone shouted "Hello".
"Hello?!" i shouted in a "wtf?" kinda way
i got up.
opened my living room/bedroom door to having a torch shone in my face.
it was the cops.
apparently when i came back from the store earlier i hadn't closed my front door properly.
it musta just swung open while i was asleep & i guess one of the neighbours called the cops thinking my place had been broken into. i think the cop said that they'd tried shouting in & got no reply. f*ck what a mess my place is.
great.
now these cops'll tell 2 friends...

(another story)
http://www.connectingsingles.com/blog_67958_1/these_kinds_of_people_part_1.htm

So if this European craft now traveling on top of comet discovered life came from big explosion, what would happened with all religions that we know today...Total Chaos?