- Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. - Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960. - The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
- Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
- Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
- Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
- Both were shot in the head.
- Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln. - Both were assassinated by Southerners.
- Both were succeeded by Southerners.
- Both successors were named Johnson.
- Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
- Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
- John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln was born in 1839.
- Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy was born in 1939.
- Both assassins were known by their three names.
- Both names comprise fifteen letters.
- Booth ran from the theatre and was caught in a warehouse.
- Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theatre.
- Booth and Oswald were both assassinated before their trials.
- And here's the kicker :
- A week before Lincoln was shot he was in Monroe, Maryland.
- A week before Kennedy was shot he was with Marilyn Monroe
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Lincoln and Kennedy
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Scientist ‘finds extra-terrestrial fossils in meteor fragment’
A controversial British scientist claims to have found ‘proof’ that
aliens exist - after cracking open a lump of rock which he believes fell
to earth in a meteorite shower.
Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, formerly of Cardiff University, claims the two-inch wide lump of space rock is pitted with microscopic seaweed fossils similar to those found on Earth.
‘These finds are crushing evidence that human life started from outside our Earth,’ said the professor, who is notorious for his theories that life on this planet was ‘seeded’ from outer space.
‘We are all aliens - we share a cosmic ancestry,’ he said. ‘Each time a new planetary system forms a few surviving microbes find their way into comets. ‘These then multiply and seed other planets. ‘These latest finds are just more evidence to point to the overwhelming fact that life on Earth began on other worlds.’ ‘Our provisional assessment is that it was part of a comet’, he told MailOnline.
‘The stones look extremely unusual, and have a porous structure, with a lower density than anything we have on Earth.’ Professor Wickramasinghe’s claims are outlined in a freely accessible paper on the website of the Journal of Cosmology. It says ‘a few percent carbon as revealed by analysis confirms the status of a carbonaceous meteorite.’
However, today he admitted key tests to prove it is an uncontaminated meteorite have not yet been carried out. ‘This was a rapid publication - we wanted to provoke interest, and we will be publishing in a peer reviewed journal, but we are not sure which yet one.
‘It is the facts that will prove this - and we hope to have conclusive proof within weeks.’ However, a string of experts have already lined up to dismiss his claims as ‘laughable’ and argue that the apparent extra-terrestrial fossils are clearly present as the result of contamination here on Earth. Another points out that it has yet to be proven that the rock is actually from space at all. ‘Describing it as laughable is a natural reaction, that is the traditional view, and until all of these tests are completed, these criticisms are out there,’ he said.
The research alleges that ‘microscopic fossilized diatoms (a basic form of algae) were found in the sample’, which fell in Sri Lanka in December last year. The finding, it suggests, is a ‘strong evidence to support the theory of cometary panspermia’ - the idea that life across planets is spread on rocks hurtling through space. The still-smoking meteorite fragments were picked up by villagers in central Sri Lanka after they crashed to Earth in a spectacular fireball, it is claimed.
They were analysed in a British laboratory where fossils of algae were apparently found.
It is claimed the finds are similar to micro-organisms found in fossil remains from the dinosaur age 55million years ago. A mathematician by training, Professor Wickramasinghe believes that life on Earth was seeded by comets and asteroids 3.8billion years ago. He also believes that pathogens like the SARS virus arrived here from deep space. He was head of Cardiff University’s Centre for Astrobiology until two years ago when funding for the department was withdrawn and he was dismissed from his post.
The controversial professor, the only scientist to testify against evolution in the famous 1981 creationist trial in Arkansas, has since carried on the project as a private company and charity. He said: ‘The algae organisms are similar to ones found in Earth fossils but the rock also has other organisms we have not identified.’ Astronomer and lecturer Phil Plait wrote in his blog on Slate that the chemical analysis presented in Wickramasinghe’s study ‘doesn’t prove it’s a carbonaceous chondrite, let alone a meteorite,’ and there is ‘no reason to trust that what they have is a meteorite.’
Plait also cited a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Patrick Kociolek as saying that there was no sign that the diatoms illustrated in the study were ‘fossilized material’, and that most of them were species that represented ‘a clear case of contamination with freshwater’. Monica Grady, professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open University’s Faculty of Science, told MailOnline she finds the whole thing ‘laughable’. ‘There are serious inconsistencies with the data presented in the paper,’ she said.
‘The most important is that the rock they have found is yet to be proven to be a meteorite. ‘Until that is done, no credence can be placed on the findings presented, especially when they are published in a non-mainstream journal.’ Professor Wickramasinghe, 74, claims microbes from outer space arrived on our planet from comets which then ‘multiplied and seeded’ to form our life. The two-inch wide piece of meteorite was found near a village a few miles from the city of Polonnaruwa in Sri Lanka. The fragments were said to be still smoking when they were found by woman villagers. They were sent to Cardiff University’s School of Earth Sciences where they were examined under a scanning electron microscope.
Professor Wickramasinghe, who is originally from Sri Lanka, and his late colleague Sir Fred Hoyle championed the ‘life from outer space’ theory from the 1960s. He said: ‘Evidence from astronomy overwhelmingly supports the view that life did not start on Earth but was seeded from outside.’ daily times monitor
Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, formerly of Cardiff University, claims the two-inch wide lump of space rock is pitted with microscopic seaweed fossils similar to those found on Earth.
‘These finds are crushing evidence that human life started from outside our Earth,’ said the professor, who is notorious for his theories that life on this planet was ‘seeded’ from outer space.
‘We are all aliens - we share a cosmic ancestry,’ he said. ‘Each time a new planetary system forms a few surviving microbes find their way into comets. ‘These then multiply and seed other planets. ‘These latest finds are just more evidence to point to the overwhelming fact that life on Earth began on other worlds.’ ‘Our provisional assessment is that it was part of a comet’, he told MailOnline.
‘The stones look extremely unusual, and have a porous structure, with a lower density than anything we have on Earth.’ Professor Wickramasinghe’s claims are outlined in a freely accessible paper on the website of the Journal of Cosmology. It says ‘a few percent carbon as revealed by analysis confirms the status of a carbonaceous meteorite.’
However, today he admitted key tests to prove it is an uncontaminated meteorite have not yet been carried out. ‘This was a rapid publication - we wanted to provoke interest, and we will be publishing in a peer reviewed journal, but we are not sure which yet one.
‘It is the facts that will prove this - and we hope to have conclusive proof within weeks.’ However, a string of experts have already lined up to dismiss his claims as ‘laughable’ and argue that the apparent extra-terrestrial fossils are clearly present as the result of contamination here on Earth. Another points out that it has yet to be proven that the rock is actually from space at all. ‘Describing it as laughable is a natural reaction, that is the traditional view, and until all of these tests are completed, these criticisms are out there,’ he said.
The research alleges that ‘microscopic fossilized diatoms (a basic form of algae) were found in the sample’, which fell in Sri Lanka in December last year. The finding, it suggests, is a ‘strong evidence to support the theory of cometary panspermia’ - the idea that life across planets is spread on rocks hurtling through space. The still-smoking meteorite fragments were picked up by villagers in central Sri Lanka after they crashed to Earth in a spectacular fireball, it is claimed.
They were analysed in a British laboratory where fossils of algae were apparently found.
It is claimed the finds are similar to micro-organisms found in fossil remains from the dinosaur age 55million years ago. A mathematician by training, Professor Wickramasinghe believes that life on Earth was seeded by comets and asteroids 3.8billion years ago. He also believes that pathogens like the SARS virus arrived here from deep space. He was head of Cardiff University’s Centre for Astrobiology until two years ago when funding for the department was withdrawn and he was dismissed from his post.
The controversial professor, the only scientist to testify against evolution in the famous 1981 creationist trial in Arkansas, has since carried on the project as a private company and charity. He said: ‘The algae organisms are similar to ones found in Earth fossils but the rock also has other organisms we have not identified.’ Astronomer and lecturer Phil Plait wrote in his blog on Slate that the chemical analysis presented in Wickramasinghe’s study ‘doesn’t prove it’s a carbonaceous chondrite, let alone a meteorite,’ and there is ‘no reason to trust that what they have is a meteorite.’
Plait also cited a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology Patrick Kociolek as saying that there was no sign that the diatoms illustrated in the study were ‘fossilized material’, and that most of them were species that represented ‘a clear case of contamination with freshwater’. Monica Grady, professor of Planetary Sciences at the Open University’s Faculty of Science, told MailOnline she finds the whole thing ‘laughable’. ‘There are serious inconsistencies with the data presented in the paper,’ she said.
‘The most important is that the rock they have found is yet to be proven to be a meteorite. ‘Until that is done, no credence can be placed on the findings presented, especially when they are published in a non-mainstream journal.’ Professor Wickramasinghe, 74, claims microbes from outer space arrived on our planet from comets which then ‘multiplied and seeded’ to form our life. The two-inch wide piece of meteorite was found near a village a few miles from the city of Polonnaruwa in Sri Lanka. The fragments were said to be still smoking when they were found by woman villagers. They were sent to Cardiff University’s School of Earth Sciences where they were examined under a scanning electron microscope.
Professor Wickramasinghe, who is originally from Sri Lanka, and his late colleague Sir Fred Hoyle championed the ‘life from outer space’ theory from the 1960s. He said: ‘Evidence from astronomy overwhelmingly supports the view that life did not start on Earth but was seeded from outside.’ daily times monitor
Scientists encode MP3s, PDF, photograph, and algorithm to DNA
Scientists have written MP3 files to DNA, according to a report published in the journal Nature.
The data that can be written isn’t limited to just to audio files,
however, and is achieved using trinary encoding. In this particular
experiment, the researchers encoded all of Shakespeare’s sonnets, as
well as a part of Martin Luther King’s speech, a photo, a PDF, and the
binary-to-trinary algorithm used for encoding.
The computer data had to be converted from binary to trinary due to the number of bases in a DNA molecule. While there are four bases, the researchers utilized one of the bases to avoid straight sequences of a single base, resulting in a total of three bases for data. This was done in order to avoid the errors that would result from utilizing the single base sequences.
The encoded data was split into sections, tagged with an ID, and marked to indicate its position within the overall file. In most of the instances, the files were then reconstructed correctly, with only one having a mistake in the sequence, although the mistake wasn’t so severe that the researchers weren’t able to recover the missing data.
The team responsible for the project stated that the storage density per gram was an astounding 2.2 petabytes. In this project, the DNA used was dried before being sent out, but for the purpose of long-term data storage, the DNA can be chilled, which will have longer lasting results. Estimates say that DNA can be used to archive data for 5,000 years, with it becoming economically viable for a shorter term duration (50 years) within the next decade.
The computer data had to be converted from binary to trinary due to the number of bases in a DNA molecule. While there are four bases, the researchers utilized one of the bases to avoid straight sequences of a single base, resulting in a total of three bases for data. This was done in order to avoid the errors that would result from utilizing the single base sequences.
The encoded data was split into sections, tagged with an ID, and marked to indicate its position within the overall file. In most of the instances, the files were then reconstructed correctly, with only one having a mistake in the sequence, although the mistake wasn’t so severe that the researchers weren’t able to recover the missing data.
The team responsible for the project stated that the storage density per gram was an astounding 2.2 petabytes. In this project, the DNA used was dried before being sent out, but for the purpose of long-term data storage, the DNA can be chilled, which will have longer lasting results. Estimates say that DNA can be used to archive data for 5,000 years, with it becoming economically viable for a shorter term duration (50 years) within the next decade.
China's top science award for Dr.C.N. R. Rao
Noted Indian scientist Dr C N R Rao has been conferred with China's top
science award for his important contributions in boosting Sino-India
scientific cooperation.Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) yesterday gave
its 2012 Award for International Scientific Cooperation to three
scientists from India, Germany, and Russia.
Rao, 79, founder of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, shared the 2012 award with Herbert Jaeckle of Germany's Max Planck Society and Russian space physicist G A Zherebtsov.Rao has won various prestigious awards. He is currently the Head of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister.
The CAS is China's top academic and research institution for natural sciences.It has so far honoured 17 international scientists for their contributions in Sino-Foreign research cooperation,since the prize was instituted in 2007.
Rao, 79, founder of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bangalore, shared the 2012 award with Herbert Jaeckle of Germany's Max Planck Society and Russian space physicist G A Zherebtsov.Rao has won various prestigious awards. He is currently the Head of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister.
The CAS is China's top academic and research institution for natural sciences.It has so far honoured 17 international scientists for their contributions in Sino-Foreign research cooperation,since the prize was instituted in 2007.
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