Here's a great article from Discover that I stumbled across on the plane the other day, as someone had conveniently left it behind for my reading enjoyment...

A Scientist's Guide to Finding Alien Life: Where, When, and in What Universe

Space?

Well they've gone into space more times than us. After all, who knows what lies out there..

so, did any of you read that discover magazine article I posted above? I recommend it...

Yes, I just read it and agree it's great! The big picture... some research to do about Smolin. I always liked the idea of whole universes being part of an evolutionary development. Thanks!

Check out this video from pheonix, AZ tonight.

UFO Video?

I know people who said they saw this and they are all completely baffled. Apparently the media is saying it was a balloon but no one is buying it and military aircraft was seen jetting towards the area. Crazy.

"UFO Phoenix Arizona 6-11-09

My wife and I just sat outside with just about half the neighborhood and watched a huge diamond shaped object for over 45 minutes. The object started out looking spherical and then changed to a diamond and became brighter and was self illuminated as the sun went down.

In the first few minutes we are only taking images and as we were a military helicopter went over the house and was heading in the direction of the object. Several planes were in the area and they were doing circles. They would fly towards the object, circle to the left and come right to head towards the object again. I live in Phoenix in the north central valley. A friend who lives to the West in Sun City called and said it looked like it was right over his house. So to me the object in my image is twenty miles away and at least 6,000 to 8,000 feet up.

I am not saying it is extra terrestrial, just that it is a UFO. It was the brightest and largest object like this I have ever witnessed. With my little Nikon camera, it doesn't do it justice. To the naked eye it was much larger and brighter than my zoom could handle.

I did my best, sorry I went sideways for a second but in the moment you really don't think you just react."

Pretty cool ! From where you were the sun was apparently behind it--so its illumination wasn't from the sun.

What happened to it after the 45 minutes?

that wasn't my video. i found another good discussion on this online, with some people thinking that it was some sort of balloon and others passionately disagreeing. However, my computer froze up today and I lost the link.

The unexplained simultaneous cross continent outbreaks of flu (especially 191 are now being attributed to dust from meteors that enter our atmosphere. These aliens are alot smaller than you think!