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Last year, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers made the startling discovery of some free-floating, planetary-mass objects in the Orion nebula that threw their ideas of planet and star formation into doubt. And now, new research has further deepened the mystery around these so-called Jupiter-mass binary objects, or JuMBOs. JuMBOs aren't stars, but aren't really planets either. Mark McCaughrean, senior science advisor at the European Space Agency (ESA), and colleagues originally located the objects in the Orion nebula. This nebula is a star birthing region, also known as Messier 45, and sits around 1,350 light years from Earth....

Definitely they come from an multidimensional or alternative dimension. I saw one, was able to observe for a long time. When I was under it, on the highway, I said the first lines of the 91St Psalm and it disappeared immediately. A Reviewer

Sean Kirkpatrick, who leads the Pentagon's UFO office, ripped whistleblower testimony from a Wednesday congressional hearing that claimed to have firsthand knowledge of "nonhuman" technology, calling the proceeding "insulting" in a post on LinkedIn.

Dr. Michael S. Heiser talks about the idea of there being alien life and what that could mean for Christianity. He discusses the popular idea that aliens are related to demons, or are demons. In addition, he takes a look at the phenomena of alien abduction and whether or not there is some truth to the events of what people have reported happened to them.

the term “g-force” is misleading, because it refers to acceleration due to gravity. Under Newton’s Second Law, F = ma, or force = mass × acceleration. It is used because the weight force is proportional to mass, while acceleration is inversely proportional, so the acceleration of all objects due to gravity is equal. This explains Galileo’s apocryphal experiment of dropping a heavy ball and a light ball from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, and finding that they hit the ground at the same time (except for air resistance).At the earth’s surface, the acceleration due to gravity is 9.80665 m/s², or...

Last week, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) sent its emergency temporary standard (ETS) to the White House regarding COVID-19 testing and vaccine mandates for business with 100 employees or more. While we still await the final ruling from the Biden administration, SHRM reported some of potential implications that BSCs, distributors, in-house staff and other players in the cleaning industry could be facing. Testing Standards.. Employees could be required to either get vaccinated or undergo weekly testing to keep employment. Time-Off.. Employers under the standard may have to allow their employees paid time off, both to receive the vaccination...

Americans are no longer living under representative government. We are living under government by the screen people, of the screen people, for the screen people. Joy PullmannBy Joy Pullmann OCTOBER 7, 2021 Yes, we’ve heard all about Joe Biden’s alleged vaccine mandate for private companies employing 100 or more people. It was all over the news even before he announced it on September 9. His announcement has jeopardized the employment of millions of Americans and increased worker shortages in critical domains such as health care. There’s only one problem. It’s all a mirage. Biden’s so-called vaccine mandate doesn’t exist —...

The Educational Testing Service (ETS), which administers the SAT for The College Board, on Tuesday announced the launch of a new institute that will conduct research on creating and maintaining more equitable testing programs. Based on the institute’s research findings and recommendations, ETS will, down the road, incorporate changes in its tests to make them fairer, by accounting for test-takers’ socioeconomic backgrounds and the attendant inequities in educational resources, said Dr. Michael Walker, director of the new Fairness and Equity Research Methodologies Institute. Standardized tests like the SAT have for decades gotten a bad rap, with critics saying they have...

Reactions ranged from begrudging acceptance to outrage at a European Parliament event last night discussing an offer made by the EU yesterday (4 September) to back down on its insistence on including aviation emissions in its emissions trading scheme (ETS). EU negotiators offered to limit the ETS scope during a high-level meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) yesterday. In exchange, the ICAO council agreed to a draft text in which they pledge to work toward reaching a global deal to reduce aviation emissions by 2016. The 2016 deal would commit to starting, by 2020, one of three mechanisms...

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Petrol and power prices have risen sharply in New Zealand after the government introduced a controversial emissions trading scheme. The government has pressed ahead with plans to slash the nation's carbon output, despite widespread opposition and New Zealand's larger neighbour Australia shelving its own scheme. Motorists were hit by a 3c (1.4p) rise in the price of a litre of petrol overnight, while householders face a 5 per cent increase in gas and electricity prices. It was the first step in a complex scheme, universally referred to as "the ETS", to slash carbon emissions back to 1990 levels. Some disgruntled...

THE Rudd Government will press ahead with its plan to put a price tag on carbon pollution even though the leaders of other nations refused to reach a legally binding agreement on reducing global warming in Copenhagen. Treasurer Wayne Swan said the controversial emissions trading scheme that would push up the cost of electricity and power was "just as relevant now as it was before Copenhagen and we need to pass the bill for business certainty". The ETS was rejected by the Senate earlier this month and the Government planned to re-introduce the scheme for parliamentary approval in February next...

YOU WILL NEVER GUESS WHO WAS A GUEST AT OBAMA’s FIRST STATE DINNER….. Mr. Ratan Tata [The chairman of the Tata Group - India's biggest conglomerate] A story emerging out of Britain suggests “follow the money” may explain the enthusiasm of the United Nations to pursue caps on carbon emissions, despite doubts surfacing in the scientific community about the validity of the underlying global warming hypothesis. A Mumbai-based Indian multinational conglomerate with business ties to Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chairman since 2002 of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, stands to make several hundred million dollars in...

The federal government is pushing ahead with its planned emissions trading scheme by moving to engage experts to run complex auctions of millions of carbon emissions permits each year, despite legislation for the ETS being defeated in the Senate last week for the second time. The Department of Climate Change called on Friday for tenders from companies wanting to design, operate and manage the auctions, Fairfax newspapers say. The department also said it will issue a separate tender request early next year for settlement services for the hundreds of financial transactions expected to be generated by the auctions under the...

Warming Scandal: The architect of climate fraud steps down, the creator of the infamous "hockey stick" is investigated, and Australia's parliament defeats cap-and-trade. We love the smell of truth in the morning. As the high priests of what Czech President Vaclav Klaus has called a "religion" prepare their pilgrimage to worship the earth goddess Gaia in Copenhagen, complete with humanity being sacrificed, the heresy of climate truth is finally being heard. The gospel of climate change, once expressed with the messianic fervor of an Elmer Gantry by Al Gore, is now expressed with the stammering incoherence of an Elmer Fudd...

Britain's leading climate change economist, Nicholas Stern, has warned Australian politicians that they are mistaken if they think tackling climate change is too costly. New Liberal leader Tony Abbott has put his party on a collision course with the Government over its emissions trading laws, which are expected to be voted down in the Senate this morning. In London overnight Lord Stern released two new reports which he will take to this month's United Nations conference in Copenhagen. They detail 11 points which he has worked on with the United Nations to help shape a final political agreement. He says...

SYDNEY (AP) — Australia's Senate has rejected legislation to set up an emissions trading system in the country to reduce greenhouse gas pollution. The Senate voted Tuesday to defeat a bill that is the centerpiece of the government's plans to slash Australia's emissions by up to 25 percent below 2000 levels by 2020 as part of global efforts to fight global warming. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd wanted the legislation passed before he attends next week's U.N. summit on climate change in Copenhagen so he could portray Australia as a leader on the issue. The government's next step is unclear. Rudd...

Australian Legislation for an Emissions Trading Scheme is trying to gain passage through the Senate, and the Government does not have the numbers there. Debate has been intense and after amendments, it looked likely to pass. However, the leadership on the non Government Conservative side of politics has now changed and the new leader has said he will not vote passage of this Bill, and will defer it until after Copenhagen. The hope is that it will be killed off altogether.

The Educational Testing Service wanted to help graduate school applicants prove they are more than a set of test scores. So it developed a tool to rate students across a broad sweep of traits -- creativity, teamwork, integrity -- that admission tests don't measure. The Personal Potential Index, unveiled this week, looks suspiciously like another set of scores. An applicant's personality is distilled into six traits, and the applicant is rated on each of them by various professors and former supervisors on a scale of 1 to 5. Officials with the nonprofit organization, based in Princeton, N.J., say the index...

Australia's prime minister discovers how much an emissions trading policy will cost. It's turning out that the biggest problem with carbon taxes is political reality. Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has just announced he will delay implementing his trademark cap-and-trade emissions trading proposal until at least 2011. Mr. Rudd's March proposal would have imposed total carbon permit costs (taxes) of 11.5 billion Australian dollars (US$8.5 billion) in the first two years, starting in 2010. This would have increased consumer prices by about 1.1% and shaved 0.1% off annual GDP growth until at least 2050, according to Australia's Treasury. Support has...