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NASA Announces Results of Epic Space-Time Experiment

"One day," Clifford Will of Washington University in St. Louis predicts, "this will be written up in textbooks as one of the classic experiments in the history of physics."

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Einstein was right again. There is a space-time vortex around Earth, and its shape precisely matches the predictions of Einstein's theory of gravity.

Researchers confirmed these points at a press conference today at NASA headquarters where they announced the long-awaited results of Gravity Probe B (GP-B).

Project Humanbeingsfirst Responds: Aliens and UFOs - Head in the Ass!

If bombing peoples to smithereens does not seem to impact people's sensibilities, then describing that crime in accurate terms should not either. Call a spade a spade.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - This article is in response to the commenter, "william Galison May 2, 2011 4:51 pm (Pacific time)" who noted:

'there are a lot of people far smarter and more educated than Mr Ebrahim who are spouting "UFO gibberish".', and 'Time Zahir him to pull his head out of his academic ass.'

Life Aboard the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk during the Vietnam War

Blue Water Sailors; no recognition for combat service... we were just there.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - During my tour aboard the USS Kitty Hawk between 1971-1973, I had done two combat tours back to back.

It`s a Small World, After All

After Visiting 120 Countries, World Traveler Sees Few Differences Between Peoples.

(CLEARWATER, Fla.) - When Henry Biernacki was 17 years old, he hopped a Greyhound bus from Colorado to Mexico with nothing but a small backpack, the clothes on his back and a few bucks in his pocket. He hasn’t stopped moving since.

Today, Biernacki is an airline captain with Virgin America and he has traveled to more than 120 countries, but his travel habits haven’t evolved much since his teen years.

Cars, Planes and Trains

Who did what first and why?

(SALEM, Ore.) - Some of the finest cars on the road, both today and yesterday, interestingly have their roots in the air. Saab is certainly the success story, the Messerschmidt has to be the most unique, and the most grand aspect may be the way the engine of America's finest classic, the Duesenberg; became one of the most widely used airplane engines in the world.

When you think about it, cars and planes are approximately the same age.

Astrophysicist: Giant Spaceships are Orbiting Mars

Alien spaceships the size of small moons orbiting Mars?

(CHICAGO) - Dr. Iosif Samuilovich Shklovsky calculated the orbital motion of Martian satellite Phobos and came to the jaw-dropping conclusion that the moon is artificial, hollow, and basically a titanic spaceship.

He's world-renown for co-authoring, "Intelligent Life in the Universe" with the late Carl Sagan.

Groups Seeking Full Fukushima Radiation Data From DOE, NRC

Why Aren’t Japanese and American Citizens Getting All the Facts? “Extreme” Step Seen As Indication of Much Higher Radiation Levels Than Revealed So Far by NRC, Japanese Government.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Three groups have filed a Freedom of Information Act request to get to the bottom of what led the U.S. government to call for a 50-mile evacuation radius for Americans near the Japanese reactor crisis in Fukushima.

The three groups are not satisfied that the incomplete summary provided so far by the DOE.

Egypt Air Deletes Israel from its Destination List

Air travel between Egypt and Israel was suspended temporarily following the Egyptian Revolution which broke out in January.

(CAIRO) - Egypt Air - the official Egyptian airline - has deleted Israel from its travel destinations.

The airline's website no longer features the Zionist state among its flight options.

RAF Tornado Pilots Abort Targets to Avoid Civilians

To kill or not to kill; for once it was not a question.

(SALEM, Ore.) - An article in The Telegraph by Con Coughlin today details the kind of moral military story we don't hear too often in our Wikileaks-based world.

Royal Air Force Tornado jets returned to their base after a raid on Libyan military forces loyal to Gaddafi, with their weapons still slung underneath the wings of their airplanes.

Iran Designed and Built Jet Fighter `Saeqeh` Enters Air Force Service

Iran Announces first all-Iranian aircraft squadron.

(SALEM, Ore.) - Iran takes a unique step forward in the world of military aviation with the announcement of the country's first jet fighter squadron comprised of all Iranian aircraft. The Saeqeh jet fighter; Iranian built and designed- now has become part of Iran's Air Force.

Saeqeh means 'Thunderbolt' in Iran and that name was applied to what was undoubtedly one of the best American WWII fighters, the P-47 Thunderbolt which had a ridiculous amount of horsepower toward the end of the war.