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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.

Comets, Dark Energy and the Mysterious Forces of Space

Remember Einstein’s statement, “Energy is mass and mass is energy.”

(SAN DIEGO) - In a discussion on the “Daily Show” recently with Jon Stewart, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of the Hayden Planetarium, said:

“When you are on the frontier of knowledge between what is known and unknown and reaching into that abyss, imagination is more important than knowledge. This is the creativity of discovery that not everyone has“.

Could New Mantle Drilling Project Destroy the World?

Geoscientists state nothing of the sort could happen, yet some dangers do exist.

(CHICAGO) - High pressure drilling deep into the earth's mantle worries some people who remember the 1965 film, "Crack in the World."

That hair-raising British movie depicted determined scientists boring into the Earth's mantle and accidentally triggering a crack in the mantle that threatens to split the planet apart. They're unable to stop the catastrophe and only the explosive birth of a new moon saves earth.

Breast Cancer Article

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - The story that originally was posted here was released today by the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

The story was dispatched to media without citing the fact that it was embargoed and not scheduled for release for several days. We apologize to our readers that this story is not available now and had to be pulled.

Scientists` Research Warns Humanity May be Facing `Vortex of Death`

Solar Cycle 24 has begun. NASA and other space agencies worldwide have been warning about it.

(CHICAGO) - Professor Raymond Wheeler, from the University of Kansas, at first almost stumbled into the frightening data.

Super Perigee Moon Over Oregon

The phenomenon causes the moon to appear 14% bigger than usual.

(SALEM, Ore.) - If you gazed into the sky Saturday night and wondered if the moon looked bigger than usual, you were entirely correct.

Saturday's full moon was the biggest in almost two decades.

Magnetic Pole Shift May Drive Animals and Humans Mad

Mass animal deaths may be the early symptoms of this encroaching electrical brain disruption caused by the magnetic pole shift.

(CHICAGO) - Scientific research suggests the Earth's changing magnetic field may cause otherwise peaceful animals to become enraged killers banding together in voracious indiscriminate attacks and killing both terrified humans and each other.

Imagine for a moment a scene from Alfred Hitchcock's classic horror movie "The Birds": townspeople are inexplicably attacked by the creatures. Darting and screeching, once docile birds swoop and soar, purposefully striking from the skies to maim and kill.

Public Health Under Attack

One in three amendments in House budget affect environment.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - Ignoring the risk to the public, the House Republican majority and a few Democrats have mounted a broad ideological attack on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s rules to protect public health.

These assaults on our public health protections could cause thousands of premature deaths every year, create billions of dollars in unnecessary health costs, and leave communities at risk of pollution-related cancers and other diseases.

From Hiroshima to Fukushima to US!

And one fine day the lion may just will lie down with The Lamb and man will indeed abolish nuclear everything and thus make war no more; and that will create the Kingdom of God on this tiny planet we call earth.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - Japan's quake-damaged northeast has helped recall the fact that sixty-six years ago Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s razed villages and burning shells of buildings were MADE IN THE USA! Japan has 54 nuclear power plants and about one-third of its nationwide electricity comes from nuclear energy.

There are 104 nuclear power plants in the United States!