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Still Optimistic About Haley`s Comet

Unfortunately, as one scientist said many years ago: "We must wait until an entire generation of scientists die before a significant change is made in their theories."

(SAN DIEGO) - Now that the video of the “Deep Impact: Confirming the Electric Comet” report has been reported, I wonder how much longer it will take before the scientists recognize that their basic premise was wrong?

I don’t expect scientists to say “Mr. Chromie was right and we were wrong” but they should be expected to realize that the coma and tail don't result of sublimation of water ice and dust...

Vilified by a Member of the Planetary Society

Scientists are slowly catching up...

(SAN DIEGO) - Thirty one years ago I was vilified by a member of the Planetary Society for an article I wrote to the “Letters Editor” section of a small local newspaper.

Now I consider this attack on “a beautiful example of gross scientific illiteracy” as a compliment because history has proven that I was right and he and the scientists were the ones who were scientifically illiterate in this particular circumstance.

Harvard Researchers: Embryonic Cells Can Cause Cancer

The UNESCO's Dictionary of Bioethics, asserts that "the use of embryonic stem cells for therapeutic purposes is gravely illicit”.

(MADRID) - The research carried out by Britian's Sir John B. Gurdon and Japan's Shinya Yamanaka, both awarded with the Nobel Prize in Medicine 2012, gave birth to cellular reprogramming.

The conquest achieved, revealed that the efforts put in the investigations with embryonic cells for clinic purposes are useless and completely sterile.

Science: is it Really Against Your Religion?

In matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning power is not above the monkey's. - Mark Twain

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Science tends to rely on evidence and analysis and has little to do with myth - which is so dear to the heart of most of us.

New Study Finds Population of Threatened Marbled Murrelet Down Almost 30 Percent in Last Ten Years

New study falls on the heels of a court ruling that stopped timber sales and logging in three state-owned Oregon forests that are home to Marbled Murrelets.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Federal conservation efforts haven’t come close to reversing or even halting the decline of the Marbled Murrelet, a seabird that nests in old growth forests in the Pacific Northwest.

That’s the conclusion of a major new peer-reviewed study of the status of the Marbled Murrelet...

Massive Object Nearing Earth

"This is way too close for comfort, Godspeed friends."

(LONDON) - Astronomers say a massive object is headed straight for the earth. Many observers say it gives weight the the Myan Calindar theory which sees major change impacting the earth in the year 2012.

English Astroastronomer John L. Walson, said, "now its 9 days until the truth... space objects... videos... its not what you think"

New Study Finds Major Differences in Deep Earth Motions of Volcanic `Hotspots`

Koppers was able to date the volcanoes’ ages by looking at the argon isotope ratios of gas trapped within the rocks.

(CORVALLIS, OR) - The movement of tectonic plates over a volcanic hotspot typically results in a narrow chain of seamounts, such as the Hawaiian-Emperor Seamount Trail.

This hotspot trail is fed by a deep-mantle plume, which scientists believe drifted 15 degrees southward over millions of years because of a Pacific Ocean-wide “mantle wind.”

New Science Discoveries

I have been explaining and demonstrating since 1978, how phenomena are created by wavelengths of electromagnetic energy stimulating atoms of gases to a glowing state of excitement.

(SAN DIEGO) - Emerging reports substantiate what I wrote a few months ago; that misnomers are preventing the solution of many mysteries.

One states “A new ScienceCast video takes viewers on a trip to the edge of the electromagnetic spectrum, where mysterious objects are puzzling astronomers.”

Einstein`s Prescience

How to break the chain? War and many other forms of violence are generated by the underlying structural violence of capitalism, which is intrinsically unjust and inevitably produces conflict.

(OLDENBURG, Germany) - Albert Einstein wrote in 1939:

"There could be no greater calamity than a permanent discord between us and the Arab people. Despite the great wrong that has been done us, we must strive for a just and lasting compromise with the Arab people.... Let us recall that in former times no people lived in greater friendship with us than the ancestors of these Arabs."

Saudi Star-Gazers Accused of Bungling Ramadan Dates

Some astronomers in the Gulf suggested that the object the Saudis claim they saw in the sky on Monday night was in fact Saturn.

(AUCKLAND, NZ Herald) - When is a moon not a moon?

That is the question vexing Islamic astronomers after accusations that Saudi Arabia had jumped the gun in declaring the festival of Eid al-Fitr because they mistook Saturn for the Moon.