The LoveBlobs

TMI on the Oxygen Network Channel

TMI will be on "Her Domain" on the Oxygen Network, so please tune in and watch!
The Oxygen Network was the brainchild of Oprah Winfrey and focuses on women, and women's issue and interests, and so this film was prepared with the Oxygen Network's demographic in mind.
This is, of course, a really exciting opportunity for TMI and we hope that you enjoy watching the promotion; please let your friends and family know!

You can watch TMI on the Oxygen Network on the following dates and times:

December 30, 2008 5am EST/PST 4am CST/MST
January 06, 2009 5am EST/PST 4am CST/MST
January 13, 2009 5am EST/PST 4am CST/MST
January 20, 2009 5am EST/PST 4am CST/MST

...and if you would like a sneak peak, you can see it here.

Two Cosmic Ray Hot Spots

Two Cosmic Ray Hot Spots Never Seen from Earth Before. - December 6, 2008

An international team of researchers, using Los Alamos National Laboratory's
Milagro Observatory, has discovered for the first time two distinct hot spots (red regions)
that appear to be bombarding Earth with an excess of cosmic rays near the
Orion constellation (white diagram).

Image credit John Pretz, LANL.

Meteor over Canada

Meteor over Edmonton, Canada 11/20/08
Caught on Police Patrol Camera

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_2aX-784sw&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSL3b6bCR7s&NR=1

Cosmic Rays from a Mysterious, Nearby Object

Discovered: Cosmic Rays from a Mysterious, Nearby Object - 11/19/2008

An international team of researchers has discovered a puzzling surplus of high-energy electrons bombarding Earth from space. The source of these cosmic rays is unknown, but it must be close to the solar system and it could be made of dark matter.

Full Article

Three more exoplanets photographed

Keck Observatory - 11/13/2008
The new solar system orbits the dusty young star (in Hercules) named HR8799, which is 140 light years away and about 1.5 times the size of our sun. Three planets, roughly 10, 10 and 7 times the mass of Jupiter, orbit the star. The sizes of the planets decrease with distance from the parent star, much like the giant planets do in our system.

HR 8799, b, c, and d

Hubble Photographs Planet Orbiting Another Star

November 13, 2008

Fomalhaut is 25 light-years from Earth and is sixteen times brighter than our sun.
Fomalhaut b is the newly photographed planet about three times Jupiter's mass
and 10.7 billion miles from its sun, Fomalhaut.

Image credit: NASA Hubble, ESA, and P. Kalas, Univ. of California-Berkeley.

Upcoming Sci-Fi Channel series

“Unexplained with George Noory” - Beginning Sunday, November 16 to November 20, 11 PM Eastern and Pacific,
the Sci Fi Channel will broadcast five pilot episodes, including a Wednesday, November 19th program about Stephenville, Texas, aerial lights mystery.

schedule links:
Sci-Fi Channel

http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=20081031scifi01

Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth

This was cross-posted on some of the Newsgroups; thought I'd share it.
You Ex27 and Starliners will appreciate this one: Full Article

Evidence found of solar system around nearby star

10/27/2008
WASHINGTON/McClathy Newspapers — For the first time, astronomers think that they've found evidence of an alien solar system around a star close enough to Earth to be visible to the naked eye.

They say that at least one and probably three or more planets are orbiting the star Epsilon Eridani, 10.5 light-years — about 63 trillion miles — from Earth. Only eight stars are closer.

The host star, slightly smaller and cooler than our sun, is in the constellation Eridanus — the name of a mythological river — near Orion in the northern sky.

Epsilon Eridani is much younger than the sun, about 850 million years old compared with 4.5 billion years for our system.

"This really is a system like our solar system was when it was five times younger than it is now," said one of the discoverers, Massimo Marengo , an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. "It's like a time machine for our solar system."

"This system probably looks a lot like ours did when life first took root on Earth," said Dana Backman , of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif. , the lead author of a report to be published Jan. 10 in The Astrophysical Journal .

SETI chose Epsilon Eridani as one of the first targets in its long — but so far vain — search for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence in 1960.

UFO's again in Stephenville TX

STEPHENVILLE, TX — Over a three-month period this summer there were 1,000 UFO sightings filed with the National UFO Reporting Center. The small town is getting buzzed by UFO's again (story and video)
http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/localnews/news8/stories/wfaa081025_lj_ufo.1497ef4d3.html

CNN clip:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/10/25/pkg.tx.more.ufo.sightings.wfaa