Takuo Toda, head of Japan Origami Airplane Association, folds a space shuttle-shaped paper plane at the Japan Airlines’ facilities in Tokyo on Feb. 3. Toda had nursed the idea of flying a shuttle-shaped paper plane since NASA unveiled its first space shuttle Enterprise in 1977.

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Japanese aim to drop paper airplane from space | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle

In 1600, the former Dominican monk and philosopher Giordano Bruno was burnt alive in the streets of Rome. To humiliate him, the Church first hung him upside down and stripped him naked. What made the teachings of Bruno so dangerous? He had asked a simple question: is there life in outer space? Rather than entertain the possibility of billions of saints, popes, churches, and Jesus Christs in outer space, it was more convenient for the Church simply to burn him.

Prof Michio Kaku on the science behind UFOs and time travel - Telegraph

A camera on Bigelow Aerospace’s Genesis I experimental imflatable spacecraft has recorded a bright spot seemingly flying between it and Earth. The image has no details, but it is larger than a point source of light. Whatever it is, the image, which lasts a few seconds, is not an atmospheric phenomenon. Even though most of the time the image is seen against Earth, when it first appears, the image is at least partially against the blackness of space.

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Bracewell Probes: Part One
Lately much speculation has trended away from the “classic” SETI paradigm and into the domain of hypothetical ET devices such as self-replicating spacecraft and automated communications platforms (an idea proposed by astronomer Ronald Bracewell in his book “The Galactic Club”).

Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent
Tuesday September 18, 2007
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The meteorite impact crater high in the Peruvian Andes is said to be emitting noxious fumes. Photograph: EPA 

A meteorite has struck a remote part of Peru and carved a large crater that is emitting noxious odours and making villagers ill, according to local press reports.

A fireball streaked across the Andean sky late on Saturday night and crashed into a field near Carancas, a sparsely populated highland wilderness near Lake Titicaca on the border with Bolivia, witnesses said.

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