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NASA is trying to contact Pioneer 10, a spacecraft it launched 29 years ago, which is now 7 billion miles away. The satellite hasn’t been heard from since August and may be gone for good, its signal too far out of range to reach Earth.

“We are certainly challenging the network in trying to literally pick a bit of signal out of the noise,” said Robert Ryan of NASA. “It’s a combination of nostalgia and an engineering exercise to see how well we can do it.” They have been trying to contact it using the world’s largest radio antenna, the 1,000 foot dish at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. NASA has been transmitting signals to the spacecraft which take 21 hours and 20 minutes to make a round trip, trying to get it to “reply.”
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The following quote was taken from the Frasier TV show, aired on March 6th, 2001. Former astronaut, SenatorJohn Glenn said:

“Back in those glory days, I was very uncomfortable when they asked us to say things that I didn’t want to say, and deny other things. Some peple asked, you know, ‘Were you alone out there?’ We never gave the real answer. We’ve seen things out there, strange things. But we know what we saw out there. And we couldn’t really say anything, the bosses were scared of this. They were afraid of ‘War of the Worlds’ type stuff, about panic in the streets. And so we had to keep quiet. And now we only see these things in our nightmares or maybe in the movies. And some of them are pretty close to being the truth.”
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Taken together, two recent scientific studies offer powerful evidence that the soul persists after death, and that souls can be communicated with.

The first of these studies was conducted by Dr. Peter Fenwick, a consultant neuropsychiatrist at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and Dr. Sam Parma, a clinical research fellow at Southampton Hospital. The study has been published as “A qualitative and quantitative study of the incidence, features and aetiology of near death experiences in cardiac arrest survivors” in the peer-reviewed medical journal Resuscitation 48 (2) (2001) pp. 149 – 156.
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World weather remains disturbed, with powerful snowstorms enveloping parts of the United States and Russia, flooding in Malawi and Mozambique and a wet winter storm pounding the US west coast. The flooding along the Zambezi in Africa appears to be part of a larger emerging weather pattern that may disrupt the area in the same way that the lengthening monsoon season has been causing persistent flooding in Southeast Asia.

What has developed into a strong northeaster over the eastern seaboard of the US began with an unusual confluence of fronts, including a Canadian low that moved east to west for a period of time. This is a most unusual event, as prevailing winds blow from west to east.
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