Eve Conant writes in Newsweek that underwater explorer Robert Ballard is investigating the legend of Noah’s ark. Many historians think the worldwide flood legends originated about 7,500 years ago at the end of the ice age, when the Aegean Sea flowed into the Black Sea with incredible force, raising the water level of the Black Sea six inches a day.

Ballard, who discover the location of the sunken Titanic in 1985, has designed a remote-controlled submarine named Hercules, which can search for signs of ancient flood human civilization deep beneath the Black Sea.
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It’s not only dangerous to use your cell phone in flight, it may also be dangerous to watch a movie. Gary Stoller writes in USA Today that in March, a Boeing 757 had to return to a U.S. airport when smoke started coming out of an in-flight entertainment system, and another system’s wiring may have caused a Swissair crash in 1998.

The Canadian Transportation Safety Board concluded that faulty wiring in an entertainment system may have been behind the fire caused Swissair crash near Nova Scotia in 1998, killing all 229 passengers. ”The time is long past that we can consider these systems as risk-free,” says pilot and safety expert Jim Shaw. ”I know many instances where problems with in-flight entertainment systems created smoke and fire events.”
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China’s version of Nessie was seen last week, and a man found a fossil that could be from the original Nessie in Loch Ness.

China’s Lake Tianchi Monster was spotted July 11 in a lake near North Korea, where similar sightings have been reported for over a century. Local government officials caught sight of a school of 20 Chinese Nessies swimming in the lake. Zhang Lufeng, of the forestry bureau, says, “Within about 50 minutes, the monsters appeared five times. At times there was one, at times there were several. The last time, there was as many as about 20.”
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This week we have two interviews with one of your favorite authors, conspiracy expert Jim Marrs. He talks with Whitley starting Saturday about his new book on the conspiracies behind 911. And he has a special interview about aliens on the subscribers section.

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