Analysis of lunar samples returned by the Apollo astronauts confirms previous indications that the ratios of the different types, or isotopes, of oxygen in the Moon?s soil are similar to those of Earth. It is a finding that is consistent with the giant impact model for the Moon?s formation. Computer simulations offer additional proof of the theory that the Moon was born out of a big collision between the Earth and a Mars-sized planet.
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A little boy is taken out of his life, and made to confront a strange machine. Maybe he resists, maybe he even screams. But he looks in it, he cannot resist, first once and then many times. He sees a glowing mass of material, pure white. Above it there is a comet, and the comet is moving. I recall the tail, which was very different from that of an ordinary comet. You could see its movement, you could see it luffing like a winded sail. The comet enters the huge whiteness, which seems to be a gas cloud, and as it does there is a sudden increase in its brightness. Then, quite rapidly, the interior of the cloud begins to change. Its shape alters into an egg, then an ellipse.read more

“In this difficult time,” Whitley Strieber states in the introduction to this new addition to our audio files, “we would like to make part of our website a place of refuge.”

He has selected a group of readings, ranging from a four thousand five hundred year old Egyptian poem to the Koran, the Bible and the Baghavad Gita, as sources of comfort and joy, a way for him and for anybody who listens to be reminded of what it great within us.

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Whitley at his most controversial.

In a chilling new journal entry, Whitley Strieber explores why he is not a follower of the garden-variety conspiracy theorists, and why you shouldn’t be, either. But he also discusses disturbing evidence that there is good reason to believe that serious abuses have taken place, and that urgent reform of some of our troubled federal institutions, most notably the Central Intelligence Agency, is essential.

He talks about the reason why Unknowncountry.com has experienced so many defections from its newsletter during this period, and what our e-mail reveals about what many Americans really think about President Bush and our new war.
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