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Civilian astronomers participating in the Kepler Planet Hunters program have identified unusual patterns in the light output of a star that is otherwise invisible to the naked eye — patterns that are being caused by an as yet unknown process. This appears to be some sort of huge debris field–or is it a field of artifacts created by an advanced alien civilization?

The star in question, KIC 8462852, is 1,500 light-years away, lies between the constellations Cygnus and Lyra. It was included as part of observations being made by the Kepler Space Telescope, which seeks signs of exoplanets around stars, by watching for dips in the stars’ light output.
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A new climatological study has illustrated the potential for a scenario similar to the one depicted in Whitley Strieber and Art Bell’s book ‘The Coming Global Superstorm’, where global warming will lead to a sudden drop in global average temperatures.

Researchers at Southampton University in the UK have utilized the advanced ECHAM atmospheric circulation computer model developed at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in their new study, of which found that global warming resulted in both the interruption of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), more commonly known as the North Atlantic Current, and a sharp decrease in global temperatures.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has announced their plans for colonizing Mars, of which includes plans for permanent ‘Earth Independent’ settlements that would be capable of operating for extended missions with little or no material support needed from Earth.

Their report, entitled ‘Journey to Mars’, outlines NASA’s 3-stage plan for developing the path for the long-term colonization of Mars, with the goal of landing a human presence there sometime in the 2030s.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released average global temperature data for the month of August, which shows that it was the hottest August on record, and also the hottest month of 2015. This also marks this year’s summer as the hottest on record, and puts 2015 in line to be the hottest year on record.

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