Archive for June, 2009

In the age of computers and great advances in information technology, it is not a wonder why almost everything is accessible through the web. The web is not only designed to host information, but also different products and forms of entertainment. Among of these forms of entertainment that can be found in the web are various online games. There are practically different games that are available on the web and can be downloaded for free. One of the famous games that can be found in the web is Alien Eggs.
There are different types of Alien Eggs games. One of these is the downloadable exciting balls swap action game. It is basically a game, which has the objective of swapping two closely, located balls in order to make a straight line composed of three or more balls. The straight lines that have been formed will then disappear, and the existing balls, along with the new ones will fall down from the top. Points will be given to each ball that is eliminated. This game has different intensity levels with different corresponding points per intensity level. Time factor makes the game more exciting as each player is pressured to eliminate more balls as fast as he can.
Alien Eggs is definitely one game that has received good ratings for quite some time now. Some of the related programs to this Alien Eggs game include Alien Shooter, Eggs Screen Saver, and Alien Countdown Screensaver. Alien Eggs games can actually be downloaded for free, although some of the games can be acquired for a minimal amount.
Another type of Alien Eggs games is a kids’ game, which encourages the player to retrieve the eggs from a certain fictitious place, which is guarded by different creatures that bars the player from getting the egg. It is therefore the objective of the game to get the Alien Eggs successfully out of the place where it was found. Kids would truly enjoy this game, as the creatures that are created for this game are all exciting and challenging. This game is also interactive in such a way that it allows other users to play the same game at the same time, which makes it more challenging for the players.
Truly, these games became so popular that some of these eggs were actually being produced as toys that one could bring home with. A number of alien eggs toys are available in the market and possess different characteristics. Some of these eggs can be grown and hatched into alien beings. Growing these eggs give the feeling of excitement as one awaits the alien creature that would actually come out of the eggs as they are hatched. These eggs are also available in the web and can be ordered according to individual preferences. Some of these eggs even come with certain accessories such as birth pods and cosmolights. Surprisingly, there are quite a number of people who actually patronizes these eggs and think of them as priceless components of their collections.

A close encounter of the second kind leaves physical evidence of some sort to help validate the event. One such encounter was well documented by a very reliable set of witnesses in the summer of 1986. The United States Navy's Salvage and Rescue Ship, USS Edenton ATS 1 was proceeding through the Atlantic Ocean approximately fifty miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. It was a clear moonlit night with a moderate number of stars helping to brighten the sky.

At about 11:00 p.m. the top lookout, the crewman responsible for reporting all visual contacts on both the surface and in the sky, saw four red lights suddenly appear at about 20% above the horizon and about a mile in front of the vessel. He at first thought they were possibly helicopters, as the lights were stationary. On closer examination through binoculars he realized that the bright red lights were maybe a hundred yards apart and each was about the size of a small plane. He noted also that they were holding formation in a square. His closer examination failed to find any normal green or white running lights as would be visible were this an ordinary terrestrial aircraft.

Doing his duty, he called down to the bridge to report the sighting of a possible UFO off their bows. He heard laughter return across the communication wire but again relayed the information about the location of the objects and hoped they would also see what he reported. It was about then that the lights took a quick "swooshing dip" towards the ocean surface then shot straight up and off into space in the matter of seconds. The bridge crew had seen the object and duly noted the sighting in the ship's log.

About a half-hour later, as the ship steamed into the area where the lights had been hovering, the bridge's radiation detection system began to click rapidly. The device, a gamma radiation roentgen meter, registered the detection of 385 roentgens within one minute. It should be noted that the soldiers who were exposed to the Project Trinity atomic bomb tests in 1945 registered at most only 6 roentgens of gamma radiation from the mushroom clouds.

The Captain of the ship was awoken and brought to the bridge. He was quite upset at the UFO sighting report in the log and insisted that the meter be examined to see if it was broken. The Chief Petty Officer assured him the machine had been serviced only the day before and subsequent checking of the other radiation detectors throughout the ship showed that they had also detected the 385 roentgen blast. Whatever the lookout and bridge crew had seen, it had left behind a fearsome wake of radiation.

Only slightly less common than the ubiquitous saucer shapes are the unidentified flying objects that appear to be perfectly round spheres. In size the sphere objects have been observed to be as small as one meter in diameter up to huge flying balls that are estimated as well over one hundred meters across. In daylight they tend to look silvery, as though made of some polished steel or aluminum. These spheroid craft are often described as giant flying ball bearings. In the twilight or nighttime sky a glowing orange or reddish light seems to emanate from them. A few reports state seeing either a small row of "windows" or possibly a narrow rim around the equator of these spheres.

As with the saucer craft, the spheres are highly maneuverable and can go from a hover to supersonic speeds in an instant. Despite the extreme speeds they have been observed obtaining, the spheres generate neither sound nor create a sonic wake in their passing. Quite often these strange round objects are traveling at a very sedate speed as though they have nothing to fear and all the time in the world to get wherever they are going. During World War II, allied pilots often reported having what they called "foo fighters", small luminous spherical orbs about a meter across, keep pace with their aircraft as they flew over combat zones.

Small spheres have been seen to glide over fields where crop circles subsequently appear. They have been observed around sunset to come in from very high, occasionally leaving a short-lived corkscrew-like trail of ice vapor in their wake. Many of the anomalous sightings filmed by various space missions on the Space Shuttle flights and from the International Space Station appear to be these round sphere-shaped UFO's. They are often seen to be gliding along above heavy thunderstorm clouds.

Another strange quality exhibited by the spheres is their seeming ability to simply vanish. They have been observed to just slowly fade out of existence as though somehow either phasing through a dimensional shift or possibly reverting to an invisible state. If, as has been speculated, these craft employ a powerful electro-magnetic anti-gravity engine then the perfectly round shape is understandable. A sphere is the perfect shape for such a device to use. It is through this lack of understanding that the Philadelphia Experiment, as allegedly undertaken by our own Navy, went so horribly wrong.

Despite the thousands of reports of unidentified flying objects made yearly around the world, there are a few commonalties in the sightings. Regardless of shape, many UFO's give off their own luminescence. This is thought to be caused by ionization of the air surrounding the surface or possibly vents on the craft. It is believed to work similarly to what occurs inside a neon light tube. This is usually of an orangish or yellow color when seen at night. It also explains the hazy, wavering appearance of UFO's during daylight.

By far the most common shape of a UFO is the ubiquitous "saucer" or "disk" shape. Often the craft will appear to have a flat bottom or a slightly convex hollow. These are the one's described as "hubcaps". Occasionally there will be a more pronounced upper hemispherical shape. A type of dome or "transparent cockpit" shape is reported on the top of the round, spinning craft. These "classic" flying saucers are the usual model for cartoons containing "little green men".

Other saucers show a less detailed shape. Many reports come in about the lenticular saucers that appear to be two shallow bowls glued together at the rim. They are usually dark, greyish to black and, like the 2006 O'Hara Airport sighting in Chicago, USA, can be described "like an M&M candy".

The "straw hat" flying saucers are generally described as being like a coin with a rim. Rising above this edge is usually a secondary superstructure that gives them their distinctly hat-like appearance. They have occasionally been reported as looking like two hats glued together at the rim. The bottom and top of these craft are generally very noticeably flat.

Falling into this category is also the anomalous "mushroom" shaped UFO's like the alleged "Gulf Breeze, Florida saucer. The bell-shaped saucers also fit here along with the ones that have been described as "an upside down coffee cup in a saucer".

These are generally the most maneuverable of all the unknown flying objects. They seem to be able to defy not only gravity but motion, speed and inertial forces as well. While they are known to hover quite well, they also are known for such amazing maneuverability as to rip a conventional craft to bits. They are usually described as rotating or spinning along their horizontal axis when seen close enough to detect the motion. On can only assume it is merely the outer rim that spins while the central core containing possible pilot and crew remains stable.

It can only be a good thing that several governments around the world have begun to lighten up and release information they have on unexplainable aerial phenomena that has been reported to them over the years. With the recent release of many documents from England's Ministry of Defense we have the reports of another, never identified, sighting to add to the growing list of truly "Unidentified Flying Objects".

In the evening of April 21,1991 an Alitalia airliner had a very near miss with an object that passed dangerously close to it. The flight was being made by A McDonnell-Douglas MD80 passenger jet which was carrying fifty-seven souls on board. It was coming from Milan and was at 22,000 feet headed for Heathrow Airport. Suddenly the pilot, Achille Zaghetti, saw a brown missile-shaped object pass at speed over his aircraft at what he guessed was within a thousand feet. The sighting shocked him so badly he yelled, "Look out!" to his co-pilot who also saw the mysterious thing as it passed their plane.

Shaken by the near collision he radioed the Area Control Center (ACC) to determine if they had the object on radar. He was informed that they did indeed see "an unknown target ten nautical miles behind you". The ACC report of the incident included the sighting by a young teenager who had reported seeing what he thought was a missile at first flying low to the ground before zooming into the sky.

While the initial radar pictures had the object labeled as "Cruise missile??" the possibility that a military weapon had been involved was quickly investigated and proven to not be so. The Ministry of Defense trolled the records and schedules of the Army's firing ranges near Lydd and found no evidence that any missile firing or "space-related activity" had been underway that evening. Fortunately the object did not collide with the passenger jet and all aboard returned safely to the ground.

The same type of unidentified wingless object was subsequently spotted buzzing several other passenger craft as that summer continued. On June the 17th four passengers of a Dan Air Boing 737 also witnessed a fast moving wingless "projectile" pass below their craft as it climbed for altitude on takeoff from Gatwick airport. A month later, July 15, the pilot of a Britannia Airways 737 also reported a fast moving "small black lozenge-shaped object" pass by as he was approaching Gatwick Airport. To date, no one is any wiser as to who or what was playing such a dangerous game with these civilian aircraft.

While UFO debunkers often fall back on expunging the credibility of witnesses to disprove sightings of strange craft in the sky, one thing remains constant. Members of the military or the police are generally considered to be reliable witnesses that are trained to observe and accurately report what they have seen. It does not sit well with skeptics when law enforcement officers are the ones who witness and report such otherworldly events.

In the small hours of the morning of March 14, two Washtenaw County Sheriff's Department officers reported seeing a number of disc-shaped craft. These mysterious craft were witnessed not only by Deputies Bushroe and Foster but other law enforcement officers in neighboring counties. The objects were in sight for over two hours, at some points travelling at excessively high speeds, hovering, turning sharply in different directions and both climbing for altitude and diving rapidly toward the ground.

Within twenty minutes, patrolmen from the Ypsilanti Police Department and the Monroe County Sheriffs Office had also tracked and spotted the craft. Soon more of the craft were spotted. A call was made to Colonel Miller of the Civil Defense. He told them to keep an eye on the objects and to check with the Willow Run Airport. Within an hour of the first sighting, a call to the Selfridge Air Base confirmed they had some objects on radar over Lake Erie but were unable to get an identification on them.

Three days later, on March 17, Sgt. Nuel Schneider and Deputy David Fitzpatrick of the Milan. Michigan Police Department reported seeing two top-shaped objects in their airspace making radical movements and flying off at jet-like speeds. Three more days and the Dexter Police Department had to investigate a possible landing in a wooded area nearby. While two officers searched on the ground with civilian witnesses to see if they could locate the cause of the bright lights going on and off in the woods Officer Robert Hartwell had a glowing object buzz over his patrol car. The Chief of Police, Robert Taylor also spotted a red, pulsating object hovering over a local residence. He end managed to view the object through binoculars and stated it had lights on each end.

Despite the number of qualified and credible witnesses to these events, all within the space of a week, there was never any determination as to what could have been flying in such un-aircraft-like ways over Southeast Michigan. To this day no one knows, but they cannot claim the witnesses were drunken crackpots.

The most publicized account of human abduction by alien beings occurred on September 19, 1961 in New Hampshire. Betty and Barney Hill were returning home from vacation and travelling along US Route 3 towards Portsmouth when they first saw a bright light in the sky. Stopping the car for a closer look they tried to get a closer look through binoculars but had no success in determining what it was.

They continued their journey only to have the light begin to follow them. Almost to the town of Indian Head, the object swooped down and took up station about a hundred feet in front of their car. Barney stopped in the middle of the road and got out for a closer look with his binoculars. Observing several human-like beings staring back at him from the "windows" he hastily returned to his vehicle and sped away. The object followed, staying right over the car and making loud "clicking" sounds.

Arriving home about daylight, they realized the four-hour trip had taken them instead, seven hours. Three hours of their lives had gone missing. They showered, having a great urge to cleanse themselves for reasons they did not know. Over the next few weeks they both developed severe nightmares and became increasingly agitated for no good reason. They had reported the sighting but had been told they had merely misidentified Jupiter.

Others took their story more seriously. Over the next two years they were interviewed by various members of the National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena. They concluded that some mental "block" was in place in the Hill's minds and suggested hypnosis to try and recover the memories. They enlisted Dr. Benjamin Simon, a skeptic, and he performed several sessions in the first half of 1964.

Under hypnosis a bizarre story emerged. Barney stated he was "compelled" to park in a secluded wooded area where they were taken aboard the now landed disk-shaped spacecraft by three alien beings with "very large eyes". Once onboard they were separated and subjected to invasive and humiliating physical examinations. Betty had asked the most sociable of her examiners where they were from and he showed her a "star map" he described as showing various trade and exploration routes. Under hypnosis, Betty redrew the map for the Doctor. Later examination of the map by astronomers placed a best guess as Zeta Reticula being the place the beings said was their origin place.

Finally returned to their vehicle, the Hills resumed their journey, mysteriously made to consciously forget their ordeal. Were it not for the ability of hypnosis to sometimes recover lost memory, we might never have learned of this frightening case of abduction.

Mystery Time Space or The Mystery of Time and Space which is often refereed to as MOTAS is a very popular online adventure game which is created by Jan Albartus (LOGAN). This game is made by using Macromedia Flash, now known as Adobe Flash. MOTAS is an influential example of escape the room genre. At present the game consists of 20 levels which will soon increase in the upcoming versions of the game.

Also, Mystery Time Space is available in as many as 15 languages; these include English, French, Spanish, Japanese, and German etc. The game also has a moderated chat room which is available for the players to discuss the game.

Like other games of this genre, the player interacts with the environment in this game by clicking on the elements which are there in the game’s environment so as to solve the game’s puzzle, with most of the elements exhibiting science fiction influence and high technology. The game environment can also be searched by clicking at various spots on the environment so as to uncover hidden items. These retrieved items are thus used to interact with the environment in order to solve the puzzle. A player can use the retrieved item by clicking on the inventory in Mystery Time Space.

Also solving puzzles will also retrieve items, codes, passwords etc. which in turn will help you in solving another puzzle. Therefore the player should apply lateral thinking when trying to find the uses for the retrieved item.

Many of the elements within Mystery Time Space such as pieces of furniture or some puzzles themselves can be interacted without using any additional item.

As the game advances, the game play itself steadily evolves and at the same time the puzzles and levels become more hard and complicated. Levels start shifting towards multiple rooms and eventually ventures into an outside world beyond locked buildings. When a player advances to higher levels, then the player acquires a device which is called “Manipulator of Time and Space (MOTAS)” device. This device takes the player back to the earlier levels via time travel in order to retrieve the items, then by using the same device the player again comes back to the current level to solve the current puzzle using retrieved items.

MOTAS or Mystery Time Space was created in November 2001. At that time, it featured only one room and was hosted on free web server. In the following year, only a counter was added to this game. And as of May 2008, this game has 20 levels plus and end level, which is also called guestbook.

In 1984, President Ronald Regan challenged the world to build a space station. At that time it was inevitable that this projected will be completed. But after more than a decade and many ups and downs the first element of space station or international space station (ISS), as sometimes it is called, will be soon launched from Russia.

The various partners that are involved in this mammoth project include United States, Japan, Canada, Russia etc. In the history of the world never had so many countries came together and contributed to have a monumental effect on the humanity over the coming years.

Many types of experiments can take place in the micro gravity environment of space station model. The long term scientific benefits associated with space station model to the human race will definitely exceed our expectations. The space station model will travel in an orbit ranging from 160-260 miles above the earth. The speed will be around 17500 mph, thus an orbit will require a maximum of one and an half hours to complete. The crew of the space station will consist of three members who will be increased to seven. The crew members will come from different countries and their makeup will be decided by mutual agreements of various partners.

Inter Mountain Railway Company of Longmont, Colorado and Johnson Engineering of Houston, Texas have come together to develop this space station model, which is 1:144 scale model of ISS. Once this model is finished, its dimension will come out to be 30x22x20". It is basically injection molded in styrene plastic. ISS will also be mass produced in different versions in order to meet the varying needs for suck kind of model.

This space station model is assembly of around 320 parts divided into 36 modules. These 36 modules are packed in four blister trays that make it easier to assemble and dissemble the modules. A very high quality stand is also included in the model. Also the parts are fully decorated, including decal and paints.

The complete space station model includes the following
- 11 Rotating Solar Panels
- 3 Space Vehicles
- 1 Sliding Robot Arm Trolley
- 24 Preprinted Solar Panels
- 2 Revolving Truss Structures
- 4 Positionable Robot Arms
- 11 Rotating Solar Panels
- 20 Modules, including Destiny, Centrifuge module, Columbus, Kibo, and Russian modules.
- 3 Pivoting Radiators

Many people often ask that how does light travel in space without any medium. But answer is that, it doesn’t. The vacuum is the medium which permits light to travel in space. Now even the physicists also have given up the abstract idea of empty space, that is, space having no fields, whatsoever. They also have given up the conventional idea that the matter is substantially different from the fields. It is in fact, not. The math which is needed to describe the physical vacuum is exactly the same as what is needed to describe matter. Light travels faster in vacuum then in any other material.

Light is no different, it is just a property of vacuum. Just like sound is property of liquids, solids and gases. Another reasoning is that light is a type of electromagnetic radiation, which is amongst one of the four fundamental forces of nature and as such it do not require and any medium for propagation.

Light in fact has got nothing to do with space. In fact, it is the property of the electromagnetic field when it is undergoing some kind of change. This field radiates in space in all the directions from the point of origin. This field is invisible in nature and can only be felt by parties that carry some charge, whenever the field is changed. Like for example by sudden alteration of the position of the source, a kink develops in the field which propagates in the space with speed of light. Therefore, space simply acts as a passive container for the electro magnetic field, which in turn is the medium through which light propagates.

When there is no electromagnetic in space, the light will also not travel, as in the case of closed shield box. The light moves in a straight line only when it is not moving through anything at all, that is, vacuum. Whenever, the light travels through water, glass or anything else its behaviors changes. The direction of light in these cases basically changes due to two phenomenon, these are refraction and reflection. Reflection is when the light bounces off something whereas refraction is when the light one medium to another, both having different densities.

These two phenomenons’ either changes the direction of light or bend the light. Light only travels at constant speed, which we usually refer to as “speed of light”.