Sticky Situation, Woman Hospitalized After Being Glued To Toilet Seat at Home Depot

                    

GEORGIA - According to an incident report filed at the Banks County Sheriff's Office, a woman found herself glued to a toilet seat after using the restroom at the Home Depot store in Banks Crossing last week.  Someone allegedly put glue on every toilet seat in the women's restroom. Unfortunately, the woman didn't realize this until she was already stuck. 

Emergency medical services personnel were called in to help remove the woman from the toilet.  She was then transported to a Gainesville hospital where she received treatment.
The store manager found a brown paper sack in the restroom containing a bottle of Loctite GO2 glue, a product that not only boasts of durability, but also versatility

Original Source: http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/12/06/Woman-Hospitalized-After-Being-Glued-To-Toilet-Seat-at-Home-Depot

New Tangle in Origin Theories, DNA tests from 400,000 year old human remains.

Javier Trueba / Madrid Scientific Films 

The Sima de los Huesos people lived about 400,000 years ago in Spain.

The oldest human DNA ever recovered is throwing scientists for a loop: The 400,000-year-old genetic material comes from bones that have been linked to Neanderthals in Spain — but its signature is most similar to that of a different ancient human population from Siberia, known as the Denisovans.
The researchers who did the analysis said their findings show an "unexpected link" between two of our extinct cousin species. Follow-up studies could crack the mystery — not only for the early humans who lived in the cave complex known as Sima de los Huesos (Spanish for "Pit of Bones"), but for other mysterious populations in the Pleistocene epoch.
"Ancient DNA sequencing techniques have become sensitive enough to warrant further investigation of DNA survival at sites where Middle Pleistocene hominins are found," the research team, led by Matthias Meyer and Svante Pääbo of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, wrote in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature. ("Hominin" is the currently accepted term for humans and our close evolutionary cousins.)
As anthropologists are getting better at extracting DNA from ancient bones, genetic mysteries are cropping up more frequently: Last month, researchers at scientific meetings talked about not-yet-published findings that hinted at interbreeding among Neanderthals, Denisovans and previously unknown populations of early humans.
A new standardThe age of the mitochondrial DNA analyzed for the Nature study sets a new standard: Researchers used statistical analysis of the DNA and other samples to estimate that the material was roughly 400,000 years old. That meshed with the estimated age for similar DNA extracted from bear bones found in the same cave.
More than 6,000 human fossils, representing about 28 individuals, have been recovered from the Sima de los Huesos site, a hard-to-get-to cave chamber that lies about 100 feet (30 meters) below the surface in northern Spain. The fossils are unusually well-preserved, thanks in part to the undisturbed cave's constant cool temperature and high humidity.

Javier Trueba / Madrid Scientific Films

The thigh bone of a 400,000-year-old hominin yielded mitochondrial DNA for analysis.

Researchers drilled a series of tiny holes into the cracks in a human femur recovered from the cave to obtain nearly 2 grams (0.07 ounce) of powdered bone. At first, they looked for the signature of ancient nuclear DNA, which could have provided information about the genome of the individual behind the femur — but that information was overwhelmed by the signature of modern-day human contamination.
Then they turned their attention to the mitochondrial DNA, which lies outside the cell's nucleus and is passed down from a mother to her children. That strategy was more successful.
Unusual findingPrevious analysis of bones from the cave had led researchers to assume that the Sima de los Huesos people were closely related to Neanderthals on the basis of their skeletal features. But the mitochondrial DNA was far more similar to that of the Denisovans, an early human population that was thought to have split off from Neanderthals around 640,000 years ago. The first Denisovan specimens were identified in 2010, based on an analysis of 30,000-year-old bones excavated in Siberia.

Javier Trueba / Madrid Scientific Films

This skeleton from the Sima de los Huesos cave has been assigned to an early human species known as Homo heidelbergensis. However, researchers say the skeletal structure is similar to that of Neanderthals - so much so that some say the Sima de los Huesos people were actually Neanderthals rather than representatives of Homo heidelbergensis.

The latest DNA analysis sent scientists scrambling for an explanation.
"This unusual finding could be due to at least two different scenarios, both relating to the material inheritance of mtDNA [mitochondrial DNA] and the ease with which it can be lost in a lineage," Chris Stringer, a paleoanthropologist at London's Natural History Museum who was not involved in the Nature study, wrote in an email.
One scenario could be that the DNA was passed down the maternal line from a population that was ancestral to the Sima de los Huesos humans as well as the Denisovans, but that the lineage died out among Neanderthals and modern humans.
The other scenario is that an as-yet-undetermined population interbred with ancestors of the Spanish cave-dwellers as well as the Denisovans. Meyer, Pääbo and their colleagues tentatively favor that scenario. "Based on the fossil record, more than one evolutionary lineage may have existed in Europe during the Middle Pleistocene," they write.
"Either way, this new finding can help us start to disentangle the relationships of the various human groups known from the last 600,000 years," Stringer said. "If more mtDNA can be recovered from the Sima 'population' of fossils, it may demonstrate how these individuals were related to each other, and how varied their population was."

UPDATES and Original Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/science/400-000-year-old-human-dna-adds-new-tangle-our-2D11690925

Planetary Scientist tells a House committee "Odds of Alien Life Very High"

The likelihood of life on other planets is "very high," a planetary scientist told a House committee in a hearing some Democrats chided as evading U.S. issues.

 "The chance that there's a planet like Earth out there with life on it is very high," Massachusetts Institute of Technology planetary science and physics Professor Sara Seager told the House Science Committee.

 "The question is: Is there life near here, in our neighborhood of stars? We think the chances are good," she said, answering a question from Rep. Ralph Hall, R-Texas, who asked: "Do you think there's life out there, and are they studying us? And what do they think about New York City?"

 Seager was one of three Ph.D.-credentialed witnesses prominent in a scientific field once considered speculative who testified at a hearing called "Astrobiology: The Search for Biosignatures in Our Solar System and Beyond."

 A biosignature is a substance -- such as an element, molecule or even a phenomenon -- that provides scientific evidence of past or present life.

 Seager studies gases on distant planets that might indicate life.

 The others testifying were NASA astrobiologist Mary Voytek and science historian and astrobiologist Steven J. Dick of the Library of Congress.

 Voytek and Dick also answered Hall's question.

 "Whether they're looking at New York or some small town in Indiana, the diversity of life here and the way that we live our lives is phenomenal, and I think it goes all the way down from humans to microbes," Voytek said.

 Dick said, "I think the guiding principle holds that what's happened here has happened elsewhere in our huge universe," the Washington Post reported.

 The 90-minute hearing, called by committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas, brought praise and respect from Democrats in the room but partisan mockery from a Democratic campaign committee outside.

 The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which works to elect Democrats to the House, said GOP lawmakers were holding a hearing on "space aliens" rather than tackling issues such as immigration reform or a minimum-wage increase.

 "No wonder the American people think this Republican Congress is from another planet -- they're more interested in life in space than Americans' lives," committee spokeswoman Emily Bittner said in a statement.

 "Saying this Republican Congress has misplaced priorities is an understatement of galactic proportions," she said.

 Seager, whose scientific research has earned her a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant," told lawmakers scientists now had the capacity to make a breakthrough.

 "This is the first time in human history we have the technological reach to cross the threshold," she said in remarks quoted by Britain's Guardian newspaper.

 The next-generation James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled for launch in 2018, and other advances are changing the search for alien life forms, she told lawmakers.

 "If life really is everywhere, we actually have a shot at it," she said.

 The Hubble Space Telescope, carried into orbit by a U.S. space shuttle in 1990, recently detected water in the atmospheres of five planets outside the solar system, two published studies reported by NBC News Tuesday indicated.

 The testifying scientists appealed to lawmakers for funding, including investment in space telescopes designed to detect biosignatures.

 The latest White House budget calls for $17.7 billion for NASA, a slight decrease from 2012.

 "I know that funding is tough, but it's the best thing that you can do," said Voytek in remarks quoted by the Guardian.

 "You've pretty much indicated [the discovery of] life on other planets is inevitable," Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla., told the panelists. "It's just a matter of time and funding."

Original Source: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/12/05/Odds-of-alien-life-very-high--House-panel-hears

UFO: Tall alien appears in Eastern European Forest

 

 

 

A tall alien-like entity appeared momentarily before hikers in Bulgaria, in Nov, 2013, as reported by UFO Sightings Daily. The website, UFO Sightings Daily, is coordinated by Scott C. Waring. He had been affiliated with the United States Air Force at SAC base (USAF flight line). He currently owns an ESL School in Taiwan. 

In this report, Scott Waring has published images of the alleged alien, along with a YouTube video. He has also included a news report of the incident.

The news report describes where the image was taken.

“A group of young hikers insist they have photographed an extraterrestrial creature in a dense forest near Plovdiv, Bulgaria.”

The report talks about the location of the incident and also tells us how one of the hikers tried to take photographs of the alleged alien.

“The group were hiking in Yundola, a large meadow between the mountains of Rila and Rhodoppe, when they came across the mysterious visitor. One of the hikers managed to snap a picture of the creature before it vanished.”

Mr. Waring says that this is the not the first sighting of such tall aliens and talks about similar sightings in the past.

 

Original Source: http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/ufo_extraterrestrials/2013/12/05/7259.html 

Latest in Bigfoot craze, '10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty'

     OK, enough with the grainy footage, the first-person accounts and questionable evidence. Spike TV is looking to get to the bottom of this whole Bigfoot mystery once and for all with its next reality competition series, "10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty."

     Not surprisingly, the series, which premieres Jan. 10, hasn't attracted a whole lot of what you would call studious, academic types. Instead, you get a whole lot of angry, sexist rednecks yelling at each other in the woods. What better way to attract a notoriously camera-shy, quite probably mythical creature, than to have a bunch of people arguing in the woods?

     But it makes for watchable TV.

     Dean Cain hosts the show, which claims to offer the biggest cash prize in TV history. Though prize underwriters Lloyd's of London probably aren't losing much sleep over this one. The conditions for winning are definitive visual and DNA proof of Bigfoot's existence.

     Two scientific experts will be on hand for the series: Todd Disotell, a biological anthropologist who runs New York University's molecular primatology lab and Natalia Reagan, a primatology expert.

     According to Spike, DNA evidence will be processed using a mobile DNA lab. If no definitive proof is found, the group that presented the "most compelling evidence and theory" will be awarded a $100,000 research grant to keep searching.

     The series is just the latest in Hollywood's recent preoccupation with Bigfoot. As The Times wrote last year, Bigfoot has been the subject of Animal Planet's series "Finding Bigfoot," the "iCarly" episode "iBelieve in Bigfoot," a horror film called "Exists" from "Blair Witch Project" director Eduardo Sanchez and the documentary film "Sasquatch: The Quest."


Any chance that $10-million prize will actually get awarded? Keep dreaming, Bigfoot lovers

Original Source: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-10-million-dollar-bigfoot-bounty-is-latest-in-bigfoot-craze-20131205,0,7871988.story#axzz2miMqc6s4

New York's Freedom Tower: Ghostly Wails or High Winds

New Yorkers are wondering what the strange sounds that they are hearing resonating from the sky. Odd wailing noises seem to be echoing off buildings in Manhattan, and it's leaving a lot of folks scared, People Magazine reported yesterday.

The eerie sounds seem to be coming from the newly constructed Freedom Tower located at One World Trade Center in Manhattan. The structure replaced the original six-building complex of the World Trade Center that was attacked by terrorists on September 11, 2001. At 1776 feet, the building now takes the rank as the tallest building in the United States.

Several people called in to report the loud wailing noises that were heard earlier this week. Some of them were able to record the strange phenomena and even post it on Youtube.
"It's a skyquake, they are happening everywhere in the world. Really creepy sounds, no one knows where or why they happen. Some conspiracy people say it's HAARP," Michael Arazan said today.
Tribeca resident Kenny Cummings told the New York Post that "it almost sounds like a Gregorian chant and it will even hold a single note." Other New York residents believe that the new World Trade Center tower is haunted, and the screaming sounds are from the ghosts of the victims of the terrorist attacks.

The sounds coming from the Freedom Tower might just be the wind but that doesn't explain other noises that are being heard all over the world. Earlier this year, people in Missouri and Tennessee heard similar sounds.

What are these odd noises? That is one question on a lot of everyone's minds right now. This question may continue to go unanswered. Many officials are left baffled and are scratching their heads.
"At this point, nobody seems to know. The geologists say it's not in the ground, the Air Force says it's not in the air, the astronomers say it's not from space, so we're running out of options," one official said.

Some people think that the weird noises are paranormal related, others say they are extraterrestrial based, and a few folks claim that they have a biblical meaning. Others believe that there is a more scientific explanation or it is a hoax. As of right now, no one seems to have a clear answer as to what these strange sounds are.

Original Source: http://www.examiner.com/article/ghostly-wailing-sounds-heard-at-new-york-s-freedom-tower

'Alien' life form spotted in Bristol harbour: a close encounter or is something fishy going on?

 

Could this footage of a strange glowing creature swimming in Bristol harbour be proof that the planet is slowly being taken over by aliens?

The 30 second clip, uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday, has already been viewed 22,555 times. Alien life?: The strange squid-like creature (Picture: John Tombe/YouTube)
Camerman John Tombe, who filmed the extraordinary sight alongside several other bystanders, posted underneath: "Filmed this tonight. What the hell?'
We're watching you: Bystander takes a video (Picture: John Tombe/YouTube)
Marine biologists believe the squid-like animal could be a marine salp which had drifted off course because of the weather.
Bright light: Others try to get a shot of the luminous creature (Picture: John Tombe/YouTube)
Others have suggested it could be a bioluminescent hydrozoan jellyfish, otherwise known as a 'crystal jelly', not often seen in Britain.
They tend to be found off the west coast of North America and are capable of producing flashes of blue light.
Glowing: The unidentified animal swims away (Picture: John Tombe/YouTube)
A similar species was spotted off the coast of Scotland in 2009 and is now on display at the Macduff Marine Aquarium.

Original Source: http://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/alien-life-form-spotted-in-bristol-harbour-a-close-encounter-or-is-something-fishy-going-on-8986264.html

Secret KGB alien civilizations project

Screenshot: YouTube

According information the Russians have known about alien civilizations for several decades, to many this comes as no surprise, there have been rumors floating around for many years. The first Russian contact with grey aliens allegedly took place in 1942. At that time, a series of diplomatic visits to discuss matters of mutual concern were planned, according to alleged Russian documents and a treaty was made.

 According to the document 072 / E, at the meeting of 1961 there was an incident involving 3 subjects due to the violation of the agreement by the officers at the military base when they discovered that their arrival was filmed with a hidden device without their consent.

 Under the treaty 23/04, the meetings would be confidential and filming or taking photographs would not be allowed.

 

 In 1969 in the state of Sverdlovsky, a UFO was reported to have crashed. It is alleged that a UFO crashed, and was recovered by the Russian military. Video film is shown of the recovery, with close-ups of the UFO itself. There was one dead alien found in the craft. The remains of the alien and the UFO debris was taken to a secure Russian site, where the saucer was analyzed, and an autopsy was done on the alien.

 Photo of the crashed craft that brought the small alien to Russia. The reputed event was broadcast on a TNT special, “The Secret UFO Files of the KGB.” The show was hosted by former James Bond movie star Roger Moore. Compelling video and photographic evidence were shown to support the event.

 

 According to Pravda, the KGB has allegedly had a special unit designed to gather and monitor all pieces of information regarding mystical and unexplained phenomena reported inside and outside the Soviet Union.

 Also according to Pravda, a photocopy of the order shown in the TNT documentary by the Soviet defense minister looks authentic too. Pursuant to the order, General A. G. Ponomarnko, head commander of the Urals military district, was to ensure that KGB agents be involved in the work pertaining to the UFO at all stages. The agents’ reports were promptly forwarded to Colonel A. I. Grigoriev, chief of the KGB scientific department.

 According Billy J Booth on About.com there are unsubstantiated reports that a UFO crashed or was shot down near the city of Prohlandnyi, in the USSR at on August 10, 1989. Soviet military radar tracked an unidentified flying object and the Russian attempted unsuccessfully to contact the craft.. The UFO was classified as “hostile.” Soviet defenses were alerted, and MIG-25s flew to find and identify the UFO.

 There was obvious damage to the exterior of the craft. The retrieval team, wearing protective outer wear, moved to the site. There was a small amount of radiation, and some members of the team were effected.

 A helicopter on the scene was hooked up to the craft, and the UFO was transported to Mozdok Air Base.

 Russians entered the the UFO and discovered three alien bodies-two dead, one barely alive.

 A team of doctors and other medical personnel made every effort to keep the alien alive, but failed. All three of the beings were about 3 1/2 to 4 feet tall, with gray outer wear. Underneath, their skin was a blue-green color with a reptilian texture. They had no hair, large black eyes covered with a protective lid, and web fingers ended their long, slender arms. The alien bodies were being kept in glass containers and UFO was taken to Kapustin Yar. This information was first reported by three Russian investigators-Anton Anfalov, Lenura Azizova and Alexander Mosolov who had no documentation to support their story.

Original Source: http://voiceofrussia.com/2013_12_06/Secret-KGB-alien-civilizations-project-6631/

Giant alien world discovered where it should not exist

An artist's conception of a young planet in a distant orbit around its host star. The star still harbors a debris disk, remnant material from star and planet formation, interior to the planet's orbit. (NASA / December 5, 2013)

A massive planet found orbiting a star at a staggeringly great distance is smashing some long-held theories of planetary formation, researchers say.

The planet, according to a study published online Thursday in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, is unlike anything in our own solar system.
Eleven times more massive than Jupiter, planet HD 106906 b orbits a single sun-like star at a distance of 60 billion miles - about 650 times the distance Earth is from our own sun.
"This system is especially fascinating because no model of either planet or star formation fully explains what we see," said study coauthor Vanessa Bailey, an astronomy graduate student at the University of Arizona.
Researchers estimate the planet is very young, just 13 million years old, and the residual heat from its formation can be seen from Earth as infrared energy. Researchers used infrared cameras and the Magellan telescope in the Atacama Desert in Chile to capture images of the planet.
(Up until recently, astronomers relied on orbiting spacecraft like the Hubble Space Telescope to capture clear images of exoplanets. Now, Earth-based telescopes like Magellan employ new technology to compensate for the distorting effects of Earth's atmosphere.)
Astronomers are puzzled by the planet's existence.
Scientists believe that planets that orbit close to stars are formed from the gas, dust and asteroid-like debris that encircle a young star. They believe also that this process is too slow for extremely large planets to form so far from a star.
Authors of the paper speculate that HD 106906 b and its sun might have begun forming at the same time, in the manner that binary stars form. In this case, however, the massive planet never quite became a star.
Binary star systems are formed when two nearby clumps of gas collapse and form separate stars. Because they are so close, they each exert gravitational force and orbit one another.
"It is possible that in the case of the HD 106906 system the star and planet collapsed independently from clumps of gas, but for some reason the planet's progenitor clump was starved for material and never grew large enough to ignite and become a star," Bailey said.

Original Source: http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-gigantic-alien-planet-discovered-where-it-shouldnt-be-20131205,0,5223068.story#axzz2miMqc6s4

Drunk Man Eaten by Huge Python

The moral of this story: Don’t get drunk in India, as you will be discovered and eaten by a python.

Some poor guy partied way to hard while he was in India this week and passed out in the street.

Unfortunately for said drunk man, the first to discover his unconscious body was none other than a giant python.

Known for their ability to eat creatures triple their size (and then some), the python wrapped its mouth around the guy and started hoeing down.

This incident occurred in the Attapadi area in the state of Kerala. So a word of advice, best to stay sober if you decide to visit.

This isn't the first time a snake has taken an every day occurrence and turned it into a snack.

Original Source: http://www.cosmostv.org/2013/11/drunk-man-eaten-by-giant-python-in.html