UFO (Website) Traffic and Crash

post from Fish Feet on 24 March 2007 12:42:00 PM. © Fish Feet

UFO?s caught my attention last week when I was looking at my traffic stats. Most of my traffic comes from the usual suspects: blogger, technorati, other science blogs, and return visitors that login directly but a small slice of the pie chart caught my eye. Last week about 7% of my visitors came from an unusual source, UFO Review Magazine, an eclectic mix of astrobiology, cryptozoology, space, archaeology, palaeontology, evolution, science, and even a healthy dose of conspiracy.

Coincidentally another UFO website has made the news. France's national space agency (Centre National d'Etudes spatiales - CNES) has declassified its UFO files and made them available to the public through a new website. The website documents all reported UFO sightings over fifty years. The website has drawn so much attention, that visitors have crashed the site, which remains virtually impossible to access.

The fervor stems from the fact that France is the first country to fully open its UFO files to the public. Other governments, including the UK and the US, collect data on UFOs but files can only be requested on a case-by-case basis.

There have been 1,600 reported UFO cases in France since 1954, evidenced by some 10,000 documents, including police reports, photographs, and videos that are now available to the public. Enjoy!
Sarda Sahney of the University of Bristol writes Fish Feet, a science blog about biodiversity, palaeontology and current controversies. Recent topics include the frill shark, a living fossil, white tigers and the ultimate dinosaur database.

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Who's Got the Coolest Robot

post from CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries on 24 March 2007 12:34:09 PM. © CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries

What's the coolest robotic technology that you have heard about? Inquiring minds want to know.... After viewing news about the killer...

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The sub-$1,000 UAV Project

post from Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog on 24 March 2007 11:47:00 AM. © Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog

The sub-$1,000 UAV project by Chris Anderson:This summer my project will be to come up with a set of resources and instructions that will allow regular non-engineer people (and kids) to put together a drone for less than $1,000 that has most if not all of the functionality of this $10,000 beauty. The DraganFlyer autonomous [...]

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More On the US Attorney Dismissals

post from Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted) on 24 March 2007 11:20:40 AM. © Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)

Now Gonzo is blaming the attorneys themselves in an effort to extricate himself from a mess of his own making;

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Besides, it'll put Lileks in such a snit

post from Pharyngula on 24 March 2007 10:48:16 AM. © Pharyngula

The residents of Fargo have had to put up with one of those Ten Commandments monuments for a long time (well, "put up with" may be the wrong phrase—it's North Dakota, after all). Now in a smart move, the Red River Freethinkers, who have to be especially canny to live in the Dakotas, are proposing a fair alternative to getting rid of the dodgy nonsense of the Ten Commandments: they're proposing to put up their own monument to secularism.

Once it goes up, we ought to start a betting pool on which one gets vandalized first, and how long it will be.

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Oxygen Generator

post from CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries on 24 March 2007 10:46:46 AM. © CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries

At work I already use a VSA oxygen generator but the company is expanding and we need another. I have maintained this machine for about 5 years now bu...

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Spinning out smaller electronics

post from Science Blog - Science News: Think. It's not illegal yet. on 24 March 2007 10:09:05 AM. © Science Blog - Science News: Think. It's not illegal yet.

Researchers have made an important advance in the emerging field of 'spintronics' that may one day usher in a new generation of smaller, smarter, faster computers, sensors and other devices, according to findings reported in today's issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology. The research field of 'spintronics' is concerned with using the 'spin' of an electron for storing, processing and communicating information.

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Sex in the 1700s

post from Science Blog - Science News: Think. It's not illegal yet. on 24 March 2007 09:55:31 AM. © Science Blog - Science News: Think. It's not illegal yet.

Prostitutes, perversions and public scandals ? the stuff of the 21st century tabloids was familiar to readers three centuries earlier, according to new research from the University of Leeds. The reading of erotic literature was already a social activity 300 years ago.

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'Ancestral eve' was mother of all tooth decay

post from Science Blog - Science News: Think. It's not illegal yet. on 24 March 2007 09:53:52 AM. © Science Blog - Science News: Think. It's not illegal yet.

A New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD) research team has found the first oral bacterial evidence supporting the dispersal of modern Homo sapiens out of Africa to Asia.

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Control Box for Hot Stamping Machine

post from CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries on 24 March 2007 09:31:21 AM. © CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries

I am looking for a small control box to operate my old hot stamping machine and cost very little. If anyone have an idea. Thank you for suggestions....

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