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SETI will listen to newly discovered "Earthlike Planet"

An upcoming auction(12-18-2012)consisting of many extraordinary documents from science, literature and including American History! I am bringing this to the attention of our fellow listeners because maybe these American Historical documents should be in the hands of liberty minded individuals, collectors, or maybe an organization? If I had the capital I would bid on them myself. I am not affiliated with Profiles In History.

An Earth-size planet has been spotted orbiting a nearby star at a distance that would makes it not too hot and not too cold — comfortable enough for life to exist, researchers announced today

Under the plan, which would take effect in January, license recipients would be heavily taxed and regulated. They would have to pay the city $211,000 in annual permit fees, carry $2 million in liability insurance and be prepared to devote up to 8 percent of gross sales to taxes.

The measure also would require bidders to meet certain labor, environmental and product safety standards.

However, there would be no size restrictions on the facilities.

The past 12 months has seen a dramatic influx in announcements proclaiming the discovery of Earth-like planets. It was only a few years ago that the detection of any kind exoplanet was cause for celebration, but these days news of a potentially habitable planet has become routine. But as astronomer and astrobiologist Caleb Scharf now notes, we need to relax and take a deep breath; just because these rocky exoplanets reside within a solar system's habitable zone doesn't mean they're anything like Earth.

In the largest political victory of his career, Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) was elected Supreme Ruler of the planet of New Texas today, a remote, fiscally conservative planet populated by 1 billion tiny versions of himself.

Ada County Sheriff Gary Raney was looking to purchase a laptop computer and had agreed to meet the potential seller in Garden City. When Raney arrived, he saw the seller in a pullover hooded sweatshirt and other dark clothing sitting on a rock. Raney said he quickly became suspicious. "The (dark clothing) is what we call a clue," Raney said. Police say they believe the dark-clothed man planned to rob Raney once he got there. Raney called police and - when they arrived - the "seller" took off on foot. He was apprehended almost immediately. A second suspect also was later arrested.

Two Harvard engineers are to spray sun-reflecting chemical particles into the atmosphere to artificially cool the planet, using a balloon flying 80,000 feet over Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The field experiment in solar geoengineering aims to ultimately create a technology to replicate the observed effects of volcanoes that spew sulphates into the stratosphere, using sulphate aerosols to bounce sunlight back to space and decrease the temperature of the Earth.

Short documentary about the U.S. bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. In-depth description of what the people in the two cities went through before and after the bombings.