The National Hurricane Center is very bullish on a wave that hasn't even exited Africa. The vigorous wave could quickly become the next tropical depression. The season is already off to a quick start with three storms this month - Bertha, Cristobal and Dolly. Dolly could become a hurricane and threaten the Texas or Mexico coast later this week. Here's the strongly worded Tropical Outlook from the NHC about the next wave to watch. A VIGOROUS AND WELL-DEFINED TROPICAL WAVE IS LOCATED OVER WESTERN AFRICA A FEW HUNDRED MILES EAST OF DAKAR SENEGAL. THIS SYSTEM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME A TROPICAL CYCLONE VERY QUICKLY AFTER IT EMERGES INTO THE EASTERN ATLANTIC ON TUESDAY. If this next wave becomes a TD it will be TD5 and if it gets a name it will be Edouard. Permalink | Recent Headlines | News Feeds Read more…

The rippling "Anaconda" produces electricity as it is squeezed by passing waves. A turbine place inside the tube generates electricity. Scientists are testing these "Anaconda" tubes inside wave tanks. Permalink | Recent Headlines | News Feeds Read more…

AP - Jim Lankford's corn crops used to stretch to the White River. Now the river has stretched itself through his crops. Read more…

LiveScience.com - A new material designed for use in microwaves heats foods and beverages more quickly and saves energy, its inventors say. Read more…

AP - A powerful typhoon struck Taiwan early Monday, closing schools and businesses and grounding domestic and international air traffic. Read more…

AFP - Four giant panda cubs have been born within just 14 hours in China, giving a rare boost to the population of the endangered species, state media said Sunday. Read more…

AFP - The price of oil could drop to between 70 and 80 dollars a barrel if the dollar strengthens and concerns over Iran are reduced, OPEC chief Chakib Khelil said Saturday. Read more…

Reuters - The European Union's top food safety agency said on Thursday cloned animal products may not be safe and further study was needed, prompting another battle of conscience within the bloc over the merits of new technology. Read more…

This is a proposed theory on 3-PI-ATOMS of GOD or DOT the Theory of Everything in the Unified Field of Origin. This may appear simple to some and complicated to others. Those who are to read this and be a part of this will get it. Those who do not will hopefully later in time. I will try to speak in generic simple communication in English the universal language. Read more…

On or about July 19, 2008 I attended a MUFON meeting. At that time, I was asked to become an Investigator in order to assist others who have also had UFO sightings, abductions, and most importantly contact. I know that the state director was sharing his time with me based on my first hand experiences and my reports made to MUFON. Read more…

While Dr. Mitchell has alluded to the topics of UFOs and aliens in the past, he has never actually claimed to have any direct knowledge to contact of aliens by our governments. However now in an earth shaking radio interview Dr. Mitchell, now 77 years old, came forward for the first time with astonishing news of our government's cover-up and knowledge of such contact. He said that he has been a part of military circles and intelligent circles where this information is considered public knowledge that we have been visited. 'I have been involved with much of this work, it is not my main work, it is not my main interest, but I have been deeply involved with committees and certain research programs with very creditable scientist and intelligence people that do know the real inside story, and I am not hesitant to talk about it.' He said that we have been involved in a number of contacts and the Roswell incident was real and a number of other contacts are real and still ongoing. Read more…

Former man on the moon Dr. Edgar Mitchell found himself in the news today regarding remarks he made on the British radio program Kerrang! about believing in alien beings - and the long-rumored UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico. In the wake of that flap, the American astronaut set the record straight in an interview with Lisa Bonnice, host of BlogTalkRadio's ShapeShifting, saying that though there was indeed a cover-up at Rosewell, NASA knew nothing about it - at least not to his knowledge. Read more…

The world is abuzz with talk of the year 2012 however, not everyone is looking forward to the year with the same outlook or expectations. For some, the year hints at apocalyptic end times - a period in which the world will be thrown into utter chaos and violent upheaval. A turbulent and tumultuous epoch in which both natural and man-made disasters will decimate and possibly lead to the extinction of life as we know it. Other, more optimistic people perceive this date as a moment of awakening, a massive global transformation of consciousness...one which is to be anticipated with joy and celebration. Read more…

July 23, 2008, An historic day! I've transcribed much of the conversation. Mitchell says over 70 percent of people accept it as fact. I find that number to be unbelievably large. He perhaps is referring to globally, not in the US. Mitchell underplays the reaction of the remaining 30 percent, who are in profound denial in an insulated cosmos, namely the scientific 'Darwinists.' He underplays the effect on science... a science unbelievably rigid in its fundamentalist and insular premise that 'intelligent' life is Earth based only. The affect on Darwinian evolution will be profound. ... This is what the coverup is about. Read more…

Dr. Edgar Mitchell stunned radio host Nick Margerrison, Kerrang! Radio, UK, when he stated, 'It's been well covered up by all our governments for the last 60 years or so, but slowly it's leaked out and some of us have been privileged to have been briefed on some of it.' Read more…

SPACE.com - NASA will try again Sunday night to to get some dirt into the Phoenix Mars Lander's onboard oven, this time using a revised method. Read more…

AP - A sample of icy soil collected by the robotic arm of NASA's Phoenix Mars lander is apparently stuck in its scoop, foiling efforts to analyze it. Read more…

AFP - US regulators formally approved the long-delayed billion-dollar merger of the nation's only two satellite radio companies, combining Sirius and XM into a single network with 18 million subscribers, the FCC said Saturday. Read more…

AP - Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.'s $3.3 billion buyout of rival XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. will mean millions of subscribers will be able to receive programming from both services, while executives say it will create huge cost savings for the industry. Read more…

Reuters - China aims to build a leading aerospace industry by 2015, when the country would command 10 percent of the world's commercial satellite market, and 15 percent of the space launch market, Xinhua said on Friday. Read more…

AP - Scientists have exposed some of the mystery behind the northern lights. On Thursday, NASA released findings that indicate magnetic explosions about one-third of the way to the moon cause the northern lights, or aurora borealis, to burst in spectacular shapes and colors, and dance across the sky. Read more…

AP - The U.S. should revive and expand an aviation safety survey run by NASA to identify problems like lapses in inspections that canceled thousands of flights this past spring, the chairman of a House Science and Technology panel said. Read more…

SPACE.com - A flotilla of NASA probes has solved the 30-year mystery behind the most colorful aurora displays on Earth and the explosive magnetic "substorms" that spawn them. Read more…

NASA's Regolith Excavation Challenge is scheduled for Aug. 2-3, 2008, on the campus of the California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. Teams will try to use a roving excavator to move simulate lunar soil into a bin within 30 minutes. Read more…

NASA and industry engineers have successfully completed the first drop test of a drogue parachute for the Ares I rocket. Read more…