Russian scientists expect to meet aliens by 2031

Russian scientists expect humanity to encounter alien civilisations within the next two decades, a top Russian astronomer predicted yesterday.
“The genesis of life is as inevitable as the formation of atoms... Life exists on other planets and we will find it within 20 years,” Andrei Finkelstein, director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Applied Astronomy Institute, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying.

Speaking at an international forum dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial life, Finkelstein said 10 per cent of the known planets circling suns in the galaxy resemble Earth.

If water can be found there, then so can life, he said, adding that aliens would most likely resemble humans with two arms, two legs and a head.

“They may have different colour skin, but even we have that,” he said.

Finkelstein’s institute runs a program launched in the 1960s at the height of the Cold War space race to watch for and beam out radio signals to outer space.

“The whole time we have been searching for extraterrestrial civilisations, we have mainly been waiting for messages from space and not the other way,” he said

Pintu-pintu yang dimasuki syaitan dalam tubuh manusia

Dalam sebuah kitab yang ditulis oleh seorang ulama Syeikh Fathi Yakan menulis kitabnya yang terkenal iaitu Maza yakni intima’I lil Islam. Menyatakan bahawa pintu-pintu yang dimasuki syaitan dalam tubuh manusia ialah :

-Tamak dan jahat sangka, lantas aku menghadapinya dengan sifat menaruh kepercayaan dan berpada dengan yang ada sesudah berusaha dan berikhtiar.

-Cintakan hidup dan panjang angan-angan, lalu aku menghadapinya dengan rasa takut dengan kedatangan mati yang tiba-tiba.

-Cintakan kerehatan dan nikmat, lalu aku menghadapinya dengan meyakini bahawa nikmat itu akan hilang dan meyakini balasan buruk.

-Kagum pada diri sendiri (ujub), lalu aku menghadapi dengan mensyukuri nikmat pemberian Allah dan takutkan balasan seksaan.

-Pandang rendah terhadap orang lain dan tidak menghormati mereka, lalu aku menghadapinya dengan cara mengetahui hak dan kehormatan mereka.

-Hasad dengki, lalu aku menghadapinya dengan sifat qanaah (iaitu berpuas hati dengan apa yang ada setelah berusaha dan berikhtiar) dan reda terhadap pemberian Allah kepada makhluknya.

-Riak dan sukakan pujian manusia, lalu aku menghadapinya dengan sifat ikhlas.

-Kedekut atau bakhil, lalu aku menghadapinya dengan meyakini bahawa apa yang di tangan makhluk itu akan binasa sedangkan apa yang ada di sisi Allah akan kekal.

-Takbur atau sombong, lalu aku menghadapinya dengan sifat tawaduk.

-Tamak, lalu aku menghadapinya dengan yakin terhadap balasan Allah dan tidak mengharapkan sesuatu yang ada pada manusia.

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Mati hidup balik, mati semula

KAZAN (Russia): Seorang wanita mati akibat serangan sakit jantung berpunca daripada kejutan besar dialami apabila tersedar di majlis pengkebumian yang diadakan untuknya.

Fagilyu Mukhametzyanov bagaimanapun tersedar ketika anggota keluarganya menangis di sekitar kerandanya yang terbuka.

Wanita berusia 49 tahun itu menjerit apabila menyedari mereka bersiap sedia untuk mengebumikannya.

Dia dikejarkan ke hospital. Doktor kemudian mengisytiharkan dia mati akibat sakit jantung.

Suaminya, Fagili, 51, berkata: “Matanya berkedip-kedip dan kami serta-merta menghantarnya ke hospital.

“Bagaimanapun, dia hanya hidup untuk 12 minit lagi sebelum mati semula. Kali ini, dia pergi selama-lamanya.” Fagili berhasrat menyaman hospital berkenaan.

“Saya sungguh marah dan mahukan jawapan. Isteri saya ketika kali pertama dibawa ke hospital tidak mati tetapi mereka berkata dia mati.

Mereka sepatutnya boleh menyelamatkannya,” kata Fagili.

Jurucakap hospital berkata: “Kami sudah memulakan siasatan.”

Datuk Lee Chong Wei menang terbuka Indonesia

Malaysian badminton world number one Lee Chong Wei tamed familiar opponent Peter Gade of Denmark in a lop-sided final to complete a title hat-trick at the Indonesia Open today.
The 28-year-old Lee beat Gade 21-11 21-7 in just over half an hour to become the third player — following the Indonesian duo of Ardy Wiranata and Taufik Hidayat — to win three successive men’s singles titles.

Lee had beaten the 34-year-old Gade in the India Open final in May.

India’s Saina Nehwal fought hard for more than an hour in the women’s singles final before losing 21-12 21-23 14-21 to China’s Wang Yihan.

“I feel lucky to have won here in Indonesia. It was a tiring tournament and today’s match was very difficult,” said the Chinese former world number one who now has beaten Saina in all their three encounters.

Tropical Storm Meari hits Philippines

Children paddle a boat along a road submerged by tropical storm Meari

Residents, some of the 69,000 affected, go back to their submerged house as tropical storm Meari’s floodwaters begin to subside in San Mateo Rizal east of Manila

Children at an evacuation centre after voluntarily evacuating last night due to floodwaters brought by tropical storm Meari in Marikina City, Metro Manila

Residents stay at an evacuation centre forced out of their homes by tropical storm Meari in Marikina City, Metro Manila

Residents forced out of their homes by tropical storm Meari queue for food ration at an evacuation centre in Marikina City, Metro Manila

Transformers’ premiere to be held in Moscow

(Left-right) Cast members Tyrese Gibson, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel and director Michael Bay pose at a news conference before the premiere of “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” in Moscow on June 23, 2011.\

Russian film-goers will be the first to see the third sequel of the Transformers saga, which premieres in Moscow yesterday, as Hollywood increasingly turns its attention to audiences in emerging markets.
Stars from the US$200-million (RM606 million), 3D blockbuster “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” will grace the red carpet at the 33rd Moscow International Film Festival — a rare world premiere in the Russian capital, which is increasingly beating Western rivals for the honour of hosting such openings.

“I’m really proud we are doing a premiere here: I think it’s a wonderful world stage,” director Michael Bay told reporters in Moscow, where a crowd of fans waiting for autographs outside one of the city’s main hotels attested to the Russian film audience’s growing appetite for Hollywood movies.

“Moscow is an emerging market, it plays a very important international role in terms of film,” Bay said.

Russian box offices hit record earnings of US$1 billion last year riding the success of foreign blockbusters, which raked in 1.5 times more than Russian movies, according to the independent industry tracker Movie Research.

“When a large American company offers us a world premiere... and brings 80 Hollywood representatives, we can’t refuse, we have no right to refuse because it’s another sign of hope” for the Russian film industry, film-maker Nikita Mikhailkov told journalists.

However, he cautioned that the Russian movie industry was losing film goers to Hollywood blockbusters:

“Most new releases in our market are American, which benefits the US distributors and producers. This is a nearly 120-million-member audience: It’s a large market,” he said.

As the weakening dollar increasingly pushes Hollywood to look to emerging markets for profits, Bay said he planned to take the movie to Brazil and China following its Russian launch.

But he said his decision to open "Transformers" in Moscow was influenced by his own Russian roots.

“I grew up during the Cold War. My grandfather, who is from Russia, said I would never make it into the film business... That’s partly why I’m here,” Bay said, flashing a smile.

Transformers’ star Shia LaBoeuf touted “Dark of the Moon” — whose action plays out against the backdrop of the US-Russian space race — as the best yet in the saga.

“The third movie is the best one. It’s the strongest script we’ve ever had, it’s the best character development, it’s paced well, it’s shot incredibly,” LaBoeuf, who starred in all three movies, told Reuters.

“Technologically, it’s the most advanced, just the best special effects we’ve ever devised!”.

Prestasi buruk, 152,000 pelajar dihenti pinjaman PTPTN

Perbadanan Tabung Pendidikan Tinggi Nasional (PTPTN) akan memberhentikan pinjaman kepada 152,000 pelajar berikutan Purata Nilai Gred Kumulatif (PNGK) yang diperolehi mereka adalah 2.0 ke bawah.

Pengerusi PTPTN Datuk Ismail Mohamed Said berkata, jumlah pelajar yang ditamatkan pinjaman itu membabitkan pinjaman sebanyak RM632 juta.

“Mereka sebelum ini merupakan pelajar terbaik yang maju dalam pelajaran tetapi atas sebab tertentu pembelajaran mereka semakin merosot dan keputusan peperiksaan semester dua gagal mencapai 2.0 mengikut PNGK.

“Bagaimanapun jika mereka berjaya mendapat keputusan PNGK 2.0 ke atas dalam peperiksaan berikutnya PTPTN akan menyambung semula pinjaman tersebut,” katanya dipetik Bernama Online.

Beliau berkata demikian kepada pemberita selepas menyampaikan wang pendahuluan pembiayaan pinjaman PTPTN kepada seramai 100 pelajar kawasan Parlimen Kuala Krau yang layak memasuki IPTA dan IPTS di Jengka hari ini.

Ismail berkata, PTPTN memberi pinjaman sebanyak RM38.69 bilion kepada seramai 1.75 juta pelajar setakat ini.

Dalam pada itu katanya, PTPTN melupuskan pinjaman sebanyak RM277.99 juta kepada seramai 9,545 pelajar yang mendapat ijazah kelas pertama pada tahun lepas.

“Tindakan menyenaraihitamkan mereka yang liat membayar pinjaman diteruskan dan sehingga kini seramai 132,180 orang berada di bawah senarai berkenaan,” katanya.

Katanya, seramai 12,400 peminjam membayar balik pinjaman dengan kutipan berjumlah RM113.9 juta.

La Santa Muerte or the Saint of Death rally

A man holds up a depiction of La Santa Muerte, or the Saint of Death, during a rally in Ciudad Juarez June 19, 2011. More than 70 believers of Santa Muerte took part in the rally in Ciudad Juarez on Sunday to demand for increased security and a stop to violence in the city.

Federal police on patrol travel past a depiction of La Santa Muerte, or the Saint of Death, held in place by a seat belt in a car, during a rally in Ciudad Juarez June 19, 2011. More than 70 believers of Santa Muerte took part in the rally in Ciudad Juarez on Sunday to demand for increased security and a stop to violence in the city.

Depictions of La Santa Muerte, or the Saint of Death, are displayed during a rally in Ciudad Juarez June 19, 2011. More than 70 believers of Santa Muerte took part in the rally in Ciudad Juarez on Sunday to demand for increased security and a stop to violence in the city.

People sit with depictions of La Santa Muerte, or the Saint of Death, during a rally in Ciudad Juarez June 19, 2011. More than 70 believers of Santa Muerte took part in the rally in Ciudad Juarez on Sunday to demand for increased security and a stop to violence in the city.

A man prepares a depiction of La Santa Muerte, or the Saint of Death, before a rally in Ciudad Juarez June 19, 2011. More than 70 believers of Santa Muerte took part in the rally in Ciudad Juarez on Sunday to demand for increased security and a stop to violence in the city.

Concorde’s successor revealed at Paris Air Show

International aviation group EADS has revealed a concept for a Concorde replacement which could allow travel between Paris and Tokyo within three hours.

The Zero Emission Hyper Sonic Transport (ZEHST) concept (picture), unveiled ahead of the Paris Air Show this week, uses rocket power to transport passengers above the Earth’s atmosphere, dramatically cutting flight times.

It is powered by three engine types which would allow it to take off as a normal plane using jet engines, before using rockets to shoot into the outer atmosphere and supersonic “ramjets” when it reaches its cruising altitude, at around 32km.

Passenger jets today travel at an altitude of some 11km, some 36,000 feet.

With such a high altitude, the aircraft’s ground speed would be more than twice that of the now-defunct Concorde, speeding around the planet at Mach 4 – four times the speed of sound, or around 5,000km/h.

All of the propulsion methods would be green, with the jet engines using biofuels and the rockets using liquid hydrogen and oxygen – according to EADS, all of this technology is in place, although an unmanned prototype is unlikely to appear before 2020.

The final product could be in the skies by 2050, EADS predicts, and although it’s anyone’s guess as to what Concorde’s successor will look like when it is finally produced, the group is reported to believe that the design of the 1960s aircraft remains a strong base.

Boeing, the US rival of EADS-owned Airbus, is also planning a hypersonic jet.

The Paris Air Show runs through June 26 in Paris.

Monster,Billionaire Mansions

Here are five monster billionaire mansions worth

Maison de L'Amitie, a $95 million property in Palm Beach, FL

Maison de L'Amitie, Palm Beach, Fla.
Owner: Dmitry Rybolovlev, worth $9.5 billion
List Price: $125 million
Final Purchase Price: $95 million

The sprawling oceanfront 60,000-square foot compound, bought from Donald Trump in 2008, includes diamond and gold fixtures and a nearly 50 car garage

Xanadu 2.0, worth an estimated $121 million, is in Medina, Wash.

Xanadu 2.0, Medina, Wash.
Owner: Bill Gates, worth $56 billion
Home Value: $121 million, according to tax assessments

The high-tech Lake Washington complex owned by the world's second-richest man boasts a pool with an underwater music system, a 2,500- square foot gym and a library with domed reading room.

Promised Land, purchased for $50 million, is in Montecito, CA

Promised Land, Montecito, Calif.
Owner: Oprah Winfrey, worth $2.7 billion
Purchase Price: $50 million in 2001

The media queen's 23,000-square-foot Georgian-style manse sits on more than 40 acres, boasting a tea house, more than 600 rose bushes and an upscale outhouse.

Casa Sin Nombre in Palm Beach, Fla. is for sale for $59 million

Casa Sin Nombre, Palm Beach, Fla.
Owner: Columbia University, bequeathed by the late media mogul John Kluge
For Sale: $59 million

Reflecting pools, statues and six houses adorn the oceanfront grounds of the late Metromedia founder's property, which recently hit the market after being willed to his alma mater.

Fair Field Estate in Sagaponack, N.Y. is valued at $200 million.

Fair Field Estate, Sagaponack, N.Y.
Owner: Ira Rennert, worth $5.2 billion
Property value: $200 million, according to tax assessments

The industrial billionaire's hulking 29-bedroom, 39-bath Hamptons compound has not one, but three swimming pools, plus its own power plant on premises.

'Senor del Gran Poder’ parade

Revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara dies hard on the backs of these dancers of Morenada group during “Senor del Gran Poder” (Lord of Great Power) parade in La Paz, June 18, 2011. Thousands of dancers participated in this pagan religious annual celebration.

A Morenada dancer performs during the “Senor del Gran Poder” parade

The Morenada dance troop takes its turn at the “Senor del Gran Poder” parade.

Morenada dancers show their colourful side during the “Senor del Gran Poder” parade.

Waca Wacas dancers perform during the “Senor del Gran Poder” parade.

Off Road Festival in Somogybabod

A man drives his vehicle through mud during the Off Road Festival in Somogybabod, 165km southwest of Budapest

A man jumps with his quad bike during the Off Road Festival in Somogybabod, 165 km (102 miles) southwest of Budapest

A man drinks a beer during the Off Road Festival in Somogybabod, 165km southwest of Budapest

Hungarian youths wrestle in mud during the Off Road Festival in Somogybabod, 165km southwest of Budapest

A man drives his vehicle during the Off Road Festival in Somogybabod, 165 km southwest of Budapest

Jutawan ini buta huruf

London: Seorang jutawan yang tersenarai selaku antara orang paling kaya di Britain semalam membuat pengakuan mengejut - dia tidak tahu membaca.

Andreas Panayiotou, 45, tidak boleh mengisi sendiri borang pasport paling mudah.

Dia juga terpaksa memberi tumpuan untuk mentafsirkan tanda jalan apabila memandu.

Bapa lima anak itu yang mempunyai kekayaan mencecah £400 juta (RM2 bilion) dan menduduki tangga ke-200 orang paling kaya di Britain mengaku: “Ketika kanak-kanak, saya berusaha sedaya upaya untuk membaca.

“Tetapi otak saya tidak dapat mentafsirkan huruf yang membentuk perkataan itu.”

Selepas meninggalkan sekolah pada usia 14 tahun tanpa sijil, dia belajar mengatasi masalah disleksia yang dihadapinya itu dengan menghafal bentuk perkataan penting.

Bekas peninju itu yang dilahirkan di London dari keluarga keturunan Greek Cyprot bagaimanapun berkata: “Saya menghadapi masalah besar apabila menemui perkataan yang saya tidak pernah jumpa.

“Di jalan raya, saya tyerpaksa menumpukan perhatian sepenuhnya untuk membaca tanda jalan. Ia sentiasa merisaukan saya.

“Mengisi borang seperti kawalan kastam juga menjadi masalah.”

Meskipun buta huruf, Panayiotou kini memiliki tiga pesawat, satu daripadanya jet Gulfstream berharga £40 juta (RM200 juta), dan sebuah kapal layar berharga £12 juta (RM60 juta).

Dia tinggal di rumah di Epping Forest, Essex, yang kawasan tanahnya seluas 20 ekar.

Panayiotou yang menyuarakan hasrat untuk membantu mereka yang mengalami disleksia sepertinya berkata: “Ketika kanak-kanak, saya tidak suka membaca. Apabila dewasa, saya mengatur kehidupan seharian saya supaya dapat mengelak daripada membaca.”

Lunar eclipse

tempat2 yang ada kejadian gerhana bulan tahun ni..malaysia tak terkecuali..kebesaran Allah..

The eclipse of the moon is seen behind the Milad tower in Tehran

The moon is seen behind the wall of Damascus gate in Jerusalem Old City during a total lunar eclipse

A family watches the eclipse of the moon on a big screen in Kuala Lumpur, June 16, 2011. The screen shows a telecast of the eclipse from the town of Ranau, Sabah.

A partial lunar eclipse is seen over the village of Zejtun, lit up for its parish church feast of Saint Catherine, in the south of Malta

Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano

A brown ash plume from the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain in south-central Chile rises above the clouds in this natural-colour image captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiomter on the Aqua satellite taken shortly after an eruption began on June 4, 2011. The volcano, dormant for decades, belched ash over 10km into the sky, as winds fanned it towards neighbouring Argentina, and prompted the government to evacuate several thousand residents.

An aircraft belonging to Austral, with ash on it from Chile’s Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain, remains stranded on the tarmac of the sky resort San Carlos de Bariloche in Argentina’s Patagonia

A policeman walks along a road covered with pumice rocks from Chile’s Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain near the Cardenal Samore border pass between Argentina and Chile

A view of the ash plume above the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain near Entrelagos

Lightning flashes around the ash plume above the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano chain near Entrelagos

Japan theme park to launch record-breaking ride

A Japanese theme park is about to launch a roller coaster with the world’s steepest vertical drop.
The Takabisha ride is scheduled to open at the Fuji-Q Highland Amusement Park near the base of Mount Fuji in Yamanashi prefecture on July 16.

It will feature seven major twists over its 1,000-metre length, a sharp rise to a peak of 43 metres – which triggers a moment of weightlessness before riders take what the operator of the ride describes as “a nosedive” – and sections that plunge riders into complete darkness.

The part of the ride that is ground-breaking, however, is the breakneck freefall at 121 degrees. The park has applied to the Guinness Book of World Records to have the ride certified as the steepest in the world.

Thanks to the assistance of linear motors on the cars – as well as the effects of gravity – riders on the Y3 billion (RM112.94 million) attraction will reach a speed of 100kph and the ride will last for just 112 seconds.

Once the ride has been certified, it will be the 14th Guinness World Record set by Fuji-Q. The park is already home to the Fujiyama ride, Dodompa and Eejanaika, putting the park among the leading venues in the world for thrill-seekers.

The Kingda Ka ride at the Six Flags Great Adventure park in New Jersey is the present holder of the title of the tallest steel roller coaster in the world, at 139 metres, with a maximum vertical drop of 127 metres.

The prize for the fastest coaster goes to the Formula Rossa at Ferrari World, in Abu Dhabi, which only opened last November and reaches an impressive speed of 240 kph.

The record that Takabisha is looking to overhaul has been held by the Mumbo Jumbo ride at Flamingoland in Yorkshire, northern England since July 2009. With an incline of only 112 degrees, Takabisha will be fully 9 degrees steeper for the riders

Sand castle world record bid

A Guinness World Records official measures the height of a sand wall as she assesses the attempt at Schaabe beach to break the world record for the longest sand castle

People build the sand wall in their attempt at Schaabe beach to break the world record for the longest sand castle.

A man and a boy look at a sand sculpture that is part of the attempt at Schaabe beach to break the world record for the longest sand castle.

People put finishing touches to the sand castle at Schaabe beach that is part of their bid to break the world record for the longest sand castle.

A sculpture that is part of the bid at Schaabe beach to break the world record for the longest sand castle.

Lelaki terpendek di dunia

Guinness World Records, menetapkan lelaki berasal dari Filipina, Junrey Balawing, sebagai orang terpendek di dunia. Junrey yang berusia 18 tahun hanya memiliki ketinggian 60 sentimeter.

Wakil Guiness World Records, Craig Glenday seperti dipetik dari Yahoonews, Minggu (12/5/2011), mengatakan, Junrey memecahkan rekod lelaki terpendek di dunia yang sebelumnya dipegang oleh Khagendra Thapa Magar dari Nepal yang memiliki tinggi 67 sentimeter.

Pengumuman ini disambut gembira oleh orang tua Junrey dan seluruh penduduk Kabupaten Sindangan di Provinsi Zamboanga del Norte's di Filipina Selatan. Mereka menghadiahkan Junrey dengan pesta, kek, belon dan juga wangtunai.

Atas perhatian besar tersebut, Junrey mengucapkan terima kasih dan bersedia untuk diambil gambar.