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Happiest countries in the world

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How is happiness measured? Happiness can be very subjective. Some people are happy when it rains, others are happy when the sun is shining. So how is it measured? Apparently the people at World Database of Happiness take into account a number of different things such as average life expectancy and most importantly the answer to the following multiple choice question  “How happy are you?”  (Although the actual question has varied a bit throughout the years).  Having all the variables they run it through a computer and get a number from 1 to 10. The bigger the number, the happier the country Happiest countries in the world 10.  Luxembourg  – 7.6 points Living in the  worlds richest country  inevitably puts a smile on your face! This small landlocked European country has an army of 800 people (yes, 800). They don’t have a navy nor an air force but together with Belgium they can afford to own 1 military cargo plane. Beat that US!  According to the Guinness Book of World Reco

UFO or hoax? Aerial video over South Korea stirs speculation

In the video, the unidentified passenger is filming the otherwise uneventful view from the plane's window. Suddenly he makes a startled sound as the white saucer-like image comes into view. Later in the video, the purported UFO image is magnified. Ultimately, it looks more like an ivory colored bowler hat than a piece of futuristic flying technology. Is this just bad computer-generated imagery (CGI) and a cheap hoax from a prankster or a genuine unidentified object caught on film? [ Video:  Palm-sized Star Trek tech may be closer than you think  ] The same writer who speculates on the origin of this object also recently wrote about video taken from one of  NASA's live video feeds . In that video, three objects in a triangle formation appear on screen about five minutes into the video. Someone from NASA chimes in to say the object is actually a piece of foil, aka  space junk , and that its reflection is giving the appearance of three objects in a triangle format