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News Briefs 01-03-2005

Why is it my caffeine intake always seems to peak on a Tuesday? Anyhow, here’s the news…

  • Excitement grows over claimed photographs of a Tasmanian Tiger (a Thylacine to you geeks out there), as even the Tasmanian Premier weighs in on the matter. More here and here.
  • Peruvian archaeologists uncover ancient Earth drawings older than the Nazca Lines.
  • Electronic engineers working on cloaking device. And you thought mobile phones with cameras were a tool for peeping toms.
  • Who were the lost people who roamed the Colorado Plateau, and left stunning paintings for us to wonder over?
  • Officials confirm discovery of archaeological structures off the Mahabalipuram coast in India. Is Graham Hancock feeling warm and fuzzy? Check out my review of Underworld (Amazon US and UK).
  • 4-dimensional ultrasound gives amazing video view of fetuses in the womb.
  • Researcher explores the mystery of crop circles.
  • MUFON head says Colorado is a hotbed of UFO sightings.
  • Scientist comes up with an explanation for mysterious solar tadpoles.
  • Huygens – both of them – claim a wet Titan.
  • NASA releases the greatest Saturn portrait ever seen. If you have a nice big Internet pipe, you can get the high resolution image right here. This one is purty too.
  • The Beagle 2 team is keen to head to Mars again.
  • Preparing to launch a space yacht which will sail on rays of sunlight.
  • Japan plans for a manned Moon base and shuttle missions within two decades.
  • Leaking gravity may explain the cosmic puzzle of dark energy. Then we’re just left with the cosmic puzzle of leaking gravity.
  • SpaceShipOne will land in the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. Watch out for Robert Langdon fighting a criminal standing on the wings of SS1 in The Solomon Key?
  • The European Space Agency asks for help from amateur skywatchers to track the Rosetta probe as it flys by the Earth.
  • Prepare for the street marches and international solidarity – and imagine, nothing to do with Dubya. Fight for your right to watch Star Trek.
  • Haptics: the touchy-feely side of the Internet is coming.
  • Deciphering the global songs of whales.
  • Anti-wind farm report dismissed.
  • Randi has his say once again.
  • Could aromatherapy oils snuff out the super-bugs?
  • 8,000 items have gone missing from the British Library since it moved to new premises. Is there anything left?
  • Bill Clinton is a conspiracy buff who is interested in Roswell and Area 51 (read the Jan 6th entry). Maybe I should send him a book…

Thanks Kat.

Quote of the Day:

The alien encounter experience seems almost like an outreach program from the cosmos to the spiritually impaired. … I think of these experiences as a crossing over between the material world and what in Eastern philosophy is called the subtle realm.

Dr John Mack

Editor
  1. Photo of Aussie-found coffin
    Flashback from Monday’s news:

    Australian archeological team working in Egypt has unearthed three ancient wooden coffins described as “wonderfully beautiful,” in Sakkara.

    Here’s a photo of one of those. The mummy cover, estimated to be more than 2500 years old, is believed to belong to a teacher of King Bibi I, son of King Titi of the 26th Dynasty

    1. “More than that you know what
      “More than that you know what happened to me during my second term. And you know what happened to Hubbell. He died.”

      Is he saying the Lewinski ordeal was punishment for something? Is he saying Hubbel was killed for something alien-related?

    2. Be aware, the blogger of this
      Be aware, the blogger of this site isn’t actually Clinton, just someone using his name. Whitley Streiber had made comments on and linked to this same blog, but pulled it from his site when he found out its not the real deal.

      Ron D

  2. Space flight entrepreneurs give $3 million for Enterprise
    Investors in space flight industry contribute $3,000,000 to TrekUnited

    TrekUnited.com today announced that three anonymous contributors have stepped forward with a $3 million pledge toward the campaign to ensure a fifth season for the recently cancelled Star Trek: Enterprise.

    The benefactors also added a statement explaining why they believe this campaign deserves such a substantial contribution:

    “We think Star Trek and especially its latest incarnation, “Enterprise” is the kind of TV that should be aired more often. The people responsible at Paramount think this is just a show and we want to tell them, it is not.

    We are in the commercial space flight industry and would like to testify that at least one out of two of all the actual entrepreneurs involved in this industry has been inspired by Star Trek; and we are not only good at watching TV sci-fi , we are also good at writing checks, big checks.

    The people airing this kind of TV have a responsibility: inspiration. Star Trek has inspired us, and particularly Enterprise, with its superb theme song that tells so much about our struggle to move space travel forward and closer to the public. This inspiration is so self evident, that Virgin Galactic has ordered a 5-sub orbital ship fleet from Scaled Composites, a 100 million dollar investment, and the first one being built is going to be christened ‘VSS Enterprise.’ Now doesn’t that ring a bell in Paramount’s ears?

    Now, canceling the series so bluntly, for the sake of just ratings, tells very much about the kind of thinking going on inside Paramount. If we thought the same way, Paul Allen would have never funded the SpaceShipOne program. Sir Richard Branson would never have funded Virgin Galactic and Space Adventures would never have put two space tourists aboard the International Space Station. Instead, we would all be at home watching Survivor or some other reality TV show.

    Enterprise needs to be renewed, for the sake of fan loyalty, for being quality TV, for bringing imagination and hope for a better future to our homes, but over all that, for inspiring us so strongly that we have fought all our adult lives to bring that future closer to our children and to us.”

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