News Briefs 30-12-2009
Posted by Greg at 05:24, 30 Dec 2009Stopping in to add some news briefs. Because life can't be all about reef fishing, snorkelling off tropical isles, reading books and watching blockbuster James Cameron movies...can it?
- New Horizons Pluto probe passes half-way in its long journey to the excluded planet.Speaking of, make sure you check out our good friend Alan Boyle's new book The Case for Pluto (available from Amazon US and UK).
- Yes Virginia, there is life after death.
- Search for extraterrestrial life expanding.
- Physicist Sean Carroll taps pop culture to explain new theory of time.
- Angels can't fly, says scientist. Winning the hearts and minds of children everywhere...
- Lone hunters of the last living dinosaur.
- Robert Rines: Monster Hunter. The New York Times obituary.
- Music therapy may help tinnitus sufferers.
- What, if anything, can skeptics say about science.
- Insects and acacias co-evolved. And people see insectoid creatures when tripping on DMT from acacias. Kinda spooky really.
- Chimps seen using cleavers to chop food. Today cleavers, by 3400 it's nuclear annihilation...someone stop the madness before it begins.
- Was 2009 the year that the comics-to-film industry faltered?
- And will 2010 see augmented reality hit the bigtime?
Quote of the Day:
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert Einstein
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21 June 2008
10 hours 2 min
This one is going up on the wall.
10 August 2004
30 min 22 sec
Am saving this news list to read tomorrow night, as I've been writing letters and it's already rather late!
Gather you're sunning (?) yourself at Port Douglas with Grandma Grail. If you fancy a coffee in Bowen on your way home I'd be happy to make one for you (you can find my phone number in the book as you have my name).
Safe journeying to you, anyway. Looking forward to next year.
Regards, Kathrinn
22 November 2004
3 days 8 hours
The BBC is wrong about the flying angels. Their "scientist" assumes that the wings are used for lift and propulsion, like birds do it.
Clearly they are just used for control. Well, for artistic reasons as well.
Of course angels can fly, given sufficient thrust.
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No amount of cursing at the round earth will make it flat.
9 February 2009
3 weeks 2 days
my thoughts were: 'why is this scientist taking the images literally?' and by extrapolation, 'why do atheists, secular humanists, scientists and others who subscribe to such belief systems also take the bible literally like their xtian fundamentalist adversaries?'
to me the wings on angels have always been a representation (take it a step back an the angels are representations, too, i suppose) a way for humans to conceptualize them...or more accurately a way humans HAVE conceptualized them...what with our relatively limited powers of observation...
11 June 2009
4 weeks 6 days
Of course angels can fly. According to 'science', bumble-bees can't fly either. Their wings are supposedly far too small for a body their size. So, either angels can fly, or bumble-bees can't AND don't. Duh!
Shhh! I suggest you tell neither of them. No good deed goes unpunished.
12 April 2007
7 hours 7 min
Ah, the American obsession with the box office...
Shouldn't we take into account the fact that 2009 was a year in which most people didn't have as much money to spend at the movies? —you know, that global recession thingy.
Some movies made so much money in previous years because fans went to watch it more than once. And after that they bought the DVD. Now is not that easy —and maybe some are like me, waiting to have enough dough to buy the Blu-Ray, although first you need to buy yourself a blu-ray player :-/
Watchmen was a good movie, and I suspect it will have a cult following in the years to come. And Coraline was excellent, and is a strong contender for the Oscar.
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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