News Briefs 26-05-2010
Posted by Rick MG at 14:21, 26 May 2010Does Perceval have an alibi for the night the Wilton Windmill crop circle appeared? ;-)
- Study suggests playing video games before bedtime may increase lucid dreaming. Ragnar Tornquist thinks so.
- Lucid dreaming & OBEs: an intriguing 1991 laboratory study.
- Why aliens are out there, & how we can join the galactic club. Frequent flyer points?
- Columns of fire: strange phenomenon witnessed by American crew in 1888.
- John Lasker on the UFO flap of 1973. This is the explanation my parents give for what happened to their real son the year he was born.
- The Dalai Lama: there are many faiths, but just one truth.
- Did the late Martin Gardner believe in Intelligent Design, but not as we know it?
- Brainwashing experiments & the art of manipulating memory.
- Astronomer Marcus Chown discusses random reality & the quantum universe.
- Physicists achieve quantum teleportation across a distance of 10 miles.
- Awesome video -- the Butterfly Effect on the sun's surface.
- Phoenix's wings have been clipped: long Martian winter kills Mars lander.
- Antarctica is bleeding.
- The Mexico Gulf oil spill, an anatomy of a blowout (and how it will happen again).
- Jostein Gaarder: do humans need a Golden Rule 2.0? There's a 1.0?
- Paolo Bacigalupi interview: scifi, consumerism, & sustainability (Amazon US & UK).
- Researchers find big climate shifts affect tiny mammals too.
- Pink fish with hands is a new species. It likes to dip its fingers in custard.
- Divers recover stunning artifacts from Cleopatra's submerged palace.
- 45 tombs with mummies unearthed near Egyptian oasis.
- 2000-year-old Chinese village is an untapped gold mine of history.
- Mystery of constantly draining jacuzzi solved, jumbo culprit caught in act.
- Bertie, the 'ugliest cat in Britain', is looking for a home. Perceval?
Thanks Greg, Kat, & Claudia.
Quote of the Day:
We must let go of the life we have planned,
so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
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25 November 2004
19 hours 52 min
Yeah, my web browser history, but I'm keeping that to myself (not)!
I don't believe in belief!
Perceval
@grailseeker
21 June 2008
2 days 16 hours
My cousin Rosie, her family, and neighbors in their rural Illinois cul de sac were terrorized nightly by UFO phenomena for over a week in the summer of 1973. State and county police were called almost nightly and joined the ranks of witnesses.
Let me add, these are among the most solid, steady, hard-working, just-plain decent American citizens you'd ever want to meet, who couldn't even make up the stories they have to tell about their experience because they're just not that imaginative. They were deeply frightened by what they saw and even now are reluctant to talk about everything that happened in 1973, almost in the same way as combat veterans don't like to talk about their war experiences.
I've never seen anything I really could call as a UFO (although I keep looking), but based on conversations with Rosie and her family over the years, I'm firmly convinced the phenomenon truly exists because these witnesses are unimpeachable in my book.
12 April 2007
14 hours 28 min
According to the late John Keel, 1973 was a particularly hot year in UFO activity.
...I was born in 1973, mind you ^_^
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!!!
Red Pill Junkie
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@red_pill_junkie
21 June 2008
2 days 16 hours
I can't help but saying that explains a lot :)
1 May 2004
13 weeks 6 days
thats the year of weird weather too. We had a cyclone in 73 which created the very big floods of early 74, this is in Brisbane, and a tornado wrecked my high school in 73. That was fun, had to go to another high school for 3 months. Tornado's are very uncommon in Brisbane, actually there uncommon in Australia although they do happen.
I think we had a lot of cyclones in and around that year.
Kathrinn would know for sure.
"Life can be whatever you want it to be, as long as you do what your told."
LRF.
10 August 2004
18 weeks 4 days
As far as I remember (not always reliable!) there were only 2 cyclones in '73 - "Madge" (in March) which crossed the coast at Cooktown but caused considerable flooding in Townsville, and "Una" (in December) which crossed somewhere near Townsville, also causing flooding and about 4 deaths.
The Brisbane floods of '74 were largely caused by a cyclone ("Ted") which actually crossed the NT coast near the Qld border, but travelled south through inland Qld submerging large areas under 30 feet of water. The Brisbane floods were further boosted by Cyclone "Wanda" which crossed the coast near Maryborough in early January dumping further water on an already overloaded south-east.
In the Whitsundays it started raining on December 1 and by Xmas we had had 100 inches of rain - then we had the Wet Season! My father had a friend visiting that Xmas from Scotland who flew back to Brisbane to get his international flight home. He said that all the way south his only view from the plane was a sea of water and occasional little patches of road sticking out that were covered with stranded motorists - quite scary.
All I really remember about late '73 early '74 is that it was bloody wet!!
Regards, Kathrinn
10 August 2004
18 weeks 4 days
Rick, you could import him as a friend for Neva! After 6 months in quarantine his fur should have grown back and he may look quite attractive!
Regards, Kathrinn
1 May 2004
13 weeks 6 days
Unfortunatly i'm one of those unlucky people who don't remember their dreams.
But I did play Duke Nukem for hours on end in 1995 and all I can remember about that was motion weirdness. You stop playing and you have this feeling of flying even when your just sitting or standing there.
One thing I do have though is very quick reflexs and the abilty to drive joystick machinery very skillfully. etc: hydraulic controls and some of the more modern tractors and excavators.
Games do hone hand eye skills but the old crt was not good for the eyes.
"Life can be whatever you want it to be, as long as you do what your told."
LRF.
12 April 2007
14 hours 28 min
According to this study, gamers have less scary nightmares. Maybe because the games they get to play nowadays are actually scarier than the worst nightmare they could ever dream on their own! ;)
This is fascinating to me. I think I might have to write something in my blog about it.
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!!!
Red Pill Junkie
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@red_pill_junkie