News briefs 12-05-2010
Posted by Rick MG at 14:37, 12 May 2010We're one, but we're not the same.
- Stunning Mayan jade ceremonial head found in Guatemala. With photos.
- Excavations at Luxor's Avenue of Sphinxes reveal a coptic church & more.
- Using lasers to map ancient civilisations in a matter of days.
- 54 rock art sites found in Australia's remote Kimberley region.
- Rare bees make flower nests. The goddess Artemis invented Ikebana?
- Listening to Mozart doesn't make you smarter. Listening to Tool however...
- Chemical concussions & secret LSD: Pentagon Cold War mind-control tests.
- Are psychedelics the key to communicating with UFOs? Are aliens using psychedelics to communicate with us, without physically flying here?
- Psychic medium maintains degree of skepticism for many paranormal claims.
- Is the scientific search for a 'theory of everything' just another religious belief? Dawkins just choked on a GM wafer.
- Bonobo apes observed shaking their heads to say no to others.
- Your posthumanism is boring me. Is this a 'chicken & egg' thing?
- Top ten most common pseudoskeptical explanations for UFOs. See what I did there?
- More than 30 years of investigating UFOs has convinced Bill Chalker that they're a genuine phenomenon.
- Five former Area 51 employees debunk alien myths. Or is this more disinfo?
- Fancy spending 520 days locked up in a fake spacecraft *not* going to Mars? I volunteer the Bad Astronomer.
- Phantom Ray: Boeing unveils unmanned spy plane of the near future.
- 'Bulletproof' Limo sums up everything that's wrong with our world. The Sun too. ;-)
- New, deadly fungal disease linked to missing Israeli scientist.
- Genetic diversity of crops & livestock that sustains humanity is shrinking rapidly. Monsanto is happy, & the Svalbard 'seed bank' may save us all.
- Fighting industrial farming with chemical-free methods.
- PepsiCo is ditching High Fructose Corn Syrup. Or you could drink water instead.
Thanks Greg, Kat, RPJ.
Quote of the Day:
From wonder into wonder existence opens.
Lao Tzu
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12 April 2007
6 hours 13 min
That Knight XV is an abomination. IMHO, the only ones who could REALLY justify having one of those are:
*Master Chiefs fighting the Covenant; or
*Jurassic Park veterinarians.
Anyone else are just screaming to world the ridiculously small size of their male genitalia.
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
2 May 2004
13 hours 1 min
Haha, "Jurassic Park veterinarians". Nice one, Red.
I can picture Greg or Perceval picking up the kids from school in one of them though. ;-)
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@levitatingcat
12 April 2007
6 hours 13 min
Do their kids suffer from a freakishly hyperactive pituitary gland? ;)
I'm 6'-4", and I don't need a tank to move by.
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
22 November 2004
2 hours 30 min
Yeah, high fructose corn sugar is worse than regular fructose because of the high fructose content.
Let's face it, when you consume large amounts of sugars, you're in trouble. So stop it.
Also, corn is great for making alcohols, which we can use as fuel. Fight global warming and your own obesity. Instead of your household miniature nuclear reactor, get yourself some distillation equipment and produce alcohol from then corn. Then put the alcohol in your diesel engine, it will run fine. Perhaps with somewhat reduced horsepower, but that's why you got the 250hp rated engine. So what if it only gives you 175hp, that's plenty.
Brazil is making lots of ethanol fuel from sugar cane.
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We are the cat.
21 June 2008
5 weeks 1 day
To me, it seems to mean when all human endeavers other than reproduction are performed by electronic/robotic devices. That's the real brave new world we continue to move rapidly toward.
I suspect the current economic meltdown will accelerate this trend as businesses seek to replace humans on payroll with software and robotics. After all, unlike expensive and troublesome humans these never get sick, ask for a higher salary or promotion, take vacaations, resign, form a union and strike, etc.
21 June 2008
5 weeks 1 day
So much of the alien mythology about the base can be traced back to the long since discredited Bob Lazar, whose "revelations" are now about 20 years old.
That his base exists is a scarey thing, indeed. But not because of any fictional back engineering of alien technology.
21 June 2008
5 weeks 1 day
That would be scary not scarey. My fingers have a mind of their own.
21 June 2008
5 weeks 1 day
And that would be this not his.
Sigh.
12 April 2007
6 hours 13 min
I try not to view Lazar in black/white terms. So many of his claims are questionable, but that doesn't negate the fact that he DID manage to show several witnesses unexplainable lights in the sky dancing around over the airspace of Area 51. And he recorded them on video, too.
It's possible that his whole story was some sort of psy-ops test, or maybe a disinformation attempt.
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
2 May 2004
13 hours 1 min
Heheh, it took me about 5 reposts until I corrected all the typos in my news briefs, Purrlgurrl. So you're doing fine. ;-)
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@levitatingcat
12 April 2007
6 hours 13 min
Without the Preview option here at TDG, I would be utterly lost.
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
8 September 2009
14 weeks 1 day
Listening to Mozart may not make you smarter, but damn, the music is so beautiful that it doesn't matter...what I find completely fascinating is the need by humans to have music, to make music, and that creative desire and process by individuals to write, compose, and perform...The music by Maynard K. and the boys in TOOL, by the by, takes me to the same place that Mozart does......
bleepingdeadalien
1 May 2004
12 weeks 5 days
I like that bit about reverse engineering foreign technology. Since,at that time, america was well ahead of any country in the world with their technology, even the mig had very little to offer.
These old guys aint going to give anything away. What they signed years before, for their silence, is transferred to all their generations after them. Their not about to disclose and have their children and their grandchildren and so on, be secretely ostrasized.
Anyone who was brave enough to come out have died of sudden natural causes.
"Life can be whatever you want it to be, as long as you do what your told."
LRF.
12 April 2007
6 hours 13 min
I remember reading in Wired that the great thing about the MIG, is that it was designed to be repaired by an illiterate 20-year-old Russian soldier posted at Siberia, with only a wrench and a hammer at hand. Whereas the F-14 Tomcat was so dependent on hi-tech electronic sensors, each time one of those breaks down you need a whole team of Grumman specialists to do the job.
As a designer, I value simplicity.
But, getting back to the story at hand, this kind of feels like old news to me, you know? I remember reading the same accounts a year or two ago.
And the idea that the Blue Book project was solely founded in order to gather the sightings of the secret OXCART spy plane seems a bit far-fetched.
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
2 May 2004
13 hours 1 min
Good thing the Americans didn't back-engineer the Russian Lada car, otherwise American cars would suck... oh wait. :-P
My dad had a Lada 4WD (holy crap, Niva is my cat's name! Spelt Neva, but still...). Built like a tank, he got hit by a bull and multiple kangaroos, and not even a dent. The car that is, not my dad. Actually, the steel frame probably did come from a recycled tank or submarine. A light breeze however would force the engine to break down.
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@levitatingcat
1 May 2004
12 weeks 5 days
after opperating a Belarus 90 pony power tractor for many years, I fail to see how the Russians were any threat at all.
"Life can be whatever you want it to be, as long as you do what your told."
LRF.
13 May 2010
3 years 5 days
It's probably a propaganda tale, but it made the news in japan
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/internati...
12 April 2007
6 hours 13 min
It's so bizarre i added to Thursday's news briefs.
IMO, the only fusion they've ever managed to achieve there so far, is the fusion of Kim Jong Il's head with his own anus —still impressive, but nothing we haven't seen before :-P
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
22 November 2004
2 hours 30 min
Perhaps all this explains the scarcity of toilet paper in their economic output, the efforts have been hampered by emphasis on fusion.
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We are the cat.
12 April 2007
6 hours 13 min
See, that's why they invented Twitter, bro ^_^
[Well I guess that covers my quota of silly comments. Good night everybody]
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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