News Briefs 09-02-2011
Posted by Rick MG at 12:09, 09 Feb 2011Reading a Verne classic, The Mysterious Island. Pretty sure JJ read this one.
- Zahi says the Sphinx is sad. Not as sad as Z will be when Mubarak goes...
- Enormous statue of Genghis Khan on a horse erected in Ulaan Baatar.
- Fellow Gippslander Tim Cope followed the trail of Genghis Khan, on horseback.
- Wurdi Youang rocks could prove Aborigines were first astronomers.
- Indian court rules astrology is a science.
- Romanian witches face jail if their predictions fail.
- Persinger 2.0: new psi helmet at University of Sydney?
- 8 inventions by Jules Verne that became reality.
- Cryptomundo looks at the terror birds of Jules Verne.
- Dr Beachcombing wants to ride an Atlantean Flying Boat.
- The search for habitable exo-moons. That's not a moon...
- Jerusalem UFO a hoax. If it's too good to be true, it probably is.
- Forget Area 51, everything's at Dugway, Utah.
- UFO Wikileaks more about Raelian cult than mysterious flying objects.
- What's the perfect UFO witness? Here are a few.
- Wikileaks: Saudi oil reserves overstated by 40%.
- Russia poised to breach mysterious Antarctic lake.
- Secrets of Antarctica's fossilised forests.
- 7 bizarre animal myths that turned out to be true. I have a Cyclops Cat.
- Gabriel's Feather: a plume from the wing of an archangel?
- Red fox skull found in 16'500 year old Natufian grave in Jordan.
Thanks Greg & Kat & RPJ!
Quote of the Day:
“I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.”
Jules Verne
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2 May 2004
31 min 31 sec
Benjamin Radford needs to read a certain book by Leslie Kean, and watch a certain documentary by Jamie Foxx, and another certain documentary by Paul Kimball. ;-)
I think the Jerusalem UFO is a hoax, but there are plenty of other UFOs in the skies that aren't. Don't bother the pseudoskeptics with the facts though, their minds are already made up.
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@levitatingcat
28 November 2004
1 year 38 weeks
Hey Rick MG,
Just wanted to thank you for a comment you left a few weeks back. The book you mentioned The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell, I bought it and I LOVE IT! Sparked some long lost memories of myths and legends I read as a child, truly amazing and absolutely inspiring. Couldn't thank you enough for that impact. Also, his writing is highly skilled, personally, highly desirable. It's almost hard to not find something worth repeating on every page.
Sometimes we get what we need instead of what we want.
21 January 2005
9 hours 49 min
I had the good fortune of studying with Joseph Campbell towards the end of his life (he would come to Chicago to do both lectures and weekend seminars every year), and it was a profound experience for me in many ways. (Because he wasn't well known yet, these were small groups, which gave us the chance to interact with him quite easily.) In particular, I recommend watching the series of videos of interviews Bill Moyers did with him around the same time (but broadcast on PBS shortly after his death) called "The Power of Myth." I don't know if they're on DVD yet or not, but they're worth hunting down in whatever form you can get them. (They may even be online.)
28 November 2004
1 year 38 weeks
Thank you! :D
That's amazing btw. Must have been a privilege.
Sometimes we get what we need instead of what we want.
21 January 2005
9 hours 49 min
It's far too soon to declare the Jerusalem video(s) is a hoax--just as it's too soon to declare it's real, too. The rush to judgment by arch-debunkers like Radford simply reveals their preconceived bias about the subject, not the worth of the case itself. The fact that the witnesses haven't come forward is suspicious, but hardly conclusive. We need to wait until all the evidence is in--however long that takes.
12 April 2007
11 hours 40 min
Second that comment 100% :)
Also, isn't funny how the articles intended to debunk the case ALWAYS include images from the most dubious videos (the 3rd or 4th, NOT the 1st and 2nd)?
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
28 November 2004
1 year 38 weeks
The amount of assumptions that ran through my head while reading this article is probably enough to have killed a bull elephant/super computer cyborg.
Sometimes we get what we need instead of what we want.
12 April 2007
11 hours 40 min
Those ingrates!! You tell 'em Zahi! tell 'em to leave your beloved Mubarak alone.
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
15 hours 37 min
It is terrible that the young people don't give Zahi and Hosni the respect they deserve for building the Sphinx and the Pyramids. Really. It was a lot of work for just two guys.
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We are the cat.
14 July 2008
50 weeks 1 day
It is terrible that the young people don't give Zahi and Hosni the respect they deserve for building the Sphinx and the Pyramids. Really. It was a lot of work for just two guys.
You don't say that like you mean it.
Now, down on your knees and say it again!!!
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
14 July 2008
50 weeks 1 day
Re: Jerusalem UFO a hoax. If it's too good to be true, it probably is.
I tend to agree but will qualify that by saying that I am not entirely convinced by anything so far. There are as many virgin bunkings happening on the skeptic side as with those who believe. It's as if there were some urgency in getting this story blown up and out of the public interest spaces.
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Re: Enormous statue of Genghis Khan on a horse erected in Ulaan Baatar
Wow!
I guess one man's Khan is another man's Alexander...
(I kill myself sometimes ;)
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
2 May 2004
31 min 31 sec
Re: Enormous statue of Genghis Khan on a horse erected in Ulaan Baatar
Wow!
I guess one man's Khan is another man's Alexander...
Captain James T Kirk sums it up best! :-D
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@levitatingcat
12 April 2007
11 hours 40 min
Re. the feathers of the quetzal bird: what's interesting is that they are not really emerald-green. The feathers are iridescent, and so if viewed from one side they appear almost cobalt-blue, but from the other they turn emerald. So you can see why it was one of the most precious commodities in Mesoamerica!
Here's a reproduction of Moctezuma's headdress, composed of quetzal feathers:
The original is in Viena, and its retrieval has turned into something of a national feud between Mexico and Austria —Zahi is not the only one fighting with the European museums, you know ;)
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
15 hours 37 min
So Mexico wants to go to the olden days, where your president is going to wear this wonderful head ornament.
And the losers of the elections will be led up the steps of the pyramids, they joy in their hearts to be displayed for all to see.
The movie "Apocalypto" has some nice scenes about that :)
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We are the cat.
12 April 2007
11 hours 40 min
Actually, if one follows closely Mexican political news, you'd find that it's exactly the other way around ;)
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
1 May 2004
21 weeks 1 day
Lake Vostok has been going on for years, at least since 2000, there was even a few problems when some scientists were mysteriously evacuated from the Antarctic in 2001, if you google lake vostok you will see.