News Briefs 18-12-2012
Posted by Greg at 12:42, 18 Dec 2012Soundtrack to today's news briefs can be found here.
- Mysticism, internet fuel Mexico's Maya armageddon fears.
- Prophetic profits: making money off doomsday dread.
- Inside Russia's end-time cults.
- Mother of Sandy Hook gunman was a survivalist preparing for the collapse of society.
- China says man who stabbed 23 children last week was psychologically affected by doomsday predictions.
- Physicists propose cosmic-ray experiment to test idea that we're living in a simulation. I'm sure the sim-programmers have a function ready to deal with that attempt…
- Ancient 'alien' mass grave discovered.
- Study reveals Pharaoh's throat was cut during royal coup.
- A glimpse inside the magical mathematical brain of Srinivasa Ramanujan, who said his findings were revealed to him in dreams by the goddess Namagiri.
- NASA's lunar gravity mapping probes surrender to their god by slamming into a mountain range on the Moon.
- UFO hacker's mum ready for "best Christmas ever" after British officials dropped charges against him.
- Paralysed woman controls robotic arm with her thoughts.
- Search for ancient life beneath Antarctic lake runs into trouble. Pfft, not even close - when it all goes Lovecraftian…*that's* trouble.
- How fake images change our memory and behaviour.
- U.S. had plans for a "full nuclear response" against China and the Soviet Union if the President was ever killed or disappeared.
- Operation Delirium: inside the Army's secret cold war experiment in fighting wars with psychochemicals.
- The top cryptozoology books of 2012.
- Image of the Day: strange fields of ice-flowers float upon the sea.
Quote of the Day:
A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourselves off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what you can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defence each year, and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, for ever, in peace.
Bill Hicks
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1 May 2004
21 weeks 2 days
With regards to the attempt to drill into an Artic Lake can anyone tell me what the out come at Lake Vostok was as it has been several years since we heard anything from there.
1 May 2004
6 days 19 hours
My pleasure...
No life found in lakes beneath Antarctic glaciers -- yet
October 19, 2012
Earlier this year, a decades-long drilling program came to completion. Russian scientists had aimed to punch through nearly 2.4 miles of ice over Antarctica’s subglacial Lake Vostok, and in February the scientists announced that they had made it through to the water hidden below. Cut off from the rest of the world beneath the crushing ice, with no access to the atmosphere for the past 15 million years, Lake Vostok is a truly isolated system. Scientists are hoping to find life in the deep, in the form of extremophilic bacteria that can survive on what little nutrients and energy made it into the lake.
As reported by Nature, the first water sample collected by the scientists at Vostok has come up empty. This sample represents only the very uppermost surface layers of the lake, as it was collected from the water that pushed up through the drill hole and froze to the drillbit. The lack of microbes doesn’t necessarily mean that the lake is lifeless, however. Scientists expect to find bacteria in two places within subglacial lakes: at the top of the lake between the ice and the water, and in the sediment at the bottom of the lake. More detailed measurements carried out by the Vostok team next year could give a better sense of whether or not anything is alive down there. ...
Bacterial life abounds in antarctic lake, cut off from the world for 2,800 years
November 27, 2012
Just over a month ago, word came back from a Russian research team that they had failed so far to find life living within the cold Antarctic Lake Vostok, a massive body of water that had been buried beneath glacier ice, effectively cut off from the rest of the world, for the past 15 million years. The lack of life was a blow to those hoping to find that the hardiness of life extended to even the most extreme environments. But now, says Nature, reporting on a new study led by Alison Murray, scientists have found an abundance of life in the frigid Antarctic Lake Vida, a mostly-frozen salt water lake. Unlike Lake Vostok, which is buried beneath thousands of meters of thick glacier ice, Lake Vida is more like a regular lake, just permanently frozen. From drilling missions conducted in 2005 and 2010, the scientists pulled water samples teeming with bacterial life. ...
1 May 2004
21 weeks 2 days
Thanks Kat.
1 May 2004
1 day 14 hours
With only a couple of days left, whar scenario would you prefer to play out?
1. Robot uprising
2. Zombie apocalypse
3. Alien invasion
4. Demonic take-over
5. NWO starts
Personally I haven't decided yet. Zombies sounds most fun. But I don' know, I don't own a gun which means I have to resort to some sort of melee weapon, which is in turn a bit risky to say at least. So I'll probbly will become a brain eater before the week is over if that scenario plays out. I have to say that 5 almost seems trivial in comparison with the other. But perhaps also the biggest of survival since it doesn't necessary have to be supernatural but fellow humans although of the evil kind.
1 May 2004
6 days 19 hours
Of the ones you've listed, I'm all for an alien invasion. At least we'd finally have proof that we're not alone in the universe, and that space travel is actually possible, at least for some intelligent species.
12 April 2007
7 hours 26 min
Yeah, it would be nice to yell "See? I was right!" before being taken to the food processing chamber ;)
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