News Briefs 22-01-2013
Posted by Greg at 12:39, 22 Jan 2013- Quadruple helix DNA discovered in human cells.
- Gamma-ray burst 'hit Earth in the 8th century'. Wait a minute…gamma-ray burst, quadruple helix DNA - we're obviously on the brink of the Jack Kirby era of evolution.
- Speaking of...WTF, evolution?
- 'Adventurous' woman needed as surrogate for the first Neanderthal baby in 30,000 years. Also needed: 'adventurous' ethics committee.
- Identical twins marry identical twins, one of the couples has identical twins. Oh the pranking possibilities…
- Did NASA delete evidence of UFOs from its photo archive?
- From hunting UFOs to selling inflatable space station modules to NASA: the strange history of Robert Bigelow. More on the man here.
- NASA's planet hunting probe Kepler is injured.
- Deep Space Industries will venture into asteroid-mining marketplace.
- Ray Kurzweil plans to create a mind at Google - and have it serve you. Yup, nothing that could go wrong with that plan…
- Piece of music composed by waiting for bird droppings to fall onto giant sheets of manuscript paper. Sounds like sh*t.
- Hundreds of lost William Blake etchings discovered at a Manchester library.
- Television viewer captures "very weird subliminal message".
- Hoodoo gurus - Hoaxing mysticism within the theatre of transformation.
- Life after death: why the growing interest?
- Giving up the green bitch: reflections on cannabis, ayahuasca, and the mystery of plant teachers.
- There are whales alive today who were born before Moby Dick was written.
- A photography-based proof of why we most definitely did land on the Moon.
- Image of the Day: Stonehenge, in the snow.
- Bonus Image of the Day: Beijing, in the smog. Not, repeat not, a still from Bladerunner.
Quote of the Day:
Whether we are annihilated or attain in some strange way eternal life, to have loved is good.
Olaf Stapledon
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18 September 2007
12 hours 29 min
The moon landing photographs story reminds me of Jay Weidner's theory about the Apollo program as told symbolically by Kubrick in The Shining. Whether or not Kubrick is just pulling our leg, I don't think there can be any doubt that what he alluded to in the film indicated that the first landing was a studio hoax under Kubrick's direction in the interests of getting to first base before the Russians did though all the subsequent landings were not faked. The implication is that the symbolic value of being the "first" was so crucial to the power image of the US that they felt compelled to take the risk of hoaxing the landing.
Maybe an equally interesting question is why Kubrick would lie about this.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/luna/l...
1 May 2004
1 day 16 hours
As a film technician working at MGM Films Ltd in the late 1960s and early 1970s here in the UK, I looked after the 16mm film and projectors that had been used to create the instrument panels in the space craft in Kubrik's film 2001.
Whilst the finished result certainly looked good, it took hours of setting up the props and then installing the 16mm 'back' projectors behind them. The film projected on to the rear of the props was simple animation, and getting them in position etc, and then running them all at once was quite a problem. The noise generated by the equipment was another problem, as was running out of film during repeated takes.
Whilst I can appreciate some 'conspiracy theories', to include the Moon Landings is nonsense as the arguments for such a conspiracy fall at the first hurdle.
As for link to the technical guy, this man knows his film and video technology and is 100% correct in what he states.
Nostra
18 September 2007
12 hours 29 min
Do you doubt Weidner's analysis of Kubricks' hidden message in The Shining? I think it looks absolutely credible. The symbols are very, very coherent about a faked landing. Why then would Kubrick lie about this? A very interesting question don't you think?
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/luna/l...
1 May 2004
12 hours 21 min
But it doesn't have to be that way:
The Ridiculously Low Cost Of Fighting Climate Change
6 April 2010
3 hours 26 min
i missed the news :P
wow that bonus picture does look like Bladerunner *shivers* although PKD did apparently have prophetic abilities.
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
12 April 2007
3 hours 4 min
If only their name was Klonny! ;)
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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18 September 2007
12 hours 29 min
http://www.realitysandwich.com/kubrick_a...
Perhaps our Kubrick film technician could apply himself to the allegations of available photographic tickery in Kubrick's day as described above in the "Hollywood Trickery" subheading. Of course, we are somewhat disadvantaged in that Kubrick was a savvy enough technician himself that he may have doing things no one else knew about at the time, and he may have held back certain effects from public knowledge as part of an agreement of confidentiality with NASA.
6 April 2010
3 hours 26 min
...emlong....you on a Kubrick kick....
;3
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................