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News Briefs 26-09-2013

The news is saying this is officially the wettest month in Mexico’s history! Hell, it’s f#%$ing pouring out of my office as I’m typing this; which for me it means I’ll have to wait a few hours ’til I can get back home, but for thousands it means the loss of everything they own. So please consider donating to the Red Cross, or any NGO of your choosing, to support the victims of this historical natural disaster. Muchas gracias.

  • In more cheerful news, our good friend Loren Coleman is getting married on Halloween.
  • Speaking of vintage hardware that works better than modern crap, here’s how Voyager 1 keeps boldly going 36 years after its launch.
  • “In the name of the Cosmic Father, the Alien Jesus & the Holy Smokes, Batman!”
  • Stephen Hawking is completely sold on the Transhumanist scam promise of (digital) immortality.
  • Looking at the brain signals beyond the conventional flatline.
  • In the latest episode of the Duncan Trussell Family Hour, philosopher/pornstar Conner Habib tries to convince Duncan to turn the Techno-Christ gospel down a notch.
  • Is Disney’s upcoming movie Tomorrowland about Tesla? Will they be tackling the whole Martian signals/Black Knight mythos?
  • Sci-Fi author Neal Stephenson wants to help build a 20-km high skyscraper to launch rockets into space –Half-Life Citadel anyone?
  • Cigar-shaped UFO over Dusseldorf airport?
  • Pyramidal-shaped structure found 40 meters off the Azores, Portugal. Gimme an ‘A’! Gimme a ‘T’! Gimme an ‘L’! …
  • Is the Sun’s 11-year cycle regulated by dark matter?
  • How does IPCC chairman Ottmar Edenhofer manage to keep his cool during heated Climate Change debates? Perhaps he’s taken a course in the Argument Clinic.
  • No witches were burned during the making of this Salem trial.
  • It seems that in the United States, ‘telepathic rape’ is still not recognized as a felony…
  • Pop Sci: “Trolls made us shut down the comments, Waaa!”. io9: “Bull$#1t!”
  • Red Pill of the Day: This here video proves Morrisey is a big infomercial fan (via Dangerous Minds).

Thanks to Rod Stobart, Holly, Rick & King Namor.

Quote of the Day:

“Immediately the wooden figures were annihilated, destroyed, broken up, and killed.
A flood was brought about by the Heart of Heaven; a great flood was formed which fell on the heads of the wooden creatures.”

~From the pages of the Popol Vuh (Book I, Chapter 3)

      1. Roddenberry
        [quote=red pill junkie]As always, Gene Roddenberry was way ahead of his time.[/quote]
        Yes! For me, he was tapping (probably unintentionally) into some actual futures. A visionary.

        1. Dan Madsen
          Last year I had the pleasure of meeting Dan Madsen, the founder of the official Star Trek fan club –among MANY other geeky enterprises– at the Paradigm Symposium. This is a man whose passion & love for the ST universe led him to fulfill his dream of meeting (and befriending) his childhood heroes, including Gene Roddenberry & William Shatner.

          He’s returning this year to Paradigm. I can’t wait to talk to him 🙂

          1. ST universes
            One great thing is the huge number of very-good to great to exceptional novels that are based within those universes.

  1. news
    black night: I seriously think it’s space junk from humans. If I remember correctly, NASA said some of the Atlantis was held together with duct tape. Satellites fall to earth now and then and some stuff could get stuck. Most importantly, I’d like to think any intergalactic traveler wouldn’t act like the asshole on the interstate with the loose wood in the back of his truck which goes flying off and he just leaves it on the side of the road for me to loose a tire on 😛 If so, “Aliens, COME PICK UP YOUR SHIT OFF THE SIDE OF OUR ATMOSPHERE!!!”

    speak no evil: “Comments can be bad for science.” i.e. Science and free speech don’t mix, and you need more moderators to check you comments for junk. Dear PopSci, welcome to the internetz.

    wedding: that topper…is frickin’ adorable. I see popcorn, but given the Halloween wedding I was hoping they would throw those mini Kit Kat bars. Although it would hurt…it would be more delicious.

    1. Blackest Knight
      I keep the topic on my gray basket –like most of the things that get discussed around here– but I don’t know if or own space junk would manage to acquire a polar orbit… and stay up there for so long.

      Re. Pop Sci: What can be expected from a site who still thinks the Internet should follow geo-blocking policies? It goes to show this old magazine was dragged into the brave new frontier kicking & screaming, and are ever reminiscing the good ole days when they could just put the annoying letters to the editor in the ‘crank mail’ drawer.

      “Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.” ~ Mark Twain

      1. I’ll say this… The Black
        I’ll say this… The Black Knight looks nothing like any satellites one can Google images of, nor any remnant of any space station. It seems to have no solar panels, it is neither boxy, round nor cylindrical like most satellites. It seems to be an enigma.

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