News Briefs 01-07-2009
Posted by Rick MG at 11:15, 01 Jul 2009You can hear the universe in her seashells oh yeah.
- NASA's most complete satellite map covers 99% of Earth's surface.
- After 18 years, the sun sets on the Ulysses probe.
- Zero-emissions cars to race around the world. Go, Green Racer, go!
- New tech allows disabled to steer wheelchairs by thought.
- Plastic household items can alter the DNA of unborn babies.
- Swine Flu virus resisting Tamiflu. More deaths in Australia.
- Darwin's silver bullet slew the werewolf. He fired blanks in the imaginal realm.
- Evolutionary theories of dreams, or just over-analysing?
- Review of The Secret History of Dreaming by Robert Moss (Amazon).
- Replica of a 1700-year-old Philippine boat sets sail.
- Underwater excavation of a 16th century Spanish shipwreck.
- Did the Pueblos people migrate along the 108th meridian?
- Has a stone circle been found in East Anglian village churchyard?
- Archaeologists uncover secrets of daily life among Giza pyramids.
- A woman's face on Mars is a real puzzle. So men are from Venus?
- Scientists believe they've found the Tunguska impact crater.
- Just how much can you trust Whitley Strieber? I think Anne's the trickster.
- Jeff Peckman, a billionaire, and ET disclosure in Denver.
- Two brothers watch cigar-shaped UFO hovering in Colorado. Er, Kat?
- Pencil-like UFO snapped in UK skies. Scottish caber tossing?
- More disturbing cattle mutilations in Argentina. With photo.
- Don't follow Black-Eyed Kids in Kansas down the yellow-brick road.
- What's in The Box? BEKs, boxes, MiB; I'll never open the front door again.
Thanks Greg and Kat.
Quote of the Day:
In our dreams -- I know it! -- we do make the journeys we seem to make,
we do see the things we seem to see"
Mark Twain
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Comments
12 April 2007
27 min 30 sec
Er... not exactly a last minute newsflash there, mate ;-)
But still, taking in consideration the latest speculation involving Tunguska —that Greg wrote about— I think it's important to remind everybody about this one.
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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
2 May 2004
5 days 8 hours
Strange, I had two other Tunguska links in the list, what happened to them? TDG crashed a couple of times on me mid-way through posting, so it was those pesky machine elves.
1 May 2004
5 hours 22 min
this is very interesting and a concern to everyone on this planet. A little over twelve months ago, a research here in Australia found an endocrine disrupter was found in all plastics. Heat seemed to be the catalyst although a steady leaching was observed constantly. This same endocrine disrupter, but not BPA, is found in high quantities in DDT,DDE, and is transferred to soils, minerals and all the way down the food chain starting at the microbe level. Since the use of DDT has been banned in most country's there is a fall in the amounts in local populations. But the artic and anartic store substantial amounts. These traces are now found in every living thing on this planet. Diabeities, and most cancers are a result of this residual. In places like the Everglades where runoff has concentrated these compounds, a reduction in all species has been noted. The effects are the thinning of bird eggshells and the reduction in Gonad size in males of all species resulting in reduced reproduction and homosexual behavior. These results were first published some 10years ago by rersearchers in Florida.
Since we are surrounded by plastics of all kinds and these traces are in all the food we eat, then we are in a great deal of trouble. I'm not a global warming/climate change believer but if the poles do melt then massive amounts of this will again enter into our daily lives and maybe bring about our extinction. If not it will slow our evolution down sumwhat.
I don't want to sound alarmist here but this really is a very serious matter.
Nowhere to run,nowhere to hide!
"Life can be whatever you want it to be, as long as you do what your told."
LRF.
12 April 2007
27 min 30 sec
We don't have to wait for the poles to melt.
There's already a massive patch of the Pacific ocean covered with a huge amount of plastic, that is slowly degraded by the UV rays of the sun and the churning of the ocean waves; eventually some granules of that plastic will be eaten by the fish, and on top of the food chain is man. Kind of a digestive karma if you ask me :(
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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
22 November 2004
11 min 27 sec
The good news (relative of course) is that the stuff floating in the Pacific is concentrating in a particular area, due to circulating currents. This means we could start cleaning it up there.
What we do with it is of course another matter.
I recommend that we develop some bacteria that break this stuff down (maybe after some preprocessing), perhaps into a material we can use as an energy source. We could use a method like this for both the old waste from the oceans, and the new waste.
Seriously.
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It is not how fast you go
it is when you get there.
12 April 2007
27 min 30 sec
So who (what country) wants to go first to clean up that mess, or to pay the $$ for the R&D to develop them polymer-munching bugs?
...One at a time people! :-/
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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
1 May 2004
5 hours 22 min
the problem is the endocrine disrupters. These are synthesised chemical agents that mimic edocrine system chemicals. To produce a bacterium that would harm or desolve these would be of great concern to all animals. We would literaly be making a bacterium that would destroy our endocrine system. We would not function. Better to stop all production until a new,safer way is found.
Many chemical compounds made over the years have been hailed as miricals and then latter realised as incredibly dangerous.
Better to scoop up the crud and compress then furnace it. Rather have more CO2's then more and more sick people and animals.
"Life can be whatever you want it to be, as long as you do what your told."
LRF.
22 November 2004
11 min 27 sec
I meant bacteria that break down the plastic, not the endocrine disrupters. If the plastic can be harmlessly burned as it is, we dont need to make the bacteria.
Although I would not be the least bit surprised if someone is already working on such bacteria - there must be money to be made there.
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It is not how fast you go
it is when you get there.
12 April 2007
27 min 30 sec
Wasn't it this an old Twilight Zone episode?
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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