News Briefs 03-07-2009
Posted by Turner Young at 07:15, 03 Jul 2009Material in a spirit world...
- The solar ghost in Earth’s machine.
- Could the collapse of Angkor Wat in the 16th Century mirror a collapse today?
- Lucy in the Martian Sky with Diamond Dust.
- A new book studying the evolution of ideas about God is sure to make your next theology class a blast.
- The first lunar images from NASA’s LRO are here.
- Ever wonder why Earth isn’t like Hoth? It’s the plants…
- Sea ice near Greenland hits an un-Hoth-like 800 year low.
- The end of coal-fired power in Los Angeles.
- A new film about the 1997 Arizona Lights.
- Does this child’s nightmares offer proof of reincarnation?
- Celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Apollo Missions on your laptop.
- Above the Earth POV, courtesy of the International Space Station.
- Does that black hole come in a roomier mid-size?
- Save the Great Hamster of Alsace!
- New study reveals approximately one in five Italians believe in sorcerers. Currently awaiting newer study to see how many participants read Harry Potter.
- Apparently the ability to regenerate limbs isn’t that big a deal after all.
- Are these Southwestern geoglyphs a message from the past or proof of UFO’s?
- The almighty Sun does many wonderful things, like protect us from cosmic rays… Except when it doesn’t.
- The perfect presidential cipher has been cracked a mere 200 years later.
- 800 wildlife species go extinct with 17,000 more under threat… So long and thanks for all the fish!
- Heat-shields may help species threatened by climate change. Does that include this species?
- Endangered Sumatran elephants are dying unnaturally in Jakarta.
- B’aaad news for sheep affected by climate change in Scotland.
- A universal TV Guide for aliens obsessed with prime-time television.
Danke Schöen to GT, RMG and RPJ!
Quote of the Day:
“Leadership is the art of getting other people to run with your idea as if it were their own.”
Harry S. Truman
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3 August 2005
11 weeks 4 days
Several things about the report on these geoglyphs, particularly the references to the Native interpretations, struck me as odd (I'm more than a little familiar with the subject). I went looking for original reports about the 'crash near Needles'. I found many reports of the crash and of the geoglyphs. Strangely, some of them were written as if the author were reporting first hand, rather than copying them blog to blog and point for point, if not word for word. To make clear what was happening, all of them were all but copies of one particular blog we've all seen before. It covered "drones" and carried the same copyright notice: © 2008 by Linda Moulton Howe
None of the blogs, and no news reports mentioned the Needles incident. Except for the source Ms. Howe referenced. She claims that KTOX 1340 AM Needles interviewed a local resident "R.B." who witnessed it, as did one staff member from KTOX. A second staff member reports seeing a large number of unusual vehicles, supposedly there to recover the crashed object.
A major sticking point in most of the other blogs was the report that the/a crash occurred in 1998. Only these follow ups report that. The original mentions pictures taken in Ohio of an object similar to what was claimed to be seen near Needles. That was in 1997. The original reports a crash in 2008. Even MUFON misreports this.
Two guys at a radio station, plus one anonymous resident supposedly report this stuff, according to Ms. Howe. And nobody else reports it until after she does, although they write it as if they witnessed it rather than read her blog. I'm not at all impressed.
No, I am not the brain specialist.....
YES. Yes I AM the brain specialist.
12 April 2007
19 min 52 sec
First of all: kudos on the choice of the name for the docu!
Second: when is this coming out?
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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
36 min 40 sec
Suppose some aliens watch all this, and suppose they don't understand the concept of fiction used for entertainment.
How could they tell the difference between movies, TV sitcoms, and political speeches?
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No amount of cursing at the round earth will make it flat.
12 April 2007
19 min 52 sec
How could they tell the difference between movies, TV sitcoms, and political speeches?
...Do YOU understand the difference? ;-)
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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
36 min 40 sec
TV sitcoms are the cheapest to produce.
Movies have fewer reruns than political speeches.
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No amount of cursing at the round earth will make it flat.
7 July 2009
31 weeks 16 hours
I was going through a lot of the articles, and they are really interesting, such as the fact that the huge civilization of Angkor Wat may have collapsed due to "climate change" ! Happy I stopped by this site!!
btw my captcha question is "What is the first word in the phrase "uxoqan kacoxis lemo ezivero koqa""
... if we refer to the definition of a word : a unit of language that native speakers can identify
then there are no words here... :P
8 July 2009
30 weeks 5 days
This is so interesting !
Does anyone think the same hypothesis about Angkor Wat and "climate change" could apply to other huge civilizations that disappeared for unknown reasons?
12 April 2007
19 min 52 sec
That is one of the major hypothesis re. the collapse of the Mayas. Climate change was the trigger for social instability, and after that... collapse.
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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
36 min 40 sec
Cultures collapsing, or weakened to the point where they are easily taken over, seems to be quite common.
The current theory on Göbekli Tepe is that the vegetation changed there.
In the Southwestern US, quite a few native cultures have disappeared long before any Europeans got there.
North African climate has become progressively drier for several thousand years, probably leading to ancient Egypt rising.
In Europe, hunter gatherer societies were taken over by the mean and warlike farmers when the climate got warm enough for agriculture.
Bad climate change in central Asia probably led to mass migrations towards the west and south and east, which is why we now have indo-european languages all over the place.
This sort of thing seems to be the norm, rather than the exception. After all there are basically 3 ways to deal with climate change (other than controlling the climate):
- do nothing and be conquered or just die out
- adjust your way of living, perhaps irrigation, prehaps start hunting different animals
- pick up your stuff and go some place else
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No amount of cursing at the round earth will make it flat.