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News Briefs 10-08-2004

Rico’s set a tough challenge this week with his kick-butt news update yesterday. But I’m ready to leap above him and take the mark…

  • Professor Paul Davies says if we’re looking for a message from ET, we should perhaps look at our own DNA. I wonder if Zech Sitchin’s ears are burning? David Grinspoon also discusses this ‘living message’ theory in Lonely Planets (see my review)…looks to be heading mainstream.
  • So why wouldn’t aliens look like us? That would make it real tough to fight off the alien invasion…
  • Where’s ET? That was the big question at the latest SETI conference.
  • UFO enthusiast begins work on his next book.
  • Three dummies die tragically as a rocket entered into the X-prize explodes just 1000 feet above the ground. Wonder how many volunteers they’ll get to ride that sucker in future?
  • NASA scientists sees possible mat of Martian microbes.
  • New NASA super-computer to aid theorists and engineers. I bet that requisition form got filled out as soon as DOOM 3 got released last week…
  • Good chance it could be a bumper year for the Perseid meteor shower.
  • Hubble in trouble.
  • Quantum entanglement and advanced space propulsion add up to spooky spaceflight.
  • A conference where ‘weird’ is the standard fare. Sounds like our kind of gig.
  • Security cameras catch waterspout in action.
  • Ancient rock paintings found along river in south-west China.
  • Underwater search of Mediterranean for Persian fleet concludes.
  • Officials lose pub. Probably with the WMD somewhere…
  • Don’t panic, but a wall of water might be about to hit the east coast of the US. I think I’ve seen that film.
  • Koko the signing gorilla asks for a dentist. Hell, I can talk and I still don’t ask for the dentist.
  • Cursor control by eye movement is good news for the disabled.
  • Smart glass‘ keeps the heat out. I’ll call it smart glass when it learns to brew beer and make pizza.
  • New chemical method of predicting earthquakes?
  • Laziness conference to be held this weekend in Switzerland. Write your own one-liner for this one.
  • Antibodies clear Alzheimer’s brain plaques.
  • The latest JREF bulletin from James ‘The Amazing’ Ranty…err, Randi.
  • While Paul Kurtz and the ‘Center for Inquiry’ go “quietly about their business“. Is that ‘quietly’ as in with a loudspeaker and a baseball bat?
  • Does witchcraft deserve a bad name?
  • ‘Grass circle’ caused by wind?
  • Meet the doctor who officially investigates miracles at Lourdes.
  • The odd cult of Philip K. Dick. I don’t think the writer is a fan of PKD somehow…

Quote of the Day:

It requires an act of will not to notice thematic parallels between ceremonies of dismemberment undergone by shamanic initiates inside traditional round initiation huts, on the one hand, and the invisible ‘medical’ procedures experienced by UFO initiates inside rounded operating theatres inside disk- or oval-shaped craft, on the other.

Keith Thompson

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  1. Great stuff Greg
    Some really great stuff here, thanks Greg.

    James Randi……….I don’t care that he is a skeptic,what I do care is that what he exhibits to the world is his smallness.

    For all his ranting and getting off on the sycophantic letters written to him,he remains what he is…….a small man.

    Any poor soul attempting to prove a paranormal power with Randi being within 100 miles would be so overcome with negativity that even time would stand still.

    I will not read any more about that man.

    Interesting stuff from Paul Davies about ET in our DNA.

    I have a perfect alibi for when the grass circle was formed by wind.Whatever time it was.
    And no I don’t think it is my diet.

    I love the quote……who is Keith Thompson?

    For those Australians living on the east coast, the ABC presents on Wed,tomorrow, at 8.30pm. the disclosure of the X-Files about UFO research in Britain from the fifties.

    I could go on and on about the posts but at my age I need all the beauty sleep I can get.

    shadows

      1. ABC — UFOs
        Yes, I almost forgot about this. It’s a BBC doco, and it’s very tongue-in-cheek: don’t expect serious conclusions. It should be fun to watch though.

        As for leaping and taking a mark, Greg … Nathan Buckley plays for the mighty magpies, not Brisbane. 😉

        Good old Collingwood foreeeveerrrrr….

        Rico

        “Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.” – Philip Pullman

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