So long Saturn, and good riddance.
- Space.com has a plethora of articles detailing the hole Deep Impact left in the Tempel 1 Comet. Smashing Success is one article headline pun you’ll be sick of by the end of the week.
- Saturn’s vast and majestic ring system has its own atmosphere.
- A hydrogen-powered plane has been successfully flown in the US.
- An ancient mountain glacier that feeds the Ganges River is in danger. Perhaps the Ganges could do with some extra fresh water.
- President Bush has rejected Kyoto-style G8 emission deal. That’s a very flattering photo.
- Alarmingly, the world’s oceans are gradually turning into a giant fizzy drink. No comment from Coca-Cola.
- Are we living in a technological wonderland, or has the rate of innovation declined?
- Perhaps we should be shopping at Information Unlimited. Hint: it’s my birthday in eleven days.
- Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons is a new book by George Pendle (Amazon US or UK).
- Beijing has opened a clinic to treat internet addicts. Half-price deals are offered to Daily Grail regulars.
- The United States has decided to indefinitely retain oversight of the main computers that control internet traffic.
- Tony Blair’s hopes of introducing a national ID card system in the UK has taken a dive. IT experts voice their warnings on the untested technology.
- A UK bicyclist witnessed three Unidentified Flying Objects creating a crop circle.
- Many religious leaders say the revelation of extraterrestrial beings would not cause a collapse of their faiths.
- The 1967 UFO mystery of Shag Harbour, Nova Scotia.
- A UFO encounter in 1973 will never be forgotten by one man.
- Does old NASA footage reveal evidence of UFOs?
- A UFO hotspot in Western Sydney has inspired a local artist. To login, type dailygrail and repeat for password.
- Why has modern skepticism become so dreary? I’ll bite my tongue on this one, to spare Greg being spammed with lawsuits.
- Communicating with the dead: sorting out the reality from the illusion.
- Is this 6-year-old boy a reincarnation of a fighter pilot who died almost six decades ago?
- Why was Sir Arthur Conan Doyle obssessed with the Afterlife?
- The argument to treat demonic possession by psychiatrists, not just exorcists. Satan has issues with his mother.
- A medium discusses the mistrust of intuition.
- Straight from Pravda: A Ukrainian boy attracts spoons and forks like a magnet.
- Have I mentioned Jonathan Cainer and Uri Geller’s Psychic Museum?
- A 58-year-old man suffering Parkinson’s Disease has mysteriously developed the ability to compose music.
- Alchemical notes by Isaac Newton have been found. Are other important works simply lost, or are they kept hidden from the public for a sinister purpose?
- It must be the international find-a-lost-ancient-manuscript-day — a sketch by Leonardo Da Vinci for his famous “Virgin on the Rocks” has been uncovered. The man even mixed cocktails, was there nothing he couldn’t do?
- The mysterious origins of the Guanches, the Canary Island natives almost wiped out by Spanish Conquistadors.
- Spreading over 26-square-kilometers are the ruins of Vijayanagara, India. You can find more information on Vijayanagara here.
- The importance of preserving Korea’s history.
Quote of the Day:
At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss…
Paolo Coelho
