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News Briefs 23-09-2005

Any frustrated would-be astronauts here? Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D opens today in a record number of IMAX theatres (venue list included).

  • Ancient Egyptian sites face destruction within 10 years.
  • Rosslyn, ley lines and the baron knights.
  • Does the Tulli Papyrus offer proof of UFOs?
  • New evidence shows sea stacs off Scotland’s Western Isles were inhabited much earlier than previously thought.
  • Rembrandt rediscovered.
  • Island gives up secret of real Robinson Crusoe.
  • SETI: Tapping archaeology to seek the Cosmic Rosetta Stone.
  • MRI brain scan is the ultimate lie detector. Good – let’s immediately scan all politicians!
  • Scientists want to know: Out-of-body or all in the mind?
  • Hurricane’s aftermath shows importance of Net phones.
  • Free access to scientific results is changing research practices.
  • What is antimatter and why does it matter?
  • The Cheerio Effect: Why floating objects stick together.
  • Some bacteria and viruses may have infinite genomes.
  • Biologists challenge conventional dinosaur theories.
  • Human stem cells repair mice’s spinal cords.
  • World not prepared for next influenza pandemic.
  • Human flu viruses are becoming resistant to adamantanes, one of only two existing classes of flu drugs.
  • AP poll shows Katrina changed Americans’ thinking: longstanding assumptions shifted on race, safety, spending and more.
  • Suit filed to halt New Orleans gun seizures; TV crews film authorities tackling the elderly, refusing to give receipts.
  • Hurricane victims say guns helped fend off criminals during aftermath.
  • Prisoners in New Orleans city jail were abandoned – left locked up without food, water, electricity as floodwaters rose to their chests, necks and higher.
  • So Desperate: Red Cross aid so lacking in rural and poor Gulf Coast communities that Oxfam America has gone into Miss. and Ala. to administer aid directly inside the U.S. for the first time in its history. Finally! Some national media coverage – and what they found is shocking.
  • To get to this cursed town, just go to the end of the world and turn left. It’s worse down there – and literally packed with ghosts.
  • Katrina and Rita are reaching for your wallet.
  • For the third consecutive year in the U.S., the rich got richer: Net worth of the ‘Forbes 400’ climbs to $1.13 trillion. On average, that’s only $2.825 billion each.
  • Britain’s top police officer urges ‘Judge Dredd’ powers for police, which would allow them to by-pass courts when confiscating driving licences and seizing vehicles.
  • EU plans to log details of all telephone, Internet, and e-mail traffic.
  • Scotland is shelling out £500,000 to an international team of ratcatchers who plan to use 25,000 tonnes of rat poison to kill Canna’s 10,000 rats.

Quote of the Day:

Strange things happen at Rosslyn. One Saturday a girl saw a Knight Templar walking down the aisle. She said nothing about it until the girl sitting next to her said she’d seen the same thing.

Jim Munro, past master Freemason who believes a powerful ley line runs through Rosslyn

  1. Gun Seizures
    From the NRA:

    “On Thursday, NRA filed a motion in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana seeking a temporary restraining order to block authorities from confiscating law-abiding citizens’ firearms in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Today, we are happy to report, the Court sided with NRA and issued a restraining order to bar further gun confiscations from peaceable, law-abiding victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.”

    Bill

    1. Gun Control
      I used to be for strict gun control altogether. The arguments against them seemed sound to me. But then I moved to Indonesia, and studied the history of this country. Turns out that Japan, with extremely few men, was able to take over this entire country for a few years during WWII, and all because the average Indonesian citizen was not able to defend himself. However much damage guns have done in the U.S. to innocents, (and such deaths are unfortunate indeed), it is certain that China, or Russia, or whoever, will never invade and take over. They will face 150 million armed citizens.

  2. I Like Your Post!
    Kat

    It was very interesting! Everything was good; but, I especially liked S.E.T.I. tapping archaeology and antimatter. I’m happy that Oxfam America went to Mississippi and Alabama! A thousand cats should be better at killing ten thousand rats in Canna, Scotland. Besides, the cats can feed on the rats and nobody will have to feed the cats. Rat poison is expensive!

    kennc

    1. those rats
      The whole point of getting rid of the rats is to keep them from destroying the birds. Although their current plan doesn’t seem very well thought out to me either, cats would definitely be worse for the birds than the rats that are already there.

      Not to mention, it would be cruel to the cats. Contrary to popular belief, a lot of domestic felines aren’t up to the challenge of a full grown rat – mice, yes, but it takes a much bigger cat, with a lot more hunting skills and strength to take on a rat.

      I liked the story about the locals of that ‘cursed’ La. town seeing packs of ghosts evacuating before Katrina hit:

      “Even Barthelemy, a feet-on-the-ground sort who commandeered school buses to evacuate residents before Katrina struck, talks about the spirits. On the night before the storm, Barthelemy says quite seriously, a good friend of his walked home with a whole pack of ghosts. Barthelemy asked him if he was scared, and the man replied, “What they gonna do? The dead can’t hurt me.”

      “Lynell Williams, born and raised in Plaquemines [plank’ uh min] Parish, felt a sense of foreboding around the same time. She says she saw two lines of ghosts–“bright people,” she noted, invoking a local colloquialism for whites–marching over the levee. The ghosts were getting out of Davant. That was all she needed to see. She left, too.”

      Kat

      1. It Was Just A Thought! So, No Cats!
        Kat

        I like the one about the ghosts too. Actually, I liked everything! It’s hard to choose a favorites. I learned something about cats from your post. Thank-you!

        kennc

        1. something about cats
          What I said about cats comes from my personal experiences with them.

          In his younger days, Worf used to be hell-on-wheels as far as rodents are concerned. When I called for him to come inside one night, I watched as he climbed three 6-foot tall fences on his way home. As he was running toward me from that last fence, I noticed he had something huge in his mouth, but I didn’t know what it was until he dropped the rat at my feet. As Worf was proudly meowing over his ‘gift’ to me, the rat was very slowly trying to stagger away. Worf’s brought me at least a hundred rodents over the years, but to my knowledge, he’s never caught or killed any birds.

          Though I never saw him with even a mouse, I used to take live birds away from Rowdy at least once a week, and was too late to prevent the deaths of many others. One year, during the Christmas holidays, I took a young cardinal male away from him. A local garden usually took these young songbirds off my hands and nursed them back to health. Since they were closed for the holidays, I had to drive 15 miles to the only bait shop in town that still had boxes of live red worms. I still smile every time I remember that cardinal’s enthusiasm every time I put a frizbee full of the dirt and worms into the pet carrier that was his home for a week.

          On the other hand, the only prey Geordi has ever ‘stalked’ is the occasional bit of dry kitty food he accidently drops on the kitchen floor and then pushes around with his paw; and the only thing KitterRed has ever managed to catch is crickets.

          The moral of this story is that each cat’s personality is as unique, on their level, as each human’s.

          Kat

          1. I Understand!
            Kat

            Thank-you! I have no personal experience as a cat owner. I just like cats and I enjoy watching them play. They are very interesting.
            My parents never wanted us to have pets and the buildings that I have lived in have never allowed pets. I think that I have missed something.

            kennc

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