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News Briefs 29-09-2005

If you’ve got an opinion on anything in TDG news, feel free to comment.

  • More on the long-sought Maya city Jameske told you about yesterday. Two hieroglyph-covered stone slabs found in Guatemala seem to have settled the debate over the source of a host of looted artifacts.
  • A well-preserved Iron Age grave is found in a Copenhagen suburb. Archaeologists say the area hides finds dating back to the Stone Age.
  • A supernova blast 41,000-years ago started a deadly chain of events that led to the extinction of mammoths and other animals in North America, according to two scientists.
  • Contrary to the Persian cuneiform inscriptions of the Achaemenids that preach peace and fair war, a new translation of inscriptions belonging to Sargon, Assyrian king (8th century BC), speak of the virtues of ravages, plunders, massacres, diasporas, genocides, and kidnapping children and women as war spoils. Sargon knew how to have a good time.
  • Archaeological excavations in Iran, led to the discovery of the remains of the statues that were most probably used in religious ceremonies 3000-years ago. Holy cow, man.
  • All brains originated from a single common ancestral brain that emerged at least 700-million years ago.
  • Earth’s moving continents will collide into one super-mainland in billion years. Mark your calendar.
  • Romeo and Juliet were dinosaurs.
  • Can our cloning capabilities put an end to extinction, perhaps even resurrecting animals like the dodo, thylacine, and woolly mammoth? Just pass the genome, please.
  • One of the most mysterious creatures of the deep sea, the giant squid, has captured on film in its natural habitat. With pics. It’s about the size of a bus.
  • Scientists debunk the quicksand myth. That was one of my favorites.
  • An expert witness from Michigan State University testifies that the concept of intelligent design is a form of creationism and is not based on scientific method.
  • The $25 million Creation Museum stands much of modern science on its head teaching that the world and the universe are but 6,000-years old and that baby dinosaurs rode in Noah’s ark.
  • The folks in Lajas, Puerto Pico are so certain that they have been receiving other-worldly visitors, they want to build a UFO landing strip to welcome them.
  • How a zebra lost its stripes: Rapid evolution of the Quagga.
  • Historic Russian admiral Fyodor Ushakov — a hero of Russia’s wars against Turkey and Napoleon Bonaparte — was designated the patron saint of nuclear-armed, long-distance Russian bombers by the Orthodox Church.
  • God’s existence, mathematically.
  • The mystical powers of water.
  • Treasurer Peter Costello urged Australians to “do their patriotic duty” and have more children but it seems they were doing it anyway, just for fun.
  • Dutch tax authorities have allowed a woman to deduct the 2,210 euros it cost her to take a one-year course in witchcraft. The alternative was to become a tax authority toad.
  • Sweden’s new funeral rite – bodies freeze-dried, powdered and made into tree mulch.
  • Stargates, Ancient Rituals, And Those Invited Through The Portal, Part 3 and Part 4. (See last Thursday’s TDG for Parts 1 & 2.)
  • The comet that speaks Sumerian – Zecharia Sitchin
  • Scientists have developed miniature robots that can self-assemble using parts that float randomly in their environments. The robots also know when something is amiss and can correct their own mistakes. Hey Sara, have you seen this?
  • Physicists who work string theory question why we experience the universe in only three spatial dimensions instead of four, or six, or nine. Because we’re stupid?
  • Every observable galaxy in the universe is embedded in a massive “halo” of dark matter. Though unseen, dark matter can be clearly detected indirectly by observing its tremendous gravitational effects on visible objects. My dog thinks that if you can’t see her head, she’s invisible.
  • Astronomers using two powerful telescopes say they are surprised to have detected a big baby galaxy, which is vastly heavy for its young age and its location in the early universe.
  • The ESA has announced that the Venus Express spacecraft ready for launch to the swelteringly hot and corrosive planet.

Quote of the Day


Scientists are Peeping Toms at the keyhole of eternity.

Arthur Koestler

  1. Good Time
    Quote: Sargon knew how to have a good time.

    Reminds me of my favourite film part in “The Mummy”. Where the american is in an Egyptian prison about to be hanged.

    “Apparently…..he had a very, very good time” says the prison admin to our lady.

  2. Dark matter halo-schmalo
    I have a big problem with the whole dark matter/dark energy thing.

    In my opinion, if our galaxy were surrounded by a halo of “dark matter” that exerted such a gravitational influence on our galaxy and its structure, then it would block out light from other galaxies in the universe.

    Since we’re apparently not observing this occultation of distant galaxies through our own dark matter halo, I would posit that it doesn’t exist.

    The only place dark matter and energy exist, is on the blackboards of cosmologists and physicists where it is used as a fudge factor in order to maintain their cosy existing theories of the universe. When will they understand that the Standard Model no longer fits with observation. Stop adding in the fudge factors, and start rethinking cosmology – from scratch if necessary. A square peg just won’t fit through the round hole (well, not in 3 dimensions anyway).

    yer ol’ pal,

    Xibalba
    (This post was brought to you by “Realm of the Dead”)

    p.s. Bill – when I stick my head in the ground, your dog does become invisible.

    1. DM noise
      Hi Xibalba,

      Im no fan of dark matter, but your assumption it would obscure our measurements lacks base. De facto to me DM proves to be of another dimensional realm leaking into ours, i think dark matter is the source of all the energy that goes around in the universe, as such we just as well might call it aether or transversal em waves or what have you. The astroboys called it dark matter, sounds intriguing but remains just a label.

      ” do unto others as you would have them do unto you “

    2. Dark Matter and white light

      Hi Xibalba,

      When will they understand that the Standard Model no longer fits with observation. Stop adding in the fudge factors, and start rethinking cosmology – from scratch if necessary.

      I think that’s exactly what they, astrophysicists, did. They observed phenomena that could not be explained with Newtonian physics, so they scrapped the system and started over. Enter the Quantum.

      Something is influencing matter as if there was a great gravitational attraction, but no matter or mass can be observed that would cause this influence. They concluded that something that acts like matter must be present, but we cannot detect it. We can detect most matter because matter reflects light.

      Therefore, we shall name this substance Dark Matter because it influences matter in a normal manner but it does not reflect light. If we can’t see it then it wouldn’t obscure anything.

      Dark matter could well reside in one or more of those six dimensions that we cannot experience. It is “dark” to us and it influences like normal, light-reflecting matter. Ergo, the Dark Matter name stuck. It’s just a name that describes the behavior.

      Bill

      1. stuff……..
        everything is held to shape or set to position and retained there,aether is this stuff…..without it we would fall apart.Everything would have no coherence. In the gaps between atoms, space, as we call it, every single bit of matter and that which is not matter as we know it to be is there because of this one thing. It is inteligent in the sence that it knows it’s job. It tansforms it’s vibrational level to fit any circumstance.
        We,ignorantly, call it magnetism.
        With out this, total kaos and distruction of the entire dimensions.

        DISCLAIMER: the opinions and veiws in this post are mine only and are not those of others or of TDG. Any similarities are by chance only.

        1. Magnetic universe
          Hi Floppy2,

          I’m certain that Ed Leedskalnin would agree. But no one has duplicated Ed’s accomplishments with that philosophy. Have you lifted any 5-ton coral blocks with magnetism?

          Bill

  3. ‘Expert’ witness on ID
    What the….?? It’s kind of gratifying to know that the “expert” witness in the ID story, mentioned exactly the same reasons for excluding it from science classes, as were concluded in our recent round of discussions on this board.

    In summary, we concluded that whilst it did not follow scientific method, it was therefore not fit to be taught in a science class, but that it could still be included as part of other classes.

    Pretty much an identical conclusion to what Mr Expert bloke said.

    Do you think he was reading the comments here on TDG?

    yer ol’ pal,

    Xibalba
    (This post was brought to you by “Realm of the Dead”)

  4. Self-assembling robots
    Nice to see that the scientists working on the self-assembling robots also frequent the comments pages here at TDG.

    Some may recall a few months ago a story about “self-replicating artifical constructs” which were nothing of the sort. What was presented in that story was nothing more than one might see on a robotic car production line (i.e. robots programmed to make copies of itself using bits presented to it).

    Again, the comments thrown up on that subject was that they were doing no more than their programming (like making a car) from pre-assembled bits. When a robot is capable of knowing what spare parts need creating, then creating those spare parts from random materials in the environment around it, then assembling those parts into a copy of itself, then we will have a truly self-replicating construct.

    This story would appear to indicate a step in the right direction towards that eventual goal.

    Nice work scientists – keep it up!

    yer ol’ pal,

    Xibalba
    (This post was brought to you by “Realm of the Dead”)

      1. Good memory
        Only when I want to.

        Ask the missus – she still has to remind me to put out the rubbish on a Thursday night! 😉

        yer ol’ pal,

        Xibalba
        (This post was brought to you by “Realm of the Dead”)

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