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News Briefs 26-07-2007

Ten years to the day since my life changed for the better…

  • The Maya: Glory and Ruin. A National Geographic feature.
  • Hidden city found beneath Alexandria.
  • Answers to the secrets of the Cosmos, without a 42 in sight.
  • Psychedelic author and investigator Peter Stafford has sadly passed away.
  • Burning Man festival to invite corporate participants?
  • Einstein and extra-dimensional humans (and no, the story is not about people who can’t fit into a size 18.)
  • Russian submarine sets sail for the Arctic, to claim it for the Kremlin. I think if they’re setting sail in their subs, that could explain a lot about the end of the Cold War…
  • Yes, those Mars rovers are still going. I say pick them up when we do a manned mission and bring them home for a ticker tape parade.
  • How romantic would it be to head down to the beach with your betentacled green spouse and watch a quadruple sunset?
  • Conservation biologist says renewable energy sources could ‘rape Nature‘, and suggests nuclear energy as the alternative.
  • Peru makes ambitious move to regrow lost forests.
  • Historical evidence uncovered for facts in Biblical book?
  • San Francisco’s Cab #666 may soon be retired. The Antichrist needs to drive cabs to make ends meet?
  • Mobile phone mast illnesses are all in the mind.
  • Adolescent rats enjoy cannabis more than their elders. Punks.
  • Megafish project to look for real-life ‘monsters’.
  • Human skin to replace animal tests.
  • The booms are back
  • Inside the files of cryptozoology legend Bernard Heuvelmans.
  • And another entrant in the headlines you can’t make up department: dead cybernetic-frog with webserver for guts can be ‘brought to life‘ by Internet users. Now if this doesn’t catch on as new funeral option soon, I’ll be amazed. “Make grandpa’s leg kick Jimmy, go on…” (with apologies to any Jimmys reading today whose grandfathers have recently passed away.)

Thanks Rick.

Quote of the Day:

The irony of man’s condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

Ernest Becker

Editor
    1. TDG?
      The Grail’s only 8 years old, right? Started in 1999 if I remember. So it must be your marriage. Congratulations Greg!

      And I’m embarrassed to ask this, but… who’s Grandma Grail?

      1. Devil in the Details
        10th first date anniversary actually. Married in 2000.

        More fun facts:

        TDG inauguration was Sept 1, 1998 (although first posting U.S. time was August 31 I think).

        And Grandma Grail is my mum, who works a cattle farm up north of Daintree.

        Consider yourself illuminated…
        ;P

        Kind regards,
        Greg
        ——————————————-
        You monkeys only think you’re running things

        1. Awww – even more romantic!
          Not your tenth wedding anniversary, but the tenth anniversary of your first date with your wife. Humongous congratulations for so fondly remembering that!

          Especially since I’d probably take that new forget-all pill if they could guarantee I’d forget all my first dates. 😉

          Kat

  1. Secrets Of The Cosmos We’d Rather Not Know
    Secret #3: Going Potty In Space

    Before there was the zero G toilet, there were, um, other options. Their unpleasantness was often equaled by the general public’s incessant thirst for knowledge regarding same. Having already been asked the question too often, Charles Duke (Apollo 16) was asked yet again by an elderly woman at yet another NASA PR talk “How do you go to the bathroom up there?” He answered her “We don’t, ma’am. That’s why we walk funny when we get back.”

    No, I am not the brain specialist…..
    YES. Yes I AM the brain specialist.

  2. Tenth Anniversary
    … you and your lovely wife, Greg, amazing. I wish there were gods, because I’d ask them to bless you and yours and embrace you both and your children with the wings of angels.

    However … in the absence of God, may Angus, Tool and Tom (the doubter) rock you and yours to heaven and back in a handbasket.

    1. Congrats
      Hi Greg,
      Congratulations. If you want any tips on the next 20, I’m your man. I celebrated my 30th wedding anniversary a couple of months ago.
      It takes a special kind of woman to survive the ego and continually questing mind of the anomalies researcher. Or should that be anomalous researcher?

      Hey, how about a thread on the mysteries of marriage?

      The balanced adult retains an inner child

      Anthony North

      1. Great Time Marker TIme MArker
        Many heartfelt thanks for all you do Greg. It is so wonderful you endearingly carry yourloved ones in your heart and speak with joy of them. To also have the tenacity to work through relationships surely comes from noble character. I wish for you to always carry your faith in whatever you do with as little burden on you as possible so you may acheive the great aspirations you intend to create. You and the Grail have made my life an easier and a less lonely one to treck onwards with. I know that is true for many who seek family here. I have never had friends like I do on the Grail and it means a whole lot to me, it really does. I hope you realize the great capacity you have and how your efforts have contributed wellbeing for many people, many you will never know. Mush mush and more to you….

        Now on to the news. Wow, last night I read the hardcopy of the National Geographic on the Maya. I see the link does not have photos. The photos in the mag are enchanting & mysterious jungle grade. THere are also illustrations too that are so beautiful. I think if you are able to, it would be good if you could pick up this edition of mag as a keepsake because it is a very special feature and I have not seen photos like that ever.

        I looked at the sites. They are very manicured and soem of them look as if they have completed the restoraion on them, such as Tikal. THere are no scaffolds and the outbuildings look completed, sheltering some of the stellas with green lawn and garden. The temples have been back lit with light so it beams in rays in the night -looks like a place for someone’s GOd to hang out. Yeah, a great feature issue for sure.

        ALso, I think it was the Smithsonian maybe in hardcopy, maybe last month, they featured a section on ALexandria and the underground. THe pictures were remakable in it as well and it is suggested for any one into Egypt to pick up a copy if availbable for the phots showing the underground and underwater scenes.

        Thank you for the news Rick.

        Dr. Colette M. Dowell ND
        Circular Times
        http://www.robertschoch.net

        1. congrats
          It is really nice to hear about these things. Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling. I feel your pleasure, to mis-quote Bill Clinton.

          Also, my fiancee dumped me 5 months ago.

          But we should focus on the positive, and I am focusing on some creative work.

          —-
          The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

          (Edsger Dijkstra)

          1. congrats to Greg
            and I am sorry to Earthling

            but.. having two failed marriages…

            better to be dumped than divorced *there i go being cynical again lol

            My mother always said.. there is a jack for every jill.. so do not despair!

            hugs

            marissa

          2. Felicidades
            Congratulations on your anniversary. I’ll be sure to drink a couple of tequilas tonight on your good health.

            I’m relatively new in posting on this blog, but I have checked down this web site for maybe over a year. I really enjoy this site and the selection of news you provide, so keep up the good work, but don’t let that get in the way of enjoying some quality time with the misses… otherwise you’ll end up like earthling 😉 (just kidding!).

            —–
            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

          3. is true
            no point in delaying the inevitable

            There is a german saying, translated roughly: “better an end with fright, than a fright without end”

            🙂

            —-
            The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

            (Edsger Dijkstra)

  3. Russian sub.
    oddly enough the big bit that sticks up from the sub, highly technical ref:, sometimes referred to as a “conning tower”, is in fact in submariner talk known as the “sail” so “setting sail”, might not be so ridiculous, although looking to claim the arctic perhaps is.

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