It’s 2007, where are the hover cars and robot maids?
- South Korea isn’t letting me down, aiming to put a robot in every home by 2010.
- Also in South Korea, a robot that gives birth is helping medical students who can’t practice because of the country’s low birthrate. Governator Arnie plans to use it in his new movie, Terminator Junior.
- Australia is taking part in the One Laptop Per Child project for aboriginal communities in the top end.
- Will Windows Vista be one step forward, two steps back? One day we will witness iWindows.
- Comet McNaught, named after the Australian astronomer who discovered it last August, streaks across the southern skies this week, but Sydney may miss out. Some punters say it’s a cricket ball smashed by Gilchrist from hapless English bowlers.
- Black diamonds may have their origins in intersteller space, US researchers claim.
- A researcher says the Viking space probes of 1976-77 did find life on Mars, but inadvertantly killed it and didn’t recognise what it had found.
- We are the Martians.
- New life forms have been discovered in the Arctic Ocean.
- A plant with the world’s largest flower evolved from a family of flora whose blossoms were nearly all tiny. You should see the bees.
- A duck believed to be extinct has been found alive because scientists were looking in the wrong habitat for 18 years. Maybe the duck was hiding.
- A 36’000-year-old skull discovered in South Africa gives support to the “Out of Africa” hypothesis.
- But wait, there’s more. Modern humans may have spread out of Africa only relatively recently according to the analysis of fossil finds in Russia.
- Tools found in northern Minnesota may be 13000 to 14000 years old, which many skeptical archaeologists are having a hard time grasping.
- A quartz stela unearthed in the Avenue of Ram-headed Sphinxes in Luxor has changed what Zahi Hawass knows of Ancient Egypt’s 20th dynasty.
- A slickly-produced SciFi Channel program is looking for flying dinosaurs in the mountainous jungles of New Guinea with sexy guides.
- The Transylvanian castle loosely associated with Vlad the Impaler is on sale for $91million US, but could end up as part of a theme park. Now I know why Greg made a donation link for TDG.
- This is the reason, not Stephen King’s It novel and miniseries, why clowns scare the hell out of me.
- A campaign to clear the name of Mrs Helen Duncan, jailed for nine months in 1944 for being a witch, is gaining international support.
- What is this strange flying orb captured on video?
- The Other Side of Truth says the O’Hare UFO incident, for better or worse, will define how the public views UFOlogy. If only the public read TDG instead of celebrity paparazzi gossip magazines.
- Paul Kimball also believes that self-styled alien abduction researchers — such as David Jacobs and Budd Hopkins, have is a cult. I’m disappointed in Paul, he (conveniently) fails to mention John Mack’s research.
- But this piece by the UFO Iconoclast(s) is just plain offensive, describing abductees as people experiencing psychotic episodes who need to be “cured”. Whoever wrote that needs to be anal probed by klingons.
- Nick Redfern says he supports people who search for ET using radar and radio, but wonders if we’ll have a better chance winning the lottery. I forgot to buy a ticket last week.
- The Beyond Reason talkshow discusses the latest in UFOlogy with Dr Kevin Randle.
- Does this video footage really show a spiraling UFO above Russia, or is it a clever fake?
- The opposition to String Theory is growing. I can hear the snip snip of scissors.
- The internet needs less cell-phone recordings of Saddam Hussein’s latest booze-up and Paris Hilton’s execution , and more pics of the O’Hare UFO.
- Is this the face of Dante? The author of The Divine Comedy (Amazon US or UK), not the guy from Clerks.
- I’m a big fan of Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology and Pronoia (Amazon US or UK), and I’m delighted to discover he reads TDG.
Quote of the Day:
“I have a dream that in the New World Oprah Winfrey will buy up all the Pizza Huts on the planet and convert them into a global network of menstrual huts, where for a few days each month every one of us, men and women alike, can resign from the crazy-making 9-5, drop out and slow down, break trance and dive down into eternal time.”
from Pronoia, by Rob Brezsny