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News Briefs 26-08-2004

Colin Wilson, virtual girlfriends, disappearing Martians and all the other news that’s fit to print. Hope you enjoy.

  • The new version of the fish story goes: “You should have seen the fish I caught! It was thiiiiiiiis polluted.”
  • Colin Wilson gives an interview on ancient mysteries.
  • The frozen preserved bodies of three WW1 soldiers have been found in an Italian glacier.
  • The perfect gift for the techno-geek with share options in everything: a virtual girlfriend for his cellphone.
  • A study finds that lopsided people are more aggresive. Who pays for these studies?
  • The telltale signs of a cometary impact at Cheasapeake Bay have been found in Georgia, USA.
  • NASA says it has begun work on what may one day be a Star Trek main ship’s computer.
  • Australian scientists are turning to insect swarms to inspire a new generation of smart weapons.
  • Investigating the lives of Ice Age hominids.
  • The humanoid face on Mars has mysteriously disappeared.
  • Planners for the next series of moon landings look again at Apollo style rockets.
  • British fisherman are finding that exotic species are now the catch of the day.
  • The Festival of Adonis in ancient Lebanon.
  • The latest advanced combat drone, the X-47B, gets the go-ahead.
  • Researchers are called out to a crop circle in Kalamazoo.
  • Remembering the Code Talkers, as the last one of his tribe dies.
  • African villagers flee after a mysterious spectral event kills 17.
  • Plans are afoot for a UFO theme park at a Scottish alien hotspot.
  • Every culture believes in some sort of magic.
  • A leading dream researcher gives his opinions on why we dream. He concludes that dreams have no purpose.
  • A solar-powered car travels across America in an attempt at a distance record.
  • Japan intends to launch spy satellites next year.
  • A “super-earth” planet, massive but not a gas giant, has been discovered.
  • Bones left from 9,000 year old meals can reveal the lives of the early inhabitants of America.
  • A heat resistant replacement for silicon in electronics has been developed, opening the way for new advances.
  • Research originally used for DNA sequencing could soon be defeating the e-mail spammers.
  • The forensic astronomers of Texas look up answers to ancient questions.
  • Evidence for the impact of climate change on deep sea biodiversity.
  • The twelve “tipping points” that could lead to rapid climate change.

Quote of the Day:


Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.



Thomas Jefferson

  1. News Update
    Some of you will remember that I had promised to post a news item about the Cambodian Online website, who had been borrowing our news. It seems that they are now giving us attribution as the source of their “New Age News” posts, so thats why the item doesnt appear above. Me, rock the boat? Perish the thought…

    Cheers and Goddess Bless, C

  2. Colin Wilson interview
    Colin Wilson still holds to Robert Bauval’s original, incorrect view that the three pyramids of Giza accurately reflect the three stars in Orion’s Belt. Even Bauval has had to admit that the fit is not exact. Bauval now only asserts that the correspondence is a “symbolic, pleasing one”.

    1. Good Point Lee.
      The “symbolic, pleasing” relationship is a far weaker assertion than the original and seriously casts doubt on the whole concept. It remains that there were sufficient talents in astronomy and surveying at the time that had they chosen to make the relationship, it would have been exact. Evidence Stonehenge etc. The conclusion is that the Orion connection is a reach too far.

      Regards C

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