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News Briefs 19-11-2004

By Billon

In the dead of the night we’ve silently slipped through the gossamer strands of the Internet, gleaning interesting information. We leave the mundane for those having more mainstream interests ………………

  • Rather than a single meteorite impact 65-million years ago, could Earth have been hit with a scattershot of several rocks from space?
  • Dinosaurs’ ‘bulletproof’ armor is revealed.
  • The genome of an ancient fish could reveal evolutionary mysteries.
  • A nearly 13 million-year-old ape discovered in Spain is the last probable common ancestor to all living humans and great apes.
  • There’s a new storm in the ranks of anthropologists, some saying humans were born to run.
  • Archaeologists are storming over the validity of dating of the 50,000-year old human habitation in South Carolina. Could humans really have been in North America 50,000-years ago?
  • Now that an evolutionary biologist has traced the origins of all Indo-European languages back 9,000-years to Anatolia, he has turned his attention to the language families of Mesoamerica.
  • The Man in Moon may be Mayan.
  • 3,000-year-old embryo-like skeletons have been found in Bulgaria.
  • The term ‘Celtic’ is banded about as never before, this version of the ancient culture has little to do with the austere people whose history and spirituality has been re-interpreted to suit our century.
  • Orgasms play tricks on your mind-brain.
  • A comet or asteroid smashed into modern-day Germany some 2,200-years ago, unleashing energy equivalent to thousands of atomic bombs.
  • Here’s more on the Russian Stonehenge.
  • How animal rights took on the world.
  • Records from hundreds of years of wine harvests show unusually hot summers were common well before the industrial age.
  • The Nazis’ occupation of Greece resulted in death, devastation, and the theft and destruction of countless cultural relics of the classical past.
  • A new database documents Iraqi historical sites.
  • The origin of modern-day Thanksgiving isn’t just Pilgrims and Indians.
  • Does GM food hold the key to solving problems of global starvation?
  • Position Available: Indestructible Bugs To Eat Nuclear Waste.
  • Down, down, deeper and down: a few thoughts on deep-sea exploration.
  • In a desert so dry, parts of it only receive one rainfall every decade or so, and NASA uses it as a model for the search for life on Mars, life is discovered. New life forms were found in NZ deep sea volcanoes.
  • New results From Anti-Neutrino studies reveal different neutrino ‘flavors’.
  • Da Vinci Code Decoded, The Holy Grail, Parts One and Two.
  • Students from the University of Kiel have claimed in their own X-file that the German city of Bielefeld doesn’t actually exist.
  • A skeptic explains the Virgin Mary-grilled cheese miracle. Here’s the story in case you missed it.
  • Is Chester England’s most haunted city?
  • The Blues Brothers star Dan Aykroyd has been appointed a Hollywood consultant for an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) network.
  • Russian scientists create a perpetual space motion machine. Well, almost anyway.
  • Fundamentalist Hindu organizations believe the waste from sacred cows can block nuclear radiation and cure cancer, but Indian physicists are not quite convinced. The cows were unavailable for comment.
  • Separating the fact and the fiction of the Tunguska event. I still vote for Tesla.
  • Retro UFOs: The ‘UFO’ Airships of 1896 – 1897.
  • How many Lee Harvey Oswalds were there?
  • Is the latest Atlantis discovery just a volcano?
  • A Swedish monster hunter believes he may have caught Norway’s legendary serpent in Lake Seljord on film.
  • China plans to have over 100 Eyes in the Sky by 2020.
  • The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. Part 2 of a 4-part series on the phenomena of Quantum Astronomy. Shadows and I are trying to understand it.
  • Astrophysicists attempt to answer the mystery of entropy.
  • How did the first stars form?
  • A star that exploded nearly three-million years ago left traces of debris on Earth and might have affected the course of human evolution.
  • China and 15 other countries joined NASA officials this week to consider how they might cooperate with U.S. plans for human exploration of the moon and Mars. It’s easy – bring money.
  • Swedish poets have broadcast their work into outer space by radio to give alien life forms — if they exist — a taste of earthling literature.
  • Space Elevator? Build it on the Moon first.
  • There are hints of unseen moons in Saturn’s rings.
  • Mars gullies were likely formed by underground aquifers.
  • This could come-in handy. How to Survive the End of the Universe (In 7 Steps).
  • TDG Friday Special – Noteworthy Absurdities from Around the World.

Thanks X_O, Kat, and Rick

Quote of the Day:

I want to know God’s thoughts. The rest are details.

Albert Einstein

Bill
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4 Comments

  1. Quantum astronomy????
    Billy boy, if you want me to understand quantum astronomy you will have to hypnotise me.
    I have a better idea.
    YOU learn all about quantum astronomy, seeing as you have the brain for it, and then you can explain it to me in words of one syllable.
    I, in return, will tell you what I know about roses, which after seeing what the Texas Rose Rustlers can do with roses is not very much.They are a fantastic group!

    Great posts though.I really liked the one on Oswald, it is a new theory to me and a good one.

    I don’t know what people have against those who find the Virgin Mary’s face in grilled cheese.I myself have had a Virgin Mary experience.Though not in grilled cheese.
    It was in fish guts. I was cleaning a mullet, and had just scraped all the mullet gut into a bin to make burley and there on the bench, right in the left-over mullet gut was the face of the Virgin Mary.
    I freaked out.
    I had been selected from all the people of the world to see the Virgin Mary’s face in mullet guts.
    I thought of preserving it for posterity, but couldn’t get it off the bench in one piece.I raced home for my camera and an egg slice to try and slide it onto a board so I could have it framed, but when I returned, a cat was busy munching on the Virgin’s face.
    I have never been the same since, and don’t like to hear people called superstitious just because they have been called to experience something other-worldy.
    Oh yes, I had a tomato too, but that’s another story.

    shadows

  2. Animal Rights
    1. You have the right to run like hell and hide when you see man coming. Failing that:
    2. You have the right to be food.
    3. You have the right to be clothing.
    4. You have the right to be tools and implements.
    5. You have the right to be adornment and decoration.
    6. You have the right to assist man, should he desire it.
    7. You have the right to be a companion to man, should he desire it.
    8. You have the right to be treated with appreciation and respect for all your participation in the above.
    9. If your demise is necessary, you have the right to as little suffering as practical during the process.
    10. If your confinement is necessary, you have the right to reasonable conditions, without undue discomfort.

    More than this, you cannot expect. If man’s reasonable modification of his environment causes extinction, remember that even Beavers building dams cause the same thing – it is the way of nature. If man used nature appropriately, as is his prerogative, with respect – organizations like PETA would not need to exist.

  4. China and 15 other countries joined NASA official…
    I don’t like this one. These goals are hard to achieve, so now we want to replace a government-run program with a program run by a committee of governments? They will spend all their money on planning, and not get the plans done by 2050.

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