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News Briefs 26-09-2006

By Gregon

Torture now too huh? Excuse me while I boggle for a bit…

  • Is there anybody out there? How the men from the ministry hid the hunt for UFOs.
  • Has a little known British aerospace engineer designed an engine with no moving parts, using microwave radiation and the strange properties of relativity? Interesting anecdote about industry not wanting to know about it due to commercial interests as well.
  • Yeti scholar one of 24 killed on downed helicopter in Nepal.
  • Are scientists afraid of ghosts? An opinion piece by Deborah Blum, author of Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death (Amazon US).
  • Space plane in test run for zero gravity surgery.
  • Phil Plait goes toe-to-toe with bad astronomy.
  • First rocket from New Mexico’s Spaceport America crashes in the desert. Seems to be a common occurence down in New Mexico.
  • Astrobiology looks at a Faceless Cydonia.
  • 9,500-year-old decorated skulls found in Syria.
  • Debate rages over new Confucius image.
  • TV to show corpse on a cross.
  • New concepts for fighting poverty, disease and climate change are opening up.
  • Reflections on Newton’s mythical revelation: After Einstein, after quantum physics, and after a harvest of revolutions in our grasp of the cosmos and consciousness alike, all that is solid seems to have melted into air. How can we really know that ripe apple will ever hit the turf? Michael Frayn’s The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe is available at Amazon US & UK.
  • Study finds that human hands emit light. ET’s finger kicks our butt though.
  • Tree rings offer hidden history of hurricanes.
  • Survey points to unsafe levels of pesticide residues in food.
  • Henrietta the chicken was living inconspicuously among 36,000 other birds at Brendle Farms for 18 months — until a foreman noticed she had four legs. Survival adaptation, or the Colonel’s own secret GM recipe?
  • Pavements and car parks designed to purify water and store it in underground tanks?
  • Tech expert says we may end up the pets of robots.
  • Alex Jones accuses Google of censoring his videos.

Thanks Kat.

Quote of the Day:

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they’ve got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Timothy Leary

Greg
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Greg is the owner-editor of The Daily Grail, as well as the author of a number of books including Stop Worrying, There Probably is an Afterlife.
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6 Comments

  1. Four legged chicken!
    Well I’ll be more cautious buying any chickens raised at brendle farms from now on, they are a local grower where I live. Although a four legged chicken could make a huge increase in profits for the wing market.;)

    Thanks for the news!

    Deathscythe

  2. Pet Robots
    I find the article, Tech’s experts predict future We may become pets of robots a bit confusing and misleading. The article states that “The study was commissioned by the Pew Internet & American Life Project” and conducted by Elon University. The participants were ” technology luminaries from around the world ”

    The article states that “And 42 percent fear that humans could lose control of technology, potentially in much the same manner as in the movie The Matrix. ” The participants were asked to respond to seven scenarios. We are not told what these scenarios were, but we are told that “Only a handful predicted a doomsday scenario.”

    We are told that “Janna Quitney Anderson, an assistant professor at Elon and the author of the study, suggested that technology could advance so quickly that people would not realize they had lost control until it was too late.” and that 54 percent of the participants disagree with her. Paul Saffo, of the Institute for the Future, offered that “sometime after 2020 our machines will become intelligent, evolve rapidly, and end up treating us as pets”.

    In summary, in a survey of technology luminaries, the majority is optimistic. Some see possible roadblocks to progress from industry and government. A small minority envision a doomsday scenario. Of the doomsday respondents, one offers that the machines might make pets of us. One guy.

    Now what happened to the 42 percent that feared that we would loose control of technology? I would say that “loosing control” is the equivalent of “doomsday” yet the article says 42-percent and a “handful”respectively. The headline says “experts”, indicating more than one, but it was actually one man.

    San Francisco Chronicle, huh? I’ll put that one on my list of bad journalism.

    But, thanks for the news.

    Bill

    1. 2020 Internet report
      I’ve read several articles about this, and San Francisco Chronicle did about as good (or bad) a job of covering this report as every other news outlet. But here are a few more takes on it, so you can judge for yourself:

      In The Good, The Bad, And The Implausible: More Predictions About The Impact Of Technology On The Future Of Society, Information Week offers more about the nature of the study.

      In Internet’s future in 2020 debated, the BBC offers a little more about what specific people thought.

      IEEE Spectrum’s article, The Technology of 2020, says the report ‘reads a little bit like a sci-fi screenplay’, mentions some of the conclusions, and ends by saying ‘It’s a mind-boggling forecast – with implications for all of us to consider carefully.’

      Kat

      1. Human pets
        I think that any article about a survey ought to tell the interested reader the list of questions, the percentage of results (yes, no, undecided), the number of participants and how they were selected. Otherwise, the reader is only getting a piece of the picture and conclusions can be erroneous. It should be written as if it was a science experiment because that’s exactly what it is. In this case, although humans as pets is mildly interesting, the survey is rendered completely worthless. I will give them the benefit of the doubt. I suspect that because several articles were similar this was a press release by the university and reporters were not allowed questions.

        Bill

  3. see no evil, hear no evil
    Hello,

    That Google story is disturbing, what is it with these companies once they’re listed at the stock exchange ? Out goes morality ! We only care about stockholders, the rest of you get lost.

    Btw Greg where’s the link to this Jones video ? Its as missing as a picture of that 4 legged chicken, im sure monsanto wants its poisonous hands on.

  4. Skulls found in Syria
    Although Danielle Stordeur, head of the joint French-Syrian archaeological mission behind the discovery, makes the educated guess that the decorated skulls were devoted “only to important individuals, chosen according to social or religious criteria,” she doesn’t offer possible explanations as to what function they served or even offer comparisons to skull burials in other cultures. Do reporters not ask these questions? Or do the editors/media owners think it’s not something the general public needs to know?

    To fill in that gap, here is a comparison from the Druid world, 7,000BC – 600AD. Druid leaders used skulls as learning/teaching devices because of their holographic resonation capabilities. Druids were able to willfully attune to any frequency in the cosmos by visualizing the photons in that frequency bouncing off the inner skull bones and vibrating the brain matter at the appropriate frequency range. This learning technique was passed to them by the Atlanteans who used quartz crystal skulls (yes, the same as the crystal skull in the news this year). This science of brain frequencies is employed by other societies that use skulls in their rituals (Skull and Bones).

    When the Druids realized the problem with this technique, i.e., that it alone would not give them the liberation they sought because it was dysfunctionally based on denying their feminine/birthing side – that balance resided in the Grail which they sought after Merlin gave it to Mordreth once he realized the problem – they buried their skulls in ditches and intensified their search for the Grail.

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