News Briefs 23-03-2011
Posted by Rick MG at 12:14, 23 Mar 2011Enjoy!
- Looters stripping bare Latin America's archaeological heritage.
- Mithraic Roman altar unearthed beneath cricket pavilion.
- Spring equinox: almost everything you need to know.
- The Norse Goddess Ostara & the spring equinox.
- Celebrating spring with Persian food at elevenses.
- How ironage hillforts used fire to communicate. Dramatic reenactment.
- Filming of The Hobbit has begun. Looking good, Pete!
- Mysterious tiny doors appearing around San Francisco.
- Using the LHC to send a message to the past or future.
- Damning evidence linking naval sonar to whale beachings. More.
- Dr Karl Shuker searches for the elusive leopard-tiger.
- Skeptic Benjamin Radford will expose El Chupacabra. PZ has mange?
- Did aliens create the Maya Calendar? It's not what you think, skeptics!
- Physicists explore lower dimensions of the universe. Quantum pub crawl?
- Based on Kepler data, there are 2 billion Earth-like planets out there.
- Why MUFON's rapid response UFO investigation team collapsed.
- More UFOs seen in Mexican skies.
- Maybe RPJ was playing with a remote-controlled flying saucer.
- Robert Hastings talks about UFOs at nuclear sites.
Thanks Greg.
Quote of the Day:
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
JRR Tolkien
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22 November 2004
3 min 36 sec
See, I told you. These little doors are part of the conspiracy to reduce the size of the population.
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We are the cat.
12 April 2007
3 hours 45 min
It's quite possible that some of those UFO sightings are caused by US drones flying over the border to spy the going-ons of the drug cartels. However, the reported UAVs used by the US government do not have the capacity to hover*, and even if they did, I seriously doubt they would send them in formations.
(*)Maybe the US is sending other type of UAVs along with the big plane-like drones, capable of more covert and specialized surveillance. Drones like the ones shown in Mark Pilkington's blog post.
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
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23 March 2011
2 years 8 weeks
I have often read about the Mayans measuring the length of the year by the differences in the length of the days. I can't help but wonder - just what is the difference in the length of the days in this part of Central America. It just seems to be very close to the equator. I would it to be fairly hard to know exactly which day was the shortest unless you measured every day for several years.
This would make their calculations to be even more amazing to be able to project so far into the furure.
If your not living on the edge, your taking up too much room!
12 April 2007
3 hours 46 min
I can't help thinking on how the quote of the day takes an ironic overtone, when you consider that Jackson not only threatened to take the production of The Hobbit to Eastern Europe on account of disputes with the acting unions and such; but also that the striking differences between the Peter Jackson of 2001 and 2011, might be best explained by one of the posted comments —"I guess he eliminated "second-breakfast" from his diet." ;)
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
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8 April 2006
2 days 13 hours
I have, for many years now, been of the opinion that we need a new calendar.
I propose a calendar of 13 months, each with 28 days. No more odd numbers and partial weeks. We have a 364 day year. At the end of it, we take a 1-day (plus a few hours, minutes, etc) break that doesn't count, and then start the new year.
That keeps all the calendars aligned, days and time accounted for, and everyone has a good time. 4 weeks to the month, 13 months to the year, and heck, we could align it to the lunar cycles if we wanted to. Keeps the women happy, too, you know? :)
Respects,
Gwedd
8 April 2006
2 days 13 hours
I don't buy the idea that US Navy sonar is in any way responsible for whale deaths, beachings, etc.
The US Navy has used the same frequency ranges for decades now, as have every other country. It's based upon what frequencies best work based upon a variety of factors, including temperature, pressure and salinity of the water.
The Russians, the Chileans, the Germans, the French, the Argentinians, the Chinese, EVERYONE uses the same frequency bands and varying power settings. If the US Navy were causing these problems, why haven't they occurred elsewhere?
I call BS.
Respects,
Gwedd