News Briefs 27-11-2012
Posted by Greg at 03:21, 27 Nov 2012Take me, from this lonesome place...
- SpaceX founder unveils plan to send 80,000 people to Mars.
- Readers join doctor on his journey to the Afterworld’s gates.
- UFOs to the ratings rescue?
- Stone builders, mound builders, and the giants of ancient America.
- Ancient microbes found living beneath the icy surface of Antarctic lake. And so it begins…
- The regeneration of Doctor Who: the great sci-fi series through the prism of Alan Moore’s Ideaspace.
- Pentagon says don't fret: a human will always decide when a robot kills you. Glad that we haven't dehumanised killing…
- Also: University of Cambridge to investigate the inevitability of a robot uprising.
- Saudi Arabia implements electronic tracking system to monitor women's movements. Why is my news briefs reading more and more like some bad Dystopian fiction?
- Enlightenment: is science ready to take it seriously?
- Moon rocks from first lunar landing found tucked away in government storage area. Beside the Ark of the Covenant perhaps?
- Or…
- Revealed: how the U.S. planned to blow up the Moon with a nuclear bomb to win Cold War bragging rights. (AKA, Project A119).
- Bigfoot DNA sequenced, "is a human hybrid". Skeptic weighs in.
- The top ten possible next steps in human evolution.
- Trapped in an elevator with a ghost.
- Your daily dose of disgusting: anaconda regurgitates a cow.
Quote of the Day:
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
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6 April 2010
21 hours 3 min
that was actually kind of cool. amazing it can stretch it's mouth out that wide, it looked more like it was giving birth. I imagine it hurt like hell though, the equivalent of a human puking up a Cessna :P
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
6 April 2010
21 hours 3 min
So then it's half human and half Sasquatch? That...um.....that's an interesting Saturday night. Though I can't imagine the human part was willing :P
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
18 September 2007
5 hours 17 min
I am pretty convinced that Squatches are an ET breeding project which might also explain the relatively sudden appearance of the genetic alterations. For that matter homo sapiens sapiens is probably also a breeding project, so trying to apply the usual long genetic time tables to these hominin lines is futile. Try telling that to a professional Skeptic though. The criticism that the coding would have been too sudden needs to at least consider the possibility that outside agents of high technology may be involved with the genetics.
6 April 2010
21 hours 3 min
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
18 September 2007
5 hours 17 min
I am not a fan of this show though I have bumped into a few episodes that were good. Ranae is a scripted skeptic, ie she "plays" the skeptic even when it is absurd to be taking a skeptical stance on something. Her skepticism therefore makes skepticism look idiotic at times. The back and forth between her and the rest of the crew is often hokey sounding. She very often ignores common sense because she is supposed to be playing a foil. This is a really irritating feature of many TV reality shows. Everyone is playing a scripted role. A skeptic is always supposed to be a skeptic because that is what she is supposed to be doing. The advocates for Sasquatch can sound equally fake too. This pre-scripting and role playing lend a surreal air to shows like this and damage the public perception of the field research. This show also plods along and gets embroiled in all sorts of sluggish sidetracks and padding. I realize the need to pad - they have to fill time slots - but they often over pad and slog along doing not much of anything.
6 April 2010
21 hours 3 min
that's why i don't watch this show much either, like you i just "bumped" into a few episodes when nothing else better was on. it's sad :P
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
18 September 2007
5 hours 17 min
Hey guys - how about we loosen this up a bit more?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...