News Briefs 18-09-2012
Posted by Greg at 11:34, 18 Sep 2012It's good to hear the King (Animal)…
- A Martian eclipse.
- Alien camouflage: advanced extraterrestrial civilisations may be undetectable.
- NASA developing a real warp drive.
- Are we alone in the universe? We'll soon know.
- Skeptic Ben Radford debunked a non-existent 'ancient astronauts' documentary for Discovery.com.
- Fortean researcher Jerome Clark discusses the Unexplained(!).
- Should we upgrade the intelligence of animals? What an uplifting story…
- Crows have human-like powers of inference, study finds.
- Pi in the sky: pilots 'skytype' pi to 1000 places.
- Arctic sea ice melt may trigger extreme European winter.
- Distracted motorists have most accidents passing Stonehenge.
- Enormous Roman mosaic found under farmer's field.
- Slices of brain tissue can store patterns of activity for short periods of time.
- Determined to conform: Disbelief in free will increases conformity.
- DNA analysis alone could potentially generate a picture of your face.
- Live-tweeting an acid trip.
- Rupert Sheldrake discusses how scientific assumptions about materialism and consciousness have constrained us on the latest Skeptiko podcast.
- Zahi Hawass in more legal trouble?
- Image of the Day: Crocodiles…in the lounge room?!
Quote of the Day:
The beauties of the solid and material universe are but a part of the rich spectrum of existence. The one-tenth of an iceberg that is visible above the tideline of reality. Matter is that part of being that has crystallised, where the mind's light has petrified to concrete substance.
Alan Moore ('Promethea')
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21 January 2005
3 hours 31 min
"I opened a can of soda and it sprayed all over me and instead of getting mad I laughed because it felt good and new and weird"
6 April 2010
16 hours 11 min
he's seems very sober while do this, or maybe i've seen worse trips. Anyone else read his name as Gary Bussy instead of DeBussy? http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...
...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................
21 June 2008
3 hours 7 min
The essential flaw in our search for intelligent life is that we continue searching for ourselves using highly questionable assumptions, such as:
1. All intelligent life must yearn to explore the cosmos because we do. Therefore, star ships and space stations and communications signals to them that we can detect must be out there somewhere. But, it's entirely possible that space exploration is an urge unique to our species and isn't universal among all forms of advanced intelligence.
2. We're looking for advanced versions of mid-20th century human technology. Technology developed by an alien brain may very well be undetectable and unrecognizable to our mind set. It could be there in plain sight, but we're unable to conceive of a way to identify it because it's so far removed from what we know.
3. Technology equals intelligence because technology is a hallmark of intelligence in humans. We can't even begin to grasp the possibility that a very advanced civilization in another life form could also be low tech.
4. Intelligent civilizations must resemble those that science fiction created in 19th, 20th, and 21st century European-American literature, art, drama, film, and television. We are so wedded to images and concepts from that fiction, we are unable to conduct a truly objective search for extraterrestrial civilizations.
14 April 2009
3 weeks 6 days
Greg,
have you started channeling Promethea yet? ;3
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All that lives is holy, life delights in life.
--William Blake
12 April 2007
1 hour 32 min
Pfft! Bloody amateurs...
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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6 April 2010
16 hours 11 min
...no comment...
...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................