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News Briefs 22-05-2009

Posted by Turner Young at 10:50, 22 May 2009

…Is the sound of thunder delicate?

Did you hear that? Like a distant hum in the distance…
Forget the “R” months, eat an oyster while you still can.
Proof that Mars was shaped by water.
Did you hear that you can hear global warming?
Archaeologists hit the jackpottery in Al Quwain.
Turns out being a person may all be in your head... or wallet.
Oetzi, the Iceman in 3-D.
Future cities of the sea.
Comics, conspiracies, disinformation and magick, courtesy of Grant Morrison.
Archbishop(s) of Westminster take a big stick to the atheist crowd.
Got a question for SETI's Seth Shostak? Add it to the list for his live Space.com forum on May 26.
Junk DNA becomes less junky.
Ever wonder what it feels like to be an astronaut on the space shuttle fixing Hubble? Wonder no more...
He's ba-aack. Well, at least, his robotic friends are.
Vaya con Dios, John Michell.
UFO spotted over Colorado.
Data Storage… now in five dimensions.
Telling fairy tales about fairy tales.
From Korean food to waste to Swiss biogas.

Huge thanks and props to GT, RPJ and Perceval

Quote of the Day:

“Love is everywhere - People can you feel it?”

D. Betts

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Future Sea Cities

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Posted by Kathrinn on 23 May 2009 at about 13:11.

I am amazed! Nat Geo actually managed to put up an article that ALL fell on page 1! Normally they seem to reserve one solitary paragraph and put it on page 2, meaning you have to wait while all the advertisements reload before you can finish reading.

This so annoys me that I often go straight for the "Print" option, as then you get everything in one go.

Regards, Kathrinn

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The Archbishop of Westminster is a knob

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Posted by bladerunner on 23 May 2009 at about 15:33.

Really, how can any thinking person give money and time to the Catholic Church anymore? I was raised Catholic, and as a woman, couldn't stay. The money goes to create more misery. It is a death cult, not a life cult religion. The Archbishop went on to say in his sermon the atheists and secularist caused wars! Sorry sir, I've been reading a bit of history. And your church has caused and continued many wars. He then went on to say nothing about the latest findings about the church in Ireland. As I said, a knob.

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Religions, ideologies and war

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Posted by Richard on 24 May 2009 at about 11:58.

Apparently, humanity does not and has not suffered enough yet.

How much more and how more intense will the suffering need for the will to put things straight?

The plain fact is that humanity has no will to fix anything, but it does has much desire to gain by taking advantage of apparent opportunities.

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The Hum

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Posted by bladerunner on 23 May 2009 at about 15:37.

I've always heard electrical hums. When I was a kid I'd deliver papers to homes first where I heard the TV's and radio's hums coming from first. And before laser police radar, I could here it too! I love the end of the day, and camping trips. The hum fades away...