From ancient death rituals to futuristic spaceplanes all in one list. Only TDG News can do this – we refresh the parts other news sites don’t reach.
- An inventor is attempting to re-create daVinci’s “impossible machine”, which he says was a robot.
- The president of a creation apologetics group says the dwarf skeleton of Homo Floresiensis may confound evolutionists, but it is easy for creationists to explain.
- The same group have a comment on the recent National Geographic special on evolution vs creationism (as reported by Greg a couple of weeks ago). Here is a possible solution to the controversy!
- A recent report for the U.S. Air Force on teleportation has been criticised by sceptical scientists.
- Boeing and Northrop Grumman are to collaborate on a design for the space shuttle’s replacement.
- A spacecraft propelled by a solar sail will be launched in March of 2005.
- New excavations at Qumran help to explode the myth that the Essenes wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls.
- The latest installment of the BBC’s “Planet Under Pressure” wonders whether we can meet our energy needs without destroying the planet. Particularly horrific is the Chinese environmental abuse.
- Mining the Moon is the gateway to Mars, says a group of specialists.
- A 13th Dynasty wooden coffin has been unearthed in Luxor.
- How do you clean depleted uranium up from a battlefield? Tumbleweed, of course.
- It’s the 25th anniversary of a notorious Scottish alien abduction attempt.
- Secret German cult in Chile breaks 43-year spell to reveal it’s secrets at long last.
- The X-34 hypersonic scramjet is to get it’s last public appearance now that it has been handed to DARPA.
- An example of how politics has muddied the global warming debate as one faction critisizes another faction for saying that global warming is an anti-US conspiracy by Europe.
- How coping with the forces of darkness can shape your office or business.
- Scientists have long pondered the hows and whys of physical attraction, but I think they don’t really have a clue.
- Does Utah have it’s own Area 51? If it did, would the Pentagon admit it to a news reporter?
- I had to look twice at this website for the University of Birmingham, UK’s new Cryptozoology Dept.
- The architect who used automatic writing to guide restoration of a historic church and was then written out of it’s history himself.
- Now heres the kind of moral value I could back – France introduces chemical castration for sex offenders.
- Questioning orthodox opinions about the neolithic cult of the head.
- The Maori hunted the Giant Moa, a huge flightless bird, to extinction – but it may have been dying out anyway.
- Way back in 1981, the Chinese publication “Nature Journal” reported well documented instances of children teleporting objects several metres.
- Changed weather patterns mean some Australian cities may run out of water, but as long as they don’t run out of beer, no worries.
- An influential moderate muslim argues that the West and the Internet are the battlefields where the struggle to modernise and democratise Islamic societies will be fought.
Quote of the Day:
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle
