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News Briefs 17-06-2010

By red pill junkieon

I’m gonna put on an iron shirt,
and chase Satan out of URanTia.

  • What if Dark Energy does not exist? We can always resort to the honored tradition of Medieval cartography 😉
  • Purty dust: Glorious vista of the Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253), taken from the Paranal Observatory in Chile.
  • The case of Jupiter’s missing stripe: SOLVED —by none other than Inspector Hubble.
  • The plan to create our own artificial sun —you may know it as ITER— is suffering from lack of funding.
  • How NASA can predict tsunamis —now, if they could find a way to predict… ah never mind.
  • Thar she um… poops? Sperm whale waste cleans the environment.
  • Video & Photos of the Hayabusa space probe, during its harakiri-style return to Earth.
  • Video: UFO over Yokohama, Japan.
  • YES: Science finally vindicates my grumpiness, Yipee!! But wait —this news is making me happier… Crap! (ah, that’s better).
  • Male menopause symptoms identified —one of those is “difficulty getting up from the chair”, so I guess I’m gonna sue Greg Taylor because TDG increases my menopause 😛
  • Mickey & Goofy having some fun with amphetamines —no happy thoughts needed for THIS flight!
  • Caravaggio’s bones found after 400 years —Dali’s sanity still missing.
  • Bones excavated in Magdeburg Cathedral in 2008 are those of Saxon Princess Eadgyth.
  • Looking for an Emperor: Mexican archeologists plan to make a tunnel to find the tomb of Aztec ruler Ahuizotl.
  • “Somewhere in France”: Newly discovered photographs throw new light on the bloodiest battle fought on the WWI.
  • Seven Sci-Fi weapons from tomorrow are here today —so go tell your grandchildren to surrender yesterday.
  • The world’s 18 strangest military bases. Alas, the SHADO base is not included.
  • The Pentagon’s newest project: The zombification of wounded soldiers —they should change the name to Pentagram, is all I’m sayin’…
  • John Carpenter’s The Thing will get a prequel in 2011. Hey, Hollywood: why not making a prequel of Krull while we’re at it? there’s still plenty a-milking available from my 80’s childhood.
  • 6 Reasons space travel will always suck —no movie during take-off?

Quote of the Day:

“Whereas positive mood seems to promote creativity, flexibility, co-operation and reliance on mental shortcuts; negative moods trigger more attentive, careful thinking, paying greater attention to the external world.”

Professor Joe Forgas.

red pill junkie
Agnostic gnostic, walking conundrum & metaphysical oxymoron (with emphasis in the 'moron' part), the mysterious RPJ leaves a double life: By day he serves as Grand Master of the International Sacred Order of Lucha Libre, but at night he pursues his life-long study of everything considered mysterious and/or 'paranormal' --a term he personally detests... When he's not exploring the web looking for his daily fix of Forteana, he can be found blogging, doodling, fooling around and offering his services as news administrator and writer at The Daily Grail. He also regularly participates in other websites and podcasts like Radio Misterioso and Where Did the Road Go? He impatiently awaits for the return of the mothership in Mexico City. absurdbydesign.com
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14 Comments

  2. bases
    I drove by a US Navy base in the Nevada desert some years ago. Didn’t know what it was until I saw the front gate. It was by a small salt lake of some kind.

    1. Well
      It was probably the Naval Undersea Warfare Center. Mostly simulators and training/development. Also in Nevada is Naval Air Station Fallon, where the Navy does it’s primary tactical air warfare training. Also home of the Navy’s Fighter Weapons School, TOPGUN. Friend of mine was XO of the school.

      One of the most lovely places I ever was stationed was Lajes Field, Azores, one of those in the article. It was a paradise, with beautiful weather (most of the time) luscious terrain, wonderful people and food. I have actually considered retiring there, in one of the small towns outside the base.

      However, it’s a tricky field to get into and out of, because one end of the runway is just short of some steep rocky cliffs, and there is a permanent crosswind.

      Other than that, nice place.

  3. Hayabusa
    Definitely and achievement by JAXA and their collaborators to bring back really interesting material. And with some difficulties along the way, even better to improvise to get things done. We need more of that.

    Let’s hope they got enough to yield interesting results.

    So now that the stuff is in Japan, they are contaminated as well as Australia, and will start acting funny too?

    I suppose also Hayabusa returning was not a UFO, because we knew what is was. Another technical question though – is it called a “flying” object when all it does is drop? Or does flying mean more control than that?

    1. Margaret Mead was an Alien
      We all here could try to encourage ‘UO’ instead of ‘UFO’ and see how far the idea can go.

      Might be fun — everyone here use the term ‘UO’, no matter how much their comfort levels want them to write or say ‘UFO’.

      Then think of the fun when the group splinters, and we would start having inter-faction rivalries.

      Hmm.

      1. You ain’t for around ‘ere, are you boy?

        Then think of the fun when the group splinters, and we would start having inter-faction rivalries.

        You must be new to the whole UFO scene. Otherwise you might have noticed that there’s nothing but inter-faction rivalries among UFO groups! 😛

        1. Dry humour
          [quote=red pill junkie]You must be new to the whole UFO scene. Otherwise you might have noticed that there’s nothing but inter-faction rivalries among UFO groups! :-P[/quote]

          I think that may have been the intended joke. 🙂

          2. Welcome to the Global Andy Griffith Show
            On days beginning with R.

            On days divisible by Pi, I’m working for El Nina Chupacabra Relevación. Please, won’t you help this much-maligned species?

          4. Good
            Just in time. I just received a notification from the Ministry of Incongruences: they intend to audit my oxymorons 😉

      1. falling
        I suppose falling would be considered flying if you can get the object to land in one piece, at the spot you intended.

        In the case of JAXA, they meant to “land” in Australia, perhaps a largish spot. And they did manage to land the piece they wanted to, and the rest are someplace else. A fine piece of work, although “flying”… in a technical sense I suppose. In common language, it’s more like a very accurate throw.

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