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News Briefs 18-11-2010

By red pill junkieon

THIS is how the Close Encounters mother ship would really sound like!

  • Take us to your leader dip: Tortilla-shaped UFO filmed in UK.
  • Sci-fi comedy film reignites Nazi UFO debate. But what’s the truth behind the Wunderwaffen program?
  • Hypersonic jets: the only way to fly —to Mars.
  • Press Release: Antimatter atoms produced and trapped at CERN. Dated “Geneva, 17 November 2011”?? Seems Time is unravelling already.
  • Organs of nuclear workers secretly harvested for 40 years —AFTER they died, one hopes…
  • Worm mongering? Variants of the Stuxnet cyberweapon likely, senators told.
  • Jet lag may cause stupidity. Good! we’re tired of being fondled by the TSA anyway.
  • How we got smarter than the Neanderthals: by growing slowly. Something nice to tell yourself if you’re still living with your parents.
  • Entheorchitecture: Ancient temples designed for tripping. Also read Mike Jay’s triptastic Darklore essay Enter the Jaguar.
  • New evidence that the Vikings arrived to the New World 500 years before Columbus.
  • Iceland’s big volcanic eruption triggered by weird plumbing . That’s probably because Vulcan is NOT a plumber, but a blacksmith.
  • Something’s rotten in the state of Denmark, and that’s the corpse of Tycho Brahe.
  • The top ten famous expeditions into uncharted territory —like me whenever I go on a date!
  • ‘Glamorous’ new glowing squid species found. Hmm… not so glamorous (or glowing) after dead, methinks.
  • Sleeping with spiders in the name of charity.
  • Guillermo del Toro —or one of his MANY clones— will create a new Hulk TV series.

Thanks Greg & Kat.

Quote of the Day:

“Instead of looking at the screen, what I want to do is to turn around and look the other way. When we look the other way what we see is a little hole at the top of the wall with some light coming out. That’s where I want to go. I want to steal the key to the projectionist’s booth, and then, when everybody has gone home, I want to break in.”

Jacques Vallée

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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19 Comments

  1. anti-atoms…….wow !!!!
    so they have traped 38 anti-atoms….not bad considering they have yet to actually see an atom in real life….lets see, their going to trap these things with magnetic energy. That would make the energy field, whether pulsed or wave form or resonance, smaller then an atom. That would open up a whole new field of reserch right there…..So, anyway, whats to stop this field of magnetic energy interfering with the “electron” orbiting the nucleus of the anti-atom. Now anti-matter is surposed to annihlate matter on contact, sort of a mutual distuction, cancel each other out.
    So it would appear that magnetic energy is neutral to anti-matter. That is another whole new reserch…..

    It all sounds a bit sus to me….what are they really doing at CERN apart from telling stories……..

    1. Hmmm
      First, an anti-atom wouldn’t have an electron orbiting its nucleus, it would have a positron.

      A magnetic field is not composed of matter. It’s pure energy. That’s why it can interact with the antimatter without the danger of annihilation.

      And also, atoms have been already photographed using field electron microscopes.

      [PS] Here’s a photo gallery released by CERN

      1. Hmmmmmm and….
        firstly, the pictures are of clusters or molicules of hydrogen not am atom, singular. The pictures from the field electron microscope are of fuzzy clouds of electrons….not an atom. To get a picture of an atom the composition of the equipment would have to be smaller then an atom…big problem there.
        So if magnetic field is pure energy, then what is it made of ? Also how can it interact with only 1 atom?

        1. Fuzzy wuzzy

          The pictures from the field electron microscope are of fuzzy clouds of electrons….not an atom

          Well, if you’re expecting to see the classical concept of a “mini-solar system” with the sun (the nucleus) being surrounded by orbiting moons (the electrons) I’m afraid you’re asking the impossible.

          Atoms *are* fuzzy clouds of matter, composed primarily of empty space.

          So if magnetic field is pure energy, then what is it made of ? Also how can it interact with only 1 atom?

          I dunno… energy? 😉 I don’t know if magnetic energy could be interpreted in the same way as its electromagnetic counterpart —i.e. being assumed as either a wave, or particles (photons)— some Physic theories talk about gravitons, but I’ve never heard of magnetrons! 😛

          And I guess it can interact with only 1 atom, the same way it can interact with a whole bunch of them.

          I guess these experiments are important because they are trying to discern the main differences between pure energy, and its “heavier” cousins (matter and antimatter). But I admit this is now getting way over my head.

          1. and yet
            “Well, if you’re expecting to see the classical concept of a “mini-solar system” with the sun (the nucleus) being surrounded by orbiting moons (the electrons) I’m afraid you’re asking the impossible.

            Atoms *are* fuzzy clouds of matter, composed primarily of empty space.”

            and yet they teach this as fact in schools………..

  2. What we knew and then didn’t…
    Re: New evidence that the Vikings arrived to the New World 500 years before Columbus.

    It does seem likely that North America was ‘discovered’ on several occasions prior to Columbus.

    There is a very good argument for the Chinese exploring the west coasts of both North and South America. Then of course there are the Vikings… but also cases that can be made for ancient Phoenicians and even Pharaonic Egyptians. A little less painted are possible expeditions by the Templars and before them, the Romans.

    Oh, and lest I be fallen upon for my oversight, there are the ever-present Atlanteans as well.

    Ahem. Did I miss anyone?

    We used to dig fossils of various types of ancient sea life from the huge piles of deep sediment left when the river channels were deepened and widened along the coast. Our favorite were the onyx-black sharks’s teeth but we also found remnants of crabs and other non-identifiables in the same mix.

    One can stare at these incredible remains and wonder what the creature that once owned them saw during its life when it was walking, crawling or swimming around.

    On one occasion, we were sniffing around in what we initially thought might be a Mississippian refuse pit on one of the barrier isles, and stumbled upon a human skull. But it was later carbon dated to be about 2,000 years old… which led us to wonder what that person knew of the world around him/her, during the time of Christ, that has since long been forgotten.

      1. more discoverers
        There is also this vague theory that a bunch of people walked over from Asia, and/or came over along the northern coastline in boats. Supposedly these people formed settlements and (later) built pyramids and stuff.

        But that’s all hog-wash, with no basis in science. There were never any sort of “natives” in the Americas.

        1. I bless the rains down in Africa

          “There were never any sort of “natives” in the Americas.”

          No, apparently not. If we buy into current evolutionary doctrine, we all can trace roots back to a small muddy oasis in Ethiopia.

    2. The Templars & the ‘New World’
      Following the persecution of the Templars in France, their entire fleet of ocean-going vessels disappeared and was never found.

      They holed up in Scotland for a while, then did another disappearing act.

      It is interesting that their battle flag was the Skull & Crossbones, and, as every school-kid knows, that was the flag flown by the pirates of the Caribbean that hassled and harried the Spanish gold ships with huge success.

      Hmmm!! Don’t think there’s too much doubt where they disappeared to or whether they visited the land across the Atlantic!

      Regards, Kathrinn

      1. Images
        Well, those images are not related to the recent sightings. One of them is from the famous Belgian flap of the 1990s.

        Maybe these new UFOs are some sort of new surveillance drone. Although witnesses claim the Dorito UFOs are massive in size.

          1. Big mofos
            Triangular UFOs have often been reported as being *very* big. Like football-field big!

            Sure, there’s the uncertainty of judging distances to take into account. But it seems that, if these are secret aircraft —and there’s an argument for that, because triangular UFOs have been reported for decades, and modern avionics permit exotic triangular shapes nowadays, only because there’s the necessary computer systems that assist the pilot control such an inherently unstable frame— they are intended for things other than surveillance.

          2. Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane…

            “Triangular UFOs have often been reported as being *very* big. Like football-field big!”

            I heard some speculation that the larger… say, colossal triangles may be nothing more than military dirigibles/blimps/airships. I saw one video that was advertising some of the new generation airships that pointed out that the actual shape of the thing can be changed in mid-flight to create alternative flight configurations and lifting surfaces, using a computer program that pressurizes various gas spaces to different levels.

            A helium or hydrogen filled triangle could be very large. In fact, I really don’t think there would be any limitation to the size. And depending on propulsion, aerodynamics and any internal support structure, one of them could conceivably move quite fast.

            Just a thought on your subject…

          3. Zooom!

            And depending on propulsion, aerodynamics and any internal support structure, one of them could conceivable move quite fast.

            It would be interesting to know just how fast. A blimp architecture might explain the ability to hover in mid-air and stay stationary for prolonged amounts of time. But those rapid accelerations and decelerations reported in some of the most famous cases —like the Belgian flap, when interceptor jets were launched to pursue the UFOs, and were unable to match their speed and maneuverability? That’s harder to explain.

            But I’ve no doubt that the USAF has some very hush hush projects that could explain a significant percentage of sightings… in US territory at least.

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