In a multiverse not far away, Peter Gabriel’s duet partner on “Don’t Give Up” wasn’t Kate Bush – it was Dolly Parton. Not sure even I believe in multiverse theory now…
- You live in the eternal past: secrets of time and mind.
- Jacques Vallee, on futures impossible.
- U.S. unveils its space war arsenal. Would have been totally awesome if they came out and said “that’s no Moon”.
- It’s been fifty years since the Betty and Barney Hill ‘alien abduction’. For some excellent info on this case, see the Anomalist Books anthology Encounters at Indian Head: The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Abduction Revisited (Amazon US and UK).
- German police seek help over mystery boy who says he’s lived in the forest for five years.
- Seven-foot-tall boxer hunts the Yeti. Yeti hunter vs Yeti might make for a fair fight.
- The History Channel comes under fire for adding aliens to the ancient.
- No-fly zones to be enforced around the Moon, to preserve important historical locations like the Apollo 11 landing site. Or to keep your prying eyes away from the alien cities made of crystal. You choose.
- Could a robot be conscious?
- A hard rain’s gonna fall – satellite to fall from the sky in the next few days.
- Pigeon-guided missiles and other inventions that didn’t quite fly.
- Seeing with the eyes shut: the neural basis of enhanced imagery following ayahuasca ingestion.
- Detecting covert consciousness in the vegetative state.
- Debating extreme human enhancement.
- Dwarf galaxies suggest dark matter theory may be wrong.
- If any of these kids have a wheelchair-bound friend named Charles, I say we act pre-emptively.
- Do we need sexy spacecraft names to inspire the public?
- David Brin on state secrecy and science fiction.
- Did Jupiter boot a Neptune-sized planet out of our Solar System 4 billion years ago?
- Black holes hide within the ash of the planets they massacred.
- Canada goes cryptid with its coins.
- Behold, the electric eel man.
- Images of the day: hearing-aids on steroids.
Quote of the Day:
My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything. If one can only see things according to one’s own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind. It’s only possible to see people when one is able to see the world as others see it. That’s what guerrilla ontology is — breaking down this one-model view and giving people a multi-model perspective.
Robert Anton Wilson