Posted in News on Jun 11th, 2008
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For years, conspiracy theorists have claimed that the U.S. Government has been developing tools and weapons that could force people to hear voices in their heads. According to a March 21st, 2008 article published at New Scientist, they were right. In a series of recently declassified documents, government officials admitted that they had [...]
Posted in News, Site Updates on Nov 26th, 2007
For all of you regular readers of Friday’s “This Week in the News” feature, I must apologize for missing last Friday’s news post. But really, it wasn’t my fault. The house gremlin struck again, and with a vengeance. It was the middle of Wednesday afternoon, and I was installing new memory in the old PC [...]
Posted in News on Nov 16th, 2007
This week in the news
Clinton Library Releases Files On UFOs
Under fire for its sluggish processing of files from President Clinton’s White House, the National Archives released files and photographs yesterday responding to 14 Freedom of Information Act requests from members of the public.
The records appear unlikely to contain any political bombshells, though there could be [...]
Posted in News on Nov 9th, 2007
This week in the news:
U.S. scientists unveil NASA’s secrets about cities on the Moon and microbes on Mars
The former manager of the Data and Photo Control Department at NASA’s Lunar Receiving Laboratory during the manned Apollo Lunar Program, Ken Johnston, has released quite a number of sensational statements recently in the USA. The specialist said [...]
Posted in News, Site Updates on Nov 8th, 2007
As I was perusing the daily news feeds looking for the news of the week, I ran across this: Zany bid for surreal immortality, from Reuters News. The thing that got me is this: the world that tends to label paranormalists as strange, odd, or weird, is the same world that venerates guys who can [...]
Posted in News on Nov 2nd, 2007
This week in the news:
New Mexico Spaceport: Open For Business
Work at the New Mexico spaceport has reached a milestone as facilities are ready to support the first rocket flight from the site–now targeted for July. Meanwhile, state planners have issued a request for proposals to design and engineer the scaled up Southwest Regional Spaceport, the [...]
World wide, conspiracy theorists and mass media alike are keeping a nervous eye on the United States, particularly in the post 9-11 political climate. Many fear that America is turning into a “Big Brother” state, with surveillance routinely conducted on citizens suspected of being terrorists. When we aren’t watching the U.S., we are decrying the [...]
Posted in News on Oct 19th, 2007
In the news this week:
UBC’s team seeks NASA space prize
A group of UBC students has designed a prototype that brings the futuristic notion of a space elevator one step closer to reality.
The 15-kilogram contraption, named Snowstar, is made of lightweight carbon fibre, honeycomb aluminum and high-tech solar cells. The students are taking Snowstar to Utah [...]
Posted in News on Oct 12th, 2007
Odd news I found this week:
Time Dimension to Become Space-like
The Universe is about to flip from having three dimensions of space and one of time to having four dimensions of space. That’s the conclusion of a group of Spanish astrophysicists who have calculated that observers inside such a Universe would see it expanding and accelerating [...]
Posted in Alt Science, News on Sep 26th, 2007
It seems that man did not invent the internet after all. Consider the following article, Clever plants chat over their own network from PhysOrg.com.
Recent research from Vidi researcher Josef Stuefer at the Radboud University Nijmegen reveals that plants have their own chat systems that they can use to warn each other. Therefore plants are not [...]