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UFO markings
A collection of markings seen on the sides of UFOs, from a 1972 issue of FATE magazine. Much alleged ET-language is clearly psycho-scribble from the darker recesses of the mind, but some of these markings look almost like ID numbers, …
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Littered Skies
A graphical representation of the incredible amount of debris orbiting the Earth. Space junk, including debris from China’s recent missile test on a weather satellite, may well account for at least some of the strange lights (and more) seen over …
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Homeland Security plumbs new depths
The Lancet 2007; 369:370 Correspondence Homeland security reaches the anus “I wish to bring to your attention difficulties one of my patients recently encountered when entering the USA. He is a 48-year-old man with a fistula-in-ano managed with a long-term …
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Air Force pursuing antimatter weapons
Program was touted publicly, then came official gag order Keay Davidson San Francisco Chronicle Science Writer The U.S. Air Force is quietly spending millions of dollars investigating ways to use a radical power source — antimatter, the eerie “mirror” of …
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Ball Lightning in the lab
Ball Lightning Mystery Solved? Electrical Phenomenon Created in Lab National Geographic January 22, 2007 Brazilian scientists may have solved a shocking scientific mystery by creating ball lightning in the lab. Physicist Antonio Pavão and doctoral student Gerson Paiva of the …
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Behold the heat ray!
Ray gun makes targets feel as if they are on fire January 25, 20070, CNN Thanks Anthony Matt! MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Georgia (AP) — The military’s new weapon is a ray gun that shoots a beam that makes people …
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Mental health helped by birdsong
By Arifa Akbar The Independent, 20 January 2007 Birdsong has a powerful healing effect which can improve mental health and benefit hospital patients, according to a health expert. Dr William Bird (!), GP, who is a health adviser for the …
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Chicago UFO draws major news coverage
A recent news release concerning a UFO sighted over Chicago’s O’Hare airport last November has been drawing news coverage worldwide. Some people seem surprised, but it’s an interesting case with multiple witnesses, many of them aviation professionals. And, if we’re …
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New Architeuthis rex caught on video
Japanese researchers have pulled up a decent sized giant squid and caught its final struggle on video. Sadly the squid died during the process, making it a great xmas present for us, if not for squid-kind. Thanks Anthony Matt!
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Older than the Sun
Older than the sun, the meteorite scientists call ‘the real time machine’ Ian Sample, science correspondent, Friday December 1, 2006, The Guardian As lumps of rock go it looks much like any other, unexceptional despite the deep red of its …
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Antikythera Mechanism was astonomical computer
Ancient Greek artefact was an ‘astronomical computer’ By Steve Connor, Science Editor Independent, 30 November 2006 An astronomical instrument built by the Ancient Greeks in the 2nd century BC has turned out to be a complex computer for calculating the …
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Microgravity experiments with water
Ever wondered what astronauts do to kill time in space?… Thanks Alistair Strachan!
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