Article Archive for September 2009
Stone Circles – Mostly Just Ritual Space?
I was just watching a documentary (Standing With Stones) on the stone circles and burial chambers of Ireland, and they started off with Carrowmore in County Sligo. It seems that the very first standing stones …
Pygmy Hippos in Cyprus – Eaten to Extinction?
Once again I suspect that archaeologists are making false assumptions when studying piles of bones.
Half way down a cliff on Cyprus’s southern coast, researchers dug up thousands of remains of the animal which is thought …
John Cusack Impersonates Indiana Jones
Over at MTV is a complete scene from the forthcoming 2012 movie that perhaps provides some clues as to the tone and style it will have. What we see is a roller coaster ride where …
GPS Failure in 2012?
It wouldn’t be a total catastrophe, but it could certainly cause lots of trouble for transportation systems that rely on GPS, especially passenger airlines.
Existing satellites are ageing, and replacements are behind schedule and over budget, …
Farewell Sunspots?
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/03sep_sunspots.htm?list1302321
Because I know that is has happened before – the Maunder Minimum was a period between 1645 to 1715 where sunspots were very rare compared to today – I am quite concerned that the decline …
Fireproof concrete for bunker construction
Not the most sizzling headline, but may just save you from being sizzled. Ready for public consumption just prior to 2012…
The geopolymer, developed by William Rickard and a team from Curtin University of Technology, can …
Pyramid / Meteorite Coin – A 2012 Collectible?
Imagine living in a post-2012 apocalyptic world, due to our planet colliding with an asteroid…
Now, imagine showing your children this, to help explain what happened:
Not only does it show the orbits of the planets, and …
Teenage Sex Before The World Ends!
Imagine what will happen in the months leading up to Dec 21 2012….
[Australian] high school students allegedly filmed sex acts while believing that the Large Hadron Collider was about to end the world.
…Two students aged …
Leader of the Post-2012 World – Last Chance to Play!
The (Sony movie tie-in) contest ends in a few days, but it’s not too late to join in:http://www.instituteforhumancontinuity.org/election/
Tip: don’t use any browser other than IE – games can crash and therefore you are unable to …
