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Sorry, I completely missed the date -- I assumed it was current. Looked at a sky chart for March 2011 and no Venus, so there goes that idea. There were some other bright stars that would be visible after sunset and sink below the horizon later in the evening, but if Myself is sure that's not...

All the lights look out of focus, and I don't know the time/direction, but I have to ask: Venus? Currently it's in the western sky after sunset but sinks below the horizon later in the evening. I hate to suggest it because it's like the generic skeptic answer for every UFO sighting but it was...

I too lean toward the "deja vu" explanation. From what you say it's more like you have the sense of having gone through that part of your life before rather than e.g. waking up one morning and being back in high school. On a personal note, I'd almost envy someone who COULD live their life over...

I'm not quite as impressed as others here. It sounded like Sutherly hadn't prepared all that well for the interview, and his mispronunciation of some place names in Washington makes me think he did his research from a distance. That said, the story about Arnold and Maury Island is interesting...

I always thought "Fitzcarraldo" was the most accessible Werner Herzog movie.

I've had a few episodes of sleep paralysis, the first when I was a teenager more than 40 years ago. I never had a sense of any kind of presence or anything though, just of being vaguely aware of my bedroom and not able to move. When it first happened I remembered reading that the body is...

In some periods the knight on his horse, the cavalryman in his tank, the SEAL in his helicopter are invulnerable. But we now are in a time when a peasant with a bow, a guerrilla with a bomb, or an insurgent with a rocket has the upper hand. No big mystery.

Wandering a little OT, the left opposed LBJ before it opposed Nixon. And the alienation of the Left from the Democratic Party (essentially leaving the Left in the political wilderness) is part of the reason overall politics in the U.S. has drifted so far to the right in the last 30 years. That...

"I'm old enough to remember the life and times of Richard Nixon". Me too. But he was doing things to undermine the constitution that were far more serious than anything Obama is accused of doing (by the birthers anyway -- ask some leftists what they think). It's sad that in terms of policy...

What's sobering (actually maddening) is that people are still beating this dead horse. And I'm not even an Obama fan. We need a president who's really as far left has all the birther nuts say he is. Instead we have one who's more conservative than Nixon. He's done very little that's much...

For Christ's sake give it up already. If you can't handle the fact that Obama is the legitimate (however wrong-headed) President of the United States, move to Guatemala.

Conspiracy theories are twisted, occult versions of things that are happening in real life. "Mark of the Beast" without which you can't do business? Try renting a car or a hotel room without major credit, even if you have the cash. Bilderberg Group taking over the world? People like them have...

Hopefully he'll make a statement of his own. It seems odd -- a writer can withdraw from a subject by simply not writing about it anymore. No need to burn bridges.

Obviously if there is a God with the capabilities we usually ascribe to "Him" (Her/It/Them) "He" could devise a universe that "naturally" produces the results that He wants (whatever they are). In that sense the universe would have a purpose. But that is entirely a matter of faith. From a...

Newton's theory of gravity proposed that a single force could account for both the behavior of objects near the ground and the motions of the planets. These had previously been thought of as disparate phenomena. As Newton put it: “I deduced that the forces which keep the planets in their orbs...

I favor being able to delete posts. Yes, it can screw up a thread if people respond to something that's not there anymore. But I've posted some things (not so much here as in other forums) that after I've calmed down or sobered up I really wish I hadn't. Being able to delete them would have been...

Michael Allen makes a good point. Any number of situations can give rise to UFO reports. In the unsolved cases there may not be enough information to get any farther than "somebody experienced something weird". That doesn't give any basis to decide between various hypothesis.

"the wonderful successes of socialism in Cuba" Depends what you mean by success. Cuba has better life expectancy than any country in Central or South America, barely below that of the U.S. Its literacy rate is second highest in the world (behind Georgia). By these traditional measures of...

I remember an article from decades ago saying that the two main groups who were against safe nuclear power were anti-nuclear activists -- and the nuclear power industry. The first oppose nuclear power because they don't think it can ever be safe. The second does because they don't want to spend...

"WTF are we doing about it" Well, last time I checked, nations with land bordering the Arctic Ocean are moving as fast as they can to solidify their claims in anticipation that the polar ice melting will open up new shipping routes. Greenland is trying to increase its independence from Denmark...