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It's interesting how difficult it is to figure out an event that is well-documented and that everyone agrees has some mundane cause. Goes to show how much more difficult it is to find answers for most "paranormal" events, which usually don't have either feature.

Here's a longer version of the video: Mysterious missile launched off California coast? Another site that posted this claims it's an airplane leaving a contrail, but near the end of the video you can see what looks like the object itself [?]. It really doesn't look like an airplane to me.

The Germans had a weird pattern of tactical brilliance and strategic stupidity. Besides the obvious hubris of thinking they could beat the combined forces of every other advanced nation, if you compare the small-scale German atomic research programs to the Manhattan Project, or their fragmented...

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"almighty man was at the pinacle of technological evolution" Well, no, that's not actually what SETI scientists think. They tend to believe that we're at the primitive end of civilizations that might be detectable. Where they may be wrong is in thinking that advanced civilizations will just...

Some of these ideas have already been tried, albeit on a small scale. There have been efforts to find Dyson Spheres and ET probes at Lagrange points. Currently Harvard University has an observatory looking for laser signals. And SETI scientists are trying to work out ways of detecting...

I heard this today on one of my favorite radio shows, Car Talk: Car Talk Listen to Segment 9. The caller's car stopped running, and while she was sitting there stranded, a "very white" man wearing white clothes driving a white car comes by and tells her "start it up". She tries starting her...

I don't think the U.S. orchestrated 9/11, but historically we've done things that made something like it inevitable. And after it happened certain people with an agenda took advantage of it to get things (widespread surveillance, imprisonment without trial, Iraq invasion) that they'd wanted for...

"I am not sure what your point is with this link." It's a concrete example of how nations bordering the Arctic Ocean are moving to take advantage of the very non-theoretical melting of the icepack, a result of global climate change. You asked the question.

"WHERE the plans are for adapting and benefitting from this theoretical global warming scenario? " http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/11/sea-change/7072/ Countries bordering the Arctic Ocean are scrambling to assert territorial claims that will be useful for port facilities and...

Article with more links (repeats some of the above): Guest Post: Reappearance of Huge Plumes of Oil is Making It Hard to Pretend that the Problem Has Disappeared naked capitalism

Thanks for the link, alzo. I had no idea devices like that existed back then (if you say "1928 electronics" I think "big boxes with vacuum tubes").

Just ran into this on another blog: Guest Post: Gulf Oil Spill naked capitalism I hope it's wrong but I'd bet it isn't.

IIRC, in Tim Powers' novel "Three Days to Never" Chaplin builds a time machine. As far as I know this isn't based on anything the real Chaplin was interested in, but it's an odd connection. Wikimedia Error Edit: At this link, Powers says the Chaplin bit is based on some research Powers did on...

One reason I'm for federal action is that I'm old enough to remember when this was big news: George Wallace Opposes Intergration History.com Video However clumsily or incompletely, historically the federal government has been the main force protecting the rights of every American, often in...

To address one point you make: Personally I think the federal government needs to play a much larger role in making sure every American has the basic services and opportunities they need for a decent life. But if that turned out not to be the case, I'd be for smaller government. I don't...

IIRC, there was a Supreme Court case that upheld the right of religions to practice animal sacrifice. It has to be done in a way that's not intrusive on non-participants though. Even assuming the animals were killed as part of a religious ceremony (doubtful) scattering the carcasses on the...

The kind of debate you suggest assumes the people involved share the same basic goals. In the case described in the video, both sides want the golf tournament to be a true test of skill and fair to the participants. They just disagree on how to get that. In U.S. politics today, one side is...

I don't know about most Europeans, but we in the U.S. could use some of that French spirit. Flat wages for the last 30+ years, and now thanks to the Bush Depression unemployment in real terms (the way they measured it in the 1930s) at 22%. No left to speak of at all (no, "Hoover" Obama isn't a...

"the quickest way to separate someone from the belief that the Bible is the literal word of God is to force them to actually read it" For the sake of argument, take the Bible as the Word of God. So maybe God's not as simple as some people say He is. Maybe he doesn't want His Word to have a...