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I agree with some of what Kunstler says, especially about aesthetics. I really hate the "sprawl." But I disagree with some of his techno-fatalism, and I think it's almost a cop-out to preface his aesthetics on his techno-fatalism. Even if we had "Mr. Fusion" machines that gave us near...

You know, there's been these persistent stories at the fringes and in some conspiracy literature of things like this going on right here in our "advanced" Western society. Things like animal and human sacrifice, ritual child abuse, etc. performed by people in pursuit of wealth and power through...

The "recession generation" spending less for life is a good thing. The reason we're in such a mess is because we've been spending more than we make. Debt is destroying the middle class, and we're squandering our resources on waste too. Your kids will be richer if they spend less.

Most annoying conspiracy theories? The vaccination conspiracy theories, since this sort of quackery actually kills people. I'm mostly referring to the histrionic "vaccines cause autism" hype. The 9/11 "truthers"... I do believe there are issues with 9/11, but the truthers just distract...

You have made a courageous choice! You forgot Whitley Streiber. Ever listen to Whitley's "Unknown Country" show? What a great big cargo ship full of new age bullshit! Oh, and it's spo-ken-in-that-sli-mey-new-age-gu-ru-way to put-your-brain-to-sleep and make-you-more-sug-gest-i-ble. I don't...

skunkape: Interesting... though it would be more accurate to say that they looked spherical. Of course, they could also be an entirely different method of propulsion altogether, though one that still generates light as a byproduct. I had another thought after posting that. A disc-shaped craft...

This might have been suggested by others, but I've often wondered if the bright lights surrounded by rings of "silly looking Christmas lights" often seen on UFOs could be the propulsion system. A likely propulsion system for such a craft, at least at low speeds, might be something like an ion...

Good post here: The UFO Iconoclast(s): THE GENERAL'S WIDOW: A ROSWELL TELL-ALL by Anthony Bragalia

A blog called Forgetomori just scrolled across my RSS reader with a skeptical take on this case: The Horror: Guarapiranga case | forgetomori Anyone know enough to comment?

I sure hope this "smoking gun evidence" isn't more evidence of extraterrestrial JPEG compression artifacts... If the images have ever been compressed, you can't magnify them... the only thing of value you could see on compressed images would be something very large... much larger than the DCT...

Makes you wonder how shallow their research is in every other area...

I agree to some extent with some of the responses so far, but technology is only a small fraction of what I was getting at. I just emphasized it because I'm very into technology, so technological innovation and commercialization is a cultural indicator that I really notice. But I was really...

It's a question I've asked many people, so I'd like to ask it here... The post-WWII era seems to have been an era of incredible optimism. In the 1950s we were trying to go to space and talking about zipping around the planets with nuclear rockets. If you go back and read scientific...

I don't know about Gene and Dave, but I sort of agree. Both the left and the right are completely full of crap, so it's not fair to just bash one side.

There's a "money quote" in this show: Why do we always assume that they're going back? All sorts of space travel, even things like traveling to Mars, becomes orders of magnitude more practical when you ditch the concept of a return voyage. The most practical Mars colony proposals I've seen...

Fascinating: Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: A Blueprint For A Quantum Propulsion Machine I think it's appropriate to post science articles here that could impact our thinking about what UFOs are and, if they are "nuts and bolts," how they might work... Once again we encounter this idea...

Haha... totally... yeah you wouldn't want to even approach a populated world with one of those pogo sticks from hell. Come to think of it though, there are many UFO stores of people getting radiation sickness (Cash Landrum, a bunch in South America) that make me wonder if somebody didn't vet...

Yes, I forgot about NERVA, which is the other highly plausible nuclear rocket design. It's a bit less ambitious than Orion but also might be considerably cleaner and safer. But man, Orion would be like... AWESOME!#$!! I'd love to see someone do a realistic render with realistic audio of what...

It's annoyingly split up as many such videos are, but I think this is a must-watch for everyone here. I consider it a must-watch because IMHO it completely debunks the "you can't get here from there" line that you hear so often from dogmatic debunkers. The truth is that you could almost go to...

I've had similar thoughts myself. Technological progress is not some linear ladder that moves forward always at the same rate and in the same direction. It's more like a web of serendipity guided partly by chance and partly by economic factors. It's more like evolution in that respect. You...