In 1969 the first humans set foot on the surface of the moon. We continued for a total of six successful trips there and back putting 12 men and a pretty cool lunar rover on the surface. According to some we have returned because: Did you ever wonder why the Moon landings stopped and why
READ MOREAccording to some, the Bible has Adam, of Garden of Eden fame (or notoriety depending on your perspective) living 930 years. Methuselah 969 years, Moses 900 years and so on. Heck, if you are going to take the bible literally that is half the age of the Earth right there in the lives of three
READ MOREAccording to an announcement today from Nasa posted on Space.Com A massive particle detector mounted on the International Space Station may have detected elusive dark matter at last, scientists announced today (April 3). The detector, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), measures cosmic-ray particles in space. After detecting billions of these particles over a year and
READ MORE“The public should be able to detect cases where things seem implausible,” Church said in an interview at his office at Harvard Medical School in Boston. “Everybody’s fib detector should have been going off. They should have said, ‘What? Who would believe this?’ … This really indicates that we should have scientific literacy.” From a
READ MOREA recent article on MIT Technology Review talks about the Harvard Medical School geneticist George Church and his crazy plan to clone a Neanderthal baby. And all he needs is a willing woman to be the baby’s surrogate. GenomeWeb caught what must be an interesting Q&A with George Church in Germany’sSpiegel Online (I can’t personally attest to
READ MOREGiving hope to all who search for Cryptids the Architeuthis, also known as Giant Squid is now on camera. Once relegated to “fish stories” brought home by sailors going back to Aristotle, architeuthis has been known known to exist based upon dead specimens and body parts that wash up on beaches since the mid 19th
READ MORE“It’s kind of spooky,” she said. “Some say it’s foxes, some say it’s a female coyote and some say it’s Sasquatch. I don’t know what it is.” The Oregonian newspaper posted an article about a series of strange howls that have been emanating from the murky swamps of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. Most of the
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