Author: m1k3y

Though NASA’s StarDust mission flew through the tail of comet Wild2 in 2004, no craft has ever orbited one. Rosetta will orbit its target at a leisurely walking pace, searching for a landing spot. Things will get even more exciting in November, when the robotic lander Philae (illustrated) detaches from the mother ship and becomes the first spacecraft to land on a comet.

Philae will anchor itself with a harpoon before starting to dig. An on-board lab will analyse the scoops of rock and beam the results to Earth. Like asteroids, comets are thought to preserve material from the birth of the solar system, 4.6 billion years ago. Comets contain water, so the chemistry of the scoops could reveal whether our oceans, and a bunch of molecules necessary for life, came from comets smashing into early Earth.

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So much of the world is casting around for a new map of reality, as this materialist/banking/spook/hydrocarbon warfare one has been found extremely wanting. The majority of the population is punchdrunk from the last twelve months of revelations of things you and I have always known. If you do or say nothing at this juncture, then eventually their drunkenness will wear off, replaced by the sobriety of the old materialist map.

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Cat Vincent’s Treadwell Talk: Slenderman: Fight Fiction With Fiction

Ian ‘Cat’ Vincent talks about the origins and evolution of the modern mythological monster, Slenderman. And drawing on his own experience, and the works of Alan Moore and Grant Morrison, how to fight it.

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The tree-dwelling dinosaur Dixon dubbed the “Nauger” was unlike any known dinosaur. Part woodpecker and part aye-aye, this dinosaur pecked holes in trees in order to snatch grubs with a specialized, elongated finger, but in 2002 two different teams of paleontologists described two specimens of a strikingly similar dinosaur. Known as Scansoriopteryx, this tiny dinosaur possessed a ludicrously elongated third finger, and a paper by a team of Chinese Academy of Sciences paleontologists led by Fucheng Zhang suggested that this dinosaur may have been using this digit to skewer insect larvae much like the aye-aye and Dixon’s hypothetical “Nauger.” These scientists also proposed that Scansoriopteryx may have been one of the few arboreal dinosaurs, although the paleobiology of this creature has not been thoroughly studied yet (via “Alternative Evolution” of Dinosaurs Foresaw Contemporary Paleo Finds [Slide Show]: Scientific American Slideshows http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=alternative-evolution-dinosaurs-foresaw-contemporary-paleo)

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Who is pulling the strings? Who is behind the coverup? Who holds the real power, and what do they want? How deep does the conspiracy to control your mind go? In this episode we discuss the history, social impact, neuroscience, and psychology behind conspiracy theories and paranoid thinking. Our guests are Steven Novella and Jesse […]

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