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Those weird features on Mars recently surveyed by NASA57;s super-powerful Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have uprooted Arthur C. Clarke57;s view that vegetation might be at work on the red planet (www.livescience.com....f-fiction/)
This gallery of science fair projects is partly funny, partly cringe-worthy, and partly petty and annoying. Some of the projects are weird, but some of the entries are simply mocking the appearance of the kids … and as a former70;70 (www.photobasement.com....periments/)
Weird science enthusiasts will come out of the woodwork to convene in Phoenix , Arizona, this weekend at an alternative energy conference given by the International Tesla Society Inc. The 1998 Tesla Technology Series will feature an array of hard-to-believe science and technology demonstrations - including a car that does not produce exhaust. (www.wired.com....8/04/11898)
Then we have short legs linked to strokes. Strokes occur in the brain, and they are linked to short legs. That is weird. What could cause that? The article doesn't say, and no scientists is guessing what it could b (blogs.guardian.co.uk....ry_21.html)
So, if there is a creator, I bet he's peeved about this weird misrepresentation and understanding of his ways, but then, he's only got himself to blame (blogs.guardian.co.uk....er_11.html)
Does anyone else think it's weird that the picture at the top of the article is of tons of super soakers? Isn't that completely tangential to this story? I'd think this story is compelling enough without attaching some gimmicky factoid to it. Come on, PM. (www.popularmechanics.com....43793.html)
, a team of NASA researchers is building a fleet of weird and wonderful robots that may one day go where no human - or other robot - has ever gone before (www.wired.com....5/03/66804)
Weird things can start happening within families, so we looked to see if there was any evidence of this kind of selfish behavior within the colony , explained Goodisman, whose projects are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) (www.sciencedaily.com....134545.htm)
There's a town in coastal Maine called Owatannauk. Yeah, big deal, you say-there's a ton of coastal towns in Maine with weird names. That doesn't mean that Maine isn't boring. (You say). (bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com....e_fiction/)
By 2056, weird astronomical observations may have led to radical new fundamental physics, and people will be tampering with the human genome, which should be fun (www.newscientist.com....-forecasts)
Way back in 1873, some dude named Sir William Crookes noticed some weirdness in a scale he built. It appeared as though some samples weighed more or less depending on if sunlight was shining on the scale. Weird! He postulated that it was the pressure of the light being exerted on the scale that modified his results (www.thinkgeek.com....ence/9bec/)
It's easy for people to just believe in these weird myths because it stops the thought process from rationalizing reality and that is too difficult for most people to grasp. Ignorance is blis (www.switched.com....-god-spot/)
Does anyone else think it's weird that the picture at the top of the article is of tons of super soakers? Isn't that completely tangential to this story? I'd think this story is compelling enough without attaching some gimmicky factoid to it. Come on, PM (www.popularmechanics.com....?series=15)
3.The actual air pressure would be 30psi PLUS the pressure of the atmosphere at your elevation. We live in Colorado. Probably it57;s our high elevation and the weird things the lack of air pressure and less oxygen in the air do to the cars that has kept NASCAR away for far too long. (tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com....ence-quiz/)
Have you ever noticed that smart, interesting people have weird technical hangups? Often, they take a good idea to its logical conclusion in such a manner that it dominates their lives. For instance (jjinux.blogspot.com....-have.html)
Easy, just take a look at any fossil. I think the problem here is you have a weird idea about these supposed 'transitional types'. They are not a special type of creature, they are just normal everyday creatures. Basically this idea of transitional types in a misunderstanding. The fossil record is full of examples of species at various stages in evolution . Every one is a 'transitional type' between one stage and the next (blogs.guardian.co.uk....ry_11.html)
By the logic here, the sun could just turn off altogether and we'd have little to worry about because "Solar influence on climate is slight compared to the impact of man-made greenhouse gases.". Surely this is just a poor choice of words and should read something like "variations in magnetic flux have only a slight influence" or something. It is this kind of Freudian slip, though, that makes people think that proponents of anthropogenic global warming are way out ahead of the actual science and, instead, are getting wrapped up in some weird gaia-worship ideology (www.popularmechanics.com....48062.html)
I found it funny at first, but after awhile the laughter got stronger and stronger and it got very annoying. It was then I realised I was dreaming and I was aware of what position was sleeping in my bed, but I couldn57;t wake up. It felt as if i needed to turn over in the real physical world to wake up. So I was trying to control my body through my dream to wake up, took me about 10 mins before I finally turned over and woke up, weird eh (listverse.com....-problems/)
JMurf, Mr. Mojo: I have sleep paralysis and it sucks. It57;s like I wake up, I know I57;m mentally awake but my body won57;t move at all and it57;s a struggle. Another weird symptom about it is that I start having these very realistic dreams/hallucinations, not like regular dreams, like I would swear I57;m awake and someone is really in my room talking to me but it57;s not the case becauase I realize I can57;t move. Even though I get it frequently and it57;s been happening for years (it really didn57;t start til I was about 18 for some reason) it still freaks me out. It happens if I only get a few hours of sleep, like if I take naps which is why I don57;t take naps anymore (listverse.com....-problems/)
I made up an awesome explanation for dreams (clearly made up though) there are an infinite amount of alternate universes and an infinite differnet versions of ourselves, when we dream our minds come into contact with these other conciousnesses. This is why dreams almost always seem weird and impossible for this reason, as they are many different thoughts mixed in at once. I don57;t believe this is the case but I bet I could make other people believe this though (listverse.com....-problems/)
You left out the part when the Worldcon committee back in the early-mid 1960s tried to ban Walter Breen, the husband of Marion Zimmer Bradley, from attending the comvention simply because he was, you know, a convicted child molester. This caused a group of fans to get up all in arms and DEMAND that Breen be allowed to attend the Worldcon. There was a lot of vitriol thrown around, all in the defense of a man who was convicted child molester (and would later die in prison in the 1990s following yet another aggravated child molestation conviction ), with the upshot being Breen was basically allowed to attend conventions for the rest of his (free) life even though everyone knew he had multiple convictions for child molestation, simply because no one wanted to raise a stink and make sci-fi fandom look "weird" to outsiders (io9.com....convention)
BL: We have handled most of the influential first editions and manuscripts of the Hugo and Nebula award winners . For a time we were actively seeking these novels and manuscripts and managed to acquire most of those that had not ended up in the trash. It’s much harder to corner the market like that these days with so many more sellers specializing in science fiction than when we started. My personal favorites, though, are the one -of-a-kind items; we always make an effort to try and find the most unique items available. Recently we had some original Margaret Brundage “Weird Tales” covers in, and though I don’t have the exact number in front of me there are maybe 18 of these originals left intact. It’s very exciting to have items like that come into the store. (www.abebooks.com....evin.shtml)
I really thought the movie was good, it was just weird thinking that all of humanaity could die out due to a viruse. I am not saying there would be "Vampires " or "Dark-Seekers" Just the movie got me thinking that humans will most likely do something to screw this world over for good. Also, #16 and 17, although this is a movie, something like this could actually happen in therory. I have 3 predictions on how humanity will end; Global Warming, Nuclear weapons, and possibly a viral extermination. All in all, I am worried for what is to come in the future, cause we are destroying this world. (www.popularmechanics.com....36920.html)
I really like the old Intel Play microscopes, you can find them on eBay for $20. They really weren't meant to work on Macs, but you can grab this tool miXscope and you're pretty much good to go. While the microscope isn't professional grade, it does have 3 zoom levels and a light, so I usually use it for some electronics and weird experiments here are some picture of it in action, images it can take and feature (blog.makezine.com....ce/21.html)
"We live in this weird time, this kind of age of prohibitions, where in many areas of our life we live life constantly against the law. Ordinary people live life against the law, and that's what we are doing to our kids. They live life knowing they live it against the law. That realization is extraordinarily corrosive, extraordinarily corrupting, and in a democracy we ought to be able to do better.do better, at least for them, if not for opening for business. (www.boingboing.net....rit-2.html)
“This was a bizarre, fascinating experience for the participants it feltabsolutely real for them and was not scary. Many giggled and said, ‘Wow,this is so weird’.” He said that when he took part, he felt himself movesuddenly out of his body. “I see the object coming towards me, feel thetouch, then ‘boof!’, I feel a striking sensation that I’m over there lookingat myself.&rdquo (www.timesonline.co.uk....317316.ece)
Giegengack is a slim man of medium height, with a prominent nose and a very high forehead. I traded my hair for eyeglasses, he's been known to say. In this weird late-fall weather, he's dressed as if he might run off for a round of golf or a sail — khaki pants, striped dress shirt (short-sleeved) and boat shoes. His name is pronounced GEEG-in-gack, and over the nearly four decades he has taught at Penn, students have developed the habit of simply calling him Gieg. (www.phillymag.com....se_gasbag/)
The mission 's most spectacular moment occurred in December 2004, when its tiny Huygens probe separated from its mother craft, Cassini, and headed towards Saturn's main satellite, Titan, the only moon in the solar system with an atmosphere. Several weeks later, it parachuted down to a landing on its surface and returned close-up images of this weird, distant world (www.guardian.co.uk....andplanets)
I think that The Last Days will get a better reception if it is introduced as a companion to Peeps , rather than as a sequel. It has a totally different format and Cal only appears after almost two hundred pages. That said, I also think it should be read after Peeps, because of the background - without having read Peeps , the reader would only know that there's something weird and creepy and dangerous and possibly vampiric going on in New York City. Which I guess could be fun, too. So really, things could go either way (bookshelvesofdoom.blogs.com....e_fiction/)
Horror fiction is the literature of the unnatural and supernatural , with the aim of unsettling or frightening the reader, sometimes with graphic violence . Historically it has also been known as "weird fiction." It commonly deals with the nature of evil , psychological, technological, and fantastic . Undead and supernatural creatures like vampires and zombies are popular horror motifs. Classic works like Frankenstein and Dracula and the works of Edgar Allan Poe helped define the genre (www.search.com....ce_fiction)
2006 was the year for doing weird, silly and just plain daft things in space. In February, an old Russian space suit filled with clothes was shoved out of the International Space Station. This was the cosmic equivalent of taking out the rubbish and the zero-g Guy Fawkes eventually burned up in the atmosphere as planned. In July, a Las Vegas property magnate called Robert Bigelow launched an experimental inflatable space hotel. The unconventional inn in the sky was crewed by cockroaches and Mexican jumping bean moths. And finally in November, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin hit the longest golf shot in history from the ISS. A Canadian golf manufacturer paid for the stunt (www.guardian.co.uk....06inreview)
S. Elieff from Canada writes: one thinker and Darren X3: You don't need these instruments to disprove the notion that the Earth is only 6000 years old. The most basic physics and chemistry has already done that. People will always believe weird things. I wouldn't except these telescopes to change that (www.theglobeandmail.com....ience/home)
So how does this weird whale relative thing fit in? Well, it doesn't. Think about it people! I mean clearly the whale-deer thing couldn't hold its own in the snowball fight right? But it totally would have hid from the snowball fight in its underwater caves and lived and now where is it? A fossil? Gimme a break, if this creature existed, it totally would be rockin' hard still today! Unless it is still hiding in its secret underwater caves.and then it only comes out once a year, like at Christmas or Easter.I mean has anyone actually seen the Easter Bunny? Couldn't it be the Easter Whale-deer thingy? (www.theglobeandmail.com....ience/home)
As odd as it seems to us, people believed for hundreds of years that certain species could be grown from nonliving materials. Some people, for example, thought that if you put worn, sweaty underwear in an open jar with some husks of wheat and let it sit for a few weeks, the sweat from the undies would penetrate the husks of wheat and turn the wheat kernels into (are you ready?) mice. Weird, huh (www.factmonster.com....ethod.html)
George Johnson recounts how he encountered a clash of world views , and one foreign to his own: anthropologists in Arizona. His bhTV interlocutor, John Horgan, is dead on, too: the anthropologists' criticisms of Diamonds ' two books ARE contradictory. They are not interested in Johnson's simple universal patterns, but in exceptions . Talk about a weird world! (www.radicalcontrapositions.com....ence/feed/)
"Weird Science " The Wall Street Journal editorializes, "The 30th anniversary of Earth Day is about to sprout, and putting our ear to the ground, what we hear is that this one will be remembered for whether ABC News allowed the world to see Leonardo DiCaprio interview Bill Clinton about the state of the environment. Various complainers have objected that this exercise isn't sufficiently serious. Well, in the spirit of the age, we say, let the show go on! As if the official stewards of environmentalism hadn't stopped worrying a long time ago about whether they were being rigorously serious. Want an example? Try Chlorine Chemistry Council and Chemical Manufacturers Association v. Environmental Protection Agency, Natural Resources Defense Council et al. It doesn't get any better than this." (www.junkscience....apr00.html)
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