Bigfoot is still a mythic animal. The two Georgia country boys, Matthew Whitton and Rick Dyer, have admitted that the Bigfoot they found was actually a rubber costume. They were found out during the scientific verification process. Not really sure why people would do something like this, and think they will be able to get away with it or make money off of it. Especially since Whitton, a cop, will probably lose his job or at least be disciplined. Kind of a stupid, juvenile decision. Check out the story on CNN and a complete breakdown of the whole hoax at Searching for Bigfoot.
Supposedly two men from Georgia found Big Foot. Hmmm, I dunno how much I believe this, but later today, specifically at 12:00 PM (Pacific Time I believe although they didn’t specify), they will be unveiling their find to the world. Also scientist are already checking the DNA of the animal to verify their claim, and this will also be presented tomorrow. I’m smelling a big time hoax, or some animal that got all mutated because of toxic waste. Anyways here are the critical stats for the animal:
*The creature is seven feet seven inches tall.
*It weighs over five hundred pounds.
*The creature looks like it is part human and part ape-like.
*It is male.
*It has reddish hair and blackish-grey eyes.
*It has two arms and two legs, and five fingers on each hand and
*The feet are flat and similar to human feet.
*Its footprint is sixteen and three-quarters inches long and five
and three-quarters inches wide at
the heel.
*From the palm of the hand to the tip of the middle finger, its
hands are eleven and three-quarters inches
long and six and one-quarter inches wide.
*The creatures walk upright. (Several of them were sighted on the
same day that the body was found.)
*The teeth are more human-like than ape-like.
*DNA tests are currently being done and the current DNA and photo
evidence will be presented at the press
conference on Friday, August 15th.
For more information, and to read the whole story check out Searching for Big Foot or CNN. I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to this announcement, and I almost hope it’s a joke. It would be one of the best hoaxes ever.
I hope you can see this, because I'm doing it as hard as I can.
Ok in honor of the X-Files coming out this week, I am going to post this story via AICN. This is a conversation between Dr. Edgar Mitchell, a former Apollo 14 astronaut, and someone from Kerrang radio, in which Mitchell claims that aliens exist, and that the government has been covering it up for 60 years. Cool stuff or maybe the ramblings of a Professor Farnsworthesque crazy scientist. Who knows maybe walking on the moon for over 9hrs just completely makes a person insane, or maybe he has seen shit that we only think exists in the X-Files. Story here, and more news coverage here, here, here, and here, if you’re interested.
Traditionally considered a work of fiction new astronomical findings have suggested that The Odyssey might be more grounded in reality than previously thought.
Now scientists have pinned down his return to April 16, 1178 B.C., close to noon local time, according to astronomical references in the epic poem that seem to pinpoint the total eclipse of the sun on the day that Odysseus supposedly returned on.
But being good scientists they decided to check other astronomical signs that are mentioned in the epic, and they found that all the other astronomical signs amazingly point to the same day.
The scientists then searched for potential dates that satisfied all these astronomical references close to the fall of Troy, which has over the centuries been estimated to have occurred between roughly 1250 to 1115 B.C. From these 135 years, they found just one date satisfied all the references — April 16, 1178 B.C., the same date as the proposed eclipse.
“That’s just one day out of about 50,000 days,” Magnasco told LiveScience. “If our findings are correct, it would be pretty spectacularly strange. How could Homer have known about this eclipse, about planetary positions that happened some 100 years before him? If this is all true, it would change the timetable of what we think they knew about astronomy then.” Homer, if he really existed, is said to have composed the “Odyssey” sometime near the end of the ninth century B.C.
Maybe it’s just me, but I love stuff like this. By the way if you haven’t read The Iliad or The Odyssey,you should put that on your to-do list. Check the full article here.
Well it might be a bit of a stretch to call The 6th Day art, but it looks like life is following it’s lead.
BioArts International has launched the Golden Clone Giveaway, in which one lucky dog lover will be selected to have his or her favorite pooch duplicated from DNA.
I honestly wish something like this was around when I was a kid, and my parents could afford to blow $100,000 on something so frivilous. Instead I had to learn the hard way that animals and people die.
Seriously I know this seems like old new, but it’s not. The status of Pluto has once again been changed this time to a plutoid. This is the third different classification of Pluto is the last year or so which is making it hard for teachers, but I’m sure publishers love it as it gives them a reason to put out yet another revision.
Pluto was once a planet. Then, a dwarf planet. And as of last week, a plutoid. The fall from grace has teachers, parents and educational publishers struggling to keep up, while kids remain loyal to their favorite, the ninth planet. Underscore planet.
So I am here to say that I am with the little kiddies on this one. Fuck yooo you nerdy, googly-eyed scientists, I am going to continue to call Pluto a planet. Check it here.
Caught wind of this story via The Daily Dish. We truly are living in an incredible age. Scientists are now on the verge of creating a completely new type of oil from bugs:
the genetic alteration of bugs – very, very small ones – so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil.
Unbelievably, this is not science fiction. Mr Pal holds up a small beaker of bug excretion that could, theoretically, be poured into the tank of the giant Lexus SUV next to us. Not that Mr Pal is willing to risk it just yet. He gives it a month before the first vehicle is filled up on what he calls “renewable petroleum”. After that, he grins, “it’s a brave new world”.
The best part of this is that is renewable, and the bugs will be eating our waste and producing oil that will be interchangeable with current oil.
The company is not interested in using corn as feedstock, given the much-publicised problems created by using food crops for fuel, such as the tortilla inflation that recently caused food riots in Mexico City. Instead, different types of agricultural waste will be used according to whatever makes sense for the local climate and economy: wheat straw in California, for example, or woodchips in the South.
All I can say is that the sooner something like this frees us from our dependence on the Middle Eastern oil reserves, the better. Check it here.
