Author of THE UNITY SEQUENCE. Doing the right thing for Alderaan reasons since 2012.
Hey folks, just checking in to say hello. Preparations for the big day are ticking along nicely, and in just one week I’ll be a married man! After that we’ve got a few more days in the UK, then we’re heading home to Brazil for a week’s honeymoon in the spectacularly-named Jericoacoara.
It’s a hard life.
I’ll be back on August 9th, when normal service will be resumed:
Remember the mysterious UFO-shaped object from a few days back? Well it seemed to get a bit weirder when it was found all electrical equipment (allegedly) stops working when near it.
“The Swedish divers, who call themselves the Ocean X Team, claim the object is giving off electrical interference that keeps foiling their attempts to investigate it. “Anything electric out there — and the satellite phone as well — stopped working when we were above the object,” said diver Stefan Hoberborn in an Ocean X press release.”
Bunk, says some dude from the Mars Space Flight University via MSNBC.
“In this case, the team clearly has a lot to gain from an extraordinary claim,” he said. “Mr. Lindberg is already making plans to take ‘wealthy tourists’ down in his submarine to view the object. If he had used a rock hammer to break off a small piece of the object, a geologist could have determined whether it was a pillow basalt in a few minutes. But if it turned out to be a pillow basalt and not a ‘mysterious UFO-like object’, Mr. Lindberg wouldn’t have much of a business plan, would he?”
A few cool snippets today. The first is this video on how humanity, despite what you might think, is actually pretty awesome sometimes. (Via io9.)
In related (kind of) news, I also came across this article on redOrbit
“The iBrain device being developed by Philip Low, a professor at Stanford, is a brain scanner that measures electrical activity.
“We’d like to find a way to bypass his body, pretty much hack his brain,” Low said in a statement.”
Which would be awesome – the more precious science we can extract from Hawking’s magic brain the closer I am to having a jetpack or being able to teleport to Hawaii. And finally, back on io9:
“Scientists have determined that a giant gas cloud is on a collision course with the black hole in the center of our galaxy — and the two will be close enough by mid-2013 to provide a unique opportunity to observe how a super massive black hole sucks in material, in real time.”
Which is a perfect excuse to link to this:
Not that I really needed one.
Best. Intro. Ever.
This is a bit freaky.
‘A Swedish expedition team has found an unidentified object at the bottom of the Baltic Sea, leaving some to believe it’s the remnants of an extra-terrestrial ship…The object had an egg shaped hole leading into it from the top, working like an opening. On top of the object, they found strange stone circle formations, which resembled small fireplaces. The stones were covered in something that resembled “soot.”’
Full article here, and just for fun here’s an artist’s impression:
(Image courtesy of http://vaghauk.deviantart.com.)
DAN HARRIS: 10% SCI, 90% FI 