Archive for August 1st, 2012
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Spanish judge hits out at US over Assange
Yahoo!7 News A controversial Spanish judge has criticised the US investigation into WikiLeaks, saying the grand jury process that could lead to charges being filed against the secret-spilling site's founder is undemocratic. Baltasar Garzon, a human rights lawyer best known … |
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Sarasota Herald-Tribune (blog) Formed in 1951 during the Korean War and headquartered in Japan, the 6004th sent its operatives behind enemy lines, interrogated POWs, analyzed gun-cam footage and examined foreign technology, among many other things. As retired USAF colonel and … |
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No doubt the 6004th Air Intelligence Service Squadron was an elite kickass unit. Formed in 1951 during the Korean War and headquartered in Japan, the 6004th sent its operatives behind enemy lines, interrogated POWs, analyzed gun-cam footage and examined foreign technology, among many other things. As retired USAF colonel and historian Michael Haas wrote, its skills “were so unique that never since has the U.S. Air Force attempted — or been allowed to — duplicate an organization like the wartime… Read More »
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Crop circle in Lincoln County, Washington. (Credit: KHQ)
A crop circle appeared in a Lincoln County, Washington wheat field on July 24. The appearance of this pattern follows an active crop circle season in England. And while crop circles appear all around the world, they typically appear more frequently in England, making this latest U.S. crop circle even more of an out-of-the-ordinary occurrence.
The field in which the crop circle appeared is located approximately five miles north of the eastern Washington town of Wilbur, and is owned by Greg and Cindy Geib. The Associated Press (AP) describes that nearly an acre of wheat was flattened to create the pattern resembling a four-leaf clover.
KHQ-TV, the local NBC affiliate, was the first to report this crop circle. And, according to the station, crop circles appear in that county’s wheat fields “about once every couple years.”
Some crop circles are quite mysterious, which leads to speculation about possible extraterrestrial involvement, while other crop circles are simply man-made pranks. But according to the AP, the Washington crop circle shows no visible signs that anyone entered the field. Cindy explains, “We’re trying to figure out how they got out there without breaking any of the wheat. It’s hard to walk through the crunchy wheat and not knock it down.”
Farmers who own fields where crop circles appear are usually unhappy when they discover the patterns of flatten crops because they lose hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars worth of crops. But Cindy seems to be taking it quite well. As she told the AP, “You can’t do anything other than laugh about it.” She also stated, “Of course, we don’t have alien insurance.” Fortunately for the Geibs, however, some of the flattened wheat will reportedly be salvageable when they harvest.
The creators of this crop circle are unknown, but Cindy thinks it would be “pretty cool” if aliens turned out to be the responsible party.
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Knighthoods, UFOs and creative Olympic punting
MarketWatch (blog) Danny Boyle's celebrated production of London 2012?s opening ceremony could cost bookmaker William Hill some 25000 quid (000). That's if the British director is knighted before the end of the year. Before the Olympic Games got underway, the odds of … |
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Why we should look for extraterrestrial 'bubbles' in neighboring galaxies
io9 Why we should look for extraterrestrial ‘bubbles’ in neighboring galaxies There's been an exciting shift in scientific thinking about life beyond Earth recently. Extraterrestrial-seeking group SETI has started to recognize the importance of … |









