Thursday, November 11, 2010

Headlines below the fold

Uh oh: There are two big bubbles of energy at the core of the Milky Way.

Leading to these impressive quotes from important scientists about the phenomenum:

“They’re big,” said Doug Finkbeiner of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, leader of the team that discovered them....

“Wow,” said David Spergel, an astrophysicist at Princeton who was not involved in the work.

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What caused that contrail off of Los Angeles?
probably a plane, but never mind. It's more fun to claim it was a UFO.
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Priest performs "exorcisms"..actually he's just blessing homes.

Lots of my Native American patients have their homes blessed, knowing that battles were held nearby. Nor are these beliefs limited to the Osage: my German great grandmother did the same when she had "poltergeist" phenomenum in one of her homes. She claimed it was a poor soul in purgatory asking for prayers, and it worked.
In "new age" jargon, the prayers helped the poor soul to "enter the light" and leave the earthly plane.


as a doc, I have no opinions, but it did seem to work.
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One result of the terrible 1881 forest fires in Michigan was that they uncovered the Sanilac Petrographs links HERE and HERE.
PHOTOS

This Photo from Michigan DNR

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and finally: it's PIGS IN SPACE:



scientific explanation here.

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