Not signed in (Sign In)
Categories
- Main Junction
- CROSSED
- London Zoo
- Freakangels
- Music
- Printheads
- Culturegasm
- Web Nuggets
- WorldWeird
- Blogs
Welcome, Guest
Vanilla is a product of Lussumo:
Documentation and Support.
WorldWeird: [Closed] NEWSTRANGE -- the Informus Thread (January 2013)
Bottom of Page-
-
CommentAuthordorkmuffin
- CommentTimeMar 3rd 2013
-
-
-
CommentAuthor3millionyears
- CommentTimeMar 4th 2013
-
-
Norway shuts down The Pirate Bay's bandwidth, TPB moves to North Korea.
It's The Onion's world, we just live in it. -
And in other news, Lockheed is talking fusion power in four years.
-
- CommentAuthormagnusisasillyname
- CommentTimeMar 4th 2013
-
-
CommentAuthor3millionyears
- CommentTimeMar 5th 2013
Soviet war veteran found in Afghanistan after 33 yearsA Soviet soldier who went missing in Afghanistan nearly 33 years ago has been found living with Afghans in the western province of Herat.
-
-
-
CommentAuthorindysleaze
- CommentTimeMar 5th 2013
Hugo Chavez is dead -
-
-
CommentAuthor3millionyears
- CommentTimeMar 6th 2013
-
-
-
CommentAuthorOsmosis
- CommentTimeMar 6th 2013
The fusion power presentation was extremely interesting. Potentially species-level implications, if they are right. I remember an Irish start-up with grand plans for a magnetic energy generation device that was going to change the world, and, oh yes, they were looking for venture capital .... One is inclined to take Lockheed Martin Skunk Works more seriously. -
-
- CommentAuthor256
- CommentTimeMar 6th 2013 edited
Drone Buzzes Jet Over New York City. This sort of feels like it should be the first page of a William Gibson novel. Or perhaps Black Mystery Drones are the new breed of UFOs. (If hysterical drone sightings haven't already happened, come to think of it, I feel certain they will.)
Salts From Europa's Ocean Reach The Surface. This is the strongest evidence yet that Europa's ocean is energetic enough to exchange minerals (and, presumably, water) with the surface ice. Interestingly, this finding came from data collected by Earth-based telescopes - I don't know if NASA's Juno probe (en route to Jupiter now) will be able to follow up the observations, or if we'll have to wait for ESA's proposed Icy Moons Explorer to do that. -
-
CommentAuthorGreasemonkey
- CommentTimeMar 6th 2013
-
-
-
CommentAuthorD.J.
- CommentTimeMar 9th 2013 edited
-
-
-
CommentAuthorjohnjones
- CommentTimeMar 9th 2013
I guess they let the wrong one in... -
-
-
CommentAuthorFoamhead
- CommentTimeMar 9th 2013
@ johnjones: -
-
-
CommentAuthorTF
- CommentTimeMar 9th 2013
:-D -
-
- CommentAuthorWood
- CommentTimeMar 10th 2013
Sephardic Jews invited back to Spain after 500 yearsBefore the infamous Spanish Inquisition of the 15th Century, some 300,000 Jews lived in Spain. It was one of the largest communities of Jews in the world.
Today, there are about 40,000 or 50,000 - but that number could be about to swell dramatically.
In November, Spain's justice minister Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon announced a plan to give descendants of Spain's original Jewish community - known as Sephardic Jews - a fast-track to a Spanish passport and Spanish citizenship.
"In the long journey Spain has undertaken to rediscover a part of itself, few occasions are as moving as today," he said.
Anyone who could prove their Spanish Jewish origins, he said, would be given Spanish nationality. -
- CommentAuthorArgos
- CommentTimeMar 11th 2013
^^Yeah, they've been doing that with pretty much all Spanish descendants. My mom was able to get Spanish citizenship even though she was born and raised in Mexico, and if I moved to Spain I'd qualify for citizenship after only 2 years cos I was born in Mexico.
