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Five things we don't understand:

quantum entanglement, gravity, protein folding, quasi-period crystallization, mystery rock movement in deserts (Why can't someone just put a satellite phone and webcam on a observation box and solve this once and for all?)

No, there were lots of local jobs.

Look at how the airport was built.

http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Denver_Airport.html

Ok, explain to me this: how does mutilating your nose help in any way with vitiligo? I've seen African-Americans with the disease before, they just have patches of pigmentless skin. Any sufficiently wealthy individual could simply apply a cosmetic solution, like a darkening cream. God knows movie stars and singers have no shame about modifying themselves to fit someone's definition of 'pretty'. I just don't get it...how does a handsome young man voluntarily change himself into this mutilated freak? There's this bizarre idea that because he had a pigmentation disorder on certain parts of his skin, that this entirely justifies him disfiguring his face. WTF?

None? At least in the U.S.

Head on over to Google Maps and start looking up things like Bangor, WA, which is a major Trident Nuclear Sub base. Feel free to explore both the street map and the satellite view to compare.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=bangor,+wa&sll=44.662793,-68.720169&sspn=0.363355,0.892639&ie=UTF8&ll=47.715537,-122.739601&spn=0.085929,0.22316&t=h&z=13

Notice what Microsoft's mapping gathered from there? Oopsie!
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2007/09/04/microsofts-mapping-service-uncovers-top-secret-us-submarine/

Maybe browse a website dedicated to secret U.S. military bases?
http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Bases.html

The U.S. and the rest of the world, especially the major powers, have dealt with satellite overviews since the 1960s. Anything real interesting is underground and out of view.

Lots of military facilities (including a detainment camp) down there. http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Denver_Airport.html

I know that there exist special treatment plans for people who get pre-qualified -- a *terrible* idea, because whenever you establish a low-security access route people figure out how to exploit it, and then you have the nogoodniks in the 'trusted' category, making a bad situation worse.
The Hilton thing could've been interesting, actually, because she was apparently going through security when her little fracas broke out: while going through airport security, she started taking off her clothes. *I* had hoped that it was a surrealist protest about the stupidity of airline security, but that's giving her wholly undeserved credit for intelligence, alas. (But wouldn't that be cool, if people just started stripping in protest?)

At the closest international airport, Denver International, there's a chunk of the parking garage that is inaccessible -- one part of one level walled off on all sides and access only through big, remote-controlled doors, and none of the elevators will stop at that level without a special key. I assume that's the rock-star parking lot, but I'm sure conspiracy freaks have something even better (since some of them think there's a whole underground government complex somewhere beneath DIA.)

The question is whether or not global warming is a man made phenomena? And indeed it's true that this question is emotionally and politically charged. Whenever this question is asked though, I hear very few relevant responses. Indeed, it's as if this has become a religious debate, with the only answers being the same circular type that we're used to hearing in nearly all religious debates.

Look, I'm with you guys, lets clean up the environment. Lets rid our oil dependency. But what if global warming actually is a natural phenomena?

I hear the typical argument "better safe than sorry". Well, if global warming is indeed being caused by the sun, which also seems to be warming Mars, then where will your argument get us if we focus our resources on energy only to find out that there's nothing we can do about it? The question must be answered before it can be solved!

If this is a natural, irreversible phenomena, then we're all screwed unless we figure out ways to protect ourselves from a potential extinction level event. And laughing at the skeptics while we focus narrow mindedly on prevention might just get me and my two children killed in the long run. And for what? To prove you're right? C'mon, this is science for crying out loud, we're never right, and that's kind of the point! You can't sweep the questions under the rug and call it science!

And here's a long shot for everyone who believes our government can do no evil... If you knew the world was doomed, would it benefit you to tell the people? Think riots, mass hysteria, war, etc. Would it not be better to save as many people as you can, while still keeping things quiet? And do you think the people would accept the notion that you're using OUR resources to save, well of course, your own ass, family, and friends? You simply couldn't tell everyone that global warming is irreversible, instead you would need a smoke screen. A smoke screen that hides your intentions, while giving people a sense of hope at the same time would be ideal. And c'mon, public lotteries to determine who lives is for the movies!

Indeed, this is a horrible thought, and you may think yourself better than to resort to this type of plan, but do you really think your neighbor, guy down the street, or public officials would give a rat's ass about you if it meant saving their own necks? Sadly, this is a plan that I myself might think of if it meant my own survival. If you think there's any, possible, even somewhat slim chance that something like this might be going on, then It might cause you to question the true motives behind the miles and miles of underground government top secret compounds that exist in almost every state in this country. If you don't think they're hiding anything, then you might instead question what they're hiding from?

And one final tidbit to chew on... Obviously the government wants to protect it's own ass, so if they're really so worried about preventing global warming, then why are they spending so little on science and energy? And what are they spending the rest of that federal money on? http://www.truemajority.org/csba/priorities.php

Do a Google search, I immediately found this interesting URL: http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Bases.html I'm sure you can find plenty more.

Now all we need is for Michael Jackson to hear about this.

1. Buy Pixar for $10 million
2. Build it into a great animation studio
3. Sell yourself to the devil (Mickey Mouse)
4. Personal profit of $3.5 million!

Great work, Steve Jobs! See, this time I didn't even need to include the mysterious "..." step. Amazing!

Sounds like Britney Spears already has these. as seen here

I guess a scene with Baby Herman looking up a woman's dress and Jessica Rabbit's dress being blown up, briefly showing her cartoon geniltalia, was cut out of Disney's later revisions of the film. http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Disney/Jessica. html

What is it with you computer programmers?!!!

This guy's still got him beat.

While there's no doubt that the Sun was entirely at fault here for their poor handling of the affair, it's not hard to see how they could believe that Disney let a swear word slip by. Even ignoring simple accidents like the infamous penis-columns on the Little Mermaid artwork and debatably subjective interpretations like the hidden word "SEX" in the Lion King, there have been a number of cases where "offensive material" appeared in Disney films.

For instance, they had to change the lyrics to the Aladdin title song because Arab-American groups complained. Someone snuck in shots of Baby Herman flipping the bird, and a topless woman in The Rescuers.

How many consumers in western nations are aware that cartridges can be forged? (Software is one thing, CD's/DVD's also, but cartridges?) Given the cutthroat pace of modern media, it's hardly surprising that the Sun rushed to print with this one, once making that assumption.

I think the real story here is not that the Sun screwed up. I think the real story lies in finding out where that pirated game came from, and more importantly, how many pirated cartridges are out there. One would hope the Sun would lead the charge on this investigation.

the image is taken from this site...
http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/CaveBeing.html

Funny, I went to this exact cave a couple of years ago - didn't wenture through the tomb though. Just saw some gear and reckoned it was work in progress, didn't even imagine that someone had squezed throught that shit. I found a disposeable camera in there which I "borrowed" because it had only a few pictures taken on it and would soon be ruined in the damp conditions (I convinced myself)
When I developed the film I reckoned it had belogned to some kids having fun making a halloween project or something, never made much of it until I saw this article and now I shitting myself (as I type)
http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/OddPics/Images/ Cavedude.jpg

Of course, just about the first thing people do when they die is shit their pants. (No, that's not a picture of someone shitting their pants, it's medical proof of said shitting)

Good luck digging up that corpse!

Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry is the first person to have their ashes put aboard a rocket and "buried" in space.

Harold Edgerton. He was an MIT professor at some point during his career. Here is a photo that he was asked to take of an atomic bomb being detonated.

My sentiments exactly.

Only problem is that leaving the US fascist state will become increasingly difficult as the months progress. If you are the sort who doesn't like what is happening in the US, then your name is probably on a list. If your name is on a list, then there is an increasing probability that you will be stopped at a border crossing or airport.

It's only a matter of time before being stopped turns into being re-directed to a barbed-wire facility. --In Denver, perhaps?

The time to get out is NOW.

-FL

Yeah, the pengiun does kinda suck as a mascot for an operating system though. I wish I knew why they chose a penguin over much cooler animals (of course the GNU is not so great, but he's a consequence of the acronym).

Just think of what they could have had instead of the pengiun: a tiger with a red bandana, a toucan with colored stripes on his beak, a captain wearing a blue uniform, a vampire, a white rabbit, and of course a paranoid leprechaun? Too bad linux was developed after all these great mascots were copyrighted!

Of course we can still switch to using a robot that bears a striking resemblence to Micheal Jackson without his plastic nose on! Check this out! AHHH!

The History of Michael Jackson's Face

Like this...

I think he seriously hates himself. It's a classic case of black self-hatred in my uneducated armchair opinion. It's a shame, too, he used to be a perfectly normal-looking African-American. Here is a chronology -- even if he'd stopped back at age 26 or so... It's not just the nose -- the skin-bleaching and other surgeries, too. And orangatans?

OK, he needs help for other reasons, but I think he does have the common social maladjustment, too. To the extent his fame has denied him the help he needs, I feel bad for him. He seems to be a nice guy; nice, anyway, these days.

And yet -- what was the deal with the child dangling thing, anyway?

Call this thing it has the tablature you are looking for.

frightening..

Have you metamoderated recently??

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