“We’re the ones who tossed the match [into Iraq]. And what is John Kerry going to do? Go to France, Germany, Arab countries and say ‘hey, we’re lookin’ to change the color of the corpses over there..’ ?”
- Cy Hersh, calling it like it is on Meet The Press
Some shots from this weekend.
The sky reflecting in the Hancock tower Friday afternoon.
Shooting straight up the center of the tower lying on my back – same as above; oh, and the tough guys at Hancock security gave me a hard time.
Some media such as CNS are reporting that experts believe the “leaked” documents from the Texas ANG on Bush’s service might be faked.
My trip rocked. Unbelievable – a truly amazing weekend. New friends, lovely people, and a wonderful intersection of ideas and relationships… I felt very recharged by it (despite not sleeping..)
I’m off to Monterey for an extended Labor Day weekend (at a retreat sorta thing) to eat shrimp, frighten girls, take photos with my phat new camera, and try to speak in complete sentences (I have to do a presentation and such). I am sure this will be a fun and interesting trip – I am a lucky bird that way. So please, kids – be good while daddy’s gone, mmkay?
New Scientist is reporting that repeated signals of interest have been found (via the SETI@Home project) emanating from an area between Pisces and Aries. It could very well be some heretofore-undiscovered astronomical phenomenon, but the most compelling evidence that it may be “artificial” is its drift:
“There are other oddities. For instance, the signals frequency is drifting by between eight to 37 hertz per second. The signal is moving rapidly in frequency and you would expect that to happen if you are looking at a transmitter on a planet thats rotating very rapidly and where the civilisation is not correcting the transmission for the motion of the planet”
Very cool… I’ll be keeping my eye on this one. If it is aliens, they’re very far away. If it isn’t, it’s probably possums f*ckin around with the telescope.
