orbis quintus

It’s supposed to be beneath the “Queen’s” chamber. Radar has confirmed that there is a cavity a few meters wide there, which may be the chamber itself or a corridor leading to it.

C0mprehensive database of the locations and frequency of the sightings of the black triangles over the years.

No, i don’t believe these particular objects are extraterrestrial. Several of my friends have seen these things over the years, and despite their peculiar behavior, they are under human direction.

Well, maybe…

Rather than just trusting me to retype everything on the Cosmic Log from yesterday, please go read it. Some photos are found here, comparing these possible fossils to living cyanobacteria. There are supposed to be even better photos that were shown at meeting, but have been held back.

These microfossils were found in a meteorite that landed in France 140 years ago, and is known as the Orgueil meteorite. Apparently this dates back to Louis Pasteur examining this very same meteorite, who looked for microorganisms after several chemists confirmed that this meteorite contained organic material. It was not until 1961 that the Orgueil meteorite was reexamined for the possibility of biological remains.

Two different forums on the memorable or odd items that have been found in used books.

ILE’s thread.

Amazon’s thread.

Off the top of my head, i cannot think of anything unusual that i’ve found, just receipts or evangelical Christian propaganda tracts.

Madonna buys Spears Kabbalah engagement gift

World Entertainment News Network
Posted August 20 2004

Legendary singer Madonna has bought Britney Spears a “priceless” 12th century Kabbalah book to celebrate her engagement to dancer Kevin Federline.

The pop icons are devout followers of the mystical offshoot of Judaism, so the singer is thrilled with the special bound edition of Zohar – also known as Book Of Splendour – and refuses to go anywhere without it.

This is the most sickening thing I have heard in quite some time. It disgusts me.

“Cast not pearls before swine I always say, and that includes impudent piglets.”– The aunt shrew in the animated version of The Rats of Nimh.

A question though: The article (linked above) mentions that Spears “reads” the book. What 12th century version of the Zohar would be in English? Modern English at that. I don’t remember reading that Spears could read Hebrew (or Latin).

The Nobel Prize buzz around Orhan Pamuk is becoming deafening….

From the back of Snow’s dust jacket:

“He is the sort of writer for whom the Nobel Prize was invented.” – Tom Jones, The Daily Telegraph.

John Updike’s review of the book in this month’s Harper’s is also full of Nobel talk.

The Prediciton: Orhan Pamuk will win the Nobel Prize.

People are calling Snow “prescient” as it was written before 9/11. Any sort of “prescience”, real or imagined, is ammunition for critics who want to jump on a bandwagon. See the talk about Kaplan’s Balkan Ghosts.

The Berbers are supposed to have been in North Africa for 10,000 years at most. The descriptions of the town thus far seem like those of an established civilization. Nope, i don’t know what it means, but it seems cool.

AKA teleportation!

Here are some practical applications of this technology, in computing, cryptography, and propulsion. Mind warping stuff!