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Military “Black Ops” on Mars. Really?

Military “Black Ops” on Mars. Really?
The Aram Chaos region of Mars, as seen by the HiRISE camera on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (NASA) There’s a military operation on Mars! How do we know this? Psychics — or “military grade remote viewers” as they like to be called — “saw” it, and...

Was Voyager 2 Hijacked by Aliens? No.

Was Voyager 2 Hijacked by Aliens? No.
The Voyager 2 spacecraft has been speeding through the Solar System since 1977 and it’s seen a lot. Besides scooting past Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, the probe is now passing through the very limit of the heliosphere (called the heliopause) where it has begun to detect a magnetic field...

An Explanation for the Norway Cloud Spiral

An Explanation for the Norway Cloud Spiral
The mysterious cloud spiral that appeared over Norway at 7.50am on Wednesday morning took the internet by storm. Every major news outlet was talking about it and Google Search was stuffed full of results. Like with any unexplained phenomenon, the knee-jerk reaction of conspiracy theorists (and tabloid...

Some Doomsday Crazy With That Google Search?

Some Doomsday Crazy With That Google Search?
wtf? After collecting myself from the bout of giggles when I read The Bloggess’ post about the rather bizarre auto-suggestion in Google Search, I was ready to find some more. (Awesome, the old classic, “french military victories” followed by clicking the “I’m feeling lucky”...

A Bevvy of Doom

A Bevvy of Doom
On the red carpet: John Cusack tells me what he'll be doing on Dec. 21st, 2012. Skiing (credit: Debra O'Neill/Discovery News) Currently sitting in the departure lounge in LAX before I fly out to Washington D.C. to meet up with the Discovery News crew ahead of the launch of our brand new site (keep an...

Forget 2012, THIS Is What The Mayans Should Be Remembered For

Forget 2012, THIS Is What The Mayans Should Be Remembered For
Forget the supposed “Mayan Prophecy” of doomsday in 2012, the Mayan civilization never (ever!) predicted that the world was going to end on Dec. 21st 2012. Really, no ancient Maya elder ever said anything about doom. Also, no Mayan descendent believes that their ancestors foretold doom (and...

Prof. Brian Cox Accidentally REVEALS the TRUTH About the LHC!!!!

(Note the clever use of CAPS and excessive exclamation marks in the title. It speaks volumes.) I guess this confirms I was wrong. Consider this an apology to all the crackpots, doomsayers, cranks and Walter Wagner. I’m sorry I got it all… so… wrong. While out on the town in London,...

Late to the Doomsday Party: NASA Denounces 2012

Late to the Doomsday Party: NASA Denounces 2012
As we have probably all guessed by now, the Institute for Human Continuity is a viral campaign designed to generate a huge buzz around the upcoming November 13th movie called 2012. Ever since I started writing about 2012 (way back in May 2008 with “No Doomsday in 2012“), I’ve been...

To A Ufologist, The Answer Is So Obvious

For a rare glimpse into the inner workings of a conspiracy theorist’s brain, check out this hilarious explanation of the super-duper-hyper-speed-top-secret-military-drone that was captured in this video of an Iranian missile test on October 8th. There’s some spooky music added to the edited...

What REALLY Happened to the LCROSS Centaur?

What REALLY Happened to the LCROSS Centaur?
<conspiracy mode> In the early hours of Friday morning at 4:31am, the spent Centaur rocket from the NASA LCROSS mission slammed into the surface of the south pole of the moon. What was the point in that? Well, NASA was hoping that the tumbling chunk of metal the size of a small bus would kick...
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