Catholic Church warns synthetic cell scientists not to play God

Wow.

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Doomsday Safe-Haven Under Mojave Desert

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Funny quote from the story:  "I'm careful not to promote fear. But sooner or later, I believe you're going to need to seek shelter," said Vicino, a real estate salesman whose career started with advertising and moved on to timeshares.

nice.

Robot Conducts Wedding in Tokyo

Here's the link.

Zombie Satellite Threatens Other Crafts

Read about it here!

Don’t Talk to Aliens, Warns Stephen Hawking

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New species found in Borneo

A lungless frog and a slug that shoots "love darts" are among the new species found since 2007, according to a CNNWorld report posted on 4-22.

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Volcano Explosion Rocks The World

Millions watch Iceland volcano eruption ... via webcam

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Nanotech robots deliver gene therapy through blood

As seen today on Yahoo news. 

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Doomsday Seed Vault Stores 500,000 Crops

The purpose of the Doomsday vault in Norway is to preserve a wide variety of plant seeds from locations worldwide in an underground cavern, you know, so we can have a chance of surviving underground on on the moon after we ruin the surface of the earth...

Well, that's not the official reason but it is the widely held belief among paranoid theroists (of which I skirt the edge). 

Here's the official reason--according to Wikipedia:

"The seed vault will provide insurance against the loss of seeds in genebanks, as well as a refuge for seeds in the case of large scale regional or global crises."

Anyway, here's an article posted today by Yahoo!  Read up fellow paranoid theorists.

Freak 30 ft Waves Terrifying Effect

I have always been fascinated by rogue waves, having read about them as a child & this article from Yahoo! caught my eye.

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Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Days on Earth?

Hmm,,,sounds like the opening scenario for any number of sci stories, except that it was a headline on Yahoo today: 

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Henrietta's "Immortal" Cells: She died in 1951, but her body lives forever.

Henrietta’s cells were the first immortal human cells ever grown in culture.

She was a tobacco farmer from southern Virginia who got cervical cancer when she was 30. A doctor at Johns Hopkins took a piece of her tumor without telling her and sent it down the hall to scientists there who had been trying to grow tissues in culture for decades without success. No one knows why, but her cells never died and now "He La" cells are used all over the world.

Henrietta's cells were used to help develop the first polio vaccine, they took a trip into space, & have been used many times since then. 

Henrietta died without ever knowing what a huge impact her living cells would make on the world. 

Click here to read the Smithsonian article

Click here to read the Wikipedia article

Ghafla stated:  I think she looks alot like Robin Roberts from Good Morning America.

Hello World

Ever get the feeling you're living in science fiction-land? Me too. There are days when the headlines just scream "you've downloaded me to your Kindle right before you fell asleep!".

I believe we live in a time of wonder & weirdness. I want to document the headlines for a while to check out my theory. Feel free to suggest sites, articles, etc., to help me out.

Thanks