h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

A couple of interesting stories today.




http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/nepal-frozen-caveman-discovered-in-himalaya/




http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/colorado-electors-appeal-ruling-binds-clinton-44170556

http://www.denverpost.com/2016/12/13/denver-judge-orders-faithless-colorado-electors-vote-clinton/

The first link seems quite intereting, but other headlines from the same website include:

'German Scientists Prove There is Life After Death'
'Chinese Police Rescue 22 Pandas in Crackdown on ‘Panda Sex Ring’'
'Japanese Whaling Crew Eaten Alive By Killer Whales, 16 dead'

I think "World News Daily Report" may not be "News You Can Trust" after all.

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Back in November someone produced a 'Sergent Pepper cover' tribute to those who died in 2016, and it went viral. So many have died since he's had to keep updating it. It now goes up to Ian McCaskill:

http://twitter.com/christhebarker/status/808359996526395395

How many can you name?

I can recognize 16 faces, but since I see Lemmy twice, I'll only score 15.

(and, no, I can't name all 15. I don't know the real name of General Akbar.)

Latest Brexit casualty - pink wafers:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-38328388


I guess we'll have to import the French ones

BTW? Who's the dog?

Lemmy died 28th December 2015.

A festive train story:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38312718

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Thanks for that. I just sent in a suggestion

How well do furriners handle the name changes?

Elderly couple have colds.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38394780

PP.

One of those "I can't believe they got funding for that" university stories - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-38392867

Seriously? They really got funding for that?!

Mind you, two arches up from me is a rum distillery that's funded by one of the universities here.

That reminds me, the Ig Nobel Prizes were recently awarded. There was one for determining whether or not things look different when viewed bent over peering through one's legs. Their Peace Prize was awarded for a scholarly study called "On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit". You can read the study for yourself here: http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/~dkoehler/reprints/jdm15923a.pdf

Here is the list of 2016 (and previous) winners.
http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/

"With all due respect, it (the body) wasn’t going anywhere.”


Manchester photo shoot crew discover body in abandoned building, and continue shoot, finish, then go get (mediocre) pizza.

http://petapixel.com/2016/12/22/photo-crew-found-body-abandoned-warehouse-kept-shooting/

That's actually very typical of a lot of design agencies I've worked for. Totally self-centred.

Incredibly, this one seems to be panning out.

http://www.i4u.com/2016/12/118979/china-claims-successful-testing-em-drive-space

http://sputniknews.com/science/201612211048838113-china-emdrive/ (type in 's' after "http" for Pliny)

http://www.spacedaily.com/m/reports/NASA_Confirms_Electromagnetic_Drive_Produces_Thrust_in_Vacuum_999.html

One can kind of picture it, cruising out in the trans-Neptunian void, in a range where super-conductives operate spontaneously, with an essentially frictionless supermagnetic phase shield operating against the relativistic ablative stress of an interstellar excursion doing fast flybys of Proxima and the Alpha Centauri AB systems.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/earth-mass-planet-proxima-centauri-habitable-space-science/

http://palereddot.org/ (type in 's' after "http" for Pliny)

I've a strong hunch that Centauri AB will be dominated by La Grangian orbital mechanics and that something rather spectacular can be expected in the Centauri AB L4 and L5 orbits.

American former newspaper editor and pro-gun lobbyist is accidentally shot in his own home by a teenager who he is showing a handgun to:

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/12/29/portland-press-herald-columnist-m-d-harmon-killed-in-gun-accident-police-say/

World’s oldest killer whale dies, at an estimated age of 100:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38496164

According to Wikipedia:

Captain Pidcock of Ocean Ecoventures Whale Watching said "[...] it’s mind-blowing to think that this whale is over 100 years old. She was born before the Titanic went down. Can you imagine the things she’s seen in her lifetime?

…

Come on Captain Pidcock, she’s seen a lot of fish in her lifetime - that’s about it. She didn't play a pivotal role in the Cuban Missile Crisis, nor witness the release of Nelson Mandela. Neither was she in the stands last year as Leicester City won the Premier League.

But I'm sensing a meme here.