Added by serbsta on Nov. 25, 2008
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Barack Obama has appointed a regular player of online fantasy game World of Warcraft as one of his transition advisers, it has emerged.
kevin. w : i hate this world... so i play in azeroth.
The man charged with providing the President-Elect with information about the US media regulator spends his spare time fighting monsters and completing quests on the fictional planet of Azeroth.
Kevin Werbach, an academic, is a member of two guilds in the world's most popular online game, playing under the name Supernovan Jenkins.
He has invested so many hours in the game that his "Tauren Shaman" character has reached Level 70, one of the higher ranks.
Mr Werbach, an assistant professor of legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, is to co-author a review of the work of the Federal Communications Commission, to help Mr Obama plan his media policies when he assumes the presidency in January.
Bloggers and gamers have already begun speculating about what impact Mr Werbach's Warcraft background might have on his professional outlook, with some suggesting that his appointment indicates that the new administration may be more open to virtual worlds.
Hehehe. More...
Added by serbsta on Nov. 20, 2008
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Something absolutely amazing just happened. Read.
EDMONTON - Calls are pouring in about the sight of a bright light in the skies over the Edmonton area. Marcel Gobeil, who lives on a farm just west of Beaumont, was sitting in his living room when he heard what he describes as a "loud boom," followed by the sight of bright colourful lights just before 5:30 p.m. "At first I thought it was fireworks," said Gobeil.
"I've never seen anything like it; it was green and blue and then turned to bright red. "It was pretty big." Gobeil said he also saw the object hit the ground about 10 seconds later. "It seemed like it fell on Beaumont, but it's more likely it landed in Manitoba or Saskatchewan if it was a meteorite," he said. Edmonton fire dispatchers, meanwhile, said they contacted both the international and municipal airports after reports of the bright lights to see if an airplane had gone down. They still have no idea what the object was. "Everyone seems to have seen something," one dispatcher said, "but we have no call on it."
SOURCEThere was no reported seismic activity (if it was a meteor as big as they say), there is nothing about any meteor impacts on NASA's NEO today.
Might i add its been over an hour since the incident and there is nothing on CNN, BBC etc. Eyewitness reports also claim military activity from the military base in Edmonton.Heres footage. Whatever it is, its absolutely FUCKING amazing.
Here, 2 videos embedded.
The first video (taken from a police dashboard cam) is absolutely stunning, look at the sky light up.
Added by serbsta on Nov. 14, 2008
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I found this awesome collection from the
Telegraph [
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3452381/UFO-sightings-140-years-of--UFO-pictures.html] [CLICK here for more]. This is only Part 1 of the collection, i assume the second part will have more modern photographs. Well this is a pretty decent collection here, some very famous once, others not so famous. Keep in mind how old some of these are... making most of them impossible to fake. You can think of these things as whatever you want to think, aleins, military aircraft, whatever, upto you i suppose. Enjoy
This cylindrical-appearing UFO was photographed over New York City on March 20, 1950
Searchlights converge on an unidentified object over Los Angeles on February 25, 1942. The bright blobs around the flashes are anti-aircraft shells exploding
An amateur photograph of a UFO taken in Passoria, New Jersey, in July 1952
An object hovers over the sawmill in Ward, Colorado, in April 1929
In the summer of 1966, a flight security official photographed two red spheres over the Swiss airport Zurich-Kloten. The photo was later released by Swiss Air pilot Ferdinand Schmid
This object was photographed over Adelaide, Australia, in 1965. It was seen to hover for 20 minutes, then it shot off to the east.
This shot taken on January 16, 1958, over Trindade Island, Brazil, was widely dismissed as a hoax although doubts have now been expressed at this conclusion
One of the many UFO photographs taken in Japan. This one shows an object over Kaizuka in 1958
In this picture by Trevor Constable taken on May 17, 1958, at Giant Rock, California, the object above the ridge was not seen by witnesses at the time but only became apparent after the film was developed
In September 1957 this picture was taken by a test pilot near Edwards Air Force Base in California. It shows a UFO apparently following a B-47 jet
Four Sicilian men watch two unidentified objects over Sicily on December 10, 1954
Rex Heflin, an Orange County highway inspector, was at work in a county vehicle on August 3, 1965 when he saw a hat-shaped object hovering above the road.
Ella Louise Fortune, who worked as a nurse at the Mescalero Indian Reservation near Three Rivers, New Mexico, took this picture while driving along Highway 54 on October 16, 1957
On July 19, 1952, the big dirigible-shaped craft was flying horizontally and fairly low in the sky, passing from right to left from the observer's posit
A famous picture taken in Burbank, California, in 1945 featuring Jack LeMonde on a horse with an object in the background
This UFO was snapped by an American photographer in Tiensten, Hopeh province, China, in 1942. Several people in the photograph appear to be pointing up at the object
Another of the most famous UFO photographs ever taken, this was shot by Joseph Sigel on June 18, 1959 in Waikiki, Hawaii
Washington DC 1952 and some UFOs were photographed flying over the Capitol building during a wave of sightings above the city
One of the earliest photographs of an unidentified flying object, this picture was taken somewhere in the United States during the 1920s
What is often claimed to be the earliest picture of a UFO, this picture was taken from the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire, in 1870
Alan Smith, 14, took this photograph at about 1.45am on Aug 2, 1965 from his back yard in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Five other witnesses saw the UFO change color from white to red to blue-green.
Added by serbsta on Nov. 7, 2008
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National Geographic Study: November 5, 2008 (John Roach) Nat Geo
I have a belief that the universe is constantly expanding and contracting. This is a pretty intense discovery even though its not fully understood yet. Its mind boggling enough to consider our own universe and its size, but to think that our universe is just one small particle in a greater picture. Epic mind blow.
Something may be out there. Way out there.
On the outskirts of creation, unknown, unseen "structures" are tugging on our universe like cosmic magnets, a controversial new study says.
Everything in the known universe is said to be racing toward the massive clumps of matter at more than 2 million miles (3.2 million kilometers) an hour—a movement the researchers have dubbed dark flow.
The presence of the extra-universal matter suggests that our universe is part of something bigger—a multiverse—and that whatever is out there is very different from the universe we know, according to study leader Alexander Kashlinsky, an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
The theory could rewrite the laws of physics. Current models say the known, or visible, universe—which extends as far as light could have traveled since the big bang—is essentially the same as the rest of space-time (the three dimensions of space plus time).
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