May 4th, 2008
The Archives
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05.04.08Which substance smells worse, cow manure or horse manure?[DISCLAIMER: The sentiments expressed by the author do NOT necessarily reflect those of the Bruin Alliance of Skeptics and Secularists or any of her affiliates. Reader discretion is strongly advised.] This was the rhetorical question I posited when a fellow skeptic asked me what I considered to be my least favorite part of Ben Stein's new crockumentary, "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed". [edit: See if you can find a picture of the Virgin Mary in one of these piles of animal feces! ] Indeed, the whole film reeks unabashedly of animal excrement. I can scarcely point out which portions ruined my appetite the most, ...
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05.04.08Send Yourself to the Moon, Free!Well, it's actually your name that will be sent to the moon. Nevertheless, it's pretty cool. The Lunar Reconaissance Orbiter or LRO is a probe NASA will be sending out to the moon in late 2008. Its purpose is to gather data about the moon in order to help find suitable landing sites for future missions to the moon. The LRO mission is the start of a push to establish a base on the moon by 2020. An artist's rendering of the LRO in orbit around the moon. The LRO will be fitted with a microchip containing names submitted to this website: ...
