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Sci-Fi short film: "Burn Out", UFOs, Warp Drives and other welcome oddities in the newsfeed

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“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.” -  Werner Heisenberg, Across the Frontiers *** OddsnEnds - Getting an eyeful and an earful from Mars . Perseverance rover is a busy bee. Space . Follow along for live updates. Space . Researchers believe Earth may be just one of many planets in our galaxy with continents and liquid water, which means there’s a good chance for life elsewhere in our galactic neighborhood. BGR Warp Speed now. "While we still can’t break the speed of light, we don’t need to in order to become an interstellar species," says Gianni Martire, Scientist at Applied Physics. "Our warp drive research has the potential to unite us all."  Businesswire .   American Airlines audio - "We just had something go right over the top of us," the pilot adds. "I hate to say this but it looked like a long cylindrical object that almost looked like a cruise-missile type of thing. Moving really fast and went...

SciXFriday - Friends, Real and Imagined, Vampires, Odds and Not

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Real and Imagined = Opposite sides of the same coin . When fully present , one has access to the best of both worlds, that magical state of In-Between - where ALL Things are Possible . Choose your thoughts wisely. - Talking to Nightlights II Highly unlikely, yet, entirely probable oddsnends in the mindstream - Yellowstone Supervolcano big boom odds -- sooner than previously thought. NYTimes   U.N. employees recalled due to Vampires. Reuters   Musical Interlude - (I wish) - Bruce on Broadway . Rolling Stone Reviews don't count. Shows already Sold Out. Bonus: Reviews are STELLAR . Revisiting a Cult Classic Trailer Miracle Mile . Doomsday scenario with nukes - Motherboard/Vice   Don't get down - get Light Therapy. Depression and S.A.D.. Bipolar joins the list. UPI   Dog Collar Museum - Yes, there is one. BBC “So You’ve Grown Attached” by Kate Tsang. - Love this film! I've talked about my imaginary friend before. His name was Heygo and he was with ...

SciX Friday - Heads Up! and a ripe bunch of misc...

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"Action without study is fatal. Study without action is futile." - Forbes Quote of the Day 5/5/17, Mary Ritter Beard/ Harvard.edu Not so random links and inspiration -    Real and Unreal? Head Transplant . Doctor on board. Volunteer Human patient ready. Did not watch and not going to post here, videos of the animals who have been subjected to this procedure. Chinese Media following at CCTV   Furthermore, Gizmodo reports on the Doc's "to do" list: Re-implant frozen brains in Human bodies. Ethics? More Bio and Background on the Doctor at OOOM   Ghost Busted - Little girl seen on trail cam is exactly what she seems; she's a real little girl and not (Gosh darn it!) a ghost. USA Today   Shortly after this interview, NPR and a lot of worry over what happened to Nessie, a sighting has resolved the issue. Nessie is back in action with the first official sighting in 8 months. Announced to the Nessie faithful at Lock Ness Sightings.   Follow Nessie ...

SciX Friday: Hasselhoff the Bot

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“I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.” - Alan Turing , Computing machinery and intelligence "Benjamin," an A.I. programmed by Ross Goodwin is building a decent filmmaking resume, giving writers the brush-off in this quirky Sci-Fi Short with Headliner: David Hasselhoff Prepare to be educated. This is AI filmmaker is impressive. In the beginning, just a very short while/months ago, a couple of brainy guys created "Jetson" with the goal of building a machine that could write screenplays. "Jetson" was fed a bunch of Sci-Fi tv and movie scripts and soon thereafter decided on a name change. Now known as Benjamin, he has created a second film. Subtle and fluid, the shift to AI created entertainment may catch on more quickly than anyone imagined. For real, AI is imagining ...

SciX Friday: odds-n-ends and otherwise interesting

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“Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.” - David Bohm Tech and Wows Tricorder (Trek cool!) in the works. Fast Company   Would you wear a microchip for work? Game changer. UPI   Packaged water - Edible bubble cube. CNET   Doctor Who New season (10) launches this weekend. Trailer 2   He refused to stay behind. You might have heard about the dog who joined an extreme race in progress. ESPN has the story of Arthur. What a dog. Even more research showing, not only are Elephants highly intelligent, they are self aware. Washington Post Catch of the Week -- UAP/UFO Local KMBC Channel 9 Traffic Reporter Johnny Rowlands is buzzed by darting white objects that zip across the sky behind him as he adjusts the cam in the helicopter, preparing to give his report. Link   Look fast! Doesn't help that the caption is directly over the image. Pause and play and the scene is visible for a mome...