TEDxVancouver - Neill Blomkamp - 11/21/09

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Ghostbuster Busted for Alleged Theft

Who ya gonna call? Well -- maybe not the ghostbuster who allegedly got busted!

NBC Connecticut-- Matthew Kondracki, 27, of Highland Park, is facing third-degree larceny charges after police claim he stole a $2,200 thermal imaging camera used to track paranormal activity, according to the Associated Press.

Kondracki was arrested after an unidentified woman claimed he stole the equipment, reports The Journal Inquirer.

Kondracki is part of a five-person team calling themselves the Enfield Paranormal Society. Two years ago, Kondracki declared the Cohasset Town Hall building haunted. He tells the paper he came to that conclusion using the photos he took with infrared cameras, digital recorders and EMF detectors.

Manson cult member may be paroled

The Press Association-- Bruce Davis, a member of Charles Manson's murderous cult who participated in two killings, has been recommended for parole.

California Department of Corrections spokeswoman Terry Thornton said the recommendation by a two-member panel of the Board of Parole Hearings came after the 26th hearing for Davis.

It's just the first step in a process that requires approval by the governor and other parole board members.

Davis, who is 67, was imprisoned in 1972. He was convicted in the murders of musician Gary Hinman and stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea. He was not involved in the infamous Manson family murders of actress Sharon Tate and six others.

NASA Spots Mysterious Space Debris Suggestive Of Asteroid Collision (PHOTO)

NASA scientists have spotted a mysterious X-shaped debris pattern with trailing streamers of dust that is unlike any image astronomers have seen before.

The behavior is not typical of comets, UCLA investigator David Jewitt explains, and researchers believe something unprecedented has been spotted:

This is quite different from the smooth dust envelopes of normal comets. [...] The filaments are made of dust and gravel, presumably recently thrown out of the nucleus. Some are swept back by radiation pressure from sunlight to create straight dust streaks. Embedded in the filaments are co-moving blobs of dust that likely originated from tiny unseen parent bodies.

Across the vastness of space, chances are slim that scientists would have a camera pointed in the right direction and set to capture images at the moment two random asteroids collide. These conditions, it seems, haven't been met until now.

If what astronomers believe is correct, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 happened to be correctly oriented just as two asteroids slammed into each other 90 million miles away from the Earth.