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Monday, May 7, 2012
Monday Movie Madness "Redeye" / "Redeu-ai" (레드아이) Korean Horror Movie
A supernatural story about a mysterious events occurring on the train, which had the route similar to the train which crashed many years ago.
People Can Hallucinate Color at Will
People can hallucinate colors just with the power of suggestion, a new study says.
In a recent experiment, scientists asked a group of prescreened people to look at a set of gray patterns and try to visualize color. Eleven members of the group had been identified as highly susceptible to hypnosis while seven of the subjects were not susceptible.
Hypnosis is a trance-like state characterized by heightened focus, concentration, and inner absorption, according to the Mayo Clinic. About 10 percent of people worldwide are highly susceptible to hypnosis while 10 percent are not influenced at all.
The remaining 80 percent—the majority of the population—are moderately susceptible, said study co-author William McGeown, a neuroscientist at the U.K.'s Hull University.
The new study found that all the subjects who were easily hypnotized reported seeing a range of colors even while not under hypnosis, McGeown said.
Old train station in downtown Phoenix has ghost
For 73 years, it was a place that connected people, where soldiers once kissed their girls before going off to war.
It was a stop on the Sunset Limited between Los Angeles and New Orleans, until Amtrak suspended passenger service in 1996.
The station still has penny-tile bathrooms and two-story ceilings and a carved oak refreshment booth in the corner with an authentic icebox still intact.
The old chandeliers and ticket booth are still there. So are the train tracks and the circa-1923 luggage carts.
And so is a ghost named Fred.
"When you're up in the attic of the station, and you feel a tap on your shoulder, and you turn around and no one's there _ that's Fred," said Dudley Weldon, who has worked at Union Station since 2002.
Swarm of pebbles could safely deflect asteroids
It takes surprisingly little force to deflect an asteroid, provided it is done several years before the projected impact. Previous ideas have included landing an engine on the asteroid to push it away from a collision, and using mirrors or lasers to vaporise its surface and provide thrust to shift its course.
Alison Gibbings and Massimiliano Vasile, aerospace engineers at the University of Strathclyde, UK, have another solution. A 500-kilogram swarm of fingernail-sized spacecraft would, they calculate, deflect a fast-moving, 250-metre asteroid by nearly 35,000 kilometres - easily enough to avoid a collision, provided the swarm hits eight years, or about three orbits, before the expected Earth impact. A swarm could be launched from Earth in a single rocket. After release, pebbles could harness the thrust provided by reflected sunlight to steer themselves into a tight cloud directed at the asteroid.
Best of all, each pebble would be too small to crack the asteroid into still-dangerous pieces, the pair reported on 17 April at the Astrobiology Science Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.
[New Scientist]
Upside Down House in Austria (video)
Two Polish architects have spent eight months building a "house upside down" at Terfens-Vomperbach, Tyrol. Irek Glowacki and Marek Rozanski's idea seemed crazy but the result looks not that bad.
Death Valley comes alive as stand-in for Mars research
DEATH VALLEY, Calif. — Death Valley isn't a perfect stand-in for Mars — it's too hot here, for starters — but it's a great place to learn what NASA's new Curiosity rover will be doing once it arrives on the Red Planet in a few months.
The Curiosity rover is basically a huge robot geologist, and Death Valley is a geologist's dream landscape. Researchers have been coming here for decades, studying the desert's many ancient yet accessible rock layers to tease out Earth's complex and convoluted history.
One of these researchers is Caltech's John Grotzinger, who also happens to be the Curiosity mission's lead scientist. Grotzinger came out to Death Valley Monday and Tuesday to give a gaggle of journalists an inside look at how the 1-ton rover will go about its business.
A desert stand-in for Mars
Curiosity, the centerpiece of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, launched in November and is due to touch down at the Red Planet's Gale Crater the night of Aug. 5. The rover's main task is to assess whether the Gale Crater area is, or ever was, capable of supporting microbial life. [ Photos: Curiosity's Gale Crater on Mars ]
To get at this question, Curiosity will take a variety of geological and geochemical measurements with its 10 science instruments. The MSL team will analyze this information in an effort to understand the evolution of Gale and Mount Sharp, the mysterious 3-mile-high (5 kilometers) mound rising from the crater's center.
Such detective work can be difficult enough for teams of human scientists here on Earth, so Curiosity has a big challenge ahead of it, Grotzinger said. But at least there are no plate tectonics on Mars to throw the rock layers into a confusing jumble, as has happened here in Death Valley and many other places on our planet.
"The cool thing about Gale is, a lot of what we get is just laid out flat for us to go study," Grotzinger said.
[msnbc.com]
TV 'Ghost Detectives' head to Poe House
"The Poe House has always intrigued us," Steven Barry, one of the TV reality show's investigators, told The Baltimore Sun.
Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum curator Jeff Jerome told the newspaper he usually denies requests from people asking to spend the night in the museum, but he said he granted permission to the "Ghost Detectives" team because he hoped it would be respectful of the 180-year-old house, as well as its literary legacy.
"I thought, 'Why not?'" Jerome said, "as long as they spell Poe's name correctly."
The Sun said the investigators are also hoping to film at the Westminster Burial Grounds and catacombs where Poe is buried.
Did UFO land on Cannock Chase in Roswell style incident?
The controversial American flying saucer reports were brought to public attention thanks to a whistleblower in the intelligence arm of the US Air Force.
And it was US Navy third class petty officer S M Brannigan who raised alarm bells about a mysterious crash in Penkridge, a town on the edge of the River Penk, near Cannock Chase, Staffordshire, between February and March, 1964.
He said three bodies were recovered from the operation to deal with the incident at Cocksparrow Lane which involved Air Force Intelligence and NATO.
Brannigan was stationed in the Caribbean at the time and told of his discovery after he intercepted a Soviet transmission.
He said the Russian message referred to a UFO malfunctioning and falling to Earth in two parts – the larger section near Penkridge, the other splintering over West Germany.
Mystery further surrounded the incident when an eyewitness came forward to say he took photos of a “delta shaped object” he spotted in a field near Penkridge at the time.
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