Indeed, as the classic rhyme suggests, girls are made of “sugar and spice and everything nice.” Well, as it turns out, at least one of these may also be connected with the existence alien life in the distant cosmos. How, you might ask? The answer may lie in a specific sugar molecule, known for its association with life’s beginnings here on Earth, which was recently spotted “in a potentially habitable region of our galaxy.”
Wired News reported today that “The molecule, called glycolaldehyde, was spotted in a large star-forming area of space around 26,000 light-years from Earth in the less-chaotic outer regions of the Milky Way. This suggests the sugar could be common across the universe, which is good news for extraterrestrial-life seekers.” To read the complete Wired News article, click here.
First it was “Bigfoot” seen in mid-stride dodging from behind a rock outcropping earlier this year… followed by speculation surrounding “Danish Mermaids” and finally giant “crudely drawn smiley faces” on the surface of Mars. Now, appearing in a NASA photograph dating back to late May of 2004, we see what looks almost like a “railroad plank” embedded in the red soil of the Martian landscape:
Also, here is a link to the entire panoramic view taken by the Mars rover Opportunity:
Every now and then there are paranormal and phenomenological digests and compilations released that draw a bit more interest (and excitement) than your everyday ghost stories and strange tales. Such is the case with the extraordinary new Darklore Vol II, released courtesy of Greg Taylor, brains behind one of my favorite websites, the Daily Grail. Below is a direct link to the free PDF download:
By making this free online version available, Greg hopes to sell more of the actual hard copies, and asserts that “the Darklore project aims to support good research and writing by passing profits back to the contributors on a royalty basis. So if you dig the sampler PDF, make sure you pick up a copy of our latest release from Amazon.” Via the link to Greg’s site below, you can access limited edition hardback and paperback editions at Amazon.com:
From Houston, if one heads 200 miles or so eastbound into the Gulf of Mexico, eventually you’ll find yourself over one of the world’s deepest oil and gas developments. For weeks now among employees of the Shell oil company’s Perdido site, a rather odd video has been in circulation, filmed by one of their remote submersible’s cameras; a green, alien-like squid with arms more than four times the length of its body, each fitted with a joint similar to an elbow.
