Below is a video of the New York-based girl group, “The Bambi Killers.” The gals are described as “an extremely unconventional rock’n'roll performance art trio in New York City who wear provocative costumes, drink blood onstage, and have cat fights while trying to get across their message about corporate aggression.” Note that early in the video, one of the girls states that all three are subscribers to Coast to Coast AM, and that they do actually believe that UFOs buzz the skies above us.
Interestingly, The Bambi Killers call their live show “The Patriot Act.” Enjoy this wild and very provocative bit of art-rock!
After years of scientific scrutiny being applied to ancient relics like the Shroud of Turin (which new studies have relied on in producing the “face of Jesus”), now one of the modern era’s most enigmatic ancient documents, the Voynich Manuscript, is undergoing closer study also, as depicted in a new documentary.
The document and its content, which have riddled scholars for centuries, depicts a variety of flora and fauna, as well as many strange cultural elements and various symbolism that have been associated with everything from early attempts at botany and the study of natural herbs and remedies, to medieval magic and alchemical studies. As has been the case with many documents from this its presumed era, a handful of scholars have gone so far as to offer the somewhat blase’ theory that it was penned by a young Leonardo Davinci.
The new studies, as reported by Fortean Times, represent what are perhaps some of the closest observations performed on the manuscript since previous carbon-14 testing performed at the University of Arizona, which dated it to the early 1400s.
Robots have long been implemented in Western society, beginning with Greek Philosopher and mathematician Archytas, who was said to have constructed a small bird out of wood and used steam to power its movements. Conjuring images of the autonomous owl in the film classic Clash of the Titans, the robotic bird Archytas built was then suspended from a pivot bar that allowed it to fly as much as 200 meters before it ran out of steam!
Archytas may have been the first to attempt to create devices that would mimic the functions of nature according to the will of man, but he was obviously not the last. According to an article that appeared recently at Space Daily, now the military hopes to secure funding for the implementation of robots that can outsource a variety of human-like tasks, as well as those of other creatures, for covert field operations (image above courtesy of DeltaMike via Flickr).
“Robots are automating military ground systems, permitting vital protection of soldiers and people in the field,” the article reads. “One vendor, BAE Systems has an ant size robot useful for reconnaissance and networking robots in development. As soldiers take up secure positions behind a wall, they deploy a small reconnaissance team.”
In 1951, a strange thing occurred at a commune in the Gard département in southern France, that apparently involved the mass-poisoning of hundreds of residents, and even the death of seven individuals during the chaos that ensued. Pont-Saint-Esprit, famous for its ties to John Vernou Bouvier III (father of Jackie Kennedy), has long been thought to have succumbed to a regional spread of contaminants, either from bread tainted by seeds affected with mercury, or by the infamous fungus ergot, from which Swiss scientist Albert Hoffman synthesized LSD in 1943. Still, ergotism was, for the most part, vanquished from Europe centuries ago, thus many argue that the events that took place in 1951 weren’t likely to have been caused by such a contamination.
Therefore, other theories exist. An article appearing in the UK’s Daily Mail last week detailed the peculiar event, also making assertions brought forth in journalist Hank Albarelli’s 2009 book A Terrible Mistake: The Murder of Frank Olson and the CIA’s Secret Cold War Experiments, which makes the case for the events being the result of a classified CIA experiment involving LSD.
Robots have long been implemented in Western society, beginning with Greek Philosopher and mathematician Archytas, who was said to have constructed a small bird out of wood and used steam to power its movements. Conjuring images of the autonomous owl in the film classic Clash of the Titans, the robotic bird Archytas built was then suspended from a pivot bar that allowed it to fly as much as 200 meters before it ran out of steam!
In 1951, a strange thing occurred at a commune in the Gard département in southern France, that apparently involved the mass-poisoning of hundreds of residents, and even the death of seven individuals during the chaos that ensued. Pont-Saint-Esprit, famous for its ties to John Vernou Bouvier III (father of Jackie Kennedy), has long been thought to have succumbed to a regional spread of contaminants, either from bread tainted by seeds affected with mercury, or by the infamous fungus ergot, from which Swiss scientist Albert Hoffman synthesized LSD in 1943. Still, ergotism was, for the most part, vanquished from Europe centuries ago, thus many argue that the events that took place in 1951 weren’t likely to have been caused by such a contamination.