There is so much controversy over Daylight Saving Time — who benefits?, does it really save energy?, is it worth the hassle? – that maybe we should dump it altogether in favor of “Mecca Time.” At least that is what some Muslim scientists meeting in Qatar have called for — nothing less than the worldwide […]
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If Daylight Saving Time wasn’t bad enough…
Published April 21st, 2008 in Bizarre, Earth, Human World and Science. 3 CommentsI saw another “UFO”, maybe two
Published April 14th, 2008 in Bizarre, Space, atmospheric events and Science. 5 CommentsI saw another UFO Saturday night. Once again in the car headed west, I spied a bright starlike object in the reddish post-sunset sky, low to the mountains. It was reminiscent of Venus as it appears deep in the sunset glow, but of course Venus is not in that part of the sky at sunset […]
Ben Franklin pulled Paris’s leg…
Published March 8th, 2008 in environment, fallacies, Bizarre, Innovation, Body & Mind, Climate and Human World. 6 Comments…and we fell for it.
Living in Paris in April 1784, Benjamin Franklin wrote an article — fully tongue in cheek, that suggested a way that Parisians might save money on candle wax and lamp oil. (Read it here: Ben Franklin’s Essay on Daylight Saving.) Though meant as a joke, Americans and much of the western […]
Sundogs bite as UFOs
Published January 20th, 2008 in Bizarre, Photos, Space, atmospheric events and Science. 17 CommentsLet me start by saying that I do not know what most people of north central Texas saw and reported as a UFO last week. If the published reports are accurate — then what they saw was very unusual at least, and if true, then we cannot rule out an extraterrestrial origin. However, I […]
Hot pink flying saucers!
Published December 3rd, 2007 in Bizarre, Photos, Climate, atmospheric events and Science. 6 CommentsHot pink flying saucers, enormous six-legged pigs, the Michelin Man, the Grim Reaper — there are strange sights to be seen in clouds!!
How to identify a UFO
Published October 4th, 2007 in Bizarre, Space and atmospheric events. 68 CommentsIn a previous post I gave some ideas of what you should do if you observe something in the sky you can’t identify. I used “flying saucer” in the title of that blog, but I don’t want to restrict this to objects with such an obvious and questionable connotations, so I will use “unidentified flying […]