One of the underground heroes of the Iraq war was the anonymous blogger who posted daily messages about what it felt like to live through the war. After the downfall of Saddam, Salam Pax came out of hiding, and now writes for the Guardian newspaper in the U.K. His latest blog tells what it’s really like in Baghdad today.
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“Commercial power from the Moon could have avoided the blackout ?,” says space researcher David Criswell. “Each receiver on Earth would be fed independently from the Moon. If you need more or less power you just adjust the beams.”
Robert Roy Britt writes in space.com that we could plant receivers on the moon that point towards the sun, then beam the microwaves down to Earth, where they would be converted to electricity.
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Who’s next on the terrorism checklist? The British government says it’s received “credible intelligence” that terrorists in Saudi Arabia might fire a missile at a British passenger jet leaving from King Khaled airport in Riyad. The World Markets Research Center in London says the U.S. is 5th in line, when it comes to targeted countries, after Columbia, Israel, Pakistan and the Philippines. North Korea ranks last.
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A huge crop circle formation has been discovered in a wheat field near the village of Clyman, Wisconsin (pop. 370), about 20 miles from the crop circles discovered earlier. The new formation was over 350 feet long along one axis and over 175 feet long on the other. It was made up of 7 connected circles of different sizes, the largest of which was approx. 78 feet in diameter. A small, “grapeshot” formation, which tend to identify “real” circles, was also found in the field.
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