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For more than a century and a half, scientists and tourists have visited massive animal-shaped mounds, such as Serpent Mound in Ohio (NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show), created by the indigenous people of North America. But few animal effigy mounds had been found in South America until recently, when anthropologists identified numerous earthen animals rising above the coastal plains of Peru, a region already renowned for the Nazca lines, the ruined city of Chan Chan, and other cultural treasures.
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NASA may be planning to capture an asteroid and drag it into the moon’s orbit, giving the Moon a moon of its own.

The mission would cost about $2.6 billion–slightly more than NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover–and it would take about six to 10 years to complete the mission.

But why do it?

What NASA really wants to do is to send astronauts to a nearby asteroid, but this would expose them to long-term radiation beyond the earth’s protective magnetic field –so why not bring the asteroid to them? If we establish a base on the moon, it would be a short trip to reach it.
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As our Congress furiously debates gun control, it’s interesting to see what happened in Australia when they banned certain types of weapons in 1996.

John Howard was prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007, and in the January 17th edition of the New York Times, he writes about his own experience with gun reform, following a horrific massacre in that country on April 28, 1996, when a psychologically disturbed man named Martin Bryant used a semiautomatic rifle and a semiautomatic assault weapon to kill 35 people in a murderous rampage in Tasmania. Gun ownership is extremely high in Australia, especially in that part of the country.
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Animals can be as depraved as humans–they can even watch porn. When Gina, a female chimpanzee at the Seville Zoo in Spain, was given a TV set, she began to watch pornography almost constantly.

In the Huffington Post reports an Australian news site as saying, "Maybe Gina needs to get out more."
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