Category War

Aug 6 2012

Missile Defense Agency Addicted to Conspiraporn!

The Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency warned its employees and contractors last week to stop using their government computers to surf the Internet for pornographic sites, according to the agency’s executive director. In a one-page memo, Executive Director John James Jr. wrote that in recent months government employees and contractors were detected ‘engaging in inappropriate use of the MDA network… Individuals identified as violating the rules face referral for ‘appropriate’ disciplinary action, he wrote. They put ‘their security clearances in jeopardy, and are subject to suspension and removal from federal service or MDA sponsored contracts.’ Agency spokesman Rick Lehner said in an e-mail that the memo was written in response to ‘a few people downloading material from some websites that were known to have had virus and malware issues.

VIA: –UNIQUE DAILY–

Jul 7 2012

10 Strange Futurist Scenarios for Human Evolution

When science fiction writers and futurists imagine humans of the far future, they never think our descendants are going to look exactly the same as we do now. After all, we’ll have access to powerful tools to turn us into cyborgs and hack our DNA, so there’s no limit to how we could reinvent ourselves. But just how weird could our progeny become? Here are 10 of the absolute strangest visions of our post-human future.

Jun 17 2012

5 Big Misconceptions About Extraterrestrial Life

A typical Hollywood alien is “soft, squishy and big on mucus,” in the words of Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif. These sci-fi lumps of goo are inclined to abduct us, probe us, hover above us and even walk among us (in disguise, of course). But far beyond Hollywood’s limited scope, aliens might really exist. What are they like, and how would they actually handle a human encounter? –CONTINUED–

Jun 15 2012

Gorgeous Photographs of Explosions

New Zealand artist and photographer Geoffrey H. Short hired special effects experts from the film industry to set up explosions on the black sands of the New Zealand coast. They mixed fossil fuel and gunpowder and set the explosions in mid-air to cause minimum damage to the environment, while Short caught them in his camera. Geoffrey H. Short said in a statement, “I am not trying to tell people what they should think, rather I am making art objects which I hope will make people think.”

–AMUSING PLANET–