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UFOs in China

A couple/few months ago, I called Senator Amy Klobuchar’s office and said she should be more like Al Franken. By that I meant, among other things, do more visible pushback against the right, and freaking tear it up a little. The nice man I spoke to there assured me it was all about the fact that Sen. Franken was in fact a celebrity before joining the Senate, and that Sen. Klobuchar was working on other important, but less sexy, stuff. That was all good with me; I just wanted to apply a little pressure in that direction, because I think it’s valuable. Well she finally delivered, and went on a fatal rampage against some GOP idiot in the Kagan hearings who was on about how we were “more free” in 1980 or some shit. Thank you, Senator Klobuchar, for sticking it to that weasel.

Legalize it

Which is to say,-Has Total Wellhead Failure Happened?

Then take the edge off with these amusing videos.

Astonishing feat of endurance captured on film.

Sam Seder on why fears of America turning into Greece are bullshit.

Fucking deficit hawks. I agree 110% with Seder about the GOP playbook: run up huge debt during GOP administrations, wait, then during Dem administrations start screaming “WE’VE GOT TO CUT THIS DEBT!” Where I come from that’s called transparent bullshit. Not sure why the press doesn’t get it, but on the other hand, you just have to look at Chuck Todd to see Walter Cronkite throw up a little bit in his mouth.

National Geographic video here.

A close shave on the Deepwater Horizon.

Amateur video of Gulf oil slick

Seymour Hersh alleges U.S. troops are conducting battlefield executions in Afghanistan

These brief animations just got sent to me, after I found original Gonzo Science contributor Chris Larsen on Facebook after several lifetimes. Anyway Chris might be mortified that I’m just posting these here without asking - they are several years old - but I really think they’re imaginative and fun on the sci-fi tip. Back in the day, the very first Gonzo Science publication was an ensemble ‘zine I put together in Santa Cruz, CA. circa 1996. Chris is O.G. because he contributed an article about anomalous archaeology. We also published a handful of handmade comic books, and he is the artist on our collaborative comix story “I Shot JFK”. Anyway, he’s been in school for programming so look out.

http://ubiknik.com/swf/kite.html

http://ubiknik.com/swf/machinist.html 

Had to post this as a student of action-figure videos (a few Gonzo Science productions may be found on this page).

This is a.) hilarious b.) NSFW so much.

If it’s true that this was made by these pre-adolescent girls, as it appears, then I just gotta say, the little film sets they made are pretty ingenious.

Crittercam: Sea Lion 1, Octopus 0.

20 five-second movies and Planet F-Bomb. Plus, society confronts it’s disintegration with Kids Do Scarface, complete with backstory.

The Golden Ratio courtesy of www.etereaestudios.com

In honor of Homo erectus, recently accepted as the first seafarer in the human lineage of hominids and other assorted cavemen.

National Geographic brings the science in this episode of NatGeo Explorer. 

Perpetual Minnesota political candidate Mr. Nice goes out on the campaign trail.

This is the maiden flight of the Gonzo Science youtube channel, the gonzonomicron.

“Incredibly rare” set of complete sauropod skulls unearthed

Robert Anton Wilson riffs on accelerating weirdness.

And you wondered why you had to learn geometry. …Uh, nsfw I guess.

Source of much amusement here at Gonzo HQ.

Enjoy this scintillating analysis of what would happen in a Hulk vs Juggernaut fisticuffs. Geektacular.

Then, thrill to this episode of the animated Hulk series. Clip 1 . Clip 2. It’s got it all. Themes of science run amok pervade the Hulk mythos. Plus, see if you don’t get misty-eyed when Rick Jones and Betty Ross are forced to break the Hulk’s heart in order to save his life.

This is why we will win this struggle.

Part of the documentary of extreme experience, “Touching the Void”, about two men caught in a fractal metaphor for the human condition. Screened the whole thing last night at Gonzo Science HQ - more horrifying in its way than the “Alive!” film - which is plenty horrifying itself and which also takes place in the Andes. But these two chaps here just have no luck AT ALL, confronted at every turn with impossible options and mindbending choices. And after this existential scene, it gets worse.

Regarding video formatting issues, for the time being most youtube videos seem to display best in firefox.

News video report at this link.

This is of particular interest to us at Gonzo Science as reports of BVM  (Blessed Virgin Mary) phenomena have multiple scientific explanations.

Zeitoun was previously the scene of some famous BVM reports (over a Coptic Church as in the current flap). They were correlated to distant seismic phenomena by Michael Persinger, which seemed to support his Tectonic Strain Theory (TST)of the paranormal (wierd lightshows and psychological effects from geophysical-electromagnetic causes). The TST was later retrofitted by Paul Devereaux into the Earth Lights theory.

This current BVM report makes a pretty good case for a simple mass hysteria explanation, however - certainly not unheard of in these cases and we have a first-hand witness of BVM mass hysteria in our Black Casebook. At any rate, it looks like the so-called “doves” that appear to luminously accompany the Virgin in these reports may simply be disregarded as white pigeons flying around. And the one piece of footage here of the glow that is reportedly the Virgin is not even in the air - it’s easily seen as a light source sitting on top of the church.

 If this is the same thing that happened the first time around, Persinger may have been correlating it with seismic data for nothing, and the criticisms of him overreaching may have some merit.

The Gonzo Science CD has a pro-TST track about this, number 3 at this link, and yes that’s “Sweet Jane.”

Sailing the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

Whaler scum ram Sea Shepherd boat