Frozen mice ‘have healthy pups’

Mice kept in the deep freeze for 15 years have fathered healthy offspring, say scientists in Japan and Hawaii. One in five female mice undergoing IVF with sperm extracted from the dead mice had healthy, fertile pups. … One idea would be to inject frozen mammoth sperm recovered from the ice into the eggs of female elephants. … They did not use hi-tech cryo-protection techniques, simply storing whole testes or bodies in a freezer. The sperm appeared lifeless when thawed out but researchers were surprised to find that they produced viable offspring. … Any mammoth recovered from the permafrost would have spent more than 10,000 years in a frozen state.

Great idea! Bring back the dinosaurs too so they escape from their cages and eat lawyers.

Hawaii UFO looked like a wayward missile

HILO, Hawaii, Aug. 17 (UPI) — No one Thursday was claiming ownership of a tubular flying object that buzzed a Hawaii airport this week and looked a lot like a missile. Officials at the Pohakuloa Training Area told the Honolulu Star-Bulletin that there were no military exercises involving missiles taking place when the object was spotted Tuesday over the Hilo Airport on the Big Island.

Witnesses told the newspaper the silver object was silver and emitted a vapor trail; however it had no apparent fins or markings on it. One man told the newspaper, “The noise was super loud.” The object didn’t seem to threaten any air traffic around the airport, the report said. Hawaii officials said the FBI and Transportation Security Administration were looking into the matter. - upi

Evangelicals urge museum: hide man’s ancestors

Powerful evangelical churches are pressing Kenya’s national museum to sideline its world-famous collection of hominid bones pointing to man’s evolution from ape to human. Leaders of the country’s six-million-strong Pentecostal congregation want Dr Richard Leakey’s ground-breaking finds relegated to a back room instead of being given their usual prime billing.

The collection includes the most complete skeleton yet found of Homo erectus, the 1.7 million-year-old Turkana Boy unearthed by Dr Leakey’s team in 1984 at Nariokotome, near Lake Turkana in northern Kenya. The museum also holds bones from several specimens of Australopithecus anamensis, believed to be the first hominid to walk upright, four million years ago. Together the artefacts amount to the clearest record yet discovered of the origins of Homo sapiens.

… “The Christian community here is very uncomfortable that Leakey and his group want their theories presented as fact,” said Bishop Bonifes Adoyo, the head of Christ is the Answer Ministries, the largest Pentecostal church in Kenya. “Our doctrine is not that we evolved from apes, and we have grave concerns that the museum wants to enhance the prominence of something presented as fact which is just one theory.”

Reality makes many people very uncomfortable. How do millions of fundamentalists explain these fossils? Did the Devil create these bones and hide them in the ground to confuse people about the bible?

Hot Dogs May Cause Genetic Mutations

Ha! I always knew I hated them for a good reason.

Everyone knows hot dogs aren’t exactly healthy for you, but in a new study chemists find they may contain DNA-mutating compounds that might boost one’s risk for cancer. Scientists note there is an up to 240-fold variation in levels of these chemicals across different brands. …

Mirvish and his colleagues examined hot dogs because past research had linked them with colon cancer. Hot dogs are preserved with sodium nitrite, which can help form chemicals known as N-nitroso compounds, most of which cause cancer in lab animals.

Extracts from hot dogs bought from the supermarket, when mixed with nitrites, resulted in what appeared to be these DNA-mutating compounds. When added to Salmonella bacteria, hot dog extracts treated with nitrites doubled to quadrupled their normal DNA mutation levels. Triggering DNA mutations in the gut might boost the risk for colon cancer, the researchers explained. “I won’t say you shouldn’t eat hot dogs,” Mirvish said. - yahoo

He’s afraid of being sued. I’ll say it. YOU SHOULDN’T EAT HOT DOGS. Yetch.

Judge Bars Warrantless Anti-Terrorism Surveillance

A federal judge ordered the U.S. government to stop wiretapping international telephone calls between suspected terrorists and their U.S.-based affiliates without court warrants.

U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor said President George W. Bush exceeded his legal and constitutional authority in ordering the surveillance program that began after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. … Taylor said the surveillance program violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee against unreasonable searches as well as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

By failing to seek court permission to conduct the surveillance, Diggs said, Bush violated the Constitution’s separation of powers doctrine that provide for the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government to acts as checks on each other.

“It was never the intent of the framers to give the president such unfettered control, particularly where his actions blatantly disregard the parameters clearly enumerated in the Bill of Rights,” she wrote in the 43-page opinion.” - bloom

“The government argued that the program is well within the president’s authority, but said proving that would require revealing state secrets.”

President Nixon, another republican, was impeached in the Watergate scandal for illegal spying. He tried to hide behind the “national security secrecy” argument when he was actually spying on his political opponents. Nixon asked “the CIA to slow the FBI’s investigation … claiming that national security would be put at risk.”

Related: The NSA says it is too secret to be sued. (Also known as “Above the Law“.)

My Friend Sarah is a Dog Groomer

I’m not a real dog person but this picture of a Chinese Crested she shared cracked me up. This is obviously a top secret military dog-potato hybrid.

Killer ‘Hybrid Mutant’ creature found dead in Maine

The animal, described as a 40 and 50 pound animal with “a bushy tail, a short snout, short ears and curled fangs hanging over its lips,” was apparently hit by a car as it chased a cat across a rural road in Androscoggin County. The creature had been blamed for a series of attacks on dogs and was the subject of local legend. The Sun Journal of Lewiston quoted a Michelle O’Donnell of Turner, Maine, who had recently spotted the animal before it was killed.

“It was evil, evil looking. And it had a horrible stench I will never forget,” she told the paper. “We locked eyes for a few seconds and then it took off. I’ve lived in Maine my whole life and I’ve never seen anything like it.” -monga

Is this an escapee from the secret DNA hybrid experiment mixing wolf with some human DNA? Just look at the eye. Freaky. Check this out: Has there ever been a Humanzee?

MSNBC: Is Bush an “Idiot”?

Interesting quote: “There is no sign of any lack of mental capacity”.

UFO Photo from Poland

This UFO photo was taken “at the end of June or beginning of July 1995 by Mrs. Maria Korejwo, a school teacher, in Katy Gorne [near Pustelnik Pinski] in Siedlce district in Mazowieckie wojewodztwo, Poland.” Note that this was not a digital picture.

Mrs. Korejwo didn’t see the object when the photo was taken. Note that the horizontal lines visible in the photo are clothes lines with colorful clips. Kodak photo laboratory workers concluded that the film was not defective and suggested a possible explanation for the appearance of the acorn shaped object. They stated whatever the object is, the reason the photographer did not see the actual object, was simply because the object was moving too quickly! Further analyses excluded the possibility that the photograph had been altered and stated that it was not a hoax. - ufodigest

Could be a double exposure where the first picture was looking up at a round street light and the next photo was in someone’s back yard.