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Neal Adams was on with Art Bell last night discussing his theories about Pangea, dinosaurs, and particle physics. He certainly knows how to spin a tale! As with so many things heard on Coast to Coast AM, determining the accuracy of his theories is left as an exercise for the listener. In case you need a crib sheet, Wired ran a pretty good article a few years ago that offers a more balanced view of Adams’ theories.

Whether you agree with Adams’ theories regarding the Earth, you have to give him credit as one of the finest comic book artists of his generation. Click the image to the left to get a full size look at another Adams classic.

The BBC reports that British Home Secretary John Reid has signed the extradition order for alleged “UFO Hacker” Gary McKinnon:

A Home Office spokesman said: “On 4 July the secretary of state signed an order for Mr McKinnon’s extradition to the United States for charges connected with computer hacking…Mr McKinnon now has the opportunity, within 14 days, to appeal against the decisions of the district judge/secretary of state.”

Also see the coverage from CNET, and the discussion on Slashdot.

Now you’re one step closer to killing your TV! The white text on white background is a little unfortunate, but he content is golden. Pick your conspiracy poison, put on your tinfoil hat, and prepare for a scare.

Mind-Deprogramming.com also has a downloadable version for Windows. Caveat Emptor!

Wired has a new interview with Gary McKinnon, the UK hacker who broke into various US government computer and networks looking for evidence of a UFO cover up. McKinnon broke into various systems between February 2001 and his March 2002 arrest by British authorities. Although all charges were dropped in Britain, he’s now facing extradition to the US, where criminal charges could net him 70 years in prison and a $2 million fine.

McKinnon: A NASA photographic expert said that there was a Building 8 at Johnson Space Center where they regularly airbrushed out images of UFOs from the high-resolution satellite imaging. I logged on to NASA and was able to access this department. They had huge, high-resolution images stored in their picture files. They had filtered and unfiltered, or processed and unprocessed, files.

If the Wired interview only whets your appetite, check out this much better piece by the always informative Jon Ronson from July, 2005.

Your Wal-Mart dollars at work:

The BBC reports that the temporary barrier holding back the Yangtze river during construction of the Three Gorges Damhas been demolished. The demolition took 191 tons of explosives, and the resulting man-made lake will cover almost 250 square miles. I hope they got it right!

MSNBC reports that Scientology will be sponsoring a NASCAR team this season: Team “Ignite Your Potential”!

“Scientology makes a point of recruiting celebrities as a part of it’s marketing appeal,” says a source. “If this is another marketing appeal — reaching out to the NASCAR crowd — it’s brilliant.”

I wonder if the Dale Earnhardt crash can be attributed to body thetans?

Aviation Week reports what they know about Blackstar, a US military spaceplane intended to guarantee American access to space in the wake of the Challenger disaster.

A large “mothership,” closely resembling the U.S. Air Force’s historic XB-70 supersonic bomber, carries the orbital component conformally under its fuselage, accelerating to supersonic speeds at high altitude before dropping the spaceplane. The orbiter’s engines fire and boost the vehicle into space. If mission requirements dictate, the spaceplane can either reach low Earth orbit or remain suborbital.

The Blackstar was capable of surprise surveillance flyovers, microsatellite launches, and even ground strikes using hypervelocity weapons. These weapons are one of the more fascinating aspects of the story. The so-called “rods from god” consist of a simple tungsten shaft 20 feet long and one foot in diameter, and would hit the ground at 12,000 feet per second. Given the Pentagon’s current inclination to militarize space, I don’t think they’d be mothballing Blackstar unless they’ve got a pretty impressive replacement operational. Black triangles, anyone?

You know we all love the Time Cube here at Alien Jesus, and as I was moderating comments tonight, I came across a post from the proprieters of Cubic Awareness Online. I have to say, I’m pretty impressed. A mixture of words and pictures, scienitific proofs, and videos bring the complex reality of the Time Cube to the masses, yearning to no longer be educated stupid.

Think of it as the Time Cube concordance you never knew you needed!

Good news kids! We’re now offering full text of all articles via our RSS feed. You need never use your browser again! If you’re on a Mac, I’d recommend NetNewsWire. Windows users: your guess is as good as mine. Linux users, write your own client.

Leave it to the Japanese to put a unique spin on alien encounters:

Nirasawa does not rule out that the schoolgirls’ slippers may have been pilfered by bug-like ETs.
“There’s a possibility,” he says. “I’d say if that was the case, it would probably have been Martians.”

The report is from the Mainichi newspaper, and originally appeared in Japan’s Weekly Playboy (WARNING: may contain perverse sexual imagery previously unimagined by Americans and/or God-fearing Europeans). I’ve got a bad feeling our alien overlords look like Hello! Kitty…

State of the Union address tonight kids, and that means all patriotic Americans need to stock up on booze and play The State of the Union Address Drinking Game 2006. It’s probably ok to play even if you’re not located in the US, but for those of us who call him our President, there’s an added incentive to drink.