Noumenal News

MEDFORD, OR—Despite evidence that the planets are aligned in his
favor, local pagan Jeff Birch, 27, said Monday that he would “rather
have a peaceful weekend at home” than attend his family’s Vernal
Equinox celebration on March 21.
“I realize it’s supposed to be a festive time of conception and new
growth in the womb of Mother Earth and […]

Scientists studying pictures from Nasa’s Odyssey
spacecraft have spotted what they think may be seven caves on the
surface of Mars.

The candidate caves are on the flanks of the Arsia Mons
volcano and are of sufficient depth their floors mostly cannot be seen
through the opening.

Details were presented here at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas.

Temperature […]

A FAMILY feared they would be “wiped out” when a UFO plummeted from the sky, heading straight at their Hertford home.
Reports of the bizarre phenomenon poured into the Mercury after the cylindrical object was spotted on Monday at around 4pm.
But none was more dramatic than that by mum-of-four Maxine Abbess, 44, of Pages Road on […]

IT’S enough to make your hair stand on end.
Staff
at the newly opened Uppercut salon in Market Place, Romford, say
sometimes they are too frightened to go to work because a ghost shares
their premises.
Manageress Nicky
Hill, 22, said she never believed in ghosts or the afterlife until she
and her staff experienced a series of strange, unexplained events.
“I
come into […]

Enough water is locked up at Mars’ south pole to cover the planet in a liquid layer 11m (36ft) deep.

The Mars Express probe used its radar instrument to map the thickness of Mars’ south polar layered deposits.

Analysis of the Marsis radar data shows that the polar deposits consist of almost pure water-ice.

The findings appear in […]

XIAN, China: The tomb of China’s first emperor is potentially one of
the most spectacular on Earth, but a heated debate is developing over
whether to excavate it at all.
Chinese archaeologists have expressed concern that they do not
currently have the expertise to properly preserve what they find inside
the tomb - located in China’s central province of Shaanxi […]

Future spacecraft may surf the magnetic fields of Earth and other
planets, taking previously unfeasible routes around the solar system,
according to a proposal funded by NASA’s Institute for Advanced
Concepts. The electrically charged craft would not need rockets or
propellant of any kind.
Mason Peck of
Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, US, has received a grant to
study the idea, […]

Mexican archaeologists found more than 100 bodies in 29 different pre-Hispanic tombs dating back about 2,000 years in Nayarit.
Raúl
Barrera, who leads the archaeological project for the National
Institute of Anthropology and History, or INAH, said most of the
remains belonged to women between the ages of 35 and 40.
Archaeologists
have not yet been able to determine which civilization […]

Archaeologists exploring Cyprus, said to be home to Venus, the
goddess of love, have stumbled upon the world’s oldest known perfume
factory.
A display of the prehistoric scents and 60 objects from the Cyprus
discovery can be seen at Rome’s Capitoline Museums, ANSA reported. The
distilling equipment is believed to be 4,000 years old.
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PETE STARK, a California Democrat, appears to be the first congressman in U.S. history to acknowledge that he doesn’t believe in God. In a country in which 83% of the population thinks that the Bible is the literal or “inspired” word of the creator of the universe, this took political courage.
Of course, one can […]