Facebook New VR Platform is ‘Like Hanging out in Person’
Facebook have revealed their first attempt at integrating the social network’s platform with virtual reality in an effort to give users a new way to hang out with their friends. “Facebook Spaces” was unveiled at the company’s annual developer conference on Tuesday. It will allow those who own virtual reality headsets to build personalized cartoonish-looking avatars from their recently tagged … Continue reading
Neil Armstrong and the Men in Black?
Although Neil Armstrong’s FBI file is not overflowing with mystery, it’s still well worth noting it, and for several intriguing reasons. The file – on the first man to step on the surface of our nearest neighbor, the Moon – is certainly not a long one, as I quickly found out when I secured a copy. The FBI states, in … Continue reading
An Ancient Platinum Asteroid Likey Wiped Out the Clovis People
The fate of the Clovis people remains one of the great mysteries of North American anthropology. The Clovis were a civilization which spread across the Americas 13,000 years ago and left behind sophisticated stone tools. The Clovis were once thought to be the first North American civilization, but recent discoveries have shown that this may not have been the case. … Continue reading
Global Rise in Storm Intensity with Wrong Seasons in Wrong Places
As our Earth’s magnetosphere is affected by the Sun entering its grand solar minimum phase, our troposphere will bulge at the equatorial latitudes and compress elsewhere with wild out of place jet streams. We are beginning to see this in 2017 with out of season rain events in dry season across Asia, formerly rare super cells across Europe and rain … Continue reading
Loud Unexplained Bang from the Sky in New South Wales Sparks Wild Specualtions
Lower Clarence residents were looking to the heavens last night after a loud, mysterious bang was heard in Maclean, Townsend, Gulmarrad, Wooli and Ashby shortly before 9pm last night. The incident caused a stir on social media, with more than 170 comments on Maclean Buy, Swap and Sell Facebook page. The Daily Examiner is investigating the cause of the loud … Continue reading
How Do Tiny Little Bee Brains Do So Much?
Recently, researchers at Queen Mary University of London trained a group of buff-tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) to get little balls into goals — in a soccer-like game — in exchange for sweet treats. It’s not the first time bees have flexed their mental muscle in the lab. In addition to learning games, bees can also recognize human faces in photographs, … Continue reading
Do Ancient Hindu Texts Tell of An Atomic Bomb Being Detonated On Earth 12,000 Years Ago?
Hindu texts dating from thousands of years ago seem to suggest that some kind of highly advanced weapon resembling an atomic bomb was set off on the Earth some twelve thousand of years ago. The Mahabharata and the Ramayana are Sanskrit epics thought to have been written in the 8th or 9th century BC and are accounts of the Kurukshetra … Continue reading
Infowars’ Alex Jones Slapped With Lawsuit: Antics Are All an Act as ‘Performance Artist’
A child custody lawsuit pits “America’s biggest conspiracy theorist” Alex Jones against ex-wife Kelly Jones, who is seeking payments from the Infowars founder for child support. Kelly claims her husband is “not a stable person,” but the man US President Donald Trump once praised as having an “amazing” reputation is simply “playing a character.” That’s according to his attorney, who … Continue reading
Cannibalism Study Finds People Are Not That Nutritious
While our ancient ancestors did practice cannibalism, eating other humans just couldn’t compare with taking down a mammoth. Note to the prehistoric party planner: One dead mammoth can feed 25 hungry Neanderthals for a month, but cannibalizing a human would provide the crowd with only a third of a day’s calories. Essentially, you’re a walking lunch. A new look at … Continue reading
Meteor Explosion Over the Skies of Queensland Australia Reportedly Shook Houses
THERE have been reports of a house-shaking thud in Killarney after the meteorite was spotted in our skies last night. Our sister paper, the Warwick Daily News reported the buzz on social media: Brigitte Jones said, “I felt it out here, the house shook.” Madeline Wilkins posted “I’m in Toowoomba and saw a burning light in the sky maybe a … Continue reading
