Harold Camping, 88, has scrutinised the Bible for almost 70 years and says he has developed a mathematical system to interpret prophecies hidden within the Good Book. One night a few years ago, Camping, a civil engineer by trade, crunched the numbers and was stunned at what he'd found: The world will end May 21, 2011. Read more
In a nationalistic publicity stunt to "inspire Latvia" to be all it can be, telephone company Tele2 staged a phony meteorite impact near the northern town of Mazsalaca. The company wanted to give everyone a break from the grim news about the Baltic country and the economic meltdown. Source
Today's stupid person is Ancis Steinbergs who faked a meteorite impact crater, causing a lot of time wasting, unwarranted panic and fear, and financial cost to the local authorities.
Vandals destroy 8,000-year-old artwork Heartless vandals have destroyed cave paintings dating back thousands of years with graffiti. Fluorescent yellow paint was sprayed over carvings, thought to be around 8,000 years old, inside the Cova de la Clau in Palma de Gandia, last week. However, they left a 16,000-year-old engraving of a horse in the Cova del Parpalló untouched.
Miyuki Hatoyama Japan's new first lady is something of a Renaissance woman: designer, former actress, cookbook author, television personality - and perhaps most controversially a self-professed space traveller who has visited Venus with aliens.
Two Bangladeshi newspapers, the Daily Manab Zamin or the New Nation, ran a report from the satirical news Web site "the Onion" last week that quoted Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, as saying it was all "an elaborate hoax" perpetrated by the U.S. government. Neither of the news reporters realised that The Onion was a satirical website.
Ho Chi Minh City police Monday detained three men in custody pending filing of criminal charges in a fake meteorite deal supportably worth US$3 million. Tran Van Um and Chau Soc of the Mekong Delta provinces of Kien Giang and An Giang respectively were caught on April 29 attempting to cheat a man identified only as Le. T. T. in the citys outlying Binh Tan District. Read more
Dr. Steve Austin, of Answers In Genesis, gives a lecture on geologic evidences for very rapid strata deposition in the Grand Canyon.
The fact is that Dr. Steve Austin is a creationist - and by that definition, he has ignored basic scientific principles. If he chooses personally to believe in a young age for the world, or that the world is flat, or whatever, then that is ok; the problem is when he lectures, and broadcasts, his ignorant ideas which are maybe believed by others.
UFO hoaxers get fines, community service Two New Jersey men, Chris Russo and Joe Rudy, who staged a UFO hoax will have more earthly pursuits, such as picking up trash from the side of the road.
Man, I hate being forced to insult someone. But he brings it on himself: Glenn Beck is an idiot. He is a right-wing blowhard who talks endlessly about stuff he doesn't have a clue about. Read more