Perhaps to nobody's surprise, there weren't really aliens discovered in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. Contemporaneous reports talk of 5 pounds of debris, foil mostly and entirely consistent with a ballon, being discovered. Most of what we "know" about aliens at Roswell are based on the memories of one Glenn Dennis, who first came forward with same ( Read more... )

There are days that I dispair over the loss of critical thinking in America. Today is one of them. For some reason, a 2003 scientific paper about methane gas eruptions sinking ships is back in the news. (Hat tip to Rand SimbergNow, yes, if your ship happens to be right over an eruption of methane hydrates, the ship could sink. And yes, these ( Read more... )