Show Notes for Episode #029: Are we what we leave behind, what we do now, or what we create in the future?

• Theme Song: Hyper Lounge by Scott Helm from The Podsafe Music Network
• Opening quote from Big Trouble in Little China
• Legacies aren’t always good
  • Should we send them somthing for their anniversary, or woudl they take it the wrong way? – BBC: Vanuatu cargo cult marks 50 years
  • I just hope in 50 years, we aren’t finding this legacy still. – Yahoo!/AP: Tire reef off Florida proves a disaster
  • Quote from Ghostbusters
  • Old Data about Eternal Phenomena meets New Media. – Roy Stemman’s Paranormal Review: University puts psychic archive on Internet
  • The collection itself – University of Manitoba/Thomas Glendenning Hamilton fonds: Thomas Glendenning Hamilton fonds
• Space for Sale
  • Quote from Cheers
  • Who’s the cargo cult again? – Ananova: Astronaut’s nappy for sale on eBay
  • Quote from Ren and Stimpy
  • Apparently, there is a UFO flap going on; or at least, something is flapping… – Maine Today/Morning Sentinel: Strange lights over Somerset County
  • Franklin, my dear, I give a damn. – UFO Mystic/Lewiston Maine: Odd Lights, Low Sounds Cause Stir
  • Quote from Close Encounters of the Third Kind
  • It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a UFO! Oh CRAP! It’s an ASTEROID! – The Scotsman: It may hit Earth … but don’t worry, we’ve got a plan
  • Quote from Armageddon
  • Space: it’s bigger than it was, and will always be bigger than it is… – Physorg/University of Stanford: Universe offers ‘eternal feast,’ cosmologist says
  • Quote from Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • Home for sale: only slighly abducted. – ReligionNewsBlog/The Globe and Mail: Raelians: For sale: prime place for a prophet to play
  • Quote from The Jerk
  • Have you petted an astronaut lately? – New Scientist: (O) Motion-sensitive spacesuits could generate power
• Imperative Evolutionarity
  • Quote from Saturday Night Live
  • At least evolution trutfully calls itself a ‘theory’… – Reuters: Conservatives lose latest Darwin battle in Kansas
  • Tim the Tool Man was not the first ape to use tools. – LiveScience: (O) Chimps Learned Tool Use Long Ago Without Human Help
  • First tools, next weapons of mass extraction.. – New Scientist: Spear-wielding chimps snack on skewered bushbabies
  • Bird day-planner: 6am: eat worms; 8am: eat seeds; 10am, sleep; 12pm, deposit money in RRSPs. – LiveScience: Birds, Like Humans, Can Plan Ahead
  • Four legs bad! Two legs better! – Yahoo!/AP: Tiny duckling has rare mutation: 4 legs
  • “… and these little piggies started a narco-syndicate collective…” – Stuff/East and Bays Courier: Extra-special cat has 26 toes
  • It all started with Disney and the sexy scene with spaghetti. – Ananova: Dogs addicted to noodles
  • He keeps eating the change, tho’. – Ananova: Dog buys his own sausages
  • Eventually, cars won’t even need us to ride in them. – Ananova: Cars to drive themselves by 2030
• Extras
  • Hey, when you live in a desert, you find things to amuse your mind… – New Scientist: Medieval Islamic tiling reveals mathematical savvy
  • More reason to worry about the Deep Freeze.. Granted, we have indoor heating. – BBC: Freeze ‘condemned Neanderthals’
  • It’s a human! It’s a chimp! It’s a bear! Wait.. it’s a bear? – The Free Lance-Star: Mystery solved: Foot belonged to bear
  • I vant to eat your birds.. – The Scotsman: (O) Study finds bats might eat birds
  • Kinda like a lot of video games, the boss signals when he starts to attack.. – BBC: (O) Large squid lights up for attack
  • A modern vampire myth? – BBC: Sex attacks blamed on bat demon
  • I know this high-ranking member of a African ruling family who wants you to get their money out of the country as well, if you fall for this. – Yahoo!/Reuters: Fake drug, fake illness — and people believe it!

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