Like a massive stone puzzle, the Great Pyramid has refused to give up all of its secrets. One of the last are two shafts out of the “Queen’s Chamber”. Purpose? Unknown, even to this day. Robots to the rescue.
That’s the Air Force’s super-secret unmanned X-37B space plane hitching a ride on an Atlas V rocket yesterday. No one knows what its mission is. Or even when it’s coming back.
A lot of writers, including me, suspected the Steve Jobs and Eric Schmidt meeting in public was a PR stunt. After some research, and info on background, I’m more sure it wasn’t.
There’s really no doubt about it: secret passages are totally awesome. Which is why I can’t help but be smitten by this homemade hidden door that exposes a messy, messy office.
Here’s another clue to uncover the huge box mystery: The new Star Trek TV spot. In it, Kirk is kicking arse and Uhura’s bra—unlike bra-less Betty—is armour plated. (I’m partial to yellow lace.)
Given that Google’s proprietary server designs are key element to their business, its not all that surprising that the details would be a secret. What is surprising, is that they finally spilled the beans.
An MP3 player purchased for $US14.50 (brown Zune?) at an Oklahoma second-hand store had an extra surprise inside–60 files containing Iraq- and Afghanistan-deployed soldiers’ personal info, a mission briefing and base equipment manifests. Score!
newVideoPlayer("/mysterybomb_giz.flv", 448, 272,""); The US government plotted to hide the fact that they were constantly flying nuclear-armed B-52 bombers over Greenland during the 1960s, the BBC has discovered in a recent investigation. The operation, called Chrome Dome, was designed to instantly respond to the Soviet Union if the latter launched a nuclear missile attack against Thule, a US Air Force base strategically placed near the North Pole. The Pentagon believed that this could potentially start a full-scale thermonuclear war, so they kept the birds in the sky at all times as a deterrent against Moscow. It was a “good” plan, until one of them crashed on January 21 1968.
The UK Ministry of Defence has just declassified nineteen secret files detailing UFO encounters over the past decades, one of them involving a USAF Sabre fighter pilot who was ordered to fire at will against an unidentified flying object in British airspace. Unfortunately–or fortunately–lieutenant Milton Torres lost the contact after the UFO left the scene at a whooping 16,000 kilometres per hour. According to him, it had the proportions of an aircraft carrier:
