Empire of the Odd

Humans may crave absolute certainty; they may aspire to it; they may pretend, as partisans of certain religions do, to have attained it. But the history of science — by far the most successful claim to knowledge accessible to humans — teaches that the most we can hope for is successive improvement in our understanding, learning from our mistakes, an asymptotic approach to the Universe, but with the proviso that absolute certainty will always elude us.

Once again the Saint Petersburg Times trolls Scientology and their center of the universe in nearby Clearwater.Giant ‘Super Power’ building in Clearwater takes a pause, yet millions keep flowing in

By Joe Childs and Thomas C. Tobin, Times Staff Writers
In Print: Monday, November 21, 2011

The seven-story Super Power building, also known as the Flag Building, sits on a full city block across the street from the taller Fort Harrison Hotel. In the foreground is the church’s power plant (L-shaped orange roof). It will heat and cool Super Power. Next to it is the church’s parking garage, both styled in the Mediterranean Revival architecture of the other church buildings. Scientology plans to build a seven-story, 3,500-seat auditorium on property it owns south of Super Power.

Maybe they’re out of money.

That speculation — irresistible to many Scientology watchers in Clearwater — never died after the church suddenly stopped construction on its massive, downtown “Super Power” building.

The church had spent five years and $45 million erecting the shell of the seven-story colossus that covers an entire city block. But in 2003 it shifted the project into idle, offering little explanation.

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Website RPP is claiming that Renato Davila Riquelme, an anthropologist working at the Privado Ritos Andinos museum in Cusco, has discovered remains of something that isn’t human. Measuring at 20 inches tall, the tiny remains were originally believed to be that of a child, but Spanish and Russian doctors disagree.

“It has a non-human appearance because the head is triangular and big, almost the same size as the body. At first we believed it to be a child’s body until Spanish and Russian doctors came and confirmed that, yes, it’s an extraterrestrial being.”

Obviously, that’s the explanation that makes the most sense, and not a child that was born horribly deformed. But hey cool aliens!

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– OR if nothing happens we can finally proclaim that Hoagland’s been a crank all along?

HERE IT IS: Edited version of the 2nd hour of Revolution Radio Friday nights at 8 pm Eastern. Richard C. Hoagland calls on Francis to ‘head up’ the amateur astronomers around the world to film the MOST SPECTACULAR EVENT in our time! Asteroid YU-55 Smashing into the MOON!

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