true disbelievers

"A procession of the damned.
By the damned, I mean the excluded.
We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.
Battalions of the accursed, captained by pallid data that I have exhumed, will march. You'll read them — or they'll march...
...It is our expression that the flux between that which isn't and that which won't be, or the state that is commonly and absurdly called "existence," is a rhythm of heavens and hells: that the damned won't stay damed; that salvation only precedes perdition...
...Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful...
...The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely..."

The Philosophy of Charles Fort

Earlier this month it rained fish, over a period of weeks, in several parts of Australia. The fish fell from the sky in scattered areas as far from water as three hundred and seventy miles. There are many theories on this. Only so much swamp gas and weather balloons can really cover, though, and this fish raining phenomenon is hardly isolated or even all that rare, though it it remains thoroughly unexplained and ignored. There are even stranger things falling from the sky all the time. Sometimes just too strange for modern science to accept at all, at all.
Hell, it wasn't until the 1800's that educated scientists would acknowledge the existence of meteorites, rocks that fall from the sky. The argument was beautiful in it's simplicity: Their established theories of existence were built on a set of math that did not have room for rocks in it. The Heavens, they said, were perfect clockwork, Newtons Laws guiding every tick and balance, and this understanding of physics told them there simply were no free flying dust or chunks of anything out there. Therefore, no matter how many eye-witnesses saw steaks of light that flew to the earth and found strange smoking stones in craters, some of rather tremendous size, they must be mistaken. Either stupid, lying, or mad. No other way about it. It must have been lightning, or a hallucination, or a trick or some kind, or maybe the whole village planned the thing to get attention or what have you. The math said there were no rocks in space, so there were no rocks in space. It did not matter that no explanation held up to account for it, just the insistence that the obvious must be ignored.
Of course, being unburdened by the need to support such theories, the accounts of ancient humans are filled with references to "stones that fall from heaven." The earliest religious sites ever excavated often have as their alter a bit of meteoric metal. The center of the Muslim faith hangs on the one idol Muhammad allowed to remain as a physical symbol of Allah, the Black Stone in the Kaaba. India is literally littered with shrines and totems made of meteorites and described as such exhaustively. None of this phased our Brave Experts though. It all amounted to a hill of naive superstition, as easily ignored as, oh, say, the existence of germ born disease.


Soothing Shot to the Brain ends sensation of fear.
Mind-reading experiment uses brain scans to eavesdrop on thoughts.

Theories of Everything
Mapping Dark Matter

Island cult prays for return of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Awaited Messiah.