Friday the 13th, 2029. Doomsday? Well, almost. If this is confirmed, I think an all-Earth party is in order. We'll call it Whew, and we should party like it's 2030.

With all due respect to Clyde Tombaugh, Pluto wasn't discovered 75 years ago. If anything, it was rediscovered by Mr. Tombaugh. It's just another case of our modern blinders, or "mainstream" academia's failure to acknowledge overwhelming evidence that we are today at just another peak among many in the history of humanity's knowledge and technology. Our progress hasn't been one constant, upwardly-moving line. There have been many dark ages, and many a Renaissance. Thousands of years ago, the sumerians knew about our solar system, including Pluto and the mysterious object beyond Pluto that's currently accepted. But this is thousands of years ago, when our textbooks tell us there were no telescopes or other informing technologies. Too many Ph.D. theses depend on old, tired and egotistical assumptions. They'll eventually be torn to shreds...I just hope it happens in my lifetime.

The fastest object ever? How does 1.5 million mph sound? This is an intersting (and quick) read. In a nutshell: a star is making a beeline out of the Milky Way. They think it was catapulted out of a black hole. Unfathomably cool.

On Thursday the 24th at 8:00 p.m., Peter Jennings will be the first "mainstream" "journalist" in years to give proper attention to the UFO question. But I expect this two hour show to prove inferior to anything the History Channel has done in the past four years.

Check out this interesting anomaly published on NASA's site. Give it a second or two to load. What was that thing over Hawaii last month? Gotta love a good celestial mystery.

To bring all this back down to Earth a weebit: The 2005 Unnecessary Event Award might have to go to the folks who are re-assembling the cast of One Day at a Time for a special reunion show. And is it me, or does Valerie Bertinelli look like she could be her husband Eddie Van Halen's doppleganger?

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