Barriers to Innovation and Inclusion at NASA

This homemade film written and produced by NASA astronaut Andrew Thomas illustrates some of the real barriers to Innovation at NASA. The scenarios played out in the video are based on actual events, it's no wonder NASA seems to take forever to get things going.

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Barriers to Innovation and Inclusion

Edmonton, Canada Meteor Video

Of course I'm a little late to this story, but dang is this footage caught by a Police cars dash cam beautiful.

Massive fireball lights up night skies in Alberta, Saskatchewan.
Freshly fallen meteor fragments found in Saskatchewan

It's a lot like this older footage of a separate event, I imagine it was filmed in much the same way as the Edmonton Meteor Video.

Meteor Impact Simulation

Well if something this huge impacted the earth, well mate we're screwed mate. What would that be like, a universe without consciousness, if in fact we're the only the only intelligent beings around. Mate we're screwed mate.

Edgar Mitchell Audio

The big news from a few days ago, Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon in a radio interview talking about his experiences with UFO's and disclosure.

He seemed pretty relaxed about it all, but I got the feeling he may not have had to much first hand knowledge about what he was talking about, but it did sound like he knew people in the know.

What will full disclosure bring us? I hope it goes the way of "hey, come look, here's an alien, it wants to say hello," but my feeling is it'll go along the lines of "yes aliens have been visiting us, now we have to think about protecting our freedoms with guns in space," hows that sound.

Who is James Hydrick?

There are videos out there that I come across quite often, some of these I re-watch whenever I do just because they're so dang interesting.

One of these videos is of the 80s Psychic fraudster James Hydrick being called out and exposed by James Randi, every time I come across it I have to watch it, though I'd never researched any further into this guys history or even where he is now, he could have been dead for all I knew, so I gave into my procrastination and did some research.

James Hydrick appeared on the show "That's Incredible!" in 1980 showing off some of his tricks, one of the hosts appeared to be pretty skeptical of his powers, rightly so as they make for some great party tricks. Hydrick was later called out by James Randi on the show "That's My Line" where Hydrick failed the task presented to him.





Not long after, Hydrick confessed to a journalist that he had no psychic abilities and that he was actually using his breath and other techniques, a lot of which he had taught himself while in solitary confinement in prison. He went onto say that because he had no attention from his parents he liked the attention that his trickery brought him, so he pretty much rolled with it.

As far as I can gather James Hydrick is in prison and also as far as I can gather for some disgusting crimes.

So that's my basic research on the fella, what's left for me to wonder is how in the hell did anyone believe his party tricks, I do most of that stuff at parties (well, apart from the phone book thing that actually looks pretty amazing) and most of the people I show pull the tricks off moments after with no explanation from me, though I guess it shows, his peak didn't last long.