Former vice president Al
Gore—who for the past three decades has unsuccessfully attempted
to warn humanity of the coming destruction of our planet, only to
be mocked and derided by the very people he has tried to
save—launched his infant son into space Monday in the faint hope
that his only child would reach the safety of another world.

In the highly anticipated
new installment of "The Terminator" film franchise, set
in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the
man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army
of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is
altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam
Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death
row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the
future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final
onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes
them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they uncover the
terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.

NASA’s Deep Impact
spacecraft has created a video of the moon transiting (passing in
front of) Earth as seen from the spacecraft’s point of view 31
million miles away. Scientists are using the video to develop
techniques to study alien worlds.

"Making a video of
Earth from so far away helps the search for other life-bearing
planets in the Universe by giving insights into how a distant,
Earth-like alien world would appear to us," said University
of Maryland astronomer Michael A’Hearn, principal investigator
for the Deep Impact extended mission, called EPOXI.

With the blankest of blank
expressions on their faces, these mysterious figures have been
popping up in the most unlikely of places.

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Close inspection of the
pictures rules out an alien invasion – small perforations around
the eye areas of the masks allow the people beneath to see the
world outside.

But nobody knows who the faceless figures, who often appear as
motionless couples are, or why they are turning up at high profile
events.

Theories include the
possibilities that they are limelight-seeking pranksters,
performance artists or that they are at the centre of a viral
marketing campaign for an as-yet unknown product of forthcoming
horror film.