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Last night’s Mega Millions winning lotto combination contained 4 of the 6 mysterious LOST numbers

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Talk about mysteriously wicked news!  The January 4 Mega Millions drew the following numbers: 4, 8, 15, 25, 47, and 42 (the Mega Ball #).  Compare that to the mysterious Lost numbers: 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42.  Crazy I know!  Last night 41,763 people chose the four Lost numbers and they were awarded $150 each for their participation.  The generation-defining show has been off the air since May, but its closure will never stop fans from picking those numbers when they purchase lotto tickets.  The $380 million jackpot was reportedly split as follows: 323 people correctly guessed four balls plus the Mega Ball and won$10,000; 67 people matched the first four balls and won $250,000; and just two tickets, purchased in Idaho and Washington, matched all six numbers to split the massive jackpot.  As of today those winners have yet to claim their prize, but maybe that’s because they know how unlucky the numbers are.  Nobody wants to find one Tricia Tanaka dead tomorrow morning, now do we?

Lost producers Damon Lindelof & Carlton Cuse responded to the lotto Lost tie-in, and even actor Jorge Garcia (who originally picked the numbers as Hugo Reyes) humorously commented on it on his personal blog.

Blindfolded humans cannot walk straight

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Here’s an unsolved mystery as old as time: blindfolded humans cannot walk straight.  If you blindfold a person and tell them to walk straight, that person will quickly begin to walk in circles and not even know it!  Says Robert Krulwich in an NPR report, “Humans, apparently, slip into circles when we can’t see an external focal point, like a mountain top, a sun, a moon. Without a corrective, our insides take over and there’s something inside us that won’t stay straight.”  Though many scientists have attempted to figure out what exactly that something is, no one has cracked it just yet.  Watch the fun animation describing the strange phenomenon in the video above.

[Via NPR]

Google: Happy Birthday, H.G. Wells!

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And the Google doodles have led up to this, a celebration of what would have been author H.G. Wells’ 146th birthday.  From the “unexplained phenomena” and the mysterious phrase “all your “O” belong to us,” to the “crop circles,” and now to a scene from H.G. Wells’ famous story War of the Worlds, Google has played us all.  Was the Google-plex infiltrated by aliens from another planet?  Was Google planning to unveil a new logo or a new product or service?  Were they attempting to show the general public and corporations alike the power of the Google doodle and how its changes can support advertisements for movies and so on?  NOPE.

Google has officially stated today in a blog post that all the mysterious doodles have led to up to this one event, the birthday of H.G. Wells, and all of the doodles relate to his War of the Worlds.  “Inspiration for innovation in technology and design can come from lots of places; we wanted to celebrate H.G. Wells as an author who encouraged fantastical thinking about what is possible, on this planet and beyond. And maybe have some fun while we were doing it.”  Yeah, by fun you mean having bloggers like me and crazy alien theorists like the rest of us postulate for days on end thinking about a possible explanation.  (Although things started to become clear with the second doodle; the coordinates Google posted on their Twitter page pointed to Horsell Commons, the initial place where the aliens landed in Wells’ novel.)  Google puts a cap on this solved mystery and leaves us with this: “The invasion of the logo by alien crafts and pods makes our series complete, but you’ll have to read the book to find out how Wells’ story really ends.”

Well played Google, well played.

Update:  It still doesn’t explain Google’s Street View image of these UFOs flying over London!  Muhahah….

[Via Telegraph.uk; GoogleBlog]

Google’s mystery doodle is back for more

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Enter the follow-up doodle in the series of alien-related Google doodles.  First it was the UFO-inspired doodle that searched for “unexplained phenomena.”  Now there is a crop-circle inspired doodle that searches for the keyword “crop circle.”  The first doodle’s image file name was “Go_gle.”  This image’s file name is “Goog_e.”  First the “o” was abducted, now the “l” is missing.  What this means no one knows.  On it’s Twitter page Google posted the following coordinates: 51.327629, -0.5616088.  Followers figured out that these specific coordinates reveal a location in the UK, a town called Horsell in Surrey, England, to be exact.  Interestingly this area is infamous for it’s prominent role in H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds;” it is the town where the aliens first land in the novel.

So, what does this all mean?  Unfortunately there are no solid answers…again.  Some theories include: Wells’ 143rd birthday falls on September 21; “It’s almost certainly a viral marketing campaign teasing people ahead of some launch in a week or two” (via UK Guardian); and my favorite–Google has been taken over by aliens from an unknown planet.  Just like before, all there is to do now is to continue theorizing and wait for the next doodle or a possible explanation from Google itself.

[Via CNET; Wired]