I think it's about time I dub the creek in front of my house as having mystical powers of health restoration and invigoration. It will make your love life better, it will put the spring in your step, it will make your hair shiny and restore your vitality. Yes, yes it will. I won't sell you this but I'm accepting donations of $5.00 per 8 oz. jar.

While I accept that these people built this with their own money and don't make such claims (nor do they ask for money to see/enjoy/use it, they "just" accept donations of $10...a specific amount?) they realize that if you put some "new-age" type structure or symbol up, people looking for solace or miracles or help, or any number of reliefs from their predicaments, are going to come to it.

How come we never see Stephen Hawking at these things? I'll tell you why, he has a clue.

Yes, and if you thought the article was funny, try some of the comments posted there!

Coincidentally, I just finished reading "Stephen Hawking - Quest for a Theory of Everything", by Kitty Ferguson, today. Not only a very good and quite simple explanation of matters physical (spacetime, black holes, quantum theory, gravity, etc.), but also a reminder of the qualities of the man himself. A lesson for us all, I think.

(And no comment about new-age energies from moonlight.)

15 miles west of Tucson? This thing is a big waste of money but I might as well go visit considering it's free, close to my house, and actually looks kind of cool.

And I quote Lewis Black...

"This is when the left side of the brain looks at the left side of the brain and says, "Eh, I think Im going to take a nap""

$2 million building it,

this better cure aids

I guess nobody ever told him that moonlight is just reflected sunlight. Oh dear.

I'll take three!

Can I carry these moonbeams home in a jar?
Will they let me swing from a star?


I want to be better off than I am.


I am tired of being a mule...

Beam me up, Scotty.

What, it's just reflected reflected light?

Damn you Scotty. Damn you.

It's in the Sonoran Desert. His wheels get stuck in the rocks.

Actually, they're as bad as you'd expect, real quack-jobs. I don't know why NewScientist was so kind. For a treat, go to their site and see what a rinky dink thing this really is in comparison to the impressive looking picture in the story. It looks like a drive-in movie screen in a state of near collapse. Two million bucks, eh? Their QUACK FAQ is enlightening on that subject, at least.

And don't forget to buy some moon jewelry while you're there.

This made my day. Thank you!!

Sure give me your address, I'll send them right out!