Ghost Chewbacca - S02E42 Tower of Technobabble

It's apparently Angry Day at the ol' Tower - from Towerbot's depressive spiral to the Conduit's anger at an (Austrian) national treasure. Pick an opinion and stick with it this week!

Show Notes:

Towbot's not in the Robot Hall of Fame...yet.: http://etc.cmu.edu/site/RHOF_Induction_Ceremony/RHOF2012.html and

http://www.robothalloffame.org/news.html

Italian Scientists get six years in prison for failing to predict an earthquake:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20025626

(Source: https://twitter.com/SarcasticRover/statuses/262071961784569856)

Astronomer Allen Epling films strange cigar-shaped UFO type object in sky above Kentucky
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/the-other-side/astronomer-allen-epling-films-strange-cigar-shaped-ufo-type-object-in-sky-above-kentucky/story-e6frfhk6-1226504386462

http://news-expressky.com/news/article_f257128c-1979-11e2-a94e-0019bb2963f4.html

Channel 18 News! Holy Crap Yo!: http://youtu.be/nSd1NW6HeNA

Identified? - You tell me: http://www.examiner.com/article/ufo-identified-after-flying-over-kentucky-virginia-and-tennessee

http://www.chicagonow.com/greenamajigger/2011/03/solar-airship-8-meter-long-floating-craft-doesnt-require-wind/

1948 : 

http://www.ufocasebook.com/Mantell.html

1955 Hopkinsville, Ky alien “attack” :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%E2%80%93Hopkinsville_encounter

1993 Louisville, Ky alien “attack”:

http://www.ufoevidence.org/cases/case764.htm