Dad2059’s Blog of Science-Fiction/Science Fact and Tinfoil

Courtesy of Posthuman Blues:

Seemingly, people in the space community have a tendency to push the boundaries of thought about all the possibilities that await us in the universe. Case in point: Geoffrey Landis. Landis is a scientist at NASA’s Glenn Research Center who writes science fiction in his spare time. Last week Landis shared with us his ideas for using a solar powered airplane to study Venus.Venus. Yes, Venus, our hot, greenhouse-effect-gone-mad neighboring planet with a crushing surface pressure that has doomed the few spacecraft that have attempted to reach the planet’s mysterious landscape. Landis knows Venus’ surface itself is pretty much out of the question for human habitation. But up about 50 kilometers above the surface, Landis says the atmosphere of Venus is the most Earth-like environment, other than Earth itself, in the solar system. What Landis proposes is creating floating cities on Venus where people could live and work, as well as study the planet below.

Ahh, cities in the sky, long a dream of many a science-fiction author. This is the first time I’ve seen it applied to Venus though.

Colonizing Venus With Floating Cities

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Blogging biologist Peggy of Biology in Science Fiction goes on a small rant about stories that help, and hinder understanding of real biology:

In any case, the issue of public perception of science and scientists is an important one, if only because that public perception influences politics and funding. Part of the problem, as I see it, is that the anti-science stories actually ring true to many people who have a deep distrust (and dislike) of corporations, the government, and anyone who is an “expert”. It can be satisfying to see arrogant establishment types who believe themselves to be very clever shown up as bumbling and foolish, even if it does mean death and disaster as a result. Hell, I often enjoy those kind of stories, and I like science.

So what’s the solution? More positive SF? That certainly couldn’t hurt. But there’s no guarantee that any particular novel or movie will become popular enough to really make a difference in public perception. I suspect that education is really the key. Part of what feeds people’s fear of scientific progress is that they don’t understand it. I’m not sure how we can go about that, though, beyond ensuring kids get a thorough science education in school. Public lectures are a possibility, as are entertaining exhibitions at science museums, and maybe blogs too. I’d like to think that anyway.

I’m guilty of being ignorant of biology in science, and science-fiction. My last exposure to it was college long ago (my grade was pretty good actually) and my own biases of being a tech and historian.

Peggy makes valid points. I should read up on it more.

(The post referenced doesn’t have its own link. Click on the link at the beginning of this one, then scroll down at her site.)

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Ever heard of the eBay $150,000 Bigfoot hunter? Neither have I, but apparently this guy is for real:

The eBay Bigfoot hunter has been identified. The $150,000 man first discussed at Boing Boing yesterday can be more fully revealed here today.

TPeterson6969 is Tim Peterson, the owner of Hawk Creek Taxidermy in Maynard, Minnesota. The business address of Hawk Creek Taxidermy & Archery is technically 12640 890 St. Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55401 , a mere 25.4 miles from Young America…

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When asked for a comment for an interview, Tim Peterson briefly told me that he is a “big game hunting guide” for A Double J Outfitters in Buffalo, Wyoming. He claims to “have been hunting big game for 34 years” and is “experienced in the back country.”

If Tim Peterson helps you bag a Bigfoot, it is obvious he can mount it for you. He can also help you with the skull too. According to the links on his taxidermy website, it appears a relative of his, Rorri Peterson, runs Beetle My Bones Skullworks, a business preparing heads for trophy animal skulls displays.

Well, you hafta admit that a hunter/taxidermist would be the ideal person to track and bag a Bigfoot, that would settle it once and for all about the damn things.

I wonder what Peggy the Biologist thinks about Bigfoot?

eBay’s $150,000 Bigfoot Hunter ID’d

Recent studies of the triple star system closest to our solar system, Alpha Centauri, indicate that Centauri A hold slim chances of having formed super-Earth type worlds and only slightly better chances of Earth sized ones ( A Discouraging Look For Centauri A Planets ). But according to Paul Gilster, prospects of finding an Earth type world might be better if we took a closer look at the very closest star to us and the smallest stellar component of the Alpha Centauri System, the M-type red dwarf Proxima Centauri:

Today, M dwarf interest grows. There’s at least the chance of a workable ecosystem around such a star, assuming flare activity (common to these stars) might act more as an evolutionary stimulus than a deterrent to life. Moreover, the long lifetimes granted to M dwarfs mean that stable environments could exist for many billions — perhaps hundreds of billions — of years. This is why we’ve seen a recent florescence of M dwarf studies, with a keen interest in their astrobiological prospects, and why Proxima Centauri remains an interesting target. And although it hasn’t gotten the press of its larger siblings, Proxima has generated studies that are closing in on characterizing its system…

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We can already say this about Proxima planets: If they exist, they are no larger than 0.8 Jupiter masses in the range of orbital periods ranging from one to 600 days. That’s from radial velocity studies published in the late 1990s. This work is now complemented by seven years of high precision radial velocity data gathered with the UVES spectrograph at the European Southern Observatory. Michael Endl (McDonald Observatory) and Martin Kürster (Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie) address the question of what kind of planets we can exclude from the habitable zone of Proxima Centauri based upon these data.

Proxima’s habitable zone, remember, is in close because this is a small star — the authors assume 0.12 solar masses, a reasonable estimate if on the high side, for reasons they explain in their paper. The habitable zone then becomes 0.022 to 0.054 AU, which corresponds to an orbital period ranging from 3.6 to 13.8 days. And the UVES data make it clear that no planet of Neptune mass or larger exists out to a distance of 1 AU.

For periods of less than 100 days, no super-Earths are detected larger than about 8.5 Earth masses. And for the actual habitable zone of Proxima Centauri we can rule out planets larger than 2-3 Earth masses in circular orbits. Needless to say, this doesn’t rule out planets of Earth mass or smaller in this zone.

Civilian mainstream science is getting better at detecting distant objects around other stars and it’s only a matter of time before an organization like an university or a non-profit discovers an Earth-type world for study.

Planetary Prospects Around Proxima

Update: Paul noted I was perhaps too extreme in my analysis of his post, so I made appropriate changes. In fact, he says prospects around Centauri B might be better than expected with improving search methods.

When Alpha Centauri is involved, no word is the last one! Corrections duly made Paul, thanks!

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The last time man set foot on the Moon was in 1972 when Eugene Andrew Cernan, last man on the Moon, boarded the Apollo 17 lunar module. That was 36 years ago and space flight has changed significantly since then, now NASA has more competition, as highlighted by Griffin during a visit to London:

“Certainly it is possible that if China wants to put people on the Moon, and if it wishes to do so before the United States, it certainly can. As a matter of technical capability, it absolutely can.” - Dr Michael Griffin

As to whether it actually matters whether China are the next to land on the Moon is open to interpretation. After all, the first nation to set foot on Earth’s natural satellite was the USA, so is a return trip a big psychological “victory” for China? “I’m not a psychologist, so I can’t say if it matters or not. That would just be an opinion and I don’t want to air an opinion in an area that I’m not qualified to discuss,” Griffin added.

This is more than a mea culpa, it’s a capitulation, as far as a credible civilian space program goes that is.

To me, this is proof that our military has already captured the high ground with advanced technology, why else would government mouth-piece Griffin show an obvious ‘could-give-a-shit’ attitude whether China gets to the Moon before Americans get ‘back’ there?

China Could Beat US in Moon Race

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Scientists at Brown University in Rhode Island used an instrument aboard a US spacecraft, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, to hunt for traces of phyllosilicates, or clay-like minerals that preserve a record of water’s interaction with rocks.

They found phyllosilicates in thousands of places, in valleys, dunes and craters in the ancient southern highlands, pointing to an active role by water in Mars’s earliest geological era, the Noachian period, 4.6 to 3.8 billion years ago.

“These results point to a rich diversity of Noachian environments conducive to habitability,” the authors conclude.

An intriguing find was of deposits in the pointed peaks at the centre of craters. These peaks are generally taken to be underground material thrown up by an impacting asteroid or comet.

For water to be present in such peaks, it must have been present as much as five kilometres (three miles) below the planet’s surface, the paper suggests.

“Water must have been creating minerals at depth to get the signatures we see,” head researcher John Mustard, a professor of planetary geology, said in a press release.

I never seen the term “Noachian” applied to another planet other than Earth before.

Maybe Mars had a race of beings who fell from Grace like humans, only the opposite happened to them, instead of dying in a huge Flood, they died from a massive “dry-off”?

Aye, it’s a big Universe Mr. Scott!

Water World: New Data Pinpoint Mars’ Wet and Balmy Past

“The national Terrorist Watch List has now crossed one million names — that’s a million suspected terrorists (including nuns, members of Congress, and people named “Robert Johnson”) who will spend their days being harassed, denied the fundamental right to travel, and punished for having a name vaguely like the name used by someone who may or may not be a terrorist. There’s no way to get off the list, and the list (and the criteria for adding names to it) are secret.”:

“America’s new million record watch list is a perfect symbol for what’s wrong with this administration’s approach to security: it’s unfair, out-of-control, a waste of resources, treats the rights of the innocent as an afterthought, and is a very real impediment in the lives of millions of travelers in this country,” said Barry Steinhardt, director of the ACLU Technology and Liberty Program. “It must be fixed without delay.” “Putting a million names on a watch list is a guarantee that the list will do more harm than good by interfering with the travel of innocent people and wasting huge amounts of our limited security resources on bureaucratic wheel-spinning,” said Steinhardt. “I doubt this thing would even be effective at catching a real terrorist.”

Controls on the watch lists called for by the ACLU included:

* due process
* a right to access and challenge data upon which listing is based
* tight criteria for adding names to the lists
* rigorous procedures for updating and cleansing names from the lists.

Ahh, but that’s the point, the idea is to watch possible protesters against government policies, especially people of the clergy and political opponents!

US Terrorist Watch List now has more than 1,000,000 names

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I had to jettison any religious notions I had to really understand this, and to begin to know myself. For our natural higher consciousness, if you like, our connectedness to the universe and to all things and all truth, somehow gets surgically removed from us in the course of growing up in this culture, and something else gets implanted within us: a barrier of some kind that keeps our true selves imprisoned, and our vital spirit contained and siphoned off somehow into a machine entity that controls our minds and lives. We are not ourselves anymore. And formal religion - the system that makes us believe that deity and truth lie outside us rather than within us - is a key part of that machine-master that makes us enslaved.

Intuitively, I knew all of this in a flash one evening by the river. Our slavery became apparent to me as a fact, not simply as a horrible notion.

About that same time, not coincidentally, and as an answer to my sudden inner question - “How then can we be made free?” - a woman named Lorisa contacted me out of the blue and said she needed to speak with me.

As it turned out, Lorisa was a psychic healer - that’s the colloquial name I’ll use for that which can’t and shouldn’t have a label - and she had been given a message to contact me and offer her immediate help and protection.

“From what?” I asked her, as we sat in her plush Vancouver home.

“From who, really” she replied. “I can’t name them. It’s too dangerous. But you are in great danger from forces that have been trying to destroy you for years now, ever since you began talking about those children who died in the Indian boarding schools.”

Skeptical by nature, I was about to ask how she knew that, when she began to provide me with all sorts of personal information and incidents about my life and family that no-one could have known.

My back and arms began to acquire the proverbial goosebumps. Lorisa continued.

“I dreamt about you and then began working with my team, channeling light towards you from the higher Chamber of Souls. I saw a lot. Are you ready for this?”

I nodded.

This is from the journal of one Kevin Annett, a defrocked Canadian United Church minister who investigated the genocide of aboriginal children in 1997. Apparently he made some powerful people angry and he’s been on the run since. This tale includes psychics, psychic weapons and not so nice NWO death squads according to the Rev. Annett. Fascinating tale.

Psychic Forces at Work?

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“If there has been a single theme running through this column it is that mega- or meta-conspiracy theories – of the it’s-all-the-fault-of-the-Jews-Masons-aliens-lizards kind – are a distraction from real conspiracies. Sometimes, though, these two fields threaten to overlap – for example with bankers. Now, this makes many respectable commentators nervous lest it should be thought they are interested in banking conspiracy theories – which sound, of course, rather similar to Jewish banking conspiracy theor­ies, that deathless staple of the far Right.”:

But so obvious have been the conspiracies in the sub-prime lending fiasco in America that I think I detect a certain diminution of the hostility towards the use of the ‘c’ word among our polit­ical-media gatekeepers. This may not be entirely unconnected to the fact that the value of their houses is going to fall as a direct result of the conspiracies by some US banks to sell mortgages to poor Americans who could not afford them (what the American legal system nicely calls ‘predatory lending’), followed by the selling of dodgy bonds and securities based on said dodgy mortgages. This set of linked banking conspiracies may be the biggest set of financial frauds ever perpetrated.

This article attempts to take the NWO, Illuminati and all other supreme elitist groups out of the collapsing world economy, except for the banksters.

I guess if you wanted to prove your case in a court of law like Daniel Estulin postulates, this would be the way to go, but just because you can’t see what’s causing the shadow, doesn’t mean it’s not there.

US Banking Conspiracies

If we, people living on Earth, are unlucky, then Apophis, a 390-meter asteroid flying toward the Earth, “will smack right into us in 2036,” according to Andrei Filkenshtein, a Russian astronomer from St Petersburg.But if we are lucky, the asteroid, already dubbed a space terrorist, will fly by at a distance of 40,000 km, the orbit of a communications satellite, in 2029.

Reading tealeaves and hoping for the best is not, of course, the ideal way of avoiding a disaster, which is certain to occur should such a large space body collide with the Earth. It would change the climate all over the globe. If it fell into the ocean, it would produce huge tsunamis and evaporate billions of tons of water vapor that would prevent sunlight from reaching the Earth’s surface for a long time. In other words, it would be the end of the world.

When I first saw the words “asteroid terrorist”, I immediately thought the article was explaining how asteroids could be used to “terrorize” other nations and groups of people on this planet.

The idea isn’t new, especially in science-fiction. Sci-fi author Larry Niven used the idea a couple of times in his Known Space Series about a race of beings called Pak and once more with Jerry Pournelle in their ‘The Mote In God’s Eye’.

The method is simple really, just attach a reaction mass motor of any type to the asteroid and bring it into orbit around the Earth. If someone pisses you off, decelerate the thing and time it to come down on your target. Boom! No more enemy!

The trouble is, there’s too much collateral damage, you’re bound to make your habitat uninhabitable!

Fortunately, that’s not what the article is about!

How To Deal With Asteroid Terrorism

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Timothy Good is considered one of the world’s leading experts on the UFO phenomenon.

For more than 40 years he has studied the controversial subject, having interviewed thousands of witnesses worldwide, many from military, governmental and scientific backgrounds.

Timothy has written numerous best-selling books on UFO’s and aliens - which he calls ‘the most highly classified subject on earth’ - and has acted as a consultant to several US Congress investigations into the phenomenon.

An international lecturer, in January 1989 following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Timothy became the first UFO researcher from the west to be interviewed on Russian television…

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In highlights, Timothy discussed:

The explanations behind the current UFO craze sweeping Britain

The declassification of thousands of government documents relating to UFO’s on May 2008 and what this means

His belief that aliens are here on earth - in bases dotted around the planet - and how world governments have been - and may still be - in liason with them

How aliens have influenced the genetic makeover of human beings

How the west has secretly developed advanced weaponry to deal with a possible intergalactic threat

Famous UFO cases - including Rendlesham Forest

How the United States and British governments have secretly spent millions of pounds attempting to solve the UFO mystery and that it is ‘the most highly classified subject on earth’

Linda Moulton Howe gave a July 9th interview on Binnall Of America on these very subjects, including her 1979 ‘A Strange Harvest’ which is about animal mutilations and her first experience with the UFO phenomenon. I was greatly swayed by Tim Binnall’s interview of her and she never once strayed from her answers to the questions and no ‘hmmming’ and ‘hawing’ like people do when they are trying to BS someone.

As for this guy Tim Good in England, well, credibility is hard to come by when the discussion of UFOs, the world governments and alien bases are involved. Even if someone legitimate from high up just ‘happens’ to develop a conscience and spills the beans here, no one will believe them because the sheeples’ conditioning run too deep.

There are alien bases on Earth

Linda Moulton Howe’s Interview

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Lastly, my buddy Geezer Power has been interested in government ‘Star Wars’ tech and how it’s being applied against US citizens and other governments that don’t toe the corporate elite line:

Interview With Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Radio Farda Correspondents Golnaz Esfandiari and Mosaddegh KatouzianSecretary Condoleezza Rice

 

Prague, Czech Republic ( July 8, 2008 )

QUESTION: Madame Secretary, thank you so much for this interview with Radio Farda. Let me start with a question that’s on the mind of many Iranians these days. Will there be a U.S. or Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities?

SECRETARY RICE: Oh, we believe very strongly and President Bush has made very clear that this problem with Iran about its nuclear technology can be resolved diplomatically. That is what we’re working on. We want very much for the Iranian people to be able to have good relations with the United States. There’s no reason that this great civilization with a great history and a great culture should be isolated from international politics. And so there is a diplomatic way to do this, and that’s why the United States, as a part of the group that is Germany, France, Great Britain, Russia, and China, has made a proposal to the Iranian Government that we hope they will accept.

QUESTION: Madame Secretary, Iran insists that its nuclear program is peaceful and, defying UN resolutions, continues with the enrichment of uranium. Is it a precondition for United States for bilateral talks and for lifting of the sanctions for Iran to end its enrichment program, and could you perhaps envision future talks without preconditions?

SECRETARY RICE: Well, the reason that it’s important for Iran to suspend its enrichment and reprocessing, to come to the table once it has suspended, is that we shouldn’t be in a position of talking while Iran continues to improve the very technologies that could lead to a nuclear weapon.

But if Iran wants a peaceful program, it can have a peaceful program. Russia has a reactor, the Bushehr reactor. The United States has been supportive of what Russia is doing there. We have offered, in the proposal that the P-5+1 have made, to help Iran with civil nuclear technology at the highest possible levels. It’s just that when you enrich and reprocess, you are perfecting the technologies that can lead to a nuclear weapon; and because of the Iranian regime’s history of lying to the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, it can’t be trusted with enrichment and reprocessing. But it can have civil nuclear power. And so when the Iranian regime tells its people that the West is trying to prevent Iran from having very sophisticated technology, it could not be further from the truth…

HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Reasearch Program). Supposed Weather modification, communication disruption and mind control Weapon. Extended Star Wars Defense Initiative (SDI)weapon of the US military.
HAARP has the ability of modifying the World’s electro-magnetic field.

Geez has been greatly influenced by us tinfoil nuts lately and has done a good job spreading the fact that our “democratic” government is anything but.

Condoleeza Rice Assures Diplomatic Solution To Iran

The Myth of Roswell is one of those things that persist for eternity it seems like. The continuing litany of stories, lies, coverups, witnesses, alien corpses, dummies, weather balloons, crashed saucers, telepathic flight controls, secret projects and other plethora of supposed truth and legend have fucked up serious discourse of the UFO phenomenon for the past sixty-one years and probably for another sixty-one as well.

And just when you think the last surviving eyewitness to the whole sordid affair has passed away and left their “memoirs” in the hands of anxious relatives hoping to get on the financial gravy train that is Roswell, another pops up.

Take for example Matilda O’Donnell MacElroy, a retired Army Air Force nurse who had a “telepathic” interview with one of the surviving crash aliens from Roswell:

“…all IS-BEs could be helped to become more aware of the actual situation on Earth through the information in this envelope. This is why I sent these letters and transcripts to you. I want you to get these documents published. I want IS-BEs on Earth to have a chance to find out what is really happening on Earth.

Most people will not believe any of it, I’m sure. It seems too incredible. No “reasonable” person would ever believe a word of it. However, it only seems “incredible” to an IS-BE whose memory has been erased and replaced with false information inside the electronically controlled illusion of a prison planet. We must not allow the apparent incredibility of our situation to prevent us from facing the reality of it.

Frankly, “reasons” have nothing to do with reality. There are no reasons. Things are what they are. If we don’t face the facts of our situation, we’re going to stay under the thumb of the “Old Empire” forever! The biggest weapon the “Old Empire” has left now is our ignorance of what they are doing to all the IS-BEs on Earth. Disbelief and secrecy are the most effective weapons they have!

The government agencies that classified the enclosed transcripts as “TOP SECRET” are run by IS-BEs who are nothing more than mindless automatons covertly ordered about through hypnotic commands given by the “Old Empire” prison operators. They are the unknowing slaves of unseen slave masters — and all the more enslaved by their willingness to be slaves.

Most of the IS-BEs on Earth are good, honest, able beings: artists, managers, geniuses, free thinkers and revolutionaries who have harmed no one, really. They are no threat to anyone except the criminals who have imprisoned them.

This is why I am asking you to tell this story. Please share these transcripts with as many people as you can. If the people of Earth are told what is really going on here, perhaps they will begin to remember who they are, and where they came from.

“Is-BEs” as applied here mean “Immortal Spiritual Beings”. Here we go again, intergalactic aliens coming here to the hapless “Planet of the Chimps” as Nemo describes us at times, to school us about great spiritual values, wake us up to the great evil that has controlled us for 6000 years so they can welcome us into the great Universal Brotherhood of Light and Wisdom.

*Sigh* That and a buck fifty-two won’t even get you a bag of compost from a dollar store. Well maybe.

And here’s another interesting point I noticed about this little story. Looky at this symbol here:

It is the insignia on the uniform the ‘alien’ wore whom Matilda “interviewed” telepathically. It represents “The Domain”, the intergalactic organization the alien is a member of. It is supposed to represent the ‘unity’ of the Universe. Now take a good, long hard look at it, where have you seen a symbol like that before?

Bingo! And reward yourself with whatever decadent pleasure you want if you said Star Trek! Or to be more exact, the symbol of Star Fleet. Now I had no idea about this comparative symbolism until I read Chris Knowles’ Secret Sun website and he did a recent story about Gene Roddenberry and possible esoteric connections with the “Council of Nine” (The number nine itself has occult value attached to it) :

In early 1975, a broke and depressed Roddenberry was approached by a British former race car driver named Sir John Whitmore, who was associated with a strange organization called ‘Lab-9.’ Though unknown to the public, Lab-9 were ostensibly a sort of an independent version of the X-Files, dedicated to the research of paranormal phenomena. However, Lab-9 had another, more complex agenda- they later claimed to be in contact with a group of extraterrestrials called the ‘Council of Nine’ or simply ‘The Nine’, who had been communicating through ‘channelers’ or psychic mediums.

The Nine claimed to be the creators of mankind, and had informed the channelers that they would be returning to Earth soon. Lab-9 had wanted to hire Roddenberry to write a screenplay based on the Council of Nine’s imminent return. To help Roddenberry in his research, Lab-9 flew him out to their headquarters, located on a large estate in Ossining, NY. There, Roddenberry met and interviewed several psychics, and prepared the groundwork for his script.

Now given the supposed ‘telepathic’ abilities of the “Domain” and this “Council of Nine”, could there be a connection between the two ‘organizations’ and the now deceased MacElroy and Roddenberry? Did one influence the other? If so, how? A more fundamental issue arising out of this is “Is there such a thing as mental telepathy?” Can we speak to each other and creatures from other places by thought alone?

Did they ‘create’ us, or have a hand ( or the analog there of ) in the process?

Are they modern religions hoping to gain converts in this technological epoch?

Or are these things just circus tricks to fleece the public of their hard earned, rapidly depreciating greenbacks?

As always, I encourage the InnerTubes audience to think and decide for themselves.

The Council of Nine and the Star Trek Pantheon

Matilda O’Donnell MacElroy’s Alien Interview

Now we take a break from our regularly scheduled tinfoil to plug for an organization that just might literally take us to the stars, the Tau Zero Foundation.

The name is taken from a Poul Anderson tale about a starship crew, using a Bussard ramjet type spacecraft, literally approaches tau zero, relativistic light speed. It outlives the Universe actually. But anyway, the Foundation is a collection of writers, businesspeople, scientists, engineers and other volunteers who are dedicated to finding, and funding ways to build actual, realistic interstellar probes. Any and all ideas are encouraged, though ideas within actual technological reach are given first consideration ( warp drives and wormhole gates are acceptable, but laser driven solar sails are given first dibs! ).

Paul Gilster of Centauri Dreams is lead journalist and one of its first members. The Foundation is close to launching its website and since its an all volunteer group, donations are necessary to kick start this bad-boy and send it on its way! So give if you’re able.

Despite all of the pessimism that gets expressed here at times, this is one of the few things we can control, for now. Even if the Pentagon does have its own advanced military space program, a non-militaristic program is necessary to offset the war-pig B.S. Hopefully the Tau Zero Foundation can accomplish its goal of perfecting peaceful methods of exploring interstellar space and creating realistic, multigenerational projects that’ll benefit all of humanity, not just a few.

Tau Zero Foundation

Sneak Preview of Tau Zero website

Ancient UFOs were my first ‘esoteric’ study, but looking back on it, there was nothing esoteric about it. Erich Von Daniken was pretty clear in his assumptions that what ancient peoples took for “gods” or “god’s chariots” were mechanical, material contrivances. Von Daniken’s photographic proofs of many ancient sites, stone architectures/carvings, artifacts and paintings of strange, hard to explain objects that could only be used as examples of ‘flying objects’ in relation to our own present day aircraft technology could these things only be hoped to identify.

Von Daniken was immediately poo-pooed by the mainstream archeology community of course and in later years, many in the so-called esoteric community did the same. It must have been his rather flambouyant style that did Von Daniken in. There could only be one P.T. Barnum.

Zecharia Sitchen is another proponent of the ancient UFO theory, only his was more refined and specific to one area, the Middle East. Namely the old Tigris/Euphrates valley cultures of the Sumerians, Ur, Uruk, Umma, Lagash, Nippur and Kish. The Sumerian city-states are reportedly the first (ur)ban cultures to arise from the Neolithic and the first to arise fully armed for advanced civilization, i.e., writing, numbers, laws, brick and stone buildings, roads, farming communities supporting the city, a ruling elite and most of all, standing armies.

Sitchen’s contention is that the Sumerian culture arose so quickly, so advanced and so complete with no traceable primitive cultures to track back to means that maybe, just maybe, they had some help. So he studied the most obvious telling feature of the Sumerian civilization, its writing and language. Heck, why not? Let the Sumerians themselves explain how they came about!

And here is how we know about the Annunaki, Nibiru ( Planet X ), Tiamat, the Adamu, Nephilim and other stories that have been handed down to us through Jewish and Christian scholars over the millenia into our Western Culture. Almost all the early chapters of the Torah and Bible are copies of the much older Sumerian texts, word for word, story for story practically. Scholars, both secular and theological have their disagreements with that statement, but I’m not going to go over that at this time. I’m going to comment on the hardware of the Annunaki.

Below is a carving of the Annunaki giving the ancesters of the Sumerians (the Adamu) laws and civilization. Notice the obvious ‘manufactured’ look to it.

Sumerian deity Ianna (?) or Dumuzi bringing the gift of culture to Uruk.

Check out this site here if you wish to study more about the Sumerians and the Annunaki.

In modern times, the nuclear engineer turned UFO investigator Stan Friedman is the most ardent supporter of the ‘nuts and bolts’ theory of UFOs, his studies go back to the time of the original nuts and bolts theorist J. Allen Hynek in the late 1950s, early 1960s.

Friedman’s technological take on UFOs in understandable in my view because, let’s face it, how can a nuclear engineer look at it otherwise? C’mon! But the man is labeled a ‘fossil’ in some circles ( okay, he’s a senior citizen, but who ain’t gonna be unless ya die first, WTF! ) and a new wave of UFO theorists are taking the field, or already have taken the field, and have been advocating the ‘paranormal’ theory.

But I wouldn’t throw Friedman’s studies out with the bathwater just yet if I were them. Check this out:

Bird strike, or something else?

Looks like something pretty solid hit here, huh? WTF was it?

Is it paranormal, para-metal or Memorex?

Read Ted Twietmeyer’s essay about this here.

So what can we conclude from this evidence? The mainstream says, “What evidence?”, and then stick their heads back in the sand or posteriors. But what about my fellow skeptics out there, machine, or mental manipulation? Both maybe?

Both? “C’mon Dad, yer over-dosin’ on yer seizure meds agin” you’re thinking.

But maybe that isn’t such a wild idea after all. We’ll check that out later!

Update: Check out Lloyd Pye’s site, http://www.lloydpye.com/ and click on the ‘Intervention’ then ‘Sumer’ slideshow links. Pye is an advocate of Sitchen obviously, but the site is full of good information.

I haven’t written about UFOs in quite a while, and frankly, I really don’t know what to think about them anymore.

Among my other research projects concerning alternative history, occult symbolism and transhumanism, my study of UFO phenomenon only started anew when I started to write fiction after a thirty year hiatus. Only then did I start to visit other sites, join their forums and ask questions.

I discovered there isn’t any such animal as an UFO “community!”

Crazy as it sounds, there are many disparate groups and cliques who really quite disagree with each other. And I’m not speaking about whether these groups actually believe UFOs exist or not, oh no, it’s a given they believe the phenomenon exist. The problem is whether the objects are “nuts and bolts”, i.e., actual material, physical air/spacecraft, or something along the lines of paranormal.

Yup, paranormal like ghosts, poltergeists, ESP, demons, electronic voice phenomenon, angels, things that go bump in the night, yup, that paranormal.

Now there’s good reasons for that group to hold to that frame of thought because of the very descriptive nature of the eyewitness accounts, i.e., extreme zig-zag movements of the UFOs, disappearing into thin air, appearing differently to different people, changing form in front of witnesses, beaming thoughts to people, you name it, archetypical paranormal stuff. The originator of this theory is Jacques Vallee. Vallee has been an UFO researcher for over thirty years and is a computer scientist by trade. He held to the nuts and bolts theory of UFOs at one time, but came to notice by way of eye witness interviews that the behaviors of the objects weren’t consistant with machine characteristics. Like I listed above, some witnesses described behaviors often associated with ghosts, like disappearing into solid objects, going through solid objects, splitting apart and recombining and so on.

Another example of the paranormal theories of UFOs, and ‘aliens’, is the apparent ‘hauntings’ as I call them of people by aliens. Whitley Strieber is a case in point. Strieber is the author of the book ‘Communion’, wherein he is a victim of multiple abductions by grey aliens, or whatever they are. These beings can speak to and control Strieber telepathically, enter through doors, walls, roofs and anything solid at will and transport him to alternate realities of his lives in the many multiverses. Paranormal to say the least.

Now I know certain people who read my blog will say, “Well, that’s easy, these beings are demons and are torturing Strieber and his ilk for fun and evil.” And then give a list of how demons fool and deceive us.

It’s not that simple. Taking the religious way out is a cop-out IMHO (Sorry HW). Just like taking the paranormal explanation for this phenomenon is a cop-out. It is waayy too easy and convenient the plead the supernatural cause. And Strieber isn’t the only one, he’s just an extreme example.

Not to belittle anyone’s experiences with this, it can be a truly terrifying and horrific event. Or it can be just as ecstatic as any mushroom trip or religious vision.

And that is the crux of it at the end of the day, it is what the individual perceives of the experience or sighting that determines if it is of an UFO or religious event. It seems that it has common root causes or paradigms.

Different strokes for different folks.

Later, I will comment on the ‘nuts and bolts’ theories of UFOs.

Whitley Strieber’s Blog

Jacques Vallee’s Blog

Paranormal theory of UFOs

Conspiracy Archive

Author’s note -

This is a more refined draft of ‘Creative Destruction’ that was posted earlier on this blog. Nevertheless, the original will be incorporated after some editing and refinement, these parts are meant to be complementary and necessary for the story arc.

I hope you will enjoy this particular draft better than the first.

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The amorphous roiling, massive orb had the appearance of a menacing, angry scarlet eye of a god.

Incredible forces were coming into play; gravity, electromagnetism, the twisting, torsion of tortured space-time and quantum energies that Einstein could never have fathomed were combining into an action that could only result in one purpose.

The destruction and transformation of a twelve and a half billion year old G2 type star.

For most of its existence the small, ordinary star which spent most of its life two-thirds of the way toward the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy shone a dazzling, brilliant yellow. It wasn’t a particularly special galactic dezinen, more spectacular things existed in this galaxy such as neutron stars, fast aging brilliant blue giants, bright and dark nebulae, star streams and most of all, a giant dark singularity at its center.

But there was one thing that made the small star kind of special.

At one time a tiny, blue object had orbited it. The insignificant marbled speck had done a very special thing; it spawned a race of creatures that sought knowledge of its surroundings, bred, colonized, mutated into different species as they spread throughout the Galaxy.

This event in of itself wasn’t all that extraordinary, the incident happened five billion years earlier in this galaxy and almost every galaxy in the Universe has its own version (or versions) of things known as “lifeforms”.

As time passed, as the spawn of this race of beings separated into various branches that filled every niche of the Galaxy, the little yellow star witnessed many events. Within two thousand years the race that left the blue globe had adapted to and filled every asteroid, moon and planet of its system. The race was incredibly resilient, intuitive, curious, ingenious and aggressive. The last trait almost wiped out the race a few times during this period, but they were extraordinarily clever, and lucky. But as they spread throughout their System, they re-engineered themselves to fill the various ecological niches so as to take advantage of the local resources. Soon, because they engineered themselves to exploit their particular habitats, they didn’t covet their neighbor’s territory any longer, a trait and habit the race had for over ten thousands of years. Since they no longer desired each others possessions, tensions the race had slowly began to ebb, and finally tamp down to only embers.

That’s not to say there was ever-lasting peace, there were small skirmishes over perceived ‘borders’ and matters of ’sovereignty’, but all in all, no over-reaching “armageddon” threatened to exterminate the children of the tiny blue orb ever again. There simply was too much real estate and diversity for that to occur.

This situation remained so for another several hundred thousands of years. Soon, small mobile groups of worldlets trawled the Outer Oort Cloud territories for resources. Some of these wordlets contained actual biological beings specially adapted to the cold outer territories. Some contained nano-biological beings, trillions and trillions that lived inside these artificial universes that seemed to fill their perception of all Creation. Yet others sought the bitter cold because of the intelligent, non-biological natures of the beings that inhabited these worldlets required the harsh environment in order to optimize their operation.

Eventually, these mobile worlds wandered into the Oort Cloud territory of the nearest star system, its ancient name meaning “closest”, but the actual name is lost to history. By this time however, the beings inhabiting these worlds had evolved and changed many times over because many thousands of years once again had passed. But one trait still survived, curiousity.

Of course, many attempts at interstellar travel have happened well before this time and several were successful by the various groups. There were even successful attempts at “time” travel, i.e., micro-wormhole pico-tech engineering. These endeavors were very heavily monitored and regulated however because of the very real and dangerous effects of this technology. The effects of creating different branches of reality was an unknown quantity at best and the sheer energies involved in creating the negative matter “cages” required to hold the wormholes open were extremely hazardous. Thus it was deemed that these matters were best handled in the frigid outer zones of the Oort Cloud and heavily guarded by nano-cloud entities capable of forming any shape, weapon and any ordinance required to protect the technology.

The march of history pressed on. Centuries turned into millenia, millenia spanned into the hundreds of thousands. The hundreds of thousands turned into millions, thousands of millions, billions! The ebb and flow of civilization matched the eons, Niven rings and Banks orbitals came and went, habitats resembling spaghetti noodles spiraled from Mercury’s old orbit out into Jupiter’s, Dyson Shells enveloped the little star for a billion years in one eon, then melted away like dandelion seeds blown from the stalk.

The nearby portion of the Galaxy changed and morphed as well during this time. The tiny beings, by any way they could spread from the tiny yellow star and within the time it took for the star to finally show its age, had filled almost every niche of the galaxy the same way it initially spread into its home solar system. Of course the creatures had long ceased to resemble its original form in most areas of the galaxy, but in some instances it retained the base hominid, bipedal form where it suited. After all, it was the base template for the species for its first two-hundred fifty thousand years for a good reason, it worked.

One thing occupied the thought of the race in its various incarnations over the eons, where did the elders go?

Within the first few thousand years of its spreading culture, the beings discovered radio waves, rocketry, electronics and all the things necessary to explore and possibly communicate with beings superior to themselves. There were several legends and stories concerning visitors to the small, blue world during the infancy of the race, but that in of itself is another part of this tale. For all intents and purposes of this part however, the human race and its disparate appendages discovered they were alone, to their great surprise and grief (and to some, relief).

There were signs of earlier habitations on the worlds and solar systems the children of humanity discovered in their many travels. There were once great cities, world-cities and planetary sized objects that matched the Childrens many constructions in sophistication (sometimes more) and grace. But they were all corpses, shells and fossils. No sign of life of any variety was found on any of them. All were vacated and empty. It would be like finding a city the size of 21st century New York, Moscow, Mexico City or Shanghi completely emptied of people, pets, furniture, plants and anything that would give an indication of habitation.

Gone.

And nobody could figure out why. Until a chance discovery by entities whose natures were both biological and what would have been called “quantum computers” , of a very ancient, alien and abandoned artificial structure floating leisurely on the outer edge of the Orion Spiral Arm, in the great empty expanse of pre-intergalactic space. The discoverers (their names would equal “The Nostrodame”) found that the structure was internally similar to their own; great hollow spaces where traces of silicon-based biology once occurred and strata where faint traces of qubit activity could be measured. They originally theorized that they had happened across an abandoned polis of a branch of their own kind, but when the first analysis results were checked, the sheer shock of the findings were to unbelievable to bear.

The structure was almost nine billion years old. Far older than the known civilizations whose remains so far discovered by mankinds’ various descendents and older than their own by at least six billion years. But that wasn’t the big shocker, oh no. When the internal environment of the fossil was deemed safe to explore, the polis sent expeditions of quantum beings to search for records or archives of any kind that would give a clue as to why these great structures of a previous galactic culture were left to the ravages of Eternity. Eventually, much to the dismay of the polis, the investigators did find the Archive they desperately searched for. And they managed to find an algorithm to unlock it and translate the storeroom of knowledge.

Then they wished they hadn’t done it. But they had and the information they obtained would forever direct the course of Humanity’s Children for the next two billion years.

For the Ancient First Ones had the capability to look forward into Time and view all possible Eternities at once. And the outcomes were the same in all of them. The Universe was expanding at an incredible rate, even billions and billions of years ago when the First Ones existed, and soon they discovered the Universe, and space-time itself was accelerating toward the speed of light and possibly beyond that. That meant the great spaces between the stars and all the myriad galaxies that made up the Universe would keep increasing and increasing exponentially.

Forever and ever.

Eventually there would be nothing but immense, cold, vacant areas where life and sprawling galactic metropoli once were.

Heat Death. Entropy.

Sometime, towards Eternity’s End, the space-time fabric could reach the breaking point of this Cosmic rubberband stretching and a bounce back effect could happen, but that was pure speculation at best and it might require a ‘helping hand’ to help trigger it.

But that was theory and the First Ones decided it wasn’t their job to see this through.

So they took the easy way out. They simply “bored” a hole in the Universe and uplifted themselves as pure “information” and escaped into a tenth dimension Universe just one Planck level below the eleventh “M-brane” that oversaw all.

And it wasn’t just this fossil where this happened, it happened to all Ancient habitations at the same time. It was a coordinated effort.

And they left the amoeba of Earth holding the bag.

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Imagine my surprise when I read Posthuman Blues this morning:

A prototypical flying saucer lands in the dated but still-effective “The Day the Earth Stood Still.”

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I’ll probably go see the remake out of obligation — which, of course, is exactly what the film-makers want me to do — but I hardly expect it to wield the sheer cinematic power of the original.

The word ‘remake’ caught my attention, so of course I investigated and came up with this:

The 2008 remake about an alien and his indestructible robot will star (Keanu Reeves) as Klaatu, Jennifer Connelly as Helen Benson, (Jaden Smith) as Jacob, and (Kathy Bates). Gort has not been cast at this time and will most likely be created using FX.

The remake of (The Day the Earth Stood Still) will supposedly remain true to the original movie, however there is a chance the remake will more likely remain true to the short story upon which the 1951 movie is based.

The end of the short article is the movie spoiler, which I will not reveal here, but I will post a link so you can see for yourself if the remake is going to be worth seeing.

I think I will, just to see how they updated the plot for this day and age.

For now, I will track down the original short story online and read it, just to see how close both movies approach the theme.

Original 1951 Film Clip from Youtube

2008 Remake Film Clip

Posthuman Blues

2008 remake synopsis

Farewell To The Master