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News Briefs 20-12-2010

By Katon

Astronomers estimate there are a mind-blowing 300 sextillion stars in the universe. That’s a 3 followed by 23 zeros. Or 3 trillion times 100 billion. Intelligent life on the surrounding planets would have to make a helluva lot of noise in order to stand out in that crowd.

Thanks to G.C, Red Pill Junkie, and Greg.

Quote of the Day:

My God, it’s full of stars!

Dave Bowman’s final words as he entered the monolith in 2010: The Year We Make Contact.

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5 Comments

  1. spying on UFO reports
    If the government ignores the UFO reporters, its wrong. If the government follows their reporting, that’s wrong too.

    Maybe that’s why the font is so small and fuzzy on the website, to make it harder for the spies to read the reports?

    1. So what’s new?
      This person seems to be unaware that “spying” on UFO groups has pretty much been happening since the formation of UFO groups.

      Several agencies kept tabs with NICAP and APRO, the two hot dogs of UFO investigation back in the day. So as “Ufology” has become ever more atomized and individualized —everybody with a blog dealing with UFOs can claim to be an Ufologist nowadays— logic dictates that the agencies will resort to data mining in order to check what those UFO bloggers are ranting or raving about.

      Now, the reasons for the spying has varied greatly from time to time, and from agency to agency. Some agencies like the FBI were once concerned that contactee groups were actually fronts for the dissemination of communist propaganda —and if you read the kind of “doctrine” put forth by some of the most famous contactees, you can see why this was the case. The AFOSI would sometimes employ UFO groups as guinea pigs in order to disseminate information that would help them hunt down Russian moles; and so on and so forth.

      This blogger doesn’t indicate if the traffic from official agencies started at an specific date as a sudden development, or if it has been ongoing since the beginning of its blog. So to link the traffic with Assange’s recent remarks re. UFO files is highly speculative at this moment.

    2. cows
      I believe that the cows are part of a government experiment and the UFO theory is a cover up for their experiments with new technology. These weapons they use on the cows are freakin’ scary, worse than the government spying on where Grailers go after they stop here 😉

  2. Ready For Contact… and sloppy research

    And though SETI scientists have yet to find evidence of extraterrestrials, they are well prepared for success. “Yes, we do have a plan,” Tarter says. “It starts with champagne.”

    The plan comes from a document known as the “Declaration of Principles Concerning the Conduct of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence,” which grew out of plans spawned in the years when NASA had an office dedicated to SETI research, before Congress cut off funding in 1993. The first step, according to the protocol, is verifying the find through independent confirmation by another observatory using different equipment and software. “We’re a very attractive target for hoaxes,” Tarter says. If the signal passes this first test—which could take days—and is confirmed, the SETI scientists would notify the secretary general of the United Nations. The scientists would also alert the international astronomy community by e-mails to members of the International Astronomical Union. And they would tell the public, probably by holding a press conference to announce the discovery to the world.

    Our first contact with alien life, though, probably won’t be with an intelligent, signal-beaming species. The most accessible source of potential non-Earthling life is Mars. NASA and its European counterparts are weighing options for a mission, at least 15 or 20 years from now, that would gather samples from the planet and return them to Earth.

    Wow! way back to 1993, they already had a plan? Golly!

    *Sigh*

    Sorry to bust your bubble, Smithsonian Magazine, but even *before* that, NASA commissioned a special report elaborated by the Brookings Institute. The Brookings Report, as it is often called, speculates about the potential findings of proof concerning extraterrestrial visitation to our solar system, in the form of artifacts on the Moon, Mars or the asteroids. The report cautioned NASA about the deep social repercussions of disclosing this information to the public, since it would cause great impact on every level of human culture —science, economics, religion, etc.

    If you guys are going to make fun of us “conspiracy theorist”, be sure to make your homework next time.

    1. A reason for the deceptions?

      “The report cautioned NASA about the deep social repercussions of disclosing this information to the public, since it would cause great impact on every level of human culture —science, economics, religion, etc.”

      The power structures have always feared any such change in beliefs. This much is undeniable as history from periods when the quashing of so many truths was done in the name of God… in other words, the church, which pretty much held and axe over the royal courts of Europe.

      Today, it is less religion itself than the stability that is perceived coming from it. People are happy believing in their gods or the evolution theories. And the governments of the world are content to see them bickering and fighting over doctrine and perceptions.

      It keeps us busy so we’re not watching them!

      But if, say, a relic should be discovered on a Martian moon that was undeniably alien in origin, all those bickering millions might suddenly find a single voice.

      Governments do fear this.

      So, it’s not actually humanity’s well-being they are so concerned with. It’s their own.

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