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News Briefs 22-08-2007

It’s hard to type when you have a cat insisting she sits in front of the monitor.

  • The drones are back, but this time it’s for real: a battery-powered aerial device was used to monitor a Staffordshire festival on Sunday.
  • Does this Apollo 20 footage posted on YouTube show an alien spacecraft parked on the moon, or is it cleverly edited CGI? I remember the old days, when all you had was a hubcap and a piece of string.
  • Do you UFOs often seen by locals of Tampico, Mexico, protect the area from hurricanes? Red Pill Junkie might know.
  • A leaked report claims an ETV (extraterrestrial vehicle) and its occuptants were shot at by Russian special military forces in a confrontation on 12th January 1985. They came from another galaxy seeking glasnost.
  • Physicist Enrico Fermi, author of the famous paradox, apparently believed in extraterrestrial civilisations. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
  • The fangs on this fish are a very good reason not go swimming in the Congo River.
  • UFO Mystic Greg Bishop wonders if a secretive group is monopolising UFO secrets.
  • The Salem town council relaxed laws banning witchcraft and fortune-telling last June, and now witches can be witches.
  • The Amazing Randi and Teller (of Penn fame) entertained the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness annual meeting in Las Vegas. Is Randi referring to himself in the article’s closing quote?
  • Television and the Hive Mind: are couch potatoes unwitting subjects in a global experiment?
  • A gathering of international scientists in Alaska have concluded that mysterious polar ice clouds above the Arctic are the result of climate change. They could have saved themselves a lot of trouble and just asked the local Inuit.
  • Brazil’s government has promised to investigate allegations that its policy of settling landless communities in the Amazon is encouraging deforestation.
  • Michigan’s Lake Superior is the coldest and deepest of the Great Lakes, but it’s heating up.
  • Up to 60 people within the CIA read information about two of the 19 hijackers involved in 9/11 before the event, but did not share it with other departments able to do something about it.
  • Did a Microsoft Windows Vista update cause Skype to crash for two days accidentally on purpose?
  • A new report from the Bradford Nonlethal Weapons Research Project shows that the CIA’s interest in psychoactive substances didn’t end in the 1960s, but continues today. That’s why MIB’s wear dark sunglasses.
  • A single cannabis joint has the same effect on the lungs as smoking up to five cigarettes at once, new research claims.
  • A Japanese arm-wrestling game is being recalled from arcades across the country after several players had their arms broken.
  • Yesterday was the birthday of HP Lovecraft; he would be 117 if he had given in to the temptation of forbidden elder knowledge.

Thanks Kat.

Quote of the Day:

Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.

HP Lovecraft, from “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” (Amazon US or UK)

  1. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist
    All you need to be is up on your space program history to know that video is a fake. I thought either the link or the article it went to had made a typo, but no, it’s right in the video. It clearly shows a “mission patch” that says “Apollo 20”.

    There was no Apollo 20. The last lunar mission was Apollo 17. You could argue that the third Skylab mission was Apollo 20, but it didn’t have the power to get to the moon or the hardware to land there.

    The video is a fake, and although it has some clear footage, the fake isn’t particularly “clever”. It has its own fatal flaw built in, and I think the originator probably meant it to, to see who he could fool.

    No, I am not the brain specialist…..
    YES. Yes I AM the brain specialist.

    1. Apollo 20
      Heheh, I was hoping someone would catch the “Apollo 20” mistake. I’d offer you a prize, but I don’t even have a cookie in the house. Well spotted though. YouTube seems to be the website of choice for CGI UFO hoaxes, I don’t trust anything posted there.

      Mathyou9 did some investigating at the Bad Astronomy forums. There’s even a website devoted entirely to the Apollo 20 hoax footage.

    2. Apollo series
      Well done – I spotted that too, but assumed it to be a typo.

      On the subject of fake UFO footage – there’s some remarkably good work going on out there in the home video CGI world. Some of the (obviously) fake films are incredibly well done.

      Good news roundup today. Well done Rick (kick that moggy out of the study).

      yer ol’ pal,

      Xibalba
      (This post was brought to you by “Realm of the Dead”)

      1. Or MAYBE…
        We didn’t hear of Apollo 20 because they DIDN’T TOLD US 😉

        And apparently the “Apollo 20” mission was a joint effort between the USA and the USSR, did you see the mixed flags on the panel?

        A very creative use of PLASTICINE I might add.

        I do think they migt be some weird things on the lunar surface nevertheless. Let’s see what the chinese find after they finish cartographing the entire Moon surface as they intend to…

        —–
        It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
        It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

        Red Pill Junkie

        1. that’s right
          The ending of the lunar landings with Apollo 17 was actually a hoax.

          The reason for the delays and cost overruns in the Space Shuttle program, in the early phase, was that the money was actually used for Apollo 18,19 and 20.

          The launches were cleverly hidden from the local Florida population. On two occasions, the area was evacuated due to fake hurricane warnings. For the third launch, NASA subsidized a huge party in St. Petersburg, with free drinks and drugs. This depopulated the entire Florida east coast for a week.

          —-
          You can observe a lot, just by watching. (Yogi Berra)

          1. OMNI
            Before the ending of this fabolous magazine, they were releasing a very interesting series of comics based on paranormal mythologies. One of them involved a secret mission to the Moon (before Apollo 11) to beat the russians. The launch was made at Groom Lake. I always wanted to see how the story was going to end, because it seemed they wanted to use the idea of ancient ruins over the Moon. Sadly, I will never know now 🙁

            —–
            It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
            It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

            Red Pill Junkie

  2. More Proof of Global Warming
    Well, this article has proven to be my epiphany. I am now completely on board. Hell, I’ve already erected an Al Gore shrine in my garage in order to pray for forgiveness every time I turn on the lights. I can see now that the scientific evidence has reached critical mass and it has been I, all along, that has been drinking from the Kool-aid well.

    http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,501145,00.html

  3. CIA Didn’t Share Information
    “There was no coherent, functioning watch-listing programme,” the summary says.

    This brilliant article fails to mention a couple of salient facts.

    1. The CIA is forbidden, by law, from conducting operations within the United States, which is where the 19 virgin seekers were residing. So having a watch-list program for people within the country is something that would die a quick death if the ACLU, the Press or the Democrats ever found out about it.

    2. The Clinton Justice Dept., under the most capable and highly qualified legal mind of Janet Reno, put barriers in place (and re-enforced existing barriers) that expressly forbade the CIA from sharing information with agencies within the country authorized to actually do something about it (the FBI, among others).

    Jamie Gore-lick, the imbecile that Janet Reno had convey those restrictions to the CIA, was a member of the 911 commission that issued this critical assessment. Yes Virginia, that’s as ludicrous as it sounds.

  4. OVNIS EN TAMPICO (Ufos over Tampico)???
    That’s the first time I heard about such thing! Shame on me 🙁

    Well, whatever it is, those “marcianos” sure helped us one more time. Dean looked like a man-eater monster but at least form what I’ve heard in the news, there are no reports of human casualties. But once again, the poorer are the ones who suffered the loss of their scarce belongings.

    —–
    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

  5. Fermi and ETs
    There’s lotsa “evidence” for ETs visiting earth, mostly anecdotal but some vids and pics too. Folks try to explain them away and often succeed but after a while its becomes too much “heavy lifting” to debunk or dismiss ALL such cases (though thats what most of the vocal skeptics are doing)

    No sense bringing up the highly subjective world of channeled-ET stuff.

    The series of books by Lisette Larkins starting with Talking to Extraterrestrials is pretty cool

    1. Anoher solution…
      for the Fermi paradox is that for some reason, this planet is in some sort of a “cosmic quarantine” that prohibits direct contact. Kind of a goldfish who swims along his tank wondering where the Hell are all the others…

      It may sound preposterous, but this had already been proposed by a spanish cosmologists. Think about it: do the animals in a zoo KNOW that they are kept prisoners?

      And of course, there’s also Star Trek “prime directive”… which they kept breaking during many episodes! 🙂
      —–
      It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
      It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

      Red Pill Junkie

      1. or simpler
        It may be simpler.

        Suppose that interstellar travel is expsnvie. That’s not an unreasonable assumption. Then suppose that as far as vacation spots go, or research interests, we could live in a really boring place.

        That would easily explain why there few (if any) visitors here.

        —-
        You can observe a lot, just by watching. (Yogi Berra)

        1. Colonisation
          Good morning everyone,
          Years ago I read an analysis of colonisation of the Milky Way. Can’t remember where right now, but it argued that travelling slower than the speed of light, and allowing adequate 1,000 year periods for colonisation of particular planets, the whole galaxy could have been colonised in 5 million years.
          Compare this period with the age of the Galaxy, and it makes ET visitations rather remote. The chances are statistically high that we’ve missed one of these galaxy expanding colonisations.
          Maybe it’s waiting for us to do the next one.

          Reality, like time, is relative to the observer

          Anthony North

          1. duration of a civilization
            another factor in this “colonization” estimate is, how long does a civilization last.

            Our civilization is maybe 30,000 years old. I’m counting the beginning of serious sea voyages here, not the concept of living in cities.

            In any case, let’s say colonization of the galaxy takes 5 million years or so. Then this “colonial empire” would exist only at the front of this wave of colonization. The middle would be long dead. Which makes it even less likely that this wave sweeps over our local area just at the right moment. Where a “moment” lasts maybe 100,000 years.

            —-
            You can observe a lot, just by watching. (Yogi Berra)

          2. That’s the problem…
            Of living in Tattooine-like planets (far off the center of the galaxy).

            —–
            It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
            It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

            Red Pill Junkie

        2. Of course…
          In these arguments we’re dismissing UFO accounts, which, if taken ALL seriously, would make Earth the favourite Cosmic Spring Break resort for inebriated young Reticulans!!! 😉

          To take seriously UFOs means that somehow interstellar (or interdimensional) travel is not only possible, but even cost-effective. But right now it would seem we would need the energy of an entire GALAXY to attain faster-than-light travel.
          —–
          It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
          It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

          Red Pill Junkie

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