I can’t believe the news today…
- Fireball in the Los Angeles sky remains a mystery. More here.
- As if the real ones aren’t bad enough… Fake pesticides: illegal chemicals in counterfeit products sold in Europe.
- Planetary headlines from the Messenger spacecraft: Mercury is shrinking. More here from Nat. Geo. about volcanoes and magnetic fields on Mercury.
- Awesome near-Earth asteroid graphics
- Thailand's Administrative Court handed down an injunction against the Thai cabinet's endorsement of Cambodia's bid to propose the Preah Vihear temple as a World Heritage site, because such support "might undermine Thailand's future standing on a territorial dispute." Photo of said temple.
- Syria unearths 2300 year old pharoanic engraving.
- The ten worst moments of the Bush presidency.
- Obama backs "faith-based initiatives", and enrages atheist voters.
- Two kids in Spain admitted to mental health institution for the growing problem of mobile phone addiction. Srsly noobz.
- In other childish news... A kid in Sweden has caused political controversy by not inviting two of his classmates to his birthday party.
- Using causality to solve the puzzle of space-time.
- A former miner who’d never picked up a brush hears ‘spirit voices’ and creates ‘spirit paintings’, now on display in Paris.
- Pwnage news - FBI's next generation ID database to store face scans.
- Water-boarding is not a new Olympic event, but…China apparently inspired interrogations at Guantánamo.
- Super atoms turn periodic table upside down.
- The biblical allegories of Pixar's Wall-E.
- Right-Wings Apoplectic Over Pixar's WALL-E: 'Malthusian Fear Mongering,' 'Fascistic Elements'.
- David Byrne: From Talking Heads to musical buildings.
- NASA considers development of student-led 'Satellite Initiative'.
- Foreign security guards in Iraq — read Blackwater & Co. — may lose immunity.
- In space, someone can hear you scream. And by “you” I mean “Earth”…
- The shape of asteroids and space-rocks explained?
- And what would Independence Day be without an alien interview. Because vampires, ghosts and goblins are so passé…
- Green fireworks? Scientist work to build a better roman candle.
Huuuuuge thanks to Greg, Rick, Kat and RPJ… Happy July 4th!
Quote of the Day:
It's an amazing thing to think that ours is the first generation in history that really can end extreme poverty, the kind that means a child dies for lack of food in its belly. We have the science, the technology, and the wealth. What we don't have is the will, and that's not a reason that history will accept....
Bono
Hidden message
Hmmm - there appears to be a couple of crudely hidden messages in the story link to the "Alien Interview" story posted here today.
On the first page from the link, the section which purports to be an excerpt from the letter sent by Matilda O'Donnel MacElroy, there are a number of letters that are in a different colour, red. When separated out in sequence they spell out:
the domain is here
If you then click on the link (top right of the page) saying "Read the introduction", the same code can be found again. This time, the message reads:
earth is a prison planet
Not sure that second message is anything to do with Alex Jones' site Prison Planet.com
Not sure what this is supposed to achieve. It's such a rubbishy 'cypher'.....
Anyone else spot it? What are your thoughts? Maybe just a silly marketing prank for the book??
yer ol' pal,
Xibalba
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The 'domain' is the word
The 'domain' is the word used for the alien group.
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I don't believe in belief!
Perceval
Alien Interview
Brief excerpts from Alien Interview:
Prison Planet
The Domain
The Old Empire
Airl (the alien giving the 'interview')
IS-BE (Immortal Spiritual Beings)
Book Reviews
Alien Interview by Lawrence R Spencer is temporarily out of stock at Amazon US & UK, but at the Amazon US link, you can read an interesting excerpt, including a description of the alien and actual pages of the interview, via Amazon's 'Search Inside' feature. You can also order the book now, and Amazon will email you an estimated delivery date.
Kat
Alien Interview & Science
When you read the 'Prison Planet' excerpt from the 'Alien Interview' book, you find out that Earth "is not suitable for settlement or permanent habitation for any sustainable civilization" because:
1) The continental land masses of Earth are floating on a sea of molten lava beneath the surface which causes the land masses to crack, crumble and drift continually.
2) Because of the liquid nature of the core, the planet is largely volcanic and subject to earthquakes and volcanic explosions.
3) The magnetic poles of the planet shift radically about once every 20,000 years. This causes a greater or lesser degree of devastation as a result of tidal waves, and climatic changes.
And at first you might be compelled to think "Geez, it's true! We DO live in a very crappy planet!".
But then, you read this paragraph from the 'Mercury is shrinking' article:
Besides Earth, Mercury is the only other terrestrial planet in the solar system with a global magnetic field. On Earth, this field forms a bubble that protects us from dangerous solar particles. Earth's magnetic field is believed to be produced by the flow of liquid iron in its core.
And you end up thinking how lucky we are of being the inhabitants of this little third-rate crappy rock in theoutkirts of the galaxy :0)
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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
magnetic poles
There seems to be a persistent idea that reversal of the magnetic poles causes physical perturbations. Quakes, tidal waves and such.
Now I know that the quotes are from a work of fiction, so I am not critical of that part.
It is just that I have seen this idea in many places, and I'm wondering where it comes from. Is there some good reason that escapes me, or is it that some people don't know the difference between magnetic poles and rotational (geographic) poles?
I like the story idea though. There was another story called "The Gentle Earth" of something like that. The invading aliens were defeated not by heroic human defenders, but by bad weather. Snow, tornadoes, things like that.
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The large print giveth,
The small print taketh away.
Fireworks
Happy 4th of July! :-)
That's a web-comic by Fred Osmond, called 'Earthward-Ho'. For any UFO buff it's really worth checking out.
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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
Goodness Gracious Green Balls of Fire!!
Regarding that greenish fireball sighting over Los Angeles, it is interesting to note that Greg Bishop saw a similar green fireball on June 14th. He wrote about it here.
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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
The Domain logo
Just been reading this page which explains the symbol of The Domain.
Don't know about you lot, but that symbol looks uncannily like the Star Fleet comms badges that Captain Kirk et al wore in the original Star Trek series.
Do you reckon they have badges on their costumes too just like it? If so, I think I would just burst out laughing if I saw one! Still, I suppose they would blend in well with other Trekkers at a Star Trek convention!
yer ol' pal,
Xibalba
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LOL
If instead of 'The Dominion', they would have chosen to call themselves 'The Borg', that would have increased the sales of this book 10-fold ;-)
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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
RPJ, I know you're joking but...
If instead of 'The Dominion', they would have chosen to call themselves 'The Borg', that would have increased the sales of this book 10-fold ;-)
Good joke, RPJ.
But to be accurate, the alien didn't choose the word 'domain' -- the woman receiving the alien's thoughts chose it. As she says in the excerpt at Amazon US:
"Even though there were no "words" spoken, or signs made, the intention of the thoughts were unmistakable to me. I realized later that, although I received the thought, I did not necessarily interpret it's meaning exactly."
and from the transcript (with my bold)...
QUESTION - "What planet are you from?"
ANSWER - THE HOME / BIRTHPLACE WORLD OF THE DOMAIN
Since I am not an astronomer, I have no way of thinking in terms of stars, galaxies, constellations and directions in space. The impression I received was of a planet in the center of a huge cluster of galaxies that is to her like "home", or "birthplace". The word "domain" is the closest word I can think of to describe her concept, images and thoughts about where she is from. It could as easily be called the "territory" or the "realm". However, I am sure that it was not just a planet or solar system or a cluster of stars, but an enormous number of galaxies!