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News Briefs 09-10-2006

So very tired …

  • North Korea sends shockwaves across the world with its first-ever nuclear weapons test.
  • Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist who exposed the Kremlin’s war crimes in Chechnya, has been murdered.
  • Orange Orb questions why politicians can believe in baby Jesus, but laugh at UFOs.
  • The Book of THoTH has an interview with Stanton Friedman, one of the speakers at the Symposium Conference.
  • Paul Kimball wonders how anyone who looks at images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope can think there’s no other life out there.
  • A cigar-shaped, coal-black UFO was spotted over Minnesota.
  • In a field outside of Invermere last month, witnesses observed numerous oval-shaped discs darting about in the sky above them.
  • Did former US President Jimmy Carter withold information on a 1956 UFO incident?
  • Even if we manage to send people to Mars, how will they survive the radiation?
  • Spectacular images of the Martian surface have been taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
  • The discovery of 16 potential planets has one scientist stating with confidence that there are billions of planets in our galaxy.
  • China has chosen 30 songs to be broadcast to Earth next year from its first lunar probing satellite. No Tool, Greg.
  • Scientists have unveiled the first complete census of black hole activity in the local universe, and our neighbourhood is flush with the supermassive variety.
  • Heralding a new age of computers, researchers have teleported the information stored in a beam of light into a cloud of atoms.
  • The PC is dead, welcome to the Internet Cloud, where massive facilities across the globe store all the data you’ll ever use. I hope we don’t get a drought.
  • Will we see a literary version of the iPod revolution, or are ink-and-paper publishers safe for now?
  • Are independent bookstores fighting back against the online ordering giants? That’d make a nice topic in Greg’s free Publish Yourself resource.
  • A new study shows two-thirds of online gamers in America are female. No wonder I don’t have a girlfriend, I won’t let women play with my Wii.
  • The tropics may be the cradle of much of the world’s biodiversity, and where most species arise before they spread elsewhere, according to a new study.
  • Archaeologists in Peru have made a stunning discovery of five mummies buried deep in a cave, belonging to the mysterious Chachapoyas; the ‘Cloud People’.
  • Swiss researchers have found the 100’000-year-old remains of a previously unknown species of giant camel in Syra, and it’s as big as an elephant.
  • All across Africa, India and parts of Southeast Asia, Elephant rage is on the rise, with the giant beasts destroying villages, crops, and even attacking people.
  • A real-life Twilight Zone may exist in southeastern Arizona, close to the Mexican border, where time is altered at random.

Thanks Kat.

Quote of the Day

Most scientists never look at UFO evidence, which leads to their conclusion that there is no evidence.

Bernard Haisch, Physicist.

  1. Surviving a trip to MARS
    I would have thought that radiation was perhaps the least of their worries: I would have thought that ‘Systems failures’ were way above radiation on the scary scale!

    Of course there will be a risk – space is a risky place after all. But then again, the risk of being killed or injured whilst riding a motorbike in London in almost odd-on!

    Nostra

    1. more radiation
      with current propulsion systems, the trip to Mars, and then back, will take much longer than the duration of stay there. So what’s this new discover that is will be radiation exposure on Mars? There is no significant protection on the way there with traditional spacecraft.

      If there are long term consequences, such as increased probability of genetic defects in offspring, then you send older people. Older people in good physical shape are a better choice for other reasons too.

  2. Cloud People
    From the article,

    The Chachapoyas commanded a vast kingdom stretching across the Andes to the fringe of Peru’s northern Amazon jungle until they were conquered by the Incas in the 15th century. [my bold]

    And

    A white-skinned people who were famed as ferocious fighters, the Chachapoyas held out against the Incans, who ruled an empire stretching from southern Chile to northern Ecuador until their conquest by the Spanish. [my bold]

    And

    The researchers have so far found five mummies, two of which are intact with skin and hair……..

      Two things:

    • Were the Chachapoyas “conquered” by the Incas or did they “hold out” against the Incas? “Hold out” means a stalemate or draw here in the US. Is there a translation problem? What does “hold out” mean in the UK?
    • Were there any redheads among those white skinned mummies found with hair. If there were they should hire an army to protect them. All the redheaded Inca mummies found to date have disappeared, it seems.

    Bill

  3. laugh at UFO’s…….. and religion…..and politics……
    it’s pretty hard to separate religion and UFO’s when you see these paintings which also could be political at the time of painting to help make a conection between these sightings and something religious and safe without question.
    The only reason I can see that would stop politicians speaking up about UFO’s would be the ridicule they would suffer. After all, their not going to be ridiculed if they admit to beleiving in Jesus………..or even Santa Clause!

    1. An Excellent Point!
      thefloppy1

      I agree with you; but, I think that there are other reasons also. If the general public were educated about UFOs, there would be some basic social changes. Religion would be refuted or substantially deminished in terms of its influence on people. This would prevent it from being used as a political tool to manipulate people. Furthermore, people would probably focus far more on the realities of their existential existence and this would seriously alter the existing social order. Serious alteration of the existing social order would bring down the corrupt powers that be and corrupt government as we have come to understand it. But, what would replace it? Would it be any better? I sincerely hope so; but, I don’t know!

      What do you think?

      cnnek

      {You Can Teach People How To Think Or What To Think; But, You Can’t Do Both! It Is Better To Teach People How To Think!!!}

      1. perhaps
        I don’t believe there has been any convincing evidence of UFOs as alien spacecraft. Most remarkably absent is any activity of the visitors in those spacecraft.

        However your statement:
        [quote=cnnek]… Serious alteration of the existing social order would bring down the corrupt powers that be and corrupt government as we have come to understand it. But, what would replace it? …[/quote]

        seems to be exactly what is motivating the mainland-Chinese government.

        No ?

        1. Yes!
          earthling

          It is what is motivating the mainland Chinese Government and other countries to help China hold it together. China would most certainly break-up into many parts. Wild guess, it would break-up into atleast six parts centered around different ethnic groups. The Chinese population is not homogeneous like the populations of many other Asian Countries, i.e. Japan, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, etc.! This would seriously hurt other Asian Economies, as well as, the World Economy! So, it is in everybody’s best interest to help China hold it together!

          The visitors in Alien Space Craft would conceal themselves if they came to Earth. But, it is entirely possible that they are either not compatable with our enviornment or not the least bit interested in doing anything but observing us! Besides, although possibly interesting, we are not the center of the universe and we would probably be primative compared to the UFO passengers!

          What do you think?

          cnnek

          {You Can Teach People How To Think Or What To Think; But, You Can’t Do Both! It Is Better To Teach People How To Think!!!}

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