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News Briefs 02-07-2009

By red pill junkieon

TDG FTW!! šŸ˜›

  • Why did Buzz Aldrin back down from his UFO-spotting statement during Apolo 11? Is it perhaps because he’s hanging out with Snoops?
  • Close Encounters with the Pentagon: how the US government has tried to manipulate the public perception of UFOs through Hollywood movies (H/T to Nick Redfern).
  • 8 Ways Scientists Look at ā€”But Don’t Yet Seeā€”Dark Matter. The same way politicians hear ā€”but don’t yet listenā€” to our complaints :-/
  • How Einstein was coaxed to go to America by the Zionists ā€”Oh Noes!ā€” and his noble reasons to concede ā€”Huh?
  • “Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition” & “Lucyā€™s Legacy: The Hidden Treasures of Ethiopia” are both showing in the Big Apple right now. Can you imagine the Titanic movie with Lucy co-starring Leo DiCaprio? Is the fact that I actually can something I should worry about??
  • Hoopla & disappointment in Schizophrenia research. But really, wouldn’t that be best suited for Manic-Depression research?
  • What do dreams mean? Whatever your bias says ā€”personally I’m afraid of being a BIASexual…
  • People unsure of beliefs are more close-minded. Hmmm… not sure what to make of this one.
  • Hey atheists: send your skeptic kiddies to Uncle Dawkins’ Happy Godless Summer Camp. It’s great critical fun!!! šŸ˜€
  • First there were snakes on a ā€”motherf*%ckingā€” plane. Now there’s snakes on a ā€”motherf*%ckingā€” nervous system @_@
  • “Billy!! chew with your mouth closed for Crissakes, you look just like an hadrosaur!”
  • Dinosaur mummy yields its secrets ā€”without a curse, I might add.
  • The extinct moa reveals its true colors ā€”it was no chicken y’all.
  • Hug a tree today: they saved us from an icy fate.
  • Global Warming: it’s good for empires ā€”at east in South America.
  • It ain’t no gator, but it’s still pretty weird! ‘Unknown’ life form in North Carolina sewer.
  • The ants want to take over the world. Damn! and all these time we thought the real enemy were the cockroaches.
  • Robots have taken the jobs of the blue-collar workers. Now it’s time for the egg-heads to know how it feels!
  • Epigenetics: Beyond the Book of Life ā€”because the Book of Love is a much tougher read.
  • Was Michael Jackson a Transhumanist? Well, I dunno about the King of Pop, but when it comes to his plastic surgeon…
  • New Michelangelo self-portrait found in the Vatican ā€”I think he’s pissed with all the attention Leo has been receiving lately.
  • Email patterns can predict impending doom …or compulsive Viagra sales ^_^
  • You need to take those mini-mes out for a stroll every day so they can grow big & strong.
  • Man uses nail clippers to circumcise himself ā€”Oi! Oi!! Oiiiiiiii!!!!!!

Thanks to Greg, Rick, Kat, & my parents ā€”for circumcising me when I was little šŸ˜›

Quote of the Day:

“Solitude & Silence are either the greatest gift or the worst punishment”

Guillermo del Toro

red pill junkie
Agnostic gnostic, walking conundrum & metaphysical oxymoron (with emphasis in the 'moron' part), the mysterious RPJ leaves a double life: By day he serves as Grand Master of the International Sacred Order of Lucha Libre, but at night he pursues his life-long study of everything considered mysterious and/or 'paranormal' --a term he personally detests... When he's not exploring the web looking for his daily fix of Forteana, he can be found blogging, doodling, fooling around and offering his services as news administrator and writer at The Daily Grail. He also regularly participates in other websites and podcasts like Radio Misterioso and Where Did the Road Go? He impatiently awaits for the return of the mothership in Mexico City. absurdbydesign.com
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6 Comments

  1. Buzz’s Deniable Plausibility
    Who cares if Buzz saw a UFO and later denied or even admitted it. Lots of people have done both.

    I think it’s a far more important revelation that both Buzz and Neil are members of the Church of the SubGenius. I mean, there they were on the moon, Neil is out on the LEM porch getting ready to descend the ladder to that historic first step, and suddenly Buzz decides he needs a little Slack. So Neil stops what he’s doing to give Buzz some Slack, and then asks to make sure he has enough. And he DOES. Only true SubGenii could stop for Slack is such a situation, AND GET IT.

    Unlike the junk people have made up about seeing UFOs and claimed came from these transcripts, you can actually find the lines below in them. Comments inserted by me prefaced with *** .

    From the Apollo 11 Mission Commentary Transcripts at http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/history/mission_trans/apollo11.htm

    APOLLO 11 MISSION COMMENTARY, 7/20/69, GET 109:15, CDT 21:47 338/1

    ARMSTRONG Okay, Houston, I’m on the porch.

    CAPCOM Roger, Neil.

    ALDRIN Okay right now, Neil.

    CAPCOM Columbia, Columbia, this is Houston
    1 minute and 30 seconds to LOS all systems go, over.

    ALDRIN Stay where you are a minute, Neil

    ARMSTRONG Okay.

    *** [Buzz asks for some Slack]
    ALDRIN Need a little slack.

    FAO Neil Armstrong on the porch at 109
    hours 19 minutes 16 seconds.

    *** [Neil gives Buzz some Slack, checks to see if it’s enough]
    ARMSTRONG You need more slack, Buzz?

    *** [Buzz says he got enough Slack]
    ALDRIN No hold it just a minute.

    ===

    Now that you know where to find all 3 transcripts, you can check for yourselves to see if the comments about UFOs are in them. They’re not. Oh, so NASA edited the transcripts to remove those? So where did those people see those comments? They saw them before the transcripts were edited? Just a couple problems: (1) Copies of the transcripts were sent to government document collections in libraries all over the US, as soon as they were produced, 40 years ago. They were never replaced with superseded versions. I’ve looked at these in 2 large university libraries. The originals are still there, and contain no quotes about or suggestive of UFOs, ET machineries or structures. Also (2) like many space freaks, I caught the relayed radio traffic during the mission and recorded it all. Again, no traffic occurred that some claim did and contained those references. Unless the MIBs replaced my tapes and hit me with a neuralizer to make me forget they did, I’ve got one copy out of dozens, or maybe hundreds, that say those other comments never happened.

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

    1. I care
      Who cares? I care.

      Why? Because like the man in the interview said, a testimony from him would add a lot of weight to the phenomenon’s credence. Even though that an astronaut is still a human being, and as such fallible and capable of misidentification.

      I don’t need him to tell “Yes, I say an extraterrestrial vessel”; if he only told “I saw something very weird, and to this day I don’t know what it is”, that would suffice for me.

      And, as the interview says, supposedly Aldrin had one of his (two) UFO sightings when he was still an Air Force pilot ā€”just like “Gordo” Cooper. I kind of doubt your Apollo transcripts or radio recordings will have that included.

      —–
      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. We Care?
        [quote=red pill junkie]Who cares? I care.

        Why? Because like the man in the interview said, a testimony from him would add a lot of weight to the phenomenon’s credence. Even though that an astronaut is still a human being, and as such fallible and capable of misidentification.

        I don’t need him to tell “Yes, I say an extraterrestrial vessel”; if he only told “I saw something very weird, and to this day I don’t know what it is”, that would suffice for me.

        And, as the interview says, supposedly Aldrin had one of his (two) UFO sightings when he was still an Air Force pilot ā€”just like “Gordo” Cooper. I kind of doubt your Apollo transcripts or radio recordings will have that included.

        —–
        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[/quote]

        Buzz wouldn’t have reported such a thing, because he knows the truth of the situation. As a member of the Church of the SubGenius he would know full well that the flying saucers carrying the Men From Planet X (the saucers and ‘men’ being simply familiar manifestations, the phenomema being multidimensional) would arrive at Earth at 7 AM, July 5, 1998, not before, not after.

        You did realize that this stuff was humorous, right? The last paragraph wasn’t though.

        Actually, yes, my recordings would have had such a thing on them. I wasn’t recording media rebroadcasts, I was recording short wave relays carrying the CAPCOM feed. What they said, I got. What I didn’t get, they didn’t say. Had they said what has been claimed, I’d have been passing out copies. But just to be fair, if someone will tell me exactly when in the flight this occurred, and what it was he said, I’ll be glad to go back and see if I missed something, or to see if maybe people have misheard or misrepresented something else that was actually said. Even had I missed it, as I said there were dozens to hundreds of people around the world listening in on that feed. At least one among them would have said something by now, and anyone claiming to have a recording of it would be able to compare theirs to others’, to prove it was real.

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

  2. poor Michael
    The unfortunate guy is dead.

    In fact when I turn on the TV news to check if anything has happened, I am informed that Michael is still dead after a week or so. We don’t know if else is going on in the world.

    If they keep up this coverage, he might come back for a day and tell the media to shut up and let him sleep.

    —-
    No amount of cursing at the round earth will make it flat.

    1. You’re out of synch dude
      Because as a matter of fact, there are already rumours circulating that he’s alive, and he faked his dead. I mean, is it really that surprising?

      Meanwhile the media is still going to milk him as much as possible. I predict that in about a week the articles and programs attacking his image and dealing with the child molesting charges will commence.

      I think people see it as some sort of karmic revenge: The people elevate these artists to god-like status (what I personally like to call Ludocracy), but they get even by feeling entitled to probe into every single aspect of their idols’ personal life. The amazing thing about it, is that there are so many people willing to pay that price for a chance at the limelight.

      It reminds me of the Aztec god Xipe-Totec; it was the god of spring and good crops, and every year a beautiful boy was selected to impersonate him. He would be treated as a living god, indulging in every pleasure imaginable; but by the end of Spring the boy would be brutally sacrificed, and the priest would remove the skin from his carcass, and wear it as a suit to symbolize the rebirth of Spring.

      So the real use of the boy was in death ā€”I think the same thing happens with Pop idols :-/

      —–
      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. not surprised
        I’m not surprised at all that there are reports that he is still alive. Probably there will be reports that he has been dead for a few years, and now an imposter has died.

        A perfect setup for Elvis v2.0, with much better features and faster. Mike hasn’t looked like himself for some time, so it wasn’t Mike that we saw. He died some years ago, or has been in a coma, or has been in hiding. Someone will come up with more creative stuff.

        And now someone decided they wanted to collect on his debt, and the commercial circus has started.

        Distasteful stuff.

        —-
        No amount of cursing at the round earth will make it flat.

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