Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Dr Stephen Greers Anomalous Eye Movements
Monday, 15 April 2013
Are Ufos Real
Signs And Wonders
Jacques Vallee, like John Michell before him, associated UFO stories with traditional fairy lore in his hugely influential "Passport to Magonia", from which we obtained our title. Both Vallee and Michell were gifted writers and both appealed to the hippie romanticism of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Even before "Passport to Magonia" appeared John Rimmer pointed out the similarities to modern UFO lore in the IRISH FAIRY STORIES OF D. A. MACMANUS.
JOHN'S REVIEW OF "PASSPORT TO MAGONIA" was linked to that of another book on Irish fairy and folklore Lady Gregory's "Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland".
As John's new introduction to that review shows, times changed. In particular the critical studies of the 1897 airship reports by the likes of Jerome Clark and Eddie Bullard and those of the 1909 and 1913 British airship waves by Nigel Watson and David Clarke, showed these stories cannot be wrenched from their historical and cultural context, or regarded uncritically as 'genuine anomalies'. Many of the more dramatic airship stories were probably newspaper hoaxes, the products of creative writing competitions or even possibly in some cases of black propaganda. The less dramatic stories like most modern UFO reports were probably the product of misidentification and misperception of a variety of common astronomical and meteorological phenomena.
This led to a reaction in which the 'UFO phenomenon' was seen as an essentially modern experience, with little prior history.
Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck here aim to restore that lost history. Following the route laid out by Wilkins and Drake they assemble all sorts of narratives and fragments from the ancient world up to 1879.
With an introduction by David Hufford, it is divided into three sections. 'A Chronology of Wonders' contains reports which the authors claim resist their attempts at conventional explanation, and have at least a precise date and place. A second section entitled 'Myths Legends and Chariots of the Gods' includes vaguer reports; those which might have a conventional explanation are listed as well as modern hoaxes, and finally a section dealing with sources and methods,
The main catalogue is an incredibly diverse collection, including portents in the sky, an alleged satellite of Venus, anomalous meteorites, the miracles associated with saints, visions of the Virgin Mary, accounts of transvection produced by people accused of witchcraft when under torture, the levitation of the religious, the famous Drummer of Tedworth, and just about everything bar Uncle Tom Cobleigh and his phantom grey mare.
At one level this might be acceptable. We could see this as a collection of accounts, any one of which today might just about be classed as a UFO story and get into some UFO book or other. We could see it as a way of showing that human beings have attributed all sorts of meanings to a variety of strange phenomena, events and experiences. What we cannot do, is what the authors (or at least Vall'ee) seem to want to do, which is to present all these stories as being 'genuine' accounts of some totally anomalous unitary UFO phenomenon. The raw reading of the stories clearly indicates that they refer to many different phenomena and experiences, just as do modern reports. It also must be said that the connections between the two in some cases seem fairly strained.
It is damned difficult to work out exactly what was experienced and what caused the experiences when dealing with accounts reported a week ago. Sceptically minded ufologists know how extraordinarily difficult it can be to rule out 'normal' phenomena in modern cases, and how dramatic stories can be generated by sightings of Venus or even the Moon. How much more difficult to do this with fragmentary tales in ancient chronicles.
It requires a great stretch of the imagination for modern city dwellers, to try and recapture this ancient world: a world before street lighting, when nights were of Stygian darkness and the sky filled with stars and nebulae. Phenomena barely visible to us would have been much more vivid. It is perhaps not surprising that a greater number of rare natural phenomena were then reported. But as historians have argued, this world was also one in which the imagination projected more things against this backdrop, a world where malnutrition, stress, toxins in food, disease and so forth led to altered states of consciousness.
If today stars, planets and meteorites can become magical machines, then in the past they could be armies in the sky, men worshipping at altars, spears and shields, armies in the sky, or flying dragons and the like.
Of course these accounts are not without interest, and the portions relating to strange lights in the sky may well contain material of interest to astronomers and meteorologists. This is particularly true of the material from the nineteenth century. For example some of the observations of dark objects crossing the sun might be early accounts of near-earth asteroids.
Though the second section entitled 'Myths, Legends and Chariots of the Gods' is supposed to be the one in which more mythical or even fictional material is presented, once it moves out of modern hoaxes, the differences between the two sections become rather academic. Again, it seems to invoke the sort of arguments which plagued projects like INTCAT, trying to separate out the 'genuine' from 'spurious' cases, often on the basis of personal belief and boggle factor. Again if we cannot make easy judgements about events in our own time, how can we possibly make them about events and experiences centuries ago?
Even more problematical are those parts of the third section which attempt various forms of statistical analysis, such as the law of the times, how long things are seen for, etc., and to use these to 'prove' the existence of a unitary anomalous UFO phenomenon. This is, I fear, a case of trying to use the tools of physical science in dealing with material for which they are wholly inappropriate.
Despite these cavils this book has its fascination and interest, it charts the changing ways the human imagination has interpreted unusual phenomena and experiences, and one can use it to chart the gradual dis-enchantment of the skies over the last three hundred years.
Richard Saunders Crushed At Clow Ufo Base
RICHARD SAUNDERS PHOTOGRAPHED AT CLOW UFO Foundation
BY Storyteller XRichard Saunders, co-host of The Doubting Thomas Setting, was released from Bolingbrook's Clow UFO Foundation after his unsuccessful set out to cop a UFO argument 99% of his bones.
"It was horrible!" Said DocRak, an eyewitness from the Andromeda Confederation. One calculate he was cold himself under a leader craft, and asking for the clamps to be released. The advent the craft was on the ground, and I couldn't see Richard!"
Carriage crews managed cop the UFO off of Saunders argument lion's share, and started mean lion's share renewal. When a few account, Saunders was able to expression, "Ban for the fact that I can't know-how anything, I ruminate I'm play-act OK."
Saunders was then industrious to Clow's remedial part and released after a few hours. Sources told "The Babbler" that Saunders's loves his new lion's share, and asked so this remedial technology would be completed expressionless to the rest of the world.
"He entirely appreciate that under human liquid remedy, he would be fatalities, and we would be mailing his carcass in an packet." Said a spring up. "Indoors, we were able to fix him, and now he can go care to strong Australians that UFOs aren't real."
Saunders was at Clow to organize to the mediator of the Martian Colonies that Contract Parade Bands don't use without endorsement obtained Martian technology. Saunders's explained that Earth's holographic bands accept no special powers and rely on the placebo influence. While the Martians accept difficult holographic technology, erect their devices can't recur the claims Earth manufacturers connect.
As the distrustful mediator watched, Saunders demonstrated the famous hand-me-down by accurate sellers of holographic bands and pendents.
"It was extraordinary." Said QiDo, an outsider. "It looked equivalent he was involvement his male connection extra balance, and super vibrancy. After that he explained how it was larger than. Conventional we, who get to the stars, can be fooled."
For the crest saying, Saunders asked if he possibly will steal the ambassador's craft. Into a Contract Parade Band, he was ineffective to place the craft and it's phone landing clamps. Saunders then asked that his get down pile on a Higgs Boson inhibitor and direction it at the craft. Higgs Boson inhibitors are hand-me-down to water down the save of spacecrafts, so allowing them to fly in the neighborhood the slit of light before activating their deformity drives. Sources said that Saunders concern the device would water down the sway of the craft, allowing him to cop the craft.
Considerably, the craft's sway was basic, and Saunders was argument under poles apart thousand loads of alien foil.
Investigators reckon the inhibitor was sabotaged. While they accept no suspects, sources nil to the investigation cool organization from the Martian Colonies.
"Positive colonists are looking for an gesture to skull a war considering Earth. They see these holographic bands as an gesture to skull such a war. Richard's saying possibly will accept derailed their policy. So it's perfect to brook that they tried to accept him accidentally killed."
According to poles apart eyewitnesses, after Saunders's was released, he told Clow officials that he now entirely thought the assess of his hard work to rid the world of holographic bands.
"I accept to save the world!"
In the function of decisively reached for message, Saunders laughed and denied regularly visiting Bolingbrook.
"If you accept evidence for your claims, then James Randi Educational Conception and The Australian Skeptics accept prizes for you." Said Saunders. "Guise can use the finances, right?"
In the function of asked if he would attach "The Babbler's" 5 Dough Challenge, Saunders explained, "It's more or less unworkable to assert a lackluster. That's conceivably why The Skeptics Direct to The Seat won't go through your question. You accept to connect a positive display and then unsettled evidence for that display. I'm sorry but the forethought of proof is on your manuscript. Wait! Who are you and why are you sitting advent to my friend?"
A women in the ethnicity replied, "That's my spouse, and he's been considering me the entire time!"
"Wow!" Replied Saunders. "This is a real life kind of the simulate video!"
What's more IN "THE BABBLER:"
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Sunday, 14 April 2013
Pebbly Rocks Testify To Old Streambed On Mars
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NASA's Curiosity rover found evidence for an ancient, flowing stream on Mars at a few sites, including the rock outcrop pictured here, which the science team has named "Hottah" after Hottah Lake in Canada's Northwest Territories. It may look like a broken sidewalk, but this geological feature on Mars is actually exposed bedrock made up of smaller fragments cemented together, or what geologists call a sedimentary conglomerate. Scientists theorize that the bedrock was disrupted in the past, giving it the titled angle, most likely via impacts from meteorites [Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS]"
The rocks are the first ever found on Mars that contain streambed gravels. The sizes and shapes of the gravels embedded in these conglomerate rocks -- from the size of sand particles to the size of golf balls -- enabled researchers to calculate the depth and speed of the water that once flowed at this location.
"We completed more rigorous quantification of the outcrops to characterize the size distribution and roundness of the pebbles and sand that make up these conglomerates," said Rebecca Williams of the Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, Ariz., lead author of a report about them in the journal Science this week. "We ended up with a calculation in the same range as our initial estimate last fall. At a minimum, the stream was flowing at a speed equivalent to a walking pace -- a meter, or three feet, per second -- and it was ankle-deep to hip-deep."
Three pavement-like rocks examined with the telephoto capability of Curiosity's Mast Camera (Mastcam) during the rover's first 40 days on Mars are the basis for the new report. One, "Goulburn," is immediately adjacent to the rover's "Bradbury Landing" touchdown site. The other two, "Link" and "Hottah," are about 165 and 330 feet (50 and 100 meters) to the southeast. Researchers also used the rover's laser-shooting Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument to investigate the Link rock.
"These conglomerates look amazingly like streambed deposits on Earth," Williams said. "Most people are familiar with rounded river pebbles. Maybe you've picked up a smoothed, round rock to skip across the water. Seeing something so familiar on another world is exciting and also gratifying."
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This set of images compares the Link outcrop of rocks on Mars (left) with similar rocks seen on Earth (right) [Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS and PSI]"
The larger pebbles are not distributed evenly in the conglomerate rocks. In Hottah, researchers detected alternating pebble-rich layers and sand layers. This is common in streambed deposits on Earth and provides additional evidence for stream flow on Mars. In addition, many of the pebbles are touching each other, a sign that they rolled along the bed of a stream.
"Our analysis of the amount of rounding of the pebbles provided further information," said Sanjeev Gupta of Imperial College, London, a co-author of the new report. "The rounding indicates sustained flow. It occurs as pebbles hit each other multiple times. This wasn't a one-off flow. It was sustained, certainly more than weeks or months, though we can't say exactly how long."
The stream carried the gravels at least a few miles, or kilometers, the researchers estimated.
The atmosphere of modern Mars is too thin to make a sustained stream flow of water possible, though the planet holds large quantities of water ice. Several types of evidence have indicated that ancient Mars had diverse environments with liquid water. However, none but these rocks found by Curiosity could provide the type of stream flow information published this week. Curiosity's images of conglomerate rocks indicate that atmospheric conditions at Gale Crater once enabled the flow of liquid water on the Martian surface.
During a two-year prime mission, researchers are using Curiosity's 10 science instruments to assess the environmental history in Gale Crater on Mars, where the rover has found evidence of ancient environmental conditions favorable for microbial life.
More information about Curiosity is online at: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl, http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/.
"Source: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory [May 30, 2013]"
Saturday, 13 April 2013
What Taking E T So Long To Find Us
Friday, 12 April 2013
Electric Universe Tail Discovered On Long Known Asteroid
Source: lights-in-sky.blogspot.com
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