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The Man Who Answers When ET Phones Earth
Sunday, March 7th, 2010
The Guardian has an interesting article on Paul Davies, chair of the SETI Post Detection Task Group. The guy who decides what to if/when aliens contact our humble planet.
Jon Ronson writes:
Seti scientists also [fill their time] by putting protocols in place for what to do on the day a bleep is definitively heard. It is extremely likely they will be the ones to hear it: they’re the ones with the dishes. Should the protocols be followed, they’ll know not to call the media or some government figure. They’ll call the chair of the Post-Detection Task Group. Which is Paul.
The article makes a few other fascinating points such as why Davies would never reveal the location of a signal from another civilization– because then anyone from the US Military to 4Chan could respond with their own independent message from humanity.
Tags: aliens, science, seti, ufo
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Mars Needs Hipsters
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Two, count ‘em two, UFO sightings occured in my very own backyard of North Brooklyn. One in Williamsburg and one in Bushwick. Obviously the out-of-towners from another world dig skinny jeans, art projects, and indie music.
Tags: brooklyn, Bushwick, ufo, video, williamsburg
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Scandinavian Ghost Rockets & Lights
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Between Obama receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway and these mysterious lights in northern Norway much is going on in Norway. The Daily Mail has photos and videos of this oddity.
As the Daily Mail reports, the lights were not seen by many. Lenticular Clouds, Northern Lights, and other natural phenomenon could be a cause. Some are propose the mysterious lights are caused by a missle from Russia. The Russian military of course denies this. Others say it might be a UFO of extraterrestrial origin.
This would not be the first time Scandinavia had a flap with ghost rockets and UFO’s. During World War II, Nazi scientists tested V1 and V2 rockets over Sweden and Norway. After the war reports of mysterious lights and objects emerged. At its height in the late 1940’s the Swedish Defence Research Agency (Totalförsvarets forskningsinstitut, FOI) stated “nearly one hundred impacts have been reported and thirty pieces of debris have been received and examined by FOI.” Some hypothesized these UFOs tests by Russia and a few wondered at the possibility of an out of this world phenomenon– including the US Military. A 1948 USAF document states: “we are inclined not to discredit entirely this somewhat spectacular theory [extraterrestrial origins], meantime keeping an open mind on the subject.”
Who knows maybe its a natural phenomenon, missile, or UFO. Or maybe Sarah Palin is pissed at Obama and summoned her buddy Thor.
EDIT: Yeah, it was a rocket. But a rocket spewing out tiny sapphires! Not Thor, but still cool.
Tags: norway, obama, palin, ufo, world war 2
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UFO Disclosure on Friday November 27, 2009?
Monday, November 23rd, 2009
The crackpots have been clamoring lately in the tubes of the Internet that Friday, November 27, 2009 will be the day the United States government comes clean– that President Obama will announce there is not one but six (6) alien races humankind has been in contact with. Sounds far fetched? It is, but its a fine example of logical fallacy.
Jeanne Dixon
There’s something called the Jeane Dixon Effect named for astrology and psychic Jeane Dixon who advised President Richard Nixon and First Lady Nancy Reagan. Nixon, who called her “the soothsayer,” even went as far as to prepare for a terrorist attack based on a premonition. Her numerous erroneous predictions include the Soviet Union winning the space race to the moon and the start of World War III in 1958.
Psychics are easy to verify: either an event happens or it does not. Basic Karl Popper falsification.
Dixon scored a win though when she predicted in 1956 a Democrat would take office and would die or be assassinated in office. This one “lucky guess” has sticking power whereas false promises or incorrect predictions go into the brain’s garbage can. Apparently our brains are used to being let down.
The source of the information on disclosure is Dr. Pete Peterson of Project Camelot and David Wilcock of well, bat guano crazy land. Both claim to have ’sources’ who have informed them that not only is disclosure happening, the TV time has already booked. Peterson annouced this on his website and Wilcock annouced this on the syndicated radio program Coast to Coast AM with George Noory on October 6, 2009. Anyone who knows how TV stations or logistics in business works that its highly unlikely– especially in the competitive world of journalism– that stations could “keep quiet” about a mysterious and seemingly unprovoked address by President Barack Obama.
David Wilcock (kinda looks like David Spade selling a timeshare condo)
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. With this claim there is no evidence whatsoever. What’s more, just over a year ago a woman named Blossom Goodchild and a kindrid spirt named Dannion Brinkley predicted a mass UFO sighting October 14, 2008 would force disclosure. Just one of many false predictions such as the Air Force announcing disclosure in the 1960s, Y2K, terrorist attacks, and everything Nostradamus said that didn’t happen. Oh, and the woman over at ZetaTalk claimed the world would end in 2003. In case you are wondering, none of that happened.
Chances are (and I’ll be the first to gladly admit I was was wrong) we will not see disclosure on November 27, 2009. I would certainly welcome anything novel like 6 alien species to spice up the doldrums. They claimed that a UFO would be sighted by a large number of people in Florida this weekend November 21, 2009 or November 22, 2009 and that did not happen. Or maybe CNN is still obsessed with Jon & Kate to ignore the greatest news story in mankind’s history.
Both Peterson and Wilcock have stated that if too many people get excited about this, we will not have disclosure. So, sorry everyone. By acknowledging their predictions I’ve blown it for them. Just like how 2012 is the new Y2K, they’ll have to move on to more D Grade scifi plots. Just next time, put some more imagination into it, please?
Tags: aliens, conspiracy, david wilcock, disclosure, dr peter peterson, paranormal, psychics, ufo
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The Backroads of Eating at Taco Bell
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009
Mental Floss drags ten secret menus out from the memory hole of fast food legend. While I’m a card-carrying fancy Dan who only eats triple organic sustainably grown congealed oxygen from Williams-Sonoma, something about fast food ’secret menus’ really get me going in that James Bond of the Strip Mall sorta way. Plus, animal style s a genius term to name anything.
Also: word from The Underground indicates Taco Bell offers more than just that mythical green sauce for breast-men in the know.
Tags: achewood, fast food, in n out, secret, secret menu, taco bell, ufo
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Robot Whales Will Save Us, I Assure You
Friday, August 21st, 2009
More linking strands in the swirling digital chum of the intertube, gentle reader.
First off, here’s an oldie but goodie (from way back in in 2008) from Vice:
Whereupon they tag along with a mission to catalog what’s floating around in the vast plastic morass in the middle of the Pacific. In case you’re unfamiliar, the Wikigods say:
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Eastern Garbage Patch or the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a gyre of marine litter in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly between 135° to 155°W and 35° to 42°N and estimated to be twice the size of Texas.[1] The patch is characterized by exceptionally high concentrations of suspended plastic and other debris that have been trapped by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre.
Mix that with a report on Pink Tentacle about floating robot UAVs deployed in the gross urban waterways of my ex-stomping grounds of Osaka. Keeping it Japan-style, they look like UFO’s with a jaunty blowhole fountain that is not only cute but serves to keep the solar panels chilled down for better efficiency.
These two bits of internet flotsam fused somewhere in my brain: why not develop some kind of UAV that feeds off its environment to skim out at least the surface flotsam of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
While this couldn’t be a straight-up port of the Osaka UFO floaters (they filter the water, not skim out trash, the concept is there. Additionally, why not pattern this on a successful creature in that environment that feeds in a similar fashion: baleen whales.
Picture it: a pod of three to five robo-whales chomp and filter great mouthfuls of trashy seawater in the gently swirling waters of the gyre, fed by solar panels, internally mounted motion-activated dynamos and an internal “digestion” system that burns or chemically breaks down the plastics into fuel. Undigested waste products are compacted and floated out on tethers for later collection and use in constructing a floating monitoring station maintained by well-heeled sailing eco-tourists.
Hell. Yes. Someone put up a cool million for an X-prize and make MIT and RPI race the garage scene for a working prototype. All I ask is that every one of ‘em has a little decal that reads: “AARON CAEL THINKS YOU’RE TRASH”
Tags: ecology, future, garbage island, great pacific garbage patch, gyre, japan, osaka, pacific, pink tentacle, pollution, speculation, trash, ufo, vbs, Vice, video, whales, x-prize
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