Alien Ambassadors Visiting The ISS?

Most UFOlogists are old farts, desperate to recapture the zeitgeist of Roswell, Rendlesham, and the Stephenville lights, but they’re not helping serious inquiry by teaching the young’uns about NASA covering up UFOs. It was cute the first twenty times when some clever chap figured out NASA means “Never A Straight Answer”.

With hindsight being 20/20, I can appreciate this apprehension since my graying peers grew up in NASA’s heyday when Operation Paperclip was in full swing, using Nazi knowhow to foist Buzz, Neil, and Mike to the moon. You never trust a Nazi, or people who collaborate with Nazis. Despite Hollywood’s insistence (OMG The Monuments Men comes out this Friday!), World War II is over.

Those former Nazis are pushing up the daisies. NASA’s American collaborators are retired, or joining ihre Freunde as so much compost.

NASA doesn’t even have the budget to produce a summer blockbuster. Maybe, if they’re lucky, one of Woody Allen’s arthouse flicks. They’re holding bake sales so their astronauts don’t end up like George Clooney in Gravity. NASA’s bumming rides off the Russians who can’t get beyond low Earth orbit. It’s a sad state of affairs.

In fact, NASA’s pretty damned transparent nowadays. Jelly doughnut rock appears in front of Opportunity, the story gets plastered all over the world wide web. Raw images are freely available at their website so crowdsourced investigators can argue if that iguana is real or a product of pareidolia. The Solar Dynamics Observatory, trained on the sun, is unfiltered so humans can spot aliens heliobraking around our humble G2V-class star. There’s a live webcam pointed at the International Space Station!

Bringing us to today’s video.

Someone using the handle Streetcap1 has some interesting footage from January 29th with a kayak-shaped object, possibly 10 meters / 32 feet in length near the station. He politely asks “What is this please NASA”

So far, NASA hasn’t spilled the beans.

Note back in 2012, back on January 23rd, there was another hubbub about an alien craft being spotted near the ISS. Even if you don’t squint, it resembles the object in the video.

If NASA had something to hide, they’d certainly do a better job than this. Then again, covering up something big, like first contact, is probably beyond their current budgetary means. It’d be a helluva lot better than alleged spacecraft operator Clark McClelland’s crazy yarns.

If aliens were meeting aboard the ISS, Earth would’ve heard about it already. A positive windfall for the American space program from publicizing such a revelation. Reddit would be choked with nutty memes of “Culturally Inept Alien Ambassador”, and debate if an alien m’lady would friendzone them.

Source: Who Forted

Russia needs Snowden to create cybertroops.

Valery Malevanniy, a famous writer, historian of the Russian special services, retired Major General was a guest of a live broadcast of Pravda.Ru. In the interview, Valery touched on topics such as the Snowden case, the collapse of the Soviet Union, participation of foreign NGOs, prevention of terrorist attacks and UFO programs.

The collapse of the Soviet Union is a special operation of the CIA where the Senate was recommended to "allow" the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, said Valery Malevanniy. The plan was simple. Its main goal was economic devastation of the USSR. The Soviet Union was spending $5 million a day In Afghanistan.

In 1986, Saudi Arabia at the request of the United States has reduced the price of oil. As a result, Mikhail Gorbachev who took office in the beginning of perestroika faced an empty treasury. "If in 1980 the gold reserves of the USSR amounted to 3.5 thousand tons, by 1985 it was 200 tons. Soviet republics asked Gorbachev for money, but he had nothing to give them, and then they started breaking off. At the time Western agents - NGOs were already hard at work," said the expert. After the events in Lithuania the process has become unmanageable, and soon, "foreign agents were even in the Kremlin, leading our economy."

Soon NATO intelligence agencies have achieved the collapse of both the Soviet Union and the country's security services, the most important of them the State Security Committee (KGB), continued Malevanniy. "Gorbachev tried to recreate the services of political special forces "Berkut," but it did not help." The collapse of the security services, in turn, led to losses in the economy and the financial sector. The country's might started melting before our own our eyes. "Voucher privatization" imposed on Russia by the Western secret services was implemented.

"Chubais employed eight security agents who implemented privatization. As a result, 70 percent of the people's wealth fell into the wrong hands," said the expert. Then NATO disarmed Russia, and the uranium that Russia had been accumulating for decades was taken out of the country. Strategic deterrent was damaged, and many defense plants were shut down. "Our ships, planes, submarines were not on duty due to the lack of diesel fuel." Facilitation of the implementation of this complex of problems is the responsibility of the security services that help the state to restrain not only a terrorist threat, but a threat of economic and financial collapse.

We must understand that "the security services are the backbone of the political power of any country. Only thanks to Putin, in the last 10 years, the Russian special services have been restored," said the expert. For example, credit goes to him for the fight against offshore companies. According to Malevanniy, today FSB is a force capable of solving problems equal in scale to the problems solved by Western intelligence agencies. For example, in 2012, the FSB has prevented 369 terrorist attacks, arrested 147 foreign intelligence officers, including 42 professional intelligence officers working under cover of diplomatic immunity.

Of course, major miscalculations happen, Malevanniy noted. For example, a betrayal in 2010 by Foreign Intelligence colonel Poteev who has gone to the West and gave up the entire illegal network in the U.S., ten people led by General Mikhail Vlasenkov.

Terrorist attacks in Volgograd are also an error of counterintelligence, Malevanniy believes. "We have to contain the active underground. This includes wiretapping and surveillance. At some point a terrorist (we are talking about the first terrorist attack that occurred on October 21) was simply lost. Perhaps, a substitution took place," said Malevanniy.

Answering the question about his attitude toward Edward Snowden, the expert said that he was a traitor of his country and provocateur. "Russia needs Snowden for the establishment of strategic cyber troops, Russia is 20 years behind in this area. In the United States cyber troops are a part of the NSA, this is wiretapping of everything and everyone." In 2012 the U.S. held joint exercises with China, and it made our leadership think. As a result, in January of 2013 an order was issued on the formation of such forces in Russia. "I admit that this is precisely what we need Snowden for," said the historian.

According to him, Snowden began working for the Chinese intelligence services because Chinese cyber troops are considered second in power after the U.S. "No wonder he was in Hong Kong for two months. But after he gave them all he had, he flew to Russia. While he was sitting at Sheremetyevo airport, our intelligence services did not know what to do with him, but then decided that they needed him," Malevanniy concluded.

The expert also told Pravda.Ru that all intelligence agencies of the world have departments dealing with UFOs, including the FSB and the FBI that have three research institutes and Base 51. Malevanniy said that contact is established through the specially trained psychics to obtain nanotechnology. "In the Soviet Union there was a military unit 10003 under General Savin where military psychics used to work. The unit trained military space operators, and there is evidence that they were in contact with UFO; and Savin talks about it in his memoirs." The abandonment by the Americans of their lunar program confirms the existence of alien civilizations. "They were warned that the place was occupied," said the historian.

Speaking about the work of the FSB against terrorism, the expert stressed that wiretapping was necessary and was conducted by court order. He believes that wiretapping has to be total, like in the U.S. "Cyber troops are created for the informational security. America created its own system and can listen to Australia and Angela Merkel, why can't Russia do it? Russian intelligence agencies should also deal with the national security, including anti-terrorist security. We are on the brink of a threat. Wiretapping really prevents terrorist attacks, so does the control over social networks. The Americans and Chinese have long understood this, it's time for Russia to understand it as well," a writer, historian of the secret services, retired Major General Valery Malevanniy said a live broadcast "Viewpoint."

Source: Pravda

Indian Ocean's Oldest Shipwreck Set for Excavation.

The oldest known shipwreck in the Indian Ocean has been sitting on the seafloor off the southern coast of Sri Lanka for some 2,000 years. In just a couple of weeks, scuba-diving archaeologists will embark on a months-long excavation at the site, looking for clues about trade between Rome and Asia during antiquity.

The wreck lies 110 feet (33 meters) below the ocean's surface, just off the fishing village of Godavaya, where German archaeologists in the 1990s found a harbor that was an important port along the maritime Silk Road during the second century A.D.

The sunken ship, discovered only a decade ago, doesn't look like your stereotypical skeletal hull. Instead, what archaeologists are dealing with is a concreted mound of corroded metal bars and a scattering of other ancient cargo, including glass ingots and pottery, that have tumbled around on the seafloor for hundreds of years amid strong currents and perhaps even the occasional tsunami. [See Haunting Images of Shipwrecks Across the Globe]

Source: LS

No One Knows Why Ancient Egyptians Built This 4,600-Year-Old Pyramid.

Archaeologists recently uncovered a 4,600-year-old step pyramid near the Egyptian city of Edfu. It is the seventh of the "provincial" pyramids built decades before the Great Pyramid at Giza, LiveScience reports. The solid structures are built around Egypt and are nearly identical. 

This newest step pyramid stands about 16 feet tall, but when it was new, it towered around 43 feet high. Like the other step pyramids, it was not used for royal burials and contains no inner chamber. And, actually, no one really know what these pyramids were used for.

But a space near one of the newly discovered pyramid's sides appears to have been used for food offerings. The team thinks the pyramids might have been used as monuments to Egyptian royalty, LiveScience reports. It seems to have been abandoned around 50 years after its creation, likely in response to the new focus on Giza. 

Here's LiveScience on the pyramid's structure:

Built of sandstone blocks and clay mortar, it had been constructed in the form of a three-step pyramid. A core of blocks rises up vertically, with two layers of blocks beside it, on top of each other. This made the pyramid look like it had three steps. The style is similar to that of a step pyramid built by Djoser (reign ca. 2670-2640 B.C.), the pharaoh who constructed Egypt's first pyramid at the beginning of the third ancient Egyptian dynasty. The technique is close to that used at the Meidum pyramid, which was built by either Snefru or Huni and started out as a step pyramid before being turned into a true pyramid. 

Hieroglyphic graffiti on the side the pyramid, LiveScience reports, includes depictions of a man, a bird and an animal. In particular, some inscriptions on the side of the pyramid indicate that women and children were buried there. But the archeologists believe those scrawlings and burials came long after the structure was built and were not part of its original purpose.

Source: SMITHSONIANMAG

Intuitions of Our Immortality: Visions of Life Before Conception.

New research suggests children have a strong sense they existed before they were conceived.

We’ve all ruminated about the possibility of life after death. But what about the notion of life before birth—or even conception?

While Christian theology denies such a thing is possible, the concept that life precedes physical fertilization is a given for people who believe in reincarnation. But is such an idea learned? Or is it based on an innate feeling about our own immortality?

Newly published research that analyzes answers given by two groups of children—one urban, one rural—suggests the latter. It finds youngsters intuitively believe that their own existence, at least in the form of feelings and wants, pre-dated their conception.

“Even kids who had biological knowledge about reproduction still seemed to think that they had existed in some sort of eternal form,” lead author Natalie Emmons, a postdoctoral fellow in psychology at Boston University, told the institution’s news service. “And that form really seemed to be about emotions and desires.”

Very early on, it seems we develop a feeling that we existed before our bodies came into being. From there, it’s an easy leap to believe we will continue to exist after our bodies fall away.

Emmons and co-author Deborah Kelemen interviewed two sets of children in Ecuador—one in an urban area outside the capital of Quito, where the population is overwhelmingly Catholic, and another in an indigenous Shuar village in the Amazon basin. They were curious to discover whether the Shuar children, who grow up in a natural environment and learn early on about the cycle of life and death, would have different assumptions than kids raised in an urban setting.

Both groups were divided by age into four blocks (ages five-six, seven-eight, nine-10, and 11-12). All were shown three drawings: One depicting their mother before they were conceived, a second showing their mother while she was pregnant, and a third featuring the child as an infant.

While looking at the image of their pre-pregnancy mother, the kids were asked specific questions about their “pre-life capacities.” After answering such questions as “Could you be hungry?” and “Could you feel sad?” they were asked to explain the reasoning behind their answers.

Surprisingly, the researchers found the urban and rural children gave pretty much the same answers. By ages seven and eight, they rejected the notion that they had “bodily capacities” such as sight or hearing before conception.

But at that stage of development, urban children endorsed the idea that their emotions functioned during the pre-life period 70% of the time. Rural kids did so 55 percent of the time. The notion that they felt desires before conception (such as the wish to be born) was endorsed by rural seven- and eight-year-olds 62 percent of the time, and their urban counterparts 46 percent of the time.

“Rural children never provided spiritual responses, confirming that religious cultural scripts were not responsible for their response patterns,” the researchers write. Rather, their beliefs—like those of their urban counterparts—seem to reflect “an unlearned cognitive bias, rooted in intuitive conceptions of personhood.”

The results suggest that, despite belief among most scientists that the mind is a product of the brain, we possess an intuitive sense of self that is distinct from our bodies. Very early on, it seems we develop a feeling that we existed before our bodies came into being. From there, it’s an easy leap to believe we will continue to exist after our bodies fall away.

Perhaps religion developed, in part, to codify these deeply felt beliefs.

Source: PS

36.4 Million Alien Civilizations In Our Galaxy Says The Drake Equation.

There is nothing in the universe that is more exact than mathematics itself and Dr. Frank Drake decided to take on the challenge. He created a mathematical equation that tells us an estimate of how many alien civilizations are at our level or higher in the Milky Way galaxy. He created this formula called the Drake Equation as a way to stimulate scientific discussion at the worlds first SETI meeting in Green Bank, West Virginia. Great right but lets get down to brass tacks. When the formula is completed it looks like this, N = 7 × 1 × 0.2 × 0.13 × 1 × 0.2 × 109 = 36.4 million (Wiki source). Holy @#$ Batman! That’s a whopping number of planets out there that contain civilizations. Yes, because if N=36,000,000 N=the number of civilizations in our galaxy with which communication might be possible. 

Of course some of them already know about this, but this raises a new question…why don’t they reveal themselves to us? That my friend is easy. Some of these 36,400,000 planets with life have created space faring capabilities…let’s say a very low estimate of 1% or 364,000. This number still blows me away, so lets say 1% of 1% has space technology. Thats still 3,640 space faring species! 

 

When humanity is exploring space, usually its funded by governments and you know the red tape and rules they have about the simplest things. Well, aliens have rules about revealing themselves and it probably has serious implications if you are caught breaking their rules. Its a lot like on the TV show Star Trek and how the captain of the USS Enterprise doesn’t want to interrupt in other cultures, but circumstance brings it to happen and sometimes it happens by accident. Same thing. They are trying to respect our way of life, and not make us dependent on them and their advancements. 

 

I do believe that if enough messages are received from Earth from not one but may people, aliens civilizations will have to decide that Earth has come a long ways, and perhaps, just perhaps, they will deem humanity ready to meet them. How to send messages? Many ways, but most popular is by radio telescope or laser communicator. I sent hundreds of messages using radio telescopes around the globe, but most of them closed down or stopped allowing messages to be sent. SCW

Source:MGF

(VIDEO) The Universe is a Giant Brain?

Here is a story worth sharing. We often speak of the universe being a reflection of ourselves, and point to how the eye, veins, and brain cells mirror visual phenomenon in the universe. As above so below right? Well check this out. How about the idea that the universe is a giant brain? The idea of the universe as a 'giant brain' has been proposed by scientists and science fiction writers for decades, but now physicists say there may be some evidence that it's actually true (in a sense).

According to a study published in Nature's Scientific Reports, the universe may be growing in the same way as a giant brain -- with the electrical firing between brain cells 'mirrored' by the shape of expanding galaxies. The results of a computer simulation suggest that "natural growth dynamics" -- the way that systems evolve -- are the same for different kinds of networks -- whether its the internet, the human brain or the universe as a whole.

When the team compared the universe's history with growth of social networks and brain circuits, they found all the networks expanded in similar ways: They balanced links between similar nodes with ones that already had many connections. For instance, a cat lover surfing the Internet may visit mega-sites such as Google or Yahoo, but will also browse cat fancier websites or YouTube kitten videos. In the same way, neighboring brain cells like to connect, but neurons also link to such "Google brain cells" that are hooked up to loads of other brain cells. "The new study suggests a single fundamental law of nature may govern these networks", said physicist Kevin Bassler of the University of Houston. ""For a physicist it's an immediate signal that there is some missing understanding of how nature works," says Dmitri Krioukov from the University of California San Diego.


So this may seem weird, but let's think about this. We always talk about consciousness being the underlying fabric of the universe from which all things emerge (M-theory, string theory, Unified Field Theory, etc). Consciousness is known to be the ground of being. So not only is the universe conscious like a brain, it is growing like a brain as well. But here's a question...a brain to what? Is it possible we exist as a thought within the mind of some Super Intelligence? Are we just cells in the mind of the Universe? Maybe, maybe not, but it's fascinating to think about.

NBC:http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49971212/ns...

Original Study:http://www.nature.com/srep/2012/12111...

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