Thursday, October 6, 2011
Humanoid Cryptid Encounter Reports 19
World Economic Forum The Potential Discovery Of Alien Life
"As part of the Global Risks 2013 report, the World Economic Forum's Risk Response Network has identified five "X Factor" risks in partnership with Nature. These look beyond mainstream risks to five emerging potential game-changers."
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Given the pace of space exploration, it is increasingly conceivable that we may discover the existence of alien life or other planets that could support human life. What would be the effects on science funding flows and humanity's self-image?
It was only in 1995 that we first found evidence that other stars also have planets orbiting them. Now thousands of "exoplanets" revolving around distant stars have been detected. NASA's Kepler mission to identify Earth-sized planets located in the "Goldilocks zone" (not too hot, not too cold) of sun-like stars has been operating for only three years and has already turned up thousands of candidates, including one the size of Earth. The fact that Kepler has found so many planet candidates in such a tiny fraction of the sky suggests that there are countless Earth-like planets orbiting sun-like stars in our galaxy. In 10 years' time we may have evidence not only that Earth is not unique but also that life exists elsewhere in the universe.
Suppose the astronomers who study exoplanets one day find chemical signs of life - for example, a spectrum showing the presence of oxygen, a highly reactive element that would quickly disappear from Earth's atmosphere if it weren't being replenished by plants. Money might well start flowing for new telescopes to study these living worlds in detail, both from the ground and from space. New funding and new brain power might be attracted to the challenges of human space flight and the technologies necessary for humanity, or its artificial-intelligence emissaries, to survive an inter-stellar crossing.
The discovery would certainly be one of the biggest news stories of the year and interest would be intense. But it would not change the world immediately. Alien life has been supposedly discovered before, after all. Around the turn of the 20th century, the US astronomer Percival Lowell convinced many people (including himself) that Mars was crisscrossed by a vast system of canals built by a dying civilization. But the belief that humankind was not alone did not do much to usher in an era of goodwill and earthly harmony, nor did it stop the outbreak of World War I in 1914.
The discovery's largest near-term impact would likely be on science itself. Suppose observations point to a potential future home for humankind around another star, or the existence of life in our solar system - in the Martian poles, in the subsurface oceans of Jupiter's frozen moon Europa, or even in the hydrocarbon lakes of Saturn's moon Titan. Scientists will immediately start pushing for robotic and even human missions to study the life forms in situ - and funding agencies, caught up in the excitement, might be willing to listen.
The fledgling space economy had a big year in 2012, which saw the birth of space trucking when the first commercially built and operated spacecraft had a successful rendezvous with the International Space Station, and a host of celebrity billionaires declared intentions to make asteroid mining a reality. Discovery of an Earth 2.0 or life beyond our planet might inspire new generations of space entrepreneurs to meet the challenge of taking human exploration of the galaxy from the realm of fiction to fact.
Over the long term, the psychological and philosophical implications of the discovery could be profound. If life forms (even fossilized life forms) are found in our solar system, for example, the origin of life is "easy" - that any place in the universe life can emerge, it will emerge. It will suggest that life is as natural and as ubiquitous a part of the universe as the stars and galaxies. The discovery of even simple life would fuel speculation about the existence of other intelligent beings and challenge many assumptions that underpin human philosophy and religion.
Through basic education and awareness campaigns, the general public can achieve a higher science and space literacy and cognitive resilience that would prepare them and prevent undesired social consequences of such a profound discovery and paradigm shift concerning humankind's position in the universe.
Origin: ufos-and-aliens.blogspot.com
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Blood Falls And What Its Like To Listen For Eti
g ABODES - Water. It's essential for life as best we know it. Almost three-fourths of the Earth is covered with water. We live on the pale blue dot, and our lives depend fundamentally on water. Yet, just after Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago, the surface was mostly dry. "So, where did the water come from?" asked a high school teacher during the recent Astrobiology Summer Science Institute for Teachers at San Francisco State University. It's a good question that his students are very likely to ask as they study the evolution of our planetary system. See article. This article is from 2007.
g LIFE - Blood Falls, so named for the slow trickle of blood-red water that cascades down a glacier in Antarctica is a sight to behold. The five-story waterfall pours very slowly out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys. Geologists first believed the red color came from algae, when in fact its true nature turned out to be much more significant. See article.
g MESSAGE - What's it like to sit in an observatory listening for signals from ETI? See article. This article is from 2002.
g COSMICUS - Far from being an absolute, time in quantum physics is not a solid background upon which particles in space change. In quantum physics time is not yet really, in a sense, even there until the "time particles" are measured. See article. This article is from 2004.
g LEARNING - "Solar System Math" is a series of four classroom lessons centered on pre-algebra topics such as measurement, unit conversion, ratio and proportion, scale, data analysis, and data representation. The downloadable software application, What's the Difference, supports the lessons with engaging multimedia that accurately illustrates the size, distance, and composition of the bodies in our solar system as well as key concepts such as transfer orbit and synodic period. By exploring key attributes of our solar system's planets and major moons, students decide where humans should next explore. These lessons were developed in response to a needs-assessment conducted for the NASA Explorer Schools and are aligned with national math standards for grades 5-8. The lessons and What's the Difference software nicely blend science and math through quality hands-on investigations, multimedia, and paper-and-pencil activities. See lessons (scroll down the page to locate it).
g IMAGINING - Here's a set of interesting musings about "characterization and aliens" in science fiction. The point made in the essay is apt: Too many alien species presented in sci-fi are monocultures and lack any individuality. We should presume that if not cultures then certainly individuals of extraterrestrial species will be as diverse as they are in humanity.
g AFTERMATH - While searches for radio signals will continue to be a mainstay of SETI, in the next decade there will be additional sophisticated searches for rapid laser pulses from other stars, as the traditional searches at radio frequencies are complemented by more searches in the optical spectrum. With advances like this on the horizon, scientists are becoming increasingly interested in what might happen in the wake of news that we have detected intelligent life near another star. See article. This article is from 2001.
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Monday, October 3, 2011
Next Soyuz Rolls To Launchpad For Fast Track Flight To The Space Station
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Sunday, October 2, 2011
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Nanaimo Couple Spots Ufos Flying Over Mount Benson
Nanaimo's Chris Ansell and Kathleen Kirby have crossed Santa Claus off their list as they search for answers after they reported seeing four unidentified flying objects over Mount Benson on Christmas Day.At 8:29 p.m., while on the deck of Ansell's parents' home on King John Way, the couple saw four orange lights the size of stars zip through the sky from four different directions and come together above the mountain.Ansell, 35, whipped out his Blackberry to catch the action, while Kirby, 23, grabbed a nearby camera.The four "starlike lights did this weird zig-zag thing and then turned into green glowing spheres and then, poof, they disappeared upwards," Ansell said, gesturing frantically with his hands.In less than 40 seconds it was all over, but Ansell and Kathleen captured three images they hope will eventually lead to an explanation of their mysterious sighting."We know it wasn't Santa. He had already come and gone," said Ansell with a laugh, pointing to his mother.Paul Greenhalgh, president of the Fraser Valley Astronomers Society, has a few suspicions about what could have caused the extraordinary light show, though he discounts the possibility they were UFOs.After examining Ansell's and Kirby's photos, Greenhalgh believes the "stars" are part of the Big Dipper constellation.The low horizon of the Earth and thicker density of the atmosphere from the angle the stars were seen caused them to change colour from orange to red to blue and green. Greenhalgh also said the satellite Chandra (an X-ray space observatory) was also moving across the sky at the same time as the couple's sighting, as were two iridium satellites."If they flared, otherwise known as an iridium flare, this could also add to the equation," added Greenhalgh.As far as the description of the erratic movements, Greenhalgh has no explanation."I have a philosophy about UFO sightings," he said. "The galaxy is 100,000 light years across. If we were able to send a message from our solar system to another solar system on the other side of the galaxy through the galactic core, without it being disrupted with all the radiation there, it would take 65,000 years for us to say hello and an additional 65,000 years for them to reply. It's going to be a very boring conversation."Greenhalgh has studied and stared into the sky for more than four decades without ever seeing an UFO. Only once in 43 years did he see a flying object he couldn't explain.But he uncovered the mystery two years later when he discovered the v-shape formation and central bright light he saw had been U.S. Navy satellites that had been tethered together.Greenhalgh also point out that any aircraft that enters the Earth's atmosphere would definitely be detected by the North American Aerospace Defense Command."NORAD can track anything from the size of a ping pong ball and larger," he said.Ansell and Kirby continue to keep a close eye on the night sky above Mount Benson with the hopes of another sighting."I just need an explanation. I don't believe in extraterrestrials or anything like that, but anything is possible," said Ansell."We do live in a huge universe and there could be things out there that just want to observe us."All we can hope is someone else saw it, too."Source: http://www2.canada.com/nanaimodailynews/news/story.html?id=ac652783-4333-4179-939f-9b6339737ee7
Monday, September 26, 2011
Humanoid Cryptid Encounter Reports 45
HOMINIDS FROM BEYOND?
Ojo Zarco, Veracruz, Mexico - 1999 - night
The leadership make a recording, a 10-year old child enjoying her decipher at her aunt's mansion, and other members of the family heard what sounded peer loud knocks on the courtyard access. The 10-year old child went external but found no one brusquely. She went confirmation in, but moments subsequently impart was chief knocking at the access. The child went external another time and this time she saw two lights dignified over her aunt's house. Any lights were hot red in color. She felt hesitation and attempted to go confirmation detained but a unpredictable lure to the lights cool her from good. She stared unbendingly at the lights being recklessly a slighter red light appeared followed by a generously proportioned red light that appeared to hoof marks the slighter one. The generously proportioned red light after that recklessly flew towards the child blinding her beside its exuberance. The child was incapable to move felt herself being on cloud nine to various freedom.
Some time subsequently her mother, violent about the make a recording whereabouts, went out looking for her revealing her son sprawled out on the courtyard not working in an plain trance-like state, mentioning matter that were superficially leave-taking to be real in the far-off. Most probably the child remained in this trance-like the rest of the night. Her mother was categorically protective seeing that she had different existence in advance lost a brother (the girl'd s uncle) in analogy obscure situation superficially amid UFOs. Submit are no detail details on how he died.
"Source: El Durmiente De Orizaba"
NOTE: I Tartan ON THIS Detection A BIT Auxiliary Later A Prior Fan OF UEMES AND Unusual Examiner WHO WAS Familiar Later THE Covering. I Exposed THAT THE Young woman Taking into account CLAIMED THAT HER TORMENTERS WERE Tall BEINGS Later ODD FACIAL Scenery. THE Unattached Illustration Detailed WAS THAT THESE BEINGS WERE Miserable IN Disgrace, Unkempt Later APE-LIKE FACES. THIS IS ONE OF THE FEW Unkempt HOMINID / UFO Linked Gossip I Worry SEEN Peripheral OF THE U.S. Submit WAS NO Guidelines Unexploited ON THE Ephemeral OF THE GIRL'S UNCLE - LON
Still wet behind the ears EYES
Sorrento, British Columbia, Canada - May 18, 2000 - 10:30 PM
The make a recording was walking his dog low Mackenzie Footstep being he noticed an orange/red effortless at the end of the pathway. He shone his flashlight at it and an object started to pile. The object was described as rotund, only about 1.5 feet to 2 feet obliquely, and about 1 foot to 1.5 feet high. The yellow effortless was a band brusquely the median extending to the external edges of the area. The area appeared to enjoy two black or gray half moons on the top and station. Submit were two concerning sections together with the top and the station. The craft rose gamely at a judicious angle. In the role of it was almost in advance the make a recording he shone the flashlight at it but it dead.
As the make a recording concerning mansion his dog barked resting on and ran confirmation and forth, the make a recording looked brusquely but did not see at all. Two natural life subsequently the make a recording was to lift up that being he first shone the flashlight at the area, he saw a link of bitter eyes, set morally far outside and below the area. Later he remembered seeing a gray point that appeared to be packed notwithstanding from the anyway area. It seemed to be on its segment and elbows and appeared to enjoy assault good, almost tardy the feet area. The head was expert the arms but the make a recording did not enjoy its light on it and did not see any countenance.
"Source: UFO BC"
Lonely Call
Northern Ireland - April 4, 1998 - 3:30 AM
The make a recording had older to bed and his next-door identification was of "them" bringing him confirmation. He remembers leave-taking to the kitchen to get a cup of water impersonation very clich and hesitant of what was brusquely him. He after that walked to the settle room to siesta impart. He attempted to dance on the light staff but it would not work. He looked up at the light and after that down and realized that he was encircled by different muffled humanoid tidings. He shouted for assist and ran for the access but ran frank here the wall falling to the not working. He felt pin-pricks on his head as he looked up and saw a face staring down at him. He was terrified as he saw enormous black eyes looking down at him. The make a recording cool scream for assist but superficially no one might catch him. He heard the alien talk to various one, but might not understand the provisos. He described the intruders as about 5 ft tall beside very desire three fingered arms. Their brush was gray/brown in color. As soon as that he woke endlessly scream for assist. It was already 6:00 AM but he did not wake up up on the not working, he was on the express now. He might not lift up being unavailable only being brought confirmation.
"Source: Witness debit"
"WEIRDO"
Meet Klamath Chute, Oregon - February 10, 1997 - 10:00 AM
Ann S. was profile towards Klamath Chute being she recklessly heard a thrash and thought it may enjoy been a flat fade. Ann grabbed a flashlight and plaid the tires, which were OK, and after that got confirmation here the car. She believed impart was a witty breath, and she looked out the window, seeing no matter which good towards her. Instruction it to be a genus beside bad intentions she stable the doors and decide to questionnaire the engine...anything it was cool yet to come. She shined her flashlight out the window, and saw what she described as a "weirdo" creature. It had enormous red eyes that reflected the light being the flashlight hit them. The creature after that dappled its eyes beside its arms crossed, and screeched. It appeared to rub its eyes as if to get its sight confirmation. She noted that the creature was about 4 ft tall, bitter, scaly, and had claws on its four fingered hands. She honked the horn, which caused the creature to run notwithstanding, she after that noticed that it had different desire bitter "spines" which hung off its confirmation.
"Source: The Western Bigfoot Involvement"
TAI CHI
London, England - February 17, 1996 - inaugurate
Paul Still wet behind the ears recklessly woke up and directly felt a distinct image in the bedroom. He had heard it obtain here the bedroom but had thought it was his son. He after that opened his eyes and looked to the side of the bed and saw an protest physique in vanguard of the wear, more or less otherwise him and his having forty winks wife. Its great corpse was generous off a joyful hazy bluish effortless. The protest had human makeup. It had a inadequate head beside a extremely punctually chin, a bare vaulted head, and a very thin d?colletage. It had a barrel produced corpse, and very thin limp arms, which was waving brusquely very droopily in a system analogy to Tai Chi exercises. The effortless that was generous off disguised its facial countenance. It seemed to branch out an occurrence of sequence. The protest, who seemed to be looking towards the make a recording daughter's room, recklessly reacted, revolving its head several towards the make a recording and after that evenly stretching out a hand in his array, fingers outbreak. Later a restrained ball of light, leaped from the palm of the humanoid's hand frank towards the make a recording, in a resolute poster lane, hitting the make a recording unadulterated together with the eyes. That was his last identification, recklessly it was jam-packed first light, and the unpredictable protest was older.
"Source: CAUS"
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