Posted on 07/24/2008 2:27:45 PM PDT by Raineygoodyear
Former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr. Edgar Mitchell — a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission — claims aliens exist. He says extraterrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions — but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades. Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview in Birmingham, England, that sources at NASA who had had contact with aliens described the beings as "little people who look strange to us." He said supposedly real-life ET's were similar to the traditional image of a "small gray" — short, slight frame, large eyes and large head. Mitchell also claimed human technology is "not nearly as sophisticated" as the aliens' and "had they been hostile," he warned "we would be been gone by now."
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Yep. Much of this does seem transparently aimed at increasing book sales among UFO cultists.
I also saw an astronaut of the female persuasion on TV once giving an interview. She had been a commander of a recent mission, I think.
The interviewer asked her some throwaway question about why she was an astronaut and she started hyperventilating and exclaiming something about, “Overpopulation! Pollution! War and poverty! We just HAVE TO GET OFF THIS PLANET!!”
It actually was sad.
Flight...Ha! You earthlings and your anachronistic ideas...
I don't know of any scientists who've actually stated that this is their belief; as I understand it, it's simply been speculated upon as a possibility. See:
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=did-life-come-from-anothe
As for UFOs, the reason mainstream scientists don't believe that they're of extraterrestrial origin is that when UFOs are investigated they invariably turn out to be either fakes or misinterpretations.
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Possibly. There also might be extremophile bacteria under Mars' surface such as endoliths. Until we do further research, there's no way to know one way or the other.
The program was around for about 20-yrs and cost about 20M (actually, that is pocket-lint for the USG).
“Ground truth” is how to measure effectiveness of the program and the viewers. That means, the tasking would come into the program, sealed and with no indication as to who was tasking or what was being asked to remote view.
The unit would then do RV and , in the early stages when RV protocols were run dogmatically and with real training, they found about an 80% hit rate.
Well, as with most things that get passed around the government and Army, they slacked off a bit and hired idiots like Ed Dames.
Soooo. . .accuracy fell off and eventually the “giggle factor” took over and it was eventually turned over to the CIA.
The CIA examined the last two years of the program and found it wanting.
Understood, as it was by that time, failing.
However, according to Dr Utts, a participant in the CIA review, if you reviewed the data in-toto, from program inception to the end, there were indications that something worked.
Full disclosure: At one time a few years ago, early 90, I was approached for the program. I listened with skeptics ear, was given “the tour” and found it interesting but was not actually convinced it was something I wanted to get into. The guys were great, Paul Smith was an exceptionally honorable man (www.rviewer.com, he has a great book that reviews the entire program, read it).
Sooo. . . .I turned them down and remained friends with a few of the “old” REAL RVr’s.
The RVr’s hold conventions (www.rvconference.org. . . I think) and while about 80% of the attendees are certifiable nut-cases, about 20% remain disciplined and are trying to figure out how it works-—when the protocols Ingo Swann established are adhered to.
Anyway, not sure I believe in it, but I won't discount it all-together.
Why?
Because I saw some stuff associated with the program that gives you pause, and the fact “they” recruited me because of my agnostic belief in the phenomena. They did not pursue hardcore skeptics, that is a given, but they also avoided the “Miss Cleo” types that were ardent believers of no skeptic mind at all.
Again, who knows the truth of it all, but the “truth is out there” and it is yet to be discovered.
Please see the illustration from post #55 :-)
LOL. . . .good one. . . .
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Slight correction: The Fermi Paradox concerns the lack of evidence for extraterrestrial civilizations, not extraterrestrial life.
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......extremophile bacteria ......
A more likely possibility is an unknown life form that evolved in the isolated Martian enviroment and is dissimilar to any of our simple life forms.
Why do you draw a box around the words you write?
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