If I was the devil, I would not want people to learn about Enoch. Maybe he had something to do with getting it out of the Bible.
Perhaps Satan went to the Lord like he did in Job and asked God to keep that out of the Bible
And yet it keeps popping up!
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The Royal Academy to discuss “extra-terrestrial life and the UN agenda”
he UN’s Mazlan Othman says she’ll be attending the conference at The Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge (aka “The Royal Society“) next week. She has said that she’ll be talking about how the world deals with “near-Earth objects.”
Mazlan Othman, is the Malaysian astrophysicist who heads the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). She has also denied rumors that she’ll be appointed the UN’s Earth Ambassador to extraterrestrials.
Discussing “near-Earth objects” sounds like an important issue. After all, an asteroid was recently detected that will pass “dangerously close” to the Earth in mid-October.
But one look at The Royal Society’s website reveals that the topic of the conference isn’t “near-Earth objects.” Rather, the title of the conference is: “Towards a scientific and societal agenda on extra-terrestrial life.”
More interesting: Othman is going to join other panelists at The Royal Society to discuss first (official) contact, and what role the UN should play, among other related issues.
Over the weekend she apparently made a comment to someone in the British Press, and that person mistakenly reported that Mazlan Othman was about to be appointed the UN’s Earth Ambassador. That story was picked up by other news outlets, and blogged (including by me).
The Guardian reports on what happened after the mistaken report about the UN’s appointing an Earth Ambassador, as well as her dismissal of the news and what she claims is the topic of discussion at The Royal Society:
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What’s really going to be talked about (and maybe this is what somehow confused the reporter over the weekend) is this, from The Royal Society’s own conference page:
Should extra-terrestrial life exist, upcoming efforts will provide living generations with a realistic chance of its detection. Even more than the scientific agenda, a corresponding complementary societal agenda needs to be debated. With a mix of invited talks and panel debates, we particularly look into the detection of life, the communication with potential extra-terrestrial civilizations, the implications for the future of humanity, and the political processes that are required.
Four panel debates at the conference are to include:
Could it be that Mazlan Othman is going to be appointed an Earth Ambassador, of sorts; and the UN somehow didn’t want the news getting out just yet? Or perhaps what’s really being organized isn’t really a single “Earth Ambassador;” but rather, a collection of ambassadors — like a bureaucracy. After all, that’s how these collectivists prefer to operate.
Perhaps the whole Earth Ambassador thing was supposed to remain a secret, and she was told to deny the whole affair?
Whatever the case, this is clearly not a “near-Earth objects” conference. It’ll be interesting to see what becomes of this event.
Confirmed panelists include:
Ivan Almar, Stephen Baxter, James Benford, David Brin, Milan Cirkovic, Richard Crowther, Kathryn Denning, Steven Dick, Stephane Dumas, Frans von der Dunk, John Elliott, Lisa Kaltenegger, Claudio Maccone, Michael Michaud, Mazlan Othman, Ted Peters, Margaret Race, Seth Shostak, John Smart, Nicholas Tosca, Doug Vakoch, Clement Vidal, Felisa Wolfe-Simon, Alexander Zaitsev