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What is your take on this- urban myth? internet hoax? I pulled this from TB2000 but it actually comes from Urban Survival.

For the Truly Paranoid:

Want to be paranoid about something akin to Planet X showing up before November? Here's a snip which I received by email yesterday - a bit aged, but interesting nevertheless:

A member of our ham radio club intercepted this transmission and shared it with a few of us. He made a digital recording of it. The transmissions took place on 1-26-04 staring at 0:5:00 UTC. The frequency was 11.176 mhz, USB.

The conversation is between SNOWBALL NET and another station. We assume SNOWBALL is the network operator.

Here is a transcript:

SNOWBALL NET: Snowball Net comms check. All stations, clock sync, (pause) impact at minus 146 days, 5 hours UTC. Standby for ACC link (could have been ACD).

Burst of digital data¦

Burrow: SNOWBALL This is BURROW (could be Burro as in donkey). You are not secure¦repeat not secure¦go green¦go green¦

Bursts of white noise follow for approximately 3 minutes.

Copies of this have been posted on several ham boards and have been sent to Popular Communications Magazine.

OK, so that by itself is curious, although the author may have been hoaxing (or breaking provisions of the Communications Act of 1933 rules about unauthorized disclosure of third-party traffic, but we'll assuming hoaxing, right? But now add a second data point to this, the odd story of British military cavers being trapped in Mexico reported at http://news.lycos.com/news/forms/printstory.asp?section=Science&storyId=840084

This British military in Mexico caves story has us wondering what the military guys are doing in caves? And who packs in that much provisions that 5-days under is no big deal? And what are those "military notebooks" they are shredding? Say what?

If one was truly paranoid, they would look at the combination of the two events and synthesize that "Hey, something is causing governments all over the world to act like they know something very bad is about to happen to the whole planet and they are looking for caves (or building underground bases) to be ready to survive whatever it is that is coming (in June).

Easy enough to write off as a wild "mind game" until we recall how close the rock Toutatis will be in September (remember that Earth is within the margin of error on Toutatis orbital projections) and then there's this one:

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/japan-muses-c-04b.html Unknown, of course, is whether there is something else "out there" which has been captured by a government "blink lab" - we'd probably never hear about it if there was.

You don't know what a blink lab is? That's where NASA and other organizations take a picture of space, then take another picture of the same point in space a bit later. Whatever has moved (like a rogue planet or asteroid) can be readily seen by "blinking" between the two pictures...

No, we're not that paranoid about it, but we have been monitoring the Air Force 11.175 MHz USB frequency and wonder who the Burrow is...and no, it's not Barrow (as in Alaska).

The British "cavers" were checking for Uranium????
Google Spanish/English translation:

>>>It waits for the INM to British

The secretary of Interior, Santiago Creel Miranda, informed that personal of the National Institute of Migracio'n (INM) and of Civil defense he is outside of the grotto, and as soon as the British military are rescued will have to appear, to need the type tasks that made within the cavern.

Also, the civil employee informed that the work party of the British espeleólogos also will be object of a meticulous revision.

When questioning to the secretary of Interior on the radioactive gas investigation that would have made the British military in the caverns of Alpazat, I indicate ': "That one is one of the hypotheses and in case of materializing itself, we will act consequently and apply the law".

On the matter, sources of the Secretariat of Outer Relations revealed that in the dependency the activity is not known that made the English group that remained catched in the grotto and denied that they have informed on the version into which the English made investigations related to uranium.<<<

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Just a guess on my part, but sounds like amatuer astronomers communicating...SNOWBALL is basically what a comet is; a huge, dirty snowball. Keep in mind, the planetary alignment everyone is buzzing about happens several times in one lifetime. And we are still here! Underground shelters of massive proportions were built by many nations during the Cold War, fitted with every technological luxury. (No need to hide in wet, cold and dark caves.)

The cavers currently 'lost' I imagine, would have supplies with them, food and lamps, even dry clothes...(I am an optimist.)

None the less, islam has absorbed ancient ME astrological/astronomcial history; when once upon a time, approx 1.500 years BC a catastrophe of a celestial nature (comet strike?) caused earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and tidal waves. Volcanoes on the arabian peninsula are less than 4.000 years of age, although they are classified as extinct.

Try this site; http://home.att.net/~qata/tadra.htm

"Where a Planetary Bolt Struck the Ground" tells an interesting tale: http://www.varchive.org/itb/bolts.htm

I understand islam is waiting for 'allah' to stage a repeat performance. However, I gain comfort from the knowledge that should a rock from heaven strike again, they are in the same 'boat' we are!