Posted on 05/18/2009 12:19:54 PM PDT by TaraP
The History Channel has been running an unusual 14-second ad that simply says:
"May 25, 2009. A Global Event. This Changes Everything."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Eg7ICKJrhg
Maybe this? ISBN:9780316070089 Library Bound #: 619216
Format: Hardcover
Price: $28.99 Pub Date: May 2009
Lying inside a high security vault, deep within the heart of one of the world’s leading museums, is a discovery that will change textbooks, change science, and change how we understand the human race.
The author of Untitled has been given exclusive access to all of the research and the team of top scientists who have been validating the discovery, the announcement of which will send shock waves around the world.
The discovery will be announced at a major press conference followed by a media blitz and a documentary that will air on the History Channel following the press conference.
More deception?
Origen was an early Church father who is credited with pushing the Church towards an allegorical interpretation of the Bible. Much of what he proposed in this regard was later dropped as heretical, but the allegorical interpretation of the book of Revelation was retained as the teaching of the Roman Catholic church. It has led to their denial of a literal millennial reign of Christ on earth and the abrogation of God’s promises to Israel to the Church.
Hal Lindsey wrote a book, The Road to Holocaust, which contends that the seeds of the holocaust were sown in this doctrine. It has allowed the Church to take the position that God is finished with the Jews. The evangelical wing of the Church has decided to interpret much of Revelation literally, thus recognizing that Israel has a future place in history.
Ronald Mallett
Peter Schwartz
John Titor
Yoichiro Nambu
Roy J. Glauber
Irina Aref’eva
Google-fu -- "TaraP, use the Force".
All but the last have Wikipedia pages.
Time Travel? Maybe they are bringing back ELvis!
The Return of the King!
if the mayans were so damn smart why are they extinct?
They aren't, really.
Well, topcat54, that opinion of yours about Missler might hold a little bit more weight, if you didn’t say that everyone that teaches that Israel plays a significant part in the Bible’s prophecies for the future — weren’t “cranks” too.
Missler said that Mars passed within 70K miles from earth, in the low 700s BC, and altered the orbit and year length of the earth.
He's a crank.
Ya know, I never watc that UFO Hunters show, but Sunday afternoon I caught most of one episode about time travel and some place called Altec (?) that is suspected to be the Navy’s version of Area 51.
And the episode kind of just ended...with no real clear solution or big discussion.
Then I see lots of guesses pertaining to time travel on this thread. Wonder if they are connected at all?
I bet it’s something lame and we’ve all caught the hype bug...
Geraldo Rivera on a Segway?
Projection can be a reallllll ugly thing.
Particularly on the part of those with serious lingering problems originating out of early childhood ATTACHMENT DISORDER who seem addicted to projection . . . particularly derisively toward those of the UNrubberized, LOGICAL Bible crew.
Then there’s the very brittle starchy variety. No fun at all.
IOW,
I think you are quite right. Chuck Missler has done The Body of Christ and the world a great service with all his research.
I never knew he was CEO of Western Digital.
An incapacity or unwillingness to understand the
DIFFERENCE
between
demonstrably solid evidence for LACK of chance occurances
vs
whackiness
seems to be a genetic level flaw in lots of rigidly narrow and willfully blind folks.
Sounds like it’s going to be a mostly unimpressive bust.
A great deal more hype than substance.
Probably something further to jangle the “Christian Fundies” with to great MSM fanfare . . . woop woop.
Any purported missing link stuff will likely be . . . swept aside once the ET’s begin publically pontificating about ‘creating man’ etc. etc. etc.
Yoichiro Nambu
works with string theory
maybe something about the big bang
This may be of interest to the ping list....
http://elizabethprata.blogspot.com/2009/05/they-think-they-found-missing-link-or.html
They think they found the missing link, or something
The latest internet rumor:
History Channel says they will have it. Colin Tudge and Josh Young have written a book called “The Link: Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor” due to be released on May 20. The History Channel will air a documentary on May 25, with a press conference afterwards. The authors have been sworn to secrecy until that time. Even the ISBN description (ISBN:9780316070089) of the book masks its title and cover art. However, the cover purportedly has a fossilized hand and arm and a skeleton.
The blurb: “Lying inside a high security vault, deep within the heart of one of the world’s leading museums, is a discovery that will change textbooks, change science, and change how we understand the human race. The author of Untitled has been given exclusive access to all of the research and the team of top scientists who have been validating the discovery, the announcement of which will send shock waves around the world. The discovery will be announced at a major press conference followed by a media blitz and a documentary that will air on the History Channel following the press conference.”
I just found this...related?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/may/19/ida-fossil-missing-link
(Click on above link for photo..)
Scientists have discovered an exquisitely preserved ancient primate fossil that they believe forms a crucial “missing link” between our own evolutionary branch of life and the rest of the animal kingdom.
The 47m-year-old primate – named Ida – has been hailed as the fossil equivalent of a “Rosetta Stone” for understanding the critical early stages of primate evolution.
The top-level international research team, who have studied her in secret for the past two years, believe she is the most complete and best preserved primate fossil ever uncovered. The skeleton is 95% complete and thanks to the unique location where she died, it is possible to see individual hairs covering her body and even the make-up of her final meal – a last vegetarian snack.
“This little creature is going to show us our connection with the rest of all the mammals; with cows and sheep, and elephants and anteaters,” said Sir David Attenborough who is narrating a BBC documentary on the find. “The more you look at Ida, the more you can see, as it were, the primate in embryo.”
“This will be the one pictured in the textbooks for the next hundred years,” said Dr Jørn Hurum, the palaeontologist from Oslo University’s Natural History Museum who assembled the scientific team to study the fossil. “It tells a part of our evolution that’s been hidden so far. It’s been hidden because the only [other] specimens are so incomplete and so broken there’s nothing almost to study.” The fossil has been formally named Darwinius masillae in honour of Darwin’s 200th birthday year.
It has been shipped across the Atlantic for an unveiling ceremony hosted by the mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg today. There is even talk of Ida being the first non-living thing to feature on the front cover of People magazine.
She will then be transported back to Oslo, via a brief stop at the Natural History Museum in London on Tuesday, 26 May, when Attenborough will host a press conference.
Ida was originally discovered by an amateur fossil hunter in the summer of 1983 at Messel pit, a world renowned fossil site near Darmstadt in Germany. He kept it under wraps for over 20 years before deciding to sell it via a German fossil dealer called Thomas Perner. It was Perner who approached Hurum two years ago.
“My heart started beating extremely fast,” said Hurum, “I knew that the dealer had a world sensation in his hands. I could not sleep for 2 nights. I was just thinking about how to get this to an official museum so that it could be described and published for science.” Hurum would not reveal what the university museum paid for the fossil, but the original asking price was $1m. He did not see the fossil before buying it – just three photographs, representing a huge gamble.
But it appears to have paid off. “You need an icon or two in a museum to drag people in,” said Hurum, “this is our Mona Lisa and it will be our Mona Lisa for the next 100 years.”
Hurum chose Ida’s nickname because the diminutive creature is at the equivalent stage of development as his six-year-old daughter. Hurum said Ida is very excited about her namesake. “She says, ‘there are two Idas now, there’s me I’m living and then there’s the dead one.’”
“It’s caught at a really very interesting moment [in the animal’s life] when it fortunately has all its baby teeth and is in the process of forming all its permanent teeth,” said Dr Holly Smith, an expert in primate development at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, who was part of the team. “So you have more information in it than almost any fossil you could think of.”
The fossil’s amazing preservation means that the scientific team has managed to glean a huge amount of information from it, although this required new X-ray techniques that had not previously been applied to any other specimens.
The researchers believe it comes from the time when the primate lineage, that diversified into monkeys, apes and ultimately humans, split from a separate group that went on to become lemurs and other less well known species.
Crucially though, Ida is not on the lemur line because she lacks two key characteristics shared by lemurs – a grooming claw on her second toe and a fused set of teeth called a tooth comb. Also, a bone in her ankle called the talus is shaped like members of our branch of the primates. So the researchers believe she may be on our evolutionary line dating from just after the split with the lemurs.
According to the team’s published description of the skeleton in the journal PLoS ONE, Ida was 53cm long and a juvenile around six to nine months old. The team can be sure Ida is a girl because she does not have a penis bone.
“She was at this vulnerable age where you are no longer right with your mother,” said Smith, “Just as you leave weaning you are not full grown, but you are on your own.”
The unprecedented preservation of Ida meant working out how she died was more like a modern day crime scene investigation than the informed guess-work that palaeontologists usually make do with. The team noticed that she had a broken wrist that had begun to partially heal. The injury did not kill her, but they speculate that it contributed to her premature demise.
“It might be that her mother dropped her once or that she fell down from a tree earlier in her life,” Smith said. She survived the accident, but her climbing abilities would have been impaired. Unable to drink from water trapped by tree leaves, she would have had to venture down to the lake to drink. This would have proved to be a fateful decision.
The huge range of magnificently preserved fossils at Messel suggest that the volcanic lake was a death trap. Scientists believe that it sporadically let forth giant belches of poisonous volcanic gases that would have immediately suffocated anything in, around and even over the water. Ida would then have fallen into the water and been preserved in the sediment deep at the bottom.
• Atlantic productions’ programme, Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor: The Link, will be broadcast in the UK on Tuesday, 26 May at 9pm on BBC1. Colin Tudge’s book, The Link, is published on 20 May by Little Brown.
I mean they just announced this great ‘find’ yesterday and already there is TV production going on the air and a time slot for it (anyone know how long that time slot was scheduled?) and ‘google’ has a ‘missing link’ image.
Most of us do not think scientific discoveries like this deserve much attention, but they are making a big production out of this as if their God was just found on earth. But I guess it is their religion.
This does NOT ‘end the discussion’ once and for all (re: God -vs- Darwin)
woop . . .
woop woop . . .
woop.
I think it’s going to be slightly more interesting than Al Capone’s vault.
Interesting article.
The hype is more than a little incredible.
One almost wonders if there will be an altar and sacrifices to Ida.
Other sites didn’t keep the mystery..book is called “The Link” by Colin Tudge instead of just untitled or a mystery author.
Very clearly is about the so-called missing link and appears to be they think they found it.
Looking at that messed up skeleton, it would be hard to imagine that as a human, however.
Larger description:
“A secret until now, the fossil—“Ida” to the researchers who have painstakingly verified her provenance—is the most complete primate fossil ever found. Forty-seven million years old, Ida rewrites what we’ve assumed about the earliest primate origins. Her completeness is unparalleled. So much of what we understand about evolution comes from partial fossils and even single bones. Ida’s fossilization offers much more than that, from a haunting “skin shadow” to her stomach contents. And, remarkably, knowledge of her discovery and existence almost never saw the light of day.
With exclusive access to the first scientists to study her, the award-winning science writer Colin Tudge tells the history of Ida and her place in the world. A magnificent, cutting-edge scientific detective story followed her discovery. The Link offers a wide-ranging investigation into Ida and our earliest origins. At the same time, it opens a stunningly evocative window into our past and changes what we know about primate evolution and, ultimately, our own.”
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