MAKES YOU WONDER HOW MANY OTHER THINGS WE DO NOT KNOW OR HAVE BEEN WRONG ABOUT!
Before the glory that was Greece and Rome, even before the first cities of Mesopotamia or temples along the Nile, there lived in the Lower Danube Valley and the Balkan foothills people who were ahead of their time in art, technology and long-distance trade.
For 1,500 years, starting earlier than 5000 B.C., they farmed and built sizable towns, a few with as many as 2,000 dwellings. They mastered large-scale copper smelting, the new technology of the age. Their graves held an impressive array of exquisite headdresses and necklaces and, in one cemetery, the earliest major assemblage of gold artifacts to be found anywhere in the world.
The striking designs of their pottery speak of the refinement of the culture’s visual language. Until recent discoveries, the most intriguing artifacts were the ubiquitous terracotta “goddess” figurines, originally interpreted as evidence of the spiritual and political power of women in society.
New research, archaeologists and historians say, has broadened understanding of this long overlooked culture, which seemed to have approached the threshold of “civilization” status. Writing had yet to be invented, and so no one knows what the people called themselves. To some scholars, the people and the region are simply Old Europe.
The little-known culture is being rescued from obscurity in an exhibition, “The Lost World of Old Europe: the Danube Valley, 5000-3500 B.C.,” which opened last month at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. More than 250 artifacts from museums in Bulgaria, Moldova and Romania are on display for the first time in the United States. The show will run through April 25.
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There is a strong belief that the Vril Society was founded as "The All German Society for Metaphysics" in to explore the origins of the Aryan race, to seek contact with the "hidden masters" of Ultima Thule, and to practice meditation and other techniques intended to strengthen individual mastery of the divine Vril force itself. It was formed by a group of female psychic mediums led by the Thule Gesellschaft medium Maria Orsitsch (Orsic) of Zagreb.
Members of the Vril Society are said to have included Adolf Hitler, Alfred Rosenberg, Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Göring, and Hitler's personal physician, Dr. Theodor Morell. These were original members of the Thule Society which supposedly joined Vril in 1919. The NSDAP (National Sozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) was created by Thule in 1920, one year later.
With Hitler in power in 1933, both the Thule and Vril Gesellschafts allegedly received official state backing for continued disc development programs aimed at both spaceflight and possibly a war machine. READ ENTIRE INTERESTING ARTICLE ON PHANTOM AND MONSTERS http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/
Argentina: UFO Filmed During Religious Ceremony in Lanús
A couple from Lanús recorded the transit of an unidentified flying object (UFO) while a religious ceremony was being held at this Buenos Aires district.
A morning paper reported today that on November 7 [2009], when the tenth anniversary of the manifestations of the Virgin Mary were being conmemorated at a town square in Lanús, a teenager witnessed the slow transit of the craft, while dozens of participants in the ceremony looked on.
MUFON witness statement: I was simply taking pictures of the mountain range from my back deck in Denver, Colorado. I see some odd shapes in the sky so I get my digital camera. Not sure what is seen in my camera pictures so I am sending to you all. I have 8 pictures total...what are they? The odd thing is in the first pic 1727 there is small light (actually a couple small lights) to the left of the main light object, then in the 1730 picture the streaking light is aimed right at the main light. Then in the final 1734 picture the small light that was once at left of main light is all of a sudden at the right of the main light, and the streaking light is seen smaller right below the main object. Is this anything?
NOTE: seems like these photos were taken looking west from Denver over the mountains (Loveland Pass?). Also, it seems these photos were either filtered or taken during daybreak or dusk...no mention was made. This could very well be a natural anomaly but unusual enough for you to render an opinion...Lon from Phantoms and Monsters
found @ Phantoms and Monsters http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2009/11/photos-light-anomaly-west-of-denver.html
Venezuela turns to cloud-seeding to battle drought
CARACAS, Venezuela – Hugo Chavez says he is starting to "bombard" clouds now that Cuba has provided Venezuela with cloud-seeding help in an effort to produce rain and alleviate the effects of a severe drought.
The Venezuelan president said Saturday night that specialized equipment, sent by Fidel Castro and Cuban President Raul Castro, is starting to be used to seed clouds from planes.
"We're bombarding clouds," Chavez said during a televised speech. "We have some planes there, and some equipment that Fidel and Raul sent us."
Chavez is trying to squeeze more rain from the clouds as his country heads into its dry season amid a drought that has put reservoirs at their lowest levels in decades. The lack of water behind hydroelectric dams that supply most of Venezuela's electricity is threatening to worsen blackouts that have already become an emerging political liability.
Chavez suggested he wants to witness the cloud-seeding effort, saying: "Any cloud that comes in my way, I'll hurl a lightning bolt at it. Tonight I'm going out to bombard."
Cloud-seeding has been tried in various countries — including China, Australia and parts of the United States — in attempts to draw more moisture from storms, usually by releasing silver iodide particles into clouds. Chavez did not say what method Venezuela is using.
another reason I am against the 70 million dollar moon hole blast- who knows what energy we will use to explore space? Lets get our planet in civil condition first!
Spaceships powered by black holes or dark matter may be the future of stellar exploration.
Future spaceships powered by black holes and dark matterPhoto: WIKIMEDIA COMMONS/ALAIN R
The radical proposals, put forward by physicists in two American universities, are hoped to make visits to other stars in our galaxy plausible.
At the moment, the fastest-moving spacecraft mankind has made is Voyager 1, which is just leaving the solar system at an impressive 17km (10.6 miles) a second. However, even at that dizzying – to us – speed, it would take it another 74,000 years to reach even our nearest stellar neighbour, Proxima Centauri, 4.2 light years away.
Chemical rockets are not suitable for travelling these sort of distances, as they only convert 0.000000001 per cent of their mass into energy. They would require billions of tons of fuel to get up to the required speed. Even nuclear fusion reactors would be less than 1 per cent efficient.
Other suggestions have included using vast sails to collect light energy, either from stars or from laser beams, or using antimatter reactions. But both of these have practicality problems: sails need a nearby power source, while antimatter is hugely difficult to make and equally difficult to store.
But a New York University physicist, Jia Liu, has suggested using a dark matter “jet engine” to power spacecraft, while two mathematicians at Kansas State University, Louis Crane and Shawn Westmoreland, have claimed that using an artificial black hole as a power source is feasible.
Surprisingly, there seems to be nothing in the present understanding of physics that would rule these proposals out, according to New Scientist.
The black hole proposal would involve building a spaceship with a large parabolic reflector behind it, and then putting a small (at a mere million tons) black hole in its focus. The “Hawking radiation” given off by the black hole as it slowly converts its mass into energy (or “evaporates”) would push the spacecraft to near light speed within a few decades, bringing Proxima Centauri into a more reasonable reach.
More than that, at the relativistic near-light-speed velocities, the travellers’ experience of time would slow down, making them age slower than those left on Earth. At very high speeds, says Mr Crane, "it might be possible to reach the Andromeda galaxy 2.5 million light years away within a human lifetime."
Mr Liu’s idea is more speculative, relying on one possible theory of what dark matter really is. He suggests building a spacecraft with a large intake at the front which would scoop up dark matter particles. If, as is theorised, those particles are “neutralinos”, which annihilate each other on contact, they could be forced into a box at the back of the craft which would fire the energy rearwards like a jet engine.
The faster the spacecraft travelled, the more neutralinos it would pick up, and the faster it would accelerate. If his calculations are correct, Mr Liu suggests that the ship could reach near-light speed in just days.
However, even if dark matter does consist of neutralinos, there are other problems. First, to work well, it would need densely concentrated dark matter, and as far as we know the nearest dense area is 26,000 light years away in the centre of the Milky Way. Second, neutralinos barely interact with ordinary matter. To make a “box” to keep it in would require some new, unknown material. As Mr Crane says, “this is the idea’s Achilles heel.”
telegraph - Work on deciphering a complex set of symbols sent to them is underway, scientists from the country's Space Research Institute said.
They claim aliens are currently answering 30 questions posed to them.
Lachezar Filipov, deputy director of the Space Research Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, confirmed the research.
He said the centre's researchers were analysing 150 crop circles from around the world, which they believe answer the questions.
"Aliens are currently all around us, and are watching us all the time," Mr Filipov told Bulgarian media.
"They are not hostile towards us, rather, they want to help us but we have not grown enough in order to establish direct contact with them."
Mr Filipov said that even the seat of the Catholic church, the Vatican, had agreed that aliens existed.
He said humans were not going to be able to establish contact with the extraterrestrials through radio waves but through the power of thought.
"The human race was certainly going to have direct contact with the aliens in the next 10 to 15 years," he said.
"Extraterrestrials are critical of the people's amoral behavior referring to the humans' interference in nature's processes."
The publication of the BAS researchers report concerning communicating with aliens comes in the midst of a controversy over the role, feasibility, and reform of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
Last week it lead to a heated debate between Bulgaria's Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov, and President Georgi Parvanov.
Argentina: UFO Turns Out the Lights in a Salta Community
below find excerpts from interesting article concerning the UFO blackout experience going on in Salta found on the Inexplicata site
The luminous flying object cross the skies of a town in the province of Salta. After it vanished, the locality was plunged into darkness and telephone service was interrupted. Service was restored nine hours later.
Yesterday at 2:00 a.m., a town in Salta with a population of nearly 20,000 residents known as Joaquin V. Gonzalez was left without electricity and cut off from telephone service. Local residents claim that it was all caused by an unidentified flying object (UFO)
At that time, and in that distant region of Salta, a luminous, elongated UFO crossed the skies with a southeasterly heading toward El Tunal. The object had intermittent, flashing lights and a fixed red beacon. The area was plunged into darkness shortly afterwards.
This morning we received an urgent call from Tony, saying that the transit of a “flying cigar” overhead with flashing intermittent lights and a red beacon on its structure, had caused an enormous BLACKOUT in the town of Joaquin V. Gonzalez, where he lives, as well as in adjacent communities, some 20 minutes after having appeared. Practically the entire department of Anta had “collapsed” as far as its power grid was concerned. Dozens of residents reported seeing the UFO after 0100 hours today (Thursday, November 26) on a hot and stormy night. The final trajectory of this object was south-southwest, in other words toward El Tunal, some 35 kilometers from Joaquin V. Gonzalez and bordering the Pasaje Juramento River. As hours went by, Salta’s power company (ENDESA) could not find a cause for the blackout until the light returned around noon yesterday, but telephone service remained out of order. Early in the afternoon, a “burned-out turbine” was found at the El Tunal power station. In other words, along the UFOs heading.
This was the fate of many residents of Joaquin V. Gonzalez, engulfed by nearly 300,000 hectares of soybeans, when at 2:00 a.m., with heat still burning under their skins, they saw a strange, gigantic luminous creature, elongated and weightless, heading southeast to El Tunal, some 35 kilometers from the town. It plowed the dark skies, lighting everything around it, visible to everyone.
The “cigar-shaped UFO” (as it is known to specialists) crossed the Saltan night suspended under a spongy ceiling of clouds, and according to some of the numerous witnesses, “with intermittent, flashing lights and a fixed red beacon”. As the object disappeared from view, those who watched the sky as though expecting something more, saw it disappear into the darkness toward El Tunal. Minutes later (some say 5, others 15), all of Joaquin V. Gonzalez experienced an electrical blackout that submerged a 200-kilometer area in the deepest darkness possible.
SAN LUIS, Colo. -- A creepy string of calf mutilations in southern Colorado has a rancher and sheriff's officials mystified, and a UFO chaser thinks extraterrestrials are involved.
Four calves were found dead in a pasture just north of the New Mexico state line in recent weeks. The dead calves had their skins peeled back and organs cleared from the rib cage. One calf had its tongue removed.
But rancher Manuel Sanchez has found no signs of human attackers - such as footprints or ATV tracks - or animal attackers - such as pools of blood. Sheriff's officers tell The Pueblo Chieftan they're baffled.
It's led to speculation the mutilations are the work of aliens.
FOUND @ STRANGE NEWS
An area UFO chaser, Chuck Zukowski of Colorado Springs, says another calf was found dead near Trinidad earlier this year, its ears removed.
Beginning in the U.S. with Thanksgiving, the holiday period is a time of deep emotion: excitement, tension, joy and dread. And those are the conditions that spur psychic events.
Experts have long known that emotional turmoil in a family can trigger poltergeist activity like moving objects and unusual sounds. The phenomena are usually traced to an adolescent residing at home who's undergoing the wild ups and downs associated with that awkward stage of life.
So it's easy to imagine the powerful forces that are unleashed when twenty members of an extended family gather under a single roof to reminisce, have fun, gossip and snipe.
Bottom line: Be ever more watchful for poltergeist activity through New Year's. In particular, keep your eye on teens who appear overly preoccupied and spend more time than usual locked in their own darkened bedrooms. This may be a sign that they are overwhelmed by paranormal forces beyond their control.
But don't worry too much. The frequency of weird events in your home will decrease or disappear completely after you begin the new year. And your adolescent children will return to their normal patterns of behavior--which in some cases may be already erratic enough for adult tastes. FOUND @ Ask Doc Paranormal
I was surfing about the internet looking at all the current things being written and talked about concerning the paranormal when I came across a conversation between two people being played out concerning aliens and earth. The article caught my attention as the first paragraph said something like – ‘Why aliens refuse to end world hunger’- or something close to that statement.
I read the article and I burst out laughing. The theory of the skeptic in the article was that the reason aliens do not end world hunger is because they do not exist!
I had to reread that quote to make sure I was not confused or reading it incorrectly. There it was in black and white. I nearly fell off my chair laughing at the fact a thinking adult would actually write something like that and expect to be taken seriously.I wanted to find this person as I have a bridge I need to sell and think I have found my buyer!
The fact that world hunger was being used to dispute alien life forms was hilarious. I had to shake my head to figure out how people come up with these things and expect the world to accept them as logical or in any way reasonable on any level.
I had to wonder how anyone could connect aliens with our world hunger issue.After all what does world hunger have to do with aliens? I think we could dismiss most things in life with the world hunger angle. How can there be god or a creator if there is world hunger? How can we have any president or government any where in the world worth supporting if there is world hunger? How can there be any money given to medical, science or space research if there is world hunger? How can you have inventions like computers and cell phones if there is world hunger? It can go on endlessly as a reason to dismiss or criticize.Linking alien existence to the problems on earth including the problem of feeding its growing population, well it is just silly.
What makes anyone think aliens are responsible to fix our planets problems?
What does our societies shortcomings have to do with alien visitation? What makes anyone think alien visitors are here to be our saving grace? Why do so many give alien life forms a god like status? How and why do you think that other life forms can take on or really care about all of our problems or shortcomings?I have to sit and wonder why we have given this god like image to beings from other places?
If we are being visited I am sure other worlds with other problems are too. I do not think it is any other species place or duty to fly around interfering in universal development or evolution. Why is it we think that disclosure will be the answers to all our problems?
My thinking is that aliens are doing exactly what they want and how much they want to do with humans and have for a long period of time. The way of the universe may be to not interfere with the growth of a species. I would lean towards this more then the idea they are going to visit us with a problem-solving machine. We may receive a slight amount of help with technology by way of contact with other beings but I think it truly unreasonable to think of them as God like beings that will save this world. I think we are on our own in that department and our problems with world hunger, disease and war among a list of many other world mishaps and frustrations.
During all the years I have spent talking to those who have had real time clear encounters with other life forms I have not had one person tell me that the beings they encountered gave any type of reason to think they were our saving grace. The only thing I have been told over and over is that the visiting life forms were using the encounters with humans for their own benefit needs or curiosity.
The same week I found that ridiculous bit of reasoning I also had an experience with a woman who walked off in a huff angry as a hornet over my lack of interest in her paranormal drama. I listened to this woman patiently as she reported that she had many UFO and alien encounters during her life.I listened as she rambled and tripped along her story of dreaming of contact, thinking she remembers maybe seeing something in a tree followed with her ideas of fuzzy little aliens who have come to save mankind and on and on- I think you get the picture.
I do not want to be mean, really I don’t. I just do not have any interest in or time to write about those who believe in that thinking or have not had real material fully conscious encounters. People do have lost time periods when abducted but all I have talked with recall the beginning and many the ends of their ordeals clearly.
I have people tell me daily about things paranormal that they have seen clearly while fully awake. Many have had witnesses with them and all were able to give exact full details to what they had seen or experienced. Those are the events that interest me and those are the ones I seek out to write about.There may be things to discover in the other aspects of those who think, feel or dream encounters; I just have no interest in them.
I know this is very unpopular, as it does not fit in with the cuddly little god like aliens that come from the dream like I don’t really recall but know I have been abducted society of the paranormal. I know I am not popular with those who follow this path- but I just do not have time for such things. I have lists of people who have had real time- clear experiences they are willing to share. I am sure there are others who will sit and listen to endless reports of dreams and I think it happened stories however plain and simple I am not one of them.
I think we are now at the point that we need to take a serious approach to the subject of the paranormal. Right now we are dealing with this subject in the same way we would if we walked into a Blockbuster video rental and found all the movies thrown in a mountain in the middle of the floor. We would have comedies, westerns, action flicks, documentaries and horror flicks just thrown together without reason or method. It would be nearly impossible to find the subject you wanted to look under much less an exact movie to rent.
The paranormal is exactly in that chaotic type mess. As Blockbuster has we need to divide this subject into categories and divisions so that the many different types of people along with their slant and interest in the paranormal subjects can be handled with out the huge massive muddy mess that now exists.
We need to filter out the science bent real time encounters that so many have and place them in an area of true investigation and understanding.
We need to sort out and find a home for the dream like fantasy almost cult or philosophy thinking view of the paranormal for those who need to deal with these subjects in that manner.
We need to keep the complete skeptics who have no background of knowledge or understanding of any of it in a roped off area.We also need to find a place for those with science training and logical thinking to be able to group and work on what really is going on around us.
The one thing we do not need is for this to remain a land of confused hysteria with the silly and insane thrown into a bag with those struggling to find someplace for help with real encounters and events.
We need to find open minded educated people who can work with those who endure incredible experiences and remove the fear of rejection and ridicule.
We need to follow the floor plan of Blockbusters methods and organize this subject if we are ever going to pull it out of the mud and into a serious light.
There is room for all views or use of this subject matter. It is just time to separate out the lonely and confused from the real experiences and frightened. Other wise how can we ever anticipate ever finding serious answers or real research? The sideshow has to end and the real truth has to be uncovered.
Someday soon I hope we decide to take some time and clean up the massive mud pile we now have of truth, fantasy, real and fiction all thrown together in one ugly mess. Until we do that I do not see any subject considered paranormal ever being taken seriously or given the care and attention that is needed to ever understand the unknown on this planet. As long as we keep throwing it all in one big mess we will remain forever wondering.
Until that day I will continue to try to write about the unknown events that occur daily on and above this earth. I also will have to pencil in time to stop now and then to bang my head in frustration along the complex and troubled roads of the paranormal.
A controversial Belgian contemporary artist who wows critics with his work at home in Europe also runs a peculiar operation in China - tattooing pigs.
Wim Delvoye, whose work graced the modern art wing of Brussels’ prestigious Palais des Beaux Arts as recently as last month, has established his own ‘art farm’ where he tattoos on the backs of live pigs.
The farm – 90 minutes outside Beijing in a remote village – has been operating for a couple of years, complete with a staff of Chinese and international inkers as well as caretakers for the pigs.
All kinds of designs are tattooed on the pigs’ backs, from roses to Louis Vuitton logos to religious imagery.
Galileo's Fingers and Tooth Recovered by Collector
Two withered dead fingers and a tooth have been identified as belonging to Galileo Galilei, shown here at work around 1630. Getty Images
A tooth and two fingers of Galileo Galilei, the 17th century Italian astronomer, physicist, inventor and mathematician, have re-emerged from a lost wooden case, Florence's authorities announced today.
The remains have been identified by a collector, who spotted an unusually shaped wooden case at an auction.
"The case was surmounted by a wooden bust of Galileo. Inside there was an 18th-century blown-glass vase which contained a tooth and two dried up fingers. It wasn't difficult to attribute the relics to Galileo as the case and its content fully match descriptions found in historic accounts," Cristina Acidini, superintendent of Florence museums, told Discovery News.
The tooth and fingers (from Galileo's right hand) were removed in 1737 when the scientist's body was exhumed from his unconsecrated grave and transferred to a mausoleum in the Florentine church of Santa Croce.
It was a solemn event, fully described by a notary report. For 95 years since the death in 1642 of the great scientist, ecclesiastical authorities refused to allow Galileo to be buried in a consecrated ground.
The man who made the first complete astronomical telescope and who used it to determine that Earth revolved around the sun, was accused by the Church of bringing "such universal scandal to Christianity" with theories "so false and so erroneous."
Convicted of heresy by the Inquisition, Galileo spent the last nine years of his life under house arrest.
I find the fact that the two dingy newscaster girls could not let this report simply be reported without their little stabs of ridicule typical of the media. I think the public can form their own opinions without the input of people like these two obnoxious women. They felt they needed to taint this report before having all the facts. I think we are all able to form opinions without the winks and sighs of those who have no knowledge ,idea or resources immediately brushing it off as these two did in this report. Maybe this is a big nothing, however lets find out the facts before delivering the verdict. I truly dislike people like these two young know nothing fools who reported this story.
In this image released by National Geographic, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno, enveloped by the jaws of SuperCroc, holds the fossil head of DogCroc. DogCroc, along with four other newly described crocs, lived in the Sahara when the 8-ton SuperCroc did, at a time when dinosaurs ruled.
nov 20th ROME – A Vatican researcher claims a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin
proves the authenticity of the artifact revered as Jesus' burial cloth.
The claim made in a new book by historian Barbara Frale drew immediate skepticism from some scientists, who maintain the shroud is a medieval forgery.
Frale, a researcher at the Vatican archives, said Friday that she used computers to enhance images of faintly written words in Greek, Latin and Aramaic scattered across the shroud.
She asserts the words include the name "Jesus Nazarene" in Greek, proving the text could not be of medieval origin because no Christian at the time, even a forger, would have labeled Jesus a Nazarene without referring to his divinity.
The shroud bears the figure of a crucified man, complete with blood seeping out of nailed hands and feet, and believers say Christ's image was recorded on the linen fibers at the time of his resurrection.
The fragile artifact, owned by the Vatican, is kept locked in a special protective chamber in Turin's cathedral and is rarely shown.
Skeptics point out that radiocarbon dating conducted in 1988 determined it was made in the 13th or 14th century.
While faint letters scattered around the face on the shroud were seen decades ago, serious researchers dismissed them due to the test's results, Frale told The Associated Press.
But when she cut out the words from photos of the shroud and showed them to experts they concurred the writing style was typical of the Middle East in the first century — Jesus' time.
She believes the text was written on a document by a clerk and glued to the shroud over the face so the body could be identified by relatives and buried properly. Metals in the ink used at the time may have allowed the writing to transfer to the linen, Frale claimed.
Frale claimed the text also partially confirms the Gospels' account of Jesus' final moments. A fragment in Greek that can be read as "removed at the ninth hour" may refer to Christ's time of death reported in the holy texts, she said.
On an enhanced image studied by Frale, at least seven words can be seen, fragmented and scattered on and around Jesus' face, crisscrossing the cloth vertically and horizontally. One short sequence of Aramaic letters has not been translated. Another Latin fragment — "iber" — may refer to Emperor Tiberius, who reigned at the time of Jesus' crucifixion, Frale said.
"I tried to be objective and leave religious issue aside," Frale told The AP. "What I studied was an ancient document that certifies the execution of a man, in a specific time and place."
Frale is noted in Italy for her research on the medieval order of the Knights Templar and her discovery of unpublished documents on the group in the Vatican's archives.
An artist's impression of the 3ft female hobbit, Homo floresiensis, whose remains were found in a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores
Steve Connor investigates the latest twist in the evolving debate about the 'hobbit' bones
When her miniature skull and tiny skeleton were revealed publicly for the first time in 2004, scientists expressed their amazement that such a small species of human could have existed on the island of Flores in Indonesia.
She became known as "the hobbit", standing just over 3ft tall with a brain the size of a grapefruit, about a third of the average brain volume of modern humans. It seemed that the last of her species, Homo floresiensis, died out not long after she lived around 18,000 years ago.
But within weeks of her discovery being announced in the pages of the journal Nature, other scientists began to voice doubts over whether she did indeed belong to a new species. The sole female "hobbit", they said, was probably a woman with an unfortunate congenital pathology known as microcephaly, when the body and brain do not grow to their full size.
After years of claims and counter-claims about the miniature person, whose remains were found buried deep in the sediment of a cave on Flores, scientists have now produced further evidence that she did indeed belong to a separate species of man, quite different to either the living Homo sapiens or any of the extinct members of the human family.
Professor William Jungers and Karen Baab, two anthropologists at the Stony Brook University Medical Centre in New York, carried out a statistical analysis of the skull and bones of the hobbit and compared her to other human species as well as to apes. They concluded that she falls well outside the normal size range for either modern humans or diseased microcephalics, which strongly suggests that the hobbit belonged to a new species.
"Attempts to dismiss the hobbits as pathological [diseased] people have failed repeatedly because the medical diagnoses of dwarfing syndromes and microcephaly bear no resemblance to the unique anatomy of Homo floresiensis," said Dr Baab, whose study is published in the Royal Statistical Society's journal, Significance.
Thursday, November 19, 2009inexplicata - Impressive prehistoric evidence of the UFO presence in the region can be found in various manifestations of rock art in Talabre and the vicinity of Maria
A strange petroglyph in the Talabre ravine, dating back to the prehistory of the Atacama region, has stirred curiosity due to the presence of a strange, oval-headed being with large eyes and hands. Many have associated this image with a deity or extraterrestrial.
Petroglyphs are etched upon surface rocks worn away by time, and are associated to village centers near burial grounds or “gentilares”, as well as areas of worship in specific geographic areas in the vicinity of prehistoric trails, a typical characteristic of inter-regional traffic.
Sotero Armenya, president of the community of Talabre, has stated that this enigmatic petroglyph has drawn the attention of tourists and locals alike.
The official explained that it is an original item. “While we do not know what it corresponds to, the only problem is that its structure is being affected by the conditions proper to the climate and geography.”
Dagoberto Peña, a professor of Ecotourism at the Andres Bello University, a mountaneer who has even ascended Mt. Everest, stated that this particular image was found two years ago. It was photographed as evidence, and [the image] is accompanied by camelid patterns.
NOTE: the image I posted is from the Atacama Desert in Chile....I don't know if it is the same petroglyph referenced in the article. It may be impossible to determine what these rock drawings actually represent. Nonetheless, similar petroglyphs are being found in different locations in the Americas spawning new 'ancient astronauts' theories...Lon from Phantom and Monsters
found on Phantom and Monsters@ http://naturalplane.blogspot.com/2009/11/strange-petroglyph-found-in-talabre.html
Benjamin Fulford investigates a mysterious plasma weapon seen prior to the Niigata earthquake in July 2007 and Red, White & Blue HAARP lights near the epicenter prior to the recent quake in China. Taiwan satellites measured a 50% drop in ionospheric energy above the Sichuan epicenter on the day before the quake. Both earthquakes targeted nuclear military facilities... coincidence or war crime?
Source: El Dragon Invisible (www. dragoninvisible.com.ar) Date: 11.18.2009
Peru: The Piura Lights By Alberto Laluk
The lights were amber-hued and of varying intensity. Some of them appeared alone, others appeared to travel in twos, but maintained a largely constant altitude. What was odd was that they responded to the light of my flashlight – when lighting them, they would dim, and then relight even brighter.
Luis Vásquez believes that this area is a UFO route. There are eyewitness accounts from people in Paita, Chulucanas and Huancabamba
The red circle (see map) shows the sighting area. A route from Paita, Piura, Chulucanas, Morropón and Huancabamba can be seen.
At the start of this parade of lights, I wondered if this could be an atmospheric phenomenon involving “Earth Lights”, unknown phosphorescent bodies or some quantum effect. But as weeks progressed, and more information was gleaned, I have faced the possibility of suspecting that these lights were not at all terrestrial.
found at Inexplicata http://inexplicata.blogspot.com/
I have become extremely confused on what is going on with the Moon. I like the Moon. It is always there, always lovely to view but recently a bit confusing.
Over the years there have been multiple articles written about our Moon. I have read the controversy concerning possible bases on the Moon. I have read all types of theories that the Moon is inhabited by Alien bases to those that the nations of planet earth have been secretly building bases on it for years.
I sifted through piles of debate on the issue of our Moon landing in 1969 that runs from it being a great step for mankind to the idea it never really happened.
I have seen photo’s that show what looks like Alien crafts speeding across the Moons surface to those of what appear to be man made or intelligent made structures on the Moon. I must admit I did view a few videos and photos of objects I find hard to explain on the moons surface.
Recently we spent over 70 million dollars to blow a hole in the moon. I must say I find this a bit extreme knowing how many problems here on earth could have benefited far more with that money spent on more human life type problems.
I also found it a bit perplexing to know that we gave this time, money and effort to blowing a hole in the moon in hopes of finding signs of water. I have to wonder why we did not seek out that information when we were standing on the moon during our historic walk on its surface? I really need to think about that point now reading that they found buckets of water up there! I think it would have been a far wiser choice to dig or at least blow the hole from a few feet away rather then the extreme ditch digging event we paid over 70 million for. I have to wonder if we were indeed ever truly standing on the moon when I consider these things.
I now see that we have discovered a few weeks after our hole- blowing maneuver that we now have found tunnels on the moon. I wonder if we missed those huge tunnels also in 1969?Seems we could have somehow used those tunnels then to fetch the samples needed to further study the water issue the day we actually landed and walked upon the moons surface.
Of course I realize that it all is not as simple as I am making it. I realize we may have landed in a place that did not have the massive tunnels we now know exist. I also realize we seem to have missed a great deal when we did visit the moons surface and that is also not so simple to understand.
The tunnels seem to be large entrances to some kind of interior cave system on the moon. With that said it is starting to lean more and more towards the idea that some kind of activity may indeed be taking place below the surface of the moon.
I once thought the idea of a base providing shelter on the moon was a bit far reaching considering the atmosphere of the moon. Watching us spend the amount of time and money at this time in our history and economy makes me wonder why we need to know now and what’s the reason for the hurry. After all we went to the moon in 1969.It has been 40 years without a return visit.Why now do we need to return?Maybe it is to do all the things we failed to do first trip there? Like check the soil for water content? The moon is not going anywhere, I think we could think up many other ways to blow up our hard earned dollars rather then blowing holes in a already hole filled tunnel filled moon.
Maybe we had no choice and had to make a smoke and mirrors display on the moons surface with that 70 million dollar explosion to cover up other activities that would be noticed by the peering eyes of humans who view the moon through back yard telescopes. Maybe tunnels will be appearing more and more on the moons surface. Maybe calling attention to them as natural and normal seemed to be the only step ahead way to explain the moons confusion.
I am not sure of anything when it comes to our moon. I just wish I had a say when it came to doing things like blowing holes in it. I think you can figure out if I did have a vote on such things, it would be a huge, rock solid, 70 million reasons NO!
One day, someday along with all other things unknown the falsehoods will be found and the truth will shine through under the light of a beautiful full Moon!
One of my readers sent me this photo of a remarkable Alabaster shape pyramid he owns that he feels has “Perceptions of Religious Imagery in a Natural Phenomena " Visit his myspace page for more on Ricks Incredible piece of Alabaster.
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The only way we can learn is to share our knowledge. Write to me and let me know what has happened in your paranormal world.
telegraph - Researchers studying a group of people with an average age of 97 found they had all inherited a gene that appears to prevent cells ageing.
They found that the 86 people studied and their children had higher levels of an enzyme called telomerase which is known to protect the body's DNA from degrading.
The team from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, who studied an American Ashkenazi Jewish community, said that the finding could lead to anti-aging drugs.
Telomerase is known to protect telomeres which stop the string of DNA unravelling much like the plastic tips at the ends of shoelaces stop fraying.
Each time a cell divides, its telomeres shortens and the cell becomes more susceptible to dying.
By boosting telomerase, scientists think they could eventually stop the cells dying and so protect against old age.
The research was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal.
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I have been watching the skies for many years. I have written three of four article concerning the strange chem-trails that have been covering our skies without little or no response from the public. What is being shown in the You Tube video above is typical of what the sky over Long Island New York has looked like for about the last 5 years. I tried to bring attention to the odd activity above our heads but people seem to be numb , clueless or completely unconcerned about the wild show of abnormal huge cloud like gas substances being sprayed in insane patterns covering huge areas of our sky.
These chem-trails are not contrails. They are not sprayed in the commercial or military air lanes of traffic. They do not dissipate like contrails would . These trails reach across miles and miles of sky. They change color and they last all day developing from long thin lines to full brightly colored large cloud masses.
They manipulate the weather in China. They are doing something to our skies with this spraying. I fear what it may be. I imagine since we have been having odd weather patterns this may be playing a part in some sort of weather modification . I found it odd to be free of hurricanes along the eastern coast this year along with a oddly cold summer. I may be completely wrong about what it is that is going on with this massive spraying. I do know it is not normal or in any way due to day to day air travel.
The strangest thing of all is that after years of this constant spraying in my area the chem-trails just stopped. We went for weeks with perfectly normal old fashion skies . We had natural clouds without the wild lines criss- crossing the entire sky. I thought it had stopped and almost started to feel a bit easy about it.
Of course this was short lived as a few weeks ago I realized they were back. Over my head the strangeness of the skies continues as they cross the sky spraying and forming a fake atmosphere over my head.
I wish I knew what it is that is happening to us with this activity. I do know as long as the public blindly and willingly accepts it as routine we will never be given the dignity of being told what it is that lurks above while we cower below.
Sauron, our "Man in Madrid", has reminded us in an e-mail today that the Castillo of San José de Valderas (Valderas Castle) is now the spanky new "Museo del Vidrio" (Glass Museum) of Alcorcón, one of Madrid's outlying suburbs.
The remodeled castle of the Lords of Valderas played a minor role -- or a major one, if you prefer -- in the 1967 series of UFO photographs taken by one "Antonio Pardo" as part of world-and-generations-spanning UMMO Hoax, which endures to this very day. The monochrome images show the structure and the relative position of the Ummite Saucer
Ricky Wills lives in the UK. He is an interesting man who caught my attention when I heard about his past life experience. I was able to interview Ricky about his remarkable experience with a past life event. This is Ricky’s story.
Ricky told me that he did not really have any thoughts one way or the other about Reincarnation or multiple life experiences until this event happened to him.
Ricky is a curious man who is always up for new experienced and adventures. Along his way in life Ricky came to know a man by way of a friend of a friend who usedhypnotism as an aid to allow people to recall past lifetimes.
Ricky thought this would be interesting and agreed to be hypnotized to see if he was able to recall any of his past lives.
Ricky was not all that trusting that any of this could work and certainly did not know if it would work on him. The man who did the regressions was a small man, who did not seem able to handle the exercise involved in this past life regression, which involved the person being hypnotized to fall backwards while being caught, by the man doing the hypnotizing.Ricky standing 6ft 5” in height felt less than confident the short thin hypnotist carrying out the exercise could carry off the exercise of having him fall and catching him plus other practices used to create the state needed to bring him to the place where he could recall another life. Ricky went along with it all to see if the man could bring out a past life remembrance from the regression session.
Ricky does not recall the session other than coming out of it. He was surprised to learn he had a full recall of an entire other life!
Ricky told a detailed life of a man who died in 1892 in Tring England. His name was Edward Collins. He was 34 years old when he died. He had a wife and two children both girls. By trade Edward was a printer. He did not have a glamorous life. He was neither a rich man nor poor, just an average man for the time. Ricky told them during his regression that he remembered always being ashamed of his dirty stained fingers. Working as a printer he could never remove the ink from his hands and spent his life always trying to hide his black dyed fingers.
Ricky said he stepped in front of a horse drawn coal cart, which ran him over and died instantly in 1892 at the age of 34.
Ricky was astonished he gave so many exact details during his past life regression. He also was disappointed he did not recall being a King or famous person but a simple printer.
One incredible detail of the regression was that Ricky knew that when he was buried as Edward his wife at that time forgot to place a pin of hers in his coffin before they closed it. She was frantic about it and they had her toss the pin down when lowering the coffin into Edwards grave.
Instead of falling upon his coffin this pin missed its mark for a second time and ended up lying in the ground about a foot down in the ground on top of Edwards coffin. It has remained there all these years.
Time passed and Ricky and his present life wife seemed to forget about Ricky’s past life experience until they decided to take a small holiday near the town of Tring where the man Edward lived and died. Ricky could not resist the temptation and arranged to tour the town on their holiday.
The town of Tring did not seem at all overly familiar to Ricky. He did ask around and found that an old cemetery was located near to where they were staying. Ricky could not resist looking while in this town in the cemetery to see if by chance he could find a Edward Collins buried there around 1892.
Ricky and his wife walked about the graveyard looking at all the old worn out headstones when they soon came upon it. Right in front of them stood the headstone of Edward Collins- who died 1892 age 34. To say Ricky and his wife were stunned is an understatement.
Ricky stood there looking in shock. Was her really looking at himself, his old body? The sensation of it all was like nothing he experienced before He did not know if he wanted to laugh or cry- stand or sit.
Ricky dropped to his knees and start to dig. His wife was shocked and immediately began to question Ricky. “Ricky!” She gasped, “What in the world are you doing? Stop that” His wife bent down next to him while Ricky kept digging “ If this is all true that pin will be right here and I am going to find it. The worst thing will be a bit of dirt taken out that I will just shovel back in. I am going to dig down about a foot”
Ricky didn’t have to go the whole foot, about 10 inches down he found it. A very antique looking pin lying there in the dirt right where he predicted it would be during his regression. Ricky and his wife just stood there looking at the old dirty pin in Ricky’s hand and at each other.
Ricky keeps this pin in a box on his dresser in his bedroom. His wife does not feel right wearing it, they just hold on to it. Ricky’s adventure has been a life changing one. I have to say Ricky’s adventure has given me cause to think as well. I will never doubt those odd feelings I have been to a place before or recall a sight or smell I have never known before.
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Ricky understands now why he has always had an obsession with keeping his hands clean. He also always feels as if his hands are dirty when they are not. Without question a carry over from the printers stained fingers.
Ricky is known to be overly concerned about crossing the street. In fact Ricky has been known to pull a few to safety who stepped into the road in a dangerous fashion. It all now seems to make sense to Ricky.
Thinking about this story made me realize why in my own life I fear height or recall the smell of wood burning in a fireplace as second nature when I have a gas fireplace in my home! We may all walk around with memories that are simply not of this life but part of our souls memory.
The picture of the pin above is the actual pin Ricky dug up that day!
