Re: UFOs and Dark Energy

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Asteroid Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Indrid Cold wrote:
> > 
> > Gib Bogle wrote:
> > >
> > > Jack Sarfatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "Scott Littleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > > To: "Jack Sarfatti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > 
> >     Astronaut Ed Lu returned last Monday from a six-month tour as
> > science officer on the International Space Station with many
> > memories and at least one nagging puzzle: what caused the
> > mysterious flashes of light he saw while studying Earth's aurora
> > from orbit? [...]
> > http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=10308
> >                  .... So that
> >  leaves us with a mystery..."
> > http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=10308
> >          _________
> > 
> > http://www.crystalinks.com/antimatter.html
> >       "... Matter and antimatter [...] 
> > http://www.crystalinks.com/antimatter.html
> >          _________
> > 
> >  NOVA | The Elegant Universe | PBS
> >  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/
> >  A Theory of Everything?
> >  Some physicists believe string theory
> >  may unify the forces of nature
> > http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/everything.html
> > Viewpoints on String Theory
> > Steven Weinberg
> > http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/view-weinberg.html
> > The Elegant Universe homepage
> > http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/
> >          _________
> > 
> > "The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick" by R. Crumb
> >       http://www.philipkdick.com/weirdo.htm
> > 
> > THE POWER of NOW
> > by Eckhart Tolle
> > http://www.eckharttolle.com/
> >                  ... It is finding your true nature beyond
> > name and form. The inability to feel this connectedness
> > gives rise to the illusion of separation, from yourself
> > and from the world around you. You then perceive yourself,
> > consciously or unconsciously, as an isolated fragment.
> > Fear arises, and conflict within and without becomes
> > the norm. ...
> >   -- Eckhart Tolle  http://www.eckharttolle.com/
> > 
> > Adi Da Samraj wrote:
> > http://adidam.org/
> > Yes! There is no religion, no Way of God, no Way of Divine
> > Realization, no Way of Enlightenment, and no Way of
> > Liberation that is Higher or Greater than Truth Itself.
> > .... Therefore, Reality (Itself) Is Truth,
> > and Reality (Itself) Is the Only Truth.
> >  -- Adi Da Samraj, a.k.a. "Bubba Free John",
> >     a.k.a. "Da Free John", a.k.a. "Da Kalki",
> >     a.k.a. "the Ruchira Avatar, Adi Da Love-Ananda Samraj",
> >     a.k.a. "Franklin Jones"
> >     http://adidam.org/
> >     http://www.daplastique.com/home.html
> > 
> > Ram Dass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Let me share with you this little model I've worked out
> > about who we are as human beings. I call it the
> > "Three-Plane Consciousness Model." [...]
> > That's the mystic "I," because in Number Three there's
> > actually only one of us. Your Number Three isn't merely
> > like my Number Three---They're the same thing.
> >   -- Baba Ram Das, a.k.a. Richard Alpert
> >      http://ramdasstapes.org/index.htm
> >          _________
> > 
> > Committee for  Surrealist Investigation of Claims of the Normal
> >  [ CSICON ] http://www.rawilson.com/csicon.shtml
> > 
> >         < C O N T A C T >
> > <http://neu-ark.net/contact.html>
> > 
> > Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti (Born 9 July 1918)
> > http://www.well.com/user/jct/mystiq1.htm
> > THE MYSTIQUE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
> 
> [1968] SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 
>  
> Conducted by the University of Colorado
> Under contract No. 44620-67-C-0035 With 
> the United States Air Force 
> 
> Dr. Edward U. Condon, Scientific Director 
> 
> [1968]
> C O N T E N T S
> http://ncas.sawco.com/condon/text/contents.htm
> 
> Section I
> 
> Conclusions and Recommendations
> 
> Edward U. Condon
> 
> 
> http://ncas.sawco.com/condon/text/sec-i.htm
> 
> We believe that the existing record and the results of the 
> Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects of the 
> University of Colorado, which are presented in detail in 
> subsequent sections of this report, support the conclusions 
> and recommendations which follow. 
> 
> As indicated by its title, the emphasis of this study has 
> been on attempting to learn from UFO reports anything that 
> could be considered as adding to scientific knowledge. 
> Our general conclusion is that nothing has come from the 
> study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to 
> scientific knowledge. Careful consideration of the record 
> as it is available to us leads us to conclude that further 
> extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the 
> expectation that science will be advanced thereby. 
> 
> It has been argued that this lack of contribution to science 
> is due to the fact that very little scientific effort has 
> been put on the subject. We do not agree. We feel that the 
> reason that there has been very little scientific study of 
> the subject is that those scientists who are most directly 
> concerned, astronomers, atmospheric physicists, chemists, 
> and psychologists, having had ample opportunity to look into 
> the matter, have individually decided that UFO phenomena do 
> not offer a fruitful field in which to look for major 
> scientific discoveries. 
> 
> This conclusion is so important, and the public seems in 
> general to have so little understanding of how scientists 
> work, that some more comment on it seems desirable. 
> Each person who sets out to make a career of scientific 
> research, chooses a general field of broad specialization 
> in which to acquire proficiency. Within that field he looks 
> for specific fields in which to work. To do this he keeps 
> abreast of the published scientific literature, attends 
> scientific meetings, where reports on current progress are 
> given, and energetically discusses his interests and those 
> of his colleagues both face-to-face and by correspondence 
> with them. He is motivated by an active curiosity about nature 
> and by a personal desire to make a contribution to science. 
> He is constantly probing for error and incompleteness in the 
> efforts that have been made in his fields of interest, and
> looking for new ideas about new ways to attack new problems. 
> From this effort he arrives at personal decisions as to where 
> his own effort can be most fruitful. These decisions are 
> personal in the sense that he must estimate his own 
> intellectual limitations, and the limitations inherent in the 
> working situation in which he finds himself, including limits 
> on the support of his work, or his involvement with other 
> pre-existing scientific commitments. While individual errors 
> of judgment may arise, it is generally not true that all of 
> the scientists who are actively cultivating a given field of 
> science are wrong for very long. 
> 
> Even conceding that the entire body of "official" science 
> might be in error for a time, we believe that there is no 
> better way to correct error than to give free reign to the 
> ideas of individual scientists to make decisions as to the 
> directions in which scientific progress is most likely to 
> be made. For legal work sensible people seek an attorney, 
> and for medical treatment sensible people seek a qualified 
> physician. The nation's surest guarantee of scientific 
> excellence is to leave the decision-making process to the
> individual and collective judgment of its scientists. 
> 
> Scientists are no respecters of authority. Our conclusion 
> that study of UFO reports is not likely to advance science 
> will not be uncritically accepted by them. Nor should it be, 
> nor do we wish it to be. For scientists, it is our hope that 
> the detailed analytical presentation of what we were able to 
> do, and of what we were unable to do, will assist them in 
> deciding whether or not they agree with our conclusions. 
> Our hope is that the details of this report will help other 
> scientists in seeing what the problems are and the 
> difficulties of coping with them. 
> 
> If they agree with our conclusions, they will turn their 
> valuable attention and talents elsewhere. If they disagree 
> it will be because our report has helped them reach a clear 
> picture of wherein existing studies are faulty or incomplete 
> and thereby will have stimulated ideas for more accurate 
> studies. If they do get such ideas and can formulate them 
> clearly, we have no doubt that support will be forthcoming to 
> carry on with such clearly-defined, specific studies. 
> We think that such ideas for work should be supported. 
> 
> Some readers may think that we have now wandered into a 
> contradiction. Earlier we said that we do not think study of 
> UFO reports is likely to be a fruitful direction of scientific 
> advance; now we have just said that persons with good ideas 
> for specific studies in this field should be supported. 
> This is no contradiction. Although we conclude after nearly 
> two years of intensive study, that we do not see any fruitful 
> lines of advance from the study of UFO reports, we believe 
> that any scientist with adequate training and credentials who 
> does come up with a clearly defined, specific proposal for 
> study should be supported. 
> 
> What we are saying here was said in a more general context 
> nearly a century ago by William Kingdon Clifford, a great 
> English mathematical physicist. In his "Aims and Instruments
> of Scientific Thought" he expressed himself this way: 
> 
>   Remember, then, that [scientific thought] is the guide of 
>   action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that 
>   which we can ideally contemplate without error, but that 
>   which we may act upon without fear; and you cannot fail 
>   to see that scientific thought is not an accompaniment or 
>   condition of human progress, but human progress itself. 
> 
> Just as individual scientists may make errors of judgment about 
> fruitful directions for scientific effort, so also any 
> individual administrator or committee which is charged with 
> deciding on financial support for research proposals may also 
> make an error of judgment. This possibility is minimized by the 
> existence of parallel channels, for consideration by more than 
> one group, of proposals for research projects. In the period 
> since 1945, the federal government has evolved flexible and 
> effective machinery for giving careful consideration to proposals 
> from properly qualified scientists. What to some may seem like 
> duplicated machinery actually acts as a safeguard against errors 
> being made by some single official body. Even so, some errors 
> could be made but the hazard is reduced nearly to zero. 
> 
> Therefore we think that all of the agencies of the federal 
> government, and the private foundations as well, ought to be 
> willing to consider UFO research proposals along with the 
> others submitted to them on an open-minded, unprejudiced basis. 
> While we do not think at present that anything worthwhile is 
> likely to come of such research each individual case ought to 
> be carefully considered on its own merits. 
> 
> This formulation carries with it the corollary that we do not 
> think that at this time the federal government ought to set up 
> a major new agency, as some have suggested, for the scientific 
> study of UFOs. This conclusion may not be true for all time. 
> If, by the progress of research based on new ideas in this field, 
> it then appears worthwhile to create such an agency, the decision
> to do so may be taken at that time. 
> 
> We find that there are important areas of atmospheric optics, 
> including radio wave propagation, and of atmospheric electricity
> in which present knowledge is quite incomplete. These topics came
> to our attention in connection with the interpretation of some 
> UFO reports, but they are also of fundamental scientific interest, 
> and they are relevant to practical problems related to the
> improvement of safety of military and civilian flying. 
> 
> Research efforts are being carried out in these areas by the 
> Department of Defense, the Environmental Science Services
> Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 
> and by universities and nonprofit research organizations such as 
> the National Center for Atmospheric Research, whose work is 
> sponsored by the National Science Foundation. We commend these 
> efforts. By no means should our lack of enthusiasm for study of 
> UFO reports as such be misconstrued as a recommendation that these 
> important related fields of scientific work not be adequately 
> supported in the future. In an era of major development of air 
> travel, of space exploration, and of military aerospace activities, 
> everything possible should be done to improve our basic 
> understanding of all atmospheric phenomena, and to improve the 
> training of astronauts and aircraft pilots in the recognition and 
> understanding of such phenomena. 
> 
> As the reader of this report will readily judge, we have focussed 
> attention almost entirely on the physical sciences. This was in part 
> a matter of determining priorities and in part because we found 
> rather less than some persons may have expected in the way of 
> psychiatric problems related to belief in the reality of UFOs as 
> craft from remote galactic or intergalactic civilizations. We believe 
> that the rigorous study of the beliefs--unsupported by valid 
> evidence--held by individuals and even by some groups might prove of 
> scientific value to the social and behavioral sciences. There is no 
> implication here that individual or group psychopathology is a 
> principal area of study. Reports of UFOs offer interesting challenges 
> to the student of cognitive processes as they are affected by 
> individual and social variables. By this connection, we conclude that 
> a content-analysis of press and television coverage of UFO reports 
> might yield data of value both to the social scientist and the 
> communications specialist. The lack of such a study in the present 
> report is due to a judgment on our part that other areas of 
> investigation were of much higher priority. We do not suggest, however, 
> that the UFO phenomenon is, by its nature, more amenable to study in 
> these disciplines than in the physical sciences. On the contrary, we 
> conclude that the same specificity in proposed research in these areas 
> is as desirable as it is in the physical sciences. 
> 
> The question remains as to what, if anything, the federal government 
> should do about the UFO reports it receives from the general public. 
> We are inclined to think that nothing should be done with them in 
> the expectation that they are going to contribute to the advance 
> of science. This question is inseparable from the question of the 
> national defense interest of these reports. The history of the past 
> 21 years has repeatedly led Air Force officers to the conclusion that 
> none of the things seen, or thought to have been seen, which pass
> by the name of UFO reports, constituted any hazard or threat to 
> national security. 
> 
> We felt that it was out of our province to attempt an independent 
> evaluation of this conclusion. We adopted the attitude that, without 
> attempting to assume the defense responsibility which is that of the 
> Air Force, if we came across any evidence whatever that seemed to us 
> to indicate a defense hazard we would call it to the attention of the 
> Air Force at once. We did not find any such evidence. We know of no 
> reason to question the finding of the Air Force that the whole class 
> of UFO reports so far considered does not pose a defense problem. 
> 
> At the same time, however, the basis for reaching an opinion of 
> this kind is that such reports have been given attention, one by
> one, as they are received. Had no attention whatever been given 
> to any of them, we would not be in a position to feel confident
> of this conclusion. Therefore it seems that only so much attention 
> to the subject should be given as the Department of Defense deems 
> to be necessary strictly from a defense point of view. The level of 
> effort should not be raised because of arguments that the subject 
> has scientific importance, so far as present indications go. 
> 
> It is our impression that the defense function could be performed 
> within the framework established for intelligence and surveillance 
> operations without the continuance of a special unit such as 
> Project Blue Book, but this is a question for defense specialists 
> rather than research scientists. 
> 
> It has been contended that the subject has been shrouded in 
> official secrecy. We conclude otherwise. We have no evidence 
> of secrecy concerning UFO reports. What has been miscalled 
> secrecy has been no more than an intelligent policy of delay in
> releasing data so that the public does not become confused by 
> premature publication of incomplete studies of reports. 
> 
> The subject of UFOs has been widely misrepresented to the public 
> by a small number of individuals who have given sensationalized 
> presentations in writings and public lectures. So far as we can 
> judge, not many people have been misled by such irresponsible 
> behavior, but whatever effect there has been has been bad. 
> 
> A related problem to which we wish to direct public attention 
> is the miseducation in our schools which arises from the fact 
> that many children are being allowed, if not actively 
> encouraged, to devote their science study time to the reading 
> of UFO books and magazine articles of the type referred to in 
> the preceding paragraph. We feel that children are 
> educationally harmed by absorbing unsound and erroneous 
> material as if it were scientifically well founded. 
> Such study is harmful not merely because of the erroneous 
> nature of the material itself, but also because such study 
> retards the development of a critical faculty with regard
> to scientific evidence, which to some degree ought to be 
> part of the education of every American. 
> 
> Therefore we strongly recommend that teachers refrain from 
> giving students credit for school work based on their reading 
> of the presently available UFO books and magazine articles.
> Teachers who find their students strongly motivated in this 
> direction should attempt to channel their interests in the 
> direction of serious study of astronomy and meteorology, and 
> in the direction of critical analysis of arguments for fantastic 
> propositions that are being supported by appeals to fallacious 
> reasoning or false data. 
> 
> We hope that the results of our study will prove useful to 
> scientists and those responsible for the formation of public 
> policy generally in dealing with this problem which has now 
> been with us for 21 years. 
> 
>       The Condon Report - 1968 CE
>       http://ncas.sawco.com/condon/index.html
> 
> 
> http://www.csicop.org/klassfiles/posner_klass.html
> 
> > .... You see, I don't know how to put it. Never does
> > the thought that I am different from anybody come into my
> > consciousness. [...]
> > ((({<snip>})))
> > Continued at: <http://www.well.com/user/jct/Mystique.htm>
> > 
> > The Archetype and the Beast '98
> > http://pw1.netcom.com/~mthorn/arcbeast.htm
> >    [~][^][~]
> > Disingenuous Demagogues Deteriorate Daily
> > All Politicians are Demagogues, yet not all
> > Demagogues are Politicians...
> >  ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
> >    Sagittarius assimilated by Milky Way:
> >          "Resistence Is Futile!"
> >   http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~mfs4n/sgr/
> >  ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
> > FREE THE YEZIDI!!!
> > http://www.songsouponsea.com/Promenade/GnosisE.html
> > http://www.gurdjieff-legacy.org/40articles/yezidism.htm
> > 
> > "The Purification will begin
> >  shortly after humans build
> >   a great house in the sky.
> >    By then there will be fires
> >     everywhere and greedy, selfish,
> >      power-mad leaders, internal wars."
> >       http://www.deoxy.org/omega.htm
> > 
> > Yes, and you can't escape it by closing your eyes either,
> >   as your whole 'being' is thrust into a powerful spotlight
> > where every photon is a gently tugging, beaming consciousness;
> >     searing traumatically a heightened essence at work on your
> >           subjective optical/emotional/cognitive space. It's an
> >                unwavering, unflinching wake-up call to the brain.
> >            Reality is infinite, and sometimes untenable, during &
> >             afterwards, upon return to the so-called mundane plane
> >          of existence, looping, inextricably bound by gravitational
> >               forces. We should, could, maybe, love each other a bit
> >                  more as we're surrounded by strangeness imbedded in
> >                  a whirling biosphere of fellow travelers.
> >                  Heading either Somewhere new, or Nowhere...
> > http://www.sdss.org/news/releases/20031028.powerspectrum.html
> >          _________
> > STARS and STRIPES: http://www.estripes.com/
> > Report pending on rising rate of GI suicide in Iraq
> > http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=17479&archive=true
> >          _________
> > Why? The Neuroscience of Suicide
> > "Despite the inconsistencies, the bulk of evidence points strongly to a
> > problem in the brains of suicides involving the serotonin system."
> >   [Cont... ]
> > http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?colID=1&articleID=0006AF90-5BC7-1E1B-8B3B809EC588EEDF
> >          _________
> >   Meme: (pron. 'meem') A contagious idea that
> >   replicates like a virus, passed on from mind
> >   to mind. Memes function the same way genes
> >   and viruses do, propagating through
> >   communication networks and face-to-face
> >   contact between people
> >   David S. Bennahum.
> >          _________
> >   What a tragic world this is, he reflected.
> >   Those down here are prisoners, and the
> >   ultimate tragedy is that they don't know it;
> >   they think they are free because they never
> >   have been free, and do not understand what
> >   it means. This is a prison, and few men have
> >   guessed. But I know, he said to himself.
> >   Because that is why I am here. To burn the
> >   walls, to tear down the metal gates, to
> >   break each chain. Thou shalt not muzzle
> >   the Ox as he treadeth out the corn, he
> >   thought, remembering the Torah.
> >   The Divine Invasion, Phillip K Dick.
> >   HarperCollins ©1981.
> >   http://www.philipkdick.com/weirdo.htm
> >          _________
> > "... The Inuit of northern Canada have one of the highest suicide
> > rates in the world, Yale University research affiliate Michael
> > Kral found in a study based on a 1998 visit to the Arctic Circle."
> > http://www.suicideinfo.ca/csp/go.aspx?tabid=59
> >          _________
> > In <http://www.sokaren.se/INDEX9.HTML>
> >  "Dr. Olga Kharitidi" writes:
> > "The Master of Lucid Dreams" by Olga Kharitidi, M.D.
> >    ("... accumulated spirits of trauma...")
> > £&$£&$£&$£&$£&$£&$£&$£&$£&$£&$£&$£&$£&$£&$£&$£&$£&$£&$£&$
> > [{snip}]
> > 
> > An Atlas of The Universe
> > http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/
> > 
> > SDSS: Sloan Digital Sky Survey
> > http://www.sdss.org/
> > 
> > WMAP: Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
> > http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/
> > 
> > LAMBDA: Legacy Archive for Microwave Background Data
> > http://lambda.gsfc.nasa.gov/
> > 
> > The Origins of the Fear of Death and Dying
> > http://primal-page.com/death.htm
> > 
> > ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~ 
> > "Hilarious, terrifying & brilliant.
> > One of TCB's absolute best!"
> > 
> > "I laughed... I cried...
> > I excommunicated my DNA!"
> > 
> > http://pw1.netcom.com/~mthorn/tcbkrsna.htm
> > 
> > ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
> > [{snip}]
> > 
> > "The Religious Experience of Philip K. Dick" by R. Crumb
> >       http://www.philipkdick.com/weirdo.htm
> > 
> > Parallel Universes [...] http://www.sciam.com/issue.cfm
> > Not just a staple of science fiction, other universes
> > are a direct implication of cosmological observations
> > By Max Tegmark
> > http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?colID=1&articleID=000F1EDD-B48A-1E90-8EA5809EC5880000
> > 
> > w e    a r e    a l l    a n o m a l o u s
> > http://www.sparkchamber.co.uk/quantum.html
> > 
> > ***********************
> > International Space Station
> >  NASA Human Space Flight
> > http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/home/index.html
> > 
> > ***********************
> > Dreaming: A Neurocognitive Approach
> > http://munshi.4t.com/wbt/stickgold.html
> > http://www.daplastique.com/suite_images/SIM_Entry_254.jpg
> > 
> > Dr Paul Bennewitz
> > http://exopolitics.org/Dulce-Report.htm
> > 
> > Bennewitz's report, Project Beta
> > http://www.paraarchives.com/documents/p/beta01.htm
> > Project Beta - Alien Command and Control
> > 
> > Alien Command and Control
> > Because of the aliens apparent logic system, a key decision
> > cannot be made without higher clearance. All are under, yet
> > it would appear that even this is not the final authority.
> > Delays as long. How long the time delay is during battle
> > conditions is uncertain. Because of this apparent control,
> > individual decision making by the 'greys' are limited.
> > If the 'plan' goes even slightly out of balance or context,
> > they become confused. Faced with this, possibly, the humanoids
> > they have created would be the first to break and run.
> > 
> > Psychological Aspects
> > Psychologically, at present, their morale is down. There is
> > pronounced discension in the ranks- even with the humanoids.
> > Communication can encourage this problem due to their own
> > internal vulnerability mind-wise, and therein lies a prime
> > weakness....
> 
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