India to the Moon; UK's UFO files; New Mts.

The "ridiculous" becomes real as seen in the following three stories out today:

• UFOs in England
• India in Space
• Mountains where they shouldn't be

According to the AP and ABC News, the British National Archives has released a collection of secret files documenting its long standing UFO investigations.

• Video and story: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=6069716

Assume that aliens do exist and will one day come to Earth. Odds are they do not speak English. How are you going to communicate with the little green men and beg them not to enslave you? A scientist named John Elliott is working on a solution.

Science to Communicate with Aliens

Photo: Alien art at the Science Museum in London. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has made public secret files on UFO sightings, with the dossier including a range of reports from a close encounter with a UFO over Kent and a letter from a woman claiming to be an alien warrior (AFP/File/Martyn Hayhow).

Assume that aliens do exist and will one day come to Earth. Odds are they don't speak English. How are you going to communicate with the little green men and beg them not to enslave you? A scientist named John Elliott is working on a solution.

According to several sources within Yahoo's the Buzz, an Englishman is developing a way to decipher alien languages into understandable words and sentences. How can he do this when no aliens have ever given voiceover samples? A blog from Discover Magazine explains that Elliott developed a computer program that analyizes 60 languages from around the world. The goal is to be able to find a trend among those very different languages that will reveal a pattern in the way aliens may communicate.

Elliott, for his part, is realistic about his goal. According to Discover, the forward-thinker suspects that alien languages will be very different than human languages. He simply wants to be able to break up "extra-terrestial messages into nouns and verbs." Allow us to diagram a sentence to get the process started: E.T. (subject) phone (verb) home (object). That was easy. Now, bring on the aliens!

India to the Moon: the Asian Space Race
NEW DELHI – India readied its first lunar mission on Wednesday [10/22/08], seeking to convert its new wealth into political and military clout and join an elite group of nations with the scientific know-how to reach space.

In the last year Asian nations have taken the lead in exploring the moon: Japan and China both sent up spacecraft last year, and India's Chandrayaan-1 will join them in orbit around the moon for a two-year mission designed to map the lunar surface. Chandrayaan means "Moon Craft" in ancient Sanskrit. [Ancient spacecraft, known as Vimana, were known, documented, and studied in the Vedic texts of India. (Photo: Vimana illustration courtesy of atlantisquest.com)]

The moon mission comes just months after it finalized a deal with the United States that recognizes India as a nuclear power.

"It is a remarkable technological achievement for the country," said S. Satish, a spokesman for the Indian Space Research Organization, which plans to launch the 3,080-pound satellite from the Sriharikota space center in southern India.

To date only the U.S., Russia, the European Space Agency, Japan and China have sent missions to the moon. The United States is the only nation to have landed a man on the lunar surface, doing so for the first time in 1969. More>>

• Full story: India readies 1st moon mission in Asian space race

(mnh.si.edu)

As for other Indian things Western science is only now beginning to believe in, what are these strange "new" mountains science is planning to probe? The legend of Sumeru (Pali, Mt. Sineru) includes four mountain ranges walling off the North Pole, which WQ has in previous posts determined is what "Sumeru" in fact refers to in Buddhist cosmography.

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Given the dispute in the actual size of Sumeru (measured in fuzzy archaic terms such as nahutas and yojanas), it is possible that it is a "magnetic mountain" visible as lines of force in the earth's magnetic field extending from the Pole. Such a steady phenomenon would have been readily visible to the Buddha and other ancient "seers" (rishis). Nevertheless, it seems remarkable that entire physical mountain ranges are as yet unexplored by science:

• Scientists probe mountain range that "shouldn't be there"
• New high resolution photos of frozen Antartic