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Showing posts with label Creatures in space. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Creatures in space. Show all posts
Sunday, July 13, 2025
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
It's impossible that life exists, yet here it is
Martin MacInnes (ScienceAlert via MSN, 2/28/24); Douglas Adams; Euglenoids, Dhr. Seven, Sheldon S., Pat Macpherson (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly COMMENTARY
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| When we first arrived, it was vegan Eden. Tasty! |
(Or, to put it another way, we fall halfway between nothing and everything.) [Or, to put it yet another way, this is a middle world between heaven and heck, between glory and oblivion, light and shadow, the deva worlds and hellish narakas.]
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| Life arrived on Earth. It did not begin here. |
Whether or not this claim is strictly true, it’s arresting and resonant in all sorts of ways. [To think that the only difference between the two destinations is karma is hard to accept, but the Buddha was a Karmavadin, a "Teacher of Karma," for just that reason; it's not obvious, and it needs to be known.]
Each of our lives might feel like a whole universe – surpassingly important and infinite in scope – and yet from another perspective, each is utterly trivial and ephemeral.
- It's almost as if Douglas Adams, writer of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (radio series), was exactly right in suggesting that the worst thing that could possibly happen to someone is being put in the TOTAL PERSPECTIVE VORTEX:
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| The best new science fiction books of February 2024 (© provided by New Scientist /MSN) |
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I’m interested in how these opportunities might be explored in fiction, how scale can defamiliarize human life, and indeed all life, reminding us of the infinitesimal nature of its expanse and the improbability and wonder of its existence.
In each of my novels, and especially In Ascension, I have placed non-intuitive spatial and temporal perspectives next to the more mundane concerns of my characters.
Telescopes and microscopes recur, as do deep time, evolution, and the life cycles of parasites and viruses.
Alongside this, characters are eating, walking between rooms, anxiously going over circular thoughts, worried about their families, or bored.
I’ve always been drawn to fiction that attempts this. When scenes with very different perspectives collide, the effect can be startling, exhilarating, unforgettable.
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| Who's afraid of V. Woolf? |
In the following part, “Time Passes,” the perspective undergoes a radical shift. The house is empty, the people long gone; Mrs. Ramsay, we are informed in two short lines enclosed between brackets, like an afterthought, is dead.
I will never forget the shock and thrill of first reading this. I didn't realize fiction could do this; Woolf’s audacity and ambition took my breath away.
She had shown, tragically, the power and precarity of every consciousness. It’s a truism that cannot be repeated enough: Life feels infinite, and it’s gone in a second.
Much of Woolf’s fiction is interested in this dissonance, and it is not coincidental that, as well as experiencing both world wars, she lived through radical advances in telescopic power that changed all understanding of the size of the universe.
And it should be no surprise – though it apparently still is to many people – that Woolf was not just an avid reader of astronomy books and science fiction, but saw herself engaged in a lifelong project of writing that bore comparison to the most ambitious works of sci-fi.
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| In Ascension (Martin MacInnes, Freya Miller) |
The protagonist of In Ascension, Leigh Hasenbosch, is a microbiologist who travels into deep space. She experiences not only astonishment at seeing the whole Earth, but dejection at seeing the planet disappear.
Anthropocentrism -- unarguably the default perspective in English language fiction -- has never looked so absurd. [That is the idea that Earthling humans are the center or some significant part of the universe.]
Approaching the Oort cloud, she is aware of the other orders of life around her, from algal food stocks to the colonies of bacteria travelling between her and the other crew.
Beyond the composite walls of the ship, there is nothing. Since childhood, after an epiphany while almost drowning, Leigh has pursued the origins of life, absorbed by the theory of symbiogenesis and struck by its improbability.
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Her life and work gather around this ambiguous pursuit of origins. Which scale, then, is “correct”? Which story is she really invested in -- the universal or the personal?
The answer, of course, is both. For neither answer alone can be sufficient.
Martin MacInnes’s In Ascension, published by Atlantic Books, is the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club. Sign up and read along HERE.
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| Because you're a nut, that's why. I mean, because you are different and like Bowie, Starseed |
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[Don't like nerds who take their sci-fi seriously? Read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy instead. It's perhaps the greatest comedy ever written -- relevant, important, brilliant, genius, tackling the big questions in life. It's a Wisdom Quarterly top pick.]
Wha's "life"? New form neither plant nor animal
Life in space, in water, on Jupiter's Europa
V101 SPACE, 11/3//23; Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| Life thrives in ocean trenches |
- The deepest sea on Earth, Japan's Mariana Trench
- Earth has one World Ocean, many seas: List of seas
Scientists think there could be LIFE on Europa and it’s even weirder than we thought!
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| "Weird" is in the eye of the beholder, Weirdo. Don't judge a living being by its cover. It feels. |
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| Hi, Camera, would you like to be friends? |
Below that thick layer of ice, a vast ocean has been discovered with potentially the correct ingredients for life as we know it.
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| Mermaids visited your planet. Where'd they go? |
But how could life survive on such an extreme moon? And if it does exist there, what might it look like? Imagine the weird organisms as strange as deep-sea creatures here dining around hydrothermal vents like we have.
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Saturday, August 5, 2023
US gov't captured ETs in the 1950s (video)
Extreme Mysteries, 7/30/23; Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
UFOs: The Truth Embargo and Coverup (Session 18) | The Citizen Hearing on UFO Disclosure
(Kimy Moto) Reenactment? Telepathic communication with moving lips?
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| Anunnaki starseed hybrid-human Marina Sere |
The goal of this unprecedented event was to achieve what the U.S. Congress had overlooked for an astonishing 45 years.
This is exclusive footage from this groundbreaking event, allowing these courageous testimonies to become part of the public record on the intriguing topic of UFOs.
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Friday, August 4, 2023
New planets found: To Serve Man (Twilight Zone)
Destiny, 5/20/23; Twilight Zone; Sheldon S., Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Scientists discover planets more habitable than Earth
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| Welcome to Earth, Glofalbarg. Take us away. |
Today, thanks to advances in technology and scientific research, we've officially discovered over 5,300 exoplanets -- alien worlds that are out there waiting to be explored [and conquered and environmentally ruined by us].
At first, these discoveries mostly involved large gas giants, but as science's capabilities have expanded, we've started to uncover smaller, Earth-like exoplanets.
If Earth's leader, the richest man in the world Elon Musk (Space X Corporation) orders it, we shall all be moving off this planet on giant motherships already in formation near our moon, Luna, with the help of arriving extraterrestrials who are here to serve man. They even have a book about it, which they share with us on arrival, a kind of bible with kitchen stains.
Who is Fearless Leader Elon Musk?
Scientists have already found more than 50 exoplanets with masses similar to Earth and over 800 worlds with a radius less than half that of Earth.
We don’t know of many such planets orbit the "habitable zone" of their parent stars -- where the conditions are just right to support life.
But that's already starting to change.
As our search for habitable planets continues, we're beginning to discover entire planetary systems with more than one potentially habitable world.
And we already know about at least one such system in our cosmic neighborhood.
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Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Dr. Greer: 60+ alien races are on Earth (video)
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| Shining Ones (devas) and Titans (asuras) are extraterrestruaks depicted in religious art. |
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| The War in Heaven: Good deva on white elephant mount battles asura on vicious lion mount. |
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| "They" are with us. Flying saucers (vimanas) are as old as history (ancient-origins.net) |
Dr. Steven Greer explains how a human can pilot a UFO without dying (Part 14)
Why do "they" (the many races of ETs) keep visiting Earth?
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| Is that the CIA abducting us or a real ETs? |
He highlights a case in the 1980s when a military officer ordered the shooting down of a UFO without realizing it was manmade (reverse engineered from alien made models), demonstrating the danger of inadequate knowledge [among the different levels of secrecy above top secret].
The interview also touches on the physics behind these advanced flying crafts (known as vimanas in ancient India), explaining how they can defy gravity and avoid sonic booms.
There are more than 60 races of ET aliens visiting Earth
- Interview by Shawn Prez
- Dr. Greer's YouTube channel: powermovemakers
Sunday, November 13, 2022
ET/UFO: The Peoples' Disclosure Movement
Ananda (Disclosure Project Meetup), Pat Macpherson, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Weekend Host Richard Syrett interviews ET experiencer Kosta Makreas (Peoples' Disclosure Movement), who believes we are living in a unique, challenging, and wonderful time in history as we transition to a new mode of enlightened and spiritual living. Planetary peace will reign between humanity and all life forms on and off Earth.
Welcome to ET Let's Talk, The People's Disclosure Movement: Join us and make extraterrestrial (ET) contact! This site will teach you how.
Sign up. It's FREE:
Coast to Coast with Richard Serret (11/12)
He joins Richard Syrett (Twitter) to discuss his personal contact with space aliens experience, which prompted him to create a community of over one million individuals all over the world. They come together as the "People’s Disclosure Movement."
Preston Dennent joins Syrett in the second segment latest release in his Amazon UFO bestselling series, "Not from Here." He uncovers little-known and unusual aspects of the UFO phenomenon. He shares cases of UFO car lifts, craft hovering over airports, and how certain specific areas of our planet are known as "UFO attractors." ET Contact/Unusual UFO Cases | Coast to Coast
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
SpaceX flight FAKED, mouse reveals (video)
Tim Binnall (Coast to Coast); S. Auberon, Pfc. Sandoval, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| Flat earth fisheye lens effect |
A viewer watching this past weekend's "successful" SpaceX launch online spotted what a mouse crawling along the rocket as it allegedly soared at 17,000 MPH into space.
"Experts," who cannot now pull the footage from the internet and reshoot the "launch" in another soundstage, say the anomaly probably wasn't really a hitchhiking rat or mouse with a big tail, scurrying back and forth, as the fans blew on the Mylar metallic curtain and flame burned in the freezing empty vacuum of space near the red-hot thruster rocket.
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| We're not paid actors in a propaganda reel. |
The moment was noticed by a Pennsylvania man, who had the presence of mind to promptly capture the scene and post it to his Twitter account, which should be shut down soon if people don't buy the "expert" opinion saying our eyes are not seeing what they're clearly seeing.
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| Oops. Sorry, Elon Musk. We didn't mean to. |
The impossible presence of the creature outside the craft has given rise to speculations that the entire space flight was an elaborate hoax after the launch of some kind of rocket.
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| That's not a stage light over a black curtain. |
Maybe that rodent is a piece of frozen liquid oxygen that was vented just at the right moment, coming out of the rocket engine through a leak on its glorious journey to the ISS.
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| SpaceX in Hawthorne, a middle class neighborhood in L.A. with gov't manufacturing contracts |
- SpaceX's Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 [f]ake their first crewed launch for NASA
Friday, December 7, 2012
Mayan Calendar: A Second Coming?
Editors, Wisdom Quarterly (COUNTDOWN CLOCK: -14)
All of the world religions speak of a second coming. Christendom is Waiting for Godot. And Islam awaits the great Imam (Madhi). This belief is rife with connotations that Buddhism is boarding the bandwagon it actually created when the historical Buddha spoke of buddhas who had lived aeons ago and the next person, already living in a space world called Tusita, who would go on to reach the goal and become a world teacher. That, too, however, is not for aeons. There is little chance of Maitreya arising anytime soon. But other great, universal teachers with a unitarian message may indeed use the Mayan Calendar to herald the new Age of Aquarius. And we will all be as one. What will December 22, 2012 be like? It will be as people wish it to be, in accordance with the timeline they choose, which means that for us it will be like the ending of "40 Year Old Virgin":
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| The second coming...of Q |
(BCI.org) Quetzalcoatl was described as a pale male with a beard, wearing long robes, spreading a message of love, forbidding blood sacrifices, teaching that the god he represents in space is supreme, giving Toltecs technology that provides for their material well being that advances their culture, such as providing them with an accurate calendar. Q left the Toltecs because of the enmity and persecution of powerful religious leaders.
But he promised to one day return, just as he had left, coming over the ocean from the east. This return, as explained in Warriors of the Rainbow (William Willoya and Vinson Brown, Naturegraph Publishers), is by no means necessarily a return of the same physical being. It may simply mean the return of the same spiritual message being channeled through another prophet. Q has been described by Dr. Herbert Joseph Spinden as "perhaps the most remarkable figure in ancient American history." He not only established a religion from space ["heaven"] but taught the people all manner of arts, sciences, and useful social customs. More
If Q comes back, can Tezcatlipoca be far behind?
The Mayan calendar ends?
Don't all calendars end? Does the world end with them? What happens at the end of our Gregorian calendar? The same thing that happens at the end of all calendars: They repeat. Ad nauseum. Samsara has no end point but instead whirls like a wheel. We ourselves must get off this endless merry-go-round rather than expecting it to stop.
A Second Coming?
Don't all calendars end? Does the world end with them? What happens at the end of our Gregorian calendar? The same thing that happens at the end of all calendars: They repeat. Ad nauseum. Samsara has no end point but instead whirls like a wheel. We ourselves must get off this endless merry-go-round rather than expecting it to stop.A Second Coming?
All of the world religions speak of a second coming. Christendom is Waiting for Godot. And Islam awaits the great Imam (Madhi). This belief is rife with connotations that Buddhism is boarding the bandwagon it actually created when the historical Buddha spoke of buddhas who had lived aeons ago and the next person, already living in a space world called Tusita, who would go on to reach the goal and become a world teacher. That, too, however, is not for aeons. There is little chance of Maitreya arising anytime soon. But other great, universal teachers with a unitarian message may indeed use the Mayan Calendar to herald the new Age of Aquarius. And we will all be as one. What will December 22, 2012 be like? It will be as people wish it to be, in accordance with the timeline they choose, which means that for us it will be like the ending of "40 Year Old Virgin":Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Time is ticking away (video)
GrindTV.com; Seth Auberon, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly (COUNTDOWN CLOCK -16)
Jamie Scott's "Fall" shows 15 spots in Central Park as they change seasons. "I chose 15 locations in the park and revisited them two days a week for six months.... just after sunrise."
Preparing to live starts by meditating on death. For such meditation inspires in us a sense of spiritual urgency.
Time is short if we think it's short. Or the moment (the now) extends to encompass anything, any event, any eventuality.
Sometimes it is wise to make it feel short. The Buddha spoke of an ancient teacher who taught that meditators should reflect on life as being like a piece of meat dropped on a hot skillet, or like a drop of dew on a blade of grass, like a line drawn on water, or some such -- but in those days so long ago, the Buddha emphasizes, the human lifespan was much longer. What to say of our time and our need to make the best use of our time?
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| "Hi, it's me, Death; are you busy?" |
If such reflection leads to excessive worry and an unsettled feeling, then it is doing more harm than good. We want enough urgency to begin our cultivation, our development, our refinement or "evolution," but not so much that we are inundated by a sense of overwhelm, futility, or lack of hope.
We have time, BUT what time do we have? We have the same time we always had, just now. We have now. We can begin now, and nothing else matters. If we delay, we throw the only time we have away.
A cosmopolitan man lost deep in the boondocks asked a local simpleton, "Hey, friend, how do I get into town?" "You can do it," the simpleton replied, "I just wouldn't start from here."
We may not feel our starting point is any place to set out from, but it's all we have. We have to start right where we are. Where else would we start? Wherever we are, the real question is, When will we start? Even then it will be now, so why would we delay and make it harder?
Sunday, April 1, 2012
There are billions of habitable worlds
Telegraph.co.uk; Wisdom Quarterly
Billions of potentially habitable planets may exist within our galaxy, the Milky Way, raising new prospects that life could exist near Earth, a study has found.
[Science is now coming into agreement with ancient Buddhist cosmology of countless other worlds.] Researchers discovered that at least 100 of the ''super-Earths'' may be on our galactic doorstep, at distances of less than 30 light years, or about 180 trillion miles from the sun.
Billions of potentially habitable planets may exist within our galaxy, the Milky Way, raising new prospects that life could exist near Earth, a study has found.New "life in space" hope after billions of "habitable planets" found in Milky Way
[Science is now coming into agreement with ancient Buddhist cosmology of countless other worlds.] Researchers discovered that at least 100 of the ''super-Earths'' may be on our galactic doorstep, at distances of less than 30 light years, or about 180 trillion miles from the sun. Astronomers say the findings were made after conducting a survey of red dwarf stars, which account for about four out of five stars in the Milky Way galaxy.
Buddhist thangka depiction of the ten-thousandfold worlds in space
They calculate that around 40 per cent of red dwarfs have a rocky planet not much bigger than Earth orbiting the "habitable zone," in which liquid surface water can exist.
Scientists say that where there is water, there also could be life although they add that being in the habitable zone is no guarantee that life has evolved on a planet.
Dr. Xavier Bonfils, from Grenoble University in France, who led the international team, said: ''Because red dwarfs are so common -- there are about 160 billion of them in the Milky Way -- this leads us to the astonishing result that there are tens of billions of these planets in our galaxy alone.'' More
Monday, March 26, 2012
Area 51 is real: museum exhibit (video)
George Knapp, Bob Lazar (scientist, former contractor); Nat'l Atomic Testing Museum
Click to go YouTube for full documentary
Click to go YouTube for full documentary
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