- Looking for Aliens? Try the Moon -
- Super-Highway to the Stars: Alien Traffic? -
- Evolution of Angels -
- What are the Great Pyramids Really Made of? -
AND: There’s a Folk Devil in Every Crowd

American scientists want to enlist online volunteers to identify signs of alien life in moon images collected by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO).

Physicists Paul Davies and Robert Wagner of Arizona State University believe there may be signs of extra terrestrial life in the form of messages, scientific instruments, waste or evidence of mining that could be spotted by human telescopes and orbiting spacecraft.

In their paper published online in the journal Acta Astronautica, the pair wrote: “Although there is only a tiny probability that alien technology would have left traces on the moon in the form of an artifact or surface modification of lunar features, this location has the virtue of being close, and of preserving traces for an immense duration.

"If it costs little to scan data for signs of intelligent manipulation, little is lost in doing so, even though the probability of detecting alien technology at work may be exceedingly low.”

The paper adds: “Alien civilizations may have sent probes to our region of the galaxy. Any mission to the solar system would probably have occurred a very long time ago.

“The lunar environment could preserve artifacts for millions of years.”

The LRO has been taking pictures of the moon’s surface since 2009, with more than 340,000 images collected so far.

According to Davies and Wagner, it would be impossible for one team to examine the ever-growing number of images, hence their suggestion to involve amateur enthusiasts in what they claim would make “an excellent educational project”.

They also suggest building computer software that could recognize irregularities on the moon’s surface.

The proposals would complement other hunts for alien life, including the Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), which uses data from radiotelescopes.

Source: Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2011/12/26/aliens-moon-acta-astronautica-seti-nasa-_n_1170217.html

One of the major questions of the UFO enigma: Can extraterrestrials get to Earth from “out there” when space/time is so vast? If we feel that no living being can ever traverse the distances involved, regardless of advanced technology about which humans have yet to learn, and regardless of the true nature of space/time, gravity, light, and the electromagnetic force about which humans also do not yet know, then we begin to assume that aliens are from some other dimension of Earth.

The fact is, it is difficult to separate the concept of extraterrestrials from the concept of other-dimensional beings. An example: If future humans are traveling through space/time, then they are from the dimension of time when they visit us in 2012, but they are also likely to be space-travelers. Even ETs from far distant planets might travel through dimensions to shorten the trip from here to there.

However, what I mean by “other dimensional beings from Earth,” is that if we feel they just can’t get “here” from “there” due to the distances involved, we then begin to wonder if our visitors are some sort of lower Earth life form, parasitical and demonic in nature, which nonetheless possesses advanced propulsion and/or advanced quantum abilities, and that they “attack us.”

I cannot understand how parasitical demons have managed such advanced propulsion methods and/or how they evolved such a powerful level of consciousness as to be able to manipulate the quantum world. I do not understand this theory at all; it has many problems in my view, including the concept of “attacks,” however, to each his own.

My point: If we tentatively set this demonic concept aside, we are back to wondering if any of the visitors in our skies are true aliens from far distant planets circling far distant stars. Are they all from other Earth dimensions, perhaps mostly higher realms rather than lower realms?

I remember hearing nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman talk at a MUFON Propulsion Symposium in the early 1980s; there were many people at this symposium from NASA, which had a branch in Houston. Dr. Friedman steadfastly maintained that if space/time travelers go .9999 the speed of light, they can get to Earth from their planet within their probable lifetimes, or they might have generations involved in space travel so that their 2nd or 3rd generation, born in space, would reach Earth.

A helpmate to this theory is that the space travelers might come from the “Goldilocks” zone of our own Milky Way Galaxy, which is where Earth lies as well. This is the section along one arm of the galaxy, which is most likely to encourage the evolution of advanced life. Warm enough? Just right. Atmosphere? Just right, and so forth.

Very recently, many “super-Earth” planets have been found in the Goldilocks zone; they are larger than Earth and may lack protective electromagnetic fields because they might not have a spinning molten core like Earth. However, all the rest of their characteristics seem favorable for life; life would likely find a way to evolve.

We know from Earth evolution that life itself will find a way to survive and evolve if it possibly can, and probably, life will also find a way to survive and evolve when there is no way.

Life is tenacious!

As 2012 looms, there are several new theories on why distances in the universe might not be as huge as we think they are. I am not a physicist, but here, briefly, are several of the exciting new theories:

There is a “super highway” through space/time on which space craft from numerous worlds zoom along. This “super highway” allows space craft to avoid the complicated fabric of space/time. The “super highway” is actually a fracture in the space/time continuum which happened, apparently, as the Big Bang spread out. It can be thought of as a string stretched out into space/time which can be used as a conveyor belt from one place to another; once one gets within this string, you are no longer the prisoner of the rules of space/time. I recommend “Through the Wormhole” DVD with Morgan Freeman as host, for starters on this theory then dig into the new physics of it if you wish!

Are extraterrestrials using this “super-highway” on a regular basis? The “on” ramps may be crowded and you might have to watch out for the traffic, from all sorts of different origins and sources!

Then there is the theory that the speed of light, 186,282 miles per second, is not a constant, as Einstein stated. There is evidence that the speed of light varies when measured on a light spectrum. If this is true, space goers could navigate in accordance with this variation. Einstein holds up really well but in 2011, some brilliant physicists and similar “big brains” are beginning to perceive that his view of the universe was not perfect. He assumed we are in a prison, not being able to go into deep space. We may not be in prison at all!

Of course there is the ongoing work on warp drive, which original Star Trek proclaimed in 1966. Today, the work to create a working warp drive is making serious progress, from NASA to private research facilities. In this theory, your star craft does not move at all. Through the use of negative energy, the space/time in front of the craft is condensed and the space/time behind the craft is elongated. We do know absolutely that space/time is a fabric, a substance, almost like a body of water. It is not an empty vacuum.

The only thing keeping warp drive a non-reality for humans is that we have not harnessed negative energy, but we are working on it. We have guessed that UFOs use anti-gravity as a means of propulsion. Negative energy/anti-gravity: sounds to me like there might be a connection.

If humans can think it, humans will create it.

I cannot understand arguments which say we must stick to “old science facts” and that it is somehow folly to pursue new scientific theories. How did we create the civilization we do have, however flawed? We created it through dreaming, thinking, coming up with possible theories, and then making them so – or making the best of those theories – so. Reality!

Why is polio not running rampant? Because Jonas Salk tried and tried and finally found the right vaccination.

Why do we have airplanes today? Because many “pseudo-scientists” tried to fly and crashed face first into the mud. And then the Wright brothers finally hit the right “pseudo science” combination and it became scientific fact.

Why did we finally figure out that the world is not flat, for goodness sakes?

Need I go on? Galileo. Copernicus. Einstein. The Apollo astronauts - including the ones who were burned to death in a faulty test module as we humans tried to find the right stuff (the right science and the right spirit), for space travel.

If we humans are to understand the UFO enigma, we have to stretch into quasi-science and scientific speculation. One day, some theory in “quasi-science” will be “quasi” no more, it will become actual scientific fact. We will find out all about our alien visitors, and life will go on, probably much richer.

We dream, we experiment, we ponder, we theorize. This is how we create reality. How can anyone not see this?

I am thrilled that UFOs and their occupants exist, because they are pushing my human species to evolve. Physicists usually do not speak of UFOs, but I am positive that every theoretical physicist out there, finding evidence for stringy “super-highways” and perceiving that warp drive will become reality, also enjoys dreaming of aliens on that superhighway and of the human starship crew traveling by warp drive.

This doesn’t mean every physicist believes in aliens; some do, some don’t.

It means: If humans can think it, humans will create it.

The super-highway awaits us, or if we prefer, let’s engage warp!

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Divine messengers haven't always looked like the familiar Christmas tree toppers.

'Tis the season for winged humanoids to alight everywhere from store windows to Christmas tree tops to lingerie runways. But it wasn't always so.

Angels, at least the Christian variety, haven't always been flying people in diaphanous gowns. And their various forms—from disembodied minds to feathered guardians—reflect twists and turns of thousands of years of religious thought, according to an upcoming book.

"There is lots of interesting theology about angels, and in some ways we've kind of lost the knack for that," said John Cavadini, chair of theology at the University of Notre Dame.

"We tend to think of angels as things that we'd find in a Hallmark card," Cavadini added. "But many people, especially in antiquity, were very interested in them"—in what they might look like, how they might organize themselves, how they behave.

In the Bible angels served as envoys of God—angelos being Greek for "messenger." Other than that, the scriptures leave a lot of room for interpretation.

"There isn't a lot of detail, and that's the fascinating thing," said Ellen Muehlberger, a professor of Middle Eastern studies at the University of Michigan.

"The Same Substance as God"

In the early days of Christianity, some believers considered Jesus Christ himself to be one of many angels, said Muehlberger, who's working on a book on the shifting theology of angels in ancient times.

"We only know about this because of later, fourth-century authors who penned negative descriptions of this belief" to refute it, she said.

Jesus officially lost his angelhood when the Roman Emperor Constantine I convened the Council of Nicea in 325. There, bishops were charged with turning the still varied and sometimes conflicting conceptions of God, Christ, and Christianity into a single, unified theology.

"The Council of Nicea defined Christ as totally divine, as of the same substance as God," Muehlberger said.

"Christians who worked to interpret the council's decrees over the next several decades took this to mean that Christ was not an angel. Angels were something else entirely."

A Beautiful Mind

In the early centuries of the church, perceptions of angels may have been as varied as the descriptions of Christ himself—or Judas, for that matter.

A fourth-century Christian monk and ascetic known as Evagrius, for example, developed a theory that explained the human essence in three parts.

"One part is governed by appetites and makes us hungry or sleepy or want to have sex," Muehlberger explained. "That's sort of the lowest part.

"A second is an emotional part that allows us to get angry or makes us prideful.

"Then there is a rational part," she said. "And that is the part, according to Evagrius, that is most like God and the angels too."

Evagrius "thought that something like anger was like a demon that came and attacked you. And if you couldn't fight off those attacks yourself, a totally rational angel, standing beside you, could help you."

Others followed this line, proclaiming that angels were disembodied minds, or intellects, according to Muehlberger.

Angels for Everyone

Around the same time, debate swirled over just who angels served on Earth.

At early Christian monasteries, for instance, many ascetics assumed that really good students would get some kind of divine guide or coach to help them.

"These monks said, Hey, not everybody gets a guardian angel—it's a mark of moral success," said Muehlberger, citing monastic letters from the period explaining the need for monastery inhabitants to cultivate their own angels.

In the towns, though, a more democratic view of angels prevailed.

Bishops and other officials began to assure their congregants that everyone has a guardian angel.

In Egypt, some bishops went on to suggest that some desert-dwelling monks—who had renounced pleasures of flesh and family—might themselves be angels on Earth.

The Egyptian monks rejected this out of hand, saying, in Muehlbergers' words, "We act like animals, not angels."

Eventually this populist view won out: I'm no angel and neither are you, but they watch over all of us.

Celestial Hierarchy

No sooner had believers begun to vaguely agree on what angels were than scholars began to debate how heavenly messengers organize themselves.

The Bible sheds little light on angelic society, but writers have been happy to fill in the gaps, including the unknown author of the circa-A.D. 500 On the Celestial Hierarchy.

Incorporating some earlier ideas, the tome ranks angelic beings into nine orders. From lowest to highest: angels, archangels, principalities, powers, virtues, dominions, thrones, cherubim, and seraphim.

"It was not an official church teaching," said Michael Root, a theologian at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

Notre Dame's Cavadini added, "I think it contributed to the beauty of the universe that all these different levels of beings were incredibly diverse but completely interdependent, and that all that multiplicity yielded a harmony instead of a dissidence."

Fallen Angels

Of course not all angels are angelic, according to some Christian traditions. Satan himself, it's been said, was once an angel named Lucifer.

The fact that angels can fall from grace is an important point, Catholic University's Root said—it implies that they have free will.

"You even had some theologians in the medieval and the early modern periods who thought that there was an adversarial angel, a fallen angel, assigned to each person as well as a guardian angel—though this was never an official thought," Root said.

As early as the second and third centuries, Christian scholars such as Origen of Alexandria saw important roles for fallen angels, Notre Dame's Cavadini said.

"For Origen and a lot of church fathers, angels participated in the governance of the universe at God's will," Cavadini said.

"That also meant that the fallen angels were intended to participate in the betterment of the universe, and that you have to take them very seriously, because they still did participate—but in a negative way."

Angels in America

Though modern Americans may spend less time puzzling over angels' forms and ways than the ancients did, Americans do tend to believe heavenly messengers are among us, and actively so.

Some 55 percent of Americans think they've been protected by their guardian angels at some point in their lives, according to a 2008 Baylor University survey conducted by the Gallup organization.

"I've been looking at over 1,100 stories we collected from people about their experiences with their guardian angels," Baylor sociologist Carson Mencken said.

"People talk about close calls like auto accidents, especially accidents in which someone else was killed. Others were victims of assault or survived near-drownings or had combat-related near-death experiences," Mencken said. (See "Near-Death Experiences Explained?")

"It's the random death that frightens us—there's nothing that we can do to control it.

"Based on our study, many of the people who survive those close calls attribute their survival to their guardian angels," he said.

In most of these cases, he added, the angels are not seen but only felt. And yet to many Christians, their heavenly guardians are as real as the ones on their Christmas trees.

Source: National Geographic
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/12/111223-christmas-angels-
evolution-science-history-christianity/