Back from the trip

Back from the camping trip, but it was almost at the expense of our dog. Oscar, our chihuahua decided to take off on the dog sitter into acres of blueberry bushes just before my family made it out of town. No one could find him for hours. He came back to the dog sitters later that night however and all is well.

Other then that, those of you who wished my family and I a fun trip (thanks by the way!) will be glad to know it was. Got some fun pictures, (one I'm gonna use to make a new logo for the blog), spent time with some relatives we don't see to often, and most fun of all was playing in the water with the kids!

Anyways, after a bit more rest today I think I'll be up and blogging again by tonight, so stay tuned!

Gonna be roughing it for a few days

Gonna be going camping as of tomorrow (7-17-09) with my mother in law's side of the family meaning I'll have no internet. Also I think my wife and I are the only one with a tent amongst a bunch of RVs on that side, so compared to them we'll be roughing it for sure.

Anyways, I'll be back Sunday the 19th and expect the rest of my Moon posts then.

The Moon Part 2: Aliens?

One of the many things humanity wondered when we ventured into space is whether or not we'll run into aliens in our own backyard (meaning Earth's orbit). This was also of course one of the many things people were wondering about when we first landed on the Moon; that perhaps some other civilization was there waiting for us.

Well, that fateful day when we landed on our closest cosmic neighbor came and went with the famous line: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind", but no aliens. Or at least so we thought. During that day there were a few transmissions that were possibly blocked from the people at home on Earth, except for those who had the wonder called amateur or ham radio (Which was truly wondrous and still is. Not only can you talk around the world for just the cost of a license, but you can also communicate with astronauts in space with it. I remember my Dad letting me say hi to one one time when I was a wee lad back in Colorado. Heck ham radio and CB were basically the cell phones of the past, only better then the crappy real cell phones from a decade or so ago) which were possibly able to listen in and catch what TV viewers could not hear.
According to some people who had access to that technology, this was piece of what was heard from one of the Apollo 11 astronauts:

"These "Babies" are huge, Sir! Enormous! OH MY GOD! You wouldn't believe it! I'm telling you there are other spacecraft out there, lined up on the far side of the crater edge! They're on the Moon watching us!"

Those lines, if true, are the only proof we'd ever need for the existence of another civilization in our solar system. Unfortunately it's not easy to prove, and despite numerous astronauts (Even some of those who have been on the Moon) coming forward and saying aliens exist most people don't believe it. Oh, and in case you were wondering why we only went six times to the Moon, according to an unverified report, it may have been because we were warned off by the aliens there.

Now one of my first thoughts when I think of the possibility of an alien base being on the Moon is "Surely some amateur astronomers would have seen it by now." however, as I mentioned in my last post, we can only see one side of the Moon from Earth. That leaves one whole side that we don't get to observe from our Earth based telescopes. Of course we have satellite pics of it now though, but according to some (like what is mentioned on this page I found) NASA may have purposely airbrushed evidence of Moon bases or other artifacts from Moon photos. Unfortunately though, unless NASA comes clean, I don't think we'll ever know what's real regarding these stories. So I suggest we cross our fingers and hope that one day the truth is finally revealed.

I only have one source since the other two sources I found were the same article found there. Kind of funky if you ask me:

Alien Presence on the Moon - UFO Casebook

The Moon Part 1

Our closest celestial neighbor excepting a bunch of man made satellites, space junk, some small space faring rocks (meteors/asteroids ya swabs) , and the International Space Station, is of course the Moon. It's big, white (well whitish) , riddled in potholes, I mean craters, and awe inspiring, or at least it's held our attention ever since humans looked up at the sky and said "Oooooo!" On the technical side, it's about 384,403km (about 238,857 miles) away from the Earth and orbits us once every 27.3 days, and is 3,474km (about 2159 miles) in diameter.

Due to it's orbit and spin pattern, the moon keeps one side to us (the side we don't see is often called the dark or far side) at all times. The result is that many people wondered what was on the other side, sparking claims of everything from aliens to secret military bases. Eventually someone managed to get a photo of the "darkside" of the Moon (I believe it was the Russians) and revealed, well nothing. That's right, nothing. There is absolutely nothing on the other side of the Moon. In fact, just take a look for yourself (just below this paragraph) and you'll see how much more boring the other side is compared to the side we see all the time.

You see nothing! It's craters aren't nearly as big and there are no secret moon bases, or at least not when the photo was taken. Of course you could also say that NASA airbrushed signs of bases or alien presences from it, but that's another post involving more then just the moon. However, since you all come here not to hear me ramble about how boring the darkside of the Moon is, I'll let you in on a bit of a secret, well sort of. The Moon might be hollow!

Besides Earth we have seismic detection instruments (things to detect earthquakes and other events large enough to rumble the Earth) in place on one other object in our solar system. If you haven't guessed it's the Moon by now, I suggest you go back to the top of the post and read everything again, since clearly you're not paying attention. Anyways, after the Apollo XII astronauts planted the seismometers and left, the stage that lifted them off the Moon fell back to the lunar surface setting off the seismometers for over an hour. This result was something no one had expected.

Another piece of evidence used in promoting the Hollow Moon theory is the Moon's own density, which on average is over 60% less dense then the Earth. That basically means that despite how big it looks, it's actually incredibly light for it's size, and in all honesty I always picture it as being one gigantic piece of basalt, which makes me wonder if it'd float in water, but it also is a potential sign that it's hollow(you know, not hollow=heavy, hollow=light, that sort of reasoning).

Anywho, that's it really, well asides from some people thinking that since it's possibly hollow, it might be artificial. That however brings up the question of who put it there and for what purpose, and whether or not it violates the copyright of one George Lucas, but that's another post and until then, I'm going to just go about assuming it's just a big basalt like space rock that can float in water, and not the Death Star.

Sources and Further Reading:
Hollow Moon - Wikipedia
Moon - Wikipedia
Hollow Moon - Tinwiki

The Moon: Intro

At the work the other day one of my coworkers got on the subject of the Moon Landing's 40th anniversary coming up on the 20th. I said "Oh that's cool." and then next thing I know she shouts back "We never went to the moon! It's a bunch of crap." and her and one of my coworkers went on about some of the evidence that people use to try and prove it never happened.

So it got me thinking and I decided that in honor of the 40th anniversary of this great, or possibly not so great event in human history, I'll do a series of posts on the Moon. They'll revolve around various theories that are out there about it such as aliens watching the astronauts there, the Moon being hollow, and even the possibility that the whole landing was faked just to prove ourselves to the Soviets.

Anyways, tomorrow I shall post the true introduction to what the Moon is and maybe get into some of it's oddball features. In the meantime I leave you with this classic image of from an old silent film.

Belated 4th of July post: Reagan speech 9-21-87

Well two days ago us citizens of the United States of America celebrated the 233rd anniversary of our independence. July 4th is also a day that brings to mind of a movie that shares the US's name for that holiday, one in which aliens invade Earth, but are later beaten on the 4th of July. I of course am talking about Independence Day (aka ID4).

Probably one of the most memorable scenes in that movie is the one where the president of the US, played by Bill Pullman, gives a speech that tries to be on par with the one Roosevelt gave after the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. However, since ID4 has to do with aliens, it brings to mind a very different speech given by President Ronald Reagan on September 21, 1987.



If you were unable to watch the embedded video, Reagan basically says that the world almost needs an alien threat from outside of our world to make humanity realize that we need to work together and forget about our differences. The scary things is that he is almost right, but the bigger question is though; would it really unite us?

In all honesty I have to say I don't know. It's hard to tell how humanity would react with all of our differences of opinion and everything. Also I'm sure it would depend on how much of our communications are intact world wide in the event of an alien invasion, as well as how the invasion goes down. After all, an alien menace could very well choose to ally itself with willing nations of their choosing, potentially turning humanity against one another.

Perhaps another question raised by all this is whether or not Reagan knew of such a threat. Many people claim that the presidents or at least some of them have been privy to secret UFO/Alien knowledge. Some even think that President Eisenhower met with aliens in 1954. Of course the other possibility is that a couple of UFO sightings of Reagan's turned him into a bit of a UFO romantic, dreaming of some form of alien contact whether peaceful or violent.

Perhaps we'll never fully know, but either way, to all my US readers out there, I hope you all had fun this past 4th of July, and for all you others, I hope you had a bit of enjoyment from reading this post.

And that is why mom said "Never trust dolphins."

Bottlenose dolphin picture taken by someone from NASA

Mom actually never said don't trust dolphins and I doubt most moms would say it period, excepting the possibility that they were a dolphin-phobic. However there is a slight chance that the infamous Grey aliens might be related to said dolphins, therefore making them natives of earth. Of course they might also have evolved in similar conditions to those dolphins therefore making them more likely extra-terrestrial. Either way, Greys seem to have a thing for basically kidnapping people, which in my books makes the Greys someone you can't fully trust.

The theory that the Greys came from dolphins I first learned about in either a UFO book or TV program when I was growing up. Since then it's hung out in the dark corners of my brain periodically popping up and saying "Hi I'm here." So I figured it's time to finally do something with that piece of info and see what I can come up with.

To start with, there are two major similarities between dolphins and the Greys. First, they're both obviously grey and second, they both have suspiciously creepy black eyes. Beyond any doubt these can be considered rather big similarities, at least in my mind...which isn't much to go by, but it's a start, and at least I'm trying. Anywho, back to the dolphin/alien thing.

So after having poked a stick at my brain to many times to count I finally let this dolphin/Grey connection out and did an internet search on it. The result it seems is that it's a somewhat popular theory. Well at least that the Greys evolved in similar conditions to dolphins, with some thinking they are related.

The biggest bit of this theory is the eyes (no pun intended). You see (the unintentional puns keep coming), when creatures evolve in low light levels, their eyes adapt in ways to get as much light as possible. For instance, dolphins live in the sea/water (Which by all accounts makes sense. After all, it'd be a bit odd walking down the road and suddenly seeing a dolphin swimming by. Why with all that defying the laws of gravity and stuff we'd have all kinds of chaos.) where light conditions, as most would agree, are rather low. Therefore dolphins eyes evolved all fancy like so they can see better in darker light, but also so they can see better in brighter light as well. The result is a black lens that slides down over their pupils.

This is very similar to the proposed reasoning for the large black eyes of the Greys. It is thought that perhaps they originally evolved (On land of course though. People would be getting abducted by dolphin like creatures instead if they had come from water, or at least they'd have clearly webbed hands and feet or gills or something.)on a planet with low light levels and were in need of adaptations of the eyes similar to those of dolphins.

As for the grey skin, well dolphins actually come in a variety of colors, even pink as far as Amazon river dolphins are concerned, however grey is a dominant one in many species of dolphins. The greys on the other hand...who knows, perhaps that is just the result of coming from a warm planet and not needing insulation.

I guess in a way, you could consider intelligence a third similarity, but I hardly think the IQs of the two can be compared. Although it can be said dolphins are as or almost as intelligent as apes, or perhaps even us (With the added advantage of not being able to destroy vast portions of the landscape for their own purposes, although dolphins have been rumored to rape each other, which is just as bad.). However that hardly compares with the ability to build flying saucers and stealthily take people aboard and then suppress the memories of said people when they are returned.

I think the only comparison I can make now is that some UFOs (unidentified flying objects) have been seen in water, coming out of water, and going into water, thereby giving them the title of USOs (unidentified submerged objects.). That doesn't necessarily point to a watery origin for the occupants however, seeing as we humans are fairly amphibious ourselves with our fancy nuclear subs and what not.

So in my honest opinion, I think the Grey aliens evolved off world on another planet in conditions that caused them to have some similarities to dolphins and are not of cetacean origin.

And for now I'll make my exit with a quote from Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series: "So long, and thanks for all the fish."



Sources and Further Reading:
Grey Aliens, Dolphins, and an Interesting Comparison
Alien/Dolphin Share Heritage?
Greys and dolphins
Some Dolphin Basics
Ultimate Guide: Dolphins

What would or could we do?

Conspiracy theories, you either believe in some, don't believe in any, or you label the people nuts who come up with or believe them. They can involve everything from the 9-11 attacks, Nazis, the moon landing, and even aliens in some sort of grand X-files like plot. Then there is also that chance that some of them are real, leaving one big question; what do we do if one turns out to be true?

What got me pondering this you may ask? Well I came upon an interesting article today while browsing through The Daily Grail. It would seem that someone has filed charges against the WHO and UN in response to the swine flu outbreak (Which in and of itself is a bit odd...more below), accusing them of bioterrorism.

Personally I've wondered about the swine flu outbreak myself. First it just spontaneously makes the news in April after purportedly killing many people in Mexico, with various numbers of deaths (mainly do to weak immune systems and secondary infection) reported. Within days it's suddenly all over the world in small pockets (with symptoms being more mild and only a few deaths compared to the possible hundreds mentioned in Mexico), but then reports seem to dwindle down and vanish for a few weeks or so. The media says that it's probably in decline, but will probably resurface in the fall and winter during normal flu season. Then, all of a sudden, the WHO raises the pandemic level to 6, making it an official flu Pandemic, despite the decline, mild symptoms, and a death rate not much higher then the average flu.

Bit odd if you ask me, a bit odd indeed, even more so when you consider that this strain of swine flu known as H1N1 was originally said to be a mix between human, swine, and avian flus which by means has an extremely small chance of happening in nature. And that is where this lawsuit comes in. It proposes that this strain was genetically engineered in a effort by various pharmaceutical companies, the WHO, and the UN. An idea that some including myself pondered back when the swine flu first made the news. Even our Pleiadian friend, Maggador, has similar thoughts on this, although he proposes that the flu itself is a hoax in an effort to sell vaccinations, which may be partly true, but flu being real and just manufactured and put out there for the same reason he suggests.

Either way, in the end it's the vaccinations the lawsuit is concerned over, suggesting that they will do nothing, but spread the flu further, possibly even making the vaccinated more vulnerable to the flu's effects. There is apparently even talks of mandatory vaccinations, which would do nothing more then benefit pharmaceutical companies.

Anyways, this all is purportedly part of a plot that would allow the UN to take over the US, possibly even with the help of our own president. And that's where I come back to my question. What do we do if there is truth in this matter? Would many just brush it off as more nutcases making up conspiracies until it's to late? Or would we see through it, rebelling against the possible grand scheme? And an even more looming question...would those who would seek to prevent the scheme be labeled as quacks, or locked up under manipulated laws? Only the future can tell in my opinion and that is as scary as the possibility that any of this could be true.