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Illuminati

2009-05-28T00:16:00.006+07:00

Sejarah

Illuminati adalah sebuah persaudaraan kuno yang pernah ada dan diyakini masih tetap ada sampai sekarang walaupun tidak ada bukti - bukti nyata keberadaan persaudaraan ini sampai saat ini. Illuminati berarti Pencerahan Baru. Para penganut Illuminati disebut Illuminatus yang berarti Yang Tercerahkan. Illuminati sebelumnya bernama Perfectibilists didirikan oleh Adam Weishaupt (1748-1811) seorang keturunan Yahudi yang lahir dan besar di Ingolstadt, memiliki latar belakang pendidikan sebagai seorang Jesuit yang lalu menjadi seorang pendeta Katolik dan selanjutnya mengorganisasi House of Rothschild. Pada perkembangan selanjutnya, ia beserta organisasi yang dipimpinnya memiliki pandangan-pandangan yang menyimpang (bid'ah) dari ajaran resmi gereja Katolik, sehingga ia diekskomunikasi (dilarang mengajarkan pahamnya) oleh gereja dan dikeluarkan dari kelompok gereja kristiani. Illuminatus adalah orang - orang yang mencari jawaban apa yang disebut agama sebagai misteri Tuhan. Menurut mereka dengan ilmu pengetahuan tidak ada lagi misteri Tuhan, semua ada jawabannya.

Dalam novel "Angels and Demon" karya Dan Brown; Salah seorang Illuminatus yang terkenal adalah Galilei Galileo seorang ahli antropologi yang terpaksa harus dihukum rumah seumur hidup oleh gereja akibat membuat pernyataan bahwa pusat alam semesta yang bukan bumi adalah matahari. Pernyataan tersebut dianggap menyinggung gereja karena secara tidak langsung menyatakan bahwa Tuhan dengan sengaja menempatkan pusat kehidupan di planet lain. Sejak saat itu illuminatus diburu oleh para kaum gereja. Mereka diburu dan diberi stamp salib didada mereka baru kemudian dibunuh. Illuminati kemudian bergerak dari bawah tanah sebagai sebuah kelompok rahasia yang paling dicari oleh gereja. Para illuminatus yang melarikan diri kemudian bertemu dengan kelompok rahasia lainnya yaitu kelompok ahli batu yang bernama Freemasonry atau lebih sering disebut sebagai kelompok Mason.

Perkembangan Illuminati

Sejak bergabung dengan kelompok Freemasonry, illuminati menjadi semakin kuat karena dibantu oleh jaringan kelompok Freemasonry yang sepertinya tidak menyadari telah dijadikan alat transportasi aman oleh illuminati. Illuminati terus diburu oleh gereja. Mereka dicap sebagai penganut paham Luciferian Conspiracy, dikarenakan mereka, sama seperti halnya Freemasonry, memiliki ritual pemujaan kepada "Sang Arsitek Agung" / "The Great Architect", yang dilambangkan oleh mereka berupa "The Wholeseeing-Eye" / "Mata tuhan" (diambil dari legenda mesir); yang merupakan simbol dari Lucifer (sebutan setan dalam tradisi kristiani).

Sejak 1782 gerakan Illuminati menyebar dari Denmark sampai ke Portugal, bahkan lebih jauh lagi. Orang-orang Inggris yang terilluminasi bergabung dengan orang-orang Amerika membangun Loji Columbia di kota New York pada tahun yang sama. Seorang bangsawan muda Rusia, Alexander Radischev, bergabung di Leipzieg, dan menyebarkan doktrinnya ke kampung halamannya di St. Petersburg. Di Lisabon seorang penyair bernama Claudio Manuel da Costa menjadi anggota, dan ketika hijrah ke Brazil ia mendirikan sebuah cabang dengan dibantu dua orang dokter dari Ouro Preto, Domingos Vidal Barbarosa dan Jose Alvares Maciel. Pada tahun 1788 trio ini melancarkan pemberontakan Illuminati yang pertama, Inconfidencia Mineira, tetapi pemberontakan itu ditumpas ketika baru saja berputik oleh raja muda Marquis de Barbacena. Hingga saat ini, mereka berjuang secara diam-diam melawan dan berusaha meruntuhkan gereja katolik roma, yang dianggap melambangkan kekuasaan dari Yesus Kristus, musuh Lucifer.

Source (English) : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati

Sumber (Indonesian) : http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati

2009-03-29T05:35:00.004+07:00

Mt Cook village residents are stumped but not spooked by recent supernatural experiences in the national park's oldest mountain hut.

Mountain guides, visitor centre employees, a helicopter pilot and a cafe manager have all reported paranormal experiences in and around the old hut high up on the Hooker Glacier.

The Hooker hut was built nearly 100 years ago, is a three-hour walk from the visitor centre and sits about 1100 metres above Mt Cook village.

Department of Conservation (DOC) mountain guide Jane Morris and visitor centre assistant Monica Yeoman experienced the surreal when they spent the night of their lives in the hut last Friday.

Ms Morris said she understands their account of paranormal activity could be cause for ridicule.

However, she believes there has been a lack of investigation into the countless reports of spooky happenings in the hut.

Both of them explained the spooky happenings in and around the hut and the lack of investigation surrounding events.

The pair left the village after work and arrived at the hut around dusk on March 20. It wasn't until they had finished dinner and hopped into their sleeping bags that things started to rattle in the night.

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Female 'Vampire' Unearthed in Venice

2009-03-15T23:25:00.003+07:00

March 14, 2009 -- An archaeological dig near Venice has unearthed the 16th-century remains of a woman with a brick stuck between her jaws -- evidence, experts say, that she was believed to be a vampire.

The unusual burial is thought to be the result of an ancient vampire-slaying ritual. It suggests the legend of the mythical bloodsucking creatures was tied to medieval ignorance of how diseases spread and what happens to bodies after death, experts said.

The well-preserved skeleton was found in 2006 on the Lazzaretto Nuovo island, north of the lagoon city, amid other corpses buried in a mass grave during an epidemic of plague that hit Venice in 1576.

"Vampires don't exist, but studies show people at the time believed they did," said Matteo Borrini, a forensic archaeologist and anthropologist at Florence University who studied the case over the last two years. "For the first time we have found evidence of an exorcism against a vampire."

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The lost world beneath the Antarctic ice

2009-03-11T22:09:00.004+07:00

British scientists are about to mount one of the boldest-ever missions, to search for life forms that have survived for possibly millions of years in a frozen "lost world" beneath an ancient ice sheet.

This week, a team of Antarctic scientists has been given the go-ahead to drill through a two-mile-thick sheet of ice that has sealed a sub-glacial lake from the rest of the biosphere for at least as long as Homo sapiens has walked the Earth.

They hope to find species that have survived below the ice sheet since it formed between 400,000 and two million years ago. Finding life in such an extreme environment would be one of the most important discoveries of the century, raising the prospect of searching for extra-terrestrial life on Europa, a moon of Jupiter where life is thought to exist beneath a frozen ocean. The scientists plan to use sophisticated ice-drilling technology developed in the UK to penetrate the ice cap and enter the liquid-water world of Lake Ellsworth in West Antarctica, one of about 150 sub-glacial lakes scientists have recently mapped with ice-penetrating radar.

Nasa launches search for second Earth

2009-03-11T21:24:00.001+07:00

The launch of the Kepler spacecraft from Cape Canaveral in Florida today marks the beginning of the most ambitious hunt for planets like ours in distant solar systems.

The Kepler telescope will spend three-and-a-half years staring deep into a starry region of the Milky Way, in the direction of the constellations Cygnus and Lyra, in the hope of spotting Earth-sized planets as they pass in front of their stars.

Every half hour, Kepler will record the brightness of 100,000 stars using a 95 megapixel camera built by the British firm e2v. The camera is so sensitive, it could spot the imperceptible dimming of a car headlight as a fly wanders across it.

The mission will focus its attention on planets in the "Goldilocks region" of space, where conditions are just right for liquid water to exist. Some of these worlds could potentially be home to life as we know it.

By the end of the mission, we may have a clearer idea of our place in the universe, and whether warm, wet rocks like Earth are the exception rather than the rule.

source : http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/mar/07/kepler-probe-habitable-planets-extraterrestrial-life

The Pyramids of Giza vs the Mars craters of Tharsis

2009-03-03T22:50:00.001+07:00

The following similarities between layout of the Pyramids of Giza
and craters of Tharsis on Mars are most likely a coincidence...

HST photo of Mars showing Olympus and 3 craters of Tharsis area.

Above: surface of Mars map showing Olympus and Tharsis (left).
Below: close-up of the Olympus and Tharsis area.

Superimposed satellite image of the pyramids and NASA photo of Tharsis on Mars.

source : http://www.world-mysteries.com/giza_vs_tharsis_mars.htm

Secrets of Brain

2009-03-02T00:29:00.002+07:00

1. Your brain loves color. Use colored pens – good quality, not gel pens – or use colored paper. Color helps memory.

2. Your brain can effectively focus and concentrate for up to 25 minutes (adults). Take a 10-minute break after every 20-30 minutes of studying. Go do some chores: rake the lawn, iron a shirt, vacuum. Come back after 10 minutes and do another focused, intense session.

3. Your brain needs to be rested to learn fast and remember best. If you are tired take a 20-minute nap first otherwise you are wasting your study time.

4. Your brain is like a motor: it needs fuel. You wouldn’t put dirty fuel in your Lamborghini (if you had one) or you wouldn’t put low quality fuel in a rocket, would you? Well, your brain is a much more valuable, intricate machine than either of those so feed it properly. Junk food and imitation food and all the chemicals and preservatives weaken both your body and your mind. In fact, a recent study in England showed that your IQ is affected by your diet.

5. Your brain is like a sea of an electro-chemical activity. And both electricity and chemicals flow better in water. If you are dehydrated you just don’t focus as well. Drink enough water (colored liquids – pop, juice, coffee, etc. – are not the same). Often times headaches are connected to dehydration, too.

6. Your brain loves questions. When you come up with questions in class or when reading a book, your brain automatically searches for answers, making the learning faster. A good question has more than one answer.

7. Your brain and body have their own rhythm cycles: there are times during the day when you are more alert than others. You will save time learning if you study during your peak periods. If you have a part-time job that happens during your peak period you may wan to reconsider if it is wise to be giving your employer your best learning time.

8. Your brain and body communicate constantly. If your body is slouched down, the message the brain gets is that “this is not important” and so it doesn’t pay as close attention. In any learning situation, sit up and lean forward to help keep your mind alert. Buy a good quality, adjustable office chair.

9. Your brain is affected by smells. Use aromatherapy to keep your brain alert. Peppermint, lemon and cinnamon are good ones to experiment with.

10. Your brain needs oxygen. Get out there and exercise.

11. Your brain needs space. Be sure that you are not trying to study in a small cramped area.

12. Your brain needs your space to be organized. One recent study showed that kids who grow up in tidy, organized homes do better academically. Why? Because by being trained to organize the outside environment, the brain learns to organize the internal knowledge…which makes recall faster. Buy a 4-drawer legal-sized filing cabinet.

13. Your brain cells in the hippocampus, a part of the brain that deals with putting information from short-term to long-term memory, are destroyed by cortisol, which is created when you are stressed. So, yes, stress affects memory. How do you get rid of cortisol? Exercise.

14. Your brain doesn’t know what you can’t do until you tell it.
What are you telling it? Listen to your self-talk. Stop the negativity. Replace it with more positive, encouraging talk.

15. Your brain is like a muscle: it can be trained and strengthened, at any age. No excuses. Stop being a mental couch potato. Professional athletes practice every day; you can practice homework everyday. If “you don’t have any”, make some up for yourself. Read ahead, review…do SOMETHING.

16. Your brain needs repetition. It is better to do short frequent reviews than one long review because what counts is how many times your brain sees something, not how long is sees it in one sitting.

17. Your brain can understand faster than you can read. Use a pencil or finger to “lead” your eyes. By doing so you help your eyes move more quickly.

18. Your brain needs movement, especially if you are mostly a kinesthetic (body movement) learner instead of a visual or auditory learner. You might find your productivity go up if you have a standing desk. Buy one or make one by raising your desk/table on blocks. This allows you to move more easily and stay more alert.

19. Your brain seeks patterns and connections. When you are learning something, ask yourself, “What does this remind me of?” This will also help your memory because it connects the new knowledge to something you already know.

20. Your brain loves fun. We learn in direct proportion to how much fun we are having. Learning is life. Live it up!

source : http://www.world-mysteries.com/

A Link between Egypt and Americas?

2009-03-02T00:08:00.002+07:00

According to the official view there was no contact between the Old World and the New World before Columbus. Yet numerous similarities have been found that suggest a link between Egypt and the Americas:

Both have huge pyramids, aligned to the cardinal points
Both have structures built with megalithic stones and extremely fine joints
Both exhibit intriguing bumps on many unfinished stone blocks (Picture 1)
Both employed a unique style of construction using "L" shaped corners
Both use the same style of metal clamps to hold the huge stones in place
Both used the process of mummification to preserve and honor their dead

These compelling similarities suggest that both ancient cultures were influenced by a sophisticated common source.

source : http://www.world-mysteries.com

Two Pictures Show the 100-Foot 'Borneo Monster'

2009-02-25T23:34:00.010+07:00

Two photographs have been recently released from unknown sources in Borneo, depicting the weirdest of occurrences – a 100 foot-long snake-like creature cruising in the waters of the Baleh river. Natives are understandably scared of that, as they believe that the alleged monster is the mythical Nabau creature, a dragon-like serpent that has the ability to change its shape whenever it pleases. Western observers are, however, reluctant to accept the pictures as genuine, saying that there are serious clues in them that give away the fact that they are most likely fake.

Allegedly, one of the photos, taken from a helicopter, is said to be the work of a member of the flood surveillance team. But his or her name has not come out, and the date on which the image was taken also remains a secret. This further helps to amplify critics as to the accuracy of these snapshots. Another reproach is that there only appear to be two photographs of the beast, even though those in the helicopter could have taken numerous ones from the safety of the air.

In the first picture, the alleged animal is seen swimming idly in the middle of the river, but its position is just perfect for the photo. Plus, it should, according to estimates, be 100 foot (33 meter)-long, but the relative size of the trees near it seems to contradict that. You can form an opinion for yourself while looking at the image and searching for discrepancies between how water is displaced by the monster, as well as its relative size.

In the second picture, it clearly appears in all its splendor, photographed from the side. Again, notice the fact that the ratio between its size and that of the trees seems to change drastically between the two snapshots. In the first one, it looked like it was thicker than a few trees bound together. In the second, it only appears to be an over-sized snake. Also, its length seems to be smaller. Again, its position is just wonderful for the shot, which allegedly has been taken in a “remote” village.

No one can dispute the fact that the locals really buy into this story. But scientists have a tougher time in doing so, as they always require a little something called proof. And the question arises “Why are there only two pictures of the creature, when most certainly those wielding the cameras would have been most excited to capture even more?” Allegedly, one of the photos, taken from a helicopter, is said to be the work of a member of the flood surveillance team. But his or her name has not come out, and the date on which the image was taken also remains a secret. This further helps to amplify critics as to the accuracy of these snapshots. Another reproach is that there only appear to be two photographs of the beast, even though those in the helicopter could have taken numerous ones from the safety of the air.

Source : http://news.softpedia.com/news/Two-Pictures-Show-the-100-Foot-039-Borneo-Monster-039-104996.shtml

10 False Alarms for Alien Life

2009-02-25T22:40:00.005+07:00

by Dave Mosher and Irene Klotz

Humans are a persistent bunch when it comes to seeking out alien life.

We've poked under the rocks of distant planets and kept radio telescopes tuned in for "the" signal. So far, however, our efforts have left us empty-handed.

But that's not to say we haven't come close to confirming extraterrestrial existence -- sort of. As the science matures, the evidence seems to become tougher to dismiss.

From the outlandish cities on the moon to mysterious Martian methane plumes, here we cover the top 10 false alarms in the quest for life off Earth.

10. Carnivals on Venus

Armed with the best telescopes of their time, 18th- and 19th-century astronomers began to study Venus obsessively. From their view, the cloud-covered planet looked as if it were covered in mountains and thick jungle, among other fanciful conclusions.

To explain strange bright spots on the dark limb of the planet (caused by the clouds refracting sunlight) German astronomer Franz von Paula Gruithuisen made an interesting conclusion: Venus had inhabitants who "organize festivals and general illuminations" during religious celebrations or changes in government.

Some ridiculed him, but other serious astronomers bought the claims up through the early 1900s.

9. City on the Moon

Gruithuisen didn't stop with contemplating the existence of his extravagant Venetians.

Following in the footsteps of fellow astronomer Johann Schröter, Gruithuisen aimed his telescope at the moon and saw a city built by a civilization of "Lunarians" in 1822. What are in fact craters and natural ridges appeared to be buildings connected by streets leading to a star-shaped temple.

Satirizing such claims, New York Sun writer Richard Locke created the Great Moon Hoax of 1835. Locke tantalized a gullible public with a six-part series falsely quoting astronomer John Herschel about the existence of unicorned goats, rolling amphibious balls, and winged humanoid bats.

8. Canals on Mars

After being duped into believing strange creatures lived on the moon, 19th-century astronomers sought signs of life elsewhere in the solar system.

Astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli might have drawn up the most detailed yet maps of Mars in 1877 -- used even to select Viking spacecraft landing sites -- but Hubble's best images of the Red Planet leave one to wonder what he actually saw. His most famous contribution was noting a series of "canali," or canals, across Mars.

Talk about the power of suggestion. Bostonian astronomer Percival Lowell ran with Schiaparelli's canali, suggesting that they were "the work of some sort of intelligent beings." To his death Lowell believed in a planet-wide system of irrigation canals, but modern astronomy has since soundly debunked them.

7. The Face on Mars

When NASA's Viking 1 orbiter photographed the Cydonia Mensae region of Mars -- where the Viking 2 orbiter was to touch down -- the world went crazy in July 1976.

In a press release, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory described the famed Face on Mars as an illusion of shadows. Nonetheless, a pareidoliac public was convinced it was the work of an intelligent civilization.

Nearly 25 years later, new images came back from the Mars Global Surveyor showing the face was, without a doubt, just a butte or mesa. With people still unconvinced, however, NASA also released 3-D reconstructions of the feature to firmly quash the claims.

6. Martian Caves

The exterior of Mars is a dry, bone-chilling and altogether unwelcoming place to be. But could life teem in a place shielded from such conditions?

In 2007, scientists announced the discovery of seven holes the size of football fields dubbed the "seven sisters": Annie, Abbey, Chloe, Dena, Nikki, Jeanne and Wendy. The shadowed "cave skylights" are warmer than the surface above, possibly giving life shelter from a harsh Martian landscape.

Until a spacecraft -- or human explorers -- can climb into the mysterious holes to explore for life there, we'll never be certain.

5. Roswell UFOs?

Why bother looking for extraterrestrial life? All you have to do is look up in the sky.

Or better yet, get access to the secret government site in Roswell, N.M., where the remains of an alien spacecraft -- and possibly its occupants -- have been sealed away.

So says Apollo astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who is not alone in his theory that Earth is a popular stopping point for visitors from beyond.

4. Europa's Oceans

Beneath the frozen face of Europa, one of the many moons of Jupiter, lies a liquid ocean warmed by the not-so-gentle gravitational tugs from sibling satellites.

On Earth, water and life seem to be an inseparable pair. While scientists have no reason to think the same isn't true elsewhere in the universe, the proposal is dead in the water until these distant oceans are sounded.

3. Allan Hills Meteorite

For a while, extraterrestrial life had a name: ALH84001.

This meteorite from Mars, which scientists recovered from Antarctica, showed what were initially believed to be fossilized remains of bacteria.

It turned out to be one false step for life beyond Earth, but one giant leap for revitalizing NASA's long-dormant Mars exploration program.

2. SETI's "Wow!" Signal

Microbial life just doesn't cut it for some scientists; it's news of the intelligent variety they crave, particularly those species sociable enough to give us a cosmic "howdy, partner."

Astronomers involved in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, nicknamed SETI, have spent more than three decades tirelessly combing radio waves for non-naturally occurring signals.

They may have gotten one once -- a signal so "out-there" that an astronomer simply wrote the word "Wow!" on a computer printout of the blip -- but it vanished from the proverbial radar and has never been heard again.

1. Martian Methane

In January 2009, some media outlets reported that NASA had found signs of life on Mars. Thing is, they hadn't ... not yet, anyway.

The news stories surrounded an embargoed report in Science magazine about the discovery of methane plumes on the Red Planet. The early reports were so outlandish, however, that Science didn't even consider its protective embargo on the report broken.

Still, the sources of the atmospheric gas are an intriguing mystery -- not only because on Earth most methane comes from "biological processes" (i.e. cow farts), but because methane is a rich food stock for microbial populations.

Source : http://dsc.discovery.com/space/top-10/alien-life-evidence/index.html

Bermuda Triangle : Devil's Sea

2008-09-12T21:51:00.002+07:00

A legendary triangle of Ocean lies between 3 countries upon the Atlantic ocean. The Cities are Bermuda, Puerto Rico and Fort Lauderdale. Ships, people and aeroplanes have been reported mysteriously disappearing off the face of the earth whilst travelling inside this triangle. It soon acquired the name "Devils Triangle" owing to peoples superstitions that the devil was at play on this stretch of ocean and gobbling up weary and lost travellers with great delight, but what actually was at play inside this triangle of rough water, is it really the devil?, or perhaps aliens are using this spot as their home base on earth. Maybe it really does contain a mystical vortex that sucks people down into a third dimension.

The myth of the mysterious triangle was first begun in an Associated Press dispatch of September 16, 1950. Reporter E.V. W. Jones wrote of "mysterious disappearances" of ships and planes between the Florida coast and Bermuda. Two years after this article appeared Fate magazine ran an article by George X. Sand about a "series of strange marine disappearances, each leaving no trace whatever, that have taken place in the past few years" in a "watery triangle bounded roughly by Florida, Bermuda and Puerto Rico".

It was not long before ideas and suggestions started forming about this piece of ocean. M.K. Jessup wrote about the disappearances and gave ideas about alien intelligences being behind them in the book "The Case for the UFO. The view was also echoed by Donald E. Kyhoe who is noted for his "The Flying Saucer Conspiracy" of 1955. Frank Edwards (Stranger Than Science) agreed with the theory of aliens having a local hangout in the triangle as well. Finally a man by the name of Vincent H. Gaddis came up with the phrase "Bermuda Triangle".

Vincent Gaddis wrote an article in February 1964's edition of Argosy and incorporated the story later in his book "Invisible Horizons" titled "The Deadly Bermuda Triangle". And there was the birth of the now world famous myth of the Bermuda Triangle.

Throughout the years it has featured in many many articles, books, television series and movies and always portrayed as a very real and mysterious thing, but anyone out there with any sense surely will ask themselves " how in this day and age could boats, planes and other travellers just go mysteriously missing in a certain piece of water?" "wouldn't an aeroplane full of international travellers be afraid to travel over this part of the ocean"....Well let me tell you I've always asked the same questions myself and I personally have come to the conclusion that the entire thing is nothing more than a myth hyped up over the years by wrong facts and silly overexaggerated stories told down through the generations of people willing to listen to any kind of mysterious story with a unknown edge to it. [Read More]

Secrets of Roswell

2008-09-12T21:45:00.004+07:00

Jesse Marcel, Jr: In the summer of 1947, falling debris of an unknown object came to rest on the Foster Ranch outside of Roswell, New Mexico. I was 11 years old at the time and my dad was the base intelligence officer at the Roswell Army Air Field. This was the same base that was home to the 509th Composite Bomb Group, responsible for the ending of WWII with the atomic bombing of Japan. The base itself was privy to some of the most closely guarded secrets in the nation at that time. My father, Major Marcel, was deeply involved in the most sensitive intelligence at the base. The Roswell Legacy is the story of his involvement in the now famous event triggered by the crash of a mysterious object on the Foster Ranch. The timeline started when the ranch foreman, Mac Brazil, recovered portions of an unidentified flying object that he subsequently turned over to the local sheriff, who, in turn, contacted Colonel Blanchard, commanding officer of the air base at Roswell. Colonel Blanchard ordered my father, Major Marcel, and a CIC agent to the crash site for investigation and recovery of representative debris samples. Thus the Roswell saga began.

For years after my dad’s death I wanted to write a book confirming his credentials and relevance to the story. When stationed as a flight surgeon in Iraq and being subject to eminent danger from mortar attacks, I was reminded of my own mortality and thought it was high time to get the project underway. At one point, my computer with book notes was damaged by a nearby mortar strike so I took the precaution of protecting the computer with my flack vest if I was not wearing it at the time. I figured that if my hooch took a direct hit at night at least my computer would survive even if I did not.

I am hopeful that The Roswell Legacy will confirm the fact that my dad knew what he was talking about, and the fact he kept the secret of Roswell for over thirty years before divulging it primarily to a noted UFO researcher, Stanton Friedman. It is so frustrating to read articles written by close-minded skeptics who have the attitude that says, don’t confuse me with facts, my mind is made up. They have almost totally ignored his service record, which confirms his trustworthiness and honesty. What they did with his service record was to take statements out of context to undermine his basic character.

My father had no financial interest in the story, but thought it was high time to let the American people know the true circumstances of the Roswell event. To his dying day, he never wavered in his conviction that the debris recovered from that ranch so many years ago was, in fact, parts of an extraterrestrial craft. For all that was known in 1947, there was no such thing as extraterrestrial civilizations and certainly not visitations to Earth by them. It was a total surprise that there were such things as extraterrestrial civilizations and moreover, that they had the ability to cross the vastness of space to study more primitive civilizations such as ours. One of the biggest lessons learned from the event is the fact that interstellar space travel is possible and eventually, we will have the technology to be able to do so. [Read More]

Lemuria

2008-09-12T21:34:00.006+07:00

Lemuria was an ancient civilization which existed prior to and during the time of Atlantis. Physically, it is believed that Lemuria existed largely in the Southern Pacific, between North America and Asia/Australia. Lemuria is also sometimes referred to as Mu, or the Motherland (of Mu). At its peak of civilization, the Lemurian people were both highly evolved and very spiritual. While concrete physical evidence of this ancient continent may be difficult to find, many people "know" that they have a strong connection to Lemuria.

We're going to tell you a little story. Approximately 14,000 years ago, the culture known as Lemuria was thriving. There were also other cultures on Earth, such as Atlantis, which were thriving as well. The holy people or the prophets of the Lemurian culture began to be aware that something was going to be changing. They began receiving information that the Earth was going to go through a very dramatic shift. The shift that they were referring to was what you call the Great Flood. You've also called it the destruction of Atlantis. These holy people of Lemuria were very much in touch with the land. They were the ancient ancestors of the Native Americans. They began to be aware that it was very important that the knowledge from Lemuria be preserved. And so for about 2,000 to 3,000 years, they were preparing for this great cataclysm. They began spreading their teachings about the Earth and about mankind's history to as many people as they possibly could. They believed that if they could spread this information to as many people as possible, the information would be stored within the cells of the human bodies. Then it would never be forgotten. They also began to store information in crystals. These crystals were taken deep within the Earth to be stored and preserved. These ancient Lemurians also began to create detailed maps of the underground tunnels that existed between power points on our planet. They also took the time to prepare their plans. They knew that they would receive a sign telling them it was time to go underground before the floods came. So they prepared themselves for these several thousand years to be the sacred keepers of the records of Earth. They knew it was very important that the information they held be saved for when the waters receded, otherwise the entire history of Earth and the sacred teachings of the Lemurians would have been lost forever.

These holy people received their signs and began going underground. This occurred approximately one year before the flood. While underground, they learned to live there and use the underground environment for their sustenance. They built very supportive and loving communities underground. During that year, they did the final work involved in preserving some of the knowledge that they knew needed to be preserved.

Then the flood came. All these people who were underground were safe from the waters, even though many, many people on the surface of the Earth perished. When the waters receded, the people emerged from underground. The land they once knew was now very different. This emergence from the Earth is the point at which the Native Americans' creation history begins. In a very literal sense, they did emerge from the Earth. Most of the native peoples have lost the exact literal memory of this emergence, but within the highest ranks of the shamans, this knowledge is still passed on.

Now, we tell this story from the point of view of the Native Americans, but they were not the only people who went underground. The holy people all around this planet went underground. For instance, the Aborigines in Australia and those who were later to become the Druids in England were all preserving their knowledge underground as well. The Druids were preserving the ancient Atlantean information, as were the Egyptians. But the native peoples of the Pacific area, including Asia, were preserving the Lemurian information. These native peoples, even today, hold within themselves this sacred knowledge. Some of it is conscious but most of it lies in the subconscious. The Ainu of Japan are one of the tribes that preserved some of the knowledge. There was a great cooperation among all of these peoples on Earth to make sure that the sacred teachings were never lost.

Atlantis: Where is the Lost Continent?

2008-09-12T21:30:00.003+07:00

Some say it's in the Caribbean, some say at the South Pole, while others say it never existed at all. But an astonishing recent discovery off the coast of Cuba just might solve the mystery of the great sunken civilization.

The legend of the lost civilization of Atlantis comes to us primarily from an account recorded by Plato, the great Greek philosopher and author, around 370 B.C.E. He described it as a beautiful continent-sized island that existed somewhere to the west of the Mediterranean, by most interpretations. It was a peaceful land, prosperous from its flourishing commerce, highly advanced in knowledge and technology, and powerful in its governmental influence. After many years of prosperity, however, the gods looked unfavorably upon the island nation because of its arrogant rulers and complacent citizenry, and they condemned it. In just one dreadful day and night, Plato tells us, Atlantis was completely destroyed by catastrophic flooding and disappeared beneath the sea.

Plato's description of the exact location of Atlantis is vague at best, giving us only its general direction. People have been searching for it ever since.

The idea that such a marvelous lost world may have once existed - and about which we know so little and have even less evidence - is compelling. People have devoted their lives to studying, researching and hunting for Atlantis. A lucrative cottage industry has grown around the legend, producing countless books, articles, websites and movies - all speculating on the true fate of the doomed land.

Did Atlantis really exist? If so, where was it and can we find evidence of the once-great civilization today? Not surprisingly, there are many theories as to the precise location of Atlantis. Whenever underwater ruins of any kind are found, it seems, someone tries to link them to Atlantis.

Here are some of the more popular theories, plus the latest information on a recent remarkable discovery that just might shed light on the legend of Atlantis. [Read More]

The Big NASA-Military Cover-up On Gravity And Atmosphere On The Moon!

2008-09-12T21:27:00.002+07:00

A spectacular picture of the moon taken by the Clementine 1 spacecraft. The haze effect is caused by dust in the lunar atmosphere.
Courtesy: The livingmoon

“...Apollo 8 ... now presently 33,681 [nautical] miles [62,377 km] from the Moon and moving in a Moon related velocity [of] 3,989 feet per second [1,216 m/s]. For the first time, a crew is literally out of this world. At 55 hours, 42 minutes into the mission, this is Apollo Control, Houston."

While I’m a firm believer that we did go to the Moon after all, it wasn’t the Apollo program that was the first to put man on the Moon. Some aspects of the program, probably much of it, were staged and the remainder hidden from the public. It perhaps was a top secret military program that did it. After a little research, I chanced upon an extremely interesting book written by William Brian titled, Moongate: The Suppressed Findings Of The U.S. Space Program. It exposes the greatest cover-up ever perpetrated. The author has compiled evidence from official government publications, NASA photographs and movies, news articles, and books by authorities in various fields.

Checked out various other sources especially the aspect of gravity and the likelihood of an atmosphere on the Moon, this is what turned up. [Read More]

Lucid Living, Dreaming, and Dying

2008-09-12T21:22:00.004+07:00

If you don’t believe in UFOs, ghosts, psychic abilities, fairies, hollow earth, hollow moon, or anything in between, if you think the fringe is filled with little more than wishful thinking, there is still one avenue that you can fully explore to "scientifically" and "rationally" appreciate your own self awareness as it extends outside of your usual location of being centered on earth and in your body: your dreams. Yes, I know there is a scientific explanation for dreaming as random firings of neurons, of thoughts and opinions that you have seen in the course of your life, experienced again as you sleep at night--and I can attest to that—-but I can also attest to the fact that science is an approximation, and no matter what equation of understanding it may bring to the table, there is always a percentage that slips through the cracks, a percentage that they don’t understand because they don’t have the equipment to take them there, a percentage that is not covered by the particles. In this case, the percentage that slips through the cracks has a name -- lucidity.

If you have never heard of it, lucid dreaming is a capability we all have, and it is basically the act of becoming self-aware during your nightly episodic adventures. When you dream, you are usually just going through the motions, letting it do what it wants, and you generally act as an experiencer as opposed to an active, self-aware participant. It is usually as if you have been infused into a TV show as a character that has its own mechanics and plot, and the TV show just plays and plays as some other entity switches the channel here and there and changes its whimsical plot, confusing everything for you into one massive jumble of events and sequences. The channel switches again and again and you get tired of making sense of it all, and normally just stop paying attention. The "self awareness" that you are used to in this life is just not there. You forget that a part of you is lying in bed and this is all taking place somewhere else, made up and illusory. You usually don’t know it is a dream nor that you have the capability to think and focus on anything and truly experience what it is like to experience your dream while it is occurring.

This "dreaming without lucidity" must be what it is like to be a part of an interconnected conscious mind that is not entirely yours. In such a state, you still have experiences, but you don’t really feel as if you "own" the experience. The flow of things around you sometimes uses parts of your life, parts of other people’s lives, parts of your thoughts and perceptions, but the you that is looped back on itself and knows that it is experiencing something is generally not there. Instead, you are just caught in a stream or a river and are just moving with the current.

Lucid dreaming, however, is a much different experience because the you that you identify with when you are brushing your teeth in the morning—that part of you is in the dream. It is as if you have suddenly grabbed your entire body and not just your disconnected eyes and pulled all of yourself and all of your attention into your own head along with you. Impossible, you say? Not impossible at all! It’s probably one of the reasons I have an interest in alternative viewpoints in the first place—you can be self-aware in locations that allow flying and breathing underwater, places that have different rulesets, places that allow other realities to occur. And every one of those locations can be just as real as this one, as long as you bring your self awareness with you for the ride. Perhaps, as the Indian shamans believe and I believe as well after experiencing many myself, those other worlds are just as real as this one.

Like layers of an onion, holographic reality isn’t all the same, and you can go up and down these layers and experience them, even before your supposed ‘death’ in this world. It takes practice and determination, but once you start doing it, your body learns to do it on command. You learn to be self-aware there, just as you learned to be self-aware here. Which brings up the point: given the fact that you can experience a dream world in pretty much the same way as "tangible reality," then what makes this place seem more real than the others? And why do we keep coming back?

The rational side of you will probably think things like, "well that’s because you’re making it all up and those places with the different rulesets are all in your head." But I think there is a much deeper reason which truly opens up a world of possibilities. I hate numbering things, but whatever, here goes:

1) Like the normal pattern of a dream, many of us here have forgotten we are dreaming. Some are more self-aware than others, so they are more willing to manipulate the world around them. Others are less self-aware and generally just follow the flow of life where it leads.

2) Places in the hologram become more tangible when more self-aware entities share the same space and are self-aware closer together.

3) Like the stock market, when self-aware entities share the same place, rules are formed in how to perceive the world around them, how to move in and out of that place, where boundaries are located, making some things "less possible" and "more possible" than others.

4) When you die, the current ruleset of this location in the hologram allows you to detach yourself completely once again, and you can either re-enter the same ruleset, or, like the switching channels of sequences and events you experience when you dream yourself into a different frequency, you can move on to somewhere else. It will basically be like you have fallen asleep, but this time, you cannot go back where you first woke up—that’s a part of the rules. You must learn, like a lucid dream, to be self-aware somewhere else or inside of someone else instead.

To me, this truly causes much of the events in the world which are perceived as paranormal to make more sense and gives a certain credence to conspiracies, ghosts and UFOs, and also releases the power that is generally reserved to the particle physicists and bank officials and politicians into the hands of the masses where it belongs. To be illuminated and create this place, you must be self-aware and know that you are dreaming. You have not truly woken up. You will never wake up. There is no such thing. There is only a switching of frequencies. Self awareness is a mysterious choice in this world just as much in the dream world. Why, for instance, did I become self-aware in August of 1976? What was I doing in 1940? More than likely, I was busy dreaming, lucidly or otherwise. In August of 1976, I just "went lucid" here and realized I was dreaming, and there were a number of others—billions of self-aware others—who had done just that at this location, on this frequency as well.

Using this experience of being lucid, I think I can imagine what death will probably be like. When you are usually dreaming but are not lucid, there is a moment in which you say to yourself, "I thought I was in bed," and then you think, "Oh my god I am dreaming." You become self-aware. When you die, it will more than likely be the same thing, although instead of "I thought I was in bed," it will be, "I thought I died" and the whirlwind will hit you. It may take you a long time to realize this or you may die and enter the next life fully lucid. It may take you thousands of years to say to yourself "I thought I was dead" or you may know it, instantly. But when you do, you will once again go lucid, and who knows where you may find yourself at that time?

So how do you do it? How do you become self-aware in other places within the hologram? One manner that I have been exploring with much success is that before you go to sleep, you must simply express to yourself the intent of remembering you are dreaming. In addition, you invent some rule or flag that you will see that will help you remember. Carlos Castaneda was informed by the shaman Don Juan to simply look at his hands in his dream. If you look at your hands, you will become self-aware. That is the rule. Once you learn to do this through persistent effort, it becomes much easier. You may not believe it, just by looking at your hands, that you are dreaming, so you need to try other things, such as punching your leg or pinching your arm to ensure you can’t feel it, at which point there is much more evidence that your self awareness can use for it to fully assemble itself in this new location.

Be warned, however-- dreaming while being self-aware takes an unusual amount of energy as the pull of your dreaming self in your bed is quite strong. You may be afraid and just wake up. Once you become self-aware, you have to quickly and forcibly dream something else or you will get sucked out of this other world and you will find yourself in bed again. The easiest way to stop this from happening and stay dreaming after going lucid is to spin in a circle and try to make yourself dizzy inside of your dream. I used to do this by grabbing my ankle and doing a few somersaults. Spinning in a circle while standing is just as effective. Then, once you are lucid, explore the ruleset of this new place. Can you fly? Can you see through walls? Do you see anyone there in front of you? Do you know them? Talk to them. Do they respond? Ask them a question. What does this place look like? What can you do here?

I’ve been able to do this for as long as I can remember—I still recall a dream I had when I was 4 years old, where I realized I was dreaming and asked my dream to give me a boat and a lollipop, which it did in true form. A couple years later, I started practicing flying which was as simple as jumping off of the ground and imagining my arms stretching out into the sky like long threads, and then imagining my feet connected with those long threads to reform into a body and fail to hit the ground upon landing. When I looked down again, I would realize that I was in the air flying over green pastures, mountains, and cityscapes, somewhere way over the rainbow.

Some locations within the hologram respond to you instantly and give you exactly what you want—other places, like this one, ruled more by popular opinion and brute force than anything else, don’t respond as easily, giving you the sense that it is a lot more hard coded and tangible with more rules and structure than other places. Sometimes, in your dreams, you will be in a location that lets you fly. Other times you will find yourself in locations—like the one you are in right now as you read this--that will not let you fly and that you cannot leave as easily. It is a matter of practice and observation. Give it a try, and as Dr. Seuss once said: Oh, the places you’ll go!

If all this is true, and we are in the midst of some dream that we don’t quite understand, where we have a choice to become self-aware whenever and wherever we want--given that we make the choice to do so--then why do we keep coming back to this one which seems to have so many rules, that doesn’t always respond the way we wish it would? There is obviously some type of cord that keeps us pinned here for whatever reason which will eventually release us. But why the cord? Perhaps Don Juan is right in this regard as well. We, as self-aware beings, need a context. Otherwise all we would see and feel and understand as reality is a kaleidoscope of images and sensations with no form that goes everywhere and nowhere at once. This world gives context to other worlds. Otherwise we wouldn’t know what, when, where--or how--to dream.

Source : http://www.paranormalnews.com/article.asp?ArticleID=1314

Philadelphia Experiment

2008-09-06T17:17:00.003+07:00

Wikipedia : Philadelphia Experiment

Four Powerful Tricks for Successful Lucid Dreaming

2008-09-05T23:57:00.005+07:00

By definition, Lucid Dreaming means "conscious awareness during the dream state." But how can this be? Every book I've ever read on dreaming has described the dream state as being an entry into the unconscious, so how can you possibly be conscious during dreaming, and be able to enter your dreams. It's an interesting theory, and I've discovered some very positive information that will help you in your Lucid dreaming attempts.

Can you be Conscious while Accessing the Subconscious?

According to Charles McPhee in his book "Stop Sleeping Through your Dreams," the answer to the question on consciousness during sleep is a resounding NO! "Our ability for consciousness-our ability to achieve reflectivity in our minds-is specifically denied us during dream sleep. Single-mindedness is a quality that defines dream experience." If you had the ability to reflect in a dream, you would recognize instantly that you were dreaming, and wake-up, and this is why it becomes difficult to judge and evaluate our dream experience.

An important event occurs with our muscle system with the onset of dream sleep. The main motor neurons of the body are inhibited, which prevents us from "physically" acting out dreams ? you wouldn't want to actually leap out of bed and start flying around the house; this would create chaos everywhere at night and you would wake up exhausted. Unfortunately, after the motor neurons are shut down, so is the ability for consciousness during dream sleep.

100 Minutes a Night for Lucid Dreaming

When we first awaken from dream sleep, we will have a good chance of recalling our dreams, whereas if awakened from any other stage, we will not even remember dreaming. We enter various stages of sleep during 90-minute cycles all through the night (you can test this by checking the clock before you go to sleep at night, and again when you awaken during the middle of the night.) This means that if you sleep for six hours a night, you will have four "dream cycles" which you can access for information or fun (most people dream an average of 100 minutes a night). In the book "Directed Dreaming," you discover how to ask the proper questions of your dreams in order to receive problem solving information and direction for your life; now you can go one step further and discover how to step into random dreams to find out what clues they are trying to give you.

Trick # 1 - The First Step

The first step to becoming lucid during dreaming is to start trying to recall the previous nights dreams. This takes practice, but it can be accomplished. You will soon find out that if you work backward from the dream, it is easier to piece it together. This is easiest to do, of course, right after you wake up. If a dream is not written down, or recalled quickly, it will be lost forever. When you achieve the ability for lucid dreaming, you will find out that these dreams are recalled easier and do not vanish as quickly; that's where the fun in lucid dreaming comes from! What good is it if you are able to jump into your dreams and "play," then not remember anything about the experience. Remembering your lucid dreams can give you a calming feeling and something to smile about during the day. Soon, you will become aware of what you want to find out in your dreams, and you can tell yourself that the next time you have the dream where you are flying, you will remember that you are dreaming and want to participate in that adventure.

Trick #2 ? The Best Time to Become Lucid

One important thing to remember about our dream cycles is that during the night, the time spent dreaming grows progressively longer with each cycle. This means that the longest stretch of dreamtime occurs just before awakening. This is the time you should concentrate on trying to become lucid. You should have tracked your dream cycles (as explained above), and determined approximately when you will reach the 4th cycle, then, when you awaken after the 3rd cycle, you can consciously tell yourself that next time you see or hear something, you will be dreaming, and you would like to be aware of this dream and enter into it.

Trick #3 ? Not Sleeping!

It has been found that if you do not get enough sleep, and haven't had time to dream, your body will compensate by dreaming more! It is almost as if it's essential for us to have dream experiences. Therefore, if you are having a hard time becoming lucid in your dreams, you might want to try staying up later for a few nights, and then you will have more dream cycles as you try to "catch-up." When you have these extra dream cycles in the catch?up phase, it's a great opportunity to practice your lucid dreaming, as your cycles will be long, intense, and deep. It is more difficult to wake yourself out of sleep when the body is very tired, making this an excellent opportunity for lucidity!

Trick #4 ? Associations

After you have become accustomed to writing down your dreams, it's time to pick out a few common things in the dream that will remind you that you are dreaming. For example, if you commonly dream that you are driving various kinds of sports cars, the thing to tell yourself when you are awake is that the next time you are driving a fancy car you will be dreaming. That way, you create the association in your mind to trigger the unconscious to recognize that as a dream, and help you participate. If you commonly dream of flying, that's also a good clue that you are dreaming, and if you consciously make a note of it, the next time you find yourself flying, you will wonder what you were supposed to remember about flying. If luck is on your side, this association will trigger your thinking that if you're flying, you must be dreaming, and with that instant thought, you will be able to start your adventure into that dream.

The first few times you attempt to do this, the awareness that you are dreaming may wake you up! This is because your consciousness has been activated, and in order to keep dreaming you need to stay in the subconscious. It takes practice to make the acceptance that you are dreaming into a passing thought, and just go with the flow. If you think about it too much, you will wake up (and, of course, will need to try it all over again). Again, according to McPhee, "Whatever you choose as a clue to identify your dreams, the association will carry over to your dreams. As you keep a dream journal and familiarize yourself with the content of your dreams, you can experiment with clues. Before long, the next time you take off in flight or are pursued by some familiar tormentor, there is an exceptionally good chance that you will have the associated thought, "Oh! I must be dreaming." And with this awareness, you will have successfully identified the dreamscape.

What do You Want to Find Out

After you have successfully entered your dreams, the next step is to find out what you want to accomplish by being there. Do you want to make your lucid dream into a fantasy where you physically fight off attackers, or do you want to be the fastest runner in the world and successfully outrun anything that comes after you, or would you rather have fantasies of a sexual nature? This fantasy type of lucid dreaming is fine, but what purpose does it serve? It does not help us resolve anything in real life; but it can be a good stress-reliever. A better way to work with lucid dreaming is to try to get some insight into why the conflict is occurring. If you were to stop those people who are chasing you in your dreams and talk to them, what would they say? Could they reveal to you why you are running and open up the opportunity to explore unconscious fears in real life? Since the unconscious is probably trying to tell you something, it would be best to find out what it is, so you can act on it when you wake up, and resolve these difficult situations. The more you practice, the closer you will get to resolving your issues -- and then you can go back to fantasy dreaming (my guess is that that's probably what you want to do anyway), but since you are taking your time to practice becoming lucid, you might as well make it work to your advantage every now and then.

Technology Can Help As technology advances, so does the opportunity to get help with your Lucidity. There are now high-tech devices that you can use to induce lucid dreams. Most of them can be found in New Age bookstores, or you can go to the library and find mail order catalogs that carry these devices. You can now find popular devices such as eyeshades that detect rapid eye movement and blink a red diode when you start to sleep. This red light is incorporated into the dream, and reminds the dreamer to clue in that he or she is dreaming. If you want to see more Hi-Tech devices, visit: www.reawakener.com/Lucid_Dreaming.htm

Lucid Dreaming ? a Gift for Certain People?

It was once thought that lucid dreaming was a gift given only to certain people, much like true Psychics have; but this is not the case. Anyone can learn lucid dreaming; it just takes practice and time. According to Charles McPhee, you must spend the time to identify when your sleep cycles are, and when your dream cycles come. Then, as you become more aware of your sleep cycles, you can prepare mentally for those times. "When you awaken early in the morning, before you roll over and close your eyes for another cycle, be confident that your dreams are on their way. In the early morning hours, you stand on the brink of thirty to forty-minute blocks of nonstop dreamscape action. The trick, of course, is to recognize the dreamscape." (103).

McPhee, Charles. Stop Sleeping Through your Dreams ? A Guide to Awakening Consciousness During Dream Sleep. Henry Holt and Company, Inc. 1995.

source : http://www.articles.quantum-mobile.com/build-muscle/Four-Powerful-Tricks-for-Successful-Lucid-Dreaming_6754/

Evelyn Grazini
Learn How to Control Your Dreams And Your Destiny!
http://www.reawakener.com
http://www.directeddreaming.com

2008-09-01T09:47:00.007+07:00

Keep staring. This is one scary optical illusion. Keep looking, it might take up to a minute, but it'll look like she's opened her ghoulish eyes and is staring right at your soul!
[Terus perhatikan, setelah beberapa menit dia akan membuka kedua matanya dan memandangi mu]

Are her eyes closed or opened?

This picture is taken on Burma

In Search of the Lost Civilisation

2008-08-29T01:19:00.006+07:00

Anthony North: Most religions have the belief that there was once a more perfect world, from which man has been banished. This has often been interpreted as meaning a real previous civilization used to exist, populated by beings we now see as gods. Outside religion, central to such ideas is Atlantis, a mythical island deep in our past with a perfect, but powerful society, finally destroyed by the gods when they were corrupted. Could such a lost world have actually existed?: Well, perhaps not a single island of Atlantis. But the idea of a lost civilization is something quite different -and something I think can be explained rationally. Of course, many ideas for such a civilization have been put forward, mostly of a spurious or sensational nature. Hence, academe is loath to even consider such a possibility. But I think they are mistaken. Does evidence exist for a lost civilization?: No. Not of a definite kind - but there are plenty of indicators around the world that could fit into the concept, if, that is, they were properly researched. These concern the myriad myths of sunken cities, and structures off-shore that could be man-made. From the Bimini Road in the Caribbean, to Yonaguni in the Far East, tantalizing glimpses of possible human endeavour exist under the sea, not far from the coast. How do we make sense of the implications?: By providing a theory that allows them to be, at least, man-manipulated, and tying that theory with known or reasoned elements from the past. The predominant theory of man's proliferation around the planet is the Out of Africa hypothesis.

In this model, modern man moved out of Africa in prehistory and populated the globe. However, this would only have been achieveable by the crossing of large expanses of water. Boats, it seems, would have been needed some 40,000 years ago.: How else would we explain this proliferation? These boats would have been rudimentary, but is it feasible to suggest that the boat builders then abandoned their boats and continued Stone Age existence? I think this is unlikely.

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Australian researcher saves the world

2008-08-29T01:00:00.006+07:00

August 23, 2008 - 11:03AM

An Australian researcher has won an international prize for her plan to wrap a giant asteroid with reflective sheeting to stop it colliding with the earth and destroying all life.

Such an impact would have the force of 110,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs if the asteroid, which actually exists, hits the planet in 2036, said Mary D'Souza, a PhD student with the University of Queensland's School of Engineering.

Far from being daunted by the prospect of global annihilation, Ms D'Souza went to work on a possible solution and took out the top prize in an international competition to find new ways of stopping asteroids from hitting Earth.

She beat entries from around the world in the Space Generation Advisory Council's Move An Asteroid 2008 competition and will travel to Glasgow at the end of September to present her plan at the International Astronautical Congress, the world's largest space conference.

Her proposal involves using enhanced solar radiation pressure to move the threatening asteroid off its path to Earth by wrapping it with Mylar film, "a step up from Kevlar", she said.

The solar reflecting material is already used on satellites.

Satellites also could do the wrapping.

"I'm using a satellite that's orbiting the asteroid and the rotation of the asteroid itself to wrap this ribbon," Ms D'Souza said today.

"So it's kind of like it wraps as it rotates."

The Mylar film covering just 50 per cent of the asteroid would change its surface from dull to reflective, a necessary step to harness the power of the sun.

"What happens then is light from the sun shines on the body (of the asteroid) so more of it is reflected ... and it actually acts to move it away from the sun and the earth."

The asteroid is 330 metres in diameter, only a fraction of the 10km wide asteroid which some scientists say caused the weather event which led to the extinction of the dinosaurs.

But having a 330 metre asteroid hit the planet did not bear thinking about.

"We'd rather not consider that," she said.

"It's kind of like a very, very, bad day for earth.

"Scientists say if it did impact the earth, it would carry the force of 110,000 Hiroshima bombs."

The rogue asteroid spends most of its time on the other side of the sun to the earth and the next observation period would be in 2011, Ms D'Souza said.

"At that time we'll probably be able to refine its orbit and determine how likely it is to hit the earth.

"If this one were to hit the earth, you could say that most of life would be extinguished," Ms D'Souza said.

Source : http://www.smh.com.au/

Optical Illusion [Part 1]

2008-08-28T23:41:00.003+07:00

Are they moving up or down?
That looks like a girl is sitting on an eagle, paintings are so close to reality that people think they are not paintings but actual objects

It looks so real

Lost world frozen 14m years ago found in Antarctica

2008-08-27T01:09:00.003+07:00

A lost world has been found in Antarctica, preserved just the way it was when it was frozen in time some 14 million years ago. The fossils of plants and animals high in the mountains is an extremely rare find in the continent, one that also gives a glimpse of a what could be there in a century or two as the planet warms. A team working in an ice-free region has discovered the trove of ancient life in what must have been the last traces of tundra on the interior of the southernmost continent before temperatures began to drop relentlessly.An abrupt and dramatic climate cooling of 8°C in 200,000 years forced the extinction of tundra plants and insects and brought interior Antarctica into a perpetual deep-freeze from which it has never emerged, though may do again as a result of climate change. An international team led by Prof David Marchant, at Boston University and Profs Allan Ashworth and Adam Lewis, at North Dakota State University, combined evidence from glaciers, from the preserved ecology, volcanic ashes and modelling to reveal the full extent of the big freeze in a part of Antarctica called the Dry Valleys. The new insight in the understanding of Antarctica's climatic history, which saw it change from a climate like that of South Georgia to one similar to that seen today in Mars, is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "We've documented the timing and the magnitude of a tremendous change in Antarctic climate," said Prof Marchant. "The fossil finds allow us to examine Antarctica as it existed just prior to climate cooling at 13.

9 million years ago. It is a unique window into the past. To study these deposits is akin to strolling across the Dry Valleys 14.1 million years ago." The discovery of lake deposits with perfectly preserved fossils of mosses, diatoms and minute crustacea called ostracods is particularly exciting, noted Prof Lewis. "They are the first to be found even though scientific expeditions have been visiting the Dry Valleys since their discovery during the first Scott expedition in 1902-1903," he said.

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New "Minor Planet" Found in Solar System

2008-08-27T01:03:00.003+07:00

Brian Handwerk

for National Geographic News

August 19, 2008

The solar system as we know it is a bit more crowded due to the recent discovery of an intriguing new "minor planet."

The object, dubbed 2006 SQ372, is a kind of tailless comet that's currently some two billion miles (three billion kilometers) from Earth, a bit closer to the sun than Neptune.

But the lump of ice and rock is moving on a long, elliptical orbit that will take it on a round-trip journey lasting about 22,500 years.

At its peak distance, the body will be about 150 billion miles (241 billion kilometers) from Earth—1,600 times farther than the distance between Earth and the sun.

Visitor From the Oort Cloud?

Scientists first sighted the unusual object in 2006 while scanning the skies for distant supernovae that help measure the ongoing expansion of the universe.

Based on data collected between 2005 and 2007, Andrew Becker of the University of Washington and colleagues charted the object's unusual orbit—an ellipse four times as long as it is wide.

The object appears to be a comet that does not get close enough to the sun for its ice to evaporate and form a tail.

"Currently it's in a transient orbit right now, an unstable orbit," Becker said.

"It's close to the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, and we think that in a couple of hundred million years, one of those planets will scatter it."

Becker's team believes 2006 SQ372 probably came from the inner edges of the Oort cloud, a theoretical region of asteroid-like bodies several trillion miles away that is believed to be the source of many known comets.

The scientists think the body was bounced into the Oort cloud from the inner solar system during planet formation some 4.5 billion years ago.

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Meditate on it

2008-08-26T23:49:00.001+07:00

A couple hundred-thousand years ago—sometime after our hominid ancestors had controlled fire, but long before they were telling ghost stories—early humans huddled around campfires to meditate and partake in shamanistic rituals. Today, when we slow down for a yellow light, recognize a dollar sign or do anything, really, that involves working memory, we have these ancient brainstorming sessions to thank.

That's the somewhat controversial connection psychologist Matt J. Rossano is making. Ritualistic gatherings sharpened mental focus, he argues. Over time, this focus strengthened the mind's ability to connect symbols and meanings, eventually causing gene mutations that favored the enhanced memory we now possess.

"We have decent evidence that shamanistic rituals may go very deep into history, and that these rituals might have had positive psychological effects," says Rossano of Southeastern Louisiana University, whose theory appears in the February Cambridge Archaeological Journal.

Fossil records suggest that anatomically modern humans split from Neanderthals about 200,000 years ago. Around that time, says Rossano, early humans practiced shamanistic meditation to help heal the sick.

The deep focus achieved during such rituals strengthened parts of the brain involved in memory, argues Rossano. Recent brain research supports this notion. In 2005, neuroscientist Sara Lazar of Harvard University studied people with meditation experience and found that several areas of their brains—notably, areas associated with attention—were thicker than normal.

As neural areas of attention grew stronger, the minds of subsequent generations became better equipped to hold information and make the connections necessary in modern working memory, Rossano suggests.

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