Rangergord
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Had not seen this one. Well done. I think it goes together with Thrive quite well. The Iraq reference is interesting.. I have read of underground caverns filled with advanced technology discovered there at that time as well.
Do You Believe in ALIENS?
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HollyBerrie
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I think the pictures of the Greys are always naked, but that's our fault for depicting them that way. No wonder they don't make themselves known to us.
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raingarden
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But, they don't seem to have any private parts.
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I like to think that aliens exist. The alien museum in Roswell, New Mexico is really cool.
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HollyBerrie
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Since they have very large brains, maybe they re-produce telepathically. No need for that physical stuff anymore.
I thought I might get dinged for my Voyager post but maybe our crowd is more sophisticated than I feared. I'm adding this for any one not familiar with the project.
'Sometimes when thoughts are too bleak and overpowering, it is worth lifting the head and looking upwards. The space probe Voyager 1 left planet Earth on the 5th of September, 1977. Its unimaginable odyssey saw it pass close by Jupiter and Saturn, taking photographs all the while and transmitting them back to the home planet.
Sometime in the August of 2012, after 35 years of hurtling flight into the void, Voyager left behind the heliosphere – the vast protective bubble provided by the Sun and her solar wind – and entered the unthinkable cold and emptiness of interstellar space.
Voyager 1 is now approximately 14 billion miles from Earth – the furthest flung human made object in existence. If it doesn’t hit anything, in around 40,000 years Voyager will pass within 1.6 lightyears – nearly ten million, million miles – of a star called Gliese, in the constellation Camelopardalis.
That will be as close as Voyager gets to any other sun, any other scintilla of warmth, in all of that time. That is the nature of the empty, vastness of space. If Voyager teaches us anything, it is that here on Earth is the only place we have. We might send more probes to take more photos of far away places and send them back to us – but our species won’t be going there. Not for the longest time, if ever.
Aboard Voyager 1 is a record, an old-fashioned disc like the vinyl ones some of us remember, but this one made of gold-plated copper. It carries all sorts: pictures of life on earth, scientific information, the song of whales, and the voice of a crying baby, waves breaking on a beach and also music by many artists, including Mozart, Chuck Berry and Blind Willie Johnson. He performs his song Dark was the Night and Cold the Ground, about Christ’s suffering and fear on the night before his crucifixion.
It is also the howl of pain of a man facing nightfall with nowhere to sleep, nowhere safe to rest his weary head Timothy Ferris of Nasa, who chose the song, said: “Since humans appeared on Earth, the shroud of night has yet to fall without touching a man or woman in the same plight. "Ferris said that in 1977 – and 45 years later it is still true.
Nothing else of us, made by us, has ever been so far from us as Voyager is now. Alongside the golden record is a map giving directions to Earth, and pictures of a man and a woman. The idea, forlorn though it might be, is that some other intelligence might stumble across Voyager and use the map to find us. A message in a bottle adrift in the ocean of space.
Long after we are all gone, every trace, Voyager 1, its plaque and its golden record, will survive to tell eternity that we were ever alive in the universe. Her cargo is a distillation of what seemed to matter here in 1977, this world as it was when I was 10 years old. Sometimes I miss that world of the ‘70s very much, and think that if I could make a gift of it to my own children, then I surely would. In February 1990, at the instruction of cosmologist Carl Sagan, the camera aboard Voyager was instructed to turn back to face in the direction from which she had come, one last look before disappearing into the invisible.
Writing about the photo in 1994, Sagan noted: “That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives …“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.” Sagan was a genius, and also a poet. There are those among us who would change our world beyond recognition.'
- Neil Oliver
'Sometimes when thoughts are too bleak and overpowering, it is worth lifting the head and looking upwards. The space probe Voyager 1 left planet Earth on the 5th of September, 1977. Its unimaginable odyssey saw it pass close by Jupiter and Saturn, taking photographs all the while and transmitting them back to the home planet.
Sometime in the August of 2012, after 35 years of hurtling flight into the void, Voyager left behind the heliosphere – the vast protective bubble provided by the Sun and her solar wind – and entered the unthinkable cold and emptiness of interstellar space.
Voyager 1 is now approximately 14 billion miles from Earth – the furthest flung human made object in existence. If it doesn’t hit anything, in around 40,000 years Voyager will pass within 1.6 lightyears – nearly ten million, million miles – of a star called Gliese, in the constellation Camelopardalis.
That will be as close as Voyager gets to any other sun, any other scintilla of warmth, in all of that time. That is the nature of the empty, vastness of space. If Voyager teaches us anything, it is that here on Earth is the only place we have. We might send more probes to take more photos of far away places and send them back to us – but our species won’t be going there. Not for the longest time, if ever.
Aboard Voyager 1 is a record, an old-fashioned disc like the vinyl ones some of us remember, but this one made of gold-plated copper. It carries all sorts: pictures of life on earth, scientific information, the song of whales, and the voice of a crying baby, waves breaking on a beach and also music by many artists, including Mozart, Chuck Berry and Blind Willie Johnson. He performs his song Dark was the Night and Cold the Ground, about Christ’s suffering and fear on the night before his crucifixion.
It is also the howl of pain of a man facing nightfall with nowhere to sleep, nowhere safe to rest his weary head Timothy Ferris of Nasa, who chose the song, said: “Since humans appeared on Earth, the shroud of night has yet to fall without touching a man or woman in the same plight. "Ferris said that in 1977 – and 45 years later it is still true.
Nothing else of us, made by us, has ever been so far from us as Voyager is now. Alongside the golden record is a map giving directions to Earth, and pictures of a man and a woman. The idea, forlorn though it might be, is that some other intelligence might stumble across Voyager and use the map to find us. A message in a bottle adrift in the ocean of space.
Long after we are all gone, every trace, Voyager 1, its plaque and its golden record, will survive to tell eternity that we were ever alive in the universe. Her cargo is a distillation of what seemed to matter here in 1977, this world as it was when I was 10 years old. Sometimes I miss that world of the ‘70s very much, and think that if I could make a gift of it to my own children, then I surely would. In February 1990, at the instruction of cosmologist Carl Sagan, the camera aboard Voyager was instructed to turn back to face in the direction from which she had come, one last look before disappearing into the invisible.
Writing about the photo in 1994, Sagan noted: “That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives …“Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.” Sagan was a genius, and also a poet. There are those among us who would change our world beyond recognition.'
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Um, aspararugi, hello?
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