All bs,we can't even get passed the protective layer to the moon
Conspiracy Theories - Official Thread!
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Says who? You????
Can you tell me the types of radiation present in the Van Allen belt and the alleged measures used to mitigate their damaging effects?
Prove it otherwise
You made the positive claim, and it's up to you to back it up. It would be as dumb as me claiming lightning comes from invisible unicorn farts then demanding you prove me wrong, or my assertion must be right.
That type of backwards logic is pure retarded!
I can say the same. . .
Now it's a block party
Sure, you could, if I made a positive claim about something, and when you ask for my evidence that supports my claim, I instead blurt out, Prove me wrong. But unfortunately, I will never put my foot in my mouth with such a blunder, and if I did and got caught, I would immediately apologize.
Big difference.
The Church of Latter Day Saints
The Mormons
Little do folks know that the Mormon Church has been collecting data on folks since the late 1800s.
It kicked into full gear when the DNA Code was cracked back in the 1990s.
Soon after, they began collecting genetic information on pretty much every human being on this planet.
The conspiracy is that their work is being sponsored/endorsed by the US Government and other governments around the world.
I posted earlier in the thread about the NSA electronic data collection center located in Bluffdale, UT. Now add to that the genetic data collection in Granite Mountain, UT.
The question now becomes…..what is the Endgame?
Mormons, Genetics, & Digitized Data
CHRISTIANITY CASE STUDY -
TECHNOLOGY | 2019
rpl.hds.harvard.edu
www.bloomberg.com
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), more commonly known as Mormons, are a group of millions of Christians who hold unique beliefs not shared by other Christians.
For Mormons, baptisms can be performed on the living and the dead to join families for eternity after death. When performed on the dead, they are called “proxy” or “vicarious” baptisms. The LDS church teaches that the deceased person will then be able to accept or reject their Mormon baptism. While the church instructs its members to focus proxy baptisms on their relatives, its stated goal is that all deceased people will one day be baptized. To meet this goal, and to keep track of who has received proxy baptisms, the LDS church keeps records of genealogies across the globe. As a result, over the last century Mormons have become experts in digital data storage and an important research population for geneticists.
Since 1894, the LDS church has sent representatives around the world to collect records from churches, governments, libraries, and more. At first, the church gathered data on notecards, but as the archives grew, paper records became impossible. In 1938, the church became a leader in microfilm, a technology to miniaturize documents that can shrink a page to 1/25th of its original size. With the development of computers and the internet, Mormons have created some of the most sophisticated informatics and digital storage technology in the world, stored in the Granite Mountain Records Vault in Utah.
Today, the LDS church claims to have the records of over 12 billion deceased people, some going all the way back to the 1st century CE. Data-gatherers on 220 teams in 45 countries, along with hundreds of thousands of Mormon volunteers are digitizing millions of paper records, photos, microfilm, and more. By 2014, the church records were 32 times the size of the data recorded by the US Library of Congress. Each year, they add a quantity of data equal to another Library of Congress, all of which is stored in their International Genealogical Index (IGI). Mormons have free access to the IGI through the church’s FamilySearch website and 4,600 Family History Centers, Mormons’ public genealogical library system.
Due to the IGI, the best records for many countries across the world are in Utah. However, many people object to this mass collection of personal data, because its primary purpose is proxy baptisms. In the late 1990s, the Jewish community was offended to learn Mormons were giving proxy baptisms to Holocaust victims, which to many Jews echoed their terrible history of forced baptisms by Christians. In response to these concerns, the church promised to end the collection of Holocaust victims’ names for proxy baptisms, but the practice continued. In 2008, the Vatican instructed Catholic clergy to deny Mormon data collectors access to parish records, in order to prevent future proxy baptisms of Catholics. The LDS church’s digitized genealogy systems have also been controversial because they allow only heterosexual couples to be recorded in the archives, not same-sex couples.
Entrance To Granite Mountain, UT Data Collection
But digital data storage is not the only scientific tool that Mormons use to further their global baptismal goals. Many Mormons have also become interested in genetic research as they collect genealogical data. The LDS church actively promotes DNA testing for its members to help them discover unknown branches of their family tree, and many of the first popular genetic testing kit companies were created by Mormons. In 2001, Mormon billionaire James Sorenson started one of the earliest genetic test kit companies, Relative Genetics, in part due to his religious interests. It was later bought by Ancestry.com, another Mormon company. While today, Ancestry is a publicly traded company, it uses LDS church records and the IGI. All LDS church members receive free memberships, and they can use their account to send relatives they find on Ancestry.com directly to the LDS church for a proxy baptism with the click of a button.
In addition to Mormons’ interest in genetics, genetic researchers are interested in them. Because Utah’s Mormon population began as a relatively small, insular community, and the LDS church has recorded a vast trove of genealogical data about them, Mormons are an ideal test group for genetic research. Scientists are able to match church records with other data sets, such as cancer registries to study inherited traits over centuries. Many scientists have also found most Mormons to be willing research subjects due to the church’s encouragement, even though there are radical sects of Mormons who reject most medical science. However, Utah’s Mormons have become one of the most important genetic research populations because of the combination of their genetic information and the known medical histories of their ancestors.
Still, Mormon interest in genetics has limits, and at times the LDS church has rejected research that it believes to be in conflict with its values and teachings. For example, the LDS church has denied access to its archives to scientists working on the genetics of birth defects, as LDS leaders fear such research could lead to more abortions. Church leaders also reacted strongly against Mormon scientist Thomas W. Murphy, who in 2002 confirmed with DNA analysis that Native Americans arrived in America from Asia, and not from Israel as the Book of Mormon claims. When the LDS church demanded Murphy recant his findings or be excommunicated, he refused to recant. While his trial was postponed indefinitely in 2003, it illustrated the complex relationship between the LDS church and its controversial uses of technology.
The Mormons
Little do folks know that the Mormon Church has been collecting data on folks since the late 1800s.
It kicked into full gear when the DNA Code was cracked back in the 1990s.
Soon after, they began collecting genetic information on pretty much every human being on this planet.
The conspiracy is that their work is being sponsored/endorsed by the US Government and other governments around the world.
I posted earlier in the thread about the NSA electronic data collection center located in Bluffdale, UT. Now add to that the genetic data collection in Granite Mountain, UT.
The question now becomes…..what is the Endgame?
Mormons, Genetics, & Digitized Data
CHRISTIANITY CASE STUDY -
TECHNOLOGY | 2019
Mormons, Genetics, & Digitized Data | Religion and Public Life
The Mormon Church's Quest to Save Souls Helped Fuel the DNA-Testing Boom
Megaphone.fm: Why the Mormon Church Loves Your DNA ...
www.bloomberg.com
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), more commonly known as Mormons, are a group of millions of Christians who hold unique beliefs not shared by other Christians.
For Mormons, baptisms can be performed on the living and the dead to join families for eternity after death. When performed on the dead, they are called “proxy” or “vicarious” baptisms. The LDS church teaches that the deceased person will then be able to accept or reject their Mormon baptism. While the church instructs its members to focus proxy baptisms on their relatives, its stated goal is that all deceased people will one day be baptized. To meet this goal, and to keep track of who has received proxy baptisms, the LDS church keeps records of genealogies across the globe. As a result, over the last century Mormons have become experts in digital data storage and an important research population for geneticists.
Since 1894, the LDS church has sent representatives around the world to collect records from churches, governments, libraries, and more. At first, the church gathered data on notecards, but as the archives grew, paper records became impossible. In 1938, the church became a leader in microfilm, a technology to miniaturize documents that can shrink a page to 1/25th of its original size. With the development of computers and the internet, Mormons have created some of the most sophisticated informatics and digital storage technology in the world, stored in the Granite Mountain Records Vault in Utah.
Today, the LDS church claims to have the records of over 12 billion deceased people, some going all the way back to the 1st century CE. Data-gatherers on 220 teams in 45 countries, along with hundreds of thousands of Mormon volunteers are digitizing millions of paper records, photos, microfilm, and more. By 2014, the church records were 32 times the size of the data recorded by the US Library of Congress. Each year, they add a quantity of data equal to another Library of Congress, all of which is stored in their International Genealogical Index (IGI). Mormons have free access to the IGI through the church’s FamilySearch website and 4,600 Family History Centers, Mormons’ public genealogical library system.
Due to the IGI, the best records for many countries across the world are in Utah. However, many people object to this mass collection of personal data, because its primary purpose is proxy baptisms. In the late 1990s, the Jewish community was offended to learn Mormons were giving proxy baptisms to Holocaust victims, which to many Jews echoed their terrible history of forced baptisms by Christians. In response to these concerns, the church promised to end the collection of Holocaust victims’ names for proxy baptisms, but the practice continued. In 2008, the Vatican instructed Catholic clergy to deny Mormon data collectors access to parish records, in order to prevent future proxy baptisms of Catholics. The LDS church’s digitized genealogy systems have also been controversial because they allow only heterosexual couples to be recorded in the archives, not same-sex couples.
Entrance To Granite Mountain, UT Data Collection
But digital data storage is not the only scientific tool that Mormons use to further their global baptismal goals. Many Mormons have also become interested in genetic research as they collect genealogical data. The LDS church actively promotes DNA testing for its members to help them discover unknown branches of their family tree, and many of the first popular genetic testing kit companies were created by Mormons. In 2001, Mormon billionaire James Sorenson started one of the earliest genetic test kit companies, Relative Genetics, in part due to his religious interests. It was later bought by Ancestry.com, another Mormon company. While today, Ancestry is a publicly traded company, it uses LDS church records and the IGI. All LDS church members receive free memberships, and they can use their account to send relatives they find on Ancestry.com directly to the LDS church for a proxy baptism with the click of a button.
In addition to Mormons’ interest in genetics, genetic researchers are interested in them. Because Utah’s Mormon population began as a relatively small, insular community, and the LDS church has recorded a vast trove of genealogical data about them, Mormons are an ideal test group for genetic research. Scientists are able to match church records with other data sets, such as cancer registries to study inherited traits over centuries. Many scientists have also found most Mormons to be willing research subjects due to the church’s encouragement, even though there are radical sects of Mormons who reject most medical science. However, Utah’s Mormons have become one of the most important genetic research populations because of the combination of their genetic information and the known medical histories of their ancestors.
Still, Mormon interest in genetics has limits, and at times the LDS church has rejected research that it believes to be in conflict with its values and teachings. For example, the LDS church has denied access to its archives to scientists working on the genetics of birth defects, as LDS leaders fear such research could lead to more abortions. Church leaders also reacted strongly against Mormon scientist Thomas W. Murphy, who in 2002 confirmed with DNA analysis that Native Americans arrived in America from Asia, and not from Israel as the Book of Mormon claims. When the LDS church demanded Murphy recant his findings or be excommunicated, he refused to recant. While his trial was postponed indefinitely in 2003, it illustrated the complex relationship between the LDS church and its controversial uses of technology.
We Have a Real UFO Problem. And It’s Not Balloons.
America’s fixation on the recent objects floating over the country overlooks a much more serious problem with advanced technology aircraft that we can’t explain.
By RYAN GRAVES
02/28/2023
Ryan Graves, a former Navy fighter pilot and engineer, chairs the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ UAP Integration & Outreach Committee. He is the founder of the new non-profit Americans for Safe Aerospace https://www.safeaerospace.org/
On a clear, sunny day in April 2014, two F/A-18s took off for an air combat training mission off the coast of Virginia. The jets, part of my Navy fighter squadron, climbed to an altitude of 12,000 and steered towards Warning Area W-72, an exclusive block of airspace ten miles east of Virginia Beach. All traffic into the training area goes through a single GPS point at a set altitude — almost like a doorway into a massive room where military jets can operate without running into other aircraft. Just at the moment the two jets crossed the threshold, one of the pilots saw a dark gray cube inside of a clear sphere — motionless against the wind, fixed directly at the entry point. The jets, only 100 feet apart, zipped past the object on either side. The pilots had come so dangerously close to something they couldn’t identify that they terminated the training mission immediately and returned to base.
“I almost hit one of those damn things!” the flight leader, still shaken by the incident, told us shortly after in the pilots’ ready room. We all knew exactly what he meant. “Those damn things” had been plaguing us for the previous eight months.
I joined the U.S. Navy in 2009 and underwent years of rigorous training as a pilot. Specifically, we are trained to be expert observers in identifying aircraft with our sensors and our own eyes. It’s our job to know what’s in our operating area. That’s why, in 2014, after upgrades were made to our radar system, our squadron made a startling discovery: There were unknown objects in our airspace.
Initially, the objects were showing up on our newly upgraded radars and we assumed they were “ghosts in the machine,” or software glitches. But then we began to correlate the radar tracks with multiple surveillance systems, including infrared sensors that detected heat signatures. Then came the hair-raising near misses that required us to take evasive action.
These were no mere balloons. The unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) accelerated at speeds up to Mach 1, the speed of sound. They could hold their position, appearing motionless, despite Category 4 hurricane-force winds of 120 knots. They did not have any visible means of lift, control surfaces or propulsion — in other words nothing that resembled normal aircraft with wings, flaps or engines. And they outlasted our fighter jets, operating continuously throughout the day. I am a formally trained engineer, but the technology they demonstrated defied my understanding.
After that near-miss, we had no choice but to submit a safety report, hoping that something could be done before it was too late. But there was no official acknowledgement of what we experienced and no further mechanism to report the sightings — even as other aircrew flying along the East coast quietly began sharing similar experiences. Our only option was to cancel or move our training, as the UAP continued to maneuver in our vicinity unchecked.
Nearly a decade later we still don’t know what they were.
When I retired from the Navy in 2019, I was the first active-duty pilot to come forward publicly and testify to Congress. In the years since, there has been some notable coverage of the encounters and Congress has taken some action to force the military and intelligence agencies to do much more to get to the bottom of these mysteries.
But there has not been anything near the level of public and official attention that has been paid to the recent shoot downs of a Chinese spy balloon and the three other unknown objects that were likely research balloons.
And that’s a problem.
Advanced objects demonstrating cutting-edge technology that we cannot explain are routinely flying over our military bases or entering restricted airspace.
“UAP events continue to occur in restricted or sensitive airspace, highlighting possible concerns for safety of flight or adversary collection activity,” the Director of National Intelligence reported last month, citing 247 new reports over the last 17 months. “Some UAP appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernible means of propulsion.”
The Navy has also officially acknowledged 11 near misses with UAP that required evasive action and triggered mandatory safety reports between 2004 and 2021. Advanced UAP also pose a growing safety hazard to commercial airliners. Last May, the Federal Aviation Administration issued an alert after a passenger aircraft flying over West Virginia experienced a rare failure of two major systems while passing underneath what appeared to be a UAP.
One thing we do know is these craft aren’t part of some classified U.S. project. “We were quite confident that was not the explanation,” Scott Bray, the deputy director of the Office of Naval Intelligence, testified before Congress last year.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio confirmed in a recent interview that whatever the origin of these objects it is not the U.S. military. “We have things flying over our military bases and places where we’re conducting military exercises and we don’t know what it is and it isn’t ours,” said Rubio, who is vice chair of the Intelligence Committee.
President Joe Biden rightly points out the real national security and aviation safety risks, from “foreign intelligence collection” to “hazard to civilian air traffic,” that arise from low-tech “balloon-like” entities. I applaud his new order to create an interagency UAP taskforce and a government-wide effort to address unidentified objects, and his proposal to make sure all aerial craft are registered and identifiable according to a global standard is good common-sense.
However, what the president did not address during his press conference Feb. 16 were the UAP that exhibit advanced performance capabilities. Where is the transparency and urgency from the administration and Congress to investigate highly advanced objects in restricted airspace that our military cannot explain? How will this new taskforce be more effective than existing efforts if we are not being clear and direct about the scope and nature of advanced UAP?
The American public must demand accountability. We need to understand what is in our skies — period.
In the coming days, I will launch Americans for Safe Aerospace (ASA), a new advocacy organization for aerospace safety and national security. ASA will support pilots and other aerospace professionals who are reporting UAP. Our goal is to demand more disclosure from our public officials about this significant safety and national security problem. We will provide credible voices, public education, grassroots activism and lobbying on Capitol Hill to get answers about UAP.
President Biden needs to address this issue as transparently as possible. The White House should not conflate the low-tech objects that were recently shot down with unexplained high-tech, advanced objects witnessed by pilots. Our government needs to admit that it is possible another country has developed game-changing technology. We need to urgently address this threat by bringing together the best minds in our military, intelligence, science and tech sectors. If advanced UAP are not foreign drones, then we absolutely need a robust scientific inquiry into this mystery. Obfuscation and denial are a recipe for more conspiracy theories and greater distrust that stymie our search for the truth.
We need a coordinated, data-driven response that unites the public and private sectors. The North American Aerospace Defense Command, the U.S. Space Force and a host of other military and civilian agencies need to be marshaled in support of a much more aggressive and vigilant effort, along with our scientific community and private industry.
Right now, the pieces of the UAP puzzle are scattered across silos in the military, government and the private sector. We need to integrate and analyze these massive data sets with new methods like AI. We also need to make this data available to the best scientists outside of government.
We have strong supporters of more data sharing. Sen. Rubio has suggested the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which was set up by Congress last year, share its data on unidentified objects with academic institutions and civilian scientific organizations. The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Galileo Project at Harvard, tech startups like Enigma Labs, and traditional defense contractors could all play a role.
Unfortunately, all UAP reports and videos are classified, meaning active-duty pilots cannot come forward publicly and FOIA requests are denied. These are two major steps backwards for transparency, but they can be mitigated with data-sharing.
I am impressed by the recent whistleblower protections enacted last year to encourage more pilots and others to come forward, and I support the fresh push by Rubio and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) for full funding of AARO. Given the stakes, Congress also needs to fund grants for more scientific inquiry of UAP.
Above all, we need to listen to pilots. Military and civilian pilots provide critical, first-hand insights into advanced UAP. Right now, the stigma attached to reporting UAP is still too strong. Since I came forward about UAP in 2019, only one other pilot from my squadron has gone public. Commercial pilots also face significant risks to their careers for doing so.
New rules are needed to require civilian pilots to report UAP, protect the pilots from retribution, and a process must be established for investigating their reports. Derision or denial over the unknown is unacceptable. This is a time for curiosity.
If the phenomena I witnessed with my own eyes turns out to be foreign drones, they pose an urgent threat to national security and airspace safety. If they are something else, it must be a scientific priority to find out.
Former US NAVY Pilot Ryan Graves
Ex-US NAVY Pilot Says He Saw UFOs That Did Things His Plane Could Not Do
Former Navy fighter pilot Ryan Graves tells CNN's Alisyn Camerota about his unit's experiences with UFOs and explains the problems they can pose for military and commercial aviation.
America’s fixation on the recent objects floating over the country overlooks a much more serious problem with advanced technology aircraft that we can’t explain.
By RYAN GRAVES
02/28/2023
Ryan Graves, a former Navy fighter pilot and engineer, chairs the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ UAP Integration & Outreach Committee. He is the founder of the new non-profit Americans for Safe Aerospace https://www.safeaerospace.org/
On a clear, sunny day in April 2014, two F/A-18s took off for an air combat training mission off the coast of Virginia. The jets, part of my Navy fighter squadron, climbed to an altitude of 12,000 and steered towards Warning Area W-72, an exclusive block of airspace ten miles east of Virginia Beach. All traffic into the training area goes through a single GPS point at a set altitude — almost like a doorway into a massive room where military jets can operate without running into other aircraft. Just at the moment the two jets crossed the threshold, one of the pilots saw a dark gray cube inside of a clear sphere — motionless against the wind, fixed directly at the entry point. The jets, only 100 feet apart, zipped past the object on either side. The pilots had come so dangerously close to something they couldn’t identify that they terminated the training mission immediately and returned to base.
“I almost hit one of those damn things!” the flight leader, still shaken by the incident, told us shortly after in the pilots’ ready room. We all knew exactly what he meant. “Those damn things” had been plaguing us for the previous eight months.
I joined the U.S. Navy in 2009 and underwent years of rigorous training as a pilot. Specifically, we are trained to be expert observers in identifying aircraft with our sensors and our own eyes. It’s our job to know what’s in our operating area. That’s why, in 2014, after upgrades were made to our radar system, our squadron made a startling discovery: There were unknown objects in our airspace.
Initially, the objects were showing up on our newly upgraded radars and we assumed they were “ghosts in the machine,” or software glitches. But then we began to correlate the radar tracks with multiple surveillance systems, including infrared sensors that detected heat signatures. Then came the hair-raising near misses that required us to take evasive action.
These were no mere balloons. The unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) accelerated at speeds up to Mach 1, the speed of sound. They could hold their position, appearing motionless, despite Category 4 hurricane-force winds of 120 knots. They did not have any visible means of lift, control surfaces or propulsion — in other words nothing that resembled normal aircraft with wings, flaps or engines. And they outlasted our fighter jets, operating continuously throughout the day. I am a formally trained engineer, but the technology they demonstrated defied my understanding.
After that near-miss, we had no choice but to submit a safety report, hoping that something could be done before it was too late. But there was no official acknowledgement of what we experienced and no further mechanism to report the sightings — even as other aircrew flying along the East coast quietly began sharing similar experiences. Our only option was to cancel or move our training, as the UAP continued to maneuver in our vicinity unchecked.
Nearly a decade later we still don’t know what they were.
When I retired from the Navy in 2019, I was the first active-duty pilot to come forward publicly and testify to Congress. In the years since, there has been some notable coverage of the encounters and Congress has taken some action to force the military and intelligence agencies to do much more to get to the bottom of these mysteries.
But there has not been anything near the level of public and official attention that has been paid to the recent shoot downs of a Chinese spy balloon and the three other unknown objects that were likely research balloons.
And that’s a problem.
Advanced objects demonstrating cutting-edge technology that we cannot explain are routinely flying over our military bases or entering restricted airspace.
“UAP events continue to occur in restricted or sensitive airspace, highlighting possible concerns for safety of flight or adversary collection activity,” the Director of National Intelligence reported last month, citing 247 new reports over the last 17 months. “Some UAP appeared to remain stationary in winds aloft, move against the wind, maneuver abruptly, or move at considerable speed, without discernible means of propulsion.”
The Navy has also officially acknowledged 11 near misses with UAP that required evasive action and triggered mandatory safety reports between 2004 and 2021. Advanced UAP also pose a growing safety hazard to commercial airliners. Last May, the Federal Aviation Administration issued an alert after a passenger aircraft flying over West Virginia experienced a rare failure of two major systems while passing underneath what appeared to be a UAP.
One thing we do know is these craft aren’t part of some classified U.S. project. “We were quite confident that was not the explanation,” Scott Bray, the deputy director of the Office of Naval Intelligence, testified before Congress last year.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio confirmed in a recent interview that whatever the origin of these objects it is not the U.S. military. “We have things flying over our military bases and places where we’re conducting military exercises and we don’t know what it is and it isn’t ours,” said Rubio, who is vice chair of the Intelligence Committee.
President Joe Biden rightly points out the real national security and aviation safety risks, from “foreign intelligence collection” to “hazard to civilian air traffic,” that arise from low-tech “balloon-like” entities. I applaud his new order to create an interagency UAP taskforce and a government-wide effort to address unidentified objects, and his proposal to make sure all aerial craft are registered and identifiable according to a global standard is good common-sense.
However, what the president did not address during his press conference Feb. 16 were the UAP that exhibit advanced performance capabilities. Where is the transparency and urgency from the administration and Congress to investigate highly advanced objects in restricted airspace that our military cannot explain? How will this new taskforce be more effective than existing efforts if we are not being clear and direct about the scope and nature of advanced UAP?
The American public must demand accountability. We need to understand what is in our skies — period.
In the coming days, I will launch Americans for Safe Aerospace (ASA), a new advocacy organization for aerospace safety and national security. ASA will support pilots and other aerospace professionals who are reporting UAP. Our goal is to demand more disclosure from our public officials about this significant safety and national security problem. We will provide credible voices, public education, grassroots activism and lobbying on Capitol Hill to get answers about UAP.
President Biden needs to address this issue as transparently as possible. The White House should not conflate the low-tech objects that were recently shot down with unexplained high-tech, advanced objects witnessed by pilots. Our government needs to admit that it is possible another country has developed game-changing technology. We need to urgently address this threat by bringing together the best minds in our military, intelligence, science and tech sectors. If advanced UAP are not foreign drones, then we absolutely need a robust scientific inquiry into this mystery. Obfuscation and denial are a recipe for more conspiracy theories and greater distrust that stymie our search for the truth.
We need a coordinated, data-driven response that unites the public and private sectors. The North American Aerospace Defense Command, the U.S. Space Force and a host of other military and civilian agencies need to be marshaled in support of a much more aggressive and vigilant effort, along with our scientific community and private industry.
Right now, the pieces of the UAP puzzle are scattered across silos in the military, government and the private sector. We need to integrate and analyze these massive data sets with new methods like AI. We also need to make this data available to the best scientists outside of government.
We have strong supporters of more data sharing. Sen. Rubio has suggested the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which was set up by Congress last year, share its data on unidentified objects with academic institutions and civilian scientific organizations. The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the Galileo Project at Harvard, tech startups like Enigma Labs, and traditional defense contractors could all play a role.
Unfortunately, all UAP reports and videos are classified, meaning active-duty pilots cannot come forward publicly and FOIA requests are denied. These are two major steps backwards for transparency, but they can be mitigated with data-sharing.
I am impressed by the recent whistleblower protections enacted last year to encourage more pilots and others to come forward, and I support the fresh push by Rubio and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) for full funding of AARO. Given the stakes, Congress also needs to fund grants for more scientific inquiry of UAP.
Above all, we need to listen to pilots. Military and civilian pilots provide critical, first-hand insights into advanced UAP. Right now, the stigma attached to reporting UAP is still too strong. Since I came forward about UAP in 2019, only one other pilot from my squadron has gone public. Commercial pilots also face significant risks to their careers for doing so.
New rules are needed to require civilian pilots to report UAP, protect the pilots from retribution, and a process must be established for investigating their reports. Derision or denial over the unknown is unacceptable. This is a time for curiosity.
If the phenomena I witnessed with my own eyes turns out to be foreign drones, they pose an urgent threat to national security and airspace safety. If they are something else, it must be a scientific priority to find out.
Former US NAVY Pilot Ryan Graves
Ex-US NAVY Pilot Says He Saw UFOs That Did Things His Plane Could Not Do
Former Navy fighter pilot Ryan Graves tells CNN's Alisyn Camerota about his unit's experiences with UFOs and explains the problems they can pose for military and commercial aviation.
Pentagon UFO chief says alien mothership in our solar system possible
By Zamone Perez
March 9, 2023
www.militarytimes.com
There is a possibility that extraterrestrial motherships and smaller probes may be visiting planets in our solar system, the head of the Pentagon’s unidentified aerial phenomena research office noted in a report draft shared Tuesday.
“[A]n artificial interstellar object could potentially be a parent craft that releases many small probes during its close passage to Earth, an operational construct not too dissimilar from NASA missions,” Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, wrote in a research report co-authored by Abraham Loeb, chairman of Harvard University’s astronomy department.
Kirkpatrick, who was appointed as director of the AARO when it was founded in July 2022, previously served as the chief scientist at the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Missile and Space Intelligence Center. The AARO was established to investigate unidentified “objects of interest” around military installations, according to a Pentagon press release.
Loeb, on the other hand, gained notoriety when he proposed our solar system had been traversed by its first extrasolar visitor in October 2017. At that time, the PanSTARRS telescope in Hawaii detected an object moving at a speed that caused some scientists to suggest that it originated outside our system. The object’s orbit also hinted at other forces besides the sun’s gravitational pull influencing its movement.
Scientists dubbed the object “Oumuamua,” the Hawaiian term for “scout,” which Kirkpatrick and Loeb offer in their research paper as an example of a possible mothership with probe capabilities.
“With proper design, these tiny probes would reach the Earth or other solar system planets for exploration, as the parent craft passes by within a fraction of the Earth-Sun separation — just like ‘Oumuamua’ did,” the authors explained. “Astronomers would not be able to notice the spray of mini-probes because they do not reflect enough sunlight for existing survey telescopes to notice them.”
The research paper — titled “Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” — comes following a month of intense scrutiny of unidentified flying objects, a stirring trend ignited when a Chinese spy balloon captivated the nation by drifting across U.S. airspace. Three additional unidentified objects were subsequently found.
On Feb. 16, Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and 12 other senators sent a letter to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks and Deputy Director of National Intelligence Stacey Dixon calling for full funding for the AARO. The Biden administration’s previous funding request for fiscal year 2023 failed to fund anything beyond the office’s basic operating expenses, the lawmakers argued.
“AARO provides the opportunity to integrate and resolve threats and hazards to the U.S., while also offering increased transparency to the American people and reducing the stigma,” the lawmakers’ letter stated. “AARO’s success will depend on robust funding for its activities and cooperation between the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community.”
By Zamone Perez
March 9, 2023
Pentagon UFO chief says alien mothership in our solar system possible
The yet-published research paper discusses the possibility that visitors from other galaxies may already be trekking across our solar system.
www.militarytimes.com
There is a possibility that extraterrestrial motherships and smaller probes may be visiting planets in our solar system, the head of the Pentagon’s unidentified aerial phenomena research office noted in a report draft shared Tuesday.
“[A]n artificial interstellar object could potentially be a parent craft that releases many small probes during its close passage to Earth, an operational construct not too dissimilar from NASA missions,” Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, wrote in a research report co-authored by Abraham Loeb, chairman of Harvard University’s astronomy department.
Kirkpatrick, who was appointed as director of the AARO when it was founded in July 2022, previously served as the chief scientist at the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Missile and Space Intelligence Center. The AARO was established to investigate unidentified “objects of interest” around military installations, according to a Pentagon press release.
Loeb, on the other hand, gained notoriety when he proposed our solar system had been traversed by its first extrasolar visitor in October 2017. At that time, the PanSTARRS telescope in Hawaii detected an object moving at a speed that caused some scientists to suggest that it originated outside our system. The object’s orbit also hinted at other forces besides the sun’s gravitational pull influencing its movement.
Scientists dubbed the object “Oumuamua,” the Hawaiian term for “scout,” which Kirkpatrick and Loeb offer in their research paper as an example of a possible mothership with probe capabilities.
“With proper design, these tiny probes would reach the Earth or other solar system planets for exploration, as the parent craft passes by within a fraction of the Earth-Sun separation — just like ‘Oumuamua’ did,” the authors explained. “Astronomers would not be able to notice the spray of mini-probes because they do not reflect enough sunlight for existing survey telescopes to notice them.”
The research paper — titled “Physical Constraints on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena” — comes following a month of intense scrutiny of unidentified flying objects, a stirring trend ignited when a Chinese spy balloon captivated the nation by drifting across U.S. airspace. Three additional unidentified objects were subsequently found.
On Feb. 16, Sens. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and 12 other senators sent a letter to Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks and Deputy Director of National Intelligence Stacey Dixon calling for full funding for the AARO. The Biden administration’s previous funding request for fiscal year 2023 failed to fund anything beyond the office’s basic operating expenses, the lawmakers argued.
“AARO provides the opportunity to integrate and resolve threats and hazards to the U.S., while also offering increased transparency to the American people and reducing the stigma,” the lawmakers’ letter stated. “AARO’s success will depend on robust funding for its activities and cooperation between the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community.”
George Knapp
Interviews John Lear
1987
Interviews John Lear
1987
NSO Group
This is one of the biggest, international dark companies that is behind the technology that is allowing a growing number of governments to spy on you right now….regardless of whatever trick or hack you have on your phone.
If you are one of those folks who thinks the Covid vaccine was put out to track you….when you read up on this company, you will immediately know that is all BS.
cloudsek.com
CYBER INTELLIGENCE FOR GLOBAL SECURITY AND STABILITY
NSO creates technology that helps government agencies prevent and investigate terrorism and crime to save thousands of lives around the globe.
TERRORISTS AND CRIMINALS HAVE GONE DARK
Terrorists, drug traffickers, pedophiles, and other criminals have access to advanced technology and are harder to monitor, track, and capture than ever before.
The world’s most dangerous offenders communicate using technology designed to shield their communications, while government intelligence and law-enforcement agencies struggle to collect evidence and intelligence on their activities.
Due to these ongoing global concerns, the member nations of the Five Eyes (FVEY) intelligence alliance warn that, “The increasing gap between the ability of law enforcement to lawfully access data and their ability to acquire and use the content of that data is a pressing international concern that requires urgent, sustained attention.”
HELPING GOVERNMENTS MAINTAIN PUBLIC SAFETY
NSO Group develops best-in-class technology to help government agencies detect and prevent a wide-range of local and global threats.
Our products help government intelligence and law-enforcement agencies use technology to meet the challenges of encryption to prevent and investigate terror and crime.
NSO technology is designed by telecommunications and intelligence experts who, positioned at the forefront of their fields, are dedicated to keeping pace with the ever-changing cyber world.
Global Spyware Scandal
Exposing Pegasus
PBS Frontline
Investigating the spyware Pegasus, sold to governments around the world by the Israeli company NSO Group, used to spy on journalists, activists, the fiancée of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and others.
This is one of the biggest, international dark companies that is behind the technology that is allowing a growing number of governments to spy on you right now….regardless of whatever trick or hack you have on your phone.
If you are one of those folks who thinks the Covid vaccine was put out to track you….when you read up on this company, you will immediately know that is all BS.
Everything You Need to Know about the Pegasus Spyware | CloudSEK
Everything You Need to Know about the Pegasus Spyware
cloudsek.com
CYBER INTELLIGENCE FOR GLOBAL SECURITY AND STABILITY
NSO creates technology that helps government agencies prevent and investigate terrorism and crime to save thousands of lives around the globe.
TERRORISTS AND CRIMINALS HAVE GONE DARK
Terrorists, drug traffickers, pedophiles, and other criminals have access to advanced technology and are harder to monitor, track, and capture than ever before.
The world’s most dangerous offenders communicate using technology designed to shield their communications, while government intelligence and law-enforcement agencies struggle to collect evidence and intelligence on their activities.
Due to these ongoing global concerns, the member nations of the Five Eyes (FVEY) intelligence alliance warn that, “The increasing gap between the ability of law enforcement to lawfully access data and their ability to acquire and use the content of that data is a pressing international concern that requires urgent, sustained attention.”
HELPING GOVERNMENTS MAINTAIN PUBLIC SAFETY
NSO Group develops best-in-class technology to help government agencies detect and prevent a wide-range of local and global threats.
Our products help government intelligence and law-enforcement agencies use technology to meet the challenges of encryption to prevent and investigate terror and crime.
NSO technology is designed by telecommunications and intelligence experts who, positioned at the forefront of their fields, are dedicated to keeping pace with the ever-changing cyber world.
Global Spyware Scandal
Exposing Pegasus
PBS Frontline
Investigating the spyware Pegasus, sold to governments around the world by the Israeli company NSO Group, used to spy on journalists, activists, the fiancée of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi and others.
Was this just a vacation cruise?
Or was it an experimental “Snowpiercer”.
Or was it a trial run for the upcoming Global Financial Apocalyptic Collapse?
This 3-Year Cruise Will Visit 135 Countries on All 7 Continents
The epic journey departs from Istanbul in November, with sailings (including accommodations and meals) starting at $30,000 per year.
By Bailey Berg
March 06, 2023
www.afar.com
How do you pack a suitcase for a trip that includes ogling Emperor penguins in the Falkland Islands, lazing on the beach in Hawai‘i, and spending nights out in major cities like Cape Town and Beijing? It’s a question you’ll have to ask yourself if you sign up for Life at Sea Cruises’ new around-the-world itinerary.
The Florida-based Life at Sea Cruises, a spin-off of ship management company Miray Cruises, just announced a three-year cruise during which guests will sail roughly 130,000 miles, stop in 375 ports across 135 countries, and visit every continent.
The vessel will depart from Istanbul, Turkey, on November 1, 2023, before making additional stops (where passengers can also embark) in Barcelona and Miami. In the more than 1,000 days that follow, the ship will explore much of South America, Antarctica, the Caribbean, Central America, the USA (including California, Hawai‘i, Washington, and Alaska), northern Asia, the South Pacific, Australia, countries on the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, southern and western Africa, and coastal Europe.
During that time, the sailing will deliver passengers to myriad iconic and UNESCO World Heritage sights, including the pyramids of Giza in Egypt, Machu Picchu in Peru, the Great Wall of China, Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue, and India’s Taj Mahal.
While other around-the-world cruises typically spend a day or two at each port, the advantage of this much longer sailing is that it will dock for up to seven nights in some larger cities, like Shanghai and Singapore.
The cruise will take place on the MV Gemini, which can accommodate up to 1,074 passengers. Cabin sizes range from 130 square feet for interior staterooms (which include a double bed, a bathroom, and a desk) to 260 square feet for balcony suites (which have an additional living room area).
Pricing, which includes all meals, drinks (both alcoholic and nonalcoholic), laundry, Wi-Fi, gratuities, housekeeping, and port fees, starts at $90,000 and go up to $330,000 based on accommodations. There isn’t the option to do shorter legs; however, it is possible to go in on one room with family and friends and divvy up the costs with who is on the boat at any given time. The company is also offering a matchmaking scheme, where passengers co-own a cabin with another group and split time on board.
For meals, passengers can choose to dine at either of the two main restaurants, visit the café on the pool deck, or order room service. The ship’s amenities include a swimming pool, sun deck, a golf simulator, a fitness center, and a hospital staffed with healthcare providers and a dentist and outfitted with a pharmacy and medical equipment such as X-ray and ultrasound machines and defibrillators. (According to the cruise line, the medical staff “even has the capability to perform certain surgeries.”) For those who want to work from sea, there’s also a large business center (replacing a former casino) with meeting rooms, 14 office spaces, a library, and a lounge area.
In the past year, as cruisers have returned to the sea with a fervor following the pandemic pause in global sailings, cruise lines have been witnessing incredible demand for around-the-world sailings—one of Oceania Cruises’ 180-day itineraries sold out in 30 minutes last year. Life at Sea Cruises isn’t the only cruise line that has introduced the idea of a multi-year sailing. Another cruise company, Storylines, recently unveiled plans to launch a residential cruise ship, MV Narrative, that will sail indefinitely starting in 2024.
Or was it an experimental “Snowpiercer”.
Or was it a trial run for the upcoming Global Financial Apocalyptic Collapse?
This 3-Year Cruise Will Visit 135 Countries on All 7 Continents
The epic journey departs from Istanbul in November, with sailings (including accommodations and meals) starting at $30,000 per year.
By Bailey Berg
March 06, 2023
This 3-Year Cruise Will Visit 148 Countries on All 7 Continents
The epic journey departs from Istanbul in November, with sailings (including accommodations and meals) starting at $38,500 per year.
www.afar.com
How do you pack a suitcase for a trip that includes ogling Emperor penguins in the Falkland Islands, lazing on the beach in Hawai‘i, and spending nights out in major cities like Cape Town and Beijing? It’s a question you’ll have to ask yourself if you sign up for Life at Sea Cruises’ new around-the-world itinerary.
The Florida-based Life at Sea Cruises, a spin-off of ship management company Miray Cruises, just announced a three-year cruise during which guests will sail roughly 130,000 miles, stop in 375 ports across 135 countries, and visit every continent.
The vessel will depart from Istanbul, Turkey, on November 1, 2023, before making additional stops (where passengers can also embark) in Barcelona and Miami. In the more than 1,000 days that follow, the ship will explore much of South America, Antarctica, the Caribbean, Central America, the USA (including California, Hawai‘i, Washington, and Alaska), northern Asia, the South Pacific, Australia, countries on the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, southern and western Africa, and coastal Europe.
During that time, the sailing will deliver passengers to myriad iconic and UNESCO World Heritage sights, including the pyramids of Giza in Egypt, Machu Picchu in Peru, the Great Wall of China, Rio de Janeiro’s Christ the Redeemer statue, and India’s Taj Mahal.
While other around-the-world cruises typically spend a day or two at each port, the advantage of this much longer sailing is that it will dock for up to seven nights in some larger cities, like Shanghai and Singapore.
The cruise will take place on the MV Gemini, which can accommodate up to 1,074 passengers. Cabin sizes range from 130 square feet for interior staterooms (which include a double bed, a bathroom, and a desk) to 260 square feet for balcony suites (which have an additional living room area).
Pricing, which includes all meals, drinks (both alcoholic and nonalcoholic), laundry, Wi-Fi, gratuities, housekeeping, and port fees, starts at $90,000 and go up to $330,000 based on accommodations. There isn’t the option to do shorter legs; however, it is possible to go in on one room with family and friends and divvy up the costs with who is on the boat at any given time. The company is also offering a matchmaking scheme, where passengers co-own a cabin with another group and split time on board.
For meals, passengers can choose to dine at either of the two main restaurants, visit the café on the pool deck, or order room service. The ship’s amenities include a swimming pool, sun deck, a golf simulator, a fitness center, and a hospital staffed with healthcare providers and a dentist and outfitted with a pharmacy and medical equipment such as X-ray and ultrasound machines and defibrillators. (According to the cruise line, the medical staff “even has the capability to perform certain surgeries.”) For those who want to work from sea, there’s also a large business center (replacing a former casino) with meeting rooms, 14 office spaces, a library, and a lounge area.
In the past year, as cruisers have returned to the sea with a fervor following the pandemic pause in global sailings, cruise lines have been witnessing incredible demand for around-the-world sailings—one of Oceania Cruises’ 180-day itineraries sold out in 30 minutes last year. Life at Sea Cruises isn’t the only cruise line that has introduced the idea of a multi-year sailing. Another cruise company, Storylines, recently unveiled plans to launch a residential cruise ship, MV Narrative, that will sail indefinitely starting in 2024.
The Lost Gospel
There is proof Jesus existed (there isn’t any proof he is the Son of God)
Is it possible he got married and had kids? Is it possible he has descendants living today?
Could you possibly be in his bloodline….and if you were….what would you do with that information if you found out?
'The Lost Gospel': The ancient manuscript that claims Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had children
Professor Barrie Wilson Simcha Jacobovici
Thursday 11 January 2018
www.independent.co.uk
www.independent.co.uk
What you are about to read is a detective story.
We have uncovered an ancient writing that is encrypted with a hidden meaning. In the process of decoding it, we’ll take you on a journey into the world of this mysterious text. What the Vatican feared—and Dan Brown only suspected—has come true. There is now written evidence that Jesus was married to Mary the Magdalene, and that they had children together.
More than this, based on the new evidence, we now know what the original Jesus movement looked like and the unexpected role sexuality played in it. We have even unraveled the politics behind the crucifixion, as well as the events and the people that took part in it.
Gathering dust in the British Library is a document that takes us into the missing years of Jesus’ life. Scholars believe that Jesus was born around 5 BC, and that he was crucified around 30AD.
But there is a huge gap in his biography. We know absolutely nothing about Jesus from the time he was eight days old (his circumcision, according to Jewish law), until he was in his early thirties. There is one exception. According to the Gospel of Luke (2:41–2:51), when he was twelve years old, Jesus traveled with his parents to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover.
That’s it. That’s all we have. Otherwise, thirty years of absolute silence.
Isn’t this incredible? Here is arguably the most influential individual in human history and we know nothing about him until after he starts his “ministry” (i.e., his public activism) at most three years before his crucifixion.
But the fact is that we simply have no information about Jesus’ early years—his upbringing, friends, schooling, or his interaction with family members. We have no knowledge of Jesus as a young adult. How did he gain access to the writings of the Hebrew Bible? Did the synagogue in Nazareth, a very small hamlet at the time, have scrolls of the Law and the Prophets? Who were his religious teachers?
How well versed was he in Hebrew, in addition to the Aramaic that we know he spoke? Did he speak Greek, the lingua franca of the Roman world? Jesus appears on the stage of history suddenly in the late 20s c.e. At this point, the mature Jesus announces the “Kingdom of God”—that is, the advent of a qualitative transformation in human history, prophesied by the Hebrew Bible, in which justice will reign upon the earth and the worship of the one true God will be universal.
But what happened to Jesus before this sudden appearance? According to the document that we uncovered, sometime during this period he became engaged, got married, had sexual relations, and produced children. Before anyone gets his/her theological back up, keep in mind that we are not attacking anyone’s theology. We are reporting on a text. Theology must follow historical fact and not the other way around. Having said this, for the moment, we are not asserting that our text is historical fact. So far, we are merely stating that the Christian Bible tells us nothing about Jesus’ early years, and that we have discovered a text that claims that he was married and fathered children.
On a purely historical level, this really shouldn’t surprise us. Marriage and children were expected of a Jewish man, then and now. If he hadn’t been married, that would have caused consternation to his family, possible scandal in the community, and the New Testament certainly would have commented on it—if for no other reason than to explain and defend Jesus’ unusual behavior. But now we have a document that claims that he was indeed married and fathered children. Not only this, our document indicates that for some of his original followers, Jesus’ marriage was the most important aspect of their theology.
This extract was published in The Independent with permission from the authors. 'The Lost Gospel' by Profeessor Barrie Wilson and Simcha Jacobovici is out now via Pegasus
There is proof Jesus existed (there isn’t any proof he is the Son of God)
Is it possible he got married and had kids? Is it possible he has descendants living today?
Could you possibly be in his bloodline….and if you were….what would you do with that information if you found out?
'The Lost Gospel': The ancient manuscript that claims Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had children
Professor Barrie Wilson Simcha Jacobovici
Thursday 11 January 2018
Jesus 'married Mary Magdalene and had children', according to an ancient manuscript
'We now know what the original Jesus movement looked like and the unexpected role sexuality played in it'
www.independent.co.uk
Jesus 'married Mary Magdalene and had children', according to
A new book claims the Jesus fathered two children and married
www.independent.co.uk
What you are about to read is a detective story.
We have uncovered an ancient writing that is encrypted with a hidden meaning. In the process of decoding it, we’ll take you on a journey into the world of this mysterious text. What the Vatican feared—and Dan Brown only suspected—has come true. There is now written evidence that Jesus was married to Mary the Magdalene, and that they had children together.
More than this, based on the new evidence, we now know what the original Jesus movement looked like and the unexpected role sexuality played in it. We have even unraveled the politics behind the crucifixion, as well as the events and the people that took part in it.
Gathering dust in the British Library is a document that takes us into the missing years of Jesus’ life. Scholars believe that Jesus was born around 5 BC, and that he was crucified around 30AD.
But there is a huge gap in his biography. We know absolutely nothing about Jesus from the time he was eight days old (his circumcision, according to Jewish law), until he was in his early thirties. There is one exception. According to the Gospel of Luke (2:41–2:51), when he was twelve years old, Jesus traveled with his parents to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover.
That’s it. That’s all we have. Otherwise, thirty years of absolute silence.
Isn’t this incredible? Here is arguably the most influential individual in human history and we know nothing about him until after he starts his “ministry” (i.e., his public activism) at most three years before his crucifixion.
But the fact is that we simply have no information about Jesus’ early years—his upbringing, friends, schooling, or his interaction with family members. We have no knowledge of Jesus as a young adult. How did he gain access to the writings of the Hebrew Bible? Did the synagogue in Nazareth, a very small hamlet at the time, have scrolls of the Law and the Prophets? Who were his religious teachers?
How well versed was he in Hebrew, in addition to the Aramaic that we know he spoke? Did he speak Greek, the lingua franca of the Roman world? Jesus appears on the stage of history suddenly in the late 20s c.e. At this point, the mature Jesus announces the “Kingdom of God”—that is, the advent of a qualitative transformation in human history, prophesied by the Hebrew Bible, in which justice will reign upon the earth and the worship of the one true God will be universal.
But what happened to Jesus before this sudden appearance? According to the document that we uncovered, sometime during this period he became engaged, got married, had sexual relations, and produced children. Before anyone gets his/her theological back up, keep in mind that we are not attacking anyone’s theology. We are reporting on a text. Theology must follow historical fact and not the other way around. Having said this, for the moment, we are not asserting that our text is historical fact. So far, we are merely stating that the Christian Bible tells us nothing about Jesus’ early years, and that we have discovered a text that claims that he was married and fathered children.
On a purely historical level, this really shouldn’t surprise us. Marriage and children were expected of a Jewish man, then and now. If he hadn’t been married, that would have caused consternation to his family, possible scandal in the community, and the New Testament certainly would have commented on it—if for no other reason than to explain and defend Jesus’ unusual behavior. But now we have a document that claims that he was indeed married and fathered children. Not only this, our document indicates that for some of his original followers, Jesus’ marriage was the most important aspect of their theology.
This extract was published in The Independent with permission from the authors. 'The Lost Gospel' by Profeessor Barrie Wilson and Simcha Jacobovici is out now via Pegasus
Eugenics
I posted earlier about human cloning and the Nazi Lebensborn initiative.
Now we getting into Eugenics…
The man behind the first genetically modified human babies wants to resume experimenting
The scientific community is aghast at He Jiankui’s return after three years in prison and compares him to Nazi doctors
NUÑO DOMÍNGUEZ
January 11, 2023
Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui, in his new office in Beijing.
He Jiankui, the scientist who created the first genetically modified human babies in one of the most dangerous medical experiments ever, has been released from prison and wants to return to science. In several email exchanges with EL PAÍS (He won’t give personal interviews), the Chinese biophysicist says he wants to work on cures for genetic diseases in children and adults. Most of the international experts we interviewed for this report, including a Nobel laureate, are aghast at the prospect of He’s return. Kiran Musunuru, an expert in gene editing, said He’s work is “as serious as the war crimes committed by Nazi doctors during World War II.”
In November 2018, the 38-year-old scientist who trained in China and the United States, announced the birth of twin girls known by their pseudonyms, Lulu and Nana. They were the first human beings with genomes edited using CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats). He stated that his goal was to modify their CCR5 gene so the girls would be resistant to the AIDS virus, since both their parents were infected. The announcement was initially greeted with jubilation by Chinese authorities, but it was later revealed that the experiments had violated the most fundamental ethical and medical standards.
The world soon learned that He was aware that the embryo genomes contained unwanted errors (mutations), but still proceeded with an in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure. The identities, whereabouts and health status of the twins and a third girl born to another couple in 2019 have been among China’s best-kept secrets. Absolute secrecy is necessary because of the massive consequences of their identification – they are the only three representatives of a new human lineage with rewritten genomes that still have unknown health or other consequences.
In 2019, He was sentenced to three years in prison by a Chinese court, and during his trial it was revealed that he wasn’t working alone. Two of his collaborators also went to prison, and several Chinese and international experts, including some US researchers, knew about his plans and encouraged them. The scientist was released from prison a few months ago. “I am living pretty good now,” he writes. “I spent some time with my family, and relocated to Beijing. I picked up a new sport: golf, and I am enjoying it.”
He Jiankui has rented office space in Beijing’s Daxing district where he works with at least two others in his new non-profit organization, the Rare Disease Research Institute. The scientist says this new “laboratory” will focus on treating “children and adults, but not embryos,” and aims to discover cures for genetic diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare disease that mostly affects boys and can be fatal.
Funding from Alibaba and Tencent
He Jiankui has posted a number of photos on social media with supposed families of people suffering from genetic diseases. “Many affected families wanting to donate money have contacted me, but I have not yet decided whether to move ahead,” he writes. “My goal is to raise one billion yuan [$147 million] from Jack Ma [the founder of Alibaba], Huateng Ma [the founder of Tencent] and other billionaires. The first donation I received came from the US.” He says he will be able to cure some genetic diseases in about three years if he is able to raise that much money.
He didn’t answer our written questions about his controversial experiments, and only says that he realized in prison that, “I have been moving too quickly. My future research will be transparent and open to all. Everything will be published on social media and reviewed by an ethics board and an international team of scientists.”
Hardly anyone disagrees with He that the cost of gene therapy is too high. The few gene therapies developed so far are some of the most expensive drugs in the world. A drug recently approved in the US to treat an inherited blood disease is the most expensive of all, with a price tag of $3.5 million per patient. He says his goal is to bring the cost of these therapies in China down to one million yuan ($147,000), but doesn’t say how he plans to achieve this. There have been many resounding failures in this very sensitive field. The most recent was the death in the US of Terry Horgan, who suffered from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, during a million-dollar clinical trial that his brother helped finance.
Kiran Musunuru, an American scientist and physician at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, attributes the high price of these therapies to a very expensive development process. Musunuru is well acquainted with He Jiankui’s work and wrote a book about it – The CRISPR Generation: The Story of the World’s First Gene-Edited Babies. “You can’t take shortcuts in this field and that’s exactly what He did,” said Musunuru. “He bought cheap CRISPR materials that were not approved for use in humans, injected them into embryos and produced the pregnancies without any apparent concern about the safety of the mother or the children. He Jiankui is the last person I would trust to produce less expensive therapies. Once again, he is taking shortcuts to pursue fame.”
He Jiankui hasn’t provided any specifics about his experiments with embryos, nor has he published a detailed study. Technology Review received He’s unpublished manuscript in 2019 from a source, which revealed that the gene editing of the embryos had been flawed and that at least one of the girls carried unwanted errors in her genome.
EL PAÍS contacted some of the world’s leading experts in gene editing and bioethics who participated in international discussions after He’s experiments on human embryos were revealed. All agreed on the need to restrict them, and many countries, including China, have banned these practices. The experts we consulted believe that current gene-editing tools are not mature enough to be used on sperm, eggs or embryos, and would introduce changes in the human genome that would be passed from generation to generation. None of them are in favor of any attempts to rehabilitate the Chinese scientist’s reputation, especially not before he publishes a detailed description of his experiment.
David Baltimore, professor emeritus of biology at the California Institute of Technology and winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1975, said: “Everyone deserves a second chance, but He Jiankui’s mistake was so colossal that I would never agree to funding his new experiments in biomedicine.”
George Church, a leading expert on gene editing at Harvard University, believes He won’t be stopped from moving forward with his new research. “The world of science tends to give second chances,” said Church. “But we need very close monitoring of any experimental therapy. There are many clinical trials and even approved therapies that have negative consequences. The babies whose genomes were edited may not have suffered any negative consequences, but I hope their health is being closely monitored.”
Learning from mistakes
Last year, Ruipeng Lei and Renzong Qiu, two bioethics experts from China’s Huazhong University of Science and Technology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, called on authorities to monitor the health of the three girls with genomes edited by He. In a September 2022 paper, Lei and Qui argue for treating CRISPR-edited individuals as vulnerable, and should be provided with an extraordinary level of medical and psychological monitoring so that they are never publicly identified and exposed to stigmatization and discrimination, or the temptation to exploit their situation for fame and money.
He has promised to speak about his work at scientific conferences in Europe and the United States this year, and has already been invited to give a talk at the University of Oxford (UK) by Eben Kirksey, an anthropologist and author of The Mutant Project. Kirksey says that the plans for the talk are still being worked out, and that the university’s policy is not to comment publicly on the speakers it hosts. But he believes it essential for He to thoroughly explain what happened. “Some eminent bioethicists think that He should not be allowed to publish his research. I don’t agree. There is a lot to learn from his ethical mistakes and his scientific research for applying CRISPR in reproductive medicine,” said Kirksey.
Kiran Musunuru, the CRISPR expert who compared He to Nazi doctors, said: “I can’t imagine anyone letting those [Nazi] doctors practice again. As an ex-convict, He Jiankui should be prevented from entering other countries to participate in international conferences.”
He Jiankui recently shared on social media a New York Times article by Fyodor Urnov, an expert in gene editing at the University of California, Berkeley. Urnov advocates for greater commitment to developing cures for rare and fatal diseases using gene editors like CRISPR. In his posts, He wrote that such efforts would cure cancer and Alzheimer’s disease in the future.
But Urnov was highly critical of He when EL PAÍS asked him about the Chinese scientist’s work. “Patients with rare genetic diseases and their families are desperate for a cure,” said Urnov. “Doctors and scientists must be exactingly careful about the possible negative effects. He Jiankui has shown that he cannot abide by the most fundamental ethical and medical standards. He should be banned for life from conducting any experiments involving human health. Everyone deserves a second chance except when innocent lives are at risk.” But Urnov acknowledges the large shadow cast by He Jiankui. “It’s a nightmare. No one can have a conversation about gene therapy anymore without his name coming up.”
Lluis Montoliu, a researcher at Spain’s National Center for Biotechnology and an expert on CRISPR gene editing, provides one last reason for not accepting He back into the fold. Montoliu says He’s experimental techniques were not justified because other commonly used methods such as sperm washing would have enabled the girls to be born without HIV.
In March, Montoliu will be among the dozens of scientists attending the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing in London, the field’s most significant conference. Montoliu warns that it is still too early to use gene editing with human reproductive cells and embryos, since the risks are unknown, but primarily because, “there is no condition that cannot be treated using other methods.”
He Jiankui, in the office he rented in Beijing’s Daxing district.
I posted earlier about human cloning and the Nazi Lebensborn initiative.
Now we getting into Eugenics…
The man behind the first genetically modified human babies wants to resume experimenting
The scientific community is aghast at He Jiankui’s return after three years in prison and compares him to Nazi doctors
NUÑO DOMÍNGUEZ
January 11, 2023
The man behind the first genetically modified human babies wants to resume experimenting
The scientific community is aghast at He Jiankui’s return after three years in prison and compares him to Nazi doctors
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Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui, in his new office in Beijing.
He Jiankui, the scientist who created the first genetically modified human babies in one of the most dangerous medical experiments ever, has been released from prison and wants to return to science. In several email exchanges with EL PAÍS (He won’t give personal interviews), the Chinese biophysicist says he wants to work on cures for genetic diseases in children and adults. Most of the international experts we interviewed for this report, including a Nobel laureate, are aghast at the prospect of He’s return. Kiran Musunuru, an expert in gene editing, said He’s work is “as serious as the war crimes committed by Nazi doctors during World War II.”
In November 2018, the 38-year-old scientist who trained in China and the United States, announced the birth of twin girls known by their pseudonyms, Lulu and Nana. They were the first human beings with genomes edited using CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats). He stated that his goal was to modify their CCR5 gene so the girls would be resistant to the AIDS virus, since both their parents were infected. The announcement was initially greeted with jubilation by Chinese authorities, but it was later revealed that the experiments had violated the most fundamental ethical and medical standards.
The world soon learned that He was aware that the embryo genomes contained unwanted errors (mutations), but still proceeded with an in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure. The identities, whereabouts and health status of the twins and a third girl born to another couple in 2019 have been among China’s best-kept secrets. Absolute secrecy is necessary because of the massive consequences of their identification – they are the only three representatives of a new human lineage with rewritten genomes that still have unknown health or other consequences.
In 2019, He was sentenced to three years in prison by a Chinese court, and during his trial it was revealed that he wasn’t working alone. Two of his collaborators also went to prison, and several Chinese and international experts, including some US researchers, knew about his plans and encouraged them. The scientist was released from prison a few months ago. “I am living pretty good now,” he writes. “I spent some time with my family, and relocated to Beijing. I picked up a new sport: golf, and I am enjoying it.”
He Jiankui has rented office space in Beijing’s Daxing district where he works with at least two others in his new non-profit organization, the Rare Disease Research Institute. The scientist says this new “laboratory” will focus on treating “children and adults, but not embryos,” and aims to discover cures for genetic diseases like Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a rare disease that mostly affects boys and can be fatal.
Funding from Alibaba and Tencent
He Jiankui has posted a number of photos on social media with supposed families of people suffering from genetic diseases. “Many affected families wanting to donate money have contacted me, but I have not yet decided whether to move ahead,” he writes. “My goal is to raise one billion yuan [$147 million] from Jack Ma [the founder of Alibaba], Huateng Ma [the founder of Tencent] and other billionaires. The first donation I received came from the US.” He says he will be able to cure some genetic diseases in about three years if he is able to raise that much money.
He didn’t answer our written questions about his controversial experiments, and only says that he realized in prison that, “I have been moving too quickly. My future research will be transparent and open to all. Everything will be published on social media and reviewed by an ethics board and an international team of scientists.”
Hardly anyone disagrees with He that the cost of gene therapy is too high. The few gene therapies developed so far are some of the most expensive drugs in the world. A drug recently approved in the US to treat an inherited blood disease is the most expensive of all, with a price tag of $3.5 million per patient. He says his goal is to bring the cost of these therapies in China down to one million yuan ($147,000), but doesn’t say how he plans to achieve this. There have been many resounding failures in this very sensitive field. The most recent was the death in the US of Terry Horgan, who suffered from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, during a million-dollar clinical trial that his brother helped finance.
Kiran Musunuru, an American scientist and physician at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, attributes the high price of these therapies to a very expensive development process. Musunuru is well acquainted with He Jiankui’s work and wrote a book about it – The CRISPR Generation: The Story of the World’s First Gene-Edited Babies. “You can’t take shortcuts in this field and that’s exactly what He did,” said Musunuru. “He bought cheap CRISPR materials that were not approved for use in humans, injected them into embryos and produced the pregnancies without any apparent concern about the safety of the mother or the children. He Jiankui is the last person I would trust to produce less expensive therapies. Once again, he is taking shortcuts to pursue fame.”
He Jiankui hasn’t provided any specifics about his experiments with embryos, nor has he published a detailed study. Technology Review received He’s unpublished manuscript in 2019 from a source, which revealed that the gene editing of the embryos had been flawed and that at least one of the girls carried unwanted errors in her genome.
EL PAÍS contacted some of the world’s leading experts in gene editing and bioethics who participated in international discussions after He’s experiments on human embryos were revealed. All agreed on the need to restrict them, and many countries, including China, have banned these practices. The experts we consulted believe that current gene-editing tools are not mature enough to be used on sperm, eggs or embryos, and would introduce changes in the human genome that would be passed from generation to generation. None of them are in favor of any attempts to rehabilitate the Chinese scientist’s reputation, especially not before he publishes a detailed description of his experiment.
David Baltimore, professor emeritus of biology at the California Institute of Technology and winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1975, said: “Everyone deserves a second chance, but He Jiankui’s mistake was so colossal that I would never agree to funding his new experiments in biomedicine.”
George Church, a leading expert on gene editing at Harvard University, believes He won’t be stopped from moving forward with his new research. “The world of science tends to give second chances,” said Church. “But we need very close monitoring of any experimental therapy. There are many clinical trials and even approved therapies that have negative consequences. The babies whose genomes were edited may not have suffered any negative consequences, but I hope their health is being closely monitored.”
Learning from mistakes
Last year, Ruipeng Lei and Renzong Qiu, two bioethics experts from China’s Huazhong University of Science and Technology and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, called on authorities to monitor the health of the three girls with genomes edited by He. In a September 2022 paper, Lei and Qui argue for treating CRISPR-edited individuals as vulnerable, and should be provided with an extraordinary level of medical and psychological monitoring so that they are never publicly identified and exposed to stigmatization and discrimination, or the temptation to exploit their situation for fame and money.
He has promised to speak about his work at scientific conferences in Europe and the United States this year, and has already been invited to give a talk at the University of Oxford (UK) by Eben Kirksey, an anthropologist and author of The Mutant Project. Kirksey says that the plans for the talk are still being worked out, and that the university’s policy is not to comment publicly on the speakers it hosts. But he believes it essential for He to thoroughly explain what happened. “Some eminent bioethicists think that He should not be allowed to publish his research. I don’t agree. There is a lot to learn from his ethical mistakes and his scientific research for applying CRISPR in reproductive medicine,” said Kirksey.
Kiran Musunuru, the CRISPR expert who compared He to Nazi doctors, said: “I can’t imagine anyone letting those [Nazi] doctors practice again. As an ex-convict, He Jiankui should be prevented from entering other countries to participate in international conferences.”
He Jiankui recently shared on social media a New York Times article by Fyodor Urnov, an expert in gene editing at the University of California, Berkeley. Urnov advocates for greater commitment to developing cures for rare and fatal diseases using gene editors like CRISPR. In his posts, He wrote that such efforts would cure cancer and Alzheimer’s disease in the future.
But Urnov was highly critical of He when EL PAÍS asked him about the Chinese scientist’s work. “Patients with rare genetic diseases and their families are desperate for a cure,” said Urnov. “Doctors and scientists must be exactingly careful about the possible negative effects. He Jiankui has shown that he cannot abide by the most fundamental ethical and medical standards. He should be banned for life from conducting any experiments involving human health. Everyone deserves a second chance except when innocent lives are at risk.” But Urnov acknowledges the large shadow cast by He Jiankui. “It’s a nightmare. No one can have a conversation about gene therapy anymore without his name coming up.”
Lluis Montoliu, a researcher at Spain’s National Center for Biotechnology and an expert on CRISPR gene editing, provides one last reason for not accepting He back into the fold. Montoliu says He’s experimental techniques were not justified because other commonly used methods such as sperm washing would have enabled the girls to be born without HIV.
In March, Montoliu will be among the dozens of scientists attending the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing in London, the field’s most significant conference. Montoliu warns that it is still too early to use gene editing with human reproductive cells and embryos, since the risks are unknown, but primarily because, “there is no condition that cannot be treated using other methods.”
He Jiankui, in the office he rented in Beijing’s Daxing district.
Artificial Intelligence
Are we getting closer to having our own “Supreme Intelligence”?
AI 'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton warns of dangers as he quits Google
A man widely seen as the godfather of artificial intelligence (AI) has quit his job, warning about the growing dangers from developments in the field.
By Zoe Kleinman & Chris Vallance
BBC News
May 2, 2023
www.bbc.com
Geoffrey Hinton, 75, announced his resignation from Google in a statement to the New York Times, saying he now regretted his work.
He told the BBC some of the dangers of AI chatbots were "quite scary".
"Right now, they're not more intelligent than us, as far as I can tell. But I think they soon may be."
Dr Hinton also accepted that his age had played into his decision to leave the tech giant, telling the BBC: "I'm 75, so it's time to retire."
Dr Hinton's pioneering research on neural networks and deep learning has paved the way for current AI systems like ChatGPT.
In artificial intelligence, neural networks are systems that are similar to the human brain in the way they learn and process information. They enable AIs to learn from experience, as a person would. This is called deep learning.
The British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist told the BBC that chatbots could soon overtake the level of information that a human brain holds.
"Right now, what we're seeing is things like GPT-4 eclipses a person in the amount of general knowledge it has and it eclipses them by a long way. In terms of reasoning, it's not as good, but it does already do simple reasoning," he said.
"And given the rate of progress, we expect things to get better quite fast. So we need to worry about that."
In the New York Times article, Dr Hinton referred to "bad actors" who would try to use AI for "bad things".
When asked by the BBC to elaborate on this, he replied: "This is just a kind of worst-case scenario, kind of a nightmare scenario.
"You can imagine, for example, some bad actor like [Russian President Vladimir] Putin decided to give robots the ability to create their own sub-goals."
The scientist warned that this eventually might "create sub-goals like 'I need to get more power'".
He added: "I've come to the conclusion that the kind of intelligence we're developing is very different from the intelligence we have.
"We're biological systems and these are digital systems. And the big difference is that with digital systems, you have many copies of the same set of weights, the same model of the world.
"And all these copies can learn separately but share their knowledge instantly. So it's as if you had 10,000 people and whenever one person learnt something, everybody automatically knew it. And that's how these chatbots can know so much more than any one person."
Matt Clifford, the chairman of the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency, speaking in a personal capacity, told the BBC that Dr Hinton's announcement "underlines the rate at which AI capabilities are accelerating".
"There's an enormous upside from this technology, but it's essential that the world invests heavily and urgently in AI safety and control," he said.
Dr Hinton joins a growing number of experts who have expressed concerns about AI - both the speed at which it is developing and the direction in which it is going.
'We need to take a step back'
In March, an open letter - co-signed by dozens of people in the AI field, including the tech billionaire Elon Musk - called for a pause on all developments more advanced than the current version of AI chatbot ChatGPT so robust safety measures could be designed and implemented.
Yoshua Bengio, another so-called godfather of AI, who along with Dr Hinton and Yann LeCun won the 2018 Turing Award for their work on deep learning, also signed the letter.
Mr Bengio wrote that it was because of the "unexpected acceleration" in AI systems that "we need to take a step back".
But Dr Hinton told the BBC that "in the shorter term" he thought AI would deliver many more benefits than risks, "so I don't think we should stop developing this stuff," he added.
He also said that international competition would mean that a pause would be difficult. "Even if everybody in the US stopped developing it, China would just get a big lead," he said.
Dr Hinton also said he was an expert on the science, not policy, and that it was the responsibility of government to ensure AI was developed "with a lot of thought into how to stop it going rogue".
'Responsible approach'
Dr Hinton stressed that he did not want to criticise Google and that the tech giant had been "very responsible".
"I actually want to say some good things about Google. And they're more credible if I don't work for Google."
In a statement, Google's chief scientist Jeff Dean said: "We remain committed to a responsible approach to AI. We're continually learning to understand emerging risks while also innovating boldly."
It is important to remember that AI chatbots are just one aspect of artificial intelligence, even if they are the most popular right now.
AI is behind the algorithms that dictate what video-streaming platforms decide you should watch next. It can be used in recruitment to filter job applications, by insurers to calculate premiums, it can diagnose medical conditions (although human doctors still get the final say).
What we are seeing now though is the rise of AGI - artificial general intelligence - which can be trained to do a number of things within a remit. So for example, ChatGPT can only offer text answers to a query, but the possibilities within that, as we are seeing, are endless.
But the pace of AI acceleration has surprised even its creators. It has evolved dramatically since Dr Hinton built a pioneering image analysis neural network in 2012.
Even Google boss Sundar Pichai said in a recent interview that even he did not fully understand everything that its AI chatbot, Bard, did.
Make no mistake, we are on a speeding train right now, and the concern is that one day it will start building its own tracks.
‘Godfather of AI’ Warns That AI May Figure Out How To Kill Us
Geoffrey Hinton
Are we getting closer to having our own “Supreme Intelligence”?
AI 'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton warns of dangers as he quits Google
A man widely seen as the godfather of artificial intelligence (AI) has quit his job, warning about the growing dangers from developments in the field.
By Zoe Kleinman & Chris Vallance
BBC News
May 2, 2023
AI 'godfather' Geoffrey Hinton warns of dangers as he quits Google - BBC News
Artificial intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton quits Google, saying he now regrets his work.
www.bbc.com
Geoffrey Hinton, 75, announced his resignation from Google in a statement to the New York Times, saying he now regretted his work.
He told the BBC some of the dangers of AI chatbots were "quite scary".
"Right now, they're not more intelligent than us, as far as I can tell. But I think they soon may be."
Dr Hinton also accepted that his age had played into his decision to leave the tech giant, telling the BBC: "I'm 75, so it's time to retire."
Dr Hinton's pioneering research on neural networks and deep learning has paved the way for current AI systems like ChatGPT.
In artificial intelligence, neural networks are systems that are similar to the human brain in the way they learn and process information. They enable AIs to learn from experience, as a person would. This is called deep learning.
The British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist told the BBC that chatbots could soon overtake the level of information that a human brain holds.
"Right now, what we're seeing is things like GPT-4 eclipses a person in the amount of general knowledge it has and it eclipses them by a long way. In terms of reasoning, it's not as good, but it does already do simple reasoning," he said.
"And given the rate of progress, we expect things to get better quite fast. So we need to worry about that."
In the New York Times article, Dr Hinton referred to "bad actors" who would try to use AI for "bad things".
When asked by the BBC to elaborate on this, he replied: "This is just a kind of worst-case scenario, kind of a nightmare scenario.
"You can imagine, for example, some bad actor like [Russian President Vladimir] Putin decided to give robots the ability to create their own sub-goals."
The scientist warned that this eventually might "create sub-goals like 'I need to get more power'".
He added: "I've come to the conclusion that the kind of intelligence we're developing is very different from the intelligence we have.
"We're biological systems and these are digital systems. And the big difference is that with digital systems, you have many copies of the same set of weights, the same model of the world.
"And all these copies can learn separately but share their knowledge instantly. So it's as if you had 10,000 people and whenever one person learnt something, everybody automatically knew it. And that's how these chatbots can know so much more than any one person."
Matt Clifford, the chairman of the UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency, speaking in a personal capacity, told the BBC that Dr Hinton's announcement "underlines the rate at which AI capabilities are accelerating".
"There's an enormous upside from this technology, but it's essential that the world invests heavily and urgently in AI safety and control," he said.
Dr Hinton joins a growing number of experts who have expressed concerns about AI - both the speed at which it is developing and the direction in which it is going.
'We need to take a step back'
In March, an open letter - co-signed by dozens of people in the AI field, including the tech billionaire Elon Musk - called for a pause on all developments more advanced than the current version of AI chatbot ChatGPT so robust safety measures could be designed and implemented.
Yoshua Bengio, another so-called godfather of AI, who along with Dr Hinton and Yann LeCun won the 2018 Turing Award for their work on deep learning, also signed the letter.
Mr Bengio wrote that it was because of the "unexpected acceleration" in AI systems that "we need to take a step back".
But Dr Hinton told the BBC that "in the shorter term" he thought AI would deliver many more benefits than risks, "so I don't think we should stop developing this stuff," he added.
He also said that international competition would mean that a pause would be difficult. "Even if everybody in the US stopped developing it, China would just get a big lead," he said.
Dr Hinton also said he was an expert on the science, not policy, and that it was the responsibility of government to ensure AI was developed "with a lot of thought into how to stop it going rogue".
'Responsible approach'
Dr Hinton stressed that he did not want to criticise Google and that the tech giant had been "very responsible".
"I actually want to say some good things about Google. And they're more credible if I don't work for Google."
In a statement, Google's chief scientist Jeff Dean said: "We remain committed to a responsible approach to AI. We're continually learning to understand emerging risks while also innovating boldly."
It is important to remember that AI chatbots are just one aspect of artificial intelligence, even if they are the most popular right now.
AI is behind the algorithms that dictate what video-streaming platforms decide you should watch next. It can be used in recruitment to filter job applications, by insurers to calculate premiums, it can diagnose medical conditions (although human doctors still get the final say).
What we are seeing now though is the rise of AGI - artificial general intelligence - which can be trained to do a number of things within a remit. So for example, ChatGPT can only offer text answers to a query, but the possibilities within that, as we are seeing, are endless.
But the pace of AI acceleration has surprised even its creators. It has evolved dramatically since Dr Hinton built a pioneering image analysis neural network in 2012.
Even Google boss Sundar Pichai said in a recent interview that even he did not fully understand everything that its AI chatbot, Bard, did.
Make no mistake, we are on a speeding train right now, and the concern is that one day it will start building its own tracks.
‘Godfather of AI’ Warns That AI May Figure Out How To Kill Us
Geoffrey Hinton
U.S. tracking more than 650 potential UFOs, official says
BY DAVID MARTIN
APRIL 19, 2023
www.cbsnews.com
The U.S. government is investigating more than 650 potential UFO sightings, a Pentagon official confirmed Wednesday.
Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Defense Department's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, made the revelation in an appearance before a subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The sightings are concentrated off the East Coast and West Coast of the U.S., in the Middle East and in the area of the South China Sea, Kirkpatrick said.
Newly declassified video of an American military drone conducting surveillance in the Middle East showed an unidentified object zipping in and out of frame. If the video is slowed down, it appears to show a metallic sphere. But where it came from and what it was doing remains one of many such mysteries to the Pentagon.
According to the Pentagon, there is no credible evidence any of the still unidentified objects came from outer space. However, the Pentagon said a small number of them exhibited advanced flight characteristics which indicate they may have been developed by China.
This acknowledgment comes after the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report in January which disclosed that its office had tracked a total of 510 UFO sightings since 2005.
That was up significantly from 2021, when ODNI had reported just 144 total sightings. Of the 366 new sightings reported in the January report, 26 were characterized as drones, 163 as balloon-like objects and six as aerial clutter, with the remaining 171 unexplained, some of which exhibited "unusual flight characteristics or performance, and require further analysis."
BY DAVID MARTIN
APRIL 19, 2023
U.S. tracking more than 650 potential UFOs, official says
The sightings are concentrated off the East Coast and West Coast of the U.S., in the Middle East and in the area of the South China Sea.
www.cbsnews.com
The U.S. government is investigating more than 650 potential UFO sightings, a Pentagon official confirmed Wednesday.
Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Defense Department's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, made the revelation in an appearance before a subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The sightings are concentrated off the East Coast and West Coast of the U.S., in the Middle East and in the area of the South China Sea, Kirkpatrick said.
Newly declassified video of an American military drone conducting surveillance in the Middle East showed an unidentified object zipping in and out of frame. If the video is slowed down, it appears to show a metallic sphere. But where it came from and what it was doing remains one of many such mysteries to the Pentagon.
According to the Pentagon, there is no credible evidence any of the still unidentified objects came from outer space. However, the Pentagon said a small number of them exhibited advanced flight characteristics which indicate they may have been developed by China.
This acknowledgment comes after the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a report in January which disclosed that its office had tracked a total of 510 UFO sightings since 2005.
That was up significantly from 2021, when ODNI had reported just 144 total sightings. Of the 366 new sightings reported in the January report, 26 were characterized as drones, 163 as balloon-like objects and six as aerial clutter, with the remaining 171 unexplained, some of which exhibited "unusual flight characteristics or performance, and require further analysis."
CONPLAN 8888-11
U.S. Department of Defense Plan For A Zombie Apocalypse
A U.S. Government 'Zombie' Plan?
David Sturt and Todd Nordstrom
Former Contributor
May 29, 2014
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidsturt/2014/05/29/a-u-s-government-zombie-plan/?sh=1e5d18534dce
In 2011 a plan drafted by the U.S. Government called CONPLAN 8888-11, “Counter-Zombie Dominance” was revealed to the public. The document details a strategy to defend against a zombie attack. And, yes, it’s real.
We verified that the U.S. Government did in fact publish this report. And while reading it, we discovered some truly fresh thinking. In its own way it was innovatively brilliant—especially coming from a place where we might not expect such creative thinking, the United States Government.
Creators of the tongue in cheek “Counter-Zombie Dominance” document purposely chose zombies to disrupt their own tired-out thinking. The design of the plan produced serious strategic value. It is used to help defense plan creators and trainers explore unexpected, unplanned-for threats and learn how to strategically develop defenses for any possible variable or threat.
According to the DISCLAIMER in CONPLAN 8888-11, document creators write, “This plan was not actually designed as a joke. During the summers of 2009 and 2010, while training augmentees from a local training squadron about JOPP, members of the USSTRATCOM component found out (by accident) that the hyperbole involved in writing a ‘zombie survival plan’ actually provided a very useful and effective training tool.”
Basically, planners realized that disruptive political fallout could ensue if they were to train using specific named enemies. By using zombies as the enemies, planners avoided the risk of the public assuming there was a real current threat, but more importantly they opened a new level of thinking—the fictional nature allowed planners to break out of their old mindsets.
Even more interesting was the document’s release to the public. The writers of the plan stated in the DISCLAIMER, “Our intent was to place this tool ‘into the wild’ so that others who were interested in finding new and innovative ways to train planners could have an alternative and admittedly unconventional tool at their disposal…”
Basically, planners were having a blast with the new, innovative way of thinking. And, it worked. But, should “out-of-the-box thinking” really mean “out-of-this-world thinking?”
We all have comfort zones. We all can get stuck focused on the reality and seriousness of our businesses. Playing with ideas like a zombie attack might at first seem like a juvenile and pointless approach to problem solving. But, look at how it opened the eyes and ideas of those in the U.S. Government—a group who takes their jobs extremely seriously.
If you’re looking for some fresh thinking, consider stepping out of the comforts of your day-to-day business and into your discomfort zone.
Here are some guidelines to getting “uncomfortable”:
1. Identify your own zombies: What are the biggest potential threats to your business? What is it about them that reveals your own vulnerabilities. Do the threats exist because of a real weakness in your business model, or because you just don’t want to change your business? If you came up with an idea to neutralize the threat, what would that look like? Who would fight you over it? Why?
2. Dump Your Inner Circle for a Day: Look for perspectives of people who may not agree with you. A study conducted by Forbes Insights and the O.C. Tanner Institute which culled through 1.7 million cases of award-winning work, found that people who reached beyond their inner circle, to purposely have conversations with people who may have opposing, different, unbiased or even outlandish perspectives are 3.4 times more likely to create bottom-line financial results.
3. Find the Opposites and Opportunities: One of the most interesting aspects of CONPLAN 8888-11 was that the planners even removed and reversed fictional stereotypes of zombies. Vegetarians? Really? Consider product innovations that bring opposites together. For example, what if you could offer the highest quality and the lowest price, like Costco did. By exploring the outlandish—and playing out “What would happen if…”, you’ll consider things you never would have thought of before.
When it comes to comfort zones at work, the scariest option is “no change” at all—because that’s when we all become the walking dead. Get uncomfortable and see what it does for new thinking and new growth.
U.S. Department of Defense Plan For A Zombie Apocalypse
A U.S. Government 'Zombie' Plan?
David Sturt and Todd Nordstrom
Former Contributor
May 29, 2014
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidsturt/2014/05/29/a-u-s-government-zombie-plan/?sh=1e5d18534dce
In 2011 a plan drafted by the U.S. Government called CONPLAN 8888-11, “Counter-Zombie Dominance” was revealed to the public. The document details a strategy to defend against a zombie attack. And, yes, it’s real.
We verified that the U.S. Government did in fact publish this report. And while reading it, we discovered some truly fresh thinking. In its own way it was innovatively brilliant—especially coming from a place where we might not expect such creative thinking, the United States Government.
Creators of the tongue in cheek “Counter-Zombie Dominance” document purposely chose zombies to disrupt their own tired-out thinking. The design of the plan produced serious strategic value. It is used to help defense plan creators and trainers explore unexpected, unplanned-for threats and learn how to strategically develop defenses for any possible variable or threat.
According to the DISCLAIMER in CONPLAN 8888-11, document creators write, “This plan was not actually designed as a joke. During the summers of 2009 and 2010, while training augmentees from a local training squadron about JOPP, members of the USSTRATCOM component found out (by accident) that the hyperbole involved in writing a ‘zombie survival plan’ actually provided a very useful and effective training tool.”
Basically, planners realized that disruptive political fallout could ensue if they were to train using specific named enemies. By using zombies as the enemies, planners avoided the risk of the public assuming there was a real current threat, but more importantly they opened a new level of thinking—the fictional nature allowed planners to break out of their old mindsets.
Even more interesting was the document’s release to the public. The writers of the plan stated in the DISCLAIMER, “Our intent was to place this tool ‘into the wild’ so that others who were interested in finding new and innovative ways to train planners could have an alternative and admittedly unconventional tool at their disposal…”
Basically, planners were having a blast with the new, innovative way of thinking. And, it worked. But, should “out-of-the-box thinking” really mean “out-of-this-world thinking?”
We all have comfort zones. We all can get stuck focused on the reality and seriousness of our businesses. Playing with ideas like a zombie attack might at first seem like a juvenile and pointless approach to problem solving. But, look at how it opened the eyes and ideas of those in the U.S. Government—a group who takes their jobs extremely seriously.
If you’re looking for some fresh thinking, consider stepping out of the comforts of your day-to-day business and into your discomfort zone.
Here are some guidelines to getting “uncomfortable”:
1. Identify your own zombies: What are the biggest potential threats to your business? What is it about them that reveals your own vulnerabilities. Do the threats exist because of a real weakness in your business model, or because you just don’t want to change your business? If you came up with an idea to neutralize the threat, what would that look like? Who would fight you over it? Why?
2. Dump Your Inner Circle for a Day: Look for perspectives of people who may not agree with you. A study conducted by Forbes Insights and the O.C. Tanner Institute which culled through 1.7 million cases of award-winning work, found that people who reached beyond their inner circle, to purposely have conversations with people who may have opposing, different, unbiased or even outlandish perspectives are 3.4 times more likely to create bottom-line financial results.
3. Find the Opposites and Opportunities: One of the most interesting aspects of CONPLAN 8888-11 was that the planners even removed and reversed fictional stereotypes of zombies. Vegetarians? Really? Consider product innovations that bring opposites together. For example, what if you could offer the highest quality and the lowest price, like Costco did. By exploring the outlandish—and playing out “What would happen if…”, you’ll consider things you never would have thought of before.
When it comes to comfort zones at work, the scariest option is “no change” at all—because that’s when we all become the walking dead. Get uncomfortable and see what it does for new thinking and new growth.
NASA panel studying UFO sightings says stigma and poor data pose challenges
The 16-member panel, which formed last year, presented early findings Wednesday in its first public meeting. A final report is expected this summer.
By Denise Chow
May 31, 2023
www.nbcnews.com
A NASA panel tasked with studying reports of "unidentified aerial phenomena" said in a hearing that the stigma associated with reporting UFO sightings — as well as the harassment of people who work to investigate them — may be hindering efforts to determine their origins.
The panel, which was formed last year, presented early findings Wednesday in the group’s first public meeting and is expected to publish a final report this summer. The team highlighted the need for more high-quality data in order to properly investigate unusual sightings.
Daniel Evans, the assistant deputy associate administrator for research in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said there has been no convincing evidence that reports of UFOs have anything to do with aliens. While extraterrestrial origins are not being ruled out, the independent group was convened to address broader national security concerns, he said.
"There could potentially be very serious risks to U.S. airspace as a result of us not necessarily knowing what is in our skies at a given time," Evans said Wednesday in a news briefing.
Evans also noted that the definition of UAPs, as they are referred to in government parlance, was recently expanded: Rather than only covering "unidentified aerial phenomena," the designation now refers to "unidentified anomalous phenomena" in order to include mysterious undersea encounters and strange sightings in the outermost parts of the planet's atmosphere — a region known as "near space."
Debates over potential UFO sightings have garnered increased attention in recent years, particularly as Congress and U.S. intelligence agencies have sought to make public more information about unidentified flying objects and data from reported incidents.
Interest in these encounters has also increased due to the recent mysterious flying objects spotted in American airspace, including a Chinese spy balloon that was detected over Montana in February.
Members of the public will be able to submit comments to NASA on the information presented at Wednesday's meeting beginning Friday morning.
Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Defense Department’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, said during the hearing that most reports of unidentified aerial phenomena have "mundane" explanations. Since 1996, he said, his office has received more than 800 reports of unidentified flying objects, but just an estimated 2% to 5% demonstrate "anomalous characteristics" that require further analysis, such as modeling, simulation or physical testing.
The vast majority of the reports, Kirkpatrick said, are sightings of unusual orbs or round spheres, and most have been spotted at altitudes where aircraft typically fly.
But he added that "without sufficient data, we are unable to reach defendable conclusions that meet the highest scientific standards we set for resolution."
David Spergel, the panel's chair, said one of the biggest challenges in conducting research on UAPs is navigating public opinion on the topic.
"We have a community of people who are completely convinced of the existence of UFOs, and we have a community of people who think addressing this question is ridiculous," Spergel said. "And I think as scientists, the way to approach questions is you start by saying, 'We don't know,' and then you collect data and you try to calibrate your data well."
The stigma that surrounds the practices of reporting and investigating unidentified aerial phenomena — whether for members of the public, commercial pilots or members of the military — isn't helping, according to NASA’s science chief, Nicola Fox.
In her opening remarks at the hearing, Fox said members of the 16-person panel have faced harassment online for their participation in the work.
"Harassment only leads to further stigmatization of the UAP field, significantly hindering the scientific progress and discouraging others to study this important subject matter," she said, adding that such harassment also "obstructs the public’s right to knowledge."
Fox explained that the NASA panel was created to help lay out a road map for using the tools of science to evaluate and categorize the nature of unidentified flying objects.
The experts used unclassified data from civilian and government entities to inform the findings presented in the public meeting, she said.
Fox added, however, that existing eyewitness reports are often murky and do not provide conclusive evidence for analysis.
"At NASA, we lead the world in exploration and are committed to rigorous scientific inquiry," she said. "The nature of science is to better understand the unknown. And to do that, our scientists need data."
Kirkpatrick said future investigations would benefit from more instruments that could both detect unusual phenomena and trace their origins. The report set to be released this summer will likely outline more specific recommendations for such tools.
Spergel, meanwhile, said he hopes the NASA panel's work will help reduce negative associations linked to the study of UFOs. Such attitudes likely mean that many sightings have gone unreported, particularly from commercial pilots, he said.
"One of our goals in having NASA play a role," he said, "is to remove stigma and get high-quality data."
The 16-member panel, which formed last year, presented early findings Wednesday in its first public meeting. A final report is expected this summer.
By Denise Chow
May 31, 2023
NASA panel studying UFOs says stigma and poor data pose challenges
The 16-member panel, which formed last year, presented early findings Wednesday in its first public meeting. A final report is expected this summer.
A NASA panel tasked with studying reports of "unidentified aerial phenomena" said in a hearing that the stigma associated with reporting UFO sightings — as well as the harassment of people who work to investigate them — may be hindering efforts to determine their origins.
The panel, which was formed last year, presented early findings Wednesday in the group’s first public meeting and is expected to publish a final report this summer. The team highlighted the need for more high-quality data in order to properly investigate unusual sightings.
Daniel Evans, the assistant deputy associate administrator for research in NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, said there has been no convincing evidence that reports of UFOs have anything to do with aliens. While extraterrestrial origins are not being ruled out, the independent group was convened to address broader national security concerns, he said.
"There could potentially be very serious risks to U.S. airspace as a result of us not necessarily knowing what is in our skies at a given time," Evans said Wednesday in a news briefing.
Evans also noted that the definition of UAPs, as they are referred to in government parlance, was recently expanded: Rather than only covering "unidentified aerial phenomena," the designation now refers to "unidentified anomalous phenomena" in order to include mysterious undersea encounters and strange sightings in the outermost parts of the planet's atmosphere — a region known as "near space."
Debates over potential UFO sightings have garnered increased attention in recent years, particularly as Congress and U.S. intelligence agencies have sought to make public more information about unidentified flying objects and data from reported incidents.
Interest in these encounters has also increased due to the recent mysterious flying objects spotted in American airspace, including a Chinese spy balloon that was detected over Montana in February.
Members of the public will be able to submit comments to NASA on the information presented at Wednesday's meeting beginning Friday morning.
Sean Kirkpatrick, director of the Defense Department’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, said during the hearing that most reports of unidentified aerial phenomena have "mundane" explanations. Since 1996, he said, his office has received more than 800 reports of unidentified flying objects, but just an estimated 2% to 5% demonstrate "anomalous characteristics" that require further analysis, such as modeling, simulation or physical testing.
The vast majority of the reports, Kirkpatrick said, are sightings of unusual orbs or round spheres, and most have been spotted at altitudes where aircraft typically fly.
But he added that "without sufficient data, we are unable to reach defendable conclusions that meet the highest scientific standards we set for resolution."
David Spergel, the panel's chair, said one of the biggest challenges in conducting research on UAPs is navigating public opinion on the topic.
"We have a community of people who are completely convinced of the existence of UFOs, and we have a community of people who think addressing this question is ridiculous," Spergel said. "And I think as scientists, the way to approach questions is you start by saying, 'We don't know,' and then you collect data and you try to calibrate your data well."
The stigma that surrounds the practices of reporting and investigating unidentified aerial phenomena — whether for members of the public, commercial pilots or members of the military — isn't helping, according to NASA’s science chief, Nicola Fox.
In her opening remarks at the hearing, Fox said members of the 16-person panel have faced harassment online for their participation in the work.
"Harassment only leads to further stigmatization of the UAP field, significantly hindering the scientific progress and discouraging others to study this important subject matter," she said, adding that such harassment also "obstructs the public’s right to knowledge."
Fox explained that the NASA panel was created to help lay out a road map for using the tools of science to evaluate and categorize the nature of unidentified flying objects.
The experts used unclassified data from civilian and government entities to inform the findings presented in the public meeting, she said.
Fox added, however, that existing eyewitness reports are often murky and do not provide conclusive evidence for analysis.
"At NASA, we lead the world in exploration and are committed to rigorous scientific inquiry," she said. "The nature of science is to better understand the unknown. And to do that, our scientists need data."
Kirkpatrick said future investigations would benefit from more instruments that could both detect unusual phenomena and trace their origins. The report set to be released this summer will likely outline more specific recommendations for such tools.
Spergel, meanwhile, said he hopes the NASA panel's work will help reduce negative associations linked to the study of UFOs. Such attitudes likely mean that many sightings have gone unreported, particularly from commercial pilots, he said.
"One of our goals in having NASA play a role," he said, "is to remove stigma and get high-quality data."
Craft using an inertial mass reduction device
U.S. Patent Filed By Salvatore Cezar Pais, Per U.S. NAVY
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Abstract
A craft using an inertial mass reduction device comprises of an inner resonant cavity wall, an outer resonant cavity, and microwave emitters. The electrically charged outer resonant cavity wall and the electrically insulated inner resonant cavity wall form a resonant cavity. The microwave emitters create high frequency electromagnetic waves throughout the resonant cavity causing the resonant cavity to vibrate in an accelerated mode and create a local polarized vacuum outside the outer resonant cavity wall.
Claims
What is claimed is:
1. A craft using an inertial mass reduction device comprising:
an inner resonant cavity wall;
• an outer resonant cavity wall, the inner resonant cavity wall and the outer resonant cavity wall forming a resonant cavity;
and,
• microwave emitters such that the microwave emitters create high frequency electromagnetic waves throughout the resonant cavity causing the outer resonant cavity wall to vibrate in an accelerated mode and create a local polarized vacuum outside the outer resonant cavity wall.
2. The craft of claim 1, wherein the resonant cavity is filled with a noble gas.
3. The craft of claim 1, wherein the outer resonant cavity wall is electrically charged.
4. The craft of claim 1, wherein the resonant cavity is axially rotated in an accelerated mode.
Description
STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT INTEREST
The invention described herein may be manufactured and used by or for the Government of the United States of America for governmental purposes without payment of any royalties thereon or therefor.
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Dr. Salvatore Cesar Pais
U.S. Patent Filed By Salvatore Cezar Pais, Per U.S. NAVY
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A craft using an inertial mass reduction device comprises of an inner resonant cavity wall, an outer resonant cavity, and microwave emitters. The electrically charged outer resonant cavity wall and the electrically insulated inner resonant cavity wall form a resonant cavity. The microwave...
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The Secretive Inventor Of The Navy's Bizarre 'UFO Patents' Finally Talks
Dr. Salvatore Pais has finally spoken to The War Zone concerning his seemingly out of this world patents filed on behalf of the U.S. Navy.
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Abstract
A craft using an inertial mass reduction device comprises of an inner resonant cavity wall, an outer resonant cavity, and microwave emitters. The electrically charged outer resonant cavity wall and the electrically insulated inner resonant cavity wall form a resonant cavity. The microwave emitters create high frequency electromagnetic waves throughout the resonant cavity causing the resonant cavity to vibrate in an accelerated mode and create a local polarized vacuum outside the outer resonant cavity wall.
Claims
What is claimed is:
1. A craft using an inertial mass reduction device comprising:
an inner resonant cavity wall;
• an outer resonant cavity wall, the inner resonant cavity wall and the outer resonant cavity wall forming a resonant cavity;
and,
• microwave emitters such that the microwave emitters create high frequency electromagnetic waves throughout the resonant cavity causing the outer resonant cavity wall to vibrate in an accelerated mode and create a local polarized vacuum outside the outer resonant cavity wall.
2. The craft of claim 1, wherein the resonant cavity is filled with a noble gas.
3. The craft of claim 1, wherein the outer resonant cavity wall is electrically charged.
4. The craft of claim 1, wherein the resonant cavity is axially rotated in an accelerated mode.
Description
STATEMENT OF GOVERNMENT INTEREST
The invention described herein may be manufactured and used by or for the Government of the United States of America for governmental purposes without payment of any royalties thereon or therefor.
Click Above Link For Full Information
Dr. Salvatore Cesar Pais
Las Vegas family claims to see aliens after several report something falling from sky
David Charns
June 7, 2023
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas family claims something crashed in their backyard, prompting them to call 911 about “non-human” beings – the thing is, this time, several people saw it.
On April 30 around 11:50 p.m., a Las Vegas Metro police officer’s body camera video recorded as something streaked low across the sky. Several people across eastern California, Nevada and Utah reported seeing the flash, according to the American Meteor Society.
Sources tell the 8 News Now Investigators that it is likely something crashed into the yard, but exactly what remained unclear more than a month later. Drone video showed a circular imprint in the dirt.
About 40 minutes later, a man called 911, saying he and his family saw something fall from the sky and that there were two moving things in his northwest valley backyard.
On April 30 around 11:50 p.m., a Las Vegas Metro police officer’s body camera video recorded as something streaked low across the sky. Several people across eastern California, Nevada and Utah reported seeing the flash, according to the American Meteor Society.
Caller: There’s like an 8-foot person beside it and another one is inside us and it has big eyes and it’s looking at us — and it’s still there,” the caller told a dispatcher.
Dispatcher: OK, where is this on your property?
Caller: In my backyard. I swear to God this is not a joke, this is actually — we’re terrified.
Dispatcher: So, there’s two people, there’s two subjects in your backyard?
Caller: Correct and they’re very large. They’re like 8 foot, 9 feet, 10 foot. They look like aliens to us. Big eyes. They have big eyes. Like, I can’t explain it, and big mouth. They’re shiny eyes and they’re human. They’re 100% not human.
A Las Vegas Metro police dispatcher sent two officers to the home to investigate. The 8 News Now Investigators obtained the call log from the incident.
The Metro police call log the 8 News Now Investigators obtained shows several other family members confirmed the sighting to police.
The dispatcher sent two officers to the home to investigate. The 8 News Now Investigators obtained body camera video from both of the officers.
“I’m so nervous right now,” one officer said as he is preparing to drive to the house. “I have butterflies bro — saw a shooting star and now these people say there’s aliens in their backyard.”
Officers arrived at the home about a half-hour after the 911 call.
“What did you see?” one officer asked a witness.
“It was like a big creature,” one witness said.
“A big creature?” the officer asked.
“Yea, more than 10 feet tall,” the witness replied.
“I’m not going to BS, you guys. One of my partners said they saw something fall out of the sky, too,” the officer said. “So that’s why I’m kind of curious. Did you see anything land in your backyard?”
The dispatcher sent two officers to the home to investigate. The 8 News Now Investigators obtained body camera video from both of the officers.
The video shows one officer walking into the backyard to investigate but Metro police blacked out that part of his body camera video citing privacy laws.
“I don’t believe in it but what I saw right now, I do believe in it,” a witness told police.
“You guys seem like legit scared so I don’t blame you,” an officer replied.
Around the same time, another witness told police they saw an SUV circling in the area. While one officer is investigating in the backyard, a second officer is talking to neighbors driving by.
“This might sound like a really dumb question, but did you guys see anything fall out of the sky?” an officer asks a passenger in a passing car. “I would normally discount it as probably not real but — however seeing as one of my partners said they saw it too, the only reason I’m investigating it further.”
The backyard where the family reported in the incident as seen from a drone.
Metro police’s investigation turned up no concrete answers as of Wednesday. While initially open for several days, the department has since closed the case. The family said officials returned to the home over several days to investigate.
“Hey, if those 9-foot beings come back, don’t call us alright?” an officer said as he walks away from the house and back to his cruiser.
Representatives from nearby Creech and Nellis air force bases said they were not involved in the incident and suggested contacting Metro police.
A spokesperson for the Pentagon did not immediately respond to questions regarding the event.
David Charns
June 7, 2023
Las Vegas family claims to see aliens after several report something falling from sky
A Las Vegas family claims something crashed in their backyard, prompting them to call 911 about “non-human” beings – the thing is, this time, several people saw it.
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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas family claims something crashed in their backyard, prompting them to call 911 about “non-human” beings – the thing is, this time, several people saw it.
On April 30 around 11:50 p.m., a Las Vegas Metro police officer’s body camera video recorded as something streaked low across the sky. Several people across eastern California, Nevada and Utah reported seeing the flash, according to the American Meteor Society.
Sources tell the 8 News Now Investigators that it is likely something crashed into the yard, but exactly what remained unclear more than a month later. Drone video showed a circular imprint in the dirt.
About 40 minutes later, a man called 911, saying he and his family saw something fall from the sky and that there were two moving things in his northwest valley backyard.
On April 30 around 11:50 p.m., a Las Vegas Metro police officer’s body camera video recorded as something streaked low across the sky. Several people across eastern California, Nevada and Utah reported seeing the flash, according to the American Meteor Society.
Caller: There’s like an 8-foot person beside it and another one is inside us and it has big eyes and it’s looking at us — and it’s still there,” the caller told a dispatcher.
Dispatcher: OK, where is this on your property?
Caller: In my backyard. I swear to God this is not a joke, this is actually — we’re terrified.
Dispatcher: So, there’s two people, there’s two subjects in your backyard?
Caller: Correct and they’re very large. They’re like 8 foot, 9 feet, 10 foot. They look like aliens to us. Big eyes. They have big eyes. Like, I can’t explain it, and big mouth. They’re shiny eyes and they’re human. They’re 100% not human.
A Las Vegas Metro police dispatcher sent two officers to the home to investigate. The 8 News Now Investigators obtained the call log from the incident.
The Metro police call log the 8 News Now Investigators obtained shows several other family members confirmed the sighting to police.
The dispatcher sent two officers to the home to investigate. The 8 News Now Investigators obtained body camera video from both of the officers.
“I’m so nervous right now,” one officer said as he is preparing to drive to the house. “I have butterflies bro — saw a shooting star and now these people say there’s aliens in their backyard.”
Officers arrived at the home about a half-hour after the 911 call.
“What did you see?” one officer asked a witness.
“It was like a big creature,” one witness said.
“A big creature?” the officer asked.
“Yea, more than 10 feet tall,” the witness replied.
“I’m not going to BS, you guys. One of my partners said they saw something fall out of the sky, too,” the officer said. “So that’s why I’m kind of curious. Did you see anything land in your backyard?”
The dispatcher sent two officers to the home to investigate. The 8 News Now Investigators obtained body camera video from both of the officers.
The video shows one officer walking into the backyard to investigate but Metro police blacked out that part of his body camera video citing privacy laws.
“I don’t believe in it but what I saw right now, I do believe in it,” a witness told police.
“You guys seem like legit scared so I don’t blame you,” an officer replied.
Around the same time, another witness told police they saw an SUV circling in the area. While one officer is investigating in the backyard, a second officer is talking to neighbors driving by.
“This might sound like a really dumb question, but did you guys see anything fall out of the sky?” an officer asks a passenger in a passing car. “I would normally discount it as probably not real but — however seeing as one of my partners said they saw it too, the only reason I’m investigating it further.”
The backyard where the family reported in the incident as seen from a drone.
Metro police’s investigation turned up no concrete answers as of Wednesday. While initially open for several days, the department has since closed the case. The family said officials returned to the home over several days to investigate.
“Hey, if those 9-foot beings come back, don’t call us alright?” an officer said as he walks away from the house and back to his cruiser.
Representatives from nearby Creech and Nellis air force bases said they were not involved in the incident and suggested contacting Metro police.
A spokesperson for the Pentagon did not immediately respond to questions regarding the event.
Forget AI and human cloning.
They just gonna create humans from scratch to replace you.
Scientists report creation of first human synthetic model embryos
By Brenda Goodman, CNN
June 15, 2023
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A team of researchers in the United States and United Kingdom say they have created the world’s first synthetic human embryo-like structures from stem cells, bypassing the need for eggs and sperm.
These embryo-like structures are at the very earliest stages of human development: They don’t have a beating heart or a brain, for example. But scientists say they could one day help advance the understanding of genetic diseases or the causes of miscarriages.
The research raises critical legal and ethical questions, and many countries, including the US, don’t have laws governing the creation or treatment of synthetic embryos.
The pace of discoveries in this field and the growing sophistication of these models have alarmed bioethics experts as they push ever closer to the edge of life.
“Unlike human embryos arising from in vitro fertilization (IVF), where there is an established legal framework, there are currently no clear regulations governing stem cell derived models of human embryos. There is an urgent need for regulations to provide a framework for the creation and use of stem cell derived models of human embryos,” James Briscoe, associate research director at the Francis Crick Institute, said in a statement.
Dr. Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz described the work in a presentation Wednesday to the International Society for Stem Cell Research’s annual meeting in Boston. Zernicka-Goetz, a professor of biology and biological engineering at CalTech and the University of Cambridge, said the research has been accepted at a well-regarded scientific journal but has not been published. The research was first reported by The Guardian.
Zernicka-Goetz and her team, along with a rival team in Israel, had previously described creating model embryo-like structures from mouse stem cells. Those “embryoids” showed the beginnings of a brain, heart and intestinal tract after about eight days of development.
The embryo-like structures that Zernicka-Goetz says her lab has created were grown from single human embryonic stem cells that were coaxed to develop into three distinct tissue layers, she said. They include cells that would typically go on to develop a yolk sac, a placenta and the embryo itself.
She told CNN that the embryo-like structures her lab has created are also the first to have germ cells that would go on to develop into egg and sperm.
“I just wish to stress that they are not human embryos,” Zernicka-Goetz said. “They are embryo models, but they are very exciting because they are very looking similar to human embryos and very important path towards discovery of why so many pregnancies fail, as the majority of the pregnancies fail around the time of the development at which we build these embryo-like structures.”
She said that to her knowledge, it was the first time a human model embryo had been created with three tissue layers. But she stressed that while it mimics some of the features of a natural embryo, it doesn’t have all of them.
Researchers hope these model embryos will shed light on the “black box” of human development, the period following 14 days after fertilization, which is the agreed limit for scientists to grow and study embryos in a lab.
Right now, the synthetic model human embryos are confined to test tubes. It would be illegal to implant one in a womb, and animal research with stem cells from mice and monkeys has shown that even when scientists have attempted to implant them, they don’t survive – probably because researchers haven’t figured out how to fully replicate the conditions of pregnancy.
Zernicka-Goetz said that the aim of her research wasn’t to create life but to prevent its loss, understanding why embryos sometime fail to develop after fertilization and implantation.
“We know remarkably little about this step in human development, but it is a time where many pregnancies are lost, especially in an IVF setting,” Roger Sturmey, senior research fellow in maternal and fetal health at the University of Manchester in the UK, said in a statement.
“Currently, we can say that these ‘synthetic embryos’ share a number of features with blastocysts, but it is important to recognise that the way that synthetic embryos are formed is different to what happens when a normal embryo forms a blastocyst,” he said. “There is much work to be done to determine the similarities and differences between synthetic embryos and embryos that form from the union of an egg and a sperm.”
Researchers say they have created the first synthetic human embryo-like structures in the world.
They just gonna create humans from scratch to replace you.
Scientists report creation of first human synthetic model embryos
By Brenda Goodman, CNN
June 15, 2023
Scientists report creation of first human synthetic model embryos | CNN
A team of researchers in the United States and United Kingdom say they have created the world’s first synthetic human embryo-like structures from stem cells, bypassing the need for eggs and sperm.
A team of researchers in the United States and United Kingdom say they have created the world’s first synthetic human embryo-like structures from stem cells, bypassing the need for eggs and sperm.
These embryo-like structures are at the very earliest stages of human development: They don’t have a beating heart or a brain, for example. But scientists say they could one day help advance the understanding of genetic diseases or the causes of miscarriages.
The research raises critical legal and ethical questions, and many countries, including the US, don’t have laws governing the creation or treatment of synthetic embryos.
The pace of discoveries in this field and the growing sophistication of these models have alarmed bioethics experts as they push ever closer to the edge of life.
“Unlike human embryos arising from in vitro fertilization (IVF), where there is an established legal framework, there are currently no clear regulations governing stem cell derived models of human embryos. There is an urgent need for regulations to provide a framework for the creation and use of stem cell derived models of human embryos,” James Briscoe, associate research director at the Francis Crick Institute, said in a statement.
Dr. Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz described the work in a presentation Wednesday to the International Society for Stem Cell Research’s annual meeting in Boston. Zernicka-Goetz, a professor of biology and biological engineering at CalTech and the University of Cambridge, said the research has been accepted at a well-regarded scientific journal but has not been published. The research was first reported by The Guardian.
Zernicka-Goetz and her team, along with a rival team in Israel, had previously described creating model embryo-like structures from mouse stem cells. Those “embryoids” showed the beginnings of a brain, heart and intestinal tract after about eight days of development.
The embryo-like structures that Zernicka-Goetz says her lab has created were grown from single human embryonic stem cells that were coaxed to develop into three distinct tissue layers, she said. They include cells that would typically go on to develop a yolk sac, a placenta and the embryo itself.
She told CNN that the embryo-like structures her lab has created are also the first to have germ cells that would go on to develop into egg and sperm.
“I just wish to stress that they are not human embryos,” Zernicka-Goetz said. “They are embryo models, but they are very exciting because they are very looking similar to human embryos and very important path towards discovery of why so many pregnancies fail, as the majority of the pregnancies fail around the time of the development at which we build these embryo-like structures.”
She said that to her knowledge, it was the first time a human model embryo had been created with three tissue layers. But she stressed that while it mimics some of the features of a natural embryo, it doesn’t have all of them.
Researchers hope these model embryos will shed light on the “black box” of human development, the period following 14 days after fertilization, which is the agreed limit for scientists to grow and study embryos in a lab.
Right now, the synthetic model human embryos are confined to test tubes. It would be illegal to implant one in a womb, and animal research with stem cells from mice and monkeys has shown that even when scientists have attempted to implant them, they don’t survive – probably because researchers haven’t figured out how to fully replicate the conditions of pregnancy.
Zernicka-Goetz said that the aim of her research wasn’t to create life but to prevent its loss, understanding why embryos sometime fail to develop after fertilization and implantation.
“We know remarkably little about this step in human development, but it is a time where many pregnancies are lost, especially in an IVF setting,” Roger Sturmey, senior research fellow in maternal and fetal health at the University of Manchester in the UK, said in a statement.
“Currently, we can say that these ‘synthetic embryos’ share a number of features with blastocysts, but it is important to recognise that the way that synthetic embryos are formed is different to what happens when a normal embryo forms a blastocyst,” he said. “There is much work to be done to determine the similarities and differences between synthetic embryos and embryos that form from the union of an egg and a sperm.”
Researchers say they have created the first synthetic human embryo-like structures in the world.
Secret Bunkers
With what’s going on with the recent weather with 100+ heat happening thru-out the Northern Hemisphere.
Don’t be surprised when the Rich, Famous and Powerful all of a sudden disappear when SHTF and the rest of us become burnt ashes.
Billionaire bunkers: How the world’s wealthiest are paying to escape reality
By Eric Spitznagel
September 24, 2022
nypost.com
When civilization collapses, J.C. Cole will be ready.
He’s founded Safe Haven Farms, a maximum security compound to ride out the next pandemic or climate-change disaster. And those who can afford to join him will also have a shot at survival, he promises. But the price tag isn’t cheap.
A $3 million investment in his startup isn’t just about getting admission. Members “also get a stake in a potentially profitable network of local farm franchises that could reduce the probability of a catastrophic event in the first place,” writes Douglas Rushkoff in his new book, ”Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires” (W.W. Norton).
Cole, 66, has two farms in development, one outside Princeton and the second somewhere in the Poconos, which he envisions as “a network of secret, totally self-sufficient residential farm communities for millionaires, guarded by Navy SEALs armed to the teeth,” writes Rushkoff.
Google co-founder Larry Page gained New Zealand residency in 2021. The country has become an escape hotspot for those looking to plan ahead in the event of disaster.
The developer, who says he’s not independently wealthy but “did well in real estate,” won’t share the exact locations of either farm, at least not to outsiders, nor will he pose for photos — as his concerns about security and the end of the world rides high.
“The majority of Americans do not have an insurance policy by their choice,” Cole told The Post. “If/when the supply chain collapses, these people will not have food. A certain percentage of them will break the law and do whatever possible to get food. Therefore we want to remain ‘not findable.’ ”
This underground bunker offers all the amenities of a 5-star hotel, and is made by Oppidum, a supplier of fortified underground residences.
Cole is far from alone. The world’s richest are increasingly “insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic, and resource depletion,” writes Rushkoff.
And while many billionaires have claimed that their interests are in saving the world—sometimes they even get into pissing matches on social media about who is more benevolent — Rushkoff argues that the ultimate goal of the super-rich is to protect themselves.
An Oppidum bunker designed by French architect Marc Prigent.
For the wealthy and privileged, writes Rushkoff, the future of technology is about “only one thing: escape from the rest of us.”
And they’re escaping in style. Texas-based Rising S Company sells luxury bunkers that run up to $9.6 million for the ”Aristocrat” model — which comes with a private bowling alley, swimming pool, “bullet-resistant” doors and a “motor cave exit,” so you can sneak out for errands like Batman.
Peter Thiel reportedly made a deal with entrepreneur Sam Altman to escape via private jet to Thiel’s New Zealand compound at the first sign of societal collapse.
California-based company Vivos sells luxury underground apartments, converted from Cold War missile silos and storage facilities into “miniature Club Med resorts,” writes Rushkoff.
Ultra-elite shelters like The Oppidum in the Czech Republic—billed as “the largest billionaire bunker in the world”—include amenities like simulated natural sunlight, a wine vault, and a place to hide all your stuff that’s “impregnable” to hostile outsiders.
The Oppidum hideaway in the Czech Republic has it all, including huge garages where residents can store their luxury vehicles.
“You’ve worked hard over many years, taken risks, seized opportunities, made your vision a reality,” the company’s website tells its billionaire customers. “Your reward is the means to acquire and curate all the beautiful, rare and precious objects you desire.”
Luxury yachts large enough to be a billionaire Noah’s Ark are seeing huge surges in sales— 887 superyachts were sold globally in 2021, a 77% increase from the previous year — and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, 58, even commissioned a smaller companion yacht for his main superyacht, as a separate space to store his helicopter.
Jeff Bezos commissioned a smaller companion yacht to his main super yacht, as a place to store his helicopter.
New Zealand has become a prime destination for billionaires seeking doomsday refuge, from Google co-founder Larry Page, 49, to Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sam Altman, 37, who let it slip in a 2016 interview that he and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel had a mutual agreement to escape to Thiel’s New Zealand compound via private jet at the first sign of society’s collapse. (Thiel’s owned the property since 2011 but hadn’t made the news public.)
But the billionaire bunker, whether on land, sea or someday (ostensibly) on another planet entirely, is at best a temporary fix, “less a viable strategy for apocalypse than a metaphor for this disconnected approach to life,” writes Rushkoff. “Like a hiding toddler who thinks holding their hands over their eyes can prevent them from being seen,” the billionaires who rely on a safe haven from the outside “are in for a surprise.”
This superyacht owned by Roman Abramovich is one way to ride out an apocalypse.
Thiel discovered this recently when the 54-year-old entrepreneur — worth an estimated $7.4 billion — learned that his plans to build a 477-acre “doomsday” home overlooking Lake Wānaka in New Zealand was being blocked by environmental groups.
Even the preexisting bunkers offer only nominal protection, and the probability of one of them “actually protecting its occupants from the reality of, well, reality, is very slim,” writes Rushkoff. Whatever threat they’re trying to escape — toxic clouds, plague and radiation — it all has a way of “spreading and seeping through the most well-thought-out barricades.”
The Oppidum in the Czech Republic claims to be the world’s largest bunker for billionaires, boasting simulated sunlight to ease the underground drudgery, “impregnable” storage space and a wine vault.
Cancer-causing microplastics “are as plentiful in the polar ice as they are in the typical European town,” Rushkoff continues. “There is no escape.”
But survival may not be their only rationale for disappearing. The “seasteading” movement — a “Minecraft-meets-Waterworld future,” Rushkoff writes, in which the wealthy live in independent, free-floating cities — is not just about “aquapreneurs” escaping the dry-land apocalypse. It’s also about creating a new ultra-libertarian civilization free from taxes, anti-monopoly regulations, and meddling politicians.
Set on a former US Army base, Vivos xPoint consists of 575 private military-built bunkers — some equipped with pool tables.
As the Seasteading Institute website explains, “We’ve had the agricultural revolution, the commercial and industrial revolutions, but why not a governance revolution? Enter the sea.”
If they can’t find sanctuary for their bodies, they can still outsmart the end of the world by having their minds preserved. Silicon Valley tech billionaire Altman paid $10,000 to startup company Nectome just to be on the waiting list to have his brain uploaded to a computer.
Who joins Altman (or has already joined him) remains to be seen. This past July, Dogecoin creator Shibetoshi Nakamoto asked his followers on Twitter if they’d ever “upload your brain to the cloud,” and Elon Musk, 51, cryptically responded, “Already did it.“
Before coming to the United States, Cole spent 18 years in Eastern Europe, serving as a former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Latvia in Northern Europe. He witnessed firsthand the collapse of the Soviet Union, and he insists we should be learning from the Soviets’ mistakes.
The Vivos xPoint complex seen from ground level. The former US Army base is the size of a small city.
“I am deeply concerned with what I see happening in Europe, especially with energy and food,” he said. “That can easily happen here.”
His biggest concern isn’t a violent confrontation with the armed mob on the other side of the fence. It’s “the woman at the end of the driveway holding a baby and asking for food. I don’t want to be in that moral dilemma,” he told Rushkoff.
“xPoint: The point in time at which only the prepared will survive,” proclaims the Vivos xPoint company website, which advertises bunker showrooms like this one.
“The mindset that requires safe havens is less concerned with preventing moral dilemmas,” writes Rushkoff, “than simply keeping them out of sight.”
Cole hopes Safe Haven doesn’t just provide protection from those wealthy enough to afford it but becomes a prototype of how sustainable farms can be used to make sure everybody has enough food to eat and protection from the elements.
He won’t reveal exactly how many wealthy investors he has, but he does claim the farm’s community will be evenly split between the rich and those with skill sets to “rebuild the country,” including doctors, machinists, and security.
But Cole’s ultimate goal, writes Rushkoff, is to ensure “there are as few hungry children at the gate as possible” when the time comes to lock down.
“The mindset that requires safe havens is less concerned with preventing moral dilemmas,” writes Rushkoff, “than simply keeping them out of sight.”
With what’s going on with the recent weather with 100+ heat happening thru-out the Northern Hemisphere.
Don’t be surprised when the Rich, Famous and Powerful all of a sudden disappear when SHTF and the rest of us become burnt ashes.
Billionaire bunkers: How the world’s wealthiest are paying to escape reality
By Eric Spitznagel
September 24, 2022
Billionaire bunkers: How the world’s wealthiest are paying to escape reality
Inside the luxury hideaways where the world’s wealthiest hope to ride out the apocalypse.
nypost.com
When civilization collapses, J.C. Cole will be ready.
He’s founded Safe Haven Farms, a maximum security compound to ride out the next pandemic or climate-change disaster. And those who can afford to join him will also have a shot at survival, he promises. But the price tag isn’t cheap.
A $3 million investment in his startup isn’t just about getting admission. Members “also get a stake in a potentially profitable network of local farm franchises that could reduce the probability of a catastrophic event in the first place,” writes Douglas Rushkoff in his new book, ”Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires” (W.W. Norton).
Cole, 66, has two farms in development, one outside Princeton and the second somewhere in the Poconos, which he envisions as “a network of secret, totally self-sufficient residential farm communities for millionaires, guarded by Navy SEALs armed to the teeth,” writes Rushkoff.
Google co-founder Larry Page gained New Zealand residency in 2021. The country has become an escape hotspot for those looking to plan ahead in the event of disaster.
The developer, who says he’s not independently wealthy but “did well in real estate,” won’t share the exact locations of either farm, at least not to outsiders, nor will he pose for photos — as his concerns about security and the end of the world rides high.
“The majority of Americans do not have an insurance policy by their choice,” Cole told The Post. “If/when the supply chain collapses, these people will not have food. A certain percentage of them will break the law and do whatever possible to get food. Therefore we want to remain ‘not findable.’ ”
This underground bunker offers all the amenities of a 5-star hotel, and is made by Oppidum, a supplier of fortified underground residences.
Cole is far from alone. The world’s richest are increasingly “insulating themselves from the very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic, and resource depletion,” writes Rushkoff.
And while many billionaires have claimed that their interests are in saving the world—sometimes they even get into pissing matches on social media about who is more benevolent — Rushkoff argues that the ultimate goal of the super-rich is to protect themselves.
An Oppidum bunker designed by French architect Marc Prigent.
For the wealthy and privileged, writes Rushkoff, the future of technology is about “only one thing: escape from the rest of us.”
And they’re escaping in style. Texas-based Rising S Company sells luxury bunkers that run up to $9.6 million for the ”Aristocrat” model — which comes with a private bowling alley, swimming pool, “bullet-resistant” doors and a “motor cave exit,” so you can sneak out for errands like Batman.
Peter Thiel reportedly made a deal with entrepreneur Sam Altman to escape via private jet to Thiel’s New Zealand compound at the first sign of societal collapse.
California-based company Vivos sells luxury underground apartments, converted from Cold War missile silos and storage facilities into “miniature Club Med resorts,” writes Rushkoff.
Ultra-elite shelters like The Oppidum in the Czech Republic—billed as “the largest billionaire bunker in the world”—include amenities like simulated natural sunlight, a wine vault, and a place to hide all your stuff that’s “impregnable” to hostile outsiders.
The Oppidum hideaway in the Czech Republic has it all, including huge garages where residents can store their luxury vehicles.
“You’ve worked hard over many years, taken risks, seized opportunities, made your vision a reality,” the company’s website tells its billionaire customers. “Your reward is the means to acquire and curate all the beautiful, rare and precious objects you desire.”
Luxury yachts large enough to be a billionaire Noah’s Ark are seeing huge surges in sales— 887 superyachts were sold globally in 2021, a 77% increase from the previous year — and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, 58, even commissioned a smaller companion yacht for his main superyacht, as a separate space to store his helicopter.
Jeff Bezos commissioned a smaller companion yacht to his main super yacht, as a place to store his helicopter.
New Zealand has become a prime destination for billionaires seeking doomsday refuge, from Google co-founder Larry Page, 49, to Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sam Altman, 37, who let it slip in a 2016 interview that he and PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel had a mutual agreement to escape to Thiel’s New Zealand compound via private jet at the first sign of society’s collapse. (Thiel’s owned the property since 2011 but hadn’t made the news public.)
But the billionaire bunker, whether on land, sea or someday (ostensibly) on another planet entirely, is at best a temporary fix, “less a viable strategy for apocalypse than a metaphor for this disconnected approach to life,” writes Rushkoff. “Like a hiding toddler who thinks holding their hands over their eyes can prevent them from being seen,” the billionaires who rely on a safe haven from the outside “are in for a surprise.”
This superyacht owned by Roman Abramovich is one way to ride out an apocalypse.
Thiel discovered this recently when the 54-year-old entrepreneur — worth an estimated $7.4 billion — learned that his plans to build a 477-acre “doomsday” home overlooking Lake Wānaka in New Zealand was being blocked by environmental groups.
Even the preexisting bunkers offer only nominal protection, and the probability of one of them “actually protecting its occupants from the reality of, well, reality, is very slim,” writes Rushkoff. Whatever threat they’re trying to escape — toxic clouds, plague and radiation — it all has a way of “spreading and seeping through the most well-thought-out barricades.”
The Oppidum in the Czech Republic claims to be the world’s largest bunker for billionaires, boasting simulated sunlight to ease the underground drudgery, “impregnable” storage space and a wine vault.
Cancer-causing microplastics “are as plentiful in the polar ice as they are in the typical European town,” Rushkoff continues. “There is no escape.”
But survival may not be their only rationale for disappearing. The “seasteading” movement — a “Minecraft-meets-Waterworld future,” Rushkoff writes, in which the wealthy live in independent, free-floating cities — is not just about “aquapreneurs” escaping the dry-land apocalypse. It’s also about creating a new ultra-libertarian civilization free from taxes, anti-monopoly regulations, and meddling politicians.
Set on a former US Army base, Vivos xPoint consists of 575 private military-built bunkers — some equipped with pool tables.
As the Seasteading Institute website explains, “We’ve had the agricultural revolution, the commercial and industrial revolutions, but why not a governance revolution? Enter the sea.”
If they can’t find sanctuary for their bodies, they can still outsmart the end of the world by having their minds preserved. Silicon Valley tech billionaire Altman paid $10,000 to startup company Nectome just to be on the waiting list to have his brain uploaded to a computer.
Who joins Altman (or has already joined him) remains to be seen. This past July, Dogecoin creator Shibetoshi Nakamoto asked his followers on Twitter if they’d ever “upload your brain to the cloud,” and Elon Musk, 51, cryptically responded, “Already did it.“
Before coming to the United States, Cole spent 18 years in Eastern Europe, serving as a former president of the American Chamber of Commerce in Latvia in Northern Europe. He witnessed firsthand the collapse of the Soviet Union, and he insists we should be learning from the Soviets’ mistakes.
The Vivos xPoint complex seen from ground level. The former US Army base is the size of a small city.
“I am deeply concerned with what I see happening in Europe, especially with energy and food,” he said. “That can easily happen here.”
His biggest concern isn’t a violent confrontation with the armed mob on the other side of the fence. It’s “the woman at the end of the driveway holding a baby and asking for food. I don’t want to be in that moral dilemma,” he told Rushkoff.
“xPoint: The point in time at which only the prepared will survive,” proclaims the Vivos xPoint company website, which advertises bunker showrooms like this one.
“The mindset that requires safe havens is less concerned with preventing moral dilemmas,” writes Rushkoff, “than simply keeping them out of sight.”
Cole hopes Safe Haven doesn’t just provide protection from those wealthy enough to afford it but becomes a prototype of how sustainable farms can be used to make sure everybody has enough food to eat and protection from the elements.
He won’t reveal exactly how many wealthy investors he has, but he does claim the farm’s community will be evenly split between the rich and those with skill sets to “rebuild the country,” including doctors, machinists, and security.
But Cole’s ultimate goal, writes Rushkoff, is to ensure “there are as few hungry children at the gate as possible” when the time comes to lock down.
“The mindset that requires safe havens is less concerned with preventing moral dilemmas,” writes Rushkoff, “than simply keeping them out of sight.”
Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he's found fragments of alien technology
BY MIKE SULLIVAN
JULY 7, 2023
www.cbsnews.com
CAMBRIDGE - Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he may have found fragments of alien technology from a meteor that landed in the waters off of Papua, New Guinea in 2014.
Loeb and his team just brought the materials back to Harvard for analysis. The U.S. Space Command confirmed with almost near certainty, 99.999%, that the material came from another solar system. The government gave Loeb a 10 km (6.2 mile) radius of where it may have landed.
"That is where the fireball took place, and the government detected it from the Department of Defense. It's a very big area, the size of Boston, so we wanted to pin it down," said Loeb. "We figured the distance of the fireball based off the time delay between the arrival of blast wave, the boom of explosion, and the light that arrived quickly."
Their calculations allowed them to chart the potential path of the meteor. Those calculations happened to carve a path right through the same projected 10 km range that came from the U.S. government. Loeb and his crew took a boat called the Silver Star out to the area. The ship took numerous passes along and around the meteor's projected path. Researchers combed the ocean floor by attaching a sled full of magnets to their boat.
"We found ten spherules. These are almost perfect spheres, or metallic marbles. When you look at them through a microscope, they look very distinct from the background," explained Loeb, "They have colors of gold, blue, brown, and some of them resemble a miniature of the Earth."
An analysis of the composition showed that the spherules are made of 84% iron, 8% silicon, 4% magnesium, and 2% titanium, plus trace elements. They are sub-millimeter in size. The crew found 50 of them in total.
Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes these fragments may be alien technology from a meteor that landed in the waters off of Papua New Guinea in 2014.
"It has material strength that is tougher than all space rock that were seen before, and catalogued by NASA," added Loeb, "We calculated its speed outside the solar system. It was 60 km per second, faster than 95% of all stars in the vicinity of the sun. The fact that it was made of materials tougher than even iron meteorites, and moving faster than 95% of all stars in the vicinity of the sun, suggested potentially it could be a spacecraft from another civilization or some technological gadget."
He likens the situation to any of the Voyager spacecrafts launched by NASA.
"They will exit the solar system in 10,000 years. Just imagine them colliding with another planet far away a billion years from now. They would appear as a meteor of a composition moving faster than usual," explained Loeb.
The research and analysis is just beginning at Harvard. Loeb is trying to understand if the spherules are artificial or natural. If they are natural, it will give the researchers insight into what materials may exist outside of our solar system. If it is artificial, the questions really begin.
"It will take us tens of thousands of years to exit our solar system with our current spacecraft to another star. This material spent that time arriving to us, but it's already here," smiled Loeb, "We just need to check our backyard to see if we have packages from an interstellar Amazon that takes billions of years for the travel."
He still has more debris to research, and hours of unwatched footage from the camera attached to their sled. He believes there is a chance the spherules could be small breadcrumbs to a bigger find.
"They also help us pinpoint any big piece of the meteor we could find in a future expedition," detailed Loeb, "We hope to find a big piece of this object that survived the impact because then we can tell if it's a rock or technological gadget."
BY MIKE SULLIVAN
JULY 7, 2023
Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he's found fragments of alien technology
A Harvard professor believes he may have found fragments of alien technology from a meteor that landed in the waters off of Papua, New Guinea in 2014.
www.cbsnews.com
CAMBRIDGE - Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes he may have found fragments of alien technology from a meteor that landed in the waters off of Papua, New Guinea in 2014.
Loeb and his team just brought the materials back to Harvard for analysis. The U.S. Space Command confirmed with almost near certainty, 99.999%, that the material came from another solar system. The government gave Loeb a 10 km (6.2 mile) radius of where it may have landed.
"That is where the fireball took place, and the government detected it from the Department of Defense. It's a very big area, the size of Boston, so we wanted to pin it down," said Loeb. "We figured the distance of the fireball based off the time delay between the arrival of blast wave, the boom of explosion, and the light that arrived quickly."
Their calculations allowed them to chart the potential path of the meteor. Those calculations happened to carve a path right through the same projected 10 km range that came from the U.S. government. Loeb and his crew took a boat called the Silver Star out to the area. The ship took numerous passes along and around the meteor's projected path. Researchers combed the ocean floor by attaching a sled full of magnets to their boat.
"We found ten spherules. These are almost perfect spheres, or metallic marbles. When you look at them through a microscope, they look very distinct from the background," explained Loeb, "They have colors of gold, blue, brown, and some of them resemble a miniature of the Earth."
An analysis of the composition showed that the spherules are made of 84% iron, 8% silicon, 4% magnesium, and 2% titanium, plus trace elements. They are sub-millimeter in size. The crew found 50 of them in total.
Harvard professor Avi Loeb believes these fragments may be alien technology from a meteor that landed in the waters off of Papua New Guinea in 2014.
"It has material strength that is tougher than all space rock that were seen before, and catalogued by NASA," added Loeb, "We calculated its speed outside the solar system. It was 60 km per second, faster than 95% of all stars in the vicinity of the sun. The fact that it was made of materials tougher than even iron meteorites, and moving faster than 95% of all stars in the vicinity of the sun, suggested potentially it could be a spacecraft from another civilization or some technological gadget."
He likens the situation to any of the Voyager spacecrafts launched by NASA.
"They will exit the solar system in 10,000 years. Just imagine them colliding with another planet far away a billion years from now. They would appear as a meteor of a composition moving faster than usual," explained Loeb.
The research and analysis is just beginning at Harvard. Loeb is trying to understand if the spherules are artificial or natural. If they are natural, it will give the researchers insight into what materials may exist outside of our solar system. If it is artificial, the questions really begin.
"It will take us tens of thousands of years to exit our solar system with our current spacecraft to another star. This material spent that time arriving to us, but it's already here," smiled Loeb, "We just need to check our backyard to see if we have packages from an interstellar Amazon that takes billions of years for the travel."
He still has more debris to research, and hours of unwatched footage from the camera attached to their sled. He believes there is a chance the spherules could be small breadcrumbs to a bigger find.
"They also help us pinpoint any big piece of the meteor we could find in a future expedition," detailed Loeb, "We hope to find a big piece of this object that survived the impact because then we can tell if it's a rock or technological gadget."
‘Just release the files’: Rep. Burchett claims UFOs exist
During a podcast appearance last week, Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., claimed the government has known about UFOs since 1897, adding that “they can fly underwater and don’t show a heat trail.”
Devan Markham
July 11, 2023
During a podcast appearance last week, Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., claimed the government has known about UFOs since 1897, adding that “they can fly underwater and don’t show a heat trail.”
Devan Markham
July 11, 2023
‘Just release the files’: Rep. Burchett claims UFOs exist
When it comes to visual proof of UFOs, the American public has remained in the dark.
www.newsnationnow.com
2001 National Press Club
UFO Disclosure Project
2001 National Press Club - UFO Disclosure Project - Steven Greer & Witnesses.
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Investigation Deepens Following Discovery At ‘Incident’ Site Near Area 51 Outside Las Vegas, NV.
October 7, 2025
The investigation into an "incident" involving a military aircraft near Area 51 is intensifying after the Air Force discovered "tampering" and other materials at the "mishap location," a spokesperson said.
October 7, 2025
The investigation into an "incident" involving a military aircraft near Area 51 is intensifying after the Air Force discovered "tampering" and other materials at the "mishap location," a spokesperson said.
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The Mysterious Dropa Stones – Fact or Fiction?
JOANNA GILLAN
20 NOVEMBER, 2021
www.ancient-origins.net
The Dropa stones are said to be a set of 716 circular stone discs dating back 12,000 years on which tiny hieroglyphic-like markings can be found. Each disc is said to measure up to 1 foot in diameter and carry two grooves, originating from a hole in their centre, in the form of a double spiral.
The discovery of the mysterious discs apparently took place in 1938 in the mountains of Baian Kara-Ula on the border between China and Tibet, where a Chinese professor, Chi Pu Tei, detected regularly aligned rows of graves. The skeletons measured only around four feet in height and had skulls which were large and over developed.
Inside a nearby cave system, Chi Pu Tei and his team found interesting rock art which depicted figures with round helmets. Engraved in the rock were also the sun, moon, earth and stars, connected by groups of pea-sized dots. Further inside the cave, the team found the collection of stone discs, most of them half buried in the floor of the cave.
Descriptions of the Drops stones are similar to Bi discs, which are a recognized form of circular artifact from ancient China. The Bi discs are round jade discs dating to around 3000 BC, common in the Shaanxi Province.
Tsum Um Nui
For the next two decades, it is believed that the discs were labelled and stored at Beijing University before being given to Tsum Um Nui for study in 1958. Tsum Um Nui allegedly managed to decipher the hieroglyphic characters after four years of study which he claimed told the story of a spacecraft that crash landed in the area of the cave and that the ship contained the Dropa people. One of the discs apparently said the following: "The Dropa came down from the clouds in their aircraft. Our men, women and children hid in the caves ten times before sunrise. When at last we understood the sign language of the Dropas, we realized that the newcomers had peaceful intentions".
Tsum Um Nui is said to have published his findings 1962 in a professional journal and was subsequently ridiculed and met with disbelief. Shortly afterwards he is said to have gone to Japan in a self-imposed exile where he died not long after he completed the manuscript of his work.
Alleged photographs of the Dropa Stones
Russian Involvement
in 1968 the Dropa stones apparently came to the attention of W. Saitsew (also spelt Zaitsev), a Russian scientist who re-published the findings of Tsum Um Nui and conducted tests on the discs that revealed some very peculiar properties. Physically, the granite stones contained high concentrations of cobalt and other metals - a very hard stone indeed that would have made it difficult for the primitive people to carve the lettering, especially with such minute characters. As recorded in the Soviet magazine Sputnik, when testing a disk with an oscillograph, a surprising oscillation rhythm was recorded as if, the scientists said, they had once been electrically charged or had functioned as electrical conductors.
Wegerer
Supposedly, Ernst Wegerer (Wegener) was an Austrian engineer who, in 1974, visited the Banpo Museum in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, where he was able to see two of the Dropa stones. It is said that when he enquired about the discs the manager did not provide him with any information but allowed him to photograph them. He claims that in his photos the hieroglyphs cannot be seen as they have been hidden by the flash from the camera and have also deteriorated.
In 1994, the German scientist Hartwig Hausdorf and colleague Peter Krassa, are said to have visited China and the Banpo museum in Xian in 1994, where they were told that the Director's superiors had ordered the discs destroyed and that officially they do not recognise their existence. Hausdorf found out that the Chinese government do not have any official record of a tribe called Dropa, neither in the local area of Qinghai or whatsoever in China.
Have any of the Dropa people survived?
At the time of the discovery, the cave area was still inhabited by two tribes known as the Hams and the Dropas. Anthropologists have apparently been unable to categorize either tribe into any other known race; they are neither Chinese, Mongol nor Tibetan. They are yellow-skinned with thin bodies and disproportionately large heads, corresponding to the skeletal remains found in the caves in 1938. They have sparse hair on their bodies, have large eyes and their height measures between 3’6” and 4’7” with an average height of 4’2”.
Controversies
The Dropa stones are immersed in controversy with many claiming that it is nothing but a hoax. Among the arguments against their existence are the following:
It has been claimed that Tsum Um Nui is not a real Chinese name. There is no mention of him in China outside of his connection to the Dropa stones. According to Dropa enthusiast Hartwig Hausdorf, Tsum Um Nui is a former Japanese name, but adapted to the Chinese language.
The vast majority of names and sources cannot be corroborated and existence the Soviet or Chinese scholars cannot be found.
While reported to be a tribe of people with pygmy stature, the real Dropas (otherwise known as the Drokpa) are said to be nomadic herders who inhabit most of the northern Tibetan Plateau and who have regular height.
The only photos of the stone discs do not show any evidence of the hieroglyphs. It seems unlikely that a scholar was able to decipher and understand a completely unknown language in four years. Deciphering ancient writings has usually taken decades for multiple teams of expert linguists and this is even when they can be linked to another known language.
The stone discs were said to have been stored in various museums across China. However, none of these museums have any records or traces of Dropa stone ever being there.
Fact or Fiction?
Are the Dropa stones and the accompanying story simply part of an elaborate hoax or a fanciful story? Or were hundreds of discs with evidence of extra-terrestrial visitation to Earth really discovered, and the facts surrounding the case covered up?
JOANNA GILLAN
20 NOVEMBER, 2021
The Mysterious Dropa Stones – Fact or Fiction? | Ancient Origins
The Dropa stones are said to be a set of 716 circular stone discs dating back 12,000 years on which tiny hieroglyphic-like markings can be found. Each disc is said to measure up to 1 foot in diameter
www.ancient-origins.net
The Dropa stones are said to be a set of 716 circular stone discs dating back 12,000 years on which tiny hieroglyphic-like markings can be found. Each disc is said to measure up to 1 foot in diameter and carry two grooves, originating from a hole in their centre, in the form of a double spiral.
The discovery of the mysterious discs apparently took place in 1938 in the mountains of Baian Kara-Ula on the border between China and Tibet, where a Chinese professor, Chi Pu Tei, detected regularly aligned rows of graves. The skeletons measured only around four feet in height and had skulls which were large and over developed.
Inside a nearby cave system, Chi Pu Tei and his team found interesting rock art which depicted figures with round helmets. Engraved in the rock were also the sun, moon, earth and stars, connected by groups of pea-sized dots. Further inside the cave, the team found the collection of stone discs, most of them half buried in the floor of the cave.
Descriptions of the Drops stones are similar to Bi discs, which are a recognized form of circular artifact from ancient China. The Bi discs are round jade discs dating to around 3000 BC, common in the Shaanxi Province.
Tsum Um Nui
For the next two decades, it is believed that the discs were labelled and stored at Beijing University before being given to Tsum Um Nui for study in 1958. Tsum Um Nui allegedly managed to decipher the hieroglyphic characters after four years of study which he claimed told the story of a spacecraft that crash landed in the area of the cave and that the ship contained the Dropa people. One of the discs apparently said the following: "The Dropa came down from the clouds in their aircraft. Our men, women and children hid in the caves ten times before sunrise. When at last we understood the sign language of the Dropas, we realized that the newcomers had peaceful intentions".
Tsum Um Nui is said to have published his findings 1962 in a professional journal and was subsequently ridiculed and met with disbelief. Shortly afterwards he is said to have gone to Japan in a self-imposed exile where he died not long after he completed the manuscript of his work.
Alleged photographs of the Dropa Stones
Russian Involvement
in 1968 the Dropa stones apparently came to the attention of W. Saitsew (also spelt Zaitsev), a Russian scientist who re-published the findings of Tsum Um Nui and conducted tests on the discs that revealed some very peculiar properties. Physically, the granite stones contained high concentrations of cobalt and other metals - a very hard stone indeed that would have made it difficult for the primitive people to carve the lettering, especially with such minute characters. As recorded in the Soviet magazine Sputnik, when testing a disk with an oscillograph, a surprising oscillation rhythm was recorded as if, the scientists said, they had once been electrically charged or had functioned as electrical conductors.
Wegerer
Supposedly, Ernst Wegerer (Wegener) was an Austrian engineer who, in 1974, visited the Banpo Museum in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, where he was able to see two of the Dropa stones. It is said that when he enquired about the discs the manager did not provide him with any information but allowed him to photograph them. He claims that in his photos the hieroglyphs cannot be seen as they have been hidden by the flash from the camera and have also deteriorated.
In 1994, the German scientist Hartwig Hausdorf and colleague Peter Krassa, are said to have visited China and the Banpo museum in Xian in 1994, where they were told that the Director's superiors had ordered the discs destroyed and that officially they do not recognise their existence. Hausdorf found out that the Chinese government do not have any official record of a tribe called Dropa, neither in the local area of Qinghai or whatsoever in China.
Have any of the Dropa people survived?
At the time of the discovery, the cave area was still inhabited by two tribes known as the Hams and the Dropas. Anthropologists have apparently been unable to categorize either tribe into any other known race; they are neither Chinese, Mongol nor Tibetan. They are yellow-skinned with thin bodies and disproportionately large heads, corresponding to the skeletal remains found in the caves in 1938. They have sparse hair on their bodies, have large eyes and their height measures between 3’6” and 4’7” with an average height of 4’2”.
Controversies
The Dropa stones are immersed in controversy with many claiming that it is nothing but a hoax. Among the arguments against their existence are the following:
It has been claimed that Tsum Um Nui is not a real Chinese name. There is no mention of him in China outside of his connection to the Dropa stones. According to Dropa enthusiast Hartwig Hausdorf, Tsum Um Nui is a former Japanese name, but adapted to the Chinese language.
The vast majority of names and sources cannot be corroborated and existence the Soviet or Chinese scholars cannot be found.
While reported to be a tribe of people with pygmy stature, the real Dropas (otherwise known as the Drokpa) are said to be nomadic herders who inhabit most of the northern Tibetan Plateau and who have regular height.
The only photos of the stone discs do not show any evidence of the hieroglyphs. It seems unlikely that a scholar was able to decipher and understand a completely unknown language in four years. Deciphering ancient writings has usually taken decades for multiple teams of expert linguists and this is even when they can be linked to another known language.
The stone discs were said to have been stored in various museums across China. However, none of these museums have any records or traces of Dropa stone ever being there.
Fact or Fiction?
Are the Dropa stones and the accompanying story simply part of an elaborate hoax or a fanciful story? Or were hundreds of discs with evidence of extra-terrestrial visitation to Earth really discovered, and the facts surrounding the case covered up?
Project: Whitecoat
NPR
October 13, 1998
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25 years ago, at the end of the Vietnam war, the Army ended Project Whitecoat — a program where members of a Protestant denomination — Seventh Day Adventists — served as volunteers in research experiments. The Adventists were conscientious objectors — but unlike many other conscientious objectors, they were willing to join the military — just not to bear arms. For the Army, Project Whitecoat was a way to learn more about biological warfare.
NPR
October 13, 1998
October 24, 2003 ~ Operation Whitecoat | October 24, 2003 | Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly | PBS
The story of a group of American soldiers, all conscientious objectors and Seventh Day Adventists, who volunteered to expose themselves to deadly viruses and bacteria, rather than go to war. Over a 20-year period, beginning in the 1950s, the army used them to test vaccines against biological...
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25 years ago, at the end of the Vietnam war, the Army ended Project Whitecoat — a program where members of a Protestant denomination — Seventh Day Adventists — served as volunteers in research experiments. The Adventists were conscientious objectors — but unlike many other conscientious objectors, they were willing to join the military — just not to bear arms. For the Army, Project Whitecoat was a way to learn more about biological warfare.
The Clones are coming…
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By Meghan Bartels
June 16, 2023
www.scientificamerican.com
Scientists Create Human Embryo-Like Structures with Stem Cells
To better understand early pregnancy loss without using actual human embryos, scientists employed stem cells to create models that mimic this stage of development
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