The Skypeople Are Listening...

Every year, during crop circle season, many people (including myself) do meditations in an attempt to influence the symbolic content of crop circles. This year, since May, I have been meditating on a simple drawing of an owl that I sketched. My own 'Shamanic Energies' kept telling me during my meditation-sessions that 'an Owl would show up in August' as one of the crop circle patterns. On August 8th, the formation in the picture was reported over in England, at Woodborough Hill, near Alton Barnes. Needless to say, I am beside myself with glee, because it is really delightful to hear from distant friends, and to have one's meditations manifest on the physical plane in such a wonderful way. If there is anything that I think it is important for people to draw from this 'happening', it is the truth that what you experience 'in you imagination' is not simply 'just your imagination'-- it is also very real, and can have real-time effects in what we call 'consensus reality'. The Universe is far stranger than we know...

(Thanks to the Crop Circle Connector for the photo!)

The Art of Our Foremothers...

The historical and mythological records both show that female ingenuity gave us early technology-- weaving, the bow and arrow, ovens, pottery and early metallurgy, to name several-- and now it is finally being acknowledged that it was our female ancestors who painted a large share of the paleolithic cave murals found in various places around the world. Of course, this new understanding is not being widely trumpeted-- as it actually should be-- because (the archaeologist mentioned in the article below excepted) Goddess forbid that the men of academia should ever actually acknowledge the massive contribution that female intelligence has made to the well-being and mental development of our species. Here is the entire article from the National Geographic website--

June 16, 2009--Inside France's 25,000-year-old Pech Merle cave, hand stencils surround the famed "Spotted Horses" mural.

For about as long as humans have created works of art, they've also left behind handprints. People began stenciling, painting, or chipping imprints of their hands onto rock walls at least 30,000 years ago.

Until recently, most scientists assumed these prehistoric handprints were male. But "even a superficial examination of published photos suggested to me that there were lots of female hands there," Pennsylvania State University archaeologist Dean Snow said of European cave art.

By measuring and analyzing the Pech Merle hand stencils, Snow found that many were indeed female--including those pictured here.

So first, evidence points to the high probability that the poet who composed and committed to writing the epics attributed to (a never-did-exist generic bard-fabrication called) Homer was female, and now we have female hand-prints all over cave murals in France. I know that my modern sisters and I will never receive the honest respect and full credit our sex is due, but the least that National Geographic could have done was devote more than 109 words to this important discovery.

Morphing Crop Circles

Over the last few years, we have been seeing a new kind of crop formation-- one that grows or morphs over time. Last year, we had the Swallows formation that easily doubled in size within a week, and this year we have a very interesting formation at Milk Hill (near Alton Barnes in Wiltshire) that is doing the same thing. Here is how the formation looked when it first came down last weekend--




Now, here is the same formation, as of today, June 23rd. The changes probably happened Sunday night/Monday, and are certainly major--




While I will not speculate at this point on the actual meaning(s) of the formation, I would hazard a guess that in this kind of morphing glyph, the figure is being presented in two parts in order to focus our attention on each part as a unit, as well as on the formation as a whole. Since the ratchet-pi formation occurred-- and due to the more-than-coincidental similarity between the ratchet-pi glyph and the CARET programming language-- I have been convinced that one function among the many in each crop formation is that it is a kind of earth-programming.

I also think that the morphing formations function in at least two ways: one, as a sort of primer for us, so that we can begin to understand the language, and two, as a time-phased bit of earth-programming.

I think it bears repeating once more that crop formations in general are holographic, and all have multiple meanings, so there is not 'one right answer' as to what they are communicating. Just as biological adaptations frequently serve more than one purpose in an organism, so too do crop circles 'multi-task', and one of the tasks is to teach humanity that it is time to pull its collective head out of the one-correct-way/one-correct-answer over-simplification box.

For those interested in some of the meanings being discussed with regard to this formation, I will refer you to the Crop Circle Connector website. This formation is listed on the page for the month of June, and when you click into the page for this glyph, there is a 'Comments' tab that takes you to the latest discussions of possible meanings for the formation. Both the pictures I have posted are from the Crop Circle Connector website.

Midsummer Musical Interlude--

The lady in the picture is Ms. Laima Jansone, a Latvian musician who plays the kokle, sometimes known as the Latvian Harp. She is a prodigious talent on an archaic instrument, and carries forward ancient Baltic Pagan musical traditions which have thankfully been preserved in her homeland.

My late husband was of Latvian descent (I am of Polish/Slovene heritage), and the all-too-short YouTube video of her playing out in the middle of a forest truly evokes another time and place.

It is traditional for Latvians to celebrate Midsummer (the Summer Solstice) with music, song and dance, and since Midsummer is rapidly approaching, I decided to post this as a musical Blessing for all. The YouTube link is below-- Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAwRI1Ahzvw

For those of you with better bandwidth, here are two more links (better video and sound quality) for her over at Exposure Room. The first link is for the same piece on the YouTube video, and the second link is for a piece called 'Sounding the Trees'...

http://exposureroom.com/members/Avatar.aspx/assets/51dd76f1ce714bbb89e37d3739ad6eff/

http://exposureroom.com/members/Avatar.aspx/assets/f0f3f38ebe4945a882bf540e8626d7db/

France to Disclose UFO Reality by Friday?

While perusing various alt.news digests this morning, I came across the article quoted below. It has been picked up by a number of UFO sites, and it was originally posted by Macedonia Online, the website for the Macedonian news agency, MINA. Below is a quote of most of the article, followed by the url for the article at Macedonia Online--

The words 'Nous ne sommes pas seuls' or 'We are not alone' will be somberly pronounced this week by a senior Government official of the nation that brought the world 'Liberté, égalité, fraternité'. France is set to concede that it is aware of an alien presence on earth by no later than Friday.

Paris has chosen follow the lead of maverick UFO nation Brazil and resist US pressure to continue delaying disclosure until America feels it is ready for the event.

It is believed that a telephone hot-line has been set up in Paris to deal with queries from panicky citizens. A special division of France's police department is also to be established: to handle UFO reports.

It is believed Holland and Germany are set to soon follow France's lead. //M. Cohen

Here's the url for the article--

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/7034/56/

It will be interesting to see if France actually does do a full disclosure of what they know. After years of oil cartel and military/industrial agendas hiding behind 'Brookings' skirts', the natives are getting restless...

In Sync with the Bird Motif...

It does seem as though this crop circle season is turning into a 'zoological year'-- so far, we've had a jellyfish, birds (shown in picture, courtesy of Crop Circle Connector), a dragonfly, and three fish, and the season is still young.

Personally, I am very partial to the 'Counter-rotating Birds' formation, as it seems to be referencing something I have been doing recently while meditating.

I will pause here for a moment to say two things:

1) I personally think that all crop formations carry multiple meanings/messages, which are all coherent and are meant for multiple recipients. They are not a 'single correct message' form of communication, but are instead sort of holographic. This means they have simultaneous meaningful messages for individual human observers, the sentient Earth, and the Skypeople and/or interdimensional entities who made them, and that all of the messages are valid. I also think that one of the purposes of crop formations is to get us Terran-humans used to multi-layer, multi-purpose types of communication. They are an exercise aimed at least in part at getting us out of a 'there is only one correct answer to any given question' mindset.

2) While the lay of the crop in the above picture has been characterized by the people examining the formation on the ground as 'rough, and having a lot of broken plant-material', I still think the formation is genuine (i.e., not hoaxed by humans attempting to muddy the situation). Furthermore, I think the breakage and the roughness is, in this case, a part of one of the message-facets of this formation.

Now, back to my story-- I have, for a number of years, attempted to send mental pictures to the beings/energies who make the crop formations, to see if what I send would eventually wind up on the ground somewhere. Long story short, I've had several 'hits', and the way in which the designs tallied with what I'd visualized, has led me to the idea that whoever/whatever has been making crop formations over the years can clearly perceive our thoughts. I also began to understand that a formation made seemingly in direct answer to my sent visualization also had equally valid, individually tailored messages for other observers, which did not lessen the basic validity of any of the messages 'bundled' in the formations.

What this has meant for me is that each year, although the crop formations appear half a world away from me, there are at least a handful that directly reference things I visualize in such a way as to be obvious to me personally that someone has been gently 'surfing my consciousness-field' (as per my invitation via projected visualizations to do so).

This year, I have been working on a meditative visualization technique for accessing and moving healing energy into my body. It involves, in part, picturing two counter-rotating discs of energy that spread out around me from a center-point in my solar plexus (Third chakra, for those who are metaphysically-inclined). The upper disc spins in a counter-clockwise direction (in agreement with the Northern Hemisphere Coriolus-spin-effect), while the lower disc spins clockwise. I find that keeping the visualization of both discs going in opposite directions at the same time is a bit tricky, so I sometimes see them as having either vanes (like a turbine) or feathers (like a bird's primary flight-feathers) which seems to help me keep the rotation-directions clear in my mind's eye. Making the discs spin in my meditation generates a vertical tube or cord perpendicular to the discs, which aligns parallel to my spine, and starts radiating energy into my body.

In total, the meditation consists of generating and spinning the discs, which then generates the center-cord, which then generates the healing energy. To sustain the spin-visualization for 20 to 30 minutes, I use music (perferably something like electronic dance/trance stuff with a rapid, even beat) to help me do this.

In performing the meditation regularly, I have discovered that the exercise has two components that act simultaneously, just like the counter-rotating discs. On the one hand, it generates an energy-cord that feeds/heals my bodily energy, and on the other, it breaks up unhealthy energy patterns in the area encompassed by my own energy-field. I sometimes see this happen during the meditation when my consciousness spontaneously drops to an area between the two discs-- when this happens, I see an area of turbulence in the space between the discs that is created by their counter-rotation. The incoming healing energy forces the 'old stuff' out between the two discs, where it is literally torn apart and recycled into energy thrown outward by the motion of the discs.

I now ask the reader to reexamine the crop circle picture shown above in light of the description of my meditation.

The counter-rotating energies are shown clearly by the directions of the birds' beaks/faces, with the upper/outer rotation being counterclockwise, and the inner/lower rotation moving opposite to it, in a clockwise direction. Just as I use the device of vanes or feathers to keep the rotation straight visually, the birds' heads do the same in the formation. The center 'hole' in the formation marks the position of the generated cord or channel. Even the music is there-- the formation is seven-fold, as are the notes of the standard musical octave (the eighth note of the octave is a higher repeat iteration of the first note). The eight dots that make up the 'teardrop comet' are the full octave, and the teardrop points in the direction of the upper-disc spin.

While there is no doubt in my mind that the circlemakers are telling me that they clearly see (and applaud) my meditation efforts, there is also no doubt in my mind that they are saying other things to other people. And when I found out about the rough lay and the (unusual) broken plants within the formation, I realized that they had another message for me.

As anyone who gets involved with these sorts of things knows, anomalies and conspiracies interconnect, as do crop formations and UFOs. When I heard about the rough lay of the crop, several ideas collided in my head all at once-- the 'we oppose deception' message the circlemakers left many years back, the way my meditation breaks up and releases old energy, and that staple of black project conspiracy, the Aviary-- and I thought, "Oh my Goddess, the grain-smashing, Earth-trashing Aviary is being deconstructed..."

Maybe when we heal ourselves, we really do heal the world.

Aliens At Tunguska: Research-Skills To The Rescue...

Every so often, I run across a piece of UFO-debunkery that is so outrageously blatant and badly researched that it is flat-out funny. Case in point this week is an article by Nancy Atkinson over at Universe Today that has been miraculously picked up and quoted in its mis-representational entirety by many disparate sites that have, on the face of it, nothing to do with UFOs. Just Google 'Universe Today Tunguska UFO' to garner yourself the proverbial shit-load of hits-- you will find that the article is not so much news reportage as it is blog-wallpaper in certain e-sectors.

Interestingly, the sites that are post-proliferating said article are quoting it in its entirety, and with no attribution or acknowledgment of either the Universe Today website or the author of the article, Ms. Atkinson. This seems a mite odd, in terms of the speed-of-spread for the whole article online as well as with regard to the usual custom of attributing sources, which is markedly lacking in this case.

Also of interest is that Ms. Atkinson herself does not give proper attribution-of-source information for the Pravda (in English) article she haphazardly quotes in her hatchet-job post at Universe Today. (Again, just Google 'Universe Today Tunguska UFO' to read the full text of her article.)

Now, the reason I am bringing the whole thing up in the first place is that with 15 minutes, a computer with an internet connection, and some basic research and reference skills, what emerges is a very different scenario than the one Ms. Atkinson paints in her article. I work for a public library system in a large city, and as I routinely perform reference-work for folks doing research papers and the like, I know how to find periodical source material online. It is something I am paid to do on a daily basis, and I am good at my job.

The first thing I did was to copy the whole of Ms. Atkinson's article off of Universe Today, and drop it into a Word document. I then removed all of Ms. Atkinson's (biased and pejorative) personal opinions-- including her opening sentence, 'Classify this under new of the weird'-- and I was left with the following pieces of information:

A Russian scientist claims that aliens downed the Tunguska meteorite 101 years ago to protect our planet from devastation. Yuri Lavbin says he found unusual quartz crystals at the site of the massive Siberian explosion. Ten crystals have holes in them, placed so the stones can be united in a chain, and other have drawings on them. “We don’t have any technologies that can print such kind of drawings on crystals,” said Lavbin. “We also found ferrum silicate that can not be produced anywhere, except in space.”

A couple of expeditions have gone to the remote site of the crash. Lavbin says that one expedition located the unusual crystals.

Since there is stuff in quotation marks from a Russian scientist named Yuri Lavbin, it seemed safe to assume that the quoted-but-unattributed info in the Universe Today article was taken from an interview that must have been published somewhere. Inputting the Russian scientist's name and a few phrases from the unsourced material led me to an online news-clipping service, which identified my bits and pieces as coming from an article that was originally published online by the English version of the Russian paper Pravda. The news-clipping service also obligingly provided a link to the article itself, so I didn't have to Google it.

Upon reading the Pravda article-- awkward translation and all-- I found that it had been selectively quoted/heavily edited (to make it appear that there was nothing to the story) in the Universe Today post. Even though the translation of the Pravda article leaves a lot to be desired, it is still understandable by English speakers, and it tells a much different story than the Universe Today article presents. Here is the entire Pravda article (translation and spelling issues uncorrected):

Aliens downed Tunguska meteorite to save Earth

Translated by Lena Ksandinova

Aliens downed Tunguska meteorite to protect our planet from devastation, stated Russian scientist Yuriy Lavbin. He showed 10 quartz crystals that he found at the place of the meteorite’s crash. Several of the crystals have holes in between, so they can be united in a chain.

What could this chain serve for? Besides, some crystals have strange drawings on them. We don’t have any technologies that can print such kind of drawings on crystal. We also found ferrum silicate that can not be produced anywhere but in the space”, - the scientist states.

The meteorite’s crash took place long time ago, in summer of 1908. An enormous volcanic ball rushed over the sky with terrifying wallop and thunder-like sound. All the citizens were frightened to death and scared to move out of their houses. A flight of a “flamy alien” ended up in an hour in deserted taiga area. In a matter of seconds an explosive wave spread for 40 kilometers, devastating everything living around.

It was not until many years later that a Siberian scientist set up an expedition to place of the meteorite’s crash. They searched carefully through the river banks and found there unusual quartz boards. Mr. Lavbin states that such solid stones do not exist in the Earth. He said about the experiment that was taken on the crystals: scientists tried to put some of the same drawing that were on the stones initially with a laser machine.

How surprised they were to realize that the laser (that usually cuts metal objects into pieces) managed to put just some faint stripes. The stones though have an entire system of different lines and circles on them. Scientists suppose that the stones used to be a part of the navigational system of a spaceship. All stones united form a map, which they used to cruise through the Universe.

In 1908 the UFO is thought to be hit by the meteorite that weighed 1 billion tonnes. If the meteorite fell down on the Earth, all the people would have been dead. But the aliens interfered and put their lives to save our land. A strange portrait of a strange person on one of the stones proves this hypothesis. Isn’t it the pilot that once put his life for the sake of our future life?

When one looks at the ridiculously redacted information in the Universe Today article (with its accompanying dismissive editorial opinions) and then compares it to the Pravda article in its entirety, it is painfully clear that Ms. Atkinson wrote her piece not to report on the Pravda article, but to quash it. There can be no other reason for the scathing invective, the hatchet-work editing, and the non-attribution of the source.

The short-and-sweet of it is that the Universe Today article left out a lot of information that was in the Pravda article.

Next, I revisited Ms. Atkinson's dismissive remarks in light of the full Pravda article, and I became intrigued by the following assertion made by her--

While I’m not a chemist, I couldn’t find any information on “ferrum silicate.” Seemingly, it doesn’t exist.

My first thought was, "the translation of the Pravda article is so glitchy, I bet they mean something like ferrous silicate, rather than ferrum silicate." This confusion of terms is something that is seen a lot in library reference-work-- people think they have the correct name for something only to find out they don't when they try to look up information on the mistaken term. I duly Googled both terms and found out I was correct-- ferrous silicate does indeed exist, and it has sometimes been mistakenly referred to as ferrum silicate. Ferrous silicate is of great interest to anyone involved in metallurgy or glass manufacturing, and has been the subject of a whole lot of scientific research since the 1940s.

Here are two summary pages of professional papers detailing research into the properties of ferrous silicate. The first one is a recent abstract that is available on the subscription database SpringerLink, and the second is a paper from 1941 that can be found on Google Books:

Soft X-ray spectroscopy of ferrous silicates (on SpringerLink)

Charles G. Dodd and Paul H. Ribbe

Energy gaps and electrical conductivities in the ferrous silicates, Fe2SiO4 and FeSiO3, depend primarily on Fe-O bonding and may be studied by ultraviolet and soft X-ray spectroscopy. We have measured FeLII–III X-ray band spectra under conditions of 'minimal' (I4, at 4.0 keV) and 'high' (I10, at 10.0 keV) self absorption to determine 3d orbital energy levels, to delineate d states in the valence band, and to construct band gap models.


Research Article (1941)
The Specific Heats at Low Temperatures of Ferrous Silicate, Manganous Silicate and Zirconium Silicate

K.K. Kelley

The available low-temperature specific heat data for silicates are rather meager in spite of the wide interest in and importance of these substances as constituents of slags and glasses.

I have only given these two references, but there is tons more information (much of it highly technical) on ferrous silicate research online. To borrow (and correct) a phrase from the Pravda article, I think that a kind of 'ferrous silicate that can not be produced anywhere but in space', would be of intense interest to many, many people, as would be the fact that said ferrous silicate crystals are apparently darned near impervious to lasers.

Thus, the trash-it-fast agenda of the Universe Today article is exposed for what it is-- spinola designed to distract and/or discourage people from researching the actual story for themselves. No attribution of the Pravda article was given in the Universe Today article, because the spin-meisters do not want anyone looking at the Pravda article and/or taking it even half-way seriously. I can just hear the intel freak-out now-- 'Geez, not only are the Russians blabbing about laser-proof materials, there's a frikkin' alien face on the stuff they recovered! We have so-o-o gotta kill this story...'

In this case, there is already way too much bona-fide research posted online, and the spin is coming way too late.

Also, before I forget, the photo accompanying this article is from the Pravda article, and is an actual picture of part of what was recovered at Tunguska, according to Pravda. It is not a picture of 'supposed crystals', as the Universe Today article labels them. Of course, I leave it entirely up to the reader as to whether or not they wish to view the Pravda article as factual, but at this point, I'd say the Pravda article has way more going for it (in terms of a bona-fide news agency standing behind it as well as quotations and pictures from checkable sources) than the Universe Today hit-piece does.

Goddess, but I love my job...

Magickal Odds and Ends-- Divination by Owl-Calls

Here's a little chart for divining one's future prospects from the number of hoots one hears an Owl give at night...

One hoot: A death is foretold.

Two hoots: Success will come to you soon.

Three hoots: You will soon have a lover. If you are engaged, you will marry soon.

Four hoots: There will be a disturbance or an argument.

Five hoots: There will soon be an opportunity for you to travel. If you are in the midst of a journey, you will arrive safely.

Six hoots: Guests will arrive soon, or you will soon receive word from one who is absent.

Seven hoots: The will be confusion, or someone near you is telling lies. Be cautious.

Eight hoots: A sudden disaster, or an unexpected loss.

Nine hoots: Good fortune; wealth is coming to you.

If the Owl is very vocal and you hear more than nine calls, it is a sign of great good luck and indicates that a heartfelt wish will come true.

Crop Circle Season Off To An Incredible Start!

[Image: Olivier Morel, Copyright 2009-- displayed at Crop Circle Connector]

The crop circle season over in England is off to a wild start this year-- there have been no less than eight large and intricate formations in flowering rapeseed (canola) crop so far. Up to this point, canola crop glyphs have been simple, small and few, but the current season has already broken any previous records for size, complexity and number of formations in this particular kind of crop.

The formation shown in the photo was reported on May 4th, and is over 600 feet long. Precision of design and detail in the formations so far this year is amazing, especially considering the brittle, breakable nature of the crop-- canola stems are 'crunchy' and snap off under any kind of mechanical pressure, such as people (supposedly) stomping the crop down with boards, or even simply walking on the already-downed crop as they visit a circle-- the stems in all the formations so far this year show completely smooth bending of the plant stalks, and the crop is laid down in ordered swirls with no breakage. There was also rain the night this formation appeared, but the downed crop is not muddy as it would be if people had stomped the plants flat with boots or boards in the bad weather.

If we are getting early-season glyphs of this magnitude in canola, I cannot wait until the wheat crop is mature enough for the later-season formations-- they are usually even more intricate, and I have no doubt this season will be spectacular!

Have Been Incommunicado...

A big 'sorry' to Marsandro and T'Claw! There's been a bunch of stuff going on with the hit-and-run case (as in evidence collection and phone depositions) and my dear Ms. Paisley passed away last month (at age 14 and 1/2), so things have been kinda crazy. I am also about to revamp the blog a bit, as-- speaking from a shamanic persepective here-- I have been experiencing a recursion of my many-years-latent Owl-energy. The Tiger-streak is still there, and very prominent-- it is my Chinese zodiac-sign after all-- but I am about to ditch some parts of the blog, as the Tigers and Owls are sending me in interesting directions. Also, now that 'Crop Circle Season' is again upon us, and it looks like it is going to be a spectacular year already, I'd like to give that some blog-space. Anyhow, if anyone wants to download any of the Lol-cat pix or the Sekhmet stuff, do so now, as it will be going bye-bye soon...

Beaming A Particular Movie Into Space...???

Now that I can sit for awhile at my computer, I am getting caught up on a bunch of what I like to call my fave 'anomaly sites'. While over at the Exopolitics Blog (www.exopolitics.com) today, I ran across the article I have posted below. (It was posted over at the Exopolitics Blog in December of last year.) While the tone of the original article is, to put it bluntly, 'basic spin-propaganda smart-ass', I am looking right past that to the main question the article begs--

Why would 20th Century Fox do something like this???

It's rather an expensive thing to do for a mere publicity stunt, and (if the smart-ass attitude of the article is taken at face value) a completely pointless thing to do, even as a publicity stunt.

So, again, I'd like to know--

1.) Why did they do this?

2.) Why did they pick this particular movie?

3.) Who actually paid for the space transmission of the movie?

4.) Who exactly is the 'Deep Space Communications Network' mentioned at the end of the article?

5.) What exactly do they do for a living? (I personally find it hard to believe they just sit around beaming selected TV programs, movies and music into space, as the article implies...)

6.) Why does the Space Center in Florida allow a private group to beam stuff like The Day The Earth Stood Still into deep space from the Space Center?

7.) Why does the article itself not answer any of the above questions?

Without further ado, here is the article--

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Fox To Beam Day The Earth
Stood Still Into Space
12-10-8


LOS ANGELES Business Wire -- Twentieth Century Fox makes history by transmitting the first motion picture in to deep space, making THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL the world's first galactic motion picture release. The first deliberate deep space transmission of this highly anticipated science fiction thriller will begin this Friday, December 12, 2008, to coincide with the film's opening day on Planet Earth. If any civilizations are currently orbiting Alpha Centauri, they will be able to receive and view the film approximately four years from now in the year 2012.

In a time when global movie launches are now commonplace, Fox is raising the bar by spearheading, with Deep Space Communications Network located at Cape Canaveral, the ultimate in "wide release" platforms. As millions of Earthbound movie fans get their first look at THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, starring Keanu Reeves and Jennifer Connelly, the film will be zipping through space at 186,000 miles per second to a heretofore untapped possible consumer base orbiting the three star system, Alpha Centauri.

Industry watchers and film historians will note that due to the distance between our solar system and the Alpha Centauri system, it will take over eight years (accounting for a roundtrip communication) to receive any Alpha Centauri reviews. The transmission is not a single beam aimed at just the Alpha Centauri system, but can be received by any advanced technologically capable civilization along the way to Alpha Centauri, and beyond.

Prior to its arrival at Alpha Centauri, the transmission of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL can be intercepted and viewed at various points in our own solar system (Distance from Earth ­ at the speed of light ­ and transmission time, as follows):

Moon: 0.000000038, 1.1991888 seconds Sun: 0.000016, 8.41536 minutes Mercury: 0.0000095, 4.99662 minutes Venus: 0.00000476, 2.5035696 minutes Mars: 0.0000076, 3.997296 minutes Jupiter: 0.0000666, 35.028936 minutes Saturn: 0.000135, 1.18341 hours Uranus: 0.000285, 2.49831 hours Neptune: 0.00046, 4.03236 hours Pluto: 0.0006183, 5.4200178 hours

"We are thrilled about beaming this film into space. This will be our first full length movie transmission. And what could be more relevant to send into Deep Space than a movie about the Earth's acceptance of visitors from outer space," commented Jim Lewis, Managing Director, Deep Space Communications Network

About DEEP SPACE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK:

Deep Space Communications Network is a private organization located east of Orlando. DSCN was formed specifically to communicate with outer space by a group of broadcast engineers and communications experts who regularly transmit from the space center.

The beam transmitting THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL is by redundant high-powered klystron amplifiers connected by a traveling waveguide to a five meter parabolic dish antenna.
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For those folks who visit here who follow Richard Hoagland's work, I have to observe that his stance that certain folks in Hollywood know things that are central to the whole UFO/life on other planets question seems very pertinent here.

Also worth mentioning is that in this instance, the smart-ass tone of the article does not hide anything-- rather, it makes the decision of 20th Century Fox to beam this movie into deep space even more problematic. After all, why bother spending money on a 'publicity stunt' that everyone is just going to laugh at the way the article itself does?

Sharing the hot, buttered popcorn with the Skypeople in Peace,

T'Zairis

One Tough Tigress...

On December 15th, 2008, I was involved -- as a pedestrian who was struck by a car-- in a hit-and-run automobile accident. I was crossing the street in a marked crosswalk with a green light and 'walk' sign when I was struck by a driver making a left-hand turn.

I saved myself serious injury by jumping onto the hood of the car-- my plan was to ride the hood until the car stopped moving-- but since the driver did not stop and I was unable to find a good enough hand-hold, I wound up rolling off the driver's side fender and into the street. My martial arts and dance training served me well, as I was able to fall and roll properly, but the impact of jumping onto the hood of the car caused a hairline plateau fracture of the right tibia. Since the car was still moving forward as I was rolling off the fender, I also sustained a metatarsal fracture in the left foot.

I also had a lot of internal bleeding in the right lower leg, so I wound up in the hospital for four days and then was in acute care rehab for twelve. I am finally well enough to be back home and to sit at the computer for a short period of time, so I am now able to post to my blog to explain what happened to me.

The story, as nasty as it is, has a good ending. First, I am expected to make a full recovery, although I am still facing a fair chunk of rehab for the muscles in my right lower leg. Second, the guy who hit me has been arrested and booked into the County jail for A) striking me while I was in a marked crosswalk, and B) for leaving the scene of the accident.

Something that is not so good is that the driver of the car who hit me was uninsured, so it looks like my own insurance company will have to cover my costs, but at least they have a person to go after thanks to a good samaritan at the scene who managed to get the license number of the car as it left the scene. There were also several witnesses who provided the police with such detailed information that they were able to effect the arrest of the driver the same day I was hit. My sincere and heartfelt thanks goes out to them.

So long story short, I am back-- very sore and very bruised and walking with cane at the moment, but I am back!

Peace,

T'Zairis