I have the utmost respect for the Human brain, and brains in general. See, the computing power
of the Human brain is only
one small facet of what the brain does. A computer may emulate the
computing power of the Human brain, but a computer can NEVER hope to become
a REAL Human brain.
The Human brain is so much more than a lowly computer. Judging by what I've learned and what I KNOW, I would say that ALL brains are
Quantum Antennae.
There is something so exquisitely delicate and sensitive about the Brain that it DOES receive information
from other intelligences in the
Universe. In fact, I won't be surprised when it's discovered that
Quantum Communications between intelligent species is commonplace in the
Universe.
Instantaneous communications from one end of the Universe to the other
would eliminate the necessity for starships and warp engines and all
that nonsense.
I mean, if you have sufficient information, you needn't even leave home.
Right? In the same way the Internet is eliminating the necessity to
commute
to work.
If we regard our Quantum Antennae as a Cosmic communications system, then all sorts of things
start making sense. Clairvoyance, psychic
ability, ghostly apparitions are all products of our Quantum Antennae
picking up information across Space and Time, beyond our familiar four
dimensions.
I mean, we may see a moment from the Past replay before our eyes and
call it a Ghost. We may see a moment from the Future and we're called
Visionaries.
All Humans have Quantum Antennae, but so do all living things.
There's a constant jabber of quantum communications all around us, all
the time. Some of us listen to it and prosper, utilizing the
information and
inspiration from unearthly sources; others of us may think they are hearing voices (and they certainly are), and are labeled psychotic.
Isn't that interesting? One of the first things they ask you on any
medical questionnaire is "Do You Hear Voices"? It's a very common
malady,
apparently.
But hearing voices and even seeing things is NOT necessarily an indication that you're crazy, okay?
Even staid and solid scientists hear voices and see things
and can still function as scientists, right? I mean, the mathematician
John
Forbes Nash Jr was a genius but was hounded by people that only he could
see and hear. He finally convinced himself that the intruders were
figments
of his imagination, and he simply IGNORED them for the rest of his life.
They didn't go away, he just ignored them.
Well, those "people" really exist. They're sentient beings that
communicate through the Quantum aether... They're not Human, but, coming
through the
filter of a Human brain, they are going to SOUND and APPEAR Human. Make
no mistake, we ARE in contact with intelligences from all over the
Universe.
We exchange ideas all the time.
Ever notice how several unrelated people will come up with the same invention or idea at the same time? It's the so-called "Ah-Ha
Phenomenon"... I know some of you have had the weird experience of
coming up with a bright idea, not doing anything with the idea, and then
SEEING the idea manifest into reality by somebody else's hand, months or
years later.
It's infuriating, right?
That's a Quantum Wave of Creativity passing through our Solar System,
and a few people with the right frequency Quantum Antennae pick up the
data.
Most of us won't act, but a few of the receivers ACT on the received
information. So we get people going "Ah-Ha!" at different points all over
the globe simultaneously, coming up with the same idea.
Happens all the time. It's a perfect example of information exchange across intergalactic distances.
See, we don't need the SETI Project searching for transmissions within a
few very narrow radio bands. There IS a kind of subspace communications system that defies Time and Space; and, if you have a brain, you're already plugged into that system. The Universe, essentially, has been sending a deluge of signals for billions of years, and your BRAIN is a transceiver.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
A BRIEF MOMENT IN THE CATBIRD SEAT
Time Travel is only "impossible" if Space-Time is LINEAR... That is, if the past necessarily comes BEFORE the present, and the present
necessarily comes BEFORE the future.
That's a rather primitive view of Space-Time, if you know anything about Einsteinian Physics.
One of the popularly-forgotten points that Albert Einstein made about Space-Time is that ALL Time and ALL Space occur SIMULTANEOUSLY. That is to say, the Big Bang (if it occurred) happens at the SAME TIME the Solar System was formed, which happens at the SAME TIME Homo sapiens evolved, which happens at the SAME TIME we first set foot on the Moon, and so on and so forth.
In other words, the entire Universe, from beginning to end, is but ONE and the SAME MOMENT in Space Time. According to Einstein.
How do you wrap your mind around that?
Well, actually, we CAN wrap our minds around that concept fairly easily. Consider the lowly Compact Disc.
Chances are, there's a Compact Disc within your reach at this very moment. Pick it up, turn it over in your hands, scrutinize it.
What are you looking at?
You're looking at a complete Universe, with a beginning and an end, containing as much information as can be currently crammed into a Compact Disc. You're looking at the beginning and end of that Universe simultaneously, and everything that occurs in between.
At a glance.
You're looking at a Universe from the perspective of God. You're looking at a Universe from the perspective of the 11th Dimension.
From your 11th Dimension perspective, every song on the CD occurs simultaneously. Every spoken word on that CD occurs concurrent with all the others. All the information on that disc is hanging static in Time and Space...
That CD Universe is WAITING for you to apply your micro-laser technology to READ IT in a linear fashion that makes sense to you.
Human consciousness is the intersection of the micro-laser and the CD surface, okay? So we four-dimensional Humans always perceive the Space-Time continuum as moving along in a linear fashion.
But, from the perspective of the 11th Dimension, we can stop, jump forward or backwards in Space-Time, select specific points to inspect, listen to the same song repeatedly, or run the entire CD Universe in an endless playback loop.
The same thing applies to the macro-Universe, the infinitude that surrounds us. Our meager Human consciousness perceives the Space-Time continuum moving along, moving past us, inexorably from the past into the future, one footstep falling after the other.
Ultimately, however, there's nothing to prevent us from skipping around in the Space-Time continuum, go visiting any point in Time that we wish, because it's all happening SIMULTANEOUSLY, and it's all contained in this gigantic CD we call the Universe.
The problem, just as with the CD in your hands, is that you can't distinguish precisely WHERE one song ends and another begins unless you plug in the CD and allow the micro-laser (consciousness) to track the selections. Whereupon, you're right back to your linear perception of Space-Time.
That's a rather primitive view of Space-Time, if you know anything about Einsteinian Physics.
One of the popularly-forgotten points that Albert Einstein made about Space-Time is that ALL Time and ALL Space occur SIMULTANEOUSLY. That is to say, the Big Bang (if it occurred) happens at the SAME TIME the Solar System was formed, which happens at the SAME TIME Homo sapiens evolved, which happens at the SAME TIME we first set foot on the Moon, and so on and so forth.
In other words, the entire Universe, from beginning to end, is but ONE and the SAME MOMENT in Space Time. According to Einstein.
How do you wrap your mind around that?
Well, actually, we CAN wrap our minds around that concept fairly easily. Consider the lowly Compact Disc.
Chances are, there's a Compact Disc within your reach at this very moment. Pick it up, turn it over in your hands, scrutinize it.
What are you looking at?
You're looking at a complete Universe, with a beginning and an end, containing as much information as can be currently crammed into a Compact Disc. You're looking at the beginning and end of that Universe simultaneously, and everything that occurs in between.
At a glance.
You're looking at a Universe from the perspective of God. You're looking at a Universe from the perspective of the 11th Dimension.
From your 11th Dimension perspective, every song on the CD occurs simultaneously. Every spoken word on that CD occurs concurrent with all the others. All the information on that disc is hanging static in Time and Space...
That CD Universe is WAITING for you to apply your micro-laser technology to READ IT in a linear fashion that makes sense to you.
Human consciousness is the intersection of the micro-laser and the CD surface, okay? So we four-dimensional Humans always perceive the Space-Time continuum as moving along in a linear fashion.
But, from the perspective of the 11th Dimension, we can stop, jump forward or backwards in Space-Time, select specific points to inspect, listen to the same song repeatedly, or run the entire CD Universe in an endless playback loop.
The same thing applies to the macro-Universe, the infinitude that surrounds us. Our meager Human consciousness perceives the Space-Time continuum moving along, moving past us, inexorably from the past into the future, one footstep falling after the other.
Ultimately, however, there's nothing to prevent us from skipping around in the Space-Time continuum, go visiting any point in Time that we wish, because it's all happening SIMULTANEOUSLY, and it's all contained in this gigantic CD we call the Universe.
The problem, just as with the CD in your hands, is that you can't distinguish precisely WHERE one song ends and another begins unless you plug in the CD and allow the micro-laser (consciousness) to track the selections. Whereupon, you're right back to your linear perception of Space-Time.
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
GRAYS, REPTOIDS & HUMANS...OH MY
Yes, there were other intelligent species upon the face of the Earth before Mankind.
Okay, here's the lowdown... The Reptoids are from Earth. They evolved here, from the Dinosaurs. They were among the first intelligent civilizations on Earth, okay. Yes, they experimented with genetic engineering, just as we do today. They designed many of the more bizarre and beautiful Dinosaurs. And, yeah, they obliterated themselves and their creations.
They survived by going subterranean, which is the only intelligent way to live on a planet. If you live on the surface, you're way too vulnerable. Yes, the Reptoids are still screwing with us today, because they have a completely different view of things. Like, a very savage perspective. They’ve been referred to as Dragons throughout history — that’s our distorted communal memory of them.
The Grays are ANOTHER intelligent subterranean species that evolved on Earth, and the Grays are closer to Mankind than the Reptoids, which is why they're so interested in us. Actually, in all truth, the Grays are Fallen Angels. Yeah. I know, I know, some people are going to jump in my butt about that, but you've just gotta man-up and face it.
The Grays are also very highly technically advanced, but they're single-minded. Meaning, they don't multi-task very well. They have tried breeding with Humankind for ages, which produced the Tall Whites (aka the Giants of Old, but now a subterranean colony down in the American Southwest), but that breeding experiment didn't work out. They just managed to produce a tall, pale humanoid with a single-mindedness and an intense sense of territoriality.
The Grays then tried breeding the Tall Whites back into Humanity about 35,000 years ago, but with disastrous results. It created the Caucasian race, a VERY competitive, brilliant, belligerent and territorial animal who could MULTI-TASK, and who has been kicking ass around the world ever since.
Yes, the Reptoids, the Grays, the Tall Whites and everybody else know that Mankind was God’s signature upon Creation. Mankind is spiritually ABOVE all these other species, and they know it.
There are always exceptions, just as there are always bad apples in any barrel.
You may wonder why I’m telling you all this, so I’ll back up and show you the man behind the curtain.
It’s me, Zesko Whirligan.
I’m a Clairvoyant from a lineage of clairvoyants. In an earlier time I'd be called a fucking Witch and I'd be burned at the stake for saying the shit I say.
The visionaries (like me) see it as a merger of civilizations (ala Arthur C. Clarke), which is correct.
The mystics and metaphysical people think it's a Great Awakening of Spirit in Humanity, which is correct.
It's all of these things.
It's a massive shift. The most impressive part, to me, are not the natural disasters to come, but the wonders you will see in the sky. You think we've had UFO footage in the past, well, you aint seen nothing yet. You're going to see these things coming right down and interacting with us in broad open daylight. Keep your cameras handy.
Just keep in mind, this isn’t about an “alien invasion,” this is about a UNIFICATION of civilizations and spirits on Earth.
THEM HIGH-STEPPIN' PREHISTORIC EUROPEANS
There is evidence (DNA evidence, as well as archaeological evidence)
that prehistoric Europeans
followed the massive polar icewall across the North Atlantic, arriving
in the vicinity of the mid-Atlantic coast of North America as long as
20,000
years ago — making Europeans the first humans to discover the Americas,
nearly 10,000 years BEFORE Eastern Asians crossed the Bering Land Bridge
to
this continent.
DNA evidence indicates that several Eastern American tribes — such as the Cherokees — were descended of Western European Caucasians as long as 20,000 years ago, and that Asian Mongols didn't colonize the continent until some 10,000 years afterwards.
The absolute OLDEST piece of human technology ever discovered in North America is a 20,000-year-old stone spearhead, found amid fossilized Mammoth bones on the East Coast of the continent. The style of the spearhead MIRRORS the style of stone weapons used in Western Europe over 20,000 years ago — it does NOT, however, even remotely match Asian-style spearheads used at the same time.
Therefore, Western Europeans were already stomping about the Americas long before anyone else. It's not too much to assume that they brought back something to smoke and otherwise imbibe from the New World, and it's not too much to assume that prehistoric trade existed between Europe and the Americas (some 15,000 years before the rise of Egyptian civilization and 16,000 years before Chinese civilization was born).
Given that ancient mummies of very technically advanced Western Europeans have been discovered in the Alps and as far east as China, predating both Egyptian and Chinese civilizations, there is a very high likelihood that Western Europeans SEEDED the civilizations in Egypt and Eastern Asia.
Certainly, the very ancient Western Europeans were already using metallurgy, sophisticated textiles, antibiotic medicines, and acupuncture therapy LONG BEFORE Imhotep "invented " medicine and over a thousand years before the Chinese "invented" the wondrous technologies erroneously attributed to them.
I know, it's a hateful thought to the politically-correct drones out there, but Western Europeans have always been far ahead of the human pack in global exploration, conquest and technological development, even during the Ice Age.
But I have no problem accepting that Western Europeans brought back tobacco and cocaine from the Americas, long before the invention of agriculture.
DNA evidence indicates that several Eastern American tribes — such as the Cherokees — were descended of Western European Caucasians as long as 20,000 years ago, and that Asian Mongols didn't colonize the continent until some 10,000 years afterwards.
The absolute OLDEST piece of human technology ever discovered in North America is a 20,000-year-old stone spearhead, found amid fossilized Mammoth bones on the East Coast of the continent. The style of the spearhead MIRRORS the style of stone weapons used in Western Europe over 20,000 years ago — it does NOT, however, even remotely match Asian-style spearheads used at the same time.
Therefore, Western Europeans were already stomping about the Americas long before anyone else. It's not too much to assume that they brought back something to smoke and otherwise imbibe from the New World, and it's not too much to assume that prehistoric trade existed between Europe and the Americas (some 15,000 years before the rise of Egyptian civilization and 16,000 years before Chinese civilization was born).
Given that ancient mummies of very technically advanced Western Europeans have been discovered in the Alps and as far east as China, predating both Egyptian and Chinese civilizations, there is a very high likelihood that Western Europeans SEEDED the civilizations in Egypt and Eastern Asia.
Certainly, the very ancient Western Europeans were already using metallurgy, sophisticated textiles, antibiotic medicines, and acupuncture therapy LONG BEFORE Imhotep "invented " medicine and over a thousand years before the Chinese "invented" the wondrous technologies erroneously attributed to them.
I know, it's a hateful thought to the politically-correct drones out there, but Western Europeans have always been far ahead of the human pack in global exploration, conquest and technological development, even during the Ice Age.
But I have no problem accepting that Western Europeans brought back tobacco and cocaine from the Americas, long before the invention of agriculture.
HOME FIELD DISADVANTAGE
As a little kid, I read history books and encyclopedias mainly, and I
mean when I was 5 or 6 years old. I liked science textbooks, chemistry,
microscopy, telescopy, all the nerdy stuff. By the time I was 12, I had
subscriptions to Science News and Nature.
I didn't really pay much attention to UFO stories in the press back in the 1960s... But when our neighbors had a garage sale one weekend, I went over and bought a whole box full of paperbacks for 25¢. The paperbacks were by authors with names like Donald Keyhoe, George Hunt Williamson, George Adamski, George Van Tassel, George King, Ivan Sanderson, et cetera, et al.
I became fascinated with UFOs thereafter. And I became frustrated with the seeming lack of interest on the part of the Scientific community. Because I loved Science, too.
To this very day, I know there is a stigma attached to admitting you've seen a UFO. I know that ignorant, uneducated people out there will shrink and cower away from the subject in fear, and insane people gravitate to it. I know that admitting you've seen a UFO invites an onslaught of not mere incredulity but disproportionately aggressive cynicism.
And I know that somebody out there DOES NOT want us talking about UFOs. Every time I see one of those weak UFO documentaries in which they attempt to convince us that UFOs are "extraterrestrials," that's when I know they don't want us talking about UFOs.
Because UFOs are NOT extraterrestrial.
I am fairly certain that there is abundant interdimensional and "psychic" traffic in the Universe, and that the instantaneous Quantum transfer of information across inconceivable distances is, in fact, the preferred method of "Space Travel"...
The human brain — and all brains, for that matter — are natural Quantum antennae. We are in CONSTANT CONTACT with other intelligences all across this Universe, whether or not we care to admit it. Some people who are aware of this fact use the knowledge to their advantage and profit. Others who cannot grasp what is happening end up committed to asylums.
I mean, think of how many "geniuses" in human history were also quite mad. Well, of course, the observation of "madness" is made by those who do not consider themselves mad.
I come from a long line of clairvoyants going back centuries. Clairvoyance only means clear vision. What I know is that there is a LOT of "psychic" traffic in the Universe, and only a TINY percentage of it is Human traffic.
So, yeah, a LOT of psychic traffic comes through Earth, because Life has thrived here for billions of years. Earth is a unique planet in that way, there aren't many like it.
I didn't really pay much attention to UFO stories in the press back in the 1960s... But when our neighbors had a garage sale one weekend, I went over and bought a whole box full of paperbacks for 25¢. The paperbacks were by authors with names like Donald Keyhoe, George Hunt Williamson, George Adamski, George Van Tassel, George King, Ivan Sanderson, et cetera, et al.
I became fascinated with UFOs thereafter. And I became frustrated with the seeming lack of interest on the part of the Scientific community. Because I loved Science, too.
To this very day, I know there is a stigma attached to admitting you've seen a UFO. I know that ignorant, uneducated people out there will shrink and cower away from the subject in fear, and insane people gravitate to it. I know that admitting you've seen a UFO invites an onslaught of not mere incredulity but disproportionately aggressive cynicism.
And I know that somebody out there DOES NOT want us talking about UFOs. Every time I see one of those weak UFO documentaries in which they attempt to convince us that UFOs are "extraterrestrials," that's when I know they don't want us talking about UFOs.
Because UFOs are NOT extraterrestrial.
I am fairly certain that there is abundant interdimensional and "psychic" traffic in the Universe, and that the instantaneous Quantum transfer of information across inconceivable distances is, in fact, the preferred method of "Space Travel"...
The human brain — and all brains, for that matter — are natural Quantum antennae. We are in CONSTANT CONTACT with other intelligences all across this Universe, whether or not we care to admit it. Some people who are aware of this fact use the knowledge to their advantage and profit. Others who cannot grasp what is happening end up committed to asylums.
I mean, think of how many "geniuses" in human history were also quite mad. Well, of course, the observation of "madness" is made by those who do not consider themselves mad.
I come from a long line of clairvoyants going back centuries. Clairvoyance only means clear vision. What I know is that there is a LOT of "psychic" traffic in the Universe, and only a TINY percentage of it is Human traffic.
So, yeah, a LOT of psychic traffic comes through Earth, because Life has thrived here for billions of years. Earth is a unique planet in that way, there aren't many like it.
Monday, January 9, 2012
EVERY LITTLE SLEEZE SEEMS TO WHISPER GULF BREEZE
Allow me to call to mind a guy named Ed Walters... You all know Ed Walters, right? Okay, tell me what you think you know about Ed Walters.
Your answer will be: He was the guy who hoaxed the Gulf Breeze sightings two decades ago.
And I'll ask you How do you KNOW he hoaxed all those photos and films and videos?
Well, the fact is, Ed Walters was NEVER PROVEN to have hoaxed anything. There were plenty of evil rumors that he was a hoaxter; but those who accused him were the more likely frauds.
As a matter of fact, MUFON investigated the Gulf Breeze sightings thoroughly. MUFON even provided specially prepared, tamper-proof cameras to Ed Walters, and the son-of-a-gun "grabbed" more UFO pictures on demand.
One of the cameras that MUFON provided was a Nimslo 3D (with 4 lenses) — every shutter release exposed 4 frames of film simultaneously, each frame slightly offset from the other. Not only does the Nimslo defeat manual tampering with the film, but the resulting stereoscopic image can be analyzed to determine whether or not there is an actual three-dimensional object in front of the camera.
MUFON examined Ed Walters' 3D photos and found them authentic. Hella authentic.
MUFON then provided Walters with a stereoscopic array — two film cameras on a tripod-mounted rack, separated by about a meter. The cameras could be remotely triggered to record synchronized frames. Extending straight out from between the two cameras was a scaling rod that would appear in all frames.
With this set-up — utilizing the known distance between the cameras, the known length of the scaling rod, and a basic trigonometric equation — MUFON intended to determine the distance and altitude of any UFOs that Walters might capture.
The son-of-a-gun "grabbed" more UFO images with this rig, and MUFON successfully determined the distance and altitude of the UFOs.
MUFON was in awe, okay. Ed Walters delivered, and he delivered authentically, by MUFON criteria.
But there was gossip, okay? There were nasty rumors and accusations from anonymous sources. There was a very real effort to discredit Ed Walters by other "experts" in the UFO community. Even though NONE of Ed Walters' photos and footage has EVER been officially debunked, Ed Walters was unofficially labeled a hoaxter.
Why? Why do you think that was?
It was because Ed Walters' story and his photos and footage were TOO PERFECT. It's, like, Ed could pretty much take UFO pictures at will. If there was a camera in his hand, he could take a UFO picture. Nobody knows why, least of all Ed. He just claimed that "he knew" when they were in the area, he could hear them buzzing in his head.
But the Walters case is a prime example of how a prolific photographer and videographer was discredited simply because his images seemed too good to be true. He's never been PROVEN to be a hoaxter, his MUFON photographs stand on their own, and he has refuted every accusation; but that doesn't change the fact that most people automatically think the Ed Walters case is a hoax.
Nevermind that there were 200 other UFO sightings by other witnesses in Gulf Breeze. Ed Walters was the one who caught the heat because he had the balls to come forward, and he could deliver great UFO pictures on demand.
Your answer will be: He was the guy who hoaxed the Gulf Breeze sightings two decades ago.
And I'll ask you How do you KNOW he hoaxed all those photos and films and videos?
Well, the fact is, Ed Walters was NEVER PROVEN to have hoaxed anything. There were plenty of evil rumors that he was a hoaxter; but those who accused him were the more likely frauds.
As a matter of fact, MUFON investigated the Gulf Breeze sightings thoroughly. MUFON even provided specially prepared, tamper-proof cameras to Ed Walters, and the son-of-a-gun "grabbed" more UFO pictures on demand.
One of the cameras that MUFON provided was a Nimslo 3D (with 4 lenses) — every shutter release exposed 4 frames of film simultaneously, each frame slightly offset from the other. Not only does the Nimslo defeat manual tampering with the film, but the resulting stereoscopic image can be analyzed to determine whether or not there is an actual three-dimensional object in front of the camera.
MUFON examined Ed Walters' 3D photos and found them authentic. Hella authentic.
MUFON then provided Walters with a stereoscopic array — two film cameras on a tripod-mounted rack, separated by about a meter. The cameras could be remotely triggered to record synchronized frames. Extending straight out from between the two cameras was a scaling rod that would appear in all frames.
With this set-up — utilizing the known distance between the cameras, the known length of the scaling rod, and a basic trigonometric equation — MUFON intended to determine the distance and altitude of any UFOs that Walters might capture.
The son-of-a-gun "grabbed" more UFO images with this rig, and MUFON successfully determined the distance and altitude of the UFOs.
MUFON was in awe, okay. Ed Walters delivered, and he delivered authentically, by MUFON criteria.
But there was gossip, okay? There were nasty rumors and accusations from anonymous sources. There was a very real effort to discredit Ed Walters by other "experts" in the UFO community. Even though NONE of Ed Walters' photos and footage has EVER been officially debunked, Ed Walters was unofficially labeled a hoaxter.
Why? Why do you think that was?
It was because Ed Walters' story and his photos and footage were TOO PERFECT. It's, like, Ed could pretty much take UFO pictures at will. If there was a camera in his hand, he could take a UFO picture. Nobody knows why, least of all Ed. He just claimed that "he knew" when they were in the area, he could hear them buzzing in his head.
But the Walters case is a prime example of how a prolific photographer and videographer was discredited simply because his images seemed too good to be true. He's never been PROVEN to be a hoaxter, his MUFON photographs stand on their own, and he has refuted every accusation; but that doesn't change the fact that most people automatically think the Ed Walters case is a hoax.
Nevermind that there were 200 other UFO sightings by other witnesses in Gulf Breeze. Ed Walters was the one who caught the heat because he had the balls to come forward, and he could deliver great UFO pictures on demand.
LESSONS OF LIFE ON EARTH
You know, perusing the Internet and the rapidly diminishing other "free" media outlets, I encounter a LOT of stupidity in the world, and one of the superlative examples of stupidity is the notion that MATH and SCIENCE comprise a "universal" language... Heh.
Have you seen any raccoons playing Lotto? They're pretty damned smart, but I haven't seen any animals playing Human number games.
Hell, there's no reason whatsoever to think that Human Math and Science are Universal.
I mean, there are creatures right here on Earth who are far more organized and technically accomplished than Humans, and they never pick up a pencil.
The Insects and Arachnids, for examples, perform feats of architecture and engineering that Humans can't even begin to replicate.
A lowly spider, for instance, can single-handedly produce a silken compound from its abdomen that is 6 times stronger than steel, and use it to construct the proportionate equivalent of a 100-story building in just a few hours. That same spider can then chemically modify its versatile silk to trap live prey many times larger than itself. That same spider can then use its silk to manufacture para-sails and actually fly away on the breeze.
The spider has thus mastered chemistry, architecture, hunting and aeronautics, and done so WITHOUT Science or Math or any of the other tedious Human skills we associate with intelligence.
Now, imagine an alien "civilization" that functions the way spiders do. Or termites. Or ants. Or locusts.
These creatures might excel in chemistry and engineering and aeronautics and perhaps even space travel without EVER understanding the Periodic Table of the Elements or Organic Chemistry or Calculus or anything else that we associate with intelligence.
There are countless organisms on Earth alone that can spontaneously produce light from their own bodies. There are terrestrial organisms that can produce powerful (even lethal) electrical charges, for that matter. There are complex life forms on this planet that can survive with ice crystals in their bloodstreams.
And think of this — we clever Humans haven't even discovered all the life forms on Earth... At present, we have direct knowledge of only about 10 PERCENT of the life on this planet. That's right, some 90% of the Life on this world is still out there in the oceans, and we don't know anything about it.
What we do know is that all these millions of diverse life forms are NATURALLY capable of the most astonishing feats of survival without an inkling of an idea of Human Science.
What should this tell us?
It should tell us that the great majority of Life in the Universe is capable of the most amazing feats of survival and engineering without EVER understanding Human Logic, Human Math, and Human Science. Without a doubt, there are creatures out there in the vast depth of Space that DWARF Human technology into insignificance, and they do so NATURALLY, without any sort of Science whatsoever.
Just because WE Humans are highly adaptable doesn't mean that another intelligent life form MUST necessarily meet our adaptive expectations. Other intelligent life forms might, indeed, SPECIALIZE in such a way as to develop very highly advanced propulsion and other engineering systems, but they might be able to do so through instinct alone, with no adaptive behavior, with no math or science.
As do spiders.
If we venture into space on a quest to locate near-human intelligence as our ultimate objective (as in Star Trek), we're going to be very, very horribly surprised. I mean, I don't think we're mature enough as a species to be contemplating interplanetary colonization.
Ha. We need to learn how to live within our means, to live in balance with our resources on planet Earth. And, no, I'm not going to grow a beard and get fat and drunk and turn into Al Gore on you.
ALL we absolutely know for certain about LIFE is that it sort of POPPED into existence about half-a-billion years after the Earth was formed. I hate to keep reminding you all, but there is no evidence that there is any Life anywhere else in the Universe. We simply have not sampled LIFE beyond Earth. If it's out there, we don't know about it.
And that's the hard Scientific stance.
Sure, there may have been nano-bacteria on Mars three billion years ago, and there may be some sort of marine life on Europa (just give us a worm, for Godsake), and there MAY be extremophile environments everywhere from Venus to Jupiter to Saturn to Neptune.
But we just haven't found it....yet.
Finding Life outside of Earth is like finding WMD in Iraq. Hey, we KNOW it's out there. Just haven't found any trace of it.
Hey, I think that Life Happens as an inexorable electrochemical opportunity anywhere that it CAN happen. Everything else is necessarily colonization and the perpetuation of species, to be sure.
Have you seen any raccoons playing Lotto? They're pretty damned smart, but I haven't seen any animals playing Human number games.
Hell, there's no reason whatsoever to think that Human Math and Science are Universal.
I mean, there are creatures right here on Earth who are far more organized and technically accomplished than Humans, and they never pick up a pencil.
The Insects and Arachnids, for examples, perform feats of architecture and engineering that Humans can't even begin to replicate.
A lowly spider, for instance, can single-handedly produce a silken compound from its abdomen that is 6 times stronger than steel, and use it to construct the proportionate equivalent of a 100-story building in just a few hours. That same spider can then chemically modify its versatile silk to trap live prey many times larger than itself. That same spider can then use its silk to manufacture para-sails and actually fly away on the breeze.
The spider has thus mastered chemistry, architecture, hunting and aeronautics, and done so WITHOUT Science or Math or any of the other tedious Human skills we associate with intelligence.
Now, imagine an alien "civilization" that functions the way spiders do. Or termites. Or ants. Or locusts.
These creatures might excel in chemistry and engineering and aeronautics and perhaps even space travel without EVER understanding the Periodic Table of the Elements or Organic Chemistry or Calculus or anything else that we associate with intelligence.
There are countless organisms on Earth alone that can spontaneously produce light from their own bodies. There are terrestrial organisms that can produce powerful (even lethal) electrical charges, for that matter. There are complex life forms on this planet that can survive with ice crystals in their bloodstreams.
And think of this — we clever Humans haven't even discovered all the life forms on Earth... At present, we have direct knowledge of only about 10 PERCENT of the life on this planet. That's right, some 90% of the Life on this world is still out there in the oceans, and we don't know anything about it.
What we do know is that all these millions of diverse life forms are NATURALLY capable of the most astonishing feats of survival without an inkling of an idea of Human Science.
What should this tell us?
It should tell us that the great majority of Life in the Universe is capable of the most amazing feats of survival and engineering without EVER understanding Human Logic, Human Math, and Human Science. Without a doubt, there are creatures out there in the vast depth of Space that DWARF Human technology into insignificance, and they do so NATURALLY, without any sort of Science whatsoever.
Just because WE Humans are highly adaptable doesn't mean that another intelligent life form MUST necessarily meet our adaptive expectations. Other intelligent life forms might, indeed, SPECIALIZE in such a way as to develop very highly advanced propulsion and other engineering systems, but they might be able to do so through instinct alone, with no adaptive behavior, with no math or science.
As do spiders.
If we venture into space on a quest to locate near-human intelligence as our ultimate objective (as in Star Trek), we're going to be very, very horribly surprised. I mean, I don't think we're mature enough as a species to be contemplating interplanetary colonization.
Ha. We need to learn how to live within our means, to live in balance with our resources on planet Earth. And, no, I'm not going to grow a beard and get fat and drunk and turn into Al Gore on you.
ALL we absolutely know for certain about LIFE is that it sort of POPPED into existence about half-a-billion years after the Earth was formed. I hate to keep reminding you all, but there is no evidence that there is any Life anywhere else in the Universe. We simply have not sampled LIFE beyond Earth. If it's out there, we don't know about it.
And that's the hard Scientific stance.
Sure, there may have been nano-bacteria on Mars three billion years ago, and there may be some sort of marine life on Europa (just give us a worm, for Godsake), and there MAY be extremophile environments everywhere from Venus to Jupiter to Saturn to Neptune.
But we just haven't found it....yet.
Finding Life outside of Earth is like finding WMD in Iraq. Hey, we KNOW it's out there. Just haven't found any trace of it.
Hey, I think that Life Happens as an inexorable electrochemical opportunity anywhere that it CAN happen. Everything else is necessarily colonization and the perpetuation of species, to be sure.
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