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"Nazi UFO" Mythos Debunked...

 ...again,and with a wink and nod toward Adamski (and Cook, among others):

Issue 24 shows a painting of a huge flying saucer with machine-guns and swastikas, landed for maintenance on an air base strip. A headline explains: "UFOS of the 3rd Reich - Are Nazi Secret Weapon the Origin of the UFO Phenomenon?"

They are not, but for more than 50 years now this theory re-appears regularly, each time refuted, each time resurrected as if nothing were said. Here it is again following an article claiming that there are indigenous inhabitants on the Moon and another that tells that UFOs are manufactured by a mysterious terrestrial super-intelligence who wants to save planet from ecological disaster.

Go beyond the illustration and the sensationalist headline of the front cover and follow in a step by step guided visit about the claims in this article on the infamous Nazi flying saucers written by the journalist and ufologist Jean-Pierre Troadec.

... it is claimed that the article "will shed light" on German secret projects, and that the result of these secret projects "might constitute" the UFOS seen at the beginning of the Fifties. But we shall see that it is not so: instead of shedding light, the article propagates shameless lies.

...One of the fake saucer photographs shown by Adamski was actually a porcelain lamp top decorated with table tennis balls. Although all serious ufologists know about that, Jean-Pierre Troadec quite simply goes on as if the photographs were real.

I'm sure the "authorized biography of Townsend Brown" will clear it all up...

Bermuda Triangle Stargate?

You might not understand this right now but...

We found clear evidence of deviations at four locations:

* Fish Hotel, Lyford Cay, White Hole, near Nassau
* Dogleg Reef, near Marathon, in South Florida

In the course of our dives, we recorded precise figures for what the compass readings were as compared to what they normally should have been. Over the next few months, I communicated these figures to a number of physicists around the world. To a one, they told me that such magnetic field anomalies could be caused by briefly-appearing micro-wormholes. They could think of no other explanation for the deviations. Prof. John Wheeler, of Princeton University, in Princeton, NJ, has given the name of "wormhole" to what he believes may be "transit tunnels" between different dimensions of reality.

According to Wheeler, these wormholes may be only a giga-fraction of a square inch in size-the number one preceded by 33 zeroes, preceded by a decimal point. Wheeler says these mini-black holes, constantly blinking in and out of the geometry of space, are thought to be bits of "virtual matter;" that is, they can exist for a limited time only. Their counterparts-so-called mini-white holes - are virtual anti-matter. Whenever these two kinds of virtual matter build up to any extent, they immediately destroy themselves. Wheeler can offer no explanation as to why mini-holes appear, disappear, then reappear.

Too bad the map that comes with this site doesn't quite reach the western most tip of Cuba....

Sorta Like "Anti-Gravity"

Imagine how much fun this guy will have when "Defying Gravity" arrives on bookshelves:

The Challenge of Thinking Different

 Sometimes there is more than one answer:

Some time ago I received a call from a colleague. He was about to give a student a zero for his answer to a physics question, while the student claimed a perfect score. The instructor and the student agreed to an impartial arbiter, and I was selected.I read the examination question: “SHOW HOW IT IS POSSIBLE TO DETERMINE THE HEIGHT OF A TALL BUILDING WITH THE AID OF A BAROMETER.”

The student had answered, “Take the barometer to the top of the building, attach a long rope to it, lower it to the street, and then bring it up, measuring the length of the rope. The length of the rope is the height of the building.”

“Finally,” he concluded, “there are many other ways of solving the problem. Probably the best,” he said, “is to take the barometer to the basement and knock on the superintendent’s door. When the superintendent answers, you speak to him as follows: “Mr. Superintendent, here is a fine barometer. If you will tell me the height of the building, I will give you this barometer.” At this point, I asked the student if he really did not know the conventional answer to this question. He admitted that he did, but said that he was fed up with high school and college instructors trying to teach him how to think. The student was Neils Bohr.

And I'm quite certain that's exactly what Sarah Palin had in mind when she said she didn't necessarily want to provide the actual answers to the questions she was asked during the VP debate. 

In Case You Missed It

"Change" is coming in the realms of science, too:
So Happy New Year, everybody.

MadV: "One World"

I just read about this in WIRED, in an article by Clive Thompson (who wrote about Townsend Brown and the lifters a few years ago).  So this YouTube magician who wears a Guy Fawkes mask and does 'anti-gravity' tricks with playing cards does a short video (seen at the end of this clip) that generates like THOUSANDS of video responses, making this the most-video-responded clip on YouTube.  And the resulting compilation is really quite compelling.  See for yourself:

Elvis Lives...

...and  George W. Bush is just the Comissioner of Baseball...or, at least, these are among the possibilities that some leading physicists postulate might live among an infinite number of parallel universes. 

A recent episode of The History Channel's "The Universe" series explores the same concepts that we dance around here in our own "Parallel Universe of T. Townsend Brown."  You can view the episode in short videos online.

Some of the world's leading physicists believe they have found startling new evidence showing the existence of universes other than our own. One possibility is that the universe is so vast that an exact replica of our Solar System, our planet and ourselves exists many times over. These Doppelganger Universes exist within our own Universe; in what scientist now call 'The Multiverse.' Today, trailblazing experiments by state of the art particle colliders are looking for evidence of higher dimensions and Parallel Universes. If proof is found, it will change our lives, our minds, our planet, our science and our universe.

The argument is presented that even the word "universe" is obsolete in cosmological terms, because the root "uni" means "one."  So, now it's the "multiverse."  Or maybe it's the "megaverse."  Or the "infiniverse."  Take your pick.  Just, please, don't let George W. Bush be president in any of them.  Come to think of it "Commissioner of Baseball" is probably over his head, too.

A Cautionary Tale

Oh yeah, "fact checking."  What a concept: 

A man whose memoir about his experience during the Holocaust was to have been published in February has admitted that his story was embellished, and on Saturday evening his publisher canceled the release of the book.

And once again a New York publisher and Oprah Winfrey were among those fooled by a too-good-to-be-true story.

This time, it was the tale of Herman Rosenblat, who said he first met his wife while he was a child imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp and she, disguised as a Christian farm girl, tossed apples over the camp’s fence to him. He said they met again on a blind date 12 years after the end of war in Coney Island and married. The couple celebrated their 50th anniversary this year...

This latest literary hoax is likely to trigger yet more questions as to why the publishing industry has such a poor track record of fact-checking.

It's Also Isaac Newton's Birthday

 ..although that depends on which calendar you're using:

Some years ago, the evolutionist and atheist Richard Dawkins pointed out to me that Sir Isaac Newton, the founder of modern physics and mathematics, and arguably the greatest scientist of all time, was born on Christmas Day, and that therefore Newton’s Birthday could be an alternative, if somewhat nerdy, excuse for a winter holiday.

All very jolly — but then, ’tis the season. Yet things are not so simple. It turns out that the date of Newton’s birthday is a little contentious. Newton was born in England on Christmas Day 1642 according to the Julian calendar — the calendar in use in England at the time. But by the 1640s, much of the rest of Europe was using the Gregorian calendar (the one in general use today); according to this calendar, Newton was born on Jan. 4, 1643.

Merry Ho Ho

And Happy Ha Ha:

Best wishes to all for a safe and warm holiday, wherever you are whatever you're having. --Ann, Paul... and Zoe