Beneath the ice in the salty ocean4/21/2018 Meet Europa. It is the smallest of Jupiter's four moons which were discovered by Galileo. Europa is smaller than Earth's moon(~65%), but larger than Pluto. It's surface is a thick layer of smooth but scarred ice, obscuring an ocean underneath which is able to remain liquid due to the tidal flexing between the moon and the planet. Scientists think that there is an ocean of salty water located just beneath the surface due to a special magnetic field that Europa has, which was measured by the Galileo Mission. NASA's preliminary plans for reaching the saline moon, The Europa Clipper, could allow us to touch the icy surface as soon as the 2030s, at the same time that we are hopefully in the beginning stages of getting people to Mars. The reason Europa is so interesting is because that liquid ocean is very similar to sub-glacial lakes that have been found on earth and it is thought to be old enough for life to have evolved there. In the timespan of roughly 400 years, we could go from discovering a celestial body to having found life on it. That is truly amazing and a credit to all of the people who have built made it a possibility, many of them working on thankless tasks but for an amazing cumulative effect. Of course there are many people today who suggest that such missions into space are a waste of money, resources, time. We have a collective legacy as explorers, often fraught with the terrible actions of colonialism, but this is a legacy that we should continue and improve as we extend our reach into outer space. With reasonable certainty we can say that life exists outside of our planet, but without finding evidence of it we can never be absolutely certain. As we venture forth, it will be a search for more than life but for scientific discovery in general which will ultimately give us insight into our own planet, about the origins of our solar system, the galaxy and our universe. Research and development created for these ventures will also give us new technologies that could make life on Earth better and more sustainable. Trying to see, to understand and to touch ever farther beyond our planet is a heroic task that will ultimately aid the survival of our species. Is the truth still out there? Photo Of Europa taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft and found on page 115 of Der Weltraum by Klett and located in the Bibliothek Andreas Zust. Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/... https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/... https://www.space.com/ (Life?)... https://www.space.com/ (Facts)... https://www.youtube.com/... https://www.popsci.com/ (Europa Lander)... https://www.independent.co.uk/... https://www.popsci.com/ (Seafaring robots)... https://www.outerplaces.com/... https://phys.org/...
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The Metal Man of Falkville4/16/2018 The Metal Man of Falkville Alabama, shown in the picture below, is a very curious case. The image is scanned from page 301 of 'Geheimsache UFO' by Hesemann located in the Bibliothek Andreas Zust. The witness of the Metal Man, Jeff Greenhaw, was the chief of police at the time when he had the sighting that would ultimately get him fired, lead to his wife divorcing him, and his house also burned down. Most of the sources below recount the exact same story: http://www.cryptopia.us/... http://www.ufocasebook.com/... https://books.google.ch/... http://realunexplainedmysteries.com/... http://outtherewithted.com/... The third source has an interesting first person account of perpetrating hoax which is quite similar to whatever Greenhaw witnessed and then the author writes about how he tried to contact Greenhaw, who does not want anything to do with the story which was detrimental to his life. The fourth source is not special in the article itself but the comments below the article have an array of commentators who claim to know the person who created the hoax and even one who claims to be the daughter of Greenhaw... What is the most probable actual reality of this story? The context of the situation, according to the reports, would be that this rural area after 10pm would be very dark except for Greenhaw's truck lights. Some individuals likely played a prank on the man by making/finding a costume reminiscent of 1950's sci-fi movies, calling in a fake UFO sighting, and then pretending to be the metal man and running off. Greenhaw's perception of the event, during the short time when everything happened and in the darkness, looked to fill in the gaps in order to make sense of the event. Greenhaw, probably believes, or believed, what he saw to be true. However, the numerous claims that it was a prank and the Metal Man's similar appearance to the automaton in the famous sci-fi movie "The Day The Earth Stood Still", and similar alien entities of other 1950's mass media, result in the most probable truth of the situation that it was probably a prank. If there was/are aliens visiting us, they probably would not resemble how we imagine them to be and the Metal Man of Falkville Alabama is very much reminiscent of extraterrestrial visitors which remained in the American collective unconscious left over from the explosion of 1950s sci-fi fervor.
Is the truth still out there? From the vaccum of space4/13/2018 The photo is from page 192 of 'The History of Rocketry and Space Travel' found in the Bibliothek Andreas Zust and added to the Z Files archives. The picture depicts a alien, floating above our planet and using a compressed air gun to propel himself through the vacuum.
We can assume this photo is real, because we trust the source that it comes from. Our understanding of the indifferent truth is reliant on the trustworthiness of experts and witnesses to it. Truth and trust are therefor deeply intertwined as the former is defined by the later. Trustworthy sources come as unbiased and without ulterior motive. For example, the majority of scientists have concluded that human induced climate change is the truth however there are some which deny this truth who do so because it benefits them to hold that position. Ulterior motives can come in many forms; keeping one's job or funding, pushing one's agenda, spectacle and attention, political benefit and so on. So when we look for the truth in order to try to understand reality, we not only have to understand what is being presented to us but to be aware of what is behind that presentation. The relationship between the two is how we can determine the trustworthiness of the source and therefor the truth of reality. The veil of reality4/12/2018 This diagram, showing an part of a UFO cut away, exposing its inner workings and environment is from page 143 of the book Geheimsache-UFO by Hesemann located in the Bibliothek Andreas Zust.
The diagram is based off of the UFO designs described and "documented" by George Adamski .The original story is a strange one and you can read it in the links below...the photographs were supposedly proven to be real, which doesn't mean that it is necessarily true. Truth is the act of being in accordance with reality and through we may perceive reality in different ways, there does exist an indifferent reality or a true reality which is independent of how we perceive it. Proving weather the photos taken by Adamski align with the indifferent reality, as in trying to do so with many other well-known names in the world of UFOlogy, might always be an impossible task. Believing, for the sake of belief, whether in UFOs which fly over our heads or incompetent politicians or deities which watch over us as benevolent creators, is all the same. Having a belief is tempting and easy, especially when it cannot be disproven because it protects our ego from being false. Children hold beliefs, about Santa Claus and a great many other things. As adults we "know" that there is no Santa Claus, although we cannot disprove him. With UFOs, there are examples of something like evidence, even if it is circumspect and often improbable. How do we prove that our belief is not simply that but something which is true? The only way is through scientific investigation where the act of believing is separated from the evidence. The observer needs to be independent from the results of the observed, regardless of those results. That is the only way to accurately measure those beliefs against the ruler of reality. Is the truth still out there? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Adamski http://www.adamskifoundation.com/html/AboutGA.htm http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2017/12/george-adamski-aliens-the-fbi-and-the-air-force/ Playlist for an Interstellar Road Trip4/12/2018 This is an Artist's concept image of the Voyager spacecraft from page 224 of the book Planeten monde ringsysteme by Engelhardt located in the Bibliothek Andreas Zust.
When we see an image like this, we imagine it as a movie frame taken from real life. A still shot taken out in space of the real object whizzing by planets and other celestial bodies. It's not a photo but still, there is an inherent believability and reality contained within its frame. Images like this, but also real images of the ships we have sent beyond the earth remind me that even if no extraterrestrial is visiting our planet, that we are in fact the aliens who are piloting the UFOs beyond our own. There is much nationalism and conservatism happening in countries around the world fueled by "locals" on one side who oppose aliens on the other, but the fact is that we can all be aliens somewhere and with enough time we can all be locals. The definitions that we assign to ourselves and each other are fluid depending on relationships and context, so what is the point of assigning them in the first place? Is the truth still out there? Archive awakened4/7/2018 Been scouring the archives looking for evidence. Piles of books on the table, scanning images from each that seem useful or important. The sound of the scanner echoes in my ears. Found this diagram of different UFO profiles in the Das Geheimnis der unbekannten Flugobjekte by Adolf Schneider and Hubert Malthaner. I will keep it in mind as I look to the skies of Appenzelland. #IsTheTruthStillOutThere?
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