The aliens left it in my pocket when they dropped me off at home

1 Terabyte Thumbdrive. A marvel of technology.

The Other Make a Wish Foundation

This will only work with a terminally ill patient whose passing is imminent. That is the only way the government alphabet agency folks will go for it.

The Area 51 camo dudes wheel in a 42" HD Plasma TV. They give the patient a full briefing on everything. He or she gets to see the full show, MJ 12 stuff, 3D tour of S4 and the captured craft that we know they have but they won't admit to. Then they bring in one of the alien ambassadors from one of the more trustworthy star systems to talk to the patient about near-light travel, wormholes, propulsion systems, crop circles, abductions, and what was up with the Phoenix Lights. Then they bring in the alphabet agencies one at a time to explain black helicopters, underground bases, weather modification, cryptography and who shot Vince Foster. And sometime during this whole process the patient departs. If by some miracle the patient, on hearing all this, fully recovers, he or she gets to go work for the agency of choice.

I'd go hang with the alien ambassador.

Jogging anyone?

Sometime in the early 1990s the US Air Force issued its 509th Bomb Wing a uniform patch to celebrate the flight test of the B-2 bomber. The original version said "CLASSIFIED FLIGHT TEST" at the top. Since the B-2 was tested at Area 51 the Air Force decided that those words were too sensitive. They issued a second patch that says "TO SERVE MAN" It's a spoof off a 1962 Twilight Zone ep by the same name. This is a replica patch that you can order from Cabinet Magazine.

Tasing the Planet: Putting a bad idea to good use

Okay hear me out.

We launch a low-Earth orbit geosynchronous solar energy satellite and tether it to the ground. It will take convert the energy from the sun into electricity and transfer it to a primary receiving station. Then we'll set up a world-wide network of capacitor-like systems to take in and store the power until it is needed. Think of it as a macro-taser of sorts. The system will charge, transfer and we'll have an abundant supply of energy.

Like everything else we build it will have to be maintained. But hey, what's spacewalking for?

The Dangers of Star Trek

As much as I have loved the Star Trek series over the years I am forced to the conclusion that it has gone to serve, in part, indoctrinating the fans towards the idea of world government. It's very subtle. Earth of the Trek universe isn't ruled over by certain bloodlines. There aren't roid-head shock troops rousting people at work and at home. There are no official stories tossed about to guide public opinion. It's like they've gotten over all the crap we're dealing with in yet another abortive attempt to force this system upon us. The problem is that Star Trek works. People aren't chasing avarice and dissipation. They look free. The universe in those shows looks quite inviting, especially compared to the crap that was going on in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s.

And so I was taken in, for a time, by the idea of a unified world. But I wanted that as the model, not this Wal-Marted, Made In China, RFID idea with suspected terror under every placemat and people turning each other in to the police with text messages. But Trek is not completely free either. The hidden controls are a bit harder to identify. Everyone is tissue typed and DNA/RNA mapped. Since everything is provided and no one works for profit, to do so is looked at as barbaric. That is the method of the Ferengi, for example. There are a few out and out parallels: International Law/Interstellar Law; United Nations/United Federation of Planets; The UN has the "Peacekeepers"/Star Fleet.

While I do still watch the episodes and I do appreciate the entertainment/diversion value of the shows, I have to question Mr. Roddenberry's motives when he says it was supposed to be a "space western." The West and the UN are well not exactly the same. So I wonder if he didn't have to add in the globalist/"unity" elements back in the 1960s in order to get approval/funding.

I'll have to divert power from my alarm system to operate the deflector array since someone will be wanting to fire torpedoes at my truck.

Water on Mars

Live Alien Capture

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Some might think of this as Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Part Deux. That's not a fair assessment of the film. There were some elements apparently borrowed from the previous story but it has some themes that are unique to this film and quite inventive.

I went into the theatre with low expectations. A friend who is not a sci-fi buff really disliked the movie. So I was going on her perceptions which differ from mine quite a lot. What I really enjoyed was the Inca God/Alien theme. People have wondered for decades about the reason for the Inca wrapping of children's heads to elongate them. I thought this movie gave as good an explanation as I've heard.

There has been quite a bit of discussion of crystal skulls that have been found around the world. I haven't read much about that. The aliens in this movie were silicon-based lifeforms. That's the conclusion I drew from watching how they dealt with that part of the theme. We usually think of silicon-based life as some sort of living rock creatures or animated crystal. There have been several productions that have dealt with those themes. This was a totally new idea. The skull was not a carving in quartz but was the alien's cranial bone composed entirely of quartz. The aliens are definitely of a different order from us, as theorists have speculated. We don't know how they handle respiration, circulation, digestion, etc. I am going to have to get the book to see if the author goes into more detail about these beings.

Vulcan Wisdom

Don't Tease

I'm a UFO nerd. Everyone who knows me either knows that or eventually figures it out. I've noticed a trend on the documentary channels that when there is an asteroid strike back 10,000 years ago they now call it an extraterrestrial event, which of course makes my ears perk up. It's kind of a letdown.