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Info-ParaNet Newsletters Volume I Number 453
Thursday, August 15th 1991
Today's Topics:
Hi Clark!!
(none)
How to build your own dinosaur or reptilian...
Gulf Breeze News
Bentwaters Update
glossary of terms
Re: Bennewitz
Re: The Coverup
Re: ROSWELL on UNSOLVED MYSTERIES
Re: Alternative hypothesis for UFOs?
l in 40
Re: Alternative hypothesis for UFOs?
Re: NEW PLANET
Bennewitz Redux
Re: subscription cancellation
Re: **** Warning *****
Re: UFOs and Superconductors
Re: Bennewitz Redux
Re: **** Warning *****
Re: Bennewitz Redux
Re: Alternative hypothesis for UFOs?
Re: Alternative hypothesis for UFOs?
Rainbow Declaration, (Long)
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From: dg-rtp.dg.com!grossg
Subject: Hi Clark!!
Date: 13 Aug 91 15:38:14 GMT
From: grossg@dg-rtp.dg.com (Gene Gross)
Say, old salt, wondered if I was getting through. I'm posting this
from my UNIX system at the office. I've finally gotten my PC fixed.
I swapped out the new 40 meg hard drive for an IDE 80 meg, and that
seemed to fix the problem. I'm slowly loading all my old software
back onto the system, so it might be another week or two before I'll
be able to modem out into the world from home again.
Well, back to the salt mines -- or is that the grind stone!? <GRIN>
Later,
Gene Gross
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From: ecn.purdue.edu!lush
Subject: (none)
Date: 13 Aug 91 19:33:36 GMT
From: lush@ecn.purdue.edu (Gregory B Lush)
Subject: How to build your own dinosaur or reptilian...
...with things you probably have around your house.
The following excerpts are from NYTimes, June 25, 1991 p C1.
Begin Quoting:
Scientists Study Ancient DNA for Glimpses of Past Worlds
by Malcolm W. Browne
Will it one day become possible to breed a living dinosaur for genes
preserved in fossils?
Although most scientists regard such an idea as unrealistic, a few
have begun to conclude that it can no longer be dismissed out of
hand. With luck, ingenuity, they say, geneticists might one day
recover enough dinosaur DNA to create a beast that is reasonably
close to the original.
A major reason for their surprising optimism is the recent
development of a laboratory technique called the polymerase chain
reaction, or PCR. A method for amplifying minute quantities of
genetic material, even if old and fragmentary, it has prompted a
run by scientists on museum collections of extinct animals and
plants, as well as on ancient human remains, in the hope of
extracting any DNA, the basic genetic material,
that has survived the centuries.
(GBL: Switch now to a diagram with a side heading of:)
Recipe for a Dinosaur
1. Find a bead of amber that contains a blood-sucking
insect from the age of dinosaurs.
2. Extract genetic material from blood cells of a bitten
dinosaur, and amplify DNA with the PCR technique.
3. Process and inject into embryo of an alligator.
4. Wait until it hatches.
The recipe, suggested by Dr. George O. Poinar, Jr. of the University
of California at Berkeley, makes many as-yet-untested assumptions,
but exemplifies scientists' new hopes of recovering useful information
from fossils with a method that allows the minutest samples
of DNA to be analyzed.
(Back to main article.)
Paleontologists and anthropologists have begun using the technique
as a window into the past, through which evolutionary paths,
migration patterns, kinship and other relationships can be
brought to light. Some early fruits of this research will be
reported at 'Ancient DNA,' the first such international meeting, to
be held at the University of Nottingham in England next month.
How much of the distant past will prove visible through the PCR window
is still a matter of conjecture. No one can yet answer the most basic
questions, including how long DNA, or deoxyribonucleic acid, can
survive, how much can be inferred from degraded sections of the huge
DNA molecules, or how trustworthy the extraction processes may be.
(skipping...)
'Obviously, we couldn't reconstruct an extinct animal today, even if
we had all its DNA,' he said in an interview. 'However, my belief
is that there are dinosaur cells inside biting flies trapped in amber
of Cretaceous age and older. It's just a matter of finding the
dinosaur DNA and getting it out.'
This idea, suggested by Dr. Poinar, was the basis of the best-selling
science-fiction novel 'Jurasic Park,' by Dr. Michael Crichton
(1990, Knopf). In the book, dinosaur DNA is combined with DNA in the
eggs of modern amphibians or reptiles and the eggs are then incubated
to produce live dinosaurs. The book is being made into a movie
directed by Steven Spielberg. 'I think the idea is quite plausible,'
Dr. Poinar said, 'and I feel the possibility for doing
something like this will exist in the future.'
While some microbiologists and paleontologists agree that dinosaur
resuscitation might just be possible, others, including Dr. Svante
Paabo of the University of Munich, a molecular geneticist who has
investigated the DNA of various extinct species, discount the notion.
'I would say no, it can't be done,' Dr. Paabo said in an interview.
Dr. Paabo, formerly of the University of California at Berkeley,
worked with Dr. Allan Wilson and Dr. Russell G. Higuchi in 1984 on
a landmark study of the DNA of the quagga, an extinct South African
animal related to the horse. from an analysis of DNA extracted from
a 140-year-old quagga skin preserved in a German museum, the Berkeley
group determined that the quagga was a very close relative of the
modern plains zebra and a much more distant relative of the horse.
Dr. Paabo believes it would be impossible to recreate the quagga
from its DNA, much less recreate a dinosaur.
'It's really impossible to do things like that,' he said. "It's
theoretically possible to isolate the gene for a certain character,
and introduce it into another species, if you thought that was
worthwhile, which I do not. You could find the gene for the typical
quagga color pattern, for example, and introduce it into a
zebra. You would end up with something that looked like a quagga,
but in reality, it would just be a zebra that looked like a quagga.'
(There's more; I'm stopping here.)
What has this to do with aliens? Well, if you meet a reptilian from
Beta Repticula, you might want to ask him who his father is!
(Please don't think that I believe there are reptilian aliens here.)
That last sentence that I quoted is interesting.
They seem to agree that one cannot recreate an extinct reptile, but
you can make something LOOK like an extinct reptile! Is this limited
to animals? Couldn't the same be done to humans? We have a lot more
DNA available from humans than from extinct reptiles. Could you make
Fred look like Barney (or Frieda!) with the right substitution of DNA?
What if there were indeed aliens found on the Roswell site? With
extraction of their DNA, could one make a human LOOK like an alien?
If you now 'see' an alien, how can you be sure it doesn't just LOOK
like an alien? (All this, assuming of course, that there are aliens
to reproduce!) All you need is a (un)willing host. Haven't there
been 'abductions' involving pregnancies?
I heard once where a man can be a host for some time for a fetus.
If a man can do that, could a cow also be a host for part of the
pregnancy period? Could this explain cattle mutilations? Do we
really need aliens to be responsible for mutilations or could
it be a generic bunch of 'scientists.'
No proof of anything here, just something to think about.
Greg (lush@ecn.purdue.edu)
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From: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Gulf Breeze News
Date: 13 Aug 91 23:55:00 GMT
> Anyway, the investigator's opinion is that most of the redlight
> sightings are for real, while many others are caused by people fooling
> around with flares. Since it's a seaside area, parachute flares are very
> easy to come by.
Thanks for the update. I would be curious to know how they determine which
are the results of red-light flares and the real sightings?
Thanks again.
Mike
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From: Michael.Corbin@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Corbin)
Subject: Bentwaters Update
Date: 13 Aug 91 23:57:00 GMT
Thanks for the information.
Mike
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From: vanth!jms
Subject: glossary of terms
Date: 14 Aug 91 05:37:32 GMT
From: vanth!jms@amix.commodore.com (Jim Shaffer)
lush@ecn.purdue.edu (Gregory B Lush) writes:
+I have been having trouble understanding what some people
+are saying lately regarding 'gray' aliens because it seems
+as though each person has a different meaning when they
+speak of 'The Grays.' Would it be a good idea for ParaNet
+to form a glossary of terms so that it is more clear
+what is being said?
The subject came up on alt.alien.visitors not too long ago, and I agreed
that it was probably something that should be done, but I never decided
exactly how to go about it. I mean, I tend to ramble on quite a bit, and
if I wasn't careful I could end up writing a complete history of the
phenomenon or something. We do need something of the sort, but it should
be SHORT and TO THE POINT.
+So that single individuals needn't do all the work, perhaps
+the moderators could 'farm out' certain words for inclusion
+and then simply edit them to suit uniformity. I'm sure that
+readers have many ideas of their own for words to be included.
+People can therefore just post them with a defining
+sentence/paragraph. Everyone else can then pick it
+apart and say what a great/lousy definition it is.
Sounds good to me. Any volunteers for anything? Once I get my network
connection fully switched over, I'll try to post some myself.
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'We're only immortal for a limited time.' (Rush, "Dreamline")
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From: Linda.Bird@f100.n1010.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Linda Bird)
Subject: Re: Bennewitz
Date: 14 Aug 91 02:23:00 GMT
Hi !
Sorry to take so long to answer - was out of town.
I lloked at the catalog for Beckley's New Age/UFO Conf. and it is Al
Bielek who will be talking on Sunday, Sept. 8. (Not Bennewitz) The
catalog says:
"Besides the Philadelphia Experiment, Bielek details additional
Top Secret "Black" Projects which could lead to great advancements if
the "Powers That Be" would come forward with information bound to
shock all."
Thanks for clearing this up!
Linda
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From: Linda.Bird@f100.n1010.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Linda Bird)
Subject: Re: The Coverup
Date: 14 Aug 91 02:25:00 GMT
Hello Kurt,
I have the article ready to send and will "snail" it out to you
tomorrow!!
Regards,
Linda
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From: Linda.Bird@f100.n1010.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Linda Bird)
Subject: Re: ROSWELL on UNSOLVED MYSTERIES
Date: 14 Aug 91 02:29:00 GMT
Hello Steve:
So what did you think of "Unsolved Mysteries" over there??
Best,
Linda
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From: Linda.Bird@f100.n1010.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Linda Bird)
Subject: Re: Alternative hypothesis for UFOs?
Date: 14 Aug 91 02:39:00 GMT
Hi Clark,
In a message to Will Martin on Aug. 10, you mentioned an animal
called a "brachiopod" with a brain, etc. and referred to this creature
as a dinosaur.
I humbly hate to nit-pick, but my "Dictionary of Geologic Terms"
tells me that a brachiopod is a "marine, shelled animal with two
shells, etc."
Did you perhaps mean a brontosaurus?
Thanks, and I am here to tell ya that people correct MOI all the
time!
Best always!
Linda
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From: Linda.Bird@p0.f8.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Linda Bird)
Subject: l in 40
Date: 12 Aug 91 18:31:10 GMT
Hi Mike,
The first person I heard use the figure "l in 40 persons has been abducted"
was *Bill Cooper* on a radio program some time back. He may have obtained that
information from elsewhere (as he is prone to do).
Regards,
Linda
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From: Michael.Schuyler@f201.n350.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Michael Schuyler)
Subject: Re: Alternative hypothesis for UFOs?
Date: 11 Aug 91 16:23:00 GMT
Re: Holographic Universe & Time travel
Those who KNOW time travel violates the laws of physics can just skip this
message...
For others, there are a couple of good books if you want to pursue this
line. "The Aquarian Conspiracy" by Marilyn Ferguson touches on this idea
and is a good source for further reading as well. One recent book is "The
Holographic Universe," by Michael Talbot, which goes into detail on the
potential physics of holography and potential explanations for psychic
phenomenon. A third is "The Holographic Paradigm," edited by Ken Wilber.
NONE of these treatments are sensationalistic; they are all sober
treatments of the subject.
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From: Clark.Matthews@f4.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Clark Matthews)
Subject: Re: NEW PLANET
Date: 12 Aug 91 21:09:00 GMT
PP>NEW YORK (AP) -- Astronomers say they have detected the
PP>first known planet outside the solar system, an object that
PP>orbits a very dense star and is perhaps 12 times as massive
PP>as Earth.
....
PP> Other researchers have reported apparent detections of
PP>planets outside the solar system before, but some reports
PP>have been refuted and none is widely accepted.
Hi Pete. Not to take anything away from Harvard, but the Nobel
Prize-winning astronomer Fred Van de Kamp "discovered" planets around
Barnard's Star in the the late 1950s, by taking measurements of the
perturbation of the star itself. To my knowledge his calculations have
never been refuted and, in fact, they are widely accepted.
I think this Harvard stuff is "new old news". Sure, they'd *like* to be the
first group to find planets outside the solar system, but...
How soon we forget.
Best,
Clark
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From: Clark.Matthews@f816.n107.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Clark Matthews)
Subject: Bennewitz Redux
Date: 13 Aug 91 22:50:00 GMT
To: uunet!cbmvax!amix!vanth!jms
Jim, re: Bennewitz
> He apparently hasn't given up though, because as I said
> recently he's
> issued more stories about the base near Dulce.
>
What kind of stories is Paul Bennewitz telling about Dulce? I'm
very surprised, needless to say.
Best,
Clark
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From: Jim.Shaffer@f4.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Shaffer)
Subject: Re: subscription cancellation
Date: 14 Aug 91 08:28:00 GMT
The proper way of getting off an Internet mailing list is to send to the
-request address (in this case, infopara-request), not to the mailing list
itself. Why do so many people have trouble understanding this?
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From: Jim.Shaffer@f4.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Shaffer)
Subject: Re: **** Warning *****
Date: 14 Aug 91 08:41:00 GMT
I just had to reply to your message about the brain. On last week's episode
of "Prime Time Pets," there was a story about a dog who could sense when his
owner was about to have an epileptic seizure. What's more, this situation
apparently isn't unique! It only happens with certain dogs and certain
people, but it's not unique. The medical community speculates that the dogs
can detect chemical changes in the brain. Personally, I prefer Bearden's
avalanche discharges/scalar interferometry theory :-) I wonder if Bearden
knows about this?
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From: Jim.Shaffer@f4.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Shaffer)
Subject: Re: UFOs and Superconductors
Date: 14 Aug 91 08:44:00 GMT
That is absolutely amazing. Thank you very much for posting it!
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From: Jim.Shaffer@f4.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Shaffer)
Subject: Re: Bennewitz Redux
Date: 14 Aug 91 08:50:00 GMT
See my reply in private mail.
I would've replied sooner except I haven't gotten anything over the Internet
again for a while. I'm in the process of moving my connection to another
node, but I'm still picking up mail from the old one so that shouldn't be
the problem.
By the way, did you hear one of the proposals for the Philadelphia navy yard
property if it gets shut down? Disneyland North! I think this is Bielek's
big chance -- he could design a time-travel ride for them! (I'm sure you
could too, for that matter...)
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From: Clark.Matthews@f4.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Clark Matthews)
Subject: Re: **** Warning *****
Date: 14 Aug 91 10:00:00 GMT
In a message to Clark Matthews <08-14-91 01:41> Jim Shaffer wrote:
JS>I just had to reply to your message about the brain. On
JS>last week's episode of "Prime Time Pets," there was a story
JS>about a dog who could sense when his owner was about to
JS>have an epileptic seizure. What's more, this situation
JS>apparently isn't unique! It only happens with certain dogs
Jim, this may strain credibility, but...
It happens with people's **plants**, too! A botanist in California was
measuring the electrochemical activity of various types of plants. He had
them hooked up to simple EEG monitoring recorders 24 hours a day, and he was
comparing the paper tapes of EEG activity in his plants with daylight cycles
and other data to see what influence certain factors had on plant growth &
activity.
Then, one day, the botanist was involved in a car crash several miles from
his home. When he eventually got home (much later the day of the crash), he
looked at his experiment and found that the EEG monitors **had gone wild**
at the instant of the crash. ALL OF THE PLANTS REGISTERED REACTIONS.
Needless to say, several new experiments are in progress to measure the
effect of external stimuli on the *caretakers of plants* at various
*distances* from the plants themselves. Distances of many tens of miles do
not seem to be a factor in the instantaneous response of plants to traumatic
stimuli on their caretakers.
As an aside to this, take a look at the two files on Kirlian photography if
you haven't done so already. They're in the Keely General Section:
KIRL1.ZIP and KIRL2.ZIP.
Best,
Clark
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From: Clark.Matthews@f4.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Clark Matthews)
Subject: Re: Bennewitz Redux
Date: 14 Aug 91 10:04:00 GMT
In a message to Clark Matthews <08-14-91 01:50> Jim Shaffer wrote:
JS>By the way, did you hear one of the proposals for the
JS>Philadelphia navy yard property if it gets shut down?
JS>Disneyland North! I think this is Bielek's big chance --
ME TOO!!
But won't he look a little mawkish with those big ears and silly Mickey
Mouse lederhosen?
But maybe there's a place for him there as Pinocchio, if his nose can stand
it. I hear implants are getting much safer these days...
Cheers,
Clark
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From: Clark.Matthews@f4.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Clark Matthews)
Subject: Re: Alternative hypothesis for UFOs?
Date: 14 Aug 91 11:16:00 GMT
In a message to Clark Matthews <08-13-91 19:39> Linda Bird wrote:
LB> In a message to Will Martin on Aug. 10, you mentioned an
LB>animal
LB>called a "brachiopod" with a brain, etc. and referred to
LB>this creature
LB>as a dinosaur.
True. Alas, they were around before dinosaurs were a twinkle in a
Crocodilian's eye. Of course I meant theropods, which were the entire
suborder of nasty bipeds like Tyrannosaurus and Albertosaurs and Allisaurus.
They gobbled up sauropods with gusto.
I stand corrected. But I don't apologize for the clam cocktail I had before
posting that errant message.
*Burp*
Clark
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From: Clark.Matthews@f4.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Clark Matthews)
Subject: Re: Alternative hypothesis for UFOs?
Date: 14 Aug 91 11:20:00 GMT
In a message to Clark Matthews <08-11-91 09:23> Michael Schuyler wrote:
MS>Re: Holographic Universe & Time travel
MS>
MS>Those who KNOW time travel violates the laws of physics can just skip this
MS>message...
Thanks Michael. Actually, Dr. Hawking can keep reading as far as I'm
concerned...
MS>recent book is "The Holographic Universe," by Michael Talbot, which goes into
MS>detail on the potential physics of holography and potential explanations
MS>for psychic phenomenon.
Just spent almost 1/2 hour poring over this book greedily at Barnes & Noble.
It's next on my hit parade, after the new Roswell book!
MS> A third is "The Holographic Paradigm," edited by Ken Wilber.
Thanks for this! I hadn't heard of it. Can you tell me the publisher? I'd
appreciate it.
Best,
Clark
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From: ParaNet.Information.Service@p0.f428.n104.z1.FIDONET.ORG (sm)
Subject: Rainbow Declaration, (Long)
Date: 14 Aug 91 14:51:00 GMT
The following is being posted by request. It is very long (12 messages). It
is not copyrighted according to the author, John Brandenburg, and he
encourages that everyone pass it around. It is being reproduced in its
entirety as it appeared in the MUFON Proceedings. ParaNet makes not claim to
its accuracy or content, and in no way endorses the material.
THE RAINBOW DECLARATION AND HUMAN DESTINY IN THE COSMOS
by
John E. Brandenburg, Ph.D.
(From the MUFON Symposium Proceedings)
John E. Brandenburg, Ph.D.
John E. Brandenburg Ph.D. is a theoretical plasma physicist
living in Alexandria, Virginia. He is employed by a private
scientific research firm in the Washington, D.C. area.
Dr. Brandenburg received his B.A. in Physics in 1975 form
Southern Oregon, A Masters in Applied Science form the University
of California at Davis in 1977 and a Ph.D. in Plasma Physics in
1981, also at Davis. His thesis was on confinement of a plasma
of very energetic ions and cold electrons using strong magnetic
fields for the purposes of controlled nuclear fusion. During his
graduate studies Dr. Brandenburg held a working fellowship at
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and pursued research in
the area of controlled fusion. On receiving his Ph.D., he became
a staff physicist at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque,
New Mexico. There he performed research on controlled fusion and
electron beam weapons. He left Sandia in 1984 to assume his
present position. His current work involves both directed energy
weapons and space defense problems.
Dr. Brandenburg has been involved in investigations of the
Face on Mars and other Martian objects since 1984. Together with
Vincent DiPietro and Gregory Molenaar, the two pioneers in this
area, he is a member of the organization Mars Research and is a
co-author of Unusual Martian Surface Features Edition IV. John
Brandenburg became interested in space travel and
extraterrestrial life at an early age. He joined MUFON as a
Consultant in Plasma Physics and is the author of the "Rainbow
Declaration," a statement of principles to govern the relations
of peoples of different worlds. He was a featured speaker at the
MUFON 1989 International UFO Symposium in Las Vegas, NV where he
presented a paper titled "The Cydonian Hypothesis."
Dr. Brandenburg may be contacted at 4732 Rouge Court,
Alexandria, VA 22312.
THE RAINBOW DECLARATION AND HUMAN DESTINY IN THE COSMOS
By John E. Brandenburg, Ph.D.
ABSTRACT
In this paper I will talk about the destiny of humanity in
the Cosmos as it is now unfolding before us. I will also talk
about the Rainbow Declaration, which is my attempt to bring
together what is good and precious form the human heritage with
what we now know of the Cosmos, to the end that humanity's future
will be good and it will achieve its appropriate destiny.
However, this paper is really about knowledge and dialogue.
I. INTRODUCTION: STAR TREK OR STAR WARS?
I Corinthians 13: 9-12
"For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that
which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be
done away. When I was a child, I thought as a child: but when I
became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see
through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in
part; but then I shall know even as also I am known."
When we speak of knowledge and the human future, we are
speaking of the increase of knowledge. In the future, humanity
will know much more than it knows now. It will go places it has
never been, do and feel things it has never before experienced.
Every important aspect of this knowledge will be to learn more
about the other peoples with whom we share the Cosmos. Part of
that process of learning is going on now. However, this is not a
scientific investigation like any other we humans have done. It
is not like studying the motion of bacteria in a test tube; it is
a dialogue.
A dialogue is what occurs between two or more sentient
beings; it is basically an exchange of information. Humanity is
probably now engaged in a dialogue with peoples from other
planets that orbit other stars. This dialogue has its origins in
the distant past, but it seems to have only begun in earnest in
the last fifty years. Many species seem to have been involved,
but only a few species seem to be playing an active continuing
role in the present course for this dialogue. We know something
of this dialogue, which appears to be between primarily our
government and the extraterrestrials. What is reported from this
dialogue will be discussed in this paper; however, the reported
dialogue will also be used to help create a vision of human
destiny in the Cosmos.
It was the consistent theme of the popular series, Star
Trek, that the human race would become a great and enlightened
power in the Cosmos and be joined in partnership with peoples
kindred to humanity. This partnership, known as the Federation,
was made up of interstellar powers more or less in agreement on
the ideals of democracy, freedom, and dignity of the individual,
reverence for life and even reverence to God. In this
Federation, the idea of separate species of intelligence was
occasionally transcended so that beings looked on each other as
kindred despite their differing biological form.
An equally hopeful, but somewhat darker and more mysterious,
vision of the human future was seen in Star Wars. In this vision
the humans had created an Evil Empire and against it a Rebel
Alliance composed of humans and other species battled
desperately. The theme of Star Wars was hope and the struggle
between good and evil on both physical and moral planes, with
good being aided by the Force. So there exist different vision
of the future.
It is my belief that something more like the world of Star
Trek will be the ultimate destiny of humanity and that this
destiny is something that we should strive for. But how will
such a destiny be accomplished? Can we avoid Star Wars
completely or is it also prophetic? In particular, how will our
interaction, our dialogue, with more technologically advanced
peoples of the Cosmos, who are already starfaring and have
reportedly already arrived here, affect us and how will this
shape our destiny? Is our destiny Star Wars or Star Trek.
Humanity is reportedly now engaged in a dialogue with
extraterrestrial peoples. Ufology exists because of a state of
honest ignorance of this dialogue on the part of the public.
Honest ignorance can be defined as a recognized lack of
knowledge. The ufology movement is a brave vanguard of humanity
that admits its ignorance of the Cosmos and those who dwell in it
and seeks to erase this ignorance. Because of this we know
Ufology will one day cease to exist in its present form because
of new knowledge that will appear. Those in Ufology are brave
not only because they risk ridicule from those who cling to the
everyday, but because this is the real Cosmos we live in -- not a
fairy tale -- and some pieces of knowledge we will gain we may
wish we did no know. But learning unpleasant truths is a
essential part of maturing. If you turn away some truths because
you cannot bear them, you can never really grow up. But we in
Ufology are determined to grow and mature and know.
Knowledge is power, knowledge confers authority, and
knowledge confers responsibility. For these reasons, governments
often guard certain knowledges carefully. One of the most
important concepts in our government's classification system to
safeguard secrets is the concept of "need to know." Authorities
decide what must be done in a situation and who must do it and
then portion out, ideally, only those knowledges to each person
that are necessary for them to do their job. Usually, such
secrecy and portioning out of knowledge occurs in situations
thought to gravely impact our nation's security and defenses.
The authority given the government to restrict certain knowledge
is a sacred trust that derives from its duty to defend us. But,
if the government is concealing a dialogue with
extraterrestrials, is it defending us from the knowledge of the
E.T.'s existence, or is this secrecy only part of an effort to
defend us from some subgroup of the E.T.s themselves? I think
the answer is some of both, but is this consistent with
democracy?
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