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Take care everyone, and don't forget, only the paranoid survive.

Andrew

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 Hey guys, it's Matt. Just a quick heads-up that Episode One of The Lone Conspirator podcast is now up!

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 This is one of the articles posted on our site that was written by someone other than us (The Lone Conspirators). We welcome any and all contributions from people, especially if they are interesting/mysterious. But anyway, this next article generated a lot of interest from people, so hopefully this will get you guys talking/commenting. :)

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Could Aliens Actually be Fallen Angels?


I think that to completely dismiss the "alien" abductions and UFO sightings is just not very intelligent. The truth is that SOMETHING is doing these things. People have their unborn babies taken with no trace. People awake with pieces of symmetrical metal under their skin with no visible mark. People have thousands of hours of UFO videos, of which SOME are quite legitimate. There have been millions who have said they've been abducted. I highly doubt that every single one is lying. Even if just 5 people are telling the truth then there IS somthing "out there".

As a Christian I find no evidence in the Bible that God created any other forms of life not on Earth. But then how do you explain the alien phenomenon?

What is it that's abducting people, performing surgical tests, doing genetic testing, etc..? You could say that the gov't has bred hybrid human life forms that do this, but that seems unlikely. Maybe though, Im not throwing that theory away altogether.

I strongly believe that the Bible is full of explanations as to what these "aliens" really are. The word alien simply means not of this planet. Therefor God is an alien. And so is another creation of his. The only thing he created besides us humans. Angels. Way back in time Lucifer tried to attain God's level of power. He was cast out of heaven along with 1/3 of all the angels(the ones who followed Lucifer). Him and his followers were cast into what the Bible calls the "Third Heaven". The third heaven is simply the universe. Space, the sky around the earth, etc.../

Contrary to most people's belief, Satan was NOT cast into hell. He was cast into the 3rd heaven. He was also given the title, "Prince of the Power of the Air". The bible says that he and his fallen angels inhabit the 3rd heaven, or our universe.

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2 Thes 2:9-Even him (refering to AntiChrist), whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie...

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Along with this passage it is said that one of the AntiChrists first miracles to attempt to persuade the people of his power will be to call fire from the sky. This could be taken several ways since Revelation is highly symbolic, but it COULD represent the AntiChrist (who IS satan) calling HIS fallen angels(the aliens) out and into the open. Imagine if Hitler at the height of his power had called down a fleet of millions of aliens complete with UFOs. What if he claimed to have direct relations with them and said that together with these aliens the human race would go into the future. More than likely MANY people, even non-Nazis, would follow Hitler like a god. This I believe is just what the AC will do.

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We wrestle not with flesh and blood, but with principalities and powers, with wicked spirits in high places, literally, "in the heavens" "in the aerial regions" Eph.6:12

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Luke 21...and there will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth will be anxiety of nations with bewilderment, of sound, of sea and of surf, men fainting at heart from fear and expecting of the things which are coming on the earth. For the powers, the dominions of the heavens will be shaken.

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Also notice the description of a huge army led by Satan in Revelation 9. It says that this army were like locusts with the face of men. Imagine for a second what a locust head with a humanoid face on it would look like...

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"God promised that a descendant of Eve's would crush satan(a foreshadow of Jesus). Now if you were Satan, and you wanted to prevent this, what would you do?

Hmmm...

Pollute the bloodline, perhaps?

"The Nephilim were on the earth in those days - and also afterward - when the sons of God(those God had created, the fallen angels here) went to the daughters of men and had children by them' So the Lord said, I will wipe mankind, whom I have created, from the face of the earth ... for I am grieved that I have made them.' But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord." Genesis 6:4-8

"Noah was the only one who had not been affected by the apparent sexual and genetic experiments carried out by these fallen angels. ALSO, in the New Testament it says that "AS in the days of NOAH, so to shall the coming of the son of man(Jesus' 2nd Coming) be."

Excerpted from "Come Sail Away" by Guy Malone http://www.AlienResistance.org Roswell NM

The scripture above tells a part of what it was like in the days of Noah. Notice too that the whole alien abduction frenzy didn't start until the late 1940's, when Israel became a nation. Israel becoming a nation is the single most significant prophecy that has been fuflfilled. For thousands of years there was no Israel. Then in the late 40's Israel became a nation.

ALSO: PER CAPITA the country with the most abduction accounts is Israel. The US has the most, but per capita its Israel. That is significant.

99.9% of people in the world beleive that these "things" are aliens from another planet, that is IF they even beleive in them. A VERY few think that they are actually the fallen angels of the Bible. The AntiChrist would have an easy time convincing people of his authority if he were to call down fleets of UFO's from the sky.

The fact that most people beleive they are aliens and not fallen angels would present the AntiChrist with an incredible oppourtunity to deceive.

Given the evidence above, I would like to know what you all think now. And really consider it...

-Sean Cannon

Here's something written by Jim Gregg in response to this article:

Indeed, the fallen angels are quite busy trying to undermine God's creation. Originally, all angels were created by God to carry out the specifics of terra-forming all those planets that were and will be inhabited in the future. Angels are not married, nor are they given in marriage. So, angels are created without all the aggressions we have (They don't need all those troublesome hormones we have). We were created a little lower than the angels, it says. They all have their specific areas of purpose. some will handle the garden while others will attend to the development and placement of humankind on inhabitable planets. But, all those angels (who remained with God) continue happily to obey God. Satan is the author of the flying saucer. They must sit back and laugh at the mysticism that humans stir up among themselves. There is, without a doubt, life like we humans abounding in the universe. Scientists would be surprised at the commonality of life.....But they would be mostly amazed at the quantity of it. The fact that other planets are inhabited does not disprove God...It proves it all the more. God continues this very minute to create new planets, to harvest those that are ready to be harvested....and most amazingly to me provides the way to salvage all his creation back to himself. It's true about Jesus. He and He alone is the key to our salvation. It's the same every where in the universe. But be careful to put things into perspective....God calls us sheep. We have our puspose in creation also. We can understand all mysteries and have knowledge of all that is contained in creation and know the purpose of it all....But without love the Bible says that we are like a clanging symbol. Our ultimate purpose is to obey God....and that's the undebateable, indisputeable truth.

Thanks,
Jim Gregg.

This conspiracy was put up as part of our site's one year anniversary. Wow, that was so long ago. Anyway, this one is by me (Matt) and the next one will be by Andrew.

Huey Long: Perfect Candidate for Assassination, or Mistaken Murder?

Huey Pierce Long was a man who had the kind of charisma that made him popular with some, and hated by others. Long could have been the one to step up and challenge Roosevelt for the Presidency. What? You haven’t heard of him you say? That’s because in today’s history classes the only way you are remembered is if you were president or if you assassinated one. That, is in fact a shame.

Huey Long was a Louisiana native who had a down home style that helped him win support from the millions still trying to survive in a country where the continuing depression made day-to-day existence a struggle. He had the stature of a man that carries himself higher than others. That, combined with his physical appearance helped earn him the nickname "Kingfish". Not since Roosevelt had anyone had as much charisma as Long did. This charisma was also intertwined with his ability to take action. Those two forces helped Long become elected governor of Louisiana in 1928. He promoted a "Share the Wealth" program. He taxed the oil refineries and built hospitals, schools, and thousands of miles of new highways. In 1931 he was elected to the Senate. There, he advocated his "Share the Wealth" program even more and by 1934, he was the virtual dictator of his state, personally controlling the police and courts. Long talked about a guaranteed $2,000 to $3,000 income for all American families (18.3 million families earned less than $1,000 per year in 1936) and promised pensions for the elderly and a college education for the young. He would pay for these programs by taxing the rich and liquidating the great fortunes. Because of this, the rich and powerful thought him to be the Devil Incarnate. (Bill Gates wasn’t around back then; you’ll have to remember.) But most people thought that the only way to stop Long from implementing those programs was to assassinate him. And this is where the conspiracy part of the story comes in.

On September 8th 1935, Huey Long and his entourage were assembled at the state capitol building. They were waiting to see if a bill would pass that would put an old judge out of his seat on the Senate. That judge was the father of Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, the man who shot Huey Long. (Well as the belief goes anyway.) What is said to have taken place (and what went down in history) is this: Long was roaming the hallway of the state capitol looking for one of the people that would help the bill pass. Standing outside of the office of the guy that Long was looking for was none other than Carl Austin Weiss. But as long made his way into the office, Weiss was reported as trying to talk to Long and he just got brushed aside with a, "I’m too busy, kid." It happened like this three times. But on the third time, Weiss just came out and shot Long and then proceeded to get shot about sixty times by Long’s bodyguards. The reasoning behind Weiss assassinating Long was said to have been because he wanted to stop Long from trying to get his father dethroned. That’s how everyone who was there was tricked into believing it happened.

But there is another side to the story as many Conspiracy Theorists (myself included) believe that is happened. On the day of the assassination, Weiss and his family were having a nice dinner. And according to people who were there, Weiss’ dad was the one who was against Long, not Weiss himself. Weiss actually thought that Long had good policies and believed that they would work. Weiss was a father and had a wife, and during the conversation at dinner, no one believed that Weiss would be able to do something as evil as that. One excellent point as to a discrepancy in the idea that placed Weiss as an assassin was the fact that he didn’t leave a "Paper Trail". Most assassins leave reasons as to why they want to shoot someone, Weiss didn’t. They said why they THOUGHT he did it, but that’s not undeniable proof. Other discrepancies occur when we examine the operation that took place to try and save Long’s life. Long was shot around 9:20 p.m. and he was operated on around 11:00 p.m. While he was on the operation table, eyewitnesses noticed that Long’s lip was bleeding. Doctors fixed his colon, which they believed was the only damage that was done. But, after the operation, no bullet was mentioned being retrieved. That’s mostly due to the cover-up. If people found out that the bullet they retrieved from Long’s body was a .38 caliber and the gun belonging to Weiss fired .32 caliber, then surely the truth would have come out. The only people in the state capitol who had .38 caliber bullets were Long’s bodyguards, who also happened to carry .45 caliber bullets that were called "slugs". So when Huey Long died on September 10th from a serious kidney would that the doctors had overlooked another investigator was sent in to find the bullet. Guess what caliber it was? Nope not .32 which would have pointed the blame to Weiss, it was a "slug" or .45 caliber. But as if those obvious facts weren’t enough evidence, let’s think about some other key factors. Weiss was said to have been waiting outside an office while waiting to talk to Long. Well eyewitnesses reported seeing Weiss talking to people who knew his father. If he was hiding a gun, it is highly unlikely that not a single one of the people that Weiss had a conversation with would have noticed the outline of it. Another thing, this whole event happened in the state capitol. How likely is it that someone other than a bodyguard or security guard would be able to get in while carrying a gun? Not very likely. Also, if Weiss really wanted to shoot Long, he could have emptied his gun’s entire clip into Long’s back while Long poked his head into the office that Weiss was waiting outside of.

So with all these discrepancies, Conspiracy Theorists believe that the whole event was the same up until Long tried to brush away Weiss on the third attempt. On the third attempt, Conspiracy Theorists believe that Weiss got angry because Long wouldn’t listen to him and punched Long in the face. The bodyguards upon seeing this, opened fire accidentally shooting Long twice, and then shooting Weiss point blank around sixty times. This theory would make sense because of the fact of Long’s lip being busted when he went into the operating room. But after the murder, Weiss’ brother heard the rumors and went to see for himself. Outside of the capitol building, he found Weiss’ car and in it was his bag where he kept all of his medical tools. Unfortunately, he didn’t have the keys to get in on him, so he went to his house to get them. When he got back, the car was gone. He later found it around the back of the building and the bag that was in it was in disarray with all the contents strewn about and the gun that was in the glove compartment was gone. A security guard that Weiss’ brother talked to said that he saw one of Long’s bodyguards get the gun and place it near Weiss’ body.

With all this compelling evidence, they would obviously re-open the case right? Well, even if someone wanted to, they couldn’t, because a little while after the assassination, all the official records of the case and Weiss’ gun disappeared. When the files and the gun were later recovered (by examining the will of a bodyguard, investigators found them in a safe deposit box in Louisiana), ballistics tests were done on the used bullet that was found with the gun. Those tests showed that the bullet did not come from Weiss’ gun. The official records were released into police custody and the police later mentioned that nothing in the files was, "worth mentioning." (* Cough * cover-up * cough *)

So did Huey Long get assassinated? Or were both his and Weiss’ deaths caused by poor training on the part of the bodyguards? In truth, it really doesn’t matter because only one is the "correct" version that people want to hear. And as my U.S. history textbook so eloquently put it: "Had not an assassin’s bullet cut Long down in September 1935, he might have mounted a third-party challenge to Roosevelt."

-Matt


This topic seems to have generated more interest from our viewers than most others on this site. Here are a few emails that have been sent to me:

From: Luke McNeeley

I noticed an error on your page about Huey P. Long. The Judge that was to
have been removed from his bench was Judge Benjamin Pavy. Pavy was Weiss'
father in law, not his father as your paper states. Another thought is that
Sen. Long had made several off-color remarks about Pavy's family having
"colored blood". This was a very demeaning remark in the Deep South at that
time, and could merit a violent response. There are other theories about
Weiss involvement with Standard Oil, who was threatening to leave Louisiana
on account of Long's taxation.

Here is another site (not my own) about the Long "assassination" and offers
some other theories for consideration.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/3502/homef.htm

Judge Pavy was from St. Tamany Parish in southeastern Louisiana, which at
that time was 85-90% Roman Catholic. Long was from Winn Parish, in the
northern part of the state, which is largely Protestant. I am not certain,
but I beleive long was Episcopalian or Presbyterian. St. Tamany Parish
bitterly opposed Long's election and policy, partly for political reasons,
others opposed him for his Religion. Weiss and Pavy's family were staunch
Catholics, reducing the likelihood that Carl was a would be murderer. Also,
Judge Pavy was nearing retirement anyway and pretty financially stable
Also, he could continued to make a comfortable living as an attorney in
private practice.

There are also some theories about the mafia being involved, but there isn't
enough evidence to support this claim.

From: Adam:

Hey Matt---

Great site, I really like your "conspiracy theory"
pages.

The other day I was watching "Unsolved Mysteries" and
they showed their Huey Long segment, explaining
basically everything you'd mentioned in your page.
The only thing: they had an Update on the case. Two
State eyewitnesses came forward in 1988 and testified
under oath that the cover-up theory was indeed what
happened, that Weiss had punched Long and was unarmed,
that his gun was planted and that that Long had been
accidentally shot by his own bodyguards. The only
reason they'd waited 50 years to come forward was
because the Louisiana government was still filled with
pro-Long politicians. However, the State of Louisiana
case file still lists the official judgment that Weiss
was the assasin.

Keep up the good work!
Adam

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This is another of the website repostings, this time from Andrew. It's a paper he wrote a while back detailing the evidence of intelligent life outside of the Earth. It's a well written and interesting read, check it out:

Scientific
Evidence of the Existence of Intelligent Life Outside of the Earth: Special Edition..

Greek Philosopher Metrodorus once said
that "To consider Earth as the only populated world is as
absurd as to assert that in an entire field sown
with millet only one grain will grow." He wasn't the only one that
has felt this way. Since the dawn of time, humans have looked up
at the stars in the nighttime sky, wondering whether they were alone
in this vast Universe of ours or not. Many people, like Metrodorus,
believed that there must be at least a small spark of life somewhere
out there, while there have been many others who have scoffed at
the idea of life existing elsewhere. It is now many centuries later,
the year 2001, and the same question is still being asked. We still
have yet to find an answer to it despite several steps forward towards
a final conclusion. However, despite massive amounts of research
and analysis, there is still no hard evidence that proves, without
a doubt, that intelligent life does or does not exist outside of
the planet Earth.

One skeptic, Michael H. Hart of the National Center for Atmospheric
Research in Colorado, has a rather simple explanation for the reason
he believes that there is no intelligent life outside of Earth.
He believes that if there indeed are other civilizations containing
intelligent life somewhere out there, we should have ran into them
by now. According to him, they should be capable of interstellar
flight and have the ability to colonize space. Since we have not
yet run into any of these civilizations, he thinks that they must
not exist (Arvey 21).
However, many disagree with him, although for different reasons.
Author Thomas McDonough feels that maybe "they are here right now,
but don't want to make themselves known" (qtd. in Arvey 20), while
author and scientist Isaac Asimov's view of this situation is a
little different. He made a statement in his book Extraterrestrial
Civilizations that counters Hart's belief. In the book, Asimov stated
that "we have not been visited by them [other civilizations], very
likely because the interstellar distances are too great to be penetrated"
(qtd. in Arvey 22).
Carl Sagan supported Asimov's viewpoint in his book Cosmos when
he wrote that "If there are millions of civilizations distributed
more or less randomly through the galaxy, the distance to the nearest
is about two hundred light-years [12,000 trillion miles] away. Evan
at the speed of light [light travels 186,000 miles a second; six
trillion miles a year] it would take two centuries for a radio message
to get from there to here" (qtd. in Arvey 22).
Sagan has also theorized that black holes could possibly be used
as a shortcut through time and space. Black holes are formed when
the gravity within a star becomes so strong it collapses into itself
with so much force and becomes so dense that no form of matter and
not even light can escape. Although the existence of black holes
has been proven, unlike the existence of intelligent life outside
of Earth, very little is known about the true nature of the physics
involved within one (Arvey 23). A black holes abilities to bend
time and space is currently the subject of many heated debates within
the scientific community, and a discussion of that would be a completely
different topic of it's own, requiring massive amounts of research.
An attempt on my part to fully explain the black hole phenomenon
would result in what would basically be a research paper within
a research paper.
As I mentioned, Michael H. Hart believes that if any advanced civilizations
have existed outside of Earth, we would know by now because we would
have surely have run into them by now or at least had some kind
of contact with these civilizations. Since we haven't made any contact
yet, intelligent life outside of Earth must not exist (Arvey 21).
However, how do we really know that we haven't had any contact with
them? Maybe we have, but we just haven't realized it yet.
Duncan Lunan, a young Scottish "spaceflight enthusiast," once claimed
that he had evidence of a probe originating from an alien civilization
circling the Earth. His evidence was based on his own personal interpretations
of a few mysterious "long-delayed echoes" (LDEs) of short-wave radio
signals that had been first heard by European researchers in the
1920s (Sheaffer 129).
The main reason he believed that a "space probe from a distant
civilization" was an apparent discovery he made concerning echoes
that had been recorded on October 11, 1928. Lunan reported that
he had found a way to take echoes, recorded by Dr. B. Van der Pol
of Philips Radio in the Netherlands, and plot them on a map to create
a map of the stars in the constellation Bootes (Sheaffer 129). In
an excerpt from his book, Interstellar Contact, Duncan said " ...
If the data points are plotted with delay time on the y-axis (normal
scientific practice, followed by all the 1920s experimenter' s who
presented their results graphically), nothing significant appears.
With delay time on the x-axis, however, the graph looks more like
an intelligent signal (fig.1). There is a vertical "barrier" at
8 seconds dividing the diagram into two parts of an equal area;
on the left there is a single dot, at three seconds, which was unique
in being an exact repeat of the transmitted signal, three dots,
the other echoes being 2 second long dashes.
On the right of the barrier the main figure has a striking but incomplete
resemblance to the constellation Bootes, the Herdsman (fig 1c). If
the 3 second dot is transplanted across the barrier to a corresponding
position on the right, it occupies the position of the star Epsilon
Bootis and so completes the constellation figure. ..." (qtd. in Pawsey).

However, many seriously doubt that Lunan had really made some kind
of major discovery. First of all, this map only resembles the constellation;
it is not an exact replica of Bootes. Two stars, Epsilon Bootis
(the star he believes the probe came from) and Arcturus (Alpha Bootis)
are out of place on his map. Lunan explains that Arcturus is out
of place simply because it's position appears to change much more
rapidly to earthlings than the positions of any of the other stars.
He uses this information to hypothesis that the probe had arrived
about 13,000 years ago. His only explanation for Epsilon Bootis
is that if the point representing the star is "moved to the right
to be equidistant from the vertical line on the other side of it,"
that then completes the picture of the constellation Bootes. One
thing that he has failed to explain is how the 'Booteans' had learned
of the "arbitrary constellation boundaries" created by earthlings
(Sheaffer 129-132).
Lunan, feeling inspired by his discovery, went on to find more
ways to force-fit other long-delay echos onto maps resembling yet
more constellations. Unfortunately for him, skeptics had no problem
shooting down his findings and pointing out serious flaws in his
methods (Sheaffer 132).
Duncan Lunan wasn't the only one to get strange radio signals (although
the findings from others were much more believable). "Another of
Tesla's claimed discoveries at Colorado Springs came late one night
as he was working at his powerful and sensitive radio receiver.
Only elderly Mr. Dozier, the carpenter, remained on duty. Suddenly
the inventor became aware of strange rhythmic sounds on the receiver.
He could think of no possible explanation for such a regular pattern,
unless it were an effort being made to communicate with Earth by
living creatures on another planet. Venus or Mars he supposed to
be the more likely sources. No one at that time had ever heard of
such phenomena as regular sounds from space" (qtd. in "Artificial
Lighting, Radio Experiments"). The patterns of these radio signals
were not "traceable to any known cause," meaning Tesla could not
find any other phenomenon that sent out such signals. "Such a clear
suggestion of number and order" gave him reason to believe that
he may have stumbled upon a message sent to Earth by an intelligent
civilization existing elsewhere in the universe (Arvey 23).
Although I haven't been able to find any information on what else
could have caused these radio signals, I have come across another
interesting case that was able to be explained. In 1967, a team
of radio astronomers headed by Dr. Anthony Hewish received a series
of radio signals on a radio telescope that, not unlike the waves
received by Tesla, came from space and were unusual in the regularity
in which the series had come in. These signals were later explained
to be that of a pulsar. Scientist Thomas Gold theorized (and it
was later proven) that pulsars are spinning neutron stars (Arvey
24).
There was, however, one other strong signal that is still unexplained.
On August 15, 1977, the Ohio State University picked up a signal
that only occurred once and was never found again. It was called
the Wow! signal, from the note written in the margin of the computer
printout by Dr. Jerry Ehman ("Wow! Signal Page"). "I came across
the strangest signal I had ever seen, and immediately scribbled
'Wow!' next to it," Ehman explained. "At first, I thought it was
an earth signal reflected from space debris, but after I studied
it further, I found that couldn't be the case" (qtd. in Shuch).
"The signal rises about 15 dB above the mean background noise, in
a single channel. The actual symbols (shown in the picture below)
are a time series representation of the signal amplitude, as received
by the Big Ear radio telescope. The symbols 6EQUJ5 represent the
number of standard deviations by which the received signal exceeds
the average background noise, on a scale of 0 to 35." For example,
a "0" means that the signal is not any stronger than background
noise, a "1" means that the signal is one sigma above the background
noise level, a "9" means that it is nine sigma above the background
level, an "A" would be ten sigma above the background level, and
a "U" (the strongest peak of the Wow! signal) is "30 standard deviations
above the mean background level." "A" is the first letter in the
alphabet and U is the 21st, therefore an "A" simply means 9+1 and
a "U" means 9+2 ("Wow! Signal Page").
Analyzing the Wow! signal shows that its source was moving with
the background stars. From its "Doppler shift signature," terrestrial
interference (such as interference from radios and telecommunications
equipment), aircraft, and spacecraft can all be ruled out as the
possible origin of the signal. It was indicated by the antenna coordinates
that the signal was not coming from any known nearby stars ("Wow!
Signal Page"). Most importantly, even though several different radio
observatories performed more than one hundred follow-on studies
of the same region of sky where the Wow! Signal came from, it was
never repeated (Shuch).
As amazing as the signal may seem, the fact that the signal has
not been picked up again casts some doubts on whether it was sent
from another civilization. Ehman himself has said that "Even if
it were intelligent beings sending a signal, they'd do it far more
than once" and "We should have seen it again when we looked for
it 50 times. Something suggests it was an Earth-bound signal that
simply got reflected off a piece of space debris" (qtd. in Kawa).
However, since the Ohio State Big Ear radio telescope views just
one part in a million of the sky at any given time (which is an
extremely narrow beam width), that can make it difficult for a repeat
signal to be picked up if it is ever sent again ("Wow! Signal Page").
Even if the signals were from alien civilizations, there are still
a few obstacles in our way. Ian Ridpath, author of Message from
the Stars, says that if the basic science theories are true, the
nearest possible alien civilization must be about 2,000 light-years
away. That would mean that it would take about 2,000 years for a
message traveling at the speed of light to get here, then another
2,000 years for before they could receive a reply from us. After
the round-trip lasting 4,000 years, we could all be gone. In addition
to that problem, Gerrit Verschuur says that "no two civilizations
are likely at the same stage of development." What he meant was
that we may be unable to decipher what message an alien civilization
was trying to send us with a radio signal (Arvey 27). This would
be like a human trying to speak with a primate. Although there has
been some success in teaching a few of them sign language, chances
are a chimpanzee would have no idea what I was talking about if
I went up to it and told it my life story.
If we are receiving messages from distant civilizations, how many
are out there trying to contact us? Is there just one in some far
off corner of the universe, or is our own galaxy just teeming with
life waiting to be discovered? No one knows for sure how many advanced
civilizations exist in the universe, if any, but one man has attempted
to estimate this number.
Frank Drake once asked "What do we need to know about to discover
life in space?" Well, answering his own question, Drake came up
with several factors that might need to known and used them to created
something he called The Drake Equation, which looks like this:


Nc = N* × fp × ne × fl × fi × fc × L


While working as a radio astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy
Observatory in Green Bank, he created this equation in 1961 to "estimate
the number of technological civilizations that might exist among
the stars" (qtd. in "Drake Equation Background"). It identifies
the specific factors that are thought to play an important role
in the development of advanced technological civilizations. "N*
represents the number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy," "fp is
the fraction of stars that have planets around them," ne is the
"number of planets per star that are capable of sustaining life,"
"fl is the fraction of planets in ne where life evolves," "fi is
the fraction of fl where intelligent life evolves," "fc is the fraction
of fi that communicate," "fL is fraction of the planet's life during
which the communicating civilizations may survive," and Nc is "the
number of communicating civilizations in the galaxy." Right now,
it is estimated that there are 200 to 400 billion stars in the Milky
Way Galaxy ("The Drake Equation").
20% to 50% of these stars are estimated to have planetary systems.
For each of these stars, it is estimated that they may have 1 to
5 planets possibly capable of supporting life (different people
have suggested different numbers; some only count Earth and Mars
as planets capable of supporting life in our solar system and there
say that ne should be 2, some count a few of Jupiter's moons and
suggest that the number may be as high as 5, but I'll get more into
that later). Out of those planets (and moons), you could use the
argument that "Where life can evolve it will" and say that life
will evolve on 100% of those planets. Out of those, it is estimated
that 50% will evolve intelligent life, and 10% to 20% of the intelligent
life are estimated to have the "means and desire" to communicate.
To get a number for fL is probably more difficult than the other
numbers. If we use Earth as our model, the expected lifetime of
our Solar System is about 10 billion years. Communication by radio
has been around for under 100 years. How long will our civilization
last? If we were to die today, the estimated fraction of the planet's
life that each civilization will survive would be 1/100,000,000th.
However, if we were to survive for another 10,000 years, the number
would be reduced considerably down to 1/1,000,000th ("The Drake
Equation").
In order to put this equation to use, I've decided to plug some
numbers in and see what Nc would come out to be. If I were to be
conservative and use 200 billion for N*, 50% for fp, 1% for ne,
50% for fl, 20% for fi, 20% for fc, and 100,000,000 for fL, Nc would
turn out to be 20. However, this is just a rough (very rough) estimate.
As previously stated, Earth is approximately 10,000,000,000 years
old. We have been communicating by radio for less than 100 years.
If the entire human race were to die out today, fL would be 1/100,000,000,
and Nc, "the number of communicating civilizations in the galaxy"
would only be 20. However, we have absolutely no idea when the human
race will be extinct, or if it ever will. Out of curiosity, I decided
to pull up a few numbers of my own and plug them into the equation
just to compare the results. If we continue to live and communicate
another 9,900 years, fL would turn into 1/1,000,000, and Nc would
be 2000. If we were to die out 100 years from now, fL would be 1/50,000,000,
and Nc would be 40. In only 100 years (a relatively short time considering
the estimated age of Earth), the number of estimated communicating
civilizations in the Milky Way will double from 20 to 40. Not only
that, but most of the other numbers in the equation are rough estimates
and could be wrong. A minor change here and there could result in
a drastically larger or smaller number. Before we go on, let's not
forget that these are only the numbers for the Milky Way Galaxy.
There are another few billion galaxies out there for life to develop
in, each with up to billions upon billions more stars within themselves.
If out of those billions of stars an intelligent civilization develops
in only one planet of every galaxy, that is still an overwhelming
number of civilizations out there. Even with all the variables and
no definite solution to The Drake Equation, it is still a "generally
accepted tool used by the scientific community to examine these
factors" ("The Drake Equation").
Let's say my first estimate was actually correct, and there are
20 civilizations in this galaxy today capable of communicating.
Where are they? Well, they could be anywhere, but chances are they
probably aren't on in our own Solar System. However, there is a
chance that there may have been life, if not intelligent life at
least some form of life, on another planet or even a moon within
the same Solar System that we live in.
Although Jupiter's moon Europa probably doesn't have an advanced
civilization on it, it is one of the more promising places in our
solar system for the existence of some kind of life. The spacecraft
Voyager took pictures of lines on the that cross the surface of
Europa that look very much like they may be cracks in the ice. "High-resolution
images of the surface taken by the Galileo spacecraft have revealed
a world with a complex surface covered in groves, icy domes, and
features remarkably similar to the ice rafts found in the oceans
of the Earth." The lack of many craters on the surface tells us
that it must be fairly young, and suggests that Europa is either
currently active geologically, or at least has been in the recent
past. The appearance of the surface also suggests that below the
frozen layer of ice there may exist an ocean of liquid water. Water
is one of the major requirements for life. Below 100 to 150 km of
ice and possibly an ocean, Europa is a nothing but rock (Urquhart).
“It is a long way from finding water to finding life,” said Kivelson,
“but it certainly makes it a more intriguing possibility,” (qtd.
in "Life on Europa?") says space physics scientist Margaret G. Kivelson.
The contact between the water and rock could provide "ingredients
essential to life, especially if the rocky portion of the moon is
volcanically active, as it would have been early in the history
of the solar system" (Urquhart). Also, "Europa could possibly produce
sources of energy for basic chemical reactions needed for life,
thanks to billions of charged particles that constantly rain down
from Jupiter," says Stanford University professor Christopher Chyba
(qtd. in "Jupiter Radiation"). Even if there is no ocean existing
under the surface of Europa, it is almost certain without a doubt
that one did exist at one time in the past. The copious amounts
of water and the likelihood of past volcanic activity on Europa
has caused some scientists to believe that there is an even better
chance of life on Jupiter's moon than there is on Mars (Urquhart).
But there are many that still feel Mars is a strong candidate as
a place where life had once existed. Despite the extreme cold and
dryness of the surface of Mars today, it is very like that in the
distant past, the climate of Mars may have been a much more hospitable
place for life. "Billions of years ago, water flowed on the surface
of Mars, indicating Mars had a wetter, and probably warmer, climate".
Even with the "seemingly inhospitable surface," the discovery of
life in some of the most extreme environments on the Earth suggests
that life could also be living somewhere deep underground on Mars
today. The martian subsurface most likely holds within it a large
amount of ice, maybe even some liquid water. "The presence of volcanos
on Mars, which can melt ground ice and circulate water in the subsurface,
would provide an excellent environment for microorganisms." In the
past Mars has at the very least had all of the requirements for
life: liquid water, a source of energy, and the "chemical building
blocks of life" (Urquhart).
In August of 1996, NASA announced that it had found evidence of
life on Mars on a 3.6 billion-year-old rock hailing from the Red
Planet. Three months later, British scientists claimed that they
had found chemical traces of life in a meteorite that they say also
came from Mars. The Britons say they found organic matter in two
meteorites. One of the two was the meteorite tested by NASA, and
the other was "a newly tested meteorite" that crashed into Earth
600,000 years ago. The rock itself is between 140 million and 160
million years old ("British Present Evidence").
Researchers at London's Open University and London's Natural History
Museum say residues and chemicals were present in the rock that
only living organisms could have formed ("British Present Evidence").
Kathie Thomas-Keprta and her team at the Johnson Space Center believed
that some of the microscopic magnetite crystals found inside of
the miniscule carbonate granules found within the meteor had unusual
"elongated hexa-octahedral" forms that were so uniform in their
size that it was almost impossible for a "nonliving process" to
have created it. They must have been created by bacteria that had
adapted to Mars' now-dead magnetic field by usings the crystals
inside of their cells to "point themselves like a compass needle"
in the correct direction in order to take advantage of some of the
different kinds of nutrients found underwater (Moomaw). "This is
a smoking gun for life on Mars," said chemist Ian Wright, one of
the three scientists that participated in the study. "I believe
we will be in a position soon to study Martian metabolism" (qtd
"British Present Evidence"). "I believe I can say life existed-and
may still-exist on Mars" ("Researchers Confirm").
Astronomer and researcher Colin Pillinger told a news briefing
that he had present the evidence of life to the magazine Nature
in 1989, but other scientists criticized his findings and claims
that the evidence showed possible signs of life, saying that the
matter found inside of the meteorite (named 79001) could have easily
been picked up on the meteorite's trip to Earth. However, after
the NASA scientists' announced the evidence they had found in the
meteorite AHL 84001, Pillinger decided to re-run his experiment
on several samples from both meteorites. This time, to lessen the
chances of foreign material not from Mars clouding his findings,
he carried out his experiments on parts of 79001 that had become
"sealed in a glass-like substance before the meteorite came to Earth,"
thus insulating the meteorite from the organic matter on Earth ("British
Present Evidence").
The most important finding in Pillinger's eyes was that 79001 contained
extremely high amounts of organic material that have yet to be identified.
"It would be incredibly egotistical to believe we are the only planet
with life on it," he said. "To think we are the only place uniquely
selected for life would be incredible" (qtd. in "Researchers Confirm").
One interesting feature on Mars that has piqued the interest of
a few scientists have been dark spots that have been found near
the tops of Martian polar-region dunes. Hungarian scientist A. Horvath
came up with a bold theory concerning these spots. He thinks they
may be "large films of living Martian algae taking advantage of
water frost melting on the dunes in spring to rapidly grow and reproduce
before retreating back into dormant spore form after the liquid
film of water disappears." His theory is mainly based on the fact
that the spots tend to form long streaks running down the surfaces
of dunes, indicating that they may following water flowing down
the surface of the dunes (Moomaw).
E.F. Albin also has a theory that also deals with water running
down the surface of dunes on Mars. However, he thinks the dark spots
may be caused by running water sweeping away some material that
lie on the Martian surface, exposing darker materials underneath
it (Moomaw).
Some scientists are still skeptical, and organizations around the
world are still collecting date about Mars to learn more about the
mysterious planet. Several trips to the Red Planet are planned for
the next 10 years. This past October, NASA has already sent the
Mars Odyssey orbit Mars for three years to study minerals, subsurface
hydrogen, and radiation on Mars. The Agency also plans on possibly
launching both a mobile science laboratory to Mars in 2007,and launch
series of Scout missions that may use small planes or landers as
scientific platforms (DiChristina). And finally, the European Space
Agency may launch a mission in 2009 that would end with a piece
of rock actually dug up from Mars and returned to Earth for study.
"This is us saying, look, Mars is stuck in man's imagination for
a long time and we actually do have the capability on Earth to answer
these fundamental problems that puzzle people," said Colin Pillinger
(qtd. in Lloyd).
"It would be incredibly egotistical to believe we are the only
planet with life on it...To think we are the only place uniquely
selected for life would be incredible" said astronomer and research
Colin Pillinger (qtd. British Present Evidence"). As much I personally
agree with Mr. Pillinger, that is only an opinion. Since human first
showed up on Earth, we have often wondered whether we were alone
in this universe or not. Many argued against it, many argued for
it, and then the rest fit somewhere in-between. We have come quite
a long way since the days of our early ancestors. We've built radios
and received 'messages from space' on them, we've sent man-made
objects into the far reaches of the solar-system, and we've seen
incredible things on other worlds that really aren't too far away
from our home. However, the most important thing is we still have
not found an conclusive evidence proving without a doubt that intelligent
life forms exist outside of our own planet. Will we someday solve
the mystery? Is there an advanced civilization lurking in the depths
of a galaxy far, far away? We still don't and may never know, but
one thing is for sure; the truth is out there.

Andrew Mann
Lone Conspirator

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  In what can be described as our first real news post in a very long time, I'd like to pass along an article from LiveScience, talking about teleportation:


Scientists have come a bit closer to achieving the "Star Trek" feat of
teleportation. No one is galaxy-hopping, or even beaming people around,
but for the first time, information has been teleported between two
separate atoms across a distance of a meter — about a yard.

This is a significant milestone in a field known as quantum information processing, said Christopher Monroe of the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland, who led the effort.


Teleportation is one of nature's most mysterious forms of transport:
Quantum information, such as the spin of a particle or the polarization
of a photon, is transferred from one place to another, without
traveling through any physical medium. It has previously been achieved
between photons (a unit, or quantum, of electromagnetic radiation, such
as light)
over very large distances, between photons and ensembles of atoms, and
between two nearby atoms through the intermediary action of a third.

None of those, however, provides a feasible means of holding and managing quantum information over long distances.


Now the JQI team, along with colleagues at the University of Michigan, has succeeded in teleporting
a quantum state directly from one atom to another over a meter. That
capability is necessary for workable quantum information systems
because they will require memory storage at both the sending and
receiving ends of the transmission.

In the Jan. 23 issue of the journal Science, the
scientists report that, by using their protocol, atom-to-atom
teleported information can be recovered with perfect accuracy about 90
percent of the time — and that figure can be improved.

"Our system has the potential to form the basis for a large-scale
'quantum repeater' that can network quantum memories over vast
distances," Monroe said. "Moreover, our methods can be used in
conjunction with quantum bit operations to create a key component
needed for quantum computation."

A quantum computer
could perform certain tasks, such as encryption-related calculations
and searches of giant databases, considerably faster than conventional
machines. The effort to devise a working model is a matter of intense
interest worldwide.


Teleportation and entanglement


Physicist Richard Feynman
is quoted as having said that "if you think you understand quantum
mechanics, you don't understands quantum mechanics." Or sometimes he is
cited thusly: "I think I can safely say that nobody understand quantum
mechanics."


Nonetheless, here is how the University of Maryland describes Monroe's work.

Teleportation works because of a remarkable quantum phenomenon
called entanglement which only occurs on the atomic and subatomic
scale. Once two objects are put in an entangled state, their properties
are inextricably entwined. Although those properties are inherently
unknowable until a measurement is made, measuring either one of the
objects instantly determines the characteristics of the other, no
matter how far apart they are.

The JQI team set out to entangle the quantum states of two
individual ytterbium ions so that information embodied in the condition
of one could be teleported to the other. Each ion was isolated in a
separate high-vacuum trap, suspended in an invisible cage of
electromagnetic fields and surrounded by metal electrodes.

The researchers identified two readily discernible ground (lowest
energy) states of the ions that would serve as the alternative "bit"
values of an atomic quantum bit, or qubit.



Conventional electronic bits (short for binary digits), such as those
in a personal computer, are always in one of two states: off or on, 0
or 1, high or low voltage, etc. Quantum bits, however, can be in some
combination, called a "superposition," of both states at the same time,
like a coin that is simultaneously heads and tails — until a
measurement is made. It is this phenomenon that gives quantum
computation its extraordinary power.


Laser pulse initiates process


At the start of the experimental process, each ion (designated A and B) is initialized in a given ground state.

Then ion A is irradiated with a specially tailored microwave burst
from one of its cage electrodes, placing the ion in some desired
superposition of the two qubit states — in effect "writing" into
"memory" the information to be teleported.

Immediately thereafter, both ions are excited by a picosecond (one
trillionth of a second) laser pulse. The pulse duration is so short
that each ion emits only a single photon as it sheds the energy gained
by the laser and falls back to one or the other of the two qubit ground
states.

Depending on which one it falls into, the ion emits one of two kinds of
photons of slightly different wavelengths (designated red and blue)
that correspond to the two atomic qubit states. It is the relationship
between those photons that will eventually provide the telltale signal
that entanglement has occurred.


Beamsplitter encounter

Each emitted photon is captured by a lens, routed to a separate
strand of fiber-optic cable, and carried to a 50-50 beamsplitter where
it is equally probable for the photon to pass straight through the
splitter or to be reflected. On either side of the beamsplitter are
detectors that can record the arrival of a single photon.

Before it reaches the beamsplitter, each photon is in an unknowable
superposition of states. After encountering the beamsplitter, however,
each takes on specific characteristics.

As a result, for each pair of photons, four color combinations are
possible — blue-blue, red-red, blue-red and red-blue — as well as one
of two polarizations: horizontal or vertical. In nearly all of those
variations, the photons either cancel each other out or both end up in
the same detector. But there is one — and only one — combination in
which both detectors will record a photon at exactly the same time.



In that case, however, it is physically impossible to tell which ion
produced which photon because it cannot be known whether the photon
arriving at a detector passed through the beamsplitter or was reflected
by it.

Thanks to the peculiar laws of quantum mechanics, that inherent
uncertainty projects the ions into an entangled state. That is, each
ion is in a superposition of the two possible qubit states. The
simultaneous detection of photons at the detectors does not occur
often, so the laser stimulus and photon emission process has to be
repeated many thousands of times per second. But when a photon appears
in each detector, it is an unambiguous signature of entanglement
between the ions.

When an entangled condition is identified, the scientists
immediately take a measurement of ion A. The act of measurement forces
it out of superposition and into a definite condition: one of the two
qubit states.

But because ion A's state is irreversibly tied to ion B's, the
measurement also forces B into the complementary state. Depending on
which state ion A is found in, the researchers now know precisely what
kind of microwave pulse to apply to ion B in order to recover the exact
information that had been written to ion A by the original microwave
burst. Doing so results in the accurate teleportation of the
information.


Teleportation vs. other communications


What distinguishes this outcome
as teleportation, rather than any other form of communication, is that
no information pertaining to the original memory actually passes
between ion A and ion B. Instead, the information disappears when ion A
is measured and reappears when the microwave pulse is applied to ion B.

"One particularly attractive aspect of our method is that it
combines the unique advantages of both photons and atoms," says Monroe.
"Photons are ideal for transferring information fast over long
distances, whereas atoms offer a valuable medium for long-lived quantum
memory ... Also, the teleportation of quantum information in this way
could form the basis of a new type of quantum internet that could
outperform any conventional type of classical network for certain
tasks."

The work was supported by the Intelligence Advanced Research Project
Activity program under U.S. Army Research Office contract, the National
Science Foundation (NSF) Physics at the Information Frontier Program,
and the NSF Physics Frontier Center at the Joint Quantum Institute.

Credit:
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090123-teleportation-atoms.html

 Hey guys, this is Matt. I haven't run this across Andrew yet, but I'm working on a podcast. Once I show him what I have gotten so far I know he's gonna approve and hopefully hop aboard.

So just thought I'd let everyone and anyone know who still reads this that we aren't dead. Be ready for a rebirth of sorts, coming soon!

-Matt