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Apollo 14 Moonwalker Claims Aliens Exist
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on Thu Jul 24, 2008 11:48 AM
from the truth-is-out-there dept.
from the truth-is-out-there dept.
An anonymous reader writes "Former NASA astronaut and moon-walker Dr Edgar Mitchell — a veteran of the Apollo 14 mission — has stunningly claimed aliens exist. And he says extra-terrestrials have visited Earth on several occasions — but the alien contact has been repeatedly covered up by governments for six decades. Dr Mitchell, 77, said during a radio interview that sources at the space agency who had had contact with aliens described the beings as 'little people who look strange to us.'"
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Space Madness! (Score:5, Funny)
I think he just had a case of the space madness.
You coveteth my ice cream bar! (Score:5, Funny)
You can't take it from me now! I've had this ice-cream bar since I was a CHILD! People...always trying to take it from me! Why won't they LEAVE ME ALOOOOOONNNNE?
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Re:You coveteth my ice cream bar! (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:You coveteth my ice cream bar! (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Space Madness! (Score:5, Funny)
And how many times have YOU been in space? This guy has BEEN there. He knows the facts on the ground.
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Re:Space Madness! (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:Space Madness! (Score:5, Insightful)
Or land their crates safely after traveling for billions of miles, or at least crash somewhere else but in the middle of nowhere, midwest USA.
One could imagine that they're either more subtle when they try to remain under cover than leaving mutilated cattle and anally probed people lying around after their departure, or that they'd be more choosy when trying to reveal themselves than to show themselves only to some moonshine-swigging hicks. Why not land in the middle of the Superbowl finals, now THAT's revealing!
Seriously, for such an advanced species, they make very little sense.
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Re:Space Madness! (Score:5, Interesting)
Says who? Hey, we're already arguing on conspiracy grounds, why not argue for fake moon landings while we're at it?
I'm a programmer, but that doesn't make me more credible than someone who has no clue about programming when I claim that Cthuluh is controlling the internet.
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Re:Space Madness! (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Space Madness! (Score:5, Funny)
Nope,
He said supposedly real-life ET's were similar to the traditional image of a small frame, large eyes and head.
Sounds more than likely he bumped into Ross Perot on a dark night.
Ref:
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot [uncyclopedia.org]
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Huh. (Score:5, Funny)
Well, maybe we look strange to them, too. Ever think of that?
Re:Huh. (Score:5, Funny)
Look strange?
Alien 1: They reproduce HOW?
Alien 2: *repeats explanation*
Alien 1: That's... Revolting!
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Re:Huh. (Score:5, Interesting)
http://www.setileague.org/articles/meat.htm
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Re:Huh. (Score:5, Funny)
Well, maybe we look strange to them, too. Ever think of that?
Hush, you ugly bag of mostly water.
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Re:Huh. (Score:5, Insightful)
You know what is confusing me about these aliens? Why do they always contact governments when they come to Earth so they can cover it up?
I can only applaud our governments, they are doing an excellent job. If they are capable of covering up moon hoaxes, 9/11 plans and aliens crash landing, I'd just wish they were able to do their job just as fine with, say, the war in Iraq?
This is what always gets me about these people, they talk as if the government is a body of competent people. Last time I checked, they aren't! Private corporations could run most countries better.
A government is a body of people, usually notably ungoverned.
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Re:Huh. (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:Huh. (Score:5, Funny)
Of course they do. Aliens have a sense of humour. That is why they only ever contact/abduct drug abusers, lunatics or drunks staggering home at night from the pub.
The common thread here is that they will only reveal themselves to people who the general population will never believe. That's why they have no problem revealing themselves to our governments.
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Re:Huh. (Score:5, Funny)
With apologies to Terry Bisson:
-"They are made out of meat??"
-"That's what I've been trying to tell you!"
-"Yuck... Thats just disgusting"
-"I am glad you finally believe me"
-"So, what do you advise?"
-"Officially, or unofficially?"
-"Both"
-"Officially, we are required to contact, welcome and log in any and all sentient races or multibeings in this quadrant of the Universe, without prejudice, fear or favor. Unofficially, I advise that we erase the records and forget the whole thing"
-"I was hoping you would say that"
-"It seems harsh, but there is a limit. Do we really want to make contact with meat?"
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Re:Huh. (Score:5, Interesting)
I don't buy the "space alien" story for the simple reason that the "Area 51" aliens look too much like us. Bipedal, five fingers, five toes, two eyes, one two holed nose, one mouth. Look at the diversity of life on earth, with hooved animals, pipedaal animals with feathers, squids, six legged insects and eight legged spiders, no legged snakes. And all of these creatures presumably evolved from the first earthly protolife, as we've never seen life sponaneously appear since, nor have we been able to cause it to spontaneously appear.
Plus, how would they have found us? Our radio waves are incredibly weak. Even nuclear blasts are weak on a cosmic scale, and nobody farther than fifty light years away could have detected them yet.
If in fact they are aliens, they must be time aliens, not space aliens; a species that evolved from humans and travelled through time to do a bit of archaeology. Considering that humans have only been here a hundred thousand years (and look at how we have progressed since), imagine what our descendants ten million years in the future will be like? We will be less than chimpanses by comparison.
I can believe time travel before I believe faster than light travel.
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Art Bell Guest Spot? (Score:5, Funny)
Will he be on Coast to Coast AM soon?
old news (Score:5, Informative)
Dr. Mitchell has been saying this about aliens for many years now. He's always had a bit of a pseudo-scientific bent. During his Apollo 14 flight to the moon, he secretly conducted ESP experiments with friends back on Earth.
Listen to the original (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:old news (Score:5, Funny)
During his Apollo 14 flight to the moon, he secretly conducted ESP experiments with friends back on Earth.
And how did that go?
Most likely no better than when the same experiments were conducted in the next room.
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Re:old news (Score:5, Interesting)
In The New York Times of June 22, 1971, he verified that rumor, and reported that his experiment had produced results "far exceeding anything expected" but in almost the same breath, he described those results as only "moderately significant."
Mitchell told the Times that he had made arrangements that four persons stationed in different cities would attempt to determine through ESP the order of a home-made deck of standard Zener cards. These are the familiar symbol-cards (circle, plus mark, wavy lines, square, five-pointed star) that are used by parapsychologists. Astronaut Mitchell said that 51 out of 200 of the guesses made by the four subjects, were successful. Chance would call for 40 correct.
In among all the enthusiastic statements made by Mitchell to the reporters, we discover that the experimental conditions through no fault of his had turned out to be less than ideal. He had intended to perform these experiments every day during the Apollo mission, but changes in the schedules meant that he could only work on four of those days, two on the way to the Moon, and two on the way back. But and this is very significant the psychics back on Earth, it turned out, since they were not aware of the schedule change, had written down their impressions of what Edgar Mitchell was thinking about, the40 minutes before he had begun! So, any apparent success in the experiments must be attributed to precognition, not to telepathy.
From: http://www.randi.org/jr/05-31-2000.html [randi.org]
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Re:old news (Score:5, Funny)
How can you not know that? He transmitted the results all over the world via ESP! Didn't you get them?
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Moonwalker (Score:5, Funny)
I've seen Moonwalker [imdb.com] and I would definitely agree with this notion.
He's got to be right (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:He's got to be right (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:He's got to be right (Score:5, Funny)
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Just wanting attention (Score:5, Funny)
Pics or it didn't happen (Score:5, Interesting)
Strange to us.... (Score:5, Funny)
'little people who look strange to us.'
Tom Cruise and the scientologists?
Re:Strange to us.... (Score:5, Funny)
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"During the three-day journey... (Score:5, Informative)
Who would have thought that he'd go totally nuts one day.
The requisit... (Score:5, Funny)
little people who look strange to us.
I for one welcome our new Danny DeVito overlords.
I want to believe. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I want to believe. (Score:5, Funny)
Just to be clear, we're talking about space aliens, and not girls, right?
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Re:I want to believe. (Score:5, Funny)
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Documentary (Score:5, Funny)
In that case, I'll tell my wife that the new X-Files movie is a documentary.
Yes, There are aliens... (Score:5, Funny)
And they are out there right now...
Mowing my lawn and trimming my hedge
Crackpottery abounds (Score:5, Insightful)
Tom Cruise worships L. Ron Hubbard.
Jim Carey think vaccinations give you autism.
Just because you're famous doesn't mean you can't be a total crackpot. Its too bad this time its somebody more science-related.
Re:Crackpottery abounds (Score:5, Funny)
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Why senile? (Score:5, Insightful)
Edgar Mitchell have been involved with fringe science for a long time, and have made statements proclamation his belief in UFOs for a long time. It is his belief; if he seen something to make him believe this I do not know. But to say that this is simply old age and senility is unkind and inaccurate.
Conspiracy Theories (Score:5, Insightful)
Back in the good old days (Score:5, Interesting)
Back in the good old days people who leaked a big conspiracy disappeared. Ever since the first Kennedy assassination, the Powers That Be have discovered that the best way to deal with leaks is to just have more and more leaks and bury the truth in a million similar sounding lies.
Suppose Mitchell's right and there really is a big alien contact conspiracy that's being covered up? We've all seen so many photos of streetlights coming from crazy/misguided people that the best policy from the conspiracy's point of view would be to let him yammer on and throw out a lot of phony alien contact crap. They don't have to discredit him, we'd all do that for them.
All they need to do is keep him from getting at any legit relics storage so he can't go public with an alien tricorder or something that people can verify as ET in origin and the world will just think he's a loon.
That's the trouble with real earth-shaking truth, it sounds almost indistinguishable from lunacy. You gotta wonder if there is a percentage of our locked-away crazies who are telling us the truth and we're just too thick to see it.
what to do? (Score:5, Funny)
I am so conflicted. In order to believe this support for one of my favorite conspiracy theories, I have to accept that this guy is credible. In order to accept he is credible, I have to ignore one of my other favorite conspiracy theories about the moon landing. Maybe this situation is presented to me as a test to see whether my brain is harvestable.
Perfect timing (Score:5, Funny)
Extraordinary claims... (Score:5, Insightful)
require extraordinary proof. Regrettably, there is none.
-jcr
I don't have a problem with aliens but (Score:5, Insightful)
It seems far more likely to me that the government is covering up things they themselves do than the actions of aliens. Furthermore, why would an intelligent species meet with what I consider to be generally the most violent portion of supposedly civilized society, find reason to return, but not take stuff from us.
Unless all they want are our bees and ozone.
Re:Eddie Izzard called it (Score:5, Funny)
But he had a sense of humor so he should have used it, 'cause there was that lunar module there - a fixed camera, just fixed, not panning left or right, just stationary. So he could've been there saying, "Hi, people on the Moon. As you can see, the Sea of Tranquility here, there's the mountains in the distance, there's the Earth! There, you're looking back up at yourselves there. Over to my right, I can see a fucking monster! There's a monster behind me! ( screaming ) Oh no, help! Get off my leg!" Buzz Aldrin in a monster outfit ( growling ) Neil doing a close-up with... "He's got me, Houston. The monster's got me! He wants cash! He's got my hand up behind my back. I think he knows jiu-jitsu! He wants cash for the release of my life. Send a million... - two million dollars, leave it in a bag by the Sea of Tranquility. I don't know, the North Shore! What the fucking 'ell...?" Oh, it would have worked, wouldn't it?
Thank god for the preview button!
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