Psychics Say Apollo 16 Astronauts Found Alien Ship 285
astroengine writes "A group called Transception Incorporated, self-described as an Austin, Texas-based psychic R&D operation, sent a letter (PDF) to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden that nominates the Apollo 16 crew for the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Why? Well, a variety of 'shipwreck elements' on the Moon — described as 'structures, people/aliens, biological technology, and their plight' — were reportedly 'seen' through remote viewing (PDF) by six experts at Transception. These 'elements' can be seen, along with Apollo 16 moonwalkers John Young and Charles Duke, in photographs during that famous mission, obviously making this the first ever alien encounter."
Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" (Score:5, Funny)
"We're not sure what these psychics are talking about, but we sure didn't encounter any aliens, nor were we in any way anally-probed. And we certainly weren't anally-probed repeatedly. Just never happened. We enjoyed a normal mission with no butt-raping from aliens at all...just two astronauts doing their job and *not* being tied down and repeatedly probed."
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And we certainly weren't anally-probed repeatedly. Just never happened. We enjoyed a normal missionary position
FTFY
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Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" (Score:5, Funny)
"We're not sure what these psychics are talking about, but we sure didn't encounter any aliens, nor were we in any way anally-probed. And we certainly weren't anally-probed $^&$!@... I love to sing-a; About the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a; I love to sing-a; About a sky of blue-a, or a tea for two-a,
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Well I personally think its funny that most likely to this very day the US government is working under a 'war of the worlds' rule that says if little green men parked on the White house lawn to get some pics with the Obama cutout they'd be going "aliens? what aliens? didn't see a thing, nope' because they are afraid we poor little peasants would snap and go apeshit.
Worse, they'd be *illegal* aliens, and there'd be no end of the shit Obama had to hear from the Republican candidates.
Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" (Score:5, Insightful)
UFOs are real. Most of them are moved to the identified category eventually, though :)
Psychics != Physics. :( (Score:5, Insightful)
I was way more excited about this until I realized I'd misread "psychics" as "physics". Sigh.
Re:Psychics != Physics. :( (Score:5, Insightful)
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Yea, but is there something see remotely?
Re:Psychics != Physics. :( (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Psychics != Physics. :( (Score:5, Insightful)
I was way more excited about this until I realized I'd misread "psychics" as "physics". Sigh.
My favorite like about the bankruptcy of The Psychic Friends Network .. They didn't see it coming.
I would wonder how physics would see something .. physics explain how something is seen: photons launched from star (at C), wavelengths of light, optic receptors, transmission of electrical signals, etc.
Remote Viewing though ... cough ... If I could do that I'd be looking for gold or diamonds, not space junk on the Moon.
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Re:Psychics != Physics. :( (Score:5, Insightful)
Remote Viewing though ... cough ... If I could do that I'd be looking for gold or diamonds, not space junk on the Moon.
I suspect the market price for aliens space junk is far higher than for mere gold or diamonds.
Re:Psychics != Physics. :( (Score:4, Insightful)
A nugget of gold in the hand is worth two aliens on the moon.
Re:Psychics != Physics. :( (Score:5, Interesting)
Well, the story is clearly not about actual science, but how crazy some of these remote viewing people can be.
The group claiming to see the alien ship are not in the least bit credible. Slashdot efditors: If you are going to discuss lunatics, at least get someone with an interesting past. For example:
Laura Eisenhower, the great-granddaughter of Ike himself, is a whistleblower on the secret Mars colony project [abovetopsecret.com]!!
Reading Laura's site, she has a ton of amazing claims, in fact, the missions to Mars are far from being the craziest of her claims. You can tell it is written with sincerity, but I just can't believe a member of the Eisenhower family could be this crazy.
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Well, the story is clearly not about actual science, but how crazy some of these remote viewing people can be.
The group claiming to see the alien ship are not in the least bit credible. Slashdot efditors: If you are going to discuss lunatics, at least get someone with an interesting past. For example:
Laura Eisenhower, the great-granddaughter of Ike himself, is a whistleblower on the secret Mars colony project [abovetopsecret.com]!!
Reading Laura's site, she has a ton of amazing claims, in fact, the missions to Mars are far from being the craziest of her claims. You can tell it is written with sincerity, but I just can't believe a member of the Eisenhower family could be this crazy.
Sounds like an Alien Entanglement.
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If there is a secret American military base on Mars, when Robert Zurbin finally gets there he'll get to have a house warming party put on by the staff of that base.
There are so many legitimate stories about spaceflight and real spaceships that it boggles the mind to think that it is worthwhile to even bother reading tripe like this stuff from the "psychics". Sadly, they are drawn to policy discussions about spaceflight and are a part of the conversation even if you think they need to be dismissed completel
Apollo 18 ad (Score:5, Informative)
You're looking at guerrilla marketing for the "Apollo 18" movie, folks. Nothing to see here.
Why?? (Score:5, Insightful)
Why the fuck is this bullshit on slashdot??
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Re:Why?? (Score:5, Insightful)
Slow day
Re:Why?? (Score:5, Insightful)
Why the fuck is this bullshit on slashdot??
It's because we don't have a mechanism to punish or ban people who vote up stories like this.
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Re:Why?? (Score:4, Insightful)
"It's because we don't have a mechanism to punish or ban people who vote up stories like this."
You mean like the editors?
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Why the fuck is this bullshit on slashdot??
Because we all need a laugh once in a while, even you. Do you need a better reason?
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We have the world to laugh at, this is tabloid bullshit.
It is not News for Nerds, and it doesn't Matter. It's pollution.
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Because you haven't been given the Slashdot Censorship role yet.
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Because it's hilarious.
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Because it's hilarious.
Certainly the best laugh I've had all day.
Is it just me or is the news of 2010 - 2012 depressingly like the chapter headings in "Stand on Zanzibar" ?
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I had forgotten that it was actually set in 2010 [wikipedia.org]. Suddenly I feel very old. I'm gonna go in the corner and play with my iPad ...
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My guess: The article merely got quantum entangled with a real news article that will be posted on April 1.
I figure if we add quantum entanglement to it, we get extra Internetz.
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Why the fuck is this bullshit on slashdot??
Michael Kristopeit has the answer to that.
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Way to go "unknown lamer" (Score:5, Insightful)
This should be in idle, not science.
Re:Way to go "unknown lamer" (Score:5, Informative)
Oi, the tagging/section system decided to use science instead of idle despite being tagged idle before science and ... when in doubt, I like to blame Slashcode for my relationship problems.
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I hear slashcode locked your cat in your bedroom as well.
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Is it a bad thing that I'm not at all surprised? :(
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Depends. If this means Congress will divert a trillion dollars of military spending for NASA to check the claims out, I really wouldn't be crying too hard. After all, there might be turrorists up thar.
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I was expecting to see samzenpus's name as editor on this, but to be fair to him, this is way below some of the crap that he posts in Idle.
Unknown Lamer: hang your head in shame. What will you post tomorrow? What sign of the zodiac is best for getting a job at Google?
Congratulations though, you may have just posted the single worst article in the history of
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What will you post tomorrow? What sign of the zodiac is best for getting a job at Google?
Oh that's easy. Virgo, a.k.a the virgin.
Alternate headline: (Score:5, Insightful)
"Incredible claim made by group with no credibility."
Okay then.
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My Wallet (Score:3)
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I was using Remote Viewing, and I saw that they found my wallet up there too. I'd like it returned. With the $5000 in cash I had in it.
Sure, just pay shipping and handling.
Is there anyway to vote crap like this (Score:5, Insightful)
off the front page? This kind of pollution is really nasty for those of use with an RSS feed, too.
Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot (Score:4, Insightful)
I've been here for about a decade and a half and I'm done. I do not come here to read about fucking psychics and lately I get real news in popular press before it hits this site. This place was always a nasty one, full of trolls well entrenched along with worthwhile posters, but the news use to be quality and you could get a decent conversation. Now I'd be better off reading the fucking enquirer. Nice knowing you slashdot, don't let the door hit your arse on the way out.
Re:Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
How to tell someone isn't really going to quit /. They talk about quitting /.
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Dumbasses (Score:5, Funny)
Bah, everyone knows it was Apollo *11* that discovered aliens. They even made a documentary about it where events occurred in real time, it was called "Transformers Presents: Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon: The Quickening" or something like that, by Average American Voter.
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Wrong, every psychic knows that aliens crashed in 1947:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident [wikipedia.org]
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Nooo, noo!!!
Of course men never went to the moon!!111
Would be funny to get them together with moon landing denialists
I have a feeling that the idea of "the moon conspiracy" is actually a conspiracy in itself. (That is, the real conspiracy is the creation of the idea that men never went to the moon)
All right then ... (Score:4, Funny)
... time to submit all my exciting Nostradamus prediction stories and how it ties in with the world ending in 2012.
C'mon editors! This is what is now considered front page material?
MPAA (Score:5, Funny)
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is there a movie launch happening? (Score:4, Interesting)
Is there a new movie coming out about this or something? I say this because anytime an outlet like The History Channel suddenly starts hyping some weird paranormal event, it is because they were seeded with $$$ by the studio to drum up hype. This story sounds familiar, but I don't see the trailers.
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As it turns out, actual history is boring to most people, so now its the 'Made up History channel' much more consumer appeal.
It's a horrible channel with horrible stories.
I do think there is overall merit to society in having a History channel the take a neutral stance and actual discus aspects of history. Sadly it would need to be government funded.
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Well, that and there's a movie that looks to be basically the same, though the mission number differs:
http://apollo18movie.net/ [apollo18movie.net]
That figures... (Score:2)
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Oh
Alien press release (Score:4, Funny)
The Aliens released a statement through their spokesman, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos:
Psychics do not exist. We bred it out of the human race a long time ago.
Also, Flock of Seagulls is the best band Evah!
transformers? (Score:2)
What did they find. Alien transformer robots?
Someone mis-spelled Psychotics (Score:4, Funny)
B Ship (Score:4, Funny)
Send them with the hairdressers and telephone sanitizers to find the aliens.
I just love this concept and will help to make it happen.
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Yea, but launching them into space is fucking expensive, it is better to convince them of the hollow earth theory and then toss them all into volcanoes.
I must have missed (Score:2)
the follow up mission to Jupiter which is where the alien ship sent the signal.
Or was it Saturn (and the moon Iapetus)
Cue Strauss Zarathustra music
Hmm (Score:2)
I bought it, until they started playing audio fragments in reverse to find hidden messages.
And that was the first part of the video I saw since I just scrolled through it.
They observed intelligent life on Moon (Score:3)
From what I've heard one of the astronauts did see an intelligent living organism climbing out of the moonlander.
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It was probably a descendant of one of the Nazis that landed there in 1945 after fleeing the earth with new anti-gravity technology.
If Bush hadn't pissed off them aliens (Score:2)
They wouldn't have been so damned angry and slammed into the first parking spot they found. See? "Yee-Ha" isn't such a great intergalactic policy after all.
I would say something (Score:2)
The Ancient Pyramids where Landing Pads for Aliens (Score:2)
In fact a documentary series was made about this that reveals all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR90P1GhZA4 [youtube.com].
Dialogue (Score:3)
Mulder: A group called Transception Incorporated, self-described as an Austin, Texas-based psychic R&D operation, sent a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden that nominates the Apollo 16 crew for the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
Scully: Why?
Mulder: Well, a variety of 'shipwreck elements' on the Moon — described as 'structures, people/aliens, biological technology, and their plight' — were reportedly 'seen' through remote viewing by six experts at Transception. These 'elements' can be seen, along with Apollo 16 moonwalkers John Young and Charles Duke, in photographs during that famous mission, obviously making this the first ever alien encounter.
Premise of Transformers 3? (Score:2)
Check out their website. No, seriously. (Score:5, Insightful)
TRANSCEPTION INCORPORATED is a pioneer in the new frontier of mind itself, founded on the premise that (?foreign?) technology can be transferred lawfully from the state of nature from any place in the Universe, in time or space, using a team of highly trained/skilled Controlled Remote Viewers (CRVers). At least by way of the Recommendation for Nomination for the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, submitted to the NASA Administrator on December 15, 2011, TRANSCEPTION has shown that technology can be transferred lawfully from the state of nature from any place in the Universe, in time or space, using a team of highly trained/skilled Controlled Remote Viewers. In sum, TRANSCEPTION INCORPORATED is an R&D company specializing in the exploitation of CRV and other methods to lawfully extract technology from the state of nature as a means for building, licensing, and enforcing its intellectual property (IP) portfolio of patents and copyrights.
So... "psychic" patent trolls...
Sylvia Browne is gonna be pissed she didn't think of it first.
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I want to laugh hard at that, except it's really sobering that not only do they seriously believe that they can do it, but I'll bet that within the next five years they'll try to patent something, or sue someone.
WTF is this shit doing on Slashdot? (Score:2)
Tabloid fodder for stupid cunt housewives and their male equivalents doesn't belong here.
So if they look at the moon... (Score:2)
Can I rightfully call them "lunatic"?
Well.... (Score:2)
Surely, credible psychics would have notified NASA about the crew discovering aliens prior to the launch.
My favorite psychic headline (Score:2)
How to downvote? (Score:3)
Who the hell approved this crap? (Score:3)
Remote viewers included. It is trivial enough to test someone's ability to remote view or "astral project" by getting them to draw a picture of something or some object which they cannot see but which is unambiguously identifiable. Funnily enough this doesn't happen either.
All that has been demonstrated here is if that if you get together 6 credulous idiots in a room they will riff off each others delusions and concoct a story which is not disprovable. What is not so obvious is why this story got approved for Slashdot.
Re:Really Guys? (Score:4, Informative)
It's your own damn fault for loading the video after reading the summary. ... or did you not read the summary? That will teach you.
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It's your own damn fault for loading the video after reading the summary. ... or did you not read the summary? That will teach you.
Now I don't feel so bad about never reading TFA.
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all it's missing is the editorializing in the summary.
"It will be interesting to see how the corporatist plutocrats in Washington respond to this blowing of the cover-up and how it proves that Google is actually regarded as a diety by every galactic culture but ours..."
Re:Thats another low for the slashdot (Score:4, Funny)
and how it proves that Google is actually regarded as a diety by every galactic culture but ours..."
That sounds more plausible than TFA.
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No, I think it's a low, even for idle.
These "psychics" were probably taking too many drugs while watching Transformers and Apollo 18.
That, is a much simpler explanation.
Re:Confuse people in to believing you? (Score:4, Informative)
These people don't need drugs to believe in aliens, they need drugs to not believe in aliens.
This is taking advantage of the mentally ill.
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" There was nothing but drawings....random mumbling...and the bluish outline of people which interfered with what they were trying to show."
right, psychics.
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But would you say the same thing about Chiropractic, Homeopathy, etc.? Those things are all highly respected by the government, the medical profession, and covered by insurance in many places.
I wouldn't say it was aliens, but... (Score:3)
ugh, I feel dirty.
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Indeed, this reminds me of the ABC News website. They used to have news, but now three-quarters of the front page is gossip column. Should we all just give it "Burning Chrome" [wikipedia.org] funeral pyre, by cracking the site and burning it to the ground? It would be an act of mercy.
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I find it surprising how many mod points are being used to down mod those of us who are complaining about this shit, yet so few mod points up modding comments.
Why I wonder why that is?
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Seriously. "Psychics" say a lot of things, but none of them are deserving of headlines.