Greetings, fellow Coppertops! For your weekly prescription of paradigm-changing news, we have in store for you new chemical elements & ancient sky gods, cyber & bio hacking along with brains grown in a lab. And as we ponder on the possibility that we all have a Martian ancestry, we'll pay our respects to one of the last witnesses of the most controversial UFO case in history. Listen up, crew: Since I keep receiving complaints about the food served aboard the Nebuchadnezzar, I've decided to relieve Dozer from his duties at the mess hall –no offense big guy, but nobody can stand the same god-damned gook every day– so everybody welcome Jared, our new cook!
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Another week, another chemical element added to the periodic table: With an atomic number of 115, it was recently created on a lab in Sweden by bombarding a film of another heavy element –known as americium– with calcium ions. The new element lasted for only a fraction of a second before decaying into other types of particles; so with such a short lifespan, what use could it possibly have?
If you give credence to Bob Lazar's claims –and you do that at your own peril– Element 115 is what the Grays use to power their spacecraft & nullify gravity. So even though the new element is being given the temporary name of Ununpentium, I hereby propose that for its permanent name they call it Lazarium.
9 Do all interstellar civilizations utilize the same type of energy source? or do they exploit different resources according to their particular technological level?
In an Indian village, a geologist named Nitish Priyadarshi has been studying some enigmatic artwork imprinted on a granite rock, which he thinks are indicative of Paleo-contact: 11-inch long 'footprints' along with a strange engraving he interprets as a 'flying object' –thought it kinda looks like a bird to me.
Priyadarshi said the imprints are on granite rock, and thus were likely carved there rather than imprinted on the hard substance. "It may have been made by the local people manually at that time in memory of the visitors," he said.
Those visitors may have been none other than Lord Rama & Lord Lakshmana, who according to Hinduist texts spent some time in that region. Personally I feel greatly reassured that, should I ever be abducted by the descendants of those Indian sky gods, they'll at least be able to offer me shoes of my size.
You know what they say about sky gods with big feet, dontcha?
8 Before he started tracking persons of interest on TV, Jim Caviezel starred in the movie Outlander, a sci-fi film in which he's an extraterrestrial come to Earth during the time of the Vikings –a mix between Aliens & Beowulf; worth checking out on Netflix.
Speaking of Beowulf, recent archeological discoveries in Lejre (eastern Denmark) have confirmed the epic poem was at least based on real historic locations. Long considered by scholars to be the most likely place of Heorot –the mead-hall of king Hrothgar– the new excavations have uncovered a total of seven halls, dating from the year 500 to 1000 A.D., which were periodically torn down & rebuilt. The archeology team have also found the remains of hundreds of animals –cattle, sheep, suckling pigs, goats, chicken, geese, ducks, deer and fish– proving dem Danes knew how to throw a party!
But here's the thing: If Heorot was real, then what about Grendel, the monster lured by the cheers & chanting inside Hrothgar's hall? Could he have been a surviving member of the race of cannibal giants mentioned in ancient folklore?
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We've come a long way since the times of Beowolf: From swords & arrows we evolved to assault rifles & heat-seeking missiles –which is to say our tools have advanced far more than our intentions…
And now it even seems conventional weaponry is giving way to subtler forms of warfare: While we're waiting for the proverbial fecal matter to hit the fan with regards to the United States' plans to attack Syria, we now have learned that a hacker group calling themselves the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) is claiming responsibility for the taking down of The New York Times, Twitter & Huff Post. Last week we discussed a series of enigmatic blackouts affecting some of the biggest companies on the web; was the SEA behind those take-downs as well?
And if so, then what's their beef with the Gralien Report & The Daily Grail??!
6 Cyber-attacks & electronic warfare. That sounds like the basis of an X-Files episode –Ghost in the Machine anyone?– which is why fans of the venerated 90′s TV show will be pleased to hear that Chris Carter is currently working on the pilot for a brand new series, The After, a post-apocalyptic thriller for Amazon studios –hopefully the plot won't be about a dot-com billionaire bent on conquering the world.
While it's nice to hear Carter is back in the saddle with a new project, I'm sure most of his fans would like him to bring back Mulder & Scully for another escapade of dark conspiracies & alien agendas. Is there any chance for an X-Files 3 movie? Here's what Carter has to say:
"It's really up to 20th Century Fox, whether they have the will to do it," Carter told movie magazine Empire. "I think all of us are interested in putting the band back together.
"I have an idea for a third movie in my head. The colonisation date has passed and that is something we wouldn't ignore.
"For the second movie, we only had the budget for a stand-alone story, but we want to go back to the mythology."
HELL YES we all want to go back to the mythology! We also want to know if Mulder has finally gotten rid of that nasty habit of his –I'm talking of course of the sunflower seeds. What were you thinking on hmmm?
5 You guys remember Pusher, in the 3rd season? It was about a guy named Modell with a brain tumor which gives him the ability to control other people's thoughts & actions. Be honest now: Who HASN'T dreamed of having that power?
It looks like you won't have to dream for much longer: A team of scientists have announced they've successfully linked one person's brain through the Internet, in order to control the finger of another test subject sitting on a different location of the University of Washington's campus. Computer science and engineering professor Rajesh Rao played the part of puppet master, and while he was playing a FPS videogame & thinking of clicking the FIRE button –without actually doing it– the computer system was translating those signals & sending them to Andrea Stucco, who had a magnetic coil placed directly over the region of his brain that controls his right hand. Said hand was placed directly over the computer keyboard, and every time Rao thought of clicking the button, Stucco's finger moved involuntarily in response to the magnet's signal.
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But since I'm a big dork, THIS is what I thought of the 1st time I read this story:
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Watch out for those Nazi arms, yo.
4 Ok, now that we've managed to control brains at a distance, what next? Well, there's still the pesky detail that freshly available brains to toy with are hard to come by… or are they? Using either embryonic stem cells or adult skin cells, Scientists at Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences are beginning to grow human brains in the lab, & managed to recreate the same level of development of a nine-weeks-old foetus.
One of the researchers, Dr Juergen Knoblich, said: "What our organoids are good for is to model development of the brain and to study anything that causes a defect in development.
"Ultimately we would like to move towards more common disorders like schizophrenia or autism. They typically manifest themselves only in adults, but it has been shown that the underlying defects occur during the development of the brain."
Memo to Austrian scientists: Be VERY clear when labeling your samples
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Einstein donated his brain so future generations could try to find a key to his rare geniality. Perhaps Elon Musk should consider doing the same thing, as he's becoming my favorite mad innovator of all time. Not only he's coming up with new ways to transport us from point A to point B, but he's also determined to make us feel as if we're inside a Marvel movie: The CEO of SpaceX recently tweeted they've come up with a way to design rocket parts "just w[ith] hand movements," the same way Tony Stark created his Iron Man suits without ever having to pull out a ruler or print a single blueprint. Further details of this innovative interface will be disclosed next week.
Nicely going, Musk –now let's see how you look with a goatee.
2 Elon Musk has made it very clear that his ultimate goal is to die on Mars, which would be something of a coming-home resolution in light of the next Red Pill: at the recent Goldschmidt meeting in Florence, Geochemist Professor Steven Benner outlined his theory that the building blocks for life arrived to our planet from meteorites blasted off Mars, either by asteroid impacts or volcanic eruptions. The key to his argument is the oxidized form of molybdenum, which is vital catalyst for the fostering of complex organic molecules.
"It's only when molybdenum becomes highly oxidised that it is able to influence how early life formed," said Prof Benner, from The Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology in the USA. "This form of molybdenum couldn't have been available on Earth at the time life first began, because three billion years ago the surface of the Earth had very little oxygen, but Mars did.
"It's yet another piece of evidence which makes it more likely life came to Earth on a Martian meteorite, rather than starting on this planet."
Hast the time finally come for Panspermia to become part of the mainstream? Possibly, though Benner's theory makes it perfectly clear he's proposing a natural process for the propagation of life –unlike Francis Crick, who was in favor of a Directed Panspermia a-la Prometheus.
1 Did Life here begin elsewhere? Is our planet the laboratory –or farm– of an advanced race of tinkering biologists? Such questions have been pondered by anyone interested in the UFO phenomenon.
Thanks to people like film writer Paul Davids, today most inhabitants of this planet correlate the word 'UFO' with the word 'Roswell.' Whether we like it or not, the Roswell event of 1947 is now deeply ingrained in our popular culture, even though it's quite possible that by it's 100th anniversary we will still be wondering just what the heck crashed in the desert of New Mexico.
One person for whom there was no doubt of its out-worldly origin was Jesse Marcel Jr., the son of Major Jesse Marcel, who on that fateful night 66 years ago was awoken along with his mom by his father, who excitedly showed to both of them part of the wreckage he collected on the Foster ranch. To the then 11-year-old boy, the sight of those strange-looking metallic parts placed on their small kitchen table, which Marcel Senior insisted were "not of this Earth," would be forever engraved in his memory.
Jesse Marcel Jr. passed away on August 24, presumably of a hear attack, at the age of 76. Next to his bed was a book about UFOs.
Almost 4 months ago, in what was likely his last public appearance, Marcel Jr. participated in the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure organized by Stephen Bassett on Washington D.C. This is a video made by the CHD, in honor of his legacy:
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I don't know whether what Mr. Marcel Jr. held on his hands all those years ago was the debris of an actual flying saucer. What I do know is that everyone who came in contact with him are unanimous in praising his integrity & moral character –a fact highlighted by his response to returning to active duty during the Iraq war in 2004, when he was in his late 60′s!– and that not once did he ever deviate from his original testimony.
Descanse en Paz.
Until next time, this is RPJ jacking out. Reminding you that History is filled with unsung heroes.
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