re: NY Times: Pentagon’s UFO Program - aerospace/esoteric/quantum mechanics/future

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“zero point” energy

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Imagine the fight big oil and others are putting up to keep this under wraps

Next 2 posts deal with underground and underwater venues

As above, so below

I really like the nod to old “folklore” here

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_N3iqPLMk4w

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Military Files Show Extraterrestrial Base Under Alaska Observed in 1987
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Description of Personnel Associated ET Bases: https://www.cia.gov/library/readingro... By the late 1980s, the Stargate Project was in full swing.

Declassified files show the US government had used remote viewing, the ability to psychically see locations at a distance, for over a decade. When browsing through CIA archives, we found something that made us do a double take: the apparent discovery of three extraterrestrial bases by an intelligence analyst. The obscure handwritten document, sub-classified “Sun Streak” under purview of the DoD’s Defense Intelligence Agency, describes secret, underground facilities. One is reported beneath Mount Hayes, Alaska. Despite its status as the highest mountain in the state’s eastern range, Hayes is rarely climbed due to its remoteness and inaccessibility. It’s also at the epicenter of what locals call the Alaska Triangle…a hot spot for reports of unexplained lights, vanishing hikers and even diminutive beings living in the wilderness. So, what exactly did the U.S. government discover? And could a subterranean facility have anything to do with strange reports in the area dating back decades

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Here is were stuff gets really, really nuts...

This gets us into magic, mysticism, religion, and the works of the gods... (which we have discussed here..,)

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a23895030/aether/?fbclid=IwAR299FXsgtD0uwpkY6WgKo3DZM7Oeme0DlFR1jBCuONZgUOhg3rAEQcd2d4

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The Eternal Quest for Aether, the Cosmic Stuff That Never Was
Aristotle called it the fifth element. Alchemists thought it was the key to the philosopher’s stone. Scientists believed it was the stuff light moved through. But it never existed at all. image

By Meg Neal Oct 19, 2018

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Aether meant many things to many people. Ancient Greeks saw aether as the god of light and the fifth element of the universe. To the medieval alchemists, it was the fabled philosopher’s stone that could turn lead into gold and prolong life. Centuries later, early modern scientists like René Descartes and Nikola Tesla were still pointing to aether to explain fundamental natural phenomena like gravity and light. Yet aether does not exist, and it never did. It may be the most enduring imaginary concept in scientific history. Aether was invented by the ancients. In Greek mythology it described the pure air that the gods breathed in the heavens as opposed to the normal air breathed by mortals on Earth. The word “aether” comes from the Greek aithêr, meaning “upper air.” The Greeks’ mythology described the pure air that the gods breathed in the heavens as opposed to the normal air breathed by mortals on Earth, and went further than that. Aether was also a Greek god, one of the first-born deities in the pantheon, the primordial god of light and the sky. This bright, divine Aether was the classical philosophers’ version of our upper atmosphere. In Plato’s theory of the cosmos, he writes that there are different kinds of air and “the brightest part is called the aether.”

In the 4th century BCE, Aristotle brought this concept of heavenly air into the world of physics. His philosophy saw aether as the fifth element, after earth, air, fire, and water. He believed the four terrestrial elements were changeable and transient, but the planets and stars were eternal and thus must be made of a different substance that transcended the earthly four. He called it aether.

Centuries later, the classical fifth element would inspire another epic but influential scientific misfire: alchemy.

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Greek gods showing up again...

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Alchemy, the magical medieval proto-science, came into vogue in the Western world in the 12th and 13th centuries, when the texts of the Greek and Arab philosophers were translated into Latin and European scholars finally got wind of these ancient ideas. Alchemists dusted off the antique concept of aether and put a new spin on it. To them, it described the most pristine and perfect essence found in nature, which they called “quintessence.” They too saw quintessence (so named from the Latin phrase qüinta essentia, meaning “fifth essence”) as divine, but believed it was found on Earth as well as in the heavens. A bit of godly essence was hidden in all things, whether animal, plant, or mineral. The trick was freeing it.

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The alchemists’ quest for gold wasn’t just about metallurgy, though. This was Christian Europe, after all, and alchemy’s aims were spiritual as much as chemical. Metals and mortals could both be made more pure by freeing that little bit of divine spirit hidden in nature. Purification represented humans striving to perfect the soul. Achieving gold was like knowing God. The holy grail of alchemy was the legendary philosopher’s stone, which wasn’t a stone at all but an elusive substance that could isolate the pure essence of a material and transmute it into something else, namely gold. In the medicinal corners of alchemy, it was also known as the elixir of life, a universal cure that could bring eternal life. In a sense, the Stone was the physical representation of the concept of perfection, or quintessence itself. In fact it was sometimes called the lapis aethereus, Latin for “aethereal stone.” IT WAS ALSO KNOWN AS THE ELIXIR OF LIFE, A UNIVERSAL CURE THAT COULD BRING ETERNAL LIFE. Discovering this magical substance was the magnum opus of any alchemist. Newton devised a secret recipe for the philosopher’s stone, though like most of his alchemy work, it wasn’t published until long after his death. The key ingredient of his recipe was mercury, which was likely also a key ingredient in the nervous breakdown he suffered in 1693 during his time experimenting with toxic chemicals.

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Aether played a major role in Newton’s early theories of gravity and light in the mid-1600s. He defined it as an elastic, invisible, strong, and subtle matter that existed everywhere in different forms. “It is not a single uniform substance,” he wrote, “but just as the air contains aqueous vapours, so the aether may contain various aetherial spirits adapted to produce the phenomena of electricity, magnetism and gravitation.”

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Next post will be about Newton...

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The term “aether” (or “ether”) lives on as a colloquial expression in the West, an abstract idea of the intangible void. Certain traditional cultures still consider aether the fifth element, and it plays prominently in the esoteric worlds of magic, mysticism, and the supernatural. More recently, the spirit of aether has even come back into the discussion of the cosmos, thanks to the mysterious discoveries of dark matter and dark energy, the elusive force believed to be the cause of the accelerating expansion of the universe. It’s not hard to see the parallels between the aether of yore used to fill in the gaps of understanding and this new invisible, imponderable energy. In fact, a form of dark energy proposed by physicists in the 1980s was dubbed “quintessence” after the fifth element of antiquity.


The new quintessence has been described as a fifth fundamental force, after the four conventional forces of nature known to physics: gravitational, electromagnetic, strong nuclear, and weak nuclear forces. Dark matter and dark energy can’t be readily explained by any known theories of physics, which is leading scientists to consider whether there is another, yet-unknown force. Might as well call it aether.

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Might as well...
Salvatore Pais seems to agree...

Esoteric science
Those that lurk, watch and guide...

https://federalnewsnetwork.com/space-command/2020/01/space-force-preparing-for-everything-even-interplanetary-operations-as-it-sets-up/

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Space Force preparing for everything, even interplanetary operations, as it sets up
By Scott Maucione | @smaucion

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The Space Force is facing some of its most daunting existential questions as it prepares to present to Congress its plan for how it will become the next military service. The Air Force secretary must deliver the plan to Congress by Feb. 1. Maj. Gen. John Shaw, leader of Space Force’s Space Operations Command said the new service is building itself for the far future. “This is a huge opportunity. We have the opportunity to create a warfighting service from scratch,” Shaw said Friday at an Air Force Association event in Washington. “I’ve been telling the team, ‘Don’t think about a warfighting service for the next decade. Create a warfighting service or the 22nd century. What is warfighting going to look like at the end of this century and into the next?’”

That may include interplanetary operations, Shaw said.

Federal cybersecurity experts share their experiences with the evolution of CDM in this exclusive executive briefing. “Technology will change on the fly, maybe even by the second,” he said. “What we see is code writing that used to take years that now takes weeks or even hours. That will actually be done in microseconds, and maybe artificially. It’s going to be highly technology dependent and not human capital dependent.”

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“We have to bring balance to the space force,” Shaw said. “It’s a different domain, the physics are different.”

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Balance to the force...
Or maybe balance to the aether (chi, Holy Spirit, etc...)

Check out this circular logic...

https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a30705013/ai-extraterrestrials/

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AI Will Probably Trick Us Into Thinking We Found Aliens We really want to believe. image
By Courtney Linder Feb 2, 2020

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Artificial intelligence could be throwing off the search for alien life just as much as humans' own cognitive biases, according to a new paper published in the scientific journal Acta Astronautica.

When a neural network was shown an image from a crater on the dwarf planet Ceres, it identified curious patterns, including both a square (which people also saw) and a triangle.

After the neural net detected the triangular shape in the images, people in the study also began to see it, even though they hadn't previously. It's an example of how false positives from AI could trip up extraterrestrial studies.

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Because the strange patterns are so strikingly geometric, researchers from the University of Cadiz in Spain have taken a closer look at the bright spots to figure out whether humans and machines look at planetary images differently. The overall goal was to figure out if artificial intelligence can help us discover and make sense of technosignatures, or potentially detectable signals from distant, advanced civilizations, according to NASA.

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Strangely, the neural net saw the same square the people noticed, but also identified a triangle, as shown in the image above. It appears the square is inside a larger triangle. After the people in the study were faced with this new triangular option, the percentage of them who claimed to have seen a triangle skyrocketed. It's just one example of how our minds can be easily tricked when faced with a false positive. If we're told a system identified a given blip, we're more likely to blindly believe and truly think we saw the same blip due to our own tendency toward confirmation bias, or interpreting information in a particular way to fit a pre-existing belief.

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That makes AI potentially dangerous in the search for far-away extraterrestrial life. False positives can confuse researchers, compromising its own usefulness in detecting technosignatures. De la Torre points out in the paper that what this all adds up to is actually a commonality between humans and AI systems: We both struggle with implicit bias.

So, if not artificial structures, what exactly are those funny shapes in the Ceres bright spot images? The quick answer is "we don't know." But De la Torre has an idea: It's "probably just a play of light and shadow."

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So...

AI notes a pattern on another planet

Humans corroborate

Researcher point out that human see what AI pointed out

Researchers conclude that AI is making humans see things that do not exist (false positive)

Researchers acknowledge they have no idea what is causing the pattern (identified as significant by an AI)

Is this not a positive finding that we cannot further describe???
Isn’t everything perceived by the eye/brain a fricking play of light and shadow



These fricks need a class in logic and need to consider some introspection/bias assessments...

They are prepping a narrative for moon images to come...

https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/research/a30916275/government-secret-ufo-program-investigation/?utm_source=reddit.com

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Inside the Pentagon's Secret UFO Program image

By Tim McMillan Feb 14, 2020

The government can’t keep its story straight about its involvement with UFO research. After a yearlong investigation, we bust open the files, break through the noise, and reveal the definitive, staggering truth.

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Just like the fictional Robert Langdon, the path to understanding these mysterious government programs has taken me through the catacombs of informal secret societies, whose surprising memberships include accomplished professionals from the military, aerospace, academic, medical, and intelligence communities.

Though diverse or abstinent in how they define exactly what it all means, each of these enigmatic characters shares one common belief: unidentified flying objects are neither myth nor figment of overactive imaginations. With absolute conviction, they’ve all told me that UFOs are real.

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In an interview with researcher Joe Murgia, former AAWSAP contractor and astrophysicist Eric Davis shared what colleagues had told him of the DIA scientist’s experience: “In the living room of the former NIDS double wide observation trailer/staff quarters. A 3D object appeared in mid-air in front of him and changed shape like a changing topological figure. It went from pretzel-shaped to Möbius strip shaped. It was 3D and multi-colored. Then it disappeared.”

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Some of the notable content of the 2009 BAASS Ten Month Report includes:
? Overview of the BAASS Physics Division’s efforts to conduct research on advanced aerospace vehicles, including the development of standardization for measurement of physical effects and signatures associated with UAP.
? Overview of BAASS research for measuring and gleaning the effects on biological organisms from UAP.
? Mention of Skinwalker Ranch in Utah as a “possible laboratory for studying other intelligences and possible interdimensional phenomena.”
? Strategic plans to organize a series of intellectual debate forums targeted to broad audiences pertaining to the “potential disclosure of an extraterrestrial presence.”
? Plans to create a “medical physiological UAP effects program.”
? Request for Project Blue Book files that have not been made public.
? Mention of BAASS program dubbed “Project Northern Tier,” which involved securing documents related to instances where dozens of UFOs flew over restricted airspaces of facilities housing nuclear weapons.

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Stranger things...

Superficial understanding is limited
Deeper understanding (underground movement...)

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/scientists-eye-martian-underground-search-alien-life-n1139936?cid=public-rss_20200223

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SPACE
Scientists eye the Martian underground in search for alien life
The subsurface of the Red Planet offers a protected, and possibly habitable, environment.

A view of the terrain on Mars from the Opportunity rover from May 13 through June 10, 2018. A view of the terrain on Mars from the Opportunity rover from May 13 through June 10, 2018.NASA

Feb. 20, 2020, 12:04 PM CST / Source: Space.com By Leonard David, Space.com

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Conference attendees generally agreed that the best places to look for extant Mars life are in the deep subsurface caves, and in salt and ice.

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Lava tubes, cave entrances Over the years, researchers have spotted pit craters on the surface of Mars. These features are locations where the roof of a lava tube has partially collapsed and created a "skylight." Researchers at the meeting pointed out that Mars-circling spacecraft have imaged numerous potential cave entrances. Shielded underground as they are, could lava tubes be prime microbial real estate on Mars? Here on Earth, cave-exploring scientists have gathered evidence of microbial activity in the form of biofilms, slime, and microbially induced or precipitated minerals. Conditions in caves, the researchers have found, are typically far different, more consistent and more benign than on the surface.

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Shelters...
At least that is what NASA and the European Space Agency are proposing...

https://www.vice.com/en_asia/article/bjwzym/europes-space-agency-wants-people-to-live-inside-moon-caves

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Europe's Space Agency Wants People to Live Inside Moon Caves
The agency wants input on how to send robots to the Moon to explore the virtually unseen caves, which could one day shelter humans.
By Becky Ferreira 26 August 2019, 6:00am

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The Moon’s surface is hosting an increasing number of experiments, robots, and most recently tardigrades. The many underground tunnels that lie beneath the Moon’s surface, however, remain virtually unexplored. On Wednesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) put out a call for ideas about how to navigate, map, and study these Moon caves in future robotic missions. The campaign is one of many recent projects focused on the exploration of so-called lunar lava tubes, especially their potential as sites for future Moon bases fit for long-term habitation by humans.

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The caves could “shield astronauts from cosmic radiation and micrometeorites and possibly provide access to icy water and other resources trapped underground,” said Franceso Sauro, director of ESA’s PANGAEA planetary geology astronaut training, in a statement.

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Here is the irony...
Someone figured this out about Earth also (prior surface civilizations or “others”). It is indeed very practical to be based inside a planet...

UAPs and strange phenomena cluster around mountains, caves, volcanoes (as pointed out by this thread...)

[quote] NASA Goddard ? @NASAGoddard

This week our planetary scientists are in Hawaii, exploring lava tubes to better understand similar structures on the Moon and Mars. These caves might contain evidence of ancient life on Mars or serve as shelters on the Moon. Follow @NASAExpeditions for updates from the field. https://twitter.com/NASAExpeditions/status

July of this year. or so I hear anyways.