From: Don Ledger <dledger.nul>
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:49:44 -0400
Archived: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:59:59 -0500
Subject:  Major Debunking [was: Is There Anybody Out There


>From: Stanton T Friedman <fsphys.nul>
>To: <post.nul>
>Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 12:50:40 -0400
>Subject: Re: Is There Anybody Out There Kepler?

>>Source: BBC News - London, England, UK

>>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7918497.stm

>>Thursday, 5 March 2009

>>What is the chance that alien life exists? NASA's latest mission
>>- the Kepler Space Telescope due to launch on Friday night to
>>survey the heavens for Earth-like planets - could take us a step
>>closer to an answer. Kathryn Westcott asks four experts whether
>>mankind prefers the idea of being alone and unique or whether we
>>long for cosmic cousins.

>>Is There Anybody Out There?

><snip>

>Some very interesting comments. But notice that no one talks
>about interstellar travel, colonization, migration,
>terraforming, alien visitation. But how did the people on planet
>Earth wind up where they are? The blinders are still on.

>My latest column for the MUFON Journal deals with a major reason
>for UFO debunking: a resistance to understanding how much the
>technology of Earth has changed in the last couple of hundred
>years and how unlikely it is that others haven't already become
>much more advanced than we have.

>As noted, our civilization is very very young on a cosmic scale.

>Time to get rid of our ego and arrogance.

>See:

>http://www.stantonfriedman.com


Nickell rolled into Nova Scotia about 7 years ago to look at the
Oak Island Money pit and Shag Harbour. He was here one day and
claimed Oak Island was a hoax and Shag Harbour a sighting of
flares.

When asked on ATV-the local CTV affiliate what I thought of this
while promoting a book on Live At Five, I explained that Nickell
makes a living doing this apparently and that flares explanation
was the first thing to be eliminated. I also asked who you were
going to believe, two people who had been investigating this
event for some 8 or 9 years or some self-proclaimed 'expert' who
never once looked into the documentation or interviewed the
witnesses.

As for Oak Island - not UFO related - when one sees the
engineering involved in cofferdaming a large cove to lay out an
intricate network of feeder-pipes leading to the shaft to flood
it with the logs and planking carbon dated to over 400 years
ago, that's some 'hoax'.

I'd ignored the moneypit mystery for years but I was
flabbergasted when I first read the work put into this deep
shaft on a small island to hide some treasure. The method was
ingenius.

As for Nickell, he insults a lot of people's intelligence into
the bargin - particularly those who have actually spent time on
a particular case. I don't think these people consider the
fairness of their skewed remarks as long as they have a remark.
They rely on having a skeptical and highly uninformed media and
scientific community on their side.


Don Ledger




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