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8/24/16: EXO PINOCCHIO W/ JAMES GILLIAND

Ron Patton | August 24, 2016

EXO PINOCCHIO

MONOLOGUE WRITTEN BY CLYDE LEWIS

This morning I was eager to read about the new earth-like planet orbiting around Proxima Centauri. The announcement was made and the new planet is called Proxima B. Astronomers have discovered an earth-size alien world, which lies just 4.2 light-years from our own solar system. What’s even more exciting, study team members said, is that the planet, circles in the star’s “habitable zone” — the range of distances at which liquid water could be stable on a world’s surface.

The discovery of Proxima B was a long time in the making.

Astronomers have been hunting intensively for planets around Proxima Centauri for more 15 years, using instruments such as the Ultraviolet and Visual Echelle Spectrograph (UVES) and the High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS), both of which are installed on telescopes run by the European Southern Observatory in Chile.

The news confirms rumors first reported earlier this month by German magazine Der Spiegel.

The search for life on Proxima B comes next.

Proxima B is now a prime target for a potential up-close visit by a future space probe. This past April, scientists and engineers announced the $100 million “Breakthrough Starshot” project, which aims to develop the technology required to accelerate tiny, sail-equipped “nanocraft” to 20 percent the speed of light using powerful lasers.

Breakthrough Starshot team members said they hope to eventually launch flotillas of such postage-stamp-size probes to Alpha Centauri a binary star system about 4.37 light-years from the sun. (In 2012, incidentally, astronomers analyzing HARPS data announced the discovery of a roughly Earth-size world around the star Alpha Centauri B, but later work suggested that the putative planet does not actually exist.)

Spacecraft traveling at 20 percent the speed of light could make the trip to Alpha Centauri in about two decades, as opposed to thousands of years for conventionally powered probes.

Proxima Centauri lies just 0.24 light-years from Alpha Centauri, and is regarded by some scientists as part of the latter system so Breakthrough Starshot team members are recalibrating possible mission profiles a bit now.

I believe that this is nothing short of fascinating.

This means that within a span of 10 years scientists will be able to get as much data as possible about Proxima B and whether it might bear life. Apparently they will do this prior to sending a probe up to get close to the planet.

When I read the press release this morning, I was thinking a lot about what this all implies.

It could be a whole lot of nothing, or we could be hearing about, communicating with or even analyzing life forms – and determining their intelligence, and if there is a civilization on the planet, what kind of being are we going to have to deal with.

I know that for decades we have heard descriptions of what can be described as alien life forms from time to time. We hear from alleged contactees, victims of abduction, and self proclaimed prophets who have all shared their E.T. experiences.

Skeptics will claim that those who have been abducted have presented no conclusive proof of their experiences. That does not mean that proof has not been offered for analysis. There have been claims of implants, scars, scoop marks, and in one rare case a piece of what was claimed to be a nail, or partial piece of a claw.

Back in 2001, I investigated the case of a man named Gary Lowery. Lowery was a fire safety inspector from California who claimed that extraterrestrials were showing up in his home at night. He decided to set up cameras and also set traps so he could get some evidence of these aliens. He managed to get a claw that he claimed was from one of his alien intruders.

The claw was analyzed and had turned up some unrecognizable DNA patterns and other patterns that indicated that the claw had some earthly connections to a mammal like a rat or an ape. A 12 moth alternative molecular analysis had determined that the DNA properties of the claw were similar to a Mollusk – particularly a snail or a slug.

Some say that this was enough to discredit the find.

However, the more we learn about earthly DNA – and the possibilities of alien life, we may find that logic actually lends credence to the possibility that aliens may have a few of the same DNA strands as earthly animals and even humans.

Now, bear in mind that this hypothesis carries weight if you believe that life generally needs to be seeded with artifacts from around the universe.

That is the “Panspermia” hypothesis.

This means that if our basic DNA components came from space, hitching a ride on an asteroid or meteor – then life elsewhere in space could share DNA markers with animals and humans here on Earth.

Some people think it’s possible we could meet an alien race only to discover that it is our relative, split off from our evolutionary line several billion years ago.

They may look different, bulgy almond eyes gray skin, more limbs, and a head that is bigger, but it has skin a head and a body.

Science has been telling us that our planet became this potential breeding ground of life for about 4.5 billion years but we also need to keep in mind that that for 600 million years a steady bombardment of primordial debris made the surface uninhabitable.

All of the debris and chaos we are told in bible class was organized by intelligent design and that an all-knowing God. This god of course was not of Earth, since Earth really wasn’t anything really as we say without form and void. It was dark and formidable and with a bit of cosmic engineering taking about 50 million years life showed up and if you believe Darwin, we evolved from bacteria, to sea slugs to snails, to apes to shaved apes to computer geeks and obsessive social media junkies.

Species on this planet vary wildly, but on a molecular level we are all part of a one big family of earthlings. Both beast and human we share so many things. We all use DNA to encode genetic information. We all use RNA molecules as messengers to transfer the information from DNA to cellular factories called, ribosomes, which then build proteins, which in turn drive our metabolisms and form the structures of our cells. In short, every species seems descended from a common ancestor whose attributes define what life is.

This of course generates stories of the molecular Adam and Eve and gardens of paradise where man not only walked the planet, but creatures not normally of this world also had an agenda to somehow thwart the creation in order to change man into becoming more like an alien.

If anyone discusses a quantum component to the creation story it sometimes can be held off as some cosmic blasphemy and often tampers with the majority of those who say that they do not believe that this is life as we know it.

But what about life as we don’t know it? What if other, completely distinct forms of biology also took root on the early Earth?

I know that science and even skeptics want to make sweeping accusations and arguments against alien proof and they will dismiss anything that even has any drop of an earthly component – but we are always quick to say that planets like Proxima B are earthlike – so what about its inhabitants?

Shouldn’t they be earth-like too? Couldn’t they?

Aliens may share far more physical characteristics than we are led to believe.

For example the dinosaurs, especially those at the top of the food chain displayed behaviors and traits that somehow resurfaced after their extinction. They resurfaced in humans.

Look at elephants, monkeys and dolphins, they are intelligent creatures in fact it is suggested that their brains approach ours in intelligence. But they are lesser species because of the fact that elephants and dolphins lack the proper appendages and monkeys lack the adaptability to various environments that we have.

We are intelligent, relative to life on earth, and thus we judge other life in that context.

Maybe we shouldn’t, take for example the octopus.

Octopuses are present in all of the Earth’s oceans, and have shown a great sustainability among the other aquatic life that shares the seas. Their large brains and ability to solve complex problems with little observation have mystified researchers for years, coercing wonder of their true intelligence and cognitive abilities. The reveal of their DNA has researchers wondering more about the tentacled creatures, their origins, and why they are unlike any other animals on the planet.

It was found that the genome of the cephalopod mollusk, according to the Huffington post, is quite complex. Over 33,000 protein-coding genomes were discovered during recent research. In comparison, humans have approximate 20,000. Although the information is intriguing and will lead to further research, the findings have created more questions than answers.

Dr. Clifton Ragsdale of the University of Chicago, according to Metro U.K., describes the findings more alien than Earthbound.

“The octopus appears to be utterly different from all other animals, even other molluscs, with its eight prehensile arms, its large brain and its clever problem-solving abilities.”

He continued to build off of Martin Wells, a zoologist, claiming that octopuses are aliens, in all sense of the word.

“The late British Zoologist, Martin Wells, grandson of H.G. Wells, said the octopus is an alien. In this sense, then, our paper describes the first sequenced genome from an alien.”

The mystery surrounding octopuses and their existence on Earth is now more complicated than ever before. Adding to the unique genome sequencing that removes it from the evolutionary connection between so many other of the planet’s life. Octopuses have the ability to camouflage their skin, the use of jet propulsion to move through the water, eight tentacles that are suction lined and capable of intricate manipulation of objects, and most oddly, the ability to regenerate limbs that may have been devoured by other animals.

Of course, there are plenty of cynical scientific critics that say that the study has been misinterpreted and that the scientists involved with the research were really just using a clever metaphor to highlight the unique complexity of the octopus genome. It seems that the biggest problem with these critics is that they are saying that people now believe octopuses are from other planets.

No, the scientists are saying they are alien in a sense that they are possible second genesis creatures—we perceive them as merely sea creatures, but there are some who perceive them as being more alien in nature.

Could it be that aliens share a lot of their traits with mollusks? Could there be alien beings that are similar to the Wookie in Star Wars, whose shape can be compared to a monkey, and its loyalty to that of a dog? How about feline- looking aliens? In the Bible, there are tales of the “Lion Men” in the Book of 2 Samuel.

“And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lion-like men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:” –Chapter 23:20

The bible even goes on to say that all of the flesh and attributes of man is not the same and that there o the flesh of the terrestrial human, and then the flesh of celestial or extra-terrestrial bodies.

We will never know how dogs, cats or even cows perceive us. How do insects perceive us? Do they know or even care that we exist? Now, taking that logical leap we must then ask – do aliens perceive us? Do they even care that we exist? Even if they look different than us, it is a bit disingenuous to overlook the idea that there are simple traits that they would share with us – which we say can only be found in humans.

I think that to assume that strange DNA has to be the litmus test to identify an alien life form may limit our definitions of what life is in space or what alien life forms may have arrived and have had contact with humans.

Even the bible teaches us a lesson in how we identify the attributes of both the terrestrial bodies of man and animal and the attributes of bodies that are celestial or extra-terrestrial.

All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another. — 1 Corinthians 15:39-40

I think this makes things very clear – bodies terrestrial meaning earth bodies, bodies celestial meaning extra-terrestrial bodies.

Why would the bible identify different life forms both extraterrestrial and terrestrial and why in the chapter does it say that God gave every seed its own body? Does this mean that we are connected to the celestial bodies that exist somewhere in space?

Terrestrial bodies have evolved in such a manner that a logical and intelligent design has made us who we are.

Our eyes are over our nose putting them closer to our brain, eliminating visual lag. Our nose is between our eyes so it does not obstruct our vision. Its size helps us get better downward visibility.

Our mouth is below both as to not obstruct our airflow, not obstruct our eyes, not interfere with our brain and give food the quickest path of least resistance to our stomach.

The trachea is in front of the esophagus and closes upon excitation of a nerve as food is swallowed. Digestion takes place giving us fuel and energy. Celestial bodies may absorb nourishment through their skin, and may even eliminate waste through their skin as well. They may have an inability to chew food or perhaps they have a trachea or breathing tube behind their esophagus. This would make normal eating impossible.

In humans, if the trachea was behind the esophagus, the likelihood of choking on food would increase.

With the esophagus being in the back, food takes the path of least resistance down to our stomachs. Mucus secretions fall effortlessly down the back of the esophagus into the stomach instead of clogging up our lungs. From the same area we generate our voice, for communication.

Now celestial bodies or extra terrestrial we have been told speak telepathically and use images to convey their message. They may even communicate with bio-luminescent patterns of light… Maybe an alien has may diaphragms built into its main body cavity that vibrate a voice – or perhaps a moan that by frequency and pitch is a method of language, they could speak through a liquid or even oxygen to transmit information.

It is a possibility that our alien friends are like real humans; sort of an exo-pinocchio.

We should prepare ourselves for the eventual disclosure of extra-terrestrial biological entities out there or those who have been able to adapt to the human lifestyle down here.

We should be open to the idea that what we may find on Proxima B is part of the whole creation process.

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Written by Ron Patton




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