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Satellites have shown two mysterious ‘black hole’ whirlpools in the South Atlantic ocean – ultra powerful “vortexes” which suck water down into the depths.
The whirpools – never witnessed before – would suck down ships, debris and even living creatures, moving 1.3 million cubic metres of water per second.
Two of the black holes – or “maelstroms” – have been sighted in three months by physicists from Zurich and Miami.
It must be a UFO, or an Angel! I couldn’t be ANYTHING else!
Personally I think it’s Bigfoot pissing on the camera lens, but what do I know?
A search for the supernatural sends ten people to the hospital and leaves one dead this week. According to the West Virginia Gazette, a pickup truck loaded with eleven people crashed on Wednesday killing a 17-year-old girl.
Early Wednesday morning, 18-year-old Issac Murphy packed ten of his friends into a Ford F-150 pickup truck to go on a ghost hunting adventure to find haunted chimneys in Clay County, West Virginia. While en-route to one of the alleged haunted locations, Murphy lost control of the vehicle, swerved and struck a guardrail sending the truck plummeting down into a stream bed.
Six people were crammed into the cab and five of them were riding in the bed of the truck when it crashed. The only female passenger was 17-year-old Kara Conley who was pinned between the pickup and bank of the creek. She died about an hour after the accident.
Nearby resident and Army Veteran Jeremy Mullins witnessed the crash and called 911 immediately then went to help. Mullins pulled the injured teens from the vehicle and onto his porch and treated their wounds until paramedics arrived.
Police officers found marijuana at the scene and also said that alcohol may have played a role in the deadly crash. Authorities are still waiting for a toxicology report to determine if any of the occupants were intoxicated. So far no charges have been filed against the driver.
Mars is toxic. Although the atmosphere is filled with toxic perchlorates, and silicate and gypsum dust that would make a coal miner breathe a sigh of relief, one UFO enthusiast insists he spotted a rat on the surface of Mars.
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity took a panoramic photo of the “Rocknest” site in September 2012, and eagle-eyed Scott C. Waring discovered the rodent and uploaded the image to the website UFO Sightings Daily, saying “NASA almost makes historical announcement, but chickens out.”
“Note its lighter color upper and lower eyelids, its nose and cheek areas, its ear, its front leg and stomach. Looks similar to a squirrel camouflaged in the stones and sand by its colors,” he wrote. “Hey, who doesn’t love squirrels, right?”
But the rodent in question is really just a rock. Though there may be “habitable” pockets underground, the Martian surface would not support lizards and rodents, which people often “see” in images of the Red Planet.
Pareidolia is the name for the particular human quirk that makes us see faces and other familiar objects in random shapes, textures and surfaces. Seeing pirate ships in the clouds or the face of Jesus in a rust stain are both examples of pareidolia, as is the famous Face of Mars.
It’s such a widespread phenomenon that designers at Berlin’s Onformative developed Google Faces, which uses Google Maps and facial recognition software to find geographical structures on Earth’s surface that are most likely to be perceived as looking looking like faces.
I guess you could call this a trigger response, after the nearly miraculous rescue of Amanda Berry, Georgina DeJesus and Michele Knight from a Cleveland home last Tuesday a story surfaced about the parents of the one of the girls being informed by “noted psychic” Sylvia Brown that her daughter was in fact deceased, drowned I believe is how she put it.
On the one hand, I’d comment that people who run around soliciting folks like Sylvia Brown or (Bob Edwards) are just fooling themselves. These people don’t have any magical special psychic powers. They may be sensitive, but that’s not special any more than the ability to drive a car is special or the ability to write. Being sensitive is a skill, nothing more. But unlike most psychics out there, I know it’s not supernatural, it’s psychological.
The human mind is similar to a massively parallel computing system. Information coming from a wide variety of sources is processed and the results ‘compete ‘ with each other using criteria based on individual’s unique personality. The final results or predictions are then turned over to the conscious mind for action. Some people are able to plumb the sea of sensual data and return results by ways that seem magical to the uninitiated. For example; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s character Sherlock Holmes describes one who is very attune to his environment. he is able to pull out clues and reach conclusions using information that other people miss or believe to be insignificant. Nobody would accuse Doyle’s character of being psychic! He’s just an attuned individual – kind of a savient (and a drug addict too.)
There are real people like Sherlock Holmes out there. Some are so sensitive that they can get inside the minds of criminals and predict future activities. Many law enforcement agencies have predictive analysts on staff, the rising popularity of computer information mining coupled with modeling has (predictably) created whole new industries which do nothing but make predictions based on large amounts of unconnected data.
The point is, people like Sylvia Browne are possible, however there is nothing psychic about it. They don’t have special powers, they are just like anyone else. Except that they are able to pay attention to stuff most people ignore. Then, if the have a bent for such things they run around and play their “hunches” as magically revealed “truths” from the spirit world.
There are some sick people who create psychic courses and career paths leading would-be sensitives down a road of trickery and charlatanism. Sometimes they even influence little children to believe that they are super psychics instead of just very imaginative little kids.
Then there are the pathetic self-deluded types who (occasionally) have the best intentions, however their self-delusions get them into a state where whatever common sense they might have gets lost.
But the most awful are the persons represented by Ms Browne who systematically prey on the emotions of vulnerable people. They feed on folks who might have lost a loved-one or who need counseling over a trauma in their lives. These “magical parasites” leach onto the emotions of people they should just leave alone.
If people want to be professional consulars, there are very clear career tracks to doing that. Unfortunately that means going back to school and earning a degree (all the smart-cats are doing this.) Or you could end up like Silvia Browne who’s riding a horse she can’t get off of.
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Further reading – some of this is stomach churning.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/oct/27/usa.jonronson?mobile-redirect=false
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/07/sylvia-browne-amanda-berry-cleveland
http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/2113-yet-another-sylvia-browne-fiasco
By: Mitch Potter Washington Bureau, Published on Tue Apr 30 2013
WASHINGTON—As close encounters go, this one has it all — an unprecedented week of seemingly official hearings in the very heart of Washington, jammed with spine-tingling top-secret accounts of the extraterrestrial kind.
From Roswell, Area 51 and Britain’s mysterious Rendlesham Forest Incident to the silent hovering craft that once disabled 10 Minuteman missiles in North Dakota, it’s all coming out.
And that’s even before the hearings take a much-anticipated Canadian twist Friday, when former defence minister Paul Hellyer, now almost 90, arrives from Toronto to deliver the coup de grace on the irrefutability of alien contact.
But wait. This isn’t Congress; it’s the National Press Club, 14 blocks away. And those six congressional leaders overseeing the blockbuster revelations, including testimony from more than 40 witnesses, are actually ex-congressmen and women, each enjoying an honorarium of $20,000 for their troubles.
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A press release from the Paradigm Research Group (the outfit that keeps spamming the White House website with UFO petitions) informs us that, one week from Monday, they’ll be rolling their UFO road show into the National Press Club with an event called “the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure.” (When they’re not booked for press club events, National Press Club conference rooms are available to the public to rent for bar mitzvahs, dog shows and UFO festivals.)
What is more significant than the topic of the event, however, is the fact that it marks a first-ever convening of the, hands-down, nuttiest U.S. congressmen who ever lived. According to Paradigm Research, this group will conduct a mock hearing to “accomplish what the U.S. Congress has failed to do for forty-five years.” The more level-headed may view this sideshow exhibit of political schizzos as a compelling argument against democracy.
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YouTube user Naktis Ireland glimpsed odd balls of light over Cork, Ireland, back in December. But for reasons unknown, he failed to upload his wobbly footage until earlier this month, and now thousands of people are watching the video as they try to determine, what, exactly those bright flaming balls could be. The mystery orbs materialize to the right, then move to the left and disappear behind trees before doing the whole routine again. The online peanut gallery is questioning the legitimacy of the shaky clip, wondering whether the lights are just flares, balloons or lanterns. Experts say the video would have drawn media hype if it had featured actual alien spacecraft. So yeah, it looks like those unidentified flying objects are staying that way. [Huffington Post]
