Here in Florida one of the fun things we get to experience regularly is watch, from about 200 miles away, the launch of rockets from Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center. What we actually get to see is hit and miss, depending on the clouds and whether it’s a day or night launch, but when we do see rockets streak through the sky (to infinity and beyond!) it’s pretty incredible. My sister, Lisa, who lives in Naples, has a goal to see one up close…close enough to “feel” the launch. I think Randy and I will plan to do that sometime too.
We (Americans, humans, pioneers) have been fascinated with space forever.
I’m not here to debate the beginnings of earth, but a lot of the episodes of Ancient Aliens make pretty credible arguments. There are several historic paintings that purport to have UFOs in them. There’s the Roswell incident where UFOs allegedly crashed, alien bodies were recovered and studied, and the government is keeping all of that secret.
Another interesting space-y thing is HAARP, the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program. It’s said to be the most capable, high-powered, high frequency transmitter for the study of the ionosphere. Call me a kook, but I think they’re using HAARP to manipulate our atmosphere that affects our weather and do other things we pea brain humans can barely imagine. The ability to see the Aurora Borealis this weekend as far south as down here in Florida was really spectacular. They said it was caused by a sunspot, but do we really know? Sun spots of that magnitude usually would disrupt communications (overload the power grid, blow up your home and auto electronics and affect GPS signals from satellites), but to my knowledge (and I looked) no major communication disruptions occurred.
Pilots all over the world, seemingly sane, trustworthy, distinguished people, have reported incidents of “unexplained aerial phenomena (UAP)” the newest preferred term for UFOs. Their reports are not well received, but in June 2023, a former Navy pilot formed a group called Americans for Safe Aerospace. It’s the first pilot-led advocacy organization dedicated to UAPs. Its founder says that when he was an active duty Navy pilot, his squadron was encountering UAPs every day, but nothing was being done.
The main stream media is starting to ramp up the UFO talk. I have zero trust in them. So, I wonder why this is becoming a topic for them now. I can’t help feeling they’re trying (again) to scare us into submission about something. Fox News has a whole page devoted to UFO news. A few years ago, Popular Mechanics had an article on 3,500 Years of UFO history. Here’s the link. Interesting.
Then we have the folks who claim we never really went to the moon, that it was all a movie made by Stanley Kubrick and filmed on a sound stage. These moon landing deniers claim that regardless of what we’ve been told, we haven’t yet figured out how to make it past the Van Allen Radiation Belts. The curious behavior of some of the astronauts who supposedly went to the moon lends a bit of believability to this claim.
Oh, I almost forgot the alien abduction stories. Man, most of these people don’t seem wacky. But being beamed aboard a flying saucer and living to tell about it certainly seems wacky in my experience. And, oh yeah, the guy who claims he was recruited as a child into the Secret Space Program and went to work on Mars every day for 60 years. Then, when another guy claimed he was also a part of the Secret Space Program, the first guy sued him for stealing his intellectual property. Think about it. Eiyiyi.
Last of my examples, we have the Flat Earthers. This one really baffles me. I actually know some people who I find to be otherwise normal and intelligent, who claim the earth is flat. One of these people is even a pilot. No matter how many times I hear or read their arguments, I still don’t understand them. Their argument has something to do with the Bible and its reference to firmament. I think. No matter. It’s all gobbledygook to me.
Space is an interesting place. Because it’s largely unexplored and damn near impossible to prove anything about, it’s still a prolific idea generating space (see what I did there?) for science fiction fabricators and opportunists. But it also gives me food for thought. The more I think about it all, the more I realize I don’t know a dang thing to be true.
And if I don’t know a dang thing to be true, maybe we really are living in a matrix. Maybe nothing is real. Maybe everything is “generated” to push us in one direction or the other, make us believe something we have no way to know is real, control us. Where does it all begin? Where does it all end?
Before I wrap myself around an axel, I can hear, in my head, Randy yelling at me. “That’s why you shouldn’t even be paying attention to that crap,” he’s saying. “The only truth is what God revealed in the Bible! That’s truth!”
I understand why people believe that, too. And, for sure, it gives great comfort. In the end, I think, we decide for ourselves about what we believe.
Here’s what I believe. The world and space are so vast, our bodies so complex, the information available so massive, the deception so insidious, the evil so disturbing, that it’s impossible for me and my little human pea brain to sort it out into anything that makes any sense at all. But, on the planet, the life that seems pretty dang real to me, this little bubble I live in every day is beautiful and peaceful and coherent. Most everything that directly affects me makes sense to me. I am happy here. And while I have, for now, the power to keep it that way by choosing what and who I allow in, I’ll guard the door carefully.
P.S. Any topics you’d like to see me write about for future posts? Let me know!
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