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AWE AND SHOCK – 3D IMAX Hubble Film

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Oh my god. I saw the 3D IMAX Hubble film.

I kept tearing up. IMAX is awesome — you are in the picture. Then, the technology of servicing the Hubble telescope as it is racing through space — that human beings can do such things is staggering. And then there’s “space,” and the billions of galaxies that you get to experience viscerally as you never do from knowing statistics.

The tears I think came from the contrast to how we behave. We kill each other? (Anybody watch the almost unwatchable for the horror of it, 10-part Steven Spielberg/Tom Hanks PACIFIC series, about World War II, that just concluded on HBO?) We run the planet on greed? How can we do this? No no no, it can’t be.

I keep thinking that if everyone saw this IMAX show, we would have a transformation of consciousness. How could you watch it and stay petty? If I were able to deliver one thing, with money not being the object, I would create IMAX theaters all over with invites for everyone to see this show free.

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Can Satellites Make Crop Circles?

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It sometimes is suggested that crop circles could be made by our advanced technology. Lasers and masers and satellites all sound sexy, but could they deliver? A few years ago I got this report. It may be that we’ve improved upon the technology since then (hello you techies out there), but since we’ve been getting circles for decades in the modern era and at least hundreds of years before that (see my movie), these things could not account for the historical phenomenon.

On satellite imaging:

The main problem with using satellite imaging for catching circlemakers in the act is the resolution of the cameras. Here is a photo taken by the Advanced Land Imager (ALI), flying aboard NASA’s EO-1 satellite. The photo is of the path of a tornado in May 2002.

tornado path

The path of the tornado (going left to right in the middle of the photo) is much wider than the typical crop circle, yet look how small it looks.

The other problem is that these satellites must travel at several thousand miles per hour to stay in orbit. They take pictures of the ground in wide but thin chunks as they fly by. They don’t take pictures like your camera does. The time that would be spent by one of these satellites looking at any particular field in the middle of the night would be around 1/30th of a second. Weather satellites don’t move around so fast and do take pictures in something approximating the way your camera does, but they are further out in space and can’t take close-ups of the ground.

This is part one. I’ll do another post later to deal with other aspects of how our technology can’t account for the circles.

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New Crop Circle Season — First Image

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Do you want to see the crop circles as they arrive in England? Just $31 gets you an email every time one comes in that sends you to a page with pictures and comments. Subscribe here. Or, for free, check the site whenever you like: http://cropcircleconnector.com — click on Latest Circles.

Here’s the second one that’s arrived — that’s Stonehenge in the background. The crop is called oilseed rape in England, which we know as canola. The picture is by Lucy Pringle, a major circle photographer, who is in my movie.

Lucy Pringle

One thing about the phenomenon is that it doesn’t give you info on a silver platter. You have to examine what is created to answer THE question that’s always up: Is it human made? The hoaxers get better all the time, which keeps the researchers stretching. Because you have to study the evidence to discern that in fact some of the formations absolutely can’t be made by people, you end up with a knowing that then is part of you. You own it and you are changed by it.

But you do have to apply yourself. On the page of info about this Stonehenge one you will find statements by two savvy people:

Person one: “I stand my ground to inform you all that the first two formations of this season are perfection in creation and these are creations not done by man!”

Person two: “Great was my disappointment upon entering the formation: I was standing in a field of destruction: broken plants, board marks, many foot prints and dehydrated plants…this rape formation was man-made, probably done by a large team of at least 20 people.”

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