In case you thought about hopping over to Saudi Arabia for the 5th Global Competitiveness Forum that I wrote about in the next to last post, it costs $5,000 to attend!!!!
Look at this wonderful graphic that has been created for the panel Contact: Learning from Outer Space,
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Here’s another sign of our times regarding the other intelligence coming out of science fiction and being declared a reality. Following up on my recent post about England’s Royal Society, we have another “straight” group of prominent world figures taking up the issue:
The Global Competitiveness Forum (GCF), the only event of its kind, is an annual meeting of global business leaders, international political leaders, and selected intellectuals and journalists brought together to create a dialogue with respect to the positive impact organizational and national competitiveness can have on local, regional and global economic and social development. It was founded in 2006 by the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA), and is held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia under the patronage of HM King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques.
The description for the GFC panel:
Psychological and socio-cultural assumptions and preconceptions constrain us to a large extent, and shape our views of the universe so that we are inclined to find what we are looking for, and fail to see what we are not. Using knowledge gained from research in the fields of Ufology and the search for extraterrestrial life, what might we possibly learn about hindrances to innovation in other areas of inquiry?
Read on: http://news.exopoliticsinstitute.org/index.php/archives/850
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