Saturday, July 30, 2016

7/29: SPACE CHESS

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SPACE CHESS

Last night, we reported that an explosion followed by streaks of unexplained light were seen over Utah, Nevada and across California – and perhaps elsewhere. It was a pretty dramatic sighting and home videos were e-mailed to me and most were posted on YouTube.
The fire ball spilt and then broke up into smaller streaks.
It was later reported the streak was the remnants from a Chinese CZ-7 rocket, which re-entered the atmosphere over Northern America near California at 9:36pm, Pacific time.
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The light show was similar to an incident in late December last year, when debris from a Russian rocket that was returning into Earth’s atmosphere lit up the skies across the Western United States.
While breakups of space junk are common events – what isn’t common is that now they are happening over populated areas.
I believe there is a reason for this and it isn’t going to be reported in the mainstream narrative.
The scientists and observers that explain these anomalies want us to believe it is all routine and that there is really nothing to be concerned about. However, if you were to explore other reports outside of the United States propaganda bureau you will find that it is all connected to the preparations for space warfare and surveillance spying.
Last Saturday it was reported that a Long March 7 rocket was launched from Hainan in southern China which is reported to be a space junk garbage truck of sorts. However, some analysts claim it may serve a military purpose.
The craft that was launched has a robotic arm capable of snagging defunct satellites and bring them back to earth and crashing them safely into the ocean.
Now I am not saying that the sighting of CZ-7 explosion is connected to this launch but timing of what are being called secret space launches give one a reason to ponder just what is happening up there and why are we seeing more Russian and Chinese space artifacts blazing up the skies over the United States.
You need ask yourself is China really developing this cutting-edge technology only to clean up space junk or does it have the potential to be an anti-satellite weapon?
In 2007, China conducted an anti-satellite test which blew up a dead weather probe with a missile. The test prompted an international outcry because the explosion generated such a large volume of debris.
The United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to launch a larger, more sophisticated craft for the US Air Force in 2020. The Phoenix In-Orbit Servicing Program had been scheduled for launch last year, but was delayed by technical and cost concerns.
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The Phoenix is said to be a platform that will be used for repairing, upgrading and refueling ageing satellites.
But, secretly it can turn foreign satellites into U.S. spy satellites.
Early this morning, a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket carrying a classified National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite blasted off from Cape Canaveral.
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There were no reports of what the payload was or what its purpose was.
Of course in the margins it was noted that this rocket was being used for intelligence signals tracking – or if one wants to venture into UFO territory – a possible communications satellite directed at what may be out there watching us.
Two days before the launch NASA, cut a live-feed taken from the International Space Station after an agency’s astronaut saw a strange red UFO on the screen. It is believed that a vocal exchange between astronauts gave the UFO a codename called, “gospel.”
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Before NASA cut the live feed, NASA’s astronaut was heard saying that he looks forward to a partnership with a gospel. Another International Space Station staff member, on the other hand, replied to the NASA’s astronaut that they will be praying for him in space. NASA’s Commander Jeff Williams is said to be the person who replied to the astronaut.
What is peculiar about the exchange is that while he speaks about a personal relationship in what he calls “the gospel” which could be seen as a simple reference to religion — he then goes on to talk about a “beach ball” that he says is the world.
The sentence without context sounds strange – and we can say that it is pretty innocuous.
The UFO however, is not. It is plainly there and it is most certainly interesting to watch.
Back in April Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, gave a speech to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ROTC program at Norwich University. In his speech he told young cadets that their future would be complex and that a whole new set of possible obstacles and anomalies that they will be facing.
The most bizarre thing that he said was that in the future soldiers would have to adapt to hybrid wars and “little green men.”
Of course at the time, this sparked a great deal of discussion and while there were a few people who claimed that he was referring to Ukrainian or Russian soldiers, UFO and alien enthusiasts were thinking that this was yet another reference leading to disclosure.
The UFO party was evidently pooped on when military officials batted down any talk of aliens and intergalactic war.
Officials issued a memo stating that the phrase “little green men” typically refers to foreign troops or paramilitary forces who dress in green attire instead of traditional military gear.
Officials made it clear that his words were in no way referring to fighting troops from outer space.
No more than four months later it appears things have changed and it can be pointed out that something is happening that indicates, indeed, the military industrial complex has decided to extend out into space.
While we have had many shows speculating about a secret space program and while stories of whistle blowers hacking into NASA computers revealing off world space soldiers, there have been many so-called skeptics who want to suppress and even censor any and all information that may indicate we are currently preparing for war and that the battlefield of interest now is outer space.
According to a Space Science report out of Australia, it seems that there is interest in the land down under about our secret space program and how it most certainly is underway.
Space Science reports that our military is bracing itself for war in space and has begun training U.S. Air Force personnel for outer space conflicts.
When the movie, Independence Day Resurgence began its promotional campaign, it received an extra push from the Army. A viral commercial made the round on the Internet and was also seen on television featuring the proud father of a fictional Earth space defense soldier. The father in the commercial says over soft music that his daughter is fighting and he fought in the war in 96, a veteran of the first alien encounter. The man is proud to say that the “planet is safer because she’s defending it.”
The commercial ends with “Go Army.”
It appears that for the first time the military attached itself to a science fiction film dealing with space battled against aliens.
Now according Australia’s Space Science, the Air Force has launched a program called the “Space Mission Force” which is dedicated to “developing space war fighters for tomorrow.”
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They are reporting General John Hyten, commander of Air Force Space Command, wrote: “Despite world interest in avoiding militarization of space, potential adversaries have identified the use of space as an advantage for U.S. military forces, and are actively fielding systems to deny our use of space in a conflict.
“This is not without precedence. Through the centuries, nations formed armies, navies and air forces to defend the right to use the global commons of land, sea and air. Securing our right to use space is simply an extension of an age old principle to guarantee use of global commons.”
According to a memo produced by the George C. Marshall Institute Space Combat and the Space Mission Force the space race is happening again and while we are being told that there are no immediate plans for manned missions into space – the truth is stranger than science fiction.
A bold new game of “Space Chess” is underway.
The U.S. Air Force’s new strategy is aimed at protecting its “freedom of action in space”, which will primarily involve protecting satellites and other orbital facilities which are used in military reconnaissance and surveillance.
Its training program will subject units to “demanding training … focused on improving combat capability against ever-increasing threats and complex scenarios.”
It is known that China has the capability to destroy satellites, while Russia recently tested a warplane capable of flying to “near space”.
Moscow is also rumored to be developing a nuclear-armed space bomber, although Russian defense officials have denied this suggestion.
In reference again to the Marshal Institute memo – Military officials have stressed that the U.S. must come to grips with the fact that the days of unchallenged use of space is coming to an end. Other nations can access space, will operate there in pursuit of their own national interests, and are looking for ways to gain strategic advantages.
Despite our current lead in space activities, there are serious concerns about the U.S. ability to sustain the quantity and quality of space activities.
Right now, nearly every U.S. space program faces budget overruns and schedule slippages, which is indicative of systemic management concerns, changing requirements, and the complexity of what is at stake.
Federal research and development in space activities and the size of the aerospace workforce and related academic interest by new groups are flat or falling, suggesting a that there is a perceived lack of priority or faith in the future of the space program.
However, it was reported recently that the Department of Defense set aside $6.6 billion to fund “space protection” programs.
Lt. Gen. Jay Raymond, the Air Force’s deputy chief of staff for operations, recently said America was undergoing a “renaissance fuelled by the need to protect and defend these new capabilities and space capabilities that we have become so reliant on.”
In short, whether the innovative capacity of the U.S. can sustain our present advantages is open to question.
Recognition of the challenge China and Russia has put before us provides ample warning for the American public and its leaders to decide how best to defend the U.S. from a war in space.
The problem is that the Obama administration and Congress are dragging their feet in some respects, while the military is trying to reverse this and are making progress in developing a strategy to ensure a sustained commitment of priority and resources, and public recognition of the seriousness of the threat and the importance of it.
Space systems have numerous vulnerabilities. These include intentional strikes mounted against ground stations, launch systems, or orbiting satellites. Space systems are also vulnerable to disruption, which could disrupt or deny their use when desired, or to actual destruction, which might be accomplished through an anti-satellite attack or explosion of an electromagnetic pulse.
With China’s new tech and their efforts to have an upper-hand in space, these are not hypothetical concerns.
For a country whose military prowess utterly depends on space, the stakes are enormous. America has staked out the orbital high ground. Now it needs to appreciate that advantage and defend it against enemies, both foreign and extraterrestrial.
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Hillary Clinton, a cousin of Justin Trudeau, Madonna, Celine Dion, Justin Bieber, Ryan Gosling, Angelina Jolie, Camilla Parker-Bowles...

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perche-quebec.com has discovered that Hillary Clinton has many family ties with other celebrities in politics (Justin Trudeau), music (Madonna, Celine Dion, Justin Bieber), the film industry (Ryan Gosling, Angelina Jolie) and royalty (Camilla Parker-Bowles)! All those celebrities have in common French-Canadian pioneers, and in particular Percheron pioneers.

For instance, Catherine Godet (1793-1855), the mother of Mary Anne Frances McDougall, is a direct descendant of Percheron pioneer Nicolas Godé, an emigrant originating from the vicinity of Igé (Orne, France).

Hillary Clinton's family tree counts other Percheron emigrants as the famous Jean Guyon, the direct ancestor of Celine Dion, Mathurin Gagnon, both originating from Tourouvre (Orne, France), Gaspard Boucher from Mortagne-au-Perche (Orne, France) and a common ancestor of Celine Dion, Madonna and Camilla Parker-Bowles.

Moreover, Pierre Gagné, a pioneer from Igé like Nicolas Godé is represented in the ancestry of James McDougall, the father of Mary Anne Frances McDougall. This makes Hillary Clinton a relative of Celine Dion and Madonna.

Angelina Jolie has several Percheron ancestors but none are common with Hillary Clinton. Their common ancestor is the Normand Jean Cusson, originating from the vicinity of Rouen (France).

As strange as it may seem, there is nothing exceptional about those family ties. As Percheron pioneers were among the very first French emigrants to settle in New France, most of North Americans with French-Canadian ancestry have Percheron blood and are more or less related.

Famous cousins of Hillary Clinton

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LINK TO FULL IMAGE:

http://www.perche-quebec.com/files/hillary-clinton/individus/hillary-clinton-arbre-en.htm

Hillary Clinton has many family ties with the famous descendants of those Percherons pioneers.

perche-quebec.com has found out not less than:

• 98 links with Justin Bieber
• 45 links with Madonna
• 32 links with Celine Dion
• 20 links with Jack Kerouac
• 15 links with Angelina Jolie
• 10 links with Alanis Morissette
• 10 links with Justin Trudeau
• 8 links with Camilla Parker-Bowles
• 8 links with Ryan Gosling

perche-quebec.com has explored the French-Canadian ancestry of Hillary Clinton. See detailshere.

Percheron ancestors of Hillary Clinton

perche-quebec.com has identified nine Hillary Clinton's ancestors whose the origin is Perche. All immigrated in the 17th century. They came from the following villages (note that the ancestor pages are available in French only):

- Igé (Françoise Gadois, Pierre Gagné, Nicolas Godé;)

- Mamers (Nicole Lemaire)

- Mortagne-au-Perche (Gaspard and Madeleine Boucher, Mathurine Robin)

- Tourouvre (Mathurin Gagnon, Jean Guyon)

Hillary Clinton's French-Canadian ancestors

notes

[1] Rodham Clinton, Hillary. Living Story. editions Simon & Schuster,2003.

[2] Moreau-DesHarnais, Gail F. Michigan's Habitant Heritage, Journal of the French-Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan, 2007.

[3] The core facts and information of this article are primarily based on work by William Addams Reitwiesner available here

[4] Full investigation of E.H. Hail into Hillary’s possible distant Amerindian ancestry available here

[5] Carter, Claire. The road to the White House... which began 160 years ago in Ystradyfodwg. MailOnline, PUBLISHED: 11:57 GMT, 21 April 2015 | UPDATED: 11:25 GMT, 2 February 2016

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Lawsuit Filed Against Government And Media For Staging Sandy Hook



Lawsuit Filed Against Government And Media For Staging Sandy Hook

Posted by George Freund on July 29, 2016 


Posted on July 28, 2016 by Baxter Dmitry

In a shocking twist in the Sandy Hook saga, film maker and author William Brandon Shanley decided pursued a number of lawsuits in excess of more than $1 Trillion against the mainstream media and government in 2014. Shortly after, he was framed and thrown in jail. Now he’s out and refiling those lawsuits, albeit sightly fearful for his life.

It seems author and film maker William Brandon Shanley, the producer of Election starring Martin Sheen, was getting a little too close to the truth.

After making the bold move of filing a law suit against the mainstream media and government regarding what he believes was an elaborate hoax, he wound up getting arrested on what he called “trumped up” phony charges to silence him.

If you followed the Sandy Hook case, you will know many things just didn’t add up. If you didn’t follow the case – after you read Shanley’s statement and watch the documentary below (at the end of the article) you will understand why he is filing these lawsuits.


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Here’s an excerpt of William Shanley’s statement posted on his facebook page:

The good news is there is no physical evidence anyone died at Sandy Hook School. What is most troubling, however, is that former New Haven Register Reporter, Michael Bellmore, 27, and Western Connecticut State Police Commander, Major William Podgorski, 49, a lead Sandy Hook investigator, are dead, as well as JoAnn June Egletes, 53, a secretary to Attorney Irving Pinsky who had the temerity to file a $100,000,000 lawsuit against the State of Connecticut for terrorizing his client. Other key witnesses are also missing, dead, have resigned, retired or otherwise vanished from the scene.

The constellation of correlations of anomalies and documentary evidence convince us beyond a shadow of a doubt that this was an emergency drill redirected to deceive the public. If truth be told, public servants and surrogates ate all the best parts of the picture. That pattern exposes with utmost precision their pompous perfidy in 3D living color for the whole world to see.

Here is what we (and many other contributing investigators and researchers) found in our investigation:

* The final report from the Connecticut public employees does not include the names, the ages or the sex of the alleged victims of the shooting

* The Town Clerk of Newtown entered into secret negotiations with the Connecticut state legislature to avoid releasing their death certifications

* The Connecticut State Attorney General opposed the release of the 911 calls and had to be denied withholding them by courts

* A special panel of the state legislature recommended state employees who released information about Sandy Hook be subject to an E-felony

* The crime scene was destroyed. Those who were involved in the demolition of the school building itself were required to sign life-time gag orders about anything they saw or did not see

* There was no surge of EMTs into the building, no line of ambulances, no physical proof anyone died–and not even the parents were allowed to see their children

* Life Star medevac helicopter service was not alerted to the bloodbath

* According to Sedensky’s report, there were 489 students and 82 staff and faculty present, for a total of 571 combined that should have been evacuated from the school, but you can search in vain: there is no aerial footage of a mass evacuation

* Sandy Hook Elementary School appears to have been closed in 2008 because of the presence of bio-hazards and the expense of upgrading to meet ADA requirements

* The Newtown Bee published an interview with the school principal, Dawn Hochsprung, during the shooting itself, but she was officially already dead

* The “iconic” photograph taken by Newtown Bee Associate Editor Shannon Hicks was staged, “smoking gun” proof that this event was a drill

* The FBI report on the shooting, which was commissioned by President Obama, has been massively redacted, rendering it virtually unintelligible

* The “parents” (who may be playing roles) and first responders have received millions of dollars from fundraising sites, with millions more coming from the federal government

* Paul Preston, a school safety expert, received confirmation from several contacts in the Department of Education that the Massacre had been a drill and no one had died

* Two Connecticut State Troopers have confirmed to Wolfgang Halbig that the 11,000 page report he has in hand, prepared by State Attorney Steven Sedensky, was “the script” for the Sandy Hook drill that terrorized the nation

* According to Connecticut State’s Attorney, Stephen Sedensky’s own report, there were no fingerprints on the .22 rifle that Adam allegedly used to shoot his mother and, even more surprisingly, that of the large number of shots that were fired from the 5.56 calibre Bushmaster (close to 150 rounds), none of the bullet fragments could be matched to the weapon.

He concludes as follows:

As this was a planned attack on the consciousness of the American people and the world to advance a policy goal through terrorism, the dimensions of the criminality are beneath contempt—evil, really—we are calling on the United States Congress to convene broad and deep joint hearings of the Senate and House Committees on the Judiciary, wherein investigators have unlimited subpoena power, so that we may shine a sanitizing light and purge the American government of the psychopathology that made this possible.

The New York Times, the Associated Press, the Hartford Courant, and the Newtown Bee are all also being sued for $10 billion in a separate Complaint.

Case Name: Shanley v. Smith et al Case Number: 3:14-cv-01881-JAM

Filer: William Brandon Shanley

Mass TV and wire service news media are being sued for 1 trillion usd, punitive damages.

Shanley v. O’Prey et al Case Number: 3:14-cv-01929-JAM

Filer: William Brandon Shanley

If you are wondering what all the fuss is about and how this could ever possibly be true, please watch the documentary below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD0z275nQnM

http://yournewswire.com/lawsuit-filed-against-government-and-media-for-staging-sandy-hook/

DID NASA INTERCEPT AN 80,000 YEAR OLD DISTRESS SIGNAL?   ~ hehe "could" THIS b 1 of the reasons    Y "we"  R   b'ing ... harvested ...  IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD  Oops

DID NASA INTERCEPT AN 80,000 YEAR OLD DISTRESS SIGNAL?  This is one of the strangest stories I've received recently, and it was sent by Mr. T.M.  NASA, according to this article, intercepted, and eventually decoded, an 80,000 year old distress message from a planet apparently outside this galaxy. Whether "outside" means in a distant galaxy, or rather, outside the galactic rim, is unstated. There is much, in other words, to make one question the article. But since high octane speculation is our trademark here, I have included this story in this week's blogs because, when I read it, there was something that leaped off the page, and made me shudder. So, in spite of my extreme skepticism about this story, see if you discover the same lines, and have the same reaction:
NASA Received an SOS Call from another Galaxy?
Now that you've had time to read the article, let's recapitulate. It begins with an outline of the claim:
Interestingly enough, one of those files featured an article originally published in the Weekly World News (September 15, 1998 Vol 19 No. 51) with a story about how NASA detected, intercepted, and decoded a mathematically-based distress signal from a purportedly doomed planetoid outside our own galaxy. Unfortunately, at the time the said article was published, in Weekly World News, it was not taken seriously because of that particular magazine's standing reputation of being a tabloid.
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The signal was detected in January of 1998 but, however and as it might be expected, it took many months to properly decode the message.
At this juncture, the original Weekly World News article is then reprinted in its entirety, and I have italicized the portions that I considered chilling in their implications:
NASA experts claim to have intercepted an intergalactic distress call from an alien civilization that had already peaked and was actually dying when saber-tooth tigers still roamed the earth.
The 80,000-year-old SOS was received and digitally recorded in late January 1998.
But only in recent weeks have radio astronomers and language experts found the key to the complex mathematics-based language that enabled them to translate the 'frantic plea for help'.
The world press has been suspiciously silent about the startling message, though lengthy scientific reports are scheduled for publication in two professional journals, Radio Astronomy and Universe.
According to a highly placed NASA source in Houston, Texas, noted Russian space scientist Dr. Viktor Kulakov is leading a United Nations research team from a state-operated observatory 50 miles northwest of Moscow.
Dr. Kulakov told Universe that the signal emanated from a point beyond the galaxy nearest to our own, Andromeda, and was sent by beings that had apparently achieved a civilization no more advanced than our own here on Earth.
“The simple fact that we received and decoded the message proves beyond any doubt that their knowledge and technology were, at the very best, within our reach.” Dr. Kulakov explained.
“And while there are years of study ahead of us, I can say with certainty that the death of their civilization was not the result of some cosmic catastrophe. It was the result of the civilization turning on itself, possibly with devastating nuclear weaponry.”
Dr Kulakov flatly refused to provide either of the magazines with a transcript of the message, but he did say it began with the plea, “Help us,” and went on to give data pinpointing the exact position of the doomed planet.
There was a quite lucid account of apocalyptic devastation, hellish explosions, widespread death and terminal illnesses,” he said.
“A Shower of meteors? Perhaps. But what stikes me, and this is just a feeling, is an underlying acceptance of guilt. It’s as if the senders of the message are acknowledging blame for what happened.”
"Whatever it was, they apparently had no means to evacuate the remaining population. Interplanetary space travel was available to them, but only on a very limited level. The message makes it very clear that they were trapped on their world,” said Dr. Kulakov. (Emphasis added)
What I found disturbing here was the date: 80,000 years ago, a date that by some lights (not my own) would place it within the range of similar catastrophes here on Earth, suggesting not merely some catastrophe limited to this planet, or the distant Andromedan planet, but something inter-galactic. Now indulge me penchant for wild and bizarre speculations for a moment.
Assuming for the sake of argument that this story is true - and there have been similar stories from time to time over the years - then let us turn it on its head for a moment, and assume that Dr. Kulakov is correct, and that the distress call was not the result of a natural catastrophe. What he is suggesting, quite clearly, is that it is the result of a war, of a civilization turning upon itself in a nuclear conflagration. But what if this is not the case? What if the war was something else entirely? An invasion, or a civil war of an interplanetary civilization? What intrigues me about this scenario are the implications behind what little about the message is revealed in the article: the message appears almost uniquely human in character, and this too I find disconcerting, for it is a kind of confirmation of my suspicion, held for years, that we have "genetic cousins" out there, and that, for whatever reason, there is a power or force or species or race intent on our destruction, wherever we be found.
So what am I getting at here? Years ago i wrote The Cosmic War: Interplanetary Warfare, Modern Physics, and Ancient Texts, and when writing it, I struggled with powerful emotions of sadness and despair, that such destruction not only could be contemplated, but wielded. But reading this story, I begin to wonder, what if that cosmic war was, indeed, truly cosmic, that some distant planet was destroyed by some Andromedan Tiamat and Marduk? it's all too human-sounding message hits too close to home, even though it is from another galaxy, far far away, and a long time ago... 

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HUMAN DNA TO BE SENT TO THE STARS…  There's a project in the works to send human DNA samples to various star systems thought to be suitable for planets that can sustain life as a kind of "backup system" to ensure the survival of the human species. This article was shared by Mr. L., and as you can imagine, it prompts speculations that are beyond high octane; they're...well... "nebul/ar-ous" to coin a double-edged word:
Human DNA sent into SPACE to ‘back-up’ species so we’re NEVER extinct
The project is sheer "Star Trek":
A project called Voices of Humanity would send data, messages and even DNA into space using laser propelled spacecrafts where “Your data will live forever in the universe. You will be immortalized,” according to the KickStarter page.
The team is hoping to initially raise $30,000 (£22,700) to launch computer chips full of images and data into low-Earth orbit by 2017, with more distant missions such as the moon and Mars in the future. Once they have reached $100,000 (£75,000), “we will be able to build a sophisticated ground-based laser and robotic telescope that allows your data to be optionally transmitted via laser to the target of your choice in space”.
Those behind the plans add: “We will then be able to 'beam you up' by encoding and sending your data to the stars so you will travel at the speed of light into the universe.
The ships will use similar technology being developed for Breakthrough Starshot
“In both cases, we will be able to 'back up humanity', using the universe as our 'cloud' with your images, pictures, text, tweets, video, and DNA!” Esteemed scientists have given their backing to the project, including Nasa’s Philip Lubin, who is also working on Stephen Hawking’s Breakthrough Starshot project, which will also be using similar laser-propelled spacecrafts.
Well, if nothing else, this serves notice than even brilliant scientists are subject to apocalyptic fears.
However, there are some important questions looming in the background here and Mr. L's email was accompanied with some of the relevant ones: (1) who is funding this project? (2) who is selected to be included among the DNA samples? (and, though not included as one of Mr. L's questions, one might also ask: what are the selection criteria?) (3) Wouldn't such a project go against the "prime directive"? assuming there is one, of course.
But I cannot but help to think, in my "nebul/ar-ous" speculations, that something else entirely may be going on here, and that it's being cloaked behind yet another typically transhumanist bit of technobabble and technopromises of immortality. What if there is someone out there - our ancient genetic cousins perhaps - is demanding some sort of tithe or tribute, in this case, in the form of DNA information? What if this project is motivated by something else entirely than the public meme of "preserving the human species" by using all available current technological means to launch us to the stars. In this scenario, sending such information in effect is like signing a lien; it's a part of a commercial contract, perhaps millennia old, and as I averred at last year's Secret Space Program conference, perhaps this is all in aid of some ancient "cosmic Versailles treaty" as a form of "reparations", perhaps a kind of tribute to ward off the very sort of apocalypse being advanced in the article, but not by building a kind of "Noah's Ark," but rather by buying off a distant potentate threatening invasion if the tribute is not paid.
Of course, this is a wild and bizarre scenario, to be sure, and it may mask something much more mundane, namely, yet another project to garner more information for a genetic database: no "cosmic Versailles", no "reparations or tithes", not even techno-immortality.
All that said, I don't know about you, but I have the uneasy and lingering suspicion - wild and bizarre as my "nebul/ar-ous" speculations may be - that there is more going on here than meets the eye, and that like people in a room where one or two people are on the telephone and having a conversation with someone else, that we're only hearing one half of the conversation.