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Edward Snowden calls U.S. intelligence 'aggressively criminal'

By Shashank Bengali

June 17, 2013, 11:06 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Edward Snowden, the former U.S. government contractor who leaked secret details of official surveillance programs, pledged Monday to release more information about U.S. intelligence-gathering methods that he described as “nakedly, aggressively criminal.”

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While there have been many interesting and intelligent guests that Jim has conversed with over the past few years, this month’s edition of Conversations With goes deeper and further than previous editions.  The work that this month's guest is presenting not only dovetails perfectly with what is being taught in Mastering Alchemy, but just like Jim, Patricia Cota-Robles’s job is to establish a framework of energetics that will accelerate humanity’s ascension into a fully conscious, multidimensional oneness for everyone.

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Mission control has instructed the crewmembers of the International Space Station (ISS) to open the hatches of the recently docked ATV-4 unmanned cargo spaceship and carry out disinfection procedures, over fears of mold and bacteria contamination.
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Mumbai -Bijlee the elephant has been working continuously for 51 years. She's never stopped until now. She collapsed; with maggot infested wounds on her legs, in pain and fatigued, and lies where she fell.

The owner of Bijlee, and other elephants, has subjected them to abuse and neglect, forcing them to beg, entertain, and walk for his paycheck. She has been overworked and uncared for all her life.

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“Planets Billions of Years Older Than Earth May Exist in the Milky Way” (A June Featured Post)

Studies have shown that Jupiter-sized gas giants tend to form around stars containing more heavy elements than the Sun. However, research by a team of astronomers completed last year found that planets smaller than Neptune are located around a wide variety of stars, including those with fewer heavy elements than the Sun. As a result, rocky worlds like Earth could have formed earlier than expected in the universe’s history.

“This work suggests that terrestrial worlds could form at almost any time in our galaxy’s history,” said Smithsonian astronomer David Latham (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics). “You don’t need many earlier generations of stars.” Latham played a lead role in the study, which was led by Lars A. Buchhave from the University of Copenhagen published in the journal Nature.

Astronomers call chemical elements heavier than hydrogen and helium “metals.” They measure the metal content, or metallicities, of other stars using the Sun as a benchmark. Stars with more heavy elements are considered metal-rich while stars with fewer heavy elements are considered metal-poor.

Latham and his colleagues examined more than 150 stars known to have planets, based on data from NASA’s Kepler spacecraft. They measured the stars’ metallicities and correlated that with the sizes of the associated planets. Large planets tended to orbit stars with solar metallicities or higher. Smaller worlds, though, were found around metal-rich and metal-poor stars alike.* “Giant planets prefer metal-rich stars. Little ones don’t,” explained Latham.

They found that terrestrial planets form at a wide range of metallicities, including systems with only one-quarter of the Sun’s metal content.

Their discovery supports the “core accretion” model of planet formation. In this model, primordial dust accumulates into mile-sized planetesimals that then coalesce into full-fledged planets. The largest, weighing 10 times Earth, can then gather surrounding hydrogen and become a gas giant.

A gas giant’s core must form quickly since hydrogen in the protoplanetary disk dissipates rapidly, swept away by stellar winds in just a few million years. Higher metallicities might support the formation of large cores, explaining why we’re more likely to find a gas giant orbiting a metal-rich star.”This result fits with the core accretion model of planet formation in a natural way,” said Latham.

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“Earth Calling” –A ‘YouTube’ for Messaging Advanced Extraterrestrial Life

Through their website, users are given the opportunity to upload and transmit content to these targets (e.g., texts, images, and, ultimately, audio and video). Lone Signal is the first continuous, collective, and cohesive METI experiment of its kind

Comparing the magnitude of deliberate radio broadcasts intended for messaging to extraterrestrial intelligence (METI) with the background radio spectrum of Earth, METI attempts to date have much lower detectability than emissions from current radio communication technologies on Earth.

METI broadcasts are usually transient and several orders of magnitude less powerful than other terrestrial sources such as astronomical and military radars, which provide the strongest detectable signals.

If we should pick up signals from alien civilizations, Stephen Hawking, our century’s Einstein, warns: “we should have be wary of answering back, until we have evolved” a bit further. Meeting a more advanced civilization, at our present stage,’ Hawking says “might be a bit like the original inhabitants of America meeting Columbus. I don’t think they were better off for it.”

Earth’s attempts to contact intelligent, extraterrestrial life could be too disorganised or cryptic for non-human beings to decode, many physicists have reported. In a submission to the international journal, Space Policy, astrophysicists Dimitra Atri, Julia DeMarines and Jacob Haqq-Misra suggested that a protocol be developed to improve the likelihood that messages would be understood.

There has been some serious controversy over prior attempts to contact intelligent aliens, where instead of hiding in the corner and listening real hard some astronomers have beamed intense directional messages up up and away. Critics decried these actions as dangerous, though their fears reveal more about us than any eventual ETs. They assume that they would be similar to humanity, so their first response to finding a more primitive culture would be to exploit it. While such a fate might be pleasingly ironic (for anyone who isn’t human, at least), others contend that any species that can make the journey here has advanced to a point where their goals are rather higher-minded than “Destroy Planet Earth”.

Dr Alexander Zaitzev, of the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics at the Russian Academy of Sciences, doesn’t think much of these worries either way. A proponent of METI (Messaging to Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence), in a paper he shows that the odds of one of the METI messages being detected is a millionth of that due to powerful radar pulses regularly used in astronomical investigation. Though whether writing a paper saying “This METI thing we’re doing has only a tiny chance of working” is overall a good idea remains to be seen. An important point is that METI represents an intentional will to make contact, rather than the accidental alien interception of some random radiation from Earth – the difference between saying “Hello!” and just being a suspicious strange noise late at night.

Most of the objections to contacting aliens are weak under close examination. We can’t suddenly decide to hide after fifty years of pumping electromagnetic radiation into space without rhyme or reason – in fact, we’d better hope that an advanced civilization doesn’t catch an episode of “American Idol” and just vaporize us outright.

Then there’s the assumption that aliens would have the same kind of technology we do – despite the extremely obvious fact that our technology can’t actually get to other exo planets. Any attempt to mask radio emissions will likely look like cavemen closing their eyes to hide from satellite imaging.

Undaunted by prior controversy swirling around the METI effort, Atri and his team argued that Earth had been emitting electromagnetic signals for more than a century, mostly as “unintended leakage from television, aviation, and telecommunication”.

“An advanced civilization within a radius of 100 light years could detect our television shows and already know we are here, so there is little hope in concealing our location in space,” they wrote.

Since 1974, humans have broadcast the numbers one through ten, atomic numbers of elements in DNA, graphics of a human, the solar system, and Arecibo, musical melodies, text messages, photographs and drawings.

The researchers believe that messages had become increasingly “anthropocentric” and complex, which could make them more difficult for extraterrestrial listeners to decode and decipher.

“Modern technology allows for large amounts of data to be transmitted at moderate costs, but the broadcast of massive amounts of information assumes that the recipient extraterrestrials will be capable of comprehending a complex message,” they wrote.

“Given that we know very little about the nature of extraterrestrial civilizations, if they exist, we are likely to increase the probability of us successfully communicating to them if we use a message that the recipient is likely to understand.”

Once developed, a METI protocol could be used to test communication across human cultural boundaries, the researchers wrote.

They suggested the establishment of a website through which members of the public could create sample messages that conformed to the protocol, and retrieve and attempt to decrypt messages by other users.

“A METI protocol is needed in order for a unified and international effort to be made in messaging extraterrestrials,” they concluded.
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“Earth Calling” –A ‘YouTube’ for Messaging Advanced Extraterrestrial Life.

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