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U.S. scientists unveil NASA’s secrets about cities on the Moon and microbes on Mars
Article translated from Russian News Agencies by Dmitry Sudakov Pravda.ru |
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Johnston's startling Apollo allegations have recently appeared in a new book, "Dark Mission: the Secret History of NASA," co-authored by former NASA consultant and CBS Science Advisor, Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara, an aerospace engineering consultant. According to Kay Ferrari, JPL Director of the SSA Program (in a phone call to Johnston last week), it was Johnston "being quoted [as] criticizing NASA in Hoagland's new book, 'Dark Mission,'" that prompted her to ask for Johnston's resignation from the SSA Program. When Johnston refused, citing First Amendment protections of free speech afforded all NASA employees, even those at JPL, Ferrari apparently decided to remove him arbitrarily from the SSA Program this week without cause. The low quality pictures included in the book depict ruins of buildings, huge dome-like objects made of glass, stone towers and castled hanging in the air. “I have nothing to lose. I have quarreled with NASA and I got fired,” Ken Johnston said.
Indeed, NASA believes that allegations of the ancient civilization found on the Moon are not serious. The authors of the controversial book also say that President John F. Kennedy, who launched the lunar race with the Soviet Union, actually intended to share extraterrestrial technologies with Moscow. Making a speech at the United Nations Organizations in September of 1963, Kennedy supposedly offered the USSR to organize a joint mission to the Moon.
Richard Hoagland believes that Washington’s interest in the Moon exploration that suddenly appeared after 30 years of silence is based on the lunar findings that the U.S. government has been keeping a secret for 40 years. Russia, China, Japan and even India have publicly announced their plans to work on the exploration of the Moon. The USA, Hoagland said, wants to be the first at this point.
In December NASA announced plans to build an international base on one of the poles of the Moon. The base is to be finished by 2024. Russia’s booster rocket maker, Energia, has a more ambitious program: to build a permanent manned base on the Moon by 2015.
Russia says the base will be built to develop the industrial production of helium-3. U.S. specialists prefer not to say anything specific on the matter. To crown it all, China launched its first satellite to the Moon on October 24. China also intends to launch a lunar base and an unmanned space probe to the Moon by 2010.
Non-radioactive isotope of helium, helium-3, is a powerful fuel for the nuclear synthesis. Only six tons of this fuel would provide enough energy to power a large European country for one year. The qualities of the gas (pollution-free and very high output) make many countries treat the perspective as seriously as possible. Germany, India and China conduct a number of research works to develop methods of helium-3 extraction.
Hoagland and Johnston also intend to prove that NASA virtually acts as another defense department of the United States, entitled to classify important technical and scientific information without the control of the U.S. Congress.
Hoagland says that American astronauts could secretly deliver samples of extraterrestrial technologies from the Moon to the Earth. The technologies, the scientist says, push world’s leading countries into a new lunar race. “Unlike the previous space race between the USSR and the USA, the new one will determine the life of every single human being on Earth,” Hoagland said.
Hoagland and Johnston think that the USA deliberately intensifies shuttle launches in order to shut down the program ahead of schedule and start using new the spacecraft, Constellation, that will let the USA land on the Moon again.
Richard Hoagland says that NASA conceals a number of other secrets, including the discovery of microbes on the surface of Mars. The discovery was supposedly made by unmanned space probe Viking in 1976.
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The former manager of the Data and Photo Control Department at NASA’s Lunar Receiving Laboratory during the manned Apollo Lunar Program, Ken Johnston, has released quite a number of sensational statements recently in the USA. The specialist said that U.S. astronauts found ancient ruins of artificial origin and a previously unknown technology to control gravitation when then landed on the Moon. Astronauts took pictures of the objects that they found, but NASA ordered Johnston to destroy the images. Johnston did not follow the order. He said that the U.S. government had been keeping this information a secret for 40 years. |
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U.S. scientists say that Apollo astronauts found ancient ruins on the Moon (enterprisemission.com) |
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ELEPHANTS IN DANGER!
South Africa has just announced it will reverse its 1995 ban on killing elephants and resume culling of elephants in May.
Elephant family groups could be rounded up by helicopters and shot for the air.
Elephants are extremely intelligent, social creatures with strong family bonds. It is well know that elephants mourn their dead, and killing large numbers of these sensitive creatures is cruel and unethical. Please take one minute to sign this petition and speak out for elephants today!
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“If animals are deprived of hope (as well as of fear), they are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring, or simply waiting.” - Joseph Wood Krutch
“Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you.” - Elias Caneto
“Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass not criticisms.” - George Eliot
There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or what people say about them. ‘- Voltaire
“Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals, “love” them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more.” - Edwin Way Teale
“Humans were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another. “ - Tom Robbins
“You must learn day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about—the more you have left when anything happens.” - Ethel Barrymore
“The soul that has no established aim loses itself.” - Michel de Montaigne
“One kills a man, one is an assassin; one kills millions, one is a conqueror’ one kills everybody, one is a god.” - Jean Rostand
“...there is no difference between one’s killing and one’s making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.” - Golda Meir
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“We live very close together. So, our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.” - Dalai Lama |
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Elephants are extremely intelligent animals and have memories that span many years. They display signs of grief, joy, anger and play, and also exhibit behaviour that reveals a concept of death and loss. |
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Young elephants usually suckle their mother until four, and stay with mother until about fifteen years. Elephants hit puberty at about sixteen, go bald at approximately 30 and live until about seventy years of age. An adult elephant needs to drink 225 litres of water daily and eat approximately 120 kilograms of plant food.
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In Sri Lanka, the human population is 20 million, while elephants number only 2,500. In 1800 the elephant population was 12, 000. Many elephants were killed by English colonialists on hunting expeditions up until as recent as 1948. Since then, increasing habitat and food source destruction due to human population growth, logging, rice and tea plantations have pushed elephants to the brink. Many elephants resort to raiding crops and villages in the search for food to survive. A major drought has further contributed to this sad situation.
This battle for survival between the poverty-stricken villagers and the languishing elephants results in about 20 human deaths and over 150 elephant deaths each year. One very effective solution to help resolve this discord is the setting up of electric fencing. Where these fences have been put in place, conflict between the two have ceased, although constant monitoring and maintenance of the fencing is needed. The Elephant Conservation Foundation has sponsored the construction of electric fencing around a number of villages, but more financial contributions are necessary to help these poor villagers to put up more fences to protect both humans and elephants. But while elephant habitat and their food sources continue to dwindle at an increasing rate, there needs to be other measures put in place to ensure the elephant’s continued survival.
With many elephants being shot while raiding farms, baby elephants are left to die of starvation or predators, so organisations such as the Elephant Transit Home in Sri Lanka provides a necessary service to give medical assistance and nurture baby elephants until they are released back into the wild. This organisation survives on sponsorships and donations with running costs of $600,000 a year.
Another wonderful elephant organisation based in Sri Lanka is the Millennium Elephant Foundation—a retirement home for elderly and sick working elephants. Elephants which have been chained up all their lives to work in logging groups or carrying tourists for Safari tours (this work is most injurious to elephants because the extreme weight of groups of people on their backs, usually leads to severe arthritic conditions later in life for these amazing animals). This home provides medical care and kind treatment and accommodation for the lucky few elephants that end their lives there. |
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