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Psychics Say Apollo 16 Astronauts Found Alien Ship

astroengine writes "A group called Transception Incorporated, self-described as an Austin, Texas-based psychic R&D operation, sent a letter (PDF) to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden that nominates the Apollo 16 crew for the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Why? Well, a variety of 'shipwreck elements' on the Moon — described as 'structures, people/aliens, biological technology, and their plight' — were reportedly 'seen' through remote viewing (PDF) by six experts at Transception. These 'elements' can be seen, along with Apollo 16 moonwalkers John Young and Charles Duke, in photographs during that famous mission, obviously making this the first ever alien encounter."

285 comments

  1. Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "We're not sure what these psychics are talking about, but we sure didn't encounter any aliens, nor were we in any way anally-probed. And we certainly weren't anally-probed repeatedly. Just never happened. We enjoyed a normal mission with no butt-raping from aliens at all...just two astronauts doing their job and *not* being tied down and repeatedly probed."

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    1. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      And we certainly weren't anally-probed repeatedly. Just never happened. We enjoyed a normal missionary position

      FTFY

    2. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      OK, we were anally probed. But not by aliens. Now cough.

    3. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by Bitsy+Boffin · · Score: 4, Funny

      "We're not sure what these psychics are talking about, but we sure didn't encounter any aliens, nor were we in any way anally-probed. And we certainly weren't anally-probed $^&$!@... I love to sing-a; About the moon-a and the June-a and the spring-a; I love to sing-a; About a sky of blue-a, or a tea for two-a,

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    4. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Not as funny as you thought it was

    5. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Reminds me of the First Contact student made 3D short from awhile ago: http://vimeo.com/17272913.

    6. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This proves it! We have obviously taken alien technology and implemented it ourselves, just look at the TSA!

    7. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by Runaway1956 · · Score: 1, Redundant

      The question comes to mind - "Why is slashdot even commenting on this story, when no comments would just drive it off the bottom of the charts?"

      Ehhh - I guess some of you find this drivel humorous.

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    8. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by hairyfeet · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well I personally think its funny that most likely to this very day the US government is working under a 'war of the worlds' rule that says if little green men parked on the White house lawn to get some pics with the Obama cutout they'd be going "aliens? what aliens? didn't see a thing, nope' because they are afraid we poor little peasants would snap and go apeshit. It reminds me of a booklet my grandfather brought home from the airbase he was stationed on around the time of Blue book. It said "THERE ARE NO UFOS...but if you see one DO NOT FIRE unless fired upon and report it immediately to the base commander". He said 'perfect example of military logic, we refuse to admit anything might exist but don't shoot at the damned thing whatever you do".

      The sad part is if UFOs are real most likely they are doing the same thing we do on those safari tours, pointing out the animals on some "tour of the crazy monkey world". I can just imagine the spiel "And here we have the crazy monkeys in one of their favorite past times, where they throw chunks of metal and primitive chemical rockets at each other in a fight for territory and dominance, most likely for mates and resources. No flurg you may NOT go poke one with a stick, do you have ANY idea what a crazy monkey smells like? you get close enough to poke it with a stick we will never get the stench out of the ship, woof. Oh and here's a treat for those with strong stomachs, over on the left we have two of the monkeys procreating on top of one of their primitive huts. As you can see they haven't developed asexual reproduction which is why we believe they smell so horrible, its most likely used to attract mates and to tell when the female is fertile. Oh it looks like its your lucky day folks, directly in front of us is one of their incredibly primitive flying vehicles, we believe those bulbous things hanging below it is a fetish to show the females how high the pilot ranks with the tribe, now we will play with it a little just so you can see how poorly built these machines are, why they can't even turn sideways!"

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    9. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by Black+Parrot · · Score: 2, Funny

      Well I personally think its funny that most likely to this very day the US government is working under a 'war of the worlds' rule that says if little green men parked on the White house lawn to get some pics with the Obama cutout they'd be going "aliens? what aliens? didn't see a thing, nope' because they are afraid we poor little peasants would snap and go apeshit.

      Worse, they'd be *illegal* aliens, and there'd be no end of the shit Obama had to hear from the Republican candidates.

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    10. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well I personally think its funny that most likely to this very day the US government is working under a 'war of the worlds' rule that says if little green men parked on the White house lawn to get some pics with the Obama cutout they'd be going "aliens? what aliens? didn't see a thing, nope' because they are afraid we poor little peasants would snap and go apeshit. It reminds me of a booklet my grandfather brought home from the airbase he was stationed on around the time of Blue book. It said "THERE ARE NO UFOS...but if you see one DO NOT FIRE unless fired upon and report it immediately to the base commander". He said 'perfect example of military logic, we refuse to admit anything might exist but don't shoot at the damned thing whatever you do".

      That is pretty funny cos its totally in line with military thinking. :o)

      The sad part is if UFOs are real most likely they are doing the same thing we do on those safari tours, pointing out the animals on some "tour of the crazy monkey world". I can just imagine the spiel ...

      Why is it sad? Humanity is probably doing the best it can at the stage its at, so why is it 'sad' that some race is ahead of us because they started earlier? People never seem to be short of strange ideas that lead to them seeing themselves and their species in a negative light. Humans have done many fantastic things as well (witness the Apollo program, thank diety i was born in that era!). Sure the war mongers and money grubbers are doing their best to fuck us all over and prevent us ever having a single original thought that might threaten their position, but they cannot do so forever which is why some of humanities most awesome achievements have occured. Humans are probably the most complex and spectacular single phenomenon on this planet and probably within a sphere of a good few light years radius centred around here, so lighten up and try and look on the bright side more. All you're doing by regurgitation societal memes is propogating them.

    11. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by EvilIdler · · Score: 5, Insightful

      UFOs are real. Most of them are moved to the identified category eventually, though :)

    12. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by MichaelSmith · · Score: 1

      You must be thinking of Apollo 12.

    13. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ... "THERE ARE NO UFOS...but if you see one DO NOT FIRE unless fired upon and report it immediately to the base commander". He said 'perfect example of military logic, we refuse to admit anything might exist but don't shoot at the damned thing whatever you do".

      That's because they didn't want knuckleheads shooting at their secret, experimental aircraft. Think of it as the "Blue on Blue Book".

    14. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "THERE ARE NO UFOS...but if you see one DO NOT FIRE unless fired upon and report it immediately to the base commander"

      I don't think this policy may have so much to do with an actual outerwordly UFO encounter than it does with making sure some trigger happy pilot doesn't just start shooting at anything that he deems unidentifiable.

    15. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I personally think this article is funny because Remote Viewing is bullshit.

    16. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Off-topic, but mod parent up. Very funny!

    17. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by Yvan256 · · Score: 1

      UFO #548902.Changed status to IFO #548902 from Alpha Centauri.

    18. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by ArmchairGeneral · · Score: 1

      I despise the fact that the term UFO infers to little green men in their intergalactic flying saucer. You can't say UFO openly without people looking at you strangely.

    19. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Does anyone here think it's actually possible to cross vast distances of space-time? And if so, would it be just to sightsee?

      I know there's other critters out there, but trying to calculate the odds that they can travel through space and that we'd be a stop along the way, out of all the other of bajillions of places to go, are making my system cry.

    20. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by operagost · · Score: 2

      They're made of MEAT?

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    21. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by mcgrew · · Score: 1

      Funny is in the ear of the beholder.

    22. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by LordLimecat · · Score: 1

      Listen, they can go though the immigration process like everyone else ;)

    23. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by oldmac31310 · · Score: 1

      UFOs are real. As in 'unidentified flying objects'. I think you really should have said alien spaceships instead.

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    24. Re:Young and Duke respond "Nope, no anal probing" by TheSkepticalOptimist · · Score: 1

      I think it is hilarious that people think the US can suppress the existence of aliens.

      I think little green men that can master space and time and visit our little marble in the universe could cut through a little bureaucratic red tape.

      I also can't believe that an alien can travel millions of light years but then crash that last few feet on reaching earth. And why would aliens only visit podunk towns in the US?

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  2. Psychics != Physics. :( by Bahumat · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I was way more excited about this until I realized I'd misread "psychics" as "physics". Sigh.

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    1. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by Derekloffin · · Score: 4, Insightful

      You too huh... it went from, ooo, this could be... oh psychics... well, nothing to see here folks.

    2. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      A new low for "science.slashdot.org". Psychics. Slashdot: ads, bogus "science," psychics, and corporate shilling for fan-boys.

    3. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I was way more excited about this until I realized I'd misread "psychics" as "physics". Sigh.

      sighhh.... yup...

    4. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      .....Same here.

    5. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      The differences is one makes up outlandish theories about the world around us and the other one makes outlandish claims!!

    6. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by icqraid · · Score: 5, Funny

      I too thought it said Physics. I was expecting a logical sequence of empirical data, but I got a post that shouldn't be on slashdot.

    7. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ROTFLMAO - I did EXACTLY the same thing. I just gotta learn to read...

    8. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Same reaction. I will attempt to read better in the future.

    9. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by ackthpt · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I was way more excited about this until I realized I'd misread "psychics" as "physics". Sigh.

      My favorite like about the bankruptcy of The Psychic Friends Network .. They didn't see it coming.

      I would wonder how physics would see something .. physics explain how something is seen: photons launched from star (at C), wavelengths of light, optic receptors, transmission of electrical signals, etc.

      Remote Viewing though ... cough ... If I could do that I'd be looking for gold or diamonds, not space junk on the Moon.

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    10. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by uigrad_2000 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Well, the story is clearly not about actual science, but how crazy some of these remote viewing people can be.

      The group claiming to see the alien ship are not in the least bit credible. Slashdot efditors: If you are going to discuss lunatics, at least get someone with an interesting past. For example:

      Laura Eisenhower, the great-granddaughter of Ike himself, is a whistleblower on the secret Mars colony project!!

      Reading Laura's site, she has a ton of amazing claims, in fact, the missions to Mars are far from being the craziest of her claims. You can tell it is written with sincerity, but I just can't believe a member of the Eisenhower family could be this crazy.

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    11. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I read "psychedelic chicks". Must get out more.

    12. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by Sulphur · · Score: 1

      Well, the story is clearly not about actual science, but how crazy some of these remote viewing people can be.

      The group claiming to see the alien ship are not in the least bit credible. Slashdot efditors: If you are going to discuss lunatics, at least get someone with an interesting past. For example:

      Laura Eisenhower, the great-granddaughter of Ike himself, is a whistleblower on the secret Mars colony project!!

      Reading Laura's site, she has a ton of amazing claims, in fact, the missions to Mars are far from being the craziest of her claims. You can tell it is written with sincerity, but I just can't believe a member of the Eisenhower family could be this crazy.

      Sounds like an Alien Entanglement.

    13. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by Darinbob · · Score: 3, Funny

      If the Psychic Friends Network were actually my friends, they'd be calling me when I had problems to cheer me up.

    14. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by physburn · · Score: 1

      Robert Sheldrake made the same mistake for a lifetime.

    15. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1

      A new low for "science.slashdot.org". Psychics. Slashdot: ads, bogus "science," psychics, and corporate shilling for fan-boys.

      And endless whingeing from A/Cs.

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    16. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Remote Viewing though ... cough ... If I could do that I'd be looking for gold or diamonds, not space junk on the Moon.

      I suspect the market price for aliens space junk is far higher than for mere gold or diamonds.

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    17. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by Lisandro · · Score: 2

      Yea, but is there something see remotely?

    18. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by Nyder · · Score: 1, Troll

      Well, the story is clearly not about actual science, but how crazy some of these remote viewing people can be.

      The group claiming to see the alien ship are not in the least bit credible. Slashdot efditors: If you are going to discuss lunatics, at least get someone with an interesting past. For example:

      Laura Eisenhower, the great-granddaughter of Ike himself, is a whistleblower on the secret Mars colony project!!

      Reading Laura's site, she has a ton of amazing claims, in fact, the missions to Mars are far from being the craziest of her claims. You can tell it is written with sincerity, but I just can't believe a member of the Eisenhower family could be this crazy.

      Dude, she's female, of course she's crazy.

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    19. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Psychotics is the word that was being sought. That or 'con artists'.

    20. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by rtb61 · · Score: 1

      Personally I have no problem with a family member getting hold of information they couldn't be trusted with and being administered 'a sure to obfuscate the information' pharmaceutical cocktail of the psychedelic variety. The CIA when they shut down the public remote viewing were rumoured to have kept a private for profit version ticking over ticking over in a research laboratory on the US Virgin Islands, CIA contractors never being the sanest people in the world.

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    21. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by Teancum · · Score: 2

      If there is a secret American military base on Mars, when Robert Zurbin finally gets there he'll get to have a house warming party put on by the staff of that base.

      There are so many legitimate stories about spaceflight and real spaceships that it boggles the mind to think that it is worthwhile to even bother reading tripe like this stuff from the "psychics". Sadly, they are drawn to policy discussions about spaceflight and are a part of the conversation even if you think they need to be dismissed completely.

      I do like Buzz Aldrin's solution to nut jobs that say he never walked on the Moon: Simply punching them in the face and telling them to go to hell.

    22. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Insightful

      A nugget of gold in the hand is worth two aliens on the moon.

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    23. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by iter8 · · Score: 2

      Back in the heyday of the psychic networks, I actually got a call from some psychic network, soliciting I guess. I'm not sure how or why they got my phone number. I was dumbstruck for a moment, but then I told them if they were truly psychic they would have known I wouldn't be interested and hung up. Around the same time, I had a buddy who had a girlfriend who was working for some psychic hotline. It was a big scam. Keep the suckers on the line as long as you can and tell them what they want to hear, run up the minutes. She said she was going to quit and go back to phone sex work because it was more honest.

    24. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by fifedrum · · Score: 1

      Why can't you believe someone from the Eisenhower family would be insane? There's nothing magical about their blood that prevents it. Frankly, their family tree is pretty normal.

    25. Re:Psychics != Physics. :( by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The Eisenhowers, like the Bush's are an old family. And, all old families have their fair share of "Giddy Aunt Gerdy's", and idiots. Case in point, W.

  3. thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Thanks for this amazing story Captain Retard. Where to next?

  4. Apollo 18 ad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    You're looking at guerrilla marketing for the "Apollo 18" movie, folks. Nothing to see here.

    1. Re:Apollo 18 ad by tmarsh86 · · Score: 1

      Except that Apollo 18 was released last September and died a deservedly quick death at the box office. Maybe this is for the "prequel".

  5. Why?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why the fuck is this bullshit on slashdot??

    1. Re:Why?? by komuso · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      I have a conspiracist explanation : there are conspiracy theorist among us...

    2. Re:Why?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It isn't news. It isn't for nerds. And it doesn't matter... that just about wraps it up, doesn't it...

    3. Re:Why?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Because I want to believe...

    4. Re:Why?? by cashman73 · · Score: 1, Troll

      Is Slashdot the new National Enquirer?

    5. Re:Why?? by Hoi+Polloi · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Slow day

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    6. Re:Why?? by Maury+Markowitz · · Score: 0

      I guess they ran out of lame videos of talking heads in front of non-existent electric cars.

    7. Re:Why?? by PJ6 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Why the fuck is this bullshit on slashdot??

      It's because we don't have a mechanism to punish or ban people who vote up stories like this.

    8. Re:Why?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Why the fuck is this bullshit on slashdot??

      Because we all need a laugh once in a while, even you. Do you need a better reason?

    9. Re:Why?? by Bob+the+Super+Hamste · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Well we haven't reported on the on goings of Bat Boy so we haven't sunk that low. At least the National Enquirer does some fact checking for their stories.

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    10. Re:Why?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Because you haven't been given the Slashdot Censorship role yet.

    11. Re:Why?? by rubycodez · · Score: 2

      I saw even lamer than that today, announcement of coming "electric planes" with concept pictures from Boeing & etc. of these 737 sized crafts. then one real picture in the article at the end of a real electric plane, a single man craft that was not much more than enclosed ultra-light. Because of course, the state of the art is that batteries are way too fucking heavy to make a craft with tens of thousands of horsepower

    12. Re:Why?? by gman003 · · Score: 1

      Because it's hilarious.

    13. Re:Why?? by DigitalSorceress · · Score: 1

      My guess: The article merely got quantum entangled with a real news article that will be posted on April 1.

      I figure if we add quantum entanglement to it, we get extra Internetz.

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    14. Re:Why?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's what Idle is for...

    15. Re:Why?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Perhaps it's product placement, to get people to rent the Apollo 18 DVD... ad revenue, perhaps, but definitely not science.

    16. Re:Why?? by couchslug · · Score: 1

      We have the world to laugh at, this is tabloid bullshit.

      It is not News for Nerds, and it doesn't Matter. It's pollution.

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    17. Re:Why?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hey .. I'm an alien.. I was there.. j/k .. what is tbis junk!!??

    18. Re:Why?? by H0p313ss · · Score: 1

      Because it's hilarious.

      Certainly the best laugh I've had all day.

      Is it just me or is the news of 2010 - 2012 depressingly like the chapter headings in "Stand on Zanzibar" ?

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    19. Re:Why?? by H0p313ss · · Score: 1

      I had forgotten that it was actually set in 2010. Suddenly I feel very old. I'm gonna go in the corner and play with my iPad ...

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    20. Re:Why?? by gmhowell · · Score: 1

      Why the fuck is this bullshit on slashdot??

      Michael Kristopeit has the answer to that.

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    21. Re:Why?? by DigiShaman · · Score: 2

      It could be worse. It could be Digg.

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    22. Re:Why?? by LWATCDR · · Score: 3, Insightful

      "It's because we don't have a mechanism to punish or ban people who vote up stories like this."
      You mean like the editors?

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    23. Re:Why?? by hairyfeet · · Score: 1

      That's "Weekly World News" friend, NE does the stories on who's banging the Kardashians and who is cheating on some third round failure on Survivor. Frankly i found WWN more entertaining as i'd rather read about batboy than which Kardashian is the biggest slut this week.

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    24. Re:Why?? by jjp9999 · · Score: 2

      The tag on the post is "It's funny. Laugh." I don't think they posted this believing it was real (at least I hope not).

    25. Re:Why?? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1

      Slow day

      The only surprise is that no one here is defending the claim - any other topic brings out trolls who pretend to believe, if no True Believers can be found.

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    26. Re:Why?? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1

      Why the fuck is this bullshit on slashdot??

      Because this is the Space, Land, Air, Sea, and Hyperspace Department of Transportation.

      SLASHDMV is next door...

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    27. Re:Why?? by tmarsh86 · · Score: 1

      I miss Weekly World News. The crazier the stories in that "paper" the funnier for me. Such cheap entertainment.

    28. Re:Why?? by hairyfeet · · Score: 1

      They are online now, look them up. Now that they don't have to pay for paper the stories are even more batshit, check them out with "above top secret' for your daily dose of crazy. I do and its a blast!

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    29. Re:Why?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's because we don't have a mechanism to punish or ban people who vote up stories like this.

      Sure you do. Stop reading slashdot. When they stop getting traffic, they'll wither and die on the vine...

  6. Way to go "unknown lamer" by X0563511 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This should be in idle, not science.

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    1. Re:Way to go "unknown lamer" by Unknown+Lamer · · Score: 4, Informative

      Oi, the tagging/section system decided to use science instead of idle despite being tagged idle before science and ... when in doubt, I like to blame Slashcode for my relationship problems.

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    2. Re:Way to go "unknown lamer" by jd · · Score: 2

      Depends. If this means Congress will divert a trillion dollars of military spending for NASA to check the claims out, I really wouldn't be crying too hard. After all, there might be turrorists up thar.

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    3. Re:Way to go "unknown lamer" by Leebert · · Score: 1

      I hear slashcode locked your cat in your bedroom as well.

    4. Re:Way to go "unknown lamer" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You meant, certainly, turdorists?

    5. Re:Way to go "unknown lamer" by X0563511 · · Score: 1

      Is it a bad thing that I'm not at all surprised? :(

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    6. Re:Way to go "unknown lamer" by owlnation · · Score: 1

      Indeed, well actually.... it shouldn't even be in Idle.

      I was expecting to see samzenpus's name as editor on this, but to be fair to him, this is way below some of the crap that he posts in Idle.

      Unknown Lamer: hang your head in shame. What will you post tomorrow? What sign of the zodiac is best for getting a job at Google?

      Congratulations though, you may have just posted the single worst article in the history of /. to the front page. I hope you are proud of yourself.

    7. Re:Way to go "unknown lamer" by Baloroth · · Score: 2

      What will you post tomorrow? What sign of the zodiac is best for getting a job at Google?

      Oh that's easy. Virgo, a.k.a the virgin.

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    8. Re:Way to go "unknown lamer" by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1

      If this means Congress will divert a trillion dollars of military spending for NASA to check the claims out, I really wouldn't be crying too hard.

      Sorry, they need that teradollar for the down payment on the next war they're trying to drum up.

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  7. Alternate headline: by J'raxis · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Incredible claim made by group with no credibility."

    Okay then.

    1. Re:Alternate headline: by kaizokuace · · Score: 1

      Time to get rich, boys!

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    2. Re:Alternate headline: by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1

      "Incredible claim made by group with no credibility."

      Okay then.

      Except that it ought to be on politics.slasdot.org... or maybe tech-marketing-claims.slashdot.org

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  8. My Wallet by residieu · · Score: 2

    I was using Remote Viewing, and I saw that they found my wallet up there too. I'd like it returned. With the $5000 in cash I had in it.

    1. Re:My Wallet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      But with the inflation, you must be rich now!

    2. Re:My Wallet by Jeng · · Score: 1

      I was using Remote Viewing, and I saw that they found my wallet up there too. I'd like it returned. With the $5000 in cash I had in it.

      Sure, just pay shipping and handling.

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    3. Re:My Wallet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      inflation goes in the opposite direction...

    4. Re:My Wallet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That may almost be enough to pay for your copy of RemoteView .

    5. Re:My Wallet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Only if you return mine which I just saw right by your side.

  9. They Live! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I assumed that they claimed it was Apollo 16 because all of the astronauts were dead and wouldn't be able to deny it.

    Imagine my surprise to learn that all 3 of them are still alive (at least according to wiki). Old, yes, but very much alive.

  10. Really Guys? by pcwhalen · · Score: 0

    That slow a news day that we post this? 7 minutes of my life wasted watching this video that I will never get back.

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    1. Re:Really Guys? by X0563511 · · Score: 3, Informative

      It's your own damn fault for loading the video after reading the summary. ... or did you not read the summary? That will teach you.

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    2. Re:Really Guys? by pcwhalen · · Score: 0

      It's your own damn fault for loading the video after reading the summary. ... or did you not read the summary? That will teach you.

      Point taken. Lesson learned. Not all material Slashdot editors like is worth a damn.

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    3. Re:Really Guys? by pcwhalen · · Score: 1

      Modded down as off-topic. Yet +5 insightful to those complaining after me. Welcome to /., baby.

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    4. Re:Really Guys? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 2

      It's your own damn fault for loading the video after reading the summary. ... or did you not read the summary? That will teach you.

      Now I don't feel so bad about never reading TFA.

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  11. Is there anyway to vote crap like this by liquidweaver · · Score: 4, Insightful

    off the front page? This kind of pollution is really nasty for those of use with an RSS feed, too.

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  12. Dumbasses by tylersoze · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bah, everyone knows it was Apollo *11* that discovered aliens. They even made a documentary about it where events occurred in real time, it was called "Transformers Presents: Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon: The Quickening" or something like that, by Average American Voter.

    1. Re:Dumbasses by eulernet · · Score: 1

      Wrong, every psychic knows that aliens crashed in 1947:
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident

    2. Re:Dumbasses by chud67 · · Score: 1

      They're batshit crazy in Austin; I know, I used to live there.

    3. Re:Dumbasses by Culture20 · · Score: 1

      What's so special about that? Every non-psychic knows that too!

    4. Re:Dumbasses by JamesP · · Score: 2

      Nooo, noo!!!

      Of course men never went to the moon!!111

      Would be funny to get them together with moon landing denialists

      I have a feeling that the idea of "the moon conspiracy" is actually a conspiracy in itself. (That is, the real conspiracy is the creation of the idea that men never went to the moon)

       

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    5. Re:Dumbasses by narcc · · Score: 1

      Just think, Austin is the sanest part of Texas...

  13. Seeing things? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "A group called Transception Incorporated, self-described as an Austin, Texas-based psychic R&D operation, sent a letter (PDF) to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden that nominates the Apollo 16 crew for the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Why? Well, a variety of 'shipwreck elements' on the Moon — described as 'structures, people/aliens, biological technology, and their plight' — were reportedly 'seen' through remote viewing (PDF) by six experts at Transception. These 'elements' can be seen, along with Apollo 16 moonwalkers John Young and Charles Duke, in photographs during that famous mission, obviously making this the first ever alien encounter."

    Any relation to the seeing "faces in Mars" phenomenon?

  14. All right then ... by quax · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... time to submit all my exciting Nostradamus prediction stories and how it ties in with the world ending in 2012.

    C'mon editors! This is what is now considered front page material?

  15. MPAA by guttentag · · Score: 4, Funny

    The MPAA should hire these guys to lobby Congress on their behalf, because they make a much more convincing argument for blatant bullshit than Chris Dodd ever did.

    1. Re:MPAA by Bradmont · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, the MPAA should sue their arses. Obviously, if they have the power to psychically see things outside of normal line of sight, they must, logically, be watching movies they haven't paid for, and thus causing millions of dollars of sales losses. While they're at it, they should have any domain names associated with the group confiscated, for promoting their illegal and immoral methods of pirate viewing.

  16. Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot by syousef · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've been here for about a decade and a half and I'm done. I do not come here to read about fucking psychics and lately I get real news in popular press before it hits this site. This place was always a nasty one, full of trolls well entrenched along with worthwhile posters, but the news use to be quality and you could get a decent conversation. Now I'd be better off reading the fucking enquirer. Nice knowing you slashdot, don't let the door hit your arse on the way out.

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    1. Re:Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      agreed. next stop, stories about the kardashians

    2. Re:Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot by geekoid · · Score: 5, Funny

      How to tell someone isn't really going to quit /. They talk about quitting /.

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    3. Re:Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Shit, I would have quit at the ponies.

    4. Re:Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot by Culture20 · · Score: 1

      Can I have your UID? I promise I won't read anything into it if you give me the password.

    5. Re:Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I agree. I believe Slashdot has just jumped the shark.

    6. Re:Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sammy, I remember you having this same rant about four times in as many years. FFS just go, ok, and keep your incessant negativity away from your friends. It makes you look stupid and it wears us out.

    7. Re:Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      And you thought that ragequitting an FPS was intense... wait until you hear about ragequitting Slashdot!

      I've been here for about a decade and a half and I'm done. I do not come here to read about fucking psychics and lately I get real news in popular press before it hits this site. This place was always a nasty one, full of trolls well entrenched along with worthwhile posters, but the news use to be quality and you could get a decent conversation. Now I'd be better off reading the fucking enquirer. Nice knowing you slashdot, don't let the door hit your arse on the way out.

    8. Re:Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot by jtosburn · · Score: 1

      A perfect time for one of those continually decending UID replies, each proclaiming, "This time I'm *REALLY* going to quit!"

    9. Re:Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Just ask the psychics. They will be happy to give it to you for $3.99/minute. Please note that the call may last up to 16 hours, as the psychics need to bounce through several dimensions of reality to retrieve the data. Have your credit card ready when you call.

    10. Re:Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      CmdrTaco quit. Why Rob?! Why!!!

    11. Re:Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I actually used to have a five-digit user number before I fucked up my password recall and had to get something six times larger. I've been visiting slashdot since about 1995. That makes almost twenty years of coming here, and I really don't see what you're so disappointed about. Did the psychics really, really hurt your feelings?

    12. Re:Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Awesome, 1995 hey, that's two years before its founder visited. Well done, Doc Brown...

    13. Re:Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot by NotPeteMcCabe · · Score: 1

      But... you're the one on the way out, right?

    14. Re:Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 1

      " I do not come here to read about fucking psychics ...."

      I knew someone was going to say that.

      This is Slashdot. Very few people come here to read the articles. They come here to post on various subjective tangents based on presumptions about what they believe the article likely says, or what the summary erroneously states or implies the article says.

      Why am I telling you this? You've been "coming here" for ten years.

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    15. Re:Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot by Zero__Kelvin · · Score: 1

      Why would you want such a high SlashID?

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    16. Re:Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot by DMUTPeregrine · · Score: 1

      Just like MMO players!

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    17. Re:Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1

      I actually used to have a five-digit user number before I fucked up my password recall and had to get something six times larger.

      A thirty-digit user number?

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    18. Re:Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1

      Shit, I would have quit at the ponies.

      I hate to break the news to you, but ponies are real!

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    19. Re:Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot by narcc · · Score: 1

      I actually used to have a five-digit user number before I fucked up my password recall and had to get something six times larger.

      A thirty-digit user number?

      Multiplication. How does it work?

    20. Re:Fuck this shit. Last straw. Bye slashdot by uglyduckling · · Score: 1

      Serious fail. I hope you were trying to be funny...

  17. is there a movie launch happening? by Sebastopol · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is there a new movie coming out about this or something? I say this because anytime an outlet like The History Channel suddenly starts hyping some weird paranormal event, it is because they were seeded with $$$ by the studio to drum up hype. This story sounds familiar, but I don't see the trailers.

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    1. Re:is there a movie launch happening? by geekoid · · Score: 2

      As it turns out, actual history is boring to most people, so now its the 'Made up History channel' much more consumer appeal.

      It's a horrible channel with horrible stories.
      I do think there is overall merit to society in having a History channel the take a neutral stance and actual discus aspects of history. Sadly it would need to be government funded.

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    2. Re:is there a movie launch happening? by RdeCourtney · · Score: 1

      That coupled with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZ2ZcmMxehk Would lead me to believe that there's a viral marketing campaign for: War of the Worlds 2012 http://waroftheworldsthetruestory.com/

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    3. Re:is there a movie launch happening? by dargaud · · Score: 1

      Wasn't it Apollo 18 last year ?

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    4. Re:is there a movie launch happening? by gknoy · · Score: 1

      Well, that and there's a movie that looks to be basically the same, though the mission number differs:

      http://apollo18movie.net/

    5. Re:is there a movie launch happening? by Adam+Appel · · Score: 1

      Right. The last day I turned cable on (Sunday) I saw the guide said "little known secrets in America" or something like that. I turned it on and sure enough it was a segment about the St Louis Arch being a weather control device using ionic pulses. What the fuck, batman? How's that history?

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    6. Re:is there a movie launch happening? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How would a government funded history channel be any more neutral?

    7. Re:is there a movie launch happening? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The History and H2 channels (like several others) are only interesting if you have a DVR. One of them ran an 11-part series on World War 1 last year, and it was reasonably good (for TV), but the episodes weren't aired when most people would be home.

      People who are mildly interested in history can find fairly good stuff (again, for TV) during the low viewership hours. They flood the prime viewing times, particularly early evenings and weekends, with garbage on aliens, ghosts, and Nostradamus.

      They haven't yet gone completely worthless like TLC.

      - T

  18. Re:Thats another low for the slashdot by tripleevenfall · · Score: 3, Funny

    all it's missing is the editorializing in the summary.

    "It will be interesting to see how the corporatist plutocrats in Washington respond to this blowing of the cover-up and how it proves that Google is actually regarded as a diety by every galactic culture but ours..."

  19. Let them prove it. by Tyr07 · · Score: 1

    Send all the psychics to the moon so they can prove it and meet the aliens.

    Problem solved.

    P.S Fuel prices keep going up, may have to employ some fuel related cutbacks, like enough to just get there.

    1. Re:Let them prove it. by rubycodez · · Score: 1

      naw, let's keep the psychics, and send the three branches of U.S. government to the moon, along with all those who want the office for 2012. couldn't hurt and it might help

  20. That figures... by Stumbles · · Score: 1

    my astral projection lead me to the wrong part of the moon.

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    1. Re:That figures... by Anomalyst · · Score: 1

      Ruh. Roh.
      Oh .... ASTRAL projection ... never mind.

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  21. Alien press release by funwithBSD · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Aliens released a statement through their spokesman, Giorgio A. Tsoukalos:

    Psychics do not exist. We bred it out of the human race a long time ago.

    Also, Flock of Seagulls is the best band Evah!

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    1. Re:Alien press release by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Correct. Our alien overlords bred us to be have trivial luck. Just ask Larry Niven.

  22. transformers? by scharkalvin · · Score: 1

    What did they find. Alien transformer robots?

  23. Wrong Apollo mission by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I thought it was Apollo 18 that found aliens

  24. Re:Thats another low for the slashdot by Jeng · · Score: 3, Funny

    and how it proves that Google is actually regarded as a diety by every galactic culture but ours..."

    That sounds more plausible than TFA.

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  25. What the... by laughingcoyote · · Score: 0

    "Crazy people made up crazy story"? How on earth does that warrant being posted as news? Is the next article going to be about a guy who believe he telepathically communicates with aliens?

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  26. Someone mis-spelled Psychotics by terjeber · · Score: 3, Funny

    EOM

  27. Confuse people in to believing you? by DewDude · · Score: 1

    Watching this video just made me more confused. There was nothing but drawings....random mumbling...and the bluish outline of people which interfered with what they were trying to show. Maybe they're trying to prove you can prove existence of aliens by utterly confusing your audience in to believing it. The backwards/repeating voices do nothing to convince me of anything than the author is on something. I wish they'd tell me where they got it, at least I'd of learned something from this video. When seven-foot bluish cat-looking creatures come landing...then I'll believe you.

    1. Re:Confuse people in to believing you? by Jeng · · Score: 3, Informative

      These people don't need drugs to believe in aliens, they need drugs to not believe in aliens.

      This is taking advantage of the mentally ill.

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    2. Re:Confuse people in to believing you? by geekoid · · Score: 1

      " There was nothing but drawings....random mumbling...and the bluish outline of people which interfered with what they were trying to show."

      right, psychics.

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  28. B Ship by Tokolosh · · Score: 3, Funny

    Send them with the hairdressers and telephone sanitizers to find the aliens.

    I just love this concept and will help to make it happen.

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    1. Re:B Ship by Jeng · · Score: 1

      Yea, but launching them into space is fucking expensive, it is better to convince them of the hollow earth theory and then toss them all into volcanoes.

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  29. I must have missed by rossdee · · Score: 1

    the follow up mission to Jupiter which is where the alien ship sent the signal.
    Or was it Saturn (and the moon Iapetus)

    Cue Strauss Zarathustra music

  30. Hmm by Lord+Lode · · Score: 1

    I bought it, until they started playing audio fragments in reverse to find hidden messages.

    And that was the first part of the video I saw since I just scrolled through it.

  31. please stop by Tom · · Score: 0

    Don't give these fucktards exposure. We (i.e. the sentient, non-scammer people on this world) all wish they would die off, and quickly. You think you do a good think by ridiculing them, but you don't.

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  32. They observed intelligent life on Moon by Hentes · · Score: 2

    From what I've heard one of the astronauts did see an intelligent living organism climbing out of the moonlander.

    1. Re:They observed intelligent life on Moon by Grishnakh · · Score: 1

      It was probably a descendant of one of the Nazis that landed there in 1945 after fleeing the earth with new anti-gravity technology.

    2. Re:They observed intelligent life on Moon by R3d+M3rcury · · Score: 1
  33. really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    remote viewing is not science, this should never have been on the front page

    1. Re:really? by Grishnakh · · Score: 1

      But would you say the same thing about Chiropractic, Homeopathy, etc.? Those things are all highly respected by the government, the medical profession, and covered by insurance in many places.

    2. Re:really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Are you crazy ?

      Are you sure you're not trying to be ironic/funny?

      While it's true some of those "alternative" things have made it onto some countries medical benefits lists (amazingly) it doesn't mean they have any effect over placebo.

      In fact, I might start up a new "alternative medicine"....and I shall call it placebo-faithy-psychosomaticapathy. !!

      I'll make a fortune.....and all safe from prosecution...w00t!!!!

      Thank you Jebus !!!

    3. Re:really? by Grishnakh · · Score: 0

      I'm trying to be both ironic and raise a serious point, that we as a society give plenty of respect to "medicines" with absolutely no scientific basis, so I don't see how remote viewing is really any different.

    4. Re:really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Chiropractors can be roughly partitioned into two groups: those that crack your back/neck/whatever, then recommend flexibility and strengthening exercises; and those that deal in crystals, laying on hands, and other useless crap. There are damned few alternative therapies that are "highly respected" by the government and the medical profession. Even the (plausibly) useful subset of chiropractors still receives plenty of skepticism.

      I would guess that some health insurance plans cover all Chiropractors because it's hard for the company to discern the (arguably) useful ones from the cranks, at least not without inviting lawsuits. Homeopathy is just snake oil, no make that "snake water"; the government and medical professions fully recognize that. I guess I wouldn't be completely surprised if there were a few plans that cover it, but that's really laughable.

      - T

  34. Woo hoo! by DougDot · · Score: 1

    I'm ready for my anal probe now!

  35. 25,000 Signatures by Matt.Battey · · Score: 1

    Now all we need is 25K signatures and the government will have to confirm that our alien overlords are here to stay.

    I for one welcome our remotely viewed alien overlords!

  36. Apollo 18? by The+Grim+Reefer · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen it, but isn't this a movie? Apollo 18. Perhaps the upper right corner of the 8 was just a little smudgy in their "mind's eye"

  37. Why is this crap on this site? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Seriously, seeing this on the front page is like walking into a bookstore and seeing a bodice-ripper with Asimov as the author.

  38. If Bush hadn't pissed off them aliens by rickb928 · · Score: 1

    They wouldn't have been so damned angry and slammed into the first parking spot they found. See? "Yee-Ha" isn't such a great intergalactic policy after all.

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  39. Wait physics what?!? by lastrogue · · Score: 1

    At first glance me and my dyslexia read "Physics Say Apollo 16 Astronauts Found Alien Ship" Then reading on I found the words "remote viewing" and I cursed my brain for swapping letters around without my permissions.

  40. ah ho WIOLAWA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Cookoo,....cookoo....cookoo....cookoo....

  41. WTF by Myopic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How the fuck did this make it onto Slashdot? This is literally, not figuratively, the most disappointing story I've ever seen here.

    1. Re:WTF by Jeng · · Score: 1, Insightful

      I find it surprising how many mod points are being used to down mod those of us who are complaining about this shit, yet so few mod points up modding comments.

      Why I wonder why that is?

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    2. Re:WTF by Myopic · · Score: 1

      Well I got +Insightful, -Off Topic, and -Troll.

      My complaint was in fact off topic, so I accept that mostly; and it was also somewhat insightful, so I accept that; but it was not at all a troll, so I reject those mods.

  42. I would say something by cshark · · Score: 1

    but first I need to consult with the spirits.

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  43. This is what happens when.. by Paracelcus · · Score: 0

    People who "lee-uv" in "triyler Porks" are allowed to watch science fiction while drinking!
    And they are allowed to vote!

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  44. The Ancient Pyramids where Landing Pads for Aliens by itsybitsy · · Score: 2

    In fact a documentary series was made about this that reveals all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR90P1GhZA4.

  45. I wouldn't say it was aliens, but... by Thud457 · · Score: 2

    usually, I'm above posting the hoary old obligatory XKCD link

    ugh, I feel dirty.

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    1. Re:I wouldn't say it was aliens, but... by Greyfox · · Score: 1
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    2. Re:I wouldn't say it was aliens, but... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1

      Or since it's about a purported cover-up: http://xkcd.com/542/.

      Clearly, NASA preemptively leaked the story to a group that no one would believe.

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  46. Dialogue by jones_supa · · Score: 2

    Mulder: A group called Transception Incorporated, self-described as an Austin, Texas-based psychic R&D operation, sent a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden that nominates the Apollo 16 crew for the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.

    Scully: Why?

    Mulder: Well, a variety of 'shipwreck elements' on the Moon — described as 'structures, people/aliens, biological technology, and their plight' — were reportedly 'seen' through remote viewing by six experts at Transception. These 'elements' can be seen, along with Apollo 16 moonwalkers John Young and Charles Duke, in photographs during that famous mission, obviously making this the first ever alien encounter.

    1. Re:Dialogue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Scully: Mulder, those are rocks.

      Mulder: <pause> Oh.

    2. Re:Dialogue by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      CSM: I do believe that Agent Mulder may be stumbling on to our alliance with the aliens. Do something that will put him off the trail. Let him "find" the black oil virus. I have to go check in with the Black Mesa facility to find the status of our new weapons.

  47. That is the stupidest shit I have ever seen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Damnation.

  48. Premise of Transformers 3? by Amigan · · Score: 1

    Wasn't this the premise for the last Transformers movie ( Transformers: Dark of the Moon ) due out on video soon (or already available)?? Sure sounds like a publicity stunt for the movie to me.

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  49. Huh? by james.mcarthur · · Score: 1

    Hang on, something is fishy here.. weren't the moon landings faked anyway? Could these remote-viewers have been picking up a late night B-grade movie instead..

  50. /. Jumps Shark, Stopping Midair to Sodomize It by rubycodez · · Score: 0

    That's the end of Slashdot, it's all over but for the fat lady farting.

    1. Re:/. Jumps Shark, Stopping Midair to Sodomize It by iggymanz · · Score: 1

      Indeed, this reminds me of the ABC News website. They used to have news, but now three-quarters of the front page is gossip column. Should we all just give it "Burning Chrome" funeral pyre, by cracking the site and burning it to the ground? It would be an act of mercy.

    2. Re:/. Jumps Shark, Stopping Midair to Sodomize It by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You're mixing your shark metaphors. While you're in mid-air, the shark is safely in the tank below. However, if by some lucky coincidence, there happens to be a flying shark flying by...

  51. Ahh ... the nostalgia ... by GoblinKing · · Score: 1

    Just as I was feeling nostalgic for OMNI magazine and it's "How to tell if you are an alien" questionnaire...

  52. How the hell is this "News for Nerds"? by Chas · · Score: 0

    Unlike politics, which actually has the dangerous ability to affect us, how is this random noise from an ages-old culture of shysterism of ANY interest to nerds/geeks/technoliterati culture?

    Yeah, maybe there's a "Someone saw Transformers 3. STOOPID LUDDITES!" factor, but come on!

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    Chas - The one, the only.
    THANK GOD!!!
    1. Re:How the hell is this "News for Nerds"? by Zorque · · Score: 1

      Seriously. "Psychics" say a lot of things, but none of them are deserving of headlines.

  53. Check out their website. No, seriously. by CanHasDIY · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At first, I thought this might be a poorly disguised advert for Iron Sky, until I read their 'About Us' page:

    TRANSCEPTION INCORPORATED is a pioneer in the new frontier of mind itself, founded on the premise that (?foreign?) technology can be transferred lawfully from the state of nature from any place in the Universe, in time or space, using a team of highly trained/skilled Controlled Remote Viewers (CRVers). At least by way of the Recommendation for Nomination for the Congressional Space Medal of Honor, submitted to the NASA Administrator on December 15, 2011, TRANSCEPTION has shown that technology can be transferred lawfully from the state of nature from any place in the Universe, in time or space, using a team of highly trained/skilled Controlled Remote Viewers. In sum, TRANSCEPTION INCORPORATED is an R&D company specializing in the exploitation of CRV and other methods to lawfully extract technology from the state of nature as a means for building, licensing, and enforcing its intellectual property (IP) portfolio of patents and copyrights.

    So... "psychic" patent trolls...

    Sylvia Browne is gonna be pissed she didn't think of it first.

    --
    An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
    1. Re:Check out their website. No, seriously. by gknoy · · Score: 1

      I want to laugh hard at that, except it's really sobering that not only do they seriously believe that they can do it, but I'll bet that within the next five years they'll try to patent something, or sue someone.

    2. Re:Check out their website. No, seriously. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That isn't.... that doesn't even... IP law doesn't...

    3. Re:Check out their website. No, seriously. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They should be really careful with the revelations related to the remote viewing capability as it is well know that certain government organizations have been pursuing this psychic technology for some time. They will soon find black helicopters circling around their rent-a-office in the technology business park.

    4. Re:Check out their website. No, seriously. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It wouldn't surprise me if they received government a grant.

      (Remote viewing began as a U.S. government (funded) program. Look it up on Wikipedia. No wonder why we're in this mess, our government wastes money on this nonsense).

    5. Re:Check out their website. No, seriously. by CaseCrash · · Score: 1

      At first, I thought this might be a poorly disguised advert for Iron Sky,

      Oh my god, I thought this whole article posting was a worthless waste of time, but it has given me that link and so all is good. I can't believe I haven't heard of Iron Sky yet. Nazi's in space? Yes please!

      Thank you!

      --
      No, that link you posted to a web comic we've all seen a hundred times is not "obligatory."
  54. WTF is this shit doing on Slashdot? by couchslug · · Score: 1

    Tabloid fodder for stupid cunt housewives and their male equivalents doesn't belong here.

    --
    "This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
  55. Delusional if you ask me by Slashdotgirl · · Score: 1

    I predict that all 'psychics' who say, "Apollo 16 Astronauts Found Alien Ship" are delusional. No sorry, ignore the last sentence and remember this, 'all psychics are delusional'.

    Kind regards
    Slashdotgirl

    --
    The more I know, the less I know
  56. The alien wear hat! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I want that on my t-shirt! :D

  57. Why is this on /. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Why is this on /. this isn't news for nerds. Nerds don't believe in bullshit like psychics or crap. I swear to god the staff of /. has been replaced by Daily Fail editors.

  58. So if they look at the moon... by q.kontinuum · · Score: 1

    Can I rightfully call them "lunatic"?

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    Trolling is a art!
  59. Seriously, slashdot? by lanceran · · Score: 0

    Been reading slashdot since about 2002... I'm done now, will be getting my nerd news elsewhere.

  60. did anyone else... by Nocturnal+Deviant · · Score: 1

    get past the line "A group called Transception Incorporated, self-described as an Austin, Texas-based psychic R&D operation" without stopping and laughing uproariously then simply stop reading?

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    -Noc
    1. Re:did anyone else... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1

      get past the line "A group called Transception Incorporated, self-described as an Austin, Texas-based psychic R&D operation" without stopping and laughing uproariously then simply stop reading?

      I kept reading for the lulz.

      The only people who ought to be complaining about this story is the ones who dislexed "psychic" into "phyiscs".

      --
      Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  61. See what happens..? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When you get drunk and go see a double feature of Transformers 3 and Apollo 18, and blackout somewhere in the middle. This... is what happens.

    1. Re:See what happens..? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1

      When you get drunk and go see a double feature of Transformers 3 and Apollo 18, and blackout somewhere in the middle. This... is what happens.

      Or when you get kicked out of your cult because the others think you're gullible.

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      Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  62. I agree. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Right. Mod +1 insightful. MoFos.

  63. This just in... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Psychics say your mom is fat. Find out more on Slashdot.

  64. "Reverse Speech" -hah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    All this wonder bandwidth in regular speech, and the aliens can't get anything better than a bad Yoda impression....

  65. Can somebody explain why this article is here? by scurvyj · · Score: 0

    Can somebody explain why this article is here? It would be good if it got removed, actually.

  66. First Rule of Quitting Slashdot: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Don't talk about quitting slashdot!

  67. Well.... by RoboRay · · Score: 1

    Surely, credible psychics would have notified NASA about the crew discovering aliens prior to the launch.

  68. My favorite psychic headline by cvtan · · Score: 1

    "The Psychic Network goes out of business due to unforeseen financial difficulties..."

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    Sorry, but gray text on gray background is making my eyes bleed.
  69. Mission Creep by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No self-respecting psychic would use media.
    And no self-respecting /. reader would consider this news, or entertainment.
    Guess that's why I left years ago.

    1. Re:Mission Creep by Black+Parrot · · Score: 1

      No self-respecting psychic would use media.
      And no self-respecting /. reader would consider this news, or entertainment.
      Guess that's why I left years ago.

      Glad you posted that before you left.

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      Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
  70. Indeed. by dtmancom · · Score: 0

    Slashdot, and the Internet itself, is serious business. This is hogwash and balderdash, sir, and I'll have none of it. Good day. I SAID GOOD DAY.

  71. Dear Transception: CAN I GET A HIT OFF DAT? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Seriously - whatever those guys are smoking must be totally killer. Not only do you imagine ships on THE FUCKING MOON, but you think announcing it is a good idea...

  72. Senior, I dona think you know what that word means by Proudrooster · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Attention Slashdot green-lighters, pay close attention to the following words and their definitions.

    Psychics: people who make stuff up.

    Physicists: people who go to university for a long time get degrees, then make stuff up and sometime make stuff work (like rockets and lasers).

    Because the descriptions are close, I will let it slide this time, but stop green-lighting when you are drunk. Thank you.

  73. Open your minds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Ever see "Sensing Murder"? from what I can see all 6 "psychics" weren't given prior information and concluded the same result, I'm not advocating this information should be on Slashdot, but tell me how that's possible?

    From the letter to NASA by Transception:
    "Following standard operational CRV protocols, the first target was worked on-camera by six
    professional CRVers, and by two trainees off-camera. To say the viewers “hit” their targets is an
    understatement, with most of them actually bi-locating. The data from these sessions reveal, among other
    things, the remnants of an ancient alien “shipwreck” on the surface of the Moon. For those not familiar
    with CRV protocols, the Viewer is never told anything about the target before or during a CRV session.
    The Viewer remains completely blind to the target. The only thing the Viewer is given is an
    arbitrary/random administrative number associated with the target by the Tasker and nothing else" ....

    More importantly:
    "Thus, when you have six professional
    CRVers and two trainees, all under blind conditions, report during there sessions information about a
    “shipwreck”, as opposed to a bowl of fruit, for example, then we can almost guarantee that that is what
    the target is, given the fact that we have a photograph and video of the site that confirm it, albeit heavily
    altered/obfuscated by NASA."

  74. Ummm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    poppycock and wallybollocks

  75. Danger? by morgauxo · · Score: 1

    Is this what happens to us if we hope to hard for a scifi-ish future or does it require a bit of mis-wiring in the brain to get to that point?

  76. Mud wrestling by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Now, if this group of psychics can hire a spokesmodel, a shapely young woman, to mud wrestle a spokesmodel, also a shapely young woman, for the "moon landing hoax" people, then i would be interested. maybe green alien goo wrestling. at least we know that they cant both be right (unless one or both are getting their data from alternate universes where it was a hoax or alien tech was there, AND remote viewing works in this instance)

  77. Silly slashdot. by dhenson02 · · Score: 1

    Here I was thinking I time traveled to 1 April 2012. In other news, careface.

  78. Thanks for calling, listener. by Ol+Biscuitbarrel · · Score: 1
  79. Well F* by Niscenus · · Score: 1

    That just shows everyone is vulnerable to the History Channel Deveneration Effect. I'm going to have to start getting my news from Kuro5hin, Humorix and 4Chan:PedoWatch.

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    "Yeah...it was the numbers that were irrational, not the murderous cult of vegetarians...." -- Hippasus of Metapontum
  80. WTF slashdot by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    What the fuck is this shit doing on slashdot? Its not news for nerds, not stuff that matters, and not remotely related to technology, politics, privacy, or any of the other issues that people come here to read about... if there was any doubt before that you clowns were taking money for links its pretty much gone now.

  81. Funny, I don't seem to remember hearing about it. by meerling · · Score: 1

    You'd think an astronaut upon seeing a crashed spaceship would probably say something like, "HOLY F###### ##IT! THERES AN ALIEN SPACESHIP HERE! CALL THE PRESIDENT, THE REPORTS, MY MOM!". Since nothing like that every came through, I kind of doubt it happened. And the astronauts say nothing like that happened. But they did bring back lots of pictures.

    On the other hand, we have psychics claiming the astronauts did find that, and their proof is that they imagined it.

    Yeah, I'm going with the astronauts on this one.

  82. Hey, The lights are still on by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    /. nobody home

  83. Holy Shit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Holy Shit! Somebody tell Ron Paul he was right after all!

  84. Attention!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The psychics just want attention.

  85. Please stop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Slashdot is not the appropriate venue for fringe crackpottery.

  86. This is an embarassment. by Quartus.net · · Score: 2

    This is absolute codswaddle, and is a new low for Slashdot content. Try harder.

  87. I need a good psychic... by billybob_jcv · · Score: 1

    ... to find the car keys my wife lost yesterday (for about the 20th time). Should be a piece of cake for anyone able to see aliens on the moon in 1972.

  88. Soon these nuts will refer to Batman, Jesus or by G3ckoG33k · · Score: 1

    Soon these nuts will refer to Batman, Wolverine, Jesus, Jack Daniel's, Buddha, Green Lantern or whatever deity is in vogue in Texas. Santa Claus? Who knows.

  89. Don't know what's more frightening by Arancaytar · · Score: 1

    That lunatics like these make headlines, or that they very possibly have funding.

  90. They can't do any worse than these buffoons... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Epic fail, so the current idiom goes....

  91. Psychics != Psychos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    um... didn't you mean Psychos instead of Psychics ???

  92. How to downvote? by simoncpu+was+here · · Score: 2

    I wish there was a way to downvote crap articles like this.

  93. Who the hell approved this crap? by DrXym · · Score: 2
    "Psychics" claim all sorts of stuff which invariably is vague enough to be massaged to the facts, part of a shopping list of predictions which can be cherry picked, unfalsifiable, or was obtained by cheating. Or a combination of all those things. Strangely enough their amazing abilities desert them when they are tested in conditions which preclude cheating and require an unambiguous result. Even with a million dollars on the table.

    Remote viewers included. It is trivial enough to test someone's ability to remote view or "astral project" by getting them to draw a picture of something or some object which they cannot see but which is unambiguously identifiable. Funnily enough this doesn't happen either.

    All that has been demonstrated here is if that if you get together 6 credulous idiots in a room they will riff off each others delusions and concoct a story which is not disprovable. What is not so obvious is why this story got approved for Slashdot.

  94. come on, really?? we've run out of real articles? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Why is this crap even on slashdot? It has nothing to do with technology, or even anything real. And just for the record, if remote viewing wasn't done through RDP or VNC. It was probably teamviewer lol.

  95. My psychic view by Walt+Dismal · · Score: 1

    I see.. something brown and lumpy .. and stinky too .. it seems to be..under.. a bull!

  96. Doesn't require a psychic to find home addresses n by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Did it not occur to any enlightened being to redact the full home addresses and phone numbers of individuals in the letter...????

  97. Re:Thats another low for the slashdot by ByOhTek · · Score: 2

    No, I think it's a low, even for idle.

    These "psychics" were probably taking too many drugs while watching Transformers and Apollo 18.

    That, is a much simpler explanation.

    --
    Self proclaimed typo king, and inventor of the bear destroying coffee table (patent not pending).
  98. Damnit by Shivetya · · Score: 1

    and here I thought that nice Doctor wrote down I was psychic.... damn those Doctors and their unintelligible writing, just wait till I get my hands on him

    --
    * Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
  99. It is all FAKE!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Didn't someone tell these people that the moon landings were faked? The alien artifacts were part of a set on Lost in Space. I swear... some people will believe anything!

  100. subject by Legion303 · · Score: 1

    When did Slashdot become Fortean Times?

  101. Slashdot: Fuck you for having this posted! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This does not belong on slashdot. It is pure crap. Stop posting stories while being drunk and on drugs.

  102. Oh well by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    That's what happens when you do not have a PG STUPID rating on tranformers 3

  103. Re:Funny, I don't seem to remember hearing about i by Ol+Biscuitbarrel · · Score: 1

    They were too busy saying things like "Jesus H Christ in a chicken basket."

  104. This is rubbish --- how did it pass review by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How on earth did this pass review....

    This is absolute rubbish...

  105. Austin (Sigh) by tungstencoil · · Score: 1

    I love my city, but I swear... sometimes the odd mix and mashup of conspiracy theorists, psychics, faeries, burners, whacked hippy environmentalists really gets to me.

    They're all good for amusement until the end up in local government, and we end up with policies like "we like Austin RIGHT NOW HOW IT IS. Adding, expanding, or improving roads/infrastructure will mean... more people will move here. So let's not do it." or "let's really invest in non-local sources of solar and wind power... and by invest, I mean rely heavily upon. Yeah, so electricity rates soar. Invest in additional infrastructure to handle demand? NO WAY! Brown-outs are good for the planet!" or my personal favorite, locating the homeless shelter and associated soup kitchen (that collectively take up most of a city block) right in the business/entertainment/prime real estate district.... and then wonder why people are getting turned off by aggressive panhandling and why there are criticisms about wasting a prime piece of real estate. After all, if we located it a few blocks (or miles) away, all the homeless people would no longer be near public transit and their downtown ecosystem.

    I love Austin, but sometimes all I can do is giggle.

  106. Since when is this article "stuff that matters"? by DuncUK · · Score: 1

    This "news" does not "matter" in any sense that I can think of.

  107. astroengine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Pretty telling when this story isn't even listed anywhere on the site that submitted the article, lol.

  108. Why is this in the Slashdot Science Channel? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's not April 1. This is stupid trollery.

  109. Re:Thats another low for the slashdot by Kittenman · · Score: 1

    all it's missing is the editorializing in the summary.

    "It will be interesting to see how the corporatist plutocrats in Washington respond to this blowing of the cover-up and how it proves that Google is actually regarded as a diety by every galactic culture but ours..."

    Might have been funnier if you'd spelt "deity" right. Or maybe not.

    --
    "The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes" - Winston Churchill
  110. I've seen the future by mswope · · Score: 1

    and it looks like us.
    I only had time to skim the PDF, but I noticed that the aliens look like small children on their "merry-go-round" ships or fat old men drink beers in front of Cessnas.
    They could easily blend into our culture and drink beer.

  111. Remote Viewing the Moon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    REMOTE VIEWING THE MOON by Remote Viewer Aaron C. Hanson: http://thepropheticlight.com/blog/?p=1018