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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."
"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."
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I was way more excited about this until I realized I'd misread "psychics" as "physics". Sigh.
"To pass through the jungle; silence, courtesy, ferocity, as the occasion demands." -- Kamau, "Proper Passage"
You're looking at guerrilla marketing for the "Apollo 18" movie, folks. Nothing to see here.
Why the fuck is this bullshit on slashdot??
This should be in idle, not science.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
"Incredible claim made by group with no credibility."
Okay then.
Liberty in your lifetime
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.
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.
off the front page? This kind of pollution is really nasty for those of use with an RSS feed, too.
mov ah, 4ch
int 21h
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.
... 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?
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.
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.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
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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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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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..."
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.
my astral projection lead me to the wrong part of the moon.
My karma is not a Chameleon.
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!
Never answer an anonymous letter. - Yogi Berra
What did they find. Alien transformer robots?
I thought it was Apollo 18 that found aliens
and how it proves that Google is actually regarded as a diety by every galactic culture but ours..."
That sounds more plausible than TFA.
Don't know something? Look it up. Still don't know? Then ask.
EOM
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.
Send them with the hairdressers and telephone sanitizers to find the aliens.
I just love this concept and will help to make it happen.
Prove anything by multiplying Huge Number times Tiny Number
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
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.
From what I've heard one of the astronauts did see an intelligent living organism climbing out of the moonlander.
I'm ready for my anal probe now!
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!
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"
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.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
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.
but first I need to consult with the spirits.
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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.
In fact a documentary series was made about this that reveals all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dR90P1GhZA4.
usually, I'm above posting the hoary old obligatory XKCD link
ugh, I feel dirty.
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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.
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.
"Software is the difference between hardware and reality"
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..
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.
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?
Don't know something? Look it up. Still don't know? Then ask.
Just as I was feeling nostalgic for OMNI magazine and it's "How to tell if you are an alien" questionnaire...
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
Seriously. "Psychics" say a lot of things, but none of them are deserving of headlines.
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."
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'.
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Can I rightfully call them "lunatic"?
Trolling is a art!
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?
-Noc
Modded down as off-topic. Yet +5 insightful to those complaining after me. Welcome to /., baby.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain with all your metadata.
Surely, credible psychics would have notified NASA about the crew discovering aliens prior to the launch.
"The Psychic Network goes out of business due to unforeseen financial difficulties..."
Sorry, but gray text on gray background is making my eyes bleed.
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.
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?
Here I was thinking I time traveled to 1 April 2012. In other news, careface.
SG: And we've also now admitted that there were nuclear experiments done where people were literally injected and infected with plutonium, the deadliest substance known to man. So I think that the world didn't fall apart then; it was acknowledged that those things happened. I think that many people understand that extreme measures are taken in the fog of war, or in the fog of confusion of dealing with something like this. I don't know that people would be happy with it - they weren't happy when those other things were disclosed. But of course, the point that we've always made about disclosure, and I think it has to go from disclosing information and documents about UFOs and extraterrestrial intelligence to the next phase, which is what we're working on now, and that's the disclosure of the raison d'etre for the secrecy, meaning of course the actual very powerful energy and propulsion systems that are well known in very classified, corporatized projects, but which of course would result in the termination of the fossil fuel industry including all oil, coal, gas, centralized utilities and what have you. But this sort of disclosure is something which can be a positive event and again, one of the things I said many years ago to one of the senior Pentagon people is that if a disclosure is done that hits all the "hot buttons" of paranoia, and fear and insecurity that humans have..
Props for providing an honest to God LOL, /.
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.
"Yeah...it was the numbers that were irrational, not the murderous cult of vegetarians...." -- Hippasus of Metapontum
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.
This is absolute codswaddle, and is a new low for Slashdot content. Try harder.
... 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.
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.
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.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
That lunatics like these make headlines, or that they very possibly have funding.
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.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
No self-respecting psychic would use media. /. reader would consider this news, or entertainment.
And no self-respecting
Guess that's why I left years ago.
Glad you posted that before you left.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I wish there was a way to downvote crap articles like this.
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.
Apollo 16 Lunar Surface Journal
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I see.. something brown and lumpy .. and stinky too .. it seems to be..under.. a bull!
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).
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
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When did Slashdot become Fortean Times?
They were too busy saying things like "Jesus H Christ in a chicken basket."
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.
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.
This "news" does not "matter" in any sense that I can think of.
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
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.