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The Extra Terrestrial Amendment
The 25th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States is possibly known as the extra terrestrial amendment. It really should be known as the
Richard Van SteenbergPublished 6 years ago in FuturismReview of Travelers 2
I had high praise for the first season Travelers (on Netflix) a year ago. I have even higher praise for the second season (of 12 episodes, like the first). I'll try to talk about it with a minimum of spoilers.
Paul LevinsonPublished 6 years ago in FuturismIs Stormy Daniels Extra Terrestrial?
Is Stormy Daniels extra terrestrial? Probably a better question the EA should be asking themselves is, Is the Stormy Daniels' story a case of Extra Terrestrial Misdirection?As we have done so many times before we use wormation from the EARTH Methodology to read the information surrounding events. We are looking for hidden clues left behind demonstrating ETI by the Hetlau as they follow the ETA. The hidden clues left behind reveal repeating patterns that provide a preponderance of evidence.People understandably want PROOF (PROVE OFFICIAL). What they don't understand is that proof is a porpheme for prove official or prove the statement you are making is credible. In other words, they want corroboration from a person in a position of authority. The problem is three-fold:
Richard Van SteenbergPublished 6 years ago in FuturismAncient Aliens
The ancient astronaut theory was first proposed by Erich Von Däniken and Zecharia Sitchin, and is refuted by real scientists who dismiss his incorrect and unscientific claims. There are also theories out there that all religion is extraterrestrial in origin. This is why we humans have trouble with the idea of life on other planets, which in probability does exist, but only if you see how vast the universe is. How many planets are there? Many. How many stars are out there? Billions. How many galaxies are out there in the grand scheme of things? Trillions. The universe is huge and with our puny science, we have only begun to temporarily grasp just how huge it is.
Iria Vasquez-PaezPublished 6 years ago in FuturismAre Extra Terrestrials Wolves in Sheeps clothing?
In Matthew 7:15 the Bible has an interesting verse warning against false prophets: Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
Richard Van SteenbergPublished 6 years ago in Futurism'Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams' 1.10 Kill All Others
The tenth and last episode of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams — which I've been reviewing here episode-by-episode (because each one is standalone), and which I hope will be the first ten of very many — is "Kill All Others." Although each story is different, they're deeply connected and intertwined by the central, galvanizing themes of all of Dick's work: it is real or an illusion, with the struggle to decide which is which always laced with paranoia.
Paul LevinsonPublished 6 years ago in FuturismSuspension
I was tired. Too tired. I pressed the red button on the instrument panel and the machine’s cockpit opened. It was a strange machine that somewhat resembled a tanning bed but much, much, more useful. There was a slight whirring noise as the machine anticipated my arrival. I set the machine for one hour and climbed into the machine. Once inside, I grabbed the mask and tried to strap it over my face. Mine never seemed to fit quite right. After a minute the blinking yellow light above my head turned green. This was the worst part, a noxious, foul hydrogen sulfide gas poured into the mask. I don’t get why they can’t come up with something better.
Matthew DonnellonPublished 6 years ago in FuturismLockheed: “We’re Redefining Security. Foreign, Domestic and Extra Terrestrial.”
We just heard from the Department of Defense regarding their national space policy . In it, they made no mention of defending the US against extra terrestrial threats. That certainly isn't a surprise. What is a surprise though is that Lockheed immediately comes out with an
Richard Van SteenbergPublished 6 years ago in FuturismCharon, III-IV
III. The sun was setting and the police boats had been searching for the three missing boys since four AM, just about an hour after they had foolishly jumped in the river. It had been a long day; they were all tired and none of them wanted to give up hope yet, but there wasn’t much they could do at night. Many of the volunteers were headed home while only two teams would stay to patrol the immediate area around black bridge.
- Top Story - January 2018
Expect More than the Unexpected at the 2018 Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival
It's almost—no, could it be? A dimension as vast as space and infinite as timelessness. It's the only known setting that actually beckons randomized oddities, without a single isotope of negative cynicism.
Empath: Into the Shadow, Chapter 5
October 1st 2016 (Day 1 of study) Will had never been to Massachusetts. He had drove the entire way there from Pennsylvania but any mode of transportation was completely covered and taken out of the check once the paid study was over, so he didn’t mind much plus he liked to drive. He had made it there in a day’s time after spending the night at his grandmother’s in New Jersey. She was getting old and Will knew he was probably still alive because of her prayers and also not to mention the prayers of his other grandparents and the rest of his family. Will had always been the black sheep. On his father’s side of the family, he was the oldest of the grandchildren but on his mother’s he was the youngest. Although being the black sheep, he kept his family close and talked to them from time to time, especially his grandparents because he knew they wouldn’t be around his entire lifetime. What most people don’t know about the black sheep is that they are usually the most successful and special. Will’s destiny was not yet written but in it he would do things no other person could do. He just needed to believe in himself first.
'Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams' 1.9 The Commuter
I said somewhere in my ongoing one-by-one reviews of Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams 10-episode standalone anthology on Amazon Prime that I thought the series was "right up there with The Twilight Zone." I just checked—that was in my review of the third episode. I make quick judgments—but I still feel that way. I even entitled my review of Electric Dreams 1.8 Impossible Planet "Eye of the Beholder," which was the title of one of the best Twilight Zone episodes. Of course, there were 156 episodes of The Twilight Zone, in contrast to only ten so far of Electric Dreams, so when I say "right up there" I mean only that the episodes I've seen in Electric Dreams rank with any random fraction of a season of The Twilight Zone. If and when Electric Dreams gets to exceed 150 episodes—which it actually could, given that Dick wrote 44 novels and 121 short stories—I'll get back to you with a more definitive comparison.
Paul LevinsonPublished 6 years ago in Futurism