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Post by swamprat on Mar 17, 2019 1:03:31 GMT
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 17, 2019 10:51:34 GMT
Poor St. Patrick and his car full of snakes! Love that 
Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 17, 2019 11:06:46 GMT
Telegraph
Space toilets, robots and astronaut suits on show to lure millennials into churches to mark moon landing anniversary
Gabriella Swerling, Social and Religious Affairs Editor
17 March 2019 • 7:00am
Space toilets, robots, meteorites and astronaut suits are among items going on display to lure millennials into churches to mark the Moon landing anniversary.
The Church of England is hoping that Instagramming twenty-somethings across the UK will be taking selfies and tagging posts inside some of the country’s most ancient cathedrals.
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, 14 church projects across the country have been awarded £70,000 by the Scientists in Congregations scheme.
It forms part of a new outreach scheme to bring younger people to religious buildings and to foster greater understanding about science and faith - and to encourage people to take photos.
Lichfield Cathedral, a three-spired medieval cathedral in Staffordshire, has already been announced as the host of one of the projects.
This summer Peter Walker, its artist-in-residence, will transform the ancient building’s grand tiled floor into a representation of the moon’s surface. It is also running a sci-fi film festival, a lecture series and a schools project to build a rocket.
Now it can be revealed that Ely Cathedral, Cambridgeshire, is also lined up to join in the celebrations and will be hosting a science festival - complete with quirky space paraphernalia - to entice snap-happy youths through their doors.
Among the exhibits and displays this summer at ‘The Sky’s the Limit’ festival will be an interactive space exhibition including a replica of the space suit worn by Neil Armstrong in which he took his first steps on the moon, meteorite fragments, a seventeenth-century star atlas and the first ever printed map of the moon on loan from the Institute of Astronomy.
Visitors will be able to sample a planetarium as well as some space food including a bacon sandwich made in collaboration with celebrity chef, Heston Blumenthal, for Tim Peake’s trip to the International Space Station. The more brave punters will even be able to have a close encounter with a space toilet.
All this is set to take place beneath an art installation entitled Museum of the Moon - a lunar replica which is seven metres in diameter - which will be hovering above the Cathedral’s nave.
Organiser Vicky Johnson, the Canon of Ely Cathedral who has a PhD In biochemistry, said jokingly: “It’s entirely for the millennials."
She added: “It’s particularly about creating spaces where people can ask questions and wonder about their place in the universe and that’s a key thing millenials do. They like authentic answers."
She added that while the exhibition would appeal to millennials and they will be encouraged to take pictures, it will be open for everyone.
She added that its aim was to combat the myth that science and faith is not compatible. “There are a lot of people like me,” she insisted. “Religion and science both encourage people to ask questions.”
The Scientists in Congregations programme is part of Equipping Christian Leadership in an Age of Science, a Durham University project run in partnership with the Church of England. The project is funded by Templeton World Charity Foundation.
The Bishop of Kingston, Dr Richard Cheetham, who is one of the directors of ‘Equipping Christian Leadership in an Age of Science’ said: “These varied and imaginative projects bring fresh and exciting ways of engaging with contemporary science and technology, and the questions raised about the place and purpose of humankind in the cosmos.
“They explore how it really is possible to have a deep and intelligent faith in God, which fully engages with our 21st-century scientific age.”
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/17/space-toilets-robots-astronaut-suits-show-lure-millennials-churches/
Crystal
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Post by swamprat on Mar 17, 2019 15:04:53 GMT
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Post by HAL on Mar 17, 2019 19:12:26 GMT
Just been looking at the 'members' thread.
It makes interesting reading if you are interested in statistics.
Remember the heady old days when there were 19000 members (yes, I never believed it either), well, today we have 72. Of that 72, 28 have never posted since registering. 8 have posted once; often on the day they registered (to say 'Hello' ?), and have not been heard from since.
Some members of long standing now only pop in occasionally. Sort of drive-by-shooting. Guess I have to include myself in that category.
I appear to have posted 540 times. Seems a lot to me. I will have to extract my erudite musings and write a book. It's the in thing these days.
Some members are valiantly keeping things going by adding any related stuff they can find. And we have a bit of 'chat' running in the background.
So, what has happened to the UFO scene ? Is it in it's last dying moments ?
Your opinions, please.
HAL.
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Post by ZETAR on Mar 17, 2019 19:13:08 GMT
"Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us" Socrates
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2019 22:48:55 GMT
So, what has happened to the UFO scene ? Is it in it's last dying moments ? Your opinions, please. HAL. Why speculate when we now know the gubberment knows. Just waiting for the next tidbit. |
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 18, 2019 11:17:21 GMT
Just been looking at the 'members' thread. It makes interesting reading if you are interested in statistics. Remember the heady old days when there were 19000 members (yes, I never believed it either), well, today we have 72. Of that 72, 28 have never posted since registering. 8 have posted once; often on the day they registered (to say 'Hello' ?), and have not been heard from since. Some members of long standing now only pop in occasionally. Sort of drive-by-shooting. Guess I have to include myself in that category. I appear to have posted 540 times. Seems a lot to me. I will have to extract my erudite musings and write a book. It's the in thing these days. Some members are valiantly keeping things going by adding any related stuff they can find. And we have a bit of 'chat' running in the background. So, what has happened to the UFO scene ? Is it in it's last dying moments ? Your opinions, please. HAL.
In the last five years or so I've noticed more attention from Hollywood about UFO's. Are we being acclimated to the idea that visitors are here already? Or is Hollywood just making money on the UFO phenomenon?
Beats the heck out of me but I would like to know what is going on before I croak....
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 18, 2019 11:24:07 GMT
Good morning again lovely UFOCasebookers,
Richard Dolan
Published on Mar 13, 2019
GARY McKINNON'S FIRST INTERVIEW IN YEARS.
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Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 18, 2019 11:29:32 GMT
Live Science
The 12 Strangest Objects in the Universe
By Adam Mann, Live Science Contributor
March 17, 2019 08:49am ET
There's no questioning the fact that the universe is weird. Just look outside and you'll see all manner of strange, self-reproducing flora and fauna, crawling upon a blue ball of semimolten rock covered in a thin, hard shell and blanketed by a tenuous film of gases. Yet our own planet represents a tiny fraction of the peculiar phenomena that can be found lurking throughout the cosmos, and every day astronomers turn up new surprises. In this gallery, we take a look at some of the most outlandish objects in space.
gallery after the jump:
www.livescience.com/64993-weirdest-celestial-objects.html
Crystal
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Post by WingsofCrystal on Mar 18, 2019 11:41:10 GMT
Mysterious Universe
Profiling the Skinwalker: A Sinister Shapeshifter
Nick Redfern
March 17, 2019
In the Middle Ages, the most feared of all the many and varied shapeshifters was the werewolf, and particularly so throughout much of Europe. Today, however, a very good, solid case can be made that the Skinwalker is one of the most dangerous transformer of all. It is a creature that dominates the culture and the folklore of certain Native Americans – and to the extent that some will not even utter its name, for fear of it creating a backlash against the person who dared to speak the deadly S–word. But what, exactly, are these things that instill such fear in countless numbers of people? Let us take a look. The answers are many, but you might not be happy with what you are about to learn. For certain Native American people, the Skinwalker – tales of which date back centuries – is a definitive witch, a crone-like thing that has the ability to change its form, and radically so, too. And it is not just one specific type of beast into which the witch can change, but multiple ones. While a shapeshifting Native American witch can take on, quite literally, hundreds of forms, the most often reported guises are bears, coyotes, various types of birds, and – at the top of the list – wolves or wolf-like animals. This latter issue, of course, emphasizes that the Skinwalker is not that dissimilar at all to the traditional European werewolf, despite being separated by distances of thousands of miles.
more after the jump:
mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/03/profiling-the-skinwalker-a-sinister-shapeshifter/
Crystal
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Post by swamprat on Mar 18, 2019 15:30:49 GMT
This was posted on Facebook this morning:
" Is everyone aware of the censoring of UFO related subjects on Youtube that began two or three days ago?
Try yourself.....do a search for UFO sightings......take a note.....do you see the problem? Try chemtrails? Try strange clouds......same thing."
Anyone else find this to be the case?
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Post by thelmadonna on Mar 18, 2019 17:00:43 GMT
This was posted on Facebook this morning:
" Is everyone aware of the censoring of UFO related subjects on Youtube that began two or three days ago?
Try yourself.....do a search for UFO sightings......take a note.....do you see the problem? Try chemtrails? Try strange clouds......same thing."
Anyone else find this to be the case? According to Nuforc the January Sightings are higher by the count of 3 this year. so roughly the same. I guess it just depends on the data you use. Reports Count 01/2019 316 01/2018 313 |
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Post by HAL on Mar 18, 2019 18:35:49 GMT
Thelmadonna,
I have always found the UK reported figures rather suspect.
Have you seen any reports in the Scottish news or papers covering recent sightings ?
HAL.
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Post by thelmadonna on Mar 18, 2019 19:29:12 GMT
Thelmadonna, I have always found the UK reported figures rather suspect. Have you seen any reports in the Scottish news or papers covering recent sightings ? HAL. They were always very lax in reporting them up here. The only thing I can think of, is since the drone reportings, they have been instructed not to. There have been a few this month on MUFON, I hadnt thought to check if the had been reported locally. |
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