Seen from Space: Slouching Towards Disclosure?

Honestly, what are to make of The Times of London - arguably the most prestigious newspaper in the world - running a headline like this: "Aliens 'may be living among us' undetected by science." Which one of you said "conditioning process?"

UPDATE: As of 1855 GMT, the most popular headline on BBC News is "Alien life may exist among us." Note how the picture is of a deep ocean scene. 

UPDATE 2144 GMT: The ocean memes continue with news of the Global Marine Survey. 

ITEM: Then there's this - "New Artificial DNA points to alien life."

NASA has been involved in searching for extra-terrestrial life along numerous avenues for decades, including the Viking mission to Mars in the 1970s and its recent missions to the red planet which have searched for signs of habitability there. NASA also funds an Astrobiology Institute, which partners with hundreds of researchers world-wide who study of the origins, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.

That's fascinating. What do they know that they aren't telling us? 

ITEM: "There could be one hundred billion Earth-like planets in our galaxy," a US conference has heard.

Dr Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Science said many of these worlds could be inhabited by simple lifeforms. But, based on the limited numbers of planets found so far, Dr Boss has estimated that each Sun-like star has on average one "Earth-like" planet.

"Not only are they probably habitable but they probably are also going to be inhabited," Dr Boss told BBC News. "But I think that most likely the nearby 'Earths' are going to be inhabited with things which are perhaps more common to what Earth was like three or four billion years ago." That means bacterial lifeforms. - BBC

He sounds very confident about that. But who's going to be seeding those lifeforms on these planets?

ITEM: CNN has a weekly update of space imagery fed to it by the various space agencies. Weekly.

ITEM: Singularity=Disclosure Dept.- Damn, if that S don't look like a "crucified serpent."

SU's logo also kind of made me think of this quote:

He was robed from head to foot in blue and gold, and around his forehead was coiled a snake of precious metal, set with jewelled eyes that gave out flashes of light.

"The Priest of Ra," Manly P Hall

Just saying, is all.

ITEM: Cultural Conditioning Dept.- Reader Ned Sonntag gave me the heads-up on this news story:

The present looks bleak for the fashion industry, so designers at Fashion Week have a solution: the future. Space-age materials and clothes with jutting hips and shoulders made a Jetsons-like splash on Saturday at New York Fashion Week.

Even Barbie, celebrating her 50th birthday, got in on the act. A fashion show with 50 designs inspired by the doll closed with a series of futuristic dresses including a white Calvin Klein dress with cut-out shoulders. Heidi Klum sat in the front row, looking a bit like the plastic muse. - Salon

Check out the collections here.

ITEM: Yahoo reports on the new Aptera 2e, a "Space Age" vehicle that "looks to change the world, three wheels at a time." And it weighs how much? Yes, 1700 pounds. There are those numbers again.

ITEM: Hmm.... "North Korea has asserted its right to a "space programme"- BBC

ITEM: From Heavens-Above.com

At 16:56 UTC on Feb. 10th, Iridium 33 and Cosmos 2251 collided over northern Siberia. Many hundreds of pieces of debris are expected to result, and many are already being tracked.

33, 22, 51 (3x17). Fascinating numbers there. If you want to get really crazy with the numbers, the timecode is 16:56 UTC. 1+6=7 and 5+6=11. 7x11=77, which is Iridium's atomic number. Could someone be trying to tell us something? (btw, 7 divded by 11 is .0636363636363).

ITEM: In semiotically-related news, British and French nuclear submarines collided in the Atlantic. How the hell does that happen? And who would possibly benefit from that? From The Sun:

As inquiries began, naval sources said it was a millions-to-one unlucky chance both subs were in the same patch of sea. Warships have sonar gear which locates submarines by sound waves.

What are the odds of two unthinkable collisions of ultra-high tech vehicles within a week? One might even suspect that this hardware is being deliberately targeted (there was also a near-collision between an RAF plane and another aircraft in York recently). For those of us who suspect players in human affairs as yet unknown, this lends weight to the argument that perhaps we are moving towards an event that will change the world as we know it forever.

ITEM: And then there's this- We looked at the New Jersey UFO flap last month. Well, guess what? There have been two earthquakes in that same area (Morris County) since those sightings. Earthquakes are very rare in NJ, and almost unheard of in Morris County.

Quite a coincidence, don't you think?

UPDATE: Ed mentioned the Texas fireball story in the comments and I had considered putting it in originally. But I really don't know what to make of it. There's seems to be an effort to sow confusion about its origins, which seems a little dodgy to me. You guys have probably seen it by now- let me know what you think of it.

UPDATE II: Strange Eye has a post tying together some of these strands on his blog called "Head's Up- Heaven's Junk is Falling."