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ZS2ABF > UFO 11.11.08 12:35l 169 Lines 7844 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 990452ZS2ABF
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Subj: Re: UFO INTEREST GROUP 196rply
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Sent: 081106/1409Z @:ZS0ELD.ELD.ZAF.AF #:15263 [15264] FBB7.01.35 alpha
From: ZS2ABF@ZS0ELD.ELD.ZAF.AF
To : UFO@WW
Hi Sten,
and all UFO Interest Group members.
Nice to hear from you after so long.
Many thanks for prodding me along and telling me to keep up the UFO series of
sightings.
Yes, six only replies to my latest request and 2 of those were open "WW to
UFO" ones.
All said keep it up and one person said he also puts them on to the internet
so that his friends can read them. In the last 2 years that I've been sending
out the Bulls I have had 17 replies. Most of them personal and not for
publication so as to keep their identity secure. This request I respect.
What I am going to do is just give you all the prefix's of the hams call signs
to show you the coverage achieved and the spread of world wide interest in the
UFO subject.
Replies received from:
N2/DK5/KC8/ZS1/ZS2/ZR2/G7/UT1/G4/G7/KA1/G6/G0/G0/VE3/ZS5/GM0/ZS6
That's 18 via packet alone. I get some via Email but some of those are the
"Lunar tick Fringe" Hi.
I have been worried about the size of my bulls as they average around 24K.
One local ZS ham suggested that I cut them down to 5K and then more people may
read them. I think 5K is far too small to convey the large amount of
information that I have available to send you. As it is I have already weeded
out quiet a lot before sending it to you as I can judge that those sightings
are typically due to natural causes .i.e. Many sightings are reported during
firework celebrations (rockets !).
I've also wondered if the sysops would throw them out, as they were too big to
forward and may "bog down" their systems. Having thought about that I realize
that HF forwarding is a thing of the past and the internet has taken over that
function, so it is no problem. I also know that people are too lazy to read
long boring Bulls. Then again if you are interested in the UFO phenomena you
want all the sighting information, so that you may form your own conclusions.
I have been accused of being a Sceptic by my friend Paul in Canada. I have
told him I am no Sceptic. I am careful and objective (I hope). Some people
believe every thing they read but I am not one of them. If you wish to be a
UFO investigator you have to be objective and try to get the FACTS and not
hearsay.
I have said before 95% of sightings are of misidentified Natural or manmade
occurrences. It's the 5% that interests me and others that I have spoken to.
Here follows a little Course in Astronomy to show you how difficult it would
be for an Alien race to find us within the Cosmos.
The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost
somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home. In cosmic
perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. I believe our
future depends on how well we know this cosmos in which we float like a mote
of dust in the morning sky.
The dimensions of the Cosmos are so large that using familiar units of
distance, such as meters or miles, chosen for their utility on Earth, make
little sense. Instead, we measure distance with the speed of light. I one
second a beam of light travels 186,000 miles, nearly 300,000 kilometres or
seven times around the Earth. In eight minutes it will travel from the Sun to
the Earth. We can say the Sun is eight light-minutes away. In a year, it
crosses nearly ten trillion kilometres, about six trillion miles, of
intervening space. That unit of length, the distance light goes in a year, is
called a light-year. It measures not time but distance-enormous distances. If
we are randomly inserted into the Cosmos, the chance that we would find
ourselves on or near a planet would be less than one in a billion trillion. In
everyday life such odds are called compelling. Worlds are precious.
Before us is us is the Cosmos on the grandest scale we know. We are in the
realm of the nebulae, eight billion light- years from earth, halfway to the
edge of the known universe.
A Galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars-billions upon billions of
stars. Every star may be a sun to someone. Within a galaxy are stars and
worlds and, it may be, a proliferation of living things and intelligent beings
and space faring civilizations.
There are some hundred billion galaxies, each with, on the average, a hundred
billion stars. In all the galaxies, there are perhaps as many planets as
stars, ten billion trillion. In the face of such overpowering numbers, what is
the likelihood that only one ordinary star, the Sun, is accompanied by an
inhabited planet? Why should we, tucked away in some forgotten corner of the
Cosmos, be so fortunate? To me, it seems far more likely that the universe is
brimming over with life. But we humans do not yet know. From eight billion
light-years away we are hard pressed to find even the cluster in which our
Milky Way Galaxy is embedded.
But presently our journey takes us to what our astronomers on Earth like to
call the local group of galaxies. Several million light-years across, it is
composed of some twenty constituent galaxies. It is a sparse and obscure and
unpretentious cluster. One of these galaxies is M31, seen from Earth in the
constellation Andromeda. Like other spiral galaxies, it is a huge pinwheel of
stars and dust. M31 has two small satellites, dwarf elliptical galexies bound
to it by gravity. That is two billion light-years from Earth. Beyond M31 is
another, very similar galaxy, that is now forty thousand light -years from
home. I aliens are to find us they must direct there course to the remote
outskirts of the galaxy, to an obscure locale near the edge of a distant
spiral arm.
Our overwhelming impression, even between the spiral arms, is of stars
streaming by us. A vast array of exquisitely self-luminous stars, some flimsy
as a soap bubble and so large that they could contain ten thousand Suns or a
trillion Earths; others the size of a small-town and a hundred trillion times
denser than lead. Systems are commonly double, two stars orbiting one another.
But there is a continuous gradation from triple systems through loose clusters
of a few dozen stars to the great globular clusters, resplendent with a
million
suns.
So Alien Find me if you can.
The above description is not the whole of the Cosmos. I have only given you
just a glimpse of the vastness of what's out there.
In an old series of Star Trek, their mission is to find Earth, the planet that
they originally came from. That was not just fiction. It was based on the fact
of the Cosmos being so vast, and it will also be a fact that Aliens will not
just come to us, they will have to find us first, amongst the many trillions
of
the bits and pieces that make up the cosmos.
That's enough rambling on for me, it makes you think don't it.
I will continue the series so see you soon or as Arnold used to say "I'll be
back"
73's Peter ZS2ABF.
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