THE PARACAST NEWSLETTER
July 21, 2013
The Paracast Takes You on a Journey Beyond Area 51!
The Paracast is heard Sundays from 2:00 AM until 5:00 AM Central Time on the GCN Radio Network and affiliates around the USA, and online across the globe via download and on-demand streaming.
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. It’s easy to send a donation. We have aDonate link on our home page, below the logo and audio player. There's also a Donate link on our forums, at the bottom of the sidebar on the right. Or just send your PayPal donation direct to sales (at) theparacast (dot) com. And if you’ve had a problem getting to our Donate screen, please try again. We just fixed a serious PayPal access problem, and it should wor k properly now.
Attention U.S. Listeners: Help Us Bring The Paracast to Your City! In the summer of 2010, The Paracast joined the GCN radio network. This represented a huge step in bringing our show to a larger, mainstream audience. But we need your help to add additional affiliates to our growing network. Please ask one of your local talk stations if they are interested in carrying The Paracast. Feel free to contact us directly with the names of programming people we might be able to contact on your behalf. We can't do this alone, and if you succeed in convincing your local station to carry the show, we'll reward you with one of our special T-shirts, and other goodies. With your help, The Paracast can grow into one of the most popular paranormal shows on the planet!
Please Visit Our Online Store: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and an expanded collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt now featuring our brand new logo, just pay a visit to our online store at The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We also offer a complete lineup of other premium merchandise for your family, your friends and your business contacts.
About The Paracast: The Paracast covers a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions across the planet.
Set Up: The Paracast is a paranormal radio show that takes you on a journey to a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions. The Paracast seeks to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join long-time paranormal researcher Gene Steinberg, co-host and acclaimed field investigator Christopher O'Brien, and a panel of special guest experts and experiencers, as they explore the realms of the known and unknown. Listen each week to the great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris explore the reports and legends of hidden government installations around the world where top secret research and possible UFO explorations are going on with Mack Maloney, author of "Beyond Area 51." In addition to discussing such mysterious locales, he'll cover incredible tales of animal experimentation and UFO sightings. And wait till you hear Maloney's views about the Roswell and Aztec UFO crashes.
Chris O'Brien's Site: http://www.ourstrangeplanet.com
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: The Paracast Community Forums. We recently completed a major update that makes our community easier to navigate, and social network friendly.
About Reverse Engineering
By Gene Steinberg
I realize that movie westerns don’t do very well these days, witness the massive failure of “The Lone Ranger,” But imagine yourself living in the late 19th century. Your fastest means of transportation may be the railroad, or, if you can’t afford a ticket, your horse.
So one day you come by a small, thin, rectangular object, with curved corners, made of glass and metal. It appears to have a few tiny buttons on it, and when you press one and hold it for a second or two, it lights up with a picture that sports the shaded gray image of an apple with the right corner missing. Within a minute or two, that image is replaced by one with a background that resembles the Earth possibly observed from space, covered by tiny square pictures.
If you tap one of those pictures, curious things happen, and even more pictures with words that make little or no sense, appear on the small display.
Now you and I know that I’m talking about an iPhone, something very commonplace today, but clearly an artifact of unknown origin with amazing and undiscovered capabilities to someone who is living in the past. And I assume the battery is still working when it is first discovered, for when it runs out, it will be non-functional.
But even after it’s turned on, the person who recovers this gadget will be restricted to running the apps installed on it, if he or she can figure out what a tap or a swipe can accomplish. But there is no cellular tower, no broadband connection. The telephone has not been invented, and there is no Internet. Since there is no source of AC current, how does one charge the battery once it’s spent?
Imagine that this curious device is taken to the most esteemed scientists and engineers of the time to analyze. Sure, they should be able to take it apart after some effort with tiny tools, but they’d be at a total loss to figure out what it was or how it worked. Sure, perhaps they might have quickly determined the function of the battery, but what about the logic board, the microprocessor? They are living in an era many decades removed from the inventions of such contraptions.
It doesn’t matter how that iPhone appeared in our past. Maybe it was a time machine, or perhaps the gadget was sent back via a dimensional portal, or came from a parallel universe that closely mirrored our own. The real dilemma is this: Is it possible for the smartest people of that century to figure out what they had, and its purpose? Could they reverse engineer any of that advanced technology?
Now let’s take a journey to 1948, where scientists are reputed to be taking apart a crashed flying saucer that came here from another planet. Sure, they can perform autopsies of the dead crew members, or attempt to interrogate those who survived. But what about an example of technology that may be hundreds or thousands of years ahead of us?
Assuming the craft was even functional, could they fly it? Perhaps the controls are synchronized to the brain waves of the pilots. In other words, only those crew members can make it work. To anyone else, it would be dead as a doornail. This doesn’t mean that some elements of that technology couldn’t somehow be deciphered by the scientists who were granted access. But even after many decades, the essential basis of that alien technology may remain unknown and, for now, unknowable.
Over the years, there have been claims that alleged alien technology has somehow made its way into American industry, perhaps through a back door or as the result of top secret agreements to falsify patents and blueprints to make it seem as if was invented by humans. If you can believe the book “The Day After Roswell,” by Philip Corso and William Birnes, such inventions as printed circuits and night vision goggles were helped along as of the result of reverse engineering a small part of the miraculous technological achievements of the extraterrestrials.
Perhaps, although skeptics will always point to the known development paths these inventions took, which would appear to put the lie to the claim that they were somehow influenced by our visitors. That ought to be true, assuming the back stories weren’t changed. It’s also fair to say that the claims of Corso and Birnes in that book are generally disbelieved.
However, the skeptics will continue to assert that, if we uncovered evidence of alien spacecraft over six decades ago, what have we learned from it? Why aren’t we seeing evidence of alien technology in our own military hardware? If we could find a way to travel to another planet without putting the crews atop a giant flying firecracker, why hasn’t it happened? We landed on the moon in 1969, and it appears manned space travel hasn’t progressed very far since then. True, some of that may be due more to politics than the capabilities of our scientists and engineers, but if we had the ability, shouldn’t we at least try?
At the same time, if that crashed ship used a technology that we still cannot penetrate, that would explain, above all else, why we haven’t seen any evidence of it anywhere. Sure, some might suggest we are secretly flying around in spaceships developed as the result of reverse engineering ET’s technology. Maybe some of the UFOs people see are Earth made, but we won’t reveal the truth until the time is right. Or something like that.
Understand, there’s really no evidence for any of this. But if it is true that flying saucers crashed near Roswell, NM and other locales over the years, it may well be that we have the hardware, but we haven’t figured out what to do with it. Believe what you will.
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July 21, 2013
The Paracast Takes You on a Journey Beyond Area 51!
The Paracast is heard Sundays from 2:00 AM until 5:00 AM Central Time on the GCN Radio Network and affiliates around the USA, and online across the globe via download and on-demand streaming.
Why It's Important for You to Donate to The Paracast: Although ads help cover a small part of our expenses, the income they produce is never enough to pay your humble hosts decent wages. Also, we do not receive any revenue from the ads placed on the show by our network or local stations. So we hope you're able to help fill the gap, if you can, to help us cover increasing server costs and other expenses -- or perhaps provide a little extra cash for lunch and utility bills. No contribution is too small (or too large
. It’s easy to send a donation. We have aDonate link on our home page, below the logo and audio player. There's also a Donate link on our forums, at the bottom of the sidebar on the right. Or just send your PayPal donation direct to sales (at) theparacast (dot) com. And if you’ve had a problem getting to our Donate screen, please try again. We just fixed a serious PayPal access problem, and it should wor k properly now.Attention U.S. Listeners: Help Us Bring The Paracast to Your City! In the summer of 2010, The Paracast joined the GCN radio network. This represented a huge step in bringing our show to a larger, mainstream audience. But we need your help to add additional affiliates to our growing network. Please ask one of your local talk stations if they are interested in carrying The Paracast. Feel free to contact us directly with the names of programming people we might be able to contact on your behalf. We can't do this alone, and if you succeed in convincing your local station to carry the show, we'll reward you with one of our special T-shirts, and other goodies. With your help, The Paracast can grow into one of the most popular paranormal shows on the planet!
Please Visit Our Online Store: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and an expanded collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt now featuring our brand new logo, just pay a visit to our online store at The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We also offer a complete lineup of other premium merchandise for your family, your friends and your business contacts.
About The Paracast: The Paracast covers a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions across the planet.
Set Up: The Paracast is a paranormal radio show that takes you on a journey to a world beyond science, where UFOs, poltergeists and strange phenomena of all kinds have been reported by millions. The Paracast seeks to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join long-time paranormal researcher Gene Steinberg, co-host and acclaimed field investigator Christopher O'Brien, and a panel of special guest experts and experiencers, as they explore the realms of the known and unknown. Listen each week to the great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris explore the reports and legends of hidden government installations around the world where top secret research and possible UFO explorations are going on with Mack Maloney, author of "Beyond Area 51." In addition to discussing such mysterious locales, he'll cover incredible tales of animal experimentation and UFO sightings. And wait till you hear Maloney's views about the Roswell and Aztec UFO crashes.
Chris O'Brien's Site: http://www.ourstrangeplanet.com
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: The Paracast Community Forums. We recently completed a major update that makes our community easier to navigate, and social network friendly.
About Reverse Engineering
By Gene Steinberg
I realize that movie westerns don’t do very well these days, witness the massive failure of “The Lone Ranger,” But imagine yourself living in the late 19th century. Your fastest means of transportation may be the railroad, or, if you can’t afford a ticket, your horse.
So one day you come by a small, thin, rectangular object, with curved corners, made of glass and metal. It appears to have a few tiny buttons on it, and when you press one and hold it for a second or two, it lights up with a picture that sports the shaded gray image of an apple with the right corner missing. Within a minute or two, that image is replaced by one with a background that resembles the Earth possibly observed from space, covered by tiny square pictures.
If you tap one of those pictures, curious things happen, and even more pictures with words that make little or no sense, appear on the small display.
Now you and I know that I’m talking about an iPhone, something very commonplace today, but clearly an artifact of unknown origin with amazing and undiscovered capabilities to someone who is living in the past. And I assume the battery is still working when it is first discovered, for when it runs out, it will be non-functional.
But even after it’s turned on, the person who recovers this gadget will be restricted to running the apps installed on it, if he or she can figure out what a tap or a swipe can accomplish. But there is no cellular tower, no broadband connection. The telephone has not been invented, and there is no Internet. Since there is no source of AC current, how does one charge the battery once it’s spent?
Imagine that this curious device is taken to the most esteemed scientists and engineers of the time to analyze. Sure, they should be able to take it apart after some effort with tiny tools, but they’d be at a total loss to figure out what it was or how it worked. Sure, perhaps they might have quickly determined the function of the battery, but what about the logic board, the microprocessor? They are living in an era many decades removed from the inventions of such contraptions.
It doesn’t matter how that iPhone appeared in our past. Maybe it was a time machine, or perhaps the gadget was sent back via a dimensional portal, or came from a parallel universe that closely mirrored our own. The real dilemma is this: Is it possible for the smartest people of that century to figure out what they had, and its purpose? Could they reverse engineer any of that advanced technology?
Now let’s take a journey to 1948, where scientists are reputed to be taking apart a crashed flying saucer that came here from another planet. Sure, they can perform autopsies of the dead crew members, or attempt to interrogate those who survived. But what about an example of technology that may be hundreds or thousands of years ahead of us?
Assuming the craft was even functional, could they fly it? Perhaps the controls are synchronized to the brain waves of the pilots. In other words, only those crew members can make it work. To anyone else, it would be dead as a doornail. This doesn’t mean that some elements of that technology couldn’t somehow be deciphered by the scientists who were granted access. But even after many decades, the essential basis of that alien technology may remain unknown and, for now, unknowable.
Over the years, there have been claims that alleged alien technology has somehow made its way into American industry, perhaps through a back door or as the result of top secret agreements to falsify patents and blueprints to make it seem as if was invented by humans. If you can believe the book “The Day After Roswell,” by Philip Corso and William Birnes, such inventions as printed circuits and night vision goggles were helped along as of the result of reverse engineering a small part of the miraculous technological achievements of the extraterrestrials.
Perhaps, although skeptics will always point to the known development paths these inventions took, which would appear to put the lie to the claim that they were somehow influenced by our visitors. That ought to be true, assuming the back stories weren’t changed. It’s also fair to say that the claims of Corso and Birnes in that book are generally disbelieved.
However, the skeptics will continue to assert that, if we uncovered evidence of alien spacecraft over six decades ago, what have we learned from it? Why aren’t we seeing evidence of alien technology in our own military hardware? If we could find a way to travel to another planet without putting the crews atop a giant flying firecracker, why hasn’t it happened? We landed on the moon in 1969, and it appears manned space travel hasn’t progressed very far since then. True, some of that may be due more to politics than the capabilities of our scientists and engineers, but if we had the ability, shouldn’t we at least try?
At the same time, if that crashed ship used a technology that we still cannot penetrate, that would explain, above all else, why we haven’t seen any evidence of it anywhere. Sure, some might suggest we are secretly flying around in spaceships developed as the result of reverse engineering ET’s technology. Maybe some of the UFOs people see are Earth made, but we won’t reveal the truth until the time is right. Or something like that.
Understand, there’s really no evidence for any of this. But if it is true that flying saucers crashed near Roswell, NM and other locales over the years, it may well be that we have the hardware, but we haven’t figured out what to do with it. Believe what you will.
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