THE PARACAST NEWSLETTER
July 9, 2011
The Paracast Exposes the Fakes in the Paranormal Field
Special Announcement: The Paracast is heard Sundays from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM (Central Time) on the GCN radio network.
Here's How You Can Help The Paracast: Although ads help cover a small part of our expenses, the income they produce is never enough. Also, we do not receive any revenue from the ads placed on the show by our network. So we hope you'll be willing 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. No contribution is too small (or too large
. We have a Donate link on our home page, below the logo and audio player. There's also a Donate link on our forums, right below our logo. Or just send your PayPal donation direct to sales (at) theparacast (dot) com.
Attention U.S. Listeners: Help Us Bring The Paracast to Your City! Last summer, The Paracast joined the GCN radio network. This represented a huge step in bringing our show to a larger, mainstream audience. On July 3, The Paracast was introduced to millions of listeners in New York City, New Jersey, and Long Island, when we arrive on WVNJ radio. But that's just one recent conquest.
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!
You Can Now Order The Official Paracast T-Shirt: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and a collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt, just pay a visit to our new online store at Welcome to The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We now also offer a lineup of other premium merchandise featuring The Paracast logo.
Sunday, July 10, 2011: 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 hosts interview long-time researchers in the field, to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join us as we explore the realms of the known and unknown, and hear great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris are joined by the irrepressible Jim Moseley, Editor/Publisher of Saucer Smear, who will discuss the fakes and the outright frauds he has discovered, and sometimes exposed, in the UFO field since the 1950s.
Christopher O'Brien's Site: Home - Our Strange Planet
Reminder: Reminder: Don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: The Paracast Community Forums.
The End of the Dream?
By Gene Steinberg
A lot of people shed tears this past week as the final space shuttle expedition took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Once the astronauts return to earth, there will be no more space flights from the U.S. for some years, except for the possibility that space craft developed by private industry will advance enough to somehow replace that expired program.
What a tragic conclusion to a great initiative that had such a promising beginning.
Back in the 1957, the U.S., immersed in a Cold War with the USSR, found itself playing second fiddle with the launch of the Sputnik I satellite into low orbit on October 4th. Although the Americans quickly played catch up, it took President John F. Kennedy to assert a national vision, in 1961, that we would land on the moon by 1970. And we did, years after his assassination, on July 20, 1969, as the Apollo 11 fulfilled this age-old dream.
A few more lunar excursions, an awful tragedy, and man’s efforts to stand on the surface of the moon and, perhaps, other planets, came to a conclusion, almost as if we no longer cared. But the initial excitement was sufficient to inspire sci-fi books and movies that depicted the human race’s eventual landings on Mars and elsewhere. Stanley Kubrick’s classic movie, “2001: A Space Odyssey,” was released in 1968, offering the hope and promise of a spacefaring future.
It was all so certain then that we’d colonize the planets by then, and be readying our first excursions towards the stars, the “final frontier.” We were meant to explore space. How could it be otherwise?
So 2001 came and went, with humans not much farther advanced in space exploration than on that fateful day in 1969. What programs remained paled into insignificance compared to those original moon landings. Returning there, and perhaps reaching Mars, seemed years away, except for unmanned space probes.
It’s easy to blame one politician or another, the president you didn’t vote for, or all the members of Congress in failing to assert a meaningful vision of future space travel. Sure, they pay it lip service, and announce and begin programs that have slipping timetables with ever more modest goals.
President Obama, for example, delivered his vision for space travel in 2010, talking of a manned landing on an asteroid by 2025, and an eventual voyage to Mars in the 2030s. Construction of a new spaceship to help realize these modest goals won’t even start until 2015.
All this also depends on whether Congress, confronting mounting deficits and a level of polarization almost unheard of in American history, has the will to actually approve ongoing funding to keep NASA alive, even at a reduced level. Yes, private industry will be called upon to do the heavy lifting, but how many companies out there are willing to expend billions of dollars of development money without the certain promise of a prompt return on their investment.
Even if NASA receives appropriations sufficient to hire private contractors to fly spaceships on various missions, that’s no guarantee that those companies can actually deliver the goods, and produce vehicles that aren’t merely low-orbit taxi cabs. It’s almost as if we’ve lost our wills to explore space.
Sure, some people are as passionate as I am, if not more so, desperately hoping against hope that the right politicians will develop the spines to express a serious vision for space travel. But that’s just the first step. The second involves mounting a successful campaign to allocate tens of billions of dollars each year to get these stagnant programs off dead center.
If we could figure out how to get to the moon in 1969, why can’t we figure a way to harness the technology we’ve developed since then to do better? It’s almost as if we’ve lost our desires to move forward, and that’s the saddest part of all.
It’s a sure thing that, even if I’m still around, I will probably be too old to appreciate our return to space, and the hoped for missions to Mars, should they occur as tentatively planned. However, if there was a serious – rather than fanciful – effort to make space travel a priority, the benefits to our technologies will be enormous, as they were after the original moon landing.
Some suggest that the mere presence of UFOs in our skies is a message that we belong among the stars, but there doesn’t seem to be any serious prospect that we are prepared to heed that message.
But I'm not about to rest, and I ask you to send your comments on how we can expand this movement to reestablish a working space program. Or am I alone in seeking these goals?
The Paracast Copyright 1999-2011 Making The Impossible, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy: Your personal information is safe with us. We will positively never give out your name and/or e-mail address to anybody else, and that's a promise
July 9, 2011
The Paracast Exposes the Fakes in the Paranormal Field
Special Announcement: The Paracast is heard Sundays from 6:00 PM until 9:00 PM (Central Time) on the GCN radio network.
Here's How You Can Help The Paracast: Although ads help cover a small part of our expenses, the income they produce is never enough. Also, we do not receive any revenue from the ads placed on the show by our network. So we hope you'll be willing 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. No contribution is too small (or too large
. We have a Donate link on our home page, below the logo and audio player. There's also a Donate link on our forums, right below our logo. Or just send your PayPal donation direct to sales (at) theparacast (dot) com.Attention U.S. Listeners: Help Us Bring The Paracast to Your City! Last summer, The Paracast joined the GCN radio network. This represented a huge step in bringing our show to a larger, mainstream audience. On July 3, The Paracast was introduced to millions of listeners in New York City, New Jersey, and Long Island, when we arrive on WVNJ radio. But that's just one recent conquest.
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!
You Can Now Order The Official Paracast T-Shirt: You asked, and we answered. We are now taking orders for The Official Paracast T-Shirt and a collection of other specially customized merchandise. To get your T-Shirt, just pay a visit to our new online store at Welcome to The Official Paracast Store to select your size and place your order. We now also offer a lineup of other premium merchandise featuring The Paracast logo.
Sunday, July 10, 2011: 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 hosts interview long-time researchers in the field, to shed light on the mysteries and complexities of our Universe and the secrets that surround us in our everyday lives.
Join us as we explore the realms of the known and unknown, and hear great stories of the history of the paranormal field in the 20th and 21st centuries.
This Week's Episode: Gene and Chris are joined by the irrepressible Jim Moseley, Editor/Publisher of Saucer Smear, who will discuss the fakes and the outright frauds he has discovered, and sometimes exposed, in the UFO field since the 1950s.
Christopher O'Brien's Site: Home - Our Strange Planet
Reminder: Reminder: Don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: The Paracast Community Forums.
The End of the Dream?
By Gene Steinberg
A lot of people shed tears this past week as the final space shuttle expedition took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Once the astronauts return to earth, there will be no more space flights from the U.S. for some years, except for the possibility that space craft developed by private industry will advance enough to somehow replace that expired program.
What a tragic conclusion to a great initiative that had such a promising beginning.
Back in the 1957, the U.S., immersed in a Cold War with the USSR, found itself playing second fiddle with the launch of the Sputnik I satellite into low orbit on October 4th. Although the Americans quickly played catch up, it took President John F. Kennedy to assert a national vision, in 1961, that we would land on the moon by 1970. And we did, years after his assassination, on July 20, 1969, as the Apollo 11 fulfilled this age-old dream.
A few more lunar excursions, an awful tragedy, and man’s efforts to stand on the surface of the moon and, perhaps, other planets, came to a conclusion, almost as if we no longer cared. But the initial excitement was sufficient to inspire sci-fi books and movies that depicted the human race’s eventual landings on Mars and elsewhere. Stanley Kubrick’s classic movie, “2001: A Space Odyssey,” was released in 1968, offering the hope and promise of a spacefaring future.
It was all so certain then that we’d colonize the planets by then, and be readying our first excursions towards the stars, the “final frontier.” We were meant to explore space. How could it be otherwise?
So 2001 came and went, with humans not much farther advanced in space exploration than on that fateful day in 1969. What programs remained paled into insignificance compared to those original moon landings. Returning there, and perhaps reaching Mars, seemed years away, except for unmanned space probes.
It’s easy to blame one politician or another, the president you didn’t vote for, or all the members of Congress in failing to assert a meaningful vision of future space travel. Sure, they pay it lip service, and announce and begin programs that have slipping timetables with ever more modest goals.
President Obama, for example, delivered his vision for space travel in 2010, talking of a manned landing on an asteroid by 2025, and an eventual voyage to Mars in the 2030s. Construction of a new spaceship to help realize these modest goals won’t even start until 2015.
All this also depends on whether Congress, confronting mounting deficits and a level of polarization almost unheard of in American history, has the will to actually approve ongoing funding to keep NASA alive, even at a reduced level. Yes, private industry will be called upon to do the heavy lifting, but how many companies out there are willing to expend billions of dollars of development money without the certain promise of a prompt return on their investment.
Even if NASA receives appropriations sufficient to hire private contractors to fly spaceships on various missions, that’s no guarantee that those companies can actually deliver the goods, and produce vehicles that aren’t merely low-orbit taxi cabs. It’s almost as if we’ve lost our wills to explore space.
Sure, some people are as passionate as I am, if not more so, desperately hoping against hope that the right politicians will develop the spines to express a serious vision for space travel. But that’s just the first step. The second involves mounting a successful campaign to allocate tens of billions of dollars each year to get these stagnant programs off dead center.
If we could figure out how to get to the moon in 1969, why can’t we figure a way to harness the technology we’ve developed since then to do better? It’s almost as if we’ve lost our desires to move forward, and that’s the saddest part of all.
It’s a sure thing that, even if I’m still around, I will probably be too old to appreciate our return to space, and the hoped for missions to Mars, should they occur as tentatively planned. However, if there was a serious – rather than fanciful – effort to make space travel a priority, the benefits to our technologies will be enormous, as they were after the original moon landing.
Some suggest that the mere presence of UFOs in our skies is a message that we belong among the stars, but there doesn’t seem to be any serious prospect that we are prepared to heed that message.
But I'm not about to rest, and I ask you to send your comments on how we can expand this movement to reestablish a working space program. Or am I alone in seeking these goals?
The Paracast Copyright 1999-2011 Making The Impossible, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Privacy Policy: Your personal information is safe with us. We will positively never give out your name and/or e-mail address to anybody else, and that's a promise
