The House of Plague

The UN has suggested that the Epstein case may represent a crime against humanity. This is getting a bit of buzz on the UFO circuit, because of obvious similarities with UFO disclosure.

Should it be revealed there have been 80 years of deception and manipulation around the nature of life and our place in the universe, and maybe strategies to suppress technology, would it be a crime, and how should supervising authorities respond? It is a question that might find precedent in Epstein. That's helpful, given how ill-thought out and unprepared the legal territory would be.

There were similar thoughts during the pandemic. Might the politics and legitimacy of institutions under such difficult circumstances mirror an ET contact scenario? This essay, from the era of Covid-19, also looks at problems for SETI and Democracy.

Sadly, for something as possibly uplifting as extraterrestrial contact and the discovery we are not alone, we have to look at the annals of crime and disease for a map. 

SETI or the search for SETI?

 

There has been a minor kerfuffle around SETI, the possible detection of a signal from an Earth like planet orbiting Kepler-438:

The Sky Eye Telescope and the Alien Signal that Wasn't

I notice that the time between the breaking of the story and the nixing of the story is again the magic 3 days that just happen to correspond to NSA data capacity in Utah regarding capture of the internet. It is as if they are sweeping the world for data about chat about SETI rather than the actual sky for ETI. I always make this observation about stories that fit a 3 day cycle too neatly. Charlie Hebdo was another.

My test for any conspiracy theory is "is it what I would do?". I have to say that if I was an intelligence agency with the tech to record global internet chatter for 3 days, I *would* occasionally send up a flare to illuminate conversations and networks of interest. In this regard Muslims and SETI afficionados would seem to be in the same boat.