2 November 2013 UN Will Defend Earth From Asteroids . . . and Aliens? The Association of Space Explorers (ASE) has been given permission by the UN to develop an asteroid defense plan (ADP). The ASE spoke to the UN at a General Assembly meeting to call for protection against asteroids. The ASE was founded in 1985 by scientists from the US, Russia and “international fliers”. Their purpose is to: provide a forum for professional dialogue among individuals who have flown in space to support space science and exploration for the benefit of all to promote and support education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to foster environmental awareness and planetary stewardship to encourage international cooperation in the human exploration of space The ADP will create an International Asteroid Warning Group (IAWG) that will be tasked with letting the world know there is an eminent threat of an asteroid hitting the Earth. In response, a spacecraft would be sent into space to steer the asteroid off course. The UN hopes to launch practice deflection missions (PDM) to test out methodology devised on Earth. In defense of the UN ADP, Neil deGrasse Tyson said: “The ASE astronauts are also asking the United Nations to coordinate a practice asteroid deflection mission to test out the technologies for pushing a rock off course should the need arise. The meteor in Chelyabinsk, which injured 1,000 people but killed none, was an ideal warning shot across the bow.” Ed Lu, former NASA astronaut said: “There are 100 times more asteroids out there than we have found. There are about 1 million asteroids large enough to destroy New York City or larger. Our challenge is to find these asteroids first, before they find us.” Lu is the co-founder of the B612 Foundation which is going to launch an asteroid-hunting telescope into space by 2017. They are expecting nations will want to join them in their endeavor to monitor the planet 24/7 for near-Earth asteroids. The Sentinel mission was conceived in 2012 to “detect and track the million asteroids with the potential to destroy any major city on Earth.” B612 partnered with Ball Aerospace to develop a telescope that would “operate in deep space” using “infrared lenses”. B612 was formed after a meeting of astronauts and scientists at the NASA Johnson Space Center. The purpose of their meeting was “to come up with both impact scenarios and cost-effective solutions.” Rusty Scheickart, attendee of the meeting said: “We feel a certain urgency to get on with it so that we can be confident that we’re not going to have a cosmic disaster here for no good, justifiable reason, just because we didn’t get with it. So let’s get with it. That’s the name of the game.” The ADP will identify all threats in space that are known to prevent another event that occurred in Russia earlier this year. The UN has been preparing for possible contact with an extra-terrestrial race. The UN’s Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (CPUOS) was created in 1959. Their purpose is to facilitate matters of international concern within outer space, as well as deal with any legal issues that may arise from space exploration. Professor John Zarnecki of the Open University and Dr. Martin Dominik of the University of St Andrews say that societal uprisings could be avoided if there is global cooperation in forming an international political body to oversee the communications between humans and aliens. They both agree that the UN’s CPUOS will be that facilitator. In 2010, the UN’s director for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), Mazlan Othman, said that “statistically, extraterrestrial life is a possibility.” Othman referenced that scientists are finding more and more Earth like planets in “habitable zones” that most likely facilitate life. She believes that the world must “come together to lay out a plan” for dealing with discovery of alien life. Othman also asserts that the UN should be the sole direct contact and governing body in charge if and when the aliens arrive on Earth. As the appointed international body on Earth, the UN would formulate laws and guidelines on how to expedite peace with the aliens. Scientists for the Royal Society published papers referencing all aspects of alien existence, surmising that this issue must be addressed as a serious possibility within scientific and governmental circles. Simon Conway Morris, a professor of evolutionary palaeobiology at Cambridge University, asserts that aliens would be hostile and preparations should be focused on this probability. Morris clarifies that alien life would have “similar biological molecules” to humans and extra-terrestrials may have our “tendencies toward violence and exploitation”. Ted Peters, professor of systematic theology at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary in California supposes that alien contact would drastically affect the world’s religions, possibly creating a collapse of “conventional wisdom”. Peters asks: Will confirmation of extra-terrestrial intelligence (ETI) cause terrestrial religion to collapse? What is the scope of God’s creation? What can we expect regarding the moral character of ETI? Is one earthly incarnation in Jesus Christ enough for the entire cosmos, or should we expect multiple incarnations on multiple planets? Will contact with more advanced ETI diminish human dignity? He goes on say that the Bible supports aliens as part of God’s creation and “will be seen as the gift of a loving and gracious God”. Even the US government is preparing for alien contact . . . or invasion. On Easter last year, the Pentagon, headed by Professor Paul Springer, conducted a beta test alien invasion scenario.
Posted on: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 08:14:35 +0000