Showing posts with label mars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mars. Show all posts

11/26/2007

Mars Has Water


Mars has Water And Life
Mars has Water And Life
Several weeks ago NASA splashed the headlines with news that they had found water on the red planet. Not just evidence of an ancient water flow long ago dried up, or frozen water embedded at the polar ice caps that may or may not be water, but actual flowing water currently on the planet Mars not more than a year.

What an incredible coincidence that this major discovery of flowing water, an essential key building block of life, is discovered now on Mars. At a time when space exploration is being scrutinized and interest in the red planet is waning.

The Grassy Knoll Institute offers this explanation as to why water has now been revealed on Mars. Like millions of people, the Grassy Knoll Institute was intrigued when the Mars rover Pathfinder, a little unmanned craft took it's first treadmill like steps on the Martian soil snapping hundreds of photo's and boldly going where no machine ever went before. (Thanks Gene Roddenberry)

Then came the Spirit and Opportunity NASA Mars rovers. Twin rovers larger and more durable than Pathfinder, blasted off to Mars for a 90 day survey mission. The rovers were only supposed to last for 90 days in the harsh surface conditions, but 90 days went and gone and the rovers were still ticking. They are now going into their fourth year on the planet still taking pictures of rocks and craters and mountains. But no one cares anymore. Because once you've seen a Martian rock from the rovers position of 2 feet from the ground, seeing thousands more of the same pictures of the rocks cousins is not that exciting.

NASA needs to be in the public eye once again, to capture the American interest in space exploration again. What better way than to announce the discovery of water on Mars alluding to the possibility that life does exist on the planet, not just ancient fungus long ago dead and dried, but thriving green plant life. And everyone knows the next logical step from that is mammal life.

It will be very interesting to see how NASA approaches the appropriations committee for their new space endeavor to land on Mars, take soil samples, water samples, and plant life samples, and blast off from the planet back to Earth for analysis.

The Grassy Knoll Institute will be watching.




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11/15/2007

Nasa Finds Intelligent Life On Mars

Photograph NASA Didn't Want Us To See
Photograph NASA Didn't Want Us To See
The Photograph NASA Didn't Want You To See

The Grassy Knoll Institute has uncovered a conspiracy involving NASA and the United states government. When the original famed "Mars Face" photo was first transmitted to earth it sparked many debates on whether life on Mars existed. Soon afterward, NASA experts, (The same experts that calibrated the Mars lander in feet instead of meters) claimed the photo was merely an illusion and bended light on a bland rock formation. Certainly not a monument much like our Mount Rushmore.

The controversy slowly died down and was left to speculation by conspiracy theorists until several years ago when new superior photos were taken by the Mars lander in 1998. The new photo showed the famous face from another angle revealing what NASA has said long ago, that it was merely a rock formation and not a face.

Once again, a media buzz surrounded the Mars Face as it was reported that the photo was processed through not one, but seven filters that could have changed the contrast, clarity, and appearance of the photo. The above photo is the only Mars Face photo in existence transmitted without any filters. When viewing the photo, you can clearly make out other shapes in the frame. Numbers or letters are visible surrounding the face. So far, the Grassy Knoll Institute has decoded five letters.
The letters are L.O.T.G.K. With this startling evidence, it is clear that intelligent life does exist in space, and on Mars.


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11/05/2007

And Jupiter Aligns With Mars

And Jupiter Aligns With Mars
The recent bizarre weather patterns, or lack there of have not gone unnoticed at the Grassy Knoll Institute. Since the onset of winter in December of 2002, the seasons seem to be blurring together. This winter in the states, the weather was much more severe than in many years past. It seemed to snow almost every day and the temperature was constantly below freezing. As spring began to blossom, the same strange pattern occurred. Precipitation.

Yes, it usually rains in spring, but the rainfall was far above the average and the temperature remained unseasonably cooler than normal. The same pattern as spring gave way to summer. It rained constantly. More precipitation than in years past and the temperature was at least 10 degrees cooler than normal.

Many cities and towns were deluged with what is referred to as “The hundred year rain cycle" flooding streets, rivers cresting, and destruction of property in the hundreds of millions of dollars. This not only happened once, but twice in less than three weeks time. Two ferocious storm patterns with the intensity of the hundred-year rain wreaked havoc causing F.E.M.A. to take action declaring many states disaster area’s after the second storm hit.

Heavy rainstorm systems are not the only peculiar events this season. These storm systems have produced more tornadoes and hurricanes so far this year than ever before recorded in history.

Earthquakes have also increased during the same time period with many dormant fault zones becoming alive again with tremors registering sizable movement and damage.

As strange as it sounds, volcano eruptions have increased in the same time frame and the famed Yellowstone National Park also showed a huge jump in seismic activity leading scientists to believe that this hot bed area will soon erupt and change the landscape of Yellowstone. The last large eruption in Yellowstone was approximately 60,000 years ago and it is due for another gigantic eruption.

The Grassy Knoll Institute has been analyzing all these strange patterns and has come to the realization that there is no conspiracy coverup involved even as some rumors abound about the Government conducting weather altering experiments actually being able to control the weather as they see fit. To this theory, the Grassy Knoll Institute simply says...BULL.

There is a much simpler yet deadlier explanation to the strange weather patterns. One simply needs to look into the night sky for the answer. Search for the moon in the sky. Now, look to the right of the moon. Do you see that bright red shining object? The object that wasn’t visible to the naked eye a mere month ago. That object is the planet Mars. The fourth planet from the sun, our celestial neighbor, and it has come to pay us a visit.

On the 27th of August in 2003, Mars was the closest to Earth than it ever has been in the past 60,000 years. The planet Mars for the next 10 years will become "Close" neighbors with Earth. Approximately every 60,000 years Mars orbit moves in a much nearer approach towards Earth and will continue to be visible in the night sky until late October 2013. Coincidentally, the last time Yellowstone Park had a gigantic eruption was 60,000 years ago. Coincidence, the Grassy Knoll Institute thinks not.

The Grassy Knoll Institute believes Mars is the cause for the strange weather patterns we are having all around the globe? Mars is changing our seasons as it comes closer to the Earth? Mars is cooling the oceans creating weather changes turning dry areas into wetlands?

Does Mars have this power? When we look at the moon and the power it has over our oceans causing high and low tides with it’s gravitational pull, one would tend to believe that a planet the size of Mars would also have an effect on our oceans that determine out weather conditions. Mars, like the moon, has tremendous gravitational pull and with the combined pull of both the moon and Mars on our tectonic plates near earthquake fault lines, certainly the increase of earthquakes and tremors throughout the world can be attributed to this.

Beginning on the 28th, August 2003, Mars slowly began to start to move away distancing itself back to its regular orbit of more than 30 million miles away. This move will take up to ten years. The speed in which Mars returns to its orbit will be gradual ensuring an early fall season and a harsh, wet and cold winter. This pattern will continue for 10 years.

Epilogue:

Perhaps 50 million years ago, the dinosaurs looked up and gazed upon a strange light in the sky. Perhaps Mars inched even closer to Earth that time. Perhaps close enough to change the entire globes climate, sending the Earth into an ice age sealing the fate of the dinosaur. The Grassy Knoll Institute will keep its eyes focused skyward.




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11/01/2007

Lure Of The Red Planet

President Bush announced that we the people are going back to the moon and then onward to Mars, the red planet, with manned flights. Bush wants to accomplish this within the next twenty years. He has pledged an additional $87 million dollars over the next 5 years for NASA to study and update the aging shuttle system and create new innovative ways to propel fragile men into the cold vastness of space to explore a planet that has been dead for a billion years. It doesn’t matter that we already invaded Mars with our robotic rovers that have captured breathtaking photo’s.

It doesn’t matter that we have a new and improved lander on Mars right now promising more advanced experiments to measure soil content, search for and find water, and for signs of life, past and present. It seems that robotic space exploration is far cheaper and safer than manned exploration. At this time, there is no need to risk the lives of our astronauts. Not to mention the tremendous expense for manned flight.

How does President Bush plan on paying for this space adventure? It has been estimated that the cost of the journey to Mars will be 1 trillion dollars. Yes, trillion. What does that mean to the average American taxpayer? It means that each and every one of us taxpayers will be shelling out over $6000.00 to the Mars project.

The Grassy Knoll Institute is all for the exploration of space, but the trillion dollars could be better used for a host of other critical needs in the United States.

I would much rather see adding more schools and teachers to educate our children.

I would rather see medical research to curb or cure deadly diseases.

I would rather see bolstering our homeless shelters making sure everyone has something to eat every night.

Hiring more police officers, rescue workers, and firefighters.

If I am going to kick in 6 plus grand of my hard earned tax money, I want more than pictures from a distant planet that I will never visit.

Also, I wondered why Bush has decided to make such a bold statement.

The answer is very simple. He wants to liken himself to President Kennedy and his bold initiative of landing a man on the moon and bringing him back safely by the end of the 1960′s decade. Kennedy introduced this during his inaugural address. These were pretty strong words for a newly elected president. Yet, the public was enamored with Kennedy and quickly got behind his dream pledging their support as well.

We were all in this together was the feel and atmosphere at that time. The Astronauts were elevated to elite status and NASA pushed forward and Armstrong finally took that historic first step on the moon in 1969.

Kennedy, even though assassinated, kept his pledge to the American people of landing a man on the moon, and NASA kept it’s end of the bargain by using all it’s resources to make the Apollo program successful. President Kennedy will be forever linked to Americans landing on the moon and the huge technology advance needed to make it happen.

President Bush understands this. He realizes that the American people are enamored with space and the planet Mars. What better way to go down in history than to be remembered as the president that dared the American public to expand into space to the planet Mars. I know he doesn’t want to be remembered as being the president that almost choked to death on a pretzel.

Yes folks, President Bush has a strategery!


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10/27/2007

Mars Moon Phobos Is Hollow

Mars Moon Phobos Is Hollow
Mars Moon Phobos Not Made Of Cheese
With the arrival of two more rovers transmitting data from the planet Mars, it's moon Phobo's has sparked interest once again. Hopes are high that today's technology will finally be able to put to rest a 40 plus year debate on whether the moon is a natural satellite or a hollow manufactured moon. Conjecture has it that Phobos is a Martian military base abandoned long ago after Mars atmosphere escaped dooming the Martian race unless an evacuation plan was in place.

Tantalizing photographs have shown perfectly round docking ports hidden inside the moons craters which would allow Martian ships to dock and supply the base and provide transport to and from Mars.

Other photographs show an intricate mining operation on Phobos. Apparently, the moon is being concealed from prying eyes attached to powerful telescopes to keep the moon base a well guarded secret.

All of the spacecraft so far sent to Mars have focused only on landing on the red planet utterly ignoring it's moons orbiting the planet. Some speculated that the failed missions actually were targeted to land or orbit Phobos to photograph and to survey the surface. These 25 or so missions failed with the space craft going silent never to be heard or seen from again with not a single bit of data gathered. Were these spacecrafts shot down by a Phobos weapons system that is still active today even with the Martian race long since gone? Is the system some sort of automated array designed to keep it's secrets well hidden, even going as far as destroying each and every probe that dared cross it's path?

Imagine the wondrous technology just waiting to be discovered on Phobos. Perhaps on NASA's next mission, it will be announced that it is targeting Phobos to better understand it's orbit and design. That will be the official announcement while the actual mission will be to attempt to land or achieve orbit on Phobos to hopefully unlock it's technological alien wonders.

George Bush is willing to spend trillions on this project. It better be more fruitful than bringing back a couple of rocks to put into a museum.

President Bush also wants to establish a manned mission to Phobos within the next twenty years as well.


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10/17/2007

Mars Face Conspiracy

Mars Face Conspiracy
Mars Face Conspiracy
The Mars Face Conspiracy

In 1976, Viking Orbiter, a probe NASA launched years earlier reached it's destination of Mars, the Red Planet. The orbiter was programmed to enter a low orbit around Mars and photograph the surface of the planet. The orbiter executed almost flawlessly and soon after orbit was achieved photo's started to be transmitted back to the home planet of Earth. Spectacular photo's came pouring in as the mapping of the planet commenced.

The photo's showed a Martian landscape decimated with huge craters, dormant volcano's, dried up ocean beds, wind eroded rocks and mountains, and a picture of a face carved into a mountain range in the Cydonia area of Mars. The proportions of the monument were huge, much larger than that of Mount Rushmore. NASA tried to debunk the face stating it was merely a natural formation but many did not and still do not believe it for if one looks closely at the face, the rounded edges and acute right angles are a billion to one to form naturally.

The life on Mars debate spread like wildfire. NASA had no real explanation and as good Government agencies do, a code of silence and denial was implemented.

NASA again launched another probe to the red Planet and in 1998 the Global Surveyor achieved orbit and with it's more advanced technology the picture transmitted back to Earth were much more sharp and clearer. NASA made sure that the same exact area where the face was was first photographed by orbiter. This time though the rock formation showed no semblance of a face but rather more like a flat ameba. Again the debate was sparked by the new photo's and the angle at which they were taken from.

Of course the photo was processed through not one but two camera filters designed to flatten and elongate thus producing an image without depth or perception. The Grassy Knoll Institute feels that NASA felt the pressure from the Government and were instructed to debunk and falsify the new photographic evidence. NASA goes one further releasing their scientific data stating that Mars is a barren dead planet that cannot sustain life as we know it.

The Grassy Knoll Institute however disagree's with NASA's assumption of Mars never having the capability to sustain an advanced civilization such as ours here on Earth. Perhaps Mars millions of years ago had the ability to support life. But how? Mars due to the location of it's orbit around the sun would be far to cold for us earthly humans. True, but there are other ways to radiate heat. Let's look at the planet for a moment.

There are huge volcano's the size of Mount Everest on Mars. They generate immense heat and with an atmosphere to hold the heat close to the planet's surface along with the natural rays and warmth of the sun, Mars could have been quite a nice planet to call home. We already know water exists on Mars. The photo's prove this. Vast dried up ocean beds litter Mars surface. Ice still exists at Mars North and South poles.

With water, air, heat, thermal energy and elements from the core of the planet, the basic building blocks of life existed on Mars just like it did on Earth. The natural process of evolution would occur. Amino acids combining to form microscopic life building more complex multi celled plant and animal life. Basic plants would form turning into jungles, forests, meadows, marshes and deserts. The oceans would come alive with plankton that would evolve into higher forms of sea life.

Soon, just like on Earth, a higher order of species would take control and dominate the planet. At one time, dinosaurs roamed the Earth and were the dominant species until a catastrophic impact of an asteroid occurred and the climate was changed and the dinosaurs became extinct giving way to the natural selection of the next dominant species, the mammal.

More than likely Mars took another path millions of years ago and instead of the dinosaur, mammals took control of the world and evolved into humanoid form.

Unlike Earth, Mars didn't suffer a climate changing disaster that almost destroyed the planet and made nature start from scratch with a new species. Maybe Mars enjoyed millions of years with the same dominant species who logically would be millions of years ahead of us on the evolutionary scale. Martians would learn basic tools of communication, building, and form simple societies. From there, complex language and technology.

Of course the Martians would build structures to worship their god and create idols so all the world could see. Maybe even a large face on a grand scale of it's most loved leader much like Earthlings did with Mount Rushmore. Temples of worship would be erected, pyramids to the gods to show their love, devotion, and loyalty.

A thousand or so years later, space travel and exploration. The little blue planet third from the sun would be the most likely target to dream about and explore. They would build great space ships and travel to Earth. They would find a simple people with the most basic of skills. The people of Earth would consider the Martians gods from the heavens and would worship them as such.

In exchange for their worship, perhaps the Martians accelerated the natural evolution of Earth giving the Egyptians technology to erect pyramids and great buildings. Along with the technology, also bestowed the knowledge of warfare and structured society. After the Martians left, the Egyptians implemented their new found knowledge and with their now great army, controlled the world for centuries. Of course the Egyptians would pay homage to their gods by building great structures to worship and honor them with Pyramids pointing and reaching to the heavens.

Then disaster struck. Mars would be bombarded with planet killing asteroids with some measuring 100 miles wide impacting on every corner of Mars. Within months the atmosphere would be almost gone letting the heat escape, oceans would be altered, the life force drained. The planet would begin to die. With the dust that the asteroids would have put into the atmosphere, sunlight would not be able to penetrate thus eliminating plant reproduction. Perhaps even the planet had it's orbit altered ripping the planet and destroying it's magnetic field. Mars does have several bulges where it looks like a huge portion of the surface was almost pulled apart from the planet. The beginning of the end.

The surviving Martian people would have to act quicky to save what little of their civilization was left. Perhaps several space ships survived and they would venture out into the cosmo's searching for a new planet to call home. Perhaps one such ship landed here on Earth. Perhaps in Rome during the reign of Ceasar. Perhaps this Martian walked among the humans. Perhaps he tried to help the people of his new world and home. He would be so much more advanced than humans that he would appear to be a god.

It would only be logical that if a man from 2002 traveled back to ancient Rome, he would be perceived as a god. Maybe he would save a drowning man by performing CPR and people would say he breathed life back into the dead man. Perhaps healing the sick with a simple antibiotic. Perhaps rubbing an ointment on the skin to heal the lepers. Maybe he would use his fishing skills and sonar devices to know where to throw the nets so as to catch all the fish that a boat could carry. Perhaps he would preach his wisdom to anyone who would listen. Perhaps he would gather a great following.

Maybe Caesar would feel threatened by this new man launching a new religion speaking of his Father in Heaven and that everyone that followed his teachings would also walk in the Kingdom of heaven. Perhaps this man would be betrayed and captured by the Romans and crucified. Strung up on a cross and left to die.

Perhaps during the three hours of darkness that befell the Earth during the Martians death his fellow Martians, in the blackness and chaos took the man down from the cross and replaced him with an impostor. A near death human cleverly disguised through cosmetic and plastic surgery to resemble the Martian.

Perhaps three days later he walked into his most loyal followers meeting room to show them that he was alive and that he was leaving them in body to go and live with his father in heaven but that he would always be with them in mind and spirit. A little light show, some pyrotechnics, a magician's trap door, and the Martian would disappear and a new religion would be born.

Perhaps they would move on to other regions on Earth looking for a quiet place to settle down. To quietly mingle with the humans. To start relatons with them. They may still be here, waiting.....
Mars Face Panoranic View
Mars Face Panoranic View 
Please note the Mars Face in a panaramic view showing the other rock formations surrounding it. Mars face is in the upper right corner.
Egyptian Myths And Mars Face
Egyptian Myths And Mars Face
Notice the rock formation that resembles an Egyptian Pyramid much like the one in Egypt in the Valley of the kings.
Note the cluster of rock formations. These formations resemble the Valley of the Pharohs of ancient Egypt where several pyramids were erected close to one another to honor their dead and to show their superiority to the world.
When you look at this photo taken of Mars surface you can see the striking resemblance of the Great Sphinx and the Great Pyramids of Egypt. Notice the arrangement of the Mars Face photo to the Egyptian layout. Could they be of the same builders?

Notice the striking resemblance of the Mars face and this Egyptian burial mask.
Egyptian Sphinx is The Mars Face
Egyptian Sphinx is The Mars Face
Again, notice the face of the Egyptian Sphinx and the Mars Face. The eyes, nose, open mouth, the ceremonial head dress covering the head piece are almost exactly like the Mars Face formation. Could it be that thousands of years and devastating erosion and a photo transmitted millions of miles has blurred or washed away some of the features of the Mars Face.

Remember, the sands of Egypt once covered the great Sphinx and it had to be uncovered by man. Could it be that the Mars Face is just the tip of the ice berg and a vast structure lies beneath the Martian soil waiting patiently like the Great Sphinx to be uncovered and worshiped once again?


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10/20/2004

Worst Movies Ever Made

The Worst Movies Ever Made
Presented By The Grassy Knoll Institute Film Society

With the Halloween season just completed, I paid close attention to the TV stations promo's for upcoming Halloween movies. I saw most of these so called "Classics" and mind you many of them were clunkers.

Going one step further, the scientists at the Institute decided to compile, (after many hours logged viewing movie after movie) the worst movies ever made.
These movies are in no particular order.....

"Glitter" starring Mariah Carey. Made the movie "Showgirls" look like an Oscar nominated film.

"The Tempest" starring Susan Sarandon. On advice by my older brother that this was a great movie, I took my date, my future wife, to see it. It was our first date, and almost the last. Only the goat Nino saved us.

"Attack of the Killer Tomatoes". Yes, I know it was supposed to be a spoof of classic "B" movies, but the jokes and timing were so bad and the props, paper mache tomatoes bouncing down streets were just pathetic.

"Halloween 3". Thinking that this was the trilogy set of the original Halloween movies, I went and paid good money to be sorely disappointed. This movie was not even about Michael Myers, but about some stupid mask that turns people into zombies. A total lamo.

"Howard the Duck" A talking duck from outer space. No more need be said here.

"Plan 9 From Outer Space". An Ed Wood classic. Aliens come to conquer the Earth but all previous 8 plans used did not work. Hence, the title of the movie. Plan 9 would raise the dead and use the zombies to destroy the earth and do the evil bidding of the aliens. It was also Bela Lagosi's last movie. He died before it was completed and a stand in actor was used to complete the movie. The actor had to use a cape and hat to cover his face so as not to be recognized as not being Bela. I wouldn't want to be recognized in this film either.

"Mars Needs Women". Should have been titled, In search of a script....

"Legend of Boggy Creek". I remember watching the promo ads on TV for this movie. It showed several seconds of a fuzzy out of focus ape like creature from a distance walking in the woods. The problem was, that was the highlight of the movie. There was no more actual footage of big foot. Just worthless interviews from a dozen or so eye witnesses.

"Queen of Outer Space" starring Zsa Zsa Gabor. A group of astronauts are blown off course and land on planet Venus and find it inhabited by women. Beautiful women, in mini skirts, and big hairdos. The plot thickens as do these movies do, and the queen wants the men all dead. Zsa Zsa helps them and is condemned with the men. The green sticky rock thingy that somehow attracts them and traps them is one of the worst ever movie props.

"Who's that girl" starring Madonna. I guess this should be, any Madonna movie but this one tops the charts.

"The Gods Must Be Crazy". The African jungle. A bottle of coke that fell from the sky. That's about it.

"Nell" starring Jodie Foster. Dennis Miller, comedian said it best. You go see Nell by yourself.

"Cabin Boy". It's a wonder this stinker didn't bankrupt and ruin David Letterman's reputation. His company produced this clunker.

"Manos The Hands Of Fate". Apparently Manos was an evil spirit, and the master of the house, or hotel, worshipped Manos. A hapless family stumbles into his clutches and seemingly become worshippers as well. Hard to follow plot. Terrible acting.

"Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot" starring Sly Stallone. The rise and fall of Rocky.

"Teenagers From Outer Space". Classic story. Alien teenage boy sent to take over the Earth falls for beautiful Earth girl. The other alien teenage boys hunt down the renegade alien teenage boy with ray guns that have a two second time delay when pressing the trigger.

"Sgt's Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band" starring Peter Frampton and the Bee Gee's. This was the death knell for the disco era.

"The Fog" starring Andrianne Barbeau. The monster was fog that swept bad people away. Reminds me of the movie "Play Misty For Me".

"Laserblast". Classic story of teenage boy not loved by his mother, harassed by the local sheriff, finds alien technology (A laser gun and strange broach that turned him green) and decides to take matters into his own hands. Classic.

"Mr. Nanny" starring Hulk Hogan. This movie clearly proves that Vince McMahon owns all the wrestlers rights and futures. Hulk sinks to low level.

Well, there you have it. Twenty classic stinkers.
Any that I left out or missed?
What are your worst favorite movies?




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