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- Abduction Digest, Number 13
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- Saturday, May 25th 1991
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- Today's Topics:
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- Re: Tesla & Tau Ceti
- Re: Rima Laibow (Conclusion)
- Re: Rima Laibow (Conclusion)
- Re: Rima Laibow (Conclusion)
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- From: jrblack@shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu
- Subject: Re: Tesla & Tau Ceti
- Date: 22 May 91 03:41:53 GMT
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- From: James Roger Black <jrblack@shemtaia.weeg.uiowa.edu>
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- Why all the interest in Tau Ceti?
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- Tau Ceti is one of the four nearby stars most commonly cited as possible
- homes for extraterrestrial life:
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- Name Spectra Distance Comments
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- Epsilon Eridani K2 10.76 ly
- 61 Cygni K5/K7/?? 11.08 ly triple star
- Epsilon Indi K5 11.44 ly
- Tau Ceti G8 11.87 ly
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- These are the only star systems within a 16-light-year radius of earth
- that are considered likely to have habitable planets. The others are
- thought to be either too unstable gravitationally to have planets at
- all, or are too hot, too cold, too young, too old, too whatever to
- provide a stable environment for life to develop and to survive long
- enough for it to achieve intelligence. Tau Ceti is considered the best
- candidate, since it is the most like our own sun.
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- Of course, even 'uninhabitable' planets could be colonized by high-tech
- immigrants from somewhere else; and in any case the parameters of
- 'official' opinion in this area change year by year. For example, it
- was long thought impossible for multiple-star systems such as Alpha
- Centauri and 61 Cygni to have stable planetary orbits within the
- habitable zones, but computer simulations have questioned that
- conclusion.
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- One reason these four are attractive is that they all lie approximately
- 11 light years from earth. Apparently the first major UFO waves took
- place some 22-24 years after the first high-power radio transmissions
- from earth which could have been detected at interstellar distances.
- Such transmissions, moving at the speed of light, would have taken
- about 11 years to reach them, and spacecraft moving at near-light speed
- would have taken not much more than that to return here--hence the 22-24
- year time frame.
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- Of course, that's assuming that 'they' are in fact extra-terrestrials,
- which is far from proven. Jacques Vallee, Gordon Creighton, and others
- have suggested that the so-called 'aliens' are in fact as closely bound
- to this planet as we are, in which case Tau Ceti is utterly
- irrelevant.
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- Or, maybe, both theories are right ...
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- From: Paul.Carr@f4.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Paul Carr)
- Subject: Re: Rima Laibow (Conclusion)
- Date: 19 May 91 20:19:00 GMT
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- One very interesting aspect of the Rima Laibow paper is that
- it describes a semi-repeatable experiment - Having a psychiatrist
- test several abductess, attempting to deduce if they have anything in
- common. A control group of non-abductees (or perhaps several such
- groups) would be needed to establish the validity of the results.
- Let CSICOP's Psychologists (Robert A. Baker, Irving Biederman,
- Susan Blackmore, Milton Rosenberg, and B.F. Skinner) pick the
- psychiatrists to perform the examinations.
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- Paul Carr - via FidoNet node 1:104/422
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- From: Jim.Speiser@paranet.FIDONET.ORG (Jim Speiser)
- Subject: Re: Rima Laibow (Conclusion)
- Date: 20 May 91 06:48:00 GMT
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- Paul:
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- On the subject of Robert Baker, are you aware of a book of his entitled
- "They Call It Hypnosis"? (presumably Prometheus). I have been told that in
- it he speaks of a study of 300 abductees, in which it was discovered that a
- large majority of them, on the order of 80-90%, suffered from Fantasy-Prone
- Personality. I'm asking because this information not only came as a shock to
- me, but to several other "professionals" I've conversed with. One of them
- assured me that the only people who have ever worked with such a large group
- were Budd Hopkins and, indirectly, Eddie Bullard. If you, or anyone
- watching, is aware of this book or the aforementioned study, please speak
- up. Abductees everywhere are waiting with baited breath!
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- Jim
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- From: Paul.Carr@f4.n1012.z9.FIDONET.ORG (Paul Carr)
- Subject: Re: Rima Laibow (Conclusion)
- Date: 21 May 91 19:11:00 GMT
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- Did Dr. Baker work with a control group? And where did he get 300
- abductees? Put an ad in the National Enquirer?
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- Paul Carr - via FidoNet node 1:104/422
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