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Post by harrypalmer on Jun 13, 2008 5:06:11 GMT -5
I've booked a holiday in San Monique. Anyone else been there?
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Post by skywalker on Jun 17, 2008 6:48:49 GMT -5
I've booked a holiday in San Monique. Anyone else been there? No, but I wouldn't mind going.
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Post by JackBurton on Jun 18, 2008 12:51:00 GMT -5
I hear the bus service there is very good.
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Post by harrypalmer on Jul 18, 2008 11:10:45 GMT -5
Doesn't the Open Golf on the links course look awful compared to those lush green courses in the big US golf majors!
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Post by skywalker on Jul 22, 2008 6:32:43 GMT -5
Doesn't the Open Golf on the links course look awful compared to those lush green courses in the big US golf majors! Not a huge golf fan, so only watched the odd bit on TV. What beautiful weather they had to contend with.
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Post by Cpt. Sir Dominic Flandry on Jul 25, 2008 14:29:29 GMT -5
www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/25/usa1Ex-Nasa astronaut tells radio presenter he believes in UFOsEd Pilkington in New York guardian.co.uk, Friday July 25 2008
The list of those who subscribe to the theory that alien life forms and UFOs have visited Earth amid a massive government cover-up is long and varied. It includes cranks, paranoid delusionals, editors of the Daily Star (and sometimes all three).
But a NASA astronaut who is the sixth man to have walked upon the Moon?
The profile of Edgar Mitchell does not conform to that of your common or garden UFO aficionado. He holds two bachelor of science degrees and a doctorate in aeronautics from the prestigious and not exactly tree-huggy Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Along with his co-astronaut Alan Shepard, he holds the record for the longest moonwalk - for nine hours on February 9 1971 as part of the Apollo 14 mission.
Put all that together and it is no wonder that an interviewer with a UK radio station almost fell off his seat this week when he lobbed Mitchell what he thought was a throwaway question: Did he believe in life on other planets?
"Oh yes," came the reply. "There's not much question at all that there is life throughout the universe. I'm totally sure we are not alone."
A deep intake of breath could be heard from the presenter for Birmingham-based Kerrang radio. But there was more. Mitchell said he had intelligence "that we have been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomenon is real - though it's been covered up by governments for the last 60 years or so".
In hindsight, there had been earlier clues that Mitchell was to become one of the most distinguished and unlikely members of the club of UFO believers that, had they been taken on board, might have made this week's revelation a little less astonishing. He has mentioned extra-terrestrial beings in obscure American outlets in the past, though never before given as much detail about his convictions.
There was his claim to the culture magazine Cabinet a few years ago that he had conducted unofficial experiments in extrasensory perception during the Apollo 14 mission, trying to make contact via telepathy with collaborators back on Earth. (The experiment failed, but let's not dwell on that.)
More recently he revealed that he had been cured of a bout of kidney cancer by a man called Adam Dreamhealer who, though based in Canada, did all his healing from a distance and managed to effect a complete recovery through the power of consciousness.
So his comment this week that Roswell, the 1947 appearance of an alien, really did happen, and his description of extraterrestrials as harmless "little people," can be seen to fall in the same tradition.
For NASA, which has been struggling in recent months with the fall-out from its female astronaut who drove across America to confront a love rival wearing a nappy, there was a tone of "here we go again" to its response. In a statement, the agency said: "Dr Mitchell is a great American, but we do not share his opinion on this issue."
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Post by drfanshawe on Aug 9, 2008 4:30:48 GMT -5
I'm going to enjoy the Olympics. There are a few political controversies though.
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Post by harrypalmer on Sept 1, 2008 10:21:46 GMT -5
I'm going to enjoy the Olympics. There are a few political controversies though. I enjoyed the Olympics Dr! Great Britain went mad in the medal table.
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Post by harrypalmer on Oct 3, 2008 5:11:33 GMT -5
Any fans of Halloween? They normally have a few horror films on; although the ultimate horror film is released on Halloween in the UK this year!
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Post by harrypalmer on Nov 7, 2008 11:48:19 GMT -5
I thought I'd just pop into the club for my 500th post!
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Post by skywalker on Nov 7, 2008 12:49:39 GMT -5
I thought I'd just pop into the club for my 500th post! Congratualtions Harry.
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Post by skywalker on Nov 11, 2008 17:19:30 GMT -5
Skywalker was lucky enough to get tickets to see ACDC in Manchester. They are now selling for up to £500 per ticket.
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Post by harrypalmer on Nov 11, 2008 19:18:16 GMT -5
Skywalker was lucky enough to get tickets to see ACDC in Manchester. They are now selling for up to £500 per ticket. What are you waiting for.....put them on Ebay!
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Post by skywalker on Nov 12, 2008 7:26:06 GMT -5
Skywalker was lucky enough to get tickets to see ACDC in Manchester. They are now selling for up to £500 per ticket. What are you waiting for.....put them on Ebay! I'd rather watch Angus strut his stuff. Although if the Mrs had her way
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Post by harrypalmer on Nov 12, 2008 18:12:40 GMT -5
What are you waiting for.....put them on Ebay! I'd rather watch Angus strut his stuff. Although if the Mrs had her way I'd hide those tickets if I were you......!
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