So this is a fascinating little thing that seems to have happened.
As of this post, nasa.gov is non-responsive from all the traffic they're getting because they've recently announce that, quote: "under certain circumstances, liquid water has been found on Mars."
Now, at first glance that's not a big deal. Water has been "discovered" on MArs so many times that there's a wiki page
chronicling all the discoveries. I've been seeing an article every several months for
years "discovering" that yes, Mars does have water, as if it were any surprise.
Ahh, nasa.gov is responding now.
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-confirms-evidence-that-liquid-water-flows-on-today-s-mars"NASA Confirms Evidence That Liquid Water Flows on Today’s Mars"
So that might be a little different than finding ice. And interestingly, apparently NASA gave a
statement says (among other things) that they want to send live people to the surface to look for life. So, great! We've all wanted this. It might or might not be news. We've known Mars has water for decades. But this does seem to be a stronger statement to that fact than has been typical in recent decades.
It is however, a curious thing, that this announcement was made
within 12 hours of the fourth lunar eclipse of the
Bloodmoon prophecy.
"Wait, what" you say?
Ok, so...everybody remember
that line from the movie Ghostbusters about sun turning black as sackcloth as the moon as red as blood, the seas boiling and the dead rising from the grave? That's actually a quote from
revelation 6 of the bible. (Though apparently Ghostbusters incorrectly cited it as verse 7:12)
So, anyway, the "moon turning red as as blood" is generally assumed to be a reference to a lunar eclipse. Like the one last night, the moon looked red. The sun turning black, of course, is a reference to a solar eclipse. And according to some random assorted Abrahamic religious people a moderately long time ago, based on...stuff that I never entirely followed...the particular configuration of solar and lunar eclipses that happened this year and concluded last night, is "a match" for the biblical prophecy about the sixth seal in Revelation.
Now, I notice that we're still here. But I find it
fascinating that NASA chose
this day to make this announcement.
Simplifying the content of Revelation to say that "the world is gonna end!" is...possibly not the best interpretation. Of course it's tempting to simply dismiss it as religious nonsense. But the
Book of Revelation is supposed to be writing of a guy from thousands of years ago who was shown a glimpse of the future by an angel. So, let's just humor that idea for a moment. Imagine being a guy living in +-100 of 0 AD, being shown the world today. You would have absolutely no context from which to understand, the internet, nanotechnology, etc.
It's not uncommon among the religious crowd to interpret many of the things in Revelation with that in mind. Causing "great fire to fall from the sky" is not an unreasonable description of a nuclear bomb. A "mark, without which none could buy or sell" is not an unreasonable description of a hypothetical scenario in which
implantable credit card chips become the norm in a cashless society. A lot of the content of Revelations..."could possibly be interpreted" in a manner that is plausible in a modern context.
So, NASA has announced flowing water and a desire to land humans on Mars to search for life,within 12 hours of the final eclipse in a series that some have suggested corresponds to the sixth seal of the Book of Revelation.
What is a "seal?"
It's a thing that contains. A barrier, or a substance used to prevent things from mixing. The common christian interpretation seems to be that the thing being "contained" by the seven biblical seals is the beast of Revelation that will bring on judgement day.
But...
what if, the "Angel" who revealed the future to the author of Revelation was actually a
space alien in charge of the zoo that is planet Earth, telling of the time when humanity would be released? Imagine a mostly benevolent galactic civilization, applying the "
Prime Directive" and insuring that developing species be allowed to grow unmolested. And this whole religion thing was simply a misunderstanding resulting from their initial contacts before they cordoned off the area.
Rather than a "beast to end the world" it's a
far more interesting interpretation, to suggest that the thing being contained is
humanity, and that once all seven seals are removed, we will be released from this zoo here on Earth, to join everybody else among the stars. Metaphorically, a fetus "dies" when a baby is born. Metaphorically, it would be the "end of the world
as we know it" if we discovered that life is ubiquitous everywhere, that interstellar civilizations exist, and we've simply been kept in the dark, and now it's time to go be friends with everybody.
Finding life on Mars would be a good step towards that.
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