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  • Did James Webb find Melmac? A requiem for an alien

    Did James Webb find Melmac? A requiem for an alien

    A few amazing things occurred this week. Images were finally revealed from the James Webb telescope that are giving us a visual representation of the past.

    Of course while they are amazing and breathtaking to some, others have found reason to ponder how similar they look to those awful class school pictures from the 1980s..

    But it was in this context that aliens and space life really was abundant this week. For some odd reasons I decided to re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-watch the final episode of ALF.. and it just so happened that I also spoke to friends about the little alien from Melmac this week as well..

    We already know that Melmac exploded. But why couldn’t Webb find it since it was looking at early space!?

    While the James Webb telescope found no evidence of the planet Melmac or ALF’s cat eating friends and family, or Willie Tanner’s real life criminal history, it also did NOT find the continuation of the famous 80s TV show..

    Here is a bit of a background..

    ALF. THE ALIEN THAT WAS

    Those who were fans then or newcomers long after the 20th century may know very well the real pain that ALF brought. the 80s TV show was a hit. He had commercials. He appeared at awards shows.. he had a Monday night regular series on NBC from September 22, 1986, to March 24, 1990..

    The show got that popular that he was even invited to the White House by Nancy Reagan for the 1987 Christmas party… There were rumors that President Reagan himself said ALF was his favorite show.

    For the long duration of the program, the hairy alien tried dating. He went on Johnny Carson. And from the first episode, he just wanted his heavy hairy and sarcastic body to be able to get back onto a fixed spaceship and back to his home planet again.

    (And it is interesting to note that even then Senator now President Joe Biiden got mocked by ALF)

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    Think about the pain that ALF felt, forced away from his life.. His planet gone for good and the survivors just zooming around space presumably looking for other lost creatures from the planet. Alf forced away from his home. And on this planet Earth just to search for cats to eat in a society that frowned on it… He even blew up a kitchen..

    But in the end, Alf had a tremendously awful existence on Earth despite the humor.. He just wanted to go back to a home that was gone forever… And Willie Tanner never had the right parts to fix the ship to take Alf back up into space. The military was always on to the Tanners from episode one. They figured he was harboring a space creature.

    So with this sad existence, it is with particular pain that so many of us watched the finale on that fateful night of March 24, 1990.

    By 1989 the show’s ratings were declining. And as its fourth season was coming to a close, network execs pondered whether the series would even continue..

    ALF’s writers created a cliffhanger for the season’s final episode that would by default become the series finale.

    THE CLIFFHANGER

    Here was the plot: While using a ham radio in a failed attempt to contact Australia, Alf intercepted a coded message sent by his old Melmac friends. They invite ALF to join them on New Melmac, an offer he has trouble accepting but ultimately accepts. The Tanners take him to a secluded field and say their goodbyes. Just as the spaceship’s lights approach, the U.S. Military Alien Task Force arrives, capturing ALF and scaring off the approaching alien ship. The episode ended with a title card that read “To be continued.”

    And that, my friends, is where it ended.

    There was never ever a continuation. Nothing. we never knew what happened.

    Did they take him to torture him at a black site? Was he an eventual Dr. Fauci animal experiment on a virus? Did he go crazy and attack all of the humans including the Tanners? So much could have been done. But it just ended with a whimper as opposed to a bang.

    Since this finale painful finale where Alf tries to make jokes about sports and beer with military abductors, we know that producers were verbally told that a season 5 could occur.

    However, the network changed its mind and abruptly canceled the show. That fall, a different notable program would debut in ALF’s old time slot: The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air..

    A 1990 newspaper report in the Baltimore SUN summarized the finale of ALF.. It praised the death of the ALF show.. they longed for the 1988 version, as the 1990 version had been moved to Saturday nights. Death.. The show was doomed.

    FAILED ATTEMPTS AT NEW ALF LIFE

    There WAS actually an attempt to bring us the follow up on that awful finale. It is rarely recalled because of fan hostility about it…

    In 1996,  ABC aired the made-for-TV-movie Project: ALF.

    The plot is as follows: It revolved around the Alf’s antics while being held captive by a government agency. ALF was the only character from the original series to appear in the film, a fact that contributed to its many negative reviews. The more-than-five-year gap between series finale and TV movie also bred a lack of interest. Project: ALF has largely become a forgotten footnote in television history.

    Fans, including us, reject this final movie .. it’s not canon. It is not ALF universe materials. We live in the world where season 4’s cliffhanger still exists as is..

    From popular media reports, Max Wright was so ready to be done with the show that when the final day of taping ended, he immediately cleaned out his dressing room and left the studio, without saying goodbye to any of the cast or crew.

    And that is too bad. As aforementioned, a season 5 could have benefited Max Wright greatly.

    It was over. And quite frankly, it was not a proper send-off for what Alf created.

    Top this day, it we ignore the ALF project and instead we want that last final season. We desire to know what occurred, how the little alien was able to survive with gun-drawn government officials breathing down his hairy neck..

    Another final attempt was made to bring us Alf’s antics.

    HEY-OOOOOO!!

    In 2004, a series called ALF’s Hit Talk Show debuted on the TV Land cable network.

    The show featured ALF in a late-night host role, with Ed McMahon as his sidekick. Guests included Drew Carey, Joan Rivers, Bryan Cranston and Tom Arnold.

    The show lasted seven episodes before being canceled.

    It just was never meant to be.

    THE REAL ENDING NEVER HAPPENED

    Season 5 was meant to be–and it just did not happen.

    So we still long for the REAL true and actual series finale .. that finale that could create finality to the painful existence that ALF felt..

    Instead we got knee-jerk reaction style shows .. We received next-to-nothing style programs to just give fodder but not feed.

    We cry for Alf.. all these years later. He stands there still, waiting for the government folks to make their decision on what painful future Alf would exerience..

    Is there a future for an Alf in the modern James Webb world?

    Well.. one of those photos from Webb of the many millions of billions of distant galaxies that harbor trillions of zillions of planets may very well end of Alf’s home planet.

    We find comfort in the thought that he is back there instead of some lab..

    Stranger Things gave us the massacre at Hawkins Lab.

    Maybe Alf could at least give us the massacre in a Secluded Field as he escaped their grasp……..!

  • WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN: THE SUMMER OF JAMES WEBB

    WE’VE ONLY JUST BEGUN: THE SUMMER OF JAMES WEBB

    How cool is this!!

    NASA has released one of the James Webb telescope’s first images, and it’s the deepest view of the universe ever captured.

    This is the picture we’ve all been waiting for—the deepest image of the cosmos ever captured. Billions of dollars and lifetimes of work have brought us to this historic moment:

    The image shows SMACS 0723, where a massive group of galaxy clusters act as a magnifying glass for the objects behind them. Called gravitational lensing, this created Webb’s first deep field view of incredibly old and distant, faint galaxies.

    The presentation occurred at the White House during a preview event with President Joe Biden and NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.

    The image, taken by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera, is composed of images taken at different wavelengths of light over the course of 12.5 hours. The Hubble Space Telescope’s deepest fields took weeks to capture.

    The rest of the high-resolution color images will make their debut on July 12..

    MORE COMING..

  • A Crack Opened In Earth’s Magnetic Field This Week And Stayed Open For 14 Hours

    A Crack Opened In Earth’s Magnetic Field This Week And Stayed Open For 14 Hours

    The crack in the magnet field was created by a rare phenomenon called a co-rotating interaction region (CIR) from the Sun. CIRs are large-scale plasma structures generated in the low and mid-latitude regions of the heliosphere – the region surrounding the Sun that includes the solar magnetic field and the solar winds – when fast and slow-moving streams of solar wind interact.
    — Read on www.iflscience.com/a-crack-opened-in-earths-magnetic-field-yesterday-and-stayed-open-for-14-hours-64372

    While this article opens up it’s “journalism” with a crack about Vecna coming to the planet based off of this real life event, it at least goes on to explain that this is actually a very normal occurrence in cracks often open up the magnetic field..

    The earth should probably start considering this: we need to gear up for what might be one of the most active periods of time right now for the sun between now and July 2025.

    Maybe will get a couple beautiful aurora borealis nights deep in southern latitudes if these types of events continue

  • CHINA MAY HAVE DETECTED ALIEN SIGNALS

    CHINA MAY HAVE DETECTED ALIEN SIGNALS

    China Says It May Have Detected Signals From Alien Civilizations !

    This is being reported by Bloomberg, among other sources:

    China said its giant Sky Eye telescope may have picked up signs of life beyond Earth, according to a report by the state-backed Science and Technology Daily, which then appeared to have deleted the report and posts about the discovery.

    The narrow-band electromagnetic signals detected by Sky Eye – the world’s largest radio telescope – differ from previous ones captured and the team is further investigating them, the report said, citing Zhang Tonjie, chief scientist of an extraterrestrial civilization search team co-founded by Beijing Normal University, the National Astronomical Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of California, Berkeley.

    The suspicious signals could, however, also be some kind of radio interference and requires further investigation, Zhang added.

    It isn’t clear why the report was apparently removed from the website of the Science and Technology Daily, the official newspaper of China’s science and technology ministry, though the news had already started trending on social network Weibo and was picked up by other media outlets, including state-run ones.

    Here is a flashback article from 2016 where it was described what China’s plans were with this telescope.. they made it known they were going to search for alien life..

    DEVELOPING..

  • A brand new view of space ! This is beautiful

    A brand new view of space ! This is beautiful

    Today, NASA released the first image from the James Webb Space Telescope after sharpening its focus, as the agency plans to start peering at the earliest galaxies in the universe.

    The image shows a brilliant, blazing orange star know as 2MASS J17554042+6551277… with multiple galaxies in the background.

    How beautiful, profound, and breathtaking to consider this massive immense and ever expanding universe and our small little piece of insanity where we still fight caveman fights…

  • Asteroid impacts Earth just two hours after it was discovered

    Asteroid impacts Earth just two hours after it was discovered

    At just three meters wide, 2022 EB5 was around just half the size of an average male giraffe, which grows to be around five-six meters in height. As such, it was unlikely to do any damage if it had impacted the planet. 

    — Read on m.jpost.com/science/article-701110

    However it’s clear that the timeline from discovery to impact is the concern..

  • Stage set tonight for longest lunar eclipse since the 1400s

    Stage set tonight for longest lunar eclipse since the 1400s

    The longest partial lunar eclipse in nearly 600 years will grace the night sky late Thursday night and early Friday across the entire country, weather permitting.

    According to NASA, the eclipse will last three hours and 28 minutes, the longest partial eclipse of this century and the longest in 580 years.

    For East Coast observers, the partial eclipse begins a little after 2 a.m. Friday and reaches its maximum at 4 in the morning. For observers on the West Coast, it begins just after 11 p.m. Thursday and reaches a maximum at 1 a.m. Friday.

  • ISS crew takes refuge after Russian anti-satellite weapons test sends debris flying

    ISS crew takes refuge after Russian anti-satellite weapons test sends debris flying

    US blasted Russia for ‘dangerous and irresponsible behavior’ after Russians conducted anti-satellite weapons test, endangering International Space Station 

    US investigating a ‘debris-generating event in space’ after astronauts on the ISS were forced to prepare for a possible evacuation
    It came amid unconfirmed reports that Russia performed an anti-satellite weapon test 

    The space junk passes started early Monday, with the ISS making closes passes every 90 minutes 

    The tests have been criticized by the space community because of the risk they create for crews in low Earth orbit 

    NASA has not yet commented, but its Russian counterpart Roscomos, downplayed the incident 

    Tensions between Russia and the West have escalated in recent weeks as Kremlin has been accused of fomenting instability on Belarus-Poland border

    American officials have also grown alarmed over satellite images said to show a buildup of Russian military personnel along its frontier with Ukraine 

    — Read on www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10204525/Space-debris-event-forces-ISS-crew-evasive-action.html

  • A fireball raced across the Midwest sky, except it ‘was not a natural fireball,’ group says

    A fireball raced across the Midwest sky, except it ‘was not a natural fireball,’ group says

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    Fireball caught on home security camera turns Colorado night sky blue
    An object described by news outlets and witnesses as a “mysterious fireball” briefly shot across the sky early Wednesday, raising widespread speculation about what it might have been.

    Residents – and experts – throughout the Midwest are weighing in with speculation.

    Reports of unidentified flying objects are hardly new, although some seem to be ranking what looks like a blazing ball shooting across the sky particularly high on the highly-scientific awesome scale.
    — Read on www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-fireball-raced-across-the-midwest-sky-except-it-was-not-a-natural-fireball-group-says/ar-AAPL7D2

    It seems to be that time of year when the sky begins to fall! We have already been warned of several astroids nearing close to earth within the next few weeks. This one, well, is “natural” according to some..

  • BALLS OF LIGHT IN 1871 NEWSPAPERS: What caused the worst wildfire in American history?

    BALLS OF LIGHT IN 1871 NEWSPAPERS: What caused the worst wildfire in American history?

    Today is the anniversary of the worst wildfire in American history, the Peshtigo Fire of 1871.

    Over a million acres burned in eastern Wisconsin and Michigan’s upper peninsula, and it turned into a firestorm that left between 1,500 and 2,500 people dead.

    Whole families were killed, and the lack of survivors made an accurate count difficult.

    Peshtigo is overshadowed by the Great Chicago Fire that happened at the same time, and there have been attempts to link them together, and blame a meteorite.

    The Area Research Center, the state historical society’s depository for records for 11 counties in Northeast Wisconsin, has papers and manuscripts of all kinds, she said.

    The story of the Peshtigo Fire, gleaned from survivor accounts and conjecture, is that railroad workers clearing land for tracks that Sunday evening started a brush fire which, somehow, became an inferno.

    It had been an unusually dry summer, and the fire moved fast. Some survivors said it moved so fast it was “like a tornado.”

    Map of fire

    Even more… The sudden, convulsive speed of the flames consumed available oxygen. Some trying to flee burst into flames.

    It scorched 1.2 to 1.5 million acres, although it skipped over the waters of Green Bay to burn parts of Door and Kewaunee counties. The damage estimate was at $169 million, about the same as for the Chicago Fire.

    The fire also burned 16 other towns, but the damage in Peshtigo was the worst. The city was gone in an hour. In Peshtigo alone, 800 lives were lost.

    This report was in the Wisconsin State Journal on October 23, 1871–dispatches took longer then obviously:

    This report that was circulated around the national newspaper scene on October 25, 1871, spoke of “balls of fire” being observed to fall like meteors in different parts of the town before the fire… It was said they ignited anything they came in contact with:

    While it is categorized as fringe and conspiracy, the Comet Biela broke up just before these tragic events.. could that have been the catalyst? That theory continues to captivate and cause questions..

    But maybe it is just explained by … mundane nature..

    The area had experienced an extremely dry summer that year. This, combined with gusty winds that moved in with a front that October evening, were capable of generating rapidly expanding blazes from available ignition sources of which there were plenty across the region.

    Or a comet..

    You choose.

    The balls of light were reported in newspapers in 1871. Did fake news exist then?