All eyes on the skies fellow stargazers and UFO enthusiasts. You've seen me write this before and now that phrase has taken on a little more serious meaning given NASA's most recently announced project. Nasa is now moving out into cyberspace in much the same way that the SETI project did several years ago. SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) is a government sponsored organization that primarily exists for the purpose of searching out intelligent life in the known universe. Several years back SETI set up a website where subscribers could go and help with the search. One's home computer basically became a monitor for the search for non-earthly life.

NASA is now getting into the watch the skies from home game. Using either RSS feeds or twitter accounts, subscribers can now receive updates from NASA regarding any near Earth objects which may have the potential to collide with rock number three from the sun. The NASA site is aptly named "Asteroid Watch": http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/asteroidwatch/ There is much more to this site than the feeds that bring news about these Near Earth Objects. In fact, the site provides a wealth of information on the subject of asteroids, comets, and space debris that may have affected planet earth or the rest of the solar system in times past.

What is odd to me, but not surprising, is the amount of publicity these stellar objects are receiving lately. If anyone recently caught the two week mini mini series "Meteor", they'll know what I'm talking about here. It seems as if objects striking the earth is becoming a commonplace thought that people must deal with on an almost daily basis. Every week there is this story or that story about how another object recently missed Earth by several hundred thousand miles and was not even seen until it passed by. I wonder if the boys and girls at NASA are trying to tell us something in a very subtle yet forthright manner. There are, of course, many of us out there who already believe that something of this nature is already known about and expected. Zecharia Sitchin's insistence that Niburu returns every 3600 years or so has been the source of great debate among all those involved in the Near Earth Object discussion. Eerily similar is Ed Dames' prediction of the killshot which is precipitated by the passage of a large object through the solar system. If, in fact, our solar system is like many of the others out there, then this remains a real possibility. Most known solar systems are binary star systems. Some believe ours to be one as well, speculating that the sun's counterpart is a brown dwarf that passes through our system every 3600-4000 years. An object of this size would have tremendous gravitational pull and might bring with it considerable debris from comets and/or meteor fields, some of which might strike the earth.

Only time will tell whether or not the NASA's site has an ulterior motive of desensitizing us to the possibility of collisions with earth, but what is certain is the oddness of such a site at this time. Even the Vatican has gotten in on the skywatching business by building one of the most advanced observatories in the world. Does the Pope also know something we don't? We definitely need to start taking heed of the warning signs all around us. Preparation is key. In future postings, I will be posting information on survival techniques and strategies for preparing for the worst. Whether it be an asteroid strike or nuclear war, we need to be somewhat prepared. Stay tuned for these tips.