What was quite possibly the best opportunity for President Obama to announce the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life to the world has passed without a single word on the subject. Of all the supposed venues for announcement that have been theorized, today’s speech was the only event that would allow the President to make what would be the most important announcement in world history without any overbearing American nationalism. With this opportunity passed, I believe the chances of disclosure coming from President Obama or his administration are slim to none. Barring any action from the UN or another national government, it would appear the current tradition of silence and deception will, for the time being, remain the status quo as it has for the past 62 years.

The missing fingers and tooth of Galileo Galilei were discovered at an auction stored in a wooden case. Friday’s announcement by Italian authorities brings the century old mystery to a close. The finger and tooth were removed from the 17th century astronomer’s corpse when it was exhumed from its original unsanctified grave to be moved to the Florentine church of Santa Croce in 1737. During the ceremony naturalist Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti removed three fingers, a vertebra and a tooth to be kept as relics. One of the fingers and the vertebra were preserved and are currently on public display. The remaining two fingers and tooth were passed through a series of owners and disappeared completely over a century ago. The newly re-discovered remains will be on display when the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence reopens in March as the Galileo Museum.


Galileo’s Fingers and Tooth Recovered by Collector [via Chris Holly's Paranormal World]

If you are a scientist or researcher looking to raise your public profile, this may be right up your alley: Go Go Luckey Entertainment & BermanBraun Television Productions are looking to cast two lead investigators for a documentary series that will look into 2012 predictions. They want to set up a Mulder and Scully sort of team (though with an Indiana Jones type twist) that meets the following requirements:

Male & Female Investigators between the ages of 30 and 45, who are scientists, explorers, or adventurers with advanced degrees (Ph.D desired).

Ideal Investigators would already be a team (husband and wife, co- workers) who fall somewhere between the FBI Agents on “The X Files” and “Indiana Jones”. One is a believer, the other a skeptic. One is driven by reason, science and empirical evidence, the other by feelings, intuitions and faith.

Ideally, the woman would be the skeptic and the man the believer. We are not limiting ourselves to an existing team nor will we rule out a woman who is the believer and a man who is the skeptic. We are open to any combination as long as they are articulate, passionate, and knowledgeable.

Investigators must also be genuinely curious as to why there are predictions in nearly every culture that the world will end in 2012.

Each episode is supposed to center around investigations into End of Days profecies and other unsolved mysteries from around the world.

If you meet their qualifications, this seems like an interesting opportunity, or if you don’t qualify (like me) this looks like a show that will definitely be worth watching when it airs.

Seekers 2012 Casting