CDs of the Ancient? Or Alien LPs?

What are they? Where did they come from? Who made them? WHat do they do?

The story of the Dropa Stone: In 1938, an archeological expedition was sent to investigate a secluded area of the Baian-Kara-Ula Mountains on the border that divides China and Tibet. The group discovered a series of caves at the summit of the mountains. The caves contained a large collection of graves and the walls were decorated with drawings of people with elongated heads together with images of the sun, moon, and stars.  The archeologists uncovered the graves and discovered the remains of ancient beings.  The skeletons were a little more than three feet tall, with abnormally large skulls. Inside of the tombs a collection of stone disks were recovered. The disks were almost twelve inches in diameter, with a hole in the center.  The objects had a groove on the surface of the disk and spiraled outwards from the center hole forming a double spiral. Closer inspection showed that the grooves were actually a line of small carvings or signs.

The disks were labeled the Dropa Stones. Subsequent investigations have found a total of 716 Dropa Stones in the Baian-Kara-Ula Mountain caves.  The Dropa Stones were sent to a variety of scholars for investigation.  One of them, Professor Tsum Um Nui of the Beijing Academy for Ancient Studies, found that the spiral grooves were actually a line of characters written in an unknown language. In 1962, he announced that he had managed to translate the language. For a long time, the Peking Academy of Prehistory forbade the professor from publishing anything about the Dropa Stones. However, after many years of debate he published his hypothesis.

Tsum Um Nui claims that an alien spacecraft crashed in the Bayan Har Shan region 12,000 years ago. The occupants were aliens called Dropa or Dzopa.  The Dropa could not repair their craft, so they tried to adapt to the conditions on Earth. Meanwhile, the local Ham tribesmen hunted down and killed most of the aliens. Supposedly, the aliens had intermarried with the locals, making identification of the origins of the skeletons more difficult. Many people have challenged these claims and Tsum Um Nui was forced to resign from the Beijing Academy.  The Dropa Stones have been disappearing all over the world and are not available for public viewing at any museum.  However, pictures of the artifacts do exist.

Perseid Meteors Tonight: If You Can't Watch, You Can Listen

The 2011 Perseid meteor show will be largely masked tonight - the peak night of the year - thanks to a gorgeous full moon. But if you're into meteors and spacial things that go "glow" in the night - take heart. While you may not be able to see but only the brightest of meteorites falling through our atmosphere this year, you can still hear them What?! Yes - hear them.  Distant FM radio signals tend bounce off the streaks of hot, ionized gas the meteors leave in their wakes as speed through our atmosphere, meaning if you take a small FM radio with you when you head outdoors to catch a glimpse of the showers, you may not see some of them, but when a snippet of a distant song comes across your radio speaker or a "ping" can be heard where you normally wouldn't be hearing a FM station, then you will know a meteorite just streaked across the moon-filled sky even though you didn't see it. I would recommend tuning to a station a couple of hundred miles or more away from you - one you don't normally get, and make certain it is the only station on that frequency in your area. You might hear a ping instead of the actual station - and that makes it all the cooler because it sounds like -- well, like spacey stuff out of a science-fiction movie. It sounds like this. In fact, that is it! It is better if you listen with headphones. See what you can learn from a radio guy?

A FEW FACTS
The meteors are bits of debris that comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle casts off when it approaches the sun, warms, and begins shedding its dust and gas. The shower gets its name from the constellation Perseus, which appears to be the point in the sky from which the shower originates. Swift-Tuttle returns once every 130 years. But each August, Earth's orbit takes it through the debris cloud Swift-Tuttle leaves behind. Over the last five years, the number of meteors one could expect to see in an hour under dark skies has ranged from 93 in 2007 to 173 in 2009. But, like this year, 2009's display was tempered by a nearly full moon.

WALL STREET: RIP OFF AMERICA

For those that may not have a clue, Wall Street is not your buddy. Oh sure, in years past Wall Street represented at least a little part of the Great American Dream. But rest assured, today's stock market(s) is not your Daddy's stock market. Greed, power-hunger, monopoly grabbing insiders have degraded the markets with enough inside trading, misleading assessment and tightly controlled leadership to make the open market little more than a playground for the elite and their buddies who are getting filthy rich at the expense of the average speculator. This is not an empty accusation. There is a horrifying game taking place below radar that is nothing more than complete and total manipulation of the open market and chances are slim that an average investor will weather the tricks, deceit and lies being fed to the media designed to influence investors into putting their money in a market that is programmed to rise and fall at the whims of these insiders. They get rich, you get poor and as they gain more control and power, you are headed down a road you should not be on. Times have changed, and so, apparently, has the honor among financial markets. Invest in yourself - not in the market. This little piece of advise you can trust - and hopefully take to the bank!