Sumeru - 12. Chapter 12

The Globe, New York, May 5, 2074

BREAKING NEWS — Missing spaceship Shiva coming home after more than five years in space

NASA officials announced today that they received a message from missing spaceship Shiva. The spaceship took off on August 8, 2068, and reached its target, star system X104 in the constellation of Scorpius five months later. After a one-month exploration of the star system, located 25,000 light years from Earth, the spaceship landed on exoplanet X104C7, also called Terra or Earth 2 in the public domain, a rock planet orbiting the sun in the habitable zone and, according to extensive research, a second Earth. NASA received a final message from the ship after touch-down on the planet. Commander Ross reported a successful landing, but then the ship and the crew were never heard of again. Despite intensive analysis of received data and transmissions, NASA was unable to figure out what happened with the ship and the crew. On October 23, 2070, NASA suspended the search until new information was gained. News on the ship got rare thereafter, but the ship and the crew were never forgotten. Several internet blogs kept discussing the incident and news outlets all over the world regularly published a story about the unfortunate fate of the ship and the crew.

NASA said they kept watching and listening into space, although no efforts were made to actively search for the ship. Robert Mead, department head, said it would have been irresponsible and too big a risk to send another ship to the far away star system. Spaceship Shiva could have gone down on the planet, but it could likewise have gone lost on its way back home. “We simply don’t know,” Mr Mead said. “They had a problem with the communication system, but maybe they managed to launch the craft and set course on Earth. They could have gone lost anywhere. 25,000 light years is quite a distance. We simply couldn’t search everywhere in space.”

The incident threw NASA’s space programs back. Many argued that warp technologies were not thoroughly researched and the ship had been sent through half the galaxy with a purely conceived and understood technology. Financial support for the warp program was drastically cut down. NASA concentrated on exploring the solar system instead. The programs focused on investigating space in front of the door.

NASA did not officially elaborate on the message they received from the ship today, but Mr Mead said to our reporter that they had received a message from Commander Ross and not an automated ship transmission that had been sent off by the ship’s computer. The message was short. Mr Mead said that Commander Ross’s messages were always precise and to the point. According to Mr Mead, Commander Ross transmitted: ‘Commander John Ross on spaceship Shiva. Ground control Earth, do you hear me? We’re coming home.’ Mr Mead said the message was transmitted from the edge of the solar system after the ship had dropped back into real space. The arrival time at Earth is unclear as yet. NASA needs more data for exact flight calculations. According to Mr Mead, it should, however, be only a matter of days for the ship to arrive at Earth.

Follow our live updates and get prepared for the heroes’ welcome.

The Globe, New York, May 12, 2074

SHIVA COMES HOME

The missing spaceship Shiva comes home after more than five years in space. NASA announced the ship will land at Cape Canaveral on May 12, 2074 at approximately 12:50 EDT. Stay with us and follow our live updates.

May 12, 13:34 EDT
WELCOME OUR HEROES! WELCOME HOME!

May 12, 13:33 EDT
Commander John Ross, Pilot Dan Wesley, FE Pete Crop and PLCs James McKinsey and Rob Kendrick are walking down the ramp.

May 12, 13:20 EDT
President Chesterfield got off a car. He’s being escorted to the ship. The hatch of the ship is opening.

May 12, 13:03 EDT
NASA has just confirmed the successful landing. The ship has come to a halt. There’s much commotion on the runway. A live video is here.

May 12, 12:54 EDT
The ship has touched down and is dashing along the runway.

May 12, 12:53 EDT
Touch-down! Spaceship Shiva has landed!

May 12, 12:40 EDT
The ship is in its final descent. A live video is here.

May 12, 12:31 EDT
The first images of the ship against the sky are coming in. See here.

May 12, 12:20 EDT
The spaceship has reached flight level FL350, going down to FL200. A live video is here.

May 12, 12:10 EDT
Spaceship Shiva has initiated descent. The ship’s still far up in the atmosphere and will now get down to 35,000 feet.

May 12, 11:59 EDT
Spaceship Shiva coming in! Shiva has just entered US airspace and has set course on Cape Canaveral. A live video is here.

May 12, 10:55 EDT
The countdown has started. NASA has just announced that the spaceship changed its flight behavior. It behaves like a super-fast aircraft now and will touch down in approximately 20 minutes. A live video is here.

May 12, 10:52 EDT
Many ground stations in the world watch the spaceship’s flight. The control centers are in contact with each other. The Russian control center has just announced that the spaceship has left Russian airspace.

May 12, 10:36 EDT
NASA has just confirmed successful entry into the atmosphere. The ship suffered no damage. No failures occurred. The crew is all right.

May 12, 10:25 EDT
Spaceship Shiva has entered the atmosphere! Dashing around the globe now.

May 12, 10:15 EDT
The ship will enter the atmosphere in a couple of minutes. A live video is here.

May 12, 10:07 EDT
Here’s a couple of images that show the president in the control center. And here you’ll find more images of the ship in space.

May 12, 09:38 EDT
NASA has just announced that spaceship Shiva has passed by the Moon. The ship will perform a couple of preprogrammed maneuvers to further reduce the speed before entering the atmosphere at a proper angle.

May 12, 09:01 EDT
The first images of the returning spacecraft have been released. All Earth’s telescopes are directed at the ship. See here.

May 12, 08:12 EDT
NASA held a final press conference. Mr Mead spoke briefly and informed of the latest flight calculations. He corrected the time of entry into the atmosphere to 10:24 EDT.

May 12, 07:45 EDT
NASA has just announced that spaceship Shiva further reduced speed and made a slight adjustment of the programmed course. Time of entry into Earth’s atmosphere will be 10:23 EDT. The ship will dash around the globe to bleed off speed before climbing down and setting course on Cape Canaveral. All flights are canceled globally between 10:15 and 12:15 EDT today to guarantee spaceship Shiva a safe return. The US brought forth the proposal and every country in the world complied without a hint of hesitation. The entire world is in complete agreement for once.

May 12, 07:02 EDT
The president spoke to the crew and wished them good luck for the last leg of their journey through space. We got information that Commander Ross answered with a little joke.

May 12, 06:30 EDT
President Chesterfield has arrived at Cape Canaveral. He held a brief speech and thanked NASA for never giving up on the crew. The president said they had received encouraging messages from many countries on the globe and he quoted a few words. The president is now being shown into the control center.

May 12, 05:55 EDT
The crew sent a photo from spaceship Shiva. The image shows the five men in the ship. All smiles and in good shape. See here.

May 12, 05:37 EDT
NASA has just announced that the spaceship passed by Mars. The crew is all right.

May 12, 03:03 EDT
Spaceship Shiva has just passed by Jupiter. The speed of the ship was reduced. Mr Mead, NASA department head, told reporters that everything went according to plan. The Shiva crew is in contact with Earth.

May 11, 23:42 EDT
NASA has just announced the newest flight calculations. Spaceship Shiva is due to land at Cape Canaveral on May 12, 12:53 EDT.

International Comments

Comments from Karachi, New Delhi, Mexico City, Tokyo, Athens, Dar es Salaam, Moscow, Paris, Budapest, Oslo, Sydney, Cairo, Madrid, Bogotá, Beijing, Kathmandu, Seoul, Rome, and Nairobi

Karachi: Congratulations and best wishes.

New Delhi: Congratulations and welcome back.

Tokyo: Congratulations on a perfect mission and an outstanding performance.

Athens: Welcome back from the space odyssey. Congratulations, heroes.

Dar es Salaam: Congratulations on the successful trip.

Moscow: Congratulations and best wishes to the crew.

Paris: One giant leap for mankind. A giant leap through time and space. Félicitations!

Budapest: Congratulations to the space pioneers!

Mexico City: Arriba! Abajo! Al centro! Congratulations on the happy return!

Oslo: Best wishes from Norway. You made the world a better place.

Sydney: Welcome back heroes! Glad you’ve come home. Best wishes from Australia.

Berlin: Congratulations on the successful outcome of the space mission. Welcome back and best wishes to the crew.

Cairo: Welcome back. Congratulations.

Madrid: Who said Mission Impossible? Welcome back space heroes!

Bogotá: Congratulations and a warm welcome!

Beijing: Congratulations and best wishes to the outstanding crew.

Kathmandu: Congratulations and welcome back home.

Seoul: Best wishes to the space crew who opened humankind the door to interstellar space.

Rome: Welcome home! It was a long trip through space. Congratulations from Italy.

Nairobi: Congratulations, best wishes and greetings to the crew.

Greetings from Sumeru

The day had been long. John sat down on his bed. His head was spinning. The speech of the president, the talks with people, shaking hands, hands patting on his shoulder, questions and answers, so many questions asked, so many answers not given. Some answers would never get out. They had trained their brains. For the greater good. The time was not ripe for the truth.

John sighed. He didn’t feel he lied when he told a lie. He was entirely aware of what he said and he was able to make his own judgment. He wasn’t brainwashed. They had not changed his brain, just had prompted it to tell a couple of lies in answer to possibly dangerous questions. He had complied with the treatment. The others had too. Safety first. The time was not ripe for the truth.

They had not changed his memory or added or deleted anything. John remembered everything and he knew it was true. It was hard to explain. He felt a bit as if he had two brains in his head. Two brains that worked together and actually worked quite good.

The aliens had let them go, had even helped them with the trip. They had transported the ship to the edge of the solar system and had activated a different time thread. They had transported the ship almost six years into the future. The time difference could be explained by time dilation. Earth scientists had claimed their warp drive was able to negate the effect of time dilation. Now they analyzed if their calculations were wrong or if the entire time dilation concept wasn’t correct.

John lay back on his bed. He was in a single hotel room, a hotel suite, a very luxurious hotel. He had practically one floor to himself. Security was in the corridors. He wondered if he was being monitored. Not that it bothered him much. After hours of meetings and talks with the president and many more famous and important persons, he was meanwhile used to security watching each of his steps. He had gotten used to the monitoring activities on Sumeru and it had not been difficult to adapt to Earth’s.

Sumeru. The Asuras, the Devas, Azrael, Tamiel, Naamah. John guessed he would never see them again. His head was spinning. He was wide awake. He was certain he would never go to sleep, but then he drifted off and dreamed of an hour-glass shaped space base that was spinning in space.

Someone, Naamah, said in a clear voice: “Congratulations on the successful flight. A perfect landing. Well done, commander. Best wishes from Sumeru.” John looked out of the cockpit window. Spaceship Shiva was passing by the hourglass-shaped space base Sumeru. “Thank you, Naamah. Greeting to your friends,” John said in his dream, and then checked on the ship’s communication system and sent a message to ground control Earth.

John turned in his sleep.

From the Indragatha:

And the gods assembled in their great hall
A council was held on Sumeru
And the gods said: Let’s invite the hero
And praise his great deed in the hall

And all the gods cheered: So be it!
Let’s take Shiva to the home of the gods
Where the light of wisdom shines
And forever lightens the dark

And they asked Shiva to enter his ship
And set out from Earth to Sumeru
They told him to sail his ship with care
To not get lost in the void of the dark

And when Shiva arrived at Mount Meru
He was stunned by the beauty of it
In the center of the world there was
The dwelling of the shining gods

And the gods assembled in their great hall
And they cheered on the hero Shiva
Great was your deed! Triple City fell!
And Shiva bowed to the seat of the gods

NASA Internal Paper, May 27, 2074

First analysis of the ship’s data and interrogation of the crew points to an unexplained warp effect upon initiation of the warp drive.

Spaceship Shiva took off from exoplanet X104C7 and proceeded to orbit. No problems occurred during the launch. The ship set course on the edge of the star system X104 and, according to data analysis and crew reports, reached the edge in the calculated flight time. No failures occurred.

The warp drive was initiated after leaving the star system. The data show that a failure occurred and the crew reported they sensed a vibration that the men found hard to explain. We must conclude that the warp drive suffered a malfunction and time dilation occurred as a result. The computer clocks, however, continued to work properly and showed the previous time and date. The crew learned of the time dilation effect only when communicating with ground control after establishing contact upon entering the solar system.

The effect must be carefully studied. Warp technologies should not be used until the effect can be explained in full detail.

The warp effect had no serious effect on the crew. The men report a sense of time flowing fast and slow at the same time, but otherwise they show no impairments. The men will undergo careful medical and psychological examinations, of course.

First analysis of the ship’s data confirmed that debris from a broken up planet orbits the sun of star system X104. There is no Dyson ring around the sun. The data confirms, however, that exoplanet X104C7 is an earth-like planet in the habitable zone of the star. The crew detected life forms on the planet, plants and a small animal. They found, however, no traces of an extraterrestrial civilization.

Exoplanet X104C7 may remain a possible target for future space missions. As long as warp technology is not a safe technology, further space trips to the exoplanet are canceled. The exoplanet is located 25,000 light years from Earth, too far away to perform space trips with a technology that is in its earliest stage.

NASA will concentrate on the Alpha Centauri system in the coming years. The system, roughly four light years from Earth, is a promising target for further space missions and research.

www.captainkirk-thetruthisoutthere.com

August 28, 2074

The truth is out there!          

Hey folks,

We’ve discussed spaceship Shiva, its unexpected return and the mystery trip for a couple of months now. I personally think this is a cover-up of some sort. We sure can go on discussing the topic, but I thought, for once, I’ll post something different, an article I had written a long time ago but have never found the time to publish. It’s about the Hollow Moon Theory.

The Hollow Moon Theory proposes that Earth's Moon is either totally hollow or otherwise contains a substantial interior space. Hades in Greek mythology and other early religious concepts of an underworld, such as the Christian Hell, contributed to the ideas of the Earth being hollow and supported the Hollow Moon Theory.

The Moon is less dense than the Earth and this is taken as evidence for the Moon to be hollow. The moon's mean density is 3.3 gm/cm3, whereas the Earth's is 5.5. In 1970, Michael Vasin and Alexander Shcherbakov stated that the Moon was a spaceship created by unknown beings. Their hypothesis is based on large lunar craters, generally assumed to be formed from a meteor impact, that have flat or even convex bottoms and are generally too shallow. Vasin and Shcherbakov stated that the moon was a natural space body that had been converted into an artificial structure by alien engineers who melted the original solid core, deposited the molten lava on the lunar surface, and created an inner lunar space protected by an artificial shell below the outer shell that we know as the lunar surface. The aliens then placed the gigantic object in orbit around the Earth for reasons that we can only speculate about. Vasin and Shcherbakov say that the moon consists of a natural rocky outer layer that is only about five miles thick and an inner shell that is up to twenty miles thick. Below the inner shell is a cavity that could contain an atmosphere to support alien life.

Seismometers on the Moon recorded moonquakes between 1972 and 1977. The Moon was described as ‘ringing like a bell’ during some of these quakes, especifically the shallow ones. In 1969 the Apollo 12 astronauts sent their Lunar Module crashing into the Moon after returning to the command craft. The module struck with a force of one ton of TNT. The shock waves built up to a peak in eight minutes and continued for nearly an hour. The information gained from studying the artificial moonquakes led to reconsideration of the previous theories about the lunar interior. The rapid build-up to the peak and the prolonged reverberations were puzzling because nothing of the like happens when an object hits the Earth.

The debate about the origin of the moon goes on and proponents of the Hollow Moon Theory say that a natural origin is hard to explain. They say that much points to an artificial and alien technological origin. The claim is supported by ufologists who say that UFO fleets were sighted over the moon and these sightings point to a massive underground hangar for spacecraft in the moon.

What do you think, folks? Was the moon built by an alien civilization with science and technology much more advanced than ours? Is the moon a hollowed-out artificial structure containing an underground base serving also as the interior of a gigantic UFO spaceship? Does an alien space base orbit the Earth?

Let me know your thoughts.

Cheers

The truth is out there!

The Asuras

“How about we start all over again?” Naamah asked.

He reached out his hand and Azrael took it.

“We said it was a war between Asuras and Devas and the humans played no role in it. We have not changed our view to the present day and this is why the war has never really ended. We should have taken more interest in the humans. Instead we wanted to rule over them. Asuras wanted dominion, rule over the humans as kings. And the Devas wanted to teach them, rule over the knowledge the humans gained, but this is just another form of dominion. And now the humans came to Sumeru to change our views and ways,” Naamah said.

“The cosmos is bigger than any civilization. The cosmos rules all our ways,” Azrael said.

“We must rethink the concept of sending a teacher to a young civilization,” Naamah said. “It worked in the early days, but it won’t work with an advanced civilization.”

“Yes,” Azrael said. “We must listen to the cosmos. The cosmos is our teacher after all.”

“The ways of the world have changed. We must strike a new path,” Naamah said.

“We can only learn by experience. The way is the goal, after all, but sometimes walking is hard,” Azrael said with a smirk.

“Sounds like a simple thing to do,” Naamah said. “How about we log in to the archives and edit the records so that Asuras history will finally fit the truth?”

Azrael nodded. “We can do this for a start,” he said.

From the Indragatha:

And this asked Shiva before he left Sumeru: What is truth, father?

And his father said: Truth is an element of nature. Imagine you stand on a cliff in a storm. Below is the ocean, the heavy waves rolling on the shore, crashing on the shore like thunder. Above, lightning is parting the sky, dark, heavy clouds are piling up, and the thunder above is competing with the raging waters’ roar and thunder. Such is truth, a raw energy questioning your very existence. Humans have cultured the lands and mastered the seas. They think they rule over nature. Until they face the rawness of nature. Mind you, only few dare to face the wilderness, the unhewn, uncultured soul of nature. Seafarers are among them. Many set out into the unknown, but few come back and many are lost on their journey.”

Shiva asked: Will I come back to Sumeru?

His father said: You sailed the seas of heaven and you safely came into port. You will return to Sumeru, because, my son, you are a god.

Rob

Rob finished his article on Indian philosophies:
Worship of such devas is considered as mithyatva or wrong belief leading to bondage of karmas. Mithyatva is an important concept on false knowledge in Jainism. The state of wrong belief is manifested as a fundamental tendency to see things other than as they really are. Mithyatva is the one-sided or perverted world-view. The Jaina scholar Hemachandra defined mithyatva as belief in false divinities, false gurus and false scriptures. He decries the worship of devas:
“These heavenly beings tainted with attachment and passion; having women and weapons by their side, favor some and disfavor some; Such heavenly beings should not be worshipped by those who desire emancipation.”
Jainism believes that the universe and all its substances or entities are eternal. The universe has no beginning or end with respect to time. The universe runs on its own accord and by its own cosmic laws. All substances change their forms continuously and nothing can be destroyed or created in the universe. There is no need of someone to create or manage the affairs of the universe. There is no almighty god, no creator, survivor and destroyer of worlds.

Tamiel

Tamiel started his new book on Asuras history:
The Asuras were often described in ancient texts as malevolent beings who compete for power with the more benevolent Devas. The hostility between the two parties is the source of extensive legends, tales and literature. The Garadagatha, the Songs of Fate, for instance, are commonly referred to as the songs of the fallen gods. The imprisoned Asuras became the Lords of the Vault. Negative connotations are associated with the Asuras to the present day. However, there are more sides to every story and to every truth.
Anekāntavāda, many-sidedness, the ancient Asuras Jain Doctrine of Non-Absolutism, refers to the principles of pluralism and multiplicity of viewpoints, the notion that reality is perceived differently from diverse points of view, and that no single point of view is the complete truth, yet taken together they comprise the complete truth.

James

James could still hear the chirping of the tiny bird-like creatures. Thick bushes and trees with weird huge leaves and colored blossoms seamed the ancient alien runway. The sun was up. It was hot and the air was humid and smelled of decay. It was the typical feel and smell of the tropics. James looked at the yellow feather on his palm.

“This world is real,” he said.