Project Serpo
The Zeta Reticuli Exchange Program
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Questions
and Answers
Q: The orbital data do not
appear to correspond to
Kepler’s
Laws. Can this be explained?
A: Much more data is needed. It is currently unclear whether
Zeta
Reticuli 1 and 2 are a distant binary (as astronomers say they have measured
and determined) or whether it is a close binary, which various comments by
Anonymous suggest. If it is the former, Kepler’s Laws should theoretically
apply. If it is the latter, the situation is far more complex and difficult
to calculate. Anonymous states that in the
3,000
page briefing document (Paul McGovern’s supplied information) which is
his reference, there are
literally
hundreds of pages of scientific calculations
to explain the orbital data, and that the scientists had great difficulty
comprehending how physical laws which we thought we understood and which we
has assumed were universal constants might not in fact be so.
Q:
What do the Ebens actually look like? What is their physiology?
A: Not clarified. This data has not yet been released, although Anonymous
describes the Ebens’ digestion and the food
they eat.
Q:
Why did they take
electric heaters
to a very warm planet?
A: Not clarified. They may not have known the temperature, or it may have
been routine military planning to prepare for anything.
Q: Why did they take
9,000 lbs
of supplies but no
microscope
– although they took
three
telescopes?
A: Not clarified. Good telescopes would have been necessary to make accurate
astronomical observations. (Note: the 9,000 lbs figure was subsequently amended
to 90,500 lbs.)
Q: What kind of
scientific calculator
did they take?
A: Unless the military was ahead of the commercial world (quite possible),
the best portable calculator available in 1965 was the Sharp CS-10A, which
weighed 25 lbs. The first handheld pocket calculators went on sale in 1970.
These were just glorified adding machines – the term “scientific
calculator” didn’t come into use till a far greater degree of
sophistication had been achieved.
Q: They had access to an energy device which automatically provided the
proper
current and wattage. But their clock stopped because they had
no
batteries. Why did they not rig this device up to the clock at 4.5 volts
and 3 amps?
A: Not clarified.
Q: SERPO moved around one sun
only. The other sun was within the two orbits. What does this mean?
A: Not clarified.
Q: The war was fought using
particle beam weapons, developed by both civilizations. The Ebens eventually
were able to destroy the enemy planet. What kind of particle beam weapon
could destroy a planet?
A: The possibility has to be envisaged that a race that has the technology
to travel 38 light years in a few months could also develop weaponry beyond
our comprehension.
Q:
How was it that they could not measure time properly? It would surely have
been easy to improvise primitive "clocks" using candles, sundials,
sand glasses, and the like.
A: They did bring several timepieces, but due to a combination of human error
and lack of batteries these clocks eventually failed them. Disoriented by
the long days and by the apparent disregard of the Ebens for time as we relate
to it, the team eventually lost track of the passing Earth time. As per
Michael
Siffre’s chronobiology experiments, the team appears to have underestimated
the length of time that was passing in Earth terms. Furthermore, there is
also some indication that time in some way operated differently there, but
this is not clear from the account so far.
Dan
Sherman reports communication with ETs who can move "around"
time, as if stepping into another time-stream.
Kepler’s
laws, which are time-dependent as is almost every other known physical
law, also do not appear to hold if the
orbital
data supplied by Anonymous is accurate.
Q:
In Anonymous’s fifth posting, it was stated that the team took
9,000
lbs of equipment, between 12 people – in other words, 750 lbs each.
Even if all that was food (which it wasn’t) that would have been an allocation
of military C-rations of merely 12 oz per day to have lasted for
2
years and 8 months (Paul McGovern’s supplied information). Did the team
have any other source of food during this period?
A: Not clarified. Anonymous explains that early in their visit the team found
the Ebens’ food unpalatable, but they may have augmented their rations with
the Ebens’ vegetables. It should also be noted that in Anonymous’s eleventh
posting the 9,000 lbs figure was amended to
90,500
lbs.
Q:
Why were two women selected
for the mission, to accompany ten men? One might think that this would
have been a risk from a human behavioral viewpoint, considering the importance
of saveguarding the emotional stability of the team during a very long mission.
A: They may have been the best people for the job – and it would not
have been easy to totally "disappear" twelve people, taking into
consideration friends, family, relatives, and their ties with normal government
bureaucracy. Possibly the options were limited.
Q: Did Serpo have seasons or was the weather constant all year long?
A: (verbatim from Anonymous in correspondence) Serpo didn’t have seasons as
we know them (extreme heat then freezing cold). However, the temperature varied.
Q:
If the planet’s tilt was 43°,
how is it that the changing seasons (especially at the poles) weren’t more
marked? Anonymous says the North Pole was at a
constant
temperature of 33°
(presumably F), with 20 feet of snow, while the
South
Pole was a barren desert, and says above that Serpo didn’t have seasons
as we know them.
A: Not clarified. It might be expected that the climatology of an alien planet
might require some in-depth study before weather patterns were fully understood.
Q:
It appears that it was a while before the team encountered any wildlife. Would
one not have expected them to have seen many small animals before encountering
the ox-like "Beast"
and the "Mountain Lion"? What would have been the components
of the food chain?
A: Not clarified. As with alien climatology, one might expect that alien ecology
might similarly require much study before being fully understood.
Q:
Anonymous states that We did have visitors from
nine other star systems. Who were they, and does the "we" refer
to the inhabitants of Earth, or the Ebens?
A: Not clarified. It appears to refer to visitors to Earth. Anonymous describes
three other races besides the Ebens: the Grays, a race from Epsilon Eridani,
and a race from a G2 (sun-like) star in Leo. No further specifics were given.
Q:
What is the purpose of the visiting races to Earth?
A: Not clarified.
Q:
The Ebens first visited Earth about 2,000 years
ago. In the
Project Aquarius Briefing
Document (which some believe to be a hoax) it is stated that "EBE
reported that 2,000 years ago, his ancestors planted a human creature on earth
to assist the inhabitants of Earth in developing a civilization." Who
might this have been?
A: The Project Aquarius Briefing Document goes on to state that "This
information was only vague and the exact identity or background information
on this homo-sapien [sic] was not obtained." If we accept Anonymous’s
information, then, allowing for problems of calibration with Earth time, such
an individual may have been Gautama Siddhartha (The Buddha), Jesus,
Plato,
Socrates, Alexander the Great,
Viracocha
(recorded in Inca legends as a great educator),
Enki
(a benevolent godlike figure in Sumerian mythology), any other king, queen,
leader, prophet or philosopher, or maybe a person unknown to history. More
data is needed.
Q: There seems to be a marked lack of biodiversity on Serpo. Why is this?
A: Not clarified. Anonymous may have only described the more dramatic animals
encountered. We should also consider that because the Ebens did not evolve
on Serpo and travelled there from their own home planet which had been rendered
uninhabitable, Serpo itself may have been terraformed and animal and plant
life introduced.
Q: If the photographs are being scanned, is it also possible to scan a portion
of the calculations explaining Serpo’s orbit, or any other part of the 3,000
page report?
A: It’s not known whether the photographs comprise part of the 3,000 page
report, or whether they are entirely separate documents which present different
access and availability problems. More clarification is needed about the nature
of Anonymous’s access to the report in order to best understand the context
in which this information is formatted and presented.