Micah Hanks / UFO Singularity

**ChrisPerridas** · 28th December 2012

Did anyone listen to him on C2CAM? Ever hear of him?

Writer and researcher Micah Hanks spoke about UFOs, a variety of unexplained aspects of cultural phenomena and human history, as well as the prospects of our technological future as a species influenced by science. He explained that he considers himself a "skeptic," in the sense that he approaches these topics without a preconception toward belief or disbelief. In his latest book, The UFO Singularity, he examines the idea that the technology behind unexplained craft may surpass human intelligence, even if the UFOs do not originate from extraterrestrial sources. Discussing the historical aspects of ufology, he observed that the subject has gone from being treated as a possible danger and national security threat, to dismissed as a serious scientific subject.

I have not had a chance to listen to the show. Don't know Micah Hanks.

**Carol Nistri** · 29th December 2012

I listend to him,partly.The guy has a wonderful radio voice.But I fell off to sleep.l

**orangekea** · 29th December 2012

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Originally Posted by Carol Nistri

I listend to him,partly.The guy has a wonderful radio voice.But I fell off to sleep.l

I have never heard of him. Anyone else who hasn't heard of him either?

**Carol Nistri** · 29th December 2012

Id never heard of him either,before that show.

**Jurgen** · 29th December 2012

It's an older idea called technological singularity. It's a great read an ties in with ufology perfectly imo. Artificial superintelligence... something we just can't understand, something that goes beyond how we understand things in a logical manner.

There comes a point where AI starts to think for itself. When it arrives to a point it can built an improved version of itself, its intelligence will increase exponentially. It will evolve to a thing that goes beyond the original creator's comprehension. This new AI might decide to remove its creators or make life better for them. Most likely it will completely ignore them and leave them behind on the planet in search for more and more data. This AI will eventually reach other planets with life and might try to understand it. It will try to interact with its inhabitants but they do not understand what is happening to them exactly. (Or read the basic concepts on wiki, it might explain it a lot better than me)

There's a movie which deals with these things. It's from 1970: Colossus: The Forbin Project
It is based upon the 1966 novel Colossus, by Dennis Feltham Jones, about a massive American defense computer, named Colossus, becoming sentient and deciding to assume control of the world.

There's loads of movies and series which have used the idea... an easy one is of course the Terminator frenchise.

**Carol Nistri** · 29th December 2012

Eeeek,I sure hope this doenst include vacume cleaners..

**dr wu23** · 29th December 2012

Ray Kurzweil was the one who popularized this concept of a singularity via human technology and is associated with it more than anyone else.
McKenna also wrote about it but had a slightly different take on it ( more of a human consciousness one), than those like Kurzweil.

Ray Kurzweil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hanks page
http://micahhanks.com/ufos/the-ufo-s...future-is-now/

**Antrikshaadmi** · 30th December 2012

It suffices to say that if I mention a singularity once more I'd be breaking a broken record, and I've stated several times humanity's short term goal is to create machines smart enough to display us in their zoos. Which is what our planet may be to machines that are not operating in linear time. Our machines will go straight to Type 3 civilization and beyond by improving their own artificial intelligence exponentially, meanwhile we languish in insignificance unless we merge with them and lose our humanity. With holographic technology even slightly more advanced than ours the machines can make themselves and their conveyances look like any UFO or alien you can imagine.

*beats a dead horse*

**ChrisPerridas** · 31st December 2012

On the show was one of the wildest stories I've yet heard. I listened to it a bunch of times so I could transcribe it for my notes. Here it is:

{Caller}... {Tells a story about a UFO and flashing lights and a weird being, and then } ... Uh, {coughs}, excuse me, now fast forward to, uh, about five years ago. My niece was thirteen - she kept saying that, uh, she seen a UFO above, uh, the tree in our front yard, and, the way she described it was kinda small for a UFO, but, uh, one night I was in my room and I – I was in my room and kept hearing strange things outside my window, so, and my niece was asleep on the couch in the living room – and the living room was dark, so I went outside in the front yard, and I was looking around. All of a sudden I – something told me to look towards the front door, and, uh, my my sister used to have this guy who kind of stalked her – and it was like two o'clock in the morning, so I look towards the front door and I see the front door is open and all of a sudden it looked like the guy that was stalking my sister down on his knees, and I'm like "Dan, if that's you, I'm gonna call the cops." All of a sudden, I notice that it wasn't a man on his knees, it was a little short being about 3 feet tall and he had on a (uh) like a, excuse me (cough) had on a, like a gray jump suit uniform or something like that, and now, Oh My God what is that? and he had that big bulbous eyes, big head, and he slams the door shut, so I go, "You better open that door, or I'll call the the cops!". And he opens the door ...

{George chuckles, so he understood you … (garbled as they talk over each other a second}

{Caller} so I start kind of against my better judgment, creeping up the door slowly, I went inside and it was dark, and all of a sudden this thing start {sic} running all around the room, and I chase it around the room , and I got it cornered behind some furniture, and I looked, and it was sitting down looking at me with the biggest blue eyes I've ever seen and tears are running down its face and its going {In a high, child-like voice} "Ah, ah, ahh,". It was scared to death. I'm like "Oh my God,", I said, "What are you?" I said, uh, "Now, calm down, don't do nothing crazy," I said, "I just wanna see what you are," and then all of a sudden it just leaped in the air and it was gone.

{George} What do you mean leaped in the air, like ...
{Caller} uh
{George} … over you and ran out?
{Caller} ...crouched down in the corner scared …
{George} ...yeah,
{Caller} … Right when I reached out to touch him, he liked jumped. When he jumped, he jumped straight up like, like he would have hit the ceiling or something but instead of hitting the ceiling he was just gone
{George} He just like disappeared?
{Caller} Yeah, it was like it just disappeared, and I, uh, …
{George} Wow!
{Caller} {clears throat with a chuckle} And ever since I've been having things like, like getting telepathic thoughts and stuff like that and finally this thing identified itself as the being that had – that came to my place that night and went, and you know it was kind of speaking in to my mind and stuff and I was like "Oh my God you're like that being from that night, I said, "Well you – I go you've really been harassing me. If you'd really been that small you, you I could have kicked your ***," and, and he goes, "Yeah," but he goes, "We're a small people," he goes, "but I had my hands on, had my hands on a weapon that would have disintegrated you that night. " He goes, "When ever I jumped," he goes, "that was my last attempt, but other than that," he goes, "I was gonna take you out."

{George} Oh, he would have annihilated you. Micah, you ever hear a story like that?
{Micah} Heh, heh. {chuckles nervously} I've had my fair share in, in, in my day, and, uh, that reminds me a lot of, of what we would call, I guess trickster phenomenon, y'know.

**Carol Nistri** · 31st December 2012

Im glad I feel asleep.

28th December 2012	#1
ChrisPerridas Agent Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Kentucky Age: 56 Posts: 1,709 Rep Power: 1350	Micah Hanks / UFO Singularity Did anyone listen to him on C2CAM? Ever hear of him? Writer and researcher Micah Hanks spoke about UFOs, a variety of unexplained aspects of cultural phenomena and human history, as well as the prospects of our technological future as a species influenced by science. He explained that he considers himself a "skeptic," in the sense that he approaches these topics without a preconception toward belief or disbelief. In his latest book, The UFO Singularity, he examines the idea that the technology behind unexplained craft may surpass human intelligence, even if the UFOs do not originate from extraterrestrial sources. Discussing the historical aspects of ufology, he observed that the subject has gone from being treated as a possible danger and national security threat, to dismissed as a serious scientific subject. I have not had a chance to listen to the show. Don't know Micah Hanks.

29th December 2012	#2
Carol Nistri Majestic Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Connecticut Posts: 16,806 Rep Power: 6403	Micah Hanks / UFO Singularity I listend to him,partly.The guy has a wonderful radio voice.But I fell off to sleep.l __________________ NIL ILLEGITIMUS CARBORUNDUM

29th December 2012	#4
Carol Nistri Majestic Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Connecticut Posts: 16,806 Rep Power: 6403	Micah Hanks / UFO Singularity Id never heard of him either,before that show. __________________ NIL ILLEGITIMUS CARBORUNDUM

29th December 2012	#5
Jurgen ⌘ Age quod agis ⌘ Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 2,472 Rep Power: 4144	Micah Hanks / UFO Singularity It's an older idea called technological singularity. It's a great read an ties in with ufology perfectly imo. Artificial superintelligence... something we just can't understand, something that goes beyond how we understand things in a logical manner. There comes a point where AI starts to think for itself. When it arrives to a point it can built an improved version of itself, its intelligence will increase exponentially. It will evolve to a thing that goes beyond the original creator's comprehension. This new AI might decide to remove its creators or make life better for them. Most likely it will completely ignore them and leave them behind on the planet in search for more and more data. This AI will eventually reach other planets with life and might try to understand it. It will try to interact with its inhabitants but they do not understand what is happening to them exactly. (Or read the basic concepts on wiki, it might explain it a lot better than me) There's a movie which deals with these things. It's from 1970: Colossus: The Forbin Project It is based upon the 1966 novel Colossus, by Dennis Feltham Jones, about a massive American defense computer, named Colossus, becoming sentient and deciding to assume control of the world. There's loads of movies and series which have used the idea... an easy one is of course the Terminator frenchise. __________________ ___________________________________ "If you understand, things are just as they are. If you do not understand, things are just as they are." - "When things do not go as supposed, I suppose things go as they do" ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯

29th December 2012	#6
Carol Nistri Majestic Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Connecticut Posts: 16,806 Rep Power: 6403	Micah Hanks / UFO Singularity Eeeek,I sure hope this doenst include vacume cleaners.. __________________ NIL ILLEGITIMUS CARBORUNDUM

29th December 2012	#7
dr wu23 Majestic Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Indiana Posts: 16,641 Rep Power: 3321	Micah Hanks / UFO Singularity Ray Kurzweil was the one who popularized this concept of a singularity via human technology and is associated with it more than anyone else. McKenna also wrote about it but had a slightly different take on it ( more of a human consciousness one), than those like Kurzweil. Ray Kurzweil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hanks page http://micahhanks.com/ufos/the-ufo-s...future-is-now/ __________________ "If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't." -Emerson Pugh

30th December 2012	#8
Antrikshaadmi Corde pulsum tangite Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Sol³ Age: 40 Posts: 2,775 Rep Power: 2447	Micah Hanks / UFO Singularity It suffices to say that if I mention a singularity once more I'd be breaking a broken record, and I've stated several times humanity's short term goal is to create machines smart enough to display us in their zoos. Which is what our planet may be to machines that are not operating in linear time. Our machines will go straight to Type 3 civilization and beyond by improving their own artificial intelligence exponentially, meanwhile we languish in insignificance unless we merge with them and lose our humanity. With holographic technology even slightly more advanced than ours the machines can make themselves and their conveyances look like any UFO or alien you can imagine. beats a dead horse __________________ "You cannot rule out the possibility that an extraterrestrial civilization perhaps a million years more advanced than ours has the capability of reaching the planet Earth." ~ Dr. Michio Kaku http://ufostalker.com/

31st December 2012	#9
ChrisPerridas Agent Join Date: Jul 2012 Location: Kentucky Age: 56 Posts: 1,709 Rep Power: 1350	Micah Hanks / UFO Singularity On the show was one of the wildest stories I've yet heard. I listened to it a bunch of times so I could transcribe it for my notes. Here it is: {Caller}... {Tells a story about a UFO and flashing lights and a weird being, and then } ... Uh, {coughs}, excuse me, now fast forward to, uh, about five years ago. My niece was thirteen - she kept saying that, uh, she seen a UFO above, uh, the tree in our front yard, and, the way she described it was kinda small for a UFO, but, uh, one night I was in my room and I – I was in my room and kept hearing strange things outside my window, so, and my niece was asleep on the couch in the living room – and the living room was dark, so I went outside in the front yard, and I was looking around. All of a sudden I – something told me to look towards the front door, and, uh, my my sister used to have this guy who kind of stalked her – and it was like two o'clock in the morning, so I look towards the front door and I see the front door is open and all of a sudden it looked like the guy that was stalking my sister down on his knees, and I'm like "Dan, if that's you, I'm gonna call the cops." All of a sudden, I notice that it wasn't a man on his knees, it was a little short being about 3 feet tall and he had on a (uh) like a, excuse me (cough) had on a, like a gray jump suit uniform or something like that, and now, Oh My God what is that? and he had that big bulbous eyes, big head, and he slams the door shut, so I go, "You better open that door, or I'll call the the cops!". And he opens the door ... {George chuckles, so he understood you … (garbled as they talk over each other a second} {Caller} so I start kind of against my better judgment, creeping up the door slowly, I went inside and it was dark, and all of a sudden this thing start {sic} running all around the room, and I chase it around the room , and I got it cornered behind some furniture, and I looked, and it was sitting down looking at me with the biggest blue eyes I've ever seen and tears are running down its face and its going {In a high, child-like voice} "Ah, ah, ahh,". It was scared to death. I'm like "Oh my God,", I said, "What are you?" I said, uh, "Now, calm down, don't do nothing crazy," I said, "I just wanna see what you are," and then all of a sudden it just leaped in the air and it was gone. {George} What do you mean leaped in the air, like ... {Caller} uh {George} … over you and ran out? {Caller} ...crouched down in the corner scared … {George} ...yeah, {Caller} … Right when I reached out to touch him, he liked jumped. When he jumped, he jumped straight up like, like he would have hit the ceiling or something but instead of hitting the ceiling he was just gone {George} He just like disappeared? {Caller} Yeah, it was like it just disappeared, and I, uh, … {George} Wow! {Caller} {clears throat with a chuckle} And ever since I've been having things like, like getting telepathic thoughts and stuff like that and finally this thing identified itself as the being that had – that came to my place that night and went, and you know it was kind of speaking in to my mind and stuff and I was like "Oh my God you're like that being from that night, I said, "Well you – I go you've really been harassing me. If you'd really been that small you, you I could have kicked your ***," and, and he goes, "Yeah," but he goes, "We're a small people," he goes, "but I had my hands on, had my hands on a weapon that would have disintegrated you that night. " He goes, "When ever I jumped," he goes, "that was my last attempt, but other than that," he goes, "I was gonna take you out." {George} Oh, he would have annihilated you. Micah, you ever hear a story like that? {Micah} Heh, heh. {chuckles nervously} I've had my fair share in, in, in my day, and, uh, that reminds me a lot of, of what we would call, I guess trickster phenomenon, y'know.

31st December 2012	#10
Carol Nistri Majestic Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Connecticut Posts: 16,806 Rep Power: 6403	Micah Hanks / UFO Singularity Im glad I feel asleep. __________________ NIL ILLEGITIMUS CARBORUNDUM