Dear Reader
Tashi delek, thank you for visiting, welcome and I hope this finds you in peace, serenity and good health. So begins my / our account of our investigations and findings into Project (M)Earth and its purpose. I will add entries as we progress. From what we have uncovered so far I can see there is vast technical and scientific information to understand. My skills and talents lie within the mystical arts and practices brought to our monastic community by the various faiths who joined to make our group. There will be other technical entries to this journal made by my more learned brothers. From investigations so far, I have learned the human race is very ingenious and resourceful, but it pains me to see the very basic skills required for empathy, understanding and spiritual cooperation have eluded us, which is why we find ourselves on the very edge of self destruction.
We are now in the 2,280th year of our Lord Buddha, which will equal the year 2277 in the Gregorian calendar. We see the events started on 16 September 2277 and have progressed to this point almost a year ahead. I will relate to you a chronological account while filling in all the details we have found about the circumstances and people involved.
On 16 September 2277 two astronomers Andy Choo and Eric Carpenter were stationed at the Big Bear Observatory located on Big Bear Mountain in Old California. Their job was to map deep space to try and find anything ‘of interest’ such as life, new phenomena or threats. I don’t fully know why this was a necessary task as there is a lot of information, charts, pictures and data from earthbound equipment and space probes, near and far.
It seems the job was very boring and at a very low level for astronomers. But Andy seemed to enjoy this role as he was determined to find extraterrestrial life. We have found Eric Carpenter’s assignment to this job was not by choice. He was once a respected astronomer, but a miscalculation on his part led to a worldwide announcement of a new planet in this solar system. His readings and calculations were flawed. There was no new planet and he endured years of ridicule from that point. From then on he was given less important assignments, which filled him with regret, desire for recognition and acceptance.
They were only allowed to use the telescopes and equipment at times when not in high demand and would find themselves working through the night. This led to long periods of boredom and to pass their time, they invented a game called Asteroid Billiards which they played using the the computers and equipment instead of performing the duties for which they were being paid. I don’t fully understand the game or how it was played. It seems it was played in the 3DVR area which was used to recreate 3 dimensional representations of any area of space. The game and technology will kindly be explained by one of my better abled brothers.
On late Sunday evening, or very early Monday morning on 16 September 2277, they froze one of their games as an object appeared somewhere slightly beyond the orbit of Neptune. This caused them great excitement and anxiety as it was an object which they could not explain. All elements in their game should have been identifiable as they were generated from realtime objects on and around 16 September 2277. They got straight to work trying to find its origins. When we looked at the data and discussed it amongst ourselves, it didn’t seem too unusual. The region of space seemed to be the Kuiper Belt, an area of extreme motion and debris. Countless objects are found there and are leftover from the original beginning of this solar system. They move randomly and collide with each other. Occasionally an object leaves the area and sets off on its own journey away from the Kuiper Belt or begin a journey towards our Sun.
The object they discovered did not follow the predicted random behaviour and was never identified or previously indexed. We accessed the widely available data and could see it was completely still and when another of its neighbours approached on a collision path, it moved out of the way. This is what caught Eric and and Andy’s attention. Even we as monks, untrained in space object behaviour could see this was not the right way to act. Using all we found we pieced together the data and facts. We also spoke among ourselves especially with those of us who visited the God Realm. This object did not and still does not make sense or follow accepted physical laws. We followed developments over the next week and this is what I will update shortly
Jeh Yong.
Thich Hanh Tu
What is Project (M)Earth? 