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Friday 29 October 2010

UK Schools Hold UFO Crash Drills - which includes gathering "wreckage," and students share and write about the experience -

UK Schools Hold UFO Crash Drills - which includes gathering "wreckage," and students share and write about the experience -



When Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young sang "Teach Your Children," do you think they meant to instruct students on how to properly investigate UFO crashes?

Well, that seems to be a trend in some U.K. schools where UFO drills have been periodically staged over the past two years, according to Dateline Zero.

In a typical drill, a UFO crash incident is created, and police arrive to show 8- to 10-year-old pupils how to handle such a scenario, which includes gathering "wreckage," and the students are encouraged to share and write about the experience.


The SoCal Martial Law Alerts website reports that Victoria Shepherd, a teacher at the Sandford Primary School in the United Kingdom, was the organizer of a recent UFO exercise.

"The children didn't know what was going on," Shepherd said. "As they approached the crash site, we could see how amazed and perplexed they were. It was a fantastic first reaction."

Shepherd said police "helped the children secure the scene and talked about what to do in an emergency, how they gathered evidence and how to interview witnesses."

The ET crash drills, which have taken place since 2008, have been jointly organized by schools and law enforcement agencies.

Interesting curriculum choice to use a UFO crash as a tool to spark children's imaginations and help improve their reading and writing skills.

Police constable Gary Densham, who took part in one of the staged UFO crashes last year at the Lanchester Endowed Parochial Primary, said, "The older pupils were asking questions about the crash site, like whether it was safe, but the younger children were convinced they'd seen the crash happen. Their imaginations were brilliant."



Read more - http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/uk-schools-hold-ufo-crash-drills/19691533?test=latestnews

Happy Birthday Internet - The Day the Infant Internet Uttered its First Words - 22:30 hours on October 29, 1969 -

Happy Birthday Internet - The Day the Infant Internet Uttered its First Words - 22:30 hours on October 29, 1969 - 



The Day the Infant Internet Uttered its First Words
Leonard Kleinrock
Below is a record of the first message ever sent over the ARPANET. It took place at 22:30 hours on October 29, 1969. This record is an excerpt from the "IMP Log" that we kept at UCLA. I was supervising the student/programmer Charley Kline (CSK) and we set up a message transmission to go from the UCLA SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the SRI SDS 940 Host computer. The transmission itself was simply to "login" to SRI from UCLA. We succeeded in transmitting the "l" and the "o" and then the system crashed! Hence, the first message on the Internet was "Lo!". We were able to do the full login about an hour later.





Read more - http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~lk/LK/Inet/1stmesg.html