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February 12, 2017 meeting

I think we would all agree yesterday’s meeting was one of our best, thanks to our guest speaker Professor Don Donderi, the author of UfOs, ETs And Alien Abductions: A Scientist Looks At The Evidence.

Prof Donderi,  PhD, associate professor (retired), McGill University Department of Psychology, teaches a ten-week course in the McGill Community for Lifelong Learning (MCLL). He was recently interviewed by the Montreal Gazette, you can read it here. 

As it turned out, one of our members, Barbara Silverman, had taken this course in the past and was able to personally pass on our invitation to speak to us. And proving that we do live “in a small world, after all”, Don and MonSFFan Joe Aspler have co-written papers, though not about UFOs.

Prof Donderi signs his book for Cathy

Don has a great sense of humour, and quite enjoyed the MonSFFilm, Encounters of the Very Close Kind. His slide presentation was very interesting, covering many documented cases of sightings and abductions. While many of us tend to be skeptics, the subject of UFOs lies close to the SF fan’s heart!  Members have expressed a wish to have him back again for a sequel, possibly to revisit a particular aspect such as the Roswell incident in more depth. Don brought only three copies of his book for sale, leaving some disappointed UFO fans, but it can be ordered from Chapters/Indigo or Amazon.  At the time of this writing, there is one copy at Indigo Place Montréal Trust.

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programming ideas for future meetings. It’s not too late to contribute, email <president@monsffa.ca> .  Copies of WARP 97 were distributed. Coincidentally, the cover art features Martian war machines! WARP is available for download here.  If you would like a copy mailed to you, please contact Keith <veep@monsffa.ca>  The raffle prizes featured a lot of chocolate in honour of St. Valentine’s Day, and a few members remembered to wear red.

Keith moderated a discussion on future economics. What is technology doing to our workplace? Are robots going to make us obsolete?  Some members argued that business is already pushing human workers out of entry level jobs –even McDonald’s!– so robots are in fact just another way for business owners to enrich themselves at the expense of others.  While having machines do all the work sounds idyllic, some of us need to feel we are contributing to our society. We can’t all be great philosophers!

A snow storm was brewing, which sent some members home early, but five us trudged through blowing snow to the Irish Embassy for good food  by a warm fire.

Members will find many more photos of our Feb 2017 meeting on our website.

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Gene Cernan, last man to walk on Moon, dies aged 82

For full article with pictures go to:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38641121

US astronaut Gene Cernan – the last man to walk on the Moon – has died aged 82.

America’s space agency Nasa said it was “saddened by the loss” of the retired spaceman.

Captain Cernan was one of only three people to go to the Moon twice and the last man to leave a footprint on the lunar surface in 1972.

The final words he spoke there were: “We leave as we came and, God willing, as we shall return with peace and hope for all mankind.”

He was the commander of the Apollo 17 mission at the time.

Twelve people have walked on the Moon, and only six of them are still alive today.

Apollo 17: Pictures, video, facts

Mark Craig, director of Last Man on the Moon, reflects on Gene Cernan’s passing

In a statement, Cernan’s family said he passed away on Monday following ongoing health issues. They did not give any further details.

“It is with very deep sadness that we share the loss of our beloved husband and father,” the statement said.
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“Our family is heartbroken.

“Even at the age of 82, Gene was passionate about sharing his desire to see the continued human exploration of space and encouraged our nation’s leaders and young people to not let him remain the last man to walk on the Moon.”

Before the Apollo 17 mission, Cernan had travelled into space twice – in 1966 and 1969.

A qualified naval aviator, he was selected into the third group of Nasa astronauts in 1963.

He retired in 1976, going into private business and contributing to US television channels on a variety of issues.

Cernan also produced a documentary film about his life, which he discussed at length in this BBC interview in 2014.

Born on 14 March 1934 in Chicago, his full name was Eugene Andrew Cernan.

He is survived by his wife Jan Nanna Cernan, his daughter and two step-daughters and also nine grandchildren.

His family said details regarding his funeral would be announced in the coming days.

Gene Cernan’s death comes just weeks after that of another Nasa astronaut, John Glenn.

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New content on our website

Danny Sichel is writing reviews of the short story collection, This is my Funniest.  You can access Danny’s reviews from the menu above, under the Contributor’s tab.

I have also uploaded Sylvain’s pictures of the 2016 Holiday Feast, which you will find under the Members Only tab. This page is password protected. If you are a member and have forgotten the password to access these pages, contact <president@monsffa.ca>
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SIGHTINGS OF UFO COURSE AT MCGILL

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MARIE-FRANCE COALLIER   Montreal Gazette

Don Donderi, at his home office on Friday, teaches a class on the UFO world.

 Q: How did teaching this course come about?

A: Well, I’ve been interested in the topic since I was 10 years old. I was certainly literate at 10 and I was following what was going in the papers and magazines in the United States, where I grew up.

And in 1947, there were (UFO) sightings. There was a famous sighting by a guy named Kenneth Arnold who was a private pilot who flew up in the Cascade (mountain range in Washington) and he saw and reported nine silvery objects flying over the mountains. He was very articulate in his report . … The story got into AP (Associated Press) the next day in June of 1947. And the AP headline writer coined the phrase ‘flying saucers’, which is where it all began.

Q: Wasn’t that the same year as the famous Roswell UFO incident in New Mexico?

A: It’s the same year actually, just a few weeks later. The whole Roswell thing came just after the Kenneth Arnold sighting in 1947.

Q: What’s your take on what happened at Roswell?

A: The U.S. government recovered the remains of a crashed unidentified flying object or to be more correct, an extraterrestrial vehicle.

Q: Do you believe aliens were found at the crash site?

A: It is believed that they also recovered bodies of dead aliens.

Q: Why so much silence and secrecy for all these years?

A: Well, that’s a very good question, and I raise it in my course … The technology involved is extremely advanced; the implications for human society are incredible and possibly upsetting because we are under surveillance by technologically superior beings from other planets. We don’t know how to do what they do. We don’t know what their motives are or their interests are. And at the moment, as far as I know, we don’t have any active defences or preparations to deal with the situation. So it’s obviously upsetting. Secrecy is because when governments, any government, gets hold of new technology, and want to figure out how it works, their first interest is protecting their own turf on this and not sharing it with the world.

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Q: How certain are you of life beyond our planet?

A: I’m 100 per cent certain of that. The way I put it in my course and to the public is this: I have three main propositions. One, some of what people report as UFOs are extraterrestrial vehicles. That proposition, I believe, is established beyond reasonable doubt. And if you know your law, you’ll know that’s the standard for a conviction of a felony. Proposition 2 is that some of the extraterrestrial vehicles have ET crews, and proposition 3 is that some of these ET crews ‘catch and release’ humans to study them, so-called alien abductions. Proposition 2, I think, is established beyond a reasonable doubt, and proposition 3 is bound on probabilities.

Q: Do you personally know anyone who was abducted by aliens?

A: I know many people. I’d say 10, at least, who have claimed to be abducted. And in many cases, I respect their claims because I think they’re based on sound evidence.

Q: There are doubters, of course. How do you handle skepticism?

A: Listen, skepticism is absolutely OK. If you pick up my book (UFOs, ETs and alien abductions: A scientist looks at the evidence, 2013) which you probably won’t do, you’ll find I have a great deal of respect for skeptics who are doing their best to make sure what they know and what the world knows is based on reasonable sound evidence. That’s good. I’m a scientist.

Q: With the proliferation of drones, wouldn’t it be easy to fly one above Mount Royal and say, ‘Hey, look up, it’s a UFO!”

A: Exactly. One of my better friends, who is a drone user commercially — takes real estate photos for people — he and I and everyone else in the field knows it’s perfectly possible to fake UFO photographs and experiences.

Q: Have you ever seen a UFO yourself ?

A: Only the kind that wouldn’t impress anyone as sound evidence because nocturnal lights, which is a technical term, are a dime a dozen and you couldn’t be sure at a distance what it was.

Q: What are the chances of a UFO landing on Ste-Catherine St. and an alien climbing out to shake my hand?

A: (Laughing) Ah yes, the famous White House lawn landing. I have no idea; I can’t possibly tell you on the basis of anything I’ve learned on the subject. Except that … whoever shows up will go away and not come back here for a while.

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Relaunch of “Sylvan Song” Kickstarter Campaign

ea2bc10295ce0d68cb0b94be8f81a1bf_originalMonSSFan Shawn Picard (AKA Phin Scardaw) is relaunching his Kickstarter campaign for his novel “The Sylvan Song”.  New content, new rewards! Check it out!

 

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Ready, Set, NaNoWriMo!

It’s that time of year again!

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USING COMMON SENSE ON HALLOWEEN

THE BASIC RULES OF SURVIVAL

1. Should you come across a small, deserted town off the beaten track, there’s probably a good reason for it’s being deserted. Do not stop to look around.

2. If your car runs out of gas at night on a lonely road, absolutely do not walk to that old house just across the road to phone for help. But if you foolishly do, and no one answers the door when you knock, take this second opportunity to get the hell back to your car. If you then try the door and find that it isn’t locked, do not enter. Once again, get the bell out of there. If you do choose to enter, you’re on your own, pal.

3. Never open your closet door if you even remotely suspect that something other than your wardrobe is behind it. Equally, never draw your shower curtain unless you are certain that the only things behind it are your soap and shampoo bottle.

4. Never search a basement, especially if the power has gone out. If you do, carry a flashlight, not a candle.

5. If you discover that your house is built over an old cemetery, now is a good time to move in with the in-laws. Put the place up for sale if you discover that the previous owners practiced satanism, died in some horrible way, or went mad and committed suicide.
6. If the walls of your new house starting bleeding, don’t stand there wondering how you’re going to get the stain out. Mr. Clean can’t help you here, buddy; vacate the premises immediately.

7. If household appliances suddenly start switching on by themselves, it’s got nothing to do with the wiring. Don’t waste valuable minutes checking your fuse box, get out of the house.

8. If you hear a loud noise, don’t go looking for what caused it, just get outta Dodge… fast. If you do go looking for the source of the noise and find that it was only the cat, you have mere moments to live. Run like hell, but fully expect to die.

9. Never open some dusty old tome of a book on the cover of which is inscribed a pentagram. If you do, under no circumstances read aloud any incantations designed to summon a demon, even as a joke.

10. If your old Ouija board starts to actually work head for the hills. Don’t ask it “just one more question,” for the answer will in all likelihood spell your doom. As a general rule, don’t solve puzzles that open portals to Hell.

11. Don’t go looking for witches in the Maryland countryside.

12. Don’t take any bet that involves spending a night in a creepy old house.
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13. Shoot to kill any friend or family member who begins speaking Latin or any other language that you know they can’t speak, or who begins speaking in someone else’s voice. This also applies to anyone who exhibits uncharacteristic behaviour, such as drinking blood, howling at the moon and sprouting a lot of facial hair, or walking around with arms extended forward and devouring human flesh. Pack extra heat if their eyes glow.

14. When you have the benefit of numbers, never split up. You’re just making it easier for the monster to take you all out.

15. When running for your life from a monster, accept that even though you are sprinting full-out and the monster is just shambling along, it will nevertheless gain on you. Expect to trip and fall at least twice, more if you are female. And expect to entangle your clothing on something, or become pinned under a heavy object, and so have to waste valuable seconds struggling to free yourself as the monster shambles ever nearer. So try to begin fleeing a few minutes early; you’ll need that extra time.

16. When it appears that you have managed to kill the monster that has been pursuing you and your friends, never check to make sure it’s really dead. It isn’t, but you will be if you get too close.

17. Never handle any strange, pulsating goop that you’ve discovered. next to a meteorite crater. The government has people who do that sort of thing, so don’t let your curiosity get the better of you. Remember what they say about cats and curiosity.

18. Sexually active teenagers, especially you girls, should stay away from silent, monochomatically dressed strangers exhibiting a particular skill with any of the following items: chainsaw, axe, carving knife, scissors, staple gun or pneumatic hammer, hedge trimmer or weed wacker, welding torch, soldering iron, router, power drill, band saw, blender or mix master, knitting needles. Exercise the same caution around any small-town Billy-Bob who seems a little slow and whose family, according to the locals, “live just outside of town, keep to themselves and don’t bother nobody.”

19. Vacation destinations should not include Transylvannia, any rural town in Maine, or the towns of Santa Mira or Amityville. Having to travel though the Bermuda Triangle to get to a holiday spot should automatically see that destination crossed off your list.

20. Never get aboard a plane designated flight 666. Generally, avoid anything to which that number is connected in any way.

21. Should a tall dark-haired man and a short, red-haired woman knock on your door and identify themselves as FBI agents investigating something in your neighbourhood, move to a new neighbourhood.

I found these survival rules in my hoard of MonSFFA stuff.  Unfortunately, I don’t remember who wrote them, it was so very long ago. It might have been Brian Ekkers.

Do please add to the list! Just click on the “comment” link.

 

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ISS passing over Montreal

Robot looks upThe sky will be clouding over tonight, but it might be clear enough to see the ISS pass overhead this evening, Oct 15th.

Time: Sat Oct 15 6:49 PM, Visible: 5 min, Max Height: 55°, Appears: 15° above NW, Disappears: 12° above ESE
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The ISS is bright enough that the city lights will not bother it at all.  There is no mistaking it for a plane or any other satellite.

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Club VP Regrets Missing September Meeting

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MonSFFA VP Keith Braithwaite has issued the following statement by way of explanation for his unintended absence at the club’s September 18 meeting:

It seems that I got the date wrong with regard   to the September MonSFFA meeting, which I believed was slated for the 25th, when in fact it was scheduled for the 18th. I realized that too late!

I was committed to another event, a model show on the West Island. At the time that I made my plans to attend, I erroneously believed that the show was not in conflict with the September MonSFFA meeting. But, of course, in actuality, it was!

The mistake was mine.

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Keith in an unusally pensive mood
FULLY INTENDED TO BE THERE, BUT GOT THE DATE WRONG. SORRY, GUYS, MY BAD!

In that I was scheduled to conduct not only one of the afternoon’s presentations, but host an edition of Sunday Sci-Fi Cinema Matinée, and work further on our animated film project, I sincerely apologize to my fellow MonSFFen for not being there when I should have been. In particular, I’m sorry to have left, even if inadvertently, my fellow executives and programming-mates on that afternoon in the lurch, scrambling to fill with makeshift content the timeslots for which I had been booked.

In addition, I apologize to the membership for failing to produce a September issue of Impulse, which should have been produced and distributed in the week preceding the meeting, serving in part as a timely reminder of said meeting. As I thought the meeting to be set for the 25th, I intended to produce the September Impulse on the 19th-20th and send it out on the 21st, the Wednesday before what I thought was the meeting date. Of course, the meeting had already taken place.

While we can, I’m sure, agree that fandom is a hobby, and that we shouldn’t get too worked up about things going sideways from time to time, I nevertheless feel bad about letting folk down on this occasion. I’ll try to make amends as much as is possible in the coming months.

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MonSFFA Star Trek Field Trip to Ottawa This Saturday!

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PLEASE READ ALL:

This is a reminder that the club’s field trip to the Star Trek Star Fleet Academy Experience in Ottawa is set for this coming Saturday, August 6! Surf here to see what it’s all about:

http://casmuseum.techno-science.ca/en/whats-on/exhibition-star-trek-starfleet-academy.php

To date, we have a car leaving from the club’s usual downtown hotel (1005 Guy Street) at 8:00AM, Saturday morning, the 6th, with room for three (maybe a fourth, if we squeeze a bit), and another with room for one leaving from Fairview Mall at the same time.

However, we have not heard from too many MonSFFA members as to who would like to join us for this adventure! We apologize for the tight scheduling, but the whole plan came together pretty quickly shortly after the club BBQ in July, and we haven’t had the benefit of a regular club meeting since during which to iron out all the details!

Further, news comes that club president Cathy Palmer-Lister will not be able to attend as she is going to be delayed returning from out of town and won’t be back in time.

HERE’S THE PLAN:

So, here’s how we are going to proceed:

If you would like to join us on this field trip, please e-mail immediately vice-president Keith Braithwaite at

veep@monsffa.ca

If you can also offer fellow MonSFFen a lift, please so indicate, along with the number of passengers your car can accommodate. Regrettably, if we do not have sufficient vehicles to transport everyone who requests a seat, we’ll have to assign people on a first-come, first-serve basis, So send your e-mail right away! Don’t wait! Even if you e-mailed Cathy already following her original post of July 18, send that e-mail again to Keith at the above Veep address!   

DEADLINE:

The deadline for e-mails is tomorrow night, Thursday, August 4, at 11:59PM! Any e-mails received after that time will not be considered. Sorry.

IMPORTANT:

Passengers will be expected to chip in for gas, and, of course, pay their own way (admission to the event–under $20/person–supper/coffee afterwards before returning to Montreal).

Please be at the rendezvous point we assign to you (you’ll receive a response Friday, August 5) before 8:00AM Saturday morning, the 6th. We’re leaving at 8:00AM sharp in order to arrive in Ottawa for mid-morning.

Again, we apologize for the tight schedule; couldn’t be helped! We do hope to find a way to accommodate all who wish to attend, but cannot absolutely guarantee that. 

Star Trek: The Starfleet Academy Experience

The Starfleet Academy Experience provides cadet recruits with an opportunity to experience a “career day” at the Academy. In an immersive environment, recruits try out a number of activities to test their potential to train for careers as Medical Officers, Science Officers, Communications specialists, even Commanders. The experience is enriched with the actual science behind the science fiction as the participants learn about emerging technologies such as a functional tricorder, NASA’s warp drive theory, and the latest experiments with phasers and teleporters.

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