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Stuart House Recordings Update: Production company Iron Dragon Films is reporting that it is receiving death threats from the "Black Lotus Gumon Tong"sect.  The sect is demanding that "The Stuart House Recordings" not be released.  As a result Iron Dragon Films has added another security officer to it's staff.   

In film news, recovery of the failed hard drives that held footage of the 2009 investigation continue.  Kevin Bingham co-director says that final editing should be completed this year.

Occult Profiles: Satanic Orders -The Process Church of The Final Judgment

PDF Process Manifesto

Process Documents

The Process, or in full, The Process Church of the Final Judgment, commonly known by non-members as the Process Church, was a religious group that flourished in the 1960s and 1970s, founded by the English couple Mary Anne and Robert DeGrimston (originally Robert Moor and Mary Anne MacLean).^[1] Originally headquartered in London it had developed as a splinter client cult group from Scientology, so that they were declared "suppressive persons" by L. Ron Hubbard in December 1965. In 1966 the members of the group underwent a social implosion and moved to Xtul on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula, where they developed "processean" theology (which differs from, and is unrelated to process theology). They later established a base of operations in the United States in New Orleans.

Do Einstein's laws prove ghosts exist?

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Every night, amateur ghost-hunting groups across the country head out into abandoned warehouses, old buildings and cemeteries to look for ghosts. They often bring along electronic equipment that they believe helps them locate ghostly energy.
Despite years of efforts by ghost hunters on TV and in real life, we still do not have good proof that ghosts are real. Many ghost hunters believe that strong support for the existence of ghosts can be found in modern physics. Specifically, that Albert Einstein, one of the greatest scientific minds of all time, offered a scientific basis for the reality of ghosts.
A recent Google search turned up nearly 8 million results suggesting a link between ghosts and Einstein's work covering the conservation of energy. This assertion is repeated by many top experts in the field. For example, ghost researcher John Kachuba, in his book "Ghosthunters" (2007, New Page Books), writes, "Einstein proved that all the energy of the universe is constant and that it can neither be created nor destroyed. ... So what happens to that energy when we die? If it cannot be destroyed, it must then, according to Dr. Einstein, be transformed into another form of energy. What is that new energy? ... Could we call that new creation a ghost?"
This idea shows up — and is presented as evidence for ghosts — on virtually all ghost-themed websites as well. For example, a group called Tri County Paranormal states, "Albert Einstein said that energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only change from one form to another. When we are alive, we have electrical energy in our bodies. ... What happens to the electricity that was in our body, causing our heart to beat and making our breathing possible? There is no easy answer to that."

What’s Under Lake Vostok? (Update)

 

 

Drill Close to Reaching 14-Million-Year-Old Antarctic Lake

By Duncan Geere, Wired UK, Jan 7, 2011

Lake Vostok, which has been sealed off from the world for 14 million years, is about to be penetrated by a Russian drill bit.

Update...

The lake, which lies 2.5 miles below the icy surface of Antarctica, is unique in that it’s been completely isolated from the other 150 subglacial lakes on the continent for such a long time. It’s also oligotropic, meaning that it’s supersaturated with oxygen — levels of the element are 50 times higher than those found in most typical freshwater lakes.
Since 1990, the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in St Petersberg in Russia has been drilling through the ice to reach the lake, but fears of contamination of the ecosystem in the lake have stopped the process multiple times, most notably in 1998 when the drills were turned off for almost eight years.

Live Web Cam Antartica Base: San Martin

''The Thing''? Russians drilling Lake Vostok are not reporting in

A group of Russian scientists plumbing the frozen Antarctic in search of a lake buried in ice for tens of millions of years have failed to respond to increasingly anxious U.S. colleagues -- and as the days creep by, the fate of the team remains unknown.

"No word from the ice for 5 days," Dr. John Priscu professor of Ecology at Montana State University, told FoxNews.com via email.

The team from Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) have been drilling for weeks in an effort to reach isolated Lake Vostok, a vast, dark body of water hidden 13,000 ft. below the ice sheet's surface. The lake hhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifasn't been exposed to air in more than 20 million years.

Priscu said there was no way to get in touch with the team -- and the already cold weather is set to plunge, as Antarctica's summer season ends and winter sets in.
"Temps are dropping below -40 Celsius and they have only a week or so left before they have to winterize the station," he said. "I can only imagine what things must be like at Vostok Station this week."


CURRENT WEATHER AT VOSTOK:
http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/89606.html


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/02/russian-scientists-lost-in-frozen-land-lost/#ixzz1lJmfeeRo

THE LOST WORLD OF LAKE VOSTOK: FULL DOCUMENTARY

In 1957 the Russians established a remote base in Antarctica -- the Vostok station. It soon became a byword for hardship -- dependent on an epic annual 1000km tractor journey from the coast for its supplies. The coldest temperature ever found on Earth (-89°C) was recorded here on the 21st July 1983. It's an unlikely setting for a lake of liquid water. But in the 1970's a British team used airborne radar to see beneath the ice, mapping the mountainous land buried by the Antarctic ice sheet. Flying near the Vostok base their radar trace suddenly went flat. They guessed that the flat trace could only be from water. It was the first evidence that the ice could be hiding a great secret.

CURRENT WEATHER AT VOLSTOK LINK

Bay State slaying suspect tied to vampire-like act in Maine

Convicted in a 2000 Augusta case in which he licked a girl's blood, he now faces a triple murder charge.
By Betty Adams

One of three men who face triple-murder charges in Massachusetts was convicted a decade ago in a Maine case that included blood-letting and overtones of vampirism.

Caius Domitius Veiovis appears at his arraignment Monday in Berkshire District Court in Pittsfield, Mass. In 2000, he was convicted in a Maine case that involved cutting a 16-year-old girl's back open.

Back then he was Roy Gutfinski Jr. of Augusta. Today, after a legal name change in July 2008 while he was a Maine State Prison inmate, his name is Caius Domitius Veiovis.
Veiovis, 31, pleaded not guilty in Pittsfield, Mass., on Monday to three counts each of murder, kidnapping and intimidation of witnesses, according to a court clerk. He is being held without bail and is to return to court Oct. 12.

James Reardon Jr., the court-appointed attorney for Veiovis, was unavailable Tuesday. In news accounts published in Massachusetts, Reardon said he had received little information about the slayings or Veiovis' alleged participation.

Veiovis and two other men – Adam Lee Hall, 34, allegedly a sergeant-at-arms of the local Hells Angels chapter, and David Chalue, 44 – are charged with killing David Glasser, Edward Frampton and Robert Chadwell on or about Aug. 28.
Berkshire County District Attorney David Capeless' office issued a statement this week announcing that investigators had found the remains of three men who had been missing for two weeks, and had charged three suspects. He said officials are still investigating the association among all of the men.

The penalty in Massachusetts for first-degree murder is life in prison without parole.
Veiovis served almost 7½ years of a 10-year sentence in Maine on convictions in 2000 for elevated aggravated assault, aggravated assault and reckless conduct.
He was 19 and still known as Gutfinski when he and his girlfriend sliced open the back of a 16-year-old girl, then licked the blood while they kissed.

The cutting was done by Gutfinski's girlfriend, who was 16, police said. The razor cut along the victim's back required 32 stitches to close, according to court documents.
At Gutfinski's trial in 2000, prosecutor Alan Kelley portrayed him as part of a subculture of people who wore dark clothes and practiced self-mutilation and some blood-licking or blood-drinking.

"Roy Gutfinski Jr. perceived himself (as) and claimed to be a Satanic worshipper, claimed to police he was a vampire and drank blood, his own as well as other persons', as often as possible," Kelley said in the courtroom.

Kelley and witnesses described Gutfinski's apartment on Water Street as dark and dungeonlike with darkened windows, bones scattered about, pictures of bodies on the walls and razor blades throughout the apartment.

When police searched the apartment, they found a library book on human anatomy under a fish tank that held a snake, and an ax near a wooden chair.
Kelley said the cutting victim met Gutfinski and his girlfriend downtown two days before the incident. Neither Gutfinski's girlfriend nor the victim wanted Gutfinski prosecuted, and he did not testify in his own defense.
After his conviction, and before his sentencing, Gutfinski took a razor to his own arms while in jail. It took 200 stitches to close the wounds.
Court records show he has had a series of mental evaluations over the years.
For the cutting incident, Gutfinski was sentenced on July 3, 2000, to 10 years in prison with all but three years suspended, and four years of probation.
He served the initial term, then returned to prison several times for violating probation. Some of those incidents involved charges of criminal conduct in New Bedford, Mass.
Gutfinski was released on probation from the Maine State Prison on April 27, 2010, and discharged from probation on July 8, 2010, said Jody Breton, associate commissioner of the Maine Department of Corrections.

Gutfinski had a series of hornlike objects implanted in his forehead. Now they are visible as bumps, three on each side. He also has had a series of tattoos, some reaching to his face, and a roughly drawn 666 in the middle of his forehead.
Gutfinski tried – and failed – in 2003 to get a Kennebec County Probate Court judge to approve his name change to "Diszade Trash Horror."
In that petition, Gutfinski described himself as a religious Satanist.

"I wish to shed all ties with the Christian church, and one important step toward that goal is legally changing my name," he wrote.
In his successful name-change petition in Knox County, Gutfinski wrote, "Adopted as a child, (I) have no blood relation with, nor do I share the nationality my given name implies. It has long been a burden for me and I feel the new name I have carefully and with much thought, chosen more justly represents my individuality and nationality. This name is also in keeping with my religious beliefs."

1950 FBI memo confirms flying saucers crashing in New Mexico.

For years people have wondered, talked about, made movies about, created successful businesses locally and internationally, sold goods and accessories, all around the Roswell incident involving UFOs that crashed. Files have now appeared on the FBI's "vault" website that was once devoted to classified documents have now become public.
The memo is brief but it's from an Air Force informant about "flying saucers". The memo has FBI agent Guy Hottel saying what an "investigator for the Air Forces" told him about what is called "the Roswell incident", Hottel says:

Three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico . . . they were described as being circular in shape with raised centres, approximately 50 feet in diameter . . . Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet tall, dressed in a metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed flyers and test pilots.

The informant speculates that the saucers were found in New Mexico because the US government had a "high powered radar set up" there and "it is believed that the radar interferes with the controlling mechanism of the saucers". Well, I believe if this was the case, I'm sure the aliens would've quoted Neo from the Matrix Reloaded and said "Hmm, upgrades" and upgraded the tech on their ships.

The memo pretty much covers what most people thought about the Roswell incident, that flying saucers crashed and there were alien autopsies. Whether this document is real is another thing - but whatever it is, we'd never find the truth out anyway. Short of a ship landing in a public place and everyone running out with camera phones and Facebook status updates, we're pretty much left in the dark by our "more than capable and truth-telling" world governments.

Lake Vostok, Antartica: Russian scientists have been radio silent for 5 days

First off, some back story. This will end up as a mini-editorial, but some of you will find this very interesting. Lake Vostok is a large (10,000km2), presumably fresh water body located under some 4km of ice in East Antarctica. The lake is not some little pool of water, its a gigantic, 250km long and 50km wide.


Because the lake is under kilometres of frozen ice, it has been untouched by todays technology and hence, the hands of man. The contents of this secret under-the-ice lake, have not seen the light of day for more than 20 million years. Because of this long period of pure isolation, it is believed that the water inside Lake Vostok could contain new, never-before-seen lifeforms, and unique geochemical processes.

For the past five-plus years, Russia and the United States have been seeking to probe Vostok in order to discover its underlying secrets from this pure, pristine body of water. The problem associated with such an untouched body of water is that as soon as it is discovered, tested and exposed, we would have contaminated it in multiple ways. Because of its long period of isolation, it cannot be explored without the introduction of the outside world, i.e. us.

Contact Lost With Lake Vostok scientists

Lake Vostok scientists lost contact
www.AntarcticGuide.com

Russian scientists seeking Lake Vostok lost in frozen ‘Land of the Lost’?

A group of Russian scientists plumbing the frozen Antarctic in search of a lake buried in ice for tens of millions of years have failed to respond to increasingly anxious U.S. colleagues — and as the days creep by, the fate of the team remains unknown.“No word from the ice for 5 days,” Dr. John Priscu professor of Ecology at Montana State University, told FoxNews.com via email.

The team from Russia’s Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) have been drilling for weeks in an effort to reach isolated Lake Vostok, a vast, dark body of water hidden 13,000 ft. below the ice sheet’s surface. The lake hasn’t been exposed to air in more than 20 million years.

Priscu said there was no way to get in touch with the team — and the already cold weather is set to plunge, as Antarctica’s summer season ends and winter sets in.“Temps are dropping below -40 Celsius [-40 degrees Fahrenheit] and they have only a week or so left before they have to winterize the station,” he said. “I can only imagine what things must be like at Vostok Station this week.”

The team’s disappearance could not come at a worse time: They are about 40 feet from their goal of reaching the body of water, Priscu explained, a goal that the team was unable to meet as they raced the coming winter exactly one year ago.When the winter arrives in the next few weeks, the temperature can get twice as freezing. Vostok Station boasts the lowest recorded temperature on Earth: -89.4 degrees Celsius (-129 degrees Fahrenheit).

If the team does reach the lake water, they will bring its water up through the hole and let it freeze there over the winter. The following year they will be able to start research on what they find, Priscu explained.While there are only a few researchers actually working at the lake, scientists around the globe have been waiting with baited breath to see what the Russian’s unearth this weekend.“We are terribly interested in what they find,” Alan Rodger, a scientist at the British Antarctic Survey, told FoxNews.com last year. “This is a lake that we don’t think has been exposed for 15 million years. Therefore, if there is life there, we’re going to have so many questions. How has it evolved over those years, how has it survived, what does it look like? Won’t it be exciting to find something completely new on Planet Earth?”

The Lake Vostok project has been years in the making, with initial drilling at the massive lake — 15,690 square kilometers (6,060 sq mi) — starting in 1998. Initially, they were able to reach 3,600 meters, but had to stop due to concerns of possible contamination of the never-before-touched lake water.“Ice isn’t like rock, it’s capable of movement,” Dr. Priscu told FoxNews.com. “So in order to keep the hole from squeezing shut, they put a fluid in the drill called kerosene. Kerosene also grows bacteria, and there’s about 65 tons of kerosene in that hole. It would be a disaster if that kerosene contaminated this pristine lake.”But the scientists came up with a clever way to make sure this debacle would not occur. They agreed to drill until a sensor warned them of free water. At that point they will take out the right amount of kerosene and adjust the pressure so that none of the liquids fall into the lake, but rather lake water would rise through the hole.Priscu was concerned for his colleagues, but also admits the stunning scope of the story. “It could be fodder for a great made-for-TV movie,” he said.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/02/02/russian-scientists-lost-in-frozen-land-lost/

Fears held for Russian scientists exploring "alien" Antarctic lake, Vostok

A less ancient Antarctic lake forms from melting snow near Cape Folger on the Budd Coast in the Australian Antarctic Territory on January 11, 2008. (TORSTEN BLACKWOOD/AFP/Getty Images)

Russian scientists preparing to explore the "most alien lake on Earth," Lake Vostok, have reportedly not been in touch with American colleagues in over five days.
Vostok, buried over two miles — or 13,000 feet — beneath the great Antarctic ice sheet, is one of the world's largest lakes. However, it hasn't been exposed to air in more than 20 million years, Fox News reported.
The team from Russia's Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) have been drilling for weeks to reach the isolated, subglacial water, part of a network of more than 200 subglacial lakes in Antarctica, according to the Washington Post.
Some of the lakes existed in warmer times, when the continent was connected to Australia.
According to the website io9.com:
Vostok is thought to harbor conditions similar to those of Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus, and the discovery of life in the lake's inky depths would significantly strengthen the prospect of discovering life on either of these icy bodies.
However, the lake is "characterized by extremes, as geothermal heat from the Earth's interior warms the lake's bottom keeping it in a liquid state.
Thousands of yards of crushing ice also insulate Vostok from the coldest surface temperatures on Earth, "while infusing it with oxygen at concentrations fifty times higher than is typical of freshwater lakes on the planet's surface," the website said.
However, because there is no light, any nutrients can only exist in small quantities.
Still, the scientists were "enormously excited about what life-forms might be found there," the Washington Post reported.
Their main concern was contaminating the lake with drilling fluids and bacteria, "and the potentially explosive 'de-gassing' of a body of water that has especially high concentrations of oxygen and nitrogen."
Meanwhile, Dr. John Priscu, professor of Ecology at Montana State University, told FoxNews.com via email that he had no way to contact the team and the already cold weather was set to plunge, as Antarctica's summer season was ending.
"Temps are dropping below [minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit] and they have only a week or so left before they have to winterize the station," he told Fox. "I can only imagine what things must be like at Vostok Station this week."

CURRENT WEATHER AT VOLSTOK:
http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/89606.html

The ‘Strange Sounds’ YouTube Meme

Footage recording bizarre mystery sounds of seemingly immense proportions emanating from the heavens (like the ones above) are being posted from multiple points of the globe but mainly in the Northern Hemisphere:


Speculation is rife as to their cause and nature and the story has been quickly spotted by the usual suspects:

• i09 asks what are these bizarre sounds coming from the sky in countries from Hungary to Canada?
• via h/t from paranormal newsfeed Truth Behind the Scenes
• Ghost Theory have been following this since last August, and was one of the first to notice that many occurred on the same day: 1 January 2012

A dedicated blog (strangesoundsinthesky.com) of some months standing has even sprung up to cater for the phenomenon.
More Fortean sceptical write-ups include:

• Doubtful News, takes the long historical view, referencing the great unsung Fortean researcher William R. Corliss’ Earthquakes, Tides, Unidentified Sounds and Other Related Phenomena, and mass copycat behaviour
• Reddit provides a technical analysis of the videos and gives us cause for suspicion

So what is it? The evolution of The Hum? The Last Trump? HAARP? Solar flares?
Or have we all been punked by J.J. Abram’s keen sense of mass hysteria and his latest world-wide PR campaign for Cloverfield 2?

Occult Profiles: When Col. Olcott Met Madame Blavatsky

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott in 1888

Theosophical Society President-Founder Col. Henry Steel Olcott wrote about his first encounter with the woman who would be the society's Co-Founder/Corresponding Secretary, Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, in Old Diary Leaves (1895) and his case study of paranormal phenomena People From The Other World (1875). The latter chronicled the various phenomena associated with the mediumship of brothers William and Horatio Eddy at their homestead in Chittenden, Vermont. The book included reports that had originally appeared in The Daily Graphic newspaper. Sketches by Alfred Kappes and T. W. Williams offer precise depictions of incidents at the homestead.

William H. Eddy (left) and Horatio G. Eddy

The phenomena included materializations of people who'd made the transition to the afterlife, direct voice (disembodied) communication, and spirit-writing.

Oregon’s Bigfoot Trap

Oregon is home to what is believed to the be the first and only Bigfoot trap in existence. Built in 1974 with a Forest Service special use permit , it was constantly baited with carcasses but it only ever caught bears before being closed down in 1980.

Sadly, they only caught bears and no Bigfoot was ever found in the trap. In 1980 the Forest Service permanently bolted open the welded steel door due to safety hazards. Since then, the Forest Service has made some repairs to it now that it’s become a popular hiking destination.

The West Pittston Haunting, a horror story come to life

Times-Tribune Archives Jack Smurl sits in the living room of his West Pittston home as he talks to a Scranton Times reporter in 1986 about paranormal activity taking place in his home.

It was like a horror movie come to life: a century-old West Pittston house besieged by spirits that attacked, bit and slapped them, dragged them from their beds, and sent their 75-pound German shepherd careening against a wall.
"We are a haunted family," a teary Janet Smurl told a Scranton Times reporter in late August 1986. By that time, the family said, the attacks had been going on for 18 months. "There are two earthbound and one demonic spirit here," Mrs. Smurl reported. "One is a woman named Abigail, a friendly spirit who talks to me. One is a man named Patrick, who is angry."
The third spirit, she said, was a demon.
According to the Smurls, a psychic told them that Patrick murdered his wife and her lover in 1889 or 1898. "He was supposed to have been hanged nearby and buried here," Mrs. Smurl said. "Now he is afraid to go into the spirit world because he will be punished."
Neighbors claimed to have heard screams from inside the house and scratching on screens when no one was at home. Some said that two women who once lived in the house were suspected of devil worship.

Space Sex

"I mean, what else are they gonna do?" I asked in this morning's news meeting.

"They could just... watch TV," quipped Discovery News Tech Producer Tracy Staedter.

Rarely does a single topic invoke such interest, humor and popularity than sex. If you throw space exploration into the mix, you get the "alien" (and genuinely weird) subject of space sex.

What's more, although sex is one of the most basic of human functions, space sex is one of the greatest unknowns in the history of manned spaceflight -- apart from a few hushed rumors, sex in space has never been attempted. However, as we are about to discover, future human sexuality in space -- particularly in interstellar space -- may not be very familiar... or even desirable (for procreation purposes, at least).

SLIDE SHOW: Why is space sex the #1 most scary space horror story?

So, there I was on the phone, with my Discovery News colleagues, discussing an article that appeared in the Daily Mail in the wake of last week's 100 Year Starship Study (100YSS) symposium in Orlando, Fla. Of course sex wasn't the main thrust of the symposium, it was the awesome task facing mankind should we decide to become an interstellar race, sex in zero-G just made a fantastic news hook.

But should we truly become a star-hopping civilization, how would we fill the time between the stars? Well there's Tracy's suggestion, but in the interest of continuing the human race beyond Earth's atmosphere (and gravity), some interesting questions of sex (and, presumably, Karma Sutra poses) will arise.

ANALYSIS: Apollo 12 Playboy Stowaway to be Auctioned

Let's face it, interstellar space travel isn't for wimps, so the first interstellar spaceship will most likely be unmanned. Unless you're an anatomically-correct robot, then I'm thinking space sex won't feature very highly on the interstellar to-do list.

For example, Project Icarus -- headed by regular Discovery News contributor Richard Obousy -- is one such study into sending mankind's influence to a nearby star. Using fusion propulsion, the Icarus starship will need to traverse the light-years to arrive at (or fly by) another star within the time frame of a human lifetime. Let's say 50 years.

The Icarus Interstellar team were present at the symposium, along with a thousand others, to discuss the idea that one day we might reach another star. As mentioned by Discovery News space correspondent Irene Klotz (who was also present at the symposium), the challenges are formidable.

After all, if the Voyager 1 probe -- the fastest-moving man-made object in space -- was aimed at Proxima Centauri (the nearest stellar neighbor), it would take in the ballpark of 100,000 years to get there. Ouch. If you think we humans are naturally quarantined from the rest of the galaxy, you wouldn't be far wrong.

WIDE ANGLE: Project Icarus -- Reaching for Interstellar Space

In terms of cosmic timescales of millions or billions of years, 100,000 years is tiny. But for human experience, this is a horrid situation. Thousands of civilizations have come and gone in that time frame; waiting 100,000 years to reach another star is just plain silly.

No. We need another way. We need new ideas for spacecraft propulsion. We need new concepts for spaceship design. Hell, we need the USS Enterprise! (And I'm not joking.)

Hence why DARPA, with the help of NASA, set up the whole 100 Year Starship Study in the first place. Be sure to keep up with the mind-boggling Icarus Project, a team of scientists and engineers all providing original content to Discovery News, describing every aspect of a 50 year mission to another star. Space may be big, but it doesn't mean we can't think big. Icarus is one of the hopeful contenders for the 100YSS $500,000 prize to further develop their concept.

SLIDE SHOW: Sizing Up the Daedalus Interstellar Spacecraft

But sex wasn't far away from the symposium's agenda, especially when considering that eventually human beings may want to make the trip beyond the solar system -- for what reason, apart from pure exploration-sake, is far from certain at this stage.

"Sex is very difficult in zero gravity, because you have no traction and you keep bumping against the walls," said biologist Athena Andreadis of the University of Massachusetts, who gave a 100YSS talk called "Making Aliens."

Also, giving birth is no picnic either.

"Giving birth in zero gravity is going to be hell because gravity helps you," she said. "You rely on the weight of the baby."

SEE ALSO: What Would an Interstellar Mission Look Like?

But this discussion is moot considering the kind of human-rated vehicle we'd have to build to make the trip. Assuming warp-driven spacecraft won't be a reality for the immediate future, our future interstellar travelers will spend their lives in an interstellar craft. In fact, it's conceivable that generations of people will live out their lives forever gliding through the interstellar void.

These starships wouldn't just be incredible technological feats, they'd also be the grandest social experiment ever attempted!

So these long-duration vehicles will have to address the gravity issue (perhaps with artificial gravity-creating centrifuges) and they will need to be self-sustaining. In short, barring any serious overhauls of the human physiology through technological or genetic means, the starship will need to provide everything we need for an interstellar civilization to thrive. The sex thing will probably come as natural to interstellar humans as it does to their terrestrial counterparts.

But what will we do once we arrive at our first interstellar destination? Will we colonize the first "habitable" planet we come across? What if we need to adapt our destination to make it suitable for human habitation?

Project Icarus: Which Exoplanet to Visit?

"Not only are we bad at terraforming, but we don't have the life span or the attention span to carry it through," said Andreadis. "Terraforming is a failure of the imagination. It's like people who take those expensive trips to Paris and eat at McDonald's."

Alternatively, rather than changing alien environments to suit us, perhaps we can change ourselves to adapt to alien environments.

"We will have to grow up and do self-directed evolution, realizing that what comes out of the other end may not be human," she added. "If we stake our future among the stars, we must change for the journey and the destination."

So, although sex in space will always be a headline-grabber and an excuse to post pictures of Jane Fonda in various famous Barbarella poses (top, sorry, couldn't resist), the bigger picture is whether or not we'd even need a basic human impetus like sex to maintain a human presence throughout the cosmos.

This is especially true if, as Andreadis points out, our interstellar descendants aren't even human.

Shipwreck Hunters Find Second 'UFO' on Ocean Floor, Divers to Visit Soon

What is that moving behind them in camera 2

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) ~FULL MOVIE~