Back in 1983, The band STYX had a big hit with their song Mr. Roboto..

The tune was part of the rock opera “Kilroy Was Here”.

Mr. Roboto tells the story of a rock and roll performer who escapes from a futuristic prison by overtaking a roboto prison guard and hiding inside the emptied-out metal shell…

Now—it looks like Mr. Roboto may come alive as the result of some pretty cool scientific research into exoskeletons …

Once a term that referred only to the outer skeletons that protected bugs and similar creatures, science has been working on finding ways to use powered exoskeletons to help we humans do stuff…

AN ARMY OF ONE….

This unit here has been under development for the U.S. Army for more than 6 years—and has cost millions of research dollars to date..

GARAGE BAND…

Lots of the stuff we use today began it’s life in someone’s garage workshop—and so it is with this Roboto…

Canadian inventor Troy Hurtubise has spent two years, and about $150,000 to create his exoskeleton suit he calls Trojan.

Useful for military, police and other applications—this invention shows you don’t have to have a big budget, or a fancy research lab to execute a great idea..

IT’S A HAL OF AN IDEA….

A Japanese researcher is also working on a type of exoskeleton.

He calls it HAL, which stands for Hybrid Assisted Limbs….

Among the uses for this device will be to help those who’ve lost limbs restore normal functions…

These are just a few of the research projects underway into exoskeletons that will no doubt help the man of the future dress for success…

—Steve

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Our post yesterday on the Vatican’s astronomer who says its OK to believe in Space Aliens brought us double the normal readership for this little blog.

It also brought us one somewhat cryptic comment.

After following the writer’s advice, I’m taking the unusual step of doing a follow-up to yesterday’s post that may end up having me veer off into space…

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Hammers4567 wrote to say:

This is not the first time the Catholic Church has opened the door to extraterrestrial contact. You need to research Monsignor Corrado Balducci. There’s plenty of stuff about him out there. Even more, if you speak Italian.

It didn’t take but one Google search using the Monsignor’s name to indeed come up with reams of articles, and video of him.

It seems that Monsignor Balducci is a regular fixture on Italian TV where he spouts his E.T. views…

The now retired priest has occupied some very high and important positions in the Vatican—and as you can read here, says extraterrestrial contact is very real.

As Hammers4567, suggested, there is a LOT of material about his pronouncements out there—including a number of video clips—but most of them are in Italian.

However—I did run across one clip—which is a trailer for a DVD about space alien contact.

I’ve included it here because it leads off with a portion of a translated interview with the Monsignor.

Considering how conservative the Catholic Church hierarchy—and the Pope are about things—you’ve got to wonder why they’ve allowed the Monsignor to go on making his claims for what appears to be years…

If he wasn’t telling the truth—or was saying something contrary to what Catholic Hierarchy believed—-there’s no doubt they would have muzzled Monsignor Balducci a long time ago….

So what’s up with this?

Well, as they used to say in the X-Files—the truth is out there.

The question now is, what ELSE is out there?

—Steve

Link to the video and story Steve covered today on NBC-17

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For years, UFO conspiracy theorists have claimed the government was withholding information about UFO’s and aliens because the news of it would destroy society—and wreck organized religion….

But today—one of the world’s biggest organized religions is saying, it’s OK to believe in aliens—because they are just more of God’s creatures.

That revelation and more comes from none other than the Vatican’s official astronomer—Father José Gabriel Funes… He was quoted in a lengthy article titled “The Alien Is My Brother ” which was published in the Vatican Daily…

He says flatly that believing in extraterrestrial life is NOT contrary to Catholic doctrine—and, in fact—can bring people closer God.

You can read an extrapolation of the article here— including an analogy that the aliens are just a larger part of God’s flock.

This is a startling revelation.

We can presume that Father Funes isn’t just speaking off the cuff…And since the article was printed in the Vatican’s house organ—it had the tactic approval of the Pope.

For years UFO pictures and videos like these have surfaced—complete with official denials and claims that everything connected with UFO’s is fake, fake, fake.

Now, all off a sudden—we’re being told to accept the fact that extraterrestrials not only are out there—but that they are our “brothers and sisters.”

Some might say we’re being prepared to be told there’s been contact between humans and species more advanced than us—and that those species have been poking around this planet for some time.

Others might try and downplay the article—claiming it’s just a feature piece speculating about life in space.

But you have to remember something about the Vatican.

NOTHING there happens in a vacuum.

Every pronouncement from there is measured, considered, and weighed before it’s disseminated to the general public.

We may have just witnessed a seminal event in mankind’s existence.

It’s subtle—but it’s out there—out there just like the aliens we are now being prodded to believe in.

—Steve

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