Who Will Launch a Famine-Producing Disease From a Satellite in Space?
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- Four centuries ago Nostradamus prophesied that someone will launch a biological attack from an orbiting object that will destroy most the crops among the Northern Hemsphere nations
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Over the past few years there have been a number of treaties signed among the superpowers regarding the banning of sophisticated weapons from space. Yet fascinating is the fact that the use of such weapons to attack earthly nations from the heavens above was the subject of a prophecy over four centuries old. In 1558, the French seer Nostradamus wrote these far-seeing words:
Si grande famine par onde pestifère,
Par pluie longue le long du pôle arctique:
Samarobryn cent lieues de l’hémisphère,
Vivront sans loi exempt de politique.
A great famine created by a disease-producing wave,
Carried by a lengthy rain from the Arctic Pole,
Samarobryn one hundred leagues from the hemisphere,
By those living without any laws and outside all politics (terrorists).
Century VI, Quatrain 5
The key line here is line 3, “Samarobryn one hundred leagues from the hemisphere.” Analyzing one element it contains at a time, we can find what the subject matter of the whole verse is about:
1. “One hundred leagues”—In sixteenth century Europe, the measurement of a league varied considerably, from 2.5 to as much as 4.5 miles. In another of his poems, however, Nostradamus makes mentiion of a convent named Sant-Paul-de-Mausole, situated outside the seer’s birth place of Sant-Remy in southern France. He described the convent as being “three leagues from the Rhone.” By modern measurement, the convent is a fraction over eight miles from the banks of the Rhone river, making Nostradamus’ three leagues abot 2.7 miles each. “One hundred leagues,” then, would be equivalent to 270 miles.
2. “From the hemisphere”—This is a most interesting phrase, because in order to be 270 miles from all points of the “hemisphere” of the Earth, one would have to be orbiting at that distance out in space. In modern astronautically terms in fact, the prophet’s use of the word “hemisphere” is the most correct, since someone or something a certain distance from merely the “Earth” on one side would be that much farther away from the other side of the planet at any given moment.
3. “Samarobryn”—This word is composed of two word segments” “samara,” or a seed pod, and a form of the Latin verb “obire.” The latter of these means, “to wander, to travel to encircle,” and as an intransitive verb is used specifically to describe a celestial body, “something which has the appearance of a heavenly object setting in the sky.” As to a description of the object itself, the first word segemtn, “samara” may be a clue. More accurately speaking, a samara is the seed of an ash, elm or maple tree, and is comprised of a central pod with one or two projecting leafy wings.
Putting all the elements together, we find that the prophet was attempting to picture an object spherical in shape, having wing projections (solar panels?), and circling the world at an altitude of 270 miles. In modern terms, this would be a satellite or orbiting space craft. It is noteworthy that 270 miles is considered an ideal orbital altitude—it was, in fact, the orbit of ill-fated Skylab.
But in Nostradamus’ prophecy, this orbiting space vehicle is the source of a disaster described in the first two lines. It will inject a “disease-producing wave” into the Arctic region, that will be carried by “lengthy rain,” and produce a great famine.
Now the Arctic is a barometric pressure region where storms originate and move southward. If someone were to seed the Arctic atmosphere with deadly bacteria that uses water vapor as a carrier, the storm clouds would spread the germs and disperse them over Canada, the United States, Russia and Europe.
The seer describes the pestiferous attack to create a “famine,” suggesting the bacteria will be directed toward destroying the agricultural crops of these nations, precipitating severe food shortages. The main object will be to weaken the Western powers, to precipitate a general economic collapse.
Clearly, the nation who would release such a weapon as a supreme act of terrorism would have to be one whose own crops would not be affected by the Arctic weather patterns. Today, those modern powers who have the ability or near capability of launching a big enough booster rocket carrying a circum-polar orbiting satellite or developing a manned space craft in the next ten to fifteen years are China, India, North Korea and Iran. Significantly, all these countries’ weather patterns are dependent on the seasonal monsoon currents of the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and are not affected by Arctic climatic movements.
In the last line of the verse, Nostradamus alludes to international “laws”—the rules of the Geneva Convention which forbid the use of germ warfare—and predicts that the offending party will act in terrorism with complete disregard of any agreements on the ban of space weaponry. It should be remembered also that we have the means today of detecting the presence of nuclear weapons in outer space—but we have no real method of detecting bacteriological weapons that may be illegally orbiting over our heads.
[Copyright 2009. Joseph Robert Jochmans. All Rights Reserved.]
