The Rings of Saturn Predictions Verified

Introduction

Remote viewers may often have to wait many years before receiving feedback on their sessions. This one has taken 11 years!   In my 1998 book Remote Perceptions, I documented a remote-viewing project, performed in 1994, for Intuition Services of California.  The project focused on the rings of Saturn and anomalies within the rings.  It was front-loaded, used Extended Remote Viewing (ERV), sought unknown information, and had only one viewer--myself.  The project fit the requirements for a valid prediction in that it was carried out prior to the information becoming known, there was a verified chain of custody of the data, and documentation of the data prior to the event.  

Recently, the magazine Science News (Nov. 19, 2005, Vol. 168, pp. 328-29) published an article entitled “Groovy Science: Cassini gets the skinny on Saturn's rings” that provided feedback for the Rings of Saturn project.  Also, a recent internet search located information about the Cassini venture: "On July 1, 2004, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft performed the SOI (Saturn Orbit Insertion) maneuver and entry into orbit around Saturn. . . .  The primary mission ends in 2008, when the spacecraft has completed 74 orbits around the planet."  (www.crystalinks.com/saturn.html)  Ron Cowen, a Science News writer, recently wrote, "Now, the Cassini spacecraft, which entered orbit around Saturn last year, has completed the most thorough examination ever of the rings. . . .  Until last May, the craft has spent most of its time orbiting Saturn's equator. That orientation is great for close-up studies of the planet's moons, but provided only an obscured, edge view of the intricate ring system. Then, Cassini got a ringside seat. Just as scientists had planned, the craft rose out of the equatorial plane and for the next 5 months viewed the rings from above and below the planet's equator. From those perches, it has studied the full breadth of the rings in unprecedented detail. With the flood of new data, astronomers may be on the verge of answering some centuries-old questions about the rings."  Cassini scientist Joshua Colwell of the University of Colorado has said that, "It's amazing to me that something as prominent in the solar system as the rings, still has so many fundamental unanswered questions."  Following are excerpts from Remote Perceptions concerning the Rings of Saturn prediction, with the related verifications from Cowen's article. References to any other organization and currently non-verified predictions have been omitted.

“In the early 1990s, . . . at least two separate groups were formed: . . . Intuition Services was formed in California. I was commissioned by Intuition Services to undertake a remote viewing of the rings of Saturn. . . . After two unsuccessful attempts to approach Saturn through the rings, I approached the planet from a vantage point a few thousand miles above its ‘north pole,’ and viewed the rings as a flat circular area. From this vantage point I was able to view the various elements of Saturn, its rings and planets.” 

Feedback: The Cassini craft also took up this orientation to view the rings.
Intuition Services provided a set of questions for guidelines, as follows:

1. Are there natural phenomena that would account for bright luminous light sources in the rings, or in the vicinity of Saturn?

ERV Data:  There are some very bright "hot rocks" circulating in the outer rings that have been attracted by the intense gravitational pull of Saturn. These rocks are both thermally and atomically "hot." They circulate in the outer rings for varying periods of time while their constituent elements are broken down and distributed according to their degree of breakdown, between the rings.

Feedback:  “Cassini has identified a new moon in the outer rings of Saturn, provisionally named S/2005 S1; the tiny, newfound moon has a diameter of about 7 km and reflects about half the sunlight that falls on it, similar to the brightness of the neighboring ring particles. . . . Some of Saturn's moons are particularly effective in sculpting the rings because they have a special relationship, called a resonance with the ring's particles.” “ 'The whole (F ring) region is probably just a chaotic bumper car zone of moonlets that are getting scattered,' suggests Jeff Cuzzi of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California."

2. Are there rings that are incomplete? If so, how did the missing ring segment disappear?

ERV Data:  The main factor that describes Saturn is "cyclic." Due to its intense electromagnetic pull, space debris is constantly, but erratically, attracted to the planet. This debris initially rotates in the outer rings and undergoes a process of degradation, then the various elements are distributed among the rings according to the degree of molecular "weight."  Much like a gas spectrometer, which distributes elements in a banded strip, except, in the case of Saturn, the strip becomes circular.  Because of the random and irregular nature of the space debris that is pulled into the gravitational field, the rings fluctuate in their completeness and cycle from open to closed along both their length and width--the rings are not uniform in their density. This cyclic nature of the rings is dictated solely by the nature and amount of debris that enters the gravitational field.

Feedback:  Carl D. Murray and his collaborators at Queen Mary University in London have performed simulations that suggest that "Saturn's moon Prometheus approaches and recedes from the F ring every 14.7 hours, " confirming the cyclic nature. The team's simulations indicate that "each time that the moon begins receding, it pulls out strands of particles from the narrow, twisted ring. One orbit later, . . . Saturn's tug distends the region from which the strands were stolen, creating the channels seen in the Cassini images."

3. Describe the nature and origin of the planet Saturn.  How will the planet evolve and eventually die?

ERV Data:  Saturn evolved from a collection of electrically charged rocks that became attracted to each other and formed a nucleus. Gradually, as the mass became more magnetically powerful, it attracted an increasingly greater number of similar elements. These initial, charged rocks may have come from an earlier Saturn-like planet that became too "overcharged" and disintegrated. This may possibly be the future fate of the planet we now know as Saturn. We tend to think of Saturn as static, but it has a decidedly cyclic and dynamic nature.

Feedback. "There's an enormous time variability in the rings," says [Jeff] Cuzzi. 'New clumps of material have appeared in rings since July 2004, when Cassini began orbiting the system.  'Rubble-pile moonlets'--small, loosely bound collections of icy particles--appear to be continually assembling and breaking apart in the rings,' adds Colorado's Colwell."

"Astonomers have proposed that the rings formed when an icy Saturnian moon got smashed to bits by a meteoroid or when a comet or moon that came too close to its parent planet was torn apart by gravitational stresses."

10. Are the gaps in the rings natural or created by extraterrestrial intelligence?

ERV Data:  No. The gaps in the rings are the effect of the cyclic nature of the rings themselves and the debris that they attract. . . .  Gaps will continue to occur and close in the rings at cyclic periods.

*This original material is found in Remote Perceptions, Angela T. Smith, Hampton Roads Publishing 1998, pp.64-69