Our use of Public Domain

In response to Damon Caufield's misinformed accusations about our use of pictures on this site, every image we have posted is in the public domain.  Copyrights on historical documents are owned by the public interest.  If anyone disputes our right to use them, they are free to send us a cease and desist like the one we have issued to Mr. Caufield for his use of our logo.

 

Unlike the pictures we've posted, our logo is an original piece of artwork created in the recent past, exclusively used for trademarking purposes.  His use of that trademark is illegal and without consent.

 

While I respect that some readers find Mr. Caufield's blog informative and engaging, I ask that you stop sending me e-mails restating his arguments.  If you're reading this page, it's because you find value in our research and findings - both of which take time.  Please allow us to continue that work by not flooding us with feedback on someone else's weblog.

 

Thank you, one and all.

Our Connection to Damon Caufield

Dear Reader,

My New Year's resolution was to avoid all the internet drama of last year and keep our communications focused on our mission statement.  Part of that mission is to promote a safe and open consideration of the evidence of Sam Bailey's unusually long life, and what it might mean for humanity.  In the interest of maintaining that safety, I need to say a few words about the Church of Sam.

First, Damon Caufield's endorsement of our research is as valid and appreciated as that of any reader.  His own website and readership is his business, and we have absolutely no connection to either.

Secondly, the pseudo-religious clap-trap bandied about in weblogs at the Church of Sam does not constitute, in our eyes, a valid academic consideration of the facts.  By connecting dogmatic New Age cliche with extant and empirical evidence that a man may have lived beyond his natural years, we believe Damon Caufield is positioning himself as an expert without actually possessing any information.  Moreover, it is our judgment that by utilizing the graphic design of our own site, Damon Caufield hopes to associate himself with any academic or intellectual legitimacy our own staff has earned through the monumental efforts of the last year. 

Of course, we believe these actions constitute a trademark violation.  To keep Caufield and the Church of Sam from undermining what precious little academic recognition our work has received, we are currently seeking an attorney willing to represent us pro-bono.  In the meantime, we have issued a cease and desist letter to the administrator of Church of Sam.

When I say it insults our intelligence to watch these posts, I speak unanimously for the staff at Who is Sam Bailey.


Sincerely,
Tennyson E. Stead

On the Science of Immortality

This was submitted today by a scientist and engineer wishing to remain anonymous:

 

To Whom It May Concern:

I recently came upon information relating to this matter that I thought might be relevant to relate to you.

It is feasible that someone could have been born with a genetic mutation that provided their telomeres do not shorten as the cells divide. This person's cells would be immortal, so they could keep the person looking young. Cancer cells are like this. This is not even that improbable of a mutation since it happens in almost every cancer.

 

However, the "not-quite-lucky" person probably would not live past infancy as it is this shortening of telomeres that keeps most aggressive cancers from forming. Cancerous cells with the mutation would need to restrict the number of times they can divide and renew dye to avoid formation of benign tumors. Most people have vast numbers of these, but even those that last are so small or hidden that people don't even know they occurred.

 

Someone would need to have some other adaptation to control cancer in additional to non-shortening telomeres to live past 600. A possible pathway would be to frequently remove cancers with some drug that was highly effective at cancers (an ambrosia). Another pathway would be if the body also developed a mutation that allowed the immune system to better identify early cancers quickly. Our immune systems can be taught to attack many types of cancer cells (proven), but the body is generally not very good at this since cancer cells are so similar to normal cells. 

 

A controlled supply of stem cells would be needed, with a capability of these not becoming cancers and properly supplementing critical tissues and neurons.

 

If someone had such an efficient immune system, they would probably also have many allergies, etc... They might also have quite a few warts and bumps from cancers that had begun and then were terminated. The immune system would help them fend off some diseases, but they would have to have also been quite lucky to avoid some bad infection or fatal disease during the past 600 years of human history. The average human life span was under 35 years until this century.

 

Their cardiovascular system would need to keep itself clean. There are people with minimal risk of plaque build up. It is both genetic and diet related.  In additional to avoiding heart attacks, such a person would also need to avoid clotting or brain blood flow impairments over such a long time.

 

Another issue for someone at age 600 would be that many joints would probably have worn out. This could be repaired now, but not even 30 years ago. Spine compression occurs over time, so unless there was also a mutation to somehow build better disk spacer that would be immune to this, and to many little bits of cumulative spine damage that might have occurred during such a long life.

 

Any wounds would have left many scars, unless they were quite lucky. The brain might be a bit slower. Since neurons do die, even if replaced by stem cells-turned-neuron, very old memories would fade unless the old information were frequently renewed. Maybe this person keeps good diaries and is good at sketching. 

 

Don't forget that teeth wear down. This limited the life span of woolly mammoth. For humans, North American Indians that ate corn ground on stone with sand or grit lost their teeth and died before 30. Tooth abscesses used to kill many people, including 2 pharaohs. It may be possible for enamel to last that long, but the person would probably have been toothless and only eating mashed food for a few hundred years until dentures became available a hundred years ago. Now he could get implants and look great.

 

The easiest solution would be a genetically engineered person with access to great future world technology.

Sincerely,

Jaeger Soya Wynn

Interview with Fiona Gordon, Part II

This video concludes our interview with reknowned UFOLOgist Fiona Gordon. We hope you enjoy!

Click here for Part I.

Interview with Fiona Gordon, Part I

Finally, we're launching our interview with reknowned UFologist Fiona Gordon. Please forgive the edit - part of why this took so long is that the footage of our interviewer, Aaron Lester, was either lost or damaged - we're still not sure. We'll have this problem addressed in future sessions. In the meantime, please enjoy her insights!

For a link to the YouTube page, please click here. Part two will be posted soon.

Faithfully submitted,

T

Happy New Year!

Faithful Readers,

 

My New Year’s resolution for 2010 is that Who is Sam Bailey will not continue to fall prey to the drama and squabble that besets us, as it does every site on the internet.  Too many times over the last year, I’ve caught myself responding to nonsense here on the site or on our Facebook and Twitter pages.  This year, I pledge to keep the attention of myself and my collaborators focused where it should be – on using the internet to reveal as much as possible about the world we live in, and whether it’s bigger and more wonderous than we’ve been led to believe.

 

This year, I finally published my Mission Statement.  My intent, dear friends, is to follow those directives to the letter, and to their utmost conclusion.  Anyone who stands in my way or the way of my colleagues will be ignored.

 

At this moment, we are in the process of editing a fantastic interview with one of today’s leading ufologists, and as mentioned before, we’re still in the process of setting up an interview with a leading Torah scholar regarding Antidiluvian bloodlines.  This is just the beginning of what you can expect from us in 2010.

 

Thanks for sticking with us, everyone.  We’re on the verge of opening a much bigger, broader discussion into whether or not vastly extended lifespans are possible, and whether Sam Bailey is the living proof.

 

Yours truly,

T

Santa Claus' Secret Identity

Thanks to everyone who wrote in! Predictably, the e-mails weighed very heavily in favor of exploring the connection between Sam Bailey and the holiday season’s most well publicized immortal:

Is Sam Bailey the name Santa uses the other 364 days of the year?

Our Christian image of Santa Claus is indeed inspired by a real historical figure - St. Nicholas of Myrna, in 4th Century Greece. In his day, he was well known for bestowing gifts to the poor, and for saving young women from a life of prostitution by bestowing dowries upon their families. Go St. Nick!

All that stuff about flying through the air and plunging down chimneys is credited to the incorporation of Norse myth into the legend, as a means of seducing pagans into monotheism. Every Yule, Odin would take a hunting party through the skies. Children were encouraged to leave their boots by the fireplace, filled with carrots, wheat, or sugar for his horses. This practice came to the United States through New Amsterdam in the late 17th Century.

According to our research up until now, Sam Bailey was born in the latter 15th century, and post-dates St. Nick by quite a bit. Of course, it's possible that St. Nick went by other names during the off season prior to creating Sam.

More compellingly, our historical record says nothing about giving Sam super-powered flying abilities. In light of the Church's efforts to placate and enroll the Pagan North, the theory that the St. Nick we know and love is nothing more than a PR machine holds a lot of water. Otherwise, would Coke be so quick to use him in all their ads?

Still more interesting is the fact that there is no record of Christmas having disappeared over the hundred-plus years Sam Bailey was locked up in an iron maiden in the Vatican basement. Come on now, Catholics! Is that any way to treat Kris Kringle?

On the other hand, we haven't specifically accounted for Sam's whereabouts on any of the Christmas Eves he's lived through. This weblog has always maintained that all lines of inquiry are valid, and I'll not let you call me Scrooge!