I've got a Secret

Pidd · **Posted:** Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:29 am

Considering some of the recent moves by the Arias Administration ( casino law, Security Minister, etc) This should be real....interesting.!

Peace
PIDD

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Arias has a secret he will reveal only at the United Nations
By JosÃ© Pablo RamÃrez Vindas
of the A.M. Costa Rica staff

Ã“scar Arias SÃ¡nchez has a secret that he says is of great importance to the whole world. The bad news is that the Costa Rican president made this statement after meeting with a former U.S. astronaut who is a specialist in near earth objects.

The astronaut is Russell Schweickart, who was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 9 in 1969. He has been involved in tracking asteroids and other hunks of rock that might someday decide to visit earth in a spectacular fashion.

Arias met with Schweickart at the Pavas presidential residence Monday, and later told reporters that he would keep his secret until Costa Rica assumed the presidency of the U.N. Security Council. Each country holds the presidency for a month, and Costa Rica, a non-permanent member, will do so in November, according to the United Nations.

Arias said his secret related to research being conducted by Schweickart, now 72. Part of the former astronaut's research has been in comparing meteor crashes into the moon and extrapolating them to provide a guide to determine how many times earth has been hit by space objects. He also has proposed to send what he calls "space tug-boats" aloft to push threatening objects off a course that might intersect earth.

Another former astronaut, Franklin Chang Diaz, the Costa Rica-American space pioneer, accompanied Schweickart. Chang is well known in Costa Rica and is involved with developing a plasma rocket at facilities in Liberia. Schweickart was here for a conference on near earth objects.