The Viking probes used a very basic tool to send back accurate color information.
"The correct way to do it, and the way it was done 30 years ago with the Viking spacecraft, is to have a COLOR CHART attached to the side of the rover. For Viking it was attached to the side of the housing for the electronics. The camera which is remote controlled, is aimed at the chart. The colors are then adjusted as required so the color chart looks the SAME as it did on earth. That's all there is to it."
Easy and low-tech, and there's only two possible excuses for this solution not being used with the current probes. ..
1. Total incompetence, (which frankly, is entirely possible these days given NASA's slipshod workings.)
2. The convenience of being able to cover up inconvenient images with bullshit excuses.
Mars has an atmosphere thick and windy enough to kick up dust to prevent sunlight from reaching the surface?
Hm. I'm no meteorologist, but I wasn't seeing any evidence of a dusty atmosphere in any of those rover images. --Details at distance seemed as clear as near objects. There's WAY more crap in Earth's much more robust atmosphere, and we get plenty of white light.
A fun read/rant over on Rense from a guy who worked for enough years on NASA contracts to realize that official space science was full of corruption, laziness and annoyance.
--He talks about some of the crap which went unreported during several doomed space missions. A legitimate story or more cointelpro stuff? Who knows. Entertaining reading nonetheless.
I refuse to believe that the same government that went to war w/ Iraq when the entire world was telling us he didn't pose a threat to anyone is somehow magically competent enough to conceal proof of alien intelligence from us.
I would certainly agree, but the problem remains that this only applies to those who bother to stop and think about things. After all, America was fooled and did go to Iraq. The general population tends to see things too late, or not at all. And even if they do see the lies, how do you stop them?
Those voting machines, despite all we know about them, are steadily being placed in time for the next election. Nobody has shouted loud enough yet to have them removed. (Not that the old system worked particularly well, as we have seen. But you take my point.)
"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way." -- President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
I tend to agree, and NASA being an arm of government, I think, fits more than just somewhat.
Going to Mars is not the goal. At the moment, I think the goal is to gently warm up the public to the idea of real alien life. --A microbe fossile here. Evidence of water there. A degree at a time.
The fact that there are permenant alien base-ships in orbit around the sun and planets is not unknown to upper management. Especially now, as things are getting really near the reality-shift combustion point. --Oh, we 'Just discovered' all those dozens of 'new' moons around Jupiter and Saturn. Puh-leaze.
But, even amidst it all, you can't have the economic engine burp even as upper management prepares for a quiet slip into the safe confines of Vault 13, or whatever idiot scheme they mistakenly think will save their sorry skins when the shit hits.
For my part, I hope that I survive the culling so that I can see what form of sci-fi misery is waiting on the other side. Just for the sake of curiosity. (Think, "Variable Matter and the Illusion of Time lifted." Gee, fun. Can't wait. Why did I sign up for this again. . ?)
And of course, it should go without saying that, I for one welcome our. ..
University was once a cool thing, but now it's been turned into an industry.
Students are being seen by educators, text book sellers and financial institutions as a money-making scheme.
I see it, however, as an effective population control method. What a fantastic way to ensure a perpetual supply of white-collar slave labor!
Step 1: Sell the LIE that you can't get a 'good' job without a university education, (which, like any lie, if you tell it often enough turns into a general belief, (*cough*WMDs), which is the next best thing to Truth. --Plus, this lie is driven by bitterness; Previous waves of workers wanting to make sure the youngsters entering the work force have been suitably punished just like those before them. "Hey, I had to pay! Why should they get it easy?" Fuckheadedness and nothing more. You want to work for these assholes? Wrong!)
Step 2: Heap massive debt upon students so that they now have no choice but to work a miserable job for at least another 10 years, thus perpetuating the cycle.
Step 3: Make it illegal for students to declare bankrupcy on student loan debts. We don't have debtor's prison back quite yet; at the moment this insanity is enforced simply by scaring the bejeezus out of kids with the prospect of homelessness and starvation, (which are becoming increasingly popular choices, I hear.)
There is a solution.
Most people don't need to go to University. English degrees? Humanities? Shit! Go to a library and join a discussion group. You don't need to shell out thousands for a worthless degree. University was cool in the old days when two graduates in pith helmets would meet in the middle of the Sahara desert and cry, "I say, a fellow schollar! Where do you hail from?" "Why, Princeton; I'm working on a dig with professer Jones." "Ripping! Is he still teaching then? You ought to come to my tent for a hot snifter!"
If you don't plan to become a doctor or an engineer or wear a pith helmet and fight Nazis, you're INSANE to be racking up idiot debt at university.
Cuz guess what? You can make plenty of money in any number of unconventional ways in the real world. Working in a cubicle is for chumps. (sorry guys. It is. You know it.) And here's the thing; if you start out without debt, then you have the luxury of being able to take your time and build/find something which will work for you. Having no debt when you are young means that you have options.
Get a grunt job when you are young, build up some capitol, and use it guaruntee a loan. Stay living at home for as long as you can. It's cheep. If you move out too soon, without a plan or any savings, then you're instantly in financial limbo; you'll be too burned out working to make rent to be able to build any sort of life other than hand-to-mouth.
Think about this stuff! A little planning will save your life. Just my two cents worth. Think about it. If you're young, don't let your parents pressure you into a life you might regret later.
"Organize your time or somebody will do it for you" --Those who don't figure out what they want from life will be shafted into serfdom. Every time. Period.
I agree that there's a very interesting story unfolding, and that the characters are quite moving and well realized. There is SO much tied to the basic editing of a film. When you remove Medi-Chlorines, and redundant scenes of cringe-worthy acting, etc., the film vastly, vastly improves.
I've been hoping for a time that the AOTC would be similarly treated, but I'm not sure how easy that would be to do. There were I feel, several irrepairable aspects to that film which editing alone could not affect. But I'd still be curious to see what could be done.
In any case, I am certainly looking forward to the next one. I hope Lucas hires a good story and film editor this time, though. We all have our strong and weak suits, and all these young and adoring kids working for Lucas has created an environment which is allowing him to avoid the fact that he is human just like the rest of us. ..
If you want a copy of the Phantom Edit, let me know and I'll send you one. (On the promise, of course, that you create more copies and give them to your friends with the same instructions.)
False-Flag actions are easy to perform, they are incredibly effective, and the people in power are usually morally bankrupt (or outright psychotic) enough to feel no guilt in performing them.
"But they wouldn't DO that! Nobody would attack their own people! They just wouldn't DO that!"
No? They'd very deliberately lie to get us embroiled in an incredibly destructive and expensive war which is designed primarily to suck billions of dollars out of the public purse and feed it directly into the hands of a very few greedy men. The fact that or youth are being savaged both in body and mind means nothing to such people.
Oh, I assure you, they would do that. It's not a new idea by any stretch, and why would it be? Easy, effective, and nobody believes it could ever happen. Heck, it's what I'd do in their place. Easy. Effective. --And common! Every time somebody rips off an insurance company through arson or what-not, it's the same thing. It happens. People do it. If you think that people in government do not do it, you are a fool. Period.
Go and do some research. Look at all the 2003 'terrorist' bombings which took place around the world, notice when each of them happened. You'll notice that at each event, a significant step toward reason was undone. A bomb goes off, and a diplomat attending a key peace talk has a reason to storm out of the room. --Or some variation of that almost every single time. Also notice how the countries attacked were nearly always ones which happen to be sympathetic towards the so-called 'terrorist' nations opposed to US aggression. In other words, ridiculous targets which do not benefit the 'terrorists', but DO benefit the US and Israel.
My point?
The web is just another battle ground, folks.
A significant percentage of this web-damaging activity isn't perpetrated by private hackers or quick-money spammers. It's the covert arm of somebody's government and the aim is to increase the level of fear and uncertainty, to make people more willing to give up freedom. To make the public ready to accept a wave of lunatic arrests of so-called, 'hackers'.
It'll happen unless people are helped to understand the true nature of these kinds of events. If people don't get angry at the wrong parties, then we might just avoid the culling of the intellectuals which always happens during a fascist take-over.
Download music, (which in the flagship case, was in fact paid for and genuinely believe to be legitimately acquired), get intimidated by the RIAA into settling out of court for $3000. Wind up a corporate shill, probably making, oh, say $3000 plus all the poisonous black water one can gag down for the day of the shoot.
And the moral of the story is. ..
"The Fat Man gets the Blue Ball."
(Oop, sorry. That was The Phantom Menace.)
The moral of the story is. . . "Pepsi is cool because they are on 'our' side, so let's drink more of their health-destroying black water. Isn't it great being young, impressionable and easily preyed upon by corporate America?"
Cuz, you know, I'd feel a might intimidated marching up to their doors to tell them to cut it out. I don't think they'd listen.
So how does a population regain control of a fascist government? I'm open to suggestions. --You know, there's a clock ticking here. The German intelligencia spent a lot of ink complaining loudly about the Nazis even as they rose to power. Didn't do much good. In fact, I believe it got a number of people bundled off to prison camps on charges of sedition. Clock's ticking folks. It's not going to get better on its own. This next election is going to be fraudulent.
-FL --(Hm. Funny. I don't recall the neighbors owning a white van. ..)
Err... What does the Pentagon have to with the development of voting systems?
Oh, well, you see, this system is only intended for use with soldiers away from home so that they might participate in delights of democracy, (other than lavishing it upon the freedom-starved denizens of this world, that is).
Since it's for the soldiers, then it only makes sense that, um, the military provide the system. Or something like that. ..
See? It all makes sense! Every baby-step towards outright fascism is always easily rationalized.
Now please return to your trench and stop asking questions.
The slices do indeed seem to be from different sections of brain. My bet is that Popular Science editors had access to many images, but in a bid for added sensationalism decided to pick out slides which would create an emotional impact through the simple physical size and relative robustness of the two samples, rather than focus on the actual issue of protein leakage.
Quite typical, and certainly not terribly useful in that it throws a doubtful light upon the whole study, at least as represented in this 'journal'.
As for leakage across the blood-brain barrier. . . You seem to know what you're talking about. How long does it normally take? I have read numerous studies which strongly suggest that the effect is quite immediate, by way of a mechanism called, 'cyclotronic resonance'.
People hate cell phones because they're like electronic dog collars, because of talking and driving, and because of people gabbing to machines on the subway. The part I hate about them, however, is that people gabbing on the subway, or WIFI in coffee shops and public places, means that people who are smart enough not to be using a cell phone are still getting exposed to harmful radiation. The deletrious effects happen within a two meter radius of a given device.
Of course, there are still a few pockets of people who stubbornly cling to the public relations spew of the telecom giants. --Apparently, (I am told), because big corporations would never lie to us, and highschool science texts were written to inform us rather than program people for endentured slavery.
Star Trek is on the verge of dying forever. The final Star Wars film will be over with in a year and a bit, but who really cares about that at this point? The Phantom Edit was the last Star Wars entry which really counted. (Just watched it again, actually. Man, it's good, but for an extra two cuts I would have made.)
Jeff Smith just finished off Bone, and Dave Sim is about to put to pasture this coming March with issue 300 of Cerebus.
What gives?
I'll tell you. Everybody is winding up their big projects. Those left running now might not make it, or they'll be carrying a very different set of torches indeed! After the 2004 November US 'Election', everything changes forever, and not in a warm-fuzzy way.
Enjoy your final year of free-range living, kids.
Year of the Monkey begins on Jan 21st here in the West! Hurrah and hold on tight! (Or duck and cover, depending on who you are. Should be interesting either way.)
Frickin' selfish, exciting Monkeys. . . They're SO not Starfleet reg.
-FL
Um, what about the Military Shuttle Fleet?
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How is the The Butt-Head President planning to put up all his space guns without space ships?
This is just another piece of moronic nonsense. At this point, it should be quite clear that NOTHING which comes out of Bush's head is valid or reliable. The man is a PSYCHOPATH. This means he lies compuslively. He likes to cause harm and pain. He likes to cause embarrassment. He was put on this earth in order to bankrupt, destroy and cause as much misery as possible.
The normal reaction by normal people to a psychopath is the believe that there must be a reasonable germ of thought behind everything the psychopath says and does, and we spend all our time giving extra slack and resources and trust while we try to find the meaning in his words and actions.
Psychopaths do not feel sympathy or real emotions. They are monsters and there is no testing done to prevent their rising to the tops of big companies, (Enron) or apparently, governments.
Bush is a psychopath. This crap about the moon and such is just that; crap. It means nothing and we are all running around trying to implement something which is based on an insane desire to harm and cause chaos.
Wow. A *twist* in the old formula. (A formula, which for some reason, never seems to become a tired one. I mean, they keep making them, and people keep watching them. This, above all, I find fascinating, and somewhat ominous. The native Americans told myths about the crow and the bear. In the hightech world we tell myths of a different sort. ..)
"Secret agency with high-tech underground base builds and manages hyper-advanced giant robots and fights forces of evil, who also have secret bases. Or Death Stars. Either way, many cities get knocked down and pilots remain hot commodities on the dating circuit."
But THIS time, the giant robots aren't really robots at all. . ! Ooh! It's like, a WHOLE different story now! (Ever since Genetics became the cool new science.)
In the West we have our superheros, (also now genetically altered. Iron Man is so passe.)
And somewhere in the middle of it all, the fans read and watch and dream. ..
This is a truly fascinating, and frankly, world-defining subject which plays directly into the current state of reality at this time. I don't understand people who feel no interest in researching this stuff, and I would strongly recommend to most people that they look at and compare the material available. There's nothing to lose except ignorance and a bit of time. --And there is a great deal of worth to be gained.
The only people who I would tell to avoid such matters are those who have not yet learned how to deal with fear and the pain of having familiar, comforting structures crumble into dust. But in truth or lies. . , eh? Where would one rather live?
The problem with 'swamp-gas' answers is that they often prevent people from further reading when perhaps further research would proove enlightening.
While such 'very reasonable' answers are just that, (very reasonable sounding), they are incomplete enough to prevent their broad application.
For instance. ..
Sleep paralysis does not explain episodes involving abuductees claiming to have been removed from vehicles, or other events where the abductee is not asleep at the time. As well, being paralyzed through the sleep mechanism runs counter to stories involving people who waking up with bed-clothes on backwards or inside-out, with the head at the wrong end of the bed.
Neither are Metalic implants and 'scoop marks' explained through sleep paralysis and media-driven hysteria regarding regarding greys.
Sightings by third parties (who are awake) of UFOs in conjunction with abduction cases add to the list of complexities.
After having explored some of the material regarding this kind of thing, and knowing people who have been involved in multiple-witness UFO events, (one of which involved a bright red baseball-sized sphere of light which made regular visits through my friend's apartment every few weeks), I am inclined to think that there is a great deal more to the subject than can responsibly dismissed by conventional 'swamp-gas' answers.
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The Viking probes used a very basic tool to send back accurate color information.
"The correct way to do it, and the way it was done 30 years ago with the Viking spacecraft, is to have a COLOR CHART attached to the side of the rover. For Viking it was attached to the side of the housing for the electronics. The camera which is remote controlled, is aimed at the chart. The colors are then adjusted as required so the color chart looks the SAME as it did on earth. That's all there is to it."
Easy and low-tech, and there's only two possible excuses for this solution not being used with the current probes. .
1. Total incompetence, (which frankly, is entirely possible these days given NASA's slipshod workings.)
2. The convenience of being able to cover up inconvenient images with bullshit excuses.
-FL
Hm. I'm no meteorologist, but I wasn't seeing any evidence of a dusty atmosphere in any of those rover images. --Details at distance seemed as clear as near objects. There's WAY more crap in Earth's much more robust atmosphere, and we get plenty of white light.
-FL
--He talks about some of the crap which went unreported during several doomed space missions. A legitimate story or more cointelpro stuff? Who knows. Entertaining reading nonetheless.
-FL
Why are things heavier on Earth than on the Moon, for instance?
Gravity is certainly a mis-understood force I think, but not in the ways suggested by the, "It's a Push" theory.
-FL
I would certainly agree, but the problem remains that this only applies to those who bother to stop and think about things. After all, America was fooled and did go to Iraq. The general population tends to see things too late, or not at all. And even if they do see the lies, how do you stop them?
Those voting machines, despite all we know about them, are steadily being placed in time for the next election. Nobody has shouted loud enough yet to have them removed. (Not that the old system worked particularly well, as we have seen. But you take my point.)
-FL
If I may run up the old flag. .
I tend to agree, and NASA being an arm of government, I think, fits more than just somewhat.
Going to Mars is not the goal. At the moment, I think the goal is to gently warm up the public to the idea of real alien life. --A microbe fossile here. Evidence of water there. A degree at a time.
The fact that there are permenant alien base-ships in orbit around the sun and planets is not unknown to upper management. Especially now, as things are getting really near the reality-shift combustion point. --Oh, we 'Just discovered' all those dozens of 'new' moons around Jupiter and Saturn. Puh-leaze.
But, even amidst it all, you can't have the economic engine burp even as upper management prepares for a quiet slip into the safe confines of Vault 13, or whatever idiot scheme they mistakenly think will save their sorry skins when the shit hits.
For my part, I hope that I survive the culling so that I can see what form of sci-fi misery is waiting on the other side. Just for the sake of curiosity. (Think, "Variable Matter and the Illusion of Time lifted." Gee, fun. Can't wait. Why did I sign up for this again. . ?)
And of course, it should go without saying that, I for one welcome our. .
-FL
Students are being seen by educators, text book sellers and financial institutions as a money-making scheme.
I see it, however, as an effective population control method. What a fantastic way to ensure a perpetual supply of white-collar slave labor!
There is a solution.
Most people don't need to go to University. English degrees? Humanities? Shit! Go to a library and join a discussion group. You don't need to shell out thousands for a worthless degree. University was cool in the old days when two graduates in pith helmets would meet in the middle of the Sahara desert and cry, "I say, a fellow schollar! Where do you hail from?" "Why, Princeton; I'm working on a dig with professer Jones." "Ripping! Is he still teaching then? You ought to come to my tent for a hot snifter!"
If you don't plan to become a doctor or an engineer or wear a pith helmet and fight Nazis, you're INSANE to be racking up idiot debt at university.
Cuz guess what? You can make plenty of money in any number of unconventional ways in the real world. Working in a cubicle is for chumps. (sorry guys. It is. You know it.) And here's the thing; if you start out without debt, then you have the luxury of being able to take your time and build/find something which will work for you. Having no debt when you are young means that you have options.
Get a grunt job when you are young, build up some capitol, and use it guaruntee a loan. Stay living at home for as long as you can. It's cheep. If you move out too soon, without a plan or any savings, then you're instantly in financial limbo; you'll be too burned out working to make rent to be able to build any sort of life other than hand-to-mouth.
Think about this stuff! A little planning will save your life. Just my two cents worth. Think about it. If you're young, don't let your parents pressure you into a life you might regret later.
"Organize your time or somebody will do it for you" --Those who don't figure out what they want from life will be shafted into serfdom. Every time. Period.
Good Luck.
-FL
Don't have one. Sorry. You could probably winMX, or eMule it. But either way, it's certainly worth the trouble.
Offer's still open if you want me to mail you a copy. You can contact me at. .
the_fantastic_lad@yahoo.com
Cheers!
-FL
The art's pretty good, too. Looks like classic Stan and Jack stuff.
The nature of the secret device will be revealed next iss.
-FL
I've become very fond of that version.
I agree that there's a very interesting story unfolding, and that the characters are quite moving and well realized. There is SO much tied to the basic editing of a film. When you remove Medi-Chlorines, and redundant scenes of cringe-worthy acting, etc., the film vastly, vastly improves.
I've been hoping for a time that the AOTC would be similarly treated, but I'm not sure how easy that would be to do. There were I feel, several irrepairable aspects to that film which editing alone could not affect. But I'd still be curious to see what could be done.
In any case, I am certainly looking forward to the next one. I hope Lucas hires a good story and film editor this time, though. We all have our strong and weak suits, and all these young and adoring kids working for Lucas has created an environment which is allowing him to avoid the fact that he is human just like the rest of us. .
If you want a copy of the Phantom Edit, let me know and I'll send you one. (On the promise, of course, that you create more copies and give them to your friends with the same instructions.)
-FL
(I'm joking, of course.)
False-Flag actions are easy to perform, they are incredibly effective, and the people in power are usually morally bankrupt (or outright psychotic) enough to feel no guilt in performing them.
"But they wouldn't DO that! Nobody would attack their own people! They just wouldn't DO that!"
No? They'd very deliberately lie to get us embroiled in an incredibly destructive and expensive war which is designed primarily to suck billions of dollars out of the public purse and feed it directly into the hands of a very few greedy men. The fact that or youth are being savaged both in body and mind means nothing to such people.
Oh, I assure you, they would do that. It's not a new idea by any stretch, and why would it be? Easy, effective, and nobody believes it could ever happen. Heck, it's what I'd do in their place. Easy. Effective. --And common! Every time somebody rips off an insurance company through arson or what-not, it's the same thing. It happens. People do it. If you think that people in government do not do it, you are a fool. Period.
Go and do some research. Look at all the 2003 'terrorist' bombings which took place around the world, notice when each of them happened. You'll notice that at each event, a significant step toward reason was undone. A bomb goes off, and a diplomat attending a key peace talk has a reason to storm out of the room. --Or some variation of that almost every single time. Also notice how the countries attacked were nearly always ones which happen to be sympathetic towards the so-called 'terrorist' nations opposed to US aggression. In other words, ridiculous targets which do not benefit the 'terrorists', but DO benefit the US and Israel.
My point?
The web is just another battle ground, folks.
A significant percentage of this web-damaging activity isn't perpetrated by private hackers or quick-money spammers. It's the covert arm of somebody's government and the aim is to increase the level of fear and uncertainty, to make people more willing to give up freedom. To make the public ready to accept a wave of lunatic arrests of so-called, 'hackers'.
It'll happen unless people are helped to understand the true nature of these kinds of events. If people don't get angry at the wrong parties, then we might just avoid the culling of the intellectuals which always happens during a fascist take-over.
Knowledge Protects.
-FL
If I my offer a prudent bit of Life Advice: Your self-worth is not defined by your choice in corporate manure.
I would strongly suggest removing the product label from the back of your ego.
-FL
Download music, (which in the flagship case, was in fact paid for and genuinely believe to be legitimately acquired), get intimidated by the RIAA into settling out of court for $3000. Wind up a corporate shill, probably making, oh, say $3000 plus all the poisonous black water one can gag down for the day of the shoot.
And the moral of the story is. .
"The Fat Man gets the Blue Ball."
(Oop, sorry. That was The Phantom Menace.)
The moral of the story is. . . "Pepsi is cool because they are on 'our' side, so let's drink more of their health-destroying black water. Isn't it great being young, impressionable and easily preyed upon by corporate America?"
-FL
So how does a population regain control of a fascist government? I'm open to suggestions. --You know, there's a clock ticking here. The German intelligencia spent a lot of ink complaining loudly about the Nazis even as they rose to power. Didn't do much good. In fact, I believe it got a number of people bundled off to prison camps on charges of sedition. Clock's ticking folks. It's not going to get better on its own. This next election is going to be fraudulent.
-FL --(Hm. Funny. I don't recall the neighbors owning a white van. .
Oh, well, you see, this system is only intended for use with soldiers away from home so that they might participate in delights of democracy, (other than lavishing it upon the freedom-starved denizens of this world, that is).
Since it's for the soldiers, then it only makes sense that, um, the military provide the system. Or something like that. .
See? It all makes sense! Every baby-step towards outright fascism is always easily rationalized.
Now please return to your trench and stop asking questions.
-FL
Quite typical, and certainly not terribly useful in that it throws a doubtful light upon the whole study, at least as represented in this 'journal'.
As for leakage across the blood-brain barrier. . . You seem to know what you're talking about. How long does it normally take? I have read numerous studies which strongly suggest that the effect is quite immediate, by way of a mechanism called, 'cyclotronic resonance'.
-FL
Brain slice examples.
People hate cell phones because they're like electronic dog collars, because of talking and driving, and because of people gabbing to machines on the subway. The part I hate about them, however, is that people gabbing on the subway, or WIFI in coffee shops and public places, means that people who are smart enough not to be using a cell phone are still getting exposed to harmful radiation. The deletrious effects happen within a two meter radius of a given device.
Of course, there are still a few pockets of people who stubbornly cling to the public relations spew of the telecom giants. --Apparently, (I am told), because big corporations would never lie to us, and highschool science texts were written to inform us rather than program people for endentured slavery.
People deserve what they get. Knowledge protects.
-FL
Just curious.
Oh, and without the evil computer, there wouldn't be cell phones!
As well as using lyrical turns of phrase, I think you're also on to something.
-FL
Thank you.
-FL
Jeff Smith just finished off Bone, and Dave Sim is about to put to pasture this coming March with issue 300 of Cerebus.
What gives?
I'll tell you. Everybody is winding up their big projects. Those left running now might not make it, or they'll be carrying a very different set of torches indeed! After the 2004 November US 'Election', everything changes forever, and not in a warm-fuzzy way.
Enjoy your final year of free-range living, kids.
Year of the Monkey begins on Jan 21st here in the West! Hurrah and hold on tight! (Or duck and cover, depending on who you are. Should be interesting either way.)
Frickin' selfish, exciting Monkeys. . . They're SO not Starfleet reg.
-FL
This is just another piece of moronic nonsense. At this point, it should be quite clear that NOTHING which comes out of Bush's head is valid or reliable. The man is a PSYCHOPATH. This means he lies compuslively. He likes to cause harm and pain. He likes to cause embarrassment. He was put on this earth in order to bankrupt, destroy and cause as much misery as possible.
The normal reaction by normal people to a psychopath is the believe that there must be a reasonable germ of thought behind everything the psychopath says and does, and we spend all our time giving extra slack and resources and trust while we try to find the meaning in his words and actions.
Psychopaths do not feel sympathy or real emotions. They are monsters and there is no testing done to prevent their rising to the tops of big companies, (Enron) or apparently, governments.
Bush is a psychopath. This crap about the moon and such is just that; crap. It means nothing and we are all running around trying to implement something which is based on an insane desire to harm and cause chaos.
-FL
You're trolling, right? Nobody is that stupid.
-FL
But THIS time, the giant robots aren't really robots at all. . ! Ooh! It's like, a WHOLE different story now! (Ever since Genetics became the cool new science.)
In the West we have our superheros, (also now genetically altered. Iron Man is so passe.)
And somewhere in the middle of it all, the fans read and watch and dream. .
Where is it all going, I wonder. . ?
-FL
"Probably" is a cop-out.
This is a truly fascinating, and frankly, world-defining subject which plays directly into the current state of reality at this time. I don't understand people who feel no interest in researching this stuff, and I would strongly recommend to most people that they look at and compare the material available. There's nothing to lose except ignorance and a bit of time. --And there is a great deal of worth to be gained.
The only people who I would tell to avoid such matters are those who have not yet learned how to deal with fear and the pain of having familiar, comforting structures crumble into dust. But in truth or lies. . , eh? Where would one rather live?
-FL
While such 'very reasonable' answers are just that, (very reasonable sounding), they are incomplete enough to prevent their broad application.
For instance. .
Sleep paralysis does not explain episodes involving abuductees claiming to have been removed from vehicles, or other events where the abductee is not asleep at the time. As well, being paralyzed through the sleep mechanism runs counter to stories involving people who waking up with bed-clothes on backwards or inside-out, with the head at the wrong end of the bed.
Neither are Metalic implants and 'scoop marks' explained through sleep paralysis and media-driven hysteria regarding regarding greys.
Sightings by third parties (who are awake) of UFOs in conjunction with abduction cases add to the list of complexities.
After having explored some of the material regarding this kind of thing, and knowing people who have been involved in multiple-witness UFO events, (one of which involved a bright red baseball-sized sphere of light which made regular visits through my friend's apartment every few weeks), I am inclined to think that there is a great deal more to the subject than can responsibly dismissed by conventional 'swamp-gas' answers.
-FL