This is going to be a bit of a rambling
post where I touch on a few ideas.
Firstly, getting evidence in support of UFOs.
I’ve just watched a couple of videos on
this – one an old, sensationalist programme from a few decades ago, and the
other a newer, better programme, but one that still misses quantitative data –
in my opinion.
The field of UFO investigation is an area
which I think needs to learn from both paranormal investigators, and common,
everyday, garden variety surveyors. For those people who are looking for UFO
evidence, instead of just having a single, handheld video recorder, why not
have – well, at least a blasted tripod, so the image is steady, but, even
better, an array with say:
- two video devices, each with graduated markings (like theodolites – hence the reference to surveyors), so, with a little bit of basic trigonometry, one can calculate the distance to something that is being recorded (do an internet search for optical naval and air range finders to get an idea of what this is about – or the binocular devices which used to be used to plot contours a few decades ago [which I tried once, and was banished from as I was so poor at it]);
- something fixed on wide angle so one can compare any close ups with what was happening around the area of interest and to help with judgements of scale; and
- infrared (IR) and ultraviolet (UV) cameras (also with markings to measure angles etc).
I’ve heard people occasionally talking
about IR and UV filters, and, frankly, that sounds like mumbo-jumbo to me: why
not, since the exercise is about getting credible evidence, simply record the
IR and UV in the first place, which is less subject to challenge?
Personally, I would also like to see such
an array including recording of Doppler radar (to show atmospheric movement), a high speed camera, infrasound
(IS), audible sound, ultrasonics (US), and maybe even some of the tracking
controls of good telescopes, but it is going to be expensive and difficult to
handle enough as it is (which is the
massive argument against this – power demand would also be an issue … which is
where the tripod comes in handy again, as it could allow for some decent car
battery size batteries) – not to mention that to get a mappable recording
of sounds that one could correlate to images one would need an array of
microphones … and that, since sound is so much slower than light, the area
covered by the sound recording would have to be much larger than
that covered by the visual recording.
Next, having got your tripod mounted array,
record jets and internally lit blimps and atmospheric phenomena so one has a
set of data to compare subsequent recordings to for the purpose of eliminating
such known explanations.
Having done all that, one has, of course, to
then record some UFOs. Well, in much the same way that storm hunters have got
fairly good at their chosen career/hobby
(obsession?), some UFO trackers seem to have got the art of finding UFOs at
least partially sorted – and there are areas where UFOs are known to occur
more, which also helps.
It would be good for such recording to be
done by teams of two – an enthusiast and an open minded nonbeliever. One of the
issues that would crop up is that such arrays would need to be calibrated,
possibly temperature compensated, and that the calibration would need to be done
both before and after recording something to prove that instrument error is not
an issue.
Ah well, I can but dream, I suppose … maybe
if I have a big lottery win I could do this, but … I’ve heard you have to buy a
lottery ticket in order to be able to win, so maybe not :) Anyone out there
with money – or able to organise a crowd funder campaign – who wants to have a
go at this? If there is:
- theodolites are anything from $1,000 to $10,000 or more, or modern range finders are a few hundred dollars (but may not be good enough for this … );
- security style IR recorders are a couple of hundred dollars or so;
- UV recorders are $2,000 to $5,000 or more, but I don’t think those are linked to recording areas of the sky … ;
- ultrasonic devices range between a few hundred and a few thousand (they’re used for, as an example, recording bats);
- assume infrasound and audible recorders are between a few hundred and a few thousand dollars, depending on quality – and likewise for video devices.
All up, I would expect a first assembly to
cost around $10,000 - $20,000 (excluding
the optional extras I listed), but it may be possible to get it under
$5,000 with a bit of development, and then there would possibly be a small
market of keen enthusiasts for these units.
Next, Ben
Elton’s alternative history (sort of) novel Time and Time
Again.
I was in an airport on another work trip ( * SIGH – oh to be able to retire and STAY
HOME … or, at least, do the wandering I want to, rather than what I am told to
do :) ) when I saw this novel, and quickly realised it was about using a
science fiction device (time travel –
explained in an appealing, quirky and unlikely way :) ) to prevent World
War Part One.
This is a fascinating topic to me, as the
world came so close to NOT going to war in that northern hemisphere summer of
1914, and, if it had been held off for 2 years, it probably would never have
happened – which would have prevented World
War Part Two (which is why I refer to
those wars as Parts One and Two) and lots of other “bad” things, but slowed
some other social changes for the better – as is discussed in Richard
Ned Lebow’s fascinating book Archduke
Franz Ferdinand Lives!: A World without World War I, which outlines
ways that the world could have been better or worse (I think I have posted about this book – and certainly I have posted
about the topic elsewhere). Now, as I alluded to above, there were a whole
series of things which went wrong that led to World War Part One (for instance, if Rasputin had not been injured and in hospital, he may have been able to talk the Tsar out of mobilising, as
he had done two years earlier), but the single event which most people
focus on is the actual assassination
of Franz
Ferdinand – the heir to the Austro-Hungarian
Empire, who likely would have modernised it and made it more inclusive.
Mr Elton’s novel sets up a device for
preventing that from happening, which is all good, and shows good awareness of
the so-called butterfly
effect, where a time traveller causes a small, seemingly insignificant
change in the past, which leads to massive change later (which is well explored in Ray
Bradbury’s short story “The
Sound of Thunder”, which may be where
the term originated), but then one of the key characters goes a step
further, and suggests something I immediately react to with “No!, No! No! That could go all wrong!” –
which it does, leading to series of escalating events, and an exploration of parallel
realities, also explored in the reboot
of Star Trek, and by Seth (channelled by Jane
Roberts).
This is all very interesting, and was a
good way to pass the time waiting for the flight (I had finished work a lot earlier than planned) and on the flight
itself, but it got me thinking about the issue of creating new realities.
The concept, as explained in the New
Age movement and some scientific circles, is, I consider, a little too open
ended – I wonder if there is enough energy to sustain all the alternative
realities which some people postulate could exist, and consider that such is possibly
limited to major events (such as whether World War Part One occurs or doesn’t);
on a smaller, more personal scale, I consider a lot of alternatives are
explored in the astral, in what are, in
effect, role-playing scenarios – or, as the military would term it, “gaming out options”.
I am aware of having explored some quite
long, complicated options that way (and
it felt quite realistic), and consider that is far more likely for the
smaller, personal decisions than that an alternative reality gets created.
Now, an example of passive-aggressive behaviour in the workplace.
We have a project team from another company
working in our office (and had to move
over to make room for them, actually): mostly it is OK, but there are
examples of some transphobic tendencies, and, a few weeks ago, one of the
senior people there was experiencing considerable frustration as a result of
their email system not working. It was late, well after official knock off
time, but that tends to happen in engineering (and is undesirable for a whole host of reasons), and he went
through a series of helpdesk people who couldn’t meet his definition of “help” –
which was an instant solution to the problems he was experiencing. He possibly
thought he was being assertive, but his tone of voice was showing LOTS of suppressed
anger.
Now, that problem is still continuing to
last week, so it is major, and I can understand his frustration at not being
able to meet a deadline as a result, but:
- the conditions which apply to such on-line help, including timelines, are defined by the conditions of the agreement, NOT one person’s frustration: I would expect them to have at least a 24 hour turn around (I did hear a 48 hour period mentioned);
- when one has more experience, one knows to allow for glitches like this, and thus try to get things done earlier, if possible;
- the modern addiction to “fast tracking” projects is stupid for many reasons, including the stress it puts on people, the increased risk of mistakes, increased costs, and the lack of common sense flexibility – including, in particular, the lack of time for events such as that which had occurred in that instance.
The stress that this puts on people is
indicative of the problem we have with stress more broadly in society, which is
due in part to unrealistic expectations, such as those shown by the person
concerned – all of which makes it a vicious cycle: expectation of quicker
service leads to more stress which leads to mistakes which leads to more time
pressure which leads to more stress, etc, etc, etc – and the same applies to doing things for less money, which also
contributes to stress and has its own stupid cycle (e.g., people in households expect government to do things for less
money, which leads to stress in those households – and I have seen cretins who
expected things to be done more cheaply sympathising with household members who
were suffering from the pressure that was being created).
It is stupid, and we all need to take a
metaphorical step back, and slow down – and start to treasure thinking
carefully about things, rather than trying to outdo others on time and/or
money.
I have seen the decline in some industries
as a result of this – and have a friend who pointed out to me that “Australia’s
dirtiest station” would have been shut down a long time ago if the SECV
hadn’t been sold off.
Now, after an intermission for tea, cooked by
my partner’s other partner (we take
turns) and with entertainment from the dog blowing bubbles in her water
bowl (I kid you not :) - and, on pets, I would probably have got this post written in half the time if I hadn't been "helped" by our cats ... ) … the final topic.
Now, this came out of a dream which I woke
from with a clear phrase in my mind: “he
would have thought America was an opprobrium”. Researching this led me to Lee
Harris (although I'm not sure that was where I was supposed to end up ... but I am currently reading "The Federalist Papers", as a result of watching "The West Wing", and may get to where the phrase was meant to lead me that way), who wrote “The
Next American Civil War: The Populist Revolt Against the Liberal Elite”
and “Civilization
and Its Enemies” (some of this
was perhaps similar to my views on not ignoring nonBPM units),
who was interviewed on the TYT channel (a US political channel, with TYT being, I
think, an acronym for a media programme called The Young Turks) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDocIBFALGE.
I’m still thinking about that author’s
messages: the call to treat reactionary people with respect is worthy suggestion, but … his delivery feels “off”
to me. I suspect a lot of what he is writing about could be dealt with in a BPM
manner by having much better education on a whole range of issues,
including progressive and reactionary worldviews, worldviews, personal change,
social evolution, etc.
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posts twice, but Blogger keeps changing my formatting. I can either publish it
and then correct it, or save and close the post and correct it when I reopen
it, but that leaves an extra copy in my "drafts" folder ...
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Tags: astral, astral travel, dreams, education, evidence, history, parallel realities, passive-aggressive, progressive, reactionary, society, stress, time magic, UFOs, war,
First published: Laugardagr, 27th August, 2016
Last edited (excluding fixing typo's
and other minor matters): Saturday, 27th August, 2016
