Oct 02 2008
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UFO Propulsion
From NC-based researcher and writer Micah Hanks:
A wise man once said, “Necessity is the mother of invention.” In fact, many a wise-guy has made this claim in his lifetime, but I like to take this statement from time to time and re-shape it into the following: Supposition is the Mother of Invention.
What I mean by this (and going ahead and diving into the meat of this subject, I’m going to tie it in with UFOs early on) is that many scientists over the last several decades, based on what they observe in science fiction, have created advanced scientific instrumentation which not only mirrored fiction, but helped make it into fact. For instance, in the fiction of authors like Arthur C. Clark, technologically advanced apparatus like radio communications satellites, video conferencing, and “smart” machines were all incorporated prior to their design and practical use in the modern world. Along these same lines, a handful of physicists have been also looking at reports of UFOs and trying to figure out how they operate, based on witness testimony.
I received an email from Gralien Report correspondent Marvin Bishop today that mentioned Harold E. Puthoff, an American physicist known for his “alternative” approaches to gravitational physics, general relativity, and quantum mechanics which often involve things commonly referred to as paranormal.
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October 2nd, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Glad to see some scientists daring to think outside the box. Maybe that’s the objective behind the phenomenon.
October 2nd, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Well I was pissed when I found out my coworker had pushed William Bramley’s Gods of Eden onto another coworker — he was a scientologist as well. All the more reason to read the Stargate Conspiracy by Prince and Picknett. Science is mass ritual sacrifice and Putoff, LaViolette, etc. are just puppets for the secret black-ops behind imperialism. Sure there’s a trajectory to this technology but it doesn’t end in some sort of physical immortality (unless you buy into the whole Freemason Solar Dynasty b.s. that’s been in control since around 9,000 BCE). There’s a lot of matrifocal cultures left that spread from the original pgymy-bushmen trance healing tradition. That’s the real secret to figuring out communication with aliens.
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:17 pm
What Micah Hanks is speaking of is all based on the logical fallacy of affective error (the tendency to presume facts of what we wish were true). Statistically the vast majority of things thought up of in Science Fiction never come true. Science Fiction simply has a very poor track record of inspiring or predicting the future of science and technology, for instance, Arthur C. Clark’s 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. Arthur C. Clark even got much of his science wrong, for instance, 2010: ODYSSEY TWO, Jupiter is transformed into a star, but Jupiter is fifty times too small to form a sustainable chain reaction.
By nature, people are not logical beings, so much so that they have to take classes in it, then study and practice it afterward for many years before they can begin to master it. So it should come as no surprise to note that humans in general, have an illogical tendency towards selective attention, hence the reason they forget all the numerous failures and remember only the rare “successes” in Science Fiction (or of the history of their favorite religion or political leader or so on).
The analogy between UFOs and Science Fiction is a good one, because there is nothing in UFO lore that didn’t first appear somewhere else. The “modern day” abduction phenomenon had its roots in mass media as early as the late 20s, years and years before it finally showed up in abduction fairytales…
1929. MYSTERIOUS ISLAND had little aliens with big eyes.
June 1935. ASTOUNDING STORIES had a stories about aliens who abducted and placed women on examination tables.
September 1946. AMAZING STORIES, Earth Slaves to Space, by Richard Shaver.
1954. KILLERS FROM SPACE. Remarkably, this movie had *every* aspect of “modern day” abductions, with the exception of implants and the color of the aliens skin. There was shown the hypnotic regression, missing time, big eyed aliens, doomsday warnings, and mysterious scars. This many, many years before it started being reported by alleged abductees.
1956. THIS ISLAND EARTH.
1955. INVADERS FROM MARS. Here we see the first instance of implants.
All of this was before Betty and Barney Hill had seen aliens exactly like the ones they reported, just 12 days after their aliens had first appeared on the BOLERO SHIELD on THE OUTER LIMITS, and this was before Whitley Streiber popularized it with his, what I clearly recognized as a Science Fiction book, COMMUNION.
October 3rd, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Affective Error — kind of like “fallacy of misplaced concreteness.” Nice commentary on the influence of films.