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Keinpeilempfänger
Fifth in a vaguely defined series on obscure secret electronics, after SCR-268 and Tenzor and Peilempfänger and Kleinstpeilempfänger. = = = = = American Radio Library has uploaded new issues of the British Post Office Engineering Journal. Why did the GPO have an engineering research facility? Because the GPO managed ALL communication in Britain. It…
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The dayest day of all?
According to the daily log at Enid Buzz: Happy May Day! It’s also Couple Appreciation Day, CSS Reboot Day, Executive Coaching Day, Frequent Flyer Day, Global Love Day, Bereaved Mother’s Day, Permaculture Day, Workers’ Day, Keep Kids Alive Drive 25 Day, Law Day, Lei Day, Loyalty Day, Mayday for Mutts, Mother Goose Day, Motorcycle Mass…
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Not free
My version of Santayana: Those who don’t know that history repeats are doomed to be ruined by the repeaters. Those who think academic cancelling is new and abnormal will waste their time fighting a permanent and natural tendency. Frank Edwards runs down the history of academic censorship on the subject of ET life. In 1880…
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Not hypocrisy
Cited by Kirn: The overlap between champions for censorship today, and champions for an “open Internet” and “free speech” during the #NetNeutrality fight in the mid 2010’s, is virtually 100%. Apparently this is meant to show ‘hypocrisy’ or ‘flipflopping’. No. It’s perfectly consistent. It’s just quality control on the PRODUCTS. I called it back in…
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If we assume….
UFOlogists have tried to explain the timeline in various ways. The larger type has been documented for thousands of years. The smaller discs were first publicly described in WW2, with both sides seeing flocks of discs and each side blaming the other. There was a postwar ‘pulse’ of the bigger type in ’47, then another…
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Explicit tag
I’ve been using the Entertainment tag on the UFO and Fortean items lately. I should make the connection more explicit. The Forteans were trying to pull science back into the realm of entertainment and mystification and fascination. Their constant theme, starting with Charles Fort himself, was that Big Science is no longer observing Nature with…
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Bellyaches and quakes
One of the stories in Frank Edwards’s non-UFO books illustrates how real science gets suppressed or forgotten, then turns out to be correct in the light of later discoveries. He tells about Bob Barr of Oakland, who reliably predicted earthquakes by his belly. Bob could distinguish a specific kind of activity in his gut that…
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Kleinstpeilempfänger
Fourth in a vaguely defined series on obscure spy equipment. First: Early American radar. Second: Russian modular spy radio Tenzor. Third: Truck-based German direction finder. This is a cross-pollination of 2 and 3. It’s another Peilempfänger by Telefunken, in the same modular miniature form as the Tenzor. Telefunken called it Kleinstpeilempfänger, which is bigger than…
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Barnacle Bill the Spider
Male spiders jump away with maximum G force after mating, leaping the human equivalent of 1000 feet in a second. The female stores the sperm until she determines that the male is strong enough to get away. If he gets away, she ingests the sperm and fertilizes her eggs. If he doesn’t get away, she…
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Constants and Variables 172, web-to-web edition
The “rights” fans are weeweed up this morning over Biden’s new Disinformation Centre. The director is a former Disinformation Fellowess at the WILSON CENTRE. Fact: Secrecy and censorship are the defaults. We don’t have the choice of escaping censorship. Given this CONSTANT, there are two interesting VARIABLES, a political timeline and a tech timeline. They…
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Hard answer to soft question
I don’t think there’s a ‘rhetorical’ name for this technique. It’s effective and often creates a significant shockwave in the minds of readers and listeners. Good example. The Enid Buzz FB page asked What’s the coolest prize you ever won? Lots of money prizes, small vacations, side of beef, pizza for a year. The best…
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Barking UFO
Yesterday I proposed or imagined that the larger UFOs might belong to an ancient tribe that figured out how to LITERALLY harness electricity, a tribe that wasn’t spoiled by atom theories. They know how to organize charge patterns for massless or massed appearances. The sightings of small discs flying in groups have a different flavor.…
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Non-barking UFO
I just noticed one huge disjunct between modern UFO discussion and the 1947-1967 discussion. Absolutely all the modern UFOlogists are solely obsessed with the Roswell event. They don’t mention the hundreds of other non-dismissable sightings over thousands of years. It’s just Roswell, Roswell, Roswell, Area 51, alien Greys. Wikipedia partly answers the question. The event…
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Illustrated two ways
Today is Morse Code Day! I don’t need to add any new animations, since Polistra has been tirelessly sending the same prayer on several different keys in two different languages. The HappyDays365 webpage has a pretty good writeup on Morse himself and the code in general, giving proper credit to the MANY inventors who came…
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More Tur(k)ing test
A few weeks ago Eric Holloway set up a fiendishly clever machine vs human test, essentially proving that one of the major AI engines is partly or mostly human. Now he’s done it again. Here’s the sequence leading up to the crucial moment. 153 EMH: what is a belief? 154 GPT-3: A belief is a…
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