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Alien Hunting Made Easy
While listening to Iain Banks' TRANSITION this week I was totally captivated by one very small side item. = In a nutshell. --- A guy was trying to plug a "How To" movie idea that involved Where and When to Hunt for Aliens. His point was that space traveling Aliens visiting Earth would most likely be a lot like us. WE do most of our long distance traveling purely to enjoy seeing something we can't usually see at home. In short, as Tourists. = And, most likely so to would lifeforms from other star systems or even galaxies. . . . But WHAT would aliens find of unique interest on Earth that they couldn't find on all the billions upon billions of other planets scattered across the universe??? --- Face it, we've really got nothing. Not our landscapes. Not our cultures. Not our history. Not even our most impressive feats of construction. And our pollution, military/government hassles, and crowds of tinfoil hatters have got to be a major turn off!?
The one thing that we do have, and it's about a mega-zillion to one shot that any other planet in the universe ~ might ~ also have . . . is a Total Naturally Occuring Solar Eclipse. Our Moon and our Sun are precisely the right size and distance from Earth and each other to provide this near once in a lifetime MAJOR lightshow in our heavens. If even ONE of the specs were off by even the smallest of astronomical units, . . . it just could never happen. Too close, too far, too big, too small. = NOTHING!?? How many other planets in the universe could possibly have been blessed with such a VERY unique arrangement??? = DARN FEW! if not, NONE AT ALL!!! And best of all. With the right bit of timing you can travel around our planet and at different phases of their Solastrial Dance you can witness a Total Eclipse occuring at various points of the globe. it's almost better than Yellowstone's Old Faithful Geyser! (It's actually a thing, it's called Eclipse Chasing. . . . Gotta be safer than chasing tornadoes!!!)? ? So WHERE do you hunt for aliens???? = Anywhere there is a Total Eclipse occuring on our planet. THAT'S where they'll be. They shouldn't be hard to spot. You know Tourists. They ALWAYS stand out in crowds!!! LOL ? Keep It FUN! Dan G |
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Re: Watch "Apollo Saturn V LVDC Board Teardown, Part 1" on YouTube
On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 07:37 AM, Terry Sofian wrote:
https://youtu.be/vZhRbzDZIDwWOW! Darn Interesting! . . . But I'm cringing inside. Destroying an actual Apollo Saturn V LVDC circuit board just to see how they put it together??? That just seems nothing short of sacrilegious to me. If it were mine, it would be mounted and displayed like a holy relic! . . . These boards and their tech ain't that old that she couldn't have easily found over a dozen folks (probably the same folks who actually built them in the first place) more than happy to explain everything she wanted to know. Even the best step-by-step ways to disassemble them, IF she REALLY thinks she needed to garner fame as a YouTube Geek Super Star. = Sorry, but some of her methods and her lack of military and aerospace construction knowledge made me envision a clueless teenager trying to "teardown" a vintage V-8 out of a 60s muscle car using nothing but a blowtorch and a sledgehammer.? I might be a bit more impressed if she now Put It All Back Together AND Made It Work To Spec!!!? I just really, Really, REALLY hope nobody decides to put Fran on any of those Alien tech reverse-engineering teams!!! LOL Keep It FUN! Dan G |
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THE OTHERS
I'm a Jeremy Robinson fan. Have been for some years. I love how he takes a fistful of conspiracies, urban legends, HARD and soft facts, and spins them up with his own unique twists to deliver one heck of a GREAT roller coaster of a Sci-Fi/Horror Action/Adventure ride. --- In THE OTHERS he takes on the whole gambet of UFO/Greys issues that will leave you wondering just how much of this is Robinson, and how much of this ~ just might be ~ "REAL"?????
Though I really enjoyed the whole story, I gotta admit, I did get rather bored with The Mourning Former Cop bit. You just seem to see him featured in too many stories any more. So much so that it's hard to really work up any real sympathy for that type of character. = Way over used. --- Still, plenty of other unique characters. = A wise cracking senior citizen partner, a gun toting preacher, and an Uber driver! LOL? ? I can't wait to read his next book (series???). = UNITY. A Mil-Sci-Fi story!!! --- Sign up for JR's newsletter and you get a FREE copy! Keep It FUN! Dan G? |
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THE FIRST
Trailers for a new HULU series about a mission to Mars. -- Hard Sci-Fi.= No Squids, No scantily clad red skinned princess, No secret alien mining operations or bases. --- Just a LOT of Drama featuring Apollo era type tech. . . . with Sean Penn. . . . . . ~ maybe ~ as a movie or even a short miniseries, but . . . yeah, they lost me at Sean Penn. LOL
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Re: Building A Flying Saucer
Greetings Ron and All,
HEY! I came from CA at one time too! . . . Oh, that's right, . . . I ~ AM ~ a self proclaimed Nutter too. . . Never mind. LOL When I was a kid I built one out of an old Frisbee and an .020 engine. No control whatsoever. Just a tether line staked to the ground. Real RC gear was WAY out of my pocketbook range in those days. Even the .020 was somebody else's castoff. it would get a couple of feet off the ground and then flip over into Kamikaze lawnmower mode. --- Wound up building a chopped down to fit the little .020 balsa wood string controlled flying wing. At least I could fly and stunt that without mowing the grass too many times. LOL Funny, I never did go back into that "flying saucer" project once I started fooling around with RC gear many, many years later. . . hmmm, maybe after I win the Lotto and have some actual "Free Time" on my hands. . . .? Yeah, ya know, this guy's way overlong "Build A Flying Saucer" article might be a tad bit more impressive if he included pictures of His OWN garage built saucer. If it's "So Easy" and all. Right? . . . = Those that can, DO. Those that can't, Write Blogs! LOL Keep It FUN! Dan G |
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(MaD) Just found this total news release about Revel Model Molds
Ron Hunt
Maybe some old SCI FI KITS?????????? YEA!!!!!!! Ron
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Building A Flying Saucer
Build a Space Worthy and Weaponized manned or remote controlled flying saucer in your garage?????
From the comments at the bottom of this site's page I can only assume 1) They take this guy's stuff seriously. Or 2) They are just running along with the joke. -- Either way, some of his stuff is interesting, but what he "thinks" folks can knock out in their basements and garages based on what he claims is "Off The Shelf" (read that = Pie-In-the-sky at best, and/or pure bunk) technology and Very High Priced materials (carbon fiber anything ain't cheap!) is truly amazing. = I was surprised that he didn't just recommend capturing your own passing actual alien saucer craft or stealing one from some local government since he seems to think that they are so readily available. LOL Maybe he's (or I am???) really confused? He does seem to mix a lot of Drone (sorry, Drones Are NOT flying saucers, no matter what they may look like) stuff up with his Super Tekno-Fantasy saucer build.? DARN! And I was Soooo Hoping that I had finally found a site that would allow me to build a Real Flying Saucer in my garage out of spare car and lawnmower parts. LOL Where do these people come from??? ? Keep It FUN! Dan G |
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Re: TRANSFORMER Amusement Park Ride
Darn uppity Kratts anyway! That's what we get for letting em off the mothership when our ancestors first got here. Would have served them right if we'd left the lot of them back in the Alpha Canis Major quadrant! LOL
Anyhoo, how about if we just keep the link Very Simple for SFcrowsnest and then you can scroll down a little to the "Anime & Manga" section, then hit the "Transformer-style Robots . . . " article???? ? Keep It FUN! Dan G |
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Re: TRANSFORMER Amusement Park Ride
Well, that's weird. The link pops right open for me. It also opens in FarceBokk where I shared it with my kids. And in my Yahoo mailbox. . . . I think that you may have fallen prey to another Decepticon trick. Has your laptop been exhibiting any other peculiar traits like sprouting legs and wandering off in the middle of the night, or any other time that you're not actively watching it??? --- You never can trust these darn things! LOL
Keep It FUN! Dan G |
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Soviet Chain Pistol
Still looking for an INTERESTING sidearm to add to your collection or anti-Zombie/Graboid/Alien Invasion "Home Security" arsenal??? = How about this 36 shot (!!!) Soviet Chain Fed 7.62mm prototype pistol??? Just the thing to handle any threat that just keeps on coming, and coming, and coming, and . . .? LOL
? Keep It FUN! Dan G ? |
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