> >> And now for something completely differential:
> >>
> >>Dr. Grigory Perelman solves Poincare' Conjecture.
> >>
>>
>> The New York Times reports, Grigory Perelman,
>> a reclusive Russian mathematician who solved
>> a key piece in a century-old puzzle known as
>> the Poincare conjecture, was one of four
>> mathematicians awarded the Fields Medal
>> yesterday. Fields Medal is known as the
>> "Mathematics Nobel Prize". But as with previous
>> honors, Dr. Perelman refused to accept this one,
>> and he did not attend the ceremonies at the
>> International Congress of Mathematicians in
>> Madrid, even though Sir John M. Ball, president
>> of the Union, had personally flown to
>> St Petersburg in June and begged
>> Dr. Perelman to attend the ceremony.
>>
>> Along with the award, Dr. Perelman refused from
>> a gift of one million dollars; his salary at a
>> St Petersburg University equals to approximately
>> $300 a month. Dr. Perelman's favorite things are
>> mathematics and picking mushrooms on his hikes
>> in the woods of St Petersburg suburbs.
>> [...]
>> Beginning in 2002, Dr. Perelman, then at the
>> Steklov Institute of Mathematics of the Russian
>> Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, published
>> a series of papers on the Internet and gave
>> lectures at several American universities
>> describing how he had overcome a roadblock
>> in the proof of the Poincare' conjecture.
>>
>> The conjecture made by Henri Poincare' in 1904
>> essentially says that any shape that does not
>> have any holes and fits within a finite space can
>> be stretched and deformed into a sphere.
>> That is certainly true looking at two-dimensional
>> surfaces in the everyday three-dimensional world,
>> but the conjecture says the same is true for
>> three-dimensional surfaces embedded in four
>> or more dimensions.
>>
>> Dr. Perelman solved a problem other mathematicians
>> had encountered when trying to prove the conjecture
>> using a technique called Ricci flow that smoothes out
>> bumps in a surface and transforms the surfaces into
>> simpler forms.
>> [...]
>> http://www.russiablog.org/2006/08/russian_scientist_solves_the_p.php
>>
>> The Poincare Conjecture: Its Past, Present, and Future
>> http://www.math.unl.edu/~mbrittenham2/ldt/poincare.html
>>
>>
>> All the best!
>> --MT
>>
>> __________________________________________________
Schwann CyberShaman
>> www.webtrance.co.za (site)
>> www.webtrance.co.za/bio.html (webcast)
>> www.webtrance.co.za/usenet.htm (movie archive)
>> www.webtrance.co.za/webtrance.html (alt.webtrance VID_FAQ)
> > > Okay, now I'm REALLY gone!
> --MT_August_24_2006_CE
> http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/reptoi78.jpg
> > __________________________________________________
> Gary Gene Ford - swimp@shaw.ca
> http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/iwfi2006.htm
> http://pw1.netcom.com/~mthorn/divinepr.htm
> http://www.goodfelloweb.com/poems/gford1.html
> http://pw1.netcom.com/~mthorn/afogbank.htm
> http://pw1.netcom.com/~mthorn/magnmind.htm
> http://pw1.netcom.com/~mthorn/darkling.htm
> http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/desert01.htm
> http://www.angelfire.com/tx2/kainwhitten/ggfhush.html
> http://members.shaw.ca/swimp/plasma.html
>
> **********************************************
> BACK
> **********************************************
>
> From: "Gary G. Ford" <swimp@shaw.ca>
> To: MT <mthorn@ix.netcom.com>
> Cc: George Paxinos <geopax@bluewin.ch>, Allan Safarik <crane@sasktel.ne>,
> Daniel Bowen <baenpetsesen@gmail.com>, Mark Thornally <mthornally@yahoo.com>,
> Thorn Alley <, Andrea Ghez <ghez@astro.ucla.edu>,
> Acharya S <acharya_s@yahoo.com>, Bill Gallagher <luxefaire@gmail.com>,
> Joe Fleury <skypaint@hispeed.ch>, "Greg Lunt,JD " <greglunt@yahoo.com>,
> Ed Yco <esyco@earthlink.net>, normanbowden@msn.com>, Ken Deibert <kenco@cal.net>,
> zerdo <zerdo@cox.net>, Dick Farley <CloudRider@aol.com>
> Subject: Origins of INNER/Outer Tumult of Thoughts -
> Re: HAPPY [belated] Samhain! --
> 31 Oct. '06 CE -- [Re: Several Places at ONE TIME,...]
> Date: Nov 2, 2006 1:33 AM
>
> A LIGHT FROM THE PAST RE-FOUND
> ------------------------------
> Mark,
>
> I see you only cleared one level (|) not two when
> inserting your gathered data note on 'Star Bridge'.
> It's a valued book for me, I do read once in awhile.
>
> (I have in its USA D-169 ACE "Double Sized Books"
> [A Division of A. A. Wyn Inc., 23 West 47th Street,
> New York 36, N.Y. by arrangement with Gnome Press
> Inc.], paperback printing, Copyright 1955 by Jack
> Williamson and James E. Gunn, version) now blessed
> with 3 recently (when I picked it up again a few
> days ago) made bookworm holes.)
>
> Star Bridge is an book with Pre-Chapter Historical
> Commentary, less pretentious than Herbert's DUNE.
>
> It is a very important mental resource for me, as also
> were Robert E. Howard's many stories (such as well known,
> CONAN The CONQUEROR - my first son is named Conan), and
> Dunne's EXPERIMENT IN TIME (recommended to me by friend
> Cognitive Psychologist Marcus Womersly in the 1970's).
>
> Likewise Jack Kerouac's DESOLATION ANGELS, as a worn
> paperback given me by Real Life Super Paranoid (3 tours
> of Duty in 'Nam) Robert Erich Eder (Maureen - now dis-
> -netted - 's Friend) in the mid-1960's.
>
> Stir in some Frank Edwards and similar, FATE Magazine
> ADS Humor, Grade 12 and beyond cooperative paranoid
> imaginings with yet-to-be International Lawyer Gregory
> Lunt, J.D., encounters with Faintly Glowing Globes and
> a couple of the Most Frightening Blazing Balls of Light,
> some incredibly 'lucky' Meteorite/Bolide sightings -
> one for which I raced, sans glasses, in a mad rush through
> my parent's former house at 10321 Jerilynn Court, San Jose,
> California 96127, to burst through the side Garage Door
> to IMMEDIATELY SEE its flickering Orange Tail over head
> (then GONE! but reported by hundreds of people to the Santa
> Clara County Sheriff's office, according to Radio/Newspaper
> next day - 1968 July or August, Night time, perhaps 1969) -
> dreams of the most vivid sort, putative hypno-pompic/gogic
> Visions (some Beatific, some Frightening like HELL, a few
> looking like 'Higher Powers' observations of simpleton me),
> a misguided penchant for Mathematics, many sorry games of
> the Oriental Board Game 'Go', and attempts to write Poetic
> Stuff, especially in destined-to-be-burnt heart-felt letters
> to some young women when I was a young man, my droppings out
> and mad returnings to the insanity of academia, and you can
> almost have the Cauldron Full of the Influences on GGF, me,
> First Prophet of THE SWIMP@shaw.ca ...
>
> Later day creative opportunities include correspondences
> with a number of people, such Stephen and Mark Thorn, and
> early such personages as Linus Pauling (about 15 letters
> from him), one from Physics Novelist Eugene Wigner, and
> some from some other few notables.
>
> Yes, there WERE some Terrifying Experiences - being molested
> at age 4, being tied and left in a drainage ditch for a long
> time at age 7, persecution by my Uncle Gerry, who would lock
> me in a dark closet, hold me immobile, render me unconscious
> with a pillow over my face repeatedly; he'd hold me by ankle
> through the hole in my Maternal Grandparents' Dining Room
> ceiling from his developed bedroom antic space above - yes a
> grilled hole for former heater flue pipe to the roof - with
> more peaceful memories and experiences enough to last life
> long, like my examining sparkles in a special concrete sidewalk
> tile, bring sparks from a flint rock with a claw hammer - swell
> the burnt odor! - watching Stars in the Sky or Clouds in Day,
> Lightning from vicious Iowan Storms, caterpillars, dandelion
> fluff floating, winged seeds spinning down to ground, or in 1953
> a buzzsaw loud convocation of just emerged Cicadas under the shade
> of a large tree whose moist ground was full of emerging insects.
>
> Then there was watching Blue Gas Flames in the Space Heater in
> the same Grandparents' Dining Room, seeing an whole world in that burner
> lit with living quivering fire and yellow buds encapsulated
> in ethereal blue garb ... with warmth amidst the poorly insulated
> cold wall space from which I watched and saw for long periods of
> time. Or the 'crystal ball' in Eagles' claw I dug up from the
> Earth when we got to the apartment, and the immaculately well done
> stone Indian arrowhead I fell to my knees before at Ledges Park!
>
> Gary Gene: Always in the Dark, I felt and heard
> the hiss of the Cosmos Ether Rushing Through,
> Transparent dimly lit Being swirling as in
> viscous turbulent fluid for me to see at night,
> and Other Solitary Beings hid, practically invisible,
> In the shadows under Bushes and Darkened Space beneath
> a Weeping Willow Tree ...
>
> There they were once the sudden prairie Night fell,
> just as me holding out against the cool breeze
> after a hot summer's day ... shivering, electrified
> with Spinal Tingling Tension and Neural Ecstasy of Fear,
> despite the Light from Tungsten Yellow Street Lights
> sparsely here and there.
>
> There were the grafted walnut trees, yard after yard,
> in the space between sidewalk and curb,
> along a street I often walked;
> a Winter Storm when I was in grade one,
> which blew so hard with coming snow
> I could almost not make it home
> to the Hovel in which I lived in Perry, Iowa,
>
> I would leave Iowa in early 1954 top soon
> be attacked East of San Jose and left bound
> for what could have been my death had my father
> now found me long afterwards and rescued me
> from that ditch and the good fortune of no rain.
>
> There were large and strange black ants
> And both small translucent brown one too,
> I saw captured as slaves one day
> by very similar red ants
> with somewhat larger jaws.
>
> The raiding colony warriors grasped the pupae
> and fled from the brown colony hole,
> retreating into the reds' armored nest
> of waiting lethal jaws for any browns
> so foolish as risk a rescue raid.
>
> Yes, Perry, Iowa, whose wonders,
> whose various nooks and crannies
> I had attempted to explore ...
>
> Earlier on a small hand spun carousel
> at the main Town Park, I looked up,
> then fell with my mind's eye suddenly
> into the Sky amidst small specks of cloud
> hiding in the blue immensity now all around.
>
> There was I, suddenly just in mind,
> ecstatic in intensest joy of spirit
> and, come to think of it, with
> far too much space for just 3D around!
>
> There were lightning bugs to see in Summer evenings,
> and surviving asparagus to pick from the large vacant
> lot next to the no-running-water 3 room hovel I lived
> in from ages 1 to 5, and then it was off to the ground
> floor apartment of Ling's, next to the Intercontinental
> Railroad track, the Exciting Trains - especially those
> of Chugging, Smoke Puffing, Steam Locomotives still used,
> and the many pieces of black anthracite on the trackside,
> until after my father left for California, and then off
> I went to live with Grandparents with my Mom and Sister Vicki,
> until we finally took "The City of San Francisco"
> with a Vista View Car, to Oakland, California,
> just a few months after my 7th year birthday.
>
> A few months before that, in the front passenger seat of
> my Grampa's Old Blue four door Chrysler I saw the spinning
> meteorite, casting sparks as it fell into the Gravel Pit
> hill. Decades later in Calgary, Alberta I was to see a high
> altitude GREEN Bollide, with sparks breaking off the front
> and recirculating to a thin tail after the bulbous 'head'
> with the Bus Driver and another forward passenger also seeing,
> we commenting each to the other later, confirming what we saw,
> just before Sunset Summer 1984. Teams from the Universities
> of Calgary and Alberta failed to locate where if at all it fell.
>
> Now what Good Books actually have I read? ...
>
> We know about Star Bridges, a favorite or mine,
> but please add on (1) Jack Vance's LANGUAGES of PAO;
> (2) Ursala K. Le Guin's, (temporary memory failure)
> "Was he a Human Meteor or a Time Bomb from the Stars?"
> ---ah! --- CITY of ILLUSIONS (with Yellow Cat-eyed
> Hero 'Falk' encountering those Psychic, Mind Speaking
> Animals of a Transformed Earth (?), who cozied up
> to FALK with sweet entreaties just like "Ah, Man!
> Bespeak me, Man!" ... and the Black/Yellow Emperor
> of KANSAS); (3) A SF Anthology named "Six Todays and
> Seven Tomorrows" in Paperback (read the Psychopathic
> HERO Story, very very Good for Real Past Paranoids
> like myself to contemplate!); (4) H.P. Lovecraft's
> COLOUR OUT OF SPACE ("Even the Dogs had lost the spirit
> to bark ..."); (5) A Sci Fi Anthology (this time in
> Hard Cover with the Wonderful Story "Call Me Joe!" -
> sorry, I forget the Editor and Author!) ... which all
> were great positive formative influences, IO believe,
> on my Tortuously Dynamic, Sometimes Creative Psyche.
>
> Now, I bought PKDick's DO ROBOTS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP
> while working a year at SRI (Menlo Park, backing off to
> the USGS on Page Mill Road)(did I get the title right?)
> but only quickly fell asleep every time I attempted to
> read it!
>
> NOW ... As to THAT Skinwalker PORTAL to Another world,
> may I please mention that my Net-Friend Arjan, became
> an Iboga Initiate some years ago in Gabon, and looked
> through a portal into another world, at a transparent
> Blue Building, I believe near a Beach, in which he saw
> the Woman most beautifully nude, inside, truly of his
> fondest dreams?! He his only bcc'd because of late
> he has become larger lists Net Shy.
>
> To do!
>
> By the way, the Most Unusual Character in Star Bridge
> was Wu's close friend protector and collaborator and
> companion in Jewel Theft, the Living Jewel (dynamic
> diamond of course!) "Poor Ol' Lil!"?
>
> Gary, Iowan Idiot
> Gary Gene Ford - swimp@shaw.ca
> http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/magiboom.htm
>
> **********************************************************
> **********************************************************
>
> MT wrote:
> "Gary G. Ford" wrote:
>
>> Mark, et al,
>>
>> Greetings, Experiential Kin!
>>
>> Gary, for the Swimp@shaw.ca
>> Gary Gene Ford - swimp@shaw.ca
>> http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/magiboom.htm
>
> QUESTION:
> A week or two ago, my beloved spousal unit & I observed
> a "satellite-fast" moving, solid red light traverse a northwest
> to southeast trajectory across the night sky. It had one red
> light not blinking and no other illumination. It did not seem
> to be a plane or helicopter, but likely a satellite. I have never
> seen a red-lit satellite before. Does anyone know what manner
> of craft this is? Muchos Gracias --MT -11/01/06
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From: George Paxinos <geopax@bluewin.ch>
Subject: Re: HAPPY [belated] Samhain! -- 31 Oct. '06 CE -- Several
Places at ONE TIME, What about Several TIMES at One Place ...
Date: Nov 2, 2006 2:32 AM
Mark,
If it had a DUSTY, DIRTY, ORANGY-REDDISH GLOW, LIKE A CAMPFIRE
SEEN THROUGH A BIT OF SMOKED GLASS, then it was probably one
of the UFO types, of which I have seen many.
They are silent, SOMETIMES PULSE - but SLOWLY - period 3-4 secs on one I saw,
and SOMETIMES appear like a FIRE WITH FLAMES FLICKERING UPWARD LIKE A REAL
CAMFIRE MOVING IN THE SKY (!) MIGHT BE BIOLOGICAL, LIVING ENTITIES (?) and
CAN BE CALLED OVER TELEPATHICALLY, though the one time I did so (around
1986-87), my female companion, with whom I had seen the campfire-type one
diving silently at a height of less than 100 feet into a Swiss Valley in
CHUR, GRAUBUENDEN, on Christmas Eve 1977, grabbed my wrist with surprising
force and no word of explanation other than "THAT IS THE ONE WE SAW
BEFORE" (almost 10 years before!) and dragged me 400 yards home at a flat-out
run! - the damnedest thing! - had something happened other than we could
remember the first time we saw it? - my only memories are of the jaundiced
light of sodium street-lamps on snow on a crystal-clear night and the dark
edge of the forest, at the outskirts of town up on the hill ...
George
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MT wrote:
>
> George, et al.
> I'm somewhat convinced that what we saw was
> a low altitude satellite of an unusual configuration,
> and yet it fits your description [above]. A Google search for
> a Red-Lit Satellite brought up lots of 'red herrings'.
> How many satellites do you suppose are currently orbiting
> earth? Must be thousands, eh? Time/space willing, I'll look
> more into this. I did find out that the ISS looks bluish
> and, of course, most craft have a red light with a blinking
> white or green light, and through observation most satellites seem
> to emit a white light or a reflection off the sun.
> Some helicopters apparently fly silently and do who-knows-what
> with their illumination.
> Our "sighting" was in a heavy air-traffic region, lots of
> airports, both civilian/military, the usual night sky looks
> like a scene out of a George Lucas fantasy, so for this
> one "artificial light" with a straight trajectory to draw
> our attention it had to be something quite unique. Thanks!
> Seeya! --MT-04_Nov_2006_CE
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"Gary G. Ford" <swimp@shaw.ca> writes:
Subject: Re: "... a Red-Lit Satellite brought up lots of 'red herrings'."
To: "MT" <mthorn@ix.netcom.com>
CC: baenpetsesen@gmail.com>, "Mark Thornally" <mthornally@yahoo.com>,
"Thorn Alley" <thornalley2002@yahoo.co.uk>, "Andrea Ghez" <ghez@astro.ucla.edu>,
"Acharya S" <acharya_s@yahoo.com>, "Bill Gallagher" <luxefaire@gmail.com>,
"Joe Fleury" <skypaint@hispeed.ch>, "Greg Lunt,JD" <greglunt@yahoo.com>,
"Ed Yco" <esyco@earthlink.net>, normanbowden@msn.com,
"Ken Deibert" <kenco@cal.net>, "zerdo" <zerdo@cox.net>,
"Dick Farley" <CloudRider@aol.com>, "Schwann" <schwann@webtrance.co.za>,
"Jack Sarfatti" <sarfatti@pacbell.net>, "brad smith" <chair@thule.org>,
"bruce maccabee" <brumac@compuserve.com>,
"Stan Friedman" <fsphys@rogers.com>, majorstar@aol.com
Mark, The QUESTION, which hits me is this:
"Was the light a reflection (of the sun),
a narrow beamed red laser lidar pencil,
or wide cone warning/sighting beacon?!"
Why would lidar be used? How would it be
distinguishable from background light?
And WHO SAYS it must be a 'Satellite'?
Suggested Usage: High precision Ranging for
detailed high accuracy description of the
Earth surface in a "target area".
Suggested Purpose One: Looking for 'Earthtides" -
or perhaps rise/falls of regions due to depletion
of water, oil or gas reservoirs underground, or
cave-ins of karsted areas (such as SW Texas, or
Cenote areas of Mexico, parts of South Florida.
Suggested Purpose Two: To look for true tops of
non radar reflecting upper parts of buildings.
Suggested Purpose Three: Surveys of red-absorbing
Atmospheric pollutants.
Suggested Purpose Four: Military Targeting Practice.
Suggested Means of Identification against background:
Unique Pulse Coded Signature, filtered for on listen
for return, and adjustable to time of flight return
for pollutant probes, etc.
Of course, Gentleman Physicist Jack Sarfatti may well
add Space Quality (fraction of condensed phase) in a
bubble of space time modification propulsion effects.
Gary, Mighty Maniac/COSMOS CHILD : IOWAN Idiot
Gary Gene Ford - swimp@shaw.ca
http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/magiboom.htm
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MT writes:
It seemed too low in altitude (according to my
knowledge-base) to be a satellite, but I thought
"satellite" because of the rate of speed and silence.
This is a bit maddening as apparently there are no
officially designated aircraft/spacecraft that use
a solid, unblinking red light exclusively in their
navigational lighting systems.
[...]
[QUOTE]
_______________________________________
A Navigation light is a coloured source of
specular illumination (a point source) on
an aircraft, spacecraft, or waterborne vessel.
Commonly, their placement is mandated by
international conventions or civil authorities.
They are used to signal a craft's position in
low visibility, and to communicate basic
information about the craft, primarily its
position, heading, and status.
Some common navigation lighting systems include:
Right-of-Way lights - On ships, aircraft and
manned spacecraft, a red light will be mounted
on the left or port side of the craft and a
green on the right or starboard side.
These help two craft on a collision course
determine who has right-of-way: if a pilot
sees a craft on a path crossing his own,
he will see either its red running light or
green running light. If he sees green,
he is to the impinging craft's starboard and
has the right of way. If the pilot sees the
red light, he knows that the approaching craft
has the right-of-way, and he is required to
deviate from his course to avoid the collision.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation_light
Union of Concerned Scientists -- May 2006
Satellites: Basic Facts
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_security/space_weapons/whats-in-space.html
There are more than 800 active satellites currently in orbit.
They represent four percent of the total number of objects
currently cataloged by the U.S. space surveillance network;
the rest includes abandoned satellites, spent rocket
boosters, and other debris.
The United States owns more than 400 active satellites,
just over 50 percent of all satellites. Russia and China
have the second and third highest number of space assets,
owning 89 and 35 satellites, respectively.
Civilian satellites, which perform tasks for the
commercial, scientific, and government sectors,
make up the majority of U.S. satellites.
Russia's space assets are split nearly evenly
between military and civil missions, though
there are not separate military and civilian
space programs. Only a very small percentage
of other countries' satellites are military in nature.
Uses for Satellites
Approximately two-thirds of all active satellites
are used for communications. Satellites for navigation,
military surveillance, Earth observation and remote sensing,
astrophysics and space physics, and Earth science and
meteorology missions each comprise about five to seven
percent of total satellites.
Satellite Orbits
Satellites orbit Earth in several distinct regions of space:
Low Earth orbits (LEO)--about 80 kilometers (km) to 2000 km
above Earth
Includes: military intelligence satellites, weather satellites
Geosynchronous orbits (GEO)--36,000 km above Earth
Includes: commercial and military communications satellites,
satellites providing early warning of ballistic missile launch
Medium Earth orbits (MEO)--between LEO and GEO
Includes: navigation satellites (Navstar, Glonass)
Molniya orbit--a highly elliptical orbit with a 12-hour period
Includes: communication satellites for regions near the North Pole
Orbital Debris
Orbital debris is any human-made object in orbit
that no longer serves a useful purpose, including
discarded equipment, abandoned satellites, bolts
and other hardware released during satellite deployment,
and particles from explosions or collisions.
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_security/space_weapons/whats-in-space.html
UCS Satellite Database Lists operational satellites
currently in orbit around the Earth. Updated quarterly.
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_security/space_weapons/satellite_database.html
Satellite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite
[UNQUOTE]
[...]
MT continues:
Again, it was late October between 10PM & midnight,
westcoast NW to SE straight trajectory, clearly an
artificially self-generated unblinking red light
with no accompanying green or white light. It did
seem to pulse slowly as it passed into the distance.
Actually, somewhat mundane in appearance - just a
red light - very easy to dismiss it as some kind
of satellite or fast moving helicopter(silent) or
normal home-grown aircraft running a red light only.
Yet a search on these parameters leads pretty much
nowhere. I am not at this time prepared to call it
a "UFO," except in the literal sense according to
my embattled mindgland's limited aeronautical expertise.
Enlightenment on this issue would be greatly appreciated.
MT-05_Nov_2006_CE
**********************************************************
Subject: Re: "... a Red-Lit Satellite brought up lots of 'red herrings'."
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006
--- Daniel Bowen <baenpetsesen@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think that there is a solution to your problem. A normal airplane uses
> both red and green lights, so that right of way may be determined. If you,
> as a pilot, see a green light headed your way, then you do not need to (or
> are not supposed to need to) alter your course, as the incoming plane has
> the obligation to turn away from you, while if you see a red light, then you
> have the obligation to turn away. Thus the use of both red and green lights
> implies both the obligation and capacity to yield right of way. It would
> not make sense to use both red and green lights however, and would be
> dangerous, if you are unable to yield right of way for some reason. If you
> are a broadcast tower for example (speaking from the point of view of the
> object), then you should use only a red light, as you are incapable of
> avoiding collision, and in fact, high towers are so marked.
>
> What you probably saw, with the solitary red light moving across the sky,
> was a UAV, an unmanned aircraft of some sort, undergoing a night flight, or
> night test. An unmanned aircraft could not be relied upon so much as a
> piloted one to turn away to avoid a collision, and so the UAV operator has
> marked his craft as being effectively a moving aeronautical hazard,
> incapable of avoiding another flier. Many UAVs are used for military
> observation and are designed to make little noise, so you could not hear the
> UAV engine, and at the same time, a UAV would likely move at a different
> speed than most aircraft, further confusing the perceived distance from the
> ground and adding to the satellite-like effect.
>
> It is particularly unlikely that the red light was either a satellite or
> even a very high-altitude plane for two reasons. First, to be seen from the
> ground, an artificial light source would necessarily have needed to be very
> powerful. Second, the reflected light from a high-altitude craft when seen
> on the ground is normally white, giving a bright shiny appearance, no matter
> what the color of the aircraft. The SR-71 spyplane for example, was a dark
> matte black, but appeared shiny from the ground.
>
> Best,
>
> Daniel
MT writes:
Yes, a truly simple yet brilliantly
reasoned solution. I am in you debt
Daniel! Always an interesting
cognitive experience to get that
"AhHaH!" blast of light to clear
out the murky shadows of irrational
ignorance. And here I had a link on my
Traversing Singularity Barriers ^ Aeronautics
page entitled: "Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Gallery"
http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/travel04.htm
which should have got me thinking, but not realizing
that UAVs traverse such familiar local skies, my
mindgland skipped a beat, so kudos & thanks!
--MT - 06_Nov_2006_CE - " T r i p t y c h "
http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/magiboom.htm
________________________________________
<| Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 19:21:09 -0800
<| From: brad smith <chair@thule.org>
<| Organization: Thule Foundation
<| http://www.thule.org/
<>
<> brad smith wrote:
<>
<> > In case you had not thought of it.
<> > The crop circles are made by low orbit satellite ion beam weapon.
<> > The boys at NRO laugh their asses off when they get the feedback from
<> > disinformation specialists like Linda Howe (remember the supposed animal
<> > mutilations done by aliens? NOT merely our teams in black helicopters
<> > sampling various flesh from animals exposed to fallout from downwind
<> > testing of nuclear weapons.
<> > Any other questions about things done by phony "aliens" I can answer
<> > poste haste.
<> > Creating belief in "aliens" on Earth has been the biggest mind control
<> > project since MK-ULTRA.
<> > There is intelligent life out there. It's so intelligent it hasn't come
<> > here recently.
MT writes:
Just wait until the artificially intelligent
central processing units piloting the
unmanned aerial vehicles develop sentient
consciousness... --MT-06_Nov_2006_CE
http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/sectoid2.htm
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Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 02:56:27 +0000
From: "Gary G. Ford" <swimp@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: " T r i p t y c h " http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/magiboom.htm
[...]
Meanwhile, Up the UAVs
of Wild Futures' Scenarios!
And as I have once and always said,
many times over, in fact ...
"Green Turtles, HO! And don't stop
until we reach that unfathomable place
of Instinct Navigation Surging,
Insight Progenation Merging,
with the Crimsoned GOLD of Ageless Time
before the Stories of the Universe
were told!"
Gary, Mighty Maniac
Gary Gene Ford - swimp@shaw.ca
http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/magiboom.htm
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>> "Gary G. Ford" <swimp@shaw.ca> wrote:
>>
>> > Marcus Chronos! ... I visited the 'Time Tunnel'
>> > part (and I do remember the Series, which I saw
>> > in the 1990's) ...
>> >
>> > Happy Glowing Wicker Cages, aaaaa ... it burns!
>> >
>> > Suddenly, with a penetrating clarity far greater
>> > than the echoing crap at an 1960's airport or a
>> > 1950 fifties train_station, AN INSIDE VOICE SAID,
>> >
>> > "Deep Space Transport System - Now Departing!"
>> >
>> > I rose with excitement between the two vertical
>> > antennas, in my ordinary couch cloths, tee-shirt
>> > and boxer shorts ... Up, faster into the Night
>> > Sky, on an Invisible elevator to the STARS,
>> > and then the spell broke, I trembled in fear,
>> > stopped, and fell a long ways back into life
>> > and wakeness ...
>> >
>> > In my dreams of greatest fear, I spin in the end,
>> > gripping the marry-go-'round with all my might,
>> > lest I become flung to the ground so very far below.
>> >
>> > I was not the first time, THEY tried to trick me
>> > into departing forever my position as family head,
>> > to abandon my responsibilities, and I doubted it
>> > would be the LAST ...
>> >
>> > READ, PLEASE, "STAR BRIDGE" by Williamson and Gunn, 1955.
>> > Golden threads link the Stars entangled in the Empire of
>> > Eron, and any one who fell in one of the Tunnels at the
>> > Station End could be 300 light years away in a screaming
>> > 3 hour fall.
>> >
>> > Like TimeSpace Warped Links, the Massive Tunnels, big
>> > enough inside for the Standard SPACE LINER, taper to
>> > the width of a Golden Thread as they stretch onward
>> > to the outbound ports.
>> >
>> > They have "done it to my head" and I shall not know when
>> > next I'll return, IT Thought ... perhaps that dream of my
>> > waiting 100,000 years in low power stasis/slumber as a
>> > Machine Intelligence on the Moon was a real tale of truth?
>> >
>> > Above Jupiter I float in the Capsule,
>> > and here but for the grace of God,
>> > I may soon go, again!
>> >
>> > Fluctuating DREAMS ahead, O GREAT ONE!
>> >
>> > "Be silly and wise, shuddup!" says back
>> > the Torrential Thinking FORCE Of the
>> > UNIVERSAL SLUG - "or Maryann might not
>> > forgive you, next time around, again."
>> >
>> > Abraxas softened to an internal melt the
>> > consistency of taffy already chewed.
>> >
>> > He wavered, and fell through the port
>> > into ... Black NOTHINGNESS - was THIS
>> > his End?!
>> >
>> > GGF, swimp@shaw.ca - 2006 NOV 01
>> > PS: Have you been reading your MAIL?
>>
>> Alas... my 'puter access has been far flung & myriad,
>> peculiar operating systems and a jungle of strange
>> browsers, making my neurological interfaces rare,
>> incomplete, and non local... Alas.
>> http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/neurwrld.htm
>>
>> > MT wrote:
>> >
>> > > It's sequential vs. simultaneous
>> > > incarnations in this spotlight:
>> > > http://www.trufax.org/matrix5/welcome.html
>> > > Depiction of Higher Self in Simultaneous Mode
>> > > [...]
>> > > "... The Gold Edition also contains an additional
>> > > new color graphic depicting Higher Selves in
>> > > sequential mode, where all of us who now have
>> > > simultaneous processes originally began,
>> > > before our choice to go simultaneous. ..."
>> > > http://www.trufax.org/matrix5/welcome.html
>> > >
>> > > Happy Samhain!
>> > > http://www.ucc.ie/fecc/samhain.html
>> > > http://www.wicca.com/celtic/akasha/samhainlore.htm
>> > >
>> > > "The size of the universe
>> > > is no more depressing
>> > > than the size of a cow."
>> > > -- David Deutsch
>> > > http://www.qubit.org/people/david/
>> > >
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > ...
>> THE ELEPHANT AND THE EVENT HORIZON
>> <http://email.newscientist.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/nxDr0MXanM0VlQ0DVDh0E2>
>> [...]
>> The answer Susskind has come up with is - you guessed it - both.
>> The elephant is both inside and outside the black hole; the
>> answer depends on who you ask. "What we've discovered
>> is that you cannot speak of what is behind the horizon and
>> what is in front of the horizon," Susskind says.
>> "Quantum mechanics always involves replacing 'and'
>> with 'or'. Light is waves or light is particles, depending
>> on the experiment you do. An electron has a position
>> or it has a momentum, depending on what you measure.
>> The same is happening with black holes. Either we
>> describe the stuff that fell into the horizon in terms of
>> things behind the horizon, or we describe it in terms
>> of the Hawking radiation that comes out."
>>
>> Wait a minute, you might think. Maybe there are
>> two copies of the information. Maybe when the
>> elephant hits the horizon, a copy is made, and
>> one version comes out as radiation while the
>> other travels into the black hole. However,
>> a fundamental law called the no-cloning theorem
>> precludes that possibility. If you could duplicate
>> information, you could circumvent the uncertainty
>> principle, something nature forbids. As Susskind
>> puts it, "There cannot be a quantum Xerox machine."
>> So the same elephant must be in two places at once:
>> alive inside the horizon and dead in a
>> heap of radiating ashes outside.
>>
>> The implications are unsettling, to say the least.
>> Sure, quantum mechanics tells us that an object's
>> location can't always be pinpointed. But that applies
>> to things like electrons, not elephants, and it usually
>> spans tiny distances, not light years. It is the large
>> scale that makes this so surprising, Susskind says.
>> In principle, if the black hole is big enough, the two
>> versions of the same elephant could be separated
>> by billions of light years. "People always thought
>> quantum ambiguity was a small-scale phenomenon,"
>> he adds. "We're learning that the more quantum
>> gravity becomes important, the more huge-scale
>> ambiguity comes into play."
>> [...] http://tinyurl.com/yjzxvb
>> --
>> Gary Gene Ford - swimp@shaw.ca
>> http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/magiboom.htm
>>
>> [QUOTE]
>> Off the Shelf--"Star Bridge"
>> By Marcus Pan
>> http://www.legendsmagazine.net/141/starbr.htm
>>
>> By far one of the better futuristic science fiction novels I've read,
>> the duo of Jack Williamson and James E. Gunn's Star Bridge
>> is one I highly recommend to anyone even vaguely interested
>> in many genres. Fans of space dramas (Star Trek, Star Wars, etc.)
>> would enjoy the character of Horn and the elusive Mr. Wu.
>> Those that like futuristic displays of community (Demolished Man(1),
>> Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep(2), etc.) would find a lot to
>> enjoy in the society of Golden Folk and the Cluster. Adventure
>> seekers (Bio of a Space Tyrant(3), Flinx in Flunx(4) & Orphan Star, etc.)
>> would enjoy the active rebellion that brings down the empire of Eron.
>> There are other genres besides included here: psychology (fans of
>> Gene Wolfe), hard science fiction (fans of Isaac Asimov)...but you
>> get the idea.
>>
>> Star Bridge is a short novel, barely crossing 200 pages in its
>> paperback form. And while it holds a copyright that goes back
>> to 1955 it is uniquely advanced for its time and doesn't lose
>> any semblance of charm the way other science fiction novels
>> might after nearly fifty years. It was very enjoyable to read.
>>
>> The basis of the novel revolves around commerce and
>> communication. One of the great hurdles to mankind's
>> reaches into space is time itself. How can you build an
>> empire that stretches out light years if it takes a generation
>> to get there? While colonies can spring, after many years'
>> time, there's almost no chance of commerce, trade and
>> cultural exchange between these colonies -- which is the
>> basis of an empire. The scientists of one great company,
>> Eron, develop a means of transportation that converts this
>> problem into a solution -- for them. The Tubes, golden strands
>> of non-space that travel between worlds like great pipelines
>> of trade. The secret of the Tubes is kept closely guarded and
>> known only to a few high directors of the Eron corporation,
>> and by linking worlds with their Tubes Eron becomes the
>> iron handed empire that links worlds together and
>> assimilates new ones into its gut.
>>
>> Opening with Horn's travel across the barren, desert landscape
>> of Earth to the city of Sunport, where a new tube is to be opened
>> linking Eron to its newly conquered neighbor of worlds the Cluster,
>> Horn's duty is to assassinate the general manager of Eron.
>> Successful, the story picks up pace like a runaway train as
>> Horn's escape back to Eron with contingents of soldiers in
>> hot pursuit leads him to join forces with the elusive Mr. Wu and
>> his strange friend, Lil. Sucked into the very maw of the beast,
>> Horn's original assassination has put into effect the eventual
>> downfall of Eron with its leaders grasping hungrily for what
>> pieces of power are left while the empire crumbles around
>> them with all of them searching for the secret of the Tubes.
>>
>> The final confrontation between Wu and Horn sheds light
>> on a great number of things -- philosophical, practical and
>> more. While a few items throughout the book and a few
>> secrets can be eventually learned by astute readers,
>> I'm sure that many of you would find the final closing
>> chapters delightfully surprising. Once again, I recommend
>> this book to many. The Williamson and Gunn duo have
>> created a steadfast classic, regardless of age, that will
>> most likely stand for much longer without losing its
>> appeal and splendor.
>> http://www.legendsmagazine.net/141/starbr.htm
>>
>> "Star Bridge" by Jack Williamson & James E. Gunn
>> Copyright (c) 1955 by Jack Williamson & James E. Gunn
>> A Del Rey Book Published by Ballantine Books
>> ISBN: 0-345-30258-3
>> Library of Congress Catalog Card #: 55-5468
>>
>> (1) By Alfred Bester, reviewed in Legends #112.
>> (2) By Philip K. Dick, reviewed in Legends #97.
>> (3) By Piers Anthony, reviewed in Legends #120.
>> (4) By Alan Dean Foster, reviewed in Legends #119.
>> http://www.legendsmagazine.net/141/starbr.htm
>>
>> [ 9 ] [ 8 ] [ 7 ] [ 6 ] [ 5 ] [ 4 ] [ 3 ] [ 2 ] [ 1 ] [ 0 ]
>> http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/runes_mt.htm
>>
>> Abraxas Ponders Final Extinction:
>> http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/abraxas0.htm
>>
>> "Andrea Ghez" featured in:
>> "Monster of the Milky Way"
>> http://www.astro.ucla.edu/~ghez/
>>
>> Monster of the Milky Way
>> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blackhole/
They say "Everything's all right"
They say "Better days are near"
They tell us "These are the good times"
They don't live around here - Warren Zevon
Back to Skinwalker Ranch. And let's jump right into it.
http://www.huntfortheskinwalker.com/links.html
http://www.huntfortheskinwalker.com/
Perhaps the strangest and most provocative aspect
to the story is that of the "orange structure" which
often appeared low in the ranch's western sky and
was allegedly viewed by all members of the Gorman
family on dozens of occasions. (The family name is
actually Sherman, but they're pseudonymously
identified in Colm Kelleher and George Knapp's
Hunt for the Skinwalker). It was nearly perfectly round,
though it appeared flattened rather than spherical.
(It's appearance changed according to the angle at
which it was viewed. On one occasion of its appearance
Tom Gorman, the father, was driving off of the property,
and approached it from the side. As he did, it seemed
to thin until it was undetectable, as if it were
two-dimensional. Though even that doesn't do justice
to the strangeness, since it could not be seen from
the opposite direction.)
When he observed it through binoculars long after
the sun had set, Tom claimed he could see, in the
middle of the orange mass, "another sky." A blue
sky, while the ranch's sky was black. Kelleher and
Knapp write that "Tom felt like it could have been a
tear or a rent in the sky about a mile away, and
through the rent he could see a different world or
perhaps a different time.... For Gorman, this was
a rare glimpse into what might actually be
happening on his property."
On two nights particular while Tom observed the
orange structure its "other sky" was not visible;
its centre instead had the appearance of multiple
layers of an onion that receded from him.
As he watched, he saw a "fast-moving black
object that was silhouetted perfectly against
the bright orange background." It was moving
rapidly through the centre of the structure and
soon exited, silently, into the Utah night sky,
where Gorman soon lost sight of it.
http://www.huntfortheskinwalker.com/
http://www.huntfortheskinwalker.com/links.html
MaGiBoOm! http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/magiboom.htm
>
> ***************************************************
> From: George Paxinos <geopax@bluewin.ch>
> To: MT <mthorn@ix.netcom.com
> Cc: "Gary G. Ford" <swimp@shaw.ca>, Andrea Ghez <ghez@astro.ucla.edu>
> Subject: Re: HAPPY Samhain! -- 31 Oct. '06 CE --
> [Re: Several Places at ONE TIME, What about Several TIMES
> at One Place, & The Star-Mangled Spanner - STAR BRIDGES
> Date: Nov 2, 2006 3:25 AM
>
> Thanks, Gary and MT!
>
> As I told you on the phone, Gary, a long time ago, in 1968, I had an
> inspiration on my second day in Europe, as I was traveling on a late
> afternoon on the Acropolis Express Train in Northern Greece on my way to
> Germany, a 2-day trip. I think it may have been July 31st or August 1st.
>
> There was a great electrical storm brewing over in the distance and coming
> closer, and the air was loaded with electricity, while I thought about the
> classical Adamski-type UFO saucer, photographed by him in CA and also by a
> kid in CONISTON, ENGLAND, who had not extended the bellows on his little
> Brownie or Kodak or whatever camera completely, but LEONARD G CRAMP wrote
> SPACE, GRAVITY AND THE FLYING SAUCER, back in the 19502 I think, and
> presented orthographic drawings of both objects, concluding they were one and
> the same in relative dimensions, indeed, the very same object.
>
> The fact that there were no portholes between the 3 "undercarriage balls"
> and what appeared to be a discharge ball on top of the cabin - the later, likely
> faked German "Nazi-UFO" pix did not have this ball, so could not fly,
> all BS - and I assumed : there perhaps being a space-time field around the thing,
> interacting somehow with the ether? What the design looked like was :
>
> 1. AN ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE ran up between lower balls and upper ball
> SELECTIVELY FOR SPATIAL ORIENTATION, and
>
> 2. The portholes had therefore to be laterally displaced from its most-direct path.
>
> 3. Therefore I postulated a certain type of VORTEX-FIELD around the craft
> which would INTERACT with the ETHER - [of which I was always convinced, my
> Physics lecturers and peers in Physics 1 in 1964, University of Natal, Durnban,
> notwithstanding - "SHUT UP, PAXINOS! - SIT DOWN, PAXINOS! - IT HAS
> BEEN REFUTED BY THE MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT OF 1892 (?)"
> - (STAATCTRIO - Sod Them All And The Camel They Rode In On)] -
> and so I worked out the intuitive maxima of that idea field and while in
> Berlin for a few days tried I think 15 libraries for Cramp's book, all to no avail,
> even the US Forces' Libraries - at all of which I got some strange looks, indeed -
> A UFO KOOK! - with the exception of one beautiful, long-brown-haired and gorgeous
> German girl about my age in one library, who smiled and said her Uncle was interested
> in UFOs - [should have proposed to her on the spot - which I did not! - schmuck
> and schlemihl that I am!].
>
> Anyway, to make a short story longer, asked the British Consular Library in
> Athens to get me photostats of the pertinent pages out of Cramp's book from
> the British Library in London, which they did, - and which came in smelling
> of ammonia because there was still some chemical process involved in
> photocopying in those days!
>
> I measured up the intuitive maxima and minima - I always traveled with a
> slide rule, a vernier slide caliper and a book of logarithms in those days! -
> and the expected measurements did not fit! - so what the hell! - sod it!
>
> Then a few weeks later curiosity made me calculate the field entirely, and the
> intuitive maxima were wrong! - they came up with a different value at an
> unexpected point - AND THESE FITTED TO WITHIN THE LIMITS OF CRAMP'S
> TOLERANCES - to around 1 part in 3000 - far as I could tell.
>
> Now Adamski's "Motherships" had been BUILT in SECTIONS and looked
> like some utilitarian device which could be shortened or lengthened at will by
> removing or adding sections, something likely build not out where gravitational
> forces were negligent or in free fall, as one might suspect would be the case in
> a continuous hull, but on Earth and then transported out in sections and
> assembled there.
>
> Also, Adamski had seen people SITTING at what he thought back in the 1950s
> (see his INSIDE THE SAPCE SHIPS) to be TELEVISION SETS - upon which swirling
> lines of colour were for ever chaging. When he asked what they were doing,
> they answered that THEY WERE MONITORING POLLUTION IN THE EARTH'S UPPER
> ATMOSPHERE [!!!] - not only was the CONCEPT OF A COMPUTER-CONSOLE UNKNOWN,
> BUT WHO in their right minds was EVEN CONSIDERING ATMOSPHERIC - ESPECIALLY
> HIGH-ALTITUDE - POLLUTION, back in the 1950s??????
>
> Their table-drink was a sort of SLIGHTLY-OILY-FEEL PURE WATER - and the
> polywater idea came out much later ... so I presumed he had seen something he
> did not understand at the time and which we could only correlate into our own
> experience later.
>
> I then did another thing : I inverted the field's parameters of origin and
> unfoldment - and came up with a funnel of solid rotation about a
> longitudinal axis, thinning asymptotically to infinity, whose main slope at
> the point of the critical value of the first calculated field's generation
> approximated almost exactly the slope on the front-end and rear-end truncated
> cones on Adamski's "Motherships" [!!!].
>
> Postulate : The "motherships' " front-end cone generated a collapsing
> vortex field tending asymptotically to infinity, and they were sucked down it,
> reemerging by the application of a braking-field generated by the rear cone?
>
> Well, it is a long time ago, my papers are in the bank somewhere, have not
> seen them in my mess in many years now, and everyone I tried to interest in
> the matter back then thought me crazy ... STAATCTRIO, Amen.
>
> I hope, as wonderful Eric Idle sang in the final lines of his "Universe Song"
> in "The Meaning of Life" :
>
> "And pray that there's intelligent life SOMEWHERE up in space ...
> Because there's bugger-all of it down here on Earth!"
>
> George
> ***************************************************
>
> From: "Gary G. Ford" <swimp@shaw.ca>
> To: geopax@bluewin.ch
> Cc: MT <mthorn@ix.netcom.com>, Andrea Ghez <ghez@astro.ucla.edu>, majorstar@aol.com,
> Stan Friedman <fsphys@rogers.com>, "Greg Lunt, JD " <greglunt@yahoo.com>,
> Mark Thornally <mthornally@yahoo.com>, Thorn Alley <thornalley2002@yahoo.co.uk>,
> zerdo <zerdo@cox.net>, Stephen <esteban@goodfelloweb.com>,
> Allan Safarik <crane@sasktel.net>
> Subject: Re: HAPPY Samhain! -- 31 Oct. '06 CE -- [Re: Several Places at
> ONE TIME, What about Several TIMES at One Place ...
> Date: Nov 2, 2006 6:23 AM
>
> George,
>
> as I have said to you before, instead of his
> being a either a Total Fraud, a 'Wing Nit' or
> a Chicken Brooder Using Stand Up Comic, perhaps
> Adamski had contacted personages from a slightly
> different Solar System linked with ours through
> a shift in an extra dimension - or two - wherein
> their 'Venus' ISN'T a Hot Hell Hole as is Ours,
> and their 'Mars' and some of 'Jupiter' or 'Saturn'
> (the Doppelgangers, of course, NOT OURS!)'s Moons
> aren't so damned frozen as Ours, EITHER?!
>
> Then he could have been Wrong (for OUR Solar System)
> without REALLY being 'WRONG' for Theirs?!
>
> And perhaps the Pollution the Monitors were showing
> was Nuclear Fallout, which Mrs. and Linus Pauling were
> very concerned about IN THE EARLY FIFTIES (costing the
> Nobelist credit for the structure of DNA when Crick and
> Watson turned their young male sexual charm against a
> Woman Assistant of Pauling s [she had also been a leaky
> mail correspondent with the males) AND LET THEM VIEW the
> X-Ray Defraction photo which Pauling's British Associate
> had made with a sample which Pauling had sent him, which
> viewing within the scope of the Night would tip Crick and
> Watson to the TRUE Double (rather than Pauling's tentative
> triple, Alpha-Helix Mimic, which he was supposing) Helix
> structure of Crystallized DNA, BEFORE she even delivered
> the Photo Back to Pauling! Ah, Women of Wormwood fame!
>
> Yes, perhaps the Alien UFONAUTS in fact had entered through
> tears in somekind of Space-Time "isolation membrane" which
> separates "parallel Universes" Electromagnetically from each
> other - I am thinking of my old "KRAFT Individually Wrapped
> Cheese Slices" packs Idea, with each wrapped Slice of Cheese
> as a figure of a Parallel Universe "Sheet"?!?!???????
>
> An Old Cosmic Joke of Mine Portrait for our Total Universe.
>
> The latter Idea was 'confirmed' to my satisfaction when my sons
> Conan and Nathan and I together witnessed a visually terribly
> dynamic and flashing, yet curiously yellow-dimmed, as if from
> seeing sun-darkened Plastic Sheeting (I remembered Uncle Gerry's
> Red Mercury Hot Rod Convertible car which he left with my dad,
> and which broke down with a broken "rear end" and my father
> callously abandoned to Uncle Gerry's Rage when he found out,
> the Plastic 'Ising Glass' rear window, all Sun Yellowed), AN
> APPARENT THUNDERSTORM, quite different from Loud ones we get,
> with NO AUDIBLE SOUND but plenty of Radio Interference, and also
> totally without Rain although a foggy mist seemed about, perhaps
> precipitated by a leaking strong EM Field through a torn barrier,
> which experience and events I suspected was of a violent event
> in a very near-by Universe, violent enough to somewhat penetrate
> the Normal "Isolation" membrane, become Viewable and Radio Noise
> detectable (EM BOTH) but Not Hearable (EM only, NO Pressure Wave
> in a Continuous Media of Matter, leaking in THAT event) ...
>
> So, Lo, It occurred to Me, in Presence of the Spirit of The SWIMP,
> that The Complaint which Adamski - and a few other Contactees,
> early on - seem to hear about our Nuclear Weapons Testing was NOT
> of a Planetary Nuclear War XTs suspected would come, but because
> of even sharper and more influential penetrations of Inter-Verse
> Isolation Sheets, allowing thus some of Our Parallel Universes to
> become contaminated with possibly harmful Earth DNA, as well as
> allowing some Radioactive Fallout to drop out on a few of our more
> Prissy Parallel Universe Doppelganger/Neighbors!?!?!?!
>
> Well, it was a THOUGHT which I'm sure 'THEY' are glad now I have
> dropped into the Coin Slots of your various Piggy BANK Minds ...
>
> "Alpha and Omega are leap frogging to our Cosmic Doorstep!"
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Gary, Iowan Idiot and COSMOS CHILD
> Gary Gene Ford - swimp@shaw.ca
> http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/magiboom.htm
>
>
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>
> MT wrote:
> Maestro Ford The Magnificent,
>
> Please peruse " T r i p t y c h "
> http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/magiboom.htm
> wherein find "our" recent exchanges added
> to the Schwann CyberShaman trialogues:
> http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/ggf_2006.txt
>
> Would you like me to edit this part out of the text?
> ___________________________________________________________
>
> "Yes, there WERE some Terrifying Experiences - being molested
> at age 4, being tied and left in a drainage ditch for a long
> time at age 7, persecution by my Uncle Gerry, who would lock
> me in a dark closet, hold me immobile, render me unconscious
> with a pillow over my face repeatedly; he'd hold me by ankle
> through the hole in my Maternal Grandparents' Dining Room
> ceiling from his developed bedroom antic space above - yes a
> grilled hole for former heater flue pipe to the roof - with
> more peaceful memories and experiences enough to last life
> long, like my examining sparkles in a special concrete sidewalk
> tile, bring sparks from a flint rock with a claw hammer - swell
> the burnt odor! - watching Stars in the Sky or Clouds in Day,
> Lightning from vicious Iowan Storms, caterpillars, dandelion
> fluff floating, winged seeds spinning down to ground, or in 1953
> a buzzsaw loud convocation of just emerged Cicadas under the shade
> of a large tree whose moist ground was full of emerging insects."
> ___________________________________________________________
>
> Although, it is bravely conscious of you to disclose these
> experiences as they seem to fit an unfortunate pattern that
> for some (not all) of the truly enlightened, brilliant humans
> of deep insight among us who walk the earth as bipedal
> self-referencing sentient cognitive mammals that in youth
> there were traumatic incidences which seem to springboard
> their trajectory along specific pathways of inquiry, discovery
> and genius. Still one may wonder how bright the mind to be,
> could be, sans such incidence if love and nurturing are the
> predominant launching pads? Notwithsatanding I have no doubt
> that much love has also touched your core, otherwise, you would
> not express yourself in such a warm translucent manner! Empathy,
> my friend, is always a good thing, so I ask with empathy if you
> mind my including that particular passage within the text at:
> http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/ggf_2006.txt
> [Some scary-type mad doctors might suggest that trauma opens
> interdimesional doorways within the psyches of mindglands.
> Some CIA MKULTRA type shenanigans come to mind, etc., etc...]
>
> Meanwhile, back at The Ranch...
> I am experiencing great difficulty in accessing reliable software/
> hardware geographically and temporally these days, so I apologize
> for intermittent communications. My astonished delight with your
> pixel manifestations is immeasurable, and the time delay in reading,
> pondering and responding must never be perceived as indifference.
>
> Life's a crazy bitch on steroid-hormones and employment a constant
> challenge, not to mention premature senility and my own shock at
> finding us all still apparently conscious and responsible for every
> teensy weensy minute thought and act. Whew!
>
> Later Bro. __--MT-04_Nov_2006_CE
"Gary G. Ford" <swimp@shaw.ca> wrote:
Subject: Re: " T r i p t y c h " http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/magiboom.htm
Date: Sun, 05 Nov 2006 05:46:40 +0000
Mark,
I personally have nothing I wish to hide about
my personal slightly unusual childhood, even about
the time I was hanging onto the side of a discharge
channel of a dam in California, my cries for help
ignored by my female relatives who were far too busy
gossiping (mother, grandmother, aunt, cousin, sister)
to give a damn about what a boy was yelling about,
by more mentally 'slow' uncle Donald came and grasped
my hand and pulled me up just as the final piece of
vegetation which had been holding was pulling out.
HAD 'Donald the Duck' - an unfriendly terminology my
father had for his childhood-fever-rendered, somewhat
'slow' aficionado of baked Duck and Goose - had he NOT
come to my rescue I would have fallen down the slope
into the roaring beast in the channel and become ripped
apart by the four or five foot in diameter glistening
and roaring jet of dam discharge water just as it was
breaking up with wild turbulence and forming white water
spray with the entrained air, where no longer covered
by the incompletely carried on, protective cage.
I learnt that very day the value of people which Others
maliciously regard as 'Idiots' and how their common sense
and basic empathetic humanity could play a wonderful part
in the unfolding of life!
What NEEDS to be edited in some of my stuff instead
are typos (like nonsensical word repetitions, or
Gary accidentally rendered as 'gay' recently, I saw),
that sort of thing.
I will look!
Meanwhile, I have no exact idea of what cryptogenic
occupation which takes you into dangers of the wild
and threatening portions of the Earth or Universe
at large, but one thing I feel for certain: We are
on a road to remembrance in the future, and subject
to curiosity from Mind then of their past, our past
and present, and that they may wonder deeply on how
in the hell we managed to arise and survive in a
world dedicated to abject worship of superficial
bodily superiority and bland mental conformity.
In fact, I am coming to the opinion from 'managed'
dreams and other back-of-the-mind communications
for an ability to "COME BACK AND READ OUR THOUGHTS"
so that after a 'critical mass' of web and public
mind awareness arises, with archived bonanzas for
browsing by future anthropologists who will shift
detritus of the NET and discover some of our words,
a technology or ability beyond our wildest current
imaginings can bring culturally shocked denizens
of the far future (perhaps even descendants of our
today's very Rapidly Evolving/Culturally Advancing
Georgia FIRE ANTS?), and from THERE ON, that free
of outside restraint type of communication - again
in the back of ones mind, I suspect - may occur,
something professional 'head men' (shrinkologists)
better be kept totally uninformed uninformed about.
You may also add this letter if you feel it of merit.
Remember, the Future's PAST Scientists are looking
back NOT just for deeds Mighty Slave Masters of Our
Times were doing and thinking, but what keen and
unusually creative observers were doing and thinking
despite the Great Ones' Social Mental Bowel Movements!
You may also include the previous and any other
sentences in the archive if you wish.
After all, what you have been doing and what I have
been attempting to contribute also, may prove to be
a Rosetta Stone for Future Beings; comprehension of
the tattered and torn, demon infested, boiling
cauldrons of human skulls of Our Times!
Onward, we may yet one day make a Difference!
Sincerely,
Gary, swimp@shaw.ca - Total IOWAN IDIOT, COSMOS CHILD
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MT wrote:
> 62K[+] of raw text (spell-checked) at:
> <> " T r i p t y c h " http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/magiboom.htm <>
>
> Some day, in the not too distant future, it will perhaps
> be more colorfully formatted and arranged for easier digestion,
> but for time-warping-archeologists it is {_.-.\.|./.-._} available.
> All the best! --MT-05_Nov_2006_CE
>
> P.S. Speaking of the nonexistence of past/future, I didst
> run across a bit of flotsam, to wit:
> ******************************************
> A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose,
> Dutton, October 11, 2005 ISBN 0-525-94802-3
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle
> [...]
>
> The aim of [Eckhart "Ulrich"] Tolle's teachings is
> the transformation of individual and collective
> human consciousness - a global spiritual awakening.
>
> Core teachings that appear to arise from his works are:
>
> 1. You are not your thoughts. You are the awareness
> behind the thoughts. Thoughts are often negative
> and painful, yearning for or fearing something in
> the future, complaining about something in the
> present or fearing a matter from the past.
> However, the thoughts are not you; they are a
> construct of the ego. Awareness of your thoughts
> without being caught up in them is the
> first step to freedom.
>
> 2. Only the present moment exists. That is where
> life is (indeed it is the only place life can
> truly be found). Becoming aware of the 'now'
> has the added benefit that it will draw your
> attention away from your (negative) thoughts.
> Use mindfulness techniques to fully appreciate
> your surroundings and everything you are
> experiencing. Look and listen intently.
> Give full attention to the smallest details.
>
> 3. Accept the present moment. It is resistance
> to the present moment that creates most of the
> difficulties in your life. However, acceptance
> does not mean that you cannot take action to
> rectify the situation you are in. What is
> important is to drop resistance so that you let
> the moment be, and that any action arises from
> deeper awareness rather than from resistance.
> The vast majority of pain in a person's life
> comes from resistance to what is.
>
> 4. Observe The Painbody. Years of conditioned
> thought patterns, individually and collectively,
> have resulted in habitual emotional reactions
> with an apparent personality of their own.
> During 'painbody attacks' we become completely
> identified with this 'pain identity' and
> respond from its agenda - which is to create
> more pain for ourselves and others. Observing
> the painbody is awareness itself arising - as it
> allows humans to separate from this unconscious
> identification with pain.
>
> Eckhart Tolle is not aligned with any particular
> religion or tradition.
>
> Influences which are alluded to in
> 'The Power of Now' are the writings
> of Meister Eckhart, Advaita Vedanta
> and Zen Buddhism's Lin-chi (Rinzai) school.
>
> Quotations:
>
> "Compassion is the awareness of
> a deep bond between yourself and
> all creatures."
>
> "True salvation is freedom from
> negativity, and above all from
> past and future as a
> psychological need."
>
> "Is suffering really necessary?
> Yes and no. If you had not
> suffered as you have, there would
> be no depth to you, no humility,
> no compassion."
>
> "Enlightenment means choosing to
> dwell in the state of presence
> rather than in time. It means
> saying yes to what is."
>
> "As you go about your life, don't
> give 100 percent of your attention
> to the external world and to your
> mind. Keep some within. Feel the
> inner body even when engaged in
> everyday activities, especially
> when you are relating with nature.
> Feel the stillness deep inside it.
> Keep the portal open." [...]
>
> --Eckhart "Ulrich" Tolle
> http://www.eckharttolle.com/
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eckhart_Tolle
> ******************************************
> "FORWARD INTO THE PAST!" --Firesign Theatre
> http://www.firesigntheatre.com/
>
> I N T R A P H A S E R
> http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/intraphz.htm
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Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 04:52:52 +0000
From: "Gary G. Ford" <swimp@shaw.ca>
Subject: Re: " T r i p t y c h " http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/magiboom.htm
Mark,
Thanks for the Synopsis of Tolle's Teachings!
I certainly "fight the moment" quite strongly
from time to time, for instance in my drive to
look BEYOND as well as INTO the apparent observation
phantoms which appeared before me in the first 33
years of my life, often disappearing by a reduction
to lines, separated segments, shrinking to points,
and GONE!
Most intriguing for me were NOT the Beatific or
Terrifying Experiences (Globe of Sparks searching,
finding, inflicting pain of me, Dec 1968, and the
"Roll IN from Infinity Blazing Blue White Light
jumping UP and AROUND, Folding Open My Space to
more Volume/More Seeing 'Dimensionality' ... with
dropping down through an White Tube which expanded
from a thread, Menacing Me with an Outrageous VOICE
OF GOD, saying, "I'M NOT AFRAID OF YOU - I KNOW
WHO YOU ARE!" while shadows moved as they should
when the DAZZLING LIGHT SOURCE Moved, and I glimpsed
through an expansion of vision human-like faces then
looking downward from the top of the White Walled Tube
WELL, down which the Blazing Ball had fallen and would
retract, as the Well then collapsed and retracted,
and space refolded to my normally perceived Three-D
and I lay quivering in fear, shocked, glad to have
survived, with lingering and heavy pain in my chest
for a number of weeks following ... JUST BECAUSE I
HAD ACCUSED GOD WITH SELF-RIGHTEOUS and HEART FELT
STRENGTH!!! - Did I tell you my visual field morphed
back and right with a leading cusp until it "picked
up the intense blue-white dot-at-the-edge-of-time",
then pulled back forward in the first stage advance
of the Awakened and SEEMINGLY Enraged God-Beast?!?!?!
It was February 17, 1969, at the bottom level, the
back of the house, one House East of SE Corner
of Discovery and 11th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada)
was the "Airliner Cockpit Nose and Window with two
silhouetted with Yellow Internal Light humanoid
operators looking my way, about the angular size
of an airliner, noose emerging from as veil of fog,
maybe 150 feet away. In was Spring 1969, back at
10321 Jerilynn Court, San Jose, California, 95127,
in my parent's house, where I had retreated upon
fleeing from Vancouver, leaving University of, BC
resigning my (USA) NSF Predoctoral Fellowship.
The Voices spoke clearly, One saying approximately
as I can remember, "He's not going to let us 'in'
tonight ..." and the Other saying something to the
effect, "Yeah, let's go ..." but they never have
returned to me so far as I know, lest it be only
in my dreams!
[...]
Sincerely, and with appreciation, your friend,
Gary , COSMOS CHILD!
Gary Gene Ford - swimp@shaw.ca
http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/magiboom.htm
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