Yeah I'm a proponent of the Michio Kaku idea that they will be disguised as the laws of physics themselves. Something about the way light is probabilistic in how it behaves makes me wonder about super advanced computers being formed from storm clouds
Very cool. Sadly, no UFOs nor ball lightning for me. But when my mom was a child, ball lightning traversed her father's outdoor shortwave antenna wire and entered their house, an event they found very...exciting.
Thanks Jeff. Ball lightning is a fascinating thing. I stopped seeing it when I moved away from the trainlines but I've known people who have seen it in remote places. The weirdest electricity related thing I've done was 'echolocate' a missing camera battery on a beach, by following where I thought green waves of light were coming from.
I've got synaesthesia so I imagine the static feeling from the battery (no other tech on the beach with us) mixed in my brain to turn into visual stimulus. This was my theory with the ball lightning initially, but when other people saw it too, I began to look into it more.
In WWII ball lightning showed up during plane skirmishes and were called Foo Fighters.
I figured, but I've not heard much of Eno on his own so I always presumed his own stuff would be massively different. It's interesting now to know how much influence he had on it
When I was ten I was riding in the back seat with my Dad and Mother riding in the front one time we were going to visit my Mother's parents. It was just after dusk and the country road we were on wound around hills. Suddenly, my dad stopped the car and both of them started exclaiming "it's a UFO!" and to me "Look at that". So looking at the lights that were 'moving' around, apparently up higher than we were... I saw a tractor with poles mounted on the back (on each fender I think) that was up on the hillside moving around and changing course. It was so dark and there were clouds that the hillside and horizon / sky blended into each other but I COULD tell that we were beside a hill. I said "That's not anything in the sky, that's a tractor with lights" and both of them told me no, it's a real UFO and that we were seeing something amazing. They weren't acting, they really believed it and were excited. The tractor turned off the bright lights and left on the regular front lights and went over the hill, I could see it fairly well. We went on to Grandma's and my parents were telling everyone there that we'd seen a UFO. That's when I decided my parents were crazy and for the rest of my life took everything they said with a bit of scepticism Note that my dad was a NASA rocket engineer and my mother was a successful business woman with several profitable companies she'd started along with being a pilot SO BOTH WERE NOT DUMMIES but both were fooled into seeing something that wasn't true.
Interesting story, glad you added about their careers because all too often people presume those who are easily led into believing these things are dumb, when in fact they are often the opposite.
I don't know if it got debunked but there was a study some years back that showed a correlation between IQ and a belief in UFOs/Ghosts. I wonder if some religiosity, if a need to see fantastical things, grips everyone equally. So what people don't get from religion they'll find elsewhere.
I saw a train track fixing machine (don't know the name for them) the first time and in my half asleep state thought that was a UFO. They rolled onto the tracks at 2am, all flashing lights and silhouetted figures. Very creepy for a teen invested in the X Files!
At dinner, outside. I saw a silver disc floating far out in the sky. It shot off faster than anything I've ever seen
Do you think we'll find out what they are in our lifetime?
I sure hope so, but they're probably so advanced that they may always elude our sight
Yeah I'm a proponent of the Michio Kaku idea that they will be disguised as the laws of physics themselves. Something about the way light is probabilistic in how it behaves makes me wonder about super advanced computers being formed from storm clouds
Very cool. Sadly, no UFOs nor ball lightning for me. But when my mom was a child, ball lightning traversed her father's outdoor shortwave antenna wire and entered their house, an event they found very...exciting.
Thanks Jeff. Ball lightning is a fascinating thing. I stopped seeing it when I moved away from the trainlines but I've known people who have seen it in remote places. The weirdest electricity related thing I've done was 'echolocate' a missing camera battery on a beach, by following where I thought green waves of light were coming from.
I've got synaesthesia so I imagine the static feeling from the battery (no other tech on the beach with us) mixed in my brain to turn into visual stimulus. This was my theory with the ball lightning initially, but when other people saw it too, I began to look into it more.
In WWII ball lightning showed up during plane skirmishes and were called Foo Fighters.
Fascinating. There's also the related phenomenon of St. Elmo's Fire, which Brian Eno wrote a song about: https://youtu.be/AZKch8dZ61w
Not heard this one yet! Feels a bit like Bowie's LOW album :D
There may be a reason for that!
I figured, but I've not heard much of Eno on his own so I always presumed his own stuff would be massively different. It's interesting now to know how much influence he had on it
Likewise on the Talking Heads LPs Eno produced. He was the fifth Talking Head.
When I was ten I was riding in the back seat with my Dad and Mother riding in the front one time we were going to visit my Mother's parents. It was just after dusk and the country road we were on wound around hills. Suddenly, my dad stopped the car and both of them started exclaiming "it's a UFO!" and to me "Look at that". So looking at the lights that were 'moving' around, apparently up higher than we were... I saw a tractor with poles mounted on the back (on each fender I think) that was up on the hillside moving around and changing course. It was so dark and there were clouds that the hillside and horizon / sky blended into each other but I COULD tell that we were beside a hill. I said "That's not anything in the sky, that's a tractor with lights" and both of them told me no, it's a real UFO and that we were seeing something amazing. They weren't acting, they really believed it and were excited. The tractor turned off the bright lights and left on the regular front lights and went over the hill, I could see it fairly well. We went on to Grandma's and my parents were telling everyone there that we'd seen a UFO. That's when I decided my parents were crazy and for the rest of my life took everything they said with a bit of scepticism Note that my dad was a NASA rocket engineer and my mother was a successful business woman with several profitable companies she'd started along with being a pilot SO BOTH WERE NOT DUMMIES but both were fooled into seeing something that wasn't true.
Interesting story, glad you added about their careers because all too often people presume those who are easily led into believing these things are dumb, when in fact they are often the opposite.
I don't know if it got debunked but there was a study some years back that showed a correlation between IQ and a belief in UFOs/Ghosts. I wonder if some religiosity, if a need to see fantastical things, grips everyone equally. So what people don't get from religion they'll find elsewhere.
I saw a train track fixing machine (don't know the name for them) the first time and in my half asleep state thought that was a UFO. They rolled onto the tracks at 2am, all flashing lights and silhouetted figures. Very creepy for a teen invested in the X Files!