But People WANT To Believe
and if they want to believe, truth isn’t going to get in the way.
“UFO cover used by government to ‘hide a lot of things,’ former NASA agent says“
To accept the idea of visitors from other solar systems is to disbelieve the basis of physics as we know and practice it.
Sure the government hints at the existence of “UFOs” … and I’ve no doubt UFOs exist – UFO being an acronym for “Unidentified Flying Object“
“Hey! What’s that flying around up there?” “I don’t know” … is a UFO.
Even if it’s actually your neighbor’s kid playing with a drone.
One good region to see UFOs is between Tonopah, Nevada and Edwards AFB … the valleys along Death Valley. Lots of strange unidentified stuff buzzing around through there.
Star Trek, Star Wars, Dune, et al are all science fiction.
If you see a UFO, someone somewhere – Peking, Moscow, DC – already knows about it. And they’re from Planet Earth.
Back in the early eighties, I was talking to an engineer about wonders of modern telephone communications. He stated the technology was developed in the late fifties, and there was no telling what technology was being developed at the time. Considering the time since then, the boom in technology, and the creativity of humans, I have no doubt what people consider as alien craft are projects developed on Earth. Whether some of it will be revealed in my lifetime is not known. Such technology is dangerous, and mostly avaricious humans are untrustworthy.
Happy Father’s Day!!!
Gonna work in the garden just a bit. A rabbit mowed down all my beans. I am going to move a volunteer tomato to a better spot. Pull up some weeds. Looks like a volunteer chili is coming up next to one of the razed beans. I will let that develop and see what happens.
Head to the gun range later with my son. Maybe have a tall glass of wine tonight and watch a movie with my good wife.
Jess, the advancement of the cell phone has been dramatic in the past decade. Let’s see what develops ongoing.
Back in the 18th and 19th centuries UFO’s looked like wicker baskets and ropes.
Getting back to the other day’s topic and in honor of Father’s Day, an
easily understood poem:
Those Winter Sundays
Robert Hayden 1913-1980
Sundays too my father got up early
and put his clothes on in the blue black cold,
then with cracked hands that ached
from labor in the weekday weather made
banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him.
I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking.
When the rooms were warm, he’d call,
and slowly I would rise and dress,
fearing the chronic angers of that house.
Speaking indifferently to him,
who had driven out the cold
and polished my good shoes as well.
What did I know, what did I know
of love’s austere and lonely offices?
Nice.
We had to move into an old cabin for two years. No running water, but we did have a wood stove.DH would get up, get the wood, start the water for coffee every morning before coming in to wake me up! Those days most of the winter days hovered between -20 and 20f. I am a lucky girl! One morning I got up and my lipstick and face cream were still frozen to the counter!
I am a lucky girl!
I graduated from Roswell High in 1973. There was no talk whatsoever of aliens. That didn’t start up until 1982 when “The Roswell Incident” was published. My mom read it and said, “WTF? Read this.” So I read it and it was all quite a surprise. I knew people mentioned in that book. I painted signs for Lt. Walter Haut who wrote the headline in the Roswell Daily Record, back in 1947 when the alien’s spacecraft crashed. Walter opened an art gallery in 1975 and didn’t say a word about aliens to me. I painted a spoof of the most famous painting in Roswell… “The Gate and Beyond” by Peter Hurd. He was married to Henriette Wyeth, Andrew’s older sister.
https://tinyurl.com/2dyxuv2k
There was a print of this painting in almost every home in Roswell. It was in the lobby of every office and hanging in every school. I wanted to earn a few bucks and make a poster that would replace it for posterity. I hope this works because every time I attempt to post a photo on this blog it’s a technical disaster. My parody it titled “the Roswell Incident… What REALLY Happened.”
LOVE the painting!