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Tic Tacs, UFO's, etc.
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An intriguing long read that argues most, if not all, of the recently released video "UFO" footage is in fact of surveillance equipment deployed by other nations.
This actually makes perfect sense, and his arguments are thorough and well reasoned. Think of the technology we have available as consumers, and then imagine what resources the military (foreign & otherwise) has access to. Already we have drone swarms - used for lightshows, "fireworks", etc - (YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh3-Mvrp1Lc) - it's hardly inconceivable that the country that manufactures such wonders would keep a few for themselves and their own purposes.
Which leads me to another idea, that of the "fan hologram". (See examples on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEa7R7BRUj4). Consider that if instead of using a fan - or, curiously enough - a series of 4 fans - the same technology was integrated into the the propellers of a drone. You could then project the illusion of a moving - spaceship or flying saucer. And think - replace the led lights with colored led diode lasers and you could create the illusion of an alien ship far larger than the drone. Focus the lasers inward to create a cone - or outward to create the illusion of a bigger "Mother Ship" - remember "Close Encounters .." and think that the technology exists already, if not to create the spaceships, then to certainly create a very convincing facsimile.
Also consider the possibilities of dynamic light mapping onto chaff or balloons.
The possibilities are limited only by ones imagination.
So, given the technology exists here on earth, in probably a far greater state of realization than I have imagined or described, and you'll see that no extra-terrestrial origins are necessary for any of the more recent "UFO" sightings. What is surprising is how perfectly mundane most of them have been.
The Great Meteor Hunt
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Tuesday, moving into the new temporary digs in Nelson. Weird, actually living in town - but, a beautiful space, wrap-around windows, a waterfall, gas stove (!!! and what a treat this is!), only for a week but I'll be sure to enjoy it.
Tuesday night the boy comes in from Sun Peaks - finished his job at the ski hill, now a month off before he goes tree planting.
We catch up.
Wednesday, what to do? Lockdowns, and we're all broke. Give him a choice - head off to gather some crystals at the new location, or maybe go search for the Boswell Meteor...
He chooses the Boswell Meteor hunt.
Now, I should have advised against this. The meteor hunt, this is metal detector work, long hours of swinging a metal detector with not a signal in sight. This is mind-numbingly boring. Maybe if you smoked some ganja it would be better, but I'm not sure. I've watched the YouTube videos of prospectors in Arizona, Australia, looking for nuggets in the desert, their entire 2 weeks can be condensed into 30 minutes, yes, they dig up some great finds, but there's a lot of days where they dig up nothing, and they're in the desert...
This is grueling.
An hour passes, nada, not a thing, double checking the metal detector over your boots just to hear a signal. Any signal.
But - things are about to change.
What is clearly a piece of alien ship. Large, heavy.
Hmmm.
Hmmmm
The story becomes clear. This was no meteor, this was an attempt by a highly advanced space-faring civilization to make first contact. An attempt that left a debris field scattered all over the western Kootenays, and likely ended with the aliens having their ass blasted back to Saturn by some of the more no-nonsense locals.
We go down to Garland Bay to detect a bit more - to perhaps find all the lost Patek Philippe's and Rolex's and Diamond Rings lost by the beach goers of Riondel, but it ends up much the same. Lots of Space Debris, very few Rolex's and Patek Philippes.
Although the beach gravel, in the light rain, was more than spectacular...
Which ends the day and all the good work of taking the boy up Crystal Mountain has been undone by taking him on this Meteor hunting expedition, and I'm now obliged to go out and find it just to prove it can be done...
Kootenay Co-op Radio
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Have to recommend this. In Alberta, it was CKUA, although seldom did I ever really like their music I appreciated that it was local. Local to Alberta.
Kootenay Co-op, it's local to the Kootenay's, more specifically Nelson. And the DJ's, while not nearly as professional as those on other stations, are a lot more interesting, as is their choice in music. Which is their charm. Found myself rivetted more than a few nights driving home after a long day up the mountain/down in the valley, their music just struck a chord.
Listen here: https://www.kootenaycoopradio.com/
Smoky Mountain
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Monday, an early start, back to the Smoky Mountain. On the 6:30 Ferry to the East Shore. The Ferry, packed with Alberta Plates. Me and Chris, we're the only BC Plates on it, and this - when the locals are advised to minimize travel, are under lockdown - it's infuriating. Albertans have a bad reputation, but has any other province ever worked so hard for it? Fucking Albertans. I'll come back to that, another post, I promise.
We make the site, begin the dig. Frantic shoveling, sifting dirt, repeat. Some good finds, large crystals, some an inch and a half wide, 3 to 4 inches long. But no great quantities, of digging, cutting through roots, tossing 100 pound boulders down the mountain. This is OK, but the motherlode isn't here. Maybe close.
Chris finds an old pipe - maybe 140 years old, more even, in some of the dirt he's sifting. Small bowl, missing the mouthpiece. Cool.
A long day, shoveling, sifting, then home, clean up the finds:
The photos are poor. The crystals - big, but - well, not enough, and I've found better. The good crystal shapes can advertise the cut-and-polished stones, which might be the way to approach it, but - I'm thinking -next trip, more pick-axe - less shovel, less grief with the roots and topsoil, and it will get me into the bedrock a lot quicker. And more walking around and exploring, because for sure we haven't gotten into the good stuff, these are just the early showings...
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