Wednesday, March 30, 2022

The Flying-Saucer and other Shapes

 https://www.theufochronicles.com/search/label/Flying%20Saucer

The disc and oval has been a very common shape since ancient times. The cylinder, cube, sphere and triangle are also very common UAP or UFO shapes.

https://www.theufochronicles.com/2021/02/the-study-of-ufos-often-presents-in.html

https://www.theufochronicles.com/search/label/UFOs

Tuesday, March 29, 2022

A scientific approach to the paranormal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8yhaFd_GpM , https://www.ted.com/talks/carrie_poppy_a_scientific_approach_to_the_paranormal?language=en 

The concept of consciousness, human or otherwise, from another dimension or plane of existence, is a difficult thing to prove. The Paranormal can be anything that is too mysterious or unproven that occasionally might intersect with this reality.

Being open minded and curious about various mysteries & anomalies is a good start. Of course being very skeptical about everything can lead to its own data filtering problems. However, conventional science can only take one to the Fringe. After that its science fiction, speculation and conjecture... Thus, to really question the nature of reality (TNOR) can lead one down many paths.

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/ghost-busted-when-science-meets-the-supernatural

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/6-possible-scientific-reasons-for-ghosts

https://www.nature.com/articles/279631a0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranormal#Anecdotal_approach

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalistics

Charles_Fort realized that the world is full of anomalies & mysteries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort#Fort_and_the_unexplained

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort#Literary_influence

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortean_Times

https://subscribe.forteantimes.com/blog


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=TNOR

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=A+scientific+approach+to+the+paranormal

Monday, March 28, 2022

An-odd-star-shaped-anomaly-in-Algeria...

 https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/video-odd-star-shaped-anomaly-in-algeria-spotted-on-google-earth

It's different and much larger than the star shape in Kazakhstan. 

https://www.livescience.com/38623-giant-pentagram-in-kazakhstan.html

https://daily.jstor.org/strange-geometric-shapes-scattered-across-middle-east

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/five-planets-most-mysterious-geoglyphs-180962917/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2016/07/11/8-photos-prove-earth-anomaly/?sh=7238e4421707


https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=shapes

https://desertshapes.blogspot.com/search?q=mysterious+shapes



UFOs and UAP: History, sightings and mysteries

 https://www.space.com/ufos-uap-history-sightings-mysteries

There have been cases of UFO sightings and even encounters since ancient times.

https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/Prelimary-Assessment-UAP-20210625.pdf

But how do you tell the general public that this world might be like someones farm or laboratory?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2019/09/18/those-ufo-videos-are-real-navy-says-please-stop-saying-ufo

How do you inform people that some of the UAP might be part of an ongoing, WAR IN THE THE HEAVENS since ancient times?

https://www.uapmedia.uk/articles/uapshapes

https://medium.com/inside-the-simulation What if this world is part of a cosmic simulation? 

For many people, just science or just religion doesn't account for everything. Perhaps there is something in between myths & legends, science & fiction that can expand ones overall perspective of things.

https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2022-03-27-show

It's called, having an open mind that is simultaneously full of curiosity.

https://www.theufochronicles.com/2007/11/uruguay-50-years-of-x-files.html


https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=UFO

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=UFO

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=UAP

Sunday, March 27, 2022

Celebrities and the Paranormal, ETc.

https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2022-03-27-show

This world & the cosmos is a very ancient & mysterious place. The notion that space might be composed of parallel-universes is mind-boggling for many people.

The Many-worlds_interpretation of reality is as vast as it implies.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-manyworlds

Throughout the ages, people have described what appears to be ghosts that walk through walls or simply vanish. UFOs that zip around, hover or seem to blink out of this reality. 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unidentified-aerial-phenomena-better-known-as-ufos-deserve-scientific-investigation/

It's all part of the UFO-ET-UAP intersection of technology, consciousness and energy. 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/ufos-uapswhatever-we-call-them-why-do-we-assume-mysterious-flying-objects-are-extraterrestrial-180978374

If intelligent life started to mature on other worlds millions of years ago, then all sorts of ET beings & A.I. tech might be exploring. 

https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/three-totally-mind-bending-implications-of-a-multidimensional-universe

Sean Carroll explains: what is the many-worlds interpretation? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_xqNDII--Q

The human perception of reality is still essentially from an earth based perspective.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-many-worlds-interpretation-of-quantum-mechanics-has-many-problems-20181018/

Parallel Worlds Probably Exist. Here’s Why https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTXTPe3wahc , https://www.youtube.com/c/veritasium/videos

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-many-worlds-theory

The Many Worlds of the Quantum Multiverse | Space Time | PBS Digital Studios https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzKWfw68M5U

If the Cosmos contains more than one Universe, then the Multiverse concept attempts to connect some of the dots and larger data-points.

The Multiverse Hypothesis Explained by Neil deGrasse Tyson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6OoaNPSZeM

https://www.livescience.com/multiverse

The Multiverse Hypothesis Explained by Brian Greene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzPqDVU9nCg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse#Classification_schemes


Ghosts, demons & monsters are usually dismissed by many people. As are UFOs & UAP technology, because its not suppose to be real. According to who?

https://www.travelchannel.com/interests/haunted/articles/13-celebrities-who-have-had-paranormal-encounters

https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/pictures/celebrity-ghost-stories-stars-supernatural-encounters-scary-20142110

https://people.com/celebrity/10-celebs-who-have-had-actual-ghost-encounters

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranormal_TV

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity_Ghost_Stories

https://www.aetv.com/shows/celebrity-ghost-stories


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan#UFOs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_(novel)

If one is very skeptical about almost everything then perhaps reading, The_Demon-Haunted_World will suffice.

However, if one is very curious about the nature of reality (TNOR) then perhaps these books might be of interest. The_Goblin_Universe and The_Holographic_Universe are fantastic entertaining and mind expanding books.

https://medium.com/inside-the-simulation


https://desertshapes.blogspot.com/search?q=Ghosts

https://desertshapes.blogspot.com/search?q=ET

https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=ET 

https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=What+Is+Consciousness

Friday, March 25, 2022

Gattaca and Beyond

 https://www.inverse.com/science/gattaca-real-science-gene-editing-crispr

Gattaca is the quintessential Sci-Fi story warning about a world becoming obsessed with people having the right DNA. Your DNA passport is required to do anything that has to be authorized. Its already built in, because in the world of Gattaca everything is run by a constant bio-metric authentication system. Gattaca could have easily been a classic episode from The_Twilight_Zone and Black_Mirror.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism#History

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism#Loss_of_human_identity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Huxley#Eugenics_and_race

Anomalies in and around Chernobyl...

 http://chernobylplace.com/anomalies-in-chernobyl

It has remained a wasteland and the heavily damaged reactor can't be shut down.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/55494/16-spooky-hell-photos-inside-chernobyl

Its difficult for such a contaminated area to fully ever recover.

https://www.grunge.com/101438/weirdest-things-ever-found-chernobyl , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L2okA83WrE

http://chernobylplace.com/mutants-in-chernobyl

https://river-monsters.fandom.com/wiki/Chernobyl

https://deepersonar.com/us/en_us/blog/fishing-in-chernobyl

https://www.power-technology.com/features/chernobyl-nuclear-disaster-myths

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/04/the-creatures-that-remember-chernobyl/479652


What Scientists Discovered in Chernobyl Shocked the Whole World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMi2psRCwrQ Factsopedia

https://thebulletin.org/2022/03/wildfires-break-out-in-chernobyl-amid-a-non-functioning-radiation-monitoring-system/

https://www.cp24.com/world/russia-destroys-chernobyl-radiation-monitoring-lab-says-ukraine-1.5830924

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/22/chernobyl-forest-fires-ukraine-nuclear-plant


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Diaries 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:_Shadow_of_Chernobyl Of course there are the video games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:_Shadow_of_Chernobyl#Reception


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Chernobyl

https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=Chernobyl

https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=Ukraine

Monday, March 21, 2022

Beetlejuice 2

 https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/michael-keaton-and-winona-ryder-reportedly-back-for-beetlejuice-sequel-which-could-shoot-this-year/

It will be interesting to see how a Beetlejuice sequel will workout.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2049403

https://screenrant.com/beetlejuice-2-movie-michael-keaton-winona-ryder-return/

https://deadline.com/2022/02/beetlejuice-2-brad-pitts-plan-b-boards-sequel-in-early-development-1234962240/

https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3705214/beetlejuice-2-talks-surface-again-with-brad-pitt-reportedly-producing/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetlejuice#Sequel


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Beetlejuice

Halo Actor Describes the Challenges of Wearing Master Chief's Armor

 https://screenrant.com/halo-master-chief-actor-pablo-schreiber-armor-challenges

Of course the video games and the TV series will grow in popularity.

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Halo

Picard's Europa Easter Egg Hints At Why Q Chose Star Trek's 2024

 https://screenrant.com/star-trek-picard-europa-easter-egg-q-plan-tease

Star_Trek:_Picard is a welcomed return of more drama and excitement.

Star Trek: Picard's Impressive Weapons Collection Shown In BTS Images https://screenrant.com/star-trek-picard-season-2-evil-picard-weapons

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Picard#Season_2_(2022)

https://www.indiewire.com/2022/03/star-trek-picard-season-2-review-1234703339/


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=STAR+TREK

Star Wars: Rise Of Skywalker Concept Art Shows Chewbacca In Captivity

 https://screenrant.com/star-wars-rise-skywalker-chewbacca-captured-concept-art

Of course The_Rise_of_Skywalker could have been a better movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Rise_of_Skywalker#Critical_response

Perhaps that's why the STAR+WARS saga keeps branching out.

https://desertshapes.blogspot.com/search?q=STAR+WARS

https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=Chewbacca

The STAR+WARS universe keeps expanding, because it has to, but that wont make everyone happy.

https://screenrant.com/obi-wan-show-plan-original-story-star-wars-problem/

https://screenrant.com/mark-hamill-obi-wan-young-luke-actor-welcome

https://screenrant.com/obi-wan-kenobi-plot-synopsis-story-details


https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=STAR+WARS

Sunday, March 20, 2022

Reincarnation Perspectives

 Dr. James Matlock has an interesting take on the subject. http://jamesgmatlock.com/pubs

http://jamesgmatlock.com/blog

https://www.coasttocoastam.com/guest/james-matlock


Here are a few movies that touch upon the reincarnation theme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Reincarnation_of_Peter_Proud

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(2002_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Origins

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation#Origins


All sorts of data and reports can be collected from the various accounts of reincarnation. Then various simulations could be created on the theory of consciousness somehow experiencing many lifetimes. The implication would be that this world is part of something like an interactive cosmic recording and projection of time & space. 

Then at a higher level, perhaps even beyond the perceived limits of the cosmos, someone or something might be running various simulations. Given the complexity of this theory, researching the various myths and Sci-Fi stories, any curious person can start to compare notes on the nature of reality. (TNOR)


https://hackernoon.com/the-great-simulation-why-quantum-physics-artificial-intelligence-and-eastern-mystics-all-agree-b6c185213a18 RV

https://iai.tv/articles/simulating-reality-auid-1583

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/44141381-the-simulation-hypothesis

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-we-live-in-a-simulation-chances-are-about-50-50


https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=reincarnation

https://desertshapes.blogspot.com/search?q=reincarnation

Saturday, March 19, 2022

Ukraine: Fear for Donetsk after eight-year war escalates

 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-60738988


The movie, By_Dawn's_Early_Light was released in May 1990. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099197

"In 1991, dissident officials in the Soviet Union launch a nuclear missile at Donetsk from a site in NATO member Turkey. The Soviet automated defence systems, believing that a NATO attack is in progress, execute a measured launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) at the United States. After Donetsk is destroyed, the Strategic Air Command (SAC) scrambles its forces and SAC Commander General Renning urges the US president to authorize a full counterattack. The Soviet leader explains the dissidents' actions to the US president. He asks the US to stand down, but he is willing to accept a US counterstrike comparable to the Soviets' strike, costing each side six to nine million people. If the United States launches an all-out attack, the Soviets will respond in kind and doom the whole planet." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_Dawn's_Early_Light#Plot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_Dawn's_Early_Light#Production , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFLtRIwMqxY


https://www.defenseworld.net/news/31626/Three_U_S__Instructors_Killed_by_Pro_Russian_Donetsk_Militia

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/14/ukraine-missile-debris-kill-16-in-donetsk-separatists

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-accuses-ukraine-missile-strike-donetsk-ukraine-denies-2022-03-14


2019 Simulation of a Nuclear War Between U.S. and Russia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rXXMDGhjUs

What If There Was A Nuclear War Between the US and Russia? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj9_Cq65Bqw


I've studied nuclear war for 35 years -- you should be worried. | Brian Toon | TEDxMileHigh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7hOpT0lPGI


How to Survive a Nuclear Apocalypse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh8DMM_Vk-0 , https://www.youtube.com/c/HowtoSurviveShow/videos


https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=nuclear

https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=Ukraine

There are all sorts of WarGames and they don't all have a pleasant ending.

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

The China Syndrome (1979)

The_China_Syndrome was released in mid March 1979 and in late March, the Three_Mile_Island_Nuclear_Generating_Station had a real emergency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Syndrome#Plot While the movie takes place in California, the 3 Mile Island partial nuclear_meltdown occurred in Pennsylvania.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_China_Syndrome#Response_of_nuclear_industry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident#Accident

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_Nuclear_Generating_Station#Incidents

https://www.businessinsider.com/chernobyl-fukushima-and-three-mile-island-nuclear-disasters-2019-6

There is always a risk and danger with such power-plants. Thus, many people are quite concerned with this technology.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/03/11/it-sounds-crazy-but-fukushima-chernobyl-and-three-mile-island-show-why-nuclear-is-inherently-safe/?sh=3c2680c16881

Who Destroyed Three Mile Island? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xQeXOz0Ncs , https://www.youtube.com/c/LeadDev/videos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_meltdown#Core_damage_events


https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=nuclear

Bugs and Creepy Crawlers, etc.

 https://groundzeromedia.org/3-16-22-holler-for-creepy-crawlers

Mimic is an interesting movie about genetically engineered insects that can eventually pretend to be something else. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119675/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimic_(film)#Plot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggressive_mimicry


https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=HRG

https://desertshapes.blogspot.com/search?q=HRG

Monday, March 14, 2022

A Professor of the Paranormal

David-Shorter has a strong interest in cultural history and mythology & exploring various mysteries and the paranormal.

https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2022-03-14-show

https://www.davidshorter.com , https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5903829/?ref_=nmbio_bio_nm

https://www.huffpost.com/author/davidshorter-891

https://twitter.com/davidshorter?lang=en

https://anthro.ucla.edu/person/david-shorter

https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199858897.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199858897-e-20

Did a Security Camera Film a Pair of Entities Descending from the Sky in Mexico?

 https://www.coasttocoastam.com/article/watch-security-camera-films-pair-of-entities-descending-from-sky-in-mexico

Over Australia:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5005105/Mysterious-humanoid-figure-captured-floating-Sydney-sky.html

People have been seeing odd things and strange shapes in the sky since ancient times.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/apr/30/stephen-hawking-right-aliens

If this world is like a farm and a zoo to something else, humans would find that unsettling. If this world is part of a cosmic laboratory, people might be even more uncomfortable with that notion.

Then there are many people might regard them as demonic entities or the Jinn. The global power-structure is still very reluctant to reveal to most people that this world is part of some process with off-world or inter-dimensional observers and manipulators.

Friday, March 11, 2022

A former-CIA-specialist-reveals-new-secrets-of-area-51-including-real-name

 https://www.mysterywire.com/area-51/former-cia-specialist-reveals-new-secrets-of-area-51-including-real-name/

Something strange was going on around there.


https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=UFO

Upload the (TV series)

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upload_(TV_series)

Sometimes Sci-Fi stories might provide clues about larger aspects of reality.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7826376

Digital reincarnation or a cosmic simulation?

VR can be used to simulate all kinds of myths and far out concepts. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_experience NDE


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reincarnation

https://www.britannica.com/topic/reincarnation

https://people.howstuffworks.com/reincarnation.htm

For several people, the implications of being in some kind of an interactive recording is too unsettling.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3705678


https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=reincarnation

https://desertshapes.blogspot.com/search?q=reincarnation

The Fukushima nuclear disaster in March 2011

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_disaster

Perhaps March should be called, nuclear disaster awareness month.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_Nuclear_Power_Plant#Warnings_and_design_critique

https://wikimedia.org/Fukushima_Daiichi.jpg  

Thursday, March 10, 2022

paranormal channels

 https://blog.feedspot.com/paranormal_youtube_channels/

Some people are just more curious about various mysteries and paranormal phenomenon than others are.

Thursday, March 3, 2022

Was Batman Inspired By Spring-Heeled Jack?

Spring-heeled_Jack might be an urban legend that's actually based on real sightings of a mysterious menacing shape.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/spring-heeled-jack

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/meet-springheeled-jack-the-leaping-devil-that-terrorized-victorian-england

 https://comicbook.com/news/was-batman-inspired-by-spring-heeled-jack

How does a humanoid from an urban legend start to foreshadow some elements and aspects of The+Batman character?

https://comicbookhistorians.com/spring-heeled-jack-the-original-batman-by-alex-grand-2

If the Penny books were inspired by the urban legend, what was it that people actually saw in the 1800s?

Was some strange humanoid trapped on earth for a while? Or, was it some kind of phantom or nefarious being?

The Mysterious London Attacker Who May Have Inspired Batman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEBYm3HKUW4

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Mystery-of-Spring-Heeled-Jack/John-Matthews/9781620554968

Of course Batman is about helping the city by fighting crime. Where as SHJ was of a mischievous and malevolent nature. Something in between a monster and a villain might very well have been seen and encountered several times.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/tv/liverpool-turns-gotham-city-batman-17905737

"Spring-heeled Jack was last seen in 1904 at Everton in Liverpool, bounding up and down the streets, leaping from cobbles to rooftops and back!

He vanished into the darkness when some brave souls tried to corner him and he has not been seen since that day to this!

The puzzle remains…who was Spring-heeled Jack?" https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Spring-Heeled-Jack


Part of The+Batman movie was filmed in Liverpool.

https://www.theverge.com/22954478/the-batman-review-robert-pattinson-matt-reeves-movie

Tuesday, March 1, 2022

Aliens In Alaska TV series

https://www.xfinity.com/stream/entity/5837482243756498112

Alaskan pilot Theo is a commercial pilot with over thirty years of experience. But two mysterious extra-terrestrial encounters in the Aleutian Islands has left him, and his passengers mystified to this day.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzbPkIEz5BQ

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14153438

Multiple sightings of a UFO in Yakutat leaves the people of the town stunned, coming together to discuss what they saw. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoGJW69qp4c

https://www.travelchannel.com/shows/the-alaska-triangle/episodes/ufos-in-alaska

If the earth is like a farm or a lab, that would make many people feel uncomfortable.

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view_article&articles_id=866


https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=Alaska+Triangle

Saturday, February 26, 2022

Cloned Pets and other things...

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/16/cloned-cats-and-dogs-become-newest-influencers-on-instagram-and-tiktok.html

A lot of people will like the idea of being able to just order up a copy of their pets, but sometimes appearances can be deceiving.

https://www.inputmag.com/culture/instagram-influencers-viagen-cloning-pets-cats-dogs

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-woman-cloning-beloved-cat-bear-so-he-can-live-forever-1.5796978

https://www.cbc.ca/life/wellness/pet-cloning-is-here-so-would-you-clone-your-aging-pupper-1.4512984

https://www.dailypaws.com/living-with-pets/pet-owner-relationship/pet-cloning

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-cloning-your-dog-so-wrong-180968550/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jessicabaron/2018/12/24/if-you-love-animals-dont-clone-your-pet/?sh=295b668b4c28

The 6th Day - RePet Infomercial  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtoLvF_TlSA , https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0216216

Of course when The_6th_Day movie was released back in 2000, pet cloning was Sci-Fi to the public.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_6th_Day#Plot , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU0_JhQIbog

https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-6th-day-2000

http://www.monsterzine.com/200207/sixthday.php

The 6th Day (2000) Official Trailer 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VP44dGIi9c

Not just pets, but people could eventually be cloned. However, that is still suppose to be illegal into the foreseeable future.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloned_(1997_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parts:_The_Clonus_Horror , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpOaHYAfF7M  This movie seems to have been partially copied or redone in The Island.

The_Island (of Clones) is a classic cautionary Sci-Fi story. With a big budget, The Island is a much better movie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Island_(2005_film)#Plot


Alice Cooper had his own take on the clone thing back in the 1980s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clones_(We're_All)

Alice Cooper Clones from the 1980 album 'Flush the Fashion' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1h38gC23bw , https://alicecooper.com/music/flush-the-fashion


Then Michael_Crichton provided his take on cloning in the 1990s.

Cloned: The Recreator Chronicles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-5vrxWCJg8 2012 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1540005


https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/have-the-ethical-questions-surrounding-cloning-changed-since-dolly

https://cuddleclones.com

Saturday, January 1, 2022

The THING about ET and the Paranormal...

Is The_Thing an ET monster, or is it just a very adaptive life form? As The_Thing has been depicted in various movies, it is a very aggressive & dangerous organism that is a total predator and mimic. 

Several similar or parallel posts are at, TFZ and especially, TDL. 

The friendly Extra Terrestrial and the malevolent Alien have been depicted in so many ways. 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Alien

Panspermia is a fascinating concept as a natural way for the building-blocks of life to be distributed to a multitude of worlds. https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=ET , https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=ET , https://desertshapes.blogspot.com/search?q=ET

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/panspermia

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2019asbi.book..419K/abstract

Of course there have been several Sci-Fi stories about BIG and small things reaching the earth. Several of them are ET+monster stories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World (1951)
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+THING

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers (1956)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Andromeda_Strain_(1971_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_Express (1972)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_the_Body_Snatchers_(1978_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(1982_film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_(2017_film)


From Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus to the Alien Prometheus...

Frankenstein was first published in 1818 on January 1st.

Of course several monster stories are set in urban-areas, or on other worlds. Perhaps scary stories that are set in remote or desolate locations are the most frightening of all.

"the monster wanders through the+wilderness."  

"Victor Frankenstein builds the creature in the attic of his boarding house in Ingolstadt after discovering a scientific principle which allows him to create life from non-living matter. Frankenstein is disgusted by his creation, however, and flees from it in horror. Frightened, and unaware of his own identity, the monster wanders through the wilderness." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein's_monster#Shelley's_plot

"In Shelley's original work, Victor Frankenstein discovers a previously unknown but elemental principle of life, and that insight allows him to develop a method to imbue vitality into inanimate matter, though the exact nature of the process is left largely ambiguous. After a great deal of hesitation in exercising this power, Frankenstein spends two years painstakingly constructing the Creature's body (one anatomical feature at a time, from raw materials supplied by "the dissecting room and the slaughter-house"), which he then brings to life using his unspecified process." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein#The_Creature

The Frankenstein monster was the quintessential composite Sci-Fi creature in the 1800s, that still resonates in popular culture over two centuries later. It was far from being like a Terminator robot and not simply an animated machine of body-parts. However, Frankenstein might be considered as a forerunner to the concept of the cybernetic_organism. 

https://brianaldiss.co.uk/writing/novels/novels-d-g/frankenstein-unbound

https://custom-writing.org/blog/monsters-in-literature

"Recent incarnations of mythical cyborg characters are often dangerous or violent.  The replicants in BladeRunner and the Borg in Star Trek: The Next Generation are examples of cyborgs whose machine/computer half has gone awry.  As the cyborg creature is about supplementing human deficiencies, disguising disabilities, and improving flaws, the terror of a cyborg creation that develops its own flaws is the nightmare of cyborg science.  The fear of machines that control and destroy stands in opposition to the possibility of machines liberating consciousness from the human body and providing useful, powerful extensions to the body.

Various manifestations of machine-human symbiosis and hybridity have descended from the original Frankenstein monster.  But not all cyborg monsters are as destructive as Frankenstein or the Terminator." https://csmt.uchicago.edu/glossary2004/cyborg.htm From, Jessica Santone.


Reading the Cyborg in Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein"

by Sarah Canfield Fuller https://www.jstor.org/stable/43308625


https://custom-writing.org/blog/mary-shelleys-frankenstein-themes


Of course the Prometheus movie is in some ways is a continuation of the Frankenstein theme. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus_(2012_film)#Plot

https://medicalfuturist.com/from-human-to-cyborg

https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2018/07/30/biology-and-robotics-enter-into-an-unholy-union-to-bring-forth-creatures-from-hell/18564

https://www.bionity.com/en/encyclopedia/Cyborg.html

https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2020/08/18/scientists-will-use-newly-discovered-cyborg-material-to-invade-our-brains-and-merge-with-our-thoughts-and-turn-us-all-into-mindless-zombie-robots-says-report/35328

While the movie Prometheus provides a subtle take on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein-Prometheus theme, Alien:_Covenant makes an obvious reference to Percy_B._Shelley.  

https://www.alien-covenant.com/topic/44302

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" Nothing beside remains: round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, 

The lone and level sands stretch far away." - Percy Shelley 1818 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v-bxPsxpE0 , https://www.youtube.com/c/TechOnPC/videos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias#Publication_history 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/percy-bysshe-shelley

Prometheus and Alien:_Covenant could have been much better movies, but they still provide interesting & essential elements to the overall Alien-Prometheus story-line. https://www.hrgiger.com/alien.htm

https://horrorobsessive.com/2018/08/15/the-art-of-literary-misinterpretation-in-alien-covenant

So Mary_Shelley arrived in Switzerland in 1816 and would eventually create the Frankenstein-Prometheus story. H._R._Giger was born in Switzerland and by the late 1970s was involved with the Alien movie. HRG lived long enough to see the Prometheus movie.

Prometheus - David in the Orrery https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1EeYB8Aog0

https://desertshapes.blogspot.com/search?q=Prometheus

Humans will become more augmented, but not everyone is interested in becoming something like Master_Chief or especially The_Borg. 


Interfacing the Brain & Machines: Another Step to a Cyborg Future

"Controlling robotic prostheses with one’s mind has been a hot topic in research, but making a prothesis ‘talk back’ has been a stumbling block. Researchers from Switzerland show progress in creating sensations from a bidirectional neuroprosthesis."

"Researchers from the University of Geneva, in Switzerland, are developing a new method to connect a prosthesis to neural activity in a bidirectional manner, which could solve some long-standing challenges of brain-machine interfaces. Published in Neuron, their early testing in mice models had promising results." https://www.labiotech.eu/more-news/university-genera-brain-machine

https://www.iris.ethz.ch , https://srl.ethz.ch


https://reflectionsonfilmandtelevision.blogspot.com/search?q=monsters

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/381303/Monsters-of-the-Wilderness-Oswalds-Curse


https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=horror+movies

https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=the+wilderness

The X-Files intersection

The_X-Files could have easily had at least one episode about the_human_foot mystery between Seattle and Vancouver, BC.

But for some reason, it was never covered within the overall mythology of the series. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files#Mythology

Of course there is suppose to be a logical explanation for all the severed feet, but it's still a bizarre mystery.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/a3bka4/bcs-floating-feet-mystery-is-more-boring-than-you-think

Even if that part of the world just happened to become a region where a foot is all that is discovered from a missing body, it's a very strange phenomenon. In this case, a paranormal explanation might really make a lot more sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_Sea_human_foot_discoveries#List_of_discoveries

It's been a couple of years since the last foot was found, but that doesn't mean this (unofficial paranormal) mystery is over.

https://www.insider.com/british-columbia-find-severed-human-feet-on-shores-2019

https://globalnews.ca/news/4949907/dismembered-foot-bc-beach

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-severed-foot-1.5903703

https://bc.ctvnews.ca/missing-foot-mystery-deepens-with-latest-find-1.313252

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_Sea_human_foot_discoveries#In_popular_culture


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scary_Monsters_(The_X-Files)

https://screenrant.com/x-files-scariest-monsters-ranked-tv-show

https://www.ranker.com/list/scariest-x-files-monsters/megan-summers

https://www.sociomix.com/diaries/entertainment/10-most-disturbing-monster-of-the-week-villains-from-the-x-files-season-1/1630949876

https://www.earthfiles.com/real-x-files


https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=The+X-Files   

https://desertshapes.blogspot.com/search?q=The+X-Files

https://paranormal-intersection.blogspot.com/search?q=monsters