Professor Solomon's Flying Saucer Travel Tips
"Amateur" Professor Solomon, a "findologist" and author of the fantastic book How To Find Lost Objects, has a new free e-booklet available and it's a hoot. Unless, of course, you take it seriously, in which case it might be incredibly useful. "Flying Saucer Travel Tips: How To Optimize Your Ride In A UFO" is 27 pages, illustrated, and available as a PDF from the delightful Professor's site. Also free: "Can I Smoke Aboard A Flying Saucer? Questions and Answers about UFOs." From Flying Saucer Travel Tips:
Flying Saucer Travel Tips5. The Space People can help you develop your psychic powers. If you’re serious about it, and willing to make the effort, you can learn ESP, clairvoyance, or spoon-bending. Just let them know you’re interested. *
6. Ask for a jumpsuit—there’s usually a spare one aboard—and wear it about the ship. You’ll feel less like an outsider. †
* Uri Geller, the noted spoon-bender, tells (inMy Story[Praeger Publishers, 1975]) of having acquired his powers from extrater- restrial entities.
† The jumpsuit will be useful, too, back on Earth—so hang onto it. You can wear it to parties, as a conversation piece. And it will enhance your stage appearance, should you go on tour as a spoon-bender.
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27 pages of tips and nothing about how to best brace yourself for a cold anal probe? Useless.
Serious UFO scholars will definitely want to check out the C-SPAN video of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs addressing a UFO related question: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/24/gibbs-asked-about-ufos-on_n_244271.html
-- MrJM
[Heh heh- "serious UFO scholars."]
Those BBers who wish to shield themselves from our mind-controlling alien overlords, should visit here for assistance.
Don't forget a towel.
Brainspore, they've long since learned to warm them to 37 degrees Celsius.
It's a cute idea for a booklet, but the fact is that it exists and is understandable because it is a response to what people actually experience.
At least that is what I thought until I actually read it. It isn't really a response to real-life encounters at all, but rather to 1950's sci-fi ideas, like having a dinner in a pill form, or lounge chairs with scenic porthole views. All very '50s science fiction.
Additionally, it has thinly veiled complaints about real-life alien encounters. The writer requests that people ask what constellation the aliens' planet is in, and to look for engines and such -- i.e., the expectations a scientist would have about what an interstellar (not an interdimensional) alien might use to move around. The reason why the real life view of aliens has shifted from interstellar to interdimensional is because when people have asked them such questions, they get vague answers like "we are from everywhere and nowhere" -- as if we wouldn't understand if they explained some string theory.
It all comes across as a bit spiteful, and not at all as funny as it could have been if it was about real life alien encounters.
The reason why the view of aliens has shifted from interstellar to interdimensional is we now know the former isn't really that plausible, but it's hard to tell about the latter.
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