We see what we want to see
My sons reckoned they saw a UFO today (I was quick to remind my eldest that the last UFO he saw turned out to be a seagull). Like father like son.
Ever since I watched ‘Close Encounters Of The Third Kind’ as a kid, I’ve been fascinated by UFO phenomena. As a Christian, I definitely believe there is something out there, but I don’t suspect they come from other worlds… more like the demonic realm. I have an essay that I’ll post here one day, and might even tell the story of the time I gate-crashed a UFO cult meeting when I was ‘zealous without knowledge’ and told them quite impolitely exactly what I thought of their beliefs 
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But for now I would like to prove that we generally see what we want to see. If we see something that looks like an alien craft, we’ll probably believe it is.
Check out the first clip below.
Quite convincing isn’t it (especially with the X-Files theme included). The Chilean air force released a press-statement claiming that the lights were from their training aircraft flying in formation. Surely those lights couldn’t possibly be training planes? Surely it must be a cover-up. Well… no.
Watch the following clip to understand what I mean about seeing what we want to see.
Narnia the Whippet… so there.
Narnia is:
1. The fantasy world created by C. S. Lewis as the location for his series of seven fantasy children’s novels.
2. Our 6-week-old purebred Whippet girl puppy!
It’s interesting the snide remarks certain people have made about the Whippet breed… and that I should have picked a real dog like a Pitbull. Meh. It seems like people use their dog breeds to re-assure themselves of their own masculinity.
Whippets rock. Get used to it
Man survives 55m Niagara plunge
A suicidal man jumped into Niagara Falls yesterday, miraculously surviving the 55m plunge. He resisted rescue attempts before eventually being pulled from the icy water to safety.
He had minor injuries, but no broken bones
See the news video below.
Titanaboa update
Great Snakes: the slither continues…
While having some brief down-time and browsing some crypto blogs I came upon the above photo (click on image to enlarge). The caption translated follows (the original photograph has it written on the back):
“This is a ‘jiboia’ snake of which only part appears. It has approximately 48 meters and was found on the ‘Jari’ Lake, Pará state, where some people say there are no Big Snakes. On 11/10/1949″.
The photo is authentic but there is no way to accurately judge the size of the snake. 48 meters sounds impossibly huge… but even if it was half that size, it would be an absolute monster!
www.strangeark.com states the photo was originally published in April 28, 1949, in Brazilian newspaper… “The snake was alleged 45 meters, and was found on the Rio Abuna.”
A photographer has commented that the snake could be very close to the camera and its apparent size could very well be be just a perspective trick.
It’s nice to imagine it’s real anyway… in the relative safety of my house in ‘snakeless’ New Zealand.
X-ray vision… for real
I’ve spent most of my life pondering if they actually worked or not, and now, thanks to the modern-day wonder of Wikipedia, the secret is out… and it’s a resounding ‘not’. The lenses consisted of two layers of cardboard with a small hole in diameter punched through both layers. A feather was embedded between the layers of each lens. The vanes of the feathers diffracted light causing the user to receive two slightly offset images. For instance, if viewing a pencil, you would see two offset images of the pencil. Where the images overlapped, a darker image was seen, giving the illusion of seeing the graphite embedded within the pencil.
The cheesy X-Ray Vision gimmick of yesteryear, probably disappointed American kids by the thousands. Those kids now have another opportunity to ‘see through clothes’ for real.
Enter the X-Reflect Glasses. The Advanced Intelligence Company, Ltd. manufactures a device called X-Reflect Glasses which is claimed to allow the user to partly see through certain types of clothing. These goggles are a variation of thermal imaging goggles, and retail for US$2400.
I can see their value in regards to intelligence and anti-terrorism, but shouldn’t x-ray vision be prohibited to save us innocent from daylight voyeurism?
