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R. A. Wilson had a pretty good shtick going. he said, "i see UFOs all the time. a few a week, generally!" and, well, no one's saying it's aliens; it's just an object in the sky that he cannot identify, and he's seen it. and that's the joke. but i do get the sense that this joke has begun to backfire in a way that is awful, but, well, still actually kind of funny. it was probably about a year ago, last winter, way before the spy balloon crap... that i'm out walking at night, and i stop on a bridge, and... this is nuts, i can't tell what are stars and what aren't. i look at something for a bit and determine it's actually a stationary hovering aircraft of some sort. helicopters will hover over the highway for speeders, but they have some lights, usually, and... ugh god this creeps me out. i don't understand the sky anymore anyone in the US freaking over this balloon, it's kind of like... i'm sorry, the skies are already full of UFOs, and it's not fucking aliens, but it's starting to feel like less of a joke. drone teabagging: attach teabag to your drone. navigate to slightly above other drone. gently lower teabag into propellers |
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Sometimes it’s a blip in dimensions, according to Jacques Vallée. He deduced (after working on this for a few governments) that the proper UFOs don’t come from outer space by rather other dimensions. He argued it could often be accidental or a glitch. I’ve had a couple of experiences I’ll never forget. |
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well, maybe, i don't know. i'm more concerned with what we have developing in our dimension. that i found myself, on a bridge, staring up at the sky, and what's a star, what's a drone, what's man-made, what's real? and i very earnestly thought: "i don't understand the sky anymore" and that's almost at, like, mushrooms or schizophrenia level: "the sky is wrong" etc. except i've none of that, totally sober actually, and after hearing myself think "i don't understand the sky anymore" i felt quite uneasy. all those sci-fi futures where there are strings of ships all over the sky. what will that do to how animals use the sky? no one's thought about much of this really |
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and again, that was like, a year ago. |
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i am serious about this being a sneaking change potential. but i can't help but be at least a little amusing: after picard's borg episode, he visits the family vineyard in france with his brother and etc. and there's all this "natural countryside" but you do not see a single animal the whole episode not even a squirrel. or maybe they have a dog, but... there are no animals. and this is just perfect to spin into some sort of fruitcake conspiracy theory about ST:TNG. if anyone is bored |
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Squirrels were assimilated by the Borg, they do all the shitty maintenance jobs on the cube like run wiring through conduits and shave the collective when their hair gets too long |
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wrong, wrong, utterly wrong. you're thinking of ferrets. |
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Ferrets are federation only, The Borg Queen tried to stuff some down her trousers and it backfired , Jefferies tubes are full of the bastards |
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i think the truth is even more horrible. there are no birds, no bugs, no squirrels, no ferrets -- because picard is not on 24th century earth, he's trapped in a soundstage in burbank in the early 90s. and they don't allow birds into those. not only do the borg have a cruel sense of humor, but they have very strict rules. |
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that, yes, i am implying that the borg traveled back in time to write, produce, and film ST:TNG. sleep well |
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maybe it does warrant more of an explain. perhaps, if it goes as it went in ST:TNG -- not sending hugh back to the borg with [impossible fractal holographic puzzle designed to clog the collective] -- that would have been disastrous for the federation. ...because, in the "real" future, picard was all "yeah this hugh kid will hit like the melissa virus" and sent hugh back to the borg with a giggle. and it fractured the collective. and they sent a small contingent back in time to write, produce, and film ST:TNG with the idea to change precisely one crucial decision by planting the idea in our minds hundreds of years ago. and they brought picard back, and he's trapped in a soundstage in burbank in the 90s and that's why it looks like he's on a soundstage in burbank in the 90s instead of on 24th century earth, in france. it makes so much sense really, though, be careful with that one. it's actually rather hard to prove that certain sci-fi shows aren't subtle psy-ops from time-line meddlers far in the future. next, its: well, alright, so what could they... then some noises; your head hurts a lot. you start to develop migraines no, don't think on that too hard. |
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as futuristic time-travelling entities, you can travel back to the 90s and create something like ST:TNG to do any number of things: give us a playbook to guide our development. or tell us the world is flat; lock us up in some looping bubble to keep us contained. or maybe that's that point, no going anywhere you humans until you think your way out of this timeline we've set you on |
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i got utterly lost in turning ST:TNG into an episode of ST:TNG there i'm out for a zig. and to write a tv show |
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BOSTON - There’s a new drinking trend being talked about on college campuses across the nation that is raising concern among some doctors. A drink called the borg, which stands for “blackout rage gallon”, is making regular appearances on TikTok and other social media platforms. Dr. Colangelo calls the very nature of the borg “uncontrolled drinking”. |
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are they seriously trying to catch speeders with helis? the fuel costs a fortune! gotta be some mad max maniacs to be worth the catch. i mean like flaming guitars and shit, chasing a tanker with filled to the brim with kerosine if you catch my drift. |
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are they seriously trying to catch speeders with helis? the fuel costs a fortune! gotta be some mad max maniacs to be worth the catch. yes. no. sorta. the copopopter is not like that. a) [no] it wasn't like that probably twenty years, yes, they flapapap teh copopopter to catch speeders. but they have one helicopter hover over good stretches of highway and then just radio in anyone that looks like a juicy catch; units on the ground get 'em or don't. then when rush hour dies down they go back to roost. b) [yes] now it sort of is more stationary coptopters flapApp flap i think they just got too much budget now they just sit in the copoopoopter and eat donuts and mess with a fleet of drones using joysticks c) [sorta] whatever about the actual helicopters; they don't really bother me. it's just, like... yeah, that's a drone. i think. suspect that over there is, too. it fucking bothers me. i haven't wanted to hack something this bad since high school |
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i saw the "metallic octagonal craft" description -- not a balloon, for sure -- and my immediate thought was something mythbusters did once, which is an it's like a gram per watt of lift... but you can do it as a science experiment with some tin foil at home, provided you tether it to the ground to provide power. and i thought that was that, but, hey... it's been a while... and a private company demo'd one that can fly about for a few minutes... if you figure the militaries are a generation or two ahead... yeah. similar to a balloon, i can see a very light fluttery ion-propelled craft being good for surveillance. so dainty it's even harder to spot. utterly silent. hard part is powering it really |
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you mean the same military that doesnt have anything functionable in their arsenal? no, wait, thats the german military ^^ but hey we just sell all the good stuff. a) and b) are mad and i fucking hate drones, except for great air shots in film hacking those would be pretty cool, you could hijack a ton of em and build a huge flying statue of george orwell flying into the anus of an even bigger statue of idk.. |
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acutally that could be kind of a realistic animation. i call it drone bone |
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dear chatGPT, create a python script that: 1) hacks drones within range 2) gently eases them into the duck pond in front of the police station, unless there is any danger to civilians on the ground ...that's about my feeling. and i don't care who owns them -- china, the cops, my neighbors, whoever. fuck off. get... out from over my lawn? |
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i'm down if someone wants to manually pilot one to do things like... real estate flyovers of houses, that's a cool idea. you come over and if i even notice, oh, they're droning the house, and i would actually find that cool but, what makes me like... if i didn't know, yes, this is real... i'd worry i was losing my mind. there's a tech company that, i am really pretty sure, has been using drones to monitor their complex. but they're just way off around their thing. but just seeing loads of hovering crap in the sky, not knowing what it is... as elon's starlink leaves a skidmark across the sky... starlink is alright. cautiously optimistic. but it's just another worrying variable on other levels |
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but, yeah. to (tldr -> venn center) us both: a) there are some totally fine legitimate uses for drones that can even be cool b) the random dark swarms can go fuck themselves |
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oh hell i totally forgot to link this there are helicopters, wasting loads of petrol. for crap as charming as this |
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that again, i don't mind the helicopters. sometimes i stare at them as i walk and wonder if they can freaking tell. i doubt it. mostly, though, the police ones watch the highways, and it's kind of like a community bulletin, really... that if i hear them off somewhere unusual i know somethings up. a few times, like... i hear them over yonder, so i start walking in that direction, until... that's a lot of smoke... i hear fire engines... good enough; turning around now then the medivac helicopters buzz by and make more noise than the police ones. ...and that's it; they're deafeningly obvious. they use tons of petrol and they can only watch only little bits at a time. a bunch of drones hovering forever in a snooze, trying to be inconspicuous... infinitely more obnoxious. should be illegal. |
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there are plenty that are... that's not a star, that's not a helicopter. it's lit up though. it's not moving. ok, that's a drone. then there are ones that are much more dimly lit up, you note. finally, there are some that are not lit up at all, and you only catch vary sparingly, via occlusion. like, walking a stretch, a star gradually darks out and comes back, and... you dicks. |
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but, my "oh my god the sky is full of them" moment was, perhaps, two years ago. it's strange to be somewhat relevant |
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occlusion (computing) The blocking of the view of part of an image by another |
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