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It’s hard to believe that so recently, “serious” people would fund research of literal mumbo jumbo. By all means, the 90s was a different time epistemologically. We aren’t immune to this today, far from it, though the hoaxes have become way more believable in my assessment.
How do we know if something is "mumbo jumbo" until we actually check and verify it?
TLDR? Goat-staring is real?
The movie was based on the work of a journalist investigating the topic and wrote a non-fiction book on the subject.
I always thought this was interesting. May 15, 1987: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP96-00789R0017000... May 17, 1987: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Stark_incident
Reality is indeed stranger than fiction.
It’s hard to believe that so recently, “serious” people would fund research of literal mumbo jumbo. By all means, the 90s was a different time epistemologically. We aren’t immune to this today, far from it, though the hoaxes have become way more believable in my assessment.
The benefits of hindsight. I'm sure in 30 odd years someone will be making the same comments about our current hoaxes.
The embarrassing part is that we can identify many of them already, before the historical consensus catches on.
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What does the first pdf mean? (And does it remind anyone else of an ee cummings poem or is it just me)
The first PDF is the record of a remote viewing session from 2 days before the USS Stark incident, and it is eerily similar to the incident. The feelings and "atmosphere" (can't think of a better word for it) sound like what you might expect on a ship being attacked by a random missile. For example: 1. The drawing on p. 7 looks like the superstructure of a warship. 2. The next few pages might describe what it feels l…
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The CIA has been this way since basically its inception. It's where a bunch of lead-lined brains are given unreasonable budgets and discretion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directorate_of_Science_and_Tec...
It appears this was actually authorized by Congress. “ In the FY 1991 Defense Authorization Act, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was identified as executive agent for initiating a new program to investigate parapsychological/ anomalous phenomena. A funding level of $2 million was authorized for DIA to undertake specific research and other activities relative to this activity. Objectives of this authorization we…
In government terms that's pretty small. I guess even if there's a low chance of working, the payoff if it did would be huge.
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It appears this was actually authorized by Congress. “ In the FY 1991 Defense Authorization Act, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was identified as executive agent for initiating a new program to investigate parapsychological/ anomalous phenomena. A funding level of $2 million was authorized for DIA to undertake specific research and other activities relative to this activity. Objectives of this authorization we…
> A funding level of $2 million was authorized In government terms that's pretty small. I guess even if there's a low chance of working, the payoff if it did would be huge.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
What does the first pdf mean? (And does it remind anyone else of an ee cummings poem or is it just me)
The first PDF is the record of a remote viewing session from 2 days before the USS Stark incident, and it is eerily similar to the incident. The feelings and "atmosphere" (can't think of a better word for it) sound like what you might expect on a ship being attacked by a random missile. For example: 1. The drawing on p. 7 looks like the superstructure of a warship. 2. The next few pages might describe what it feels l…
If you throw a bunch of stuff at a wall, some of it is going to stick. Especially when it appears to be random words that can be applicable to millions of situations.