Comments on: Ken Hollings's Welcome To Mars book http://boingboing.net/2008/12/31/ken-hollingss-welcom.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 22 May 2013 22:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Sparkgap http://boingboing.net/2008/12/31/ken-hollingss-welcom.html#comment-367656 Sparkgap Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-367656 Technical note: Rummy was the Chair of the Board of Trustees of Rand for two periods, not the President of Rand. An important distinction. Technical note:
Rummy was the Chair of the Board of Trustees of Rand for two periods, not the President of Rand. An important distinction.

]]> By: Rob Myers http://boingboing.net/2008/12/31/ken-hollingss-welcom.html#comment-367690 Rob Myers Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-367690 It's a great book (and the CD is excellent as well). I reviewed it for Furtherfield - http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=325 "Hollings combines the history of 1950s America as told by the New York Times with the same history as told by the Fortean Times. It's eye-opening (sometimes consciousness-expanding) stuff, a look at the wiring under the board of the culture and technology of an era. [...]" It’s a great book (and the CD is excellent as well). I reviewed it for Furtherfield -

http://www.furtherfield.org/displayreview.php?review_id=325

“Hollings combines the history of 1950s America as told by the New York Times with the same history as told by the Fortean Times. It’s eye-opening (sometimes consciousness-expanding) stuff, a look at the wiring under the board of the culture and technology of an era. [...]“

]]> By: David Pescovitz http://boingboing.net/2008/12/31/ken-hollingss-welcom.html#comment-367703 David Pescovitz Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-367703 Thanks for that link, Rob! Thanks for that link, Rob!

]]> By: Tom Buckner http://boingboing.net/2008/12/31/ken-hollingss-welcom.html#comment-367581 Tom Buckner Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-367581 Some of the best commentary on UFOs came from the great Robert Anton Wilson. Once he wrote a true-false test in which every question had an answer that was not clearly true or false, and he explained why. One question: UFOs are real (True/False) He explained that most people assume this means Flying Saucers, when all it really means is there are things in the sky we can't ID. Sometimes I find unidentified things in my own closet, he continued, and sometimes even my wife can't tell me what they are. He further noted that UFOs even predated the Flying Saucer epidemic of 1947. Before 1900 there were reports of mysterious airships, especially in 1896-7. Who knows, one or two of these mystery blimps may have been real, a product of secretive inventors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship But my favorite daffy UFO panic has to be the hour-long UFO battle over Nuremberg in 1561. A contemporary artist drew it: http://www.ufocasebook.com/nuremberg1561.html Better picture: http://flickr.com/photos/24368490@N00/2839087382/ Even Mr. Sun looks confused! Some of the best commentary on UFOs came from the great Robert Anton Wilson. Once he wrote a true-false test in which every question had an answer that was not clearly true or false, and he explained why.
One question: UFOs are real (True/False)
He explained that most people assume this means Flying Saucers, when all it really means is there are things in the sky we can’t ID. Sometimes I find unidentified things in my own closet, he continued, and sometimes even my wife can’t tell me what they are.

He further noted that UFOs even predated the Flying Saucer epidemic of 1947. Before 1900 there were reports of mysterious airships, especially in 1896-7. Who knows, one or two of these mystery blimps may have been real, a product of secretive inventors.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship

But my favorite daffy UFO panic has to be the hour-long UFO battle over Nuremberg in 1561. A contemporary artist drew it:
http://www.ufocasebook.com/nuremberg1561.html
Better picture:
http://flickr.com/photos/24368490@N00/2839087382/

Even Mr. Sun looks confused!

]]> By: EH http://boingboing.net/2008/12/31/ken-hollingss-welcom.html#comment-367843 EH Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-367843 wait, this isn't the jeopardy guy? wait, this isn’t the jeopardy guy?

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