From: sfd@soda.berkeley.edu (Scott Drellishak)
Newsgroups: alt.alien.visitors
Subject: Re: AWAKE
Date: 15 Dec 1992 09:08:22 GMT
Organization: Metaphor Computer Systems
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In article <1992Dec15.060847.5466@news.Hawaii.Edu> markh@uhunix.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Mark Holladay) writes:
)
)                      IS ANYONE LISTENING?
)
)     The UFO thing seems to be a multidimensional thing.

Meaning what?  More than one kind of unit is involved?  Meters *and*
seconds?  Explain "multidimensional".

)I mean,
)how can anyone travel across vast distances without traveling
)faster than light?

By travelling across vast distances slower than light.  Who is it who
is travelling these vast distances, so we know what your example is?

)And if F.T.L. travel is possible, maybe it's
)done multidimensional.

If it's possible, maybe it's done hyperboreal.  Or pseudopalatial.
What exactly do you *mean*, and what makes you think F.T.L. travel is
possible?

)If multidimensional travel is possible,
)(F.T.L.) then forward and backward in time communication is
)possible.

How does this follow?  Since you don't explain what "multidimensional"
means to you, how are we to understand the reasoning?  Couldn't you
just as easily have said "Since God is all simple, then time travel is
possible"?  ("all simple" is an actual term I learned in a Catholic
theology class, and seems to have as much to do with FTL travel as
"multidimensional" travel, until we know what you mean).

)FTL communication and transportation is somehow linked
)to New Age Channeling, maybe FTL communication?  

Is this a statement, or a question?  If the latter, how about "no"?
Do you have any reason to think otherwise?  Evidence of channellers
travelling faster than light, for instance?

)     If FTL communication is linked to channeling, thought
)transference, then what is inter dimensional transportation linked
)to?

Heart disease?  Poor motor skills?  Just about anything you want it to
be, if you don't require any examples, understanding, or evidence.

)Maybe the electromagnetic field of the body is a link to FTL
)communication and the electromagnetic field of the earth is linked
)to FTL transportation?

Maybe.  So what?  Maybe I'm a grey.  What makes this unprovably
ill-stated assertion better than any other?

)Has anyone heard of the electromagnetic
)field zone wars?

Didn't this lead to the breakup of the Phone Company [tm]?

)Now and in the past?  Are there places on the
)earth that allow FTL transportation?  Inter dimensional
)transportation?  Power spots?

I'd guess "no".  Do you have any reason to think otherwise?  (Are "power
spots" those dots which appear around super-heroes when they're using their
super-powers?  Or are those "power balls"?)

)What does the great pyramid mean?

Egyptians were pretty serious about (a) the afterlife, and (b) the
absolute authority of the Pharoah?

)     If someone from the future wanted to communicate with us
)wouldn't they use FTL tech.?

Why not use time travel tech?  You haven't explained the link between
FTL tech and time travel.  For that matter, you haven't demonstrated
any cases of FTL travel or time travel.

)Wouldn't they know the mechanism of
)the brain to do this?

Is the brain now considered "tech"?  I thought it was an organ.

)It seems to me that communication is the
)first step, then comes the way to travel.

In the same way that Columbus communicated with the Americas before he
travelled there?  Or humans communicated with the Moon before sending
spacecraft there?  This is a blind assertion, and a false one at that.

)I think the way to
)travel is beyond our concepts at this time. 

So is the way to communicate.  Unless you can provide some examples of
time/FTL communication for us to ponder.

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)markh@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu
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Sorry about the sarcasm.  I am curious to hear more details --
wouldn't it be cool if we actually figured out how to travel faster
than light?  What the hell!  Let's explore some weird ideas!

Scott Drellishak
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