Not only odd but illogical also...

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Over at Kevin Randle’s blog [kevinrandle.blogspot.com], you’ll find a link to James Carrion's free book (as a PDF), The Roswell Deception.

In the comments section, you’ll find, too, a back-and-forth between Mr. Carrion and Adam S referencing Mr. Carrion’s  Kenneth Arnold section of the book.

I won’t get into Adam’s inquisitive remarks or Mr. Carrion’s potential comeback, but the Arnold sighting, recently examined thoroughly by Bruce Maccabee in his Three Minutes in June book (reviewed here several months ago), is odd when one looks at it dispassionately.

If what Ken Arnold saw was a formation of extraterrestrial, or even secret, United States military craft, what would be the intent or sense in whizzing around Mt. Rainier in what Arnold described, pretty much, as a frenzied flight, without an apparent purpose?

If the formation was a military test of aerodynamics, it seems a bit crazy, as such craft, as described (seen by Arnold) would be of secret, advanced design, rare and costly.

Buzzing, haphazardly, in the Washington sky, would thus be the essence of economic insanity.

And if the “flying saucers” were part of a vanguard of ET visitors, even a troup contingent from a mothership that came here from another world, zipping around the Washington state landscape would be a kind of extraterrestrial insanity or foolishness.

Coming a very long way, over a very long time perhaps, seems to be deterrent to such aerodynamic silliness.

Nine “saucers” or nine advanced Earthian aircraft, cavorting about the mountain tops abreast of Mt. Rainier doesn’t make any kind of human sense, or even unknown ET sense.

The whole sighting/incident is hard to take as a real event. But there it is….

RR

Science and Science Fiction: Ancient Dreams of Technology

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The book pictured here was just published this week by Princeton University Press.

The author, Adrienne Mayor, is a research scholar in classics and the history of science at Stanford University. (She has written books on the Amazon women and the legendary Mithradates.)

In this, her highly illustrated new book, Ms. Mayor, the book cover tells readers, provides “The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life – and even invented real automated machines.”

I’m just now reading the book, which contains examples of “Greek, Roam, Indian, and Chinese myths [that] envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices, and human enhancements.” [From the cover]

It’s an academic enterprise, of course, and one that the Ancient Alien/Astronaut crowd will glom on to for their theoretical sustenance, but I think their potential side-swiping of Ms. Mayor’s extensive scholarship will go awry, if persons read the book firstly.

It (the book) is a cornucopia of great mythical tales, that belie outside (interplanetary) influence, showing early mankind (and early civilizations) had the wherewithal to imagine and conceive ideas that science and we are contending with in the modern era.

It’s a fabulous book, and I shall have much more to write (and say) about it, upcoming.

RR