Wednesday Jun 14, 2023

0044: The Silly Season, by C. M. Kornbluth

Spheres, domes and bottomless holes appear in C. M. Kornbluth's The Silly Season, but how are they connected? We discuss this memorable story from 1950, then move on to the actual newspaper silly season, secret aircraft, UAPs, and the time we embarrassed a Milwaukee Journal reporter.

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(I hate posting from this app. It doesn’t allow me to edit my posts after they are published. ”gushing” should be ”hushing” obviously.

Sunday Dec 17, 2023

How about the Great Moon Hoax printed up as a series of articles in the New York Sun in the 1830s? Claiming a new powerful telescope allowed them to observe activities of an alien civilization on the moon. I think that sort of thing is being revisited now, only dealing with alien bases on the far side of the Moon that we can’t see from our planet and that governments are ”gushing up”.

Sunday Dec 17, 2023

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