Posthuman Blues

I'm not going to that Ted Nugent book signing. His website scares me. I think the only way I could be compelled to take in a Ted Nugent signing would be if Morrissey was giving a signing simultaneously. But I just don't see that happening.

I started reading Michael Swanwick's "Bones of The Earth" last evening. It's a dinosaur/time-travel story and so far it's got my complete attention. It poses an interesting problem: if we could go back in time to study dinosaurs, then eventually "Creation Scientists" might use time travel to plant fossilized human remains where they could be "discovered" by contemporary paleontologists (thus "vindicating" Creationist teaching).

There's evidence that we may have actually found temporally misplaced artifacts: jewelry in the middle of solid rock, ambiguous metallic spheres that date to long before human habitation of the planet, etc. The list goes on, religiously ignored by the mainstream. Are we dealing with "junk" left by ancient visitors from space, a lost terrestrial civilization, or actual time travelers (in which case "impossible" artifacts might be from our own future)? Somwhow, I like the last idea; maybe the assumed flow of time is effervescent, resulting in abrupt displacements of objects and even people.

If time travel is possible, the behavior of UFOs may be at least partially explained (i.e., formal contact would result in a causality violation of some sort, so the ufonauts must remain content with maintaining their presence behind a curtain of subterfuge). For more on this, I recommend "Visitors from Time" by Marc Davenport, "The Mothman Prophecies" by John Keel and "Time Storms" by Jenny Randles.

Site o' the day: www.majesticdocuments.com

The "Majestic" papers seem to indicate that our government has secretly harvested hardware and alien bodies from crashed UFOs. However, many of the alleged top-secret documents are established fakes and still others seem to be clever attempts at disinformation (possibly a Cold War effort to make the Soviets think we had access to superior defense technology). Others just might be the real thing.