Comments by "One MercilessMing" (@onemercilessming1342) on "The Why Files" channel.

  1. My first degree was in mechanical engineering. When I worked in engineering (1972 - 1977) there was ALWAYS talk/speculation about Apollo 18, 19, and 20. When NASA plans, the funding is approved. If there are cost overruns or inflation runs rampant (remember the inflation rate during the late 70s??) NASA goes back to Congress to ask for the money it needs, and gets. There was a sign in our engineering office: Why is there NEVER time to do it right, but ALWAYS time to do it over? My corollary to that was: Why is there never funds to do it on time, but always funds to complete it later (or over again)?
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  2. Just FYI, back in the early Freedom of Information Act days, a person wrote into one of the magazines on how to ascertain if there were FBI files on him. The response was to file a request for information. If there were no files on him before, there would be after.
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  3. Don't forget the Shadow People, unless they and the Dark Watchers are one and the same thing!
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  4. ​@bertkilborne6464 It couldn't be in July. The land of the midnight sun is summer in the Northern Hemisphere. If there is sunlight 24 hours a day in Antarctica, it would have to occur when summer is in the Southern Hemisphere, the end of December through Mid-March.
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  5. Do you REALLY believe that NASA "loses" the audio recordings of such historical events?? Or that they record over them? NASA, with the technology to find recordings under other recordings?? Really, how gullible can people be?
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  6. At last!! You were correct. It didn't disappoint. Thanks!
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  7. I look forward to these every week. Hecklefish makes me laugh; we share the same warped sense of humor. Yes, I learn things. Sometimes I can accept the new information. Other times, I need to do some research on my own. At still others I scoff. I, too, am evolving. Thank you for this channel and the work you do.
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  8. There is a story about the death of Elizabeth Alcott, sister to Louisa May Alcott, the "Beth" of Little Women. When Elizabeth Alcott died, the family attending her reported seeing a white, wispy wraith leaving her body and ascending through the ceiling. When I first read this, I scoffed...until I had an NDE of my own. You're never the same after that experience that affirms some religious training, but not all.
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  9. Back when this subject was a hot topic, there was a computer disc available so that you could do this on your own desktop. When I got a new desktop, that program didn't work and I've never found another. I have the book, and I've read it. I have come to the conclusion that some things are better left without knowing.
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  10. The wealthy are buying up all the farmland? Well, so is China, allegedly. The wealthy are also screaming at us about global warming, and that the sea levels are going to rise and inundate us. Except who among them has sold their beach front properties? And Bill Gates, during the 2020 pandemic, bought a CA beachfront property.
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  11. Hooray! It's Thursday, and "The Why Files" dropped!!!
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  12. You make my Thursdays interesting. I started listening to Coast to Coast with Art Bell taking night classes to earn a teaching credential. His show accompanied me on my 90 minute drive from college to home late at night. Since then, ive added Ancient Aliens and mow tWF. I don't know if you're right or wrong, but you are entertaining!
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  13. A few things come to mind. 1. Remember the mid-20th century Sunday comic strip, Prince Valiant? Was that a veiled attempt at telling the Valiant Thor story by setting it in the 13th century or so? 2. "The Day the Earth Stood Still" had a marked effect on my childhood. I was old enough to want Michael Rennie to carry me off into his spaceship and too young to understand why. Later, when I saw "pictures" of the man identified as Valiant Thor in sensational rag mags at supermarket stands, I was intrigued by the resemblance between Rennie and Thor. 3. It seems that, with the "Ancient Aliens", the release of Navy pilots' interactions with UFO's, and now the renaming of UFO's to UAP's to erase the stigma of the name UFO, that "We, the People", are being prepped to be told what most of us already believe...we are not alone in the universe and Drake's Equation be damned.
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  14.  @CARPETMAN6666  I don't need to do anything at your behest. You can do it. I'm retired and I do only what I want to do.
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  15.  @gaillouise8310  Not ONE WORD was spoken by me about the Annunaki or lizard people or anything remotely like it!! Geez.
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  16. Was Jesus an alien? Half alien. Mary was visited by an angel, Gabriel, who announced her mission, should she choose to accept it. She did. Another angel, unidentified, appears to Mary's fiancé, Joseph, and tells him not to be afraid to marry Mary, and so he marries her, legitimizing the half-alien infant she's carrying and Mary isn't stoned for fornicating.
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  17. Nothing enrages me more than the self-righteous Jesus freaks telling everyone who doesn't think/believe as they do that their targets are going to Hell. Wasn't it Gandhi who said that only God decides who goes to Hell? Don't all Americans have equal rights to freedom of religious expression? What they don't seem to get is their rights to freely express their religious beliefs end where the right to free religious expression of other people begin. When I die, I hope I get to be greeted by my family who have gone before me. I want to tell them so much, but mostly I want to tell them how much I loved them and how grateful I am that they loved me.
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  18. The barbershop quartet was adorable.
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  19. You're assuming three things: 1. They aren't warlike. 2. They aren't hungry, looking to lure in an easy food source. 3. They don't want to be left alone.
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  20. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Because you never really know at which point a friend becomes an enemy, and vice versa.
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  21. "We are all bozos on this bus." Firesign Theater.
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  22. It reminds me of the Freedom of Information Act, effective July 5, 1967. I remember a news anchor explaining to the public what that meant. He was asked if that meant John Q. Public could request of the FBI any files they had on citizens. The answer was yes...and, if there was no file when the request was initiated, the individual could bet that a file on him/her would be created the moment the request was made.
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  23. From the depths of the abyss you hear, faintly: "Abandon hope all ye who enter here."
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  24. I love this channel. Hecklefish says what I wish I had the chutzpah to say out loud.
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  25. Read The Hab Theory by Allan W. Eckert. It's a novel about this event.
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  26. "To Serve Man" comes to reality...
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  27. "This man" telling people to "go North" sounds a lot like Horace Greeley. Only, he wanted young men to "go West" ("and grow up with the rest of the country"). He looks a little like Dr. Carl Sagan and a lot like a man who once worked in the same company as I did.
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  28. "Beowulf" with Angelina Jolie is CGI. The DVD contains how the images were generated. I didn't find it creepy at all, probably because i watched the processes by which the movie was generated.
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  29. "UH...dinosaurs, they had, uh, they had their shot..." "Dr. Ian Malcolm", "Jurassic Park". "Uh, humans, uh...they had their shot..."
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  30. "When you've got 'em by the b*lls, their hearts and minds will follow."--US military adage.
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  31. "It's turtles all the way down!"--attributed to several philosophers.
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  32. God bless you, Mr. McNamara, wherever you are, 60 years later!
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  33.  @LadyGhislaine  There's another aspect to this. Brain maturation. Piagetian Tasks. Ericksonian psychosocial development. Primary learning modality.
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  34.  @CockTortureJutsu  It is a teachers responsibility to address all learning styles/modalities and incorporate them into lessons that are meaningful, relevant, and motivating. We are TRAINED for that. Few do it.
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  35. Back in 1962, emerging from childhood into adolescence, I was becoming aware of the need for good manners. On our weekly Friday night shopping trip, my father took me into a local shop to look for school clothes. I got engrossed in selecting more grown-up styles. So engrossed that I backed into a rather lifelike mannequin and, without really looking, automatically said, "Excuse me, ma'am. I'm so very sorry." At which point my beloved father fell on the floor laughing. In a few seconds, I was laughing, too. Thereafter, before entering a shop, he'd say, "Watch out for those plaster of Paris women!" RIP, Daddy. I miss you so much.
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  36. This was the premise of a novel called The HAB Theory from the 1970s.
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  37. In my entire lifetime, through school, jobs, service organizations, etc. , I never had a roommate, friend, classmate, or colleague who shared my birthday. Given the huge numbers of Boomers in my cohort with whom I shared a relationship, how is that even possible?
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  38. And dolphins...
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  39. It is somewhat surprising that no group/university ever tried to replicate it and find out.
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