Greetings, one and all!
Several years ago, 12 years at right about this time of year, @"BIAD" and I - among many others - were involved in exposing a hoax. It started out innocently enough, with a scientifically impossible claim of "alien contact", asserting that UV light waves had been intercepted via a RADIO telescope containing an alien message. Scientifically, that is the equivalent of taking a photo (capturing light waves) with a transistor radio (radio equipment), and that is just not feasable.
But when our intrepid little band laid the hoax to rest, the hoaxers were not content to let it lie there, They doubled down on stupid, and hilarity ensued.
It eventually morphed into the wildest and most improbable series of events one could imagine. There was the original hoax, of course, but that led down rabbit trails involving gender dysphoria, international intrigue, shadowy government agencies, Interpol, even witches, warlocks, and wannabe hackers. There was something in it for everyone.
One among our number started a blog to document and debunk the hoax and expose the hoaxers, and that could not be allowed to stand by their inimical forces. After a full frontal assault and an epic battle, Wordpress binned the blog and never gave us any good reason for doing so. Never, not even to this day.
That pissed me off.
So I compiled a book detailing and documenting the hoax and hoaxers, and when I say documenting, I mean with actual legal documents presented. It took me two months of 10 hour days, seven days a week. I then released the book into the wild via as many venues as possible, to insure they would never again be able to erase the evidence they were hoaxing from the internet. It can still be found out there today in various places, ScribD being one of those places. It is still occasionally referred to on UFO websites and investigations.
Since I was the original author, I of course kept pristine copies of the text files and the converted PDF.
Here I present to you that book, in PDF format, free for the downloading. Just another in a long line of repositories. Be forewarned, however, that should you choose to download it, it's a BIG read. About 399 pages. The download itself is only about 3.2 MB.
On page 300, there is a photo of me in my younger days, in uniform and on the job. I included it in order to prove my authorship later, if that should ever come into question, and I still have the original photo, complete with metadata, for comparison.
Enjoy, if you have the time and inclination.
Trigger warning: ATS is mentioned. A lot. because that is where the hoax was initially exposed.
The_Hoax_Heard_Round_the_World.pdf (Size: 3.14 MB / Downloads: 27)
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Several years ago, 12 years at right about this time of year, @"BIAD" and I - among many others - were involved in exposing a hoax. It started out innocently enough, with a scientifically impossible claim of "alien contact", asserting that UV light waves had been intercepted via a RADIO telescope containing an alien message. Scientifically, that is the equivalent of taking a photo (capturing light waves) with a transistor radio (radio equipment), and that is just not feasable.
But when our intrepid little band laid the hoax to rest, the hoaxers were not content to let it lie there, They doubled down on stupid, and hilarity ensued.
It eventually morphed into the wildest and most improbable series of events one could imagine. There was the original hoax, of course, but that led down rabbit trails involving gender dysphoria, international intrigue, shadowy government agencies, Interpol, even witches, warlocks, and wannabe hackers. There was something in it for everyone.
One among our number started a blog to document and debunk the hoax and expose the hoaxers, and that could not be allowed to stand by their inimical forces. After a full frontal assault and an epic battle, Wordpress binned the blog and never gave us any good reason for doing so. Never, not even to this day.
That pissed me off.
So I compiled a book detailing and documenting the hoax and hoaxers, and when I say documenting, I mean with actual legal documents presented. It took me two months of 10 hour days, seven days a week. I then released the book into the wild via as many venues as possible, to insure they would never again be able to erase the evidence they were hoaxing from the internet. It can still be found out there today in various places, ScribD being one of those places. It is still occasionally referred to on UFO websites and investigations.
Since I was the original author, I of course kept pristine copies of the text files and the converted PDF.
Here I present to you that book, in PDF format, free for the downloading. Just another in a long line of repositories. Be forewarned, however, that should you choose to download it, it's a BIG read. About 399 pages. The download itself is only about 3.2 MB.
On page 300, there is a photo of me in my younger days, in uniform and on the job. I included it in order to prove my authorship later, if that should ever come into question, and I still have the original photo, complete with metadata, for comparison.
Enjoy, if you have the time and inclination.
Trigger warning: ATS is mentioned. A lot. because that is where the hoax was initially exposed.
The_Hoax_Heard_Round_the_World.pdf (Size: 3.14 MB / Downloads: 27)
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’