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> The Pacific Northwest was settled long, long, long before most Polynesian Islands.
Christiana Thompson's "Sea People" is a great general-interest history book about the Polynesian settlement--so much more recent than I realized!
Great episode!
If anybody is interested in the history of cryptography and how it works, I suggest checking out "The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography" (Amazon link).
Although I haven't finished the book yet, I've found it very interesting so far. A good chunk of the book talks about cryptography in WWI and WWII, which I found pretty interesting. The Zimmerman telegram mentioned in this video is included in the book I believe.
Not sure I understand the question. But I suppose you’ve read Corso’s book. The Day After Roswell?
https://www.amazon.com/Day-After-Roswell-William-Birnes-ebook/dp/B000FBJHT4
Should answer all your questions.
Parsons was a founder of the Jet Propulsion Lab. He blew himself up in 1952, six years before NASA existed. Definitely an odd-bod Crowley fan. Strange Angel is a good book about both sides of his character.
Honestly, I never let it bother me. In reality as a special forces guy (O'Neill) and an astrophysicist (Carter), it's very likely that in the real world neither of them would have been a pilot as they quite simply would not have had time to be trained as one plus their main job. Besides which, as I'm reading an F-16 pilot's memoir, fighter pilot slots are actually pretty rare in the Air Force. Granted, this doesn't really jive with the fact that they can actually fly, as we've seen, but either way.
A book called Project Beta, by Greg Bishop, Amazon link is https://www.amazon.com/Project-Beta-Bennewitz-National-Security-ebook/dp/B000FCK0KI/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=greg+bishop&qid=1623420373&sr=8-4
The Dulce base conspiracy is a creation of the massive disinformation scheme hatched by the AFOSI Air force intel and the NSA in the early to late ’80s, depicted in the book Project Beta, to spread disinformation to the UFO community through scientist and UFO researcher Paul Bennewitz. Also, this scheme was done in order to take Bennewitz's attention away from the Kirtland air force base’s nuclear facility where he had seen lights that he thought were UFOs invading the base and the country and began a personal investigation of the base. Consequently, AFOSI dropped on him for years massive disinformation in which they guided his attention to the Dulce Base Alien conspiracy in which he spread to the UFO community. They were afraid his attention to Kirtland would reveal secret projects and NSA secrets.
Christiana Thompson's "Sea People" is a great general-interest history book about the Polynesian settlement--so much more recent than I realized
Consider it as a different approach to "study harder". Pickup Infinite Powers by Steven Strogatz, and give it a read. It's a great book about the birth of calculus and how & why it's used in different applications. Perhaps this is too anecdotal, but I've gained a better appreciation for calculus and why it makes sense.
Philip Corso.
The Day After Roswell :
is also a must read !
This is a good talk. I've spent the aft listening to these Ritchie Allen talks and some of them are very good. Jim Marrs wrote that book about the rise of the fourth reich, which everyone here should read. He figured out the CF cabal a long long time ago
Here it is
"The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America"
This book is incredibly good
Everyone who found this TIL interesting should read the book Viper Pilot. It is truly one of the best and most entertaining books I've ever read. It blows every other military / combat book I've read out of the water. His stories are so epic, I read the book in two sittings...
Everyone who found this TIL interesting should read the book Viper Pilot. It is truly one of the best and most entertaining books I've ever read. It blows every other military / combat book I've read out of the water. His stories are so epic and engaging that I read the book in two sittings...
You should read the Robin Olds biography, huge isn't necessarily better.
As many have mentioned, the Rosetta Stone is a wonderful story about the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphics. However, the deciphering of Linear B is probably a greater accomplishment. Both of these are beautifully outlined in The Code Book by Simon Singh; well worth reading if you want to know in detail how it was achieved.
Deciphering Linear B involved all kinds of techniques to prise meaning out of the symbols, including statistical analysis, (forensic) linguistics, archeology and sociology. The story is quite involved and too long to describe here, but it's a really wonderful and engrossing story.