Posted on 03/13/2021 1:16:00 PM PST by SamAdams76
It’s ALWAYS in the plural....multiples
They would have figured it out FIRST.
Hard Copy.
My grandmother was born on a small farm in the mountains of Norway in 1883. Her living conditions were probably similar to 1783 with no electricity, they didn’t own motorized vehicles, etc. She lived to be 100 years old.
She came over to the USA alone and not knowing anybody here at the age of 17. She often said that she lived in the most amazing time of the history of the earth to see all of the technology and improvements. And men on the moon!
Best comment ever! Lol!
You're right. They could not have fathomed it. They would have gone on a rampage, collecting scalps along the way.
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Most likely looked upon them as slow meteors.
So embarrassing when that happens.
When I visited her in the 1970s, she still had an outhouse and the one rotary telephone was on a party line. There was a distinctive ring when it was your call but likely others on the party line would listen in nonetheless. Neighbors were nosy but they would never let on that they heard your conversations.
She took snuff and had a shotgun. Woke up at 4 in the morning to make biscuits, bacon and gravy. Lived to be near 100 years old and saw the rise of radio, television, automobiles and airplanes.
Sounds like an episode I’d like to see.
Actually they had been contemplating it for at least 200 years at that point.
We know what some tribes living today, in the Amazon jungle would do. If your helicopter flies to low, they shoot arrows at you. As recently as 60 years ago, if you landed on a Pacific island, you could be killed and eaten. Today, there is an island in the Indian Ocean. The people attack anyone who lands on their island. There is film of two of these events on the web if you are interested.
“They” as in . . . ?
Wasn’t a broad notion in the century in question. Never heard the Founding Fathers pondering whether space aliens or empires across the ocean were the bigger danger.
My thought exactly.
Some SOB would fire a shot at them just to, you know, see whut’s whut...
Sam I’m surprised you don’t know UFOs have been sighted over Boston since the 1600s
https://newengland.com/today/living/new-england-history/ufo-sightings-alien-sightings/
A cargo cult is a millenarian belief system in which adherents perform rituals which they believe will cause a more technologically advanced society to deliver goods. These cults were first described in Melanesia in the wake of contact with allied military forces during the Second World War.
Isolated and pre-industrial island cultures that were lacking technology found soldiers and supplies arriving in large numbers, often by airdrop. The soldiers would trade with the islanders. After the war, the soldiers departed. Cargo cults arose, attempting to imitate the behaviors of the soldiers, thinking that this would cause the soldiers and their cargo to return. Some cult behaviors involved mimicking the day-to-day activities and dress styles of soldiers, such as performing parade ground drills with wooden or salvaged rifles.
They were perplexed with seeing the 1939 NY World’s fair... when they landed in 1961, they’d probably make out in Queens the pouring of foundations for 1965 World’s fair buildings.
Depends on what you mean by a broad notion.
Certainly it was of interest and conversation among people who had telescopes. And there were a lot of people who did.
Never heard the Founding Fathers pondering whether space aliens or empires across the ocean were the bigger danger.
That is quite a leap to take from contemplating the idea (which is were you started) to regarding it with fear as a clear and present danger (Which is where you are now).
Congratulations on your intellectual athleticism.
The Gods ate too much and their tummys must be rumbling. Contrails are the evidence of their flatulence.
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