After watching the Witnesses of the Rendlesham Forest Incident video, my main take away that this was a bunch of stories related by some overexcited people who saw some lights in the woods at night, and that the stories bear an interesting...
I know, we've been over this before. I'll just say, and with all due respect and sincerity, I think you project too much of yourself into the situation. Obviously we've never met and don't know each other, but I've read enough of your posts that...
The report of the kite festival posted by @Giddierone (post #1779) looks pretty detailed! I think something as interesting as kite fighting would've been mentioned.
Post-surgery, I was coming out of the anesthetic, while my roommate was an elderly woman who had mistakenly overdosed on her medication. We conversed all afternoon, while nurses would come in and out, laughing.
There will surely be some ratio of year length to lifespan where seasons just become cyclic climatic ages.
EDIT: 'er indoors informs me that this is part of the plot to a Pertwee-era Dr. Who yarn:
The Doctor hits upon the meaning of the tablets...
Valid point! It's almost impossible to say what it is since we are only seeing a 2D silhouette. It could be a kite, a star, some piece of junk, or something custom-made. While experimenting with different techniques to create a hoax photograph a...
The tilt creates a strong weather pattern that governs the life of primitive cultures, i.e. years. Any civilisation that has this can understand New Year's celebrations.
Strange Planet by Nathan Pyle
I think it's an AI or Chinese attempt to "improve" the language of a previous (hilarious, IMHO) greeting card:
(though the re-phrasing accidentally, entirely, wrecks the joke)
You may be on to something. I had a pretty involved conversation with the robotic member of my surgical team a few years back. Seemed pretty intelligent.
(Drugs may have been a factor.)
it's freaky that you can write or read and listen simultaneously. maybe what is happening is your mind is kinda predicting what they will say next? and that influences the words you are choosing?
kinda fascinating and very cool. brain...
It showed me its calculations based on the number of words I hear and write per day, the number of words I hear per the number written (since speech is faster), with a 0.5sec time delay in which I would "decide" the words happened at the same...