Scary, Very Scary

[avad]

Today's Clickable Culture post points to some very weird goings on:

An article in baytoday.ca
"Based on recurring dreams, [Canadian inventor Troy]Hurtubise reportedly developed a disconcerting invention without blueprints or schematics. The invention, dubbed the Angel Light, sees through solid material with window-like efficiency. Think of it as an unstoppable X-Ray machine. Not only can the device penetrate lead, wood, and ceramic, but the light emissions of the device (think "death ray" here) stop machines in their tracks and kill goldfish. Hurtubise is apparently shopping the technology around: The French government reportedly sent out representatives to witness a demo of the machine, paying him $40k to complete the device. BayToday.ca says it has documents that confirm "the former head of Saudi counter-intelligence...has been in regular contact with Hurtubise regarding the Angel Light..." read more

where do the dreams come from and why?? this does not seem good. I...*sigh*don't know.
Maybe the technology WAS a gift...but as a species we're not ready to use it for the right reasons?!

Comments

[unluckymonkey.livejournal.com]

WHOA. That's terrifying! And, really, would you trust a man with that haircut to do the right thing? Not i. And the FRENCH!?!? shit.

[babayada.livejournal.com]

I think we're all born with incredible faculties of imagination that are conditioned out of us by our upbringing and cultural conditioning.

Nikola Tesla had stories about his experiences as a child when extremely realistic, scary images would flash in his imagination. Every child, I think, has these, and their parents, meaning well, say "it's just a dream, just your imagination, it's not real." This takes the realism and punch out of it, I think. Tesla didn't have that. Instead, he explored the images and developed an extremely powerful faculty of imagination. He could build devices in his mind and they'd work just like real devices work in reality.

Is this device a gift from "somewhere else"? Maybe. But most likely this guy's mind created it. It was something that was important for him to create.

I don't think we as a species are ready for most of the technology we already have. But think of the process of evolution. I think, unfortunately, I species needs to evolve further to achieve balance with our tool making abilities ... our abilities to grow and affect our environment. We have never been above and beyond the checks and balances inherent in nature.

A long long long long time with multitudes of deaths and mutations have to occur, I think, for us to evolve into a species in which balance is a natural tendency for us concerning our environment and our abilities.

Our natural tendencies (not our unnaturalness, for we are never beyond nature and our own natures) are what are getting us deeper and deeper into messes. We just aren't the models suited for the kind of balance we need. This is not to say we should not try and evolve our consciousnesses or that the capacity for balance isn't in us, it's just that it takes work. We are, however, very conservative with our energies and comfort is just too seductive in many cases.

I think we'll make mistakes and adapt. But along the way I do think our technology will create a lot of misery and death, but misery and death are really part of the whole picture ... just like the Dalai Llama and what he represents is part of the whole picture. For me, it's a big, complicated picture.

But as Nietschze said, we're a bridge between man and overman.

[unluckymonkey.livejournal.com]

Upon chatting with the boy and looking into his other projects I think he's either a scammer and it doesn't work OR he puts the idiot in idiot savant. Apparently he went from creating a Bear Suit to this? Seems a little suspect methinks...

[babayada.livejournal.com]

Yeah. He's a real freak.

I was all upset until I went to the web page and recognized the guy. I some him on TV years back. I think it's probably a bunch of hooey.

[avad.livejournal.com]

I know hard to believe..I mean his bear suit didn't even come CLOSE to yours...but I guess I'm biased.;)

[unluckymonkey.livejournal.com]

hahaha well my bear suit won't protect anyone but they'll certainly love the mauling! ;)
You were in my dream last night. We were picking through your vast array of glittery nail polish. I decided on orange but we never got around to painting them. :(

[avad.livejournal.com]

hee yay sammy's visiting!!:)

1963 movie

[minorsecond.livejournal.com]

"The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (simply identified as X in the eerie, odd opening credits) is a familiar tale of a scientist who risks everything to explore the unknown and is finally driven mad by, literally, seeing too much. "

[minorsecond.livejournal.com]

It is ultimately a psychological drama, because as Xavier sees human beings reduced to their skeletons, he becomes incapable of dealing with them on a personal level.

In terms of movies where the mad scientist goes off the deep end with a god complex, this one makes the main character the victim of his own experiments (contrast this with Claude Reins in "The Invisible Man"). After accidentally killing a colleague, Xavier hides out in a carnival sideshow where he works as a faith healer. Clearly his x-ray vision functions as a metaphor for the ability to have insight into the sad side of life, but, ironically, Xavier cannot see where his own life is heading

[avad.livejournal.com]

ooh creepy interesting. would you recommend it?