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The Next Voice You Hear (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God preempts all radio programs for days all over the world. It stars James Whitmore and Nancy Davis as Joe and Mary Smith, a typical American couple. It was based on a short story of the same name by George Sumner Albee. The voice is never heard by the (film) audience.
Hugh Manatee Wins wrote:Same gag in a 1950 Nancy Davis [Reagan] movie, probably meant as a hand-holding meme in case of a civil defense alert in the scary new nuclear age-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Next_Voice_You_Hear...The Next Voice You Hear (1950) is a drama film in which a voice claiming to be that of God preempts all radio programs for days all over the world. It stars James Whitmore and Nancy Davis as Joe and Mary Smith, a typical American couple. It was based on a short story of the same name by George Sumner Albee. The voice is never heard by the (film) audience.
This "Blue Beam" meme sounds like a cover for SDI technology.
FreeLancer wrote:Here's what I don't understand-- what would be the point of pulling a stunt like this? Ultimately it would just be a fab light show, but what happens the day after? Unless they can get some serious follow-up, I just don't think impressive holograms in the sky would do it at this point. Maybe ten years ago, but today people are too cynical and-- dare I say-- sophisticated. Of course I could be wrong...
Am I missing something?
A graphic from the book ''An Introduction to Planetary Defence'' illustrating a possible conflict between humans and aliens. Travis Taylor and Bob Boan have written ''An Introduction to Planetary Defence'', a primer on how humanity can defend itself if little green men wielding death rays show up at our cosmic doorstep.
FreeLancer wrote:Here's what I don't understand-- what would be the point of pulling a stunt like this? Ultimately it would just be a fab light show, but what happens the day after? Unless they can get some serious follow-up, I just don't think impressive holograms in the sky would do it at this point. Maybe ten years ago, but today people are too cynical and-- dare I say-- sophisticated. Of course I could be wrong...
Am I missing something?
FreeLancer wrote:Unless they can get some serious follow-up, I just don't think impressive holograms in the sky would do it at this point.
AhabsOtherLeg wrote:It's also amazing how quickly hysteria can spread from the sincerely, blamelessly duped to what we might consider the "should know better" types, all the way up the line to the seats of learning and governance.
AhabsOtherLeg wrote:might not work so well against a clear sky... but it's still an amazing apparition, conjured from nothing but light and sound.
AhabsOtherLeg wrote:i didn't imagine all that, did I?
Pentagon planners started to discuss digital morphing after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Covert operators kicked around the idea of creating a computer-faked videotape of Saddam Hussein crying or showing other such manly weaknesses, or in some sexually compromising situation. The nascent plan was for the tapes to be flooded into Iraq and the Arab world. The tape war never proceeded, killed, participants say, by bureaucratic fights over jurisdiction, skepticism over the technology, and concerns raised by Arab coalition partners.
What if the U.S. projected a holographic image of Allah floating over Baghdad?
But the "strategic" PSYOPS scheming didn't die. What if the U.S. projected a holographic image of Allah floating over Baghdad urging the Iraqi people and Army to rise up against Saddam, a senior Air Force officer asked in 1990?
According to a military physicist given the task of looking into the hologram idea, the feasibility had been established of projecting large, three-dimensional objects that appeared to float in the air.
But doing so over the skies of Iraq? To project such a hologram over Baghdad on the order of several hundred feet, they calculated, would take a mirror more than a mile square in space, as well as huge projectors and power sources.
And besides, investigators came back, what does Allah look like?
The Gulf War hologram story might be dismissed were it not the case that washingtonpost.com has learned that a super secret program was established in 1994 to pursue the very technology for PSYOPS application. The "Holographic Projector" is described in a classified Air Force document as a system to "project information power from space ... for special operations deception missions."
AhabsOtherLeg wrote:There were stories that this was going to be attempted at Waco, weren't there? Not with the Loch Ness monster, obviously, but someone in the FBI technical division had the idea of making God appear in the sky and speak to to David Koresh, and telling him to quit it, alongside all the other auditory assaults on the compound?
i didn't imagine all that, did I?
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