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Re: UFOs

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:52 pm
by eroticartist
Jared Diamond! What a peculiar name is it actually his real name?
Mike Freeman.

Re: UFOs

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:55 pm
by eroticartist
Very interesting old chap!
Mike Freeman.

Re: UFOs

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:03 pm
by eroticartist
Thank you Bob Singleton,
What you describe is very similar to what I have seen: objects in space that travel up down or sideways at incredible speeds and this seems to be a widely observed phenomenon of those who watch the heavens.
Mike Freeman.

Re: UFOs

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:37 pm
by andy at handiwork
If you think its a peculiar name then so be it. In 1966 he became Professor of Physiology at UCLA med School, and latterly is Professor of Geography and Environmental Health Sciences also at UCLA. Over the years he has made many important contributions to ecology and environmental biology as well as exploring remoter parts of New Guinea. In addition to the book I mentioned, I can recommend 'Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive.'
Both are written in a very accessable style and manage to inform, delight, educate and warn in equal measure. If you have the slightest interest in the history of society, anthropology, or how we came to be the human beings we are, get reading. And he doesn't make a single mention of outside ( eg little green men) influences affecting our development in any way whatsoever.

Re: UFOs

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:32 pm
by Sam Slater
Steven Pinker goes into evolutionary psychology as well and I've found that he comes across quite well in the lectures I've seen him speak (though not read any of his books yet, but I'm planning to).


Re: UFOs

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:54 pm
by andy at handiwork
I've enjoyed a couple of Pinker's books over the years but I dont find him as accessible as Diamond.

Re: UFOs

Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 6:02 pm
by Sam Slater
One man's Diamond is another man's Pinker....an all that !happy!

I think the only thing that's inaccessible (or incomprehensible) is the thought processes of certain individuals round these here parts! !laugh!


Re: UFOs

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 1:21 am
by andy at handiwork
Back in the knife box, Miss Sharp. !wink!

Re: UFOs

Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 9:27 am
by mrmcfister
Robbie Williams has been attending all sorts of UFO conventions in USA lately.He's mad on this stuff....he's mad anyway but there you are...

Re: UFOs

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 4:00 am
by eroticartist
Lucifer Sam ,
As SteveR as pointed out we have the sworn statements of many military men and aircraft pilots as to positive sightings of UFOs and unless they are all lying I think that on the balance of probabilities and weighing up all the evidence we must accept their existence.
Mike Freeman.