The Elke Sims 2 bombardment episode!
ACT ONE: The Simpsons Bombardment, Elke’s first live morning Whole Wheat Radio show, Elke on The Sims 2.
ACT TWO: Slow Singapore internet today, Microsoft gets new open source chief, Ruben rants about "shared source" nonsense, CalgaryGuru on Flickr’s new video uploading service, is Yahoo’s brand failing?
ACT THREE: Elke on different social networks across the world, suss people on Bebo, verbose MySpace video profiles.
ACT FOUR: Rant on people intentionally misspelling names, Ruben versus Reuben, Miss Cook adventures in primary school in Melbourne, Web 2.0 buyout baiting, Jerry Yang’s haircut, Wikipedia as a drug, Yahoo Mash.
ACT FIVE: Facebook discussion including remembering 30 passwords, Elise Hopkins, The Schade Clan group, rant on how useless nationalities and patriotism are becoming, origin of the word expat, Mr Slave.
ACT SIX: Ridiculously long lists of Facebook requests, fun in my own introversion, testy-pops, 2005 was a very good year, "Liberal" meaning different things in the US and Australia, Lotus SmartSuite, Microsoft Plus 95, my OBSESSION with screeshots!
ACT SEVEN: Ruben’s dad Rainer debunks mind-controlling chemtrails, huge ships near the Port of Singapore, illuminati controlling my mind as a sheeple, why it’s hard to find words that rhyme with sheeple.
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Hey, Ruben! Just finished listening to your dad’s debunking of chemtrails.
What strikes me is his claim that it would take hundreds of planes to affect anyone. Hate to break it to you, but I’m pretty sure there ARE hundreds of planes (I’m sure at least around 100 daily) over the skies of the NYC area dumping this stuff on us. Add to the fact that this has been going on for many years…
And mind control is only one theory of what they’re for. It could also be weather modification, among other theories.
Very curious what your father would say if he read all of the information there is out there, and what he could debunk, and what might make him think could be the explanations!
I’m really loving your show, BTW. Keep up the great work!!!
Brian
G’day Brian, thanks for your response, I’m glad you like the show!
As for the hundreds of aeroplanes comment, Singapore is a global hub for Asian-Pacific air travel itself as New York is important, the difference is that not all of these aircraft are over the same, small enough airspace at the same time, and even if they were the supposed mind control material they’d be spewing would not only be oxidised (something I forgot to mention on the show) by the engines and chemically altered when they were superheated, but dissipation forces would render them useless by the time they reached us.
You also have to notice how these purported chemtrails have changed shape and appearance over the years as jet engines themselves have evolved to turbofans, to more efficient turbofans etc. If they really were specifically spewing chemicals, you would expect a similar visual pattern regardless of the aircraft dumping it.
Call me an anti-conspiracy theory guy, but the evidence for nearly all conspiracy theories are either insufficient or downright terrible! I am a skeptic and don’t believe everything I’m told, but asserting something on insufficient evidence sounds much more like Illuminati thinking than the events they’re supposedly uncovering. I’d go so far as to say that people who form conspiracy theories and who misinform people who then take those theories seriously (as opposed to fun, idol speculation we all have from time to time!) is almost akin cult thinking, and is actually not just some harmless fun to those who take them seriously, but is causing real and observable sociological damage. That could just be me :-).
Thanks again for the positive comments, I’m no Frank Nora, Jim Kloss, Israel Brown or Brian Richmond but I’m giving it a shot!
Cheers :)
Ruben
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