Let it go man - just let it go...

The "haters" have moved on to their next den - and the stragglers will soon follow.

Be patient and just let it go....

 

Lets keep this thread open by staying on topic please. You can PM or email me on any of the other concerns. I'll be glad to offer you my Cell number if you need to vent a concern.

 

Only 800 posts or so here I guess that qualifies me as a straggler to those that moved on. Pegúelo en su sombrero.

 

Gosh, and here I thought Bell Labs developed a primitive transistor, lost interest and let the Japanese run with it and they managed to miniaturize it and the rest, as they say, is history. When did you get your first transistor radio? I got mine in about 1957 when all Japanese products were thought to be cheap junk. As I held this fascinating gizmo thing in my hands, little did I know that beating in its heart was a transistor that would replace vacuum tubes and miles of wiring and start the age of technology.

Aliens had nothing to do with it. Or the Pyramids. Or the tribal ground markings in South America or crop circles anywhere on the planet.

I have to stick up for the Earthlings who actually did the research and work. Thomas Edison wasn't an alien and Alexander Graham Bell wasn't an alien. Charles Lindburg wasn't and either was John Wayne.

They were ordinary Americans with extraordinary talents. Celebrate them! You don't have to give credit to a freaky alien conspiracy no one can look at or touch or read up about. It was people, your neighbors, your friends. No superhuman, comic book characters and secret societies involved.

 

About the only Hollywood "Alien Story" I found to be halfway plausible is ....
IOTBS - Trailer

Now availible on podcast...

 

Actually Alexander Graham Bell was Scottish and went to the US via Canada. So other countries could produce extraordinary people, where John Wayne fits into this baffles me. I liked him though, but he was always John Wayne playing John Wayne.

I made my first transistor radio around 1957 using parts liberated from the company I worked for. It was basically a crystal set with a few transistors in it. Nothing at that time could beat a radio with valves and I built a so called Super Heterodyne set that pulled in the world on short wave.

To keep this thread on topic I have never actually seen an alien from another world but if I do I'll take a photo of it with my cell phone if it lets me and post it here first.

 

No one has "moved on" Brian.

And the the hater's who despised the Politics forum are still here. And still snarky as ever.

I check in 4 or 5 times a day. Not much of interest is being posted. My God, you guys are talking about Cigars and Aliens.

87 posts so far.

Are you really that bored?


roadster with a stick

BTW, 180 hit the point on the hed and did't even realizeit. Dave, damm near every Ameriican is from somewhere else.
But they or their families came here and the genius was allowed to bloom.
Canada's influence on Alexander Graham Bell? Interesting, But, it doesn't change where he prospered.

 

Zen cannot be found in numbers...