Tag: #HighStrangeness
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How High Strangeness Became a Catchall for Everything Weird
What Hynek Actually Meant by “High Strangeness” I was halfway through writing the Spottsville Monster episode of 4Ever Paranormal when I caught myself doing something I should have known better than to do. I’d gotten to the part where the neighbor, alone in that abandoned barn, heard something tell him not to be afraid. It…
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The Equations We Haven’t Written Yet
In 1870, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas introduced readers to Captain Nemo’s submarine, powered by an advanced sodium mercury battery. At the time, such a power source did not exist. Mercury batteries would not be invented for roughly another century. Jules Verne was describing engineering that had not yet caught up to physics. The idea preceded…