Tuesday, January 14, 2014

famous time slip

In 1935, Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard of the British Royal Air Force had a harrowing experience in his Hawker Hart biplane. Goddard was a Wing Commander at the time and while on a flight from Edinburgh, Scotland to his home base in Andover, England, he decided to fly over an abandoned airfield at Drem, not far from Edinburgh. The useless airfield was overgrown with foliage, the hangars were falling apart and cows grazed where planes were once parked. Goddard then continued his flight to Andover, but encountered a bizarre storm. In the high winds of the storm's strange brown-yellow clouds, he lost control of his plane, which began to spiral toward the ground. Narrowly averting a crash, Goddard found that his plane was heading back toward Drem. As he approached the old airfield, the storm suddenly vanished and Goddard's plane was now flying in brilliant sunshine. This time, as he flew over the Drem airfield, it looked completely different. The hangars looked like new. There were four airplanes on the ground: three were familiar biplanes, but painted in an unfamiliar yellow; the fourth was a monoplane, which the RAF had none of in 1935. The mechanics were dressed in blue overalls, which Goddard thought odd since all RAF mechanics dressed in brown overalls.
  
               

5 comments:

  1. this is a typical "temporal occlusion" according to the 25th century catalogue of occlusive events. Chapter 6, ppg 231-7 explains it very clearly.

    ReplyDelete
  2. yeah, yeah, and the color changes are simply gnostic remnants. basic stuff

    ReplyDelete
  3. i actually believe in this sort of thing, only with women; e.g. i went out for some smokes, said goodbye to my true love; when I came back she was wearing a yellow dress and she'd turned into a .....(rhymes with smore). I, unlike the aforementioned air marshall, crashed and burned.

    ReplyDelete
  4. i actually do believe in this sort of thing.

    ReplyDelete
  5. even though time travel presents some very furry philosophical problems? like e.g. if time is not simply a point but a stream and one can go back and forth, and i am able to skip way ahead on the timeline and just pick it up there, what if any opportunities are there to affect, even to sense, the time in between. Have I become a passenger with no ticket? And losing complete choice, who needs traffic lights, or road signs, or morality, or...I love those kind of goofy analogies, passenger with no ticket, hee hee.. Hell i have no idea what i'm talking about.

    ReplyDelete