I have the shirt...
Posted on 04/24/2017 12:09:08 PM PDT by sodpoodle
Here’s a funnny thought. In the GI Tract are thousands of different species of microbes, living off of excess nutrients - many creating inflammation, and producing metabolites which diffuse into the blood and cause negative biological consequences.
Just all ballparking how things might go, I see a future where somebody comes up with a poorly absorbable antimicrobial that remains in the gut and kills back just about everything living in there without affecting the rest of the human machine. We’d have to supplement with some nutrients produced by those microbes. But the mixture of the removal of the microbes’ negative effects and the replacement of what good things they do will produce a massive anti-inflammatory effect and stabilzation of health in many who are now chronically sick, as the body adapts to the stable environment.
Now the problem. Initially a lot of people today, who lack the full suite of immune genes to control the GI biota without that help, would suddenly become healthy and reproduce. Over time, that would devolve the GI immune system genes and we would become, as a species, dependent on that antimicrobial/supplement just to stay normal. We would one day lack the genes and the mechanism to balance things out in there and keep the GI biota from infecting and killing us.
And if a microbe evolved which could overcome the elixir, suddenly we would need to understand how to recreate that immune capability we have now to control what our guts are growing. I fully expect we will take that path, because the intiial effect of contorling the GI biota will be do beneifical to many, and the easiest way to do that will be with a sledge hammer.
How would we do that, if we were that species? I would look for a species somewhere else in the universe that was as evolved as it could possibly be (so the GI immune system would be as evovled as possible), yet which wasn’t using that anti-microbial tech, or which had just invented it it and not yet adapted genetically to it. What you would see is a super high tech species visiting a newly technologically sophisitcated species which had just come up with anti-microbials. And strangely the super high-tech species would pay undue attention to the lower GI tracts of the more primitve species, biopsying them and taking samples, probably through the end of the GI tract.
So while the physics of space travel may seem a little shaky, I actually think the whole anal probe thing could actually be consistent with a likely path of highly sophisticated species, as well as explain a practical use studying our species might be to them. Which is strange since at the time those stories started, I don’t think anyone could have predicted the field of study would have even existed one day.
Bet your ass if I see a UFO I am getting the fuck out of there fast. No staying around to marvel and take pictures for me.
[Why is July the busiest month for U.F.O. sightings?]
Peak BBQ time.
[ I was coming off of Donner Pass in the 1970s ]
Ummm, you hadn’t just had dinner or anything had you?
Alferd Packer Memorial Break Room
It was up for nearly six months before someone got the reference...
I remember the story from “The Big Bus”:
“Jenkins made a stew. How was I to know it had a foot in it???”
“I ate the seats, I ate the luggage; just like the manual says”.
Thanks for sharing that. The one account was very close to our experience and it seems the people who experienced pretty much reacted as we did.
Experiences like ours make it very hard to poo-poo the idea of UFO’s. No doubt there are hoaxes, but it’s obvious there is something ‘odd’ going on in this world! :-)
You would think someone would have been curious at least...must have thought Alferd Packer was a previous employee. Good joke!
No, the famous Donner dinner party was well before my time...
I have the shirt...
This was pre-google, and half the employees had been there since day one.
I know, but I couldn’t pass up the reference.
Didn’t know Nully had the t-shirt!
You’re welcome. I read your account and knew you would see the similarities. Always good to know it’s not just you in that situation. Be blessed.
How’d you do that?
Nice photo! Thanks.
Terence McKenna had a hilarious rant about the big telescope in Puerto Rico looking for extraterrestrial life.
He argued that in fact the telescrope may be surrounded by it (with mushrooms whose spores may have come from outer space).
The best place to hide is in plain sight!
I saw a point of light do a zig zag thingy. Then there was a bright flash at a house through the woods. BRIGHT FLASH.
To top it off, my mother had passed 2 days earlier, we were at her place in the boonies. The light flashed near what looked to be my uncles garage, tho I can’t be certain of that because of distance and woods. But she had said she wondered what those men did when they hung out down there...lol.
Sort of a UFO, paranormal experience there...take it for what it’s worth. :)
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