Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

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March 15, 1951: The Iranian oil industry is nationalized.




March 15th is C-Day or World Contact Day was first declared in March 1953 by an organization called the International Flying Saucer Bureau (IFSB), as a day on which all IFSB members would attempt to send a telepathic message into space.

The IFSB voted to hold such a day in 1953, theorizing that if both telepathy and alien life were real, a large number of people focusing on an identical piece of text may be able to transmit the message through space. IFSB members focused on the following message during 1953:



KLAATU TRACK FACTS

Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft (1976)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ4IUjjVfng



Groovie Ghoulies - 50,000 Spaceships  (Watching Over Me)




March 15, 1953: Test Pilots?
Virginia Flyer Dies in Crash Of Tiny Experimental Plane




March 15, 1963: wire services carried news of fallout shelter booster Gov. Nelson Rockefeller's permit to build a shelter in the basement of the Orangerie on the grounds of the Kykuit estate in Tarrytown, NY.

Kykuit aka John D. Rockefeller Estate, is a 40-room historic house museum in Pocantico Hills, a hamlet in the town of Mount Pleasant, New York 25 miles north of New York City. The estate has an enormous art collection of the third-generation scion, Governor of New York, and Vice President of the United States, Nelson Rockefeller, it was home to four generations of the family. The house is a National Historic Landmark owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and tours are given by Historic Hudson Valley.

Nelson Rockefeller had a major private art gallery beneath the mansion.

Kykuit (in modern Dutch means "Lookout", from kijkuit (also uitkijk), both compound nouns meaning "lookout, look-out") is situated on the highest point in Pocantico Hills, overlooking the Hudson River at Tappan Zee. Located near Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow, it has a view of the New York City skyline.

Nelson Rockefeller's obsession with fallout shelters was perhaps best summed up by prime minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru: "Gov. Rockefeller is a very strange man."




THAMES REPORT (ITV, UK), "The Bomb: Would You Survive?" Feb. 28, 1980.
"And we have just received reports that NATO forces have used a limited number of tactical nuclear weapons against Warsaw Pact airfields and supply bases."



ThamesTV uploaded today:




March 15, 1985: the very first .COM domain, http://symbolics.com, was registered. Symbolics was a spinoff from the MIT AI Lab, one of two companies to be founded by AI Lab staffers and associated hackers for the purpose of manufacturing Lisp machines. Early origins of AI funded in part by DARPA. It marked the beginning of the commercial internet as we know it.

The Symbolics 3640 Lisp Machine is a fascinating piece of computing history, a high-end workstation from the mid-1980s designed specifically to run Lisp, a programming language favored for artificial intelligence  development known as "expert systems". Introduced in 1984 as part of Symbolics' 3600 family, the 3640 was a compact, high-performance evolution of earlier models, built to handle the demands of symbolic processing and AI research. Symbolics, a company spun off from MIT’s AI Lab, aimed to create machines that excelled at running Lisp natively, and the 3640 embodied that vision.

The 3640 ran Symbolics’ Genera operating system, written entirely in Lisp (initially ZetaLisp, later evolving with Common Lisp). Genera was a standout: fully object-oriented, with a presentation-based window system called Dynamic Windows. This wasn’t just a command-line box—it offered a rich, interactive development environment that was years ahead of its peers. Imagine a workstation where everything, from the OS to the apps, was built to feel seamless for Lisp developers, complete with high-resolution bitmapped graphics and networking via protocols like Chaosnet.


The Symbolics 3640 was a niche marvel—overbuilt for Lisp, a pioneer in workstation design, and a relic of an era when AI dreams drove hardware innovation.

Symbolics.com Museum
Symbolics keyboards & other images.


I have to say on looking back that the 90s was probably my best decade. Young enough to do anything and not care about anything. World traveler and adventurer, dodged the Grim Reaper a dozen times and never thought anything of it. If only I could go back knowing what I know now I'd probably be a super multi-millionaire by 1999. Oh well, that is life and when you're young, never skip an opportunity.




I sincerely doubt this is his X account...


Possible X account of missing general William McCasland claimed fellow general was murdered over nuclear material

It has become so tiring of people throwing "Collins Elite" around as a catch-all boogie man for everything happening in the UFO sphere, considering there’s really very little info to go on about this supposed group that was only ever mentioned by one source.

This is your brain on UFOs... professor is cooked.



Do you believe in UFOs? It's Not Unusual.

March 15th, USA #1 on this day in 1999: Cher - Believe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZXRV4MezEw

UK #1 on this day in 1965: Tom Jones - It's Not Unusual
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-HdGnzYdFQ