FT240

[original_fLeebLe]

time travel special

rocketmen from the future
john titor:the man from 2036
the unearthly mist that steals time
the man behind the x-files:chris carter interviewed
the astronaut who claims aliens have visited earth
reanimated:the dead who came back to life
the woman who married the berlin wall
yeti hair tests
albino murders
drug-smuggling pigeons
killer ghost slugs
what is the montauk monster?

 

[liveinabin]

Curse you fLeeble.

Right, I must do the ironing first!

 

[Tyger_Lily]

I was going to read mine to avoid doing the ironing! Foretan or what???

 

[escargot]

I took the precaution of doing a fortnight's ironing in advance to leave the week clear.

Mine's here. Hmmm...

 

[Mal_Adjusted]

What is it, the "ironing"?

 

[Brown_Forever]

Mine here too. Looks like a good issue (as the actress said to the bishop... ).

Interesting to see coverage of the "Aldeburgh Platform". I read an article (sadly no longer extant) about it on the Magonia website some time back. A strange one.

PB

 

[GNC]

Funny "C'est la Guerre" this issue!

That letter about meteorites, is it accurate or is it this time's letter from a mad person? I don't know enough about the subject to judge. Wouldn't they avoid the Moon if the higher gravity of the Earth was nearby?

 

[47Forteans]

Curses! Everyone but me seems to have their copy! I shall just have to be patient and wait for mine to turn up in the post! That's the only problem with living in Australia - waiting a little longer than the rest for the best magazine to arrive! And I want to read the article about the guy from 2036!

 

[GNC]

Curses! Everyone but me seems to have their copy! I shall just have to be patient and wait for mine to turn up in the post! That's the only problem with living in Australia - waiting a little longer than the rest for the best magazine to arrive! And I want to read the article about the guy from 2036!

Here you go:
http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewt ... p?t=12673&

I notice the John Titor website has gone nuts for the Beijing Olympics and thinks it's all a hoax. Clutching at straws, methinks.

Bit of a cheek including the cover story as being about men from the future when it's just a collection of flying humanoid cases. Still interesting, though, don't get me wrong, but where's the proof they're from the future?

 

[47Forteans]

Curses! Everyone but me seems to have their copy! I shall just have to be patient and wait for mine to turn up in the post! That's the only problem with living in Australia - waiting a little longer than the rest for the best magazine to arrive! And I want to read the article about the guy from 2036!

Here you go:
http://www.forteantimes.com/forum/viewt ... p?t=12673&

I notice the John Titor website has gone nuts for the Beijing Olympics and thinks it's all a hoax. Clutching at straws, methinks.

Bit of a cheek including the cover story as being about men from the future when it's just a collection of flying humanoid cases. Still interesting, though, don't get me wrong, but where's the proof they're from the future?

Thank you gncxx. A most illuminating read - some folk will say or do anything to get noticed!

 

[GNC]

Thank you gncxx. A most illuminating read - some folk will say or do anything to get noticed!

Yeah. It's such a detailed hoax that it gets pretty interesting after while, though! The FT article is a good overview.

 

[47Forteans]

Thank you gncxx. A most illuminating read - some folk will say or do anything to get noticed!

Yeah. It's such a detailed hoax that it gets pretty interesting after while, though! The FT article is a good overview.

I remember reading about him in the Hierophant column some years back (this was before he disappeared and reappered some months later), and wondering if there was going to be anymore from this Future Guy. Since he is back, I am glad he has remained in this Temporal Location for our education and amusement!

 

[taras]

This issue was too Forty!

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240...


*coat*

 

[Peripart]

I all but gave up buying FT some time back, but I happened to grab a copy of FT239, and when I saw what was coming up, I knew I'd have to buy this one, too. The John Titor story is one that has fascinated me since I first read about it. OK, so the chances are it's a very cleverly-done hoax, but it's actually very hard to pick too many logical holes in the tale, if you accept some of the basics about time travel as he explains them.

And the "flying humanoids", whether from the future or not, are intriguing.

All I need to do know is actually find a flippin' copy - WHS seem to be a bit late...

 

[taras]

Since nobody has mentioned Jenny Randles's timestorms article, I will. It was rather good, though leaves a lot of questions unanswered.

She also wrote a book, Time Storms (2001), which I guess is on the same topic - anyone read it?

 

[Timble2]

Since nobody has mentioned Jenny Randles's timestorms article, I will. It was rather good, though leaves a lot of questions unanswered.

She also wrote a book, Time Storms (2001), which I guess is on the same topic - anyone read it?

Yep, the article covers some of the same ground.

 

[Daftbugger1]

Actually, I was quite disappointed with the Jenny Randles article. There was a really good article in FT a while back that suggested that almost all the symptoms of these 'timestorms' or 'alien abductions' fit perfectly with the symptoms of being struck by lightening. The cases she describes fit this description perfectly - big storm clouds, rashes, amnesia, fillings falling out, vomiting and particularly the smell of ionised air/ozone and even a partially melted jumper! Yet she never mentions this? Surely she must have read the FT article?? OK, it's unusual to get electrical storms and lightening in the UK with no rain, but not impossible. And it's not exactly anything new to science.

And just a nice coincidence, I continued to read my FT in the pub, the next article I read was about witches familiars whilst sat in the Devonshire Cat!

 

[Beakmoo]

I just love the idea that the John Titor phenomenon is merely a new form of literary artwork. For some reason that's almost as exciting as if he really was a time traveller.

 

[47Forteans]

At last! My copy arrived yesterday!

 

[DougalLongfoot]

Dementia bus stops

In the Strange Days sidelines, on page 9, Tricking the Oldies mentions German nursing homes are installing bus stops for dementia patients to sit at when they wander off. FT suspects an urban legend. No idea about Germany, but some Australian nursing homes have had them for at least 3 years.

http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2005/s1536133.htm

JOCELYN NETTLEFOLD: Most visitors are intrigued by the bus stop in the garden, just one of Allan Bester's innovative solutions. Every day one of the residents would be become anxious about missing her bus, but waiting here would calm her down.

ALLAN BESTER: There is certain criticisms about certain things. For instance, the bus stop is criticised that we use that as a Band Aid effect and use that to tell little white lies to our residents. I see it completely different. My opinion is that no matter what we do, one of the few things we can attempt to do in dementia care is to make dementia sufferers happy.

JOCELYN NETTLEFOLD: Pets are another key distraction. One resident used to spend all day every day down by the hen house. But closer to home, the ADARDS philosophy is yet to be adopted by dementia care providers interstate, although many homes do have specialised units.

the website of the nursing home in question can be found at:

http://www.adardsnursinghome.com.au/

 

[Pietro_Mercurios]

Well spotted, Dougal!

 

[AMPHIARAUS]

I thought the Jenny Randles article had an odd slant. Why a time-slip* instead of electrical effects on the brain? like maybe an earthlight at ground level?

I wasn't keen on the Titor piece TBH.

Was it me or is the FT shrinking?


*seeing as the earth is moving at about 18.5 miles a second then slipping by just one second would leave you anywhere from 18 miles in the air to embedded 18 miles underground depending on where you are in relation to the direction of travel.

 

[Beakmoo]

I thought the Jenny Randles article had an odd slant. Why a time-slip* instead of electrical effects on the brain? like maybe an earthlight at ground level?

That's odd, I didn't read it that way at all. :? They way I read it she was proposing some natural effect. She said nothing about a literal "time slip". I'll have to go and read it again now to see if I can work out why we saw exactly the opposite.

 

[AMPHIARAUS]

I thought the Jenny Randles article had an odd slant. Why a time-slip* instead of electrical effects on the brain? like maybe an earthlight at ground level?

That's odd, I didn't read it that way at all. :? They way I read it she was proposing some natural effect. She said nothing about a literal "time slip". I'll have to go and read it again now to see if I can work out why we saw exactly the opposite.

I agree that she proposed a natural source for the phenomenon, but to me the way the cases were presented left me thinking she believes some distortion of time itself was the cause. Which IMO is wrong for many reasons.

Just found this from Randle herself:
For 2001 I have published Time Storms‚ (serialised by the largest selling UK national newspaper the Daily Mail). This investigates cases of mysterious clouds that create distortions in the flow of time and space.

 

[barfing_pumpkin]

The John Titor story is one that has fascinated me since I first read about it. OK, so the chances are it's a very cleverly-done hoax, but it's actually very hard to pick too many logical holes in the tale, if you accept some of the basics about time travel as he explains them.

I thought the Titor story was a load of twat-bake from the word go. A future American civil war fought between freedom-loving, god-fearing pastoralists and federalised city-dwellers; Titor himself (and the name itself just screams pulp SF) joining a 'shotgun infantry' known as the 'Fighting Diamondbacks' ... it sounds too much like the work of one of those gun-toting American 'patriot' types, with the added whiff of someone who has read a little too much Robert Heinlein.

I love the way he once said that there would be some temporal divergence (or whatever it was) so that he could cover his ass if anything he predicted failed to come to pass... or, more to the point, anything that he didn't predict came to pass.

Like the WTC attack for instance.

Still, nice to see our CJD ravaged athletes do so well in the Olympic games which were not supposed to happen![/i]

 

[Dr_David_Sutton]

Was it me or is the FT shrinking?

It was you.

 

[GNC]

Still, nice to see our CJD ravaged athletes do so well in the Olympic games which were not supposed to happen![/i]

If you look at the Titor website you'll see that the Games were a hoax. I bet you're kicking yourself now!

 

[liveinabin]

Was it me or is the FT shrinking?

I thought that too.

I always read FT cover to cover in the correct order, like a book. When I finished the last main item it did feel a little quick.

I really enjoyed this one, however I question how the John Titor counts as Fortean as there is not much evidence to show that he is really a time traveller.

 

[47Forteans]

Was it me or is the FT shrinking?

I thought that too.

I always read FT cover to cover in the correct order, like a book. When I finished the last main item it did feel a little quick.

I've noticed that the paper quality has changed. When I started reading it several years ago, the paper was of one type of quality, and then it became that horrible shiny paper.

 

[CarlosTheDJ]

No game review? Bloody X-Files taking up that page I see.