Lucianarchy and the trips to space.

[Lothian]

Always worth keeping kooks where you can see them, I occasionally call in at Lucianarchys dormant internet forum (http://lucianarchy.proboards21.com/index.cgi).

Except it has now sprung to life and has been renamed Serpo Project forum and Open mind.

Seems project Serpo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpo)is a project following the saving of an alien in the Roswell crash. Well one thing led to another and we set up an exchange program with the alien planet and sent 12 brave soldiers to Serpo, a planet of Zeta Reticuli. In 1978 13 years or so later 8 returned.

To date we have no information on coincidental lottery draws on the planet Serpo.

[Spektator]

Yeah, the 8 who returned had all majored in sociology and are still living with their parents.

[Darat]

From the article on wikipedia (Project Serpo):

....Ryan believes that the story has credibility partially because some of the physics don't add up, and if someone was fabricating it all, they would have presented more consistent details...

You really couldn't make it up.

[CFLarsen]

Lucianarchy is insane. Completely and utterly insane.

[Lothian]

From the article on wikipedia (Project Serpo):

....Ryan believes that the story has credibility partially because some of the physics don't add up, and if someone was fabricating it all, they would have presented more consistent details...

You really couldn't make it up.It is an interesting logic.
http://www.abfab.co.uk/Thumbnails/RB11169.jpg
This is a picture of a real alien because if it was a fake they would have made a much better job of it and made it less dressed up human like.

[Hellbound]

Lucianarchy is insane. Completely and utterly insane.

More than that.

He/she/it is the kind of person that even the guy who sits in the corner conversing with dust bunnies would say is "seriously out of it, man".

[Doubt]

More than that.

He/she/it is the kind of person that even the guy who sits in the corner conversing with dust bunnies would say is "seriously out of it, man".

The dust bunnies told you to say that! I knew they were doing it again!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ashles]

From the article on wikipedia (Project Serpo):

....Ryan believes that the story has credibility partially because some of the physics don't add up, and if someone was fabricating it all, they would have presented more consistent details...

You really couldn't make it up.
Oh my goodness.

It sounds like complete bollocks so it must be true?

My logical fallacy identifier just broke.

[Starrman]

Oh my goodness.

It sounds like complete bollocks so it must be true?

My logical fallacy identifier just broke.

Go to Serpo.org to get more logical fun. I should have used this on my math teachers in High School - "I'm not just a lazy moron, I'm just on to some new math - my mistakes are evidence of my genius!":

"2) Anomalous orbital data.

The orbital data supplied by Anonymous (particularly the 865 day period of orbit) do not appear to accord with Kepler's laws. This generated a large volume of discussion on the list, a number of whose members are prominent scientists.

However, it's reasonable to consider that if a story like this was invented the first thing a storyteller would get right would be the physics, as the “correct” numbers are easy to calculate. So the fact that some of the numbers differ widely from those predicted by known laws – a sitting duck for criticism – may be a validating factor, not otherwise. Why set oneself up to be dismissed immediately?"

[JamesM]

The capital of Serpo isn't Ladybrooke, by any chance, is it?

Perhaps something very important happened there on the 19th July 2003.

We really ought to have Official Ladybrook Day.

[Jimbo07]

I should have used this on my math teachers in High School - "I'm not just a lazy moron, I'm just on to some new math - my mistakes are evidence of my genius!"


I've heard living-breathing human beings make statements similar to this.

It goes something like, "They always wanted me to do something in their limited way. I got the right answers, so why didn't I get full marks?"

...

I know! :eek:


More than once, this statement has been made to me by non-college-educated people. At the college level (and honestly, I can't remember about high school), many textbooks have the answers in the back, anyway! At all education levels, a teacher may regard the answer as far less important than how one got there. The only violation of this rule-of-thumb was in first-year mechanics classes. There, the answers and procedures seemed to carry about equal weight. Of course, in those classes, you also had to submit your assignments on special (expensive :rolleyes: ) paper, follow certain formats in your title block, etc... I guess because neat title blocks help logic... :)

[Mr. Skinny]

The only violation of this rule-of-thumb was in first-year mechanics classes. There, the answers and procedures seemed to carry about equal weight. Of course, in those classes, you also had to submit your assignments on special (expensive :rolleyes: ) paper, follow certain formats in your title block, etc... I guess because neat title blocks help logic... :)
It seems Jimbo, that you were not an engineering major, or you would understand why these things are part of the indoctrination process, lol.

I've taken at least four classes that required mechanical drawing, and attention to detail was paramount, down to, and including lettering in the title block. Mechanics was one of the worst, IIRC, no wait, it was Kinematics where you had to draw out all of the degrees of motion of a multi-arm linkage, etc.

I always seemed to get the oldest, most stern, humorless teachers for drawing courses..........as De_Bunk says..go figga

[Zep]

The dust bunnies told you to say that! I knew they were doing it again!!!!!!!!!!!We did NOT! You take that back!

[Hellbound]

All right, you dust bunny ba$t@rds!

I have a Shop Vac, and I'm not afraid to use it!!!

[Red Siegfried]

I've been reading the Project Serpo page for a while and found it to be a fun piece of speculative fiction. The problem was that some people KNEW it was real.

Anyway, one of the reasons it's on Lucianarchy's page is because of a big too-doo having to do with a number of people on the Above Top Secret forums shooting down everything having to do with the Serpo project as being completely phony. "What?" you say. "People on Above Top Secret actually DON'T believe everything anyone says about UFOS?" Apparently. Either that or they actually had some skeptics join the conversation. Or they are hopelessley paranoid that everything that doesn't agree with their world view is government black op disinformation.

So now instead of linking to some conversations on Above Top Secret, where there might be, oh, I don't know, people who disagree with them, they carry on the discussion at Luci's site. Of course, the guy running the Serpo page states that the reason the conversation had to move is because the "skeptics" on ATS are trying to insinuate that Serpo is all a government con job. I haven't read the whole conversation so I don't know what the real reason is. I just have a feeling once the criticism starting kicking in it got real uncomfortable for the true believers.

Lucianarchy is delusional to the point where I would call it insanity. But if you're functional, well, whatever, I'm not a psychiatrist.