Yep.
At the time, I think alchemy and numerology were considered credible scientific pursuits. And, the upside for cracking them would be enormous. Today we can point and say "nonsense", but I wonder how prevalent that view was at the time...
No, but I watched a documentary about him last year. Interesting.
No. I have seen him on a few interviews.
How do you explain his prolific output of both fiction and non-fiction books then?
A synopsis of human culture in the time of the internet in three sentences.
I'm not sure that considering something to be interesting is to be automatically conflated with accepting or endorsing it.
Thank you for stating that concisely. Oftentimes people state there is no evidence, when they really mean is that there is no indisputable physical evidence. There are tons and tons of evidence out there, but none that I have seen that indisputably supports the NHI hypothesis. I have seen, though, evidence proffered as supporting the NHI hypothesis that, in my opinion, beyond a reasonable doubt does not.
Check out the life story and work of Philip K. Dick. One of the most prolific and high-profile Sci-Fi authors ever, (wrote the stories adapted into Blade Runner, Total Recall, Minority report, etc.) - also famously mentally ill and plagued with hallucinations / delusions that he eventually became convinced were real, and constituted contact from extra/trans-dimensional beings. If you read some of his later novels, the illness is not subtle. The same thing that drove a lot of his creativity was also quite a burden in that sense.
OK, fair point, I am commenting on something I didn't read. On the other hand, if Strieber had more than personal testimony to offer as evidence for NHIs I think it would have shown up on Wikipedia. We've seen a lot of personal testimony but it doesn't seem to get us any closer to a conclusion.
Oh, I've read most of those books, and books written by named, and unnamed writers of ancient days. I simply asked whether people here had read Whitley Strieber's books, as this is a thread on UFOs. If they haven't, there's not much more to be said on the matter.
Exactly right.
Rob Watts, engineer and creator of many high-performance DACs, with decades of industry experience and a substantial reputation at risk, claims he can hear noise at -300dB. Naturally we have to consider the possibility of 5-dimensional sound waves due to his claim, otherwise it wouldn't be possible to hear anything that quiet. Many youtubers corroborate Watts' claims - they can't explain what they heard, exactly, but where there's smoke, there's fire. Perhaps the government will release their secret research on transdimensional acoustics during this administration.
Compared to the other zillion or so scifi authors, including me?
I'm guessing you have not read that much scifi?
I hear the researchers have relabelled it alphamaledimensional research lest it gets shut down due to its name
Did you ever read the Bible i mean from start to end word by word by yourself ?
it doesn't. It's the third-hand/arm's-length assessment of primary content that's become endemic.
I misunderstood, apologies.it doesn't. It's the third-hand/arm's-length assessment of primary content that's become endemic.
We do all do it nowadays; I am really not picking on anyone. It just struck me that the question: Anyone read Whitley Strieber's books?
drew not one but two different no, but... responses.
EDIT: Arguably, three such responses -- although @WillBrink at least saw the person himself in the context of interviews.
I should say that I have no idea who Whitley Strieber is, what books he's written, or what they're about... so, at least, I could reply with a hard No.
