The second most likely candidate (so far) for contact from ET, radio signal SHGb02+14a.
The Wiki takes a more skeptical view.
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Initially discredited due to Wilhelm Reich's preoccupation with sex, I'm sensing that the Orgone Accumulator's are due for a comeback. If only as a meditation or isolation chamber, but then again, there may be something to the idea of alternating layers of wood/(insulators) and metal, think of a high-voltage capacitor or early battery jar, and the idea that this might "store up" some sort of electricity which in turn positively affects the human body, well, my medical knowledge is limited enough that I just might believe it. A bit of science would go a long ways towards proving things, but as with most fringe projects the elements of science and empirical testing seem to be sadly lacking. And why ruin the fun? Add a few magnets and crystals, a pyramid shaped top, a secret door or sub-basement that would allow it to be used in magic shows and seances, all of which would further improve it's credibility. I can't be the only one seeing the potential here...
Still, it's a remnant from Reich's "cult of sex and anarchy", and as such can only improve my social life, the list of references in literature (the testimonial of William S. Burroughts, for example) serve to enhance it's prestige...
Link: ORGONE on Wikipedia
Note: Since it'll probably be a while before I get this cabinet making business up and running (I'm thinking Kootenays, retirement), here are some images should you choose to build your own...
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An image from the Wiki of the same name, the Edwardian ideal of beauty as modeled upon the face of a drowned unknown woman recovered from the Seine.
Link: Wikipedia on L'Inconnue de la Seine
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Maybe there aren't questions here, merely inspirations.
Searching, slight poetic inspiration, for a Murmuration of Starlings. The words, not the linked video. Thinking, perhaps, that the word murmuration was perhaps generic to a flock of birds, a specific flight pattern, which led me to the Wiki on the different words for groups (generic: flock, specific: as follows...) of birds, some interesting associations related no doubt to the impression made upon witnesses. A murder of crows, easy, an exaltation of Larks? Genius. And the Tidings born by Magpies, or the Watch of Nightingales?
- Crows - Murder
- Larks - Exaltation
- Magpies - Tidings
- Nightingales - Watch
- Owls, Rooks - Parliament
- Parrots - Pandemonium
- Peacocks - Muster
- Ravens - Unkindness
- Snipe - Walk or Wisp
- Sparrows - Host
- Starlings - Murmuration
- Swans - Game or Wedge
Find more on the Wikipedia Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_for_birds. Inspiring, after it's fashion.
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