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Do you mean the great Nemester? https://zapatopi.net/nemester/

Thanks all, for these references! My wife is into cephalopod intelligence. I'll forward this to her and ask if she has any other recommendations. I do know there are a couple of websites for cephalopod enthusiasts: https://zapatopi.net/cephnews/ https://tonmo.com/

Related: Giant Pacific Tree Octopus https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ (one of the classics of the early internet)

Made me think of the old classic "Belgium Doesn't Exist!" or "Land of Sprouts and Chocolate, I Think Not.": http://zapatopi.net/belgium/

From one the great web 2.0 site "Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie" (Created in 1997) [1] [2]: [...] There is a long history of using aluminum to both deflect mind control signals and to control them. Evidence suggests that the ancient Atlanteans used aluminum armor and psychotrons in their wars with the Phoenician Old Dynasty. [...] The first truly modern instance of anti-psychotronic aluminum use was in the late 18th century by the American statesman, philosopher, and inventor Benjamin Franklin. His discoveries were built upon in the beginning of the 20th century by Yugoslavian born electrical genius Nikola Tesla. Of course, the US military has been researching aluminum for use in psychotronic weapons and armor as long as it has been involved in mind control, which is to say since it's inception. [1] https://zapatopi.net/afdb/history.html [2] Please treat all info on the site as a joke. It is a very well done website, but I would take all info provide there with a grain of salt as it is a humorous website. Neverless a brilliant website that makes me laugh.

Any scientist's understanding of what is possible and what is impossible relies on currently understood theory. It happens rarely, but our understanding of what is possible at even the most basic level is sometimes upended (such as the discovery of nuclear forces, quantum mechanics, and relativity). The most prescient of scientists come clean on this fact when making predictions. "It seems, therefore, on the whole most probable that the sun has not illuminated the earth for 100,000,000 years, and almost certain that he has not done so for 500,000,000 years. As for the future, we may say, with equal certainty, that inhabitants of the earth can not continue to enjoy the light and heat essential to their life for many million years longer unless sources now unknown to us are prepared in the great storehouse of creation." Lord Kelvin, http://zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/on_the_age_of_the_suns_heat.html

Could be good as a modern version of https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

A Tree Octopus Renku by Lyle Zapato [0] wisteria on pine -- a tree octopus climbs there's a spectacle! I am one of today's lucky 10,000 — thank you! [1] [0] https://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=201104210388.a_tree_octopus_renku [1] https://xkcd.com/1053/

The story completely misses that this period coincides with a temporary expansion of the habitat of the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus. https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ The devil of the trees and terror of all loggers, forest rangers and apparently windshields.

Of course, we do have tree hugging octopus today: Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus! https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/ (j/k)

I used to know nothing about Lord Kelvin except he said things like "It seems, therefore, on the whole most probable that the sun has not illuminated the earth for 100,000,000 years, and almost certain that he has not done so for 500,000,000 years"[1] and allegedly "everything which can be discovered, has been discovered"; until last year's Veritasium video on YouTube[2] about analog computers, and learned he invented tide-predicting analog computers to "substitute brass for brains" and add sinusoidal curves, and a mechanical integrator to separate out individual sinusoidal frequencies from the sum. [1] https://zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/on_the_age_of_the_suns_heat.html [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgF3OX8nT0w from about 3 minutes.

As opposed to the Pacific Northwest Tree octopus: https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

>> I meant brain to brain API using tachyons. As in particles not frameworks. Just make sure you have a firewall. Fortunately there is Linux software for just this need: https://zapatopi.net/mindguard/ [JOKE]

This was part of my childhood (almost 20 years ago!). Growing up, we had a lesson in either elementary or middle school in which we were all asked to read this website on the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus and fill out a research assignment on it. At the end of it, the teacher asked us if we thought it was real and revealed that it wasn't, with the lesson that, yes, even though the internet is a valuable research tool, that we shouldn't believe everything we read. As a bonus, I think we were also asked to review some information on the aluminum foil hat. https://zapatopi.net/afdb/build.html

I've always liked this one better: https://zapatopi.net/belgium/ “Tourists, business travelers, and other visitors are allowed to "come" to the "country" in order to "witness" its "existence." In reality, these people are waylaid at the common borders of Germany, France, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg and taken to NWO branch facilities where they have false memories of vast sprout fields and chocolate factory tours implanted.”

Reminds me of the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus! https://zapatopi.net/treeoctopus/

Re:belgium, link https://zapatopi.net/belgium/#CITIZENS Just wanted to say, the people of the Congo want to know who made up Belgium.

Oh boy. This could be hours of fun down the rabbit hole. Profiles on the "inventor" include: https://steemit.com/history/@scubasteve/who-is-inventor-john-quincy-st… https://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=200604284330.st_clair_hyperinventor And you don't wade in. It's a hard head-first dive off the 30-footer.

This guy is perhaps the 21st Century's most important inventor, http://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=200604284330.st_clair_hyperinventor

There have been several Personal Rapid Transit [1] systems proposed with this sort of technology, e.g.: http://zapatopi.net/inteli-tube/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_Rapid_Transit

http://zapatopi.net/afdb/ As if I still needed reason to, any HN links to amistakes.com are an instaflag for me. Tiresome flagrant linkbait whining.

The Ken Olsen quote is taken way out of context. He was thoroughly aware of personal computers in 1977. He was referring to behemoth home automation systems: http://www.snopes.com/quotes/kenolsen.asp The quote attributed to Lord Kelvin is a significant paraphrasing of a letter he wrote in 1896: http://zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/letters.html#baden-powell

In 1902 Kelvin was more blunt about (i) balloons being more promising than the idea of aeroplanes and (ii) neither of them having any viable future http://zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/interview_aeronautics_and_wireless.h…

People out here in Seattle say something similar :) http://zapatopi.net/cascadia/ edit: and, just to tie it all back together, check out where Goodspaceguy is from: http://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=201007306418.pre-decision_2010

Already debunked: http://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=200511112730.afdb_effectiveness

Though in some cases he may have been in error, I disagree: http://zapatopi.net/kelvin/quotes/

I am immediately reminded of http://zapatopi.net/mindguard/

That's a joke website. eg: http://zapatopi.net/belgium/