In Which I Discuss American YouTubers and American War Materials

My brother from the same mother, Pilot (or Lord Kickbutt as we sometimes call him), and I have started back up doing the blog thing for a few months now. We figured it's a good way for us to keep in touch now that we live three hours away from each other. Since we've started I think I've done more than one post explaining this and starting the post more or less exactly like above. Thing is, I don't live that exciting of a life and certain things that we would chat about just don't transfer well to text, or even come up at all.

This week is one of those cases. Aside from being incredibly busy at work, I've mostly just been sitting around at home playing a survival game set in the cold north of Canada. The real world weather outside makes the winter conditions of the game actually look warm.

The idea of getting back to writing came from the Vlogbrothers but we both agreed that editing a video each week would just lead to us getting frustrated and quitting. You can half-ass a blog much easier than a video and still have something semi-worth reading. But I do keep thinking I need to take more of an example from the Vlogbrothers and if I have nothing to write about, do something educational. I love learning about stuff and with just some more research I could probably teach someone a thing or two. Like about how Giraffes have sex!

My main problem goes back to work. We are overworked, undermanned and chasing work that should have been done and completed years ago. And with all this I find myself not wanting to sit and learn stuff to a great degree. I use my brain too much as it is. Watching YouTube videos to learn is one thing. Actually writing about it is another. Not to mention I would need to actually research it more than just a video.

In the meantime though, I offer a middle point. Something my dear construction and CAD teaching in high school had use research for an assignment just cause he thought it was cool. The USS Philadelphia If you haven't heard of it, that's because it's all a conspiracy!

The story basically goes that post-WW2 the USA was researching cloaking technology. This makes sense. That would be incredibly useful. With an abundance of warships, they decided to try it on the Philadelphia on the northern edge of the west coast. The installed massive copper coils on it, sent it out to see and turned it all on. The Philadelphia disappeared and it goes that reappeared near San Fransico, impossibly far away and then reappeared back in it's original location. It had teleported!

When they went aboard they found the crew had been fused into bulkheads. Teleported back into the wrong position and placed inside of solid metal.

Now, you may be asking the following:

1. How were copper coils supposed to cloak the ship?

2. Why did the sailors teleport different but tables or plates didn't. And why did their clothes go with them?

3. Why didn't they try this on land with something else first?

To all these I have answers:

1. Shut up.

2. Shut up.

3. Shut up.

While I doubt this actually happened like they say, I don't doubt that there were experiments trying to cloak stuff (there still are) and I don't doubt some people died in these. This one just doesn't pass the muster for possibility as far as I'm concerned. It sounds like there is only one or two "confirmed" people that know about it and they were probably just high and just the basic science makes it not work.

I would believe the coils are used for teleportation WAY before I believe there is any use for them in cloaking.

Now, tell me those things got so hot that they melted the crew into the metal and I might be able to believe that.