What Is In The Basement, Exactly?

“Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.” –Sophocles

The thing about secrets is that the truths they enshroud always and I do mean always  find a way to leak out.

Like, in my family we would tell ghost stories during the winter at family gatherings like Christmas parties or at family dinners. The common theme seemed to involve people who buried their victims in the basement and ghosts who were attracted to the water.

Years later I found out that my Great Grandmother’s childhood home had served briefly as a funeral parlor when another family owned it and indeed the mortician’s work was done in their basement. The Funeral Director died on his way to a cemetery.  He had  heart attack they said.

My Great Great Grandfather ( her Father ) died under mysterious circumstances. His body was found in   Rideau Canal in  Ottawa, Canada. He had been in Ottawa to attend his Mother’s funeral.

Neither of these incidents were talked about outright, but shades of them turned up in ghost stories.

These threads  haunted us I suppose.

“Jemma”
October 2023
Photo: A..M. Moscoso

Last week my family visited an attraction in the Dells, Wisconsin called  “The Upside Down House ” The Upside Down House is the White House-

Photo A.M. Moscoso ” Upside Down House ” Wisconsin, Dells October 2024

And it is being guarded by big scary robots-

Photo A.M. Moscoso
” Upside Down House “
Wisconsin, Dells
October 2024

The secret wasn’t what was on the main floor- you paid the admission and you could walk right in.

What you did was to discover the secret  look straight ahead ( which isn’t as easy as it sounds because you are looking up so much that when you look down you go your sense of balance goes wonky ) to find the holes in the walls, from there you had to walk through these forced entries to find the secret that was hiding in the Upside Down House.

Photo A.M. Moscoso
” Upside Down House “
Wisconsin, Dells
October 2024

Then you had to follow the signs, like my son did.

Photo A.M. Moscoso
” Upside Down House “
Wisconsin, Dells
October 2024

Photo A.M. Moscoso ” Upside Down House ” Wisconsin, Dells October 2024

This is where things got good.

Photo A.M. Moscoso
” Upside Down House “
Wisconsin, Dells
October 2024

What are they hiding in the Upside Down White House? What is the secret that has leaked out?

Why, the secrets is all about  Aliens of course.

Aliens are in the basement of the White House and they are in the midst of conducting medical experiments.

Photo A.M. Moscoso
” Upside Down House “
Wisconsin, Dells
October 2024

Photo A.M. Moscoso
” Upside Down House “
Wisconsin, Dells
October 2024

Photo A.M. Moscoso
” Upside Down House “
Wisconsin, Dells
October 2024

What were the Aliens trying to accomplish in their experiments? What were they trying to achieve?

That’s a secret they’ve kept in the basement of the Upside Down House and if we are lucky, it will stay down there.

Photo A.M. Moscoso
” Upside Down House “
Wisconsin, Dells
October 2024

For RDP Thursday: LEAK

All Aboard!

 

Data visualization of the Sun from the Moon as seen from Hadley Rille, the Apollo 16 landing site. The topography and shadows are scientifically accurate. Credit: NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio/Ernie Wright

The thing about Space Travel isn’t the cost it would take to get  you to the Moon or to Mars ( I’m down with that, I’ll explain more later ).

This isn’t about money.

If you want to travel to a place like The Moon, or Mars, or one of Jupiter’s  or Saturn’s Moons the question is:

How many YEARS of your life would you be willing to pay  to make those trips?

If you were able to take a trip to Mars today the cost would be  2-3 years of your life. If you traveled to Titan, the current travel time based on the our existing technology  would be seven years. So we are talking about a hefty price tag of 14-16 YEARS.

So the question is, would you pay almost sixteen years of your life to rocket to Titan and orbit around Saturn? Would it be worth the chance to see and touch a new world? To be part of a journey that would change the way humanity sees their place in the Universe? To look up into a sky that human eyes have ever taken in? Maybe even see a new life form in it’s natural enviorment?

Titan orbits Saturn in this Cassini image.

Here is my answer, it’s simple.

If I could take my dog with my I’d leave for Titan or Mars TONIGHT.

All dogs go to Mars!