WP Prompters ask: What skills or lessons have you learned recently and I have to say, it’s not what I’ve learned recently, it’s a lesson I have had confirmed recently and that lesson is: People never learn.

For example, lets talk about Grover’s Mill, New Jersey

“Ladies and gentlemen, this is Carl Phillips again, out at the Wilmuth farm, Grover’s Mill, New Jersey. Professor Pierson and myself made the 11 miles from Princeton in 10 minutes. Well, I—I hardly know where to begin to paint for you a word picture of the strange scene before my eyes, like something out of a modern Arabian Nights.”

“Well, I just got here. I haven’t had a chance to look around yet. I guess that’s it. Yes, I guess—that’s the thing, directly in front of me, half buried in a vast pit. Must have struck with terrific force. The ground is covered with splinters of a tree it must have struck on its way down. What I can see of the object itself doesn’t look very much like a meteor, at least not the meteors I have seen. It looks more like a huge cylinder.”

The words above were broadcast on the evening of October 30, 1938, as part of a radio drama adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic The War of the Worlds

According to social media, drones have been swarming the skies over New Jersey and it’s driving people a little crazy. I get it, but I live in an area where people have gone a little drone happy, so I’m used to seeing them buzz around. I mean, my friend got one for Mother’s Day a few years ago and when she wants to unwind she goes out and  flies it  around. 

I asked her if she’s every hit anything or crashed it and she said no.

For real.

I don’t believe her.

 

In the case of the New Jersey drones, nobody knows why the drones are  bedeviling the locals but apparently shooting them down in self defense has been floated as an option. Fun fact, I remember my Grandfather telling me that people were taking up arms because they really believed Martians were going invading Earth. I remember thinking that was dumb. If something could build a spaceship and literally land it in your back yard I doubted a gun was going to be of much use to you.

In this case, you could have  fended a few Martians off I suppose.

In  the drone situation, there’s plenty more drones where these came from. I think you can order them from Amazon Prime and the shipping is free.

I don’t know about the car sized one that people say they’ve seen. You probably have to wait longer and pay more for shipping. My point is, you can bring them down and somebody can have it replaced with a tap of their finger.

I really do hope that nobody gets hurt in this drone sighting business. However, Trump supporters are now claiming ( let me throw this out there-  that somebody may have taken a page from Orson Well’s radio show  idea in order to ‘control’ the public ).

Somewhere in the great beyond H.G Wells and Orson Wells are looking down upon the Magats and then they are looking at each other and saying ” You cannot make this up and God knows I tried.”