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"There's plenty of good scientists in South America but they, clearly, aren't given the resources they need." ~Nolan Neanderthals, Mummies, Buga & Maussan "I could, probably...get in the likes of the guys who did the Neanderthal work." ~GN (Imagine having them ⬆️ work on the mummies!? Talk about credible! Sad to see it won't be happening any time soon unless things change. What would Garry P. Nolan ask for if he were to take on the mummy mystery?) Nolan: "I need a whole bunch of money. Not for me, personally. I estimated, I think online somewhere, about $5 million to do it right, which would be paying for postdoc researchers of various types. And essentially, the first thing we would do is collect all the data that's already known. Figure out what's usable, what's good, preliminary data that would cause us to go look in a next direction. And not set it aside, but put it aside in a way that said, 'Okay, well, there's all that preliminary data over there. Now let's - based on this - do the next thing that you know we should do.' "And then everything needs to be collated, the instruments used, the methods used, etc., because it's all going to have to go into a peer-reviewed paper where you can't just make stuff up about what the methods were. You can't, 'Well, I think I did this.' No, that's not what you can do, and that's not what you will do if you're gonna do it properly. "And it would, probably, be three or four different teams of people that would need to be brought in to do it right. And so no one was willing to do it that way. And so I said, 'No, I won't do it.' There's plenty of good scientists in South America but they, clearly, aren't given the resources they need, nor the power that would allow them to keep results quiet as they're being generated. "I could, probably, be able to get in the likes of the guys who did the Neanderthal work (genome sequencing ~Joe) IF they felt that I provided them sufficient information that would make it interesting to them and worth their time. And not get caught up in the circus that can be generated around these things. That's the reason why a lot of serious scientists, who I know are interested in it, but won't touch it with a thousand-foot pole, because of the antics that go on." (That needs to change if we're ever going to get a definitive answer on the mummies.) Nolan: "A similar the similar thing happened - I'm just gonna be honest - with the Buga sphere. Jaime Maussan contacted me soon after he had recovered the sphere. And I said, 'Okay, great.' And he called me. He said, 'Can you help? What should I do?' And I said, 'Well, you should get a mobile x-ray machine. And you need this and this.' And so, he literally managed to get it almost the next day, and sent me some of the first results. And I said, 'Great! Okay, so...let's keep this quiet. Let's do this, this and this. And now I need it at this angle and at this angle.' And he said, 'Okay, great, I'll do that.' "And then I woke up the next morning and it was all over Twitter. And I just wrote Jaime and I said, 'This isn't what I thought we talked about.' And his answer was, 'Well, we need to get this information out because someone's gonna suppress it.' Well, here we are now, what, six months later? And where are we? Nowhere. "And maybe Jaime's doing something. I don't doubt his desire. But I said, 'I won't be involved with this now because I can't trust that the information won't be ending up on Twitter the next day, before we've even had a chance to determine what is it that is going on." (Sucks, but it's not surprising. If the best scientists in the world demand silence until their work is complete then somebody who will avoid publicity until the study is done needs to be put on charge instead of Maussan.)

Joe Murgia

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Paul Verhoeven on whether the events that take place in "Total Recall" (1990) are real or just a dream: "It is both. To be honest, that’s what I want. I made the movie in a way that it would be true on both levels, and I spent a lot of time to get that. If you want a scientific explanation, you know, of course, in quantum mechanics there is a very interesting principle, the principle of uncertainty, Heisenberg’s principle. If you have a big object and if you try to measure the place of the object and the velocity of the object at the same time, the more precisely you measure velocity the less precise place gets. So that’s the principle. That means, of course, that there are different realities possible at the same moment. What I wanted to do in 'Total Recall' is to do a movie where both levels are true. I mean for me, of course, the film anyhow has to do with two realities, one being the reality of going as a secret agent to Mars and discovering that there is a problem, and solving the problem, which is starting the nuclear reactor and helping the guerrillas and destroying Cohaagen. The second level of the movie, of course, is that from the moment that he goes into the Rekall chair ‘til the end it’s a dream, and I tried to make that second level work throughout the whole movie. So there’s the dream level which starts when he gets into the chair and the thing is in his neck, and that would go throughout the whole movie, so in the next scene where they say, Oh, there’s a problem, there’s a big glitch here, that would be already the dream, of course. That’s where the dream starts. And the next scene where they are fighting and stuff would be part of his dream, convincing him that it is real, because there is a glitch but that would be part of the program. It would be built into the program to make him accept the fact that it’s real, but it’s a dream. If you look at the movie, if you haven’t seen it, or for the second time, you’ll see that the whole program that’s set up at the beginning when he goes to the Rekall office and he talks to this guy who sells him the program on Mars, you’ll see that he gets everything that he wants: he gets the trip to Mars, he gets the girl, the exotic girl, he ki!!s the bad guys, and he saves the entire planet. That’s what he does. And that’s basically the dream. Even halfway through the movie, you may remember, this other guy comes in, Dr. Edgemar, and tells him that he’s in a dream, that he’s still in the Rekall chair, and then Arnold says, “If I’m there, I can ki!! you.” And he puts a gun to his head and the guy says, “Sure, no problem for me, big problem for you, because you will be psychotic from now on because the walls of reality will fall apart. One moment you will be the savior of the rebel cause, the next moment you’ll be Cohaagen’s bosom buddy, but in the end—you will even have these strange fantasies about alien civilizations—but at the end you will be lobotomized.” And then if you see the movie, you realize that all these things happen. I mean he is lobotomized at the end. That’s why at the last shot, when they are so happy and kissing each other, it slowly fades to white, which for me meant, “OK, there he goes. That’s the end-that’s the dream—they lobotomized him.” And all the other things happened, he finds the alien civilization, he rescues the planet, he finds the good girl, he k!!ls the bad guys, but it’s a dream. Now, of course you can see it as a reality, too. So at the end of the movie, getting to white means either it’s a happy ending or he loses his brains . . . which is probably also a happy ending, I don’t know. That was basically what l wanted—that at the end there would be two possibilities, and they would be both true—for me they are both true—it’s not either one or the other. It’s not that either it’s a dream or it is a reality. It is a dream and it is a reality. And I think they’re both there." (Paul Verhoeven's interview with Chris Shea & Wade Jennings, 1992) P.S: On this day, 36 years ago, "Total Recall" (1990) premiered in Los Angeles, California, USA.

DepressedBergman

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