Booo!
Fun line of events, and
You totally busted the chat record!
[edit on 10/31/2004 by QuietSoul]
War of the Worlds reenactment on AboveTopSecret.com: Halloween, 2004., page 1
privacy
Topic started on 31-10-2004 @ 04:02 PM by SkepticOverlord
This is SkepticOverlord, ladies and gentlemen, to assure you that "The War of The Worlds" has no further significance than as the holiday
offering it was intended to be. AboveTopSecret.com's own digital version of dressing up in a sheet and jumping out of a bush and saying Boo!
Starting now, we couldn't soap all your windows and steal all your garden gates by tonight... so we did the best next thing. We launched the
annihilation the world before your very eyes. You will be relieved, I hope, to learn that we didn't mean it, and that effected areas are open for
business.
What many have witnessed in chat and several threads, is a homage
to one of the most brilliant minds to ever step behind microphone or sit in a director's chair, the esteemed
Mr. Orson Wells. Way back in 1938
his Mercury Theater Group radio play shocked the world, even though the
event was broadcast in the typical time slot and lasted the typical length of a weekly scheduled entertainment show.
Imagine what it may have been like in that era where only the radio and newspaper was your link to the external world. And imagine what a brilliant
mind like that of Mr. Wells might accomplish with a communication tool such as the Internet. We can only hope such minds are waiting in the wings to
inspire us all.
While many may be upset at this "hoax", we've been obviously careful to make it easy to discover, and stopped short of the death and destruction of
the original script.
A sampling of some of the board threads involved:
Police Radio Transmission
Fireball Seen Over Andrews AFB
Unknown Material (reporter Lansing)
Could this be a reason for the flurry of Military? And get Your Camera's out! Clicking
time!
Unusual activity in Ohio
WHAT'S GOING ON?! Choppers in Canada heading south!
NEWS SUPRESSED
Orionids and Leonids Behind Strange Activity?
What is going on?
21 Space Command at Onizuka AFB On Alert?
Choppers In the Sky!
I doubt we'll make any headlines.
Many of our staff can be thanked for this event, I was merely a ring-leader (if that), as several other members and staff stepped in to make this a
memorable event. Dozens of members discovered our plan early, and stood back with wry grin as our attempt at a "digital play" took shape on the
board and in chat.
So goodbye everybody, and remember please, for the next day or so, the terrible lesson you learned today. That grinning, glowing, digital invader
of your home is today an inhabitant of the pumpkin patch, and if your doorbell rings and nobody's there, that was no alien invader... it's
Halloween.
[edit on 31-10-2004 by SkepticOverlord]
What many have witnessed in chat and several threads, is a homage
to one of the most brilliant minds to ever step behind microphone or sit in a director's chair, the esteemed
Mr. Orson Wells. Way back in 1938
his Mercury Theater Group radio play shocked the world, even though the
event was broadcast in the typical time slot and lasted the typical length of a weekly scheduled entertainment show.
Imagine what it may have been like in that era where only the radio and newspaper was your link to the external world. And imagine what a brilliant
mind like that of Mr. Wells might accomplish with a communication tool such as the Internet. We can only hope such minds are waiting in the wings to
inspire us all.
While many may be upset at this "hoax", we've been obviously careful to make it easy to discover, and stopped short of the death and destruction of
the original script.
A sampling of some of the board threads involved:
Police Radio Transmission
Fireball Seen Over Andrews AFB
Unknown Material (reporter Lansing)
Could this be a reason for the flurry of Military? And get Your Camera's out! Clicking
time!
Unusual activity in Ohio
WHAT'S GOING ON?! Choppers in Canada heading south!
NEWS SUPRESSED
Orionids and Leonids Behind Strange Activity?
What is going on?
21 Space Command at Onizuka AFB On Alert?
Choppers In the Sky!
I doubt we'll make any headlines.
Many of our staff can be thanked for this event, I was merely a ring-leader (if that), as several other members and staff stepped in to make this a
memorable event. Dozens of members discovered our plan early, and stood back with wry grin as our attempt at a "digital play" took shape on the
board and in chat.
So goodbye everybody, and remember please, for the next day or so, the terrible lesson you learned today. That grinning, glowing, digital invader
of your home is today an inhabitant of the pumpkin patch, and if your doorbell rings and nobody's there, that was no alien invader... it's
Halloween.
[edit on 31-10-2004 by SkepticOverlord]
reply posted on 31-10-2004 @ 04:24 PM by Gools
I was just about to ask someone who the ATSNN Editor-in-Chief was.
So I could ask that person why this was not a Breaking News story on ATSNN.
I knew it! Good job people. You really had a lot of people going. Hope nobody got too upset.
After all mods are people too. And they can't in any way be responsible for our reactions to an anonymous internet source on halloween!
We all WANT to believe. Its why were here at ATS, but we should be careful about being too gullible.
fixed link
[edit on 10/31/2004 by Gools]
So I could ask that person why this was not a Breaking News story on ATSNN.
I knew it! Good job people. You really had a lot of people going. Hope nobody got too upset.
After all mods are people too. And they can't in any way be responsible for our reactions to an anonymous internet source on halloween!
We all WANT to believe. Its why were here at ATS, but we should be careful about being too gullible.
fixed link
[edit on 10/31/2004 by Gools]
