Source: www.schneier.com – Author: Bruce Schneier
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Mexaly • June 24, 2025 7:25 AM
Look up, “The Clam Plate Orgy.”
Circa 1975, this guy was seeing severed. penises in liquor advertising.
He visualized them in the swirls of the ice in the photo of a glass of vodka.
He proposed that they were put there for subliminal purposes.
I saw his lecture at Washington State University.
He has a book.
Clive Robinson • June 24, 2025 10:50 AM
@ Bruce,
I might not have thought about it with regards water/ice due to basic physics and the energy involved.
But think back to multi-layer storage in Optical systems and “Magnetic bubble memory”.
In some cases they used nonlinear “solids” and multiple energy sources to fix a point in 3D space and turn it from solid to vapour phase state.
The resulting bubble had curious optical properties that enabled it to be “read through” as well as being “a read target”.
So the idea gas sort of been around for a half century or so, just not very practical in most cases.
And that’s the question to consider here,
“How practical is this water/ice system in room temperature operating environments?”
Chris • June 24, 2025 10:53 AM
I called up the abstract and the first thing to cross my mind upon seeing the graphic was, “This is how time travelers will communicate with us.”
Steve • June 24, 2025 4:43 PM
@Mexaly: That’s nothing. I’ve been getting secret messages in my gin and tonics for years.
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