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Was the Philadelphia Projects imagery of crew members fused with the bulkhead borrowed or original?

Asked by Ltryptophan (12091points) February 15th, 2019

This imagery is so startling that it seems very original or unobvious. Maybe it was something that had already been described in a different disaster. Perhaps the author of this idea borrowed from accidents with concrete pouring where just a limb might be exposed if someone fell in unnoticed.

But, it just seems bizarre to invent this concept, so bizarre that it tends to lend suspicion of truth to the story, and persist in the zeitgeist.

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Tropical_Willie's avatar

You’re talking about the movie Philadelphia Experiment ? ? ?

stanleybmanly's avatar

Think about the corpses unearthed from volcanic eruptions, or better yet the bizarre accounts of images from Hiroshima & Nagasaki. I can vividly remember as a boy of 10 reading accounts on how people close enough to the blast were vaporized so suddenly that the only evidence of their existence was perfect shadow images of human forms projected on walls .

MrGrimm888's avatar

^Yeah. Like the girl on the stairs. Only her shadow was left. Etched into a staircase.

If there is a “soul,” could it survive such a thing?

stanleybmanly's avatar

Is the soul a physical manifestation?

MrGrimm888's avatar

In my mind, it is a human construct. In other minds, it’s not. I guess I’m wondering about the later.

stanleybmanly's avatar

Perhaps the shadows are the physical “photos” of the souls.

MrGrimm888's avatar

Or the remnants.

kritiper's avatar

It is an imaginary construction.

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