Read Online 1.4 by Mike A. Lancaster - Free Book Online Page A
Authors: Mike A. Lancaster
Tags: Fiction, General, Science-Fiction, People & Places, Action & Adventure, Family, Juvenile Fiction, Computers, Europe, Technological innovations, Computer Programs
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hard to say just what it is. She looks old somehow, but not age-wise. It’s almost as if she is from another time period.
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A spectacular view over New London’s skyline. Geo-tagging identifies it as taken from the main observation deck of the TeleLink Tower.
The city spreads out, with the plasteen dome of the Parliament House visible in the background. The sky is threaded through with the reddish-orange of a Summer twilight.
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In the foreground, two figures – again transparent – can be plainly seen. A young couple are looking out over the city, and again it is possible to see the photo’s background through their bodies.
Their clothing is odd, old-fashioned.
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A wedding photo of a bride and groom grinning at the camera. The bride is in an exquisite dress, in the traditional bridal colour: light blue.
The pair are standing outside a building, and their expressions are a mixture of happiness and pride.
They are the only people in the photo.
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The couple are not alone in the photograph. A young man can clearly be seen off to the right of the groom. The young man is staring directly into the camera, and it looks like he was in the middle of saying something when the camera catches him. The young man, like the other ghost images, looks like he is from another period of human history.
He is holding his hand up and is showing four fingers.
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Source: LinkData\LinkDiary\Peter_Vincent\Personal
I don’t believe in ghosts.
Just like I don’t believe in tribal god figures. Or fairies. If you want an answer to a question about how something in the universe works then you need to answer it with science. In the entire history of the world the answer to a question about the way things work has never been ‘magic’, ‘the supernatural’ or ‘pixies’.
Examples:
1) An apple falls. Was it pulled down by hands of angels?
No, I think you’ll find the answer to that one is ‘gravity’.
2) Bright fire fizzes across the night sky. Are the Gods fighting? No, that one is an electrical discharge, and we have called it ‘lightning’.
3) The sun is devoured by blackness in the sky. Surely the Gods are angry with us? Uh, no, the moon has just moved in front of the sun. We call that an eclipse.
We learned in pre-prep to look beyond superstition when trying to explain things around us, and to fall back on to the certainties of science.
But looking at those photographs gave me a chill. Now, I am thoroughly aware that photographs can be manipulated. I have seen pictures of my friends standing on the surface of the moon; and I have seen photographic evidence of the existence of dragons.
I’m friends with Perry, so I’ve seen more than my fair share of Link hoaxes.
But these photographs were different.
They felt like a sudden window into another, parallel path of existence. They made me think that somewhere, close to us but hidden by some trick of our senses, there was another world, where different people carried on living different lives as we bustled by, unaware of their presence.
Ghosts in the machine , I thought. I wonder: can they see us? The young man in the wedding photo certainly seemed aware that a picture was being taken, looking directly into the camera and holding up those four fingers as . . . as what? I checked the datestamp on the wedding photo.
It was taken three days ago.
The slider arrived and I flashed cash to the ticket machine, taking a seat at the back.
Three days ago , I kept thinking, four fingers
I used Face-Recognition to scan through the rest of Ms Grabowski’s ghosted photographs, using the young man’s face as my comparison.
I guess it was a long shot, but sometimes they work out.
I found one more image with the young man in it.
Two women walking down a neon-lit
Image_14a03f9backup.jpg
A spectacular view over New London’s skyline. Geo-tagging identifies it as taken from the main observation deck of the TeleLink Tower.
The city spreads out, with the plasteen dome of the Parliament House visible in the background. The sky is threaded through with the reddish-orange of a Summer twilight.
Image_14a03f9backup.jpg
In the foreground, two figures – again transparent – can be plainly seen. A young couple are looking out over the city, and again it is possible to see the photo’s background through their bodies.
Their clothing is odd, old-fashioned.
Image_20a13pvbackup.jpg
A wedding photo of a bride and groom grinning at the camera. The bride is in an exquisite dress, in the traditional bridal colour: light blue.
The pair are standing outside a building, and their expressions are a mixture of happiness and pride.
They are the only people in the photo.
Image_20a13pvbackup.jpg
The couple are not alone in the photograph. A young man can clearly be seen off to the right of the groom. The young man is staring directly into the camera, and it looks like he was in the middle of saying something when the camera catches him. The young man, like the other ghost images, looks like he is from another period of human history.
He is holding his hand up and is showing four fingers.
-15-
File: 113/45/03ait/Continued
Source: LinkData\LinkDiary\Peter_Vincent\Personal
I don’t believe in ghosts.
Just like I don’t believe in tribal god figures. Or fairies. If you want an answer to a question about how something in the universe works then you need to answer it with science. In the entire history of the world the answer to a question about the way things work has never been ‘magic’, ‘the supernatural’ or ‘pixies’.
Examples:
1) An apple falls. Was it pulled down by hands of angels?
No, I think you’ll find the answer to that one is ‘gravity’.
2) Bright fire fizzes across the night sky. Are the Gods fighting? No, that one is an electrical discharge, and we have called it ‘lightning’.
3) The sun is devoured by blackness in the sky. Surely the Gods are angry with us? Uh, no, the moon has just moved in front of the sun. We call that an eclipse.
We learned in pre-prep to look beyond superstition when trying to explain things around us, and to fall back on to the certainties of science.
But looking at those photographs gave me a chill. Now, I am thoroughly aware that photographs can be manipulated. I have seen pictures of my friends standing on the surface of the moon; and I have seen photographic evidence of the existence of dragons.
I’m friends with Perry, so I’ve seen more than my fair share of Link hoaxes.
But these photographs were different.
They felt like a sudden window into another, parallel path of existence. They made me think that somewhere, close to us but hidden by some trick of our senses, there was another world, where different people carried on living different lives as we bustled by, unaware of their presence.
Ghosts in the machine , I thought. I wonder: can they see us? The young man in the wedding photo certainly seemed aware that a picture was being taken, looking directly into the camera and holding up those four fingers as . . . as what? I checked the datestamp on the wedding photo.
It was taken three days ago.
The slider arrived and I flashed cash to the ticket machine, taking a seat at the back.
Three days ago , I kept thinking, four fingers
I used Face-Recognition to scan through the rest of Ms Grabowski’s ghosted photographs, using the young man’s face as my comparison.
I guess it was a long shot, but sometimes they work out.
I found one more image with the young man in it.
Two women walking down a neon-lit
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