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Lol Whibley

Please! 

Coat

Won't somebody think of the children.. right.. oh..

mines the one with the Kirlian polaroids in the pocket..

Steve

That was published in 1982... 

Does that mean as i was born in 79 I am a indiglo thingy?

Cool Time to get back to me basement me thinks and continue with me hyrdo fusion generator

Anonymous Coward

cough, cough, hurl 

Yup, there's definitely some indigo in there.

Ray

Kill them 

Alien

- unusually large, clear eyes

- extremely bright

- evolved consciousness

- come here [from elsewhere, viz Venus]

- one land, one globe and one species

The message is obvious: these "children" are alien parasites and must be all destroyed immediately and without prejudice.

Rich

Lack of Truth 

So 95% of the children born between 1972 and 1982 are "sensitive, gifted souls with an evolved consciousness"? I say bollocks.

Maybe Pravda is trying to bury its Soviet-era reputation: "There is no spark in the Truth and no truth in the Spark".

David Hagan

What colour are chav's auras? 

Because thats all I seem to see these days - the chavification of civilization. This would never have happened in Hitler's day, no sir.

goggyturk

Seen this before somewhere... 

Coat

"As small children, Indigo’s [sic] are easy to recognize by their unusually large, clear eyes. Extremely bright, precocious children with an amazing memory and a strong desire to live instinctively, these children of the next millennium are sensitive, gifted souls with an evolved consciousness who have come here to help change the vibrations of our lives and create one land, one globe and one species. They are our bridge to the future."

Isn't this the same as the children in Village of the Damned?

Mine's the one with the dynamite in the pocket...

{¯`·.¸_LÅMߤ¥_¸.·´¯}

wot no daily mail hoodies? 

Happy

I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside ...

M

Hmm 

Joke

I think that she probably comes from Pripyat, not Noginsk. That would explain the 'aura'

Tom Cooke

Genes 

I know that asking this will lend this credibility it might not need, but d'you think there is any plausible relationship between this and the quite genuine discovery that an increasing number of humans are now being born with a changed gene for a protein used in the brain which may give real advantage? (if I wasn't so lazy I'd look up the reference on Google). I saw it on the BBC so it must be true.

DZ-Jay

Intertioid engine? 

Wait, I thought the whole "Torsion Fields" mechanics was debunked as pseudoscience and a scam.

-dZ.

Paul Johnston

I for one welcome our new masters! 

Happy

The Midwich Cuckoos anyone ?

Alistair

I could do with some new vibrations 

Happy

I for one would welcome our new indigo aura enabled overlords.

Edward Lilley

"Evolved consciousness" 

Thumb Up

As opposed to all the other consciousnesses... they must be intelligently designed or something...

Tim

Ummm 

Is the Indigo bit some new age hippy shite, or have the Midwich Cuckoos arrived at last?

DutchOven

Where do I begin? 

Boffin

First off - if two things rotate in opposite directions then as well all know, there is no movement contraray to the direction of the axis of rotation. We only have to look at those personal helicopters to know that.

As for this whole "Indigo" thing. Mwa ha ha. Pull the other one! That alone would be enough for any sensible person to dismiss this entire story as complete bullshit.

Anonymous Coward

one land, one globe, one species? 

Well, plate tectonics sort of screws up the idea of a return to Pangea any time soon and the one globe idea kind of puts Adventure To Venus in doubt too, but at least we're making good progress on the "one species" thing. Holocene mass extinction FTW!

Iain

Apparently... 

they "have come here to help change the vibrations of our lives". Well, mine insists on listening to the Charlie & Lola theme all the time, so that means he's one of these purple kids, right?

paul brain

anti grav stair lift 

Boffin

Indigo child develops Anti-Grav

Stannah develops the worlds first anti-grav stair lift.

Norah Batty can work again.

Circle complete.

Personally I'd like an anti-grav swimming pool , you know , one that floats

chris

all makes sense now 

Flame

so thats what my large clear eyed 3 year old has been doing in the cellar these past weeks, building a stargate. i hope he figures out how to power it...i cant afford the electric

Allan Dyer

I get this... 

Flame

with an amazing memory - like "Daddy, you said it was bad to use that word..."

a strong desire to live instinctively - like screaming loudly when they don't get their way, and hitting siblings? "Oh, it's OK, he's expressing his desire to live instinctively."

with an evolved consciousness - unlike all those amoeba, with unevolved conciousnesses

help change the vibrations of our lives - its that jazz/rock/punk/(insert new music type here)

and create one land, one globe and one species - environmental destruction, mass extinction and ecological disaster!

They are our bridge to the future - brilliant, so unarguable

@Steve - knowing our luck, you're the other 5%, and you're just about to create a black hole to swallow us all!

Chris Collins

Good vibrations 

My life is full or rhythmic vibrations. Not involving children, of course.

Anonymous Coward

I for one 

welcome our indigo aura wielding young overlords.

Destroy All Monsters

"One land, one globe and one species" 

Flame

Freddy Mercury!!

inertioid = "forward or rotary motion without physical reaction"

The rotary motion is no problem. That's how an astronaut can turn his body in orbit without touching the walls. Forward motion... not likely. Is this a "reactionless drive" or something? Expect New Scientist to run a cover story which then has to be painstakingly shot down by people who have actual understanding of differential equations and error bars.

I seem to using the Flame Icon a lot. Maybe it's just me.

mark jacobs

Natural Evolution of Consciousness 

Coat

Put aside the external, and think in internal consciousness terms hereonin. We still have a long way to go before we realise that all consciousness is shared instantaneously with all sentient beings all around the universe and through all time. Call it quantum dislocation, but the neuronal pathways that make up the subconscious brain are too far apart for quantum energy jumps, but close enough together in the conscious brain. (Google Matt Pitkanen). There you go then. (Shhhh, I AM getting my coat).

Benjamin Kunz

Point of this article? 

Dead Vulture

http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?forumID=13&threadID=93551&messageID=466670

Hehehe.

Anonymous Coward

yeah right... 

Alien

...someone was given the John Wyndham boxed set last Christmas.

- alien, has big bright clear eyes.

Gerhardt

Colour me red and call me a sceptic 

Boffin

'Torsional fields' ? Snigger.

No reaction means no inertia, which would mean keeping the centre of mass in one spot so there's no net acceleration. /That/ approach will inevitably come back to bite you in the arse -- sort of robbing Peter to pay Paul.

When 'Shipov’s device' finally boldly went forwards, Mr Duffield neglects the air track as a potential source of kinetic energy - but hey! Working out these scams are fun; my toes are thoroughly kept on.

Paul

But... 

...does she have big tits?

Anon

Wrong date? 

Was this meant to be released on April 1st? The suggested propulsion method is a load of tripe.

http://torsionfraud.narod.ru/akimov_shipov_torsion_field/Shipov_Akimov_Torsion_Fields_Inertioid.htm

Colin Millar

Kids today 

Go

So 95% of everyone under 38 are aliens?

I thought I was just a grumpy old man

A.A.Hamilton

Where are the photos? 

Happy

Can we have some photos please?

And maybe 1 or 2 of the Rover as well?

Flocke Kroes

Can they detect the aura of a "sceptic"? 

This sounds like an oscillation thruster.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionless_drive#Oscillation_thruster

These work by throwing an internal mass back fast enough to overcome friction, and make the vehicle lurch forward. The mass is returned to initial position slowly, so the vehicle does not slip back. Oscillation thrusters work fine on a flat uniform surface. They are poor at going up hills, and dealing with surfaces with different amounts of friction.

Oscillation thrusters depend on static friction being greater than dynamic friction, so they do not work at all in space - although they do make impressive demonstrations for fleecing ignorant investors. What colour is the aura of a rich twit dumb enough to invest in yet another impulse engine?

Uncle Slacky

Chav auras 

Can you get auras in Burberry check/tartan/plaid/whetever?

Uncle Slacky

Chav auras 

Can you get auras in Burberry check/tartan/plaid/whatever?

Pete

Yeah my kid is one of those 

Happy

maxed his kindy teachers out on day 4 of pre-school (aged3.5) - by correcting the teacher...

"actually the moon is a satellite."

The next week he taught them about the Large Hadron Collider, explaining that it was an experiment to find out what atoms are made of.

He scoffed at his 5 yr old brother recently, informing him that Jesus wasnt real.

Eyes WIDE open.

Anonymous Coward

Hang on, now I understand 

Coat

Indigo??? started about ten years ago?? So that's what Tinky Winky is all about !

Mystery solved.

Anonymous Coward

Yes of course it's all crap don't you know what happened to Pravda... 

Happy

.. after the end of the Cold War? After the collapse of Communism, Pravda was left somewhat drifting and directionless, there not being much call for an official State Propaganda organ anymore, and it's gradually degenerated into being some kind of Russian version of the Weekly World News.

Having said that, I'm sure its stories are perhaps now marginally *more* close to the truth then they ever were before, but that's not saying much.

Steve Swann

Indigo Children 

Stop

Just did a google search on this subject....

ohmigod, what a pile of tripe!

James

As a colour purple... 

Happy

was used in a Sci Fi story when a translation machine tried to translate a "wizards" name.

You only find out at the end of the story that the name was actually: "As a mauve" - or Asimov.

Pretty close to Indigo if you ask me - could Asimov have been the original Indigo child.

BTW what happens when they grow up - do they become bureaucratic grey?

Lottie

Autism 

The concept of Indigo children IMHO was invented to help parents deal with low level autistic spectrum disorders in their children. "No, he's not autistic, he's Indigo".

Rather than confront the stigma, just invent another word for it and claim that you have sired the saviour of mankind.

Chris Williams

Not Inigo then? 

Happy

Nothing to do with Inigo Pipkin of 70s UK TV favourite Pipkins fame?

I guess not, because whatever progress was made towards the creation of a rover vehicle, it would undoubtedly have been sabotaged by Hartley Hare anyway.

Anonymous Coward

I don't know which is more unbelievable... 

Coat

The suggestion that Inertoid motion has been refined and proven, or that "Russian schoolgirl" didn't trigger the work proxy.

David Pollard

Russians are much like us then 

Scientology has it that El Ron is alive and lives on Venus. The Vatican, when acknowledging the possibility of life elsewhere in the universe, suggested that some ETs might be without sin. Francis Crick promoted the idea of panspermia to explain the complexity of DNA. NASA's funding would suffer badly without repeated discoveries of life on Mars or the new quest to Venus. And a host of financial instruments are apparently based on similar mathematics...

True believers seem to find these stories quite compulsive; and some of their promoters find they are a nice little earner.

Incidentally, if any of the Reg staff find they are having problems with their aura as a result of working with postmodern conjectures such as this at close range, a pint or two of decent ale and a good night's rest usually provides a satisfactory remedy.

Anonymous Coward

Zogg? 

http://www.whatisdeepfried.com/zogg/zogg1.html

Aaron

D'you think? 

"...d'you think there is any plausible relationship between this ["indigo child" nonsense] and the quite genuine discovery that an increasing number of humans are now being born with a changed gene for a protein used in the brain which may give real advantage?"

No, I don't. That would be stupid.

Anonymous Coward

@They are our bridge to the future. 

Oh come on. Isn't that the thing EVERY parent says about their little off-lings at some point.

Is this Indigo the same as the purply hue that David Icke raved on about ?

Richard

My aura is plaid 

Happy

What's this doing in Science?

Surely anything that mentions aura's in the context of this article immidiately precludes it from being scientific.

Still, it was good for a laugh on a virtual friday.

Matthew Barker

Dean drive 

Paris Hilton

Something frighteningly similar was patented sometime back as the "Dean Drive". Except

in the Dean Drive (tm, I'm sure), the weight was slid into the center during one part of the rotation

and out to the extreme over the portion of rotation that was in line with the desired direction of

force.

Sounded like something fun to play with or simulate, but not to patent.

Cheers.

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