Comments on: Please familiarize yourself with the safety features of this aircraft http://idiozeitgeist.com/2007/10/13/safety-features/ The blog of St. Chris. Tue, 05 Jun 2018 02:04:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: St. Chris http://idiozeitgeist.com/2007/10/13/safety-features/#comment-201 St. Chris Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:58:01 +0000 http://idiozeitgeist.com/2007/10/13/please-familiarize-yourself-with-the-safety-features-of-this-aircraft/#comment-201 <p>You have to admit, the "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lights_of_Zetar" title="“The Lights of Zetar” Star Trek episode summary at Wikipedia" rel="nofollow">Lights of Zetar</a>" description fits. It was the second interpretation that occurred to me while I was reading the safety guide on the plane. (The first was "gold foil.") Then I thought maybe it meant "broken glass" or somesuch, but...<i>yellow?</i> That can't be it. I can't think of anything yellow that would merit such special attention before opening an airplane door. Pollen, maybe—but I've never seen jagged, hand-sized clumps of it flying through the air. <i>If you see yellow in the window, there are abstract shapes outside. Do not open the door.</i></p> <p>A more specific interpretation of panel 2 might be <i>The airplane is in Hell,</i> but I wasn't sure the alchemist would bother with that kind of hassle. Necromancer, sure, but this guy is in a longsleeve and chinos, or maybe that's a track suit...HEY, is that Steve Austin?! <i>If you are the Six Million Dollar Man, check the window with your bionic eye and smash the door with your bionic arm. Do not use the handle.</i> You know, I'll bet yellow is the code for <i>Oscar Goldman is in trouble.</i></p> <p>Actually, note the sightline: The alchemist is gazing through the window with his <i>third</i> eye.</p> You have to admit, the “Lights of Zetar” description fits. It was the second interpretation that occurred to me while I was reading the safety guide on the plane. (The first was “gold foil.”) Then I thought maybe it meant “broken glass” or somesuch, but…yellow? That can’t be it. I can’t think of anything yellow that would merit such special attention before opening an airplane door. Pollen, maybe—but I’ve never seen jagged, hand-sized clumps of it flying through the air. If you see yellow in the window, there are abstract shapes outside. Do not open the door.

A more specific interpretation of panel 2 might be The airplane is in Hell, but I wasn’t sure the alchemist would bother with that kind of hassle. Necromancer, sure, but this guy is in a longsleeve and chinos, or maybe that’s a track suit…HEY, is that Steve Austin?! If you are the Six Million Dollar Man, check the window with your bionic eye and smash the door with your bionic arm. Do not use the handle. You know, I’ll bet yellow is the code for Oscar Goldman is in trouble.

Actually, note the sightline: The alchemist is gazing through the window with his third eye.

]]> By: Argus MacWargus http://idiozeitgeist.com/2007/10/13/safety-features/#comment-200 Argus MacWargus Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:12:04 +0000 http://idiozeitgeist.com/2007/10/13/please-familiarize-yourself-with-the-safety-features-of-this-aircraft/#comment-200 <p>I am confused about the sequence. I would think that we would, instead, see the traditional "fire-water-air-earth" represented in the Tetragrammaton, tarot, etc.</p> <p>I'm also perplexed by his wand. Is that symbol a modification of the traditional caduceus serpents, perhaps representing a dual-oroborous?</p> <p>I'll be taking any further communications from the US Airways Alchemy Department with a grain of salt, thankyouverymuch.</p> I am confused about the sequence. I would think that we would, instead, see the traditional “fire-water-air-earth” represented in the Tetragrammaton, tarot, etc.

I’m also perplexed by his wand. Is that symbol a modification of the traditional caduceus serpents, perhaps representing a dual-oroborous?

I’ll be taking any further communications from the US Airways Alchemy Department with a grain of salt, thankyouverymuch.

]]> By: sh http://idiozeitgeist.com/2007/10/13/safety-features/#comment-198 sh Sun, 14 Oct 2007 13:09:27 +0000 http://idiozeitgeist.com/2007/10/13/please-familiarize-yourself-with-the-safety-features-of-this-aircraft/#comment-198 <p>And the poor man with the belly button on the outside of his shirt is crying because he's not allowed to open the door to get to the gold?</p> And the poor man with the belly button on the outside of his shirt is crying because he’s not allowed to open the door to get to the gold?

]]> By: St. Chris http://idiozeitgeist.com/2007/10/13/safety-features/#comment-197 St. Chris Sun, 14 Oct 2007 02:36:43 +0000 http://idiozeitgeist.com/2007/10/13/please-familiarize-yourself-with-the-safety-features-of-this-aircraft/#comment-197 <p>Or: <i>If you see yellow in the window, there's gold in them thar hills!</i></p> Or: If you see yellow in the window, there’s gold in them thar hills!

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