From: Gunnar Ljungstrand Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body Subject: Repost: OBE in space Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 22:52:25 +0100 Organization: Telenordia Lines: 91 Message-ID: <38920F99.374D7CB0@algonet.se> Reply-To: dervak@algonet.se NNTP-Posting-Host: du200-91.ppp.algonet.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: cubacola.tninet.se 949096360 15880 195.100.91.200 (28 Jan 2000 21:52:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@algo.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 28 Jan 2000 21:52:40 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: sv,en Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!skynet.be!news.algonet.se!algonet!pepsi.tninet.se!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.out-of-body:31606 Hi everyone, For our amusement, a repost of my so far only OBE into space (it was a heck of a ride): SPACE: Happened on the 31st of March 1998, 03:10 local time (Sweden) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...I looked around and saw that I was in a large room, reminiscent of the entrance to a subway station. I saw no tracks or trains, but the room was large, some 20 x 10 m, and maybe 3 m high. The floor was made of flat stone plates and several openings led to hallways, which perhaps led to the station. The exit consisted of a number of double glass doors framed in metal. Ahead of them were turnstiles. I decided to fly out *thru* (phaze thru) the glass doors. Outside I found myself on a street in some city. It looked modern with houses, stores and cars. There were not much people on the streets though. It was night and clear with twinkling stars. Even though I was in downtown of a city with city lighting I could still see many stars, like had I been in the countryside. Or the stars might simply have been stronger. Immediately I got the idea to fly out to them, out into space. I had long wished to do this, and at some occasions I have tried but not succeeded. Either I have involuntarily returned to the physbod too early, or I have been unable to get very high, as much as I have tried. This time it seemed to work though; I streaked up thru the air at high speed, high above the city. I did not look down upon it, only upward. After a few seconds I lost my vision; it didnīt happen instantly, but it faded away in some 2 seconds. However, I could still feel myself moving upwards, at a constantly increasing speed. After some 10 seconds I gradually regained my vision. Now I was up in space, high above the Earth (perhaps at a height of a few 100s km), and could see the curvature of Earthīs surface. I was flying backward, and thus looked back towards the Earth I was distancing myself from, at a constantly accelerating speed. The Earth looked entirely normal, with dark blue seas, brown-gray-green land and white clouds. Apparently I must have moved to the day side while not seeing anything, since it was night when I started. All along I was getting higher up (or further away) the Earthīs angular size shrank more and more. Now it looked no larger than a beach ball at armīs distance, and looked precisely like it had on images from Apollo or Galileo. The phase was gibbous, with the dark part at the left. I zoomed away still faster. A few seconds later - some 20 seconds after start - I passed the Moon. Since I was traveling backwards I did not see it before, but evidently I had some kind of "autopilot" running, or someone else was guiding me, since I passed so close by, less than one Moon radius from the surface. The Moon looked like it should, gray and crater-covered. I saw no maria (lunar "seas"), but that isnīt strange since it was primarily the back side I saw. I cannot say I really recognized any crater - but Iīm not that good on the topography of the back side anyway. After having passed the Moon I turned around, in the process rotating a few turns as I tried to recognize any constellations. I looked for Sirius, because I had got the idea to go there. Might be interesting to see possible planets, and perhaps Sirius C, if it exists. However, for some reason I was unable to find *any* recognizable pattern. Of course I spun around pretty fast during only some 10 seconds, but I still wonder if this starry sky was different... Anyhow I lost interest in Sirius when I zoomed by Mars. This time too I passed within a planetary radius. I "stepped on the brakes" at once when I passed, was coming to a standstill perhaps a hundred Mars-radii from it, when everything went dark... and I came to elsewhere... Dammit! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I later made some calculations on this, and using the then current distance between Earth and Mars, my *average* speed should have been something like 34c (c = the speed of light). My top speed would have been at least a few hundred c. (That translates into something like Warp 6 or 7 ;-) Damn, the Enterprise would still have been able to outrun me.) Live long and Prosper... /Gunnar ---------------------------------------- Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity ---------------------------------------- ###### From: "Trish" Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body References: <38920F99.374D7CB0@algonet.se> Subject: Re: Repost: OBE in space Lines: 92 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Message-ID: X-Trace: 9/gFrnsi+oYgtfcjg9v842elbdwIx4k9nIi2CMIZjYkmol7gWyLxR1+Sj4kzcCz1bD2dVK/bLJIB!XuNQioZj4AGRJsh564Za4p48mnoiAMin0qvKxGIFvRZXNELKAiMLiLZfdbv8VLVB/oKCsg== X-Complaints-To: abuse@gte.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 03:51:42 GMT Distribution: world Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 03:51:42 GMT Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!skynet.be!hermes.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!washdc3-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!dfiatx1-snr1.gtei.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.out-of-body:31953 Gunnar Ljungstrand wrote in message <38920F99.374D7CB0@algonet.se>... > >Hi everyone, > >For our amusement, a repost of my so far only OBE into space (it was a >heck of a ride): > > >SPACE: Happened on the 31st of March 1998, 03:10 local time (Sweden) >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >...I looked around and saw that I was in a large room, reminiscent of >the entrance to a subway station. I saw no tracks or trains, but the >room was large, some 20 x 10 m, and maybe 3 m high. The floor was made >of flat stone plates and several openings led to hallways, which perhaps >led to the station. The exit consisted of a number of double glass doors >framed in metal. Ahead of them were turnstiles. I decided to fly out >*thru* (phaze thru) the glass doors. > >Outside I found myself on a street in some city. It looked modern with >houses, stores and cars. There were not much people on the streets >though. It was night and clear with twinkling stars. Even though I was >in downtown of a city with city lighting I could still see many stars, >like had I been in the countryside. Or the stars might simply have been >stronger. > >Immediately I got the idea to fly out to them, out into space. I had >long wished to do this, and at some occasions I have tried but not >succeeded. Either I have involuntarily returned to the physbod too >early, or I have been unable to get very high, as much as I have tried. > >This time it seemed to work though; I streaked up thru the air at high >speed, high above the city. I did not look down upon it, only upward. >After a few seconds I lost my vision; it didnīt happen instantly, but it >faded away in some 2 seconds. However, I could still feel myself moving >upwards, at a constantly increasing speed. > >After some 10 seconds I gradually regained my vision. Now I was up in >space, high above the Earth (perhaps at a height of a few 100s km), and >could see the curvature of Earthīs surface. I was flying backward, and >thus looked back towards the Earth I was distancing myself from, at a >constantly accelerating speed. The Earth looked entirely normal, with >dark blue seas, brown-gray-green land and white clouds. > >Apparently I must have moved to the day side while not seeing anything, >since it was night when I started. All along I was getting higher up (or >further away) the Earthīs angular size shrank more and more. Now it >looked no larger than a beach ball at armīs distance, and looked >precisely like it had on images from Apollo or Galileo. The phase was >gibbous, with the dark part at the left. I zoomed away still faster. > >A few seconds later - some 20 seconds after start - I passed the Moon. >Since I was traveling backwards I did not see it before, but evidently I >had some kind of "autopilot" running, or someone else was guiding me, >since I passed so close by, less than one Moon radius from the surface. >The Moon looked like it should, gray and crater-covered. I saw no maria >(lunar "seas"), but that isnīt strange since it was primarily the back >side I saw. I cannot say I really recognized any crater - but Iīm not >that good on the topography of the back side anyway. > >After having passed the Moon I turned around, in the process rotating a >few turns as I tried to recognize any constellations. I looked for >Sirius, because I had got the idea to go there. Might be interesting to >see possible planets, and perhaps Sirius C, if it exists. However, for >some reason I was unable to find *any* recognizable pattern. Of course I >spun around pretty fast during only some 10 seconds, but I still wonder >if this starry sky was different... > >Anyhow I lost interest in Sirius when I zoomed by Mars. This time too I >passed within a planetary radius. I "stepped on the brakes" at once when >I passed, was coming to a standstill perhaps a hundred Mars-radii from >it, when everything went dark... and I came to elsewhere... Dammit! > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >I later made some calculations on this, and using the then current >distance between Earth and Mars, my *average* speed should have been >something like 34c (c = the speed of light). My top speed would have >been at least a few hundred c. > >(That translates into something like Warp 6 or 7 ;-) Damn, the >Enterprise would still have been able to outrun me.) > >Live long and Prosper... Haaaahahahah! A fabulous ending to a very *choice* OBE. : ) Trish ###### From: Gunnar Ljungstrand Newsgroups: alt.out-of-body Subject: Re: Repost: OBE in space Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 21:43:15 +0100 Organization: Telenordia Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3894A263.B169E4C2@algonet.se> References: <38920F99.374D7CB0@algonet.se> Reply-To: dervak@algonet.se NNTP-Posting-Host: sdu75-253.ppp.algonet.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: cubacola.tninet.se 949265010 21849 195.163.253.75 (30 Jan 2000 20:43:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@algo.net NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Jan 2000 20:43:30 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: sv,en Path: chonsp.franklin.ch!pfaff.ethz.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!newsfeed-zh.ip-plus.net!news.ip-plus.net!News.Amsterdam.UnisourceCS!skynet.be!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.algonet.se!algonet!pepsi.tninet.se!not-for-mail Xref: chonsp.franklin.ch alt.out-of-body:31602 Trish wrote: > > Gunnar Ljungstrand wrote in message <38920F99.374D7CB0@algonet.se>... > >Live long and Prosper... > > Haaaahahahah! A fabulous ending to a very *choice* OBE. : ) > > Trish Thank you Trish. :-) See you out there... /Gunnar ---------------------------------------- Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity ----------------------------------------