Polynodal Daniel Green, Jarrett Green, Kenton Hansen

Do Canada geese still fly south for winter? Yes, but it's complicated - National Geographic https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/do-canada-geese-still-fly-south-for-winterFAA Wildlife Strike Database - https://wildlife.faa.gov/searchInterspecific Killing of a Branta bernicla (Brant) by a Male Branta canadensis (Canada Goose) - Northeastern Naturalist Vol. 19, No. 4 (2012) - https://www.jstor.org/stable/41810155Recent trends in the winter population of Canada geese (Branta canadensis) in Wichita, Kansas: 1998–2003  - Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science https://doi.org/10.1660/0022-8443(2004)107[0077:RTITWP]2.0.CO;2
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Daniel talked about a video to help pronounce "Diego Garcian" and it reminded me of this youtube channel
YouTube channel launched on April 14th, 2010 with a video instructing viewers how to pronounce ASUS. It continued for years with normal engilsh words, but also did names and brands like Baal, Tutankhamun, Ke$$ha.Some videos gained more notariety, because of the subtle comedy or oddity. in 2012 * The video "How to pronounce GIF" followed the typical format, but substituted the phrase "GIF stands for graphics interchange format"some surreal, like the correct pronounciation for the phrase "please help me escape from this place"
July 9th, 2013, Pronunciation Book departed from its regular programming with a video titled “How To Pronounce 77”. Instead of illustrating the correct pronunciation, the voiceover narrates that “something is going to happen in 77 days,” followed by 15 seconds of silence with soft clicks that could be interpreted as Morse code.Next day the video was 76
The following days had a different pattern than previous videos:
Start with a cryptic sentenceState how many days until when something will happenA cryptic narrative began to form through the intro sentence
caused internet buzz, the whole world wide web was spreading this series of videos in what I'd call an "explosive node" way.
Bear Stearns BravoOn September 24th, 2013 Pronunciation Book released a new video titled "How to Pronounce Horse_ebooks," which contains a phonetic reading of the infamous Twitter spambot account @Horse_ebooks and a mysterious message narrated by a woman standing in front of a silver screen.
The same day as the Horse_ebooks reveal, the New Yorker revealed Thomas Bender, VP of product development at HowCast as the identity behind Pronunciation Guide and he was running the @Horse_ebooks Twitter account with BuzzFeed's creative director Jacob Bakkila. The two were staging an event to launch of their new alternate reality game project called "Bear Stearns Bravo."
Pronunciation ManualOn April 13th, 2011, the YouTube channel Pronunciation Manual launched, offering similar instructional videos. However, these videos intentionally mispronounce the words for comedic purposes. As of July 2013, the channel has inspired other copycat channels including PronunciationPartner and PronunciationPooper while amassing more than 213,000 subscribers and 68.4 million views, averaging 81,600 views per day.
horse_ebooksStarted basically as a spam bot, but a Russian web developer, But without the nefarious tactics.Gained popularity as poeticTwitter account that posted nonsense phrases from ebooks about horses, interspersed with spam links.
"I will make certain you never buy knives again,""We all agree, no one looks cool,""Is the dance floor calling? No,""Everything happens so much""unfortunately, as you probably already know, people."
Purchased in 2011 by Bakkila. This change was noticed by the account's followers when, on September 14, 2011, the account began tweeting "via web" instead of "via Horse ebooks", and the frequency of tweets promoting ClickBank significantly dropped while the number of "funny" tweets increased.
Alternate Reality Game (ARG)interactive networked narrative that uses the real world as a platform and employs transmedia storytelling to deliver a story that may be altered by players' ideas or actions.
Among the terms essential to understanding discussions about ARGs are:
Puppet-master – A puppet-master or "PM" is an individual involved in designing and/or running an ARG. Puppet-masters are simultaneously allies and adversaries to the player base, creating obstacles and providing resources for overcoming them in the course of telling the game's story. Puppet-masters generally remain behind the curtain while a game is running. The real identity of puppet masters may or may not be known ahead of time.The Curtain – The curtain, drawing from the phrase, "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain," is generally a metap

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Cargo Cults
in WW2, tons of troops have first contact with pre-industrial cultures.These cultures tend to, have a "big man" political systemsustenance farming, hunter-gatherer society, scarcityif you're able to give more gifts and survive, you're more powerfulMore power, creates more powerCan't reciprocate? "rubbish man"So what happens when thousands of men come who are able to toss a pack of gum or cigarets to everyone?but also the technology and manufacturing and materialsreligion forms mimicking the behaviours of the soldiersmarch with stickscoconut radiosleaf airplanes, stick runways, stone officesThe John Frum cult, one of the most widely reported and longest-lived, formed on the island of Tanna, Vanuatu. This movement started before the war, and became a cargo cult afterwards. Cult members worshiped certain unspecified Americans having the name "John Frum" or "Tom Navy" who they claimed had brought cargo to their island during World War II and whom they identified as being the spiritual entity who would provide cargo to them in the futureSome cargo cults are still active. These include:
The John Frum cult on Tanna island (Vanuatu)The Tom Navy cult on Tanna island (Vanuatu)The Prince Philip Movement on the island of Tanna, which worshipped the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, husband of Queen Elizabeth II.According to ancient Yaohnanen tales, the son of a mountain spirit travelled over the seas to a distant land. There, he married a powerful woman and in time would return to them. He was sometimes said to be a brother to John Frum.[2]
The people of the Yaohnanen and Takel area believe in the divinity of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, the consort to Queen Elizabeth II. They had seen the respect accorded to Queen Elizabeth II by the colonial officials and concluded that her husband, Prince Philip, must be the son referred to in their legends.
It is unclear just when this belief came about, but it was probably some time in the 1950s or 1960s. It was strengthened by the royal couple's official visit to Vanuatu in 1974, when a few villagers had the opportunity to actually see Prince Philip from a distance. The Prince was not then aware of the sect, but it was brought to his attention several years later by John Champion, the British Resident Commissioner in the New Hebrides.
In April 2021 the sect mourned Prince Philip's death. Village Chief Albi said that he was "terribly, terribly sorry" that he died and tribal leader Chief Yapa sent his condolences to the Royal Family and the people of the UK.
Kirk Huffman, an anthropologist familiar with the group, said that after their period of mourning the group would probably transfer their veneration to Prince Charles, who had visited Vanuatu in 2018 and met with some of the tribal leaders.
It seems like if the technological advanced society had a guideline or rule or general order NOT to interfere in the with the internal and natural development of alien civilizations
The Prime Directive
Starfleet General Order 1General Order 1non-interference directiveThe Prime Directive US involvement in the Vietnam War was a superpower interfering in the natural development of southeast Asian society; the creation in the original series is attributed to a statement of such


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