That aside, skimming both, makes no difference to me either.

What's your problem?

One summer, walking around a large quay/wharf, lying fallow after being flattened and then raised, exploring how so called 'pioneer plants', grasses, flowers, trees took hold there, I noticed the strong smell of ripe blackberries from afar.

Found the few dozen bushes, surrounded by swarms of insects of all sorts, really darkening the air.

Stepped very slowly and carefully right into it, plucked my share from the upper parts of the bushes without being stung or them crawling on me.

Squatted down to take a closer look. Many overripe berries lying on the ground. Insects coming down in spirals like the finger of a tornado, but slowly. Big buzz and hum in the air. Feasting on the mushy berries on the ground. Flying out really low, just a few centimeters off ground, erratically as you described.

Amusing indeed! :-)

Edit: Detailing the most amusing things from memory:

Bumblebees swaying sideways and actually bumping into dandelions(which they are feeding on too, in more normal times), softly crashing into the ground, sometimes on their backs, only to jittery take off back into the air, slowly swaying away further for the next leg of a few meters, only to bump/crash again, and so on, until out of my sight. Other insects too, but with the bumblebees it was most noticable :-)

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kattwykbrücken

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rethe-Klappbrücke

Initially built as turnable, now stationary:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberhafenbrücke

You could 'abuse' favorite for that. Works for whole threads, or just single comments.

As it were they were just curiously following me because of my speed, maybe even had fun doing so?

That didn't happen if you'd just walk, or jog along that place. Then they ignored you.

Around 1980 I had them race, escorting me, while I raced through the forest on a road bicycle. At around 50 kph, them following me like on rails, maybe half a meter from my face.

Really big, maybe half or a third of that size, in many different shiny color patterns.

They were curious, but not aggressive. Was fun having them like a halo around my head :-)

How much is one mile of HVDC?

Err, and where? Chinese HVDC? Canadian? US? Yurop?

Think of all the needed metal and area vs. a few fields of 'rectennas' to reinject the beamed down microwaves as energy into the already existing grid?

With space. By space-based solar power instead of HVDC.

> Previously, a criminal could just print their own shelf tags.

Between your 'previously' and now is a period of at least two or three decades, where shelf tags have only be for your information in the store, while the real price came from computerized POS-Terminals with attached barcode-readers. Which of the two has priority for the customer may depend on country, law, store policy & good will.

Furthermore stores are completely cam covered nowadays, so much luck with being seen fumbling with your gadget in front of that label, or being seen on 'tape' putting another one over it, or things like that :-)

So there will be errors in the great plan of whichever nature. Some of them may get caught by error correction codes, some others not.

These uncaught exceptions are enabling deviations from the great plan :-)

https://www.nderf.org/Experiences/1kevin_p_nde.html

Which isn't my real name btw. They pseudonymized that.

If you change/destroy parts of the antenna or the 'bioelectronic circuits' the channel fades out, and you get more and more noise, until there is no signal anymore.

No more resonance with the frequency of your station.

That equals death on this plane.

What lead me to this apart from NDE/OOBE are the cases of so called Terminal Lucidity, when old or very sick people die, but regain conciousness in their last moments. In a timeframe from sometimes two to three days before exitus, but mostly just a few dozen seconds to minutes before exitus.

The thing is that some of these brains are so rotten and degenerated, that it is impossible according to our current understanding, that these people are even able to do anything coordinated, not to mention speak, and recognizing their loved ones/family, telling them things.

And yet this happens again and again, not that often, but it does. While their brains are absolute mush.

In a similar vein, there are stories of lost animals like cats and dogs finding their way back to the humans they once lived with. Over long distances like several hundred miles, often after years.

That can't happen by random chance. So either they can read signs, and understand our words better than we think, or there are other mechanisms at play.

What that is telling about this otherplaneness is uncertain, just that it exists.

Probably impossible to gain any certain insights about that, because of wrong cabling, interface, modulation, format, whatever.

At best we can just hope to skim the interface, membrane and get a few hazy views from the other side near that membrane, but not that far through it.

Maybe there are even other interfaces, membranes, from up there, going on and on, and/or recursing into others.