Some individuals have managed to worm their way into the annals of truly weird UFO phenomena, and weird cover-ups and conspiracies are not entirely unique to the United States. The man named Wilbert Brockhouse Smith was born in 1910 in Lethbridge. in the region of Alberta, Canada, and was considered to be quite the genius, writing a treatise on the idea of perpetual motion at a mere 15 years of age. He would go on to obtain degrees in electrical engineering and become the chief engineer for the radio station C.J.O.R., Vancouver, before joining the Department of Transport of Canada in 1939. There he would be very involved as senior radio engineer for Transport Canada’s Broadcast and Measurements Section, playing a crucial part in forming frequency broadcasting agreements between Canada and the United States, and during World War II he helped to erect a network of ionosoheric measurement stations throughout Canada. It was during this time that he became instrumental in developing a C
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Halfway through a meeting that so far has been full of nothing but useless chit-chat and vague ideas, you’re wishing people would get to the point or, in other words, that they d
cut to the chase.
Much like
pushing the envelope,
cutting to the chaseused to be a literal action. When silent films became popular in the early 20th century, filmmakers couldn’t rely on dialogue jokes, arguments, emotional declarations, criminal confessions, etc. to keep viewers engaged. Instead, they got creative with physical comedy and action sequences, which often took the form of chase scenes.
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