Geekonomics

Of earthquakes, UFO sightings and the Great Firewall in China

Sep 2, 2009 16:57

Shortly after I arrived in Changsha end of last week, a high frequency sound hit my right ear so hard that my ear auto tuned out (i.e. went deaf) for more than a few seconds. A friend shared that when this happens to him, normally it means to him that an earthquake has just happened near his part of the world. True enough, I searched online and found that a pretty serious earthquake measuring 6.2 on the Richter scale had just occured in Qinghai just half a day before this high frequency noise incident. 

Stranger still was the fact that within an hour of the earthquake, there was this supposed UFO sighting in Changsha. So, maybe the high frequency sound was due to the UFO hovering nearby instead? Anyway, I realized that Changsha seems to be a hotbed for UFO sightings with six sightings reported in the media this past year alone. There was even once when sightings were reported two days in a row:

A Christian friend has been telling me about his UFO sighting experience in the US for as long as I've known him, and his description of what he saw seemed to match those in this video. Well, I'm blogging this at the risk of being labelled a nutcase, but it is what it is. More often than not though, it's more than what meets the eye. So, make your own judgement.

In case you are wondering how I'm accessing YouTube videos behind the Great Firewall of China, I tried free proxy software such as TOR, but this is really not easy to handle, especially once you have changed the settings. In the end, I took up the offer of a free trial by StrongVPN which contacted me on Twitter hearing about my Firewall ordeal--and the user experience has been pretty good. It's really easy to hook up to its PPTP servers, although Open VPN servers are more of a hassle to hook up to. The good thing about its service is the 24/7 live support and video tutorials teaching you how to do the setup.

You can check out the status of the company's servers all over the world and do speed tests from your location to those servers. Premium services, which include the one with the Hong Kong Open VPN servers, come at a price, though. You can find out more about other users' experience with the service here in case you ever need to get behind the Great Firewall of China.

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