Does anyone know the history of the naming of Project Blue Book? Wikipedia offers a very vague and unconvincing answer.
While watching Ex Machina, its explained that the company named BlueBook was named after the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Wittgenstein broadly was interested in the philosophy of language and mathematics. In Blue Book he states: ” The questions, “What is length?”, “What is meaning?”, “What is the number one?” Etc., produce in us a mental cramp. We feel that we cant point to anything in reply to them and yet ought to point to something. (We are up against one of the great sources of phiosophical bewilderment: we try to find substance for a substantive.)”
The language games Wittgenstein describes, that give rise to meaning feels to my layman understanding very similar to the control mechanism Vallee puts forward in his work on the phenomena.
Could the governments naming of the project be a hint to the nature of the phenomena or just a use of illitration to give the project an obligatory title?
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