Any of you remember "My Favorite Martian"? I'm really giving away my age with this one. For those of you who don't know, "My Favorite Martian" was an old, 30-minute TV sitcom. And when I say old, I mean really old, as in filmed in black and white, no color shows out there yet. The central character was a Martian who had crash-landed in LA. and taken up residence with a local reporter, who passed him off as his Uncle Martin (Martin? Martian? Get it?). Well, the coolest thing about Uncle Martin was that he had these antennae that could go up and down, and when he put them up he could disappear! Now if you're a kid of about 10 or 11 years old, which I was at the time, that's about as neato (= tough = cool = swell, or as they say now, awesome) as you're going to get! The disappearing act came in handy many a time as Uncle Martin got himself into and out of one predicament after another. Hard to get enough of that!
Even now I can think of some situations where we'd all like to have the ability to disappear. Always a great fantasy. Think Harry Potter and the invisibility cloak! But now I'm thinking along a different line. What if you could have antennae but NOT disappear? Now that could be pretty cool, too. Just think of all the things you could run up those little flag poles! What about this?
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Or this?
Or this?
Or this?
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