The Iconic Joshua Tree made famous by U2 album cover is found chopped up...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2971368/U2-fan-pilgrimaged-band-s-Joshua-Tree-outraged-finding-CHOPPED-California-desert.html
Even if that particular tree was inside of a steel cage, some people would have still tried to get to it. The J. Tree would have required a guard shack near it with 24 hour security.
http://www.ghosttownexplorers.org/california/U2/u2.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Tree_National_Park

http://www.u2interference.com/forums/f285/rsoc-269-desert-sky-172327-3.html

http://www.nps.gov/jotr/index.htm , http://photos.calipidder.com/keyword/u2

http://bootlegpedia.com/en/product/G.R._045-046-047

http://webspace.webring.com/people/ja/aaronax70/u2.gif ,
http://hub.yourtakeonmusic.com/hub/u2bootlegs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joshua_Tree#Packaging_and_title

https://desertshapes.blogspot.com/search?q=U2

U2 - In God's Country...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God's_Country

"Desert sky, dream beneath the desert sky. The rivers run but soon run dry. We need new dreams tonight.

Desert rose, dreamed I saw a desert rose..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sERtcG-TUCU , https://www.youtube.com/c/U2/videos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joshua_Tree#Lyrics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joshua_Tree_Tour (1987)

https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/u2s-the-joshua-tree-10-things-you-didnt-know-106885

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joshua_Tree#30th_anniversary_tour_and_reissue

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joshua_Tree_Tours_2017_and_2019

ULTIMATE DVD U2 THE JOSHUA TREE TOUR 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvqSdYB045Y

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f9/Joshua_Tree_-_Cyclops_%2B_Potato_Head_-_Sunrise.jpg

https://www.travelobscura.com/2016/05/29/the-u2-joshua-tree

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Tree_National_Park

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/55/Joshua_Tree_National_Park_2013.jpg

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2017/05/21/review-u2-shows-joshua-tree-power-persists/101977742/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Tree_National_Park#Visitation_and_access

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Joshua_tree_keys_view_pano_more_vertical.jpg/800px-Joshua_tree_keys_view_pano_more_vertical.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0d/High_Desert_Twilight-3.jpg ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landers,_California

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Desert_Diablo.jpg , 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojave_Desert

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joshua_Tree#Packaging_and_title ,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabriskie_Point

https://desertshapes.blogspot.com/search?q=U2

U2 in LV

 https://www.u2.com/news/title/5-days-to-go/

Of course U2 would have to get back to the desert to do this big production.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_at_The_Venetian_Resort

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_at_The_Venetian_Resort#Features

https://desertshapes.blogspot.com/search?q=U2

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=U2

The X-Files intersection with VR

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files , https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_x_files

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files#Mythology 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106179/episodes/?season=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files#Casting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_Smoking_Man

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_X-Files_characters

https://www.youtube.com/@THEXFILESFOX/videos

David Duchovny Breaks Down His Career, from 'The X-Files' to 'Californication'  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-y2ucPVA6A 

THE X-FILES | UNMARKED HELICOPTERS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCNDymn3PJI , Unmarked Helicopters · Soul Coughing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files_(franchise)#Legacy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files#Potential_reboot

Reincarnation and or The Simulation_Hypothesis (TSH)

https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/The_Field_Where_I_Died

The Boy Who Says He Was a Civil War Soldier in a Past Life | The Oprah Winfrey Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Sz7BQig4M

Born_Again could have unsettling implications about reincarnation and the simulation hypothesis. VR

https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/Born_Again What if some people keep being sent back for more torment, turmoil and suffering?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Floor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Switch_(The_X-Files) , https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/Kill_Switch

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Person_Shooter_(The_X-Files) , https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/First_Person_Shooter

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stop-asking-if-the-universe-is-a-computer-simulation

It's so much easier to simulate a past, present or future world than the unknown totality of the universe.

https://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/10inknm/chris_carters_harsh_realm_1999_starring_scott

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Series/HarshRealm , https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x98usrc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harsh_Realm#Setting , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcMKFe05K8o 

https://them0vieblog.com/2015/10/12/harsh-realm-camera-obscura-review 

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-our-universe-a-hologram-physicists-debate-famous-idea-on-its-25th-anniversary1  

Is The Universe A Hologram? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNgIl-qIklU  

How Physicists Proved The Universe Isn't Locally Real https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txlCvCSefYQ 

Before there was the first MATRIX movie in 1991, there was Even Better Than The Real Thing by U2 in the early 1990s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTxrgXWToZA 

Several years before Neo would be flying around in The MATRIX, U2 had The_Fly character in the early 1990s. 

Of course that "original" MATRIX look has been around for quite a while.

https://www.reddit.com/r/U2Band/comments/1mckzif/the_original_fly_looks_like_bono 

The Damned - Live Munich Alabamahalle 1982 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxmrQfFylfM  

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Bono_as_The_Fly_Cleveland_1992.jpg/500px-Bono_as_The_Fly_Cleveland_1992.jpg 

Achtung_Baby was released in 1991, enter The_Fly in the U2 version of The Matrix Zoo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_(U2_song)#Music_video

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/db/The_Matrix.png  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon_(U2_song)#Music_video , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEcx9F_FW2U&list=RDKEcx9F_FW2U&start_radio=1 So, if your life is like a Lemon in a cosmic Holodeck, you might want to take it up the_source of the programme. https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Holodeck Perhaps its just some very mischievous kids playin in The_Veldt. 

https://www.reddit.com/r/SimulationTheory  

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/10/18275618/simulation-hypothesis-matrix-rizwan-virk

In 1973 there was the Westworld movie and the TV production World_on_a_Wire. Both are unrelated to each other. Westworld was AR in an amusement park setting. World_on_a_Wire was about going into a VR world for an experience there. 

In a way, the Westworld_TV_series tried to tell a larger story of AR and AI in the real world, but would also reveal parts of the story from a distant future VR perspective. This became confusing for a lot of people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westworld_(TV_series)#Writing_and_themes

https://marketingbytes.io/what-westworld-at-sxsw-says-about-virtual-reality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wanderer_(U2_song) , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=al9x2l12CR0 Its unfortunate that this song wasn't featured in the Westworld_(TV_series). 

https://www.reddit.com/r/westworld , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westworld_(TV_series)#Filming  

So, what would happen if Jeffrey_Wright was put into a Will_Wright_game like SimEarth? 

Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains the Simulation Hypothesis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmcrG7ZZKUc 

What would VR technology be like after a century, a millennium or even a million years? You might not even be aware of it, unless someone like Trinity told you and Morpheus showed you. https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Morpheus

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44141381-the-simulation-hypothesis 

https://quantumzeitgeist.com/are-we-living-in-a-simulation-a-book-review-of-the-simulation-hypothesis-by-rizwan-virk/

https://medium.com/hackernoon/the-great-simulation-why-quantum-physics-artificial-intelligence-and-eastern-mystics-all-agree-b6c185213a18 

Reality has a whole lot of interference and everything-you-know-is-wrong. So, where lies the truth? Each curious person has to be willing to look behind the false_front of it all. Otherwise, you don't get to see the larger picture. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar_(Rollins_Band_song) , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhKMVlHz9FQ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village#Modern_usage 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_(The_Prisoner) 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Village_(The_Prisoner)#Penny_farthing_logo 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers#Early_career_and_research From creating a safer bicycle design to the modern birth of powered flight.

https://ryandreyer.substack.com/p/the-secret-story-of-the-wright-brothers 

https://www.wright-brothers.org/Exhibits_&_Programs/Birth_of_Aviation/Birth_of_Aviation.htm#:~:text=The%20Flight%20Simulators,Simulator%20in%20action%2C%20CLICK%20HERE. 

The development of Flight_simulator technology would eventually lead into VR.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_simulator#History_of_flight_simulation 

The VR movie Brainstorm ends at the Wright_Brothers_National_Memorial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorm_(1983_film)#Plot   

https://desertshapes.blogspot.com/search?q=The+MATRIX+intersection

U2: ’Songs of Surrender’ and Reflecting on their Musical Legacy

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edzt3Lnp9jU

From the time of The_Joshua_Tree and Rattle_and_Hum to Achtung_Baby and Zooropa, U2 went through a big change. A transformational audio-visual boost of technology and entertainment.

Alastair and the Sims, etc.

 What if Alastair_Sim was in a simulation story? What if this world is part of some kind of a cosmic construct of reality?

"The Sims series is part of the larger Sim series, started by SimCity in 1989."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sims

The 3D characters & the ghosts are all sims in the computer game & program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion_packs_for_The_Sims_3#Supernatural

Ghosts and Monsters+in+the+Matrix 

The Sims & Ghosts 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2oI62NSurI

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-01-17-the-sims-4-ghosts--pla7007

https://sims.fandom.com/wiki/Ghost Its all part of the simulation hypothesis.

Consider that Alastair_Sim who stared in the Scrooge_(1951_film), encountered a few sim ghosts in his simulated earth reality.

Charles_Dickens was essentially writing about sims in the earth simulation back in the 1840s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol#Plot 1843

A world where ghosts, phantoms, monsters, tricksters and Jokers can pop in or out of this reality in an instance.

https://www.nashvillechatterclass.com/sims-patents-hint-at-ai-technology-being-used-in-the-game/53211

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_machine#Arthur_Koestler

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Veldt_(short_story) 1950 

The_Illustrated_Man was published in 1951, the same year as the Scrooge movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illustrated_Man#The_Veldt Sort of like a Digital Sandbox_game in a VR room or the Holodeck. 

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Holodeck , 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AXcBGGQyHY , https://www.youtube.com/c/TrekCulture/videos

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/Holodeck2.jpg (What if your life is a lemon? Then you might try to see if you can improve things.)

U2 performing Lemon in their version of the Holodeck MATRIX. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEcx9F_FW2U

https://turingchurch.net/book-review-the-simulated-multiverse-by-rizwan-virk-e3cadd505d6d

There is a line in the movie, The_Thirteenth_Floor. Someone asks, how many worlds are in the simulation? 

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/2009/04/the-nature-of-reality-tnor.html

Elon Musk: Are We Living in a Simulation?

"Among popular public thinkers advocating for the simulation hypothesis is Elon Musk who stated: if you assume any rate of improvement at all, games will eventually be indistinguishable from reality“ before concluding “that its most likely we’re in a simulation. Elon Musk is known in the philosophical community to make "outrageous" claims, whether its about the advent of digital superintelligence, or in this case, according to some skeptics of the simulation hypothesis, Elon Musk exaggerates the probability that we might be living in a simulation. Another high-profile proponent to the hypothesis is famous astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson, who said in an NBC news interview that the hypothesis is correct giving “better than 50-50 odds” and adding: I wish I could summon a strong argument against it, but I can find none In a review of the literature on simulated realities, philosopher Nick Bostrom argues that although it is difficult to prove that we are living in a simulation, "It is nevertheless generally considered acceptable philosophy to question the reality of our own existence. A typical member of an advanced civilization would have a high probability of being among the simulated minds rather than among the original biological ones. Therefore, if we are typical, we should consider that we might be living in a simulation. Thus, the possibility that we are living in a simulation is greater than we might have supposed. Some hypotheses hold that if it is possible to simulate reality, then it is also possible to leave behind copies of everyone within these simulations. It has further been suggested that these simulated people may be conscious or sentient, although this idea belongs more in the realm of philosophy rather than scientific inquiry.  

Although the simulation hypothesis has sound philosophical arguments, before its taken seriously scientifically, proponents of the hypothesis have to produce experiments to support the idea with evidence." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3VPRow8xI4 , https://www.youtube.com/c/ScienceTime24/videos

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/are-we-living-in-the-matrix-

https://evolutionnews.org/2019/04/mits-rizwan-virk-on-simulation-theory-aka-intelligent-design

Donald Hoffman Proves That We Live in a Simulation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAfjsktMXu8

2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation?

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgSZA3NPpBs , https://www.youtube.com/c/AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory/videos

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Did+Philip+K.+Dick+disclose+the+real+Matrix+in+1977

https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Matrix+Resurrections

The Las Vegas $2.3BN Mega Sphere

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3uRvJcM3z8

How The World's Largest LED MSG Sphere Came To Life In Vegas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLCeYV0SV8k

The Insane Engineering Behind MSG Sphere Las Vegas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzxTI8GYLYE

The desert city of LV certainly has something big, exciting and new on the horizon. Of course U2 would have to be a part of it.