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There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here

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Re: There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here

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Post by zikzak »

Time for me to sound crazy.

I won't comment on the debunking. I am sure there's a logical explanation but I am not qualified to make decisions using the evidence I have (which is often true of people on both sides of the discussion, here, generally).

I terms of "are they here", it isn't totally crazy to imagine an AI that can self replicate it's frame, and use this ability to explore the galaxy. When it finds places of interest or that are particularly useful for replication it might hang around.

I'm do not think that is what is going on but it is certainly a possibility. Very remote, of course.

Re: There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here

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Post by RobertoG »

The thing about those videos are not the videos themselves, but the testimonies that come with them and the additional information, specially the "tic tac" video.

I don't know what is really going on in those videos, but, in my opinion, this gentleman, that it seems is a professor of epistemology!, is not following the scientific method.

You don't start with the solution and then fix the evidence to it. It's very easy to explain the videos away if you don't hear what the people that was there, or the experts on how the cameras work, have to say.

Re: There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here

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Post by ctvo »

A person without actual expertise dismisses numerous accounts by trained pilots who saw this first hand by Googling for YouTube explanations and calling these witnesses liars or incompetents.

Does this person happen to work in tech?

Re: There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here

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Post by SerLava »

ctvo wrote: post #13

A person without actual expertise dismisses numerous accounts by trained pilots who saw this first hand by Googling for YouTube explanations and calling these witnesses liars or incompetents. Does this person happen to work in tech?

Well, the Pentagon sent us a video of a blurry dot. So it must have been an alien space ship moving 16,000 miles per hour through atmosphere but not heating the air at all

Re: There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here

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Post by mattowen_uk »

ericmay wrote: post #7
______- wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also https://fakenous.net/ looks like someone's installing a new Wordpress. I've seen this situation before and was able to literally install Wordpress on someone's server.

Yes was coming here to comment. Went to root directory and was able to access Wordpress installation.

It's still there. All I can say, is that we're a nice bunch, as none of us have done anything with it (yet).

Re: There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here

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Post by SerLava »

jlkuester7 wrote: post #9

It is nice to see some more rational explanations for these videos (instead of the constant alien/ufo drivel from most media outlets). The thing that still confuses me, though, is how these videos became a thing in the first place. We are not talking about some random civilians with a Polaroid trying to get pics of a lake monster. The Navy has (presumably high-tech) equipment for finding and tracking airborne phenome…

I don't feel like it can be much of a coincidence that there is a new branch of the US military with a currently low yearly expenditure compared to the other branches, which could potentially be the source of incredibly lucrative private contracts to corporations with former generals sitting on their boards.

Re: There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here

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Post by dau »

SerLava wrote: post #15
ctvo wrote: post #13

A person without actual expertise dismisses numerous accounts by trained pilots who saw this first hand by Googling for YouTube explanations and calling these witnesses liars or incompetents. Does this person happen to work in tech?

Well, the Pentagon sent us a video of a blurry dot. So it must have been an alien space ship moving 16,000 miles per hour through atmosphere but not heating the air at all

The Pentagon didn't send or release anything. They confirmed the publication of an - at least perhaps initially - unidentified object to be a genuine recording.

Re: There Are Aliens, but Probably Not Here

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Post by RobertoG »

jlkuester7 wrote: post #9

It is nice to see some more rational explanations for these videos (instead of the constant alien/ufo drivel from most media outlets). The thing that still confuses me, though, is how these videos became a thing in the first place. We are not talking about some random civilians with a Polaroid trying to get pics of a lake monster. The Navy has (presumably high-tech) equipment for finding and tracking airborne phenome…

You should check the interviews (there are several, including a 60 minutes) with the pilot David Fravor (1).

There are two pilots and two wizards that saw the same with their own eyes (even I have only see the other pilot confirming it). That's an UFO. That doesn't mean that it's extraterrestrial.

To say that it's extraterrestrial at this point, is, in my opinion, so ridiculous like to say that there is nothing to explain (like the author of the article seems to believe).

(1) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aB8zcAttP1E (this is a great interview interesting in its own right, even without the UFO part)

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