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The optimistic part of me thinks that was part of galactic refugee flights that hide themselves in deep ocean, using the humans as shields and can only be detected by the Empire if close enough. This part of me sincerly believes I will join the resistance by invitation.
There's a real problem with people being close-minded towards anything that seems fantastical. This includes scientists and other professionals who ought to know better. Obviously it's unscientific to jump to conclusions and assume that anything that doesn't make sense must be aliens or magic or whatever but at the same time, it's also unscientific to ignore physical observations just because they seem like something…
I really wish people would take a look at the extensive analysis some scientists have done to show the 3 navy videos of UAP are showing flight characteristics that defy our laws of physics. This guy on Twitter has done a fantastic job to show the GIMBAL object performed what we can only describe as a “vertical u-turn” https://twitter.com/the_cholla/status/1504855791060148224?s=... This paper shows the tic tac video e…
This seems like strong evidence that the "tic tac" is not a flying object per se, but rather something like the focal point of a high-E-field laser? (Or a crossing point between two such beams?) If the object in question is not a physical object so much as a light show, it could undergo all sorts of impossible manouevres including instantaneous acceleration and even the appearance of exceeding the speed of light.
Perhaps some fancy machinery can beam modified waveforms not only with microwaves, but with frequencies high enough to reach infrared and/or visible light.
And perhaps some kind of an elongated blob is the state of the art now.
And later, as the technology matures, one might expect more detailed movie-prop like "UFOs" to appear. Hoping to see a TIE fighter or Jetsons' space car soon.
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Yes. Why is that unreasonable?
It's unreasonable because installing and maintaining aviation qualified cameras is expensive. You can't just strap a consumer action camera to the wing and expect the FAA to approve. Airlines have no incentive to pay for extra cameras.
If you haven't listened to it yet, highly recommend the Ryan Graves episode on the Joe Rogan Experience.
I used to occasionally watch JRE and at the time found some of the episodes to be interesting thought experiments. But then I watched one episode where the guest expert was talking about a topic in which I had enough familiarity to recognize that they were completely bullshitting their way through the interview and attempting to sound mysterious in order to avoid providing any factual information. Recalling the Gell-…
Stay skeptical, by all means, and don't count on the show to fact check everything for you, but why automatically dismiss them all as BS without evidence and without even hearing them out? If you found the show interesting before, you're probably missing out.
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I sometimes wonder if these galactic powers (if they exist) will prevent the creation of AGI.
If they don't then is that evidence that AGI is NBD? To be clear: I don't think this is a good line of thinking from the beginning, so I'm not surprised when the conclusions are not useful.
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Sure it does, this small scale demo can even draw the death star in mid air https://www.google.com/search?q=tangible+holographic+plasma That's certainly no natural phenomenon!
As I said to another commenter, I'm not discounting the possibility of this being human tech. But, wouldn't adversaries need other ships or satellites to launch this holographic plasma from, and wouldn't we have tracked those before seeing the tic-tac (or other unidentified craft) on radar? Many reports are actually happening over the United States airspace. How could the military not track the planes the plasmas are…
The fact that the military isn't investigating it implies to me that they already know what is it. Now why they're letting pilots talk about it on the Joe Rogan experience I don't know, but whether that was a simple mistake or they just felt like not keeping those pilots in the loop at all was better, well that's not unexplainable.
So yeah, ground based plasma hologram projection is a specific, real, technology that can produce results that match the description of the UFOs. I'm not speculating here, all the data I've seen has matched the description of a ball of plasma and these systems can make balls of plasma appear in mid-air at any location you want, at any speed and with any flight characteristics.
Once you know what technology has been used to make the "UFOs" the rest is pretty easy.
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Nobody is throwing away all of the constructs of what we know. This may turn out to be sensor malfunction. But the DoD has over 300 events of unidentified objects that exhibit interesting flight characteristics. At the very least we should not be ignoring this data, but studying it deeply to figure out what it is. Either it’s a foreign adversary with advanced technology, an adversary that is spoofing our sensor syste…
There are plenty of explanations for these videos that don't involve alien species traveling multiple light years to troll American air force pilots, like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsEjV8DdSbs and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGzJ9dx3n4o .
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What would you say is the most credible incident that everyone should take seriously?
The Nimitz Incident of 2004(?). Extremely detailed visual and sensor events. Tons of human witnesses. Tons of activity. There was a detailed Reddit thread on the incident from a Seaman many, many years ago long before news of the Tic Tac came out. I’m on mobile but perhaps someone else can paste the thread URL. Could be an elaborate hoax but that’s one heck of a long con game.
The Tic Tac UFO? That's probably one of the best explained events (debunked). Short answer is that there was sense misreading and a gimbal lock. Some people even simulated it[0]. I wouldn't call this an elaborate hoax, but an optical illusion and an event that took some expertise to understand. Expertise that a pilot wouldn't have.
I should add that finding that link was nontrivial. Faster through Google but searching through YouTube just came up with UFO videos and no debunking. This is probably part of the problem.
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I am not rejecting the possibility of this being human technology. to quote the former Deputy Secretary of Defense for Intelligence “The Alien Hypothesis currently best fits the facts”.
Yeah. But that's impossible. So there, on Earth, are just two kinds of intelligence. Human intelligence and military intelligence. Because there's no alien intelligence here.
We have been to space. We have theories that FTL travel may be possible (Alcubierre drives, wormholes). The JWST just showed us that galaxies formed as early as 300 million years after the Big Bang. Hell, we didn't know there were planets outside of our solar system until the 1990s. We still don't know what Dark Matter or Dark Energy are. We have far more left to explore and understand.
I despise people like you who try to diminish every important scientific venture because you think you know better.