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Former intel officer says 'non-human biologics’ found at alleged UFO crash sites

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Re: Former intel officer says 'non-human biologics’ found at alleged UFO crash sites

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we can't rule out time travel forward on Earth. There is geological evidence of civilization destroying events 12k years ago, possibly more. I've often thought about why it took 300-400k years to go from fire to agricultural-civilization, then tech takes off in under 5k years from that point. What if the time from fire to civilization was faster, but those civilizations were wiped out (by geological, astrological or…

There’s good evidence against that. All the easily mineable resources that a civilization needs to build more advanced technology will be used up by the first civilization. I’ve heard it said that if we destroy our current technology there will be no way to rebuild it because there’s no way to mine the resources to build it back up.

Today's landfills are tomorrow's mines.

Re: Former intel officer says 'non-human biologics’ found at alleged UFO crash sites

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post #523

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we can't rule out time travel forward on Earth. There is geological evidence of civilization destroying events 12k years ago, possibly more. I've often thought about why it took 300-400k years to go from fire to agricultural-civilization, then tech takes off in under 5k years from that point. What if the time from fire to civilization was faster, but those civilizations were wiped out (by geological, astrological or…

There’s good evidence against that. All the easily mineable resources that a civilization needs to build more advanced technology will be used up by the first civilization. I’ve heard it said that if we destroy our current technology there will be no way to rebuild it because there’s no way to mine the resources to build it back up.

Yes, I've read that without easily accessible surface level coal, there is no industrial revolution. Maybe the advanced past civilizations were based in what is now called Africa or Indonesia, and the UK was some remote frozen place where it wasn't worth it to mine the surface coal?

Re: Former intel officer says 'non-human biologics’ found at alleged UFO crash sites

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I’m a huge skeptic, but I’ve been following this very closely over the past few months. Fermi’s paradox has two good answers — we don’t see aliens because they don’t exist, or we don’t see them because they are here already. They should be here already. The paradox is about why we don’t see them. Being skeptical is different than doubt-by-default. A skeptic is curious and slow to judge. So with great curiosity, I’ve…

"Pascal's Wager has two outcomes: 1) there are no angels 2) angels dance upon EVERY pinhead, sight-unseen. There are no other options. And we may dismiss the first one because of the unspoken axiom of the wager."

That's the argument I would like to make regarding the existence of angels and the coverup by the secularists to hide their involvement in humanity.

Re: Former intel officer says 'non-human biologics’ found at alleged UFO crash sites

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If you travel "back in time" you don't enter your own timeline but another universe where you were Always going to appear. Time travel (backwards) is not possible, only inter-universe travel. What has happened has always happened and will always have happened.

Finally I found an expert in time travel technology! Please tell us more about it!

Jfc... I see your hyperbole but I'll give you the "self evident" breakdown of why:

If both events have occurred at the same time then that means they can't exist in the same timeliness.

Pretty freaking simple ain't it?

Re: Former intel officer says 'non-human biologics’ found at alleged UFO crash sites

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The entire UFO congress interaction has seemed like a large distraction away from items like the fed raising interest rates again with the reasoning still to tackle inflation. I don't say this to trigger a debate on politics or flamebait , this seems like peak "hey look over here" material.

I wish we had events unfolding to hurl us into a new age of space progress, but the "non human biological" stuff was definitely actual dog shit or someone's lunch.

Re: Former intel officer says 'non-human biologics’ found at alleged UFO crash sites

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I’m a huge skeptic, but I’ve been following this very closely over the past few months. Fermi’s paradox has two good answers — we don’t see aliens because they don’t exist, or we don’t see them because they are here already. They should be here already. The paradox is about why we don’t see them. Being skeptical is different than doubt-by-default. A skeptic is curious and slow to judge. So with great curiosity, I’ve…

> Fermi’s paradox has two good answers — we don’t see aliens because they don’t exist, or we don’t see them because they are here already. These are not "good" answers to the Fermi paradox, and definitely not the only answers. Much better answers (in my opinion) are things like: their signals haven't reached us yet; they haven't developed interstellar communications or travel yet; they haven't developed intelligent l…

You don't know what you don't know. I'd assume any significant timeline involves broadening our understanding of thermodynamics and material science. I don't think its far fetched to presume that another species is further along on the Kardashev scale.

Re: Former intel officer says 'non-human biologics’ found at alleged UFO crash sites

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They most likely haven't been able to reverse engineer much, if anything. But I suspect a profit motive was part of keeping it secret. If everyone knows, then other companies will compete to look at the materials and the contractors could lose out on a lot of money.

This makes no sense to me. People don’t invent an amazing thing and then keep it secret to make a profit. they patent it and make a product or license it. I am totally willing to believe they managed to keep something secret. Hell if it’s true it means they actually did a pretty shit job because everyone knows the word ‘Roswell’ But I don’t buy that after 50 years they haven’t made a single useful thing out of what t…

I'm saying that they weren't able to invent anything. Maybe they learned about new materials, but it's one thing to know the molecular composition of a material and another to actually make it. So, being selfish assholes, they want to keep it a secret. Government officials are more than happy to award sole source contracts when they're offered a cushy job after retirement.

Re: Former intel officer says 'non-human biologics’ found at alleged UFO crash sites

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He had names of people willing to testify, names of people to investigate, and exact locations of where to look. All of which he offered in a scif in accordance with the requirements of his clearance level. As soon as they get approved for the scif, then they'll see very quickly if he was full of shit or not.

If there are others with more direct knowledge and they are willing to testify, then why did Congress call on this guy? The smell here is off.

Are you seriously asking why they didn't immediately have every bit of information and then immediately act on it? These things take time. There are very specific procedures that have to be followed.
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