Discovery of spherules of likely extrasolar composition in the Pacific Ocean [pdf]

Post by srge » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 4:54 AM UTC

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Thanks for pointing that out! What are your thoughts on the latest UFO congressional hearing? Do you think these people just turned their careers and image to shambles because they just wanted some sensationalism or do you give people any benefit of the doubt?

Some things to keep in mind about these UFO hearings: 1. The reports are all second- and third- hand. To my knowledge, no DoD employee has testified to anybody in Congress that they personally witnessed extraterrestrial technology or "biologics". 2. The exception here is a "Jonathan Grey", who hasn't testified before Congress, or, for that matter, been identified; he's one of David Grusch's sources, under a pseudonym…

Post by defrost » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 4:59 AM UTC

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Linus Pauling is another example. The only person to ever receive two unshared Nobel prizes, considered one of the top 20 scientists of all time, and he was a huge proponent of megavitamin pseudoscience.

"Nobel prize winner and superior neurosurgeon criticized as quacks by two internet users" Perhaps the reason they could stretch their domain expertise so far was precisely because they kept their mind open. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Einstein

Post by spondylosaurus » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 5:01 AM UTC

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I always think about how Ben Carson was one of the most skilled (if not the most skilled) neurosurgeons in the world, so knowledgeable about the human brain and so deft at operating on it that he was able to separate conjoined twins in a then-unprecedented procedure... and is also a creationist who believes that the Egyptian pyramids were biblical grain silos.

>> that he was able to separate conjoined twins in a then-unprecedented procedure... Didn’t the twins like. Die? This is always brought up. Ben Carson separating twins. But like. They died. Multiple sets of conjoined people he operated on died I think. Why do people always bring this up without mentioning that the twins died To the best of my knowledge Ben Carson is and always has been a giant self aggrandizing douch…

Post by Jerrrry » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 5:05 AM UTC

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Whether or not other formations of molecules, Carbon(organic-based), Silicon, or otherwise similar elements of modest combinational reactive potential (Germanium?), outside of our planetary gravity well, have managed to arrange themselves -- despite increasing entropy, yet due to gravity itself -- in a manner of complexity large enough (in magnitudes) that, as an emergent property of its own existence, has given rise…

Are you suggesting that there aren't lots of astrophysicists (and, ffs, astrobiologists) studying this already? SETI is a thing!

Post by defrost » Wed, Aug 30, 2023, 5:10 AM UTC

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Do please try and avoid (deliberate?) bad paraphrasing. Both were widely recognised as more than a bit kooky outside of their core strengths. "When a mind is opened that far, the brain often falls out." - Tim Minchin.

You are making exactly the same point I was making. * sans the quote from a random comedian