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I once tried to take a picture of a deer, that I saw running away from me and hiding behind a tree. I knew perfectly well were it was, in which direction it wou

I once tried to take a picture of a deer, that I saw running away from me and hiding behind a tree. I knew perfectly well were it was, in which direction it would go, and had enough time to set my phone's camera properly. And yet, thanks to a slow auto-focus and low light, my pictures ended up a blurry, unrecognizable mess. Not even I would believe my story. I gained a lot of respect that day for people who claim to have seen something and yet have no evidence other than blurry, shaky films. If I couldn't do it under perfect conditions, I don't expect a random guy to become all of a sudden a great photographer. In fact, if I wanted to get a picture of a plane right now, with the equipment I have at hand, it would be barely more than a small, dark spot. I don't know whether UFOs are real (and, even if they are, if they really are aliens and not weird, unknown airplane prototypes). But the lack of HD footage would not be on my top list of reasons against it.

chronic193 9y ago
We have a god damn piece of metal on Mars and it can send back HD self-portraits. Seeing is believing.
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valuearb 9y ago
Intelligent Aliens aren’t deer, anyone who has mastered interstellar travel are closer to god’s in terms of the power they’d have over us. No need to hide, and probably impossible to hide their massive power sources.
- frankquist 9y ago
  I am quite skeptical of this having to do anything with aliens, but the "they wouldn't need to hide angle" confounds me. It acts like the only motivation in an interspecies relationship would be minimizing vulnerability. The more vulnerable species would need to hide, the less vulnerable one wouldn't. Is this genuinely the only motivation possible? I'd say that's a lack of imagination. Scientists exploring animal species also often don't want to disturb their research subject, to avoid changing their behavior. An alien species might have a nonintervention clause akin to Starfleet. Perhaps even, a certain property of one of our technologies or our culture is somehow dangerous to another species, who might have a philosophical disinclination towards conflict and thus they do not want to disturb us. Perhaps their gear doesn't have much of a defense system given someone decided to cut some budget somewhere. Employ a little imagination! It's probably all bunk but it's way more fun to look at news like this that way.
- sumedh 9y ago
  > No need to hide Maybe they dont want make contact with a primitive species?
  - valuearb 9y ago
    Why would they care? We don’t hide from ants.
    - sumedh 9y ago
      Do ants have nuclear weapons?
      - valuearb 9y ago
        Tbe amount of power needed to travel here from a nearby star in any reasonable time is equivalent to detonating a nuclear bomb every few seconds. It would be like us being afraid of a civilization that had just discovered gunpowder.
        sumedh 9y ago
        They won't be afraid of us, they probably don't want us to do something crazy like trying to use the nuclear weapons against them and hurt earth(humans) in the process.
lgas 9y ago
This could explain some (even many) cases of being unable to capture evidence, but it would not explain no one ever being able to capture any meaningful decisive evidence.

chronic193 9y ago

We have a god damn piece of metal on Mars and it can send back HD self-portraits. Seeing is believing.

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valuearb 9y ago

Intelligent Aliens aren’t deer, anyone who has mastered interstellar travel are closer to god’s in terms of the power they’d have over us. No need to hide, and probably impossible to hide their massive power sources.

frankquist 9y ago
I am quite skeptical of this having to do anything with aliens, but the "they wouldn't need to hide angle" confounds me. It acts like the only motivation in an interspecies relationship would be minimizing vulnerability. The more vulnerable species would need to hide, the less vulnerable one wouldn't. Is this genuinely the only motivation possible? I'd say that's a lack of imagination. Scientists exploring animal species also often don't want to disturb their research subject, to avoid changing their behavior. An alien species might have a nonintervention clause akin to Starfleet. Perhaps even, a certain property of one of our technologies or our culture is somehow dangerous to another species, who might have a philosophical disinclination towards conflict and thus they do not want to disturb us. Perhaps their gear doesn't have much of a defense system given someone decided to cut some budget somewhere. Employ a little imagination! It's probably all bunk but it's way more fun to look at news like this that way.
sumedh 9y ago
> No need to hide Maybe they dont want make contact with a primitive species?
- valuearb 9y ago
  Why would they care? We don’t hide from ants.
  - sumedh 9y ago
    Do ants have nuclear weapons?
    - valuearb 9y ago
      Tbe amount of power needed to travel here from a nearby star in any reasonable time is equivalent to detonating a nuclear bomb every few seconds. It would be like us being afraid of a civilization that had just discovered gunpowder.
      - sumedh 9y ago
        They won't be afraid of us, they probably don't want us to do something crazy like trying to use the nuclear weapons against them and hurt earth(humans) in the process.

lgas 9y ago

This could explain some (even many) cases of being unable to capture evidence, but it would not explain no one ever being able to capture any meaningful decisive evidence.