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Yes I have. I posted about it in an unrelated article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18367198 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18367198 I’d make a co

by egfx 7y ago

Yes I have. I posted about it in an unrelated article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18367198 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18367198 I’d make a correction though. It was not as fast as a super fast bird but more akin to a lightning fast game of laser tag or air hokey. The weirdest thing is that for some reason it immediately impressed on me that this was technology.

rblion 7y ago
It's interesting for sure. It's a mystery. Could be intentional misdirection by the government, could be beings from another planet or dimension, could be something I can't even wrap my brain around.
- egfx 7y ago
  It could be silicon based life reassembling itself into a super computer. And maybe it has evolved to a point where it’s capable of exploring the outside world just as we have as humans. At least that’s my leading hypothesis. After all silicon is one of the most abundant material inside the crust. It worked on the surface for carbon based life. And I can’t imagine anything being able to travel here from interstellar space. https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/bringing-silicon-life-53049 https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/bringing-silicon-life-530...
- michaelmrose 7y ago
  It's arguable that beings from another world actually exist although we now know that absent almost surely impossible ftl getting here would be a tremendous effort rendering the supposition that explorers are just popping in quite silly. Far from improving the situation positing other dimensions which we have no proof exist, and beings that we have no proof even can exist seems to make the theory much weaker not stronger.
  - rblion 7y ago
    Our understanding of physics is still primitive compared to Type I, Type II, and Type III civilizations. Be humble.
    - michaelmrose 7y ago
      It's fairly reasonable that infinitely advanced civilizations will never have ftl travel.
  - gfodor 7y ago
    Not if they are unmanned subluminal probes that are really old and took thousands of years to get here. /pet theory
codesushi42 7y ago
Yes, because if you are unable to explain such phenomena, then surely it must be technological!

by egfx 7y ago

rblion 7y ago

It's interesting for sure. It's a mystery. Could be intentional misdirection by the government, could be beings from another planet or dimension, could be something I can't even wrap my brain around.

egfx 7y ago
It could be silicon based life reassembling itself into a super computer. And maybe it has evolved to a point where it’s capable of exploring the outside world just as we have as humans. At least that’s my leading hypothesis. After all silicon is one of the most abundant material inside the crust. It worked on the surface for carbon based life. And I can’t imagine anything being able to travel here from interstellar space. https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/bringing-silicon-life-53049 https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/bringing-silicon-life-530...
michaelmrose 7y ago
It's arguable that beings from another world actually exist although we now know that absent almost surely impossible ftl getting here would be a tremendous effort rendering the supposition that explorers are just popping in quite silly. Far from improving the situation positing other dimensions which we have no proof exist, and beings that we have no proof even can exist seems to make the theory much weaker not stronger.
- rblion 7y ago
  Our understanding of physics is still primitive compared to Type I, Type II, and Type III civilizations. Be humble.
  - michaelmrose 7y ago
    It's fairly reasonable that infinitely advanced civilizations will never have ftl travel.
- gfodor 7y ago
  Not if they are unmanned subluminal probes that are really old and took thousands of years to get here. /pet theory

codesushi42 7y ago

Yes, because if you are unable to explain such phenomena, then surely it must be technological!