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I admit that the recent UFO <-> Navy <-> Pentagon special UFO division leaks and news can't be easily be dismissed like the usual history channel UFO stuff; Bu

I admit that the recent UFO <-> Navy <-> Pentagon special UFO division leaks and news can't be easily be dismissed like the usual history channel UFO stuff; But, what's intriguing to me as a non-American is while NASA is spending Billions exploring space, Millions directly into trying to find evidence of life, so much so that a possible evidence of a gas which could only be generated through biological process from microbes could be considered greatest scientific discovery. So attributing these UFO to Aliens doesn't make any sense to me. If not anything, America cares about its money right?

lwansbrough 6y ago
To counter: What is more valuable than building its most advanced technology in secret, where it can’t be stolen?
mattnewton 6y ago
Americans care about their private money. Public money is other people's money, and there are books, movies and entire college courses on the subject of Americans spending public funds unwisely.
- tt433 6y ago
  We're just as good at spending our private money badly, really
andrewflnr 6y ago
The government's hands don't all talk to each other, especially when there's classified data involved. Duplication of effort is unavoidable. It's very plausible that a military organization would keep a basically civilian organization in the dark on this.
pp19dd 6y ago
For what it's worth regarding working at cross-purposes, most people anywhere tend to generally think of U.S. government agencies as these very focused monolithic hives filled with people who are mostly all on the same page. But same as you described the discrepancy between different agencies' priorities, in reality, they're all largely fragmented as individual entities as well. With little fiefdoms here, little fiefdoms there, budget battles, pet projects, clawing of funds, burrowing. Agencies are held together by two things - a dusty org chart that's drifted far away from reality long ago, and procedural stuff like budgeting and delegation of authority that just has to be observed. Between duplicative functions performed by competing departments and counterproductive internal priorities that reflect the coteries they come from, IMO, not that dissimilar from larger established private companies.
polytely 6y ago
Have you ever read that story about the NRO just donating two spare spy satellites to NASA, which are basically superior to the Hubble telescope? I feel like the US military has orders of magnitude more money and material compared to NASA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_Office_space_telescope_donation_to_NASA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_O... I think there are probably a couple of technologies that are only used in rare occasions, like how we first learned of the cool stealth helicopters because one crashed during the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound.
- nolroz 6y ago
  I've been wondering what ever happened to those telescopes. Were they used as parts? Are they going to launch them?
deeeeplearning 6y ago
It just doesn't make sense for Aliens to be visiting us in this way. If you have the ability to traverse the Galaxy or Universe then surely you can also stay undetected by our comparatively pathetic technology. At the same time their mere existence would imply the Universe is probably full of intelligent life and why would they be particularly interested in naked apes who can't even agree about simple scientific facts? We're made of meat after all. The only explanation is that they would be conducting a psychological experiment on humanity and we'd better hope they don't decide to end it early.
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lwansbrough 6y ago

To counter: What is more valuable than building its most advanced technology in secret, where it can’t be stolen?

mattnewton 6y ago

Americans care about their private money. Public money is other people's money, and there are books, movies and entire college courses on the subject of Americans spending public funds unwisely.

tt433 6y ago
We're just as good at spending our private money badly, really

andrewflnr 6y ago

The government's hands don't all talk to each other, especially when there's classified data involved. Duplication of effort is unavoidable. It's very plausible that a military organization would keep a basically civilian organization in the dark on this.

pp19dd 6y ago

For what it's worth regarding working at cross-purposes, most people anywhere tend to generally think of U.S. government agencies as these very focused monolithic hives filled with people who are mostly all on the same page. But same as you described the discrepancy between different agencies' priorities, in reality, they're all largely fragmented as individual entities as well. With little fiefdoms here, little fiefdoms there, budget battles, pet projects, clawing of funds, burrowing. Agencies are held together by two things - a dusty org chart that's drifted far away from reality long ago, and procedural stuff like budgeting and delegation of authority that just has to be observed. Between duplicative functions performed by competing departments and counterproductive internal priorities that reflect the coteries they come from, IMO, not that dissimilar from larger established private companies.

polytely 6y ago

Have you ever read that story about the NRO just donating two spare spy satellites to NASA, which are basically superior to the Hubble telescope? I feel like the US military has orders of magnitude more money and material compared to NASA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_Office_space_telescope_donation_to_NASA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_O... I think there are probably a couple of technologies that are only used in rare occasions, like how we first learned of the cool stealth helicopters because one crashed during the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound.

nolroz 6y ago
I've been wondering what ever happened to those telescopes. Were they used as parts? Are they going to launch them?

deeeeplearning 6y ago

It just doesn't make sense for Aliens to be visiting us in this way. If you have the ability to traverse the Galaxy or Universe then surely you can also stay undetected by our comparatively pathetic technology. At the same time their mere existence would imply the Universe is probably full of intelligent life and why would they be particularly interested in naked apes who can't even agree about simple scientific facts? We're made of meat after all. The only explanation is that they would be conducting a psychological experiment on humanity and we'd better hope they don't decide to end it early.

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