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Have aliens invaded and we just don’t know about it, the government holding them off lowkey? Edit: Now China’s shooting them down! https://www.forbes.com/sites

Have aliens invaded and we just don’t know about it, the government holding them off lowkey? Edit: Now China’s shooting them down! https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/02/12/china-says-its-preparing-to-shoot-down-unidentified-flying-object-near-yellow-sea/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/02/12/china-says...

codenesium 4y ago
An undersea civilization is exploring the air world.
- madspindel 4y ago
  https://youtu.be/dfPfPB601hw https://youtu.be/dfPfPB601hw
  - triyambakam 4y ago
    Wow, excellent. I hadn't known about Graham Hancock.
- iancmceachern 4y ago
  It's the Dolphins. So long and thanks for all the fish!
  - billiallards 4y ago
    They are cylindrical, grey, without apparent means of aerial propulsion, and prone to interfering with ultrasonic sensors... Most dolphins are smaller than a compact car, but I bet they would break apart upon impact with a frozen sea after dropping out of the sky. This might be the correct answer.
    - thrill 4y ago
      Yeah, but they travel in pods of 42.
luxuryballs 4y ago
even better, it’s staged! https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xx2ris https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xx2ris
- kilroy123 4y ago
  Never seen this before. I've always thought this was the case... As Sun Tzu says, "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak."
HL33tibCe7 4y ago
> That balloon’s journey set off a huge debate within the U.S. about why it wasn’t shot down earlier, with Republicans arguing President Donald Trump never would’ve allowed such a thing to happen. Except that it did, many times, including over sensitive military facilities in Virginia and California. There’s something hilarious about the idea that, if this was the start of an alien invasion, our journalists and politicians started off the coverage not being curious about what on Earth these objects were, but instead slinging political slime at each other
- bitL 4y ago
  Don't look up!
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hnthrowaway0315 4y ago
Didn't expect to dive into xcom timeline right now...do I need to buy some guns to defend against aliens? I mean at least you can hurt them by guns in the game.
gsatic 4y ago
People have forgotten 20 years ago the US intercepted Iraqi aluminium tubes. They are fully capable of detecting what ever they want to imagine. And these days American imagination is purely restricted to what collects Likes and upvotes.
- SteveNuts 4y ago
  What do you mean by this?
  - geysersam 4y ago
    Probably the fake WMDs motivating the Iraq war.
oneoff786 4y ago
People need to understand that if you’re being attacked by a FTL capable alien invader, you are so incredibly f**ed that it just does not matter. People don’t write popular sci fi novels about realistic alien invasions because they would be so utterly one sided and brief that it simply wouldn’t make a good story.
- GalenErso 4y ago
  I liked Titan A.E.'s take on that. An alien race (the Drej) attack and destroy the Earth and the Moon, while simultaneously attacking evacuation shuttles. Most of humanity is wiped out in mere minutes. No silver lining. No happy ending at this stage. What's left of humanity is slowly dying in drifter colonies scattered around the galaxy. It takes a miracle, the Titan project, for humanity to be given a new hope again.
- phpisthebest 4y ago
  I am sorry, if the Aliens are invading we will just have ChatGPT upload a virus to their system while at the same time we fly one on of their space planes with a nuke to take out their mother ship
  - rcurry 4y ago
    And, fortunately, the hero’s MacBook Pro will use the same graphics card as the alien mothership, so we’ll display a jolly Roger on their screens right before we set off the nuke.
  - moomoo11 4y ago
    Or it’s a node js program and they’re not able to download all the dependencies to counter it so they have to make a parley with us because the only way to stop it is to come to earth and download
- rcurry 4y ago
  I forget the name of the TV series but there was a great show where aliens had occupied earth and the drones were just completely lethal and unstoppable. It was very realistic, the machines would just show up and instantly frag everyone in sight. The story was about a cop who ended up working for the alien occupiers, I wish I could remember the name of the show.
scruple 4y ago
Maybe some von Neumann probes have wandered into our solar system.
jansan 4y ago
Reagan said in his speach in front of the United Nations: "Our differences would vanish, if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAAHgAuti84 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAAHgAuti84 Also, in the Watchman comic the world is made believe in an alien invasion to bring world peace (the ending is different in the move). So let's hope that if these are (real of fake) aliens, the result will be a more peaceful world.
- revscat 4y ago
  > our differences would vanish I wish that I could believe this. We have all seen the deleterious effect of Q and Fox News, and the zeal that goes along with them. At this point I believe that there are those who are so far gone into the partisan abyss that they would rather collaborate with alien invaders than with their fellow countrymen, if those countrymen were Democrats.
shusaku 4y ago
I want to read more comments like this, there seems to be a very clear trend to frame this like an alien invasion. It’s unnerving, even if it’s just click bait driving the narrative…
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codenesium 4y ago

An undersea civilization is exploring the air world.

madspindel 4y ago
https://youtu.be/dfPfPB601hw https://youtu.be/dfPfPB601hw
- triyambakam 4y ago
  Wow, excellent. I hadn't known about Graham Hancock.
iancmceachern 4y ago
It's the Dolphins. So long and thanks for all the fish!
- billiallards 4y ago
  They are cylindrical, grey, without apparent means of aerial propulsion, and prone to interfering with ultrasonic sensors... Most dolphins are smaller than a compact car, but I bet they would break apart upon impact with a frozen sea after dropping out of the sky. This might be the correct answer.
  - thrill 4y ago
    Yeah, but they travel in pods of 42.

luxuryballs 4y ago

even better, it’s staged! https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xx2ris https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xx2ris

kilroy123 4y ago
Never seen this before. I've always thought this was the case... As Sun Tzu says, "Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak."

HL33tibCe7 4y ago

> That balloon’s journey set off a huge debate within the U.S. about why it wasn’t shot down earlier, with Republicans arguing President Donald Trump never would’ve allowed such a thing to happen. Except that it did, many times, including over sensitive military facilities in Virginia and California. There’s something hilarious about the idea that, if this was the start of an alien invasion, our journalists and politicians started off the coverage not being curious about what on Earth these objects were, but instead slinging political slime at each other

bitL 4y ago
Don't look up!

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hnthrowaway0315 4y ago

Didn't expect to dive into xcom timeline right now...do I need to buy some guns to defend against aliens? I mean at least you can hurt them by guns in the game.

gsatic 4y ago

People have forgotten 20 years ago the US intercepted Iraqi aluminium tubes. They are fully capable of detecting what ever they want to imagine. And these days American imagination is purely restricted to what collects Likes and upvotes.

SteveNuts 4y ago
What do you mean by this?
- geysersam 4y ago
  Probably the fake WMDs motivating the Iraq war.

oneoff786 4y ago

People need to understand that if you’re being attacked by a FTL capable alien invader, you are so incredibly f**ed that it just does not matter. People don’t write popular sci fi novels about realistic alien invasions because they would be so utterly one sided and brief that it simply wouldn’t make a good story.

GalenErso 4y ago
I liked Titan A.E.'s take on that. An alien race (the Drej) attack and destroy the Earth and the Moon, while simultaneously attacking evacuation shuttles. Most of humanity is wiped out in mere minutes. No silver lining. No happy ending at this stage. What's left of humanity is slowly dying in drifter colonies scattered around the galaxy. It takes a miracle, the Titan project, for humanity to be given a new hope again.
phpisthebest 4y ago
I am sorry, if the Aliens are invading we will just have ChatGPT upload a virus to their system while at the same time we fly one on of their space planes with a nuke to take out their mother ship
- rcurry 4y ago
  And, fortunately, the hero’s MacBook Pro will use the same graphics card as the alien mothership, so we’ll display a jolly Roger on their screens right before we set off the nuke.
- moomoo11 4y ago
  Or it’s a node js program and they’re not able to download all the dependencies to counter it so they have to make a parley with us because the only way to stop it is to come to earth and download
rcurry 4y ago
I forget the name of the TV series but there was a great show where aliens had occupied earth and the drones were just completely lethal and unstoppable. It was very realistic, the machines would just show up and instantly frag everyone in sight. The story was about a cop who ended up working for the alien occupiers, I wish I could remember the name of the show.

scruple 4y ago

Maybe some von Neumann probes have wandered into our solar system.

jansan 4y ago

Reagan said in his speach in front of the United Nations: "Our differences would vanish, if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAAHgAuti84 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAAHgAuti84 Also, in the Watchman comic the world is made believe in an alien invasion to bring world peace (the ending is different in the move). So let's hope that if these are (real of fake) aliens, the result will be a more peaceful world.

revscat 4y ago
> our differences would vanish I wish that I could believe this. We have all seen the deleterious effect of Q and Fox News, and the zeal that goes along with them. At this point I believe that there are those who are so far gone into the partisan abyss that they would rather collaborate with alien invaders than with their fellow countrymen, if those countrymen were Democrats.

shusaku 4y ago

I want to read more comments like this, there seems to be a very clear trend to frame this like an alien invasion. It’s unnerving, even if it’s just click bait driving the narrative…

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