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Oddly long winded semantic argument about the literal definition of Unidentified Flying Objects. Yes, they're unidentified, yes, they're hard to see which is wh
by oldstrangers 3y ago
Oddly long winded semantic argument about the literal definition of Unidentified Flying Objects. Yes, they're unidentified, yes, they're hard to see which is why they're unidentified.
- dwhitney 3y agoYeah but more importantly the post suggests there are likely terrestrial explanations which obey the laws of physics as we understand them contrary to what's been depicted in the media recently. I want to believe, but I agree with the author of the post that we need to see some evidence that's outside of the "Low Information Zone"
- ninkendo 3y agoThe YouTube video on the UFO parallax illusion was particularly illuminating for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYqVa59VRRc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYqVa59VRRc
- oldstrangers 3y agoThere's always been possible terrestrial explanations, but those explanations are as concerning (if not more concerning) than actual aliens, which is why these things remain so compelling.
- bananapub 3y ago> but those explanations are as concerning (if not more concerning) than actual aliens did you not read the article? what is "concerning" about "relatively high object doing 50 knots in one direction like a bird or a balloon"?
- oldstrangers 3y agoThis article isn't even accounting for all the UAP information that has come out in the last 2 years.
- Analemma_ 3y agoDid we read the same post? That was not at all my takeaway. The post was actually about "cameras have a range of effective identification, UFOs 'just so happen' to be always just outside this range even after it has expanded, the likeliest explanation for this coincidence is that they are not alien spaceships."
- oldstrangers 3y agoWhich means you cant identify them, which makes them unidentified, regardless of why. Calling it a Low Information Zone doesn't really satisfy anything, outside of a new designation for something we can't identify. We've solved nothing outside of adding a semantic qualifier.
- George83728 3y agoSomething being unidentifiable doesn't necessarily mean that it's in the LIZ. It could be a real alien space ship, clearly viewed from close up with of information and detail, but nevertheless unidentified because it's not from this planet. But none of the videos are like that. They're all from the LIZ, and the most likely explanation for this 'coincidence' is: they're unidentifiable because they're in the LIZ.
- oldstrangers 3y agoThe "LIZ" also doesn't really exist. There's no quantifiable way to measure it outside of just agreeing that something is hard to make out. Some of these newer videos are well within the range of whatever the camera's capability is. Targeting systems also don't have "Low Information Zones" for known objects. They enter a "Low Information Zone" when the craft they're targeting starts doing things that are unexplainable. Is the craft creating the LIZ in that case?
- George83728 3y agoNone of the Navy videos depict anything clearly. That's not a coincidence.
- Gunax 3y agoI actually thought it was a very astute observation. Something could be very close and still be unknown, eg. a secret model of plane, or new weather phenomenon. Reading between the lines, his point is that it's unlikely that ET only flys in people's LIZ.
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- detrites 3y agoThis seems like a bad take. If aliens can traverse lightspeed distances with sufficient ease to stop here, it seems trivial they'd also be able to analyse comparatively primitive sensor technology and navigate out of range to avoid identification.
- jamilton 3y agoBut they wouldn't go a little further to avoid being seen at all?
- oldstrangers 3y agoMaybe they are, and we're just catching glimpses of the ones that slip through the proverbial cracks?
- ChainOfFools 3y agogod of the gaps, but for aliens.
- infradig 3y agoYet moving out of range of Person A with camera never seems to move them closer to Person B with camera. How's that work?
- detrites 3y ago