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I do like this as a likely explanation for the majority of UFO events. However, I'll continue to argue that the main evidence against extra terrestrial explana
by kypro 3y ago
I do like this as a likely explanation for the majority of UFO events.
However, I'll continue to argue that the main evidence against extra terrestrial explanations for UFOs is how the creditability of sightings always seem to depend on first accepting that extra terrestrials are intergalactic trolls.
"It was playing with us that's why we couldn't get a good shot". "They have been interfering with technology at military bases for years". "They show up on our radar then they disappeared". "They lit up the night sky then sped off".
- marcus0x62 3y agoYeah. These all seem like things a peer-ish human adversary might want to do - if only to see what they could get away with - rather than a vastly more sophisticated alien race capable of interstellar travel.
- bell-cot 3y agoYeah. And note that the military is heavily optimized (people, procedures, training, equipment, you name it) for dealing with peer-ish human adversaries, and things which such adversaries might try to get away with. If your day job is at the nail factory, then you may not be the best judge of those pointy things growing on hawthorn trees.
- belter 3y agohttps://xkcd.com/2572/ https://xkcd.com/2572/
- throwaway60607 3y agoWhy trolls? Maybe they just want to learn about us. I don't see the reason to assume they have godlike sensors with unlimited range - they need to come closer to see detail. Them being able to travel here doesn't imply they have significantly better technology than we do - it just means they had more time, perhaps their civilization is older than ours. 100k years older would be enough to send out a probe from some nearby stars. 1M years older would be enough to travel from thousands of not-so-nearby stars around.