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> 3. In May we find out apparently our government has recovered alien technologies This is a silly thing to include on the list since it doesn't seem to be tru
by JamisonM 3y ago
> 3. In May we find out apparently our government has recovered alien technologies
This is a silly thing to include on the list since it doesn't seem to be true?
- ceejayoz 3y agoThus proving the parent post’s “credulity” point.
- xtracto 3y agoWhat's up with that uh? I read about the swore statements during the depositions, and all the mainstream media news, but for some reason HN had radio silence. Is there something I missed that shows it's all shenanigans?
- xorbax 3y agoThey (1) claim not to know what the craft are, which somebody told him contained (2) nonhuman biological whatever It could be a Chinese drone with rat-cell-on-a-chip inside it The guy's testimony was that somebody told him stuff and it seemed scary. Congress made a dog and pony show that a significant chunk of people attended. Parse the details, not the overarching fantasy. The government admitted to doing this in the 70s-90s to keep not-so-strange technology hidden behind The Strange. Trim with Occam. The ticTac videos aren't interesting if you look at the limitations of perspective and remember that Air Force pilots aren't supreme authorities for objectively assessing parallax and assigning airspeed to all moving objects while flying a fucking cracker attached to a rocket.
- tanseydavid 3y ago>> and remember that Air Force pilots aren't supreme authorities for objectively assessing parallax and assigning airspeed to all moving objects while flying a fucking cracker attached to a rocket. They don't need to be "supreme authorities" on anything -- they have insane technology acting as their eyes and as their objective measuring and tracking systems.
- mannerheim 3y agoThe technology itself in the 'Go Fast' video shows the object isn't moving fast. The distance from the object and the direction of the camera are available in the video, and using this you can calculate the altitude and speed of the object in question. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLyEO0jNt6M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLyEO0jNt6M
- postalrat 3y agoYou can calculate it to go many speeds depending on what assumptions are made. Just because mick west shows something is possible doesn't prove what's in the video.
- mannerheim 3y ago1) There's a range of speeds that are possible depending on what you assume the turning angle of the jet was. That range doesn't go anywhere close to the speed of sound. 2) The burden of proof is on those who make an extraordinary claim. There is a perfectly mundane explanation of the cause of apparently fast-moving object which is supported by available evidence. Even if that depends on some assumptions, you would have to demonstrate those assumptions to be false before a less likely alternative, i.e., that it was an extraterrestrial spacecraft, should be adopted.
- postalrat 3y agoA perfectly mundane explanation isn't proof. There isn't enough evidence in this case to prove it one way or another. That should be acceptable but for many people it isn't.
- ceejayoz 3y agoIn that situation, though, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot applies, as we can’t prove the negative.
- TuringTourist 3y agoSworn statements with no evidence don't merit much scrutiny. Especially when it comes to extraordinary claims.
- zarzavat 3y agoPics or it didn’t happen. After years of claimed room temp superconductors people believed this one because it had a video of a floating rock. Aliens are an even more extraordinary claim, I’m going to need multiple close up videos before I even start to care.
- oneshtein 3y agoYou can find many nice pictures of aliens on StableDiffusion channel on Reddit. You can also ask for video.
- ewoodrich 3y agoPeople say a lot of things in sworn testimony to Congress. It's a data point but not a particularly strong one.
- ceejayoz 3y agoIn this specific case, they were also pretty squirrely on the details. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/are-5-memorable-moments-congress-ufo-hearing-rcna96476 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/are-5-memorable-mo... > Asked by Rep. Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla., how such a program is funded, Grusch claimed that the effort is "above congressional oversight" and bankrolled by a "misappropriation of funds." > "Does that mean that there is money in the budget that is set to go to a program but it doesn't and it goes to something else?," Moskowitz asked. > "Yes. I have specific knowledge of that," Grusch said, though he did not provide more details, claiming the information remains classified. The chances of "we have aliens" being unclassified, but the exact details being classified... is fairly slim.
- qwertox 3y ago"A friend of a friend told me, I swear".
- golol 3y ago100% chance the guy is just lieing for attention or because he is delusional. He said that UFOs could be coming from extra dimensions. He might as well say that the UFOs are coming from atlantis or the second circle of hell. It's just horseshit, plain as.
- yreg 3y ago> UFOs could be coming from extra dimensions I somehow find this perhaps more believable than the alternatives of (1) civs out there having FTL and not colonizing the Galaxy to the degree that we would detect it or (2) them coming here at sublight speeds to do the described UFO things.
- golol 3y agoI think the sad reality is that indeed (1) and (2) are extremely unlikely and that doesn't mean that extra dimensions is more likely. Extra dimensions is just even less likely.
- emptyfile 3y ago[dead]
- stevenhuang 3y agoBeen following the topic for many years. TLDR is, we need to wait and see for real evidence to be revealed. It may well be all true.