3 ms·

It’s amazing how more and more organizations are stating this is a real thing and every time detractors have a spin because they don’t want to have been wrong c

It’s amazing how more and more organizations are stating this is a real thing and every time detractors have a spin because they don’t want to have been wrong claiming everyone who was interested in UFOs was a batshit conspiracy theorist.

empyrrhicist 3y ago
Incorrect - I 100% believe that UAP are real phenomena, and that there are strong military and science cases for investigating them. I am annoyed at all the enthusiastic people actively presuming that it's aliens. Like... that's in no way a reasonable null assumption, and until strong evidence shows otherwise it's actively harmful and counterproductive. Meanwhile it's a substantial moneymaker for a lot of people, which is still more grating.
- empath-nirvana 3y ago
  It's just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps anything you can't explain must be aliens.
mcpackieh 3y ago
> It’s amazing how more and more organizations are stating this is a real thing It's amazing how exaggerated claims like that are. When you try to track down these organizations saying "ayy lmaos are real" you actually come up with organizations saying things like "the video is real" (and incidentally, shows an airliner 30 miles away) or "there are UAP" (translation: "It's an areal phenomena that we can't identify because the video quality is shit, and we certainly don't have any reason to conclude that it's aliens but we're going to call it a UAP because that's literally what it is.") The direct claims of it being aliens are all coming from obviously batshit kooks repeating things they claim they heard other people say. e.g. David Grusch.
empath-nirvana 3y ago
> this is a real thing This is sort of a contentless phrase unless you specify what "this" is in some detail.

3 ms·

It’s amazing how more and more organizations are stating this is a real thing and every time detractors have a spin because they don’t want to have been wrong c

by edgyquant 3y ago

empyrrhicist 3y ago
Incorrect - I 100% believe that UAP are real phenomena, and that there are strong military and science cases for investigating them. I am annoyed at all the enthusiastic people actively presuming that it's aliens. Like... that's in no way a reasonable null assumption, and until strong evidence shows otherwise it's actively harmful and counterproductive. Meanwhile it's a substantial moneymaker for a lot of people, which is still more grating.
- empath-nirvana 3y ago
  It's just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps anything you can't explain must be aliens.
mcpackieh 3y ago
> It’s amazing how more and more organizations are stating this is a real thing It's amazing how exaggerated claims like that are. When you try to track down these organizations saying "ayy lmaos are real" you actually come up with organizations saying things like "the video is real" (and incidentally, shows an airliner 30 miles away) or "there are UAP" (translation: "It's an areal phenomena that we can't identify because the video quality is shit, and we certainly don't have any reason to conclude that it's aliens but we're going to call it a UAP because that's literally what it is.") The direct claims of it being aliens are all coming from obviously batshit kooks repeating things they claim they heard other people say. e.g. David Grusch.
empath-nirvana 3y ago
> this is a real thing This is sort of a contentless phrase unless you specify what "this" is in some detail.