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I still yet to hear anything close to a plausible explanation of the situation. We have super advanced alien species who can travel across the galaxy, or even t

I still yet to hear anything close to a plausible explanation of the situation. We have super advanced alien species who can travel across the galaxy, or even the universe, and they have found us. They watch over us and even though their technology is beyond our comprehension, they're lazy enough to get caught a few times here and there. Why would they just watch? Are they really that lazy that they get caught? Surely they know and understand our capabilities. It just doesn't make sense. People are seeing things that they can't explain. That warrants investigation. Definitive statements about how these are not human seem motivated by ideology instead of evidence. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If that evidence is presented I'm happy to change my mind here, but none of this ever adds up.

Ancalagon 2y ago
> Are they really that lazy that they get caught? One word: teenagers.
- griomnib 2y ago
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- thinkingtoilet 2y ago
  I'm not even joking, this is literally the most plausible explanation I've ever heard.
maxglute 2y ago
If we're ants/microbes to them, why wouldn't they just watch? Maybe UFOs are some interstellar view-master for alien kids. Maybe Earth/humanity is just boring, deepintoyoutube tier civilization without a lot of views, so objects pop in once in a while for a peek. All the cool alien kids are busy creeping on more viral civilizations.
ultimafan 2y ago
Maybe it's a Sentinel Island sort of situation. The technology gap is vast, we've had ships wreck there or unauthorized visitors approach the island but though they attacked them both we've left them alone and haven't attempted to recover any of the "modern technology" that's abandoned there.
- alganet 2y ago
  The Sentinelese are super close to us. They're hunter-gatherers, we were living like that practically yesterday (20k~30k years ago). Same genetics, same culture, just a little bit isolated. By the way, we have no idea what the Sentinelese think of us or our technology. We don't know if they see it as more advanced or not, or how they perceive our presence. The only thing we know is that they're hostile towards visitors.
distracted_boy 2y ago
To be fair, it sounds like you have no knowledge about the history of UAPs. Sightings, crashes and encounters did not start 1947, it goes back hundreds of years and even thousands of years depending on how one interprets the data. We have extraordinary evidence, this is what is being presented right now, among other things. > [...] they're lazy enough to get caught a few times here and there. Why would they just watch? Are they really that lazy that they get caught? Surely they know and understand our capabilities. It just doesn't make sense. Yes, this line of thinking has been presented countless times. I believe everyone's first argument against UAPs or non human intelligence (NHI) is exactly this. There are numerous possible answers to this question, for example: * The crashed ships are "gifts" for us to examine and learn from * Sightings and encounters represent the tip of an iceberg, drawing us in to explore to and learn. * We can create amazing things, sometimes our amazing things break for whatever reason, perhaps that is universal. * Perhaps what we are witnessing is not NHI specifically visiting us, instead it is a consequence of how the ship moves through space. Perhaps the ships move in and out from what we perceive is our existence, while moving through space. Point is; the history of UAP is ancient, the documentation and data is statistically significant, the disinformation campaign is insidious and the encounters are world wide. My suggestion is just to keep an open mind.
- alganet 2y ago
  "depending on how one interprets the data" I don't want to keep an open mind when interpreting data. What I want is the exact opposite. So, yeah. "I want to believe", but I don't want to have to bend my critical thinking in order to do so.
hindsightbias 2y ago
It has to be aliens, because they're always blurry regardless of caveman drawings or flying through the most highly instrumented Naval _Test_ Range on the planet. > ever adds up They're even capable of changing our reasoning and math: 1+1=Aliens!

Ancalagon 2y ago

> Are they really that lazy that they get caught? One word: teenagers.

griomnib 2y ago
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thinkingtoilet 2y ago
I'm not even joking, this is literally the most plausible explanation I've ever heard.

maxglute 2y ago

If we're ants/microbes to them, why wouldn't they just watch? Maybe UFOs are some interstellar view-master for alien kids. Maybe Earth/humanity is just boring, deepintoyoutube tier civilization without a lot of views, so objects pop in once in a while for a peek. All the cool alien kids are busy creeping on more viral civilizations.

ultimafan 2y ago

Maybe it's a Sentinel Island sort of situation. The technology gap is vast, we've had ships wreck there or unauthorized visitors approach the island but though they attacked them both we've left them alone and haven't attempted to recover any of the "modern technology" that's abandoned there.

alganet 2y ago
The Sentinelese are super close to us. They're hunter-gatherers, we were living like that practically yesterday (20k~30k years ago). Same genetics, same culture, just a little bit isolated. By the way, we have no idea what the Sentinelese think of us or our technology. We don't know if they see it as more advanced or not, or how they perceive our presence. The only thing we know is that they're hostile towards visitors.

distracted_boy 2y ago

To be fair, it sounds like you have no knowledge about the history of UAPs. Sightings, crashes and encounters did not start 1947, it goes back hundreds of years and even thousands of years depending on how one interprets the data. We have extraordinary evidence, this is what is being presented right now, among other things. > [...] they're lazy enough to get caught a few times here and there. Why would they just watch? Are they really that lazy that they get caught? Surely they know and understand our capabilities. It just doesn't make sense. Yes, this line of thinking has been presented countless times. I believe everyone's first argument against UAPs or non human intelligence (NHI) is exactly this. There are numerous possible answers to this question, for example: * The crashed ships are "gifts" for us to examine and learn from * Sightings and encounters represent the tip of an iceberg, drawing us in to explore to and learn. * We can create amazing things, sometimes our amazing things break for whatever reason, perhaps that is universal. * Perhaps what we are witnessing is not NHI specifically visiting us, instead it is a consequence of how the ship moves through space. Perhaps the ships move in and out from what we perceive is our existence, while moving through space. Point is; the history of UAP is ancient, the documentation and data is statistically significant, the disinformation campaign is insidious and the encounters are world wide. My suggestion is just to keep an open mind.

alganet 2y ago
"depending on how one interprets the data" I don't want to keep an open mind when interpreting data. What I want is the exact opposite. So, yeah. "I want to believe", but I don't want to have to bend my critical thinking in order to do so.

hindsightbias 2y ago

It has to be aliens, because they're always blurry regardless of caveman drawings or flying through the most highly instrumented Naval _Test_ Range on the planet. > ever adds up They're even capable of changing our reasoning and math: 1+1=Aliens!