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This reminds me of one of the recent “UFOs” that was debunked as a literal commercial plane, obscured by clouds or something along those lines. Racing drones c

by dangus 11mo ago

This reminds me of one of the recent “UFOs” that was debunked as a literal commercial plane, obscured by clouds or something along those lines. Racing drones can keep up with F1 cars and UFO people still think that there’s a conspiracy going on. Like, yeah, of course the military is trying to hide the capability of classified aircraft. That’s not interesting. UFO believers are such losers, just like ghost hunters. It’s mean to say it like that, but that’s the truth.

hcv76 11mo ago
You can say the same things about all religions. Its more about the architecture of the chimp brain defaulting to, manufacturing story as a hack, when it cant explain/predict or understand what it experiences. As philosopher Charles Taylor work has shown, the big shared stories of the chimp troupe (religions/ideologies etc) cant keep up with the rate of change, so chimp brains start searchimg for and latching on to what ever is available around them. And since the buffet table of available stories has exploded there is a splintering or lack of commonality in all stories. Every story looks silly to someone cuz they have already latched on to some other story. There are hard update limits to how frequently the brain can update a misguided story. Its just shit hardware architecture everyone has.
- dangus 11mo ago
  Yep, and as I pointed out in my other comment, 40% of Americans think some number of UFOs are alien craft. A huge number of people have really dumb opinions. So when you hear that some people in the military are also trying to repeat the same myths, you have to remember that they’re just a cross section of the public at large, and they certainly don’t all have clearance to know what’s going on with foreign adversaries’ espionage and military craft.
  - krapp 11mo ago
    Still waiting for David Grusch to come through with that paradigm shattering disclosure that will make fools of the skeptics and unbelievers. His integrity is above reproach, he can't simply be a liar, or have been lied to. Any day now.
- expedition32 11mo ago
  It reminds me of early 20th century Egyptologists who can dispassionately talk about Ra and Osiris but take Jesus seriously. Men of science who perfectly understand why religion exists but their mind just has a BOSD that prevents them from attaining atheism.
  - quantified 11mo ago
    BOSD? Or BSOD?
itsanaccount 11mo ago
I think Age of Disclosure is coming out. Might be interesting to watch if only to scratch your head about how many military and defense people are trying to convince people the opposite, that there are craft with extraordinary capabilities and they ARENT ours. I made fun of UFO people the same as I did the religious and bigfoot believers, but after the video in the Times in 2017, and all the military people who have come forward with roughly the same story.. I would very much like to know whats behind it.
- dangus 11mo ago
  Really isn’t going to be an interesting watch. People in the military saying this stuff doesn’t really change anything. People in the military are just a cross-section of the other morons that make up this country. Over 40% of Americans believe that some UFOs have been alien spacecraft according to Gallup. In other words, 40% of Americans are fucking morons. [1] How many people believe that the virgin Mary magically got pregnant without having sex? And that’s something we know is scientifically impossible, even more so than the wildly improbable phenomenon of an alien spacecraft visiting us. A whole bunch of people in the military believe the Virgin Mary was a virgin, too. https://news.gallup.com/poll/350096/americans-believe-ufos.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/350096/americans-believe-ufos.a... [1] This 30-40% number seems to also line up with a host of dumbass political opinions like being pro-authoritarianism. At any given point, around 30% of people in the world seem to be dumb as fuck.
  - itsanaccount 11mo ago
    As someone formerly a member of the the Center for Inquiry and still a believer in its mission, I understand what you're saying. I would still point you to, there is something to this. And theres not been any whistleblower mention of anything "visiting." What they report aligns with the most probable scenario that the things we're seeing are automated Von Neumann probes, most likely sitting at the bottom of the ocean, and they've probably been here a long time.

by dangus 11mo ago

hcv76 11mo ago

You can say the same things about all religions. Its more about the architecture of the chimp brain defaulting to, manufacturing story as a hack, when it cant explain/predict or understand what it experiences. As philosopher Charles Taylor work has shown, the big shared stories of the chimp troupe (religions/ideologies etc) cant keep up with the rate of change, so chimp brains start searchimg for and latching on to what ever is available around them. And since the buffet table of available stories has exploded there is a splintering or lack of commonality in all stories. Every story looks silly to someone cuz they have already latched on to some other story. There are hard update limits to how frequently the brain can update a misguided story. Its just shit hardware architecture everyone has.

dangus 11mo ago
Yep, and as I pointed out in my other comment, 40% of Americans think some number of UFOs are alien craft. A huge number of people have really dumb opinions. So when you hear that some people in the military are also trying to repeat the same myths, you have to remember that they’re just a cross section of the public at large, and they certainly don’t all have clearance to know what’s going on with foreign adversaries’ espionage and military craft.
- krapp 11mo ago
  Still waiting for David Grusch to come through with that paradigm shattering disclosure that will make fools of the skeptics and unbelievers. His integrity is above reproach, he can't simply be a liar, or have been lied to. Any day now.
expedition32 11mo ago
It reminds me of early 20th century Egyptologists who can dispassionately talk about Ra and Osiris but take Jesus seriously. Men of science who perfectly understand why religion exists but their mind just has a BOSD that prevents them from attaining atheism.
- quantified 11mo ago
  BOSD? Or BSOD?

itsanaccount 11mo ago

I think Age of Disclosure is coming out. Might be interesting to watch if only to scratch your head about how many military and defense people are trying to convince people the opposite, that there are craft with extraordinary capabilities and they ARENT ours. I made fun of UFO people the same as I did the religious and bigfoot believers, but after the video in the Times in 2017, and all the military people who have come forward with roughly the same story.. I would very much like to know whats behind it.

dangus 11mo ago
Really isn’t going to be an interesting watch. People in the military saying this stuff doesn’t really change anything. People in the military are just a cross-section of the other morons that make up this country. Over 40% of Americans believe that some UFOs have been alien spacecraft according to Gallup. In other words, 40% of Americans are fucking morons. [1] How many people believe that the virgin Mary magically got pregnant without having sex? And that’s something we know is scientifically impossible, even more so than the wildly improbable phenomenon of an alien spacecraft visiting us. A whole bunch of people in the military believe the Virgin Mary was a virgin, too. https://news.gallup.com/poll/350096/americans-believe-ufos.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/350096/americans-believe-ufos.a... [1] This 30-40% number seems to also line up with a host of dumbass political opinions like being pro-authoritarianism. At any given point, around 30% of people in the world seem to be dumb as fuck.
- itsanaccount 11mo ago
  As someone formerly a member of the the Center for Inquiry and still a believer in its mission, I understand what you're saying. I would still point you to, there is something to this. And theres not been any whistleblower mention of anything "visiting." What they report aligns with the most probable scenario that the things we're seeing are automated Von Neumann probes, most likely sitting at the bottom of the ocean, and they've probably been here a long time.