Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: geofflambert

I'm pretty sure no aliens have visited here in the last 100 million years or so. We will never send a live human to another star system, it would cost more than the GDP of the US, probably several times over. There likely will never be any form of transportation that could deliver one generation of humans to another star system, even one of the closer ones. Even if it were possible for aliens to have visited, what in the world could have justified the cost? Sending unmanned probes will almost certainly be done but it will take many generations before very interest info is returned.

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ORIGINAL: Ian R

BBFB, I am not sure what you are proposing here, but ...

So if there were aliens who were smart enough to do that ...

When they get here, they aren't sophisticated enough to overcome US military technology such as is deployed to mask their presence?

Yeah, nah.

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ORIGINAL: Dante Fierro

Well thanks guys for all your elucidating thoughts on the topic.

I guess I'll refrain from talking about what Naval pilots on the USS aircraft carrier Nimitz reported (and took video footage) of in the future. It seems like its too rough a ride for many of you!

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Not so much "too rough a ride", as "whether it was or wasn't, we on this forum can't do anything about it and there is no discernable effect on our lives, so what does it matter?"

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ORIGINAL: Dante Fierro

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Not so much "too rough a ride", as "whether it was or wasn't, we on this forum can't do anything about it and there is no discernable effect on our lives, so what does it matter?"

Exactly! Why get your panties in a bunch over nothing.

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Since you want to be insulting, I will no longer respond to you.

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ORIGINAL: Dante Fierro

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Since you want to be insulting, I will no longer respond to you.

Are you going to do the same for the other people on this forum that also posted derogatory memes? Somehow I doubt it.

I see how this works. You guys on this forum can post a bunch of ridiculing memes to anyone you want. But if they try to respond with a meme, then they are being rude.

What a bunch of self-righteous, arrogant hypocrites.

I'm outta here.

ps: Blocking the lot of you as well, starting with RangerJoe.

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What a bunch of self-righteous, arrogant hypocrites.

I'm outta here.

ps: Blocking the lot of you as well, starting with RangerJoe.

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ORIGINAL: Ian R

Well dante won't see this, so can't complain.

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What a bunch of self-righteous, arrogant hypocrites.

I'm outta here.

ps: Blocking the lot of you as well, starting with RangerJoe.

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ORIGINAL: Treetop64

Guess he took it personally that no one went full tinfoil mode and, in fact, made fun of the subject.
Well, not so much the root subject itself, as much as the YouTube dude's content and using that as some kind of source.

Should we apologize?

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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

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ORIGINAL: Treetop64

Guess he took it personally that no one went full tinfoil mode and, in fact, made fun of the subject.
Well, not so much the root subject itself, as much as the YouTube dude's content and using that as some kind of source.

Should we apologize?

What would the purpose be for that?

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ORIGINAL: Treetop64

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ORIGINAL: RangerJoe

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ORIGINAL: Treetop64

Guess he took it personally that no one went full tinfoil mode and, in fact, made fun of the subject.
Well, not so much the root subject itself, as much as the YouTube dude's content and using that as some kind of source.

Should we apologize?

What would the purpose be for that?

It was a rhetorical question.

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ORIGINAL: Treetop64

Guess he took it personally that no one went full tinfoil mode and, in fact, made fun of the subject.
Well, not so much the root subject itself, as much as the YouTube dude's content and using that as some kind of source.

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ORIGINAL: Shellshock

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ORIGINAL: Treetop64

Guess he took it personally that no one went full tinfoil mode and, in fact, made fun of the subject.
Well, not so much the root subject itself, as much as the YouTube dude's content and using that as some kind of source.

I well recall the frenzy over UFOs back in the 1970s and 80s. Everything from Chariots of the Gods, Close Encounters of the Third Kind to the TV series Project Blue Book seemed to reflect the manic popularity of belief in alien visitation. Then of course you had the X-files in the 1990s which many people mistook for some sort of documentary series.

However, it seems like the very moment every citizen was armed with a mega-pixel camera far easier and quicker to use than any vintage 35mm model, the sightings began to dry up. We have more motion video of large meteorites streaking across Russian skies caught live than I though possible. But so far no video of Billy Bob live streaming a saucer landing in his back forty through Twitch through his I-phone, and also posting videos of his hanging out with the aliens on his YouTube page, garnering millions of hits. I also noticed that Bigfoot has also taken to being camera shy lately. (Which has led to Bigfoot enthusiasts claiming he has some sort of natural invisibility)

One common explanation is that that E.T. is just plain done with us. They've abducted enough folks to satisfy their curiosity about our anatomies. The Cold War has ended, and so has their fascination with our nuclear missile silos. So maybe they've just declared "mission accomplished," and gone away. That would be analogous to Charles Darwin's visit to the Galapagos Islands. After he probed, bottled, and cataloged some of the natives, he weighed anchor and withdrew.

However, I think what is more likely is as technology improved, the number of enticing candidate sightings went down. In science-speak, the false alarm rate decreased. It wasn't because any aliens stopped visiting or broadcasting. It was because we stopped being as easily duped or mistaken.

Call me cynical and skeptical, but barring a bigger breakthrough (which these Navy videos aren't) I'm done with it.

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ORIGINAL: Treetop64

Guess he took it personally that no one went full tinfoil mode and, in fact, made fun of the subject.
Well, not so much the root subject itself, as much as the YouTube dude's content and using that as some kind of source.

Should we apologize?

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ORIGINAL: BBfanboy

Of course, one could always claim that time travel makes it possible for aliens to revisit the planet and remove any evidence they previously left behind ...

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ORIGINAL: Bodei

I always like the "Well it was in the NY Times!" argument. The paper that predicted 91% chance of a Hillary win, well I guess they left 9% wiggle room?

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ORIGINAL: Ian R

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ORIGINAL: Bodei

I always like the "Well it was in the NY Times!" argument. The paper that predicted 91% chance of a Hillary win, well I guess they left 9% wiggle room?

Unfortunately for Dante, if you actually read the NYT article - and traced back its references to the 23 July NYT article - it does not say what the guy on the video says it says. I infer Dante only watched the video, and accepted it as gospel.

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We know that time is affected by/interchangeable with speed. So if we can manipulate the particles to slow time to a crawl, we may achieve close to light speed. We might even be able to get to a time warp which takes us thousands or millions of light years across space.