Re:Whistleblower tells Congress: US Gov't hides 'non-human i...
by bell-cot on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @02:40PM
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"The American public has a right to learn about..."
Reaction I: The concept/prospect of space aliens really mashes a lot of people's emotional buttons. And "having a right to learn about" is how such strong emotions are usually articulated.
Reaction II: So long as $Potential_Enemy_Nation is a bit unsure about whether you are really lying, about having a bunch of from-1000-years-in-the-future technology hidden away, that you could suddenly start using (against them) if sufficiently motivated...that's pretty cheap deterrence, eh?
Re:Whistleblower tells Congress: US Gov't hides 'non-human i...
by waterheater on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @06:18PM
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Grusch testified that UAP are observed everywhere the Navy operates across the globe. Additionally, allied and other military forces also admit the presence of UAP activity.
Re:Whistleblower tells Congress: US Gov't hides 'non-human i...
by htss2013 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @06:56PM
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If we discovered alien planets filled with different "countries" and had some constraints on the time we could spend visiting each one for observation, wouldn't we likely choose the most militarily and economically powerful one to focus on? It wouldn't be 100% but it's plausible that it would be the main subject.
Re:Whistleblower tells Congress: US Gov't hides 'non-human i...
by RetpolineDrama on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @05:07PM
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All I can say is that the archives of these threads/comments are going to be _highly_ entertaining to our future-selves (hello future people reading this!).
The amount of ignorance on display is overwhelming, and a lot of people who fancy themselves intelligent are going to struggle to come to terms with how they were so wrong for so long.
Re:Whistleblower tells Congress: US Gov't hides 'non-human i...
by justanotherjoe on Thursday July 27, 2023 @05:48AM
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just want to point out that you just predicted future events to enable value judgement of present things. It's just like the people saying "You are on the wrong side of history", or "They will look so silly when people start dying off because of the vaccines." But don't feel too bad, everyone is doing it these days, even the educated ones.
This is wrong because no one knows how things will play out. How sure you are is not so important as everyone is sure with their prediction.
Right now UFO is still a 'strong' prediction, many scientists who are getting into bed with this and commenting on it being convincing are problematic to begin with, like michio kaku (a bestselling author who is still describing himself as a string theorist, still, a dead end and biggest waste of effort in physics). I'm gonna stick to the null hypothesis for now.
Reaction I: The concept/prospect of space aliens really mashes a lot of people's emotional buttons. And "having a right to learn about" is how such strong emotions are usually articulated.
Reaction II: So long as $Potential_Enemy_Nation is a bit unsure about whether you are really lying, about having a bunch of from-1000-years-in-the-future technology hidden away, that you could suddenly start using (against them) if sufficiently motivated...that's pretty cheap deterrence, eh?
The amount of ignorance on display is overwhelming, and a lot of people who fancy themselves intelligent are going to struggle to come to terms with how they were so wrong for so long.
Signed, The past