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OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

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LabyaMynora posted:

Like, aliens are just watching us baffled by... everything. The way we make up stories. The way we lie and deceive one another. They're just looking down and whether it's Harry Potter, Star Wars, or religion and politics they're just like, "Why are they saying that? Why are they doing that? That isn't real, I don't understand why they put so much time and effort into these things that are false."

Blindsight was cool about that idea, like how archeologists try to put together how past people lived by sorting through ancient trash. there are space nerds trying unscramble our signals and constructing an image of humanity through the lens of Baywatch and The Price is Right

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OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

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according to how i play Sims 3, there simply aren't enough ways i can make them miserable, so im going with that as the reason

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

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Pontificating rear end posted:

Actually I'm going to describe the Bob Lazar interview for the lazy goons

He worked at Area 51 during its heyday and saw 6 or so spaceships in one area, with 3 on either side, in hangers. They were distinctly different; Bob said the only whispers of where it came from were 'an archealogical dig' or the Zeta Reticuli system, but said they might spread disinformation this way. He went inside one, where it was mostly one-color, only smooth edges, and smaller than human size (cramped) with no wires. The only spaces were in the cockpit and a small area under the cockpit where THE REACTOR came from; he had to hang upside-down to look inside.

His assigned project was to work on THE REACTOR which was simply a sphere that would emit energy to power the spacecraft (I don't think they could turn it on). They were to try to figure out how it works without opening it because of the hard material, or because he believed they had tried to cut one open and there was a horrible explosion. He took his friends to see the spaceships flying at night because he knew when they would do it, and the military found out and fired him and that's about it.

Near the end of the podcast he does address how the government had his degrees wiped and even his birth certificate was removed from whatever database it exists, or something like that.

He said doesn't like attention (a scientist after all) and sometimes wishes he never came out with the info in the late 80's. He donates any money he makes from the UFO stuff to science programs.

one of his pet theories is he leaked word of element 115, or Moscovium, and that it's a component of the gravity engine/reactor and is the real secret everyone is trying to keep under wraps

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscovium

his latest documentation of this malicious intent is a 12 min conversation he had with a dude discussing it, but they kept their phones on and on their person (after Snowdens leak about the extent of smart phones used as surveillance devices) and suddenly he was raided by the FBI or w/e.

still seems like bs

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

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his reasoning for element 115 was as fuel for the gravity reactor since isotopes of it are on the island. but yeah anti gravity anything is just another preputial motion machine, also it's implications as a weapon are what the govt would research first and could you imagine being able to create relativistic artillery??? crazy!!!

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

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aliens visiting earth just for space instagram likes a la disaster tourism

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

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Pewdiepie posted:

So you’re saying there’s a chance...

in the ice of a comet, maybe. but that would suggest a comet having planetary origins and you'd still have to contend with all the radiation and other hazards of space travel

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

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Pawn 17 posted:

If aliens arrived, we’d probably all be either eradicated, enslaved or if we were lucky, given access to technology that let us travel the galaxy. Probably the former though. Just imagine what we would do to aliens if we found them on another planet.

just look at human history and how technologically advanced cultures interacted with 'new world' peoples. the very last thing anyone would, or should, do is give us advanced technology.

except for space weed. im totally down for space weed.

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

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really the question you should ask is what can't bigfoot do?

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

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machine elves

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

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aliens only want one thing: Mountain Dew Gamer Fuel.

Game On!

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

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to observe any other species at all requires interstellar travel

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

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aliens are just waiting for us to make Giga-Weed and then they'll come in and chill out

alternatively, they are waiting for us to develop a weapon that would make us players on a galactic scale and then they'll subjugate us cause no one wants a naked ape with a gun running around

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

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skooma512 posted:

Why would Darpa operate top secret drones near an aircraft carrier? You would read in the captain at least, or go somewhere else, because they're going to notice. They have the best radar and sonar systems available and know how to use it.

Not like there isn't plenty of ocean to hide in if that's what you want to do.

pretty good proof of concept for a new type of stealth aircraft is having multiple trained professionals not know what the gently caress they just engaged with

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

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GolfHole posted:

maybe the ufos are going underwater to look at a third, different, ufo

or to measure levels of carbon dioxide and other industrial emissions to get a better timeline of when earth will fart itself to death

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

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aliens please, which is better, Texas Hold Em, or Blackjack?

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

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ah yes, humanity, the thing that aliens would totally want to keep alive and achieve space travel with our very peaceful and non-aggressive tendencies

or is it the orcas?????

:tinfoil: :tinfoil: :tinfoil:

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

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if aliens were real they would cure my IBS

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

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LanceHunter posted:

I remember hearing a physicist put it this way: "Yeah, people used to think that powered flight was impossible or that breaking the speed barrier was impossible. So why shouldn't it be the same with exceeding the speed of light? Because when people didn't think flight was possible there were still birds out there flying through the air. When people understood what the sound barrier was and thought it couldn't be exceeded, there were already bullets going faster than the speed of sound. But we have no examples of anything ever breaking the speed of light."

the thing about light is that we use it to see or detect things, so anything that can break that speed limit is most likely completely imperceptible to us or we confuse it with other phenomenon. if you can go beyond the speed of light, you could essentially just teleport around points of the universe with no way of actually perceiving that something is moving.

furthermore;

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

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Bug Squash posted:

It's pretty trivial to demonstrate that replicating machines are possible, since that's what life is.

those are notoriously bad at making perfect copies and even worse at reliably exchanging information

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

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PokeJoe posted:

i think consciousness is maybe just the emergent behavior of having enough senses

memory is the big factor. the difference between sensing where food is and remembering where food often is might create a sense of consciousness

OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

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spherules are pretty common in impact sites soooooo ????

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OMFG FURRY
Jul 10, 2006

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i hope aliens have quantum drugs that render me, and all my other possible selves, high as balls at the same time

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