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I always giggle at the idea that aliens would come here in some super advanced spaceship.
Look at the spacecraft we've managed to land on other celestial bodies. They're basically the lightest, sketchiest, life support boxes with a rocket motor that we can manage to get to the destination. It would be reasonable to assume that any alien out there reaching earth for the first time would either send a rover, or it would be the jankiest craft that could just barely get here.
That's assuming they came here first :)
Also, assuming one of the 60 horrible things happening right now doesn't prove the Fermi paradox.
We've been looking all over for signs of life. Earth screams "there is life here!"
We've only been broadcasting for 120 years, which is ~120 light-years away. Someone within that bubble needs to be technologically advanced enough to have been listening for the past 120 years.
Also, our average transmissions are pretty weak. If we really want to get noticed, We should have been firing intense lasers at them.
A persistent assumption about advanced interstellar travel is that engine efficiency is monumentally better to the point that the "tyrrany of the rocket equation" is no longer a factor, and extra mass can be carried without absolutely exploding your fuel requirements into absurdity.
If adding 10kg of payload didn't mean also potentially many times more mass of propellant we'd be sending up more robust spacecraft, no question.
Rocket equation notwithstanding, there is the tyranny of development. Electric motors, rocket engines, ion thrusters... All of these locomotive technologies went through iterations. Even if alien scientist invented a warp drive capable of carrying an infinite amount of mass an infinite distance with no energy, there would still be a development process to implement and integrate that drive into a spaceship.
Technological progress, or the accumulation of knowledge does not happen overnight, it's built layer by layer.
As an alien I would now spend all my time targeting wannabe influencers. Wait until they are alone, get naked and let them take high-quality pictures and videos of my green ass while I dance and play yankee doodle on my harmonica
If Kirk were an alien...
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Supposedly the DOD and alphabet boys have pretty good video, and have gone around confiscating good videos. That family in Vegas that claimed that they had aliens in their back yard a few years ago, the one where the cops said they didn't think it was a prank but wouldn't go into detail as to why, got a visit from the alphabet gang not long after, and they had surveillance cameras that pointed into that yard.
Now, as to whether those videos really do exist or if it's a bunch of hokum, well, it's going to have to be a case of maybe believe it when we see it. I've been following the UAP disclosure efforts with great interest, regardless of where they lead. I've always been a UFO/ET enthusiast, but I'm the type that wants to see proof, not "trust me bro, just look at these three pixels, my cousin said he fucked an ET in the army". If we're going to get proof, though, at this point we're going to need more than video. That window's been shut for a while, thanks to CGI, Photoshop, etc.
It's all B's you couldn't keep it secret with that many people knowing about it.
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I followed disclosure for a while and it seemed to be mostly grifters. The big reveal never comes, meanwhile they are raking in the cash writing books and attending conferences. Some of them even have ridiculous shows on the "history" channel.
I've seen one myself, back in 2015. Flew right over me without a sound. Someone else on the ground saw it too and flashed an extremely bright beam at it and it responded back by flashing multi colored lights back. I took a picture of it and the only thing that showed up is a small blurry dot. But it was at night.
Yep that sounds like a flying object that no one identified.
Amazing. Pack it up everyone. Looks like the old "are we alone" question has been settled once and for all.
It's so good to finally have conclusive, irrefutable proof like this. The government has already arrested OP, of course. They'll get around to scrubbing his comments shortly
Actual, legit Fortean lore regarding this is that the phenomena knows when it's being observed and photographed, and can manipulate time and space such that it doesn't show up on digital photos.
How convenient. Reminds me of Carl Sagan's "The Dragon in my Garage" essay.
For anyone who hasn't read it (I highly recommend reading the entire book that it's from: "The Demon-Haunted World") here's a link (it's only two pages): http://people.whitman.edu/~herbrawt/classes/110/Sagan.pdf
That's so pathetic.
Tbh, I think the big problem here is that a lot of ground-based sightings happen at night, likely due to a combination of
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Weird shit stands out more in the dark, but also
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It's just flat out harder to identify stuff in the dark.
Well, guess what doesn't work as well in the dark? Cameras. As a rule of thumb, cameras almost always work better with more light than less light. It's already difficult to get high quality pictures of stuff in the dark (depending on your camera, settings, lens, etc), now make it a very bright thing that's potentially moving quick and at a significant distance, and any attempt to take a picture is cooked, especially with something like a cell phone camera. So, whether what you're taking a picture of is the mother ship, Aurora, or a DJI drone, it all just kind of turns into a few bright pixels against a dark background. Then, you inevitably get the ends of the bell curve arguing whether it was an extra bright seagull or whether they could literally see the aliens waving at them in those two pixels, which is the death of any serious conversation about the presented evidence.
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